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Any organization that de-pends on volunteers is likely to show its appreciation for them and the Rescue Mission is no exception. A recent Sunday—Valentine’s Day to be exact—was a day of celebration when volunteers were recognized and given a tour of the Mission’s new medical clinic. “O Happy Day” was the theme of the event. Yel-low smiley faces brightened the atmosphere, which included cookies decorated with smiling faces given out as favors to all at-tending.

Fourteen stations set up around the Mission recognized volunteers as valued contribu-tors who help to make their

operations run smoothly. Over 400 attended the reception, ac-cording to Director of Develop-ment and Administration Lee Clark.

Volunteers are vital at the Mission, where they logged 76,743 volunteer hours in 2009 - the equivalent of 37 full time employees, according to Clark. The medical clinic already has volunteer workers, and “there is always a need for someone to step in and help,” he added.

Dr. Faith Pasley works as Volunteer Medical Director. She practices family medicine and

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Running for the Celts

Photo by Wade ThompsonShamrock Hill Distance Run leaders break away from the pack at the start of the 5K race last Saturday. More than 400 runners lined up at the starting line just as the rain stopped to begin the event presented by the Roanoke Catholic Educational Foundation. Tim Smith of Roanoke (number 676 on far right) crossed the finish line first to win the race. Smith, 19, ran the course in 16 minutes 15 seconds. Beni Thompson finished first for the women, with a race time of 20 minutes 51 seconds. This is the 20th year the race has been run in downtown Roanoke.

Local School Systems Display Solidarity

Members of three local school boards and administrators stood shoulder to shoulder last week, announcing a joint resolution that called for state and federal lawmakers to make K-12 educa-tion a priority. The way to do that said Roanoke County, Roanoke City and Salem school board members, is by finding offsetting budget cuts elsewhere.

Roanoke City, which has ad-opted a preliminary budget that could see more than 140 peo-ple let go, programs slashed and schools closed (Round Hill the most likely candidate) could see state funding cuts of up to 16 mil-lion, although that is considered a worst-case scenario. Roanoke County faces more than eight million in cuts while the smaller Salem system expects around two million dollars of funding to disappear. (State lawmakers could amend the budget recent-ly adopted during a veto session next month.)

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Tea Tavern is Best Kept Secret in Botetourt CountyThe aroma of freshly baked scones

greeted visitors to the White Oak Tea Tavern in Troutville on a recent Saturday. The scones were part of an elaborately planned scavenger hunt for a young woman who, at her final stop later in the day, would receive a wedding proposal. (She said yes.)

That was just the beginning of a busy day for Sherry Conrad and other employ-ees at the Tea Tavern. While checking on the scones and being interviewed by this reporter, the Fincastle resident greeted visitors and got ready for the rush-hour crowd.

Conrad says the building was original-ly a home owned by the Cloyds family in the 1700’s. Lisa and Richard Farmer dis-assembled it from its old location about five miles away in the Amsterdam area and reassembled it on its current site on Roanoke Road (alternate 220 between Troutville and Fincastle) in 1996. The Farmers made some additions, including a bathroom and kitchen, but Conrad says, “The rest of it is the original structure.”

Lisa Farmer ran a gift shop out of the building, and later it became a podiatrist’s office. The Tea Tavern, owned by Kim Ar-ney, is the third business housed in the antique structure. Conrad says, “The at-mosphere’s great. The building is part of

what makes White Oak Teas a success.” People come for the relaxed atmosphere - the cozy, homey feeling of it.”

The Tea Tavern is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Satur-day and is closed on Sunday. There’s a gift shop in the front which sells items such as jewelry, books, and decorations; the restaurant, which seats 20, is in the back. Reservations are requested because the restaurant is fairly small. The upstairs resembles a living room with couches

and chairs. Conrad says it’s designed as a quiet place for people to drink a cup of tea and enjoy a book.

She says a lot of elderly ladies dine at the Tea Tavern and the Red Hat Society meets there. The restaurant hosts book clubs, Bible study groups, the Newcom-er’s Club, and other groups. People can rent the restaurant portion of the build-ing for showers and other parties when the Tea Tavern is closed.

Sometimes men are a little timid about coming in. “They think it’s going to be a little prissy tea shop. But when they get through (eating), they’re very content.”

According to business owner Kim Ar-ney, the Tea Tavern sells 21 regular teas and has a variety of special teas. “We have green teas, we have black teas, we have oolongs and tisanes which are herb and fruit teas,” says Conrad. They have seasonal teas, such as a Valentine tea, wassail, pumpkin spice, and holiday spice teas and a Tavern signature blend, which is a more traditional tea.

Conrad says, “It’s one of the best kept secrets in Botetourt County.” They do a little advertising, but most customers find out about the Tea Tavern by word of mouth or on the internet. She says some people

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The White Oak Tea Tavern On US 220.

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Serious Issues Mix With Lighter Moments at Forum

About 100 people were in at-tendance at the Roanoke City “candidate forum” held in the Fellowship Hall of Christ Lu-theran Church last Thursday night. The Greater Raleigh Court Civic League, the Greater Dey-erle Neighborhood Association, the Southeast Action Forum and the Grandin Court Neighbor-hood Association sponsored the forum. John Carlin served as the moderator.

The three Republican candi-dates waffled on tax increases, admitting during some of the questioning that it would be the last resort.

Republican Candidate Mike Powell advocated for smaller government, saying the city’s budget is “terribly managed…we don’t need to raise taxes…[we need to] cut the fat.” Powell has lived in the city for 14 years and owns several businesses, which he says “are all profitable and I know how to make them grow,” expertise he feels would aid council in managing the budget.

Republican, Tony Walker

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find the Tea Tavern on their annual jour-ney to the Homestead or Greenbrier and stop in. Then they make the restaurant a permanent stop on their trip. The busi-ness is staying busy even during the tough economic times. She says the recession hasn’t affected them that much, consid-ering some people are eating out less to

save money. “I think we have a lot of loyal customers.”

One of those customers is Mary Floyd from Fincastle, who has been coming to the White Oak Tea Tavern since she moved from Lynchburg three years ago. She drove past on Route 220, “and saw how cute it was and just wanted to see

what it was all about.” She and her hus-band dine there on occasion. “It’s just so quaint; just a cute little spot.” She stops in about two to three times a month to shop or eat. “It feels private; it feels like it’s not a big shop, so it’s kind of intimate.”

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Roanoke City School Board chairman David Carson would not rule out the possibility of a law suit – if they can build a case that the Commonwealth has constitutionally failed in its duty to fund education. “Af-ter cuts last year, 88 positions [not refilled], closing schools, it doesn’t leave much besides per-sonnel. Less teachers, more stu-dents,” said Carson. He added that fewer educators were being asked to do more as standards become more difficult. “At some point you [have] to play fair.”

Carson said he was afraid everyone would “wake up” six

months from now, realizing they had made a mistake that couldn’t be fixed, just as Roa-noke was making academic strides. “I hope that folks have their eyes wide open … so we don’t get there.”

The resolution, read by Car-son from the podium, urged state and federal legislators “to take whatever steps are neces-sary to make education a first priority, by considering bold and creative means.”

Roanoke County Schools Superintendent Lorraine Lange lent her support to the non-binding resolution: “we believe

that children should come first. Let’s have the least amount of cuts for our students – because they are our future.” The county has already announced one school closing – Bent Mountain Elementary.

Salem City School Board chair Sally Southard supported that nation: “we truly ask that our children be spared. We need an educated work force in the valley and in order to do that we need educated students.” Southard asked that any cuts be temporary, so that the state can restore funding once the econ-omy does turn around. South-

ard wants lawmakers to look at other revenue sources for alter-native sources of funding.

Carson said “every one” of the 32,000 students in the three school divisions could feel the impact of deep budget cuts next year. It leaves him feeling help-less and “desperate.” The Vir-ginia Education Association has estimated that 15,000 or more educators could lose their jobs under the budget passed by the General Assembly.

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Daleville Town Center, lo-cated off US 220, was the site of a ceremonial groundbreak-ing for the new Lewis-Gale Imaging Center on Tuesday.

A new $5 million facility will house CT, ultrasound and gen-eral radiology (x-rays) along with a primary care and spe-cialty physician practice for Lewis-Gale. The new building will have the same design as other Daleville Town Center structures, according to Vic-tor E. Giovanetti, President of HCA Southwest Virginia. Construction which has been delayed by weather, should be-gin this spring and the building should be occupied in 2011.

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advocated for proactive fiscal manage-ment and reducing waste, Walker lives in northwest city and is currently a Re-gional Coordinator for Special Education with Roanoke County. Walker said “I have a doctorate from VT and we need to be proactive in fiscal management, have more economic development and support our schools. The graduation rate is 60% and it needs to get better.” He sup-ports Chris Morrill, saying “the new city manager has good ideas.”

The third Republican candidate, Retired Marine Colonel Robert Craig, said his mili-tary experience demonstrates his ability to work collegially with his potential council colleagues. Craig also gave some of the more humorous quips of the evening. Answering a question regarding consultant studies, he said that “members of council spend their time saying to each other ‘what do you think?’” The audience murmured in agree-ment. He called the $1.2 million in bonds for 2012, earmarked for the architectural and engineering plans for the Elmwood Park amphitheater, “financial idiocy.”

Independent Carl Cooper said he keeps hearing the same thing from constituents: “Quit spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave and fix the schools.” Cooper agreed with Council member Court Rosen’s increase of 2% on the meal tax dedicated

to school funding. However, he said “the problem is not going away in two years with declining revenue…we have to grow our economy with new business.”

Cooper admitted that it might be nec-essary to raise fees and taxes. He brought some chuckles when talking about coun-cil decisions, saying “what we have seen in many instances is like a merry-go-round; after they make a decision and before the ink is dry they’re back again revisiting the decision.”

The only incumbent, Democrat Dave Trinkle, was put in the position of defend-ing his record, especially concerning the hiring of consultants for studies and school support. He said “studies are plans used to make Roanoke more competitive but the budget has placed everything on hold.” Trinkle, a doctor of geriatric psychiatry at Carilion, was not opposed to a ward system, saying “we’ve got to be responsive to all parts of the city.” He admitted the city needs to do a better job of addressing code enforcement concerns of the neighborhoods. He feels tourism should receive increased funding and organizational efforts to increase tour-ism should be consolidated.

Attorney Ray Ferris is the only Demo-crat running who has not previously served on council. He took a wait-and-see stance on the 2% meals tax increase for schools, preferring to wait until the budget is thor-

oughly combed through. He also wants to see what Richmond will contribute before committing.

In response to studies waiting the shelf, he said we will “dust them off and prioritize” in better times. Ferris was optimistic, saying “things are going to get better … believe me we have been through tough times before and things are going to get better.” Ferris said he expected to spend 18-20 hours a week as a council member, adding that his law practice takes 60 hours a week of his time, and said “I am a native Roanoker and I want to give back to the community that has given me so much.”

Former council member Bill Bestpitch said, “Being on council is like being at a square dance; every two years you get a cou-ple of new partners to swing with.” He be-lieves more citizen involvement and public input is needed prior to a consultant study. Bestpitch wants to get back to basics, and reduce the size of government, saying “We need to make decisions and stick to them and not be wishy-washy. Roanoke does not need to be fixed but made better.”

The Democrats held on the possibility of increasing taxes and fees, and chastised Richmond, as Ferris emphatically stated, for “passing the buck to localities.”

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One of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the Southeast, perhaps the second biggest accord-ing to Event Zone’s Larry Landolt in the past, had everyone feeling a bit Irish last Saturday. That’s when the 20th Annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, now accompanied by a Celtic Festival, occupied the streets of downtown Roanoke.

First up was an attempt to set a record for the world’s largest Riverdance demonstration of Irish music, and while that effort may have fell a bit short, several hundred people of all ages did game-ly line up for a few minutes of instruction from performance artist Beth Deel and others. After a few practice runs and a three minute or so routine it was over; then the parade starting coursing its way down Jefferson Street.

Thousands lined the streets to watch more than 70 floats, bands and dignitaries go by, everyone from members of City Council (including all three Democrat candidates for open seats in May) and, of course, Mayor David Bowers. 6th District Congressman Bob Goodlatte and wife Maryellen, a local attorney, also made an appearance, as did veterans of war, civic groups and neighborhood associations. Early morning rain gave way to partly sunny if somewhat cool condi-tions, but all in all it was good parade-viewing weather.

A panel of judges rated the pa-rade participants for such things as creativity, enthusiasm, patrio-tism – and Celticness. Among the winners: the Sons of Norway, believe or not, were rated as the “Best Celtic” entry. Parrots of the Blue Ridge were the Best Nonprofit, Old Southwest had the Best Neighborhood entry, Liberty Tax Service was the Best Business participant and Post 64, 29th Infantry Division Associa-tion was Most Patriotic.

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downtown for the Celtic Festival, while others checked out the Farmers Market or took advan-tage of a free family day at the Taubman Museum of Art.

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade Delivers Again

This past Sunday, Patrick Henry High School was abuzz with activity as the beat of music pump-ing and hundreds of people talking and laughing emanated from the expansive cafeteria. Every so often, the clang of a gong sounded and everyone stopped and erupted into a collective cheer.

The gong didn’t sound because someone scored a goal at a sporting event; rather it was letting “Stop Hunger Now” participants know that they were getting closer to their goal of putting togeth-er 285,000 meals to be shipped to Haiti. This was the scene at Patrick Henry all day long as groups of volunteers rotated in and out doing their part to meet that goal.

It was St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church’s re-sponse to the need they saw in Haiti that began this community wide event. As Jenny Fife at St. Elizabeth’s started to organize her church’s event with Stop Hunger Now, she quickly realized that there were other churches and groups outside the church that wanted to help too. Before long, what started as a single church’s effort to help feed the people of Haiti grew to almost 30 times the size of its original vision.

Stop Hunger Now provides hunger relief in cri-sis situations as well as school feeding programs all over the world, and has been active in Haiti since 1998. This put them in a uniquely strong position to respond to the massive need as soon as the tragedy hit.

Even before the earthquake, Stop Hunger Now had already slated three million meals to go to Haiti. They have since sent another one million for earthquake relief and are planning to send an ad-ditional two million. They strive to be as efficient as possible and because of the extensive volunteer support, Stop Hunger Now is able to provide the pre-packaged meals for around a $1.50 a piece. Each of the 285,000 meals prepared at the event have six servings, so it ends up being 1,710,000 servings at $0.25 each. Not only did the Roanoke community provide the volunteers needed, but it also raised the $70,000 required to cover the cost of raw ingredients.

Their efficiency isn’t limited to how far they can stretch a dollar. It is amazing how smoothly the group expedites the work flow at the food packing events. Area Program Director Troy Henson has a commanding presence along with a driven, yet calm personality, which makes him a perfect fit for leading this type of event. That is a good thing; this last Sunday some 1000-1400 volunteers were rotated in and out from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Every volunteer needed to find their place in the coordinat-ed work force. Jobs included: as-sembling the packets of rice, soy,

dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix with vitamins and minerals; weighing, then sealing the bags; packing the bags into boxes; loading those boxes onto pallets, and then onto the truck.

Participants leave these events knowing they’ve done something real - something tangible. They can see the bags of rice the contributions bought. They see the meals come together, the boxes going onto the truck. They know where the container is heading, and when it’s going to get there. The meals that were just put together here in the Roa-noke Valley will be in Haiti in early April. While it’s only part of the many needs the people of Haiti have, it’s a part that participants know they’ve been able help with.

The event also met another need--a human need--the need to be part of something good and bigger than ourselves. Sometimes it’s easy to be proud to be a Roanoker.

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Holly Lovern and other volunteers prepare meal packets for Haiti.

wanted to spend her time at the Mission where she can share her faith. “God changed my life,” said Pasley, adding that she wanted to be help-ing people in Jesus’ name, believing that people’s spiritual needs are just as important as physical needs.

The new Dr. G. Wayne Fralin Free Clinic for the Homeless is named for a “compassionate and innovative family practice doctor who has served in the community for many years,” said a Mission press release. Dr. Fralin was present - and hon-ored - at the ceremony.

The clinic made its move to its new location on Monday, March 8, and began seeing patients at its

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“We are going to be able to serve over 20% more clients [in the first year],” said Sylvester-Johnson. “There are more than 12,000 visits a year in the current clinic.” Patients will receive better care in the Fralin clinic, and medical, dental and psychi-atric services can be offered concurrently. Only one service at a time can be provided now.

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12 Boxer Muhammad 13 Bye 14 Before, poetically 15 Hair stuff 16 Electronic equipment 17 A well loved city matriarch. 18 Major world religion 20 Decay 22 Brand of non-stick spray 24 __ Lanka 25 Astral 29 Purloin 33 Aching 34 Make lace 36 Gawk 37 Noise 39 Turkey 41 Pull 43 North northeast 44 Attorneys 48 Direct 52 Disconnected 53 Day time tv shows

55 Flightless bird 56 Band instrument 57 Scholar 58 Chest bone 59 Stray 60 One's place 61 Eye infection

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1 Wise Man 2 Brews 3 Mountain in our city limits 4 Animal 5 Hubbub 6 Travel by horse 7 Visionaries 8 Cheers 9 Jacob's son

10 Triad 11 Catty 19 In abundance 21 Bachelors 23 Entrance rug 25 Supersonic transport 26 Pull 27 Time period 28 Knock 30 Nosh 31 Spr.. month 32 Lock's partner 35 Large weight unit 38 Visitors 40 Fresh 42 Mortar 44 Fail to get 45 Far away 46 Channel 21 around here. 47 Satiate 49 Possessive pronoun 50 Discharge 51 The name of the Tiger at Mill Mountain Zoo 54 Pod vegetable

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By Don Waterfield

Like most everyone else, I am longing for spring. That’s a more diplomatic way of saying we’ve all been about ready to take

someone’s head off –run around screaming—or at the very least drive straight south without look-ing back--if the sun doesn’t warm things up pretty soon. But, hallelujah, we’ve just about made it!

The boots are being stashed and the spring duds are making their way out of storage—not a moment too soon.

Ladies’ accessories like purses are in immediate need of attention – black just won’t do when the clocks “spring forward” and the birds are singing. I remember the cool purse I had in high school – at that time a trendy leather satchel that nowadays would appear to be some sort of tack for horses, or a saddlebag. This very cool purse, which most all the girls owned at least one version of, had little tooled flowers all around the edges, painted in with pretty pastels. I can still smell the leather and wonder where that now-retro 70’s era archetype ended up? It would make a great mid-life crisis pacifier.

There has been an explosion of purse styles since the days of my youth. Where once we de-bated whether to stash the Bonne Belle water-melon lip gloss in our pocket, backpack, or the tooled leather purse, today our young girls (and their mothers and grandmothers) covet Coach, Dooney & Bourke, and Vera Bradley, along with 9 West, Liz Claiborne, sparkly “Betsy” purses and probably hundreds of others of which I am bliss-fully ignorant.

One’s choice of pocketbook / handbag / purse--along with the contents-- is something of a distil-lation of one’s personality. The gal who carries a little stream-lined number containing only mon-ey and a cell phone is a far cry from the owner of a giant satchel loaded with a complete supply of makeup and a day’s worth of luggage along with a novel-in-progress and a water bottle. Peek-ing inside some of these overstuffed, inanimate companions is akin to jumping down Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole…or even worse, be-ing caught in an over-sized Venus fly trap…it’s a whole parallel universe in some of them.

I am currently partial to a spiffy royal blue wa-terproof bag that looks stylish but is really utilitar-ian, which just may be reflective of some of my personality traits. Somebody needs to do a Psy-chology Thesis on the correlation between per-sonality and purse style selection.

All of this brings me to another very important “satchel” – the tool bag. The end of winter means it’s time for fixing things up and getting ready for spring! I happen to own my very own tool bag (brilliant idea borrowed from Susan, a much more organized wife and mom than I) which I keep INSIDE the house, as opposed to the garage where my husband’s tools reside.

For years, whenever I wanted to hammer some-

thing, I went to the cold garage, covertly retrieved a hammer from the even colder tool box, and went about my business.

Since being emancipated by tool bag owner-ship, I have embarked on all sorts of interesting low-level projects, not the least of which is picture hanging. I have a stud-finder, which I rarely use, a measuring tape, and plenty of nails to go with my very own hammer. I have found that the best way to figure out where to hang a picture is to look at the wall, decide on a place, and whack in a nail with abandon. It works almost every time, except about 50% of the time, when I pull the nail out and move it over an inch and a half. Perfect.

All is well UNLESS my husband, or any man, is around. They hear a nail being hammered and run in to see what you are ruining. It’s annoying. I have never yet checked for studs, used those an-chor things or carefully measured six times just to hang ONE picture. And not one of the pictures I have hung has ever fallen off, even through two mild earthquakes that have hit the area in the last decade.

In fact, I would bet that if all that were really necessary, then at least two-thirds of all pictures hung in our area’s homes would have crashed to the floor during at least one of the quakes, but they did not.

This year, with spring finally upon us, the next logical step is for Coach and Vera Bradley to go ahead and start a line of -- tool bags, of course. Aren’t purses just glorified tool bags anyway? I kind of want one in leather, with little flowers all around.

Got a Hammer in That Purse?Now there’s a title that can lead in many

directions! In the last three decades few hospital systems have undergone

the growth spurt that we have witnessed in Roa-noke. Some had their origins back in the era of W.H. (Ham) Flannigan; others are so current they are on the front page almost daily. It was Mr. Flannigan’s foresight that set the stage for the huge enterprise that we have today. A half century ago, he began purchasing real estate for the hospital. He had the vision that someday, Roanoke Memo-rial would need it; he was certainly right about that.

When Carilion announced some years ago that they were giving 25 million dollars to start the Carilion Biomedical Institute, many wondered what they were thinking. Today, it’s still not clear what happened to that organization. It may well be involved in its original purpose of developing biomedical ideas that are marketable; if so it has maintained a very low pro-file. Perhaps it will find a renaissance in the near future.

As the purchasing of primary care practices by Carilion grew during the 1990s, the handwriting on the wall was still somewhat murky but the fear that referral sources to the specialists would be cut off seemed unwarranted. Carilion had no special-ists in their system so those in a referral practice felt secure. That has changed radically. There are more than 600 physicians in their employ and many of them are well-qualified specialists.

Now we have the integrated practice model—aka The Carilion Clinic. When that idea was first presented, it came as a surprise to, not only the private physicians in the area, but also to a highly placed board within the Carilion system. It has been suggested that conferring with those who had spent a lifetime in practice here might have made the launching of the concept a little less tu-multuous. Carilion’s reasoning may have been it would be easier to get forgiveness than permission from the specialists. That has proven so.

Early TV spots suggested that the area had been suffering with substandard medical care for years; the Clinic would eliminate that. Hackles were raised, long years of collegiality evaporated, and fears of what was yet to come quickly surfaced.

It wasn’t long before angry accusations from private practitioners led to activists groups who opposed the Clinic model. It was a classic case of,

“Where does the gorilla sit?” “Wherever it chooses,” is the answer. The gorilla did not sit, but contin-ued to march

along with plans for a new medical school and multi-million dollar clinic building, a hotel (pri-vately financed), and other as yet to be disclosed plans.

It has become apparent the independent prac-tice model, particularly for the primary care physicians, is doomed. It is going the way of the house call; my generation received much criti-cism for abandoning that time-honored tradition. It was too inefficient to survive. My hat is off to those few practices trying to surf this juggernaut

of a wave. They will be the last of their breed for a variety of reasons.

Now Carilion faces the charge that there is pressure for their physicians to refer internally, that is, to other Caril-ion physicians. That contention has found its way into the courts. While Carilion insists there is no such policy, as one who spent 30 years in a refer-ral cardiology practice, that’s how the system works. Carilion does not need

to state the policy; physicians refer to those with whom they work on a daily basis, particularly if they have

a common institutional interest. The Clinic has positioned itself to do that quite well. An impor-tant offshoot has been the strengthening of Lewis-Gale and their allies; they have responded to the increased competitive pressure from Carilion with expansion plans of their own.

Take a drive down Reserve Avenue and then tell me you’re unimpressed by what you see. The courts will decide whether Surfaces, the only busi-ness still standing, will survive. I hope the owners will be treated fairly, but anyone who thinks that shop will be there in ten years hasn’t kept up with the history of medical development.

In five months the inaugural class of the medi-cal school will arrive. It will mark the beginning of a whole new era in higher education for south-western Virginia. Carilion has created thousands of jobs, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the community and capitalized on the vision of Mr. Flannagan. There are numerous conflicts yet to be resolved. I hope they will be approached in an open-handed manner by all who are involved.

We all have an investment in seeing this enter-prise succeed. Those of us who have spent our professional lives in this medical community still have one thought in mind: We strive for the best medical care for everyone. Those in private prac-tice still believe that; in my judgment, Carilion believes it, too.

Change is hard and there will always be those who, like me, originally opposed the integrated clinic concept. I believe the time has come to help them succeed as well as support viable competi-tive options.

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Thirty years ago Eliza-beth Matthews Jones began a journey that

will be completed in May when she graduates, Magna Cum Laude, from Hollins University, majoring in English, with a con-centration in creative nonfiction and a minor in theatre.

Elizabeth enrolled in college at age 17, but left after 1 ½ years to marry and help her first hus-band complete requirements for four degrees. During the ensu-ing years she divorced and re-married, raised two daughters, and continued to take college classes whenever and wherever possible. She has been a student at Northern Arizona University (NAU), LSU, J. Sergeant Reyn-olds, and John Tyler and Vir-ginia Western Community Colleges, before discovering the Horizon Program for non-tra-ditional students at Hollins.

Elizabeth credits Celia Mc-Cormick, the director of the Horizons Program, for encour-aging her during the three years she has struggled to achieve her goal. Life was especially difficult her first semester because of turmoil in her personal life. The trial of the man who murdered her brother, postponed nine times, was finally scheduled. She was subpoenaed to attend the trial, and spent most of first

semester driving to and from Baltimore, missing classes and trying to keep up with home-work in hotel rooms. Other stu-dents and the faculty supported her with emails and phone calls, assisting with her homework via her computer.

“I do not know how I could have succeeded without their help,” she said, adding, ”They also helped me celebrate when Steven’s murderer was convict-ed.”

Succeed she did. Not only did she complete the requirements for graduation with honors, but she received other awards. After winning a writing con-test at Hollins, she was entered into a national writing contest for her nonfiction piece entitled “Rocking Chair.” The contest is sponsored by the AWP. The As-sociation of Writing Programs,

of which Hollins is a member. Awards will be announced in April.

She also won a scholarship to an Undergraduate Writ-ing Workshop held recently at Sweetbriar College.

”What a thrill to be with out-standing students from other colleges, to read some of my nonfiction work, and have time to write uninterrupted by other responsibilities!” she said. “And my mentor was an alum from the writing program at Notre Dame!”

In addition to all these hon-ors, Elizabeth was awarded a $1000 scholarship from Dan Smith (Valley Business Front) at the Roanoke Regional Writers’ Conference. Each year a Hol-lins writer of merit receives this scholarship.

This semester, with gradua-tion requirements behind her, Elizabeth is acting and singing in “Violet”, the spring musical at Hollins. She is also working on an independent study about the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, focusing on the road between Roanoke and Asheville. With persistence and passion she truly has earned her spot at the top of the class.

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Twenty-five years ago my father passed way in his bed on Long Island. Last week I lost another father. Hank Ham-

rick, my wife Janet's father, had been my Dad for nearly twenty years, a great man seemingly heav-en sent by another who left too soon. Whether Hank was your coach, your teacher, your father, or your friend, he left his indelible signature on your heart.

Hank was one of those people who was loved and admired by so many people, that it now seems impossible that he is not in our midst. I want to share a few things about the man who has touched so many lives. For example, few people know why a man named James Lewis Hamrick came to be called "Hank." To no one's surprise, James excelled at sports as a child growing up in North Carolina. As a twelve-year old, young James Lewis played on a youth league team which was sponsored by a collection of local business-es. Each player bore the name of the company who sponsored them on their back, and James represented "Hank's Grocery." As the season progressed, players and fans began to marvel at a slightly built left-handed pitcher who regularly mowed down everyone he faced. Not knowing the name of this star player, they began to refer to him by the name on his back, and so James Lewis Hamrick became "Hank," a name that would serve him well for the next sixty-eight years.

Hank was a man who would give anyone in need the very shirt off of his back. His love and kindness would change the lives of four children in November of 1966. Due to an unfortunate se-ries of circumstances, Hank received a call from Dade County, Florida from a local official regard-ing the children of Hank's brother Bill. The kids needed a place to live and were in danger of being split up within the foster care system. Without a moment of hesitation, Hank informed the official to put his niece and nephews on the first available plane and send them to Roanoke. Dennis, Bill, Jim and Linda arrived in Roanoke with no winter clothes, yet they had a home - a home where they could all grow up together. It takes a special type of man to make a decision like that and a special kind of women like Hank's wife Janet to accept the responsibility of raising those children as well as two of her own. When asked about their 55 years of marriage, Janet is often heard to remark "We never knew who should get the medal for staying together so long, him or me."

As an athlete Hank was one of those people who could play any game and play it well. At Draper High School, he was an All-State 5' 10" 145 running back, prolific basketball scorer and star pitcher. A member of the Elon University Hall of Fame, Hank never lost a game he pitched in college, compiling an amazing 18-0 record and allowing less than two runs per game. Hank pitched professional baseball in both Canada and in South Dakota facing many players who went on to star in the major leagues. When asked about facing feared slugger Frank Howard, Hank's strat-egy was simple. "Well Frank was a big boy, Hank remembered "so I decided to walk him and pick him off first base." Hank was not only talented, but smart as well.

Many people knew Hank as a successful base-ball, football and basketball coach teaming with Dick Kepley (Jefferson High School) and Woody Deans (Patrick Henry High School) for three state basketball championships. During the final days of Hank's life he was visited by scores of former players, coaching colleagues, college friends, and golfing buddies. Each spoke of how Hank influ-enced their lives and provided a strong guiding hand through their years together. Witnessing this outpouring of love was an unforgettable and poignant moment in my life, one which I will hold dear forever.

Behind Hank's athletic and coaching accom-plishments were acts of selflessness that few knew about. Whether it was delivering toys to families who could not afford Christmas gifts for their own children, or by subsidizing a young basket-ball player who did not have the financial means to improve his game in a travel team setting, or by simply placing his gentle hand on my shoul-der when I lost my beloved Mom to the same in-sidious disease that would later claim Hank's own life, this humble and wonderful man stood for the good that is in all of our hearts.

Somewhere, above the clouds, I like to think that Hank and my Dad have already met. Greet-ing his new friend, I imagine Willie Kaufman clasping Hank's hand and thanking him for tak-ing such good care of his boy.

Who was Hank Hamrick? He was a man many will never forget and the kind of person we should all aspire to be.

Remembering Hank Hamrick

Contact Jon Kaufman atJon.Kaufman@sprint.comI heard a great joke the

other day from a 6 year old. He asked “What

happens when you hang out with a lot of ducks?...........You start quacking!” The funniest part of the whole thing was the kid rolling on the floor laughing in com-plete hysterics. Af-ter he calmed down I asked him what it meant. “It means if you hang out with mean people, you will do mean things,” he com-mented. Wow, out of the mouths of babes. At this young age he is already beginning to learn that who he hangs around with can have an affect on him and his behavior.

This is not a new idea. In fact, we even have research that shows the number one indicator of delinquent be-havior is who our children spend time with. While this may be an obvious truth to many of us, one that is not so obvious is that who our chil-dren hang around with will also affect their mood and attitude.

Is your child overly nega-tive? Are they grouchy and depressed? Do they com-plain a lot? Although we often think that these char-acteristics are due to our par-enting or some deeper issue with our children, remember to look at their friends. It is difficult for a child to remain positive and hopeful when surrounded by others who are consistently negative or mean. By the same token, it is difficult for a child to remain negative and sullen

when surrounded by positive fun-loving friends.

Regarding our children’s social world, it is our job to restrict contact with those that are not good influences, both in behavior and attitude,

and to open and support access to those that appear more healthy and positive. To take a “hands off ” ap-proach about our children’s friends is both foolish and dangerous. We have the life expe-rience and wisdom that our children

lack in evaluating relation-ships and can see things they will not.

The driving force in emo-tional development is our socialization. The healthier the quality of that socializa-tion, the healthier the emo-tional development will be. As parents, it is our job to not only monitor that de-velopment, but to shape it as well. I hear quite frequently that we cannot pick our chil-dren’s friends. While this sounds like truth, it is not the complete truth. Yes, by the time our children are 15, 16 and 17 years of age, we have much less influence on who their friends are. The story is much different when they are 6, 7 and 8. At this young age we have the greatest in-fluence on who our children will begin to call friends and even more importantly, on who they look for as friends in the future.

By shaping this process, we help to set in motion a pat-tern of friend “type” that our children will continue to seek

out and establish. If my child is used to hanging out with children who do not cuss, treat others with kindness, etc.: this is who they will seek in life. It is what they know and what gives them a sense of familiarity and comfort. If they are used to others who are not kind, are negative and depressing, etc.: this is who they will seek. The good news is that we as parents have the opportunity to greatly influence which “type” our child becomes used to and later pursues.

As for us parents, we need to ask ourselves about our friends. How do they affect us and what type of indi-viduals have we surrounded ourselves with? Make sure that you surround yourself with those individuals that not only bring out the best in you, but those that live qual-ity lives of their own. Re-member what the 6 year old learned, if you don’t want to quack, don’t hang out with the ducks!

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That’s always the tension, isn’t it? Most of us regularly speak of faith and talk about God. With over 90% of Americans saying they believe in God, we would expect this. God-talk is routine and commonplace. Every day, in fact, we exchange these small orbs of metal and thin pieces of paper with one another, each time declaring, at least tacitly, that in God we trust.

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ticular bill, President Obama and the Democrat congress are insisting on forcing it upon us, with little concern for the con-sent of the governed.

It is beyond the scope of this letter to explore why America has turned against the bill. Suf-fice to say that we don't see much in a bill that is over twelve times larger than the National Defense Act of 1947 (the act that established the Department of Defense) that would be ben-eficial to either our health care, or our liberty. As such, this bill needs to be stopped.

The Republicans are pow-erless to do anything about it, whether they wish to or not. No amount of compromising will stop the bill or fix it. They lack the numbers to put up a real re-sistance and the influence with the leaders of the Democratic Party to affect the outcome. Given the toxicity of the bill, the Democratic leadership's lack of interest in compromise (even to the point of suggesting that a bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes and that lock-ing the loyal opposition out of the process would make it even more bipartisan) and their lack of power, obstruction is the only option available to them.

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What I am calling on you to do is to rally together a group of Democrats who are willing to kill this bill and start fresh. I un-derstand that there is grave po-litical risk in this, however our nation is calling on you to take that risk, regardless of how the party leadership may view this action. The risk to the Demo-cratic Party, should this bill pass, is far greater, and the risk to the American public, greater still.

If this bill passes, there will be a strong backlash against the party. The audacity of forcing a plan on a free people will not go unnoticed. The Democratic Party will not be seen as the par-ty of the worker or of the com-mon man, but rather the party of the autocrats. It will have been lead there by President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid, however the rank and file will also be held accountable for not reign-ing in the party leadership. Re-publicans learned, in 2006, how this works. Given the nature and gall of the violation of the public trust, however, the back-lash against the party will likely be deeper and longer-lasting.

That is why you need to step up and oppose the party leader-ship on this, even to the point of replacing them, if need be. Nei-ther the Democratic Party, nor the country will benefit from the passage of this bill. If you succeed in defeating this bill, you can be part of a new Demo-cratic Party that remembers its Thomas-Jefferson roots. If not, if you stand idly by while our congress betrays the will of its employers, then you will be seen as complicit in the fall of the Democrat Party. Is that worth a few thousand pages that only serves special interests?

Senator Webb, you ran with the motto "Born Fighting." Congressman Boucher, you represent a district nicknamed the "Fighting Ninth." It's time to fight.

-Kenneth Miller, Blacksburg VA

Commentary: An Open Letter to Congressman Boucher and Senator Webb

It is no secret that the American people are facing a very tough economic climate. Families and small businesses are cutting back on expens-es. As economic uncertainty continues, many across our nation are looking to the government for leadership during this difficult time. In these challenging economic times it is even more im-portant for government to control spending. The federal government must work to both eliminate every cent of waste and squeeze every cent of value out of each dollar our citizens entrust to it. When you are preparing a budget for your fam-ily, you know that you can’t spend more than you take in. It’s a simple concept but one that Con-gress has failed to adhere to for far too long. We must balance the budget and reduce the deficit and the debt – not by raising taxes, but by being good stewards of taxpayer money.

Because it has become clear that neither party can exercise the self control necessary to rein in excessive spending, I have introduced a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, H.J. Res 1, to force Congress to do so. My legislation, which has the support of 175 bipartisan Mem-bers of the House, ensures that the federal gov-ernment is held accountable and that the money our citizens work so hard to earn is not squan-dered on wasteful spending and programs.

My balanced budget amendment, which is identical to the legislation that passed the House in 1995 by a vote of 300-132 and fell just two votes short of passage in the Senate, forces Congress to enact fiscally responsible spending

measures and reduce the deficit by requiring that total spending for any fiscal year not exceed total receipts. The legislation also includes a specific exception to the balanced budget provisions in times of war or other national emergencies.

This week I was pleased to join with Congress-men Mike Coffman, a Republican from Colora-do and Jim Marshall, a Democrat from Georgia, in launching a new Congressional caucus aimed at adding support for a balanced budget amend-ment to the Constitution. The bipartisan caucus will be dedicated to achieving passage of H.J. Res. 1, and to educating Members of Congress on the necessity and importance of the proposed amendment to the Constitution.

As our nation faces many difficult decisions, Congress will face great pressure to spend beyond its means rather than making difficult decisions about spending priorities. My balanced budget amendment ensures that Congress and the Pres-ident are held accountable to the American tax-payers. Unless Congress is forced to make the decisions necessary to create a balanced budget, it will always have the all-too-tempting option of shirking this responsibility. Americans are des-perate for fiscal reform and the Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment is a common sense approach to ensure that Congress is bound by the same fiscal principles that America’s families face each day.

To contact me about this or any or matter, please visit my website at www.goodlatte.house.gov.

Congressman Bob Goodlatte

Commentary: Balancing the Federal Budget As early as this week, our elected officials in

Washington will take a healthcare vote that could devastate many small businesses here in Virginia. Our elected officials claim this $900 billion bill will lower costs. But somehow that isn’t adding up. So let's get the facts straight. No more sound bites, and no more talking points. The fact is this healthcare bill is about helping everyone except small business. Below are three things every small business owner needs to know about the legislation being forced through Washington.

1. Small businesses will be forced to provide health insurance.

This bill is loaded with mandates and really ex-pensive punishments. Despite their claims, Con-gress has not looked out for small business. Plain and simple: the legislation forces small firms to provide health insurance, whether they can af-ford it or not. The mandate applies to growing firms and those with 50 or more employees. And in a backroom union deal, it was extended to apply to already-struggling small construction firms with as few as 5 employees. Penalties are outrageously high - $2,000 per employee, which you can imagine could easily devastate any lo-cal construction firm. Even scarier, Congress is now trying to extend this onerous mandate to all part-time employees a prospect that would hit millions of already-struggling small firms.

2. Small businesses will pay more taxes. On top of all the new mandates and penalties,

small businesses will also be saddled with a new annual $6.7 billion tax on their health insurance plans. Congress will try to tell you that this is a tax on the big bad insurers. But here are the facts. The new tax falls on health insurance companies based on their market share - the larger an in-surer's market share, the higher their share of the $6.7 billion they have to pay. Sounds fair enough, right? Wrong. We're overlooking a major point here. Insurers aren t just going to absorb a $6.7 billion tax out of the goodness of their heart. They will pass it on to their customers and it will increase costs by more than $500 per family annually. Not only will small businesses be the customers this tax is passed on to, but they will

be shouldering this burden alone. Big business and unions negotiated a deal that exempts them from this fee. This is just another sneaky way to tax small business by funneling it through the very insurance they need to purchase.

3. Small businesses and their employees won t be able to keep the coverage they have.

This bill removes much of the already-limited flexibility small employers have and need when shopping for health insurance plans. They now will be forced to buy plans that meet standards determined by the government, even if they don t need a plan that extensive. For many self-employed and small businesses, even those who already have insurance, their costs will go up in order to meet these new expensive coverage requirements. With small businesses suffering from premium increases of more than 113 per-cent over the last 10 years, you would think, the goal would be to make insurance less expensive and more flexible. Small businesses need more choices and more flexibility - not more out-of-touch officials in Washington telling them how to run their business and what insurance to buy.

These are just three of the most egregious provisions Virginians, especially small business owners, need to know about the 2,700-page healthcare legislation charging through Con-gress. Not only does the plan spend $900 billion we don t have, but it's paid for on the backs of small business. This is not the reform small busi-ness asked for or can afford. They need reform that lowers their healthcare costs, and the bill Congress is trying to jam through simply doesn't do that.

So, we all need to ask ourselves: Who is re-ally working for small business? As we watch Congress ignore our protests and jam through this bill, it is up to us to let them know they are pushing policies that threaten our community's very livelihood. We all need to tell our Congress-men that voting for this healthcare bill is a vote against small business.

Julia Ciarlo Hammond is Virginia state director of the National Federation of Independent Busi-ness, the state s largest small business association.

Commentary: What Small Businesses in VA Need to Know About the Healthcare Bill

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Just when the William Flem-ing football program was set to enjoy some much deserved sta-bility, the team will have to start from scratch again – this time, with a new head football coach.

Rob Senseney, who has spent the past four years at the school, resigned last week to take the head coaching job at Knightdale High School, just outside of Ra-leigh, North Carolina.

For Senseney, the move makes perfect sense: the coach gets to move closer to his home-town of Fayetteville, which is also where his mother lives. For William Fleming, however, the move comes at an interest-ing time. The team is supposed to open the fall season in a new stadium.

“For me, it was just an oppor-tunity to get closer to home, and I couldn’t pass it up,” Senseney said.

Whoever takes over for Senseney will have some pretty

big shoes to fill. The former Fleming coach went 30-12 over his four seasons at the helm, including two district cham-pionships (one in the Western Valley District and one in the Blue Ridge District). Those ac-complishments are even more impressive considering the Col-onels never played a true home game during Senseney’s time as head coach.

“I’m pretty proud of how the kids handled that situation,” Senseney said.

The Knightdale program is a work in progress. The school

has only been around for six seasons, and has won a grand total of five games during that span.

“They have a lot of athletes, and I think there’s a lot of upside there,” Senseney said.

New challenges aside, the

coach said it was difficult leav-ing his players.

“We had good kids and a great staff over the years,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of fond memories there. It’s always hard to leave.”

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Cave Spring Head Coach Billy Hicks was reveling in the moment. "I can remember when we only dreamed about being at this level, "Hicks said. "When I took over this pro-gram, I wasn't sure we would ever get ONE state champion-ship. Now, this group has won back-to-back titles. It's unbe-lievable! I'll never forget this achievement."

The Knights defied the odds for the second straight year, de-feating Brunswick 54-43 for the Group AA Division 3 crown at the VCU Siegel Center in Rich-mond Saturday afternoon.

For Brunswick it was their fourth consecutive year to fin-ish as the runner-up, including last year's loss to Cave Spring in overtime.

Brunswick Head Coach and UVa all-time scoring leader, Bryant Stith put it in perspective."It's so hard to get here," Stith noted." We've come so close."

"Cave Spring should be com-plimented on the win," he add-ed." They are well-coached and played a smart game."

Brunswick employed a game

plan that was no surprise for the Knights. Using a 2-3 zone defense, their objective was to shut down Cave Spring 6'11" center Josh Henderson with double teams and physical play in the paint. Henderson, who had torched New Kent in the semifinal with 31 points and 22 rebounds, was held to eight points by the Bulldogs.

But Cave Spring was not deterred. Like so many times in the past two seasons, the Knights looked to the remain-ing seniors to pick up the slack. They responded in champion-ship fashion.

Clay Lacy scored 8 first quarter points including two baskets from behind the arc as Cave Spring led 13-11 at the end of the quarter, which was culminated by Justin White's 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Brunswick opened the sec-ond with a 7-2 run and led 18-15 with 5:26 left. But the Bull-dogs would not score again in the half as Cave Spring went on a 14-0 tear that included two more Lacy treys and six points by Henderson. The Knights went to the break up 29-18.

Brunswick gained the mo-mentum in the third quarter as Cave Spring, hampered by turnovers, could not find the basket. A layup by Bulldog Shaquille Jones knotted the score at 31 as Brunswick out-scored the Knights 13-2 in the frame and the Bulldogs looked ready to pounce entering the fourth.

As Cave Spring huddled at their bench, Hicks may have provided his greatest coach-ing moment. "Look me in the eyes," he told his slightly rattled squad. Referring to the adver-sity, he added," We've been here before."

The Knights wasted no time in responding. Twelve seconds into the final quarter, Mark Overstreet found 5'11" Justin White alone in the left corner. White launched a bomb that seemed to take forever to suc-cumb to gravity before falling through the net. Brunswick looked stunned ut they hadn't given up. The Bulldogs pulled to within one on a Javonte Green dunk, but Cave Spring struck again as Quentin Dill hit Adam Hager with a pass be-

hind the arc and Hager, who is second in career 3-pointers at Cave Spring behind J.J. Redick, lasered the twine.

Brunswick again responded with a Shaquille Jones layup. However,14 seconds later, Hag-er hit Erik Jacobsen who rattled in another long-range jumper to open a five point Knight lead. Brunswick never got clos-er than three the rest of the way and, forced to foul, could only watch as the Knights hit eleven free throws in the final 1:02 to seal the deal.

State titles rarely come sweeter.

Lacy had a game-high 21 points and 8 rebounds for Cave Spring. Casey Walker led Brunswick with 20 points, but was held to 9-for-27 shooting by Cave Spring defensive guru Mark Oversteet.

"This is something you dream about," Lacy said after the game." After Josh had that great game in the semifinal we knew others would have to step up. I got off to a good start which helped my confidence. Coach told me to keep shoot-ing."

"The second time was a lot harder than the first," Lacy said of the back-to-back titles."We were everybody's target."

Hicks agreed."This shows the type of kids we have. They never gave up and didn't panic after the third quarter."

There are now twelve Cave Spring seniors, two state titles, and innumerable memories that no one associated with this team will ever forget.

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Every team is made up of a combination of different parts. There are star players, and there are role players. There are standout performers, and there are “behind the scenes” guys. Or, as one coach once described it to me, there are “piano pushers,” and there are “piano players.”

“Piano pushers” never really get any head-lines in today’s society, which is obsessed with superstars and highlights. Watch enough ESPN documentaries about Michael Jordan, for ex-ample, and you might eventually become con-vinced he won all 6 of his NBA championships by himself.

However, every team needs blue-collar, tough-minded, ego-less players in order to be successful. Guys who don’t mind doing the dirty work, guys who don’t need credit or ac-colades. Every team needs piano pushers.

For the Patrick Henry Patriots, senior center Paul Porter is a piano pusher -- a hard worker through and through. And for a Patriots team that just completed a magical 21-5 season that ended in the VHSL Group AAA State Semifi-nals, Porter’s role was irreplaceable.

Porter is listed at 6’4”, and to be honest, it might be just a bit generous. And yes, he played center this season for the Patriots. Over the past couple of seasons he’s had the unenviable task of tangling with the likes of Marshall Plumlee (7’0”) of Christ School in N.C. (who is current-ly being recruited by Duke), Andre Washington of Franklin County (6’9”) and Josh Henderson of Cave Spring (6’11”), among others. He’s been physically overmatched each game from a height perspective.

But Porter finds a way to compete, and make a difference, game in and game out.

How?“It’s real simple: he outworked and outsmart-

ed everyone he played this season,” Patriots Head Coach Jack Esworthy said.

Porter agrees with the assessment. “I just have to play harder than everyone else, and want it more than everyone else.”

It’s been an interesting journey for Porter over his four seasons at Patrick Henry. In fact, he didn’t even play basketball until his fresh-man year. Up until then, he had always played football.

The first couple of seasons were rough. So much so, that Esworthy admitted to wondering whether or not Porter would ever have a future with the varsity. But he didn’t give up on Paul.

“I told myself I would never do that to a kid who worked as hard as Paul worked, who gave as much effort as he did,” Esworthy said.

On and Off The CourtPaul’s work ethic extends well off the bas-

ketball court. To afford a car, along with car insurance, gas money and his cell phone, Por-ter works 20-25 hours a week at K-Mart. He is a terrific student -- currently taking four AP classes at Patrick Henry.

Most kids his age don’t have to shoulder such

responsibility. But Paul does do without com-plaint.

“I’m going to work hard at whatever I do, and I see that as a way of being successful in life,” he says of his job and his studies. “At some point you have to learn to take care of yourself.”

Of course, Porter is also a gym rat, spending countless hours in the gym with fellow players and coaches, honing his game.

But it almost ended far too early for Paul. Pri-or to the season, doctors noticed an abnormal-ity with Porter’s heart, which nearly prevented him from playing. He wasn’t cleared until a week before the season, though the problem still remains a bit of an unsolved mystery.

Having basketball nearly taken from him didn’t scare Porter. His health didn’t worry him. Rather, the situation motivated him.

“You know, it made me realize that you only live once, that it could all be over just like that, so you gotta make the most out of it.”

“I tell people that we cleared our biggest hur-dle to winning the district the day they cleared Paul,” Esworthy said.

Back on the court, Paul went back to being a piano pusher. Grabbing key rebounds. Lead-ing the team in charges taken. Playing stifling defense. Competing. Working.

College coaches have taken notice. In fact, Paul is being recruited by two local schools: Roanoke College and Averett University.

Like I said, every team needs piano pushers.

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Today he is a nationally recognized profes-sional speaker, trainer and facilitator who has provided training and technical assistance to state and federal government agencies, in-cluding the U.S. Department of Labor, the Division of Disability Workforce Program and the Employment & Training Administra-tion. Weeks will present his compelling per-sonal story and methodologies for success at his “Brace for Impact” 2010 tour on Friday, March 26 in Roanoke, Virginia.

“I learned to overcome a lot of labels and limits society tried to put on me and rise to answer the call of destiny,” says Weeks, who is also the Disability/Mental Health Manag-er for the ESAAA/CAA Project Head Start, which serves the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

“In the Katrina aftermath or during this recession, many people will just succumb unless they have the motivation and tools to regroup. You have to be prepared to reshape your attitudes, deprogram negatives, change direction and avoid distractions that blur your ability to concentrate on the correct path. You cannot let your life be dictated by the opinions and deeds of others.”

Weeks’ two-hour seminar, titled “Reshape,

Realign, Refocus: The Champions Mentality,” will help business, corporate and non-profit professionals find ways to persevere and suc-ceed during trying economic times. Through his remarkable life story of winning in the face of adversity, Weeks will show how to as-cend above hard times to enjoy professional growth, surpass company expectations and balance career, family and economic chal-lenges.

Participants will learn how to unlock po-tential in professional and personal life, re-new purpose and self worth, accelerate drive and performance and better handle time management commitments and goals. The seminar will be held Friday, March 26 from 6-8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Roanoke-Valley View at 3315 Ordway Drive in Roanoke, Vir-ginia; 1-540-362-4500. The price is $35 per person. The event is part of a seven-city tour throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

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The coronary care unit at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital has been honored with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excel-lence by the American Association of Criti-cal Care Nurses (AACN). Out of more than 6,000 intensive care units nationwide, only 242 have achieved "Beacon" status.

"This is a testament to the hard work and dedication of an outstanding team focused on excellence in patient-centered care," said Joseph Austin, M.D., medical director of the coronary care unit. "This is an important ac-complishment."

The Beacon Award for Critical Care Excel-lence was created by AACN in 2003 to chal-lenge acute and critical care nurses to improve the care provided to acutely and critically ill patients. Beacon Award units meet rigid cri-teria for excellence, exhibiting high-quality

standards, and exceptional care of patients and patients' families.

Units that participate in the Beacon Award application process help set the standard for what constitutes an excellent critical care environment through the collection of evi-dence-based information.

"This award is a symbol of high quality standards as indicated by patient outcomes and professional practice," said Carolyn Web-ster, R.N., chief nursing officer. "The national recognition as a leader in acute and critical care nursing further demonstrates our com-mitment to delivering the best care to our patients."

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tba (the becher agency), a Roanoke public relations and advertising and firm, won five Western Virginia ADDY awards from the Advertising Federation of the Roanoke Valley.

tba was cited for its work on behalf of Oak Hall, winning two gold awards and a silver ADDY for the campaign introducing Oak Hall's Greenweaver cap- and-gown set made from re-cycled plastic bottles.

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We all like to think that we make rational and wise deci-sions when managing our mon-ey. But most of us are influenced far more by our emotions than our brains. Why do smart peo-ple make irrational investment decisions so commonly and so easily? The fascinating study of behavioral economics and deci-sion science fills many books, but let’s look at a few of the ways in which investors’ minds play tricks on them.

The Timid Bunny—Worry-ing Over Risk

Why do so many people bank their money in savings accounts, CDs and money mar-kets when they are often actu-ally losing money if measured against inflation and taxes? Some people do it because they are so fearful of risk that they don’t consider that such fixed investments are not risk-free. The interest credited to your account each month is subject to the likelihood of shrinking purchasing power, especially over time. A canoeist struggling to get upstream against current and wind will have the illusion of movement, but he will have to switch to a boat with a motor to make real progress.

The Hoarding Pack Rat—Treasuring What We Own

The preference to keep things the way they are is called the “status quo bias.” We tend to fall in love with what we own and stick to the familiar even if

we would likely be financially better off with a different in-vestment. We validate our prior choice by sticking with it. What we know feels better than what we don’t know.

The Foolish Sheep—Fearing Loss

We are so averse to accept-ing loss that we will throw good money after bad. This is some-times called the “sunk cost fal-lacy” —our inability to let go of money that’s already been spent or lost. We will invest more mon-ey on car repairs simply because we’ve already spent so much on the car. Rather than evaluate a losing investment on its cost—as we are prone to do—it makes more sense to assess its current potential for loss or gain. If you would not choose to buy that investment today, then why do you make the choice every day to keep your money invested in it? Usually, it is because you are focusing on the past—what you have already spent. But it has no relevance to the future.

The Little Chicken—Focus-ing on the Negative

We feel the pain that comes from loss more acutely than we do the pleasure from an equal or greater gain. If you invest $100,000 in a stock portfolio, and it rises in value to $150,000 but then drops to $130,000, you are more likely to be motivated by the disappointment in your “loss” of $20,000 than the plea-sure in your gain of $30,000.

You may focus on your phan-tom loss rather than your avail-able gain. This can lead you to be less willing to sell a profitable stock and buy an undervalued one, even though we have all heard that it makes more sense to buy low and sell high.

The Stubborn Mule—Refus-ing to Change

We frequently decide not to decide, and that inaction can cost serious money. There are so many options out there that we become paralyzed and stay with the familiar.

Often this is motivated by fear of short-term regret at making a less-than-perfect decision even though we know that there are no perfect decisions. But, as Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.” By placing more em-phasis on what we have already expended than on what could be gained by change, we ignore lost opportunity costs because they don’t seem real. But with your financial security at stake, where you are headed is much more important than where you have been.

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While working at The Gran-din Theatre Foundation, Jason Garnett began Open Projector Night, a program providing lo-cal filmmakers an opportunity to show their creations on a quarterly basis at the Grandin. The success of this program gave Garnett an inspiration.

“Why couldn’t you have a theater, a small theater, a micro cinema, sort of dedicated just towards independent, local, re-gional filmmakers to give them a venue to show their films?”

Thus was born The Shadow-box Cinema, or “Shadowbox,” as Garnett prefers to call it. Lo-cated at Kirk Avenue Music Hall (22 Kirk Avenue) in downtown Roanoke, Shadowbox is prepar-ing for its grand opening March 27 at 7 p.m., with a showing of “The Big Lebowski,” starring Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. The evening will fea-ture a “Big Lebowski”–themed party, complete with White Russian, a Wii bowling tourna-ment, and costume contest.

“Thriving” is the word Gar-nett uses to describe Roanoke’s filmmaking scene. “I’ve seen it grow in leaps and bounds in the last…ten years, mostly because it’s become a lot more accessible for people. They don’t have to go out and buy expensive cameras and film stock. Now anybody can buy a reasonably priced video camera(s) and ed-iting software on their comput-er and make a movie and burn it onto a DVD. I see a lot of talented people, and I think The Shadowbox is going to really highlight those people’s talents. The whole point of The Shad-owbox is to help them become breakout filmmakers.”

Owing to the easy accessibil-ity of filmmaking equipment, and the appearance of alterna-tive film outlets like The Shad-owbox and the Internet, Garnett believes that we’re in the midst of a film revolution that allows filmmakers to skip Hollywood. “These aren’t the blockbuster type of films. These are low-budget, independent films with great storylines” and “a lot of heart. I think this is all about in-dependent, experimental film-making that sort of circumvents what Hollywood is known for.”

Garnett, who was relieved of his position as general manager of the Grandin Theatre amid some controversy, is thinking in terms of an underground com-munity of filmmakers thriving in the Roanoke area. That is, a film culture that contributes to the area’s arts scene, with The Shadowbox part of this mix.

Current plans call for The Shadowbox to present five or six shows a month, working around the performing sched-ule of the Kirk Avenue Music Hall, which The Shadowbox shares space with. “In the sum-mer,” Garnett explains, “we’re going to expand that to about twelve, thirteen movies a month and go from there.” In addition to spotlighting the work of lo-cal filmmakers, The Shadowbox will show classic cult films about once a month. In the works is a “Spinal Tap”–theme party, fea-turing an air-guitar contest, a “Napoleon Dynamite” party, a “Goonies” party, where partici-pants will be part of a scavenger hunt in downtown Roanoke, and a horror film festival slated for Halloween.

Additionally, The Shadowbox

will present what Garnett calls “a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Cinema Night, where people can present short films they’ve produced, screening them for themselves, their families, and friends. An-other event, a “sweded film” fes-tival, had its genesis in the film “Be Kind Rewind.” A “sweded film,” says Garnett, is one “where people make their own version of their favorite films.” The fes-tival, likely to occur in August, will be one “where anybody can make a ten-minute short version of their favorite film.” Such films, Garnett continues, are “parodies, basically, and it’s [about] trying to be as creative and low-budget as possible.”

Garnett says, “We hope to bring in many filmmakers for Q & A’s and to screen films you would never have a chance to see anywhere else. We hope to create a film community to enhance and add to the already vibrant arts and culture scene in the region.”

Further information on The Shadowbox can be found at the-shadowboxcinema.com.

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Grammy Award nominee and Stellar Award winning gospel artist Kim Burrell will perform March 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Burruss Hall auditorium at Virginia Tech. Burrell is the headlining artist for the fourth annual gospel concert that is held during the university's celebration of Black His-tory Month.

With a distinctive and captivating voice and an uncanny blending of vocal jazz and gospel sensi-bilities, Burrell has crafted a sound that has some referring to her as "this generation's Ella Fitzger-ald." She has successfully gained the attention of the jazz, R&B, and gospel markets with her hit projects "Everlasting Life" and "Kim Burrell Live" and with hits like "I Keep Holding On," "I Come to You More Than I Give," "Anything," "Victory," and "I'll Be There."

Burrell's most recent album, "No Ways Tired," includes uniquely arranged secular and religious tracks such as the up-tempo "Happy," and Bur-rell's re-interpretation, as an expression of wor-ship, of "Someone to Watch Over Me." Her latest work also includes a mix of well-known church tunes and beautiful originals like "Jesus" and the choir-enhanced "Yes to Your Will."

As a child, Burrell was surrounded by gospel music. Her father was a pastor and musician in the Church of God in Christ and her mother was an evangelist and singer. Early in her career she was featured on recordings with the Gospel Mu-sic Workshop of American Youth Choir, Trinity Temple Full Gospel Mass Choir of Dallas, Texas along with Kirk Franklin, and The Inspirational Sounds Mass Choir of Houston, Texas.

Burrell has performed at the Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Rock & Roll Music Hall

of Fame, Lift Every Voice in London England, and other notable venues. Since her first solo project, Try Me Again, she has shared the stage with various gospel artists including: Shirley Cae-sar, Albertina Walker, Donnie McClurkin, Karen Clark-Sheard, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, and Marvin Winans. Burrell has also worked with artists such as Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, George Duke, Sean Combs, Whitney Houston, and Harry Connick Jr.

Tickets, which are $20 for general seating, $17 for Virginia Tech faculty and staff, $15 for groups of 5 or more, $11 for children, are avail-able through the University Unions and Student Activities ticket office in Squires Student Center (a $2 processing fee and a $3.50 per seat fee will be added to the price of tickets purchased online), or by phone (540) 231-5615.

Grammy Nominee Kim Burrell to Headline Gospel Concert

Kim Burrell will perform at Virgina Tech.

Area K-12 teachers learned how to incorporate the arts into their classrooms on Saturday, March 6 at the Arts Institute for Educators presented by The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge and Virginia Tech’s Roanoke Center. Teachers from 23 differ-ent schools learned about arts education programs offered by the Roanoke Symphony Or-chestra, Jefferson Center, The Young Audiences of Virginia, Brass 5, and Southwest Virginia Ballet.

Pedro Szalay, Artistic Direc-tor for Southwest Virginia Bal-let led teachers through high energy dance steps and demon-strated how the arts strengthen

other curricular subjects. “I make connections to geogra-phy and math as students learn through Minds in Motion cho-reography,” said Pedro. “As stu-dents count measures of eight in each phrase, we reinforce mul-tiplication tables, division and fractions.”

John Abodeely, Program Manager of National Partner-ships in Education at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washing-ton D.C., served as Keynote speaker. While stressing grass roots efforts to advocate for arts education programs to en-sure student learning successes, John also provided an overview

of how educational policy is made on a local, statewide and national level. Additional work-shops were led by Leslye Bloom, Atieno Asiyo, Chris Stup, Kath-erine Devine and Dr. Simone Paterson.

The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge is funded, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Roa-noke.

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ITT Corporation's Night Vision & Imaging business will unveil a new technology exhibit at the Science Muse-um of Western Virginia in Roanoke. After nearly a year of planning, the debut of the "Virginia Nightlife" exhibit marks the first use of actual live night vision technology in a museum exhibit. The exhibit debuts at 6:00 p.m. on March 19th and will be free and open to the public until 8:00 p.m.

"We are very excited to open this exhibit with ITT," said Nancy McCrickard, executive director of the museum. "As far as we know, this exhibit is the first of its kind in the United States to use authentic night vision technology."

As one of the area's largest employers, ITT Night Vision & Imaging, a business area of ITT Geospatial Systems, spon-sored the exhibit as part of the Science Museum's Reinven-tion initiative - an initiative to enhance the way the Museum serves the community. School children and the general public will learn the benefits of seeing in the dark through a realistic representation of a nighttime outdoor scene, complete with animals native to the Roanoke region. Visitors will be able to view the exhibit both with and without night vision capabili-ties, learning the importance of this ability for safety and

survival in both humans and animals alike.

"We understand how impor-tant it is for local businesses to step up and support the im-portant initiatives the Science Museum represents," said Mike Hayman, president and general manager of ITT Night

Vision & Imaging. "We have everything to gain by interact-ing with school age children and stimulating their inter-est in science and technology at a young age. Encouraging a healthy curiosity in these subjects not only supplements their interest in the class work in school, but just may provide us with a future engineer or scientist years from now."

This prototype exhibit is designed to run through the summer.

ITT and Science Museum Debut New Exhibit

U.S. Coast Guard personnel use ITT night vision equip-ment to navigate through a waterway.

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