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Many Roanok-ers enjoyed an open house and tours of the Virginia Tech Caril-ion School of Medi-cine and Research Institute last Saturday as part of the school’s Roanoke Campus Grand Opening at 2 Riverside Circle.

The day began with a ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. on the steps of the new build-ing. Talks were given by two leaders in medical education and a renowned researcher in brain function in health and disease. Visitors then took a tour of the school and the research in-stitute as they enjoyed refresh-ments. The event was free and open to the public.

“While the charter class stu-dents began their studies in August 2010, many in the community have not had the opportunity to come inside and see how we are changing medical education and making a difference in Southwest Virginia,” said Dr. Cynda Ann John-son, founding dean of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. “We have much to show and share as we celebrate

the culmination of our collective hard work with the com-munity.”

Since the Vir-ginia Tech Carilion Research Institute opened in Septem-ber 2010, founding Executive Director Michael Friedlander has recruited inter-nationally recognized biomedical scientists

in addiction, brain imaging and human

cognition, childhood development, traumatic brain injury, cardiac develop-ment, and cancer. The research institute currently employs more than 60 people,

including 25 doctoral-level scientists who have come to Roanoke from such leading institutions as Harvard Med-

ical School, Brandeis University, Baylor College of Medicine, the National Insti-tutes of Health, and Georgetown Univer-sity. The faculty at the research institute have already been competitively award-ed federal and private grants valued at more than $7 million per year to support their

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Glade Spring Still Waiting

“They said what . . .? That’s how many Glade Spring residents are reacting as they receive the news that their area has not qualified for federal assistance following the tornado that ravaged the area last month.

The April tornadoes that traversed a wide swath begin-ning with the country’s midsection, swinging primarily east to northeast, left severe devastation in their wake—and some of the hardest hit are not currently on the list to

receive disaster relief from FEMA.The most recent storms on April 28 made national

news as severe thunder storms spawned tornadoes that popped up from Mississippi to Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and beyond, with hundreds of deaths reported. The tornado that ripped through the Glade Spring area (about halfway be-tween Marion and

Apple Ridge Farm Celebrates 22 Years Helping At-Risk Youth

From the time he was eight years old until he was about 16, Peter Lewis spent summers on his aunt and uncle’s dairy farm in Warrenton, Virginia, located ap-proximately 45 miles south of Washington D.C. He truly relished that experi-ence. When he began a teaching career in Washington, Lewis began taking kids to the farm and witnessed the positive impact the outdoor environment had on them. That’s when he decided to buy a farm and start a camp to provide the op-portunity for inner-city youth to visit such a setting.

In 1975 Lewis acquired a Floyd County farm to establish such a retreat and began hosting Washington and Roanoke area children during the summers. In 1978 Apple Ridge Farm was incorporated as a non-profit organization. Located in Copper Hill, the farm will mark its twenty-second year this summer of pro-

[Education]

Council Adopts Budget With Public Input

Roanoke City Council made final decisions at a work session last week on most all concerns that citizens had brought before them at a pub-lic hearing the preceding week. With revenue stabilizing, the school board funding formula revamped, and the new budgeting process City Manager Chris Morrill brought on board, this year was a breeze compared to last year’s strug-gle. Council unanimously adopted the $258 million fiscal year 2012 budget on Monday.

The list of items considered at council work session included:

Recycling: Council decided against using six recycling drop off centers placed around the city. The potential savings of $295,000 would be offset by having to hire one full-time employee along with additional cleanup expenses. Recy-cling will remain “as is.”

Brain Injury Services of Southwest Vir-ginia: The Human Services Committee rec-ommended they not be funded. The decision will be delayed on appeal to the Human Ser-vices Committee. The committee has a scoring system that divides a total of $452,000 between all agencies.

Brain Injury Services is requesting $18,400 for FY2012. According to assistant city man-ager Sherman Stovall, there is $16,000 yet to be allocated. Due to some confusion, Brian In-jury Services failed to apply for HUD funding this year. They received $10,000 from HUD in

[City Gov’t]

Ken Cuccinelli held a conference call following the hearing before the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday. “The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is a ‘hot bench’ - it was very aggressive on both sides,” said Cuccinelli.

A three-judge panel made up of Dem-ocratic Presidential appointees “strug-gled with the unprecedented nature of the exercise of the authority the federal government was trying to undertake in legislation, [the Patient Protection and

Affordable Care Act, PPACA], said At-torney General Ken Cuccinelli.

“Being ‘pounded by judges’ on the is-sue of the state’s standing and the Com-merce Clause was expected, remarked Cuccinelli. The Commerce Clause and the interpretation of “activity and inactivity” across state lines took up much of the courts time. In an earlier interview Cuccinelli stated that “If our mental activity – our decision not to do

something is regulatable by congress … that’s incredible.”

Cuccinelli said he observed a “shift in [the court’s] thinking … a broader deep-

er understanding of our posi-tion with respect to standing.” He felt that his argument was successful, though he admit-

ted it is dangerous to become too opti-mistic on what is observed in the court-room.

The Liberty University case was ar-

gued first. They lost in the Western Dis-trict of Virginia where the state won in the Eastern District. Liberty argued on the merits of the constitutional question, the Commerce Clause and the tax versus penalty argument.

Virginia, on the other hand argued that they were defending state law.

Virginia passed its own law in 2010

Cuccinelli Cautiously Encouraged By Fourth Circuit Court Hearing

Apple Ridge Farm students planting at the Academic Summer Camp.

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Grand Opening Offers Tours of VT- Carilion School of Medicine

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P5– Faced with a recent job layoff Jon kaufman keeps his sense of humor, perseveres and says that in a time like this there’s no place like family.

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P20– Located just on the outskirts of vinton, this non-profit has become one of Roanoke’s leading organiza-tions that provides support for the working poor.

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P21– keith Humphry, who will sign off for the last time at WDBJ7 on May 27th, reflects on his career and what it feels like to leave after 31 years.

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.

Photo by Cheryl Hodges

An EF3 tornado bore down on Glade Spring at full force about 12:45 a.m. on April 28th. This home, visible from I-81 at about 8:30 the next morning, is located on Stage Coach Road, an area which sustained heavy damage.

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Abingdon) ran directly across I-81, giving motorists passing by after the fact a clear view of the damage these storms can in-flict. While Tennessee and other areas have qualified for disaster relief, Virginia has so far been left off the list.

Even a cursory look at the Glade Spring area makes that reality seem strange. Trees have been snapped in half and many struc-tures are partially or completely demolished. Just a sampling of the aftermath: a church was lifted off its foundation; the Petro Truck Stop and probably 15 businesses sustained heavy damage; scores of trees lay uprooted across area roadways; several tractor trail-ers travelling along I-81 were slammed into embankments, and unfortunately there were three confirmed deaths in the area.

Congressman Morgan Griffith agrees with the consensus that anyone who has seen the devastation cannot believe federal help is not currently available. “It just does not make sense to people; it is hard to accept … and understand why it hasn’t been forth-coming.” The urgency of his mission comes across as he conveys the assurance that, “we are working in a bipartisan way right now to figure out how to solve this problem.” Griffith has visited the area repeatedly since the disaster and is determined to rectify the situation.

Steve Bowman, an Abingdon resident whose mother-in-law Stella Tilley lives in

Glade Spring, received a call from her at 1:00 a.m. on the 28th with the news that “changed their lives forever.”

He describes a frightening scenario; “Most residents in its path had gone to bed, unaware of the destruction that awaited them. Many had seconds to take cover in basements, in a closet, or bathroom. Three residents didn’t make it out alive. By the Grace of God more people didn’t get killed or injured.”

When Bowman arrived in Glade Spring in the morning he found, “trucks turned over like toy cars, buildings gone, roofs ripped off, a front porch missing, telephone poles snapped like a match stick, electric power lines down everywhere, interstate sign poles bent.”

He adds, “I’ve been up there just about every day since and I still can’t comprehend what I am seeing. I pray I never see anything this bad in my life again.”

Griffith recounts the story of a very for-tunate 11-year-old girl who was literally picked up by the storm and dropped back down moments later unharmed. He sounds shaken as he relays that if the Gates Corpo-ration plant nearby had not had a large “steel I-beam around the center of the building, it would have collapsed. There were 70 work-ers inside.”

Congressman Griffith says that the “for-mula the government uses” to determine

eligibility for disaster relief just didn’t go Virginia’s way. He is urging an appeal of this decision. He also urges anyone in the affected areas to report their uninsured or perhaps underinsured status to the govern-ment. Every claim helps show the actual ex-tent of the devastation and increases chances of FEMA approval of funds for rebuilding.

According to Bowman, Griffith does “get it.” Bowman said he heard there were people protesting the FEMA denial outside Grif-fith’s Abingdon office. Griffith’s response? He joined in their protest.

Griffith also relayed the story of a family who heard the storm coming and scooped their kids up out of the bed they were sleep-ing in and got in the bathroom. Moments later a car that was picked up by the funnel slammed into that same bed.”

This was a devastating storm. Everyone in this area of Virginia certainly understands that. They are now all anxiously waiting to see if the government will also “get it.”

Website to report damages: http://www.washcova.com/government/washington-county-news/236-disaster-resources or call Morgan Griffith’s office at (202) 225-3861

Visit Facebook page entitled “Email our officials to protest FEMA denying Glade Spring” for ongoing updates.

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FY2011.Western Virginia Land

Trust: The request for $2600 will not be funded. City man-ager Chris Morrill and city at-torney Bill Hackworth both noted that funding the moni-toring of the Carvins Cove and Mill Mountain easements was not part of the agreement with the Trust. All thought they had done enough by granting the easement. This was supported by Rupert Cutler.

Virginia Cooperative Ex-tension: The VCE will remain level funded at $68,300. Council asked to continue monitoring the benefits of the extension for subsequent year funding.

Deer Culling: Urban archery was not recommended and came off the table quickly. Assis-tant manager Brian Townsend called it more of a recreational

sport. It was rejected quickly as Townsend explained the various state mandate components – li-censing, non-antler deer (does) only to be culled, private prop-erty with acreage requirement. Urban archery had resulted in only 300 deer being culled throughout the state in 2010.

The funding allocation of $75,000 for three years stood as recommended. With 396 deer culled in the past three years it averages out to $165 per deer culled.

Cell Phone Stipend: To elim-inate administration overhead and ease the complicated pro-cedure of reimbursement for business calls on personal data assistants and cell phones, city council and some employees will now receive a stipend. The stipend will replace cell phones provided by the city. It will be

eased in over time as the phone numbers are eliminated. This is expected to minimize confu-sion for callers.

The stipend per month is $30 for a cell phone and $50 per month for personal data assis-tants. The measure is expected to be “budget neutral.” Public Safety personnel will continue to use city devices.

City Attorney Bill Hackworth brought to council’s attention a previous week’s FOIA work-shop discussion. He reminded council members that city busi-ness conducted by personal as-sistants is subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.

Jefferson Center emergency maintenance: Cyrus Pace, ex-ecutive director of the Jefferson Center, is seeking funding for their leaky roof and has reported that there are also other mainte-

nance needs coming down the pike. Council members were re-luctant to set a precedent since the contract requires the lessee to maintain the city’s asset.

City Manager Chris Mor-rill said “what he is hearing from council members is that it won’t be the whole amount but a challenge amount based on fundraising.” He wants the Jefferson Center to show they have a maintenance plan going forward. He estimates that as-sistance would be a one-time deal of approximately $100,000 and “it will not be precedent setting,” insisted Morrill. He will come back to council with a recommendation.

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that exempts employees from being mandated to participate in a private employer sponsored healthcare plan as a condition of employment. The panel chal-lenged Cuccinelli on the reason for the law, insinuating that it was passed for the sole purpose of challenging the PPACA.

Cuccinelli explained that the federal government, by mandat-ing that all Virginians purchase healthcare, is in direct con-flict with the Commonwealth of Virginia’s law. Federal law trumps state law when there is a conflict except when the federal

law is unconstitutional.“The Constitution’s limita-

tions on federal power means something,” Cuccinelli said. “It sets the United States apart from other countries.” He takes the position that he is simply was upholding the constitution.

“At the same time I under-stand that people want more affordable healthcare and I sympathize with people that can’t afford it,” said Cuccinelli. “As attorney general sworn to uphold the law, I can’t endorse giving away the rights of all so that some people will get more healthcare. There are better so-lutions then giving up our free-dom,” he said.

Governor McDonnell is pre-paring for the mandate. If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes the PPACA, the preparation costs will be wasted. “We need to resolve this case as quickly as possible for the good of our people and the economy,” said Cuccinelli. That was the rea-soning Cuccinelli gave when he

requested the case be expedited directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. That appeal was denied April 25.

Tuesday’s hearing results will come sometime this summer with the U.S. Supreme Court hearing the case in June 2012. He expects other cases to be heard at the same time.

Cuccinelli claimed that the PPACA had an “enormous ef-fect on the 2010 elections … and it remains to be seen how big an impact it will have on the 2012 elections.”

“If the PPACA is struck down in 2012 prior to the presidential election,” he asked rhetorically,

“what is the reaction to that … the timing is sort of extraordi-nary.” He hoped to see other alternatives “teed up” and ready to be addressed by Congress.

It is at the sole discretion of the U.S. Supreme Court wheth-er they will accept or reject hear-ing the case. Cuccinelli believes it would be “highly unlikely that the case would be delayed be-yond [2012].

He called the PPACA a “slop-py way to legislate” and hoped congress would reconsider and pick one thing at a time to enact. Cuccinelli said that Virginia’s health care insurance is more expensive due to the piling on of mandates. “It’s the difference between broad coverage that more people can afford or nar-rower coverage that less people can afford,” he said.

Without the individual man-date, the PPACA cannot stand on its own.

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City Employees Look To Approval Of BonusRoanoke City employees have not received

a raise since 2008 – not even to combat cost-of-living increases.

At City Council’s meeting Monday to adopt the fiscal year 2012 budget, a stipend for city employ-ees was announced by Mayor David Bowers.

The recommendation will be for a $1000 bonus to be received by all employees on June 22, 2011. Council is expected to approve the bonus at their June meeting

“The city’s work force has been reduced by 10%,” explained Director of Finance Ann Shawver. She was confident that “we have council support to do that … it will be a nice ‘thank you’ to all the em-ployees for their hard work.”

Mayor David Bowers reiterated the sentiment that all employees were doing more with less and are well deserving of the one-time stipend. Bow-ers hoped the economy would allow raises for city employees in the next fiscal year.

If approved by council, the stipend will be evenly distributed to all employees regardless of their pay grade. The requirement is that they be employed for a full year and on board by June 1,

2010.Council members will not receive the stipend

nor will council appointed officers, constitutional officers, elected officers and the two assistant city managers.

“Whether someone is making $60,000 or $30,000 they will get the $1000,” said Shawver.

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City employees mow the grass in Northwest.

viding inner city and at-risk youths with outdoor activities and academic programs.

Many of the children come from urban areas in Roanoke and the surrounding counties of Southwest Virginia. Lewis feels that many children who grow up in an urban environ-ment lack the chance to ex-plore a semi-wilderness area.

“I think it really improves them because they are very interested to find out what’s here - what kind of animals do you have, and what kind of things are going on. I explain all of that to them, as do my educators, and they’re very in-terested.”

Apple Ridge offers four dif-ferent camp sessions—each one aimed at a specific age group. The first session this year will offer classes in math and computers, reading and writing, environmental sci-ence, gardening, swimming, and tennis for younger chil-dren. The second session will provide sessions for the older kids on how to prepare for life beyond high school.

“It’s not IF you finish high school,” Lewis stresses, “it’s WHEN you finish high school. We’re always stressing the im-portance of obtaining a good education because if you have a good education, there’s noth-ing you can’t achieve.”

As part of its program for older attendees, Apple Ridge holds career days, where pro-fessionals from diverse fields come and speak to the stu-dents. They also take students on visits to regional colleges, where they learn what it takes to be successful in the business world and how to prepare for life post-high school.

Because of what he calls “ineffective parenting” and

media’s negative images of young people, Lewis feels it is important that adults provide appropriate examples to to-day’s children - which is why Apple Ridge emphasizes old-fashioned values.

“We have very high expec-tations, and we expect these children to be well-behaved. And because we are, the chil-dren follow our lead. We try to be appropriate role models always,” says Lewis, who has an office at the Jefferson Cen-ter.

“We hire people who are ap-propriate role models, and we don’t tolerate bad behavior. When the children find out that that’s our mantra they fall in line. We always have people who say our kids are so well mannered, so respectful and so courteous. Well, that’s be-cause we insist on it.”

Many of the children who’ve attended Apple Ridge have done well in high school and college and are now working or are in military service. “We’ve had children go to a number of schools across Virginia and beyond,” says Lewis, “I’m very proud of our kids.”

Apple Ridge receives sup-port from various sources: churches, businesses, founda-tions, banks, insurance com-

panies, and private individu-als. Moreover, the farm has a conference center available for use by various businesses and organizations for a rental fee.

Such support is crucial - the children attending Apple Ridge do so tuition-free. “We’re al-ways looking for novel ways to support the children who otherwise could not afford the tuition to come to camps,” says Lewis.

Lewis hopes to retire within three to four years and assume an advisory role. “I’m hoping that, especially with the use of the conference center, we can operate this program in per-petuity, because we’re really looking to expand our offer-ings there. We have a wonder-ful facility to meet and to have off-site meetings for business-es. We hope to support our program by getting the general community [more] involved.”

Those seeking further in-formation can call the Apple Ridge Farm office at (540) 982-1322 or go online at www.ap-pleridge.org or email at info@appleridge.org.

Turner Files To Run As Independent for Board of Supervisors

Carter Turner, age 41, filed to run for the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Catawba District last week. He made his announcement in front of the county administration building and explained his reasons for running as an Independent.

“At the local level party af-filiation gets in the way,” said Carter. “It’s all about building trust and working together. It is not to work for party – it is to work for people,” he said. His incumbent opponent Board of Supervisor Chairman “Butch” Church is also an Independent though he was first elected as a Republican.

Turner said that he had been interested in public service long before he ran against and lost to then Delegate Morgan Grif-fith in 2009. He was successful in blocking an asphalt plant from operating near a Glenvar school. “The seed was planted then,” said Turner. Industry in that area should be kept to the south side of 460.

Turner said that Church vot-ed against moving the asphalt plant to its current location. He considers the alternative loca-tion better suited even though it comes closer to his own home. “I don’t know what [Church’s] vision for the county is,” said Turner.

He questioned Church’s thinking on the “smart” place-ment of industry in the county saying, “his only concern is what will get him votes.”

In contrasting with Church he says he would be more cau-

tious in spending. As a teacher, he said he understands how it feels to be “overworked and under paid” but added that he would not have given $500 bo-nuses to teachers in the middle of a recession. “There is too much economic uncertainty,” said Turner.

He will focus his campaign on efficiency, effectiveness and streamlining spending. “I re-ally am fiscally conservative,” said Turner. He thought that decisions in recent years have “raised a red flag.” As an ex-ample he cited the Green Ridge Recreation Center which he be-lieves does not serve all of the people of Roanoke County say-ing, “that kind of thing should have been a referendum … spending taxpayer money is a sacred trust.”

Turner’s problem with Slate Hill (now named South Peak) is the period of time that the developer has before the prop-erty starts generating taxes. In the past it has been three to five years and Turner believes that giving them twenty years sets a new precedent. He admitted

that it could work out to be “a real windfall” but he sees it as very risky.

He placed emphasis on be-ing accessible to constituents. Turner says he sees frustration in the community in getting phone calls returned and com-municating with constituents. He summed up his decision to run by referencing Church’s twelve years on the board and surmising that he had served long enough.

Turner concluded that ef-fective representation is espe-cially needed in the Glenvar area. “Glenvar has historically been the industrial waste zone of the county … that just does not make financial sense,” he said. He believes Glenvar, being the closest part of the county to Virginia Tech, can serve as an extension to the Tech corri-dor. “That is the most prudent financial way to use the land,” said Turner.

Turner is an Assistant Profes-sor of Philosophy of Religious Studies at Radford University. He is a native Virginian and grew up in Salem and lives in Campbell Hills in Roanoke County with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Callaway 12.

His website will be up and running soon at TurnerForSu-pervisor.com along with a new facebook page. “I’m prepared to work with every board member to make things happen,” said Turner.

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Participants in last year’s Academic Summer Camp.

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Wow, I can hardly believe my eyes ... an old inkwell

sitting right on top of a mound of earth next to a groundhog hole. It’s a perfect little aqua colored, cone-shaped bottle, apparently excavated by the lumbering rodent in the course of conducting his business. This is very exciting -trust me on this- because looking for old bottles is exactly why I’m here. It’s a breezy April morn-ing in the early 1970’s and my friend Rocky and I are poking around the overgrown grounds of a vacant plantation house in tidewater Vir-ginia, on a tract of land owned by a family ac-quaintance.

We arrived here twenty minutes ago. I’m 15, Rocky’s 16, and he can drive. His dad’s beat-up old Chrysler station wagon –“The Heap”- is an ideal vehicle for excursions like this one. Heck, it’s the only car anybody will let him drive. And I don’t even have my “Learner’s” yet.

“Hey, Rockhead!" My friend, well over six feet tall and shav-ing since age 13, soon appears traipsing through the high weeds. I hold the prize inkwell up and grin. We know there have to be other bottles in the ground under our feet, so we excitedly set to work. With an old steel ski pole from which I had removed the basket, I probe the soft earth, searching for the characteristic feel of crunching glass. Remember, this is tidewater Virginia. The ground is relatively soft and

there are no rocks, those hav-ing been relegated to the west-ern part of the state.

The ski pole probe indi-cates what we think is glass about two feet beneath us, so we rush back to the Heap to get more digging tools. Now we’re breaking ground. Gosh, just to think back upon it now pauses my hand with anticipa-tion. Anyway, in a few minutes I uncover a cracked medicine bottle, among shards of others.

“We’ve hit paydirt!” is my assessment.

It’s two hours later and we’ve got a sizable hole, one big enough for both of us to crouch in. We expand the ex-cavation laterally with our moms’ gardening tools. We follow the

seam of 100-year-old refuse. A growing cluster of good bot-tles (whole ones) which we’ve uncovered are perched on the edge of the hole.

This “plantation pit,” as we call it, is not our first adven-ture in bottle digging. By this time I’ve been picking up old bottles, mostly from the mucky shoreline of the estua-rine creeks and rivers of the Chesapeake, since I was five or six-years-old. I’ve learned a lot about old bottles along the way. For instance, the bottles we’re digging here are made by blowing the molten glass within a hinged mold made of wood. The neck and lip of each bottle is applied in a separate step.

The bottles in our pit are circa 1850 to 1880. They have lots of character, being pleas-

ingly crude. Within the glass they possess bubbles large and small, varying degrees of wav-iness and lopsidedness, and fascinating color due to impu-rities in the glass. Many have embossing of various kinds. After the advent of the auto-matic bottle making machine in 1903 or so, bottles got con-siderably less “interesting”.

Hours go by, but we’re obliv-ious to their passage. The hole expands. We discover that the bottles are often found in “nests” and the removal of each one of them takes much careful scratching and brush-ing; the portion revealed growing along with our excite-ment. Sometimes we work for twenty minutes on one bottle only to find the bottom third of it missing. Oh well, it just makes finding the intact ones that much more rewarding.

“If this one’s whole you are going to love it,” I announce as I scrape the remaining dirt away from a dark brown bottle embossed “Dr Kilmer’s Elec-tromagnetic Liniment.” I pass it to Rocky for his reverent in-spection and appreciation. We find medicine bottles, we find whiskey bottles. And we find bitters bottles whose contents is claimed to be the former but is more accurately the latter. We find inkwells, beer bottles, and poison bottles embossed with skull and bones.

Now I’m uncovering a huge, two-gallon stoneware jug, buried deep in the trash pit, packed tightly in the debris. Amazingly, upon freeing it from its earthly clutches I find it to be in perfect condition. One really never knows.

I get up to survey the scene and notice the shadows grow-ing conspicuously long. It’s time to go, but we’re com-pelled to linger. We play “one more bottle” several times be-fore we hastily refill the hole and gather up our tools and our treasures. As we walk back to The Heap, dirty from head to toe, Rocky and I agree that this has been one of the best days ever.

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Digging for Memories

The first thing you no-tice is the whiteness of the nurse’s uniform.

Against the grey of the back-ground, it’s as vivid as fresh cotton. Her back is arched, and the small of it rests on the strong and broad hand of a sailor. She balances delicately on one leg, with the other kicked back at a forty-five degree angle. Her arm hangs at her side, reveal-ing that it is the sailor’s strength and not any effort of her own that keeps her standing. With one arm he holds her back, and with the other he cradles her neck. His cap is pushed back on his head, and he leans into her with passion.

We can’t see either of their faces, because they are engaged in the most famous kiss of the 20th century. It is a celebratory kiss. We know this because of the ticker tape on the pave-ment and the expressions on those in the background. All are cheering and smiling. In a sense, everyone in the scene is taking part in that kiss.

The date is August 14, 1945, Victory over Japan Day, when the Empire of Japan signaled its surrender to ultimately, finally, totally end the Second World War. When the war ended, people celebrated.

This past week people again celebrated. Spontaneous par-ties erupted outside the White House. On college campuses, people gathered in joyous abandon. The descriptor re-peatedly used in the newspaper was “euphoria” at the death of Osama bin Laden.

In a few months we’ll com-memorate the tenth anniversa-ry of September 11, 2001. That day affected me as much as many, though I’m sure less than some. I had no close personal friends in the Twin Towers that day. But I did know Sara Low, one of the flight attendants on American Airlines Flight 11 which collided with the North Tower. She was the sister of a college friend. I’d met her sev-eral times.

My college roommate had only just moved to Washing-ton, D.C. a few weeks before the attack. It was Chris who called me early that morning as I was walking out the door to a seminary class and told me to turn on the television, just in time to see the second plane make impact. After the Pen-tagon was hit, Chris and I lost telephone contact, and I wor-ried for him throughout that day and the next, until we were able to reconnect.

In my previous parish in Memphis, there was a couple who had worked for a New York accounting firm based in the World Trade Center. Many of their friends and colleagues were killed on 9/11.

That was all a decade ago. In the interim our nation has fought two wars. As a nation, we are conflicted over the mo-tives for one of those wars and over the long lack of priority given the other. As a commu-nity, we pray for those we love who serve in uniform in harm’s way even this very day. On doubting days we wonder if,

and on sure days we believe, our expense of emotion and blood is making the United States safer in the world.

This decade-long burden we still bore on Sunday, May 1, when the President of the United States interrupted our television viewing to tell us that Osama bin Laden had been killed. In the succeeding days, we have learned the stunning precision with which the Navy SEAL operation was carried out. In the process of eliminat-ing Osama bin Laden, none of our soldiers and only one ene-my noncombatant were killed.

As Christian people, how should we feel about such things, first about the execution and second about the subse-quent celebrations? Undoubt-edly, some cringe at broach-ing the topic at all. It seems dangerously close to mixing religion and politics. And yet, the saints of the Church have always asked such questions: Augustine, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King, Jr. Jesus himself asked such ques-tions. If our faith is to be more than merely a Sunday lozenge that soothes our scratchy souls, it must bear upon the way we walk through the world. And so, the questions must be asked and answers must be attempt-ed.

First, the execution of bin Laden itself. St. Paul tells us in the 13th chapter of Romans that the governing authority is the agent of God “to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.”

Perhaps no Christian has

wrestled with what this means so much as Martin Luther. Lu-ther said if we lived in a world where everyone followed the teaching of Jesus—where ev-eryone lived as a Christian rather than merely claiming to be Christian—we’d have no need for authority that bears a sword. But we do not live in such a world. We live in a world in which the power of evil causes people, in Lu-ther’s words, to “devour one another.” In such a world, we must live with the paradox that sometimes the sword is neces-sary “to bring about peace and prevent evil deeds.”

Martin Luther believed that no Christian should take up the sword in self-defense, but “for another he can and ought to wield [the sword] and in-voke it, so that wickedness may be hindered” and “evil and in-justice” punished.

In other words, to end what we rightly can call the evil work of Osama bin Laden, which not only led to the deaths of 3,000 American civilians a decade ago but also the deaths of thou-sands more people across the globe over the years, the execu-tion of bin Laden was faithful and just.

But what of the celebrations? They strike me as different in kind to those celebrations in Times Square and elsewhere at the end of World War II. Those events, both spontaneous and planned, were in essence cele-brations of life. In other words, no one cheered the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Rath-

er, what caused the euphoria in those days was the realiza-tion that no more lives would be lost, either ours of those of our enemies. War was ending. Light had overcome darkness.

This week, though, the cel-ebrations have been focused not upon the end of a conflict or the saving of lives (although we can hope that both of these may ultimately result from last Sunday’s event). The celebra-tions have focused upon the fact of a man’s death. An en-emy’s death and a necessary death to be sure, but a death all the same. And the wild aban-don, the chanting and slogans, have seemed more apt for the ending of a football game. What would be the Christian argument against such celebra-tion in this case?

There is an ancient Jewish midrash that says when the Israelites escaped the Red Sea, and the sea collapsed on the Egyptians drowning them, the angels in heaven began to re-joice. They looked over at God, who sat in stony silence. Final-ly, God rebuked them with his tears saying, “These, too, were my children.”

Elsewhere God says through the prophet Ezekiel, “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but would rather they turn from their ways and live.”

In addition to commanding us to love our enemies, Jesus himself grieved for those who killed him, begging God’s for-giveness for the very men who nailed him to the cross.

The death of any of God’s

children is cause for grief, es-pecially when that death comes as the inevitable end of a life spent destroying other of God’s beloved children, as the end of a wasted life.

Two weeks ago I stood at the base of the Washington Monu-ment. To my right was the Capitol Building. In front of me was the White House. Two my left was the Lincoln Me-morial. And at my side were my children. It was awesome. Never was I more grateful to be an American citizen. As an American, I am relieved that Osama bin Laden is dead. Most likely people will live because he no longer does. Perhaps Americans will come home sooner because he is gone.

As a Christian, I will not whoop and cheer his death. I will—I hope we will—pray for this world in which men de-vour one another; pray for this world in which the sword is a necessary instrument of peace; pray that the authorities God grants the right to wield that sword use it with wisdom and justice; and pray for that day to end all days, when swords are unnecessary, terror unknown, and the love of God reigns in all people.

St. John’s Episcopal Church is located in downtown Roanoke at the corner of Jefferson Street and Elm Avenue. The congrega-tion gathers for Sunday worship at 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m., and 5 p.m. Visit St. John’s on the web at www.stjohnsroanoke.org.

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The second night was spent with Eve in East Hampton, where we walked, talked, ate and watched my brother-in-law Jim feed his adopted group of deer who have set up residence in their backyard. Eve’s house is both homey and unusual. Her bathroom door is held open with a statue of a saint and the inner décor near the sink was once described as resembling a Mexican cemetery.

The next night was spent with Emily in Manhattan, where she and my brother-in-law Robert are presently renting a sublet as they await approval on a con-dominium in midtown. That evening we dined on delicious empanadas in a restaurant the width and length of two bowl-ing alley lanes. Space is always at a premium in New York, in fact, I enjoyed a peaceful sleep on an air mattress in the kitchen of Em’s temporary home.

In the morning, I drove Emily to work and renewed my love of driving in the city. Manhattan driving is pretty much a kill or be killed proposition and not for the faint of heart. Performed at speeds much lower than turnpike standards, city driv-ing is the closest thing to Mario Cart I can imagine, although if a bus broadsides you on eleventh avenue you can’t use your extra life to keep playing.

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Is that something we have to do . . . live with terror? Unfortunately,

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After the first real-ization of what had happened all sorts of reports began to sur-face. Immediately, conflicting stories were flood-ing the media. He had used a woman, maybe a wife, as a shield; he had been armed and

resisted capture; the fire fight had lasted less than 4 minutes; the fire fight had been intense and lasted for forty minutes; the woman killed was wear-

ing a suicide bomb, and more. Whether any of these things were true was debatable. They all were refuted in later re-ports. One thing that is certain: The raid was carried out with pre-

cision. It is too bad that the reports added so much confusion.

Surely, the post-event com-munications could have been orchestrated better but selling papers requires a lot of hype.

Then there was the matter of whether bin Laden was re-ally dead. Let’s see some pic-tures. Leon Panetta said they would be released, according to the press. The President, among others, said no, they would not. A wise choice; it would have taken about a half minute for the blogosphere to be drenched with accusations that the “body” was nothing more than a Hollywood make-up artist plying his trade. One thing can be said with certain-ty about conspiracy theorists: They are never troubled by facts.

The reporting, although shot through with conflicting in-formation, led to even al-Qae-da admitting bin Laden was dead. If anyone thinks that’s the end of terror they surely look at the world through a very constricted lens. We are now being warned, and prop-erly so, to “be on the alert,” whatever that means. There is no way to protect ourselves simply by being watchful. To make a comment that one is uncomfortable with fellow passengers who appear to be of Middle Eastern extraction may cost you your job, as we have seen with NPR. If some-one is bound and determined to harm innocent people, there is no sure defense.

We have seen all too graphi-cally that we are totally ca-pable of killing each other for no apparent cause. Since the attempted assassination of President Reagan more peo-ple have been killed by guns in this country than all the Americans killed-in-action in World War II; that’s over four-hundred thousand deaths. Virtually none of those had to do with ideological conflicts. And yet, Congress and the Su-preme Court seem powerless

to escape the misinterpreta-tion of the 2nd amendment. Living under that kind of ter-ror has become so common-place that we scarcely give it a thought.

The problems caused by re-ligions are much less prevalent but potentially much more destructive. I have often said that if it were not for geogra-phy and religion there would be no wars. We fight because we want land and resources that belong to someone else. We fight because we decide we have a divine imperative to impose our beliefs on others.

Of all the good that religious orders have brought to civili-zation none is less founded on reality than the evil concept of divine truth applicable to a se-lected group. Christianity has been among the worst offend-ers. Think of The Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Reforma-tion killings, the Salem witch hunts, slavery, racism, class exclusions from civil rights. Christianity has been invoked in all of those, so let’s not be too quick to paint other religions with the brush of intolerance. Religion is what we tell each other we believe about God, Allah, Yahweh, or whatever you choose to call a Supreme Being. No matter the name, I don’t think It cares a thing about religion. Religion is a horizontal idea. Spirituality is vertical; it reaches beyond our knowing and that relationship should be the determinant of how we live.

Terror will always be around us, but we should never allow it to dictate how we live our lives. In every community there will be people who terrorize and we give them protection under the 1st amendment. Too much public recognition gives them more power than they merit, leads us to be fearful and in the end may make them more successful.

The concept of treating oth-ers as you would want to be treated is found in nearly ev-ery major religion but it’s more than a theological thought. It is a practical way for living in peace with our neighbors.

Now if we can just get rid of our addiction to sensation-alism and violence, maybe we will survive in some sem-blance of harmony.

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Hayden Hollingsworth

In the early 60’s when my oldest son was in el-ementary school, he was

obviously quite disturbed after hearing a television newscast concerning plans to integrate the Roanoke schools.

“Why are they going to do it?” he asked tearfully.

“Do you know what that means?” I asked him.

“I’m not sure,” he replied and I told him, “It means there could be some little black children in your class.”

“Oh,” he said, obviously re-lieved. “Is that all? I thought that word meant to blow to pieces.”

He was thinking of disinte-grate! No wonder he was upset.

A friend told me that when she was a child she heard so much about the power released by splitting the atom that she was fearful each time she bit into a sandwich – would she split an atom? Too often we forget that children interpret what they hear in relation to their limited experience. Their minds work literally and they may be upset by such statements as, “Dad will be late -- he’s tied up at the office.”

Sometimes their con-fusion may be comical. This is especially true for dyslexic children. The kindergarten children in my Montessori class read simple library books during their rest time. They came to me to tell me about what they had read. One little boy had a book about Audubon.

Excitedly, he told me, “Mrs. Shannon, did you know Audu-bon was a turkey himself?”

I told him he must be mis-taken, but he insisted. “I read it! ‘Audubon was a big turkey weighing 30 pounds!’”

I told him to bring me the book. The sentence read, “One day Audubon saw a big turkey weighing 30 pounds.”

When he sounded the word out, he realized his error, but it certainly spoiled his interest in the story.

Older students in the Shedd tutorial program were required to define the words they learned to read and spell. One college student-tutor struggled to keep a straight face when his student defined “squid” as “a sea animal with eight testicles.”

Children aren’t the only ones who interpret our directions lit-erally, according to their previ-ous experience. Tupper Garden, senior pastor at Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church, relates his experience as a graduate student

at the University of Tennessee where he was responsible for the cultivation of a field of tomatoes. The plants were thriving, but so were the weeds.

“Take out everything that isn’t a tomato,” he instructed a helper.

He was dismayed the follow-ing day to see a bare field! Not a plant was left!

To the weeder, a tomato was a red vegetable you buy in the su-permarket. He was determined to follow directions, so not a single plant, weed or tomato, survived

Foreigners are often bewil-dered by what they hear. When our daughter was a student at Patrick Henry we had the plea-sure of hosting a German ex-change student for three weeks. Dorothee was a dear and our relationship lasted for many years until we lost contact after her marriage. She had an excel-lent comprehension of English,

but was often confused by colloquial or slang expressions which did not appear in her Eng-lish/German diction-ary. She was baffled when Harry asked her to “catch the light on her way out.”

By the way, this confusion works

in reverse – when English speak-ers try to express themselves in a foreign tongue. Once in a French city I was tempted to buy some mouth-watering éclairs displayed in a glass bakery case. I studied French in college and was determined to ask for them in French. With confidence I said, “Deux éclairs, s’il vous plait.”

The response was a puzzled look. I repeated, “Deux éclairs, s’il vous plait.”

Still no understanding. De-flated, I pointed, like an igno-rant American tourist, and was promptly rewarded with two de-licious chocolate éclairs. When I consulted my French/English dictionary, I was astonished to learn that “éclair” actually means “lightning bolt!”

Some things transcend the spoken word, however. Music, for example. When Harry and I were in Spain with an Elderho-stel group we were entertained after dinner one evening by a of senior citizens chorus. They spoke no English and we spoke no Spanish – at least, none that they could comprehend.

As we sipped the richest and thickest hot chocolate I have ever tasted, they sang Spanish folk songs for our enjoyment. We responded by singing “You Are My Sunshine” – the one song our leader thought we would all know. Language was unneces-sary to convey the feelings our music expressed.

And a smile needs no transla-tion. It is understood in any lan-guage – Spain, Germany, Haiti or any other place on the earth.

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The problem, plainly put, is that the weight of bullion in my son's pocket is like the effect of a full moon on a Were-wolf. Certain fundamental psychic al-terations ensue. "You won't make it one block," I predicted.

Meeting this character defa-mation head on, steadied with purpose and the slightest wild-ness in his eyes, he answered, "Will too."

They made it out the door of the hotel; I was stunned. They almost made it to the corner. There is but one store between the hotel and the corner.

"We better go in here and see if they have anything I need."

"But Cailan," she answered, "This is a beauty salon!" Moving into the store, he answered, "Ya never know."

My son, he's right free with hard coin.

"Branches don't grow on trees, son, you’ve got to spend your money wisely," I tell him, prepar-ing him for adulthood. But like all lessons we strive to pass on to progeny, I don't know if it will take.

One day Cailan had to pick up his room. Seven minutes into the job he was singing, "…nobody knows the trouble I've seen..." in a tortured pre-adolescent bari-tone. I wasn't aware he knew the song. Probably learned it from a class mate asked to bring in the

newspaper from the front porch. I had offered him a dollar to

clean his room. He found that a resistible sum; but took it after he saw the ante wasn't going to be raised. I told him that straight-ening his room wasn't as bad

as having polyps on the neck; he just grunted.

Raised in a house of horrors, that one. Just ask him.

But when there are love problems to be solved, I find my advice is not lis-tened to. Both sons Cai-

lan and Chester seek instead the council of my son John, who at age 18 crowds the air above him with `where it's at-ness.' Me? I don't mind getting older. I do mind the age-related depletion of cool. Might have to have a middle-age crisis again; have to hurry though, before I get too old to qualify.

I call Cailan and Chester - and their friends - "Sir" or "Young Sir." Their friends, not used to such formality, think it eccen-tric of me but are puzzled by the fact that they nevertheless enjoy this respect. "Why does he call us that?" a friend asked Chester. "He's in the National Guard, so they say that stuff all the time."

Mom, can I go out on a date with Sally?" Chester asked his mom, Sabrina. Not wanting to

be the bad guy, all the while con-vinced that eleven-years-old is a tad-bit early for dating, Sabrina decided to sand-bag the issue. "It's ok with me if it’s ok with Sally's parents." In the practice of medicine, we call this a `slough.'

It wasn't ok with Sabrina at all.

She felt certain the girl's par-ents would kill the deal; then they would take the fall.

They said `OK.'She made heavy weather of

their laxity. "What kind of irre-sponsible parents would let their kids go out on a date at this age!?" she raged to me later, their flawed parenting never more obvious than when they said, `It's alright with us if it's alright with Ches-ter's mom.' "That's the trouble with the world today!"

"You've put your finger on it, dear. I'll notify the United Na-tions."

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Are We Religious or Spiritual?Recent polls on the

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that fewer are committing to membership in a formal faith group such as a church or synagogue; some students of current attendance trends think the number of truly committed members is as low as 20 percent.

Younger adults especially are not taking commitment to a faith community with the seriousness they once did.

That's alarming to long-time folk still active in their congregations. Leaders of many of our valley's reli-gious groups are trying to make changes such as vari-ous attempts to introduce contemporary music, wall screens from which to sing hymns and informal attire in the hope that these will bring back the indifferent younger members.

But another interesting fact has emerged with the polls. Many folk, older as well as the young, call themselves "spiritual" even though they have no formal connection to an organized congregation.

So what is the difference between "religious" and "spiritual"? Until recently I considered them the same.

Not long ago I spent sev-eral hours at a local medical facility where the Hospice Foundation of America ( HFA) presented a four-part computer seminar, "Spiritu-ality and End-Of-Life Care." Attended primarily by health care professionals, the pro-gram is an annual event in which a half dozen special-ists in the fields of medicine and social service offer up-dates on the latest trends in care of persons nearing the end of their lives.

The presentations have now gone digital since there is more flexibility in time and place for persons to at-tend, and naturally costs of sending speakers to various

places is reduced. The DVD was produced in cooperation with a number of organiza-tions and businesses con-cerned with end-of-life care. Its moderator, who developed the theme by talking with six professionals, is Frank Sesno, a noted Washington journal-ist in both print and broad-cast media.

The hospice folk gave a new and broader definition to spirituality because, the panelists agreed, it is such an important part of bringing a "good death" to those whose time in this world is nearing an end.

Basically, "spirituality" refers to what makes a per-son tick. It can be called "a ground of being" or perhaps "the Holy Spirit."

It is what makes life worth living, several elderly per-sons still in good command of their faculties, told the panelists in the DVD. It's dis-tinct from "religion" because that is generally seen as ad-herence to a body of beliefs such as those professed for centuries by Roman Catho-lics, Baptists and dozens of others.

If you're religious,, you're probably spiritual, for by committing to membership in a congregation you will be exposed to the doctrines and teachings of the particular group that you may or may not have inherited from your family of origin. Being "spiri-tual" is much broader in its definition. Using this yard-stick, a person may indeed find God on the golf course or while fishing in the Roa-noke River.

Such a broad definition naturally doesn't sit well with religion professionals such as clergy or lay people com-mitted to strengthening the organized church. Those of us who are religious by this definition hate to see our friends or relatives reject the community that may mean a

lot to us. The Roanoke Val-ley currently is full of graying congregations, some clearly as much on their way out as the elderly people who dis-cussed their spirituality in the DVD.

Hospice people, as re-vealed in the DVD, grow to see meaningful "spiritual" life in those who are too old or frail to be part of a con-gregation. Occasionally they see in young children dying of cancer a glimpse of God hardly connected to atten-dance in religious school. It's a lot less definable than be-ing a member of a congrega-tion, but relationship to God is clearly there.

It's found in reminiscence, the panelists noted, and in the smiles that light up the faces of dementia patients when music or a pet is brought to the home or nursing facility. Spirituality is a kind of spark of life which may be seen to the very end.

Living with dying patients of any age is a rewarding, if heartbreaking, experience. There is often much that should be said to reconcile families, and skilled medi-cal people learn to listen and, above all, not try to force their own beliefs about God on their patients. It's an espe-cially tricky situation when families differ in their hope that the patient will die in a state of grace, the panelists pointed out.

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Bingham said that the school board and city council have “made one heck of a team.” He indi-cated that it was a very difficult decision for him – he did not want to resign but business obligations now require him to travel extensively.

Later Bingham explained in an interview that his duties with Ingersol Rand (who purchased Trane) as district manager of Virginia have changed. He was assigned a national role of strategy for North America and most recently he was promoted to Vice President of the central territory covering 14 states.

He travels every week, which leaves no time to attend school board meetings.

City Attorney Bill Hackworth advised council that a written letter of resignation will have to be received before applications can be accepted. Bingham indicated that his resignation would be effective July 1.

Hackworth said that it first needs to be adver-tised and a tentative public hearing date could be June 6 with a decision by council either on June 20 or July 5.

Council members gave Bingham credit for CCAP (Community College Access Program) which allows students graduating with a 2.0 av-

erage the opportunity to attend Virginia Western Community College free. The program is a pub-lic/private partnership that now includes Roanoke City, Salem and Franklin County. It enables quali-fying high school students to continue their edu-cation in preparation for good, well-paying jobs within the region and/or the ability to transfer to a 4 year college.

School Board Chairman David Carson said “there are 86 kids at VWCC between last year and two years ago that are college graduates … That would not be the case without Jason Bingham.”

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New Community Garden Debuts In Hurt Park

Roanoke officials, including Mayor David Bowers and members of City Council, recently dedicated a new community garden in the Hurt Park neighborhood, located in the 1700 block of Salem Avenue. “We have about a half dozen proj-ects in the pipeline,” said Mark Powell of the Roa-noke Community Garden Association. A $20,000 grant from the Foundation for the Roanoke Valley helped fund the Hurt Park Community Garden.

“We would like to see at least three of these realized for 2012,” said Powell, a community ac-tivist in Southeast. Another garden in Southeast Roanoke City features about one third of an acre with 36 parcels and a youth garden. “Our mission is largely to establish a network of organic com-munity gardens throughout the Roanoke region,” added Powell, who created the garden association in 2007. The plan for Hurt Park garden, near the Townhome Community there, includes 100 plots that local residents can apply for. A greenhouse and accessibility for the disabled is also part of the plan.

Benefits of these gardens, per the American

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Lorraine Lange Named Virginia Superintendent Of The Year

Dr. Lorraine S. Lange, Super-intendent of Roanoke County Public Schools, was named Virginia’s Superintendent of the Year at the Virginia Associa-tion of School Superintendents (VASS) annual conference on Tuesday evening in Roanoke. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the lead-ers of four Virginia education organizations selected her from among eight regional Superin-tendents of the Year.

Dr. Lange was recognized for

providing inspiring and inno-vative leadership in her school district of over 14,000 students. She has significantly improved her district’s graduation rate and enrollment in more aca-demically challenging courses despite an increase in the num-ber of economically challenged students in Roanoke County.

While the number of students in Roanoke County receiving free and reduced lunch assis-tance has increased almost 10% the last few years, the number of students graduating on time has increased 1.4% and the number of students enrolled in college dual-credit courses now equals almost a quarter of the entire high school student population.

In presenting her with the Virginia Superintendent of the Year Award, VASS President Philip Worrell said, “Lorraine Lange is a tech savvy superin-tendent who has capitalized on technology to improve in-struction and reduce the socio-economic achievement gap in Roanoke County Schools.” He continued, “Her bold leadership investing in technology in the face of severe budget cuts has

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Dr. Lange has worked in Roa-noke County Public Schools for more than thirty four years. She began her career with the school district in 1976 as a prin-cipal and continued to serve as a principal in three different schools until 1988. After that, she served as the county’s Assis-tant Director of Instruction for two years and as the Deputy and Assistant Superintendent for six years before becoming the dis-trict’s chief educational officer in 2006.

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National Foster Care Month Recognizes Foster Children and Parents

May is National Foster Care Month and Roa-noke’s Social Services Department is using the op-portunity to educate the community about foster care and the need for quality foster homes. The hope is that by shining a spotlight on these chil-dren and those who have given of their time, love, and attention to care for them, staff may be able to find additional loving homes for the children who are in need.

There are over 250 children in foster care in the City of Roanoke, and most of these children enter into the system due to abuse and neglect—through no fault of their own. During the month of May, National Foster Care Month will celebrate the promise of these children in care and the fos-ter parents who demonstrate the depth and kind-ness of the human heart by opening their lives to these children and their families.

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North Cross scored three runs in each of the first two innings to open a 6-0 lead as the Raiders easily defeated Carlisle 11-4 Tuesday afternoon at Porterfield Field. North Cross (15-4) advanced in the VIC tournament with the victory.

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Cave Spring followed home runs in each of the first two innings by plating six runs on Pu-laski County in the bottom of the third, and the 9-0 lead was more than enough for Knight hurler Steve Klaiber. Cave Spring improved to 7-0 in the River Ridge (10-7 overall).

Reece Kingery put Cave Spring up on a two-run homer in the first and Anthony Mead followed with a solo shot to left in the second.

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Members of Stone Bridge Farm's riding team competed against 18 other teams from around the country at last week's National Champion-ships of the Interscholastic Equestrian Associa-tion in Washington DC. At the end of four days of competition at the Prince George Equestrian Center, the Stone Bridge riders finished the year as National Reserve Champion.

The Stone Bridge team includes Carly Wil-liams and Olivia Flemming, of Lexington; An-drew Kalasky, of Fairfield; and Mackenzie Parks and Abbey Wegert, both of Lynchburg. In addi-tion, five riders qualified for National Finals, rid-ing in individual competition: Elizabeth Bailey and Emily Perkins, of Roanoke; Rachel Paxton, of Lexington; Sarah Rodes, of Bedford; and Ash-ley Woodward, of Daleville.

Nearly 300 teams throughout the United States competed in regional shows throughout the 2010-2011 school year for one of only 18 of the coveted spots at IEA National Finals. The Stone Bridge Team has qualified for National Finals for the last three years, winning seventh place in 2010.

The Stone Bridge Team is coached by Becky Andrews and Carolyn Willliams. Ms. Andrews, a nationally recognized trainer and horsewom-an, began training at Stone Bridge Farm after moving to the area in August 2010. Previously, she has trained riders and horses to many na-tional titles in the hunters and jumpers, including two junior Olympic teams and a winner of the prestigious ASPCA Maclay Equitation Championship.

Elizabeth Perkins, whose daughter Emily has been riding on the team for two years, says, "We're so lucky to have Becky in the this region now as a resource for our kids. She has a wealth of experience, and really inspires our riders to excellence. She helps them set and pursue their goals, and has the ability to help them achieve those goals."

The Interscholastic Equestri-an Association (IEA) is the na-tional governing body of team equestrian competition at the secondary school level. The IEA competition format is unique, in that riders do not show their own horses, but rather compete on horses that they have never ridden before, with only a few minutes warm up before en-tering the ring. The IEA show season runs from September to May. Riders interested in join-ing the team for the 2011-2012 season should contact Stone Bridge Farm.

Local Equestrian Team Is Second at 2011 National Championships

Members of the Stone Bridge Team parade at IEA Nationals 2011. Mackenzie Parks, Olivia Flemming, Becky Andrews, Carly Williams, Ab-bey Wegert, Carolyn Williams, Emily Perkins, Andrew Kalasky, Lizzie Bailey. Not shown: Sarah Rodes, Ashley Woodward, Rachel Paxton.

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Salem scored three runs in the top of the seventh to overcome a 4-2 deficit and Cave Spring left the potential tieing run on third in the bottom of the final frame as the Spartans picked up the River Ridge win Friday af-ternoon. Emily Taylor picked up the win in the circle for Salem as Cave Spring lost for the first time in district play.

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High school baseball and soft-ball head into the home stretch in the next two weeks before the road to the state tournaments begin. District races are heating up with more than a few sur-prises in the last week.

In the Wild Bill Baseball Top-3, Hidden Valley takes over first place with a 12-3 overall record. Lord Botetourt (14-4), after its loss to William Byrd, falls to sec-ond. Cave Spring, perfect in the River Ridge at 7-0, claims the third spot despite a 10-7 overall record. Waiting in the wings as possible pollbusters are North Cross, (15-4) winners of nine of their last ten, and Northside at 12-6.

In the Wild Bill Soft-ball Top-3, Northside (15-2) moves into first with its win last Friday over William Byrd. Byrd (11-4) falls to second, with Salem (10-6) mov-ing into third after dealing Cave Spring its first district loss.

For the sizzling baseball game of the week, we look no further than Cave Spring’s 23-7 win over Salem last Friday. The Knights seem to rise to the occasion in River Ridge play where they re-main undefeated..

The Greenbrier Classic PGA Tour event scheduled for the last week of July in White Sul-phur Springs hit a pair of home runs with announcements on Monday. Joining the field for 2011 will be Phil Mickelson, one of the biggest names in pro golf. This year’s field also in-cludes the likes of Sergio Garcia,

eight-time major winner Tom Watson, as well as defending champion Stuart Appleby, who closed with a final-round 59 to win the 2010 event.

Greenbrier owner Jim Justice also announced that the concert series would add a new dimen-sion for 2011. With country stars Tim McGraw and Keith Urban already set for Thursday and Saturday nights respective-ly, the stage Friday night will be hopping with the high-energy six-time Grammy winners, The Black Eyed Peas. No question

that Justice is on track to make this a prime PGA stop annually.

The First Tee of the Roanoke Valley has been given an exten-sion through May 31st to sell Greenbrier

tournament badges which benefit the lo-cal chapter. Badges

are good for entry into all six days of the tournament and all three concerts. Contact Jennifer Blackwood at The First Tee at 563-1833 for information.

A correction to last week’s column on the upcoming 2011 Scott Robertson Memorial ju-nior golf tournament. The dates at the Roanoke Country Club are Friday through Sunday, May 20th-22nd. The field for the 28th annual event include participants from 20 different states and 15 countries. Since its inception the Robertson has given over $200,000 in college scholarships and $100,000 to the First Tee of Roanoke Valley. Former champions of the event

include PGA players Webb Simpson and Hunter Mahan as well as LPGA standout Paula Creamer.

Softball fans can head to Sa-lem’s Moyer Complex in the next two weeks as the City of Champions adds a couple more notches to its number of NCAA championship title events. The Division III tournament is set for May 20-24, while the Divi-sion II tournament follows May 26-30.

The Salem Red Sox continue to lead the Southern Division of the Carolina League after tak-ing three of four games from second place Myrtle Beach. The Sox return home tonight (Fri, May 13th) to begin a seven day homestand with Winston-Sa-lem and Wilmington.

Now to the mailbag.Dear Mr. Bill: Why don’t you

have a high school baseball and softball Top-10 instead of a Top-3 ? (Bob/Roanoke)

Answer: Pretty simple, Bob. We cover 11 Roanoke-area teams. Two don’t play softball, so filling the #10 spot would be tough. All eleven play base-ball, so a Top-10 list is going to get somebody real mad. I’m no fool.

Quotation of the week:“ Always go to other people’s

funerals... otherwise they won’t come to yours.” - Yogi Berra

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Roanoke Valley Christian Storms Back to Win VACA South Championship

The RVCS Baseball Team finished their regular season this week with a victory over Dayspring 8-6. Trailing 6-0 after two innings, the Eagles collected themselves and pulled out 8 runs in the final innings. Their season record this year was 13-1 (the one loss was to a non-district school). This was the first District Championship in history for the RVCS baseball team - Congratulations Eagles!

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William Fleming's Bobbi Clay-tor competes in the discus.

Kelsey Booth of William Byrd settles in at the starting line for the 400-meter relay.

Warren Craft of Lucy Addison Middle School wins the 300-hurdles in 42:13 seconds. With his winning time it was announced Craft became ranked #1 in the nation in his age group.

Patrick Henry's Alicia Terry jumps the final hurdle to win the 300-hurdles in 46:34 sec-onds.

Cave Spring's Katie Fortner graces the winner's podium after taking the 1600-me-ter.

Middle School 400-relay winners from Andrew Lewis.

William Fleming's Vincent Wyatt clears the final hurdle in win-ning the 300-hurdles in 39.36 seconds. Wyatt fell a fraction of a second short of the all-time meet record.

Charity Golf Tournament A SuccessThe Roanoke City Sheriff’s Of-

fice held its Sixth Annual Chari-ty Golf Tournament on Saturday at the Hunting Hills Country Club golf course. Awards and prizes were presented to the first, second, and third place teams. The tournament also offered an award for the team that needed the most practice; the “Bring-ing Up the Rear Award.” Their trophy was a golfer swinging at a horse’s rear end.

“We had beautiful weather for this year’s tournament. The golf-ers had a great day,” said Sheriff Johnson. “We really appreciate the many people, businesses, and organizations that helped make the tournament a success by sponsoring a hole, contribut-ing a prize, or making a dona-tion. Thank you Roanoke.”

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Photo of winning team:- Chris Collins, Josh Chocklett, Sheriff Octavia Johnson, Ben Lott and Mark Ashby.

The PH Girls Tennis Team fought hard but came up just short of the WVD Title on Fri-day afternoon, falling in a heart-breaker to the Franklin County Lady Eagles 5-4 in competition that lasted over 4 hours and featured 4 separate third set tie break matches. In singles competition, Allison Link won Court 1 in straight 6-0, 6-0 sets. Laura Hall held tough to win Court 2 in a nerve wracking 7-6 (7-4 tb), 3-6, 10-7 tie break match, and Sabel Fink played strong to a 6-4, 6-4 win in her match on Court 4.

The teams were dead even at 3-3 going into doubles. Allison Link / Allie Green picked up a convincing 6-0, 6-1 victory on Court 1. PH doubles teams on courts 2 and 3 both played their

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local arts organizations that have submitted applications. Among the groups awarded grants by the Taubmans were Center in the Square, the Roanoke Sym-phony Orchestra and the Vir-ginia Museum of Transporta-tion ($100,000 each); the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge and Local Colors ($50,000 each); Studio Roanoke, the Harrison Museum of African American Culture and Apple Ridge Farms ($25,000 each).

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tor Kenley Smith. “Now we can provide our staff security and peace of mind as we continue to develop long-term fundraising strategies.” Pictured: GAMUT Theatre’s recent production of Pvt. Wars, which was staged at Studio Roanoke, the small black box theater space on Campbell Avenue that GAMUT, a local amateur troupe, rents for their productions. Next up is Harold Pinter’s “The Lover” in July.

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Roanoke County Public Schools has again been recognized as one of the nation’s best communities for music education and one of only five school systems in Virginia. The County School system has re-ceived this distinction in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and again in 2011.

As the economy challenges state and local school budgets to ad-equately support education, the 172 school districts named by the NAMM Foundation demonstrate an unwavering commitment to provide music education for their students. The NAMM Founda-tion’s mission is to ensure that all children have access to quality music education programs that encourage lifelong participation in music making.

“We are committed to providing quality arts instruction for our students,” said Roanoke County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Lorraine Lange. “We believe the arts are an important part of the learning process,” Lange added.

“Considering how hard communities are fighting to maintain school music programs, earning a designation this year has become more relevant than ever. We are proud to acknowledge these districts and schools and grateful for their commitment to a complete educa-tion that includes music,” said Mary Luehrsen, executive director of the NAMM Foundation, which sponsors the program. “Never has the evidence been more compelling: there is a direct correlation be-tween music education and success in other areas of a student’s life. It is therefore crucial to continue funding music and arts education.”

While past designees have reported that making the Best Com-munities list had a positive effect on their ability to preserve music for their students, Luehrsen cautioned that there is great concern for this year and that local advocacy for music education is important.

“Given that we continue to see some of the deepest education cuts in decades, it’s entirely possible that many of the schools recognized in this year’s list may still lose or diminish their excellent programs,”

she said. “We urge communities to celebrate the designation as a national recognition for their commitment to children – we all just need to do this for kids.”

Each school receiving the “Best Communities” designation scored in the 80th percentile or higher in the survey’s grading process. Par-ticipants in the survey answered detailed questions about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music program, and other relevant factors in their communities’ music education programs. The re-sponses were verified with district officials and advisory organiza-tions reviewed the data.

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All Aboard for Roanoke Rail Day Roanoke’s rail museums are

teaming up for Roanoke Rail Day on Saturday May 14 by of-fering a supersized day of fun for train fans of all ages. Visit the O. Winston Link Museum and the Virginia Museum of Transportation to enjoy special Norfolk Southern rail equip-ment and historic engines, model trains, rides, photogra-phy, kids’ activities and more. A discounted joint ticket is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $8 for children. Visitors can also purchase admission to each museum separately. The Archives of the Norfolk & Western Historical Society will be open free of charge.

As part of the collabora-tion, the Virginia Museum of Transportation is loaning the unusual Virginian EL-C 135 electric locomotive to the O. Winston Link Museum to serve as the centerpiece of the Link Museum’s celebration. The historic 135, better known as the Rectifier, was one of 12 electric engines built by Gen-eral Electric in 1956, and is the only one that still exists. The Rectifier will be moved by Norfolk Southern along its mainline tracks to the O. Win-ston Link Museum on Friday May 13, and back to the Vir-ginia Museum of Transporta-tion on Sunday May 15.

At the O. Winston Link Museum (Festival Hours: 10am-2pm; Museum Galler-ies Open: 10 a.m. -5p.m.)

This year’s event will feature the Virginian Railway EL-C 135, 1/8 scale train rides, teleg-raphy demonstrations, antique model trains, railroad photog-raphy, slideshows, children’s activities, face painting, food and beverages, a photo booth and more. On the evening of May 14, the Link Museum will hold a night photo shoot fea-turing the Virginian engine. Admission to the photo shoot

is $50 per person and is not included in the joint ticket. Reservations are required: call 540-982-5465 for more infor-mation.

Between 1955 and 1960, photographer O. Winston Link created unforgettable black and white images that documented the last days of Norfolk & Western’s steam gi-ants and the people and places along its lines. The Museum’s collection features more than 300 stunning photographs, audio listening stations, a documentary film, artifacts and recreations of Link’s pho-tographic settings. The Link Museum is owned and oper-ated by the Historical Society of Western Virginia.

At the Virginia Museum of Transportation (Festival and Gallery Hours: 10 a.m. -5 p.m.)

Special day long activities include rides by the Roanoke Chapter of the National Rail-way Historical Society with two of the chapter’s restored, historic diesel locomotives on display. Meet the Museum’s rail artist in residence, Andy Fletcher, who will sign prints. From 10-2, there will be black-smithing demonstrations in the Rail Yard and the Roanoke Valley Model Engineers will open their N, HO, and ON3

layouts for visitors. The Virginia Museum of

Transportation is home to two of the most powerful steam lo-comotives in existence today—the Norfolk & Western Class A 1218 and the Class J 611. Through exhibits, artifacts, and an outstanding collection, the Museum tells the rich sto-ry of Virginia’s transportation heritage. The Virginia Mu-seum of Transportation is the Official Transportation Mu-seum of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

At The James N. Gillum Archives of the Norfolk & Western Historical Society (Archives Open: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. - 2101 Salem Ave SW)

The Archives is a repository of documents covering over a century and a half of railroad history. These documents pri-marily include mechanical and engineering drawings and photographic images in many formats. The collection also includes books, magazines, newspaper articles, maps, re-ports, rule books, timetables, menus, annual reports, pro-motional and publicity mate-rial, forms, ledgers, contracts, correspondence, specifica-tions, bills-of-materials, op-erating manuals, test results, engineering sketches, and dispatcher’s logs. There is no admission charge to visit the Archives.

Visitors will also enjoy the The David R. and Susan S. Goode Railwalk that stretches approximately 1/3 of a mile along active Norfolk Southern mainline tracks in the heart of downtown Roanoke - the Rail-walk connects the O. Winston Link Museum and the Virgin-ia Museum of Transportation. The Railwalk is part museum, with numerous rail artifacts, interactive exhibits, and story boards, and part linear park with great vantage points for watching modern operating trains, and for watching the Virginian Rectifier moved to the O. Winston Link Museum on May 13, and returned to the Virginia Museum of Transpor-tation on May 15. It is always open and always free.

The History Museum of Western Virginia has announced the final phase of their Capital Cam-paign: Crossroads of History. To prepare for their relocation in June, the Museum will be FREE to the public throughout the month of May. It's a great opportunity to check out the “old museum” one last time before they relocate to Hotel Shenan-doah on Campbell Avenue (the former Twists & Turns building) in preparation for renovations at Center in the Square. Upon completion of renova-tions in 2013, the History Museum will return to the third floor of Center in the Square.

When Center in the Square opened in 1983 in a renovated 1914 warehouse (the McGuire Build-ing) in the old city market, the History Museum became one of five nonprofit “anchor tenants” of this revitalization project. Commencing in 2007 the Historical Society of Western Virginia began a capital campaign to renovate the History Museum with the goal of increasing accessibility to collec-tions and exhibitions in order to better fulfill the Museum’s education mission and reconnect with new audiences in a more meaningful way. To date, the museum has raised $1.2 million and renovated the Museum’s research facility (Watts Library), ed-ucation workshop (Barbara and E. Wilson Watts Education Gallery), and administrative areas. Ad-ditionally, the Virtual Museum has been created - an online research resource available through the world-wide web.

The museum is now seeking an additional $1.5 million to renovate the exhibition galleries and up-grade their collections and archival storage areas. A new continuing exhibition will incorporate the best in interpretive and technical standards while

revealing 10,000 years of our region’s cultural heri-tage through artifacts that span the whole human experience from prehistoric times to the present day. Modified collections storage will allow the History Museum to better house and care for its collection. The organization is a repository for the material culture of southwestern Virginia and they are entrusted with the care of the region’s memory in perpetuity.

The first three phases of the museum’s campaign have been completed and paid for and remaining unexpended funds have been transferred to the fourth and final phase of the campaign. During a silent campaign going on this year, the museum raised a significant amount of new campaign pledges – including a $50,000 gift from an anony-mous donor to pay for the Crossroads Central Timeline Exhibit. Gifts are still needed to complete the campaign. Hours are: Tuesday – Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am – 5pm and Sunday 1-5pm.

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Hurst will share the NEWS7 at Six anchor desk with long time co-anchor Jean Jadhon and with co-anchor Hollani Da-vis during the NEWS7 at Eleven broadcast.

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Deborah Petrine To Receive Pamplin College 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award

Deborah Martin Petrine, of Hardy will receive the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award during the college's commencement ceremony this Saturday, May 14, 2 p.m., at Cassell Coliseum.

The college created the award in 1990 to honor alumni for outstanding career accom-plishments and contributions to the college.

Petrine earned a bachelor's degree in man-agement in 1978. The president and owner of CCR Inc. (Commonwealth Care of Roa-noke), she has extensive management knowl-edge and experience in the long-term health-care industry, including nursing and assisted living facilities and home health care.

She began her career in a nursing facility and worked her way up during her 20 years

there to chief operating officer before leav-ing to found two successful long-term care nursing facility companies in Virginia. CCR, her current company, has grown to 11 skilled

nursing facilities across Virginia, with more than 1,300 employees and annual revenues of more than $90 million.

She discussed her career in a talk, "Secre-tary to Owner: The Road to Ownership With a Few Bumps in Between," as a Wachovia Distinguished Speaker earlier this semester.

Petrine has served as chair of the Virginia Health Care Association and was appointed to serve on the Governor's Advisory Board on Revenue Estimates. She received the Vir-ginia Health Care Association's James G. Dunton Distinguished Service Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005.

Active in university activities, Petrine is a member of Virginia Tech's regional capital campaign committee and chairs the advisory board of the mana.

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On April 7, 2011 the BBB Serving Western VA alerted consumers to ads being run in the Roanoke Times for air duct cleaning and mold removal by KP Services. At that time the BBB informed the pub-lic KP Services was connected to Pure Kleen, a company which has been active for more than a dozen years using a variety of names. This network of individuals have set up different duct and carpet cleaning companies from Washington State to Florida and been the subject of at least three cease and desist orders issued by various State Attorneys General. On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 the same ad used by KP Services ran in the Roanoke Times under the name Clean Air Solutions. The contact number listed is a call center; when asked the local street ad-dress the BBB was given the same storefront address on Williamson Road in Roanoke used by KP Services and Atlantic Air Services, LLC. The BBB has learned that the same ad agency in New York placed ads for both Clean Air Solutions and KP Services.

One area consumer tells us after 45 minutes of cleaning they were told KP Services had discovered mold in their furnace. The techni-cian told the consumer it would cost an additional $480 to remove the mold, when the consumers asked to see the mold they were told it had already been removed but it needed disinfecting to keep it from coming back. “We were a bit suspicious about the way it was pre-sented and opted not to do the additional work, our furnace had been serviced a month earlier,” said the consumer. The technician made several calls to her ‘boss’, each time she spoke with him the price to remove the mold would decrease – each time the consumer declined. The consumer wrote a check to KP Services for the duct cleaning and asked the technicians to leave. According to the consumer, at that point the technician, Mindy Brinkman, said the check needed to be made out to her because her boss wanted to “avoid paying taxes…”. When the consumer refused, the technician again called her boss who offered a reduced rate on the duct cleaning if they would pay in cash. The consumer again declined to pay cash but, in order to get them to leave did make the check out to the technician. When the technicians left, the consumer noted the van had Florida license plates.

“The consumer felt the phone calls between the technician and her ‘boss’ were rehearsed,” said Julie Wheeler, President & CEO of the

BBB Serving Western Virginia. “This is a typical bait and switch ploy; first they used the ‘we found mold’ scare tactic and then resorted to reducing the price in hopes of being paid in cash. Fortunately this was a very savvy consumer who refused to be taken in by the scare tactics used.”

The primary contact for KP Services is Ken Payer who is also asso-ciated with Pure Kleen in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee; all three of these locations have a BBB rating of ‘F’. The vehicles used by KP Services have Georgia, Alabama, and Florida license plates and range from vans to a Cadillac Escalade.

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You don’t have to be in her presence very long before you receive a warm smile and her full attention. Christine Slade, a nationally recognized expert in hair restructuring and re-placement is now open - albeit unexpectedly - for business in Roanoke. Her studio, Revive Hair, uses all organic products including color and perms. In addition to her expertise restor-ing health and vitality to growth hair, Slade specializes in non-surgical hair replacement.

The amazing part of the story is that less than four weeks ago Slade did not have the resources to even consider this venture. She had begun work in January at an ill fated spa in Botetourt that closed unexpectedly. It left her with no work and no funds. Through the generosity of nu-merous people she received a space to work, organic prod-ucts, hair samples and printing costs for brochures and cards. “Literally on April 14th at 9 AM this was not even on the hori-zon and on April 15th at noon I had a business license.” She has been seeing clients since April 17th in a whirlwind of activity that has left her head spinning.

“Loss of hair for any reason is a blow to a person’s self esteem. I can relate to the emotional pain of hair loss” states Slade. “It’s important to help restore someone’s dignity when they are experiencing life changes. Providing a private comforting environment where a person can express their concerns is essential to set someone on the path to having beautiful hair again.”

Everyone is familiar with the false hair you can spot when you are walking down the street. But professional hair re-placement is undetectable. It is possible to replace hair in a way that appears to be growing from the scalp.

Slade recounts a time when an Oncologist in the Shenando-ah Valley questioned his patient regarding the fact that she had not lost her hair while under-going chemotherapy. He was shocked and surprised when he dislodged her undetectable wig as he tried to tug at her hair to determine if she was experienc-ing any hair loss.

Over the course of her career Slade has restored hair for a five year old girl just waiting to put on sparkly earrings with her new hair, a male “special ops” client, a teenage boy with alo-pecia who just wanted to wear hair buzzed under a baseball cap, and an eighty four year old widow who just wanted to look “special” again.

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Virginia Transformer (VT) first opened its doors in Roa-noke in 1971 with a handful of employees . Today, the com-pany has expanded to three North American plants and one international procure-ment office and employs near-ly 600 people. Its customers now include a host of Fortune 500 companies, such as GE, Chevron, Oracle, and Con-sol Energy and the company has established a position of leadership in the Transit and Heavy Industry Automation markets.

VT started off as a supplier of power transformers for the mining industry in the Appa-lachian Mountains. In order to successfully meet the chal-lenges of low profile construc-tion with special dimensions, built to non-standard specifi-cations, Virginia Transformer became a specialist in produc-ing custom-designed power transformers that would perform reliably in even the harshest conditions. That spir-it of innovation and superior quality has guided the com-pany throughout its 40-year history.

The company has built a sol-id reputation in the industry for innovative, cost-efficient design and for having short lead times (both from RFQs to drawings, and from draw-ings to delivery). Over the years, Virginia Transformer

has steadily increased both the range and size of transformers it offers, and today serves vir-tually every market – Utilities, Commercial Buildings, Heavy Industries, Transit, Chemical and Oil & Gas facilities, Min-ing, Data Centers, and Renew-able Energy projects – provid-ing both oil-filled and dry type transformers.

During the mid 1970s, VT expanded and diversified its customer base and product range. With the elimination of PCB’s from the industry in 1977, VT began supply-ing retrofit liquid filled and dry type transformers built to special physical dimensions. In the 1980s VT continued to expand product lines. Sales of industrial power transform-ers, commercial power distri-bution transformers, reactors and load tap-changing trans-formers increased steadily. Heavy mills, commercial

buildings, airports and transit systems across the country be-came regular VT customers.

The bulk of the company’s growth has occurred since 1982, when Mr. Prabhat Jain took over leadership as com-pany president, with only 35 employees. Since that time, he has guided the company forward at a pace unmatched by any other U.S. transformer manufacturer. It was during this time in the 1980s when the company expanded opera-tions into supplying the vast Utility market, which today provides a significant part of the company’s annual sales.

During the 1980s, VT de-veloped the UNICLAD, a pre-mium-duty, air cooled, resin encapsulated dry type trans-former. The proprietary UNI-CLAD technology remains the industry standard for encap-sulated dry type transformers, and the transformer of choice in the Transit and Oil and Gas industries.

In 1990, growth continued by moving into a new plant in Roanoke, designed and built exclusively for producing cus-tom transformers with an air conditioned winding room. In 1995, operations expanded with a small power plant in Chihuahua, Mexico as the pri-mary plant for the company’s unit substation applications. Today, the Mexico plant pro-vides custom-made dry type and liquid-filled transformers.

Moving into the 21st cen-tury, the product range con-tinued to expand in all plants. In 2003 VT acquired a third manufacturing plant in Poca-tello, Idaho. That plant origi-nally designed for transformer repairs, has been completely refurbished and now manu-factures larger liquid filled transformers

The company expanded ex-port operations, especially in Canada and the Latin Amer-ica market. The engineer-ing department started using CAD/CAE, and VT opened an office in Asia to design and procure materials and acces-sories throughout the world. All three plants are now ISO-9001 certified. The company became more competitive in the loss evaluated utility mar-ket and achieved UL and ABS certification up to 30 MVA.

Virginia Transformer con-tinues to thrive, primarily due to its commitment to continu-ous improvement. In the past five years, the company has completely revamped training programs for both office and plant personnel – staffs have been expanded to provide ad-ditional engineering exper-tise – quality control and field service have been significantly improved and dozens of new machines have been installed, providing increased automa-tion and productivity.

Today the company leads the way in the Industrial ap-plication of transformers, and exports to Central America and the Middle East and sup-plies power transformers throughout North and South America, and in over 40 coun-tries worldwide.

Virginia Transformer Celebrates 40 Years Of Growth

On Thursday, May 19th from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.: Congress-man Goodlatte will host a job fair, in conjunction with the City of Roanoke, at the Roanoke Civic Center. The Civic Center is located off Williamson Road and U.S. Route 460 in Roanoke. Local businesses and corpora-tions will be on hand to meet with job seekers. No registration necessary for job seekers. Any businesses interested in par-ticipating should contact Con-gressman Goodlatte’s Roanoke office at 540-857-2672.

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Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum Announces Restoration of Two Historic Transit Buses

The Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum announces the restoration of two of the most significant coaches in its fleet, buses with extensive years of service in Blacksburg, Richmond, and Northern Vir-ginia. Housing one of the largest bus collec-tions in the United States, the Buseum, as it is also known, is the Commonwealth of Virginia’s official transit museum.

The newly restored buses are a 1962 GMC New Look coach from the AB&W (Alexan-dria, Barcroft & Washington) Bus Company and a 1966 GMC New Look coach from the Virginia Transit Company in Richmond. Each coach has been restored to its original livery (design and paint scheme) and origi-nal coach number when bought new. The inside of each bus remains as it did when purchased.

“It’s so important to us that people not only see, but truly experience these historic coach-es,” said the Buseum’s President Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr. “Rid-ing one of these buses brings back memories for many people, gives younger riders a view into history, demonstrates the safety, convenience, and ease of pub-lic transportation, and provides an unusual public service to the community.”

The Commonwealth Coach and Trolley Museum, Inc. was formed in 1999 when the Vir-ginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke de-accessed its fleet of transit coaches, school buses, and trolleys. The Buseum works to educate Virginians about the history, use, and efficiency of public transit.

Open by appointment, the Buseum also provides transit service for non-profit organiza-tions and public events, trans-porting approximately 6,000 to 7,000 riders per year in its his-toric buses. All personnel who drive the coaches and maintain the fleet are unpaid volunteers.

The Museum simply asks the organizations it serves for donations to cover fuel and maintenance.

Examples of the service are shuttles the Buseum has provided for Center in the Square, the National D-Day Memorial, Mill Mountain Zoo, the Heart Association, Lions Conventions, the Roanoke Rescue Mission, the Roanoke Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Virginia neighborhood confer-ence, local churches and the National EMS Memorial Service, among others.

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monwealth Coach & Trolley Museum or to request transit service, visit www.common-wealthcoach.org or call (540) 342-2383.

One of life’s greatest accom-plishments — the successful completion of a college degree — will be celebrated at Virginia Tech as students, together with their faculty, family, and friends, prepare for commencement ceremonies being held on Fri-day, May 13.

Additionally, Twenty-seven college and departmental con-vocation ceremonies will be held throughout the day on Saturday, May 14 at locations across campus.

Kenneth R. Feinberg, best known for serving as the special master of the federal Septem-ber 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 and who later be-came fund administrator for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund following the April 16, 2007, tragedy, will address the gradu-ates shortly after the ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. at Lane Sta-dium / Worsham Field.

Approximately 21 associate's degree candidates from the Col-lege of Agriculture and Life Sci-ences and 4,363 bachelor's de-gree candidates will be honored at the Friday night event.

This year, 1,540 graduating seniors will complete their bac-calaureate degree programs with honors, having achieved an ac-cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.

As it was last year, this year's most popular major among graduating seniors is biological sciences, followed by psychol-ogy, mechanical engineering, finance, and communication.

At a ceremony to be held Fri-day morning, the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets will honor 134

students graduating from its program. Also on Friday morn-ing, 38 students will be com-missioned into the U.S. Army, 34 will be commissioned into the U.S. Air Force, and 26 will be commissioned into the U.S. Navy. In addition, six students will join the U.S.Marine Corps after graduation.

Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger will preside over the two Blacksburg cer-emonies. 2011 marks the 140th year of Virginia Tech.

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Last weekend saw Roanokers out enjoying the ever-popular Strawberry Festival, and the Championship Chili Cook-Off, both of which herald the coming summer days. In addition to the signature strawberry shortcake des-sert (always in generous portions), and other strawberry-themed treats, made from scratch by Community School parents and students, there were arts and crafts vendors, children’s activities, and live entertainment at the Elm-wood Park amphitheater.

The chili cook-off is the larg-est International Chili Society cook-off in Virginia and a big fundraiser for Greenvale School, a nonprofit school in Northwest Roanoke. Patrons got to sample about 30 different kinds of chili.

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Approximately 4,363 bachelor’s degree candidates will be hon-ored at the VT Commencement ceremony at Lane Stadium.

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At the recent Earth Day cel-ebration at Grandin Village, I greeted a director of the local Sierra Club and long-time ac-quaintance who was manning their booth adjacent to the Blue Ridge Mountain Defend-ers’ booth. In our conversation, I mentioned that we shared a common goal that day, which was to celebrate and protect our natural environment. I ex-plained that as residents of Bent Mountain, we were commit-ted to good stewardship of the earth. We have been described as self-interested NIMBY’s due to our skepticism of the viability of industrial scale wind turbines in the Appalachian Mountains.

My friend acknowledged that members of our community have been inappropriately de-scribed. However, with regard

to industrial scale wind tur-bines, he said, "We need to start somewhere to wean ourselves from fossil fuel dependence, be-cause we are fast running out of fossil fuel."

We agreed. I told him that we should pursue such a goal with a well developed strategic plan of action.

“How long will it be before we run out of fossil fuel?” I asked.

“About twenty years,” he re-plied, “according to my under-standing.”

“If our government calls for only 20% of all energy to come from renewable resources by 2030, what will we do if we have no fossil fuels to supply the re-maining 80%?”, I asked. My friend shrugged his shoulders.

My friend's understanding of the challenge has been largely

influenced by information pro-vided to him by fellow Sierra Club directors and Invenergy, LLC.

Diana Christopulos, a finan-cially supported advocate for re-newable energy developers and also a director of the local chap-ter of the Sierra Club for almost five years, stated in a recent Ro-anoke Times commentary that, “coal-fired power plants,..... de-liver only about one-third of the total energy they produce. Most of the energy is lost in transmis-sion….”

The same drawback applies to all sources of electricity pro-duced for distribution over the grid, not only coal. Christopu-los’ statement is an extremely exaggerated condemnation of coal use, however, the point of losses through transmission and distribution is very ger-mane to discussion of energy conservation.

A more accurate understand-ing of the loss problem is pro-vided annually by the Lawrence

Livermore National Laborato-ries. In the United States we lose between 25-30% of all electricity generated through transmission and distribution losses, each year .

In 2008, Architecture 2030, an organization founded by Ed-ward Mazria, issued The 2030 Challenge for Planning ask-ing the global architecture and planning community to adopt a set of clear and well defined targets (visit: http://www.archi-tecture2030.org/)

As part of this planning, fos-sil-fuel reduction standard for all new buildings, major reno-vations, and embodied energy consumption of materials shall be increased to: 70% in 2015 - 80% in 2020 - 90% in 2025 - Carbon-neutral in 2030. (Using no fossil fuel GreenHouseGas emitting energy to operate or construct.) These targets may be accomplished by imple-menting innovative sustainable design strategies, generating on-site renewable power and/

or purchasing renewable energy (20% maximum).

The part of the strategy being missed or glossed over by local advocates of the proposed Poor Mountain industrial scale wind turbine project is "on-site renew-able power," because through this implementation, we'll save most, if not all, of the 25-30% loss through transmission.

So, why are advocates of in-dustrial scale wind overlooking the benefits of on-site genera-tion?

Sadly, because it will reduce dependence on the energy grid and eliminate excessive prof-its based upon federal capital outlay subsidies, federal loan guarantees, and a system of false market demand for renewable energy based upon renewable portfolio standards (RPS) in 31 states. All of which has been lobbied heavily for by renewable energy developers over the past two decades.

In the energy industry, all cor-porate players profit handsome-

ly from renewable energy devel-oped for distribution across the “grid.” The renewable energy producers profit through fed-eral and state subsidies and fab-ricated demand for their prod-uct. Power companies and grid distribution managers profit by higher energy rates forced by renewable portfolio standards. And even fossil fuel companies profit by exacerbated inefficien-cy created by a requirement for base load backup.

And our politicians profit from the “green, feel-good syn-drome” produced for their con-stituency.

The intentional distribution of misinformation is a manage-ment consulting strategy for large corporations to achieve enhanced profits and is de-signed to cloud our empirical thought process.

- Eldon L. Karr, Bent Mt. VA

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Nearly ten years ago, Ameri-cans looked on in horror as the events of September 11, 2001 unfolded. At the end of the day the skyline of one of our greatest cities was forever changed, the Pentagon, a symbol of America’s military strength was still smol-dering, and a previously indis-tinguishable field in western Pennsylvania had suddenly and terribly become an unmarked grave for America’s newest he-roes.

The landscape of our na-tion was not the only thing that changed that day. The American people were forever changed, with the horrific images of that day indelibly marked on our conscience and our sense of safety and security shaken. We were unified as Americans in our shock and grief, and we were unified in our resolve to bring those responsible to justice, in particular al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who claimed responsibility for the deadly at-tacks that took the lives of more than 3,000 American men, women and children.

Since then, America has pur-sued justice. In defense of free-dom, we have embarked on an international campaign to com-bat an ideology that spreads hate and destruction. Our military forces and intelligence commu-nity have worked tirelessly and vigilantly over the last decade to defeat those who intend to do us harm through acts of terror.

On Sunday night, that vigi-lance paid off as the world learned that an elite U.S. military team had successfully killed Osa-ma bin Laden following years of information-gathering by our

intelligence community that led to bin Laden’s secret compound in Pakistan. The courageous team of Navy Seals based in Vir-ginia who executed the mission that brought bin Laden to jus-tice, did so at considerable risk to their own personal safety.

The brave men and women of our military and intelligence community work hard day in and day out to preserve our se-curity and deserve our gratitude for accomplishing this danger-ous mission. Without their dedication to the mission and their resolve to track Osama bin Laden, this victory would not have been accomplished.

Despite this success, we con-tinue to face a dangerous threat today. As long as terrorists are still free to slaughter the inno-cent, our work will not be done. Terrorism is not limited to any location, population or way of life and these people, who have so little regard for human life, must be hunted down and brought to justice no matter where they are in the world.

As we mark this important milestone in the war against ter-rorism, our thoughts and prayers continue to be with those Amer-icans whose lives have been for-ever changed by the events of September 11, 2001. We must remember that every disaster brings heartache, but with it also comes bravery and a strength-ened resolve. Ultimately, in order for us to triumph in this global war we must not relent. We must continue to confront the root of this evil, and sow the seeds of freedom.

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Medical insurance companies have increased their profits 51% since 2008, at the expense of pa-tients and doctors.

During this time many pa-tient's insurance premiums have more than doubled and payments to physicians have decreased so much that many medical groups have gone out of business due to lack of pay-ments for their services.

This indicates that greed is prevalent on the part of the medical insurance companies. It is well known that many CEOs make seven to ten million dol-lars a year while payments in my office have become so poor that

we were unable to take payment checks for the first eight weeks of this year. When I do four echocardiograms now I receive $375 less in payments than two years ago. Why is this?

Once again it has to do with a brazen attitude in getting all the money out of a patient that can possibly be obtained. This is playing right into commissar Obama's plans for communist-style medicine in this country.

Our values are entirely up-side-down in America and hon-esty seems to be a thing of the past.

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I have been asked by several media outlets about the recent articles regarding state agency funding to certain charities be-ing suspended because of the attorney general’s January legal opinion that charities cannot be funded by direct appropriations from the state budget.

First, this office was asked for its legal opinion and it provided it based on the plain language of the Virginia Constitution: that charities which are not owned or controlled by the common-wealth cannot be funded by direct appropriations from the budget (see http://www.vaag.com/OPINIONS/2011opns/11-002-O'Bannon.pdf). Legal ex-perts such as A.E. Dick Howard, who led the commission that gave us the current revision of the Virginia Constitution back in 1971 even said that this office was correct in its legal interpre-tation.

The attorney general’s official opinion merely stated what the law already is; it did not make

new law. Official opinions are not the attorney general’s per-sonal opinions. They are his legal analysis of what current law is, based on the law as writ-ten and any applicable court decisions. He does not make the law or change the law. In fact, the Supreme Court of Vir-ginia has previously invalidated General Assembly budget ap-propriations to charities based on the language of the Constitu-tion (these cases are cited in the opinion).

For those legislators who are disparaging the attorney gen-eral’s office for its plain reading of the state constitution, they should know they are the only ones who can change laws they don’t like. That power does not rest with this office.

Second, there is a growing misperception that this office is going through lists of charities, stating which ones can receive money and which can’t. That is not the case. When asked, our attorneys have worked with in-

dividual state agencies and have provided legal guidance on the scope of the constitutional pro-hibition, applying the law to specific facts presented to us by agencies without regard to the nature of the charity. But we do not have a master list of charities that we are “approving” or “not approving” for funding. That is not the job of this office.

Finally, although the state cannot donate money directly to charities, if charities are pro-viding a contracted service to the state, they can be paid for that contract work, just like any other vendor. Some news out-lets have reported that some agencies are working with char-ities to create contracts with deliverables that could change their relationships from those of handing out direct donations of taxpayer money to instead con-tracting for specific services.

-Brian Gottstein, Director of Communication - Office of the Attorney General of Virginia

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Another stunning example of how the City of Roanoke fails to maintain its infra-structure is the mess in front of the downtown library. Ev-ery spring, Parks and Recre-ation employees reseed the grass in front of the library entrance. The taxpayers then pay for a few lawn treatments to keep the grass green during summer months. Then, is as evident now, City of Roanoke employees drive right up to the front door daily, leaving behind mud and tire ruts. It leaves the area near the main entrance looking trashy. The same can be observed in our parks and greenways, where maintenance workers fail to utilize appropriate entry points. The City talks 'green and clean'; an observant indi-vidual knows better.

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Manna Ministries began in 1996 as a unnamed food bank ware-house, meant to provide sustenance for those in need. In 2004, they moved down to their current Walnut Ave. location and took on the name Manna Ministries after a suggestion by a local youth group. The organization has grown to 100 volunteers who work behind the scenes to provide for the poor. Seven different youth groups and fif-teen churches from different denominations come together to dis-tribute goods. Manna’s Ed Wyatt, the program director, is quick to note the ecumenical nature of their efforts, which unites Catholics, Baptists, Wesleyans and Methodists, among others.

"Instead of serving their own denominations, they serve God."Thursdays at Manna starts at 5:30 with "manna" in its most literal

form. Different churches bring in food such as hot dogs and goulash to feed those waiting in a staging area with couches, dinettes and re-cliners donated by Grand Home Furnishings. Wyatt says this allows those waiting for assistance to get out of the poor weather; it also opens the gate for Manna volunteers to create more fellowship with the community. "[For a] lot of people that come in here, this is their night out where they get their interaction with a lot of people."

Recipients register and receive cards marking the number of members in their family. Shelves of books are part of a ministry aimed at providing children with reading material. Wyatt, who says the program has grown significantly in the past 2 or 3 years, stresses the importance: "If we can get just one kid reading that wouldn't be otherwise, it's going to make a big difference in their lives." They also try to give each child a toy to "let them know that somebody cares" along with a donated snack such as cakes or crackers.

Near the bookshelves lies the "country store" section where peo-ple can get shampoo, diapers, cleaning supplies and other items that often can't be bought on electronic benefit transfer (EBT) programs. Area dentists have helped out before with donating toothpaste and toothbrushes to the program. Often, says Wyatt, "it's easier for peo-ple to give something tangible" rather than funds. In the "Clothes Closet" families can pick out five donated clothes items per person

in sizes ranging from babies through preteens up to adults.One of the most important contributions of Manna Ministries

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Wyatt makes it clear that Manna’s aid is not meant as a handout but rather a "hand-up" to the working poor: "When people come here and we serve them, they leave with their dignity intact." He estimates that 50% of those who come to Manna seeking aid only need it once or twice.

One of the people aiding in this hand-up is Susan Willard. While her husband Ron and other members of her family had been volun-teering down at Manna, she often hadn't been able to make it down to give out food and other items. Looking at an alternative way to help, she considered Manna's financial needs and came up with the Mannathon 5K/8K Run to help their finances.

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Roanoke joined in the Hispanic celebration with the Wildwood Civic League when they had a cook-out and games at Thrasher Park on Thursday. Sponsored by the Roanoke City Po-lice Department, the officers gave of their time to cook flank steaks, organize the basketball and soccer games and entertain the children.

The officer’s brought a star shaped pinata and gave away coloring books and stick-on police badges. A local fire department brought a fire truck and gave the kids tours of the truck and equipment and gave away red plastic fire chief hats. McGruff the Crime Dog paid a visit as well.

The event was free to all, explained Lt. T. L. Akins of the Roanoke City Police Department. “Donations funded this entire event. We are cooking authentic Mexican dishes for every-body,” said Akins. “Last fall we did something similar and had over 300 people attend and it

was a huge success. We do this as part of our Outreach program to help break down the cul-tural barriers. We had so many calls and positive feedback from that event, we decided to do one this spring. This is our largest Outreach event in the area.”

Pastor Calhoun of the La Mision Hispana church solicited donations for this event as well. He was able to take the money and purchase two soccer goals which are now permanent fixtures at the park, available for use by all.

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The Southeast Action Forum is a neighborhood group set up to keep Southeast Roanoke a vi-brant, safe and caring place to live and one good way to do that is to host community celebrations such as the "May Day" gathering held last week. The group has membership dues and accepts donations so they can offer a variety of activities throughout the year - including an annual "Night Out Cookout," quarterly street cleanings, monthly events, beautification projects, social gatherings and neighborhood watch groups.

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Thirty-one years later, Humphry is leaving the News 7 anchor chair (on May 27) he shares with co-anchor Jean Jahon for a well-deserved retirement. As to why he has remained with WDBJ for so long, Humphry says, “It’s hard to describe what has kept me here. There’s been a lot of good reasons to stay.” One reason is that the station is a non-public business owned by the Schurz family in Indiana—meaning WDBJ is accountable to no one but the Schurz family. “As long as the Schurz family is happy,” says Humphry, “people are happy. So it’s been a good place to work.”

Explaining why he never sought to become a national net-work correspondent, Humphry explains, “I got accustomed to sleeping in my own bed, and liv-ing in a place that I liked a lot. As much as I like to travel, I don’t like to travel on somebody else’s schedule. And so it just never happened.” There was one occa-sion during his tenure at News 7 when Humphry actually accept-ed a job in Orlando, and notified WDBJ that he was leaving, “and the boss talked me out of it. No-body’s offered me a job since!”

Over the years, Humphry has done several stories that carried the possibility of risk to WDBJ and himself. One involved un-ethical business conduct on the part of a local car dealership—a highly sensitive matter to the sta-tion at the time as car dealerships were its principal clients. In this

particular instance, the dealer-ship was selling wrecked vehicles as though they were new—going so far as to roll back the mileage readings on them and selling the vehicles with the damages. “It was really an egregious case of wrongdoing,” recalls Humphry, “but it was a major client and no-body ever said, ‘we’re not going to run that story.’” Not surpris-ingly, the guilty parties pulled their advertising from the station but eventually returned.

Another instance involved an individual in the health care business who, highly displeased with a story, protested unsuc-cessfully to the station manager and a member of the Schurz family to kill it. “I only heard about this after the fact,” says Humphry. “The story ran. No-body ever said anything to me about it. Later I learned that this person had (done) everything short of calling God. It didn’t stop the story.” Humphry feels those kinds of days are likely not the same anymore, yet notes that more recently he’s done stories “that caused some concern in the front office - but nobody ever came back here and got their face in my business. It was strictly be-tween me and the news director and whether it was news.”

Another memorable story Humphry covered was the Hay-som murder trial involving Eliz-abeth Haysom and Jens Soer-ing. In that instance, Humphry traveled to England as part of his coverage of the trial. “It made sense to go, though I doubt any local reporter would be dis-patched there under similar cir-cumstances now. We’d rely on feeds and stringers to do the job for us today. There’s nothing like the perspective of a reporter who knows the inside story, though and one who has an interest in getting to the bottom of it, rather relying on the kind of drive-by court coverage that I see else-where.”

While he feels that “appoint-ment television” (regularly scheduled newscasts) are wan-ing, Humphry believes that

viewer still want good, long-form television programs—as witness the great popularity of programs such as “60 Minutes.” Humphry is also disturbed by what he sees as television journalism’s empha-sis on personalities—citing Ka-tie Couric’s tenure on the “CBS Evening News” as an example. “Katie Couric [leaving CBS in June] was hired because she was a popular personality on The Today Show. I’m not a big fan of her as a news reader. I don’t think she does it very well. There’s a lot of things she does very well. In-terviewing is chief among them. But the fact is they’ve held her up as a personality and it hasn’t brought the ratings [up] to what they would like.”

Humphry cites various reasons for his decision to step down at this time. His contract is up, and he feels the time has come for him to do something else. More-over, he is less than pleased with the News 7 organization’s grow-ing emphasis on directing people to the Internet and social media such as Facebook. “I don’t have any argument with that but it’s not why I got into the business. I got into the business because I like the process of telling news on television. I’ll be 62 when I re-tire. I’m going to teach in the fall. I’m going to teach a course at Hollins University in broadcast writing, and I’m looking forward to that. I’m looking forward to doing something different.”

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“Serving and supporting the people in our own commu-nity should always be first,” said

Brenda Sale, member of first Presbyterian Church and direc-tor of their Witness and Service

Committee. “By doing this the week of Mother’s Day, these women can feel beautiful for Sunday worship and feel wor-thy as a mother. They deserve the opportunity to have these things done for them, services most women take for granted.”

Forty five women showed up throughout the morning to be pampered. Shelter guest, Stephanie Curby, was all smiles as she received the full treat-ment. When asked about how the day made her feel, she said, “All of this is so nice. It helps brighten your day.”

Volunteers Provide a Day of Beauty for Homeless Women in Roanoke

Mount Pleasant First Aid Crew Honored for Service

Roanoke County Fire & Rescue, along with the Mount Pleasant Civic League recog-nized the Mount Pleasant First Aid Crew last week for their 53 years of dedicated service to the community.

On February 1st of this year the Mount Pleasant First Aid Crew dissolved its EMS orga-nization after 53 years of dedi-cated service to the community. The crew cited the increasing call volume, greater training requirements and diminishing volunteers as the primary rea-sons for the disbanding. Crew officials said it became too diffi-cult to commit to providing the high quality of emergency med-ical services (EMS) the commu-nity had come to expect.

The Mount Pleasant com-munity is now protected by ca-reer crews who are assigned to the station around-the-clock, as well as the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Company who covers the area on evenings and

weekends. At the reception, a bronze

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Front (l-r): Denis Wimer, Paul Cronk, Volunteer Chief Ann Meyer, Janet Doran, Denis Furro Back: Patrick Simmons, Bill Sizemore, Sam Doran

I recently had the pleasure to interview, Arthur Schen-kein, a Roanoke City resident who turned 97 years old on Valentine’s Day. What makes him unique, besides the fact that he is 97 years old, is that he swims most days of the week. That’s more than most of us, no matter what age, can say. More and more studies are confirming that consistent physical and mental exercise is the key to aging well, so all of us need to sit up and take no-tice and stop making excuses. I want to share his story that will hopefully inspire you to stay or get active – it’s never too late, but get a doctor’s OK before starting on a rigorous workout. Oh yea, did I men-tion that he didn’t start exer-cising until after he retired at age 65 and that he is now le-gally blind?

Q Swimming daily at age 97! How did you start?

A I retired from ophthal-mology in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1979. I needed to find things to do to occupy my days and my mind. I didn’t ex-ercise until I retired – was just a “somewhat” golfer. I got a pacemaker in 1983 and knew that I needed to exercise regu-

larly so I joined the YMCA - it didn’t matter if the weather was bad. I started swimming daily for one hour, building up to about 27 laps a day.

Q How much are you swim-ming and what other types of exercise are you getting now?

A RADAR takes me to the Salem YMCA three days a week and the Park-Oak Grove Retirement Community van takes me there 2 days a week at 8:30am. I swim 10 laps in 30 minutes. On the weekend, I walk around the building or in the halls 1-2 miles. I do it not so much that I enjoy it but mainly because I know that it’s good for me. [Note – he doesn’t use a cane or a walker.]

Q - Do you feel that it has helped your health?

A – No question it’s made a difference in my aging. I used to be overweight – I now weigh less than I have since I was a kid. I’m also being more selective with the foods that I eat.

Q – It’s ironic that you worked in eye care and now you have macular degenera-tion. How have you coped with your vision loss?

A – I’m unable to read any-more without any assistance.

I get “Talking Books” and a device to play them from the Library of Congress program. I also have a “Magni-sight” reader provided by the Vet-erans Administration to read correspondences and business affairs. It’s hard to get enough mental stimulation – I can’t enjoy TV [he also uses a spe-cial hearing aid], but I listen to news and information on NPR, I enjoy mystery books on tape and “Brain Teaser” games which they offer here twice a week. [Note – good use of available resources – it doesn’t hurt that his daughter is a social worker!]

Q – What’s the hardest thing for you as a 97 year-old?

A – I am lucky that my daughter and son-in-law, Judi and Paul Finney, keep a good eye on me here, help me with shopping and permit me to have as much independence as I can. I don’t have many close friends and not enough men-tal stimulation. I’m looking for someone to relate to on a mental level.

For more information see the Virginia Cooperative Extension publications on “Older Adults” at http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/cat-egory/older-adults.html

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“When I was 13, I shat-tered both bones in my right leg while skiing, and was laid up for more than three months in a complete hip-to-toe cast,” remembered Ja-cobson, author of The Boy Behind The Gate (www.lar-ryjacobson.com), his chron-icle of his 2,070 days on the open sea. “My mother tried to keep me occupied, and I read every magazine my mom would bring home – from Popular Mechanics to Boy’s Life -- as I watched my friends play outside. When I was finally free of the cast, I remember hobbling around as my brother brought home an eight-foot Styrofoam Sea Snark dinghy he had rescued from a garbage pile.

Most people would have seen trash, but I saw a super yacht. We repaired it and I painted it yellow, and began dreaming that one day I’d sail around the world.”

For most people, a child-hood dream that grand would have remained just that – a childhood dream. Not for Jacobson, however. He began sailing as a teen-ager, against the wishes of his father who would have pre-ferred he had taken up golf instead. By the time he was in high school, he began rac-ing sailboats competitively,

and was well on his way to making his dream come true. After getting his education and owning a travel business, he saw an opening to act on his dreams when his business was sold.

“As I analyzed the money I’d get for my share of the business, I realized I might have enough money to make my dream trip happen, with just a bit left over when I got back,” he added. “In reality, I spent just about every dime I had and then some, but I can’t think of any better use for money than making your life’s dream come true. The truth is, I feel like the lucki-est man alive, because I don’t have to wonder ‘what if.’ I lived my dream, and had ad-venture enough to last three lifetimes. My only lament is that more people don’t seize their opportunities to fulfill their dreams. If I have any mission in life right now, it’s to let people know that we all have strength deep inside to live our dreams. We just don’t know it’s there until we need it”

Jacobson’s advice for others who feel their childhood – or professional or even current -- dreams have passed them by, include:

Write it down – There is something about writ-ing down your life’s ambi-tions and even your day-to-day goals on paper that just makes them more real. Af-ter all, if you can’t articulate your dreams to yourself, how will you ever come close to making them come true?

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Persevere – Dig deep for strength. When we had to stay up for 36 hours and hand steer our way to Australia af-ter losing the autopilot and nearly losing the mast, we dug deep and found strength we didn’t know we had.

“I know it sounds like an infomercial, but the truth is that if you can dream it, you can do it,” he added. “We all have to choose how we live our lives, but the sad part is so many of us never realize that the choice is ultimately ours to make. We’re not forced into anything. We choose, on one level or another. We can live our dreams, or we can just live. What choice are you going to make?”

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During that time we’ve cov-ered everything from Alfred Dowe to Barak Obama - little league T-Ball to the Baltimore Orioles - aspiring 10 year old singers to David Stewart Wi-ley’s New York performances. We’ve had commentaries from our outstanding “Perspective” writers that have run an equal-ly impressive gamut: personal victory to public tragedy - po-litical pomp to philanthropic passion - spiritual insight to church criticism - the saddest of moments to the most hilari-ous and life fulfilling joys.

Yup - we’ve seen a lot on these pages and your response overall has been wonderful. As I often tell prospective ad-vertisers, “We get a lot of mail, email and phone calls, and if love paid the bills, we’d all have retired some time back . . .”

In reality, however, I’m not sure we would have. Because no one, who makes this “com-munity trust” perk along each week, is in it for the money. It certainly needs to be “worth our time” but if we measured that by normal standards, I think everyone involved

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