Crozet Gazette June 2018 by The Crozet Gazette

INSIDE NO TOWER page 3 PRINCIPLES RESOLUTION page 4 TINY HOUSE page 6

JUNE 2018 VOL. 13, NO. 1

BATESVILLE PARADE page 10

Black Bears and the Goldilocks Principle

FOOD HUB page 12

How many is just right?

BUSINESS BRIEFS page 12-15

By Lisa Martin

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MAD RUNNER page 16

MICHAEL MARSHALL

FIRST TIMERS page 24 HADEN BROTHERS page 25 3 PRECINCTS NOW page 27 SAVE MORE page 28 POTATO SALAD page 29 MAKE SOAP page 30 GERUNDS page 35 FIREWORKS FUND page 36 RAIN RADAR page 37 MAPLE SYRUP page 38 BUILD YOUR BASE page 39 PACKED GLANDS page 41 WAHS GRADS page 42 ER PTSD page 45 CALENDAR CLINIC page 46 COPPERHEADS page 48

David Anhold presents the Western Park master plan at the May CCAC meeting.

Western Park Takes Shape by Lisa Martin

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Landscape architect David Anhold’s vision for the proposed Western Park, a 36-acre site in Old Trail just north of the neighborhood pool, is mindful of the historic and cultural lineage of the land. “The property is characteristic of Crozet,” said Anhold, as it encompasses former orchards and current wetlands, and supports many native plant and wild-

life species. “In keeping with that, the park design is grounded in a local sense of place.” A decade after a Western Park plan was originally proposed but languished due to lack of funding, citizens listened to a presentation of an updated master plan at the Crozet Community Advisory Committee’s (CCAC) meeting May 16. The reanimated project’s design takes direction from community input and coordi-

Once upon a time, black bears vanished in Virginia. Though thousands roamed here in pre-colonial times, by the 1900s the Commonwealth’s land had been mostly clear-cut for farming, and as bears found little natural habitat and themselves on the menu, they disappeared. The last bear of that era spotted east of the Blue Ridge mountains was in Albemarle County in 1910. Over the next century, agriculture receded and forests began to regrow, the 200,000-acre Shenandoah National Park (SNP) was established, hunting restrictions were imposed, and black bears gradually returned. The first pair in the SNP reappeared in 1937, and by the 1950s more than a thousand inhabited 35 counties in the west and southeast. The population eventually swelled to today’s 17,000 animals statewide, making themselves at home in every county

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Septenary Serenity: New Tasting Room Open at Seven Oaks by Clover Carroll

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Gazing across the serene reflecting pool and rolling vineyards at Afton Mountain from Septenary Winery’s tasting room veranda, sipping a glass of crisp Viognier or dry Summer Kitchen Rose, one can easily shake off the cares of the week and let the quiet, calm ambience of western Albemarle’s newest winery soothe your soul. “What sets Septenary apart are the

views, the quality of the wine, and our cozy, intimate atmosphere,” explained owner Todd Zimmerman. We now have another option for sharing wine with friends in an idyllic, natural setting in sight of the breathtaking views for which Greenwood and Crozet are famous. And if you’re feeling peckish, the tasting room also offers cheese and charcuterie boards prepared by Fardowners. SEPT-en-ar-y Winery at Seven continued on page 32

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JUNE 2018 tary, middle and high school next year) there simply doesn’t exist definitive data that would assure me that my children will be safe with this cell tower next to them for most of their waking hours. We know that cell towers and electrical lines negatively affect property values. Also, I believe the biggest reason people move to Crozet is for our schools. Will they want to move here with a school(s) that has a cell tower? The fact that they CAN’T consider scientific information that exists tells me that SOMEONE is more concerned with protecting business interests and growing an industry than they are about my and our community’s children’s well being. The height of the proposed tower, 145 feet, is more than 80 feet above the trees around it. It will be fully visible far more than it is screened. This is completely contrary to our county

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No Tower at WAHS When I read Mike Marshall’s January editorial in the Gazette that explained the “Federal Communication Commission rules prevent local governments from considering the possible health affects from cell towers when making decisions about approving them” at our CHILDREN’S school, I was shocked. I started researching and reading articles—some that were very concerning and others that claimed cell towers are safe. I also reflected upon when cigarettes and thalidomide for morning sickness were considered safe and I realized as a mother of three (one in elemen-

ordinance for tree top towers which specifies that towers should be 7-10 feet higher than the reference tree. This tower will be visible from White Hall to Batesville, Afton to FoxChase. If approved, the applicant could also raise the tower twenty feet without further permission, making it 165 feet tall and about 100 feet in full view. The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld the Albemarle ordinance based on visibility and aesthetics. These rules are within county authority to uphold. So what now? Parents WERE able to successfully block the proposed cell tower at Stony Point Elementary. We need to flood the CCAC, Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission with emails, postcards, or letters (whichever is easiest for you) and simply let them know that we are NOT okay with a commercial entity

profiting at the expense of our children. The Board of Supervisors should protect both established community ordinances AND our children by voting no to granting this waiver to build cell towers at our schools. It’s also worth noting that WAHS and other county schools are wired for fiber optics—which means they can communicate faster than most of Crozet on school-provided laptops. I have heard the argument made that parents are concerned about reaching kids at school. If I need to communicate with my children, they have laptops in class and can easily receive an email or message. Also, I am hearing from teachers that cell phones are providing unecessary distraction in class. At a recent Screenagers documentary screening at Sutherland Middle, I learned there is a correlation between an continued on page 36

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A draft resolution reaffirming the guiding principles in the Crozet Master Plan encountered some resistance at the Crozet Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) meeting in May. CCAC Vice-Chair and survey expert Shawn Bird presented the results of the 2017 Crozet Community Survey pertaining to citizens’ views on growth in the downtown and Route 250 areas as background for the resolution. The key principles of the 2010 Crozet Master Plan articulate the community’s priorities for growth, particularly encouraging commercial development in the historic downtown area and limiting new development on Route 250 West. Bird presented survey results confirming that Crozet residents still agree with the Master Plan principles, which led the CCAC to draft a set of resolutions earlier this year reaffirming those principles, intended to serve as an

addendum to the existing Master Plan. (See below for the draft resolutions.) One resolution, however, came up for debate among Committee members. The survey question “Do you favor or oppose commercial or industrial development near the Route 250 and I-64 interchange?” resulted in a response of 55 percent strongly or somewhat in favor, and 45 percent strongly or somewhat opposed. This split seemed to conflict with #5 of the stated resolutions: “Reject development of the I-64 and Route 250 interchange area.” “The resolution language is strong, but the data is not as strong,” said Josh Rector. “My opinion is that we should use a word like ‘discourage’ instead of ‘reject.” Tom Loach explained the reasoning. “If you support development of the I-64/250 interchange area then you are supporting a de facto expansion of the Growth Area, which is in conflict with the Master Plan,” he said. “[The survey] is basi-

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CCAC Resolves to Reaffirm Master Plan Principles

Shawn Bird presenting at the May CCAC meeting

cally a split opinion, and we felt that to protect the downtown area as it matured, we should reject interchange development.” Jennie More, county Planning Commission member, cautioned against introducing changes to the Master Plan language at this point. “The survey data is important, and we’ll use this data to inform a formal review of potential changes to the Master Plan,” she said. “But for now we don’t need to get that specific.” Valerie Long interjected that

the very act of putting out an addendum to the Master Plan in the form of these resolutions sends a conflicting message to the citizenry. “I feel like we are subverting the public process [to be followed when altering the Master Plan] with this,” she said. “If we are just supporting the existing Master Plan, then why do we need these resolutions? On the other hand, if we are using the survey data to make an addendum, then we seem to be making changes.” Jennie More responded, “I continued on page 6

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The inaugural WAHS tiny house finds a buyer in Kimberly Coffman (right) and her daughter Pari Hamrick (center), flanked by student builders and teachers. Photo: Shane Matthews

Tiny House Makes the Sale WAHS students in years 3 and 4 of Kevin Matheny’s hands-on design and engineering classes built a tiny house last year using mostly locally sourced donated materials and a lot of elbow grease. After showing it off at a tiny house expo in Fredericksburg in May, students and school officials connected with Maryland residents Kimberly Coffman and her daughter Pari Hamrick, who bought the house for $30,000 and plan to eventually tow it to Florida for Hamrick to live in. “The exposure at the expo meant the house was in the right place for just the right kind of buyer,” said Rod Phillips of RE/Max, who has helped the

students with the marketing and selling aspects of the project for the past year. “The price was what we’d hoped for and will allow more tiny house projects to go forward in the future.” “The expo visitors were impressed with the harmony of the house and the quality of the work,” said Caroline Bertrand, career specialist at WAHS. She noted that interest in the construction industry has increased among the student builders as a result of this program. “Students obtained summer jobs and internships based on their experience, and some are choosing to go into construction management in college.”

honestly don’t think we’ll have an updated Master Plan until 2020, so our existing plan is [and will continue to be] out of date. From a policy perspective, it’s sort of shameful that it’s so outdated. I think it’s important to emphasize and reaffirm these principles, using this new data, while we wait.” CCAC Chair Allie Pesch agreed. “We are issuing these resolutions as part of the process of getting things moving to update our Master Plan. We want to be the squeaky wheel, to remind the Board of Supervisors that our Master Plan is outdated, and these resolutions help get that process going at the county level.” “The survey data is about 9 months old now, and over time will start to de-value,” added Bird. “We want to take this opportunity to confirm that the survey data supports the Master Plan, and to issue a resolution using the data while it’s fresh because it’s important to include as many voices as we can from the community, not just the [CCAC] members.” Following the discussion, the draft resolution was put up for a vote and passed 9 to 4, with Rector, Long, David Mitchell, and Joe Fore voting against. All four dissenting members joined

the CCAC in April. The next step will be to present the resolutions to the Planning Commission for approval, likely in July, and then to the Board of Supervisors in September. Resolutions Regarding Future Crozet Master Plan Update Do not alter nor expand the current Crozet Growth Area Boundary; Ensure that Downtown Crozet is the center of development for the Growth Area and a priority area for the focus of public capital investment and resource allocation; Limit development along Route 250 West, west of Crozet Avenue; Recognize that Route 250 West is a State Scenic Byway containing aesthetic and cultural value and honor its status when making land development decisions; Reject development of the I-64 and Route 250 interchange area; Expand transportation options in the Crozet Growth Area, and ensure that necessary infrastructure improvements keep pace with new development. Priorities should include: Library Avenue extended to Parkside Village; Bus and Shuttle services to the area; Bike and Pedestrian pathways and improvements along Routes 240 and 250.

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Stories & Photos By Lisa Martin

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Field School students acclimate youn g trout to the water of the North Fork Moormans River prior to releasing them.

UVA neuroscientist Mark Beenhakker shows students a human brain after a presentation at Meriwether Lewis Elementary.

Brain Trust Meriwether Lewis Elementary fifth-graders were treated to a close look at the human brain in a recent presentation by U.Va. neuroscientists Mark Beenhakker and Katie Salvati. The students learned about the different parts of the brain and how each functions, including odd facts such as that the area controlling vision is actually located at the back of the skull. The scientists also described their research, particularly its limitations. “There is still so much we don’t know about how the brain works,” said Beenhakker. “Sometimes we learn the most from people who have had parts of their brains removed, so we can tell which functions are missing, like memory or motor function or logical processing.” The two presenters told stories such as the famous 1953 tale of

“patient H. M.,” a man whose hippocampus was removed and thereafter lost his short-term memory, though his long-term memory remained intact, a case which advanced scientists’ understanding of memory. Beenhakker and Salvati study childhood absence epilepsy, in which seizures cause episodes of staring where the child is not aware or responsive. Though medical treatments have been developed as a result of the research, progress is still slow. “We conduct our research on mice and rats,” said Salvati, currently a Ph.D. student, “but we can’t be sure that mice brains and human brains work the same way.” The students asked “what if ” questions about how the brain works, with a special focus on dreaming, another mystifying area for researchers. “Why do we dream what we do?” asked one girl. “How does my brain

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come up with that stuff?” Several students had read up on brains and knew about the importance of rest on the ability of the brain to organize and retain what it had recently experienced. When it came time to actually pass around real human brains and spinal cords, most of the students were eager to take a look. “It’s squishy!” they yelled. “It’s wrinkled!” The scientists stressed the brain’s vulnerability to injury, and advised that all parts of the brain need to be protected. “So wear a helmet when you bike or ski or play sports or skateboard,” said Beenhakker. “Eat healthy food, and get plenty of sleep. Take care of your brain.”

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Field School students contribute to their local environment in a tangible way with an annual science project that culminates in a trout release into the North Fork Moormans River. “We got them as eggs and

ium,” said seventh-grader Ari. “After a couple of months, now they are about three inches long.” In class, the students review the basic anatomy and life cycle of trout, and even make drawings of them focusing on their markings in art class. Then comes the best part—a field trip for the whole school to the river above Sugar Hollow Dam. “We tie it in to a bonding trip by camping at Camp Albemarle the night before we do the release,” said science teacher Maureen Perriello. “It was pretty warm, but really fun.” At the river, each boy was given a plastic cup with a baby trout swirling inside, and the students waded in to choose a protected spot for their fish’s new home. The river water was a bit warmer than expected for the time of year, so teachers cautioned students to acclimate their wards slowly to the new temperature to prevent shock. James “Chubby” Damron of the Thomas Jefferson chapter of Trout Unlimited was on hand to explain the history and bene-

CROZETgazette fits of the project, in which several area schools participate. “The Virginia game department provides the eggs for the school to use, and they are of the same quality as the native brook trout in the river so there is no interference with interbreeding,” he said. Damron described how a major flood in 1995 had devastated the river along that stretch, uprooting trees and washing boulders downstream, and decimating the trout habitat. “With no tree cover to keep cool, and no place to hide in the river, the trout population was nonexistent for several years,” he said. “This program is important to help the stream rebuild the population. Field School alone has probably contributed close to 500 fish here over the years.” After the release, the students sprawled on rocks and splashed in the water, enjoying the river on a beautiful spring day. Brook trout live for about four years in the type of habitat provided by the North Fork Moormans, and will eventually grow to between 8 and 12 inches. “Who knows, these boys may even catch one someday,” said Damron.

Claim to Fame WAHS is home to a new Western Albemarle Fine Arts Hall of Fame, designed to highlight school community members who have contributed to the fine arts learning experience, either within the high school or beyond. “We are thrilled to

JUNE 2018 have gotten this started,” said Kelly Burnette, one of the WAHS Fine Arts staff who helped coordinate the awards ceremony. “We hope that as people see and appreciate the Hall of Fame, it will continue to build in future years.” Four inaugural inductees were honored at a ceremony in the cafeteria May 2, followed by senior art show recognitions and honor society inductions. This year’s inductees were: Steve Layman, WAHS band director from 1985 to 2008, who grew the small band programs into multiple winning ensembles; Tavia Fromm Brown, a 1994 WAHS graduate who is now a successful metalsmith and leader in the Charlottesville arts community; Donna Tucker, a WAHS Visual Arts teacher from 1977 to 2006 who developed the crafts curriculum to include functional artwork and expanded the reach and appeal of art offerings at the school; and Eric Betthauser, the WAHS choir director from 2009 to 2016 whose talent and enthusiasm inspired many at both the high school and Henley Middle School, where he also taught. Mr. Betthauser was killed in a tragic car accident in 2016, and his former colleague at Henley, Tim Heltzel, received the posthumous award on his behalf at the ceremony. Nominations to the Hall of Fame are open to WAHSrelated alumni, former staff, administrators, and other community members, and will be accepted at the school by early

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Crozet Coffee: Keeping it Simple

Crozet resident Caroline Hirst just opened Encore, a children’s resale clothing shop next to Sam’s Hot Dogs. The shop will be open Tuesday through Saturday: “I’m still adjusting the hours,” Hirst said. Her location positions her so young mothers coming in and out of Santosha Yoga next door can easily stop by. “Sam’s is also a family-type place,” she said. With well-curated clothes and shoes, the shop is uncluttered and sunny, and offers a play area for children. Hirst has plans to partner with other child-oriented retailers in the future. Find more information on the Encore Facebook page, or call Hirst at 434-282-0206.

On their way to growing a couple of large business enterprises, Crozet entrepreneurs Randy Caldejon and Erik Breuhaus took a bit of a side trip. They noticed that freshly roasted coffee choices here were too complicated, too expensive and all roasted somewhere other than Crozet. Realizing it would take endless cups of coffee to fuel their projects, the team invested in a Dietrich 1R-12 roaster and began roasting their own coffee beans at a farm on Half-Mile Branch Road. “So, I guess you could say we’re selling farm-roasted coffee,” said Joel Shindeldecker, Crozet Coffee’s marketing manager. “Although they’re passionate

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about good coffee, they didn’t want to make it overly fancy,” Shindeldecker said. He and the owners are the key members of the roasting staff; in fact, “It’s pretty much us,” he said. There are three different basic coffees, and since the proprietors of the Crozet Coffee Company obviously have a flair for alliteration, they named them Bright, Balanced and Bold, each from a single origin: Ethiopia, Brazil and Nicaragua, respectively, although they’re able to make a special blend if one of their clients requires it. Coming up is a cold brew, and Shindeldecker said it most likely won’t be infused with nitrogen. Their coffee is served or sold locally at Rocket Coffee, Crozet Market, The Rooftop, and Blue Ridge Bottle Shop; at several locations in and around Charlottesville; and online through the company’s website. Shindeldecker said the public has responded well to the lowkey local release. “Our idea was to just have a great cup of coffee, and then get on with your day.”

Local Food Hub Connects Growers, Markets, Consumers Almost everyone likes to get their food from small local growers, but there are a number of challenges that arise between the farmer and your dinner table, said Portia Boggs of the Local Food Hub. “Farmers often have no time for marketing directly, and can’t grow enough to satisfy the consistency requirements of the neighborhood grocery store.” Or they might not be familiar with all of the regulatory requirements that govern food safety, or they may lack storage facilities. On the other hand, a growing number of people don’t know the importance of fresh food, or lack the skills necessary to prepare it, or find it much less affordable than cheap processed food. Enter the Local Food Hub, an innovative non-profit operating from a small commercial park in Ivy, with plenty of ideas to fill the gaps between growers and eaters. Boggs is the Associate Director of Philanthropy. She works from

an office in a trailer adjacent to the warehouse space that’s compartmentalized into several large rooms with various degrees of frigidity, from room temperature, to root-cellar temperature, to refrigerator temperature, to freezer. In late May, several crates of over-wintered apples were in one room; boxes of Hanover broccoli and local asparagus in another. Local beef was stored in the freezer. But in a few weeks, the warehouse will be stuffed with greens and strawberries, early potatoes and local cabbages and chard, followed by high-season vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, squash and cucumbers. Trucks will haul produce from Ivy to huge kitchens at U.Va. as well as smaller operations like Greenwood Gourmet and the Crozet Market. Lisa Reeder, the Hub’s Farm and Food Access Coordinator, said the storage space as well as the outreach service to local growers allows the staff to collect the produce from several farms and market it to retailers who want to make sure there’s enough for customer demand. They pay the farmer more than conventional wholesalers ($.80 for every dollar in sales, as opposed to $.17). By buying the food outright from the farm, the Hub takes the responsibility for marketing and sales, allowing the farmer’s attention to remain on the farm. Retailers know where the produce comes from, and so do the customers. The reach of the Hub—from Hanover and Richmond to Northern Virginia––means that the season lasts a little longer. “For instance, Hanover will have strawberries a couple of weeks before local farms do, then our Highland County farm will have them for a couple of weeks after ours are depleted,” Reeder said. But there’s another piece of the food distribution puzzle, and it’s one that the Local Food Hub is willing to tackle. The large-scale public rejection of vegetables and fruits from childhood onward has been linked to the enormous increase of chronic disease. With the participation of local health clinics, they’ve been able to supply free “prescriptions” of healthy food for those with diet-related ailments, or at risk for them. This

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is the “Fresh Farmacy,” and it’s showing signs of turning lives around. Many clients remember eating vegetables at their grandparents, but didn’t grow up knowing how to cook them, Reeder said. So, like all good pharmacists, the folks at the Hub are careful to include storage and use instructions with their prescriptions of kale or tomatoes, as well as rules for overall kitchen hygiene. Some of the recipes were developed by children at the non-profit PB&J Foundation kitchen in Charlottesville. Some of the testimonials speak to how this “medicine” is being received. One recipient said she’d always been intimidated by cooking vegetables, but the recipes gave her confidence. Another one said her children had never had peaches or pears but it turned out they loved them. Still another said he’d reduced his six medications to three. Bolstering the anecdotal reports are the measurable results from the clinics showing significant improvement in blood pressure, weight and glucose levels. From the consumer end, it’s all good. We have more local choices, we know our food has been properly handled, and we support the farms that keep our region green and beautiful.

New Home for the Hive Hive Creative group has moved from a tiny room upstairs at the Mudhouse to a more visible office in the space recently vacated by Blue Ridge Beads and Glass next door to

the Crozet Market. The increase in the size of the office reflects the growth of the enterprise, the brainchild of Mary Beth Bowen and Sarah Scott, both with long experience in helping businesses get their message out. The two women were following separate paths, Bowen in marketing and Scott in design, when they met in 2016 and realized that together they could provide a full-service package for clients, offering public relations, social media marketing, graphic design, website design and printing services. They worked together from their home offices before setting up shop together. With the move to a more spacious office, they’ve been able to hire a parttime social media manager, Jessie Beasley, and just recently installed a large-scale printer. With the printer, they’ll be able not only to design, but also print the materials their clients need. Scott owned a sign business for years, so has a good understanding of graphics on a huge scale. Hive grew by 50 percent last year––mostly through well-established local contacts and word of mouth––and the partners found themselves working with some of the most dynamic and interesting ventures around, including Crozet Pizza, Gearhart’s Chocolate, the Inn at Stinson, Bloomaker, the Spirit Trail and the Downtown Crozet Initiative. They have larger corporate, academic and health care clients as well. They especially seek businesses open to new ideas and who want to use the combined expertise of Hive to guide them through all the steps of a marketing plan.

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Scott and Bowen gave an example of how an intimate knowledge of a client’s business can work to solve specific problems. They work with Bloomakers, a family business in Stuarts Draft that grows live plants from bulbs and markets them as design elements. Bloomakers was inundated with calls about care and projected blooming time for their 150 different products until Scott designed a beautiful collar for the glass-enclosed bulbs with hand-made drawings and instructions. They make every effort to understand as much as possible about each business they work with, Scott said. Bowen said the new, livelier spot has already resulted in people walking in just to say hello. “That’s fine with us,” she said.

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Jessie Beasley, Mary Beth Bowen and Sarah Scott of Hive Creative Group

and confidence building in-group settings. The individual and group sessions will be offered several times a month during the summer. Gina said the project has already forged great connections with local teachers and counselors during the past year in the school-based program. Anyone is eligible, Bryan said: “We have students from every imaginable background.” Because of the non-profit status, the cost of the service is tax deductible. The importance of establishing confidence in our young people is summed up in the motto the Christ’s have chosen for their business, a quote by Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” And there are more statistics supporting the wisdom of mentoring. Young adults at risk for falling off track but who had a mentor were 55 percent more likely to enroll in college, 78 percent more likely to volunteer regularly, and 130 percent more

likely to hold leadership positions. “This really works,” Gina said. Those interested in enrolling in the summer program can find more information at rise4realchange.org.

Dermatologists Open Office in Afton Veteran dermatologist Jane Lynch took a look at the demographics in Nelson County, Crozet and Western Albemarle and realized there wasn’t a dermatologist to be found. “It’s an underserved area,” she said, “and it’s important for people to be able to have a doctor within reach.” Lynch’s practice, Shenandoah Dermatology, already had offices in Staunton and Lexington. She found an ideal location at Afton Family Practice on Rockfish Valley Highway, and opened an office there June 1. Lynch believes part of her professional responsibility is to educate people in the impor-

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There’s a bit of a disconnect between intention and reality for today’s students, Gina Christ has found. The long-time school counselor was interested in statistics showing that 87 percent of today’s high schoolers want to pursue higher education, but only 45 percent feel anywhere near ready. That’s where Rise Together, an innovative individual and group mentoring service comes in. In Rise Together, Gina and her son, Bryan Christ––a Youth and Social Innovation student at U.Va.––offer a mentorship program in Charlottesville and Albemarle County schools,

based on a successful program they pioneered in North Carolina. The unique nonprofit trains students from U. Va.’s Curry School of Education to serve as mentors to children in middle and high schools. It wasn’t hard for them to see that there was also a local need for a summer program to help students acquire the skills to thrive in high school as well as college. “It’s not just academics,” Gina said. “Skills like public speaking, managing stress, even filling out forms can be really daunting for children.” And the world is changing so fast that many of the pressures on middle and high school students are unfamiliar even to their parents. In many cases, the students involved are hoping to be the first generation to attend college. That’s the beauty of teaming up with college mentors, Bryan said. “They really like working with the younger students, and many of them find they have a passion for it.” Testimonials from the older students say the experience has made them aware of the importance of mentoring and establishing a safe place to discuss sensitive issues like race and class, all while developing leadership and confidence in the mentors as well as the teenagers. The summer program is designed to help 9-12th grade students find their path toward college by providing individual guidance, service projects and internships geared towards future goals, test preparation, and general academic advice. They’ll also meet other students in workshops that teach time and stress management, leadership, entrepreneurial experience, personal determination,

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CROZETgazette tance of taking care of their skin. It’s common for her to find the beginnings of skin cancer and to identify other diseases that are manifested early on by skin changes. Her associates, Dr. Lindsay Kidd and Dr. Amalie Derdeyn, both had recent experiences with this: one found signs of a recent stroke that had been undiagnosed until the skin exam; the other found evidence of a blood clot. Potentially serious consequences were avoided by quick referrals. Shenandoah Dermatology offers a variety of services, including aesthetics as well as medical exams and treatment, and all offices can be reached at a central phone number, 540885-4500. The practice offers a free newsletter with helpful tips on skin care. There’s also a website, shenandoahdermatology. com.

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Through rain and snow and sleet and hail, in the summer sun and through every kind of illness and ache, Kevin Lounsbury of Crozet gets up every morning and runs 10.5 miles. He’s been doing this without a day off since June 27, 2009, and hopes to continue for the foreseeable future. He runs in a loop around Crozet, starting at his home in Orchard Acres and continuing on Railroad Avenue. By the time this issue of the Gazette comes out, he will have run close to 3,270 days without a break. But Lounsbury has other goals and the morning run is not enough. He aims for 100 miles each week, so he fits in another run of 5.5 miles during his lunch hour, looping around Waynesboro where he works for DuPont Community Credit Union. One immediate goal is to have run 80,000 miles by the end of the month: a longer-range intention is to run 100,000 miles by his mother’s 90th birthday in 2023. In the beginning, he took up running at his family home in upstate New York so he could compete with his brother. As a young man, he was troubled by shin splints, but still ran track and cross country for Bridgewater College. He even-

tually outgrew the shin splints and embarked on setting ambitious personal records for mileage accumulated and number of days without a break. His mileage count began in 2001. His count of days run in a row has been more complicated. He’s had a couple of previous streaks that ended with sickness. One ended in 2007, when he experienced severe pain that he attributed to food poisoning. “I had eaten a steak that was kind of old, so I blamed that,” he said. “It turned out that I had a kidney stone instead.” Fastidious when it comes to recordkeeping, he did not count the painful start-and-stop mile or so he ran that day, so had to start over. With the help of medication, he was out again the next day and continued every day until June of 2009, when symptoms of a heart attack brought him to the doctor. Once again, the diagnosis was something a little easier to fix. He had pneumonia, not heart trouble, but was able to have a couple of weeks rest until it was discovered: “The best vacation I ever had,” he said. The 60-year-old Lounsbury keeps his weight in the 120s and eats a mainly healthy diet. “I’ve got a weakness when it comes to marshmallows and gummy bears, though,” he said. He’s learned to avoid cakes, pies and cookies and doesn’t follow any of the specific dietary

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fetishes that many competitive runners adopt. “It seems unnatural to have too much of any one food group.” As you might expect from his meticulous tracking of days and miles, Lounsbury is scrupulous about the equipment that keeps him plunging on towards his goals. Each pair of shoes lasts from 4 to 5 weeks, and he keeps track of the miles on his shoes while also double checking his mile count by writing the total mileage run by each pair on the shoe box. “Sometimes they’re good for more than 500 miles, sometimes not,” he said, “When they start to feel funny, I replace them.” The boxes are stacked in his Crozet closet, a road-worn history of each month or so of his running life. His five plus lunchtime miles in Waynesboro presented a dilemma, but one that he’s successfully solved. “My employers weren’t about to put a shower in my office,” he said, “but I joined the Waynesboro YMCA and I shower there.” If it takes a little longer than the normal lunch hour, no one’s ever complained:

“I don’t think they want me to come back to work without a shower,” he said. He said his devotion to his unbroken everyday running streak has made him a very conscientious employee. “Someone else may stay out when they’re just slightly sick, but not me,” he said. “I figure if I feel well enough to run, then I’ve got to show up.” Lounsbury enters a couple of races every year and normally will win in his age group. “What I like better is beating the younger ones,” he said. But competition is a sidelight for him, a distraction from his real passion: tying on his Brooks running shoes and getting in the road alone, day after day, week after week. Even though his routes are mostly repetitive, Lounsbury said the ability to cram so much exercise in such a short time keeps it interesting. The thought of going for a leisurely walk or a bike ride just doesn’t appeal to him. “Too slow,” he said. “I’d get bored.”

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except a few along the eastern seaboard. Now the bears face a new challenge, because although they are still beloved by many Virginians as native wildlife, not everyone wants bears in their back yard. “There are more bears on the landscape now than we’ve probably had since the settlement of Virginia, and it’s the same in states around us—North Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,” said David Kocka, district biologist at the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF). “At the same time, lots more people are moving into our area, so these are two trains on a collision course.” Food fight

Jaime Sajecki, black bear project leader at the Va. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

When voracious bears emerge from their winter’s snooze in April before their natural forest diet has ripened, they head for the pickings that they can smell up to a mile away: trays of seeds and suet hanging within easy reach, and bins full of kitchen scraps lined up on the streets like a buffet. County residents complain of damage to feeders and grills, the mess of overturned trash cans, and the destruction of beehives and compost piles, while farmers and orchard and vineyard owners report crop losses. Buddy Clark, owner of Tucked Away Farm in White Hall, plants 80 acres of corn to feed his dairy herd and estimates he loses up to a dozen acres per year to the bears. “They come in and eat the ears and flatten the stalks so the harvester can’t pick them up,” he said. After 48 years in the dairy business, Clark has seen bear problems increase in recent years. “Fifteen or twenty years

ago bear damage was unusual, but now it’s commonplace because the population is really expanding.” Clark’s perception reflects reality. After its gradual reboot in the 1900s, the black bear population has warmed to Virginia’s now-ideal habitat, increasing by 9 percent annually since 2001. The most densely populated regions are near the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and along the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. In Rockingham County, just northwest of Albemarle, a 2001 study calculated 3.5 bears per square mile. “We call Shenandoah National Park the ‘bear nursery’ because they’re not hunted there, so they are very numerous,” said Kocka, the district biologist responsible for Rockingham and five other bear-rich counties in or near the SNP. “They slip down into the agricultural areas that border the park to raid the crops and SUBMITTED

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The majority of human-bear interactions resemble more of a food fight than a train wreck. Gregg Korbon’s first attempt at beekeeping in the field behind

his house east of Crozet only lasted a week before the hives were wiped out by a bear. “Most people think they are after the honey,” he said, “but they really want the baby bees, called the ‘brood.’ The bear knocked over the hives and tore out the frames to get to them.” A second attempt with an electric fence fared no better, as the bear simply reached through the fence, absorbing the shock. “They’re very persistent,” said Korbon, who now has a successful hive surrounded by a stronger fence. “You just have to make it too much trouble.” While Korbon didn’t call the DGIF for help, many citizens do. Almost 2,000 complaints about nuisance activity by bears were logged by the Virginia Wildlife Conflict Helpline in 2017, up 20 percent from the prior year. Jaime Sajecki, DGIF black bear project leader, pointed to a big part of the problem. “In the last eight years, three-quarters of the [nuisance] calls have a feeding component—‘a bear was getting into my trash can or my bird feeder,’” she said. “Many of those are preventable.”

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then retreat back into the park.” Beyond food-related conflicts, bears do occasionally injure people, though no person has ever been killed by one in Virginia. “There have been cases where people have been slapped or bitten by a bear,” said Ed Clark, founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, a nationally known conservation and treatment facility in Waynesboro, currently caring for eight orphaned or injured black bear cubs. “Almost all of those cases involved a person with a dog, off the leash, that went after some cubs in the woods, and the mama came out to defend them.” As a testament to Kocka’s predicted ‘collision course,’ complaints to the DGIF Helpline include a growing number of calls from people merely sighting a bear, even from a distance in the woods. Vehicle-bear accidents are also on the upswing, with more than 200 bears killed by cars in the last ten years. As both bear and human populations steadily increase and the development of rural land continues apace, the potential for human-bear interactions can only rise.

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The recent jump in citizen concerns has left the DGIF, the only agency in the state empowered to regulate all things bear—from protecting them to “harvesting” (hunting) them— at a crossroads. After decades spent encouraging the rebuilding of the black bear population via species protection and forest conservation and establishing a Black Bear Management Plan

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that aims to stabilize the number of bears living in Virginia, the agency suddenly faces a vocal minority of residents unhappy about bear damage on their private land. “To make the bear management plan, we surveyed all kinds of stakeholders,” said Sajecki, “and we felt like we had met the goals we’d set in the plan. But in the last couple of years there has been tremendous pressure from community groups and organizations like the Farm Bureau, basically saying there are too many bears here.” In response, the DGIF reversed course and considered proposals last spring to reduce the population by as much as 25 percent in high bear-density areas along the Blue Ridge. For the agency, the most efficient tool for achieving a reduction is to expand the hunting season. Public reaction to the proposal was intense as more than 2000 individuals and organizations submitted comments, three-quarters of which opposed the 25 percent target as being too high. The DGIF compromised, settling on a uniform 14 percent reduction over five years, and opened a new 3-day bear hunting season in early October of 2017 for 36 counties to the west and northeast of the Blue Ridge. As with all forms of bear hunting (archery, muzzleloader, and firearms with and without dogs), the limit per hunter in Virginia is one bear per season. The expanded harvest was deemed a success. The 2017-18 season saw a 17 percent increase in bears harvested state-wide,

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although how that translates into reductions within individual counties is less clear because bear populations by county are hard to estimate. Sajecki advises patience and caution in weighing the results. “It took almost a hundred years to get the populations up to where they are now,” she said. “Because they are incredibly slow reproducers, bears bounce back so slowly that we have to be really conservative in how we make changes. It’s easy to overdo it in either direction.” In tandem with the expanded hunting opportunities, farmers like Buddy Clark also encourage a shift in the season’s timing. “Bear hunting season begins so late that all of the big bears that do the most damage are already denned up by the time the season begins,” he said. Farmers can request a permit to shoot a bear causing damage to crops, but Clark says that’s unrealistic for him. “They do all their damage at night, way out in the cornfield,” he said. “Honestly, most farmers don’t have time to sit around looking for bears.” Though the 3-day hunting season was “spectacular,” said Richard Sprinkle, president of the Virginia Bear Hunters Association, the group had actually fought to shrink the original 25 percent reduction target. “That figure did not come from the game department, it came out of the clear blue,” said Sprinkle. “Look, if a bear comes into a subdivision and walks through five people’s yards, you’ve got five people on the phone complaining, but that’s not science. The bear population is a fluid thing. It takes five years to develop a trend, so we have to wait and see the longer term effects, and be careful not to over-harvest now.” Ed Clark of the Wildlife Center was keenly disappointed with the reduction plan, calling it a knee-jerk reaction to the increase in bear nuisance calls. “[Expanding the hunting season] had nothing to do with nature,” he said. To Clark, reducing the population in an indiscriminate way (via hunting) won’t solve the problem; instead, he believes the key lies in teaching people to change

their behavior. “You can reduce the population by 95 percent if you want to, but if you don’t remove those nuisance attractants, the bears that are left will still be going after the same easy food sources.” Smarter than your average bear Every knowledgeable party— whether biologist, hunter, conservationist, or farmer—agrees that the bear vs. human problem would be vastly improved by a better-educated public. Bears are a natural part of the wildlife landscape in Virginia, and most of the time, they are simply acting like bears. “I would say they were lazy if they weren’t so smart,” said Sajecki. “Their whole mission in life is to use the least amount of energy to get the most amount of calories.” “Baby bears are born in January and they stay with the mother until the spring of year two,” said Ed Clark. “After that they’re called yearlings and they’re on their own. So you’ve got all these yearling bears out there that no longer have any guidance or discipline. Imagine dumping off a bunch of teenagers with no supervision.” These “teenage” bears, along with hungry moms emerging from winter dens, find little in the way of soft mast like fruit and berries in April and May, so they follow their noses to the nearest populated area for a meal. In the fall, bears need to bulk up ahead of the winter months and rely primarily on acorns to double their weight, and crops of apples and corn also become a draw. The availability (or lack) of their natural SUBMITTED

Jaime Sajecki, DGIF bear project leader, comforts an orphaned black bear cub.

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food sources is a big driver of bear behavior vis-à-vis humans. “A problem that occurred seven or eight years ago was the total collapse of the fall acorn crop because of a late frost on the oak trees,” said Ed Clark. “So the main food source for bears going into the winter was missing, and the hungry bears came down out of the woods looking for food. And little bears learn what to eat from their mothers, and they don’t forget, so then you have a habit.” Orchard Acres resident Susan Dunlap knew she was taking a risk putting out her feeder in May, especially after bears had swiped one the year before, but she enjoys the visiting birds. “I heard a limb breaking, and looked out to find that the bear had grabbed the feeder and yanked it, tearing down half the tree as well,” she said. “The bear also pulled up several large stepping stones to get at the ants.” Dunlap has retired the feeder for now, but is frustrated by the bear’s looming presence. “It’s taking away one of my favorite things, birdwatching, and it makes me feel uncomfortable in my own back yard.” With both memory and longevity on their side, black bears are hard to beat. “What many people don’t understand is that after a bear gets to be about a year or so old, there’s almost no mortality factor,” said Kocka. “They have no predators except humans, and they can live for 30 years in the wild. They have a tremendous intelligence and memory—second only to pri-

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nates with the county’s overall park system. The slideshow, given by Greenwood resident Anhold along with Albemarle Parks and Recreation director Bob Crickenberger and outdoor recreation supervisor Dan Mahon, presented data from the county’s recent Parks & Rec needs assessment in which citizens prioritized walking, hiking, and biking trails, youth athletic fields, and open space highest among possible park amenities. Anhold’s design envisions the park as a natural playground following the linear path of Lickinghole Creek.

“Three design threads form the fabric of the park,” said Anhold. “First, there are the sports features such as fields and a playground. Second, there are features that draw on the cultural landscape of Crozet and its history, such as plantings that resemble a farm fencerow, and a circular lawn that could be an abstraction of a Native American village shape. And third, there are natural systems, such as the wetlands, that we’ve embraced in the character of the design rather than disrupting or diverting them.” The land for the park, 90 percent of which lies in an unbuildable floodplain, was proffered by Old Trail to Albemarle County in 2000 in exchange for greater building densities in its

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VDOT, but stressed that the process would be slow. “A lot of these funding sources are matching, some have an approval process on an annual basis, some provide funds on a

reimbursement basis,” he said. “We may even look into some kind of public-private partnership to see if that would be viable.” He also noted that the current design’s cost projections are

fluid. “This is a ‘conceptual’ plan with a ‘conceptual’ cost estimate right now.” Ann Mallek, county Board of Supervisors chair and White Hall District representative, was

in attendance and supports the project. “Beginning to catch up on the long list of needed local parks and sidewalk amenities is essential,” she said. “I support continued on page 50

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First First Communion for Crozet Catholic Mission Crozet Catholic Mission had nineteen children in its first first holy communion class. Congratulations to: Maximilian Alhusen, Louis Amato, Winslette Chambers, Cael Cromer, Noah Estes, Andrew Ferraiolo, Julia Goodnight, Finn McLaughlin, Agustin Norambuena, Allison Novey, Clare Novey, Leo Pesch, Grayson Rock, Ashley Rowland,

Mary Smith, Elisa Solorzano, Benjamin Tungate, Maxwell Tungate, and Benjamin Van Vleet. Three students received the sacrament of Confirmation on May 14: Adrian Adrian Ibanez, Michael Alexander LaBelle, and Ashna Francis Nitzsche Mass is held every Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Field School, 1408 Crozet Avenue.

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play, and on making that positive association with open, rural, wilder green space for kids. We also have about seventeen nonprofit partners, such as the Boys and Girls Club, the Women’s Initiative, and Big Brothers Big Sisters, who visit us and enjoy the open spaces.” The Tree Hugger event will feature a challenging 4.3-mile mountain trail run at 8am, as well as a more leisurely 1-mile forested trail hike, in which 20 trees will be marked with “Hug Me” signs for families to find along the way, at 11am. Following the hike, there will be free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and food truck fare for visitors, and the event will wrap up by around 1p.m. Online registration can be found at wildrock. org (under the Tree Hugger tab), or participants can also come out on the day of as space allows. Wildrock is located at 6600 Blackwells Hollow Road in Crozet.

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Haden Brothers: More Haden brothers Clifton and Curtis, Fluvanna County natives, established a mercantile in the heart of downtown Crozet in the 1890s. For four decades, that business adapted to meet the needs of its customer base, all while never losing touch with the community that they labored to serve. Along the way, they dispensed everything from parlor stoves and ginger snaps to Latin lessons and licorice sticks. When brothers C.J. and C.A.

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Haden purchased some former Abram Wayland property near Crozet Depot from James and Maggie Jarman in 1897, it was described in the deed as “the remainder of [Jarman’s] orchard.” The Haden brothers’ original wood-framed store structure was rebuilt as a twostory cement-block building in 1910, two years prior to the construction of the first of Crozet’s cold storage facilities on an adjacent lot. Ruth Wayland Nelson

Girlfriends at original entrance to Crozet Theater, 1940. Gene Autry’s “Melody Ranch” was showing, and it was “Bank Night.” The theater sponsored a weekly cash drawing, but the winner had to be present to collect; no winner and the pot rolled over. As the prize value increased, on Bank Night crowds would fill the street between the theater and drug store, waiting for the projectionist to call out the winning number from an upstairs window. [Photo courtesy of Cole W. Sandridge Jr.]

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The Haden Store business in downtown Crozet predated each of the business structures visible in this c.1910 postcard view. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]

(1892–1983) was a daughter of Charlie Wayland, one of Crozet’s early promoters and businessmen. She wrote, “Down on the corner where the drug store now stands was a tiny shoe repair shop. Across the street was Haden Brothers store, a one story [wood-framed] building owned and operated by Mr. Curtis and Mr. Clifton Haden. Mr. Curtis Haden lived in the house which now stands between the moving picture house and the bank.” Do not be deceived: early 20th-century Crozet was a village on the move! The 1903 edition of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway’s Directory of Summer Homes, Hotels and Resorts along the C&O rails included three locations in Crozet: Jim Ellison (1846– 1936) could accommodate 60–70 guests year ‘round a short stroll east of the depot at the Liberty Hall Hotel; seasonally, Martha Woodson (Mrs. Abram) Wayland (1837–1904) had rooms and meals for 40 sojourners just west of downtown at Crozet’s Pleasant Green; and, north of the railroad, Nicie Landram Haden could feed and sleep up to 30 in her family’s comfortable home on the northwest corner of St. George and Crozet Avenues. Clifton J. Haden Sr. (1858– 1906) and his wife Nicie

(1862–1934) were co-workers in the Crozet business community. Their fields of endeavor included orchards, retailing, and professional hospitality. The elder of the two business brothers, Clifton died at the young age of 47, and was deemed a “universally popular man” by the newspaper of that day. Chesley Haden (1887–1964) was a son of Clifton and Nicie Haden, and a seasoned Crozet fruit broker. He, too, knew the Crozet of earlier days, growing up under the tutelage of his father, mother and uncle. In the 1950s, he wrote insightfully of the village of his rearing. Reflecting, in part, on his own family, he said, “The Hadens came from Fluvanna, often described as a small, poor county whose chief crop was men. Their store at times had more the atmosphere of a Sunday School than a country dispensatory of ginger snaps and sardines: no swearing, no loafing and no ribald stories. Little levity and much worth was the keynote. “Religion and a love of learning were carried regularly in stock. Curtis Haden, a former high school principal, often tutored, as a labor of love, the local boys in Latin and the higher mathematics. Clifton Haden had the first local sciencontinued on page 26

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tific approach to horticulture, sending to Paris for a hand lens at the turn of the century to identify the new apple-destroying insects, and employing the late Dr. W.B. Alwood as a professional orchard consultant.” Curtis A. Haden Sr. (1866– 1938) carried on in his brother’s stead as both orchardist and storekeeper. Along with his civic-minded wife Sue, he was deeply devoted to his community. In addition to keeping his store on an even keel, he was a trusted Director of the Bank of Crozet, was on the Executive Committee of The Crozet Board of Trade, and served as Secretary of the Crozet Cemetery Association. As his nephew Chesley noted, he maintained a continual interest in the youth of the town. Frances Walker Hill (1919– 2011) grew up on Carter Street directly behind Crozet’s landmark six-story Cold Storage building. “Mr. Curtis Haden had a store right beside where Mountainside is,” she recalled. “My daddy would give us 25-cents apiece. That was our allowance. For a penny, you could get three or four Mary Janes, or a couple of ginger snaps. They had some kind of old long black candy we liked,

licorice, and that stuff was good. And a caramel candy wrapped up like little Kisses, three for a penny.” Bill Haden, a son of Curtis Haden Sr., contracted with Crozet builder William F. Starke to renovate the Haden building into a movie theater following his father’s passing in 1938. Western Albemarle’s newest entertainment venue was named Crozet Theatre. Among its first employees was young Bobby Crickenberger who began his own business career delivering the theater’s promotional handbills by bicycle. Bobby worked his way up through the ranks, eventually managing the theater during his latter high school years prior to enlisting in military service. Local businessman and Crozet native Robert “Bob” Crickenberger reflected on his post-WWII career in the automotive service station business during an era when the word “service” identified not only the customer’s expectation but also the business philosophy of the owners. “There’s more to running a business than the ring of the cash register,” stated Crickenberger. During Crozet’s formative years, one needed to look no further than Haden Brothers store to experience that precept firsthand.

This advertisement appearing in the sponsor pages of the 1925 Crozet High School yearbook The Wheel illustrated only one of many ways that local businesses such as Haden’s Store supported, encouraged and promoted their community. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]

View c.1919 from the corner of The Square looking across Miller School Ave./Main Street toward the Haden Brothers/Curtis A. Haden Store. Carter Cold Storage’s expanded operation was joined directly to the Haden building. L-R: Bessie Thurston Rea, wife of Crozet merchant A. Elmer Rea; unidentified woman; Marie Grant Rea, daughter of Bessie and Elmer. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]

Haden’s Store was one of several stops along Crozet’s Main Street where auto drivers could add a gallon or three to their gasoline tanks. A flash fire following the installation of a 10,000-gallon underground fuel tank in front of the store in 1920 proved the efficiency of the newly-organized Crozet Fire Company. [Original card printed by Crozet Print Shop; courtesy Jim and Delores Baber, and the Phil James Collection]

Haden Brothers store in Crozet was a dealer for shoes manufactured by the Craddock-Terry Company of Lynchburg. A colorful Little Red Riding Hood storybook handout promoted their line of children’s footwear. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]

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Where Have All of the Savers Gone? by Sam Harris Data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank in recent months indicates that the personal saving rate in the U.S. is at a 50-year low. Americans are setting aside a paltry 3 percent of disposable income. From the 1960s to the early 1980s this rate routinely hovered around 10 percent. Since then, however, we’ve seen a slow and steady drop to today’s levels. There was an uptick following the sobering events of the Great Recession, but our memories have faded as we’ve quickly regressed to pre-Great Recession levels (see chart below). When I was a kid, a popular expression was “pay yourself first.” What this expression means is that one should continually set aside a part of each paycheck in a savings account to cover unforeseen events and retirement. Apparently, this message was not as common as I had thought or, perhaps, very few of us listened. The “pay yourself first” message is being overshadowed by the modern rallying cry of YOLO (“you only live once”). Planning-fortomorrow is being replaced by living-for-today--to the tune of spending 97 percent of each paycheck (and growing!). Part of the problem may relate to the lack of “real” (i.e., inflation-adjusted) income growth in the U.S. A dollar doesn’t stretch as far as it used to in regard to items such as housing, education and medical costs. However, some other

costs have become substantially less expensive, including food, cars and technology. You don’t have to look far to see all of our “discretionary” purchasing. Starbucks is an $80 billion dollar company. Need I say more? And, let’s not forget our friends at Verizon, Netflix and Amazon. It’s scary to think of how many people readily sign up for automatic monthly plans to spend money, but how few set up similar plans to save it. I fully support having fun and maintaining a healthy work-life balance, but we’re living longer these days and need to plan for the future. On average, people born today can expect to live 79 years and they’re going to need a “rainyday” fund many times during those years, including a big chunk for retirement income. As we’ve all heard, we can’t expect Uncle Sam to bail us out. The major social welfare plans-Social Security and Medicare-appear to be headed for financial challenges given the size of the current workforce relative to retiring “baby boomers.” Moreover, our national debt is at an all-time high and we’re running an annual budget deficit that is expected to exceed $1 trillion dollars per-year through 2020. There isn’t likely to be extra cash lying around to cover the predicted shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare, let alone increase them. Folks, we can do better! The key is to get started or, for those already saving, crank it up a bit. Two of the best options for sav-

ing money for the future are 401K plans and Traditional IRAs. 401K plans are set up by employers to facilitate retirement savings by employees. They have the same features as IRAs (discussed below), and often employers are willing to match your contribution, up to a certain level. That’s free money–you should take it! Another great option is a Traditional IRA (Individual Retirement Account). Banks and brokerages make it easy to set up IRA accounts and money can even be automatically contributed from your bank account each month. IRAs have many desirable features including the following: Contributions are tax-deductible. Subject to certain income limitations, IRA contributions can be deducted from personal taxable income. Saving money is not just a smart thing to do, you can get paid by the government to do it. Don’t leave this free money on the table. Earnings are tax-deferred. All appreciation in your IRA, whether in the form of capital gains, dividends or interest, are free from taxation until you begin to withdraw funds in retirement. “What about the pre-retirement “rainy day” scenario?” you ask. These options look great for saving for retirement, but what if you need money before then? Many 401Ks provide the option of borrowing money from the plan itself. That’s right, often you can borrow money from your own pool of capital and

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Ah, memory. So ethereal. So fungible. Recent brain research suggests that we actually conjure memories anew each time we recall them, rather than storing them like bits and bytes in a computer. Maybe that’s why my siblings and I can’t quite agree on the exact composition of this food from our youth, brought over on a summer’s evening, by our dear neighbor, as leftovers from her dinner. Brother number One: yes, I remember it with onions and garlic in addition to the potato, bacon and endive. [Note to Brother number One and the reader—no one named Toolie Lyberger was cooking with garlic in 1965]. Brother number Two: I have no memory of this. I think Mom liked endive. I remember having endive salad in the summer. Endive must have been cheap. Baby Sister: Ohmygosh yes! I loved that stuff and remember we would all fight over it. It had a creamy sauce, and vinegar. Maybe you should add

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some cream! Okay, whatever. This is the only food I ever remember CrozGaz_March 2017_Layout 1 2/27/17 Toolie bringing over. She and her husband lived next door and were grandparently figures to us and pinochle partners with our parents. Why she brought this, but never other food, across the driveway, I cannot fathom. But I remember the jostling for position as we would all beg for some of this delicious food. A little research tells me it was some sort of German potato salad, which makes perfect sense since Toolie and Al were of German descent. But nowhere on the web can I find precisely the version that we enjoyed. I made it the other night, and it was a practically perfect rendition of what I recall with such fond memory. I hope you enjoy it. I couldn’t find endive, and here in Virginia, the dandelion greens are already old and tough, so I substituted arugula. Whatever spicy green you prefer will work well.

Toolie Lyberger’s Leftover Potato/Onion/Endive Supper 4 medium potatoes ½ lb bacon Large bunch of endive, dandelion greens or arugula Boil the potatoes whole, in the jackets (peels on), until just tender. Drain, cool and peel. Fry the bacon, remove from the pan when crispy, and reserve. Lower the heat under the frying pan and sprinkle the flour over the bacon grease, whisking

1/3 cup cider vinegar 2 tsp sugar 2 T. flour 1/3 cup cream (optional) it in to blend. Add the sugar and vinegar and whisk until slightly thickened. Add the cream and keep stirring. Add the greens and stir till just wilted. Then add the potatoes, stirring until they are coated with the sauce. Add the bacon. Serves 4.

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by Lynn Coffey

2014 when her husband, Jim, suggested a hobby to combat One of man’s basic needs is the stress of a high-pressure job. cleansing. Native Americans Soap making popped into her bathed in streams, using witch head and she googled the subhazel and soapwort to wash ject and found there was infinite themselves. Early settlers found information to help one get that lye leached from ashes, started. added to water and melted fat “The more I read, the more I produced a soap that was used thought, I can do this!” Jill said. for personal hygiene, washing “When I made cold-process clothes, and on occasion, the soap for the first time I bought a mouth of a naughty child! starter kit with all the necessary Commercial companies offer ingredients to make a twobath soap, but many do-it-your- pound batch of soap with a selfers experiment with new and man-made scent of cranberry exciting examples of this basic fig. Although I now use mostly necessity. Jill Bivens, a Nelson natural, essential oils from County native living in the plants such as lavender, lemonLovingston area, is a modern grass, mints and Patchouli, I day soap maker extraordinaire still like to use the different and her products are not only man-made fragrances as well.” easy on the eyes but excellent Early on, Jill used “melt and for the skin. pour” soap, in which a portion Jill began making soap in of a solid base such as glycerin, goat’s milk, or shea butter is cut off and microwaved into a liquid, adding color and fragrance before pouring it into a mold. This allows you to make and use the soap in the same day. Jill now has her own recipes for cold-process soap that takes longer to measure and mix and requires four- to six-weeks of curing before it’s ready to use, but said, “It’s kind of like making a cake; the difference is making one from a mix and making one from scratch. When you measure everything out and mix it together, it takes longer but the Mixing the different oils and lye together final product is what I

Jill Bivens holding a finished loaf of lemongrass soap

call ‘real’ soap.” The day I went to talk with Jill she was making lemongrass/ charcoal/calendula soap and explained the process as she went along. The kitchen sink was filled with hot soapy water so used utensils soaked while Jill worked. A recipe for the soap gave an exact amount of oils and lye content needed for each batch. A date was written down so she knows when the curing time is up. Frozen goat’s milk was used as a liquid base and before lye flakes were added, Jill donned gloves, mask and gog-

gles to protect her from fumes and splashes. She measured everything on a digital scale. Three main oils most used in soap making are olive, coconut and palm. Jill used those along with castor, rice bran and almond oil, in solid form. The oils were microwaved until melted and liquid salt was added to the lye mixture (for harder soap). The solution was added to the oils and mixed with a stick blender until thick. Two portions of the soap were separated and activated charcoal was added, lending a dark gray color to the batter. Jill added

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dried calendula petals to the mix, along with lemongrass essential oil, which intensified the fragrance. She then layered the colors in the mold. A wooden stick was pulled across the batter, making a pretty design when finished. Ninetyone percent alcohol was sprayed on to help prevent soda ash from forming on the soap, which is a white film that has a harmless cosmetic issue. The alcohol also helped the calendula petals Jill sprinkled on top to stick. The mold was placed in front of a fan to help the soap to cool and start to finish, the process took about an hour. After Jill had been making soap for a while she had a backlog that she gifted to family and friends. Word spread and soap making at the Bivens house began in earnest. An aunt asked what Jill was going to call her new venture and Jill blurted out, “Fat Cat Soap Works,” in honor of her six beloved cats. In addition to specialty soaps, she also makes lotions and body butters, sugar scrubs, lip balm,

candles and gift baskets. Because she is a one-woman hobbyist and it takes four to six weeks to cure the soap, Jill only sells at events that fit in with her busy schedule. She adds, “I am only one person making small batches of soap in my kitchen so don’t look for Fat Cat Soap products in large retail stores.” But Jill’s products are available at The Corner Spa in Lovingston, at Old Southern Charm in Colleen and on September 15 she will be at the annual gathering at Not Forgotten Farm near Amherst. Summing up the interview Jill said, “I’m not out to create a huge company. Making soap gives me the freedom to do what I want, when I want and even after four years, I am still amazed when people buy my soap and say how much they love it.” Anyone wishing to get in touch with Jill to ask about her products may do so through her email: fatcatsoapworks@gmail. com.

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a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. Both she and her sister Irene Langhorne—considered the original Gibson Girl— were neighbors and visitors at Seven Oaks in the early 20th century, and the Langhorne family even owned it for a short time. Both Mirador and Seven Oaks were added to the National Register of Historic Places in the 1980s, and more recently Seven Oaks was declared a Virginia Historic Landmark as well. But the farm’s history began much earlier than that. Its original owner, Reverend Samuel Black (1700-1770), emigrated to Pennsylvania from Northern Ireland in 1735, and was called to Virginia by the Mountain Plains and Ivy Creek congregations to become the first Presbyterian minister in

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Albemarle County. Rev. Black welcomed Thomas Jefferson, George Rogers Clark, and other notables to Black’s Tavern, a log cabin that sat at the front of the property along Route 250. This historic tavern was moved to neighboring Mirador in 2001. Black’s sons, after one of whom Blacksburg is named, sold the property to Alexander Garrett, who became Bursar of the new University of Virginia. His son Dr. John Garrett, one of the first students enrolled at the University of Virginia who went on to graduate from the Medical College of Virginia, built the Seven Oaks manor house c. 1847. In the early 1900s, the Harris/Peyton family purchased Seven Oaks and added the Greek Revival portico with twostory Ionic columns and two octagonal side rooms. Many of us remember picking strawberries on the Peyton property in the 1980s. They also planted seven white oaks on the south lawn, each named for a Virginia President (Washington, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson, Harrison, Taylor, and Tyler). According to legend, in 1954 Hurricane Hazel destroyed all but one of the oaks, and as if by fate, the lone survivor was the

tree named for Charlottesville native Thomas Jefferson— which stands proudly on the property to this day. After nearly a century of ownership, the Peytons sold the estate to Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw around 2000, who planted seven acres of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Syrah, and Viognier grapes that comprise the current Estate Vineyard of mature vines. Enter current owners Todd and Sarah Zimmerman, who met in graduate school at the University of Virginia and went on to raise a family and lead successful health care careers in Denver; their son is a recent U.Va. graduate. But, like so many of us, they had fallen in love with Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and vowed to someday return. After a 1½ -year search, and especially drawn to the beauty and climate of the Crozet/Greenwood area, they found this perfect location, already planted with 15-yearold vines, to establish a winery. Purchasing Seven Oaks from Capshaw in 2014, they supplemented the Estate Vineyard with an additional 26 acres in Essex County, Virginia, near the

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The manor house at Seven Oaks was built c. 1847 by Dr. John Bolling Garrett, one of the first students enrolled at the University of Virginia. Its Greek Revival portico, featuring two-story Ionic columns, was added later.

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Rappahanock River and the Chesapeake Bay, which had 30-year-old vines of the traditional Bordeaux “noble” red grape varieties—Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot—as well as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Viognier. “The terroir of our Estate Vineyard—its soil and topography—produces excellent fruit,” explains Todd. “[Vintner] Sebastien is particularly taken by the Merlot on this site. A steady breeze and nice elevation changes protect the vineyard from frost and drain some of the moisture. It provides a great complement to our Essex vineyard toward the coast.” Beginning this fall, Septenary will produce all their own wines on site. The Zimmermans, who live in the estate’s manor house surrounded by towering boxwood hedges, renovated Capshaw’s pool house to become Septenary’s spacious tasting room, roped off the picturesque swimming pool (where swimming is prohibited), and replaced the hot tub with a fire pit filled with blue glass crystals. They added a large outer patio which will be covered with a South African stretch tent reminiscent of the Charlottesville Pavilion when needed. An outdoor grilling kitchen caps off the all-purpose winery that is ideal for events. Wishing to honor the history of the property, but leery of competing with the Seven Oaks Cabernet produced by J. Lohr’s Napa

Valley, California Vineyard, they chose the name Septenary, defined as ‘of or relating to the number seven.’ The Roman numeral VII logo contains a nod to Virginia in its V, and shapes its two I’s like the Ionic columns of the manor house portico. “The Winery title refers to the production and sale of the wine, but Septenary also includes the vineyard and the farm—where we raise grass-fed beef and free-range Pekin duck, which we sell in partnership with the Free Union Grass Farm. The Septenary Farm Winery includes all three,” Todd explains. Vintner Sebastien Marquet, a native of Burgundy, France, who earned his B.S. degree at the Lycee Viti-Oenologie de Beaune, has worked with vintages from across the world for 30 years and uses old world winemaking techniques. The Zimmermans met him when they purchased the Essex Vineyard, which he was managing for the prior owner. “We hit it off, tasted his wines, and we were hooked!” said Todd. With Septenary as his primary focus, Marquet also works on a consulting basis with other wineries. Many of the red blends he creates are named after the many historic support buildings on the property, such as Summer Kitchen Rosé 2017 (Syrah), Carriage House 2015 (89 percent Merlot and 11 percent Cabernet Franc), and Coleman 2014 (40 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 33 percent Merlot, 27 percent Cabernet Franc, and 20 percent Petit Verdot). The Deacon 2014 vintage was recently retired.

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The Genial Gerund by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com

If you have any lingering doubt that I’m a stick in the mud, crusty curmudgeon, or proud member of the oft-maligned Grammar Police, wonder no more—this column will confirm your worst fears! This month I turn my attention to one of the many disappearing subtleties of English grammar—like irregular past participles (such as lit or drove), the endangered semicolon, or the vanishing subjunctive (watch for a future column)— that used to make our language elegant and graceful, but are more and more often dismissed by most mainstream writers as useless or old fashioned. This month I am celebrating the use of the possessive before a gerund. A what? You may ask. The gerund—from Latin for ‘to do’—is simply a verbal noun, that is, the –ing form of a verb functioning as a noun in a sentence. The twinkling of the lightning bugs is a welcome harbinger of summer, and eating ice cream makes the heat easier to bear. In these examples, the gerund is used as the subject of the sentence, followed by a verb: twinkling is, and eating makes. A gerund can also be used as the object: I love hiking, or, many people still enjoy lying in the sun. Other –ing verb forms might be used as participles that modify nouns, as in “if you have any lingering doubt….,” or in the present progressive tense, as in “we are leaving for the beach tomorrow” (lucky us!). But these –ing forms still function in the sentence as verbs; the gerund is the only verb form that functions as a noun. Tubing on the James was discouraged last weekend due to high water, or, travelling is one of the joys of retirement. Now as we all know, when we modify a noun to indicate that it belongs to someone or something, we use the possessive form of the modifier: my swimming pool, the children’s playhouse, Jane’s canoe. Putting these two concepts together—

verbal noun + possessive modifier— we must prefer “Are you okay with my dripping ice cream on your porch?” over “Are you okay with me dripping ice cream on your porch?” Yes, I’m okay with you, but No, I’m not okay with your dripping on the porch. The first version softens the sticky blow so much more gently! Isn’t “I appreciate his gardening the property” preferable to “I appreciate him gardening the property”? Yet in fact, the latter is what we hear all the time! When we modify a gerund—simply another kind of noun—as belonging to (or in the case of an action, committed by) someone or something, we must modify it with the possessive form, just as we do with other nouns, like his garden or their ice cream. But this rule is followed less and less often these days; it has become commonplace to use the objective pronoun instead. The confusion usually comes when the modified gerund takes the role of an object within the sentence. Although it might be correct to say “I appreciate him,” in the example above it is the gardening that we appreciate, not the person doing the gardening. This confusion can even lead to mistaken meaning. “He did not like the woman standing in front of him at the parade” implies that he did not like the woman herself; whereas the correct expression, “He did not like the woman’s standing in front of him at the parade” correctly conveys that it was her standing there that annoyed him, while he bore no animosity toward the woman herself (whom he probably didn’t even know) (getitwriteonline.com). “I envy you lying by the pool all day” suggests envy of the person, and is less precise than “I envy your lying by the pool all day,” which more accurately conveys envy of the action described by the gerund. As Grammar Girl explains, “Differentiation is key. Are you appreciating or abhorring the person, or the deed? Almost invariably in this construction, it’s the deed. So, let the person own the deed” (www.quickand-

dirtytips.com). So instead of the graceful “Aren’t you impressed by our swimming?” most writers these days ask “Aren’t you impressed by us swimming?” The latter is clunky, ugly, and makes less sense. “I will pay for their buying sunscreen” is clearer and less awkward than “I will pay for them buying sunscreen.” “We should probably stay away from downtown,” a friend commented recently, “with it being graduation weekend.” The correct phrasing would be “with its being graduation weekend.” Get it? Another friend posted on Facebook recently, “Some of you may recall me giving away a bunch of baby spider plants.” But it wasn’t her we recalled; it was her offer to give away free plants, more clearly conveyed with “Some of you may recall my giving away a bunch of baby spider plants.” Quiz time! Which is correct? a) The children laughing at play always cheers me up or b) The children’s laughing at play always cheers me up? a) The ocean waves crashing on the beach soothe away my stress, or b) The ocean waves’ crashing on the beach soothes away my stress? If you answered b) in both examples, by George, you’ve got it! Clearly, the title Richard Powers gave his 2004 novel The Time of Our Singing sounds so much better than the alternative, The Time of Us Singing. And now you know why! To me, the choice is less a matter of right and wrong, and more a matter of elegance and grace. As you can see from these many real-world examples, this error is rampant, and now that you are aware of it, you may notice that it’s getting worse all the time (that was the present progressive tense, not a gerund ;-). My writing about it (there’s the gerund!) actually feels a little like screaming into the wind. But hope springs eternal! If those of us who understand this distinction remain steadfast, maybe we can at least preserve some eloquence in our beautiful language.

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a bear,” said Kocka. “If your activity is causing a problem, we can have one of our officers tell you to put your [trash or feeders] away, and if you don’t comply you can get a written warning or a citation.” Beyond their own liability, residents should consider the wellbeing of other neighbors, not to mention that of the bears themselves. “When you continue to knowingly feed bears, then it’s not just about you, it becomes a community issue, a safety issue for those in your neighborhood,” said Sajecki. “It also becomes a bear issue, because if the bear becomes used to your food source and develops aggressive behaviors toward people, then we may have to come in and kill the bear.” Wildlife experts are frustrated by citizens’ choices regarding wild animals, particularly when those choices have predictable consequences. “The reluctance to make a change [like removing a bird feeder in the spring] is sort of baffling to me,” said Sajecki. “When you live in a

city, you don’t leave your purse out on the front step, do you? You take natural precautions. It’s the same thing here, for the same reasons.” Ed Clark of the Wildlife Center agrees. “People move from the city to a rural part of the county and think they can select the wildlife they prefer as if it’s a catalog,” he said. “They’d like deer but not bears, opossums but not skunks—they say it’s their land and they shouldn’t have to encounter bears. Well, that’s like saying it’s raining but I shouldn’t have to get wet. It’s foolish to stand out there ranting at the sky.” As the DGIF walks a tightrope between competing interests, Sajecki takes the long view. “Some people think bears should be treated as a nuisance species like coyotes and just eliminated, but the majority of people we surveyed do value wildlife on the landscape,” she said. “The more people understand about bears, the better.” Mostly, she hopes to preserve for the public the unique spot that black bears occupy in the Virginia wildlife landscape. “I want them to keep their magic.”

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increase in anxiety and depression and kids’ use of cell phones. They are also using them to avoid dealing with uncomfortable situations directly. All of this tells me as parents, we need to have more community discussion about our use of cell phones and technology. The applicant deferred their application recently and I don’t believe resubmittal for a summer hearing is accidental. They are hoping to get this approved while parents are off guard and on vacation. If you google cell tower applications, you will find article after article of them being blocked by active parents and approved where there is a lack of opposition. We need to commit to stopping cell towers at schools THROUGHOUT Albemarle, Nelson and Augusta. They aren’t good for our kids here and they aren’t good for kids at any other school. I urge all concerned citizens to stand up for our kids. I hope you will join me in contacting the CCAC, Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors asking them to NOT support this cell tower application that will affect our children for decades. For more information, I recommend searching the Crozet Gazette archives and contacting bos@albemarle.org, PlanningCommission@albemarle.org, and crozetcac@googlegroups.com.

tute. Later a Presbyterian member of the ministry with the aging, Virginia Fischer, who was well into her nineties, supplied the music... and inspiration to those residents younger than she. About ten years ago the diocesan Committee on Aging provided every Episcopal church in the diocese with a DVD about “Miss Margaret’s Tea Parties” as a way to inspire those churches to minister to the aging population. Emmanuel parishioner Susie Hodgson spearheaded this endeavor. In January of 2016 at the Annual Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, the Rev. Christopher Garcia accepted the Biggar-Power Award on behalf of Emmanuel Church for its ministry with the aging. The tea parties that Margaret Washington founded at Mountainside inspired others: Gren King initiated men’s movie nights at Mountainside, the Blundin family organized regular bingo nights at Mountainside and also helped the youth group organize an angel tree for the residents. It is worth remembering that it is through the vision of one caring person, Margaret McCue Washington, that this ministry continues to bring companionship and joy today. Julia Shields Charlottesville Delores Smith Greenwood

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Remembering Margaret Washington

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 on Saturday, June 30, 2018. The fun starts on Saturday, June 30th with a parade down Crozet Avenue starting at 5:00 PM. We’re hoping the parade will be better and bigger than last year! Anyone interested in joining in the parade should go to CrozetFire.org to get the parade unit sign-up form. We’ll follow the parade to Crozet Park where there will be amusements for the children, including bounce and play inflatables, as well as laser tag,

We are writing to clarify the article in the May issue about Emmanuel Episcopal Church’s outreach to Mountainside Senior Living. The twice-monthly gatherings at Mountainside were started over thirty years ago by Emmanuel’s beloved parishioner Margaret McCue Washington. At these tea parties, numerous other parishioners brought cookies to eat, and dogs and children to entertain. For many years Emmanuel parishioner and Crozet resident Dick Brandt played music at the tea parties, with Sara Reynolds serving as substi-

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algorithms that could automatically warn of dangerous weather in real time. One of the spin-offs of this approach is radar estimated rainfall. In the old days, a forecaster could only guess how much rain was falling in a flood scenario. Rain reporting during the pre-internet days was slow and sparse. Now, the radar automatically calculates total rainfall as it falls with resolution as fine as the neighborhood scale. During the torrential downpours on the evening of May 30, radar estimated rainfall allowed the flooding to be narrowed down precisely. We “only” had 2.6” at our house n Crozet but nearly 10” of rain

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Radar Estimated Rainfall My first job after grad school was as a storm chaser for NOAA. That sounds crazy but actually it was mostly boring with an important purpose. A brand new type of radar called NEXTRAD was being installed and our job was to drive into as much terrible weather as we could and gather data. Then our observations could be compared with the radar. The result was the first computerized radar

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Rain, Rain, Go Away May started off really dry. You probably don’t even remember since it has rained so much since then that you wonder why they ever dismantled the Ark in Old Trail. Yes, newbies, there was once a huge, almost biblically-sized ark right across from Mi Rancho Restaurant in the center of Crozet’s biggest housing complex. We almost needed it last month. After only 0.13” of rain through May 13th, rain fell on 15 of the final 18 days of May. While that’s not exactly 40 days and 40 nights, it was a lot. Heidi is the official rain-gaugeemptier and she poured 7.82” from our bucket by the end of the month. But rainfall amounts were wildly variable from place to place and some places got that much in just a couple of hours on May 30th. That leads us to our next topic…

President Sullivan is UVA’s eighth president. Since taking office in 2010 she has led UVA through a period of significant progress. She’s a respected scholar in labor force demography and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. She’s a graduate of Michigan State University’s James Madison College, and earned her doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago. Please join us for this tremendously interesting, informative and important discussion. Make your plans and reservations today. Seating is limited. OPEN

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Maple Syrup—A Sweet Mystery As a young lad, our family vacationed several times in New E n g l a n d during the winter holidays. I remember vividly, as we huddled with hot cocoa around the hearth and fire of the 19th century farmhouse at which we stayed, a local newspaper’s headline boldly proclaiming “May Warm to Zero.” That may not sound balmy, but it was certainly a lot better than 35 below! Whenever the weather did warm above zero, we skied. Sugarbush, then a recently opened ski resort located in the Mad River valley of Vermont, was a favorite venue. Growing up outside Washington, D.C., I had no idea as I have come to understand now that “sugar bush” meant a stand of maple trees from which to gather sap; and “sugarbush” was a colloquial name for a farm that produced maple syrup. As an adult, I continue to learn fascinating things about the science, production, and history of maple syrup. Here are a few examples. In our backyard a few winters ago, I noticed a long icicle hanging from the stub of a branch that had recently broken off our box elder tree in an ice storm. I plucked the icicle, and being both curious and thirsty, I licked it. To my surprise it tasted refreshingly sweet! After a little research, I learned that the box elder (also known as the ashleaf maple) is a member of the Maple Family (Aceraceae), as are the sugar maple, red maple, and black maple trees. Thousands of years ago, perhaps in a similar way, indigenous peoples living in northeastern North America first discovered the value of maple sap as a drink, food and flavorant. When Europeans arrived, maple sap and syrup had become such treasured commodities that Native Americans celebrated the Sugar Moon—the first full

moon of spring—with song and dance. Today, most maple syrup comes from North America, with Canada by far the world’s largest producer. No wonder the sugar maple leaf motif is found on the Canadian flag. To promote the delicious natural products derived from the sugar maple, Agriculture Canada developed a “flavour wheel” comprising 91 different flavors—grouped among 13 families such as vanilla, empyreumatic (burnt), milky, fruity, floral, and spicy—to highlight and categorize the subtle taste variations of maple syrup. Although Canada ranks number one, maple syrup producers in the U.S. currently are tapping less than half of one percent of the 2 billion maple trees in America that are sufficiently large to yield economically viable quantities of sap. Surprisingly, West Virginia has many more maple trees than Vermont, a state famous for its maple syrup. Virginia is not far behind, with about two-thirds as many maple trees as the Green Mountain state. Clearly, sap and syrup from maple trees represent a potential agricultural growth market here in the Virginias. I suggest we intentionally look to purchase locally produced maple syrup and related products to encourage regional producers. The flow of sap suitable for making syrup is ephemeral, occurring for only four to eight weeks in late winter/early spring before the appearance of leaves on the maple trees. It is also possible to tap a little sap in the fall when days are warm and nights are cold. Typically, 40 to 50 gallons of sap are required to make 1 gallon of syrup. To transform maple sap—which is typically 98 percent water and only 2 percent sugar—into an energy-rich and flavorful syrup containing 66 percent sugar, it must be concentrated. One slow and laborious method Native

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Americans used to concentrate maple sap was by first pouring it into hollowed-out logs and then boiling it down by dropping hot rocks into the sap. The iron pots the colonists brought with them from Europe, which could be heated continuously by a fire, made the job of boiling sap down to syrup a lot easier. Oral history tells us that Native Americans also concentrated sap in another, more energy-efficient way. They simply let the sap freeze overnight. (As water freezes, newly forming ice crystals naturally exclude impurities because most impurities do not fit well into the crystalline structure of ice.) By removing the purified layer of ice and repeating the freezing process on the remaining liquid, the sap concentrated into syrup! Modern methods of concentrating sap into syrup often include a procedure called reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis is a more energy-efficient way to remove water than boiling sap for hours on end. In this pressurized process, a membrane preferentially permits the passage of water molecules through it, while at the same time blocking the passage of key syrup components like sucrose, vanillin, furanone, and maltol. The purified aqueous effluent that passes through the membrane is discarded and the original volume of sap is thus reduced by 80 percent or so. The concentrated liquid is then further concentrated in evaporators, filtered, and processed into the final product.

Why did I characterize maple syrup as a ‘sweet mystery’ in the title? To quote the University of Minnesota Extension Service, “the actual mechanism responsible for sap flow is still something of a botanical mystery. … The flow of maple sap is not related to the normal process by which water is transported in the xylem during the growing season. … Sap flow stops when the buds expand and the leaves develop. Sap flow also ends if the temperature is continuously above or continuously below freezing.” Sucrose-rich sap exuded and collected from maple trees is not coming from the living tissue (phloem), that inner most layer of bark that normally conducts sugars and other metabolic products throughout the tree. Instead, the sap is coming from the woody portion of the tree (xylem) that normally transports water and inorganic ions, but not sugar! During the sugar season when temperatures cycle back and forth above and below the freezing point of water, pressures inside a maple tree can rise to the level of a fully inflated automobile tire. Experiments on maple trees have shown that formation of ice crystals in the xylem builds up pressure within frozen gas bubbles. Scientists hypothesize that as these ice crystals melt, they release the pressurized gas, causing sap to flow. This phenomenon does not occur in most other tree species such as oak or tulip popcontinued on page 43

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Building the Mental and Physical Base Twenty years ago this August, I started my first year of veterinary school at Virginia Tech. I had finished up a degree at James Madison University and then spent the summer doing hard labor with a landscape company I had worked for every summer throughout college. Moving to Blacksburg was a big change. I felt very isolated and I didn’t know anyone in my class. Also, I knew I was starting a four-year journey to a veterinary degree, and I suppose I knew enough to know that I had no idea what I was getting myself into. We had a few days of orientation before classes began. Besides getting familiar with the layout of the school and meeting our new best friends for the next four years, we also had several talks by faculty members about how to prepare for and handle the workload that was about to ensue. One professor, whose name I can’t remember, gave a talk that I remember to this day. It was about handling more and more workload each year. Below is a paraphrase from memory, but gives the gist of it: “You are about to begin a journey of learning and growing. There is a LOT to learn these next four years, and at times it will be overwhelming. Each year will be more difficult than the prior year and each year’s classes will all be based upon a foundation of knowledge that you gained in the previous year. There is no way that we could take you as you are right now and have you complete the workload that we ask of our 3rd year students, and there is no way that we could take a second-year student and have them successfully complete their 4th year. Not only do you have to learn the material, but you have to figure out how you

learn and continue to refine that process. So this year, focus on what you’re doing right now – don’t worry about next year, next year will come when you are ready.” Probably because I was nervous about the new academic journey I was starting, I took those words to heart and now, 20 years wiser, I find myself thinking about those words as they pertain to so many other things in life. In particular, and in perfect relevance to this column, I find these words to be very relevant and specific to our individual fitness journeys. Although I’ve always been relatively active, I never really was a runner until about 13 years ago. I can still remember thinking of people who ran 10 miles as “crazy” or just different. That could NEVER be me. It was such a foreign concept that I could not imagine doing something like that. The disconnect was both physical and mental. Physically, I knew that my legs could not take me for 10 miles. That was double what I had ever run, and I imposed limits on myself just because that seemed foreign or scary to me. “Nope, I could NEVER do that.” Mentally, I just couldn’t imagine enjoying such a thing! What do you think about for 10 miles? Isn’t that boring? Whether it was the concept of just occupying my mind or just spending silent time with myself for 2 hours, I just couldn’t imagine being there mentally. Twelve years later, I really enjoy running long distance and 10 miles is what my friends and I do before work. Also, I have come to love, and in fact need, the meditative time. One of my weekly runs is a 4-hour trail run—no headphones, no music, just mind space. Now back to the vet school continued on page 49

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The Rear Issue This month we’re going to get familiar with one of my least favorite parts of my job— anal glands! Warning: anal glands are disgusting things to talk about, so if you’re easily grossed out, go read Roscoe’s weather column. I won’t be offended, and I promise to write about puppies and kittens or something nice next month. This is an important topic, however, because anal glands are a very common problem in dogs and an occasional problem in cats as well. So, what are they? What can possibly go wrong with them? Let’s take a journey to the back woods together! Anal glands (also referred to as the anal sacs) are simply scent glands that both dogs and cats have. There are two anal sacs, one on each side of the anus at approximately the 4 and 8 o’ clock positions. They are each typically about 1-2 cm in diameter and they are located just under the skin with a small duct that empties right at the anal opening. The purpose of the anal glands is scent communication. Inside of each of these glands is a very foul-smelling, oily liquid that dogs and cats can express when they have a bowel movement or even voluntarily when scared or excited. Since dogs and cats have such incredible senses of smell, it would make sense that they have some special glands to communicate their whereabouts better. Also, when dogs smell each other’s rears–anal glands. “Oh, you’re the dog whose owner never picks up your poop over on that corner!” Unfortunately, in our domesticated pets, the anal glands are ripe with problems that cause scooting, licking, smells, and

infections. You can see why anal gland problems are one of my favorite things to deal with… NOT! Impaction Impaction is by far the most common anal gland problem and leads to the most common clinical sign associated with the anal glands–scooting. Anal gland impaction happens when the normally thinner liquid in the anal glands starts to thicken or become “chunky.” The thicker material has trouble getting squeezed out of the tiny anal sac duct opening, which is only about 2mm wide. Meanwhile, the glandular material lining the anal sacs continues to produce material, and so the anal glands get “full.” We don’t really know if this causes pain, itching, or another type of discomfort, but generally when anal glands are becoming full, you will see your dog start to scoot its rear along the floor. While it’s really not a big deal to occasionally see your dog scoot, these dogs are scooting daily and sometimes licking their rears as well. Generally, they will come to us for this problem and we will put some gloves on and manually empty them out. Not many dogs appreciate this and there are zero cats in this entire universe who appreciate this. However, by manually emptying them out, we can relieve the pressure and stop the scooting. Why do some dogs and cats get anal sac impaction? We really don’t know. Small dogs are extremely overrepresented, making up about 85 percent of the cases we see, so conformation surely has something to do with it. Maybe they are unable to effectively empty them out on a regular basis. Perhaps diet has something to do with it as well, but this is unproven, and I’ve never had an anal gland impaction case resolve by adding more fiber into the diet.

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lar. “The critical factor appears to be related to the distribution of liquid and gas in the xylem.” But even this factor in combination with the cycle of freezing and thawing is not the whole story. Experiments show that no sap flows out of tapped maple trees unless sucrose also is present in the sap. Scientists do not yet fully understand this process of sap flow, and why it has evolved in only certain types of deciduous trees. Wow! Maple syrup does not come from ordinary sap flow in the early spring as I once thought it did. There is an element of the miraculous about it. In fact, in all the world, the combination of the proper species of trees, their large abundance, and the necessary daily freeze/thaw conditions for large scale production of maple syrup is almost unique to northeast North America. Think about it. Commercial maple syrup production like that found in Canada and the U.S. has no comparable counterpart anywhere in Europe, China or South America, although smaller operations are found in Japan and Korea. But in the Far East, the emphasis is on the sap, not the syrup. Koreans have a long tradition of celebrating the arrival

of spring by drinking maple sap—as it comes straight from the tree—in the warmth of a sauna. They call this drink of pure sap gorosoe (good for the bones). Chemical analysis shows that maple sap contains significant quantities of calcium, potassium, magnesium, and manganese. Maple trees, along with honey, are among the few sources of sugar we can perennially harvest without harvesting the plant, necessitating replanting a new crop each year. Field studies have shown that tapped maple trees live just as long (upwards of three hundred years) and are just as healthy as their untapped cohorts. This is perhaps not surprising since the tap holes are small and can heal within months, and the collected sap removes only about 5 percent of the total stores of sugar within the tree. Next sugar season, I am going to try tapping our maple trees here at Sweet Blue farm and see what happens. Like the Koreans, I plan to celebrate the arrival of spring with a drink of sap as a tonic for good health; and I’ll use the rest for making syrup. But that’s not all. Cornell’s Maple Program, run within the University’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, also suggests tapping birch, butternut, and black walnut trees. I’ll give them a try too!

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There are two ways of trying to express the anal glands. Many pet owners and groomers will try to “externally” empty them – taking a baby wipe and covering the anus and then pushing inward to try and empty the glands. This is rarely very successful or thorough, but may work okay for some dogs. The best way to express anal glands is by putting on gloves and expressing them “internally”. This is a two-person job and takes some practice and most people choose to leave this to a professional. It is not a fun job! For many dogs and cats, emptying the anal glands provides some reasonable control. We may only need to express them a few times a year, which seems like a win. Some dogs, however, seem to start scooting again quite soon after and perhaps have one of the problems below. Inflammation Anal sacculitis is a term we use to describe inflamed or infected anal glands and although scooting is often a clinical sign here, licking and discharge are more common. With anal sacculitis, the glands become either really itchy or painful and will often leak some pretty foul-smelling discharge around the rear. When we express these glands, we often get either blood or pus, which pretty clearly indicates a problem. Treatment varies, from antibiotics, to steroids, to flushing out the glands and infusing medication into them. “Inappropriate expression” This is not so much a medical problem as it is a big nuisance

for the owners. These dogs (I don’t really see this in cats) just seem to randomly express anal gland material on the couch, in the car, on their owner’s beds. Yuck! Perhaps these dogs have too much muscle tone and accidentally express them when they get a little scared or excited, or maybe the ducts are just a bit leaky. Either way, this is probably one of the hardest problems to fix, because there’s not really a fix except to surgically remove them. Abscess and rupture These typically come out of the blue. These dogs and cats for some reason don’t usually have a history of any scooting and then one day there is a large painful swelling or draining wound next to their anus. Somehow, the anal gland has ruptured under the skin, releasing all if its normal contents, including millions of fecal bacteria, into the subcutaneous space. This quickly causes a lot of pain and infection and in just a day or two will actually form an abscess that then ruptures through the skin. In almost all of these cases, the pets have very thick, paste-like anal gland material and they likely ruptured because they were unable to naturally be expressed. I can’t explain why they never seem to scoot. These pets need antibiotics to get the infection under control and then later when they’re not so painful we try to fully empty out the rest of the anal gland material. Some anal glands never heal normally and need to be removed, whereas others seem to scar up and not cause problems again. Cancer Unfortunately, this last catecontinued on page 50

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The Cost of Caring Like most people I sleepwalk through parts of my waking life, not consciously noticing much of the world around me. Driving in to work is a perfect example. I do it automatically, my car seems to know the way itself, meanwhile I am lost in my inner thoughts and only upon arriving do I realize I have made the journey without really seeing much of it. All of this changes however as soon as I approach the ER to start my shift. All of my senses engage. Thousands of data points begin to register and coalesce into impressions, diagnoses, plans and decisions. I am in the zone. In a previous column I described this as gestalt, the ability to absorb many disparate inputs to form a clinical impression. This is very helpful toward effectively doing my job, but the associated hypervigilance has a cost. Today there are six police cars in front of the ER and three ambulances in the bay. Small knots of people are huddled together outside, smoking. I recognize the anxious energy in the body language, the hunched shoulders and the sharp glances. Gestalt—something has happened. As I enter I pass the pediatric waiting room. A woman is seated in a child-sized chair. Her head is bowed and she is weeping. Two women kneel in front of her, touching her shoulders, comforting her. Gestalt—something has happened to a child. I walk through the double doors and into the ER. Dozens of staff are milling about aimlessly. I catch the eye of a senior resident, but he doesn’t acknowledge me. He looks bewildered, unable to think of what to do next. This is very unusual for him. Most of the staff appear lost in the same fog. Gestalt—something terrible and irreversible has happened to

a child. I find the attending physician I am relieving. Her face is crestfallen and her eyes are moist. I have known her for years and I have never seen her like this before. She shakes her head when I ask her what is going on. But I know what has happened. A child has died in the ER. Not a chronically ill child; that carries its own sadness but doesn’t strike down the entire staff. A healthy child who had been playing happily earlier that morning has died. I take over a dismal and dysfunctional ER. The necessary work is getting done but there is no joy in it. People are going through the motions, muscle memory overcoming inertia to allow us to continue moving forward. I sit and chat for a while with my colleague who cared for this child. I counsel her to take time to process this grief and anger. Her reply to me is typical. She plans to compartmentalize this event and move on. It is what we all do. But it has a cost. I am twenty years further into this work than my colleague and I try to warn her that these tragedies are cumulative, they don’t go away and they add up. We used to say that every physician has a graveyard in their head. In that graveyard are the names and faces of every one of the fatal mistakes that physician has made. In that graveyard are also all of the tragedies that physician has borne witness to. I don’t know what the limit to my own graveyard is, how many more tragedies I can witness but I know some of my colleagues have reached their limit and have developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result. This is the cost of that hypervigilance that is required to function well in continued on page 50

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CLINIC DON EUGENE DETMER

Each month a prize-winning photograph from the archives of the Crozet Calendar will be published together with a story from the photographer of how the image was made and commentary by Sam Abell about the merits of the photograph. By Sam Abell Not all photographs can be easily inhabited by the viewer. The picture must invite you in. But when you enter, the image comes alive. ‘Barn and Fox Mountain’ by Don Detmer is one of those inviting photographs that the viewer can easily inhabit. That welcome feeling is created by the stance Detmer takes relative to the landscape. He’s above it. Because of that the landscape flows down and away from him to the barn at the center of the composition. Our eye follows. From there the scene expands to include the breadth of the valley and the towering tree. At the back of the composition the broad, rhythmic profile of Fox Mountain dominates. Above it all are the turbulent clouds of the departing storm. Shafts of strong sunlight and corresponding shadows sharply illuminate the scene. The result is a finely balanced photograph in which the visual weight of each dissimilar element—valley, barn, tree, fence, road, mountain, clouds, bright light and dark shadow—are essentially equal. A pleasing harmony exists in which the elements seem to visually speak to one another. So it’s not only easy to enter the image; it’s easy to stay. Detmer recalled the circumstances of the day and his relation to it as a photographer. “It was mid-afternoon. I had just stepped outside my office door and was looking at Fox Mountain and down the hill a bit in order to get the right feel for the items in view—the black walnut tree, Fox Mountain, the barn, and the edge of the paddock. There had been a storm and the clouds and lighting were just so rich and dramatic. “I steadily track this scene throughout the year. I look at the bridge and stream, Fox and Pasture Fence Mountain as well as the huge ash tree and tiny cemetery in the center of the farm. I see all the weather that hits our area since I’m looking up into Brown’s Gap and see the storms arrive from the north and then see their aftermath, including an occasional double rainbow. I probably take 80 percent of a year’s photos at the farm.” Detmer’s recollection of “looking down the hill a bit to get the right feel” reminded me of a conversation I had 30 years ago

Don Detmer’s photo of Fox Mountain was featured in June in the 2017 calendar.

while working on the book Contemplative Gardens. The author, Julie Messervey, and I were above the garden at Villa Serbilloni near Bellagio, Italy when she asked me how I felt. “Pretty contemplative,” I answered. “Why? What goes into creating your contemplative feeling?” I looked around and said. “I’m sitting with my back against a small stone building. My gaze is downward into the garden. In the distance there are hills. So, first of all, the stone hut makes me feel secure. Secondly, I feel engaged by looking down into the design and details of the garden. Lastly, I take inspiration from the distant hills. I think, ‘I might go there someday.’” My casual thoughts that day amounted to a personal formula for landscape appreciation: a secure situation, elevation above one’s view, involvement with the middle ground of the scene and inspiration from the most distant elements of the landscape. In the decades since then I’ve tested that formula for achieving a contemplative state of mind in many landscapes. It’s held up. But of the elements involved the most important is height above one’s view. Gazing downward, even slightly, enhances the esthetic experience of being in the landscape. The scene opens up, and deepens. That’s why the traditional Japanese teahouse is elevated above the garden. An elevated all-American back porch works too. It’s why my wife has so many pictures of me standing on a car with a camera in my hands.

But Detmer’s photograph depends for its success on more than his stance above the scene. The atmosphere created by the departing storm is the central subject of the image. As Don said, “The clouds and lighting were just so rich and dramatic.” I mention this because June ushers in the long days of summer and with them the season of thunderstorms. The county has already seen several of these spectacular storms pass through. The arrival of these storms—and their departure—presents another good reason to be out photographing. Finally, Detmer used the camera in his phone to make the photograph. Its slightly wide-angle lens is ideal for inviting the viewer into the image. In closing, there is a unique chapter of Detmer’s life that deserves to be known. It illustrates that through photography there’s more than one way to “invite people in.” In Detmer’s words: “Between 1989 and 1999, we lived in Pavilion I on the West Lawn of the U.Va. grounds. I took countless photos of the Academical Village during that time as well as pictures of many visitors. During that time my wife and I started an annual Halloween pumpkin carving party for the Lawn students. I have some wonderful photos of the parties and also of the growing numbers of folks who came to the Lawn each successive year in costume for ‘trick or treating’.”

The deadline for the 2019 Calendar Photograph Contest will be October 15, 2018. Email entries to photos@crozetgazette.com.

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CHARLIEKIDDER

stems back by a couple of feet to give it a less gangly look. We’ll see what this summer brings. In the meantime, I invite you to share any Weigela experiences you may have had, good or bad. Overachievers

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Know When to Hold ‘Em... Some plants in your garden are clear winners. You’ve always liked them, they look good every year, never get sick, and you’d never garden without them. Others were troublesome almost from the get-go. Some may have had the good sense to die quickly and take you—as well as themselves—out of misery. Others may have lingered for a few years, but then you pulled the plug on them with few regrets. And then there are plants that lurk in a gray zone. They don’t up and die, but they never seem to live up the marketing hype that lured you in. Or they may perform well, but there are other “issues.” What to do? An Underachiever A Weigela in my garden fits in the former category. Smallto-medium-sized shrubs, Weigela happens to be both the common and scientific name for the genus. (Occasionally you might see the common name as Old Fashioned Weigela, but I’ve never heard anyone actually use that term.) Officially it’s pronounced wye-jeel-lah, but people often change that to wyejeel-yah. No big deal; people will know what you’re talking about. All six species—or up to 38 if you believe some taxonomists—are native to east Asia. Flowers are typically red, pink or white, although one species blooms in a soft yellow. Most Weigelas that you’ll find are either W. florida or a hybrid of that species and can reach 6’ to 9’ with a slightly greater spread. As deciduous shrubs, tradi-

tional Weigelas tend to disappear after their two-week flowering period in mid-spring. To liven things up for the remainder of the summer, breeders have come up with a slew of varieties with more interesting foliage, typically either burgundy-colored or with some type of variegation. At the same time they’ve also worked to provide some degree of re-bloom later in the summer and have developed more compact varieties, as well. All of this sounds pretty good on paper, right? But if you open up Michael Dirr’s Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, the picture is not so pretty. In his typically thorough and unflinching style, Dirr discusses Weigela in general terms, then goes on to say a few words about each of dozens of cultivars. For instance, “Weigela appears forlorn in the winter landscape; looks like it needs a place to hide.” Or his take on the My MonetTM variety: “Great name, so-so plant, especially under heat and drought conditions.” You get the distinct impression that Weigelas might do pretty well in the U.K. or the Pacific Northwest, but not in the Southeast. As for my particular Weigela, the accompanying picture shows a reasonably attractive plant when it was in flower this May, but it took a while to get to this point. It languished when first planted three years ago, and I was even wondering if it was supposed to be a weeping or prostrate plant. Last summer it shot up a couple of stout stems, only exaggerating the weird form, and I was thinking that I might soon rip it out. But this spring the floral display redeemed it, at least for the time being. After flowering, I trimmed the overly enthusiastic

Other plants can outwear their welcome by performing too well. Bronze Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare purpureum) is an attractive perennial herb in the carrot family (Apiaceae). The straight species of fennel has green leaves, but most gardeners prefer the additional interest of the bronze-foliaged variety. Leaves are wispy-feathery, with a mild aroma similar to anise or licorice. Golden yellow flowers appear in mid-summer atop four-foot stems and are visited by several species of pollinators. Following pollination come the seeds, followed by a gazillion offspring. I appreciate the additional fennel popping up in my garden, up to a point. As small plants with a slender taproot, they’re pretty easy to pull up; wait too long and things get tougher. To complicate matters, when the seedlings are only a few inches tall, their brownish foliage barely shows up against mulch. Unless you look really closely, they’re easy to miss. As for that taproot, don’t think you’ll be harvesting a nice big edible bulb like the fennel (or finocchio) you see in groceries. That’s a special variety of the species. Now I’m trying to be more attentive to pulling all those baby fennels, perhaps throwing the foliage into salads. There might be yet another approach to control, as well. I’ve always been fond of snacking on fennel seeds; you’ll often see a dish of them by the cash register at Indian restaurants. Instead of buying them, I’ll try to harvest my own in order to further reduce the excess population. Another plant-gone-crazy in my garden is Rudbeckia ‘Herbstonne’ (or ‘Autumn Sun’), a robust hybrid related to Black-eyed Susan. I appreciate its six-foot stature and mid-tolate-summer yellow flowers, but the seedlings! Not to mention, the aggressive spread by rhizomes, although I can deal with the latter issue by digging and sharing plants with unsuspect-

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ing gardeners. I don’t know who might be eating the Rudbeckia seeds, but they’re not doing a thorough job. Guess my plans call for some deadheading. Gardening isn’t always simple, with only clear-cut choices. But at least if a plant does die or you choose to remove it, that just leaves room for more plants!

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MARLENE A. CONDON

The Snakes and Lizards of Virginia The very first snake I saw in my yard after I’d moved in more than three decades ago was a Red Cornsnake. I was thrilled to spot such an absolutely beautiful serpent, especially because it sported a fair bit of my favorite color—red! For the most part, snakes prefer to stay out of sight, and if they tend to be active at night, your chances of seeing one are not really very high. In my experience, only the Eastern Rat Snake seems unafraid to show itself in the open in broad daylight. It seems to know that most people are willing to coexist with it, something that other snake species are not often lucky enough to experience. And yet, snakes are hardly the threat to humans that folklore makes them out to be. For years I have pointed out to people attending my talks that dogs, horses, and even lightning strikes kill many more people every year than venomous snakes do. And, of course, traffic fatalities hugely outnumber deaths from snake bites. Even so, most people would rather get into their vehicle every day than allow a snake to live in close proximity, despite the fact that people are far more likely to get killed on the road than they are ever to be hurt by a snake. I believe the best way to overcome a fear of snakes is to learn about them. We have only 32 species, and, if you so desire, you need only learn about the lives of the ones that live in your particular area. You can determine this information from the map accompanying each species account in a wonderful guide to the snakes and the lizards of Virginia that has been pub-

lished by the Department of Game & Inland Fisheries. The small book is loaded with photos, and in addition to the usual information on habitat and behavior, each account includes a “Did you know?” section. For example, on the Red Corn Snake page, you find that the corn snake may have gotten its name from its habit of hunting rodents around corn fields. I prefer the second answer, which suggests the name could have come from this snake’s belly pattern, which looks like Indian Corn! It might surprise you to see how many species of colorful snakes we have in Virginia, some of which are quite striking. However, there can be a lot of variation among individuals within a species, such as the Northern Copperhead. Some of these animals are a gorgeous coppery color, while others are a rather bland gray. Longtime readers of my column may remember that female copperheads sometimes reproduce underneath my carport. You might think this situation would present a big problem, but it simply requires that we pay a bit more attention when walking around the carport during the month or so that the female is around. (There is usually only one female, although one year we had three!) I’ve learned a great deal about copperheads as a result of inadvertently supplying a maternity ward for them, such as that people can coexist with these snakes. Although one or more females have each given birth to 7-9 young underneath my carport many times, we rarely see these animals around the house other than during their birthing season. Most snakes try to avoid people. However, since we know they live in the area, we always watch

The faces of three young Northern Copperheads (born just a few weeks earlier) can be seen at the opening of the “maternity” den underneath the author’s carport. The bright greenish yellow tail tip of one of the snakelets is visible to the right of the Field Cricket that seemed to know it had nothing to fear from the little snakes.

where we step and where we place our hands. Living in agreement with nature means taking precautions, but this is no different than being careful around your fellow human beings. I’ve been able to avoid being bitten by any kind of snake, but I haven’t been able to avoid careless drivers who have plowed into my car, one of whom put me into the hospital and caused me many years of lingering pain. There is no need to deliberately run over snakes on the roadways, or to chop their heads off if you come across one on the ground. In fact, most people get bitten because they interact with the snake instead of just keeping their distance. Learning about the lizards of Virginia is a bit more difficult task than learning about our snakes. A lizard usually makes a brief appearance, quickly running off to hide or to look for a meal of spiders or insects. Amazingly, the lizard species (and many other different kinds of animals) living on my property can often be seen lounging around the same carport opening where the female copperheads hang out when waiting to give birth! We’ve spotted broadheaded and five-lined skinks as well as fence lizards in that area. The funny thing about this is that there are not a lot of spiders or insects to be seen there, and usually when you notice animals again and again in an area,

it suggests a nearby food source. However, I suspect these lizards—being cold-blooded—are taking advantage of the warmth of the concrete and nearby bricks at that corner of the carport. The sun hits that area early on summer days, and the lizards (and, in season, a copperhead) show up only after the area has been hit by photons for a while. Although the DGIF book does not mention it in the Fence Lizard account, these particular reptiles are quite appropriately named as they can often be seen on a fence! There are still a few sections left of an old farm fence that once ran along the front of my property, and I have found this fencing to be a reliable location for spotting a Fence Lizard. It always brings me great joy and satisfaction to see one there because I know that most people would have long ago gotten rid of that decrepit fence. I did not, and it has afforded me more views of Fence Lizards than I ever would have experienced otherwise, making it a valuable component of The Nature-friendly Garden. A Guide to the Snakes and Lizards of Virginia is a good book to own if you want to recognize and learn about these animals. It is available from the DGIF Store (www.shopdgif. com). It is truly a bargain for $10!

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prep talk metaphor. It has taken years to get where I am, both physically and mentally. If I tried to run 26 or 50 miles 13 years ago, my legs would probably have broken. They were simply not ready, and the changes required to handle mileage take a long time – like years. Thus, it’s a very slow process to believe, physically, that you can do much, much more than you can do today. You just gotta be patient. Like, really patient. (Years.) The mental adaptations of what you can and can’t do also takes years to change. If you could have somehow given me 50-mile legs 13 years ago and guaranteed me that I could run 50 miles, I would have failed. Why? Because, mentally, it was too foreign a concept. The time on feet. The hours alone. How to responsibly fit that into my busy schedule. How to push through discomfort, but not be stupid. And, simply, how to enjoy it, to crave it, and to need it. But after years spent in the great laboratory of life my initial perceptions of “I could never do that” changed. Not in one day, not after reading the best fitness column ever, and not after watching some inspirational movie or reading an inspirational book. The change

JUNE 2018 happened little by little, over years. So whatever your health and fitness goals are, don’t limit yourself, no matter how improbable or unlikely something seems now. Real change takes time and even the figuring out your goals and how you’re going to get there takes time. Thirteen years ago, I decided, “Maybe I’ll run the Charlottesville 10 miler.” I didn’t say, “Maybe I’ll run the Western States 100 miler!” Likewise, instead of, “I’m going to lose 50 pounds,” start with “I’m going to lose 15 pounds.” Instead of “I’m going to train for a 50-mile bike ride,” start with “I’m going to start riding 3 days a week.” Let a fitness routine enter your life and then, stay motivated and always redefine your goals. Don’t be afraid to try new things, go longer, or get uncomfortable. Last, remember that there is no book, no training plan, no diet, no anything that will make your goals happen for you. Only your mind stands between you and your goals, nothing else. So, dream big, take baby steps, and don’t stop believing! Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Gazette vet and fitness guru, John Andersen, for his second place finish at the Old Dominion 100 Mile Cross Country Run last weekend!

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fell in just a few hours from North Garden to Ivy to Free Union. Flood warnings were issued appropriately and the rainfall estimates were fed auto-

matically into hydrology models which then calculated forecasts for stream and river flows. Small streams flood and recede quickly near the most intense rainfall while the bigger rivers rise more slowly downstream with a time lag.

Sincerely, Laura Coleman, PT, Physical Therapist P.S. Call our Crozet office NOW at 434-823-7628 to reserve your spot for the Foot Pain Workshop on Tuesday, June 12th, 2018 from 5:30-6:30 PM at my Crozet office. P.P.S. When you register, you can bring a guest at no additional cost (we do this because many people request to bring their spouse or another family member).

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Religion News THERESA CURRY

By Theresa Curry theresa@crozetgazette.com

Zahir Mahmoud

Reflection & New Focus During Ramadan It’s not easy, going without food or water all day, especially in the summer, but that’s what the world’s Muslims are asked to do during Ramadan. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which celebrates the sacred texts of Islam, began May 14 and will end June 15. “It’s much easier in the winter, when days are short and you don’t get so thirsty,” said Zahir Mahmoud. Mahmoud is the director of the Waynesboro Library. Regardless of the difficulty, it’s something he’s always looked forward to, he said. Mahmoud fled the Communist occupation of Afghanistan with his wife, a small child, and an infant, as the new regime targeted perceived enemies for prison and death. After a harrowing year of travel and by way of camps in Pakistan, Turkey and Italy, the family arrived as refugees and Mahmoud later pursued his education in Rhode Island. As a child in Kabul, he said, he remembers his mother rising way before dawn to fix eggs and meat for the family meal, served well before sunrise. “She would concentrate on protein, to help us get through the long day.” Since grilled and roast meats are hard on sleepy stomachs, she’d make a kind of soup, he said. After nightfall, the family would break its fast with dates and water, then offer evening prayers, followed by a substantial feast. Those near a mosque might share a communal meal. There were always a lot of sweets, but Mahmoud learned to avoid them. “I think sweets make you thirstier,” he said. Ramadan ends with a special

feast at the end of the last day. Children, people with chronic disease, nursing and pregnant women and elders are encouraged not to fast, or to observe a modified fast. Mahmoud said he’d always found the fatigue associated with rising before dawn more troublesome than the hunger, especially when dawn is before 6 a.m. He’d arrange his hours to allow lunch at home and a short rest. It disrupts the daily routine, but that’s the whole point, Mahmoud said. “We’re so busy all the time that we lose sight of what’s really important.” Fasting is just one of the rituals of Ramadan. Muslims also try to reflect on their lives, re-focus on kindness and charity, and re-connect with their family members and friends. “I think having a time of reflection like this makes me a better person,” he said.

Glenda Honour of Afton won the basket quilt made by the Crozet Quilters in a raffle sponsored by Tabor Presbyterian Church of Crozet. Proceeds from the sales will be used to fulfill Tabor’s annual backpack mission to provide backpacks for area students.

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the ER. PTSD symptoms include sleep disturbance, nightmares, depression, hyper-alertness, withdrawal, generalized irritability, frequent changes in mood, guilt, avoidance of activities promoting recall of the traumatizing event, and increased muscle tension. In fact as my colleague got up to go home she winced in pain. “My back has spasmed,” she told me. I gave her a knowing look. “It was hurting before this case,” she countered. Studies of emergency physicians have clearly shown that the more a population is exposed to traumatic experiences at work, the more prevalent the symptoms of PTSD become. Symptoms increase with the total number of ‘fatal incidents’ witnessed, total number and severity of exposure to

traumatic events, and years of on-the-job experience. Overall the incidence of PTSD is 15-17 percent in Emergency physicians as opposed to about 6 percent in the general population. This is the cost of the work we do. There are a few protective factors to decrease the rate of PTSD. Strong support networks at home and at work are the strongest predictors of resilience in the face of potential or eventual PTSD. Reflective writing (like this column) has been shown to help. And increasingly psychologists are studying the flip side of PTSD, post-traumatic growth. Some resilient individuals find life-affirming wisdom after surviving horrific traumas. So I will give you some life affirming wisdom gleaned from watching what most ER docs reflexively do after these kinds of days at work. Go home and hug your kids. Every day.

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the inclusion of multiple parks projects as a separate question on a fall bond referendum. One or more phases of Western Park could certainly be included, but it has not been finalized yet.” In the meantime, small steps can be taken in the parkland. A temporary bridge over Lickinghole Creek has been installed and is structurally sound, said Crickenberger, and the county hopes to have the final bridge finished in the next three to six months. “Some of the connectivity in the area was lost during [Old Trail’s] construction,” said Mahon. “We can go ahead and build some of these walking trails so there is circulation on the site. It may take a number of years to put all these park elements in place, but we can bring people back into the park in the interim.”

gory is not uncommon. Almost all masses of the anal glands are cancerous anal gland adenocarcinomas. These typically occur in older dogs and the dog may present with scooting or bloody discharge. When we try to express them, we feel can simply feel the mass and then we know we need to quickly remove the anal sac. I have had many dogs that I’ve cured by promptly taking them to surgery. However I’ve also had many dogs who have died months or even years later as a result of the cancer spreading to other parts of the body. If you’ve made it through this column, consider yourself one tough person! Perhaps you’ve missed your true calling in life? Or maybe not. But don’t worry, we’ve got your pet’s rear covered.

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Maria Addleman Hurt Serving Western Albemarle Families Since 1967 Robert S. Anderson & John W. Anderson, Jr., D I R E C T O R S

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BEREAVEMENTS

Economics to students over the course of her career at Crozet High School, Albemarle High School and Henley Middle School. After retiring, she continued to serve as a substitute teacher at Henley and Western Albemarle High School. A service was held May 5, at Crozet Baptist Church with David Collyer officiating. Internment followed at Rockgate Cemetery in Crozet. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Crozet Baptist Church at 5804 St. George Avenue, Crozet, VA. MARY ZEDLER

Maria Addleman Hurt, 91, of Crozet, passed away peacefully on May 1, in her room at The Colonnades where she had lived the past few years in the loving care of the Reminiscence Wing. She was born June 3, 1926 in Cumberland to Andrew Jackson Addleman and Lola Addleman Wheeler. She is survived by her loving husband of 69 years, Ben F. Hurt, her son and daughter-in-law, J.B. and Diane Hurt, her two grandchildren, Sophie and Benjamin Hurt, her sister Lucie Meredith and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her brother Jack Addleman. Maria was an active member of Crozet Baptist Church for over 50 years, serving on a variety of committees and as Church Clerk. She was also very active in the Women’s Missionary Union (WMU). She was a member of 4-H from a young age and went on to be named a 4-H All-Star. She graduated from Longwood College with a degree in Home Economics and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She loved teaching Home

New Crozet Chorus Leadership The Crozet Chorus welcomes new Artistic Director Dr. W. Bryce Hayes for the fall season. Hayes is an Associate Professor of Choral Music Education and Associate Director of Choral Activities at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, where he conducts the Treble Chamber Choir, The University Men’s Chorus, and Kor, a select men’s ensemble of 14. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Minnesota and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Temple University, is a certified Kodály educator, and maintains an active career as a conductor, teacher, church musician, pianist, accompanist, and singer. Ms. Joyce Polifka, M.M. has joined the Crozet Chorus as Collaborative Pianist. Prior to her recent move to Charlottesville, Polifka was on the Piano Performance faculty at Colorado College. Bryce and Polifka will offer two summer workshops which are open to the public on Tuesday, June 12 and Tuesday August 7 from 7 to 9 pm at the Crozet Baptist Church. The Chorus welcomes new singers for the fall season. Register for both at www.crozetchorus.org.

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Note: The clues with stars relate to the puzzle’s title ACROSS 1 Happening shortly * 4 Not yet up for the day 7 Less than one 9 Hit that clears the outfield fence 11 Inflatable party decoration * 13 Sing in a sweet, romantic style * 15 Adjust the sound of piano keys * 16 Kernels of corn grow on this 18 Vegetable that might make you cry 20 Old-fashioned weapon for whalers * 21 Opposite of out 22 Large water bird with distinctive calls * 23 Asian storm with heavy wind and rain * 24 Farmyard bird that lays eggs 26 _____ for joy 28 Fastener with a sharp point 30 Make a mistake 32 Table utensil for eating soup * 33 Midday hour * Solution on page 54

DOWN 2 “_____, two, buckle my shoe” 3 Word often partnered with neither 5 Daniel _____, American frontiersman * 6 Protective sand hill at the beach * 8 Saturday morning TV show for kids * 10 Light in the night sky * 12 Large monkey with a long snout in Africa and Asia * 14 Garbage-eating mammal with a mask * 17 Shallow bodies of water * 19 Number of softball players on the field 22 Disease caused by a tick bite 24 “_____ say, can you see by the dawn’s early light” 26 Sixth month * 27 Dried plum; or, to cut back an overgrown tree or bush * 28 Oinker 29 Head motion meaning a silent yes 31 ______ a hand to help someone

These and other houses were probably named for families who formerly lived and worked on the estate, including Hitt House for a long-ago orchard manager. Watch for possible Icehouse—perhaps the only hexagonal icehouse in Virginia—Smokehouse, Drivers, or Manor Reserve offerings in the future. Tasting Room Manager Andrew Ornée, Farm and Estate Manager Stephen Pulich, and Grounds Manager Travis Marshall round out the current Septenary team. Septenary offers a wine club that includes 15 percent off all wine, complementary tastings for guests, exclusive access to the second story club lounge, deck, and self-serve wine station, and pickup parties for the quarterly trios, which cost $90 each. Seven Oaks may also be rented as a wedding venue, with ceremony set-up often taking place on the south lawn beside the Jefferson oak and enclosed by towering boxwoods. For a basic $8,000 fee, a couple has complete use of the grounds for a full weekend. “You can customize it as you wish, and we don’t schedule more than one event per week,” owner and events coordinator Sarah said, “which means a bride has the luxury of access from Friday through Sunday for setup and teardown without rushing.” “But this is not our main focus,” explained Todd, “which is on the farm and the vineyard.” Whether for an event or just a relaxing weekend sojourn, a visit to Septenary lets you enjoy

Of the seven white oaks planted on the south lawn and named for the seven Virginia presidents, only the Jefferson oak survives.

fine wine and soak up some of our region’s rich history while basking in the beauty of Greenwood’s fields and mountains. You might even feel transported back to the 18th century, when Black’s Tavern hosted travelers and Jefferson raised a glass! Septenary is open Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is an adults-only facility (aged 21 and over), but dogs are allowed in a designated area. Musical events are planned on summer Sunday afternoons from 3-5, including Rob Cheatham & Company on June 3 and the Robert Jospe Trio on July 8. The new Fardowners food truck will be on hand Saturday, July 21 from 1-4. “We’ve been able to use all local suppliers, and the community relationships and support have been fantastic,” Sarah noted, adding, “The mountains, the water, the wine—that’s Nirvana!” CLOVER CARROLL

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Septenary Winery features stunning mountain views from its tasting room porch.

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all for just $5/child. There will also be great music by the local band, Crozet Jam Band, as well as traditional Fourth of July fare, including hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, and sno cones, along with favorites such as Morsel Compass and funnel cakes, and as well as vegetarian and vegan choices. Local beer and cider will be available for you to enjoy as well. The fireworks show is set for 9:30 PM, when it will be dark enough, but not too 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). Also, there are no pets allowed in and we’ll provide designated smoking areas and ask that you only smoke in those areas. If you live nearby Crozet Park, we encourage you to walk! Also as we’ve done the past two years, in conjunction with Albemarle County Police Department, we’re planning 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

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JUNE 2018 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 other local civic groups, 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. June 30 will be here before you know it. We hope you’ll join us by sending a donation today to help with these expenses. You can donate online at: crozetcommunity. org/2018/05/donate-tocidc2018 Or send a check payable to the Crozet Board of Trade and mail it to: 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 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 see you on Saturday June 30. Sincerely, Tim F. Jost Tolson Chair, CIDC Planning Team; President, Crozet Community Association CrozetCommunity@gmail.com CrozetCommunity.org

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Art on the Trax will feature “Where We Belong” by Judith Ely during the month of June, with a Second Saturday Artist Reception on Saturday, June 9th from 4-6pm. Judith Ely, Charlottesville area artist presents abstracted landscapes in acrylics. Her intention is to leave much open for the viewer to decide. Enjoy the outdoor scenes and the whimsy that goes along with them. During the month of June, Crozet Artisan Depot proudly presents polymer clay artwork by Guest Artist Judith N. Ligon. Judith will be at the Second Saturday Opening Reception on June 9th from 3-5pm in the historic Crozet train depot. We are thrilled to welcome Judith and her artwork for this special month-long show and sale! Judith will bring to the Depot her jewelry, treasure boxes, ornaments, champagne flutes, and bowls, all created from polymer clay. Inspired by the colors, textures, and patterns in nature, many of Judith’s pieces are one-of-a-kind creations that are botanically-themed with leaves and flowers.

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The annual Crozet Independence Day Parade and Celebration will be Saturday, June 30. The parade begins at 5 p.m. at Crozet Elementary School. To sign up for the parade, visit crozetfire.org. The parade ends at Crozet Park, where the community is invited to gather beginning at 6 p.m. for food, live music, and the fireworks show at 9 p.m. To volunteer or donate to the event, visit crozetcommunity.org.

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