Crozet Gazette June 2017 by The Crozet Gazette

INSIDE LONG LETTERS page 2 SHELTON SPROUSE page 4 BENTLEYS page 6

DOG RUN page 16

JUNE 2017 VOL. 12, NO. 1

CCAC Backs Square Improvements for Funding Priority

OLD MILLS page 19

By Michael Marshall editor@crozetgazette.com

INDIGO FALCON page 21 CUKE SALAD page 25

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CROZET COMMUNITY SURVEY page 27-30 FLICKERING FLAME page 31 BUSINESS NEWS page 32 BATESVILLE DAY page 34 TENNIS TEAMS page 36 CREW AT NATIONALS page 38 BOYS LACROSSE page 39 NEW TRAIL BRIDGE page 40 DOG DISCS page 41 ALLITERATION page 42 SCHOOL NOTES page 44 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? page 45 JAPANESE MAPLES page 46 JAPANESE BEETLES page 48 BEREAVEMENTS page 51

Future Batesville Ruritans enjoy a VIP spot in the parade May 6. See more scenes from this year’s Batesville Day on page 34.

Coyotes at the Door: Living with Wildlife in Crozet By Lisa Martin lisamartin@crozetgazette.com They show up each night, like clockwork: 7 p.m., midnight, 5 a.m. They howl in packs of a dozen or more, circling the farm’s perimeter, watching and waiting. The farmer, Ramona Huff of Gryffon’s Aerie in North Garden, raising her sheep and cattle in a bowl-shaped valley sur-

rounded by wooded foothills, has tried everything—fencing, trapping, guard animals—but the coyotes always learn, and they are insatiable and persistent. Last year, they devoured 30 lambs. “They’re thick as thieves here,” said Huff, “and they’re at the top of the food chain.” Though the species Canis latrans (meaning “barking dog”) has existed for over a million years, the coyote continued on page 12

The Crozet Community Advisory Council voted May 17 to name street and sidewalk improvements to The Square as Crozet’s top priority for spending the County’s Neighborhood Improvement Funding Initiative, a $1.4 million pot that the county supervisors will divide among the seven areas in the county that have advisory councils. Crozet should receive about $200,000 from the fund once supervisors decide which projects will be awarded. This was the third consecutive meeting in which the committee had dealt with the subject of which projects to recommend. Vice chair John McKeon had the reins in David Stoner’s absence. White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek told the CCAC that the Board of Supervisors discussed the fund the week before. “Everybody is very appreciative of the level of engagement,” she said. “The feeling was we must have done the right thing because look at all the great ideas we got. We want to maintain the support for each neighborhood.” Supervisors will make their fund-

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Small Wonder: Western’s Shop Class Builds a Tiny House By Lisa Martin lisamartin@crozetgazette.com Until now, the biggest thing Kevin Matheny’s shop class had ever constructed was a dog house for the SPCA, and the future resident wasn’t going to be too particular about the digs. Matheny’s class curriculum

broadened dramatically this year as thirteen of his Western Albemarle High School students tackled an enormous project in the form of a tiny house. The small house movement in the U.S. is a trend toward simpler living in a smaller space. While houses under

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CCAC members at the May 17 meeting

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From the Editor Have Your Say Not many small towns have the spirit or available volunteer expertise to undertake a professional quality survey of their citizens. That’s another thing that sets Crozet apart from the usual. The Gazette congratulates the committee that has worked for the last eight months to prepare the survey form that you will find in this issue’s center pages. Those pages are designed to allow readers to pull them out and mail them to the Crozet Community Association, the survey’s official sponsoring organization (at P.O. Box 653 in Crozet, 22932). The 39-question form takes about 15 minutes to complete. Most households inside the Crozet growth area should expect to receive a letter in the

mail inviting them to take the survey online, sometime in the week of June 5. If you receive a letter, please have one person in your household take the survey as described in the letter. Other persons in your household who want to take the survey should go to crozetcommunity. org/2017/05/public-survey, which will be live after June 10. Special thanks go to Tim Tolson, the hardworking president of the CCA, and to Tom Guterbock and Shawn Bird, who contributed their professional knowledge to the effort. The survey is a reprise of the 2009 survey that Crozet volunteers also conducted to learn about local opinions in advance of the planned 2010 review of the Crozet Master Plan. Our elected representatives have often said how useful that continued on page 17

To the Editor Send your letters to the editor to news@crozetgazette.com. Letters will not be printed anonymously. Letters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Crozet Gazette.

Don’t Surrender Your Voice on June 13 If you have ever wished you could elect a person who will protect you instead of your utility company, you are in luck. This year you can help get Tom Perriello on the ticket by voting for him on June 13. For most of my life I neglected to vote in primary elections. Why do so many of us do that? Why do we voluntarily give up the loudest megaphone we have on the issues that matter to us? Even before Facebook, it was easy to sound off in the echo chambers of our like-minded associates, but

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when the time came to really effect change, it was even easier to neglect our most direct method: the vote. For me, it was not that I didn’t care about issues; I cared deeply. But I didn’t see the connection between voting in a primary and making a difference. At the back of my mind there was some version of “all politicians are the same.” Well, I see the connection now. Unless we vote on June 13, we have no say in who we get to vote for this November! Nationwide, candidates are coming forward in both parties and challenging incumbents, specifically to be “different.” They are driven by the terrible need to protect our deepest values, and they are refusing to take money from corporate interests because they want to continued on page 11

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By Theresa Curry theresa@crozetgazette.com Three times a week, Crozet native Shelton Sprouse teaches a popular yoga class in Waynesboro. Sprouse, 67, is a stonemason and very much aware of the physical demands of his profession over time. He’s practiced yoga in some form for many years. He weaves quotes from men he admires––Jesus, Buddha, Rumi, Paul McCartney––into each class. “The best thing, the highest calling,” he said, “is to find someone unloveable and show them love.” Some would say he’s an unconventional yogi. In most classes he demonstrates a pose, apanasana in Sanskrit, a simple side-to-side rocking and backand-forth rolling. “Rock and roll saved the world,” he always tells the class. “Rock and roll and beer.” He explained it later. “People of my generation all listened to the same music, heard the same words. It made a difference in

ways we don’t always know.” He does know for sure that music changed his life. Besides being a yoga teacher and a world-class stonemason, Sprouse is a bassist, a sideman who plays steadily around the region with several well-regarded bands. He also plays the stand-up bass. He started out as a guitarist, picked up electric bass at 40 and the stand-up a few years ago. The yoga practice evolved from a very different spiritual beginning. Sprouse’s parents were Herbert and Eula Sprouse of Buck’s Mountain Road. They met while working in Crozet’s apple industry. They sent their children––Shelton and his two sisters Sheilah and Shelby––to the Crozet Church of God. “There were people talking in tongues,” he recalls, “handling snakes and shaking. Wonderful music.” On summer evenings he and his family could hear the remonstrations of the revival preacher from Maryland far into the night. But other forces were at work. The young people of

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Crozet in the 60s had a couple of unusual influences. Legendary coach Al Groh spent a year as assistant coach at Albemarle High School in 1967, and all his players were trained in a yoga-like discipline that involved focus, isometrics and slow stretching, Sprouse said. Then there were the Conley brothers, also of Buck Mountain Road, who saw to it that the children of the neigh-

borhood––boys and girls––all learned to box. “I don’t know why and I can’t remember how it started.” Sprouse said. “It was just a thing right around there.” He began to see how concentration and discipline could move beyond the ring or the playing field and become a lifelong spiritual practice. Sprouse read widely and still does––poetry, moral philosophy continued on page 49

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By Michael Marshall editor@crozetgazette.com The Western Australia Bentley Drivers Club passed through Crozet May 16 as part of its tour of the South. They stopped at Judd and Carrie Culver’s Kelly Bronze organic turkey farm in Greenwood, where they were treated to a turkey feast and about a dozen of the antique cars were on display for locals to see. The club occasionally makes driving tours, usually across Australia but in recent years also in North America, in the western U.S., British Columbia, and from Baltimore to Niagara Falls.

The club shipped their cars to New Orleans and began a sixweeks journey from there up the Mississippi, across Tennessee, into North Carolina and Virginia and on to Baltimore, where the cars are loaded on ships for the return trip to Perth. The group picked up the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville and followed it up to Albemarle. The stop in Greenwood was arranged by Kelly Bronze founder Paul Kelly, who happens to live near the turkey farm of British club member and tour organizer David Smith, known as “Turkey Dave.” But Smith unfortunately passed

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ing choices June 14. Meanwhile county planning staff have worked up cost estimates for the various finalist ideas. “The Square would need about $300,000, but the $200,000 would qualify for matching funds from VDOT to make the project go,” Mallek said. The Square had come out on top in a point tally made at CCAC’s April meeting, but just one more than beginning work on “western park,” the county’s undeveloped 36 acres along Lickinghole Creek in Old Trail, mainly floodplain offered to the county as a proffer during the rezoning of Old Trail in 2006. The next priority was a walking path along Three Notch’d Road, Rt. 240, from The Highlands to Starr Hill Brewery. “The Square would mean spending all our money on one project,” noted Tom Loach. “But it got the strongest vote from the community,” answered Doug Bates. “It might be best to focus on one thing and put the community behind it.” “The Square is our best bet for leveraging more money,” said Jennie More, White Hall planning commissioner. “It might help with attracting a hotel.” Shawn Bird asked, “Could we cap the Square at $150,000 and add a second project?” “So long as it doesn’t cost us qualification for matching funds,” said Loach. “This is county property and they have to fix it,” said Mallek. “We need a ready-to-go design, biddable documents that are shovel–ready. We [the supervisors] have to take the work of

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At its next Mass, May 28, the congregation celebrated children who had received their first communion or confirmation. These children got their religious instruction in another parish last year, but Christian formation classes will start in Crozet in the fall. From left are: Annie Nacey, Lily Burnette, Henry Chupick, Caroline McGahren (confirmation), Harper Stone, Kinley Callihan, Kaleb Estes, Fr. Dan Kelly, Thomas Mierzejewski, Madelien Burnette, Evelyn Gavey (confirmation), Jameson Burns, William Thorsen, and George Novey.

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This June 13, I will be casting my vote in the primary for Tom Perriello, and, whether or not we send him and Angela Lynn to Richmond this November, I will know that, this time, I used my power. “All politicians are the same” only when we voters don’t insist on having candidates who are committed to us, not to their corporate donors. Atieno Bird Crozet Help Fund Fireworks We are writing again this year to ask for your enthusiastic support of our small town tradition—our annual Crozet Independence Day parade, celebration, and fireworks show set for Saturday, July 1. The fun starts with a parade down Crozet Avenue starting at 5 p.m. We’re hoping the parade will be better and bigger than last year! Anyone interested in joining in the parade can go to CrozetFire.org to get a parade unit sign-up form. We’ll follow the parade to Crozet Park where there will be kiddie rides and amusements, including bounce and play inflatables, as well as laser tag. We are planning to have the pony rides back again this year as well. They’ll also be great music by the local band, LockJaw, as well as traditional Fourth of July fare, including hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, and sno cones, as well as vegetarian and vegan choices, tacos, and other favorites such as pizza and fruit smoothies. Local beer and cider will be available for you to enjoy their products as well. The fireworks show is set for 9:30 p.m., when it will be dark enough, but not so late that youngsters can’t stay up. Bring a lawn chair if you want to be comfortable as you watch events. Look for updates about the parade and celebration at the Crozet Community Association’s website: CrozetCommunity.org All of this for an admission of just $4 per person donation (children 12 and under are free) as you enter the festivities (parking is free). No pets are allowed in and we ask that you smoke only in the designated areas. If you live nearby Crozet Park, we encourage you to walk! With help from the Albemarle continued on page 17

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only arrived in Virginia from the north and west in substantial numbers in the last few decades. The predator’s steady eastward migration is due in part to the elimination of larger carnivores, such as wolves, from the region, as well as its adaptability to a variety of habitats, from dense forests to farmland to suburban crawl spaces. Their infiltration is now total: since 2004, coyotes have inhabited every county in the state. Omnivorous and opportunistic, coyotes rarely miss a meal. While they favor small mammals like rodents, and take larger prey like deer, calves, goats, and sheep when available, they also eat birds and snakes, fruits, vegetables, and berries. Rabbits are a staple, watermelon a favorite, and they’ll happily satisfy themselves with human-provided edibles such as house cats, garbage, and road kill. The suburbs often provide just as much to eat as the forest, and when coyotes find a reliable source of food, they settle in. Of late, coyotes have settled into Old Trail Village in Crozet. Residents have spotted the creatures on the walking path that runs past the lake and golf course near Golf Drive. Diane Harner, who lives in a condominium overlooking the lake, spied one from her deck while chatting with a neighbor. “He was the size of a medium dog, maybe 35 pounds,” she said. “He looked up and saw us, and darted down the path and into the woods.” Harner doesn’t see coyotes as a threat to people, “though I wouldn’t want to have a cat out in the back yard.” While the coat of western coyotes is commonly tan or light brown, their eastern cousins tend toward gray, often mixed with red, dark brown, or black because of historical inbreeding with dogs as the coyotes migrated across the U.S. Compared to gray wolves, coyotes are thinner and lighter, and they have longer snouts, smaller nose pads, and taller, pointier ears. Word to the wise: farmers, hunters, and game commission biologists pronounce it “ky-oat” more often than not. Recent consumer media has trumpeted the invasion of a

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brand new species, a coyote-wolf mix dubbed the “coywolf,” a substantially larger animal than the 20- to 30-pound western coyote. However, scientists such as Michael Fies, zoologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF), dispute the notion of a separate species. “We have coyotes here, not coywolves,” said Fies. “They’re not some hybrid super-species, but they have evolved.” Interbreeding with Canadian wolves likely took place a century ago, and the degree of genetic mixing found in coyotes today varies by area of the country. In Virginia, DNA testing shows the animals to be about 85% coyote, 2% wolf, and 13% dog, and none has been found to be solely a coyote/wolf mix. The wolf genes have served to bump the average eastern coyote’s weight to between 40 and 45 pounds, and its now-bigger skull and jaws allow it to take down larger targets, such as fullsize deer. The eastern coyote’s larger size may contribute to it being mistaken by townsfolk for a wolf. “A male coyote at 45 pounds is a very large animal,” said Fies. “They look bigger than they are, and it’s hard for the average person to judge.” Amy Yancey startled a larger coyote while running with her leashed dog on the walking trail as it winds through the woods back toward Old Trail Drive. “He had that low, predatory slink, pretty distinctive of coyotes,” she said of the animal, “definitely not a dog or a bobcat.” Yancey has had plenty of experience with coyotes, none

of it good. Her dog, a Jack Russell Terrier, was bred on a farm in Tennessee, and both its mother and a litter mate were killed by coyotes as adults. “I think people need to be aware, especially if one or two coyotes expands into a pack, that there’s some risk, just as we’d want to be aware if there was a bear prowling around,” Yancey said. Wile E. Coyote Though a person’s first reaction to a coyote sighting may be to call Animal Control, that agency is not empowered to handle coyotes. “We only respond to domestic animal issues,” explained Albemarle County Animal Control Officer Larry Crickenberger. Abandoned or dangerous dogs and cats fall under their purview, but coyotes are regulated by the DGIF, which is tasked with conserving wildlife populations and habitats as well as protecting people in human-wildlife conflicts. Still, in the 40 years Crickenberger has been on the job, he’s seen changes in animal behavior that he attributes to humans. “It used to be that a deer sighting was a rare treat,” he said. “Now their habits are changing—we see them eating from the deck in the daytime. We keep building, and wildlife gets acclimated to having people around.” His most urgent message to nature lovers is: never handle a wild creature, no matter how cute and furry it may look. The DGIF categorizes coyotes as a “nuisance” species, defined by the state as “those committing depredation upon agricultural crops, wildlife, live-

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for 25 years and has seen the coyote problem steadily increase in Albemarle and surrounding counties. “I get calls every week about coyotes, either sightings or livestock kills, including one just last week from a lady in Crozet,” said Colvin. “She was worried about her cats and her chickens, and we set traps and caught two coyotes in two nights.” Colvin is adamant about the threat coyotes pose. “They are changing the face of Virginia wildlife,” he said, “in particular the deer and red fox populations.” Hunting coyotes at night requires special equipment such as night vision eyewear and silencers for weapons. “My daughter and I have caught and killed 130 coyotes just since last September, and it’s going to keep getting worse no matter what we do.” Though hunting coyotes is a common practice, the eradication route has not proven particularly effective. According to animal predation research, removing only a small number of coyotes doesn’t help, and it may worsen the problem. Studies suggest that 60 percent or more of a given coyote population would have to be eliminated to change their impact on an area. Researchers also warn against removing coyotes who are not causing a problem, as the void may be filled by others who are more aggressive. Though some counties (not including Albemarle) offer rewards for hunting coyotes, biologists say that bounty programs—in which hunters are paid between

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stock or other property, or when concentrated in numbers and manners constituting a health hazard or other nuisance.” As such, the state allows continuous open season on coyotes, so they may be hunted year-round at any time of day. The single exception, still in place under historic “blue laws,” is that a coyote may not be shot with a gun on public land on a Sunday. The stealth, cunning, and keen sense of smell of coyotes, combined with typically nocturnal habits, make them notoriously difficult to shoot. Hunters may use calls, decoys, or dogs to attract and locate them, but in populated areas like neighborhoods or public parks, the use of firearms is dangerous and often illegal. Traps, such as snares and leg hold traps, can be effective if the trapper can identify the paths and patterns of the coyotes, but these can inadvertently catch other wildlife, domestic dogs, or even humans. As for the recent sightings in Old Trail Village, the neighborhood’s management would not comment for this story about whether there is a protocol for dealing with coyotes in the community. Given their suspected location near housing tracts and recreational areas, the options are few. Even if the neighborhood wanted the animals removed, the area is too populated for hunting with firearms, and private “critter removal” agencies are hesitant to set traps in places where pets or children may stumble upon them accidentally. Steve Colvin has run Colvin’s Animal Damage Control service

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$25 and $75 per dead animal— don’t work. “There is a 150-year record of total failure of bounty programs,” said Fies of the DGIF. “It’s much better to use a targeted approach where we work with individual livestock producers to trap and remove animals. Trying to reduce the population at the county level is futile.” Viable alternatives If hunting coyotes is at best a temporary solution, then what else can be done? Conservation groups such as Project Coyote, a national nonprofit organization based in California, encourage nonlethal methods of coyote control and advocate coexistence between predators and livestock owners. These groups, along with professionals at the DGIF, suggest that farmers and ranchers try to prevent damage by producing livestock in confinement or herding them into pens at night and by constructing electric fences around grazing animals. Certain breeds of guard dog can be effective deterrents, as can guard llamas and guard donkeys, both of which are alert and protective when combined

with a livestock herd. Other methods include sonic, visual, odor, and taste repellents, to make the coyotes’ nightly visits all the more unpleasant. Rachel Willis, co-owner of Black Twig sheep farm in western Crozet, said that a combination of welltrained livestock guardian dogs—she owns both Maremma and Karakachan breeds—and pulling the flock in behind electric fencing at night has worked for her so far. “My dogs are constantly prowling the perimeter of our fields, and often barking out there,” she said, “and I know we’ve probably been lucky not to have a coyote problem yet.” The farm’s rocky, mountaintop location may also make it a less hospitable target. In contrast, the owners of Gryffon’s Aerie are protecting a massive area surrounded by forest, with lots of hiding places for the predators. “We tried donkeys, but the coyotes wore them down,” said Huff. “It was divide and conquer—they’d lure the donkeys off, split up the herd.” She also tried traps, but the coyotes are intelligent and learn what to avoid. “They will not allow themselves to be trapped humanely,” she said. “They are brutal.” In this, farmers and ranchers agree: people who don’t live LISA MARTIN

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under the threat of coyotes are blinded to the problem. “I know a lot of people want everything to live in perfect harmony,” said Huff, “but the coyotes don’t see it that way. It’s a very unbalanced ecosystem when coyotes come into an area and take over.” Even with all of the trouble, Huff doesn’t believe they are a threat to people. “They’re too crafty. They aren’t looking for a fight, they’re looking for the easy pick.” Nonetheless, she warns against underestimating them. “If people are seeing one coyote, don’t think that’s it. There is no doubt a pack around—that particular one is just the bravest.” Mike Fies of the DGIF agrees. “Coyotes are much, much more numerous in our area than people realize,” he said, “and in many cases they were probably living in certain regions before people built golf courses or sheep farms there.” Researchers put estimates between 50,000 and 100,000 animals statewide. Coyotes are naturally wary of humans and prefer to stay out of sight, so biologists say the only real concern—in terms of a threat to humans—arises when people begin feeding them, either intentionally or unintentionally. “Over time, if they’re fed, they can become increasingly bold or more tolerant of humans, and then even dangerous when they lose their fear completely,” said Fies, and attacks on humans, while rare, do happen. He believes coyotes are close to reaching their natural capacity on open land, but there is still room in the urban areas for them to expand their numbers. “The vast majority of coyotes don’t cause anyone any trouble whatsoever, and the rare instances of problems in neighborhoods are often totally preventable.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service notes that “[a]s humans have expanded where they live, the ranges of most mammalian predators have gotten smaller. The coyote is an exception.” These wily, adaptable creatures are able to thrive in close proximity to farms, suburbs, and even cities. One key to a peaceful coexistence between coyotes and people will be for people to recognize and respect the “wild” nature of wildlife.

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By Kim Guenther President, Claudius Crozet Park Board It was about a year and a half ago that many of us gathered with our best friends of all shapes and sizes and cut the ribbon on the brand new Dog Park. When I think of the Crozet Dog Park project, I can’t help smiling. Perhaps it was all the many beers we consumed at the Starr Hill Brewery as part of our dog park fundraising effort (we had to do it, right?) or the many community-minded people who stepped up to make the Crozet Dog Park one of the best in Virginia. Since the grand opening, we’ve had several volunteer days to replenish the mulch. Our friends with Albemarle County Parks and Recreation (ACPR) re-graded the small dog park enclosure to facilitate better drainage and ACPR replaced spigots in both enclosures. A local family made an anonymous and well-timed gift last spring, enabling construction of

a new covered pavilion. On a hot day, there’s nothing better than sitting under this pavilion with other dog owners while our dogs fly around the enclosure. The new .85-mile paved perimeter trail makes walking to the Dog Park easier and more direct. And, thanks to work by the Crozet Trails Crew, a growing number of neighborhood trails give easy access to Crozet Park and the dog park. With many projects at Crozet Park we look for opportunities for incremental improvements and the dog park is no different. Earlier this year we conducted a short survey to identify peak times for play dates and to hear feedback on the current form of the dog park. What follows is a summary of survey results. Most popular days and time blocks for dog park visits: Monday through Friday – the preferred time block was 5-6 p.m.; 6 p.m. to dusk and noon to 2 p.m. time blocks were second and third ranked by respondents. Saturday – the preferred time

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block was noon to 1 p.m.; responses for 10-11 a.m., 11-noon and 3-4 time blocks tied for second, Sunday – three time blocks were tied for the most responses: 10-11 a.m., 11-noon and noon to 1 p.m. The survey found enthusiastic and happy dog park users as well as a few suggestions and requests. Examples of some comments include: “great location” and, “we particularly like

the leisurely walk via greenway trails from our house.” Other comments commended the overall design, fencing, seating, availability of water and the mix of sun and shade. A handful of comments remarked on how covering all of the dog activity area in pine bark mulch avoided the muddy, sloppy conditions common in other dog parks. A few dog owners that said the thick

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survey was in informing them about where local opinion stood on public policy choices. We get stronger representation when we give clear guidance that can stand up to analysis. Results from this month’s survey will provide the information base for the next review of the Plan, which will be conducted in town hall meetings this fall. The Crozet Master Plan is a sound, positive and durable document that will likely only need a few tweaks, but periodic updates allow the community

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County Police Department, we’re planning traffic control to make exiting the park after the fireworks much faster! The celebration is a combined effort by Crozet’s civic organizations, who have teamed up to put on the Crozet Independence Day Celebration, a task that in the past fell solely to the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD), which for many years sponsored the celebration as a fundraiser. Joining the CVFD in sharing the burden now are the Crozet Community Association, Claudius Crozet Park (which is community-owned and led by volunteers), Crozet Lions Club, Life Journey Church, Crozet Board of Trade, Crozet Trails Crew, and Hope Presbyterian Church, as well as many local churches and citizen volunteers. This event involves a lot of donated time from a lot of individuals and groups, but it can’t happen without financial contributions, too. We hope you’ll join us by sending a donation today to help with these expenses. You can donate online at: crozetcommunity.org /2016/05/fireworks-donate, or send a check payable to the Crozet Board of Trade Crozet Board of Trade P.O. Box 261, Crozet, Virginia 22932 and note on the memo line “fireworks donation.” Please give as generously as you can, so that our entire community can enjoy this patriotic tradition. In addition to helping to defer the cost of the fireworks and the event, your donation will help support

JUNE 2017 to adjust it to current facts and unforeseen situations. Here is your chance to weigh in on what you want Crozet’s future to be. Take the time to fill the survey out and give your answers some thought. At the end you can add your own ideas in a special comment section. Crozet has long been blessed with a high level of citizen participation in town life and that accounts a lot for of the quality of life we enjoy here. The survey is egalitarian, a chance for literally everybody to join in and to contribute to the progress and prosperity of our hometown. Now, make your marks. CVFD and other civic groups in Crozet. On behalf of the Crozet Independence Day Celebration (CIDC) planning team, thank you for your support. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, July 1. Tim F. Jost Tolson Chair, CIDC Planning Team President, CCA Almost 40 Years and Still Going Strong This past May, Crozet Park hosted its 37th annual Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival. The traditional rains came several days before and many of us wondered if this year’s event would be a muddy mess. We weren’t disappointed; it was, yet attendance was at an all-time high and many of the artists I spoke with had their best show ever. For those of you familiar with the Festival, you know the significance of this event for our Park. It serves as the primary fundraiser allowing us to keep paint on fences, make capital investments for the pool and grounds and add new amenities like the just completed .85-mile perimeter trail. Every amenity we add to the Park, whether pavilion, dog park or trail, carries with it maintenance costs. As our Park grows, the Festival takes on increasing importance. However, unless you’ve volunteered at the Festival, you may not know the incredible amount of effort that goes into this twice-yearly event. The phrase, “it takes a village,” comes to mind. In our case, it takes many kind and energetic people in and around Crozet to continued on page 37

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by Clover Carroll clover@crozetgazette.com Local artist Kathryn Matthews will present “SNAILS, TRAILS, and TAILS”, a free art workshop for kids inspired by the wildlife and natural world of Mint Springs Park on Saturday, June 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Crozet Artisan Depot, 5791 Three Notch’d Road. The workshop is appropriate for children 5 and older and is co-hosted by Crozet Artisan Depot and Albemarle Tourism & Adventure Center. Learning stations will include SNAILS (Creativity): Create art with mixed media including clay, crayon resist, and watercolors inspired by the snails of Mint Springs Lake; TRAILS (Nature Observation): Create a map of the Park with freshwater, air, and/or forest animal habitats; and TAILS (Visual Observation): Create artwork using photos of animals found at the Park such as owls, deer, bear, snakes, and fish with tempera, markers, and colored pencils. Matthews will project images and bring found objects for the

lesson including snail shells, pine cones, twigs, bark, leaves, and purchased moss (to avoid/ discourage taking anything from the Park). Space is limited. To reserve a spot, please call the Depot at 434-205-4795 during business hours, Mon-Sat 10-5 and Sunday 12-5, or stop by to sign up. Matthews, owner of Glass Atlas and Map Tracks, creates adventure art, often involving topographical and trail maps. She will be the featured artist for Second Saturdays at the Depot on June 10 from 3 to 5 p.m.

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Art on the Trax June 10 Art on the Trax will present “Rudiments – Collages” by Leora Sheridan Vincenti during the month of June, with a Second Saturday Artist Reception on Saturday, June 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Art Box will be serving its famous ice cream sundaes topped with fruit from local orchards. In her artist statement, Vincenti explains, “I take pleasure sifting through [fragments] to find tiny pieces that resonate, hold visual meaning, and subtle beauty. As an exercise, I make tiny one- to two-inch collages on three by four inch paper. There is a challenge to discover the most intricate and sensitive compositional connections I can make, and piece together experiments in composition.” Vincenti is a graduate of

Rhode Island School of Design, has studied with Dean Dass in the University of Virginia Aunspaugh Fellowship Program, and completed a residency at the VCCA in Amherst, Virginia. All events are free and open to the public. Art on the Trax is located at Creative Framing and The Art Box, across from the Crozet Depot, 5784 Three Notch’d Road in Crozet. COURTESY THE ARTIST / ART ON THE TRAX

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Mill Stones Albemarle County mills were once as ubiquitous as country stores and rural post offices. Some millers served their communities in all three of those capacities, all while keeping up a small farm and minding livestock. The most efficient operators, of course, were aided by an industrious wife and a full quiver of children. Mills performed a diversity of functions. In the mountains and foothills, most used waterpower and an overshot wheel to turn the gears that spun the shafts that enabled runner stones to grind grains, steel blades to saw lumber, or heavy hammers to crush stone ore or assist a blacksmith. A variety of mills could be found locally in differing shapes and sizes, depending on the tasks for which they were designed. Sassafras mills ground up the roots of that tree so their oils could be extracted by steaming for use in food and medicines. Stave and heading mills

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were a type of sawmill that produced the rough wood pieces later shaped by coopers to make barrels. Sorghum mills generally were portable, and horse or mule powered. Their gearing squeezed the raw juices from sorghum stalks to be distilled into molasses. Bark mills, also powered by beasts of burden, were used to grind tree bark and roots for the production of tannin used in processing animal hides. A carding mill, like the one operated at Fray’s Advance Mills location, separated and aligned wool fibers for further processing, such as spinning. The invention of each of these machines was a great labor saver and helped to further the industrial revolution. None, however, has been more beneficial to mankind than the grain mill, that producer of the flour and meal for our staff of life: bread. Bettie Via Gochenour, continued on page 20

William Jarman’s c.1790 mill at Mechum’s River prospered at its location alongside Brown’s Gap Turnpike and, later, the Virginia Central/C&O railroad. Converted from waterpower to diesel, it was destroyed in 1951 when its aged wooden bearing surfaces overheated and caught fire because of increased speed produced by its more modern power plant. [Photo courtesy of the Horton family]

James McCulloch was one of the early operators of the majestic c.1816 brick mill on Moorman’s River at Millington, western Albemarle Co.,VA. Thomas Ballard was the miller commemorated by mapmakers a half-century later. The water turbinepowered mill had separate millstones set up for corn and wheat. [Photo courtesy of the Pitman family]

John Jones received this receipt from B.H. Parr in November 1850 for 88 bushels of wheat delivered to Thomas Ballard’s mill at Millington. [Image courtesy of the James & Lamb Collection]

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daughter of George Rice and Cornelia (Duff) Via, was born in Rockingham County in 1882. “In 1888 we moved to Sugar Hollow in Albemarle County near Grandfather Hiram Via,” she wrote. “We lived on Bernard Carr’s place. Later, his son Tom Carr [a tanner by trade] lived where I spent the best part of my happy childhood. Father bought some land and built us a home right close to the gristmill. Before we moved in, one Sunday afternoon the mill and the workshop burned down. I went way up on the hill above the mill and cried. Father built it back. “Sometimes Father would have to be away and he asked Mother to grind the corn when people brought it. Mother never liked to do it, so when I got older I learned to grind it as well as Mother could. I remember one customer, Ernest Sandridge, would come with two bushels of corn in a wide sack. I would have a time getting that sack off and back on the horse but I did it.” Lynnwood Clarke was the miller at Decca on Mechum’s River from the early 1900s as well as postmaster for that small community. Patrons who dropped off modest quantities

of corn in a basket or gunny sack knew to cover it well before they left the mill yard, as Clarke’s free range chickens always had a sharp eye out for a quick snack. “Those who weren’t careful,” said Steward Walton, who married Clarke’s niece Natalie, “might leave a bushel but only get back a peck.” Mill names on the 1866 Albemarle County map produced by Jed Hotchkiss included the following: Baker, Ballard, Barksdale, Barrow, Bowen, Branham, Brown, Carr, Cowherd, Dettor, Digg, Dillard, Fray, Garth, Gooch, Harman, Harris, Hydraulic, Jones, Maupin, Minor, Perry, Rio, Snead, Timberlake, Walker,

The Pitmans: Guy, his wife Susan Etta (Garrison) and their children at Millington, VA. Mr. Pitman (1878–1955) was the last operator of the McCulloch/Ballard Mill. [Photo courtesy of the Pitman family]

The engine-powered mill at Doylesville was typical of smaller community businesses. Robey Shifflett, seen in the background, recalled its operation in the days of his youth. [Photo by Phil James]

Guy Pitman and sons maintained and adjusted their dam on Moorman’s River upstream from his mill at Millington. A half-mile-long millrace directed the water to that operation’s turbine. Pitman lost a leg in an accident while working for the C&O Railway prior to marriage. That tragedy did not hinder the carrying out of his duties as a mill operator. [Photo courtesy of the Pitman family]

Walnut Grove, and Yancey. Some of the more progressive millers, such as Ballard at Millington and Maupin at White Hall, operated enlarged facilities that had been converted to more efficient and robust turbine power. Using a taller race and a tower through which the falling water spun a turbine wheel, multiple sets of millstones could be maintained for different grains. With the addition of a hydro-generator, electrical power also could be created. However, the same source of “free” power used at mills proved to be the undoing of many of them. Although the dry, dusty conditions in mills

made them susceptible to fire, floods damaged or swept away many more. Very few of the old establishments remain to remind us of that era when “stone ground whole grains” were the norm and not a marketing angle aimed at the health-conscious. The most typical reminders seen by passersby today are the once mighty millstones that rest silently alongside driveway entrances. The following simple recipe was among several shared by the makers of “Your Grandfather’s Meal,” a brand produced with overshot waterwheel power near Ivy in the early decades of the 20th century. The recipe did not need to include the matter-ofcourse details, which every able cook of that era would have already understood. Dinner Pone: 1 pint “Your Grandfather’s Meal” (sifted) 1 teaspoon salt Enough cold water to make a stiff dough, knead thoroughly, mould into smooth pones and bake in oven. Why, just the thought of fresh warm bread straight from the oven is almost enough to make one want to split an armload of stove wood and pull out Great-granny’s old rocker churn. “Come, butter, come!”

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Mysterious Doings at Field School By Clover Carroll clover@crozetgazette.com

Riccabona) and Dr. Watson (Cabell Smith) effectively alternate their investigation between the school—on the floor of the auditorium—and Holmes’ apartment on the stage. A ginkgo biloba fruit found in Hobart’s dorm room and the indigo falcon feathers worn on necklaces by a number of boys

provide the first clues in an increasingly complex mystery. Their membership in the Indigo Falcon club is especially appropriate, since the falcon is the Field School’s mascot. The fun really begins when Holmes enlists the aid of a group of barefoot London street urchins—a strategy typical of the Sherlock Holmes stories— continued on page 53 GINA PROULX

What do a deerstalker hat, magnifying glass, clay pipe, red herrings, deductive reasoning, and tangled mysteries make you think of? Sherlock Holmes, of course! The exploits of this legendary fictional detective, who starred in four novels and over 50 short stories by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) including A Study in Scarlet (1886) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901), played a crucial role in defining the genre of crime fiction; Holmes’ statue still stands in Edinburgh. All of these trademarks and more were present in the Field School’s sparkling production of Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Indigo Falcon on May 17 and 18. The ingenious plot, conceived and written by gifted headmaster Dr. Todd Barnett, captured the Sherlock spirit perfectly with a missing student, street urchins, intriguing clues, word puzzles, ruses, and the insipid Inspector LeStrade

(Bennett Gibson). The annual spring extravaganza was directed by art teacher Michelle Nevarr with assistant director Josef Bekiranov, choir direction by Heather Hightower, string band led by Pete Vigour, and drum band led by Darrell Rose. The imaginative and detailed set— replete with period lampposts, backlit window scenes, and Holmes’ cluttered study—was built by Jack Brady with students, and authentic costumes were created by Laura Taylor. The action opened with drumming to establish a mood of tension and excitement, followed by the temporary calm of choir boys of the Abbey School singing a hymn to the tune of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” This peaceful scene is soon disrupted by the news that student John Carter Hobart (Nate Hargrove) has gone missing. As the scene shifts to Sherlock Holmes’ 1903 London apartment, wealthy Col. Hobart (Todd Barnett) arrives to request Holmes’ help in finding his son. Holmes (Jay

Jay Riccabona as Sherlock Holmes receives evidence from street urchins Will Jackson, Josh Boutet, Tommy Fruscello, and Jackson Sneathern in the Field School production of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Indigo Falcon. Cabell Smith as Dr. Watson is on the stage in the left background.

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1,000 square feet are considered “small” by advocates, a “tiny house” is generally under 400 square feet, and the WAHS tiny home is about 280 square feet. Complete with living and kitchen areas, a bathroom measuring four by eight feet, storage, and a loft bedroom to fit a queen-sized bed, the tiny house has all the basics covered. Building it has been no small feat. “The students are learning everything from the ground up,” said Matheny, who has taught engineering and design at WAHS for 26 years. “I’m trying to teach them skills, not just hammers and nails.” The students are learning skills aplenty, from framing to roofing, installing floorboards to hanging windows. After passing classes on how to safely handle every saw and drill in the school’s large workshop, students are able to work independently, and they use the equipment with assurance and

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purpose. Hana Lagana, a junior who first took shop class while a freshman and hopes to be a project manager next year, said she started with no knowledge. “In past years I built a box, and then a bird house,” she said, “but never anything like this.” Lagana built the steps to the loft based on a design from the WAHS architecture class, and she’s been the point-woman for choosing and ordering all the plumbing fixtures. The experience has led to opportunities, as well. “This summer I got an internship with Artisan Construction, and I’ll be working as an estimator,” she said. Her favorite tool? “The pocket hole machine. It’s very cool.” The first seeds of the tiny house idea began with the Albemarle County Public School system’s 2022 education initiative, which encourages schools to provide students with more hands-on, real-world experiences. “This is really preparing kids for college and the workforce, helping them develop self-reliance and teaching them to interact with

See you next year! Kevin Matheny amped his shop class this year with the tiny house project.

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adults,” said Matheny. Besides construction skills, the project is giving the students valuable experience in project management, design, budgeting, and how to take initiative. The Associated General Contractors of Virginia (AGCVA) had a similar vision, and gave the group their start by donating funds to purchase a trailer as a mobile foundation for the house. “What’s becoming scarce is those hands-on people,” said Missy Gupton, regional manager for the

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spread the work out pretty well,” he said. One key lesson has been to take the time to do things carefully. “We put the roof on by ourselves, then we had to take if off and do it again,” he said, smiling. “But we got it right.” Landon Smith, Dillard’s co-framer, said their teacher puts a strong emphasis on working independently. “Mr. Matheny played a big part in instructing us, but he almost never did the thing himself,” said Smith. “It was up to us. His

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phrase was ‘teacher-led, student-done.’” Girls make up 40 percent of the class, some of whom tried out shop as an elective in middle school. Anna Dunn chose art and shop in 7th and 8th grades, and combined those skills to help design the tiny house using Google SketchUp, a web-based 3D modeling application. During a recent class period, Catherine Adams worked outside in the bright sunshine, operating a large miter saw while goggle-clad and wearing a dress. “It’s Senior Night,” she explained, “and I’m the goalie for the lacrosse team.” In the construction world, it’s sometimes necessary to multitask. In their effort to get the tiny house finished, the class was up against a hard deadline (the end of the school year) and a steep learning curve. Several local firms came to the rescue with donated services—electrical, plumbing, the installation of a standing seam metal roof— when professional know-how was required. The tiny house dream became reality in large part due to the generosity of more than 30 local contractors and suppliers who donated an estimated $40,000 worth of materials and labor to the project, including Robertson Electric, Craig Builders, Martin Roofing, ABC Supply, Ferguson Plumbing, and Albemarle Heating and Air. The space inside the tiny house is light-filled and welcoming, featuring natural materials such as white pine beadboard walls, dark cherry tongue-

and-groove hardwood flooring, and a maple butcher-block kitchen counter. Eight windows plus a glass-paned front door lend a roomy feel to the main living and sleeping areas, and a mini-split HVAC system keeps the place comfortable. Reclaimed barn wood accent walls and bamboo bathroom flooring add stylish touches. One of the toughest problems for tiny homeowners is finding a piece of land on which to settle their house. Zoning restrictions often limit the minimum square footage of a house on a conventional lot, and if the house is on wheels, it may be disallowed as a “camper” by some ordinances, or turned away from RV parks if not sanctioned by the national RV association. But locals who stopped by to see the construction at WAHS ranged from intrigued to smitten. “As soon as we started building the house, people expressed interest, wanting to buy this one or order one for next year,” said Matheny. After the final nail is hammered and the building duly celebrated at the close of the school year, Matheny and the juniors in his class will take stock and look ahead. The class hopes to sell their tiny house for around $30,000, and to use the proceeds to get a start on next year. LISA MARTIN

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The bright loft will hold a queen-size bed.

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Here Comes Summer “When you plant cucumbers, you get cucumbers.” Thus would my Godfather opine when one of us, as children, did something particularly stupid. Peals of laughter ensued. This bit of family wisdom is good enough to be embroidered on placemats. My daughter once painted the saying into a watercolor and hung it in the kitchen. My mother was not much of a cook, but she had a few signature dishes and this traditional

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Crozet Community Survey

Answer this survey ONLINE beginning June 11 at crozetcommunity.org/2017/05/public-survey If you are not able to complete the survey online, remove this sheet from your Gazette and mail to the Crozet Community Association, P. O. Box 653, Crozet 22932

Most households inside the Crozet growth area should expect to receive a letter in the mail inviting them to take the survey, sometime the week of June 5. If you receive a letter, please have one person in your household take the survey as described in the letter. Other persons in your household who want to take the survey

should go to crozetcommunity.org/2017/05/public-survey, which will be available after June 10. It should take about 15 minutes to complete the questions below. There are no right or wrong answers; what’s important is your opinion. All of your responses will be kept confidential.

Q1. Crozet has often been said to have a “small town feel.” For each of the following aspects, please rate how important each is to you using this scale: 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all A vibrant downtown

A vibrant local library

Many community events

Plentiful open/green space

A mix of places to live, work, and do business in the downtown area

Q2. There are many reasons why someone lives in Crozet. For each of the possible reasons listed below, please rate how important each is for you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all For a job in the area (includes anyone in your family)

Area’s tax rates

The presence of friends, family, or loved ones in the area

Convenience of your commute

You grew up in the area

Ease of getting around by car

Retirement Q3. Returning to Crozet’s “small town feel,” please rate how important each of the following aspects are to you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Parks and recreation spaces (e.g., trails, pools, team sports space, playgrounds) Residential development

Ability to work in Crozet

Tree-lined streets

Safety/low crime

Convenience to retail/shopping

Q4. And returning to why someone lives in Crozet, please rate how important the following are for you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Safety of the area

Physical beauty of the landscape

Quality of the schools

Availability of farms or land in general

Thoughtful town planning (e.g., Crozet Master Plan)

Overall quality of life in the area

Availability of culture and arts

Active civic engagement

Issues Facing Crozet Throughout this questionnaire we will be referring to Crozet’s Master Plan and its current land use map as shown on page 29. Please take a moment and acquaint yourself with the map. The area of the map inside the red line is the Crozet Development Area, sometimes called the Crozet growth area. The area outside of the red line is zoned as rural area with fewer houses on more land per house (also known as lower density). A guiding principle of the County’s Comprehensive Plan and the

Crozet Master Plan is to foster and permit growth and greater density (more houses on less land) in the growth area, thereby protecting the rural areas and watersheds from population growth and development. Throughout this questionnaire we have included questions that state what the current Crozet Master Plan says on a topic, however, there is no part of the Master Plan that cannot be changed. Please give us your honest opinion about how important these features of the current Master Plan are to you.

Q5. How closely do you follow local civic and growth/development issues in Crozet? very closely

somewhat closely

not very closely

not closely at all

Q6. Do you live within the Crozet Growth area (Crozet development area)? [Please refer to the map] yes

not sure

Q7. Below are some issues the Crozet Master Plan addresses. Let’s first talk about development issues facing Crozet. For each of the below, please indicate how important each one is to you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Ensuring that downtown Crozet is a quality commercial center with a diversity of businesses and services Supporting existing small businesses in Crozet Increasing the amount and ease of parking in the downtown area Increasing commercial development along Route 250 Creating a local recycling center Q8. The Crozet Master Plan states that Route 250 from the Fox Chase subdivision to near the Pro Re Nata Brewery should stay as it is—that is, largely protected from more residential and commercial development. Some people say the Master plan should be changed to allow for more residential and commercial development. [Please check the GOLD area on the map (labeled 250 West Area)] Which of the two statements below is closer to your own view? Check one. Route 250 from the Fox Chase subdivision to the Pro Re Nata Brewery should continue to be protected from further residential and commercial development Route 250 is a good area for more residential and commercial development

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Q9. Do you favor or oppose having the Crozet Master Plan’s current development area boundaries expanded, thereby creating more and new areas in the Crozet area available for residential and/or commercial development? [Current development area boundary shown in RED on map] strongly favor

somewhat favor

somewhat oppose

strongly oppose

Q10. Below is a list of growth issues facing Crozet. Please indicate how important each one is to you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Increasing the availability of jobs in Crozet

Increasing the availability of affordable housing

Limiting new residential development

Protecting and buffering existing neighborhoods against new commercial and residential development

Protecting the water supply

Q11. Do you favor or oppose commercial or industrial development near the Route 250 and I-64 interchange? [Please check the PURPLE area on the map (labeled Interstate Interchange Area)] strongly favor

somewhat favor

somewhat oppose

strongly oppose

Q12. Do you favor or oppose a main principle of the Crozet Master Plan that the downtown area should be the social and business center of Crozet? strongly favor

somewhat favor

somewhat oppose

strongly oppose

Q13. Below is a list of possible transportation needs facing Crozet. Please indicate how important each one is to you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Greater motorist safety and traffic management

Connecting streets between neighborhoods

Increasing pedestrian safety

Increasing commuter bus and/or van options

Emphasizing walking as an alternative to using the car (including greenway trails and sidewalks) Q14. Do you favor or oppose the principle that the downtown Crozet area should be the top priority for new development? strongly favor

somewhat favor

somewhat oppose

strongly oppose

Q15. Do you favor or oppose additional commercial and residential development along Route 250? strongly favor

somewhat favor

somewhat oppose

strongly oppose

Q16. How often do you go to businesses in Downtown Crozet (e.g., The Square, B&B Cleaners, Crozet Market/GreatValu shopping center, Crozet Pizza, Piedmont Place)? daily

several times a week

weekly

several times a month

less frequently than once a month

never

Q17. How often do you go to businesses in the shopping area along Route 250 that includes Harris Teeter, UVA Credit Union, UVA Family Medicine, ABC store, Verizon Wireless, et al.? daily

several times a week

weekly

several times a month

less frequently than once a month

never

several times a month

less frequently than once a month

never

less frequently than once a month

never

Q18. How often do you go to businesses in Waynesboro? daily

several times a week

weekly

Q19. How often do you go to businesses in the Charlottesville area? daily

several times a week

weekly

several times a month

Q20. Now thinking about the types of stores and services that may come to Downtown Crozet in the future, please indicate for each of the following, how important it is to you? 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all More restaurants and bars

More professional services

More retail stores

More employers offering professional/technical jobs

More lodging/hotel Q21. And from the list below, please indicate how important it is that new jobs in each of the following industries come to the Crozet area? 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all High-tech (such as BioScience and Medical Devices)

Retail

Manufacturing/light industrial (such as Information Technology, Defense, Security, and Agri-business Related Technology)

Office/Professional (such as Business and Financial Services)

Thank you for your answers so far! You are over half-way through the questionnaire now! Q22. Below is a list of recreational opportunities that could be created or enhanced in Crozet. For each, please indicate how important it is to you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Greenways and walking trails

Outdoor event and performance space

Park space for organized youth sports activities

Albemarle County park at Old Trail

Natural areas and open spaces for walking, sitting, quiet activities Q23. Which of the following local events did you attend in the last 12 months? (Please check all that apply.) Misty Mountain Music Festival Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival Crozet Farmer’s Market Athletic Events – SOCA, YMCA, WAHS, Peachtree, etc. Crozet Library events/storytime Crozet Independence Day Parade and Celebration Crozet Christmas Parade Local cultural events – WAHS plays, Crozet Community Orchestra or Chorus, etc.

Crozet Trails Crew Fun Run Crozet Car Show Third Thursday Depot Acoustic Jam Session Crozet Spirit Walk and Fall Festival Annual Pitch-In at the Park Old Trail Friday’s After Six Old Trail Movie Night Old Trail Summer Movie Series The Lodge at Old Trail’s Third Thursday events

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Q24. Below are some phrases. For each, please indicate how much you feel it describes Crozet, using a 1 to 5 scale, where 5 means it very much describes Crozet, while a 1 means it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t describe Crozet much at all. Community-minded

Bike-friendly

Mountain views

Family-friendly

Local recreational facilities and opportunitites

Locally-owned businesses

Rich history

Rural area

Good schools

Walkability

Wineries

Agriculture/gardens

Locally-owned restaurants

Active railroad

Breweries

Local arts and culture

Parks and green space

Q25. Below is a list of education issues in Crozet. Please indicate how important each is to you. 1 = very important 2 = somewhat important 3 = not very important 4 = not important at all Increasing local school capacity by building schools

Managing local school capacity by re-districting

Q26. Please share any other comments or thoughts youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to make about Crozet or the Crozet Master Plan and/or its revision.

Please remember that all of your answers are strictly confidential and only group results will be reported. Q27. How long have you lived in Crozet? 0-2 years

3-5 years

6-10 years

11-20 years

21 or more years

All of my life, so far

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Q28. Which of the following neighborhoods do you currently live in? The list below first names areas inside of the Crozet growth area and then some areas outside of the growth area. (If your neighborhood isn’t listed, please write in your street name or area name) Bargamin Park Blue Ridge/Carter Street Brookwood Chesterfield Landing Clover Lawn Cory Farms Crozet Crossing Crozet Mobile Village Foothill Crossing Foothill Village

Grayrock North Orchard Acres Grayrock Orchard Park View Hayden Place Parkside Village Highlands Railroad Avenue Hilltop/Myrtle/Tabor Street area Rea Subdivision (between Haden Lane Jarman Gap Estates and Killdeer) Laurel Hills St George Avenue/McAllister area Liberty Hall St. George Acres Meadows Three Notch’d Road area Old Trail Union Mission Rd/Starr Hill Brewery area

Afton Emerald Ridge Batesville Freetown Beaver Hill Village Free Union Brownsville Fox Chase Church Hill West Hillsboro Emerald Forest (Miller School Rd area)

Greenwood Ivy Mint Springs Road Newtown Sugar Hollow

Wayland Park Waylands Grant Western Ridge Westhall West Lake Hills Weston White Oaks Wickham Pond Other area INSIDE the Growth Area, please specify: ________________________

Thurston Drive area White Hall Yancey Mills Other area OUTSIDE the Growth Area, please specify: __________________

Q29. Where do you most often work or go to school? In or near Crozet

In or near Charlottesville

In or near Scottsville

In or near Waynesboro

In or near Staunton

Somewhere else

Not working or going to school right now (Skip to Q31 below)

Retired (Skip to Q31 below)

Q30. How far do you usually travel to go to work or school? 0-5 miles

6-10 miles

11-20 miles

21-30 miles

greater than 30 miles

Q31. Are you a: (please check all that apply) Crozet resident

Local business owner in Crozet

Property owner in Crozet

Employee/non-owner of a Crozet business

None of the above

Q32. Were you involved in public participation for the Crozet Master Plan in either 2004 or 2010? For example, going to a meeting, taking the 2009 survey, talking to elected officials. Yes

Did not live here then

Not sure / Don’t know

Q33. Please check the number of household members, including yourself, in each age category, that live in your home. 0

0 to 5 years old

31 to 50 years old

6 to 12 years old

51 to 70 years old

13 to 18 years old

71 to 80 years old

19 to 21 years old

81 or older

22 to 30 years old Q34. What is your gender?

Male

Female

Q35. What is your marital status? Single, never married

Married or domestic partnership

Q36. Do you have children in the local public schools?

Yes

Widowed

Divorced

Separated

Q37. What is the highest level of formal education you have completed? Completed some high school

High school graduate or equivalent (e.g. GED)

Completed some college

Trade/technical/vocational training

Associate degree

Completed some post-graduate

Master’s degree

Ph.D., law or medical degree

Bachelor’s degree

Other advanced degree beyond a Master’s degree

Q38. Do you own or rent your current home? Own my current home

Rent my current home

Living with someone who owns the home

Living with someone who rents the home

Q39. Are you currently participating regularly in any local community or civic organizations? Yes

I particiate, but not regularly

Don’t know / Not sure

FINISHED! CONGRATULATIONS. Thank you for your time and input. We greatly appreciate it! TEAR THIS SHEET OUT AND MAIL TO THE CROZET COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, PO BOX 653, CROZET VA 22932

gain, this survey is the first of several opportunities for your active participation in the decisions affecting our community in the next five years or so. If you’d like to stay informed about Crozet, Crozet Master Plan revision and related topics, please subscribe to our email list by signing up at: CrozetCommunity.org/contact-us. We only send out 3-5 emails a month and the every email is reviewed

and approved, so no spam or trolls! If you have any concerns or questions about this survey or any of the topics, please contact us. You can get our contact information at crozetcommunity.org or email us at CrozetCommunity@gmail.com Sincerely, The Crozet Community Association

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Flame On I recently recalled a powerful experience I had as a teenager. After graduating from high school, I got a job working at a landscaping company in northern Virginia. I did whatever they needed me to do in the nursery. My boss told me to help a woman get some plants out to her car. She was in her 40s or 50s and my first impression was that she seemed like an extremely nice person. When I was done, she looked me right in the eye and said, “Thank you so much. You have a really wonderful smile. I hope you don’t mind me saying that. I’ve recently been diagnosed with brain cancer and don’t have much time left, so I don’t waste time anymore and I just tell people what I think. Have a wonderful day.” An immature 18-year-old, I didn’t know how to respond, except to say thanks. But her words stuck with me. Or, really, how she so quickly shared such a personal thing with the nursery “yard boy.” When I got home that evening, I shared this experience with my mother, who, through our church, has had a lot of experience with people who are dying. She told me that when people know they are dying and have accepted it, they often live their remaining days with a completely new perspective on life, one that would make you not hesitate to give random strangers compliments that over 20 years later are still remembered. This memory bubbled back up during a recent solo long run I was on in the mountains. As I’ve shared in this column recently, I have the opportunity to compete in the most prestigious trail race in the U.S. this month, the Western States 100-

mile endurance run. This is an opportunity of a lifetime, coming at just the right time in my life. I set some pretty big goals for this race and, to be honest, I regularly vacillate from having a small glimmer of hope in recognizing my goals, to having very little confidence that I could achieve them. It is the conflict of the dreamer vs. the realist, playing out in real time. As the race draws near, the intensity of this hope/no-hope vacillation has increased dragear matically and affects my trainup at ing. On runs where doubt is running deep, I am much less likely to push myself. I find myself content in the realization of “this is where I am right now.” I’ll finish the run and keep up the effort, but there is not as much sense of purpose. On runs where hope flickers brightly, there are purpose and energy. I am no longer content in “where I am right now.” I know that the flicker will never turn into a flame unless I breathe into it all that I have. Flickering hope will blow out unless commitment, hard work, and passion transform it into something else, something steady. So, with a fire starting to burn, I work the climbs and push the miles, transforming into something else. From contemplation of these thoughts the memory of the dying woman came into my head. How many of us are content with where we are right now? Don’t get me wrong. I hope that every person reading this has joy in his or her heart. What I mean is, how many of us have simply stopped looking forward because we feel like we have arrived where we’re supposed to continued on page 50

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Business Briefs

By Theresa Curry theresa@crozetgazette.com

Local business news

Mechum Trestle owners still seeking right fit

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Construction is still underway and so is the search for the most appropriate tenant for the long-vacant restaurant location at the intersection of Routes 250 and 240. Co-owner Bill McKechnie said the perfect match will be someone with the combination of relevant experience and the correct understanding of what will work in that spot. “I live right up the road, so I think I have a good idea of what people want,” he said. He envisions something family-friendly, inclusive and comfortable in the former home of several homey eateries. “That’s the history,” he said, “of course, with the notable gap of two decades.” He doesn’t rule out a chef-driven operation, but neither does he want a place that’s only for special occasions. “I don’t think we need a place with white linens,” he said. “We want something sustainable, that will do well, that will have something for everyone.”

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Crozet Market to reflect community

Season underway at Chiles Orchard, tasting rooms Fluctuating weather conditions have not hurt the main peach crop at Chiles Orchard, said store manager Lisa Henson. The earliest crop was lost at the Crozet location, but other varieties are thriving and right on schedule to be picked in late June and early July. Strawberries have been plentiful all through May and crowds have flocked to THERESA CURRY

As of mid-May, there were 2,500 new products on the shelves of the Crozet Great Valu, and Raphael Strumlauf could name most of them. He’s one of the owners––with Mark Green and Kurt Wassenaar––of the store, now renamed Crozet Market, in the Crozet Shopping Center. Most of the new items are there because customers asked for them, Strumlauf said: “That’s how the former owners built their inventory, and we want to continue that.” Walking through the store, he pointed out individual items––Indian products, cut flowers, spices, mixers, food for special diets––added by request. He said that people who were skeptical at first about some of the changes have been reassured by his responsiveness. Other items have been rearranged, consolidated and shifted to make more open space, and that will continue, with new, more efficient shelving. In the back right-hand corner of the store, some spaces will change to make room for large meat items. More expansion in the present space will be in the bulk food and produce sections. Strumlauf also owns the Market Street Market in Charlottesville with his father, Steven. “He’s the one who gave me my passion for food and wine.” He expects that the Crozet store will form itself organically to be different in many ways from the downtown space. People shop for their

families, cook more at home, buy larger packages of vegetables and meat, he said. Besides responding to requests for certain items, Strumlauf has an eye for what might allow his customers to do most of their shopping in one stop, rather than leaving town. At the front of the store there’s a new greeting card display and a bit farther back is an assortment of gift cards. Price is another reason why even regular customers might shop elsewhere, Strumlauf said. When a customer told him prices were competitive with Walmart in everything except laundry detergent, he was determined to correct that, ordered more at one time, and has been able to lower prices. There’s a lot more to come. The owners purchased the former home of Crozet Tack and Saddle (now moved to the former Patterson Flower Shop) and it will offer deli meats and cheeses, pastries, prepared food––including homemade salads––and a few tables and chairs for onsite lunches. It’s hard to tell how quickly that will happen, said Strumlauf, who’s scouting for the right equipment to outfit the deli, but he hopes it will be within the year. Strumlauf said he’s a man living his dream. He loves the grocery business, and not just the food, the wine and the interaction with customers. Even the parts that might seem dull to others are appealing to him: “Contracts, vendors, finding the best deals on equipment, hiring personnel: I love it all.”

Chris Hansen pours peach-infused wine at Prince Michel at Chiles Orchard.

the pick-your-own fields. Henson said the orchard has increased the number of pancake breakfasts, offering them every weekend morning in the season. “Whatever is in season, that’s what we top the pancakes with,” she said. “People love them.” The sweet concentrate from last year’s peaches flavors one of the wines next door at Prince Michel at Chiles Orchard tasting room, said wine shop associate Chris Hansen. The tasting room offers fruit-based sweet wines and wine slushes, including the new “Froze Yay,” a frozen rosé. Those with more classic taste in wine can order a flight of four wines of their own choosing, or a bottle of one of the vineyard’s popular wines. If cider’s your drink, it’s a couple of steps to the Bold Rock Tap Room and Cider Garden, an outpost for the Nelson County operation offering all of the Bold Rock hard ciders on draft. There’s ample seating in the cider garden and throughout the orchard to enjoy local fruit, wine and cider; local music and local artists, with a full schedule of events planned for the summer. For music and special events, visit chilesfamily orchards.com

Batesville Market Opens, Going Strong Neighbors poured into the Batesville Market early last month on Batesville Day, welcoming the landmark store’s re-emergence as a full-service market. Some last minute donations easily pushed the market’s “Go Fund Me” campaign over its $60,000 goal, and the community’s generous support was evident. Shelves were wellstocked, full of local produce, artisanal baked goods and a wide variety of everyday necessities. Chef Scott Link, who manages the kitchen, said the food sold for takeout lunches or in-house consumption features local ingredients whenever possible. Especially popular has been the house-smoked pastrami Reuben, also featuring Goodwin Creek bread and local sauerkraut. “Vegetarians have loved our vegetable gallettes,” Link said.

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Chef Scott Link of Batesville Market.

Baguettes and croissants are from MarieBette, the Charlottesville bakery. Customers can pick up weekly shares or half-shares of produce from Bellair Farm at the market, as well as locally-made beer and wine and locally roasted coffee. Link said the strong support has continued through the weeks following the market’s opening, including continuing patronage of the weekly concerts featuring local bands. Recently, hand-cut rib-eyes have been added to the meat cooler. “But we want people to know they can find the regular grocery items they need, even if they’re not fancy,” he said. “We always have milk and eggs, things like that.”

New owners, new manager at the Crozet Creamery The Kauffmann and Slater families now own the Crozet Creamery. Jonathan and Megan Kauffmann and Greg and Kay Slater have taken the popular ice cream store over from the

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Holzwarth family and Michael Comer, who returned to higher education. They’ve hired Erik Schetlick to manage the store. Schetlick’s a veteran of the Charlottesville food scene, starting when he was a U.Va. student, first working at the Virginian and later at the Ivy Inn and Michael’s Bistro, and most recently a few months ago when he served as sous chef and production manager at Harvest Moon Catering. In between, he traveled for years, picking up jobs as line cook and sous chef in Oregon and Colorado. “This is the first time I’ve been able to have a brand-new kitchen,” Schetlick said. Hard work and attention to cleanliness and efficiency have always been his trademarks, he said. “I’m glad to be able to work with teenagers and teach them those values.” He’s looking forward to experimenting with new flavors as well as the ones already beloved by patrons of the Creamery. Schetlick lives in Charlottesville with his wife, Sara, and his thirteen-month old daughter, Susannah.

Innovative menu & bar at Pro Re Nata Management of the food truck is changing hands at Pro Re Nata, with young chef Austin Robbins overseeing the compact kitchen and Brianna “Buddha” Robbins managing the rest of the operation. Robbins, a Crozet resident, is taking the operation over from 106 Street Food, and will operate as “Braised” [sic] once the transition is completed. Chef Austin plans to reach out to the continued on page 35

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Batesville Day 2017 By Theresa Curry theresa@crozetgazette.com Runners headed into a south wind blowing cold and rain into Batesville last month, as the community turned out to watch and cheer. The chilly rain was not an issue for those who registered for the 10K race, the first event of Batesville Day, May 6. Race organizer Hamp Carruth said that all but one of the expected runners showed up. Mike Fox easily won the race, which is famously billed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the only 10K in Virginia that starts and ends in the same place and is all uphill,â&#x20AC;? with a time of 35:06, almost four minutes ahead of the second place runner. Fox, a western Albemarle native, also holds the course record. Kendall Tata was the

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first woman to finish with a time of 44:41. The rain let up briefly for the parade, which featured the JT Henley Middle School band, Rose Garden Pre-School, big trucks from the Fire Department and local businesses, dancers, assorted clubs, goats, horses, political groups, funny vehicles and mobile works of art and signage created by the creative citizens of Batesville. The downpour resumed just as the village fair opened, but people gamely crowded under tents to sample food, buy knick-knacks and baked goods, register to vote and listen to live music.

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2017 Batesville 10k Results