INSIDE MEGA BOONDOGGLE page 2 COTTAGE QUARTET page 5 BIG CHECKS page 6 LUNCH BAGS page 8
MAY 2013 VOL. 7, NO. 12
CVFD Exasperated Over County Volunteering Policy
PEAS & DUMPLINGS page 10
SINGING AT WHITE HOUSE page 11 ONE IN FIVE IS HERE page 13 FAMOUS WRITER page 14 DON’T EAT IT page 18 TRAUMA STRONG page 19
Batesville artist Tim Wright presented a portrait of Claudius Crozet to Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Director John Halliday April 15. On the left are Crozet librarians Anna Thomas and Pam Grammer.
COMMUNITY BUILDERS page 20
Crozet Portrait Donated to Crozet Library
DECIDE TO LIKE IT page 21 STOICS page 22 CROSSWORD page 23 GRILL TIPS page 24 LIVE/WORK page 26 NUPTIALS page 27 WATER IS LIFE page 28 COOL TOOLS page 26 CASH PRIZE page 32 IDIOM ORIGINS page 37 HELADERIA Y TAQUERIA page 38
Batesville artist Tim Wright presented a watercolor portrait of Claudius Crozet to Crozet Library April 15, giving it versions of both known likenesses of him. The portrait is done from a daguerreotype taken of Crozet during the 1850s, at the time he was directing the construction of the Blue Ridge Tunnel. The
original photograph is in the possession of Virginia Military Institute, where Crozet served as the school’s first rector. Educated at France’s famed Ecole Polytechnique himself, Crozet is regarded as one of VMI’s three founders, and he designed the dress uniform the
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The 103-year-old, all volunteer Crozet fire department is groaning in dismay over an April decision by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to forbid the county’s professional firemen from volunteering at a local fire station during their off-work hours. Citing the Federal Labor Relations Act, a law designed to prevent employees from being pressured or intimidated into “volunteering” extra unpaid hours on their jobs, and relying on advice from County Attorney Larry Davis, the supervisors will not allow their career fire service employees to serve even at all-volunteer stations like Crozet’s, where no one is paid, according to CVFD chief Preston Gentry. “It comes down how you interpret the law,” said Gentry, “because neighboring counties do allow it. You just can’t volunteer at the station you normally work at. continued on page 8
Palmer Challenges Snow for Samuel Miller Seat on Board of Supervisors Liz Palmer of Ivy has entered the race for the Albemarle Board of Supervisors seat for the Samuel Miller District, challenging Duane Snow, who has held it for one term. Palmer made her announcement on the front steps of the Albemarle County Office Building in Charlottesville on April 11, where she was introduced by her campaign manager, Sally Thomas, who held the seat for 16 years—a winner in a write-in campaign in her first election in 1994—before retiring in 2010. Palmer, a veterinarian, got involved in civic affairs when she became interested in county water supply issues and stream
health and became active in Albemarle County Service Authority planning. Thomas said Palmer’s career has shown that “she has a soft side and is used to dealing with crises in pets’ lives,” but “she has a hard facts side, too. She dug into our water and sewer systems and saw what we were allowing to happen to our mountain streams.” Palmer joined the League of Women Voters and, working as a citizen, “revised our water supply system,” Thomas said. She praised Palmer, who was eventually appointed to the county water board, for her diligence in getting command of facts and policies. continued on page 7
RYAN JONES
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Lucie and Alice Taylor cross the finish line at the James Sun Memorial 5k in Old Trail April 28.