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Food-truck business grows and Waynesboro gets festive
Middle River Farms took a hit this year as wet weather shortened its pumpkin season. FILE/THE NEWS LEADER
Pupuseria expanding,
and arts fill the street
The Buzz
Laura Peters
Staunton News Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
STAUNTON — Gloria’s Pupuseria is
getting even bigger, Waynesboro gears
up for a large street arts festival and
sadly one farm is done with pumpkins
for the year. Here’s the buzz:
More space, more pupusas
Gloria’s Pupuseria has announced
yet another expansion. This is just two
years after the food truck operation put
some roots down in a storefront on Cen-
tral Avenue in downtown Staunton.
The Salvadoran food truck Gloria’s
Pupuseria owners John and Gloria Ger-
ber moved into a small restaurant space
on the corner of Central Avenue and
Pump Street in 2016, which had been
home to IC Wings and Mike Lund’s
Lundch and catering operation.
Now, they are expanding to the space
next door.
“Hi you all,” the Facebook post read.
“Starting this week, we will be serving
you from Wednesday through Saturday
only. Closing on Tuesdays to keep work-
ing on our expansion. Yes, expanding
into the space next door.”
The space the restaurant is expand-
ing into previously was the home to Is-
land Sol Cafe, a Caribbean restaurant.
“A lot of excitement and so nervous
with this one more step in our business
but so happy to serve you better,” the
post continued. “We still don’t have a
date but we will keep you posted about
our progress!”
Previously, the food truck had found
a spot on the corner of Lewis and Bald-
win streets during the fall of 2015. The
truck has also appeared at the Staun-
ton’s Farmers Market and Redbeard
Brewing Company in Staunton.
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Mural work by Nils Westergard is on display at Basic City Beer Company at the
2017 Virginia Street Arts Festival in Waynesboro. LAURA PETERS/THE NEWS LEADER
“I suspend these moments
of tension to find the awk-
ward edges of composure
and to plumb the shadows
of warmth and unrest.”
Nils Westergard Richmond artist
The Gerbers have been operating
their food business since 2013. Before
getting the physical truck in 2015, the
duo did a makeshift canopy serving sta-
tion where they prepared food for cus-
tomers for two years. They’ve been look-
ing for a place to open a storefront for
some time.
The food truck and shop, offers Sal-
vadoran food, which includes pupusas,
Weather PROUDLY SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES OF
STAUNTON, WAYNESBORO AND AUGUSTA
tamales, fried yuca, fried plantains
and more.
But, what is a pupusa? It’s a thick
handmade corn tortilla stuff with a va-
riety of things such as pork, beef,
cheese, chicken and veggies.
For more information visit them at
300 N. Central Ave. in Staunton or on
Facebook at Gloria’s Pupuseria.
Arts festival
The fourth annual Virginia Street
Art Festival will be held Saturday and
Sunday on Waynesboro’s Main Street.
The street arts event is co-hosted
by E-N Computers along with W. Low-
rie and Jillian Tucker.
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School board considers
Lee High name change
The Staunton City School Board
met Monday night to consider
changing the name of Robert E. Lee
High School. The meeting convened
too late to make this morning’s print
edition, but the News Leader covered
it live. Check out full coverage of
the meeting and its results on
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Court note:
Guilty plea
anticipated
Murder victim made
posts about danger
Brad Zinn Staunton News Leader
USA TODAY NETWORK
WAYNESBORO - A man charged
with murder in the January slaying of a
Waynesboro woman is expected to en-
ter a guilty plea later this month, court
records show.
Jonathan O. Miller, 36, of Waynes-
boro, is charged with first-degree mur-
der in the killing of 25-year-old Rachel
E. Brown.
Waynesboro police discovered
Brown’s body the morning of Feb. 1 at
an apartment complex at 205 Booker-
dale Road.
Hours before the dis-
covery of the body,
posts on Brown’s Face-
book page alleged that
she’d been threatened
with a butcher’s knife.
“yup . woke up to a
butcher knife standing Jonathan
over me. I wish the O. Miller
death threat would stop
and just do it cause living on edge is
getting old,” a portion of the post read.
However, authorities said Brown
was shot to death. Miller also faces a
charge of use of a firearm in the com-
mission of a felony.
His guilty pleas are expected Oct.
22, according to court records.
At midnight, seven hours before her
body was found, a post on Brown’s
Facebook page read, “I can’t any-
more... I live in hell on earth .”
The last Facebook post made 13
minutes later stated, “I need a live in
body guard for the next 30 days . do I
have any takers.”
Authorities said Brown and Miller
had briefly lived together as a couple
prior to the slaying.
Police were called to the apartment
three times in the week before Brown’s
death.
During one incident, authorities
went to the apartment for a report of a
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Nils Westergard is back again to paint a wall with
other muralist. Last year, he alongside two other art-
ists did murals at Basic City Beer Company.
This year, murals will be painted on a brick build-
ing next to the Wayne Theatre.
Westergard is a Richmond-based artist. You’ve
probably seen his stuff all throughout Richmond.
Richmond is home to more than 100 murals part of the
Richmond Mural Project, and Westgard has a good
number of them.
His work has been featured worldwide, including
on the walls of London, Prague, Berlin, the Hague,
Belgium and the Czech Republic, according to the
event’s Facebook page.
“In my work I suspend these moments of tension
to find the awkward edges of composure and to plumb
the shadows of warmth and unrest,” he said in the
post. “I strive less to form a narrative than to create a
mood comprised of a thousand subtle perceptions. It
will be a pleasure and technical challenge to bring so
much color to my canvas downtown.”
In addition, the cubes will be returning for other
street artists to paint, along with chalk drawing for
kids.
Obituaries
TODAY’S OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
Name Age Town, State
Facemire, Larry Joe 78 Waynesboro
*Landes, Charles William 63 Rockingham County 07-Oct Johnson Funeral Service in Bridgewater
Moles, Bradford 92 Waynesboro
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Charles William Landes
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY - Charles William
Landes, 63, of Rockingham Co., passed away Sun-
day, October 7, 2018 at his home.
He was born in Harrisonburg on June 21, 1955,
and was a son of Eddie (Moneymaker) Landes, of
Bridgewater and the late Lesley R. Landes.
Charles was a farmer and worked in his shop.
Surviving in addition to his mother is his brother,
Donnie R. Landes, and wife Kelli, of Rockingham;
his niece, Lora Landes and a nephew Brian Landes
and a close friend Stacey Kiser.
The family will receive friends on Wednesday,
October 10, 2018 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at John-
son Funeral Service in Bridgewater. The casket
will be closed.
Friends may call at the home of Donnie and
Kelli Landes anytime.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may
be made to charity of your choice.
Online condolences may be sent to the family
at www.johnsonfs.com.
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No more pumpkins
It’s been a quick season for local pumpkin farm Mid-
dle River Farms in Grottoes on Weyers Cave Road.
According to a Facebook post, the farm closed up its
season last week.
“Hello all. It has been a very tough year here at the
patch,” the post read. “With all the recent rain the river
flooded both patches three times in late September.
Pumpkins, it seems, do float and we lost quite a few
that way.”
According to the post there were still plenty of
pumpkins left, but many were soft and wouldn’t last
Gloria Gerber of Stuarts Draft makes Salvadoran long enough.
dishes for the lunchtime crowd in the food truck, “We don’t feel that selling that type of product to our
Gloria’s Pupuseria, which she owns with her husband, customers and friends is the right way to go,” the post
John. RANDALL K. WOLF/THE NEWS LEADER said.
The Martins have owned the farm for almost nine
years, but the family history stems back to Martin’s
great-great-grandfather who started the farm back in
This street arts festival will coincide with the Fall the 1920s and 1930s. After changing hands a couple of
Foliage Art, which showcases 150 fine artists and arti- times, Michelle Martin brought the farm back into the
sans will showcase their works including painting, family. The farm offered as many pumpkins as you
printmaking, wood, pottery, glass, jewelry, sculpture could fit in a wagon for $35.
and more. “Thank you all for your continued support,” the post
The two festivals have geared up together for one said. “We hope and pray for better results next year.”
large arts festival. The buzz recaps area business trends. Send ideas
Gourmet food trucks will also be features along with to reporter Laura Peters at lpeters@newsleader.com
craft beer and local music. or follow her @peterslaura and @peterpants.
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man making suicidal and homicidal threats, according
04-Oct Charlton and Groome Funeral Home and Crematory
to the Waynesboro Police Department. The man, not
identified by police, was taken to Augusta Health for a
07-Oct McDow Funeral Home voluntary mental health evaluation.
Twelve hours after that incident, Miller went to the
Waynesboro Police Department to report a breaking
and entering at the apartment, police said. Miller was
advised he could obtain a protective order or trespass
papers.
That same day, just four hours after Miller reported
the breaking and entering, Brown requested an officer
at the apartment in reference to a door that had been
Death leaves a previously kicked in. Police said while officers headed
to the apartment, they were told two women were
fighting at the residence and a male subject was acting
heartache aggressively. No charges were filed.
Miller’s expected guilty plea in Waynesboro Circuit
no one can heal, Court to the first-degree murder charge will nix a
planned two-day jury trial scheduled to begin Oct. 30.
Miller, who faces the possibility of life in prison, is
but love leaves a being held without bond at Middle River Regional Jail.
Memory
that no one can steal
“yup . woke up to a butcher knife standing over me.
I wish the death threat would stop and just do it
cause living on edge is getting old.”
Rachel E. Brown In a post before her death
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