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Public safety “Both juveniles have been charged with four felonies and three misdemeanor petitions and currently being held at a juvenile detention facility.” – WCSO press release the afternoon of April 11

By Roger BianchiniWarren County Report

Within six hours of an initial April 11 press release announcing iden-tification of two male, juvenile sus-pects in a believed arson at E. Wil-son Morrison Elementary School the previous evening, the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office announced the arrests of those suspects.

“Both juveniles have been charged with four felonies and three misde-meanor petitions and currently be-ing held at a juvenile detention fa-cility,” a WCSO press release issued at a 3:45 p.m. the day following the fire stated. No further detail on the age or circumstances of the identi-fication and arrest of the two teens was released at that time.

The initial sheriff ’s office release identifying two male, juvenile sus-pects came at 10:01 a.m., April 11, exactly 13 hours and 7 minutes af-ter the call reporting problems at

the school was received the previ-ous evening.

“On Wednesday, April 10, �013, at 8:5� p.m. Warren County Sheriff ’s Office Communications received a call from a citizen who advised that lights in the E. Wilson Morrison School were flickering and a loud crackling noise could be heard,” the 10:01 a.m. press release stated. “Warren County Fire and Rescue were dispatched and they arrived on scene 8:57 p.m. Warren County Fire determined that there was in fact a working fire at the school. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire.

“Warren County Communications advised deputies of the situation and they arrived at the school at 9:07 p.m. The school had sustained smoke and water damage. Deputies assessed the scene and determined the fire had been deliberately set. Warren County Sheriff ’s Office Criminal Investigators and Warren

County Fire Investigators respond-ed to the scene to work jointly on the investigation,” the initial press release stated.

Parents of students and staff were informed by automated call at 6:38 a.m. Thursday morning that the school would be closed that day. That recorded message described the fire as “small” and said the clo-sure was “due to water damage”. The message also stated the school’s sprinkler system had kicked in and contributed to limiting damage from the fire.

By 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, parents and staff received a second automated call stating the school would be open on Friday, April 1�. However the call added that three teachers, Cope, Walters and Man-

del, would have their classrooms relocated to either conference or art rooms elsewhere in the building.

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Teens face felony charges in E.W. Morrison fireArrests made day following suspected elementary school arson

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Shenandoah Shores blaze destroys homeBy Roger BianchiniWarren County Report

A house fire at 41 View Drive in Shenandoah Shores the evening of Thursday, April 11, appeared to have gutted the dwelling but resulted in no civilian injuries. Initial information indicated a male resident was home, perhaps alone, grilling on a side attached, outdoor porch when the blaze flared and ignited the home. We had no reports of firefighter injuries at the scene. However, the blaze was very intense and drew units from as far away as South Warren. The large, two-story single-family dwelling was at the intersection of View and Rollason Drives, a half mile east of Rollason’s intersection with Shenandoah Shores Road.No further information was available by our Thursday evening press run.

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They say returning to the scene of the crime is a fatal mistake that often leads to the apprehension of crimi-nals. But in the case of a March �9

robbery of the Front Royal Federal Credit Union at 113 South Street, the suspect’s problem was apparently never leaving the scene of the crime, or at least the vicinity of it. In a press release the Front Royal Police Department announced the arrest of Daniel Ivan Jones, 30, of Front Royal, within minutes of the crime. FRPD units spotted a per-son matching the description of the suspect in the credit union robbery within three minutes of receiving the 911 call from the credit union re-porting the robbery. That 911 call in which police received a description of the perpetrator was received at 11:16 a.m. A person matching the descrip-tion was spotted at 11:19 a.m., just blocks away in the area of the South Towne Center on South Street. According to the release: Officer Sammy Keller was able to confront the suspect and along with

other patrol units took the suspect into custody. The suspect was iden-tified as Daniel Ivan Jones, a search of Jones after his arrest produced an undisclosed amount of U.S. curren-cy found in his clothing. Detectives from the Front Royal Police Criminal Investigation Division responded to the bank, during their investigation it was determined that the money found on Jones was in fact the money stolen from the bank. Jones was charged with Robbery, Communicating a Bomb Threat and Possession of Marijuana. Jones was transported to the Warren County Jail where he was held pending his first court appearance, April 9. A female subject who was with Jones at the time of his arrest was detained and then subsequently re-leased after further investigation revealed that she had no part in the robbery of the bank. Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact Detective Ja-son Winner at the Front Royal Police Department at (540) 635-�111. (The FRPD press release and ac-companying art first appeared on our website, March 30)

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According to a Warren County Sheriff ’s Office press release issued on April 1, a second law enforce-ment officer has been attacked by Clyde Burrell. Burrell is awaiting trial on charges of attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer, malicious wounding of a law enforce-ment officer, assault on law enforce-ment officers, and violation of proba-tion. Those charges involved a July �8, �01� attack of Front Royal Police Officer Brian Courtenay. Courtenay was attacked while responding to public reports of public exposure and generally questionable behavior near the intersection of North Shenan-doah Avenue and West 15th Street.. Burrell was identified as the suspect in those calls. The newest incident involving physical violence by Burrell directed at a law enforcement officer occurred at Warren County Jail where Burrell has been held without bond since his

July �8, �01� arrest at the scene of the initial incident. “On March 30, �013 at approxi-mately 1�:55 A.M., Deputy Thomas Ratigan, an 11-year veteran of the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office ob-served inmate Clyde Burrell causing a disturbance inside the cellblock he was being housed in,” the press release begins. “Deputy Ratigan ad-vised inmate Burrell he was being moved and called for other deputies to assist in Burrell’s movement. Dep-uty Ratigan instructed inmate Burrell to come out of the cellblock. Burrell came out of the cellblock carrying some of his property. Burrell placed his property down, and struck Dep-uty Ratigan in his face. Deputy Rati-gan then sprayed Burrell with pepper spray. Burrell was then restrained and handcuffed with the assistance of Deputies Jimmy Tharpe and Ron-ald Buracker. “Deputy Ratigan was transported to Warren Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released with a broken nose, two jaw fractures, and

an incision. Charges against Burrell in the new incident were pending as of receipt of the original press release on the incident. In the wake of this incident, Burrell was transferred to the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center for confinement, the press release stat-ed.

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Burrell’s sister told us shortly after his arrest for the July �01� assault on Officer Courtenay that as early as

February 1998, her brother had been diagnosed as schizophrenic/bipolar with multiple personalities. The con-dition has led to much of Burrell’s legal trouble, she said, and caused ongoing problems for the family in trying to both cope with Burrell themselves, and get him public as-sistance for his mental disorder. She was particularly critical of the local magistrate’s office for refusing to is-sue an emergency custody order for a mental evaluation on June 5, �01�, just seven weeks before the exposure incident and subsequent attack on FRPD Officer Courtenay (who we are

happy to report is back on full-time duty.) “I’m not trying to make excuses for him. And my heart aches for that of-ficer,” Burrell’s sister said in August �01�, as she described her brother falling through the cracks of the U.S. and Virginia health care systems. A court-ordered state mental evaluation conducted at Central State Hospital over a two-week pe-riod, Nov. �9 to Dec. 13 �01�, found Burrell competent to stand trial. See more on that state report in a future edition.

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By Dave Zirin

The firing of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice created a media frenzy that extended far beyond the sports page. Those who are now

choosing to rush to his defense are unintentionally telling an even more important story. This story is about power and powerlessness. It’s about bullies and the bullied. And, if we look hard enough, it’s about a cul-tural battle for the soul of sports. As we witnessed on videotape, Coach Rice called his players “fag-gots”, “cunts,” “fairies,” and “pussies.” He meted out physical abuse as well: kicking, pushing and throwing balls at the teenagers under his charge (Managing editor’s note: from video the groin area appeared to be the preferred target, with the head and chest coming in a distant second). This glimpse behind the curtain of NCAA athletics caused everyone

from LeBron James to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to physi-cally recoil. Well, almost everyone. For Fox News host Sean Hannity, Mike Rice’s firing constituted some-thing of a national tragedy. “I kind of like old-fashioned discipline,” he said. “Maybe we need a little more disci-pline in society and maybe we don’t have to be a bunch of wimps for the rest of our lives ... My father hit me with a belt and I turned out okay!” Eric Bolling, the guy on Fox News who dresses like he’s on his way to a nightclub in 1996, was even more horrified. He described the firing as symbolic of “the wussification of America” as well as a symbol of “our

culture in freefall.” Their defense of Rice is actually quite helpful. Often we use phrases like “jock culture” or “bullying cul-ture” as if culture is like some kind of mysterious fog obstructing our collective vision. But “culture” is not like the weather (cloudy with a 10% chance of misogyny). It is directly tied to politics, organization, and powerful people with a vested inter-est in oppression. For the mouthpieces at Fox News and those pulling their strings, they defend Coach Mike Rice because they’re in a panic that there is a cul-ture war afoot and, at best, they re-

The battle for the ‘Soul of Sports’Why FOX news & former players defend fired Rutgers hoops coach

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Dick Gautier: Would you believe – a man of many talents?

By Nick Thomas

Of all those zany sitcoms produced in the 1960s, Get Smart remains a favorite of classic TV fans. This show had it all: crazy characters (Max, “99,” Larabee, Hymie the humanoid robot), de-lightfully wicked villains (Siegfried, the Claw, Leadside), goofy spy gadgets (shoe phone, cone of silence), cool cars (Sunbeam Tiger), unforgettable catchphrases (missed it by that much!), a parade of stellar guests (Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Vin-cent Price), unbelievable save-the-world plots, and that omnipresent 60s canned laugh track. Don Adams, who played Max, passed away in �005. A few years earlier, during a 75th birthday roast in his honor, Don made a very simple re-quest: “I don’t want a big funeral. I don’t want a lot of flowers; or eulogies,” he told the gathering. “I’d just like a few of my close friends to get together – and try and bring me back to life.” Dick Gautier, who played Hymie the robot, wasn’t close friends with Don off the set, but says he enjoyed working with him. We talked a few days ago from his home in Los Angeles. “He lived a very different kind of lifestyle to me,” said Dick. “He and his buddies were always at the racetrack, but I was never a gambler.” Incredibly, Dick’s Hymie character (“his father’s name was Hymie”) only appeared in six episodes during the first four seasons of Get Smart. Yet he remains one of the show’s most popular and memorable characters. Dick based Hymie partly on a childhood mem-ory. “As a kid in Canada, I saw this mannequin-like guy in a store window who moved in a very stiff manner. The deal was, if you made him smile, you could win a gift from the store. I almost got him to laugh! So I started imitating him and discov-ered I had a flair for entertaining. I told that story during my “Get Smart” audition, did those move-

ments, and got the role of Hymie.” Not surprisingly, laughter was not uncommon on the “Get Smart” set. Dick remembers shooting one scene where Max takes a rather drunk Hymie into a closet and scolds him because drinking and spying don’t mix. “I had to reach over and kiss Don on the cheek,” recalled Dick. “But the two of us started giggling like high school girls during every take, and the crew grew impatient. I finally got through it by not looking at Don. When the scene was over, he looked at me and said ‘Are you going to say it or am I?’ So I told him to go ahead. He looked at the crew and said “Okay guys, we’re coming out of the closet!” In addition to acting in hundreds of TV shows and movies, Dick has been a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, director, voice actor, and singer. During lean times, he even demonstrated pogo sticks at Macys. Details can be read on his web

site bio, which Dick describes as “that once gro-tesquely inflated thing which deflates slightly with each passing day.” Dick is also an artist specializing in caricatures and has written numerous books on drawing. He’s captured the Burt Reynold’s forehead, the W.C. Fields’ nose, the John Travolta chin, and dozens of other celebrities perfectly (see www.dickgautier.com). He also makes an interesting comparison be-tween today’s stars to those of yesteryear with their more rugged features (think Bogie, Gable, Connery). “Many of today’s actors look like fashion mod-els. Take someone like Brad Pitt who has those stunning, boyish good looks. Some are so hand-some they just don’t have any distinguishing fea-tures to hang your comic hat on, as an artist.” In addition to drawing and painting, Dick has just finished writing a two-character play which he hopes to direct. And at 81, his career achieve-ments just keep mounting. “I’ve been around so long,” he says, “some-times I feel like I was in the original Flintstones – the real ones the cartoon was based on!” Nick Thomas’ features and columns have appeared in more than 300 magazines and newspapers, in-cluding the Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor. He can be reached at his blog: http://getnickt.blogspot.com

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Opinion“I don’t want a big funeral. I don’t want a lot of flowers; or eulogies. I’d just like a few of my close friends to get together – and try and bring me back to life.” – Dick Gautier recalls “Get Smart” sitcom icon Don Adams’ last wish

semble Custer. In this war, they see every cultural sphere – Hollywood, music, politics – as a battleground. But perhaps none is either as impor-tant, or slipping through their grasp quite like sports. The sports world - particularly

men’s sports - is the place where homophobia has historically found safe harbor. But in the last several years, there has been a decisive shift. Jocks have been on the front lines building organizations like You Can Play and Athlete Ally aimed at making the locker room a safe space for their LGBT friends and teammates. Indi-

vidual pros like Kenneth Faried and Eric Winston have lent their names to activist campaigns. Brenden Ay-anbadejo, recently of the Baltimore Ravens, announced this week that he was speaking to four NFL play-ers who may come out of the closet simultaneously before the start of this season. Kobe Bryant - someone

caught on camera several years ago dropping “the other f bomb” is now admonishing his twitter followers for anti-gay slurs. The hysteria of Hannity and his ilk in defense of Coach Rice is quite simple: they’re losing and they know it.

Hostage mentality?

Less simple to grasp is the second group of Coach Rice’s defenders: some of his former players. Junior Rutgers forward Wally Judge said during a telephone interview to the AP, “I have grown from the moment I stepped in these doors, not only as a player, but also as a person because of how [Coach Rice] has treated me.” Another player, sophomore for-ward Austin Johnson, said, “[Coach Rice] did a lot for us off the court, ac-ademically, socially ... I am not saying what he did wasn’t wrong, because I do believe it was wrong. But it is also tough because it was a highlight reel of his worst moments.” University of Pittsburgh guard Tra-von Woodall also defended Rice, who worked at Pitt as an assistant, but in the process said he was “not the only coach to put his hands on a player, or talk the way he did.” In other words, what Coach Rice said and did wasn’t a big deal because this kind of abu-sive behavior is a normalized part of high-level youth sports. I don’t doubt the sincerity of these players at all. I do think their syn-chronicity with the Hannity and Bolling crowd speaks volumes about how bullies and the bullied can de-fine their lives by the same logic and come to same rationalization: it’s necessary. We recognize this behavior in bat-tered women that defend their hus-bands. We are loath to recognize it in youth sports although the similari-ties are glaring. These are young men raised in a highly lucrative prep-to-pros-pipeline where authority is nev-er questioned, abuse is expected, and corruption is inevitable. The fact that

this relationship of power and pow-erlessness involves predominantly white coaches and predominantly black players is about as coincidental of race as who sits where in a prison cafeteria. Yes there are many black coaches and white players as well, but unless you have a coach who con-sciously goes against the grain, the power dynamics become replicated no matter who is doing the yelling and who is gritting their teeth.

A way out

It doesn’t have to be this way. There are transformational, teacher coach-es out there that work wonders with young people. Many are loud and tough as hell without being abusive, anti-Gay, misogynistic bigots. These transformational coaches who don’t take advantage of structural ineq-uities and are actually in it for the kids are heroes, but they need to do more. They can no longer be silent. They need to betray the so-called “coaching fraternity” and start re-claiming their profession. They should see the dismissal of Mike Rice as a kind of validation. Yes, he doesn’t get fired if that video doesn’t get leaked but it says some-thing very positive that the vast ma-jority of people were repulsed by the “old school” coaching on display. It’s time for the leaders of the new school to make themselves heard. This is about a battle for the soul of sports and it’s one we cannot afford to lose.

[Reprinted by permission of the au-thor. Dave Zirin is the author of the new book “Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the SportsWorld Up-side Down” (The New Press) Receive his column every week by emailing [email protected]. Contact him at [email protected].]

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At an April Fool’s Day Front Royal Town Council appearance, Warren County Sheriff Danny McEathron informed council that the timing of his department’s billing of the town for housing inmates on town charg-es was simply coincidental to any financial negotiations between the RSW Regional Jail Authority and the town.

In fact, McEathron, who as one of three involved county sheriffs also serves on the RSW Jail Authority board and acts as chairman of its Transition Committee, told council, “It doesn’t matter to me if you pay or not – I won’t go broke over $�60. But it’s a matter of principal, I didn’t invent this.” The Warren County sheriff noted that the issue of town charges for the housing of inmates on town-gener-ated offenses dates back to his pre-

decessor Lynn Armentrout, whom he noted charged the town $10 per day for town-charged inmates. McEathron was first elected sheriff in �004 following Armentrout’s re-tirement. The town got the most recent bill for “�6 inmate days” in January and February at the same $10 per day rate on March 1�. The timing of that bill came after a 7-month gap, as McEathron noted. Some on council thought the gap indicated the charg-es were a dead issue following the citing of a 198� Virginia Attorney General opinion by Town Attorney Doug Napier that states: “This sec-tion specifically exempts prisoners from ‘the city or county for which [he is] elected or appointed’. You are elected for all of Rockingham Coun-ty, including the towns, and the City of Harrisonburg … It is, therefore, my opinion that you may not bill the incorporated towns within Rocking-ham County or the City of Harrison-burg for the per diem cost of main-taining prisoners in the Rockingham

County Jail pursuant to § 53-18�.” Not so fast, sports fans. Referring to the billing issue res-urrected by his department and questioned by the town last year, McEathron told council, “This all happened in May of last year … I agreed not to charge the town un-til you got an Attorney General’s opinion to settle it – seven months is a long time, I’m not waiting any-more.” The issue of varying opinions on legal precedents was revisited as Vice-Mayor Parker noted County Attorney Blair Mitchell had uncov-ered a court ruling dating to 1896 the county was using to counter the above-cited AG opinions. However, Parker insisted the 1896 ruling ap-plied to cities, not towns and thus was not applicable. Apparently while town officials thought previous AG’s opinions would suffice, McEathron was look-ing for one specifically addressing this particular situation. But with a county legal opinion on a prec-

edent-setting court ruling, albeit an old one, in his pocket, McEathron expressed some scorn for previous AG rulings on the matter, observing, “They are an opinion, that’s all.” As Warren County Administrator and RSW Authority Chairman Doug Stanley had previously observed, McEathron noted the county-town inmate charge impasse might no longer be an issue once the region-al jail opens its door as planned in mid-�014 (see related story). Vice-Mayor Shae Parker and Councilman Eugene Tewalt reiter-ated their opinions the town is not legally required to pay the charge. Mayor Darr suggested council put it on the next meeting agenda for a vote to settle the town’s perspective once and for all. “Or we could just let it lie,” Coun-cilman Daryl Funk added. “Either way, it doesn’t matter to me,” the mayor replied as Sheriff McEath-ron left the conference room.

Town-Regional Jail“It doesn’t matter to me if you pay or not – I won’t go broke over $�60. But it’s a matter of princi-pal, I didn’t invent this.” – WC Sheriff McEathron on inmate charges to the town dating at least to the term of his predecessor, Lynn Armentrout

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cy Services Team along with ATF agents conducted the operation that resulted in the arrest of Gray. That operation culminated at ap-proximately 5 p.m. on April 5. According to the press release, Gray, who has a history of escape, eluding, and resisting arrest, was apprehended with an undisclosed non-lethal device which prevented his escape. “Gray was subsequently charged with two counts of distributing heroin, one count of distributing cocaine, and one count of being in possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a violent felony. The Middletown charges stemmed from a pursuit involving the Middletown Police Department on March �8, �013. The Northwest VA Regional Drug Task Force and the Bureau of Alco-hol, Tobacco, and Firearms also had investigated a case involving Gray. Gray is being held in the Warren County Jail without bond.(From a release)

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The Blue Ridge Singers, Warren County’s newest chamber choir, will present Rejoice! in Winchester on Friday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, and at 4 p.m., Sunday, April �1, at Front Royal Presbyte-rian Church. Artistic director and conduc-tor Dr. Jeffrey Alban describes the concert as “a choral expression of joy - in God, nature, ourselves and those around us.” The Front Royal

concert will be presented as part of the Front Royal Presbyterian Church’s performing arts series. In celebration of the 100th anni-versary of Benjamin Britten’s birth the BRS will perform Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Jubilate Deo in E-flat, featuring or-ganist Daniel Miller. Quips Alban, “Our faithful accompanist Dan has worked tirelessly to prepare these very complicated piano and organ parts.” Both Miller and Alban are members of the American Guild of Organists. Alban is the director of music and organist at St. John the

Baptist Roman Catholic Church and adjunct professor of music at Christendom College. Miller is choirmaster at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Ashburn; staff accom-panist for the Shenandoah Con-servatory Choir; vocal coach and accompanist for the Washington National Opera Institute at Ameri-can University and a freelance vo-cal coach and accompanist. The choir will perform addition-al works by René Clausen, David Conte, Jeffery Ames, William Daw-son, David Dickau, Norman dello Joio, and Ola Gjeilo. In describing Ola Gjeilo’s music, Alban says, “His music is simple, yet beautiful. Our

audience enjoyed his work at our December concert so I pro-grammed Prelude for our spring concert. His compositions clearly show the emotions and images of the text he sets.” Poetry fans will also enjoy the se-lections’ lyrics. The Rejoice in the Lamb text was written by Chris-topher Smart, a popular magazine contributor and contemporary of Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding in 1740 London. Due to his habit of continuous public prayer Smart was accused of religious mania by his father-in-law and imprisoned, eventually dying in debtors’ prison. (PoemHunter.com). A century af-

ter his death the poets Browning and Yeats singled out Smart’s work “for its affirmation of spirituality in a materialistic world.” He was known too for being very fond of his cat. (The Academy of Ameri-can Poets). The concert also fea-tures the lyricized poetry of Walt Whitman (dello Joio), Theodore Roethke (Conte), William Blake (Dickau) and an excerpt from the Song of Solomon (Clausen). Blue Ridge Singers compact disc recordings will be available for pur-chase. All audience members are invit-ed to the reception following each concert.

The Blue Ridge Singers ‘Rejoice!’ April 19 and 21FR Presbyterian Church show follows Winchester opener

Vocal soloists in Benjamin Britten’s “Rejoice”, from left, soprano Irma Powell, bass Sean Coffron, tenor Dominique Viera and alto Karen Schlosser. They will be accompanied by organist Dan Miller.

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By Malcolm Barr, Sr.Warren County Report Helga Hohn-Heiberg, winner of “best in show” at the Blue Ridge Arts Council (BRAC) annual contest for local artists last year, exhibits 50 of her art pieces, including oil and water colors, charcoals, sketches, sculpture, and fiber arts, at her gal-lery opening Sunday April 14. The time is �-4 p.m., the place 305 East Main Street, Front Royal. Helga, 6�, who lives on Blue Moun-tain, is world-renowned. Her works are among those in cultural collec-tions in Bonn and Stuttgart, Germany;

Argentina, Portugal, France, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Tunisia, Togo, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The daughter of an artist father, she be-gan painting at age 7.She has lived and worked in America (teaching at the University of Maryland and, more lately, at Lord Fairfax Com-munity College) since 1983 when she won the “Kultureller Foerderprize” for fine arts in her home country. For the past three months, locally she has shown parts of her work at the Kiln Doctor on 1�th Street. During the past two years, Helga entered the realm of animal portrai-ture almost by accident. Neville Barr, my brother, visiting from the UK, asked Helga if she would attempt a painting of a friend’s deceased dog. It was to be her first animal portrait. On display at the BRAC gal-lery along with her other exhibits will be her latest animal portraits includ-ing three dogs and a favorite horse she presented to me to mark my 80th birthday last month. Helga’s exhibits will be on display courtesy the arts council from April 14 through May �4. (The Barr family of Rockland, mem-bers of BRAC, are friends of Helga and Eric Heiberg who provide a home to several cats at their mountain resi-dence. She has yet to formally paint a cat).

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BRAC show winner Helga Hohn-Heiberg opening April 14

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• Flower and Plant Sale• Silent Auction - ends at 3:30pm

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By Malcolm Barr, Sr.Warren County Report If you’d feel comfortable having a marine biologist organizing your office or closets, call Front Roy-al’s fulltime professional organizer who claims long-time success over clutter and chaos. This 36-year-old newcomer to the area, arriving with her fam-ily – husband, Dave; her son, Jacob Bolls, 9; and stepson, Hunter Pier-ron, 15 – less than six months ago, has established an unusual start-up business - “Simple Organizing So-

lutions” - to serve Northern Virgin-ia (she comes from Springfield) and the Shenandoah Valley. Fair and slender and full of “get up and go,” Katie Pierron lives in a single-family home downtown from which she has launched her new and perhaps unique-to-the-area business which helps her be a stay-at-home mom while indulging her passion for organization. “I’m an organized person,” she said. “I have this passion for orga-nizing ... people are often so over-whelmed, and I know I can help them.”

She promises to “transform the rooms of your house, home office, office, garage, hobby areas, and storage units into simple, function-al spaces.” To explain: seeing an aunt, Kath-ryn Youngquist, living in a small, cluttered D.C. apartment, fast run-ning out of living and storage space, Katie rolled up her sleeves, cleared out and re-organized both areas, throwing away only those items her aunt personally consigned to the dumpster. The job took a matter of hours, leaving her relative wide-eyed and grateful – and she became her niece’s cheerleader. Katie did the same for an area resident who, like many of us, was inundated with memorabilia and, frankly, junk gathered over the years. Things she wanted to keep were organized and consigned to clear plastic bins, properly labeled and stacked. She can be similarly valuable to small business operators. “I also organize computer files, bill-paying processes, and complex schedules into efficient systems,” she said. It’s not that Katie didn’t enjoy her other stints, one with the Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA) researching “bioaccumulation of toxins in aquatic wildlife,” or teach-

ing middle and elementary school. Her bachelor’s degree was hard-earned and took awhile but she isn’t far from her master’s in marine biology. Her aim for the present, however, is to be there when the kids come in from school, Hunter from Skyline and Jacob from Hilda J. Barbour Elementary. Between times, she can and does volunteer work at the Salva-tion Army on Tuesdays. She says she’s available on an occasional basis to work for the likes of the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter, from

which she rescued a mutt named Honey, and, perhaps, the local Blue Ridge Hospice Thrift Store. What does this energetic young woman, she actually looks closer to �6 than 36, do in her spare mo-ments? Her answer was another surprise: she and her husband are adept at making the medieval potion, mead, in various and sundry flavors. She promised me a bottle and I think I’ll take her up on it! For more informa-tion on organizing - not mead mak-ing - call Katie at (540) 635-0354.

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The definition – and spelling – of Wayside Theatre’s final offering of its 51st season is FUN. Okay, it might not have the psy-cho-drama of a David Mamet play like “American Buffalo” but Wayside’s new offering of “The Putnam County Spelling Bee” is both timely (the Na-tional Spelling Bee the “Putnam kids” are competing for a spot in has been in the news this month) and a great dose of family entertainment that kids of all ages should love – even a somewhat hard-to-please 13-year-old boy I know enjoyed it. This Wayside musical, first-gaining a reputation off-Broadway, traces the trials and tribulations of six “pre-teen misfit” archetypes thrown into the highly competitive cultural phenom-ena of student Spelling Bees. The not-quite adolescent cast carries the show through a fast-paced opening act and a second act more revealing of the inner turmoil faced by the con-testants and their adult overseers. And we’d be remiss not to note that Bee contestants include several audi-ence members who apply for a stage spot in the Spelling Bee each night (arrive about an hour prior to curtain to apply). And if the second act is not quite as fast paced, being more psychologi-cally revealing of the inner workings of the characters, I might note that act gave this reviewer his two off-your-seat belly laughs of the evening – NO, I’m not telling, you’ll have to see for yourself. My laughs actually began before the play’s start as I perused the stage setting of the Putnam County High School gym and came across a ban-ner noting the school teams nick-name “The Battlin’ Walruses” with accompanying art. But it’s not just pre-pubescents

and their internal motivations and demons on display here – there are some standout moments involving adult archetypes as well, those being Bee officials in the fields of education and “cultural and psychological reha-bilitation”. Those include Vice Principal Douglas Patch (Don Denton); Bee coordinator, past winner and spelling mom Rona Lisa Peretti (Thomasin Savaiano) and Bee “Comfort Coun-selor” and community-service desig-nee Mitch Mahoney. Also in play in the plot are absent parents either just running late or on retreats on the banks of the Ganges; analogies to Bee rules and Congres-sional sequesters; student pressures gleaned at Our Lady of Intermittent Sorrow; relief to such pressures pro-vided from above – oh, and of course, SPELLING – words, both known and unknown to the English language. Playing the contestants are Chan-ning Frampton, Joshua Shelor, Katherine Yacko, Brandon Shockey, Karen O’Connell and Leslie Putnam (no Putnam County is not named for her, at least I don’t think so). All do excellent jobs with the idiosyncrasies

of their characters; probably because their adolescences weren’t so long ago that they are a dull memory as this reviewer’s is. The play is propelled along by the musical accompaniment of Steve Przybylski on keyboards and Warner Crocker’s direction. And don’t worry too much about the PG-13 “mature content” designa-tion – it covers a couple humorous references to awakening pre-pubes-cence awkwardness familiar to all who have survived adolescence (the young kids won’t pick up on them and the older ones will be remain re-spectfully silent).

The play runs through April �8, with Thursday-Friday-Saturday per-formances at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday Matinees and Sunday shows at �:30 p.m., and a final-day performance at 1:30 p.m. Adult ticket prices are $�5 and $30, and children under 17 tick-ets are $10. For more information call the box office at (540) 869-1776 or visit the theatre website at www.waysidetheatre.org Prior to the start of the play on its official April 7th Opening Night, Wayside Artistic Director Crocker announced that the theatre’s re-cent emergency fundraising goal of $90,000 had been met and surpassed

by $5,000 – Congratulations theater patrons for a job well done. (Reviewer’s note: I had to throw the “American Buffalo” reference in out of left field, perhaps because I saw Al Pacino in it off-Broadway in NYC about 35 years ago and that legend-ary actor is on my mind because of his recent astonishing performance as Phil Spector in the made-for-HBO movie “Spector” – okay Al & HBO, you owe me!!!).

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Montessori School Fundraiser

Mountain Laurel Montessori School presents its Annual Auction and Wine Tasting Fundraiser at Rappahannock Cellars, 14437 Hume Road, Huntly, Virginia, on April 13, from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Come for a complimentary wine tasting, wine glass, and the opportunity to bid on amazing trips and auction items; enjoy some wine, delicious food provided by the Public House in Flint Hill; music, live, silent and Lucky Draw auctions; door prizes and a 50/50 raffle drawing. All proceeds to benefit the school. Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 at the door. For more information or to purchase tickets please visit ww.mlmsauctionandwine.com or call (540) 631-4559

Double booking at WCHS

The Warren County High School au-ditorium can accommodate hundreds, but a �0-piece jazz and swing ensemble practicing for a concert on stage at one end of the room and a 50-member Ro-tary Interact Club meeting at the other? No contest! On Tuesday, April 9, band director David Dingess won out, but guided by shouted instructions by senior coun-sellor Mary Kay Moose the public ser-vice-minded kids managed the pledge of allegiance (to strains of Brubeck, maybe?) followed by a record-breaking sign-up for the United Way’s “Day of Caring” on April �6. Between riffs, Moose managed to announce an all-schools Interact club picnic, hosted by Randolph-Macon Academy May 19, where kids are asked to bring canned goods for the local food pantry. Soul Mountain on Main Street is catering. Meanwhile, on inquiry at the high school reception desk, we learned that the band was in its countdown to a con-cert at the auditorium Sunday, April 14, at 3 p.m. Believe me, they’re worth listening to. Everyone is invited, and it’s free!

Town & County Budgets

The second week of April both the Town of Front Royal and Warren Coun-ty presented power points, the latter along with a public hearing, on their proposed Fiscal Year �014 budgets. Votes and any late adjustments to those budgets will come later. The county is scheduled to vote final approval of its $90,770,169 budget at its regular meet-ing of April 16. The proposed FY �014 budget is �.8� percent, almost $�.5 mil-lion, above last year’s county budget of $88,�8�,53� The town will hold a public hearing and the first of two votes of approval on its $38,376,795 budget on May 13, with

a final vote of approval scheduled for May �8. The proposed �013-14 town budget is $836,637 above last year’s budget By state law, municipal budgets must be finalized and approved by June 1 for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1. Highlights of the town budget in-clude no tax increases and no employee raises, other than to compensate for a state Virginia Retirement System in-crease charged to employees. Highlights of the county budget are increases in both local and state rev-enues; a �.5-percent STEP increase effective Jan. 1, �014, to follow a con-sultant recommendation on bringing county salaries into line; and coverage

of the state VRS increases on employ-ees as the town is also proposing; and the expectation of maintaining a 15-percent General Fund balance surplus despite contributions to capital im-provements and other projects.

Fantasyland, 20 years on

The Warren County Parks and Rec-reation Department and the Fantasy-land Playground Committee proudly announce the �0th Anniversary Cel-ebration Ceremony for the Fantasyl-and Playground located on Commerce Avenue next to Free Wheeling Way Playground, on Sunday, April �1, at 4 p.m. All of the original volunteers and patrons are encouraged to attend this

great event. From April �1 to �5, 1993, the resi-dents of Front Royal and Warren Coun-ty came together in a community-wide event to build a wooden playground in Lions Park for local youth. All are in-vited to join the celebration. A family picnic will follow the commemorative ceremony. For more information please contact the Warren County Parks and Recre-ation Department at (540) 635-7750 or Kym Crump at (540) 671-348�.

Library: A Taste for Books 2 Calling the promotion “A Taste for Books: The Second Edition,” Samuels Public Library is doing a reprise of last

year’s popular fundraiser on April �0. Apart from a place to read and reflect, the library that evening, from 6 p.m. on, will be a rendezvous to wine and dine on food and beverage with literary themes. Tickets available at the counter or call 635-3153 for information.

Find Salvation - Army The local Salvation Army has set its annual awards dinner for Friday, April �6, but still needs sponsors for the event to be held at Shenandoah Val-ley Golf Club. For information, call Lt. Ramaji at (540) 635-40�0.

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Killahevlin restorer dies John Martin Lang, who spent nine years from 1989 restoring the historic Killahevlin mansion at 1401 N. Royal Avenue (circa 1905;the former home of William E. Carson, the “Father of Skyline Drive”) has died. He was 75. The house was opened as a bed and

breakfast inn in 1993. Lang, who lived in Florida, also co-owned and operated the 14th Street Bistro and helped design and build “Fantasyland Playground” on Commerce Avenue. He was a member of both Front Royal and Linden Ro-tary clubs. Memorial donations may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 W. Cork Street, Winchester, VA ��601.

Buggin’ it again The “instant summer” heat wave has brought out hordes of flies in parts of the county and stink bugs are again be-ginning to appear. And according to a

front page piece in the April 10 Wash-ington Post, our biblical locust descen-dants, the cicadas, are beginning to dig out of their buried lairs after being dor-mant for 17 years. If you can remem-ber back to 1996, when this particular

brood of cicadas (Brood II) invaded, or even to �00� when Brood X surfaced to a lesser degree, you won’t be looking forward to this resurrection in a month or two.

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The battle lines were drawn along familiar lines when the Town of Front Royal approached a first reading to change or solidify the process of town elections. That process revolves around a move from May to Novem-ber elections and codification of the long-held tradition of non-partisan town elections.

In one corner, Tom Sayre and Daryl Funk supported a last-second altera-

tion to the

proposed ordinance that would change even year town elections to odd years. Despite Sayre’s assertion his amendment was “a small change” it would have required re-advertise-ment of the vote as a substantial change to what was advertised for public hearing, Town Attorney Doug Napier agreed in response to a ques-tion from Vice-Mayor Shae Parker.

Councilman Bret Hrbek, who ini-tially supported odd-year elections but bent to the will of the majority on

the issue, also pointed out that Sayre’s suggested change would have the ef-fect of extending council terms by 18 months, rather than the six months the even-year change would require. That longer extension is due to the fact the odd-year change could not be realized until after the next sched-uled town election, while the even-year change would be enacted from May to November �014, council’s next scheduled election year, Parker clarified.

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Sayre expressed some confusion over these dynamics due to his per-ception of the content of a conversa-

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his motion would decrease council terms by six months, rather than ex-tend them by 18 months.

The amendment was defeated 4-�, only Sayre and Funk supporting the change to odd years with the cor-responding delays and term exten-sions.

Eventually it was only Funk who op-

posed Vice-Mayor Parker’s original motion, moving even-year May town elections to even-year November elections. That motion, approved by the 5-1 vote, also places a legal pro-hibition by ordinance on partisan political committee nominations to town office.

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Funk prefaced his no vote on the proposal by reiterating his prefer-ence that if there was to be a change to November, all council seats benefit from even-year presidential election turnouts of around 70 percent of reg-istered voters in Warren County. Off

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Background & reactions

The move to changes by ordinance was necessitated by a controversial effort by what is believed to have been two of the county/town’s three representatives to the Virginia House of Representatives, Gilbert, R-15th and Webert, R-18th, to totally alter the intent of the proposed charter changes – even-year November and non-partisan elections – sent to them by the town for consideration in the last session of the General As-sembly.

After an explosion of protest by the council majority reflecting the result of a �011 citizen survey on the issues, Gilbert eventually withdrew the We-bert-sponsored and altered charter proposals from consideration in this past General Assembly session.

Local activist Tim Ratigan, an un-successful �01� mayoral candidate, twice addressed council on April 8 concerning the election initiatives. During the public hearing he was the first of four citizens expressing support of the changes as presented. There were no speakers against or seeking alterations to the proposed changes.

“I was quite disturbed, as many people were, with the antics going on between our representatives that have divided the town,” David Means

said of the political dance around the town’s charter regarding election rules.

Local activist and unsuccessful �01� council candidate Linda Allen told council maintaining non-partisan elections was important to keep the pool of potential candidates as large as possible (partisan nominations would eliminate any federal employ-ee, including the current mayor, from running for town office). She contin-ued by contrasting recent national Republican statements indicating it would seek to make the Party more inclusive, with her perception some state and local Republicans were working toward exclusion locally.

Sonja Carlsberg (sp?) thanked the council majority for their efforts on the changes and concluded by wish-ing federal employee and Mayor Tim Darr “a happy Mayor’s Day”, which she pointed out was the following

day, April 9.

Public suspicions

Earlier in the meeting Ratigan more pointedly addressed the issue of the “antics” referred to by Means on how council and its citizens had gotten to this point in its electoral drama. He informed council he was in the process of filing a Freedom of Information Act request targeting communications on the proposed Charter changes by Councilman Funk, who works in the same Pond-Athey-Pond law firm as Gilbert. “This is a call for transparency, gentlemen and it is long overdue,” Ratigan concluded.

Councilman mum

On April 9 we asked Funk by e-mail for a response to Ratigan’s statement

implying a belief he was a player in the 180-degree turn that the town’s proposed Charter changes took while passing through Delegates Gilbert and Webert’s hands, as well as his be-lief about the advisability of altering the town election process.

Always up for a good debate, we talked extensively by phone off the record. However, despite his stated intention to reply on the record by press time, Funk regretfully informed us on April 11 he did not have time to formulate that public response.

Samuels Public Library

On April 4, Samuels Public Li-brary announced the receipt of a $1,000 grant from Elks Lodge �38�, which will be used to purchase new books for children and teens in the Youth Services department. “The Elks Lodge is doing great things in our area,” stated Michal Ashby, Youth Services Supervisor, “and we are thrilled that they rec-ognize the importance of Samuels Library to our community, and are willing to stand behind us with their

generous donation. Their commit-ment to the children of this area is laudable.” Samuels Public Library is a com-munity resource which enhances the quality of life for residents of Warren County/Front Royal by ful-filling their personal, occupational and recreational needs through ser-vices, programs, and a collection of materials that is current, balanced and responsive to those needs. The Library strives to stimulate and broaden community interests in lit-erature, reading and learning, and

has been doing so for more than two centuries. The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks is a proud Ameri-can fraternal organization focused on beliefs in God and country. Their principles of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity guide them in their endeavors to assist our government, citizens, and com-munity in any way they can. Further information about Samu-els Library is available at www.sam-uelslibrary.net or by calling (540) 635-3153.

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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and in recognition of this month-long effort to focus com-munity and national attention on the problem, the Warren County Department of Social Services planted a Pinwheel Garden April 4, in front of the Department. Why pinwheels? The pinwheel symbolizes happi-ness and hope, which every child deserves. The pinwheel serves as an symbol to reframe the topic of child abuse by focusing on ways to prevent children from suffering, including positive parenting. But its not just pinwheels – bowling balls are also important to the local acknowledgment of Child Abuse Prevention Month. And why bowling balls, you might ask; because on April �8, from 5-9 p.m., WCDSS and Royal Family Bowling Center will part-ner in a “strike out child abuse and neglect” event, with 50 percent of proceeds donated to county social services to help fund prevention services in Warren County. You must mention “strike out abuse and neglect” to participate in the event. Pinwheels, bowling events – why should all this be important to us? Thousands of Virginia children, including in our own community, suffer abuse and neglect every year. In FY �01�, there were 5�,675 children reported as possible vic-tims of abuse and/or neglect, with an unknown number actually suf-fering such treatment. The Virginia Department of Social Services

found that 6,365 children were maltreated and of those, 35 chil-dren died as a result of Abuse and Neglect. In Warren County during the �01� Fiscal Year, WCDSS received 743 referrals for child abuse and neglect; and of those, �77 reached the criteria for further investiga-tion or family assessment. Citizens across Virginia can send a message about their feelings about the value of children and the environment they need to flourish and reach their potential by dis-playing pinwheels at home, at work and elsewhere in the community. Preventing child abuse and neglect is a community responsibility that depends on involvement through-out the community. Child maltreatment often occurs when people find themselves in stressful situations, without com-munity resources, and don’t know how to cope. The majority of child abuse cases stem from situations and conditions that are prevent-able in an engaged and supportive community. The county department of social services encourages all citizens to become involved in supporting families in raising their children in a safe, nurturing environment. Ef-fective child abuse prevention programs succeed because of part-nerships created among families, social service agencies, schools, faith communities, civic organiza-tions, law enforcement agencies and the business community.

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County Administrator Doug Stan-ley has been authorized to negotiate with the Town of Front Royal, and to accept their offer to treat the Rappa-hannock, Shenandoah, and Warren Regional Jail’s wastewater. The announcement was made after a closed session at the RSW Author-ity’s March �8 meeting and hope-fully will end the discussion which has bounced from the RSW board meetings to the Town meetings and back again (see related town story by Roger Bianchini). After the meeting, Stanley, Warren County Sheriff Daniel McEathron and the authority’s lawyer William Hefty, all appeared relieved that a de-cision had been made and were glad

to go forward with the task of finish-ing the jail project. “It isn’t our main function to run a waste-water plant,” remarked Hefty. The issue concerned the town’s ini-tial refusal to take rainwater that the facility will use to wash laundry, and introduce it into the town’s sewer system. After the authority explored the option to build its own plant, and more discussions with the town, they have unanimously agreed to accept the town’s terms-with a few more discussions about the details-and will pay 1.375 times what town cus-tomers pay for up to 540,000 gallons of water. Their connection fee will be twice what in-town customers pay. “The Town Council will have it on their agenda on Monday evening. [April 8] The Authority Attorney, Bill Hefty, has been working with

the Town Attorney, Doug Napier, to hammer out a final agreement,” Stan-ley communicated in an email after the meeting. Warren County’s new regional jail facility is under construction on US 340/5�, just north of Front Royal and will house inmates from three coun-ties, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, and Warren. According to owner representative James Marstin construction is on schedule with the first section of the roof completed. “The jail is taking shape, you can see the rooms and what the jail looks like and now that it’s spring, things will get booming,” he said. During the regular Authority meet-ing, Carrie Henaghan, senior associ-ate of the authority’s architect, pre-sented the board with photos showing

the

progress since last month’s meeting. Among other improvements are: on-going work on the recreation area, the kitchen’s grease pit, the recre-ation yard and completion of the roof in the mechanical room. “They’ve started the wall mock-up panel and the stone is beautiful. You will be able to see the colors next month,” she said. The Jail’s Transition committee met before the regular meeting to discuss some of the fine points of salaries and details of the Informational Technol-ogy aspects of running the jail. Captain Steve Barr of the Warren County Sheriff ’s department will represent the county on tours of oth-er jail facilities to see what is working for them in the records management section of their Information Tech-nology department. Also discussed at the meeting was the hiring of the jail’s superinten-dent. “We have about eight applicants and have interviews to schedule, but we’d like to have one narrowed down by this May,” said Sheriff McEathron, and added that the goal is to have a superintendent hired by at least a year, and preferably 13 months ahead of the jail’s opening. The interview panel will consist of: Sheriff McEathron as sheriff ’s repre-sentative; Rappahannock County Ad-ministrator John McCarthy to repre-sent the counties’ administrators and

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Jr. representing the supervisors. The authority’s lawyer William Hefty will advise on whether legal counsel is needed and whether Human Re-sources representatives or attorneys will be needed to sit on the panel. The date set to interview appli-cants for the superintendent position is April 15. The board also discussed and passed a motion to adopt starting salaries for the jail’s personnel. Some of them are similar to staff salaries at Frederick County’s Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center. “We’d like to adopt Northwest Regional Jail starting salaries and add some other positions. They’re our closest competition—our salaries are comparable or better so our person-nel won’t suffer if they transfer,” said Rappahannock County Administra-tor John McCarthy, who initially out-lined the preliminary salary sched-ule. He noted that positions and sala-ries could be subject to change, but they’d like to have them to show the new superintendent. “We may not have everything to the nth degree, and will look at them later on – this is not final,” said Mc-Carthy. The next authority meeting is April �5.

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After nearly two years of conten-tion, threats, counter-threats, inter-nal bickering and sidebars on April 8 the Town of Front Royal agreed to provide water and sewer service to the RSW Regional Jail. However exactly what the terms were was initially a mystery to me as I perused my notes after a lengthy and laborious round of discussion, offered, defeated or occasionally ap-proved amendments before a vote on the motion to provide the utilities (as amended) passed 4-�, with Hrbek and Parker dissenting. But apparently I wasn’t the only one confused. At one point Councilman Tom Sayre offered an amendment to his

original motion to approve the ser-vice to include the condition the town would not be liable for costs of housing inmates incarcerated on town charges. But as pointed out by Town Manager Steve Burke and veri-fied by Town Attorney Doug Napier, that condition was already included in the conditions presented to coun-cil for approval. Two things I’m pretty sure of – the primary condition of double connec-tion fees and 1.375 of the in-town rate in monthly usage fees remained in the final motion. An amendment to alter the term of the contract from 60 years, the projected useful life of the facility, to �0 years failed by a 5-1 vote (I think), with only Parker voting for the change. Parker observed that chang-ing circumstances might bear new

terms. “Once we annex [the corridor] there would still be no ability to re-negotiate the terms,” Parker said dropping his favorite “A-bomb” – an-nexation – on any county officials in listening distance However, after lengthy discus-sion of this aspect of the contract the town attorney observed it could be re-negotiated at any time by mu-tual agreement of the involved par-ties – oh well, what else did I have to do with that 15 minutes or so of my life???

Rainwater in sewer

In a related motion, council agreed by a 5-0 vote, with one abstention (Parker), to amend its codes to allow the introduction of rainwater into its sewer system. Many months ago a re-quest by the regional jail authority to be allowed to dump cistern-collected rainwater for use in the jail laundry and cooling systems began this whole conflict. That led to the jail authority seeking and receiving state DEQ per-mission to build an on-site wastewa-ter facility and dispose of that water locally in a usually dry creek bed. However, the town responded to that initiative with complaints about threats to the McKay Springs water-shed and a threat not to provide wa-ter service unless the jail also bought into the town sewer system. The RSW Authority countered by threatening to also build its own on-site water system. With legal threats being thrown back and forth and de-

spite the feeling by some on council that the jail authority was bluffing and could not afford or provide the necessary water on site, negotia-tions moved toward the compromise agreement approved by the town on April 8.

Inmate $ waiver

One perhaps troubling aspect for other towns in the three involved counties was the added condition by the jail authority that Front Royal would NOT be charged for inmates housed at the regional jail on town code violations. Inmate charges have been a recent bone of contention between Warren County and Front Royal (see related story). Does the waiver of inmate

charges to one involved municipal-ity mean the authority believes it has the right to charge other towns for inmates incarcerated in violation of their codes? Stay tuned …

Town okays water-sewer service to regional jailDouble connection fees, 1.375 of in-town monthly rates approved

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AR-15 semi-auto rifle prize highlights gun-rights debate


As we were scurrying to get addi-tional information on the suspected arson at E. Wilson Morrison El-ementary School in Front Royal on

April 11, we got a message from local self-described constitutional conser-vative and guns rights activist Mike McHugh. McHugh said he would be presenting a semi-automatic AR-15 (with a retail value of $1500) to a new member of his Virginia Gun Owner’s

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have yet to be implicated in any arson cases we are aware of, we couldn’t help but find irony in the timing of that presentation by McHugh to the winner of a membership drive draw-ing for his gun rights group; and our exploration of the aftermath of what is believed to be a crime of violence, fortunately against property rather than people, in an elementary school in our community.

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The winner of the membership

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Gun-control Governor Bob McDon-nell and President Barack Hussein Obama … that we are not going to stand by and allow our right to be al-lowed to protect our wives and chil-dren taken away … I am disgusted with the president and our governor,” McHugh said.

Asked if he supported any gun control laws, McHugh replied, “Yes, I would like congress to repeal the ‘Open Season on Little Kids Act’ – they call it the ‘Safe School Zone

Act’ – but by preventing people from carrying guns near schools they are declaring open season on the chil-dren there.”

New AR-15 owner and Virginia Gun Owner’s Coalition member Stewart agreed.

“If there had been a teacher with a gun in that school in Newtown that wouldn’t have happened,” Stewart said of the mass murder of �3 Sandy Hook Elementary School students and three school employees by a man armed with multiple firearms, in-cluding semi-automatic weapons.

Counterpoint

However, an April 11 press release from “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”, signed by 33 relatives of five of those killed in the Newtown CT shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School disagree about general efforts to lim-it firearms ownership and increase background check requirements.

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deeply encouraged by the leadership demonstrated yesterday by Senators Manchin (D-WV) and Toomey (R-NJ). Their bipartisan compromise to expand background checks will help keep guns from falling into the wrong hands, and most importantly it will help save lives.” the mayors’ press re-lease signed by the Sandy Hook vic-tims’ relatives states.

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Back in Front Royal, Virginia on April 11, Stewart equated current ef-forts in the U.S. to limit gun owner-

ship to that of earlier fascist societ-ies.

“I think if you look at it, Hitler was going down that road of disarming the public … Hitler and Mussolini both disarmed their citizens. The ho-locaust came about because of that, a disarmed public,” Stewart observed.

However, the AR-15 winner said he didn’t view his new semi-automatic rifle as his family’s first line of de-fense.

“What’s this going to be used for? – Cans, target shooting. Not to say if someone came in my home it wouldn’t be the last mistake they’d

make. But this is not going to be my primary home defense weapon, I have others for that,” Stewart explained.

And so the debate rages on – what is the answer to trying to stem gun violence and firearms-fueled murder and mass murder in America, more guns in the hands of more people OR more stringent conditions on the purchase and ownership of firearms?

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8am - 3pm Relay for Life Yard Sale. Ameri-can Legion Parking Lot, Front Royal Today is the Relay for Life Yard/Bake Sale in the American Legion Parking Lot.10:10am - 11:10am Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. BOOKS AND BARKS - Come to this extremely popular monthly program that gives developing readers the chance to read and relax with a trained therapy dog. For be-

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Sunday, April 14, 20131:45pm - 2:45pm R-MA Open House. Ran-dolph-Macon Academy, Front Royal. R-MA invites students and their families to the April Open House today. The Open House is for families interested in applying to the Academy or the Middle School Summer Camp for grades 6-8, Summer School for grades 9-12 or the 2013-2014 School Year for grades 6-12. Families will receive a tour of the campus, including classrooms, dorm rooms, the dining hall and the gym-nasium. They will meet students admissions

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7pm - 8pm Council Work Session. Town Hall, Front Royal. Tonight the Town Council will have a Work Session in the Town Hall Conference Room located on the 3rd floor. For an agenda please look under the “e-ser-vices” tab of this website.

Tuesday, April 16, 201312:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays. 95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30! If you can’t listen live check out the podcasts at http://www.theriver953online.com.

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Thursday, April 18, 20135pm - 8pm Third Thursday ArtWalk. Down-town Front Royal6:30pm - 7:30pm Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. Description: BASIC COMPUTER CLASS - Topic: e-mail.

Friday, April 19, 20137pm - 8pm Civil War Roundtable. Ivy Lodge, Chester Street, Front Royal. Join the Warren Heritage Society in the first official event of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Civil War Roundtable for 2013. Professor Jona-than Noyales will be making a presentation on his recently published book; Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign, a ex-cellent and fresh piece of scholarship on Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s famous Shenandoah Valley Campaign Books will be available for purchase and signing as part of the event. Light refreshments will be served. This event FREE and open to the public.

Saturday, April 20, 20135am - 1pm March for Babies. Valley Health

and Wellness Center, Front Royal. Today is the Front Royal March for Babies - a 3-mile walking event that raises awareness of the mission of the March of Dimes.8am - 1pm Wellness Expo. Warren County High School, Front Royal. Today is Warren Memorial Hospitals’ Annual Safety and Well-ness Community Expo. Open to the Public!!9am - 11am Public Shredding Day. Royal

Plaza Shopping Center, Front Royal. Today is FREE Public Shredding Day at Royal Plaza Shopping Center - Bring your personal docu-ments to be shredded. A shred truck located in the parking lot will shred material. You can witness the actual destruction. Person-nel from the shred company will be available to answer any questions. Volunteers will be available to assist in lifting and carrying box-

es. All residents are welcome to bring their items to be destroyed at no charge. Spon-sored in part by the Front Royal PoliceDepartment. Please contact Janice Hart at (540)631-2763 for more information.

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7pm - 8pm Council Meeting. County of

Thanks to the generosity of the churches of the Community Youth Fellowship, a check for $984.77, as well as �95 pounds of food were donated to C-CAP in March. The group collected donations during February as part of the “Souper Bowl of Caring”; a national pro-gram using the energy of the Super Bowl to mobilize youth in a united effort to care for people in their lo-cal communities who are hungry and those in need. The program encourages young people of all backgrounds and be-liefs to serve and lead their commu-nities in helping others. Every dol-lar collected is donated directly to a charity selected by each partici-

pating group. The total collected is then reported to the national pro-gram. For �013 so far, 7,848 partici-pating groups have raised over $7.� million nationally in cash and food items for charities in their area. Since 1978, the Front Royal-War-ren County Congregational Com-munity Action Project (CCAP) has provided food, clothing and limited emergency financial aid for families in Warren County. CCAP has become a critical safety net for a steadily increasing number of area families when no other re-sources are available. For more in-formation about the “Souper Bowl of Caring” program go to http://www.souperbowl.org/

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Pictured here at the C-CAP offices are members of Com-munity Youth Fellowship with George Rutter, President of C-CAP and Doug and Rozie Baker, also from CCAP. The churches involved in CYF are Asbury United Meth-odist, Calvary Episcopal, Front Royal Presbyterian, Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran and Linden United Meth-odist.

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Front Royal Oratorio Soci-ety will present two free, An-nual Spring Concerts entitled “A Choral Kaleidoscope” on April �7 & �8. The concerts are free, open to the public and will include a variety of musical styles, including folk, American standard, sacred and Broadway tunes that the whole family will enjoy. The April �7 show is at the Braddock Street United Methodist Church, 115 Wolfe Street, Winchester, 7:30 pm. The April �8 show is at the Front Royal Presbyterian Church, 115 Luray Ave., Front Royal, 7:30 p.m. For more information con-tact 540-667-0867 or visit www.frontroyaloratorioso-ciety.org

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Wednesday, April 24, 201310:15am - 11:15am Samuels Public Li-brary, Front Royal. Toddler Story Time: Join in for simple stories, songs and a craft all about our friends the trees.11am - 12pm Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. Preschool Story Time: Join in for simple stories, songs and a craft all about our friends the trees.1pm - 3pm Senior Art ON THE GO. For resi-dents 55yrs and up of Front Royal. Open to all Seniors in the community FREE of charge. All art supplies provided. At Loving Arms As-sisted Living, 103 Lee Burke Rd. Front Royal. Meets in East Sun Room. Call Annette Tait at 540-635-4813 or Loving Arms at 540-635-7923 for more information.3pm - 4pm Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. RESUME WORKSHOP - Estelle San-zenbacher, Adult Career Coach for LFCC, will show you how you can make your resume better.

Thursday, April 25, 201310:15am - 11:15am Samuels Public Li-brary, Front Royal. Toddler Story Time: Join in for simple stories, songs and a craft all about our friends the trees.

11am - 12pm Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. Preschool Story Time: Join in for sim-ple stories, songs and a craft all about our friends the trees.4pm - 5pm Anti-Litter Council Mtg. Warren County Government Center.4:30pm - 5:30pm Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. Big Kids Story Time: Learn about strange weather such as ball lighten-ing and other cool weather phenomena with a selection of stories, facts and a craft. For kindergarten and up.6pm - 7pm Business Forum. Town Ad-ministration Building, Front Royal. Tonight is the Town’s Business Forum. Local business owners are invited to meet with Town Staff to discuss issues related to conducting busi-ness in Front Royal. Staff will be available to discuss ways that the Town can improve business permitting and relations. More info: (540)635-8007.6:30pm - 7:30pm FREE Seminar. Warren County Community Center, Front Royal. Dr. Craig Zunka presents an informing semi-nar: WHAT’S THE STORY ABOUT MERCURY? Come spend an informative evening with Dr. Zunka as he discusses present day is-sues and questions about mercury; its his-tory and where we are today with diagnosis and treatment. More Info: (540) 635-3610 or

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Friday, April 26, 201312:30pm - 1:30pm Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. VIBES AT THE LIBES - Phil Mic-ciche, a classical guitarist who will play Re-naissance, Baroque and Romantic music.7pm - 10pm Front Porch Style Pickin’ Party/ Warren County Senior Center, 1217 Commonwealth Ave. Description: All levels of talent are welcome. Acoustic instruments only.7pm - 10pm Concert. Tonight at Open Door Baptist Church the Blue Ridge Chorale will present their spring concert, A New York State of Mind, directed by Carole Tomhave. The concert features Broadway music, songs about the City That Never Sleeps, and many others! Admission will be $10 for adults; $5 dollars for children, tickets can be paid at the door. Come join us for an evening of mu-sic, and fun for all ages. Café refreshments will be sold by the Culpeper Band Boosters. For more information go to: www.brcsings.com, or call (540) 223-5462.

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(Managing editor’s note: with both answered and unanswered ques-tions on the dangers and potential dangers of hydraulic fracture min-ing, aka fracking, including possible weakening of previously inactive fault lines such as the one running near the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant that was 8 miles from the epicenter of the 2011, 5.9 Richter Scale earthquake that shook Front Royal and Wash-ington D.C., we feel the exploration of this path–of least–resistance corpo-rate mining initiative timely – or as they would say in the recent Battle-star Galactica TV series, “What the frack?!!?) Kate Wofford, executive direc-tor of the Shenandoah Valley Net-work, spoke about “Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling: A Perspective from the Shenandoah Valley” at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s October �4 lecture. She kindly reprised her talk for the War-ren County Report. From the intro-duction “Shale gas fracking is trans-forming the energy landscape in the United States and impacts local com-munities and natural resources in the places where drilling is booming. Virginia’s first Marcellus shale gas well was proposed in the Shenando-ah Valley, where thousands of acres have been eased for fracking. “ “Fracking” uses high pressure wa-ter, sand and a chemical cocktail to shatter and crack hard shale, thereby releasing natural gas. “The problem is that the large volumes of water that flow back to the surface along with the oil or gas are laced with ev-erything from naturally radioactive minerals to proprietary chemicals ... Simply dumping it improperly is not an option, because the high levels of salts and minerals will poison a river, stream or aquifer or it will render land incapable of supporting life for

generations ... Traditional waste-water treatment plants, designed to deal with sewage or storm water run-off, cannot cope with these kinds and

levels of contaminants.”(Scientific American, May �5, �01� “How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Fracking?”) Virginia’s Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy Expenses ap-proved Virginia’s first Marcellus Shale well near Bergton, in Rocking-

ham County and George Washington National Forest, northeast of Tim-berville, near the West Virginia line. To begin operations Carrizo needed a special use permit from Rocking-ham County’s Board of Supervisors (4 Republicans and a Democrat). The applicant, Carrizo Marcellus (LLC)

out of Houston, proposed to store its polluted water in a flood plain for eventual disposal by land application or through the municipal system. Republican supervisor Pablo Cuevas and staff did their due diligence, in-cluding a visit to Wetzel County in West Virginia where fracking is in process. From the Feb. 5, �01� Washing-ton Post: “Cuevas learned what the Marcellus Shale Coalition of compa-nies that support drilling says all the time. Drilling in shale has an upside, bringing in billions of dollars in tax revenue and jobs, along with lease payments and gas royalties from com-panies to property owners. But he also encountered a downside: Some residents complain of well water con-tamination and the strong stench of chemicals from fracking. Others say mechanical noise from the opera-tion of the well persists through the

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night. Motorists complain of massive truck convoys that ruin roads. Cue-vas wanted no part of that. Virginia just spent $5 million building a new road into Bergton and trucks from a well operation would likely destroy it, he said. And if chemicals used by Carrizo somehow contaminated the groundwater that area farmers rely on, the law only required the compa-ny to put aside $�5,000 to cover the damage, Cuevas said. In meetings, he peppered company representa-tives with questions and demanded far more money than the company was willing to pay to cover the cost of potential mishaps.” Rockingham County’s BOS tabled Carrizo’s per-mit.

The concern over water is well founded. A recent Stony Brook Uni-versity study announced August. 6, �01� found that “the disposal of con-taminated wastewater from fracked natural gas in the Marcellus Shale re-gion poses substantial potential risks of river and other water pollution ... and recommends consideration of additional regulations to protect drinking water and encourages fu-ture research efforts into disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fractur-ing.” But what about those 1�,000 acres in George Washington National For-est? The GWNF provides water for �60,000 Valley residents. Is their wa-ter supply endangered? Wofford said

that ten valley localities (Counties of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Au-gusta, Rockbridge, Boutetourt, and Bath and the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lynchburg and Roanoke) have urged a ban or moratorium on fracking in the GW National Forest. Says Wofford “There has never been a producing gas well in GW Forest.” She said that the Forest Service’s park management plan is under review with release expected in March �013. The draft plan recommend a ban on horizontal drilling, an essential ele-

ment of the fracking process, but it is unclear if the final plan will allow fracking. Meanwhile Eastern Mennonite University scientists have begun water testing around the Bergton site. Their goal is to have two years of baseline monitoring should the well be approved. According to the Southern Environmental Law Center there is natural gas in Warren Coun-ty’s GWNF too. Bloomberg News (Nov. �5, �01�) predicts that natural gas exports

could revitalize the US economy. They also recommend that “state and federal regulators should move swiftly to adopt more aggressive rules governing well construction, wastewater treatment and chemical disclosure, among other things.”

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left alone and was getting out of his enclosure. What changed his life and helped him get adopted? – a ThunderShirt he got via a grant from the Petfinder Foundation! ThunderShirt helps create a mira-cle for an escape artist. A loving pit bull named King had once been ad-opted but then returned to the shel-ter because he was suffering from separation anxiety. During times of separation, he was chewing exces-sively and causing destruction in the home. King was also an escape art-ist. His first adoptive family lived in town limits and the neighbors were scared of King due to his breed. All of these behavioral issues combined forced the family to return King, al-though he had been wonderful with the family, very kind and loving, as

long as he had adequate attention. Once returned, we placed King in a Thundershirt. He did very well in kennel, participated in shelter dog-play groups and off-site adoption events. King was even featured at a Chamber of Commerce after-hours event. He was given a second chance when a wonderful family came to adopt him. The family was made aware of his separation anxiety and escape is-sues. King was sent home with his Thundershirt in an effort to con-tinue to reduce his stress level as he

transitioned (once again) from the shelter to a new home environment. This led to a successful adoption. To date, ThunderShirt has helped over a million dogs and cats around the world overcome their fears and anxieties. The Humane Society of Warren County is honored to be a recipient of this PAWsome re-source!

Onward & UpwardLavenda DenneyHSWC Executive Director

PAWgress ReportThe Warren Heritage Society plans a series of events to mark the ��5th anniversary of the founding of the Town of Front Royal. Learn more by visiting them on Chester St. in Front Royal or by calling 540-636-1446. Their website is at: warrenheritagesociety.org

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Engle’s Angle: Plain EnglishBy Kevin S. EngleWarren County Report

English is my native language. In fact, it’s my only language. But more and more, I seem to under-stand it less and less. The other day at work for in-stance, I read an email from my company’s CEO that made me laugh. I don’t think that’s what she was trying for, but she did a good job. And I don’t know her person-ally, but I’m fairly certain she’s a native English speaker like me, although that wasn’t clear from what I read. As far as I could tell, she wrote it in another language. Corporate-speak. She discussed “sunsetting” the corporate brand, the “value proposition” and the “overarching brand story”. Does that last one have something to do with Mc-Donalds and the golden arches? Do people really talk like this? And are we supposed to under-stand them? I’ll bet their dinner conversations are fascinating. She went on to mention “the breadth of our capabilities”. I think what she was saying is that we can do a lot of different things. Here’s what else she said, and how I’d translate it into plain Eng-lish.

“Cross-business collaboration” - We share stuff with our co-workers. “Mission-critical” - Important. “A leader in the space.” - We’re #1. “A solid collective value propo-sition.” - Ok, I give up. I don’t have a clue about that one.

I’m ashamed to admit it, but even my wife is starting to sound like this. She throws around the

abbreviations as if I’m supposed to know what they mean. She talks about BG&O’s, PMR’s, telcons and flowdown. BG&O’s. Business goals and objectives. I thought the BG&O was one of the railroads in Mo-nopoly? PMRs. Program Management Reviews. Telcon. To me, it sounds like a secret military operation. Not quite. How about teleconfer-ence? And flowdown? You know what they say runs down hill? I get a lot of flowdown at work. When people speak English, I’d like to understand their English. Maybe I should invent a new de-vice. I’ll call it the Mumbo Jumbo 5000. Whenever someone starts spouting corporate-speak, the Mumbo Jumbo 5000 will magi-cally decode and decipher what they really mean in words that I can understand. I do know one thing. There’s a high probability this written piece may have a detrimental impact on my future promotional possibilities within the organization that pays my wages. In addition, someone at a more senior level than me on the organizational chart, which is just about everyone, may tell me my current skill set and develop-mental path aren’t congruent with the mission and vision of the com-pany and that I’d be best suited applying those skills in a different setting. In plain English, I’m gonna get canned!

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Obituary Nellie Mae Morrison, 84, of Front Royal, died suddenly Saturday, April 6, 2013 in her home. A funeral service will be held on Sunday, April 14, at 2:00 p.m. at Ri-verton United Methodist Church, con-ducted by the Rev. Buzz Moore. Inter-ment will be private in the Rockland Community Cemetery. Mrs. Morrison was born August 19, 1928 in Bentonville, daughter of Harry R. and Gladys Claig Hockman. She was the owner of Bowling Green Country Club. Mrs. Morrison was married to the late Lynwood L. Mor-rison, Sr. and was preceded in death by a daughter Julie Lee Morrison. Surviving are one daughter Ginger Winkler and husband W.C. of Charlot-tesville; one son Lynwood L. “Woody” Morrison and wife Cathi of Front Royal; two granddaughters Corrie Winkler of Atlanta, GA and Wendy Winkler of Charlottesville; one great-grandson Dylan Cosgrove of Charlot-tesville; two brothers Eddie Hockman and wife Norann of Bentonville and her twin brother Buddy Hockman and wife Margie of Bentonville. The family will receive friends on Saturday from 5-8 p.m. at Maddox Funeral Home. Memorial Contributions may be made to the Rockland Community Church, c/o Mr. Phil Hartmann, 184 Karst Valley Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, or to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Mem-phis, TN 38105 or to Smile Train, P.O. Box 96231, Washington, D.C. 20090-6231.


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Dear Stewart,

I notice increasing interest in native trees and other plants. What exactly is a native tree? Does it refer to a tree be-ing “born” in the USA , or Virginia? Can a tree imported from another part of the world become a native--like people--through subsequent generations? Why is there concern for native trees and other plants?

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Dear Ed,

That’s a great question! Trees or plants are considered “native” if they are naturalized to a given area in geological time. Geological time is a very long pe-riod, unlike “people time”. These plants have developed or occurred naturally in a particular area or region. A very inter-esting thing is that these native plants

work cooperatively, sometimes with other species, to form a very success-ful ecosystem or plant community. An example of this is where plants rely on wildlife to assist in the pollination pro-cess. Examples of native Virginia trees in-clude Virginia Pine, the Hickories and other various nut trees, several variet-ies of Oaks, and of course, the Flower-ing Dogwood. Note, I did not mention the Kousa Dogwood, which is an intro-duced tree. Introduced trees are brought into this region, sometimes on purpose, such as a way to embellish one’s landscap-ing with a new type of tree from another area. Sometimes it is accidental, where seeds of a plant are carried in on a ve-hicle or boat from overseas. For the most part, these introduced trees adapt to the environment and coexist with the native plants. However, some become invasive, causing serious damage to lo-

cal ecosystems. These invasives do so well in their new environment that they end up crowding out the natives ant to-tally take over. Examples of well-known invasives in Virginia are the Ailanthus or Tree of Heaven, Mimosa, and Royal Paulownia. Actually, the Norway Maple is classified as an invasive, as well. Some good examples of the above invasives can be seen along our own Happy Creek in Front Royal. There are so many Ailanthus trees that you can-not see some of the more natural trees along the stream bank. There are many resources that list the recommended native species to help you in your landscaping plans, includ-ing the Virginia Dept of Forestry. You can also check with your local Tree Steward members for additional help. Have a great Spring!

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Pets PageThe Front Royal/Warren County Tree Steward program began in 1997 with volunteers dedicated to improving the health of trees by providing educational programs, tree planting and care demon-strations, and tree maintenance throughout the community. The group now consists of over 30 ac-tive members with several interns working toward becoming certified tree stewards from our annual “All About Trees Class”. Each month Stewart will answer a question from our readers. Please forward it to “Stewart” in care of:[email protected] and we may publish it in a future is-sue. Please visit our website at:www.treesfrontroyal.org.

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Mon - Fri 7AM - 7PM • Sat 8AM - 5PM • Closed Sunday

FREE1994 vehicles and newer up to 5-quarts, Synthetic and some models slightly higher. Excludes Diesels

Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up.Offer ends APRIL 30, 2013. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store

specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends APRIL 30, 2013. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only

at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends APRIL 30, 2013. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at

MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

$5000

RE-INVENTINGCUSTOMER SERVICE!

Protect Your Vehicle’s Finish this Spring!

TAX, TAGS & TITLE FEES NOT INCLUDED. $289 PROCESSING FEE not included.All vehicles subject to prior sale. 2.75% APR financing is subject to approved credit and limited to 2008 and newer model year vehicles. 2.75% APR for 72 months results

in monthly payment equal to $15.09 per thousand financed. Zero down on approved credit.

$5000

Savings!

GET THE NEXT 3 OIL CHANGESBuy 1 Oil Change at $5995

OFF30k -60k - 90k Mile Service

ANY

plusget

1 Day Complimentary Rental Car

($40 Value)

“EXTENDED HOURS DISCOUNT”

ANY SCHEDULED SERVICE

MONDAY - FRIDAY BETWEEN 5-7PM!

WE WILL

MEET BEATORANY

COMPETITOR’S COUPON PRICINGBY 10%

Must be within a 20 mile radius. Coupon must be presented prior to write-up. Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends APRIL 30, 2013.

Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

• Family owned - so we treat you like family.• Our Technicians have combined over 80 years of technical experience.• Serving The Shenandoah Valley for over 65 Years.• New extended hours to serve you better.• Our Own Exclusive Service Rewards Plan.• Complimentary car wash on most services.• Rental car available on site • Shuttle service available.

CUSTOMERSATISFACTION is #1 $2500 OFF

Fluid System Service FlushANY

Transmission • Brake • Power Steering • Coolant • Differential



$8995

PRE-SEASON AIR CONDITIONING SERVICE

• Visual inspection of components, compressor, lines, belt, condensor

• Check for leaks and test pressure, perform performance test& replace cabin filterPlus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to

service write-up. Offer ends APRIL 30, 2013. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

FREEBattery & Charging System Check

with Diagnostic PrintoutPlus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to


COMPLETE Vehicle Detailing• Hand wax • Hand wash• Clean interior• Clean engine compartment & trunk

$9995Reg.$149.95Some vehicles slightly higher.



2009 Jeep WranglerUnlimited Rubicon, 4 dr., 3.8L V-643K milesStock #U179A $25,937

2011 Mazda Mazda6 i Sport4 dr., Auto, 2.5L I-437K MilesStock #U162A $13,437 $15,937

2012 Ford Focus SEL4 dr. Sedan, Auto., 2.0L I-433K milesStock #U173A $17,737

2010 Nissan Altima 2.5 S2 dr. Coupe, Variable Trans., 2.5L I-481K MilesStock #13Q458A

VINTAGE CLUB SPECIAL

10% OFF

20% OFF

Up to 5 YEARS OLDTAKE

6 YEARS +TAKE

ANY SERVICE OR REPAIR (Max. discount $175)Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to


$1500 OFF

AND GET A 4-WHEEL ALIGNMENT PLUSNITROGEN TIRE FILL

FREE!

Buy 4 Tires

Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends APRIL 30, 2013. Not valid in conjunction with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good

only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.

$129.95$AVINGS!

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