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Public safetyA preliminary autopsy and eyewitness reports rom other motorists in the area raisibility Shirey may have been experiencing physical problems prior to the accident. Aough autopsy has been ordered

Autopsy ordered in atal Happy Creek Road accid

By Roger BianchiniWarren County Report

Chie Richard H. Furr o theFront Royal Police Departmentannounced a single vehicle, a-tal car accident on Happy CreekRoad on Dec. 1. Te victim, ini-tially identied only as a whitemale pending notication o nexto kin, was later identied as 61-year-old Jon Shirey.

Shirey lived o Howellsville

Road and worked in NorthernVirginia but was not scheduledto work the day o the accident,according to authorities. He wasreported by investigators to bedriving a Hyundai Accent west-bound toward town around the100 block o Happy Creek Roadat 8:6 AM when he apparentlylost control o his vehicle, whichhit an embankment and thenoverturned.Te accident occurred just west

o the S turn section o that por-tion o Happy Creek Road, east oMarys Shady Lane and west oShenandoah Shores Road. Shireywas pronounced dead at thescene by EMS responders romcounty re & rescue.A preliminary autopsy and

eyewitness reports rom othermotorists in the area raised thepossibility Shirey may have beenexperiencing physical problemsprior to the accident. A more

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Town-countyPeople are losing their homes or struggling to put ood on the table or their amilies, and they are gividoning their household pets Te Humane Society o Warren County has been an asset to law enorwe eel we need to come to their rescue now. FOP Lodge 33 President Richard Furr

FOP Lodge 33 donates $1,000 to Animal She


On Dec. 16th Front Royal PoliceChie Richard Furr, K-9 Sgt. BryanCourtenay and FRPD canine Boonevisited the Humane Society o War-ren Countys Julia Wagner AnimalShelter as representatives o Lodge33 o the Fraternal Order o Police.

Te purpose o the visit was tospread a little Christmas cheer bypresenting a check or $1,000 tohelp bolster emergency unding or

the shelter. As reported last issue,new Shelter Director Lavenda Den-ny told the Warren County Boardo Supervisors on Dec. 6th that theshelter was acing a budgetary crisisas the end o the calendar year ap-proaches.

Te supervisors were slated tovote on an emergency supplementalunding request o $50,000 or theshelter on Dec. 0. Te county hu-mane society also sent out a letter oappeal to the private sector on Dec.9. Denny told us that the FOP dona-tion raised the response to that ap-peal to $3,000, coupled with another$3,000 in unsolicited donations thathave come in, in the wake o press

reports o the Wagner Shelter bud-get crisis ueled by the large numbero animals the shelter is taking inannually. Denny observed a combi-nation o actors, including the tighteconomy, reluctance by some coun-ty pet owners to spay and neuterolder pets and the large number owild and unneutered animals roam-ing the county, as contributing tothe situation.

Tat situation has seen the WagnerShelter and its sta deal with as manystray animals in 010 as Loudoun

Countys animal shelter with its hu-man population o around 31,000,compared to Warrens 37,500.

People are losing their homes orstruggling to put ood on the tableor their amilies, and they are giv-ing up or abandoning their house-hold pets, Furr, who is presidento the FR-WC FOP Lodge 33, saidin announcing the early Christmasgit. Animals are lling our sheltersin record numbers every day acrossthe nation and this is putting nan-cial burdens on the organizationswho are trying to provide or thehumane care o the animals.

For these reasons the memberso the Front Royal/Warren County

Fraternal Order o Police have votedto make a $1,000 donation to the

Warren County Humane Society tohelp them in their tough nancialtimes. Te Humane Society o War-ren County has been an asset to lawenorcement in our community andwe eel we need to come to their res-cue now.

During her Dec. 6 plea to thecounty board o supervisors, Shel-ter Director Denny noted that onespecic incident that had cost theshelter about $8,000 this year wascaring or a dog during a legal casethat has dragged on long enough tosee that seized animal have a litter o

puppies the shelter is also caring orpending resolution o that case.

Te Humane Society o WarrenCountys Wagner Animal Shelterscurrent annual budget is $144,666.Te shelter has taken in over ,100animals this year. Tat comparesto Loudouns $1.4 million annualbudget and ,00 animals taken in;a $340,000 budget or Winchester,population 6,03 and ,00 ani-mals taken in; a $8,693 budgetor Shenandoah County, population4,000 and 1,30 animals taken in,according to a county sta report.

Te humane society is also seekingan annual county unding increase

o $60,000 per year inyear. Denny estimate

,500 abandoned andmoving through thecent years. Te adoptone or every three tthat come in.

Footnote: the boardunanimously approvaddition to the counthe shelters current b0. Denny also told private sector undraclimbed to a total othe Dec. 9 appeal wen

FRPD Chief and FOP Lodge 33 President Richard Furr, Sgt.Bryan Courtenay and K-9 Boone present Wagner ShelterDirector Lavenda Denny, right, with a $1,000 donation ninedays before Christmas.

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Route 55 East saety

Once upon a nave moment, Iexplained the problems to sup-posedly appropriate persons ingovernment. Te non-answer

received sailed into my trash canwith the searing thought: Wouldyou talk to me that way i I werea land developer? Probably not, Ianswered mysel.

Tat road is relatively narrow;winds let and right, up and down;lacks a shoulder over much o itssix miles. Tere are visibility is-sues made more acute duringprecipitation; its worse at night.

Te road would be saer i re-ectors were placed in the mid-line and i the right edge stripingwere kept bright. It also needs aew large signs to show the direc-tion o the upcoming curve. Tespeed limit could be dropped to45 mph. Tese recommendations

increase saety given the con-guration o the road. I-66 is notan alternative as its lines are notkept bright and 18-wheelers passthrowing o blinding splashes.Te road is now a decient de-

sign given our high commuterpopulation and the probabilityo more houses/driveways withcounty growth. Yet no relativelyinexpensive saety measures areplanned even or the near uture.Someday it will be a our lane.Tat helps?I researched the matter includ-

ing VDO documents. Appar-ently a crash analysis is not need-ed yet. I hate waiting or a triggernumber o injuries or deaths tooccur while society cries scarceresources, and then has to do themore expensive crisis manage-ment instead o prevention. Italso seems that an engineer, notan average citizen may need to

speak about saety.I someone were to go o the

road because it seems to be invis-ible/untrackable in bad weatherat night, there apparently is norecourse to argue decient road

design. I someone else causesthe accident to you, the questionis insurance payment, not alsodecient road design.Do others think that less expen-

sive saety measures now ratherthan waiting years or a our lanehighway is appropriate?

Sincerely,Linda J. AllenFront Royal

By way o introduction, a ew pre-liminaries: Despite the title o thiscolumn, I suspect not all readers willbe adult males. Rest assured that, nomatter how serious or provocativethe topic, I will approach it in a ami-ly-riendly way. As will soon becomeapparent, Im a Gutenberg kind oguy, a lover o print material, so thecolumn will oten, but not always,be a review o a book or a magazinearticle. Related to that, I like librariesa lot, particularly the Samuels Pub-

lic Library. Any book or magazinearticle I mention will be available atthe Samuels Public Library. Sta atthe Library can also help you nd allkinds o other resources. More onthat later.

Im historian by trade, mostly con-cerned with 0th century Europe,particularly Germany and Russia. Itnever ceases to amaze me that bookscontinue to appear on the Great War,World War I. With the centennialo that event coming up ast, whatsnow a stream o books, lms, andother productions will soon becomea mighty river. Ahead o that ood isa wonderul book by a Swedish his-torian and war correspondent, PeterEnglund. Te Beauty and the Sor-

row: An Intimate History o the FirstWorld War (Alred A. Knop, 011)is like no other book on WWI youmay have run across. Its the storieso twenty people, men and women,mostly Europeans but also an Ameri-can, a Venezuelan, and Australian,and a New Zealander, caught up inthe war in one way or another. Teyall have in common that they wroteabout their experiences in diaries,letters, journals, and books.

Englund weaves the various storiestogether chronologically. Rather than

simply reproduce a dpassage rom a book,the reader a picture oticipant is doing, thining at the time. What strongly is that otenhas only a limited idhappening. He or sha particular situationbut not know much apicture. So Elriede Kschoolgirl aged twelveantry regiment go o

4, 1914. She reaches hone soldier and says takes her hand as he pUntil we meet again,

Although the narratstories together yearalso easy enough to olar story rom start towith the American waristocrat, Laura de She spends her war Poland that Russia cothe war. In the courseGermans conquer thsituation becomes incult. Eventually, shechildren are allowed to Berlin and rom theNetherlands. Tey ar

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Op-edTe Postal Service is ar too integral to the economic health o the nation to be handpast and to an inexible business model. o best serve taxpayers and postal customto remove the constraints. - USPS District Manager Northern Virginia John Budzyn

Te U.S. Postal crisis a realistic solut

By John Budzynski

USPS District Manager/ANorthern Virginia

As Congress considers legisla-tion to reorm the business modelo the Postal Service, it must con-ront a basic choice: to permit thePostal Service to unction moreas a business does, or constrain itrom doing so.With greater business model

exibility, the Postal Service canreturn to protability and nan-cial stability. A exible businessmodel would speed product andpricing decisions, enable a ve-day per week delivery schedule,

and permit the realignment omail processing, delivery and re-tail networks to meet lower mailvolumes. It would also allow the

Postal Service to more eectively

manage its healthcare and retire-ment systems, and better lever-age its workorce.For an organization that gener-

ates all o its revenue rom thesale o its postage, products andservices and is contending withdeclining use o First Class Mailor bill payment having theexibility to quickly adapt andreact to the marketplace is vital.Our immediate goal is to reduceour annual costs by $0 billion by015, which would put the PostalService in the black and ahead othe long-term cost curve.Te alternative is a business

model that prohibits or delayscost reduction, perpetuates aninexible structure, and con-strains the Postal Service rombeing more responsive to themarketplace. Under this scenario,and in the absence o meaninguland immediate business modelreorm, the Postal Service couldsoon incur long-term decits inthe range o $10 to 15 billion an-nually.

Within the limits o our current

legal ramework, we have re-sponded aggressively to a chang-ing marketplace reducing thesize o our workorce by 18,000career employees and reducingannual operating costs by $1.5billion dollars in just the past ouryears. However, to return to pro-itability we must move at an evenaster pace. And to do so requireschanges in the law.I provided with the exibility

and speed to act, the Postal Ser- vice can avoid being a nancialburden to the taxpayer. Moreimportantly, a nancially stablePostal Service that can operate

more like a business can morereadily adapt to Americas chang-ing mailing and shipping needs.For example, we are expanding

our network o 70,000 retail part-ner locations and online oeringsso that our customers will be ableto purchase stamps and con-duct other mailing and shippingtransactions outside o the tra-ditional Post Ofce. Customerswill increasingly be able to visit

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In the wake o the town councils Dec. 1 vote to compensdropped rom the countys Adopt-A-Street Program, sta the ollowing inormation:

Te own o Front Royal has developed the Adopt-A-gram to allow citizens the opportunity to serve the commuroadside clean-up. Te ollowing are the guidelines or the proved/adopted by own Council on December 1, 011.

1. Citizens or groups can adopt a section o a own artertor street or two years with a minimum o our (4) clean-uGroups or members less than teen (15) years o age mu

vised by adults with a ratio o one (1) adult per seven (7) stugroups should be divided into teams o eight (8) or ewer meeach team supervised by at least one (1) adult.

. Adopting citizens and groups will be responsible to scown clean-up dates and coordinate dates with the own. Tprovide garbage bags, roadside Cleanup Crew Workingsaety vests to participants prior to clean-up activities. Tor group is responsible to place the roadside signs in their aVests must be worn by all participants at all times. Vests asigns must be returned to the own within one (1) week o tBags shall be placed within the right-o-way, but outside vehdestrian travel areas or collection by the own

3. Following each clean-up, the adopting group or individuplete the Activity Report detailing the names o individunumber o bags collected or litter and recyclables, and the during the clean-up. Forms may be dropped o, e-maileaxed to the own Managers address listed on the orm.

4. wo () clean-ups are encouraged to be conducted in Atober to coincide with the state litter control and recycling

5. Te own shall place an Adopted Street sign that name o the adopting group or individual. No slogans, logoments, or phrases will be allowed on the sign.

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Te traditional Post Ofce will al-ways exist, but a changing worlddemands rethinking the status-quo and adapting to the needs oour customers.

In a digital world, businessesand individuals have choices inthe way they communicate. Al-though the Postal Service acili-tates trillions in commerce annu-ally, and supports a $900 billion

mailing industry that employsalmost 8 million people, it musthave the tools and the motiva-tions to eectively compete orcustomers.In the current debate about its

uture, some have argued thePostal Service should not operatelike a business and be allowed toregress back into an unchanging,taxpayer-subsidized agency, andsome have urged that it be priva-tized and completely separatedrom the government. Te or-mer is undesirable and the latteris unrealistic.Te answer resides in the middle

an organization that perormsa vital national unction, and

operates with the discipline andmotivations o a business thatcompetes or customers. I it isto endure as a great American in-stitution, provide the nation witha secure, reliable and aordable

delivery platorm, and serve as anengine o commerce, Congressshould provide it with the speedand exibility it needs to competein an evolving marketplace.Te Postal Service is ar too in-

tegral to the economic health othe nation to be handcued to thepast and to an inexible businessmodel. o best serve taxpayersand postal customers, its time toremove the constraints.

(John Budzynski has served as theacting District Manager or the Northern Virginia District sinceOctober 2011. Te Northern Vir-

ginia District has over 5,500 employees and more than 150 post

oces. Tis area o responsibil-ity encompasses more than 4,200square miles. As the acting DistrictManager, he oversees mail serviceto more the 1.5 million homesin the region. Prior, Budzynski

served as the Postmaster o Bal-timore, Maryland. As Baltimores40th Postmaster, he is responsible or more than 1,800 employeesworking in 34 stations, providingmail service to more than 550,000residential and business deliver-ies in Baltimore City and partso Baltimore County. Budzynski

began his postal carcarrier in 1982. Masitions held throughinclude Supervisor livery; Superintendeerations; Manager, C

vice; Manager, CusOperations; ManagPrograms Support; ter Alexandria, Vira graduate o the US Leadership Prograhas a Bachelors deness Management.)

OpI it is to endure as a great American institution, provide the nation with a secure, reliable and a-ordable delivery platorm, and serve as an engine o commerce, Congress should provide it withthe speed and exibility it needs to compete in an evolving marketplace. - John Budzynski

Engles Angle: The Sounds of the Seaso

Sounds of the Season. The Sounds of the

By Kevin S. EngleWarren County Report

Repeat after me.I love Christmas music. I

love Christmas music. I loveChristmas music.I do. Especially in December.

But thats not when it starts.With Black Friday shoppingnow on Thanksgiving Thurs-day, if not sooner, the soundsof the season kick off then aswell.As much as I love those holi-

day songs, by the time De-cember 25th gets here, Im astired of them as Santa is aftera night of delivering toys.This year, after listening to

holiday music for hours onend, heres what I know:

-Grandmas been run overby a reindeer so many timesshes as flat as one week oldroad kill.-I rocked around the Christ-

mas tree so much I got motionsickness.-Im now fluent in Spanish and

German thanks to Feliz Navi-dad and O Tannenbaum.Have you ever seen a TV

commercial so many times, yetyou still cant remember whatits advertising? Thats me andThe 12 Days of Christmas. IfI had to name all 12 days cor-rectly before getting my pres-ents, I wouldnt be getting anypresents. Ever.And if Santa Claus is comin

to town, is he ever gonna gethere? How long does it take?Hes been doing it enoughyears that he must know theway by now. At the very least,youd think the Mrs. wouldvegotten him a nice GPS for thesleigh.And despite all the radio sta-

tions playing 1440 minutes ofChristmas music a day, therereally are only 10 different hol-iday songs and you hear them

over and over andover. Anyone whhas recorded his Christmas CD withsongs on it. Even sing, it doesnt matstance, the barkingbark Jingle Bellsadmit they are pretPlus, if youre po

youve been nice, yanteed to have youday TV show so thsing those ten sonother hand, if yonaughty, youll omake a guest appsomebody elses shI cant even get

them by turning ofand TV. Ive heamuch now theyre

head. I caught mming Let it Snow ier the other day.But heres the w

When Christmas isthe music.Just like that.Gone.They get me add

then they cut me ofAnd I miss it.I cant go cold turk

that. I dont even likey.Before I know it

Years Eve and timLang Syne. Thersong Ill never knowtoo.Is that the reinde

over Grandma?

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On Jan. 5, 1643, in the first recordof a legal divorce in the American col-onies, Anne Clarke of the Massachu-setts Bay Colony is granted a divorcefrom her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the QuarterCourt of Boston.

On Jan. 7, 1785, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American JohnJeffries travel from Dover, England, to

Calais, France, in a gas balloon, mak-ing the first crossing of the EnglishChannel by air. After almost crash-ing, the two men were forced to thrownearly everything out of the balloon tolighten the ship.

On Jan. 4, 1847, Samuel Colt res-cues the future of his faltering guncompany by winning a contract to pro-vide the U.S. government with 1,000of his .44 caliber revolvers. Thoughnever cheap, by the early 1850s, Coltrevolvers were inexpensive enough tobe a favorite with Americans headedwestward during the California GoldRush.

On Jan 8, 1877, Crazy Horse andhis warriors outnumbered, low onammunition and forced to use out-

dated weapons fight their final los-ing battle against the U.S. Cavalry inMontana. On May 6, Crazy Horse ledapproximately 1,100 Indians to theRed Cloud reservation near Nebras-kas Fort Robinson and surrendered.

OnJan. 6, 1925, in Madison SquareGarden, Finnish long-distance runnerPaavo Nurmi sets a new indoor worldrecord, running a mile in 4:13.5. In the5,000-meter race, the Flying Finnbroke another indoor world record in14:44.6. Nurmi often ran holding astopwatch to pace himself, an innova-tion he developed.

On Jan. 3, 1961, President DwightEisenhower closes the Americanembassy in Havana and severs dip-lomatic relations between the UnitedStates and Fidel Castros governmentin Cuba. The action signaled that theUnited States was prepared to takeextreme measures to oppose Castrosregime.

On Jan. 2, 1971, 66 football (soc-cer) fans are killed in a stampede at astadium in Glasgow, Scotland, as theyattempt to leave a game. The tragedywas caused by the crush of specta-tors all leaving at the same time on thesame stairway.

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Animal world

HE NIGH BEFORE CHRISMAn Animal Rescue ale

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was the night beore Christ-mas and all through the town, ev-ery shelter is ull we are lost, butnot ound.

Our numbers are hung on ourkennels so bare; we hope everyminute that someone will care.Teyll come to adopt us and

give us the call, Come here, Maxand Sparkie come etch yournew ball!!

But now we sit here and think o

the days we were treated so ondly we had cute, baby ways.Once we were little, then we

grew and we grew now were nolonger young and were no longernew.

So out the back door we werethrown in a ash, they reacted soquickly why were they so rash?We jump on the children, dont

come when they call, we barkwhen they leave us, climb overthe wall.

We should have been neutered;we should have been spayed; now

we suer the consequence o er-rors others made.

I only theyd trained us, i onlywe knew wed have done whatthey asked us and worshipedthem, too.

We were let in the backyard, orworse - let to roam, now weretired and lonely and out o ahome.

Tey dropped us o here andthey kissed us good-byeMaybesomeone else will give you a tr y.

So now here we are, all conusedand alonein a shelter with oth-ers who long or a home.Te kind workers come through

with a meal and a pat, but with somany to care or, they cant stay tochat.

Tey move to the next kennel,giving each o us cheerwe knowthatthey wonder how long well be

here.

We lay down and sweet dreamsll our heads o a home lled withloveand our own cozy beds.

Ten we wake to see sad eyes,brimming with tears ourriendslled with emptiness, worry, and

ear.

I you cant adopt us and theresno room at the Inn could youhelp with the bills and ll our

ood bin?

We count on your kindness eachday o the year can yougive more than hope to everyone

here?

Please make a donation to payor the heatand help get ussomething special to eat.Te shelter that cares or us

wants us to live and more o uswill, i more people will give.

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Earthworks Gallery Pottery Show runs Dec. 3 to JanBy Carol BallardWarren County Report

Dragons, Earth Spirits and localpaintings inhabit the walls o Earth-works Gallery and are displayed aspart o the third annual ouch theEarth Pottery Exhibit.

Te Front Royal gallery at 30 E. 8thSt. hosted an opening reception onDecember 3rd and was lled withartist/potters, riends and prospec-tive owners o the ne pottery on dis-play. Many were looking or one-o-akind gits or the holidays.

I just love all o these potters, saidRob Eliason, who is Earthworks pro-prietor.

Te December-January show ea-tures the work o some o the mosttalented potters o the Shenandoah

Valley and most o them are mem-bers o the Shenandoah PottersGuild which had its beginnings inStrasburg, Virginia. Strasburg hadpotters as early as 1761 drawn therebecause o the rich clay. Most o thepottery made in historic times wasunctional, used or eating, drinkingand storage.

Robs stated purpose in arrangingthis show three years ago was to pro-mote public awareness o pottery,not only as an important part o the

valleys past, but as a signicant parto our uture as well.

Te majority o the pieces are ullyunctional as dinnerware but alongwith them are the purely decorativeand imaginative. Dishes and teapots

are set out next to the earth spiritsand dragon wall sculptures.

Some things sell out quickly, but aspieces are sold, artists will bring inmore to keep i t ull, Rob said.

He pointed out a table that held ex-tremely aordable donated pottery.All prot rom those sales are to begiven to Warren Countys Julia Wag-ner Animal Shelter.

Subtle to sublime, Stone Age to

New Age is the philosophy as wellas a description o the art works in

the space adjacent to the open gal-lery. Robs seven-year-old business isull o a range o art works and thephrase denes the contents.

I love handling and seeing beauti-ul things, Ive been a custodian orbeautiul things that went throughmy hands and Ive ound good homesor them. When the right personcomes in, you know it, he said.

And Rob is looking orward to ul-lling a commitment he has made

to himsel. He said that when he wasmaking pots or the show, he decided

to pursue pottery ull-time next year.Ive always been more o a critic

than artist. Its an epiphany or me,he said.

Hell keep the store, but will bebringing in more pottery to the mu-seum-like space.

When I see beautiul art or pottery,i I can aord it, I bring it in to show.I like variety and a lot o avor. Iminspired by other artists and some-times I buy a piece o artwork justbecause it inspires me, he said.

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Occupy MovementI we can do anything to change the shopping status quo or Front Royal, it is to remember our small businessmen and women, and take our business to them instead o big box retacheap overseas labor production. Occupy FR protester Ruth Chichester

Occupy Front Royal expands its message and mis


Te organizer o Occupy FrontRoyal hopes to improve publicperceptions locally and add acommunity ocus to the cam-paign to bring increased publicawareness o the national OccupyMovement here.Justin Bailey has solicited the

help o a Rappahannock-basedgroup, Power to the People o thePiedmont, in an eort to raiseunds or various non-prot pub-

lic service organizations includ-ing C-CAP, the Salvation Army,the House o Hope and HarmonyPlace, the latter two o which arehomeless shelters. Bailey saidHarmony Place, which has press-ing economic needs, would be theinitial recipient once a undrais-ing mechanism is put into place.Bailey, 5, began his Occupy

protests in late November with19-year-old Dana Payne. Te pairreceived a permit to demonstratein a small public area at the in-tersection o Chester Street and

North Royal Avenue across thestreet rom the local Wells FargoBank where two Civil War mark-ers stand.

Bailey and our others picked uptheir Occupy protests the secondweek o December at the inter-section o Main Street and RoyalAvenue. Te move was made witha new permit good through theend o January, Bailey said. Atersome chanting on Dec. 14 led tocomplaints rom the nearby Son-abank, Bailey and his cohortstook up position on the WarrenCounty Courthouse side o theintersection.One new local Occupy protester

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By ina HobsonSpecial to WC Report

(Managing editors note: Tethree-month anniversary o theOccupy Movement was celebrat-ed at sites across the nation onSaturday, Dec. 17. Te previousmonth reader ina Hobson vis-ited Zuccotti Park in NYC wherethe movement was born. Tis isher report and observation on the potential and hopes o many ora true national grass roots move-ment targeting corporate greedand criminality, not nanced byit.)

On a sunny, busy and colorulSunday, Nov. 6, I spent severalhours in Zuccotti Park, the loca-

tion o Occupy Wall Street inNew York City. It is the size oabout three large blocks boundtogether, on a slight hillside, closeto the new World rade Centersite. It is hard or me to believethat the ollowing week, on themorning o Nov. 15, that samenonviolent group occupying thePark were summarily evicted bypolice, beginning at 1 AM, as or-dered by Mayor Michael Bloom-berg.According to what occupiers

told me, Mayor Bloomberg rep-resents one example o what theoccupation is all about. Forbesreports that the Mayor is one o403 U.S. billionaires with a col-lective net worth o $1.3 trillion(Bloombergs personal net worth

is currently about $18 billion).

Just twenty percent o these 400or so richest Americans ownmore than 80 percent o thiscountrys wealth according to theEconomic Policy Institute. I youwant to know i you are in thetop one percent o the very richbased on income (009 IRS data),you would have had to pay taxeson an adjusted gross income o$343,97 or above.Participants occupying Zuccotti

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table with two young men onehanded me his cell phone andasked me which senator or mem-ber o Congress I wanted tocall? No questions asked. Teywere happy to discuss their Gen-eral Assembly, a consensus based

transparent governing system. Inorder to make decisions - even onpurchasing a coee pot - you can vote 1/ to support, / it doesntreally matter to me, or 3/ no. Ithere arent any negative votes,the issue passes. Tis three-waysystem seemed to work or themand I thought item / particularlyuseul and creative. Meetingswere held in a nearby tent thatposted a daily schedule.Zuccotti Park saved space or an

extensive library, with on-dutylibrarians, o about 5,000 booksand documents. Tis resourcematerial was listed on their web-

site and provided an opportunityto research the data the Park voic-es presented. I did not know thatthe year beore my birth, 198,was the last year the U.S. hasexperienced a similarly extremeincome discrepancy. Nearly 80 years later the CongressionalBudget Ofce reported that theater-tax income o the most a-uent th o our population ex-ceeded the total income o theother our-ths.

I dont know why the occupi-ers were evicted rom that smallspace. Some complained o thesmell and noise, possible drugsand crime (sounds like any-where in NYC). According to

one Letter-o-Te-Editor, an at-torney living near the Park dis-counted this local criticism othe occupants. He claimed the4-hour noise rom building thenew World rade Center (twin

tower area) a ew blocks away arexceeded the drums and banterrom the Park. He also said thethree port-a-potty toilets newlyplaced in a local alley were alsoneeded or the increasing num-ber o visitors to the twin towerredevelopment and, thereore,the cost should not be blamed onthe Park occupants.RIP Zuccotti Park I believe

rom my one visit that this Parkmay have stimulated the greatest

social justice movement since thecivil rights era. Tese rst voiceshave already inspired nonviolentmeetings o homeowners, stu-dents, armers, teachers, retireesand small-business owners and

children, including rom Virginialocations like Staunton and Har-risonburg.Donald Bush, a Staunton resi-

dent expressed it best: We just want to return our livesto what it once meant to beAmerican: equality in everysense o the word; elected rep-resentation that gives a voice toevery American, regardless howmuch money we can contribute;and an honest assessment o how

to airly regulate tsystems that we all big corporations service industry, bubusiness, every amindividual depend

We just want to return our lives to what it once meant to be American: equality in evthe word; elected representation that gives a voice to every Americanand an honeso how to airly regulate the economic systems that we alldepend on. - occupier D

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ToHowever the judge noted the plaintis contention the town was aware o traditional recreationaluses in that section o the Shenandoah River near the dam and thereore was liable under statuteor consequences o the dam on those uses.

Ryan Warner drowning case against town to procCourt rules that $8-million negligence lawsuit will be heard on 3 counts


On Nov. 8th Circuit CourtJudge Dennis L. Hupp rejectedarguments by the own o FrontRoyal that all our counts in an$8-million lawsuit alleging neg-ligence by town ofcials in theJune 010 drowning death o a 9-year-old West Virginia boy at thenow-demolished Riverton Dambe dismissed.

In his two page opinion on ar-guments heard on Nov. 14, Huppruled that the case proceed onthree o our counts. Te parents

o Ryan Warner, who was visitingthe dam area with two cousinsand his grandather on June 9,010, led the suit. Te parentswere not present at the time theirson drowned.Jason Warner and Joanna Welch

accuse the town o negligence inailing to have the dam removedin a timely manner.Hupp dismissed Count , rul-

ing that despite being statutoryowner o the dam, the town did

not have a duty to post warningsigns detailing the dams condi-tion. Te case will proceed onthe other counts alleging vari-

ous degrees o negligence and adisregard or public saety dueto a ailure to demolish what the

plaintis call a public nuisancein a timely manner.While the town posted Danger

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the dam with $13,000 o avail-able state and ederal grant mon-ey. own sta and council beganhearing local and state opinionson the advisability the dam beremoved, in late 009 with addi-tional work session presentationsin February 010.Te town nally acquiesced to

proceed with receipt o the grantmoney or the dams removalon March , 010 ater receiv-ing cost estimates o $500,000to a million dollars on its repair,which would have been man-dated at the towns expense bythe state had the town elected toreuse the state and ederal grants

to remove it.Te town took bids and hired a

private contractor to remove thedam. Tat removal work beganon Oct. 5, 010, and was com-pleted our days later.At issue or the town in its mo-

tion to dismiss the Warner suitwas whether the dam and itsimpact on the saety o the riveraround it could be categorized asa normal river hazard unctionand whether the town has anyliability or accidents occurringat the long-unused town-owneddam.At issue or Warners parents

appears to be whether the town

councils initial months o ip-opping on a decision to accessgrant money to remove the damcost their son his lie.Former own Attorney om

Robinett, with Virginia Mu-nicipal League legal assistance,argued that Rivers in the Com-monwealth o Virginia presentan open and obvious danger andcreate no special duties upon thelandowner to saeguard thosewho enter them.In issuing his decision to move

the case orward on a majority

o counts Hupp noted the townsought precedent on an earlieropinion that natural, open andobvious dangers that threatenany person in any body o waterapplied to the Warner case.However Hupp stated that the

whirlpool eect authorities de-termined sucked the 9-year-oldto the base o the dam when heell o river rocks did not neces-sarily qualiy as such an obviousdanger. Tat whirlpool eectwas caused by cracks in the dam,which had not been used by the

town to any purposHupp cited simil

case o Volpe v. Citybut cited one dieretons operation o along the Maury R

dam in question in judge also noted contention the towo traditional recreathat section o theRiver near the dam was liable under stasequences o the duses.

A high-hazard stru

As reported on thethe past two years,009 town council discussions o the pability o the stimuremove the dam, partment o Game &eries Regional FisheLarry Mohn calledhigh-hazard structonly had contributeo atalities, but alsment to local eel pogration. Mohn alsoo the dam would reational uses by allaunch and retrievations both up and

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Town Department o Game & Inland Fisheries Regional Fisheries Manager Larry Mohn caa high-hazard structure that had contributed to a number o atalities

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o a dammed North Fork as a vi-able water source or the town.

illusions & nostalgia

Tree months later council vot-ed 5-1 to keep the dam removal

grant application process alive.Fortunately on Feb. , 010,

only om Sayre bought into el-low Republican council candi-date Joe Swigers contention thedam could be repaired or u-ture use. Had the majority sidedwith Sayre on that vote the townwould have lost any chance to ac-

cess the $13,000 o ederal andstate grant money to remove the

dam.While Carson Lauder also stated

he avored saving the dam due toits historical import, ater beingassured by then own ManagerMichael Graham that continuingthe application process did notcommit the town to accepting themoney or tearing the dam down,he joined the majority to movethe application process orward.While then Mayor Eugene ewalthad initially avored exploringthe dams potential or uture use,once repair dynamics and costestimates came in ewalt urgedcouncil to remove the dam withthe state and ederal money.In a typically head-spinning po-

litical exercise o CYA, exactlyone month ater his vote to killthe grant application process

Sayre made the motion to ap-prove acceptance o the unding.

A drowning machine

Ryan Warners death ollowedclosely the April 7, 010, drown-ing o 51-year-old Mark D.Grand at the dam. While War-ner drowned ater being pinnedby the orce o water at the damsbase on its upstream side, Granddrowned ater his kayak capsizedon the downriver side o the dam.Grand had survived our tours oduty in the Iraq War beore los-ing his lie to the swirling watersaround the Riverton Dam.County Emergency Services O-

cer Raymond Cross called thedam a drowning machine aterhis department was involved intwo drowning recovery opera-tions within three months there.

Prior to the two the last atality at Dam was in 00 wWalker died whilehis two sons, aged 1the dam.

As we wrote at Grand was a hero to his country; Whero credited or salives by getting theboat and away rowhirlpool beore behimsel. Unortunarecent victim, 9-yWarner, will never portunity to nd htion and the heroishave lived within hiAt issue now is

town is legally culpnal death at the damin the decision to re

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Challenged by a 5-minuterambling, Dec. 9 Warren CountyBoard o Supervisors discus-sion on whether to vote on a remarshal position on Dec. 0, theFront Royal own Council threwdown on Dec. 1 to reclaim itscollective crown as local masterso circular logic and wasted timeand space.Unortunately by the clock they

got only a draw by spending amatching 5 minutes o unre-coverable time discussing andvoting on a series o motions andamended motions on how to ad-vertise the now-vacant Directoro ourism position, or wheth-er to vote at all pending youguessed it more discussion at asubsequent work session.At issue at the Dec. 1 council

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ll the tourism directors positionvacated by Jennier Keck on Dec.. Keck told this reporter severalmonths ago that she was suggest-ing a new part-time marketingposition ocused on website development and other marketinginitiatives due to time constraintsthat portion o her job occasion-ally presented to her.With Keck now gone council

began debating how to ll andadvertise the position at a Dec.

5th work session. Despite an ap-parent work session consensusto advertise the Visitors Centermanagement position as ull timeand the marketing position aspart time, Shae Parker and omConkey led a revisiting o howthose positions should be lledand advertised prior to a vote.As presented on Dec. 1, the

tourism managers position orVisitors Center Coordinator was to be reclassied and advertised as a ull-time, grade-18position and the marketing co-ordinator advertised at a part-time, grade 14 level. Te initialtown online ad to replace KecksVisitors Center Coordinator du-ties as a ull-time position citeda salary between $8,000 and$45,000.Asked to explain what had been

done thus ar to ll the vacancy,town Humane Resources Di-rector Julie Bush noted that the

town was advertising the VisitorsCenter Coordinator at a gradescale o 14 It has been quite aresponse, she told council. Bushsuggested continuing to advertiseas already begun and then makea decision on how to ll the po-sition or positions based on theskills o the applicant pool.own Manager Steve Burke

would be conducting initial in-terviews and it appeared a coun-cil majority wanted Burke to have

maximum discretion in recom-mending how council ultimatelyll the tourism-related job orjobs.

However Parker suggested boththe coordinator and marketingpositions be advertised as ull-time, grade-level 18 positions.Discussion indicated council hasno intention o hiring two ull-time positions in tourism. ButParker explained he elt advertis-ing or ull-time employees wouldattract better-qualied applicantswithout committing council toactually hiring two ull-time po-

sitions.As one vote on a second amend-ed motion approached, an exas-perated om Sayre asked, Whatare we voting on? Sayre also saidhe elt council should advertisethe positions as they planned tohire them. With the conversationgoing in circles, Sayre suggestedanother work session. Howeverater several councilmen andBurke pointed to some urgencyin replacing Keck, Sayre joineda unanimous vote against tablingthe matter or urther discussion.As that evenings discussion o

respective duties o managing the

tourism department, the VisitorsCenter and its part paid, part volunteer workorce progressedit was apparent the council andsta consensus was that the mar-keting aspect o the job was eithermore important than managingpersonnel and overseeing directcontact with tourists, local busi-ness and government representa-tives, or that an overall realigningo duties was envisioned.Finally Parkers motion, second-

ed by Conkey, to advertise bothpositions as grade-18, ulltimejobs was approved by a 4- vote,Sayre and Tarpe dissenting.

What remains to be seen is how-ever they ll the vacant tourismdirectors position, what level ocommitment beyond manage-ment salaries is the town coun-cil willing to make to assure thatFront Royal is an attractive placeto visit and spend tourism dollarsin.

Sign ordinance changes

Council also approved the rst

reading o changes and elabora-tion on what types o signs maybe displayed by town businesseswith and without a permit. Teissue exploded over the past yearater a rash o letters rom theplanning and code enorcementdepartment went out threaten-ing nes over Open ag signsin East Main Streets HistoricDowntown Business District.In sending a review o the codes

to the planning department ormodication, council indicated itdid not want to be a deterrent toin-town business and those busi-

nesses ability to attract tourismdollars.And despite some introductory

language heavy on the regulato-ry it appears some compromisehas been made. Listed amongExempt signs not requiring

permits are some er than American ags as previously eraditional Flag Ssquare eet that caor Open or BusineHoweverRoyal Oak Comp

Craig Laird, who wao downtown comthe existing ordinatowns heavy-handment tactic, wondethe non-traditionations werent still tHe thanked plann

their work to ease but asked council t view the proposemake sure they solvtown merchants ithan simply reworstrictions.

Town Manager Steve Burke, left, and Councilman ShaeParker during discussion of advertising another vacanttown department head position. The Visitors Center Direc-tor is the sixth town department head to leave since Sep-tember 2010.


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Councilman Shae Parker seemedto agree. He said he thought thetown had dropped the ball on theag sign issue Tere are stillsome problems, it is better but Parker said o ongoing restric-

tions and permit regulations onSale signs, among others. Hesaid he hoped those issues couldbe resolved prior to the nal, sec-ond reading vote.

PNDs redned

Also on Dec. 1, council ap-proved a second and nal readingo an amendment to the zoningcodes allowing more residentialand commercial development inPlanned Neighborhood Develop-ment (PND) Districts. Accordingto a sta summary, the primarychanges would allow Neighbor-hood-oriented commercial usesup to 15,000 square eet o oorarea, instead o only 4,000 squareeet and multiplex is redenedso that up to 30 dwelling unitsmay be permitted per building,instead o only 4.PNDs and Urban Development

Areas have been suggested byboth environmentalists and thestate as means o ocusing devel-opment around existing devel-opment and utilities, as well aspreserving surrounding naturalsettings. Te vote was 5-1, withonly Sayre dissenting as he had

in the rst reading on Nov. 8.Sayre reiterated his concern thechanges allowed too much devel-opment within town limits.own PND codes were rst ad-

opted in April 005.

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You might be surprised to learnthat approximately 40 percent of theoxygen in the worlds atmosphere isprovided by the verdant plant growthof South Americas Amazon Riverbasin.

Mayan artwork dating back as faras 700 A.D. shows people preparingchocolate beverages. Chocolate wasso valued by the natives of the Ameri-cas, the Maya even used cacao beansas currency.

For reasons that arent quite clear,in 1960 Macys department storeintroduced a vending machine thatdispensed mens underwear. After aninitial flurry of shoppers coming tosee the new contraption, the machinewas doomed to obscurity due to lackof interest.

Heres a question for the ladies:Are you a philematophobe? If yourea woman who hates to be kissed, youare.

In 1958, then-Vice President Rich-ard Nixon made a state visit to Ven-ezuela. It seems he wasnt terriblypopular there, and one of the protest-ers spit on him. The Secret Servicedetained the man, and an irate Nixonkicked him in the shins.

Only about 37 percent of the news-papers published in the Unites Statesare recycled.

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own, business owners revisit promotional, code is


Te own o Front Royal held itssecond quarterly-or-so meetingwith in-town business representa-tives on Dec. 13. Te goal o themeetings initiated on Oct. 6 is anattempt to get the town governmentand its merchants on the same pagein promoting Front Royal as a shop-ping and tourist destination.

And while attendance was downto about six business people atthe meeting at Samuels Public Li-brary, rom an initial turnout o5 at an East Main Street location,the themes were largely the same how to most efciently and cost-eectively promote Front Royalbusiness and tourism. In act as aras numbers, it was pretty much astand o compared to own Man-ager Steve Burkes initial Middle o

Main building odd man out (withlate backup by Mayor Darr) be-laboring at the hands o riled-updowntown merchants ater a yearo battling the town over promo-tional signage and tourism adver-tising and coordination.

Tis time Burke had meeting-longsupport rom Darr, own AttorneyDoug Napier, Finance Director KimGilkey-Breeden and Planning Di-rector Jeremy Camp or only a 5-6decit o town-to-biz people. Tosepresent included Herb Malreath othe Daily Grind, Royal CinemasRick Novak, Royal Oak Comput-ers Craig Laird, Vino e Formag-gios Patricia Failmezger, FarmersMarket and ony s Apple Farmsony ringale, Linda Allen and two

Chamber o Commerce reps, NikkiFoster and Janet Michaels.While there was discussion o re-

pursuing the Main Street Programdesignation, the act that only threecommunities are selected everythree years, next designations in013, put that idea on hold.

Tere appeared to be a consensusamong those business people pres-ent that spending several thousanddollars on additional promotionalor directional signs on or aroundMain Street was a waste o money.

Patricia Failmezger reiterated herOctober contention spending mon-ey on another vision or sign de-

sign study was also a waste o timeand money.

But movie theater, bowling alleyowner and ormer EDA rep Novakmay have been most pointed incomments citing a disconnect be-tween municipal governments andbusinesses in Warren County andFront Royal.

Citing permitting and zoning codeissues, as well as the past brouhahaover Open and other commercialag signage on East Main Street,Novak said, Im somewhat encour-aged that we are having this dis-cussion but there still seems to be

an adversarial attitudcant do, what the cosh*t-can the code. WYou are the code. Tour benet, Novak cials.

Noting both the deconomy and thatcompetition rom tCorridor in the counimpacts on town bgies, it was suggestedrepresentative be invmeeting to broaden tdiscussion.

From left in the front row, the Chamber of Commerces Ja-net Michaels, Main St. Book Companys John Yulish andThe Daily Grinds Herb Malreath listen to Town ManagerSteve Burke discuss town and business strategies.

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