INSIDE LETTERS page 3 NAME THAT STREET page 5 JULY 5TH page 6 THE FLU page 7
MARCH 2015 VOL. 9, NO. 10
BOOKS IN CROZET page 10
Chronic Wasting Disease Nears Shenandoah Park
ST. JOE PASTA page 11 LYNN RUNS page 12 RUNNER’S HIGH page 14 CANNED, PLEASE pages 16 IN OUR HANDS page 18 BIRCHWOOD’S BACK page 19 ALBEDO page 22 WAKEROBIN page 24 FIVE TIMES! page 26 BRASSICA page 27 CROZET CASE page 28 DOWNTOWN 1950 page 29 THE PAUSE page 30 THE NAMESAKE page 32 CROSSWORD page 33 SWING DANCE page 34 HOW COLD? page 35 BEREAVEMENTS page 36
Anne Mallek announced on February 24 that she is running for her third term as White Hall District Supervisor. See story page 13.
Rescue Squad Honors Its Volunteers The Western Albemarle Rescue Squad held its annual awards dinner and dance February 7 at King Family Vineyards to recognize the contributions of its “all-volunteer, all the time” members and named Raven Curtis as its Member of the Year. The slide show, a yearbook-like look at the past year, featured pictures of Robert “Bubba” Baber, who succumbed to cancer in June and whose family were special guests of the evening. “It’s a real significant loss to the community,” said WARS president
Bill Woods. “We appreciate that he was part of our lives. “Your smile, attitude and compassion, and desire to teach were contagious,” he said, addressing slides of Baber as they passed by. “Thank you, sir, for your dedicated service. Rest easy, my friend. We’ll take it from here.” Baber was also a volunteer fireman with the CVFD. A somber quiet fell over the room as the family came forward and the screen went blank for a minute. The crowd stood for an ovation. The famcontinued on page 20
Chronic Wasting Disease, an always-fatal neurological disease affecting white-tail deer, mule deer, elk and moose, has been discovered at Front Royal, within twelve miles of the Shenandoah National Park’s northern boundary, Park Superintendent Jim Northup told an audience at Crozet Library February 5. In 2009 it was discovered about 23 miles away from the park. A park report describes the advance as “rapid.” “It’s significant now in West Virginia,” he said. Northup said that the character of the 105-mile Skyline Drive and the edge-habitat nature of deer likely means that once the disease invades the park, it will advance southward along the scenic road and reach southern counties bordering the park. “The only way to slow it is to thin the deer herd,” he said. Chronic Wasting Disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting the brains and nervous systems of deer and has no treatment. It is transmitted by prions, a type of protein, in the soil. Animals are infected by eating contaminated grass. The main symptom is loss of weight over time. Listlessness and repetitive walking in a pattern are also continued on page 12
A Million Stitches of Love Beatrice Mayo has a section of a quilt project on her lap nearly all the time, busily hand sewing every part. In winter she is on her couch in her snug house in North Garden, heated toasty by a sturdy wood stove she carefully tends, and in summer she sews sitting on a swing on her front porch. “I love sewing,” she said. “I love it. I love it. It’s a hobby to me.”
Now 79, she was raised in Louisa County, the fifth of 12 children (eight are still living), and learned sewing from her mother, who made clothes from flour sacking. “I’ve been a seamstress all my life. I sew my own clothes. I started in alterations at Miller and Rhoads [department store] downtown. They had three seamstresses then. Then I went continued on page 9
A detail of Mayo’s quilt