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Downtown Roanoke Inc., which man-ages the Historic Farmer’s Market for the City of Roanoke, is taking its fruits, vegetables, meats and plants uptown. On !ursday nights in June –and maybe beyond – it will be open for business outside the Kirk Family YMCA, at the corner of 5th and Luck. !at will allow greater access to locally produced goods for residents of West Downtown apart-ments and condos, and others who can’t get to the market during the daytime.

YMCA spokesperson Kim Bratic called it “a long overdue partnership” at a news conference last week. If success-ful, the June pilot project could be con-tinued throughout the summer months. “It’s good that we’re coming together to do this,” added Bratic. DRI President/CEO Sean Luther has wanted to weave the Farmer’s Market further into the fab-ric of the city ever since he came from Pittsburgh several years ago.

“We really need to better integrate the Market into the community,” said Luther, who also announced the Friends of the Farmer’s Market program, where people can contribute funds directly to e"orts designed to promote that cause. Friends supporters can sponsor the market at dif-ferent levels, receiving items like a special T-shirt, a “Produce of the Seasons” box and tours of local apple farms.

Grants from Carilion Clinic ($5000)

and the Foundation for the Roanoke Valley ($2500) will also expand the SNAP/EBT program, allowing custom-ers of the Farmer’s Market to receive a SNAP dollar for every token they purchase. SNAP was formerly the food stamps program and is geared towards low-income patrons, encouraging them to pursue a healthier lifestyle with better food choices. In addition, the grants will kick-start a program where unsold pro-duce for the week can be purchased for distribution to local food pantries for the

poor on Saturday.“Ready to use is what we like to call it,”

said Tracie Hughes, the Farmer’s Mar-ket manager for DRI. !e Foundation for the Roanoke Valley and future donors will identify which organizations

should get the unused food. An anony-mous donor has helped jump-start the program, with money donated through the new Friends program.

We’re always growing and changing,” said Luther, “and downtown is becoming increasing important for the region [as

are] downtowns across the nation as eco-nomic development drivers. Anything we can do to expand its impact is our responsibility as the [market] managers.” Luther said they had been thinking for some time about e"orts like the evening market at the YMCA.

Most of the current Farmer’s Market vendors are on board with the pilot pro-gram, added Luther, who said he “was wowed” by just how ingrained the market was as a local institution when he joined DRI. “!is is a great opportunity.” About six vendors currently on the market, in-cluding those that o"er seafood, baked goods, poultry and meat, will set up shop at the Y. “It’s more than just buying your fruits and vegetables,” noted Luther.

With a downtown residential popula-tion that Luther said had grown about forty percent since last summer; he sees a market for the pilot program. “!e growth has been in the western half of downtown. !is is an opportunity to ce-ment the market as part of that emerging, dynamic neighborhood.” !ose working out at the YMCA can also take advantage of the !ursday night Farmer’s Market at 5th Street and Luck Avenue.

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DRI’s Sean Luther announces the new Farmer’s Market programs.

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City Council Restores Funding in !ree Areas

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!e state has increased fund-ing to Roanoke by $163,000. !is has allowed restoration of recent cuts to the three areas that have taken hits. At the April 26 budget hearing Council members heard from 17 speakers opposing cuts to the Virginia Cooperative Ex-t e n s i o n Agr ic u l -ture and N a t u r a l Resource component. Other speakers asked for restoration of the 25 percent cut to the Arts Commission.

In the end they didn’t get full restoration but enough was re-stored to make the impact negli-gible. VCE gained back $18,000 of the $19,000 of their cut. A memorandum of understanding will be developed with measures that will include logging calls to the VCE by locality, explained Director of Management and Budget Amelia Merchant.

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New School of Nursing Opens in Salem

A$er delivering the keynote address to the Roanoke Bar As-sociation for Law Day last week, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli participated in a ribbon cutting at ITT Technical Institute’s Breckin-ridge School of Nursing in Sa-lem.

A$er the ceremony, sta" took Cuccinelli and attendees on a tour of the facilities and met with students. !e simulated hospital room included patient manne-quins in hospital beds hooked to monitoring equipment. Standing beside one of the hospital beds, the life-like demonstration led Cuccinelli to take the patient’s hand, check for a pulse and ask him for his vote. Cuccinelli has announced his plan to run for governor in 2013.

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Roanoke City Farmer’s Market Goes Uptown In June

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Roanokers enjoyed an active day downtown last weekend as the annual Strawberry Festival and Chili Cooko" were held. Light rain showers were present through the

early part of the day but that didn’t keep attendees from the smorgasbord of beans and berries. Given the available calories to be consumed walking between the two events lo-cated on opposite sides of the Roanoke City Market area was a very good idea. For those wanting to resist the food temptation altogether the annual Mayor’s Bike Ride provided an even healthier option. (See more coverage of all three events on Page 7.)

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back $59,000 still leaving it with a four percent de#cit but more palatable than the original 25 percent reduction. !e Human Service Committee had $86,000 restored which was still #ve percent short of last year.

City Manager Chris Morrill said that all departments squeezed their budgets in-cluding his own department. Real estate taxes are down as a result of depressed as-sessments but sales tax increases have made up for it for now. !e #scal year 2013 budget increased one percent to $252.7 million.

!e Citizen Budget Engagement Team was not all in agreement on Elmwood Park and streetscape expenditures. !e team wanted to eliminate the 2.5 percent fees as-sessed when paying city taxes and bills by credit card. Councilman Bill Bestpitch said, “We don’t want to increase taxes to pay for that fee.” Private businesses are able to in-crease the cost of merchandise to compen-sate.

Vice-Mayor Dave Trinkle thought that some of the positions in these categories could be matched with the city’s own avail-able resources. Bestpitch said that commer-cial services provided by the VCE “should have some kind of fee for training on pes-ticides.” Bowers said he supported the city manager’s proposal for the VCE saying, “it is a popular program.” Councilman Ray Ferris said, “not to minimize VCE contributions

but the issue for us is needs versus wants” but he went along with Council members Lea and Price who supported the recom-mendations.

Councilman Court Rosen said he’d “sure like to know what that $18,000 [for VCE] is going toward.” He asked to have the in-formation before budget adoption. Morrill though said that he didn’t want to hold up the budget for it.

Finance Director Ann Shawver explained that the 1.5 percent cost of living adjust-ment for city retirees would not impact the budget until 2014. !ey had not received a COLA increase since June 30, 2007 the same as active employees. Retirees will see a $221 increase.

!e future proposed COLA formula is 2/3 of the Urban CPI not to exceed four percent and not to exceed active employee pay raises. Shawver thought that the 1.5 percent increase “is kicking the can down the road … … their costs are increasing and not keeping up with in%ation.”

Council will meet Monday at 2 p.m. to adopt the budget.

Code Enforcement Overview: Skip Deck-er, solid waste manager, said that they strive to provide a safe and sanitary neighbor-hood with citizen education being the goal. “We don’t want to cite anyone,” said Decker. !ey have four collection inspectors – one for each quadrant.

He said that illegal dumping has increased to 1101 for 2012. Container violations were at 539 but only 3-4 citations had been issued. Decker said that they are maintaining a da-tabase that keeps track of landlords. Police Chief Chris Perkins’ “walk through neigh-borhoods has been a big plus,” he said.

Morrill said he didn’t want business own-ers to rely on the inspectors to check on their properties. He tells them, “It is your job to go around checking on your properties.”

Southeast and Northwest has a lot of weeds and cars, said Councilman Sher-man Lea. He hears from area residents that enough resources are not allocated to these parts of the city. “I’ve seen that,” he said.

Dan Webb, the code compliance o&cer, said the top code issues are weeds and trash, inoperable vehicles and abandoned houses. Rental inspections correspond with higher violations but state code says the owner is responsible and not the tenant.

Tom Carr, director of Planning Build-ing and Development, said that in their last survey 65 percent of citizens said they were doing a better job. !e 20 code inspectors work in assigned quadrants throughout the city and become familiar friends of the neighborhood.

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> Nursing From page 1 bration included Delegate Greg Habeeb, Senator Ralph Smith, Roanoke City Sheri" Octavia Johnson and Salem Sheri" Eric Atkins along with representa-tives for Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Morgan Gri&th, U.S. Senator Mark Warner, area Chamber of Commerce repre-sentatives and school adminis-trators.

During the celebration Salem ITT Director Ron Charpia said, “We take great pride in our stu-dents and our sta"” since ITT opened its doors in 2009. He said the school brings students with a diversity of backgrounds “who have committed to life-long learning and community service.”

!e program has provisional approval for its two-year nurs-ing associate degree. !e degree comes at a cost of over $50,000 - at a per credit hour price of $493 with 109 credits required to graduate, according to their website. Class size ranges from 15 to 20 students and the #rst class will start in June.

Cuccinelli addressed sta" and attendees saying how acutely aware he was of the growing need for nurses. He explained

how his responsibility as At-torney General places a high priority on investigating and prosecuting Medicaid fraud and elder abuse. “I can tell you #rst hand what you probably already know, that our aging population is growing signi#cantly … the demand for more skilled nurses and caregivers is only going to rise.” His o&ce hires nurses that do medical analysis in health-care cases.

He told the attendees that he thought that ITT’s nursing cur-riculum would address nursing values and not just from a book - It teaches communication skills and competent care learn-ing. “!ere is a need for not only competent technical care but also for the compassion and nurturing that caregivers and nurses can give … they not only have an awesome responsibility to help improve the health of the patients but also to give peace of mind to their family,” he said.

“Our goal for every student enrolled in the Breckinridge School of Nursing is to become a competent nursing clinician dedicated to a lifetime of caring and continue learning. Each stu-dent will be held to rigorous ex-

pectations without apology for the safety of our patients,” said Pam Lindsey, nursing program chairwoman. Lindsey holds a master’s degree in nursing and adult health and is a board cer-ti#ed adult healthcare clinical nurse specialist. !e dignity of the patients, the highest stan-dards of ethics and an active ex-change between the faculty and the student is the basic philoso-phy of the nursing program, she explained.

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and design program presented Cuccinelli with a sketch of the Richmond Capital. It was al-most a direct perspective of his uphill view and “of course you know what rolls down hill” he said to a burst of laughter.

Cuccinelli, in closing, quoted Sir Winston Churchill – “We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.”

Sen. Ralph Smith, Del. Greg Habeeb, Pam Lindsey, Ken Cuc-cinelli and Ron Charpia cut the ribbon.


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Roanoke City School Board Seeks to Stay On Budget

School Board Chairman Da-vid Carson said that contrary to the expected downturn in the number of students at-tending Roanoke City Schools, just the opposite is true. !e #rst thing they would do to prevent overcrowding would be to adjust the attendance boundaries. “We need to stay on top of it,” he said. “!e highest priority is the eventual sale of Hu" Lane to add a gym and expand Round Hill,” said Carson. “Every dollar will go to Round Hill.” Vice Mayor Dave Trinkle asked Carson to be proactive and transparent if the attendance zones needed to be adjusted. “Nothing was done years ago in adjusting at-tendance zones,” Carson said.

Councilwoman Anita Price was concerned about class size. Carson said that, “!e student to teacher ratio has increased far less than at surrounding districts.”

Councilman Court Rosen asked Carson how he felt about getting through the next #scal year without the 2-cent meals tax. Carson said that they were in “reasonably good shape but spending down sav-ings.” He complained about Roanoke not getting the as-sistance needed from the state. “In the absence of that occur-ring it would bene#t us to re-duce spending,” he said. Rosen asked the school board to look ahead and share #nancial in-formation and keep dialogue going to head o" any sense of urgency. !is year students will start two weeks earlier and #nish two weeks earlier and all exams will be taken before Christmas. Carson lamented over the failure of the bill that would have school boards set start dates across the board. “Our hope and expectation

was to move forward with the same calendar,” said Carson.

Councilman Sherman Lea said that while campaigning that it was evident that the community “doesn’t under-stand how the state plays a part.” Lea asked Carson to help explain that to citizens. Carson said, “!e school board unani-mously passed a resolution to fully fund education for three years in a row and asked [leg-islators] to quit sticking man-dates on us that you are not paying for.”

School board member Lori Vaught said that the legislative conference lobbies legislators even outside the district. Best-pitch said you have citizens concerned about taxes and want the state to cut them. “!ere are a lot of citizens not thinking that through,” he said. “We need to do a much better job of explaining.”

Councilman Ray Ferris asked if Carson’s predicted economic outlook was any dif-ferent than the city’s. Carson said their fund balance would prevent teacher cutbacks and give teachers a one-percent raise. “We are not spending excess but spending down sav-ings,” said Carson.

Richmond’s increase to school funding for the city is due to the increase in the stu-dent population. !e increase is dwarfed by the increased costs associated with required contributions to the Virginia Retirement System (VRS). !e result is that “we are receiving less money net,” said Carson.

Curt Baker, deputy superin-tendent said, “It is clear VRS is going to be the wild card if it keeps increasing.” !e draw-down comes to $4 million this year and is a third of our total fund balance, he said.

Finance Director Ann Shawver said, “We are not out of the woods yet with the possible lack of growth in real estate.” Employment is still recovering and with high fuel cost the city might need to draw on its fund balance.

Baker said with the gover-nor’s amendments they “still don’t know what the budget is ... all bets are o" in the 2014 – 2015 school year.” Trinkle said that he hoped that the new for-mula would be a win/win and that their fund balance would continue. “I’m not a big fan of dedicated taxes,” he said. “We don’t tell you how to spend.”

Carson said that at the be-ginning of the year the state announced implementation of a new math SOL. “School systems across the state are concerned about how this was rolled out.” Assistant Super-intendent Vella Wright said that teachers are working very diligently and are testing now. “Teachers are stepping up,” she said.

Mayor Bowers was con-cerned about the impact that the lack of teacher’s aides had on the teachers. Carson said that parent volunteers are tak-ing up the slack and urged more parents to volunteer. He said that they have not been able to write contracts with teachers because of the VRS schedule.

Later at the council meet-ing incumbent school board members Mae Hu", Todd Putney and Dick Willis were reappointed for additional three-year terms that will be-gin in July.


County School Board Approves Final 2012-2013 Budget

Includes 3% raise for employees in addition to VRS “hold harmless” pay increase

!e Roanoke County School Board approved the 2012-2013 budget at their meeting April 26, 2012. !e General Fund budget for 2012-13 re%ects revenues based on aid for education in the General Assembly budget released on April 19, 2012 via the State Superintendent. !e General Fund budget of $132,562,485 re%ects an in-crease of $1,189,215 or 0.9% more than the preceding year.

“I’m pleased with this bud-get and I’m very thankful for the continued support of the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors,” said Roanoke County School Board Chair-man Fuzzy Minnix. “I’m pleased we were able to give our employees a well-de-served raise, we were able to avoid layo"s of full-time con-tracted employees and we did not need to close any schools. !is has been a di&cult, frus-trating year. A great deal of work has gone into this bud-get,” said Minnix.

“!is is a good budget. For-tunately, we were able to re-ceive additional funding from the state that helped us a"ord raises. We are still making some painful cuts, though, and we will still maintain a hiring freeze,” said Roanoke County Public Schools Super-intendent Dr. Lorraine Lange.

!e School Board is re-quired by state code to adopt an annual school budget by April 1 of each year. Despite the fact that the General As-sembly had not yet adopted a state budget, the School Board adopted a school budget at their meeting on March 27, 2012 in accordance with this provision. Since that time, the General Assembly has passed a state budget which is expect-ed to be approved by the Gov-ernor in the next few weeks. !e 2012-13 school budget

approved on March 27, 2012 has been revised to re%ect the #nal state aid for education and the Superintendent’s rec-ommendations to balance the budget.

!e proposed budget does not include school closings or layo"s of full-time contracted employees. It moves the tech-nology plan purchases out of the operating budget and into grant, minor capital, or year-end balance funding sources in order to free up operating money to o"set a portion of the increase in VRS rates. !is budget continues the hir-ing freeze and many positions that are being voluntarily va-cated through resignation or retirement will not be #lled next year in order to balance the budget.

!e largest impact on the school budget for next year is the signi#cant increase in VRS retirement related ex-penditures and the change in the laws governing the VRS retirement plan. For the #rst time since the early 1980’s, all school employees will be required to contribute 5% of their pay into the Virginia Retirement System. !is leg-islation also requires School Boards to provide an o"set-

ting salary adjustment to school employees.

To that end, the General Fund budget re%ects salary and bene#t adjustments in-cluding the following:

- Salaries have been frozen for three years. !is proposed budget includes a 3% cost of living increase for next year.

- Health and dental insur-ance premiums will remain the same for 2012-13.

- !e VRS retirement rate will increase from 6.33% to 11.66%. (Net of the 5% em-ployee contribution.)

- All full-time school em-ployees will be required to contribute 5% of salary as the employee share of the VRS premium e"ective July 1, 2012.

- !e School Board is re-quired to provide an o"set-ting salary adjustment per this legislation. (Also known as the “5 for 5 swap.”) !is budget includes a salary o"-set of 5.75% and the related employer payroll costs on the salary adjustment.

- !e deferred compensa-tion matching program has been suspended and no new participants will be enrolled.

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While there will still be a paper version, one does won-der how long similar publi-cations can last. Name the newspapers or periodicals that haven’t had to redesign its im-age and rede#ne its audience and the list will be very short. In my childhood, there were two Roanoke dailies, both owned by the same family, but still with a di"erent slant. !e Roanoke World News, the af-ternoon paper, disappeared decades ago.

!ere were other standby staples in the world of pub-lishing that no longer see the light of day. When Life Maga-zine announced their collapse, it was accompanied by similar

deaths of Colliers, !e Satur-day Evening Post and leisure reading for information and pleasure disappeared, re-placed by the infant world of television. Who would have thought that instead of our original two local TV chan-nels there would now be 400 or more?

I still have a #le of treasured issues of weekly pub-lications and daily papers: Pearl Har-bor, VJ day, President Eisenhower, assassi-nations and wars as well as a host of oth-ers. Not only was the journalism crisp, but

the photography told the stories in a static graphic-

ness that television cannot capture.

!ere are exceptions to all these deaths. Time, News-week, US News and World Report are all still around, but grasping at straws to survive. !e National Geographic, a childhood favorite, remains a changeless treasure as does !e New Yorker. If they ever decide to delete their cartoons in the latter, then even they will have entered a new age. !e New Yorker realizes the lucrative nature of that por-tion of their work since many editions of cartoons have ap-peared as stand-alone co"ee table items. In legal o&ces, I always look around the recep-tion area for the one about lawyers.

In a column some months ago, I suggested that in the next decade there will be only a handful of surviving daily newspapers: !e Washington Post (or not—they just laid o" a huge number of sta"), !e New York Times, !e Wall Street Journal, !e Atlanta

Journal- Constitution, !e St. Louis Dispatch, !e Los Angeles Times, and a few oth-ers. !ey will be published in many cities, perhaps even Roanoke, and will contain a page or so of local interest, the obituaries, advertisements, and the like, but will be writ-ten for regional readers with a sta" of a half-dozen. All of them have a huge online pres-ence now and that will only increase. !e RoanokeStar.Com will have lots of compa-ny in an already changing and crowded #eld.

We have all learned to read on a TV screen, even one that you hold in your hand. It’s not as irritating as it used to be, but online print mate-rial loses the ability to leaf back through a paper or ri'e through a magazine and book with ease. !ere is no sound from the computer that is nearly as enchanting as hear-ing your father snap the open newspaper to get the wrinkles out; that signi#ed that evening was starting, and there might be interesting conversation following, “Did you see the article about . . . . ?” Booting up doesn’t quite measure up.

I suspect moving to a more online format is good for this paper. I would miss my Friday delivery in my mailbox. No doubt there was a lot of grous-ing in Egypt when scrolls were replacing papyrus; especially irritated were the sheep. !ey got through it and Arab Spring would never have happened without electronic media.

Progress is required; enjoy-ing it can be a challenge. I suspect we are up to it.

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!e Toilet Sloop’s Farewell VoyageIt was made of maroon-col-

ored, sti" plastic. !e hull was about four inches long, and an-other piece of the same stu" was colored white, and in the form of a combination mast and mainsail. !e sail, although rigid, had a graceful curve to it, and the mast was meant to be inserted into a hole in the tiny deck. It could be removed by a simple twist with a small, grubby hand.

!at's all there was to it; just a simple toy sailboat. Plain, yes, but for a time it was my favorite plaything. At age four I was crazy about boats, for as far back as I could remem-ber, which I guess isn't really saying much. Anyway, my vast book collection -there were two siblings ahead of me- included volumes that featured boats and ships and voyages, and those books were the most dog-eared. Even though I could not yet read, the illustrations in those books stirred my imagination like nothing else; girls were quite a few years away at that point.

!ere was a tiny creek be-hind our house, and this was of course a well-frequented play venue for all the neighborhood

kids. !ere were a few small pools which were ideal voyaging for toy boats, including the little sloop. Indoors, which wasn't too o$en in those days, did a"ord an

occasional sail as the bathtub was home to one of the smaller of the seven seas. I never objected to taking the occasional bath, what with all the boating adventure associated with it.

I realized that an-other dominant #x-ture in the bathroom

held promise for toy boats as well: the commode. One day I was playing with the boat in the toilet - sorry mom, really -simulating oceanic tempests by %ushing it, and then retriev-ing the vessel just in time. Well, you guessed it; I waited a little too long one time and the little red sloop disappeared into the vortex. Oh no! Saddened, a bit shaken and certain that the boat was unequivocally gone, I silent-ly slunk o" to other pursuits.

Soon a$er, the toilet started showing signs of a major stop-up, and no amount of plunging could remedy the situation. !e next day was a Saturday, and at #rst light my dad unbolted the

toilet from the %oor and trans-ported it to the back yard. He was going to #x the thing. Soon I was standing nearby - I couldn't help but watch the proceed-ings. Along the way, I blurted out the likely cause of the stop-page; I couldn't stay quiet about it any longer. My dad gave me that head shake and "perplexed" look with which I was becoming more and more familiar.

Unfortunately, no amount of snaking and probing resulted in dislodging the toy sloop from the innards of the toilet. !e next step was setting the toilet on bricks and building a small #re beneath it. Like I said, he was on a mission. For my part, I didn't have any notion of recov-ering the boat; I had accepted its loss and was secretly delighting in this performance.

!e #re did not produce any tangible results, but I thought maybe we could see some drops of melted red plastic if we peered into the hole at the underside of the toilet. !e #re was extin-guished, and then things really got exciting. My dad went back into the house and emerged with not only a sledge hammer in his hands, but a determined look on his face as well. Sure enough, with a few well-placed whacks from the sledge ham-mer the toilet lay in pieces, the slightly melted little red sloop and its disconnected sail laying there in the midst of them.

When the dust settled, my dad plucked the boat from the shards and gently handed it to me.

"Don't %ush it again, OK?"

!oughts on “Bagger Vance”It is my delusion, my compulsion, or some-

where in my so$ware that I believe in angels; that’s why I loved the movie, Bagger Vance. It is well-scripted #lm that reminds us to be careful whom we dismiss. Essentially, the story deals with an an-gel who comes to help a young golfer. !e advice “Bagger” o"ers to the young man applies as well to life as to golf.

Most of the angels I’ve seen on the screen possess an enviable serenity, the result of their perfect con#dence in God’s presence and involvement. It does not come of faith; angels have no need of faith. !ey know.

Re%ecting on the movie, several thoughts occur:

“!is is a game that can’t be won, it can only be played.” !is suggests something other than winning is the intention of our experi-ence here. Could that intent be growth; becoming more than we have been?

!e biggest challenge I face in “becoming” is to get out of my own way.

!e things I fret about are mere backdrop, not the play; and the play’s the thing, our proper fo-cus.

“See the #eld through so$ eyes.” Heaven’s alchemy: a simple smile or a “thank

you”, spoken at the right time, spoken to a person we don’t recognize as needful, is transformed into something incalculably, transcendently precious. !us, I can be a “part-time” angel, if I choose; and clearly my life has been occasionally touched by

those doing Heaven’s work. Can we bring a smile to the face of Heaven, and not know it?

I think yes.I’m sad I’ve never seen an angel or been witness

to an epiphany. I’ve never had any objective proof of Heaven’s existence and regard. While I desper-

ately want such an encounter, I would never pray for it. I fear the e"ect. What, in a human being, is the price of know-ing? To believe in a god who stands be-fore me makes no demands of my faith. Given such a revelation, I would cease searching, and the search, the struggle, is requisite for becoming. I would be a foolish man to pray for the one thing that would remove from faith its most important element: doubt. Still, it would

be reassuring if God were more real to me.Perhaps I should content myself with Bagger’s

counsel: “!ere’s a place inside you where all the tides, all the seasons, and every turning of the earth - where everything that is - become One.” I believe he’s right. !is is where Serenity lives. Per-haps I should stop swinging so hard and “loosen my grip.”

So here’s a physician who believes in angels, whether in truth they exist or not. I concede that belief may make me an irrational man, but it also makes me a better man; and what else may we ask of a philosophy?

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Yesterday evening I was on YouTube chasing down rumors of an engine explosion (How many opportunities do you get to see something like that?), and was all set to add my comment when I noticed that a couple of other motorheads were engaged in a battle of words.

Now, I'm all for ci-vility and order. So when "your mom's hairy knuckles drag when she walks" was met with "well, your sister models for ugly" I was taken out of the mood to chime in.

Pardon me. I'm not sure what engines going kaput has to do with at-tacking one's genetic makeup. Seems to me that there should be a rumpus room set aside for hotheads to vent so the rest of us can engage in such adult dia-logue as "What, are you crazy? A pentroof cylinder head is a far cry from a hemi OR a wedge!"

It's as though the whole site has been overrun with net nerds -all of whom harbor insa-tiable grudges against life since the class bully issued wedgies to them during eighth grade. Des-tined to seek vengeance, these giants of the gigabyte gridiron stop at nothing to express con-tempt for any who dare oppose them. One person -somewhere in the "how to build straw bale homes" section- suggested to a rival that he should put some straw in his pipe and smoke it.

Hmmph.What is the world coming to

when a person can't even watch straw bale building construc-tion without being treated to such hostility, however mild?

I never did see the part where Verna #nally got to applying the stucco, what with the ensuing heated debate drawing my at-tention away from the #nishing touches to Prairie County's #n-est new home.

By now, I was in a mood to exercise a little schadenfreude of my own. Since all the great comments seemed to be taken, I was determined to respond with origi-nality, precision, and brevity. !at meant one thing: I'd have to consult the diction-ary of obscure words.

Indeed, amassing an arsenal of altiloquent verbiage would thus a"ord me the opportunity to inform Jason (on a football page) that he's a boanthrope. Now, like you I'd have expected more than a little cachinnation. None, however, was forthcom-ing. What was forthcoming, of course, were responses like "u r a idiot" and "your an ignorant looser."

Pretty soon things got heated. Jason et al started to make fun of my ancestry while I made vague references to their then-current state of gambrinousness. In no time at all both of my enemy combatants accused me of wit-

zelsucht.Who, I ask, would take THAT

lying down?I wasn't born yesterday, I'll

tell you. !e battle of words escalated, and in no time I was wheepling past the graveyard. What had I gotten myself into? I never expected to #nd myself agroof amidst so much vitriol. In mere moments I had gone from looking for a good internet #ght to experiencing allodoxaphobia. I had to get back on my feet and tell these two what was what.

Just in time, I found my inspi-ration: I would show them who was the more churlish. Having issued such knockout punch-es as "you're a coccydynamic wonder" and "your hircismus is making my eyes water," I had clearly dominated the battle#eld of words, albeit with my share of linguistic cicatrices.

But I must confesss that pre-vailing in such battles is more than a little tiring. In my case, it was utterly dyspnaeic. Still, I have no regrets. I had joined the battle and I had endured, with my cache of terms utterly spent.

And them was #ghtin' words.

Robert Adcox

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P. Buckley Moss – !e People’s ArtistUpon my retirement from

the Shedd Early Learning Cen-ter in 1988, the parents and faculty gave me a signed print by P. Buckley Moss. A school-house stands in the background, while children, in Mennonite dress, play in the foreground as the schoolmaster rings a bell to summon them. !e picture was appropriate, for P. Buckley Moss supports education for dyslexic children, and the Shedd-Montessori curriculum was de-signed to prevent and/or remediate children with dys-lexia and other per-ceptual problems.

I was fascinated by this artist whose unique style pro-duced paintings that sell for thou-sands of dollars, who has an avid following of collectors, and heads a foun-dation dedicated to increasing public awareness of the need for schools to develop and imple-ment e"ective art instruction to children with special needs.

I decided to interview her and learn what led her to this philan-thropic work. She granted an in-terview gladly, eager to share her experience and help educate the public about dyslexia. We sat in her spacious house, “!e Barn,” so named because it was previ-ously a real barn, located near the P. Buckley Moss Museum on the outskirts of Waynesboro, Virginia.

Pat was 45 years old when she realized she was dyslexic. She saw herself in the description of this perceptual disorder that ren-ders intelligent children unable to read unless they are taught in a di"erent way. !is was the reason for her own unfortunate experience as a school girl.

She recalled one instance when her teacher read a student’s essay to the class. Although Pat did not understand what was so funny, she laughed with the rest of the class. !en the teacher handed the paper to her. Her stomach squeezed into a tight little ball and her cheeks %amed red. She wished she could take a deep breath and disappear. Ugly red marks covered the paper and she realized her own misspelled words and topsy-turvy sentenc-es had caused the laughter.

!at happened many years ago before teachers understood Pat’s problem – dyslexia. Al-

though most children learn to read words and make sense of sentences, printed letters con-fuse dyslexic children. Some-times they seem to be turned around or go in the wrong di-rection. !ey must labor hard to read or write each word.

Although Pat was intelligent, wanted to learn, and worked hard she made many mis-takes when she tried to read or

write. Other chil-dren laughed at her, called her “dummy” or “stupid.” Her teachers accused her of not trying, rapped her knuckles, and sent her to the prin-cipal’s o&ce. Even her parents did not understand.

Pat was tempted to give up but two things saved her –

her talent for drawing and her Grandpa Buckley. While her family read a$er dinner, she drew pictures. She learned she could tell stories through her drawings. And Grandpa Buck-ley believed in her. A$er school she would race across the grassy #eld that separated their houses. Sitting beside his brown rocker she would pour out her prob-lems.

“If you really want to do some-thing, and try your hardest, you can do it,” he told her.

Pat took his advice and con-centrated on the things she could do well, such as drawing and sports. As her con#dence grew, even school work was eas-ier. Her talent earned her a place at a special art school; and later she won a scholarship to college. Now her reports to Grandpa Buckley were joyous ones.

Pat married a$er college and soon had a family of six chil-dren. Even then she found time to paint each day and gave away most of her paintings. She made her own Christmas cards and since money was scarce some-times the children had to take

drawings as gi$s to birthday parties. “!is isn’t a proper pres-ent,” they complained. “I’ll look silly!”

But such distribution caused word of her art to spread. She entered the Sidewalk Art Show in Roanoke and sold paintings for practically nothing. People came to her house wanting to buy paintings of geese, horses, houses, churches and the “Plain People.” !ese were Amish and Mennonite families whose sim-ple lives and religious devotion inspired her. Many of her paint-ings show them working on the farm, caring for their children, or riding in their horse-drawn buggies.

In a short time, P. Buckley Moss became famous. Prints of her work are displayed in hospi-tals, schools and homes of many collectors. Charles Kuralt, who interviewed interesting people for television, called P. Buckley Moss “!e People’s Artist.” Her paintings celebrating every-day life are sold throughout the world.

P. Buckley Moss remembers how dyslexia made her school days miserable. She visits schools and talks to children – especially those who are dyslexic.

“It’s very important to let chil-dren know they can become successful,” she said.

One of her paintings is called “!e Tree of Learning,” which was auctioned o" to bene#t Roanoke’s Achievement Center, where dyslexic children receive special education. !e tree’s out-stretched limbs welcome all chil-dren as their teachers sit under it, reading. In the background a star shines faintly at the top of a mountain, symbolizing the shin-ing hope of success, if they work hard to climb the mountain.

P. Buckley moss encourages children to believe in them-selves, work hard, and develop their special gi$s. And she con-tinues to paint every day.

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A new national JOBS report came out recently from the US Department of Labor. Accord-ing to the report, unemploy-ment fell to 8.1%, slightly less than it had been for the past few months and the lowest rate since January 2009. Good news, the President exclaimed! Looking deeper, however, the number of jobs add-ed amounted to just 115,000, the lowest increase since Oc-tober of last year ac-cording to the La-bor Department.

!is new lower unemployment rate sounded good but another problem ap-peared in the minds of skepti-cal politicians and analysts. !e main reason for the percentage of improvement of unemploy-ment was that 342,000 people le$ the labor force. Some retired from their jobs while many other men and women simply gave up looking for work.

!is means that at this time there are about 12.5 million men and women US citizens looking for work. Causes of the current employment situation vary by geographic area and industry. However, many ob-servers agree that the main im-pediments of the unpredictable jobs market are uncertainty of tax burdens, new and emerging government regulations and ex-isting healthcare commitments in addition to new government entitlement mandates.

Consider that the Federal government has more than 70,000 pages of complex tax

code that grows at a rate of about 2,000 pages per year. Special federal, state and local regula-tions are growing at about 15% per year, adding huge overhead expenses to businesses in all

industries to as-sure compliance. !e construction sector, especially residential housing, has been su"ering for several years largely as a result of pressures by gov-ernment agencies to lower (mort-

gage) credit stan-dards by banks and other lending

institutions. President Obama is urg-

ing Congress to take actions that will accelerate job growth, but has not o"ered any specif-ics. Many of the President’s past ideas have produced no substantial job increases. !e $800 Billion stimulus package of 2009 aimed in part to fund ‘shovel-ready’ public works projects provided a dismally small amount of additional work. Subsidies to ‘green’ in-dustry developments have uncovered poor management, poor planning or lack of e&-cient employment of capital, or all of the above.

Here is an added problem when the government steps in with special incentives: the Federal government is picking winners and losers with capital that is borrowed from China and other countries. !e op-erating record of Federal gov-ernment running businesses is beyond mediocre when con-

sidering losses at Amtrak, the US Postal Service and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Link these problems with current restrictions on coastal drilling, the delay on approv-ing the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf and restricted drilling on federal lands that drive up fuel costs which hinders almost all seg-ments of the job market.

While some of Romney’s crit-ics accuse him of ‘getting rid’ of employees at some of the com-panies Bain Capital acquired, it is to his credit that he and his colleagues were improving the e&ciency of companies that were at risk. In addition to im-proving productivity and prof-itability of acquired enterprises, Romney points out that Bain Capital also created thousands of jobs as companies turned around and became pro#table.

A point to remember: Mitt Romney risked his own and borrowed capital and became wealthy using business skills without the bene#t of poli-tics. Many wealthy politicians get it backwards by becoming wealthy because of their politi-cal connections. By way of pro-moting his concepts for solving the enigma of jobs creation if elected President, Mitt Romney has said, “!is is a time when America wants to have some-one who knows what it takes to create jobs and get people working again.”

Big Government - Small Job Growth

Dick Baynton

English Soccer Is Hard On !e BrainAmericans are increasingly

fascinated by that other version of "football," from the other side of !e Pond. But it can get a lit-tle confusing. So, as we approach the sea-son's climax, here's a quick recap from the touchline, to help you understand it all.

In this week's Man-chester Derby, City beat United 1-nil, seemingly assuring the noisy neighbors of their #rst-ever Premiership Trophy. But hang on! !ey have to travel Tyneside to face Newcastle, who are in 5th place and #ghting for a spot in the Champion's League. (And if Chelsea beats Bayern in Munich on May 19th, they would get an automatic berth for 2013, leaving only 3 other spots open.) So the Geordies have a lot to play for, and are in top form, having won at Stam-

ford Bridge this week for the #rst time since 1986. City's oth-er game is against QPR, who sit in 17th place and need to climb

out of the drop zone. By comparison, the Red Devils' remain-ing games are against 12th-placed Swans and 11th-placed Black Cats, with seemingly little to play for.

Liverpool watched Chelsea's struggle this

week against the Magpies with inter-est, in advance of

this Saturday's FA Cup Final. If the Reds fall against the Blues at Wembley, King Kenny will have little to show the An#eld faith-ful, outside the Carling Cup. On the other hand, Chelsea losses in the FA and EUFA Cups would mark a bitter end to Roberto Di Matteo's term as caretaker and stoke rumors of "!e Special One" returning.

And speaking of managers, what the 'ells up with 'Arry? With the aggro of being passed over as national team skipper, Redknapp suddenly has Spurs back in 4th with games remain-ing at Villains and against Ful-ham at the Lane. Surprisingly, Roy Hodgson has been given "the impossible job" of lead-ing the !ree Lions into Euro 2012; long-su"ering fans have been puzzled by the choice, ask-ing "Woy from West Bwom? Weawy?" And the Potters are still "doing the Wenger" in delight a$er Stoke drew with the Gunners, leaving a mere 5 points separating 3rd and 6th.

!ere! Two weeks to go, three pieces of hardware in the mix, and now you understand it all.

Have a go. Enjoy the footie.

I really like how “friendly” dragon%ies seem to be. !ese creatures are not as easily fright-ened by humans as are most large—and therefore easily vis-ible and vulnerable—animals. !us you can get fairly close to dragon%ies for a look at them, and if you are working around your yard, you might even feel as if they are keeping you company.

A dragon%y has huge eyes with which it will watch you about as much as you watch it! It can turn its head as you change your posi-tion so you will know if it is keep-ing tabs on you.

However, the main reason for those large eyes is to help drag-on%ies #nd and eat other insects to survive. You may see these masters of the air catching other insects in %ight or you may see them dart out from a perch on a twig or a rock to catch an insect passing by.

One of the most common spe-cies of dragon%ies is the White-tailed Dragon%y, so called be-cause it sports a white “tail” that is more accurately known as its abdomen.

Depending upon the lighting conditions, the tail sometimes looks like it is a pale blue, so it

helps to also notice if the drag-on%y has a thick amber (orang-ey-brown) marking across each of its four wings. !ese two #eld marks (markings that are easily distinguished while “in the #eld” or outdoors) conclusively iden-tify this insect.

A White-tailed Dragon%y overwinters in the larval or im-mature stage that is known as a “nymph” or “naiad.” Nymphs look entirely di"erent from adults and are much more di&-cult to see because they are un-derwater.

However, if you carefully scoop up some of the muck from the bottom or the edge of

a pond, you may #nd one or a few of these little animals hiding in the mud. A dragon%y nymph is only about half an inch long, with a segmented dark brown body and six long legs. It feeds on other animals, just as an adult does.

When a nymph is mature, it crawls out of the water, up a plant stem, and breaks out of its aquatic skin (exoskeleton) that is no longer useful for its adult life in the air. !e new form that emerges is the one we recognize so well.

Before taking %ight, a drag-on%y must rest for several hours while its wings dry and its body hardens. It may be several days before the adult colors fully de-velop.

!en it feeds for a few weeks in yards, woods, and #elds. It’s only when the males and females are ready to mate that they then return to a pond or slow-moving river.

Naturalist Marlene A. Condon is the author/photographer of !e Nature-friendly Garden: Creat-ing a Backyard Haven for Plants, Wildlife, and People.

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The White-tailed Dragonfly is very common in Virginia. It can be easily spotted hunt-ing, especially around ponds where it will mate. Mike Keeler

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The Preacher’s Corner - Why I Need !e Church I need the church because I

am naturally spiritually lazy and there is accountability and godly routine to corporate worship and being part of a fellowship. I need the church because I can easily deceive myself and I need other brothers and sisters to

speak truth into my life. I need the church because people in the church have spiritual gi$s I do not have . . . but gi$s I desperate-ly need to be healthy. I need the church because I have gi$s that others in the Church family need to be healthy and complete.

I need the church because !e Church is Jesus’ plan and his idea for how to grow and do ministry. I need the church because I am lonely without her fellowship. I need the church because other Christians sometimes irritate me and I need to work through the challenging relationships and frustrations that "life together” a"ords, much like a rough gem needs to be polished with abra-sive agents.

I need the church because we can do more to change the world together than we can individu-ally. I think this is called syn-ergy: “Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.”

I need the church so I am able to join in corporate praise and worship, the Lord’s Supper, Baptism, preaching of the Word, prayers of the people, etc. I need the church to have a “storehouse” to bring my tithe and to be sure that widows and orphans are tak-en care of by the Body of Christ. I need the church because his-tory has shown that people who are free %oaters invariably get o" track and into spiritual foolish-ness.

I need the church. What about you? Why do you need the church?

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!e school and their volunteers prepared more than 120,000 strawberries for the estimat-ed 30,000 attendees, who gobbled up more than 12,000 shortcakes which, as always, sold out.

In addition to the strawberries, the festival also featured cra$ vendors selling everything from “dream-catchers” to jewelry. New this year were additional food vendors, o"ering chicken wings, BBQ, hot dogs and more. !e park was also ringed with political booths, and youth events /and clubs including hockey, basketball, bean bag toss and more. !e main stage featured concerts throughout the day on Saturday.

Organizers hoped to beat last year’s total of over $90,000 - money that ultimately goes to pay for tuition and salaries.

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Championship Chili Cook-O" Serves It Up Hot & Spicy

Nothing can stop the roar of the Harley Davidson motorcy-cles to start the annual Virginia chili cook-o". Every time the engines rev, more chili is ready to be tasted.

!e annual event brought close to 10,000 people to the Railside Plaza on Salem Av-enue in downtown Roanoke last weekend. !e cook-o" is sanctioned by the International Chili Society and the winning team receives $1,000 and has the right to represent Virginia at the World Championship Chili Cook-O" in Las Vegas or Oma-ha each year.

All proceeds bene#t the spon-sor, Greenvale School, with tu-ition assistance and scholarships. Greenvale provides high qual-ity, developmentally appropriate child care services for children of working parents, according to each family's ability to pay. Typ-ically this festival raises $30,000 in net proceeds.

!e chili cook-o" is a family a"air with activities including a free Children's Zone sta"ed by Greenvale teachers. In addi-tion to the 30 or so chili cook-ing teams, there was also a beer garden, a music stage, a jalapeno pepper eating contest and many cra$ vendors.

All attendees got a chance to sample the various chili recipes and vote for their favorite team, which wins the People's Choice Award. !e winner this year was the Q99 Breakfast Club Team. !e overall Best Red Chili Team winner, as judged by 60 chili tasting judges, was the "Cowgirl Chili" team from Palmyra VA.

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Fourth Annual Mayor’s Bike Ride Celebrates Bike Month

!ere was some trepidation Saturday morning as light rain fell and cyclists began to gather at the Bennington Park parking lot to celebrate Bike Month. But the short sprinkle did not deter the avid cyclists who had gath-ered for the Mayor’s Bike Ride.

Decorated spoke cards were waiting for kids’ bikes - a prior-ity for youngsters, dating back decades, used when wanting a little “varoom” while in motion. Artist Katherine Devine helped decorate helmets and bikes.

Mayor David Bowers and

RIDE Solutions Program Direc-tor Jeremy Holmes presented the Bike Hero award plaque to Rob Issem for his personal ded-ication and passion for cycling.

Issem is a racer for East Coaster Bicycles and a competi-tive mountain biker. He is also a cyclo-cross competitor - a form of racing that requires endur-ance and sharp bike-handling skills while maneuvering steep hills and obstacles. He started “STARBOMB” - an event that is held on or close to a full moon. !ey start at the top of Mill Mountain and race down on children’s bikes while usually in costume.

“He is really an advocate and activist and is always trying to get more bike racks at establish-ments and make people aware of the cycling community,” said his wife Lisa. Issem just started Bike Sherpas Touring Co. It of-fers backcountry mountain bike guided tours of regional trail systems and road cycling tours.

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of the Extraordinary Bicycle Professional Award. !is award is given to an employee in the public or private sector who has shown leadership by encour-aging the use of bicycling as a transportation alternative.

Fulp is a sales manager for East Coasters and has been a cyclist all his life and in the bi-cycle industry for 12 years as a professional. In addition, he instigated the Junior Cycling program - a junior bike and race team. “We conduct weekly rides … any kids are welcome to come, especially to the moun-tain bike based team,” he said. !ey meet at Carvins Cove and Mill Mountain.

Fulp’s main role at East Coast-ers is to #t bikes to riders. “I help adjust people to their bicycles or the bicycles to them.” !e goal is to make the bike comfortable for the cyclist by determining how they will use it – from tour-ing and commuting, to racing or mountain biking. “All those people have di"erent #t needs.” He even takes past injuries into

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art Tousman with the Virginia Asthma Coalition. It is also Asthma Awareness Month. As an asthmatic and biker himself he encouraged people to exer-cise. Dr. Tousman advocated for making Asthma Month a part of Bike Month.

Last month !e League of American Bicyclists designated Roanoke as a bicycle friendly community at the bronze level, said Bowers.


Mayor Bowers leads the start of the bike ride.

Wake Fulp, Mayor Bowers and Rob Issem with award plaques.

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Cave Spring Out-Scores Spartans 17-7 In River Ridge Baseball

Cave Spring scored eight times in both the #rst and #$h innings as the Knights overpow-ered Salem 17-7 in a River Ridge baseball matchup shortened to #ve innings via the slaughter rule Friday a$ernoon at Knights Field.

Salem jumped out to an early lead with #ve runs in the top of the #rst before Cave Spring roared back with eight of their own in the bottom of the open-ing frame.

!e Spartans cut the Knights lead to 9-7 a$er four, but Cave Spring plated eight more in their half of the #$h to end the game with the 10-run ad-vantage.

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!e North Cross Raiders avenged a disappointing regular season loss to !e Covenant School by knocking o" the pow-erhouse from Charlottesville for the #rst time ever by a score of 8-3. !e game was a defensive struggle through three quarters with the Raiders holding onto a 4-3 lead go-ing into the #nal quarter before the o"ense took charge racking up 4 straight goals to close out the win. Kurtis Naslonski notched 3 goals with Pendleton Draper scoring 2 and Christopher Pollock, Paul Ross and George Revercomb adding 1 apiece. !e Raiders advance to Saturdays VIC Cham-pionship game against Blue Ridge .

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Blacksburg forced extra-innings a$er com-ing back from a 3-1 de#cit. Crotty got the win in the circle for Hidden Valley, going the distance for the Titans. Hidden Valley evened its River Ridge record to 3-3.

Blacksburg won the completion of an ear-lier suspended game by the score of 11-10.

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Hidden Valley pitcher Kelsey Crotty went the distance in the nine-inning win over Blacksburg, and connected for the game-winning double.


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North Cross starter Sam Lawrence deals Tuesday after-noon as the Raiders advanced in the extra-inning win.

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Craighead Signs To Play Volleyball For Stetson UniversityCave Spring volleyball stand-

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Craighead signed her letter of intent to continue her play at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

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Team recaps- Top-5 #nishes, boys and girls, among local teams in the three divisionsChampionship Division-Boys:William Fleming- 2ndPatrick Henry- 4thWilliam Byrd-5thGirls:William Fleming- 5thJunior Division-Boys:Salem- 1stWilliam Fleming- 5thGirls:Cave Spring- 2ndWilliam Fleming- 3rdMiddle School Division-Boys:Breckenridge- 1stLucy Addison- 2ndRead Mountain- 5thGirls:Lucy Addison- 1stCave Spring- 3rd

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Northside's Courtney Rice and Alyssa Walker react to the starter's gun as they compete in the girls 1,600-meter.

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OK, readers- I’m grant-ing you a full timeout. Not a 30-second TO, a full. It’s well documented that many of you grab at each week’s edition and tear the pages apart to get to the Wild Bill column #rst thing.

Obviously, I’m %attered and understand your eu-phoria that another Wild Bill expose’ is at your #ngertips.

But, this week, you need to go to the huddle. Regroup, and return to page one. For those of you who haven’t already spot-ted it, we have a new banner- !e Roanoke Star.com; or !e Roanoke Star for those readers with 14-letter limitations.

Quite frankly, speaking for those of us in the sports de-partment, I never could spell Senitenial (or whatever it was) anyway. I o$en coughed it up as Centennial, Sententia, or even Sentipede (that’s a bug with a thousand legs, give or take 900.....o$en spelled with

a ‘c’) I want to compli-

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spell everything out in sports, from the Kentucky Derby to the ‘Big-11’ baseball and so$ball Top-3, to the ever-popular Wild-Bill late-night

product reviews. Hold on to your saddle and get your feet in the stirrups- it’s post time.

Saturday’s Derby winner, “I’ll Have Another”, was quite the performer in the last 300 yards. !e name alone should have o"ered a clear hunch-play for me. But, there’s still two races le$ with the May 19th Preakness and June Bel-mont Stakes. So what better time than to o"er Wild Bill’s “Know Your Triple Crown Racing.”

If you #nd a sucker that thinks this horse is unbeatable, keep in mind only 11 horses have won the triple crown, the last in 1978.

Also, in 1968, we had a pres-idential candidate attend the Derby, whereupon the win-ner, Dancer’s Image, was dis-quali#ed for cheating. It was old tricky-Dick Nixon in the crowd. Draw your own conclu-sion if Obama shows up at the Preakness and a horse named Solyndra goes o" at 9-to-1.

!e Wild Bill ‘Big-11’ base-ball Top-3 stays pat this week with Lord Botetourt (16-1), Northside (16-1) and Hidden Valley (11-4-1) holding steady in the 1-3 spots. A shakeup may be in the cards May 15th when Botetourt visits North-side with the Blue Ridge regu-lar season title on the line.

In the so$ball Top-3, North-side has pulled away from the pack with its win over Byrd Tuesday, and a 17-1 mark. Byrd stays in the place posi-tion at 13-5, while Glenvar shows at 13-4.

We close this week with a

pair of late-night products that I unfortunately reviewed during the recent Washington Nationals west-coast swing against the Dodgers.

First, the infamous ‘shticky’. !is is pitched to be an essen-tial gadget that picks up lint, pet hair and crumbs from a silicone-coated roller. I always thought silicone prevented sticking, but I’m not a chemist; therefore I’ll take their word.

For one price, you origi-nally got a little shticky and a medium shticky. !e new of-fer says you can now have a big shticky, which is long, for hard-to-reach places. I got interested at this point, but when I woke my wife up and asked if she’d like a big shticky for Mother’s Day, she cut o" the game in the middle of the sixth inning, before I got the toll-free number.

Last, but not least, we have Dr. Peter Popo" ’s Miracle Spring Water. (Hey guys, I swear I’m not making this up.) !e doctor says the small cachet, if sprinkled properly, assures debt cancellation. Sev-eral people o"er unsolicited testimonials that they bought the water, and money un-explicably appeared in their checking account. Where’s the FCC gone? Caveat emptor on this one, or you’ll get the big shticky for sure.

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Arise, then, women of this day!Arise all women who have hearts,Whether your baptism be that of water or of tearsSay !rmly: "We will not have great ques-tions decided by irrelevant agencies,Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,For caresses and applause.Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearnAll that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. "We women of one countryWill be too tender of those of another countryTo allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs." From the bosom of the devas-tated earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!""e sword of murder is not the balance of justice!Blood does not wipe out dishonorNor violence indicate possession.As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the sum-mons of war. Let women now leave all that may be le# of homeFor a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet !rst, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the meansWhereby the great human fam-ily can live in peace,Each bearing a#er his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,But of God. In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask"at a general congress of wom-en without limit of nationalityMay be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenientAnd at the earliest period consis-tent with its objectsTo promote the alliance of the di$erent nationalities,"e amicable settlement of international questions."e great and general interests of peace.

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