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SolAVerde non-suit the good and bad for town

Re-filing of $30-million suit against trio of council defendants planned
in late March or early April 010. That memo was issued as a result of simultaneous, but according to then Town Attorney Tom Robinett, independent inquiries from Carson Lauder and Chris Holloway. Subsequent to the confidential memo leak and press reports about it, as noted in Judge Peatross May 6, 011 ruling, on a motion by Sayre the three defendants voted on June 14, 010 to request a criminal investigation by the state police. After that motion failed, Sayre moved to refer the matter to a Special Grand Jury for investigation. Neither investigation occurred but a cloud of public innuendo had been cast over the entire project that essentially left it dead in the water. The focus of the town legal opinion and independent investigations sought by the defendants has since been identified as often publicly discussed jobs, economic and educational benefits to the community from the proposed development of a solar power field here.
Despite non-suit, the three individually-named defendants, including Carson Lauder and Chris Holloway shown here, may still see plantiffs Greg Horton and Donnie Poe in court.
By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report The Town of Front Royal got some good news on Dec. , three of its councilmen not so good. Prior to a motions hearing that essentially appeared to be revisiting May 011 arguments already ruled in the towns favor on sovereign immunity grounds and in favor of the individual defendants due to lack of legally-supportable detail , SolAVerde attorney David Silek filed a non-suit in the $30-million civil case alleging defamation and interference in a business contract negotiation. One non-suit is allowed by right in such civil cases, Silek explained. The town will not be named in a planned re-filing, Silek added. That was the good news. The bad was that Silek explained the non-filing was a legal maneuver to allow the suit to be refilled with new information against the individual council defendants Tom Sayre, Chris Holloway and Carson Lauder and possibly at least one John Doe defendant included in the original suit. We ran the risk of losing today and not being able to re-file this also allows the addition of new information to an amended complaint, Silek told media present in Warren County Courthouse for the scheduled hearing. Silek indicated he would be seeking depositions related to a re-filed and amended complaint in the near future and anticipated a re-filing by late winter or early spring. According to comments made by Silek on Dec. , it appears a July 009 meeting between town, solar and federal officials regarding the solar proposal may be a target of subsequent depositions. According to public and other information acquired by this newspaper, that informal meeting was attended by Councilman Sayre, solar project representative Willi Lauterbach and EPA official Larry Johnson. Town Manager Michael Graham introduced those present and left the meeting. At several subsequent council meetings Sayre referenced that meeting as productive and/or positive. Should they be deposed we may find out what the other participants perceptions were. Following the non-suit filing Silek was also highly critical of what he considers obstructionist tactics by the defendants. Rather than be deposed for the Dec. hearing as requested by the plaintiffs, Silek indicated the Virginia Municipal League attorney representing the defendants had filed a motion to quash the hearing and the depositions. This was one more opportunity to man up and admit they did wrong and avoid this unpleasantness. It is interesting all three hid from deposition. If Mr. Sayre wanted the truth to come out a deposition would have given him the opportunity to see that happen. One of these three knows the truth of what happened, Silek said. One primary truth sought by the plaintiffs, SolAVerde principals and local businessmen Greg Horton and Donnie Poe, is the source of a 010 council leak of confidential internal town memos. That leak led to a flurry of negative, front-page publicity about the solar project in the run up to the 010 town election. In reviewing Judge Peatrosss May 6 ruling, it appears the court decision in favor of the individual defendants came primarily due to a lack of information on several fronts. Chief among those fronts appears to be the identity of the person who leaked a confidential town attorney-client memo to the Northern Virginia Daily
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Francis Hall closes Halls Speedwash
Farewell, my friends. By Carol Ballard Warren County Report Francis Hall closed Halls Speedwash at 8:30 p.m. for the last time on December 31, 011 and will really miss his loyal customers and his very loyal employee, Lolita Pepper Smelser. He said that the rising costs of water and sewer have caused him to spend the last four months debating whether to close the 11th St. business or not. Its probably my fault because I didnt raise my prices to compensate for it, he said, and added that one reason he didnt was that a lot of the clientele were on fixed or low income salaries. This was a family atmosphere; people came in just to socialize sometimes. The same groups came in on Saturday and Sunday and they all knew each other and talked, he said about the Laundromat he has owned for the last 39 years. It was like the old barbershops, added Pepper. They recalled that a Mr. Bradley came in every day to get a paper and stayed for half the day to read it. It also had the distinction of being the only Laundromat open 4 hours a day, every day. We were very fortunate and had very little vandalism. The neighbors across the street watched out for us, he said. Francis and Pepper recalled with warmth some of the regulars that they will miss. One lady came in every day at 5 a.m. and washed a small load of laundry. I guess she didnt want any smell of laundry at her house, he said, with a chuckle. Another lady came in every other day, including the last day. Ive been coming in here for 33 years and I really loved this place, said the last customer, Mrs. Baltimore, and added that she didnt know where she would go now. She said she liked us better than any other, also liked the lo-
Francis Hall reflects on a long tenure as a community fixture. cation and was upset we were closing, said Francis. They said that the last few weeks some people came in everyday and the parking lot was always full with people saying things like, Oops, I forgot to wash the bedspreads, and getting their washing done before it closed. Pepper said she has a few jobs lined up. But I wont find a boss like him. I dont know what Im going to do, she said. And Francis replied, Shes been a faithful employee, she can do anything in here. The 8-year-old Francis said he did have mixed emotions but is looking forward to doing more traveling. He is semi-retired and now will be free to visit his daughter, Sandra Kay Stoneburner in Cincinnati or make some short trips to Florida, Hawaii or Las Vegas. And he still owns some rental properties, maintains them and stays active with the Lions Club and the Elks Club and is a member of Front Royal United Methodist Church. I enjoy being a member, its a big part of my life, he said. Francis has seen a lot of changes to Front Royal and Warren County over the years. I think Front Royal is a friendly town. At one time I thought knew at least half of people here, but with all the development in the mountains and outside town, that has changed, he noted. I love the area and the four seasons. I think its the most beautiful place I could ever go to with mountains all around us and the two rivers. Its so beautiful to come across the bridges and see
mountains, he said. When asked about his history in the county and Front Royal, he responded by saying he was born here and lived here all his life. He was born during the Depression and remembered his dad having a hard time finding a job. I wouldnt take anything for my experiences, he said. He worked on his grandfather Wade Hunts 360-acre sheep farm out near Bethel when he was young. Hunt Road was named after his grandfather, he said. He likes that he got good exercise and learned how farming was done back then. Horses did most of the hard work when he started on the farm, but his grandfather bought a John Deere tractor in 1938. I loved to drive that. It was the highlight of my life in those days. It replaced the horses, he said. Later on, he moved to Front Royal and worked at the Royal Palace Drycleaners in 1951. Thats where he got interested in the Laundromat business. He was in the National Guard for 1 years from 1949 to1970. He married his wife Emily and had two daughters, Pamela and Sandra. Hall has extended family here and says he plans to stay in Front Royal for the rest of his life. He made a point to end the interview by saying, Id like to thank all the people who were faithful to the business and the hospitality they showed to us. We can never replace the friendship we made with our customers.
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This old house on the move from Moyers site

By Malcolm Barr, Sr. Warren County Report A turn of the century (circa 1900s) house, probably built around the time of World War I, was relocated Jan. 4-5 as the man who was raised in the place from age five pensively looked on from his stoop across Duck Street. Paul Ruffner, 75, reflected nostalgically as he watched heavy equipment crews from H&W Construction haul the house, foot by foot, from its original location on the lot now owned by Moyer Motorcars, Inc. Ruffner, talking with me and Walt Moyer, said he lived in the home with his late mom and dad, Lucille and Paul Ruffner, while growing up. He was born in Front Royal and the Ruffners lived in the house and worked from it for more than 60 years. Its kinda sad [to see it hauled away] but life goes on, Paul said, explaining that the house was used for many years for the family plumbing and heating business. Paul Jr. and his two sons continue that business. Their bright red tanker trucks are familiar around town and county with the family name emblazoned on the side, while the sons answer calls for septic tank pumping. Moyer, president of Moyer Motorscars, the Rolls-Royce repair and rehabilitation specialists described in a recent issue of WC Report, said his company plans an expansion of its office building and workshop, so had to move the house to make room for the new construction. (Writers note: The next issue of the Warren County Report will show readers the old house at its new location.)
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Pelecanos, author of more than a dozen novels, is a local writer with a national reputation. That reputation has grown in recent years, in part through his association with two well-regarded HBO series, The Wire and Treme. The Cut is the first in a new series from Pelecanos. Spero Lucas, the protagonist, is a likable young veteran of the Iraq war trying to find his way in a Washington, DC very different from the DC most of us think we know. Working for a defense attorney as an investigator, Spero has developed a specialty: recovering stolen property. When hes successful, he takes his cut, forty percent. Hes clever and observant. In one case, he finds evidence that calls in question police testimony about two teenage boys accused of car theft. The teenagers go free and the father of one, in jail on drug charges, asks Spero to recover two packages of marijuana that someone has stolen. Spero takes the assignment, which leads into a world of violence and danger. The more he looks into the matter, the more it appears that he is in well over his head. The story itself is a sufficiently complicated yarn with enough unexpected twists to keep the reader interested. What gives the novel even greater appeal, however, is simply the chance to get to know Spero and to watch him make his way. Hes an adopted son of a Greek-American couple and he, in turn, has embraced their culture and values. Hes close to one brother, Leo, a high school English teacher, but not close to a brother who is a drug addict or to a sister who is a lawyer in California. Speros father is dead and he seems to be struggling with that. His mother is struggling with the death of her husband, but Spero doesnt seem fully to understand that or to want to offer much help. He has an affair with an intern in the defense attorneys office and it seems like it might become serious, even though the woman, an aspiring lawyer, is very different from Spero in terms of background and goals. There is plenty of violence along the way, and some sex, but, again, much of the interest lies in seeing how Spero deals with the challenges life is presenting to him. As the series continues, it may become formulaic and merely entertaining. Right now, it seems fresh. Spero is not a collection of shticks. His story opens up worlds. Part of this is Pelecanos amazing knowledge of music, film, food, and DC geography. I had to go on the Internet, to cite just one example, to see what Carhartt clothing, which Spero often wears, is all about. Readers could spend a lot of time exploring the worlds that Pelecanos opens for them. Mostly, though, I want to know more about Speros family, about the Iraq War veterans he hangs out with, and the neighborhoods and communities of which hes a part. The book will entertain and intrigue you. It will also provide some opportunities to reflect on what is important in life. Ill be watching for the next installment.* * This book is available in the Samuels Public Library.
Walt Moyer (left) and Paul Ruffner chat while cranes haul the house from its original, 100-year-old location.
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Faulty wood stove connection cited in Bentonville fire

Fire officials credit smoke alarm with awakening and saving occupants
Warren County fire investigators have determined the cause of a residential house fire which occurred early Friday morning, December 30, to be improper installation of a wood stove. While the stove had been in place for twenty years, heat from the stove conducted to the floor under the stove and started a fire that burned undetected for some time in the floor system. At approximately :5 AM that morning, occupants Walter and Claudia Kardian were awakened to the smoke alarm activating. They exited the residence safely and called the Fire Department. Units arrived to find a working fire in the floor system of the residence. The fire was extinguished quickly with overhaul taking another hour. The home experienced extensive fire damage to the floor and wall system of the living room and smoke damage to the remainder of the home. Estimates of damage were at $ 60,000. There were no injuries to occupants or fire and rescue personnel. Fire officials believe there is a high probability that if the residents did not have properly operating smoke alarms, the occupants would have been seriously injured or killed in this fire incident. With cold temperatures here for the winter, Fire and Rescue staff would like to remind everyone to use care and caution when heating your home. To increase the safety in your home, you can follow these simple safety tips: Keep anything that can burn at least three feet away from heating equipment, like the furnace, fireplace, wood stove, or portable space heater; Have a three-foot kidfree zone around open fires and space heaters; Never use your oven to heat your home; Have a qualified professional install stationary space heating equipment, water heaters or central heating equipment according to the local codes and manufacturers instructions; Have heating equipment and chimneys cleaned and inspected every year by a qualified professional; Remember to turn portable heaters off when leaving the vent fires from occurring in your on contact the Warren Counroom or going to bed; home,with other matters. 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Engles Angle: Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control,
By Kevin S. Engle Warren County Report Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to take your call at this time. Please try again later. If I hear that message one more time, Im gonna jump through this phone. But its my fault. If I wouldve changed my email password like I was supposed to, I wouldnt be listening to this recording for the fifth day in a row. I have two email accounts at work, one for my employer and one for our customer. I use the customer email account all the time. I hardly ever check my companys email. Once a week. Maybe. The only messages I get from my company are the ones telling me what our new vision statement is. Typically, when its time to reset your password, even if its expired, you type the old one and then the new one twice. My employer doesnt do it that way. If you dont change it every sixty days, youre locked out. No warning. No nothing. End of story. At that point, you have one option. Call the Computer (No) Help desk. If you can actually talk to a human being, its no big deal. They do their thing and Im reading the companys new vision statement a minute later. So I called. And waited. And waited more. I had to leave a message. I need to reset my password. Im here until 2:00 today. My number is xxx-xxI-diot. When I came in the next morning, someone had actually returned my call with a ticket number. Ok, were making progress. I called again. And thats when I heard my favorite recording for the first time. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to take your call at this time. Please try again later. Huh? Circumstances beyond their control? What the heck does that mean? Do I really want to know? I tried again the next day. Same thing. And the next. Same thing. This went on for more than a week. At first, I didnt mind. But as it dragged on, the ridiculousness of the situation started to annoy me. And then one morning when I got in, there was a voice mail from the day before. This is Luke. Im calling to see if youve gotten your issue resolved. If not, please call 1800-No-Help! I had to laugh. I tried again. Due to circumstances beyond our control, I checked with my Team Lead. You just have to keep trying, he told me. Sorry. And then, out of the blue, my phone rang. It was Luke. Have you gotten your password reset? No, I told him as the tears ran down my face, happy that I was actually talking to someone who could help me. Ok, he said ten seconds later, Ive reset it to Youre1BigIdiot. Thanks. After lunch, I accessed my email for the first time in almost three weeks. After deleting the message about our companys new vision statement, I typed in the temporary password and then my new one. I hit Enter. Your password does not meet the minimum security requirements. What? I stared at the message for a minute, confused. My new password was the same length as the old one, and a mix of numbers, letters and special characters, just as before. And then I did what any intelligent person would do in that situation. I retyped the exact same thing. Your password does not meet the minimum security requirements. I shook my head. One more try. Same error message. I picked up the phone and dialed. Due to circumstances beyond our control, I give up.
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report A long-time civilian employee of the Warren County Sheriff s Office lost her job several days after being charged with DUI and felony hit and run. According to Warren County Sheriff Daniel McEathron, Administrative Assistant Rebecca Lynn Whited resigned about three days after being charged by the state police on Sunday, Dec. 18. Whited had been employed at the sheriff s office between six and seven years, eight-year incumbent McEathron estimated. Whited, 41, was arrested by Virginia State Police about an hour and a half after a two-car accident investigation began near the intersection of Route 340 South and Rivermont Drive on Sunday, Dec. 18. According to a warrant filed by State Trooper C.R. Scally, he responded to the scene at 6:10 PM that Sunday evening and was informed by the remaining driver that the driver of the other vehicle had fled the scene. According to state police spokesman Sgt. F.L. Tyler a silver PT Cruiser occupied by a male and female was rear-ended by what was determined to be a 007 Chevrolet 4-door. According to the warrant the male occupant of the PT Cruiser told the trooper the accident occurred at 5:30 PM, some 40 minutes earlier. A partial tag number of XC?3616 for the departed vehicle was obtained from the occupants of the PT Cruiser. Scally then proceeded in the direction (unspecified) the other vehicle was reported to have left the scene. Shortly, and perhaps ironically, Scally was forwarded a report from the Warren County Sheriff s Office of a vehicle running through a yard with a corresponding tag number of XCD-3616. That information led Trooper Scally to a vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle registered to Whited. Scally, accompanied by Trooper Ralls who had received the WCSO incident report and tag number, located the vehicle and Whited at 48 Ash Road. During the subsequent conversation Whited admitted to being the driver at the time of the accident but told the troopers the other driver said she could leave the scene. Scally wrote this was not what was stated at the scene. Trooper Scally reported he detected a strong odor of alcohol from Whited. Asked if she had anything to drink since the accident, according to the warrant Whited told the troopers No. Scally then had Whited perform some field sobriety tests at her home, which he judged her performing poorly on other than an alphabet test which he reported no impairment detected. Whited then refused a legally inadmissible field breathalyzer test and was arrested at 7:46 PM. She was taken to Front Royal Police headquarters where she was tested with a legally admissible breathalyzer three times between 8:09 PM and 8:9 PM. Her BAC (blood alcohol content) was determined to be ., over twice the legal limit of .08. Whited is scheduled for a hearing on the charge in Warren County General District Court at 11 AM, Feb. 8. She was charged with felony hit and run because damage to the other vehicle was cited at over $1,000. Serta Queen Size Mattress & Boxsprings
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Read all issues in their entirety FREE on www.WarrenCountyReport.com The return of [the financial sector] of our nation to fiscal good health should encourage [BB&T] to seriously consider [forgiving this debt] as a huge community service taking advantage of current tax regulations that will prevail for who knows how long? In modern parlance, lets call it a bail out!
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annual Christmas Show, noted that this was Waysides 50th Christmas and thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we can assure you there will be a 51st season at Wayside. He recited a full schedule of plays. It was disappointing to this former member and secretary of the Wayside Foundation for the Arts that Crocker wouldnt guarantee the theater more of a future than the end of next season. One has to agree, however, that it is better to under-promise and overachieve, rather than the reverse. Given the success of last falls crash campaign for funds to avoid bankruptcy, there has been a sort of eerie silence from the Foundations board of directors, despite its seeing the importance that we continue to communicate - communication, of course, being a two-way street. As we on these pages congratulated that same board, plus Crocker and his staff, last October on solving the immediate financial crisis confronting Wayside, we also stressed the need for a long-range, realistic business plan as a major tool to keep the theater in business much longer than 01. Wayside Vice-President Dr. Byron Brill, a Warren County resident and perhaps the most ardent and generous supporter of the theater, advanced the notion saying, in part, We have a great deal more to do in the coming year to get control of our long term debt. That debt, incidentally, amounts to about $1 million, so were not talking small potatoes here. Bank debt accounts for about half of that amount. Unfortunately, previous boards of directors (mea culpa!), attracted by offers of the lower than prevailing interest rates, encouraged management to exponentially inflate an already burgeoning debt to meet both short and long term obligations. The bank debt is secured by two Wayside properties, including the historic theater building. Were sure the bank (BB&T) desires neither, nor are the buildings, in this shaky economy, worth the money owed, so it might not be a bad idea for the bank to contemplate forgiving part of, or, maybe, all this debt. The return of our nation to fiscal good health, at least as far as the financial industry is concerned, should encourage them to seriously consider this as a huge community service (reference Herbie Hancock), while simultaneously taking advantage of current tax regulations that will only prevail for, well, who knows
By Malcolm Barr Sr. Warren County Report I cannot imagine a world without music, art, film, dance, THEATER, and books ... the arts are the glue that holds us together, the cultural fabric
of our lives, and they sow seeds for inventive, universally shared experiences. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Artistic director Warner Crocker, effervescent in welcoming the opening night crowd to Wayside Theatres
how long? In modern parlance, lets call it a bail out! Setting aside that momentary flash of inspiration or, as some may call it, whistling in the wind, there is also the matter of about $400K that needs to be repaid as a matter of conscience, if nothing else. This money has been loaned by individuals over the past decade. Parenthetically, and back to our whimsy in the previous sentences, wouldnt a banks generosity in forgiving a debt and taking a tax windfall be preferable to settling for 10-cents on the dollar in a bankruptcy proceeding? Or are we being too naive? In any event, the new executive body its the same as the old one which may still be basking in the reflected glory of last falls successful fund-raising campaign-had better quickly gets its collective head down to determine how best to raise money to run the theater and retire the overall debt during the next decade or so. To this end, an imaginative whatto-do but not how-to-do-it plan illustrated by a baseball diamond was mailed to a list of 700 or so donors who generously contributed $106,000 ($16K over the target) last September/October. It was accompanied
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report If a Jan. 3rd Front Royal Town Council work session is any indicator, things could continue to be dicey in the new year as the town and county continue to negotiate a mutually acceptable split of financial responsibilities and benefits generated by communitywide economic development and provision of services. Much of the work session discussion revolved around a fair funding formula for the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority. However it was apparent that the issue is much broader, centering on the tenuous dynamic that the town is part of the county and that much of the countys commercial and industrial tax revenue was enabled by the extension of town utilities as part of a town-county economic recovery agreement in 1998-99. At the point of council criticism of existing financial arrangements between the town and county was Tom Conkey. At issue for Conkey and other county critics, perhaps most prominently former Councilman and Town Manager Walter Duncan, is a seeming reluctance by the county to rework that corridor agreement and its financial arrangements in the wake of a lawsuit that removed a key financial benefit to the town the attachment of town meals and lodging tax fees to corridor business water-sewer bills. One prominent reason cited for Judge Dennis L. Hupps corridor suit ruling was a changing economic landscape primarily the 00 introduction of a county meals tax into the corridor financial equation. On Jan. 3, the discussion centered on a council suggested re-working of the town-county Memorandum of Understanding on funding of the EDA. Town Manager Steve Burke summarized the countys response to the changes submitted for consideration by council. The county was okay with two of five changes revising language to include the towns participation in determining the EDA annual budget allocation, and specifying each partys proportion of such taxes as part of the process. However the supervisors declined a change in the number of town and county appointments to the EDA board based on population (one plus one for the town); development of an annual list of goals and actions expected of the EDA each year; and a seven-year limit on a re-worked MOA before revisiting its terms. Past discussion has indicated a council-wide realization, even by current funding formula critics, that with redevelopment of Avtex/Royal Phoenix on the horizon the town may see the benefit pendulum swing somewhat back its way in coming years. Seeking reduced town responsibility for EDA operational funding due to the relative benefit of economic development to the county over recent years, Conkey noted that at a previous liaison meeting Supervisor Tony Carter had suggested the county could assume all EDA operational funding in exchange for the town continuing to fund all tourism and promotional activities for the town and county. Mayor Darr pointed out the full board of supervisors had to agree to Carters suggestion to facilitate implementation, to which Conkey replied, Thats his problem. While Conkey acknowledged the towns share of financial responsibility on payment of EDA loans, he questioned its obligation on operations when the result of those operations is heavily weighted to county benefit. He noted that an MOU is not a legally binding contract and stated due to the changing community-wide economic dynamics the current one was no longer valid. We no longer have a meeting of the minds, so we no longer have any agreement, Conkey suggested. I thought we were partners, Hollis Tharpe said of town and county involvement with the EDA. Its funded by its mom and pop us and the county. Tharpe suggested that it wasnt appropriate for council to try and dictate EDA operational or funding parameters to the county. The county has no qualms telling us what to do, Conkey replied of his perception of the existing agreement and how it might or might not be altered. Conkey asked recently-appointed Town Attorney Doug Napier, who used to be county attorney, to explore the historical documentation in place on the dynamics of EDA operations and funding. The final consensus appeared to be to get the detailed appraisal from legal staff and forwarding the matter, along with other funding issues to the Jan. 19 liaison meeting. 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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report We preface our 011 Year in Review section with photos from the final event of a year-long celebration of the 175th anniversary of the incorporation of Warren County as an independent municipality. The celebration featured a number of events beginning in March and culminating with this Dec. 9 dedication of a 175th Anniversary time capsule and official presentation of renowned Civil War artist Mort Kunstlers On to the Shenandoah. The painting showing Confederate General Stonewall Jackson moving through Front Royal at the site of the original courthouse was commissioned by local businessman Jeff LeHew and his wife Sondra. LeHews family were among the founders of European settlement of this section of the Shenandoah Valley. But that was then, this is now or more accurately a now aiming for a 00th Anniversary time capsule opening in 5 years. What those celebrating the countys 00th anniversary will find are mementoes of the 011 anniversary events, WCHS and Skyline High yearbooks and apparel, 175th Anniversary print projects and cards from all five elementary schools, programs from dedications of facilities including the Freewheeling Way and Carson Trail Parks, and local newspapers, including three Warren County Reports. It will be interesting to see the perspective of younger readers and others in 036 to the styles of the era and news of 011 as it was reported on these and other pages see you kids there
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report While much money and noise is being made alleging an ancient Mayan prediction that not only their 5,000-year calendar cycle would end, but also the world on Dec. 3, 01, we do not subscribe to the theory that 01 will mark the end of the world as we know it. However, it does appear yet another supposedly primitive culture had advanced astronomical and scientific knowledge; and yes it appears a distinct celestial alignment will occur late next year; and yes, it is even possible there may be increased solar flare activity around that time that could create problems for the electronic communications system we have become so dependent on. However having survived, along with my computer, the YK computer apocalypse, I believe I will be toiling for your pleasure through another Year in Review summation this time next year. Besides, to my thinking the world I grew up in has already ended with the legalization of corporate personhood and further ruling of immunity from prosecution for criminal conspiracies by said corporations. And it is with this turn in mind that I have reached back through our 011 online archives (available at www. warrencountyreport.com) to seek out stories that reflect this communitys connection not only to itself, but also the larger issues that reach down to impact every community in this nation and perhaps upon this planet. Also included are remembrances of the loss of a number of individuals who represented the best this community had to offer on a number of fronts over the years people who represent an ideal of community and contributions that connects us all for a common good. And of course the ongoing consequences of the national economic downturn on foreclosures, business closings and struggles to survive are a backdrop to all of the included events. So dear readers, proceed if you will through the good, bad, ugly and occasionally humorous of 011 the year before the end of the world.
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Tuesday, Aug. 3, as people in the Northern Shenandoah Valley braced for possible inland rains and wind from Hurricane Irenes projected path north up the Eastern Seaboard they got an unexpected jolt. At 1:51 PM as this reporter was having lunch with a friend at Element on South Royal Avenue the building was shaken by what was initially reported to be a 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered 4 miles from both Louisa and Mineral, Virginia A quick map check of the USGS website indicated the epicenter triangulated by Charlottesville to the west, Fredericksburg and Richmond to the northeast and southeast, respectively. According to the USGS the earthquake was centered at 37N latitude and 78W longitude in an area known as the Central Virginia Seismic Zone. Weaker earthquakes in the 4.0 range to 5.0 range are reported as typical of this zone. But according to the Virginia Statehouse News no earthquake stronger than 3.5 has struck Virginia in over 30 years. Four tremors at 3.4 to 3.9 have emanated from the Mineral, Virginia area epicenter in the week following the initial 5.8 earthquake. The initial quake is the strongest in Virginia since 1879 (13 years) and launched a week of 19 subsequent tremors ranging from 1.8 to 3.9 at essentially the same location under the earths surface (see related story). The USGS reports that 4.0 quakes can typically be felt 60 miles away and 5.0 quake as far away as 300 miles, with damage typical as far as 5 miles from the epicenter of a 5.0 quake. Nuclear shut down Two nuclear reactors operated by Dominion Power in Louisa County at North Anna were 11 miles of from the quakes epicenter between Mineral and Louisa. Dominion Spokesman Jim Norvelle told us on Aug. 30 that the North Anna nuclear reactors, which were shut down automatically following the quake, remained off line pending ongoing company and upcoming inspections by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NRC concerns were raised when it was determined the quake may have created more stress on the North Anna nuclear facility than its engineering parameters were designed to take. Four emergency diesel generators were operating key systems at the nuclear plants. While the reactors remain shut down Local damage The quake rolled through Northern Virginia, Washington D.C. and into the Northern Shenandoah Valley Property Manager Teresa Cherry of the Shenandoah Commons Apartment Complex off Westminster Drive told us initial reports indicated damage, primarily to water lines, in nine of 10 buildings in the complex. Some residents allowed to return to their apartments were advised not to use their stoves that evening DC area damage Some 70 miles to our east, where nerves are usually a bit more taught due to the national political machinations for control or destruction of the federal governmental apparatus, the U.S. Capitol and other federal buildings were evacuated due to the rolling tremor A spire collapsed at National Cathedral in
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Gov. McDonnell gets emergency briefing as information on statewide impacts of earthquake pour in. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Perhaps ironically we received a notice from Governor Robert McDonnells office on Tuesday, Aug. 3 that he would be making an Important Virginia Disaster Relief Funding Announcement the following day in Richmond. The notice came at 1:14 PM, exactly 37 minutes before the most powerful earthquake to strike the commonwealth in 13 years struck with a strength estimated at 5.9 on the Richter Scale. Four days later a large and powerful hurricane called Irene created chaos up the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts and beyond with 85 mph winds, heavy rains and oceanic storm surges. While earthquake damage around the commonwealth was not severe and Dominion Power reported only a disruption of North Anna nuclear service due to an emergency and precautionary shutdown of the North Anna nuclear reactors, the potential for disaster of much greater magnitude seems clear. Are there lessons to be learned or at least a pause to be taken in plans to expand the use of nuclear power in Virginia, and the U.S. in general? According to Dominion Power the distance from the earthquake epicenter in Louisa County to the two nuclear reactors at North Anna is 11 miles Last March Virginia Statehouse News reporter Alissa Smith reported Gov. McDonnell dismissing the notion of a Japanese-style nuclear disaster happening in Virginia. McDonnell observed that Virginias nuclear plants are inland, away from the ocean (and the threat of tsunami) and not in an earthquake zone You may recall the cover story in our Late March 011 edition As Japan sizzles McDonnell comments on nuclear future. Gov. Bob McDonnell believes Virginia should use more nuclear power in the future, despite overwhelming worldwide concern about the earthquake-crippled Japanese nuclear power plant that is leading high levels of radiation and is in danger of melting down, Smith wrote on our pages five months ago The 1879 earthquake, described as the last major one to hit Virginia, was also measured at 5.9 as the August 3, 011 quake was initially. Smith also reported last March that according to the USGS no quake greater than 3.5 had hit Virginia in over 30 years While the corporate-owned, national news media has ceased to report regularly on it, the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan is a blueprint of what might happen if a more powerful earthquake were to strike in proximity to North Anna or any other of the active nuclear power plants along the Eastern Seaboard. According to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission survey, nine of the 10 most threatened by natural disaster U.S. nuclear power plants are in the east. Only Californias Diablo Canyon, lying in proximity to two separate fault lines and some 0 million people, made the list from the American west Fukushima has now been equated to the level of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, an explosion in 1986 that blew huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. But unlike Chernobyl once a containment structure was built, the environmental impacts of Fukushima seem to be astonishingly open ended due to the nuclear meltdown into the earth. What, me worry?
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in the earths climate over recent decades that might lead us to draw conclusions? The earths atmosphere has 4 percent more moisture in it than 40 years ago; Recently the earths global temperature has risen a collective degree and is threatening to rise another under existing patterns of human industrialization; Hurricanes are gaining intensity and/or the amounts of moisture they dump in their paths 010 was the warmest year globally in the known history of this planet What to make of it all? It would seem we are a nation and a world out of balance. Some, including several now on the presidential campaign trail, would have us believe such a lack of balance, economic or environmental, is Gods will and a political endorsement of their particular belief system. Such people, wrapped in a self-styled cloak of religious enlightenment, will actually embrace both destructive climactic and political patterns they see as the inevitable fulfillment of a Biblical prophecy of Armageddon; of their personal ascendance to the side of God (or maybe just to the side of their billionaire sponsors vision of themselves as dollar-protected gods on earth)
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Residents mill around after being evacuated from earthquake-damamged Shenandoah Commons apartments off Westminster Drive in Front Royal. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Lets all pat ourselves on the back from North Carolina to Canada we appear to have survived the end of the world. Okay, it wasnt the end of the world; it was just reported by the national news media as if it were. From Fox News to CNN to every major network affiliate in D.C. (and Im guessing the rest of the East Coast) to the Weather Station (you know them ooh, my feet are wet; its windy out here; oh, someones hat blew off ) for 36 to 48 hours there was NO other news in the world IRENE is COMING; EVACUATE; prepare to OBEY or DIE. In perhaps a final media irony, as the death toll essentially doubled to 40 by Aug. 30 as the worst flooding since 197 ravaged the northeast, the national media officially termed Hurricane Irene over and a dud albeit a dud that same media lived off of to the exclusion of all other news on the planet for two or more days. In our part of the Valley we were luckier than most Rappahannock Electric Cooperative reported just 55 power outages in Warren County, primarily in higher altitude neighborhoods in Blue Mountain, Apple Mountain and High Knob in the Linden area, as well as Chester Gap to the south Across Virginia 980,000 people were without power at some point, including 119,000 in Northern Virginia, 371,000 in Richmond; and 341,000 in Southeastern Virginia Another 773,000 lost power in the D.C.-Baltimore areas. And perhaps the most destructive element in our state was the 16-plus inches of rain Gov. Bob McDonnells office reported falling 50 to 60 miles inland in the Route 460 and 58 corridors along the North Carolina border in Suffolk and Southampton Counties. However one phrase that was never heard during any of the coverage this unusually large and moist hurricane was climate change how or does Irene fit into what have become increasingly extreme patterns of worldwide and U.S. weather? I know, I know but DONT stop reading of course I realize one storm does not an environmental theory make. It would be CRAZY to make such an assumption. However it is just as crazy to totally IGNORE a pattern of global weather that is unfolding around us with increasing intensity and impact. On every continent extremes of every kind are being felt: record flooding in Pakistan, China, Australia, and the closerto-home Missouri and Mississippi River basins; drought and famine in Africa; record snows and storm patterns in Europe; polar ice caps and glaciers melting away at unprecedented rates; and as much as 16 or more inches of rain dumped inland as Irene traveled up the U.S. coast. But no major news outlet cared to connect those dots because they are dots a specific American minority, a minority that includes the corporate owners of the national news media outlets, does not want connected in the mind of the American public What are some patterns found
Read all issues in their entirety FREE on www.WarrenCountyReport.com The issue is more political [than financial] because the Republican Party that controls the House has views which lean toward dismantling the USPS, possibly for privatizations purposes, verses repairing the damage they have done through their legislation. - DC/S. Md. Postal Union President Dena Briscoe
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The annual cost to USPS has been $5.5 billion a year money taken away from operational and existing infrastructure needs. As Kilkenny pointed out, it is a financial burden unshared by any other government service, agency, corporation or organization within the United States. Hamstrung agency PAEA does require that USPS retiree health benefits be prefunded at $5.5 billion annually. The Postal Service is the only government agency required to prefund its retiree health benefits. Were it not for the pre-funding requirement, USPS would have shown a profit of $1 billion over the last four years, USPS Communications Programs Specialist Laura Dvorak told us. USPS is at the center of a $1-trillion mailing industry representing more than 7 percent of our nations GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and 6 percent of our nations jobs 90 percent of which are in private industry; this mailing industry employs eight-million Americans. Dvorak noted that the U.S. Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies entirely on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations I believe it has nothing to do with employee benefits, Nations Capital/Southern Md. Postal Union President Dena Briscoe told us of PAEA. I believe it is a way to get money out of the organization to use as they see fit. The postal service surplus prior to this mandate was great. It has also been used to create a deficit for the organization USPS was in a good financial place prior to the 006 Postal Accountability Enhancement Act Congress created this problem and they can also, fix the problem. The issue is more political because the Republican Party that controls the House has views which lean toward dismantling the USPS, possibly for privatizations purposes, verses repairing the damage they have done through their legislation. Motive Kilkenny points out the U.S. Postal Service is perhaps the strongest union in the country with over 574,000 members and is the second largest employer in the United States second only to union-less Wal-mart. The Postal Service, which is older than the Constitution itself, stands at a precipice. If this great institution, which provides one of the oldest, most reliable services in the country, is permitted to fall and Congress kills its great union, then truly no collective bargaining rights, no worker contract, no union will be safe within the United States, Kilkenny wrote. I believe that the 006 PAEA was created to set the USPS up for privatization, Briscoe says Its part of the class war and its against the poor and its a class war against working people, says New York Metro Area Postal Union Political Director Chuck Zlatkin Floundering or thriving? As for the federal postal services ability to survive the rise of e-mail and private sector competition in the 1st Century, Zlatkin pointed out The biggest volume in pieces of mail handled by the Postal Service in its 36-year history was in 006. The second and third busiest years were in 005 and 007, respectively Front Royals Post Office has 9 employees; elsewhere in the surrounding Northern Shenandoah Valley there are 195 fulltime employees and 6 part-time employees of the United States Postal Service. Their fate and the timing of that fate without Congressional action to reverse the current legal mandate that the postal service set aside the great bulk of its revenue to provide health care benefits for unborn people for jobs that may not exist by the time they are born is at this time unclear.
Dark political clouds have formed over the U.S. Postal Service. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report (Managing editors note: Still largely ignored by the national media, we first reported in September that the root issue of the U.S. Postal Service financial crisis was an unprecedented and politically-motivated assault on the oldest and most self-sufficient governmental agency and its 574,000-member labor union.) While the national media and political pundits focus on changing times and private sector competition as the bottom line of a financial crisis threatening the viability and perhaps the very existence of the United States Postal Service, the real story is not surprisingly being ignored by that corporate-owned media. That story is a concerted political effort begun in 006 to cripple one of the largest federal agencies, and not coincidentally one of the largest national work force unions in the nation. Rather than the ascension of email and competition from UPS and Federal Express, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is being threatened by legislation passed during the administration of President George W. Bush that placed an untenable and senseless financial burden on the federal postal service under the guise of accountability, professional and financial responsibility sound familiar? Pay attention, public education could be next. The effort to hamstring and financially cripple the postal service, and increasingly privatize the transport of mail in this country seems to have begun with the 006 Congressional passage of the Postal Accountability Enhancement Act (PAEA). Sounds harmless enough accountability and enhancement, what could be bad? Unfortunately in the age of Orwellian, right-wing, corporate doublespeak where a Clean Air Act actually enables industrial pollution and No Child Left Behind means every childs education is reduced, a lot! The PAEA placed an untenable and unprecedented financial burden on a recently thriving federal postal service. That burden was that USPS fully fund future retirees health benefits for the next 75 years and that mandate would have to be accomplished within a 10-year timeframe. As pointed out in a lengthy exploration of the issue by Allison Kilkenny published on Sept. 8 on the Truthout website, Thats right. Congress was demanding universal health care coverage. GEEZ, why wont they take that stance for the rest of us?!!?
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Thats what postal customers must initially adjust to but what might lie in the future for those who rely on the U.S. Postal Service? USPS continues to consolidate mail processing facilities to reduce personnel, energy and transportation costs, and is studying approximately 3,700 retail offices for possible closure. For us to remain viable, we need Congress to act on legislation that would eliminate the current mandate requiring retiree health benefit pre-payments before the end of September Congress has failed to heed these calls and now you have the announced service cutbacks as the U.S. Postal Service struggles to survive USPS Communications Programs Specialist Laura Dvorak said On the bright side those foreclosure notices sent First Class may also come a day later First the post office tomorrow the world of public services: schools, law enforcement, criminal incarceration and As Republican strategist, lobbyist and neo-con no-tax philosopher Grover Norquist said in a recent 60 Minutes interview about his famous call to shrink the federal government to the size where it could be drowned in a bathtub, We want it down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub. And then it could worry about what we were up to.
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Ready to do without your local post office? By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Dec. 5 the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) submitted proposed changes to its operations to the Postal Regulatory Commission. The move toward the suggested changes began on Sept. 15 when the Postal Service announced it would begin studying changes to meet a budgetary crisis. Initially the impact on postal customers will be a potential oneday delay in delivery of First Class and periodical mail. While the loss of one-day delivery of most First Class mail and periodical deliveries may seem minor, customers who pay bills or receive time-sensitive materials such as daily newspapers, including some with one-day retail sales notices, as well as other periodicals could be hugely impacted. Those lastminute birthday cards from or to grandpa and grandma, especially those in more remote rural locations will have to be sent earlier or they could become birthdayplus-a-couple-days cards. Expect that mail-delivered DVD movie tomorrow? Not so fast.
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of residents in helping to alert their neighbors to the pending emergency and local citizens and businesses in providing food to firefighters over a threeday span of non-stop action in the face of a fire event unlike any within this generation of local firefighters experience. Its something Ive never seen before, Chief Mabie told the county supervisors and staff during a March 1st work session. It is the largest operation Ive ever worked on with companies sent in from as far away as Arkansas weve certainly never seen anything like this and I hope we never get this kind of day again the wind and terrain beat us to death and it [the Browntown/National Park fire] was aching to get over to those guys [fighting the Linden area fires]. Mabie said park service officials described the BrowntownNational Park fire as one of the largest fires ever to hit the north side of Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive. Even 11 days, including one snow and one heavy rain event later, Mabie reported that park service officials were saying the park fire was still considered as much as 0-percent active, with hot spots flaring up and requiring continued attention. But perhaps remarkably, Mabie noted that there were no fatalities and only two minor smoke inhalation injuries to firefighters. That is an unheard of low number of injuries for this type and this amount of work, Mabie said I think its safe to say that Saturday, February 19, 011 will go down as one of the busiest, if not the busiest day in Warren County firefighting history The day actually started on the preceding Thursday (Feb. 18) while operating at a wildfire on Skyline View Drive at the top of High Knob subdivision Following Mabie and Maiaticos description of citi-

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On March 1st Warren County Fire & Rescue Chief Richard Mabie and Lt. Gerry Maiatico presented a summary of the events surrounding the departments experience of the weekend of Feb. 18-0 as high winds fueled a breakout of wildfires around Warren County. Most
prominently was the Browntown area fire beginning Feb. 19th that eventually consumed a now estimated ,000 acres in the Shenandoah National Park. Other fires forced evacuations in mountain neighborhoods around Linden. The Blue Mountain area fire eventually consumed 3 acres, fire officials said. Maiatico described the scene
he and other responders encountered on the countys east side mountain neighborhoods as looking like Armageddon as people fled the path of localized fires with pets and possessions in the areas around Linden Heights, including High Top Road, Lookout Point, Cliffside and McDonalds Farm. Mabie credited the actions
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zen and community efforts in support of firefighters and their own threatened communities, Shenandoah Supervisor Richard Traczyk observed, I think this is another example of our citizens pulling together when we need them it makes me proud to be a part of this community.
On the down side of community involvement, Park Service Official Harold Fisher confirmed a local man was charged with carelessly damaging property by fire, a Class IV misdemeanor, for improperly disposing of ashes from an outdoor heating woodstove on his home property
Our history
Let us not forget that no one is born prejudiced. Prejudice is learned and can be unlearned. Prejudices are attitudes rooted in ignorance and fear of differences. It is my job to stop prejudice it is the job of everyone here. Lost Class of 1959 Student Vice-President June Myers Jeffrey
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and white student groups joined to unveil the commemorative state marker enabled by a grant from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources Historic Marker Program A walk across history Rev. James Kilby, one of those first black students to enter WCHS to be educated and Lost Class of 1959 Student Government Vice-President June Myers Jeffrey addressed their and a communitys turbulent experience of over a half century ago I believe we were anointed by our Creator for this mission. We were prepared to remain nonviolent and have the right attitude to be in this movement. We knew that we had the ambition, the desire and ability to accomplish our goal to achieve a quality education for all. We believed there was a Divine Power and a Divine intervention from God to help us go the distance Rev. Kilby said. In remembering her and her white classmates experiences, June Myers Jeffrey began by quoting Martin Luther King and ended by quoting Mahatma Gandhi. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, Jeffrey began, quoting from a King letter written from a Birmingham, Alabama jail in 1963 History must serve, how-
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report (Managing editors note: In a follow-up to the public school systems graduation ceremony for the Lost Class of 1959 and earlier acknowledgements of Front Royal and Warren Countys historical position in the statewide battle for equal educational rights for all citizens, this event brought those students, black and white, most directly impacted by the flaws of their political leaders together as a group for perhaps a final time.) On June 8th this community and its public school system paused to take a half-century step back through time. At 5 p.m. on the grounds of the old Luray Avenue Warren County High School a state historical marker to the building and its students experience surrounding the Virginia state governments resistance to court-ordered desegregation of public schools was dedicated. The dedication commemorates the site, people and events those people lived through in 1959 related to the racist state government policy of Massive Resistance to desegregation of public schools in Warren County and all of Virginia. It was a historic moment because between February and September 1959 the past, present and future all collided when Massive Resistance was first implemented and later overcome at WCHS in Front Royal. The gratitude we owe the generation that lived through that crucible is incredible, County Heritage Society Director and Historic Marker Committee member Patrick Farris told a crowd including some of that generation, both black and white. Fifty-two years ago to the day, on June 8, 1959, the countys first black students received their degrees on these Luray Avenue school grounds. But Farris pointed out that when those first 3 black students to integrate and graduate from WCHSs 1000-student facility, they did it alone, as they had studied alone through that first semester as a result of the stateimplemented policy of Massive Resistance. That policy allowed the state government to close any Virginia Public School attempting to integrate. But the following September, just seven months after over 0 black students entered a largely empty WCHS, nearly 50 percent of the white students who were initially forced to leave their school returned voluntarily to implement a truly integrated public school system here. Surviving members of both black
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To say weve always done it this way is incorrect because if it was done by The Byrd Machine, at another time prior to the 190s or 1930s obviously we voted in November. local historian Suzanne Silek
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Tim Ratigan, who has announced his decision to run for mayor in 2012, urged council to make the change to November. elections appears to have been the catalyst for the citizen initiative for the switch to November in the first place. That initiative grew out of citizen outrage over the firing of Town Manager Michael Graham on Sept. 7, 010 and to some extent general dis-
Mayor Tim Darr ponders his tiebreaking vote. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report It was as predictable as the unpredictability of the weather the Front Royal Town Councils 4-3 rejection of a citizen-driven initiative to move the towns standalone May elections to November to coincide with federal elections and potential voter turnouts of 60 to 70 percent. The only votes that were not apparent from the start of the discussion some eight months ago were Tom Sayres and Mayor Tim Darrs. Sayre initially railed against the change for bringing partisanship into town politics while saying he was 50-50 on the issue. But eventually he moved toward a town survey majority position as Darr began making it perfectly clear for at least two months that he was not buying into the logic that the switch to November was necessary or an effective means to stimulate increased voter turnout. Proponents said their goal was breaking the influence of small blocks of special interest groups on town elections with an average 17-percent voter turnout over the past decade. Over the past eight years the lone town election that bucked the below 0 percent turnout trend was the volatile Wal-mart by the river 004 election that saw a 3-percent turnout bump four incumbents from office. Ironically perhaps, it was one councilman first brought to town office during the higher voter turnout 004 Wal-mart massacre now Mayor Darr who cast the deciding vote against the switch to November. My question is are we doing this for the right reasons? Darr said in prefacing his tiebreaking no vote. Darr addressed his belief that the call for a change to November elections was a direct result of citizen discontent with some sitting members of council Darr seemed to buy into the logic of the trio of councilman who opposed the change from the outset Carson Lauder, Hollis Tharpe and Vice-Mayor Chris Holloway that if people want a change in their elected town government, no one is preventing them from coming to the polls in May to achieve that change Coincidence? Perhaps coincidentally the quartet voting to stick with May
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men voting to maintain May elections are banking on two things: 1/ a citizen petition of the courts and subsequent referendum will not occur in time to impact the 01 town election; and / should a citizen referendum affect the change to November, by the 014 town election when that change is likely to be implemented everyone will have forgotten what they were mad at them for in the first place rogerb@warrencountyreport.com
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rolled into the Aug. 6 Democratic caucus and replaced incumbent Democrat Glenn White as the Democratic nominee by a 31-15 vote. Curiosity, skepticism and open anger greeted Holloways first appearance at a monthly Democratic Committee meeting. According to some Democrats, Holloway and those who came out in his support at the caucus at Samuels Public Library were strangers to both the committee and Democratic politics in the county. Committee Vice-Chair Molly Snyder told the caucus and its majority of unfamiliar faces she looked forward to seeing them at the Committee meeting the following week so she could get to know each one personally. According to some observers, one amongst the crowd of Holloway supporters could not suppress an audible snicker at that thought. Several committee members observed that Holloway was the only new Democrat of his caucus support base present at the Aug. 9 Democratic Committee meeting. Before it was over he may have wished he wasnt. Following his nomination, Holloway was quoted in the Northern Virginia Daily as stating he left the Republican Committee because he found committee infighting distasteful. How do you know it would be any different here? he was asked during his first Democratic Com-
Chris Holloway looks right in this council file photo but he went left in the November county election. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report (Managing editors note: was it local political conspiracy to eliminate the lone Democrat from the board of supervisors or just an ill-conceived way to deal with a failure to get ones paperwork in on time to file for your existing political committees nomination? Whatever it was, the three-way race that evolved saw both Chris Holloway and his chief critic lose to the candidate, Dan Murray, most removed from the resultant conflict.) The specter of dirty politics and the motive behind Chris Holloways sudden switch of political Party allegiances was raised just three days after the sitting Front Royal vice mayor garnered the Democratic nomination for the North River District seat on the Warren County Board of Supervisors. Just 11 days after leaving the Warren County Republican Committee, Front Royal Vice-Mayor Chris Holloway and 31 friends
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The whole thing is a sad mess. My on-the-record comment Ive lost my trust in the board of directors of Human Life International and in Father Euteneuer. Thankfully, I havent lost my trust in God. Catholic blogger Matt C. Abbott
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Euteneuer was president of Human Life International and posted at the Front Royal headquarters at time of his admitted sexual indescretions, though he stated they did not directly relate to his HLI duties. We asked the woman on whose blog one discussion of the event took place what she knew of the incident. I heard from someone who attended that Mass at Front Royal the other day that people were traumatized by what happened a suddenly screaming, howling, cursing person and are demanding to know whats going on, Adele replied. Five days after this incident, as the Catholic blogosphere exploded with theories, accusations and counter-accusations, Euteneuer broke the five months of official silence with an admission of one instance of moral failing related to sexual behavior during his performance of an exorcism. The circumstances that led to my departure from HLI were related exclusively to my own decisions and conduct within the ministry of exorcism that I carried out independently from my responsibilities at HLI, Euteneuer began in a Feb. 1st post
Father Thomas Euteneuer By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report An increasingly shrill and sometimes threatening tide of Catholic online debate about the reasons for the sudden and unexpected Aug. 7, 010 departure of Father Thomas Euteneuer from his post as president of Human Life International led to a flurry of official apologies, explanations and defenses of both Euteneuers past behavior as not only the superstar of the international pro-life movement, but also an exorcist for the Catholic Church. The Internet crescendo over allegations of sexual improprieties by the priest in the conduct of his religious duties peaked in the wake of a Jan. 7th medical emergency at HLIs Front Royal, Virginia headquarters. The incident was officially listed as a medical seizure by Warren County Fire and Rescue Chief Richard Mabie. However some witnesses believe the incident to be a demonic possession of a past female associate of Father Euteneuers. I witnessed one demonic event just today. It was horrifying. All I can think of is how this poor woman must be feeling so trapped within her skin as the evil uses her voice to roar and curse, one blogger posted that evening. The demons, on the other hand, must be loving the irony of possessing the poor, tragic toys of the great exorcist Posting just four minutes later, at 8:0 PM Jan. 7, another anonymous blogger added, There are many of us who witnessed todays horrible event.
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By Dan McDermott Warren County Report Fox News host Sean Hannity addressed the controversy surrounding a former Front Royalbased exorcist Catholic priest at the end of his Hannity cable news show Wednesday night and made note of the unusually favorable treatment he has been getting from Huffington Post commentators as part of that story. After playing portions of a now infamous 007 exchange in which then Human Life International Father Thomas Euteneuer called Hannity a heretic and cultural Catholic, Hannity read part of Fr. Euteneuers recent confession to transgressions which caused him to be removed as president of Human Life International. I take full responsibility for my own poor judgment, my weakness and my sinful conduct that resulted from it, Hannity read. The host then noted the priests admission of violating his vow of chastity due to human weakness which Fr. Euteneuer said did not involve the sexual act. Bill Clinton would be proud of that, Hannity joked. Look, I dont want to make a situation worse. Apparently something happened pretty severe and hes been taken away from his position, Hannity said. But Hannity still seemed upset at having his faith questioned and the priests conduct after the appearance on Hannity & Colmes. Hes so self righteous. He spent years raising money off this exchange with me and building his name recognition, Hannity said. Euteneuer appeared on the 007 Hannity & Colmes show to chastise Hannity for supporting birth control as a preferable alternative to abortion for non-Catholics. But in this world we live in, do you really think that you can convince non-Catholics, non-Christians [to] wait until marriage to have sex? Theres a certain realistic quality to what I was saying. Not that I like it. Its just real, he said One of the panelists joked that the video clip of his face-off with Rev. Euteneuer had brought out the inner liberal in Hannity. Shuffling, perhaps uncomfortably, in his seat at that thought, Hannity responded, Thats like the Huffington Post defending me now.
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those same Oakland police shooting a canister projectile directly into the head of Iraq vet Scott Olsen as he stood quietly, fracturing his skull and nearly killing him; and trashing two months of accumulated property, including the New York occupiers 5,000-plus volume library in Zuccotti Park. As the evictions and reactions to those evictions mounted, two lone figures appeared in Front Royal stating solidarity with the 99ers. Bailey told us he was acting in support of the national movement and the national issues of the concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few and a government that is too big and oppressive. He admitted being unable to visit out-of-state Occupy sites due to his ongoing probation on past criminal offenses, including graffiti spray painting numerous town buildings and vehicles So six years later is this a sign of growing up and trying to become more constructive in expressing that feeling of distance from, and opposition to authority? Ive always been into politics but back when I spray painted the stuff I was, I guess you could say a quasi-anarchist, I dont know, thats a hard question to answer But now there are a lot of views I agree with that Occupy Wall Streets brought up. Ive just been waiting for this moment the national amount of people that have gotten together and actually stand up for themselves. Wal-mart for instance, three Wal-marts within 15 miles apart, we dont need all that. Its just that corporations have always had that they want it all. And now it seems many Americans are exploring just how corporations got it all and whether that accumulation of great wealth has been facilitated by criminal subterfuge and political cronyism that flies in the face of the intent of the founding fathers of this nation and the U.S. Constitution.
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Theyre here the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread to over 1000 cities nationwide with varying degrees of impact is now in Front Royal, to a small degree. On Thursday morning, Nov. 17th, Justin Michael Bailey, 5, and Dana Payne, 19, appeared near the intersection of North Royal Avenue and Chester Street sporting signs reading We are the 99% stating solidarity with Occupiers pointing to the 99 percent of Americans who are not corporate billionaires in control of a great proportion of the national wealth, and many believe the American Republic and its political and judicial systems. Like it or not, support it or not my guess is over 99 percent of those reading this are a part of that 99 percent of the American public not in a position to buy governmental favor. Bailey and Payne appeared on the streets of Front Royal as the twomonth anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan approached. That anniversary was met with what appeared to be a coordinated spate of national evictions and arrests in major cities, punctuated by such police and municipal activities as macing an 84-year-old women in Seattle; kicking and ramming a pregnant woman in the stomach causing her to miscarry; baton beating a past national Poet Laureate who was urging baton-wielding Oakland police to simply use their hands rather than weapons to disperse peaceful protesters;
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the family both boys, Jeremy in the Marines and Greg in the Navy, were already out of town at various bases as they readied to leave the country Jeremy made his last phone call to me yesterday, Wanda told me on June 10th. My heart is broken to say the least. I am reminded of the movie Shenandoah where Jimmy Stewart plays the patriarch of a family with three sons during the Civil War and says something to the effect of The politicians talk about the need of war; the old men talk about the glory of it; and the soldiers, well they just want to go home. Both sons acknowledged the stress of their service on their mom and other family members, including their father, Scott Hamric, in Florida. Its still hard on them we get home about once every three years, says 7-year-old Greg, who was the first Hamric son to enlist seven years ago. So Greg says duty stops like a training assignment in Florida that gave him several weeks to visit family, including dad, who is in Lakeland, Florida, as well as mom and friends here are especially valued. They deal with it the best they can. It is hard but they understand and its gotten better, 4-year-old Jeremy added of the pressure on military parents. Jeremy and Gregs deployments, past and future, reflect the full breadth of American military involvement around the world. As one might suspect with Marines, Jeremy is seeing a war zone deployment in Afghanistan on his first overseas tour. Greg, an AEGIS shipboard weapons fire control specialist, has spent three years overseas in Japan, where he is redeploying for another three years this time, initially on the USS Stethem. Last tour he served on the USS Shiloh. Japan - March 11, 2011 In fact, Greg told us he was in Japan stationed at Yokosuka when the devastating 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck. That sequence of devastating events starting on March 11 led to what has been described as not only a natural disaster of almost Biblical proportions, but also the worlds second-worst nuclear power plant disaster at Fukashima in northeast Japan. It is a natural disaster the country is still recovering from and a nuclear disaster that remains unresolved It was a week after it happened and people were just getting a grasp of what was going on. We deployed all ships in the area and spent days on end heloing supplies, bottled water, Greg said Maturity and focus Pointing to the opportunity to travel as a factor in his Navy enlistment, Greg said that events and opportunities such as he experienced in Japan that have left a mark on him personally. It definitely does mature you. You get a chance to perform community service in different countries and help out not just at home and
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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report (Managing editors note: While the following is more a personal memoir and opinion than story per se, the theme and historical warnings it references are an underlying theme for much that has been included in this review that is happening politically, legally and economically on the national, state and local scenes.) Memorial Day, May 31; D-Day, June 6; and Independence Day, July 4 the memories of a peoples commitment and sacrifice swell up in a five-week span commemorating the best the American nation has to offer. As a part of what is sometimes referred to as the greatest generation my late father was a veteran of World War II. A mortar unit staff sergeant, he landed at Utah Beach on that Longest Day- June 6, 1944. Later he went on to fight with General George S. Pattons Third Army during the Battle of the Bulge during that battle that repelled the German counterattack following the invasion of the European mainland, the Third Army moved more men and equipment farther and in less time than any army in history. And Patton and his Third Armys movement and counterattack assured the Allies would not be driven back into the sea from which they had come on June 6, 1944. My father carried a piece of shrapnel next to his spine for the rest of his life from a wound received during that decisive battle for Europe. And he carried his memories of the war against European fascism almost as close to the vest as that piece of shrapnel by his spine Today I find myself missing the character and commitment of that greatest generation and its leadership as the nation now grapples with the evolution of its own homegrown corporate neo-fascism. It was a threat of domestic origin predicted in 1944 by Vice President Henry Wallace as the battle against European fascism ground inexorably forward. Wallace, 1944 The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis (Germany-Italy-Japan); the FBI has its finger on those, Wallace told The
Eisenhower, 1961 Sixteen years later the distinctly American evolution of that domestic threat first cited in 1944 by a sitting vice president was termed the military-industrial complex by President Dwight D. Eisenhower during his Jan. 16, 1961 farewell address to the nation. Fifty years ago during the height of a nuclear-armed Cold War with the Soviet Union, Eisenhower, who had commanded all Allied troops on the European front during World War II, called what he had initially termed the military-industrial-congressional complex the greatest threat to the security of this nation not the Soviet Union, not nukes but our own homegrown form of corporate and money-driven fascism. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large
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Dear Stewart, How many kinds of trees are there in Front Royal? - Curious Dear Curious, This is a tough question even Stewart may not get an accurate answer on, but hell try. Of course you have the native trees, which include several types of oaks, maples, and nut trees, including hickory and walnuts. The native understory trees would include the dogwoods and redbuds that give us the beautiful show each spring. We cannot forget
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Volume VII, Issue 1 Early January, 2012

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2011: The year in review

Volume VI, Issue 15 Late July, 2011

20,000 Readers #1 Newspaper in Front Royal & Warren County!

Cheetah cubs - too cute to be sick

What a deal - Martins community room 5

Cool off - waiting to get dunked 18

Hot? Time to party 32

ole house moves

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SolAVerde non-suit the good and bad for town

Magic shows and Balloon animals January 12th 6pm-8pm

New Year! New Menu! New Desserts!

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Francis Hall closes Halls Speedwash

Robin Briggs & Stratton Kohler Kawasaki Honda

McCoys Cookie Jars

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This old house on the move from Moyers site

Tired of Rising Heating Costs?

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