INSIDE ODE TO CROZET page 3 NEW EAGLE page 5 BIG SHOW page 6 PIEDMONT STORE page 7
APRIL 2015 VOL. 9, NO. 11
SUGAR HOLLOW 5K page 12
New Brewery Coming Soon to Crozet
NOCTURNE page 13 COMMITMENT page 15 PETS OUTDOORS page 16 BALLERINAS pages 18 GARDEN WEEK page 19 FARM BUSINESS page 20 WELCOME, FLOWERS! page 21 MAN IN NATURE page 22 RED MAPLE page 24 35 YEARS OF FAIRS page 27 A DOCTOR’S REGRETS page 28 WARRIOR SPORTS page 30 BAD ROUNDUP page 31 LONELY AS A CLOUD page 32 CROSSWORD page 33 SINGERS BAND page 33 WOODCOCK CALLS page 35 SPRING WIND page 37
Jane Servine (left) and Alice Taylor of Crozet finished the Sugar Hollow Three Bridges 5k together on March 14. See story page 12.
Crozet Park Hosts Second Annual “Pitch-in @ the Park” April 25 By Kim Guenther President, Claudius Crozet Park Board Crozet Park will host its annual Pitch-in @ the Park event Saturday, April 25 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. The event, which brings together volunteers and businesses from throughout the community, will allow the park to complete many of its current maintenance projects, which would otherwise be deferred due to lack of man-
power and funding. Fifteen projects are scheduled for completion. With a potential turnout of upwards of 100 volunteers, the Pitch-in event is an opportunity to engage local residents and businesses to work side-by-side to help maintain the park, a community-owned and operated park since 1957. Because of the success of its first iteration, the Pitch-in @ the Park event has brought offers of in-kind continued on page 37
Miller School’s Endurance Team is Premier High School Cycling Program in Virginia By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com Stroll through the woods surrounding Miller School of Albemarle’s sprawling, 1,600-acre campus on any weekday afternoon and you’ll likely come across a sight you don’t often see while hiking: a group of athletes on mountain bikes expertly navigat-
Crozet’s emergence as a tourist entrepot will advance another step later this summer when Pro Re Nata Brewery opens in the former Moose Lodge on Rt. 250 close by the Interstate 64 interchange. Crozet dentist Dr. John Schoeb, joined by two other investors, bought the 3.2-acre Moose Lodge property, which has agricultural zoning, thinking it might work as a boarding kennel. But it turned out that use wouldn’t meet minimum sound distances. Then new state laws meant to stimulate farm enterprise came along. Now they are planting hops instead and transforming the lodge, which came into the world as a truck repair shop, into a small-scale brewery. “The name Pro Re Nata, or PRN, is a Latin term we use in medicine when we write prescriptions for pain medication,” explained Schoeb. “I would write it like this: Take one or two Percocet every six hours PRN dental pain. So it means ‘as needed.’ So come to the brewery ‘as needed’ for relief.” Word of the brewery has been creeping around and Schoeb said his patients have asked him about it. “People are ecstatic about it,” he said. “I have patients who were in the Moose Lodge and they are thrilled.” continued on page 11
ing the challenging 15-mile network of trails that snake up and down steep hills and uneven terrain. Leave the school grounds and venture down one of the many scenic roads nearby, and you might glimpse another group of young cyclists zipping by at lightning speed. Meet the members of the Endurance Team, Miller School’s continued on page 9
Location of the new PRN Brewery on Rt. 250.