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THIS WEEK NEWS 9 The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline has divided our area for years— 11 Judge postpones ruling figuratively and (if approved) literally. The 600-mile pipeline from West about statue lawsuit going to trial. Virginia to North Carolina, which is backed by Dominion Energy and 12 “Crying Nazi” denied bond Duke Energy, would bring natural gas to residents and provide cleaner thanks to Vice interview. 13 Mayor apologizes, is electricity and affordable home heating to Virginians, its proponents allowed to keep his job. say. Detractors, which include environmentalists, property rights activists 14 Yes, Virginia and landowners along the pipeline’s route, say the exact opposite— that the pipeline is not needed; that its main purpose is to deliver FEATURE 19 natural gas to power plants and that the current infrastructure is adequate to serve the needs of our state’s residents. In this week’s feature (p. 19), you’ll hear from some of the residents who live along the pipeline’s latest proposed route (there have been 300 route changes since 2014). Most of the residents decry the If approved, the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline will change the lay permanently changing landscape in their own backyards, and say of our land forever. claims from Dominion that it will “put the dirt back” after it levels hills and removes mountains and ridgetops in the pipeline’s path is a false ARTS 29 promise.—Jessica Luck 31 Calendar Listings

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35 The Works: Elizabeth Meade Howard’s guide to living well. 37 Screens: Lost in Paris is breezy, blithe and directionless.

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Intermittent rain showers on Saturday, September 2, didn’t stop more than 2,500 runners from participating in the 35th Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler, which began and ended at Foxfield on Garth Road. Ann Dunn was this year’s winner, with a time of 22:38, followed by Jennifer Bauer (23:52) and Rachel Booth (22:58). Money raised from the annual event, the largest all-women’s race in the state, goes to the UVA Cancer Center’s Breast Care Program. The fundraising goal for 2017 is $400,000, and donations can be made until September 22. For more information, go to info@womens4miler.com.

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Recently, my husband and I went to a ceremony marking the school on our road for historic preservation: It was funded in the 1920s by Julius Rosenwald, an Illinois businessman who provided materials and architectural plans to rural communities, where black students were denied an education until Brown v. Board of Education was passed into law in 1954 by the Supreme Court. The manual labor needed to build the school had to be provided by the local community and we benefit from that skill set yet today. In the late 1960s, the United States was fraught with violence and unrest. The civil rights movement, Vietnam War and a mistrust of government to represent the will of the people triggered violent demonstrations and outpours of public anger. Today in Charlottesville, we are reeling from a season of ugly incidents, where hatred and violence have left a visible scar on our community. While problems and injustice are certainly not new here, this past summer has produced rallies and acts that have not only shaken our normally peaceful community, but have cast Charlottesville in a very ugly light throughout our region, the United States and the world: Charlottesville now lives in infamy as the place where deeply felt, long nurtured divisions among people with opposing ethnicities, cultures, religions and skin colors crept from the shadows where they had been lurking and showed themselves for what they are: resentment, anger and hate. We love Virginia; its natural beauty is an inspiration and a healing force. Charlottesville has such a diverse and lively culture, yet provides a strong sense of community because of the small population base. So what has changed? Much. But what can we do? Just as peace rallies led the way to a more cohesive society in the late ’60s, our city could unite to express our true identity. The early to mid-’70s were a time of hope; people were working and laughing together in pursuit of a more just society. There was a desire to bring out the best of what people had who were different from themselves and learn from it. Is it time for Charlottesville to gather its best talent and stage an event/rally of community healing and mutual respect? A candid conversation on race, with a moderator, could lead the way. Laughter, music and art, along with an emphasis on the natural beauty that central Virginia possesses, harkens back to a time when they provided a platform for peace, love and harmony. Some of us are old enough to remember when love, to quote someone famous, was thought to be “the only engine of survival.” It’s time for the members of our community to gather and celebrate peace, love and mutual respect. It’s time for a positive rally for community healing. It’s time to cast aside the differences that have haunted us this past summer and, frankly, for decades. It’s time to heal, Charlottesville!

It is long past time that state governments stopped displaying the Confederate flag, and otherwise honoring Confederate leaders. We should not honor people whose main claim to fame was waging a bloody war for the purpose of perpetuating and extending the evil institution of slavery. Some still deny that this was the motivation for Confederate secession, but overwhelming evidence proves otherwise. As Frederick Douglass put it in 1871, it would be wrong to “remember with equal admiration...those who fought for slavery and those who fought for liberty and justice.” So why do cities and states take down street names, statues, park names, etc. of the Confederates and rename them with racial names like emancipation, freedom, etc.? The names are just as bad as the Confederate names. Look again at what Frederick Douglass said in 1871. If cities and states want to do away with the Confederate symbols why don’t they rename the streets, parks and other symbols some local non-racial names so that in curing a problem for one group you do not incite another group. This country seems to always help one group and neglect another. This does not fix a problem but inflames the problem. Then both groups are unhappy. That is what keeps the racial problem going. We promote one group at the expense of the other. Nationwide there is a push to erase all mention of Confederates everywhere. It is difficult to fathom what this would accomplish other than to produce division and resentment. Certainly it would not materially alter the plight of black Americans. And in the process, millions of Southerners— some of them black—will feel that they are being deliberately humiliated and made to pay for something they did not do. It is nothing less than a cultural purge of the South—something historically associated with tyrannical regimes and unworthy of a free nation. America’s history—both good and bad—has much to teach us, but those lessons are lost when their physical symbols are erased. This type of cultural cleansing, itself a form of intolerance, debases both America and its people and sets a dangerous precedent for our civil liberties.

Mary Jane (MJ) and Tom Timmerman Gordonsville

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CORRECTION In last week’s essay by Darnell Lamont Walker, “To be black and happy and from Charlottesville is political,” the photo credit for Jamaal Murray was omitted.

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Tim Heaphy’s legal bill Charlottesville hired former U.S. attorney Heaphy to investigate the city’s handling of three white supremacist gatherings this summer. The Republican Party of Virginia immediately questioned that choice because Heaphy has made donations to Democrats, including $200 to Mayor Mike Signer. The city will pay Heaphy’s Hunton & Williams law firm $545 an hour with a $100,000 cap for the initial assignment.

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September is Hunger Action Month, when people across the nation raise awareness for empty bellies by supporting the country’s network of food banks. Locally, we have two main groups fighting the good fight—the Emergency Food Network and the Thomas Jefferson Area branch of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Here’s a look at those organizations and how much food they’re able to put on the table.

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Emergency Food Network ■ Serves 1,625 individuals in 470 households each month ■ On average, that’s 131 seniors, 781 adults and 712 children ■ Each three-day supply of food includes: cereal, canned vegetables, fruits, beans, tuna and chicken, soup, macaroni and cheese, rice, bread, milk, margarine and cheese. Clients can add peanut butter and fresh fruits and vegetables. ■ EFN gave the Boys & Girls Club $8,462 in grocery store gift cards in 2016 ■ EFN donated $32,134 to community groups ■ All city and county residents are eligible to receive help once a month

Blue Ridge Area Food Bank ■ Serves 22,826 people in the Thomas Jefferson Area branch each month ■ Distributes 3.4 million pounds of food in that district annually ■ Food donated through community drives makes up about 3 percent of the food it acquires ■ The local district covers Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Orange, Greene and Madison counties and Culpeper

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The city’s six-month pilot meter program kicked off September 5 for 105 spaces on streets immediately around the Downtown Mall. Potential parkers will find either individual meters or kiosks. All accept cash or credit. ■ Costs $1.80 an hour from 8am-8pm, Monday through Saturday ■ Two-hour limit ■ First hour free in Market Street Garage, then $1.50 an hour ■ Merchant validation ditched in Market Street, still available in Water Street Garage ■ City offering a one-week grace period before ticketing begins

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Another lawsuit Robert Sanchez Turner, 33, filed August 28 for an undisclosed amount against the city, Police Chief Al Thomas and Virginia State Police superintendent Steven Flaherty for an alleged “stand down” order during the August 12 rally, in which he says he was struck in the head and pepper sprayed with no police intervention. He is represented by Verona-based Nexus Caridades Attorneys.

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The American Humanist Association filed suit against the Virginia Department of Corrections for banning its July/August issue of the Humanist for nudity because it has a small photo of Rubens’ 17th-century painting “The Garden of Eden.” This is the seventh suit civil rights attorney Jeff Fogel has filed against the DOC for censorship, and the plaintiffs have prevailed in the earlier actions.

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Virginia State Police suspended the permit of those participating in the March to End White Supremacy from Charlottesville to D.C. September 1, citing rain and traffic, but event organizers say they’re marching on (alongside actor Mark Ruffalo, who joined them August 31). Their journey was temporarily halted on day three, August 30, when organizers received threats of an armed person waiting at the end of the route in Madison.

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Statute retroactive? Judge mulls city’s motion to throw out statue lawsuit By Lisa Provence lisa@c-ville.com

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The battle over the future residences of statues of generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson continued in court September 1.

there, who has been alleged to be a Sons of Confederate Veterans member, was an attendee at the August 12 Unite the Right Rally, where he wore an emblem of the secessionist-favoring hate group League of the South and was photographed with longtime white supremacist David Duke. Statue opponents were younger, more racially diverse and more likely to be wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt. Many of them gathered outside the courthouse with signs before the hearing began, and many of them attended the chaotic August 21 City Council meeting, a fact of which Judge Moore was aware. “We’re not going to allow that,” he said at the beginning of the hearing. “If you’re not able to control yourself, you should leave.” Moore also noted that the clerk’s office had been inundated with thousands of calls, letters and emails, “overwhelmingly from out of state,” and he asked the senders to knock it off. “Our courts are not a majoritarian institution,” he said. “Judges do not wait to see what public opinion is. It’s improper

for a person to contact a court to influence a case.” Deputy City Attorney Lisa Robertson hammered at the fact that when the General Assembly passed the monument law in 1997, it also passed a statute that requires specific language stating if a new law applies limits to a city’s previously held authority. “The words the General Assembly had to use for retroaction are not present in this legislation,” she said. She also questioned the standing of the plaintiffs, maintaining that being a taxpayer is not enough, because it would “give standing to challenge any decision of city government.” On that issue, in a 2009 case in the same Charlottesville Circuit Court, Judge Jay Swett said a group of citizens trying to block the building of the Meadow Creek Parkway through McIntire Park did have standing, although he ultimately denied their injunction to stop the already underway construction of the road. Main argued the legislators intended for the monument law to be retroactive, because the statute listed wars going back to before

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he battle over Charlottesville City Council’s vote to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee continued in a packed courtroom September 1, with the lines pretty clearly drawn between statue supporters and those who want Lee to make a final retreat. The hearing was to argue the city’s demurrer, which alleges that even if all the facts are correct in the lawsuit filed by the Monument Fund, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other plaintiffs, the 1997 Virginia law that prohibits municipalities from removing war memorials is not retroactive, and would not apply to the Lee statue that Paul McIntire gave the city in 1924. Plaintiffs attorney Ralph Main maintained that a common sense reading of the law was in order. At the end of the hearing that stretched four hours, Judge Rick Moore decided to take a few more weeks before ruling, although he did sustain the city’s right to rename Lee Park to Emancipation Park. The issue has roiled Charlottesville since Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy called for the statue’s removal in March 2016. City Council voted to remove the statue of Lee in February, while keeping the monument of General Stonewall Jackson. It also renamed the eponymous parks Emancipation and Justice in June. Since then, Charlottesville has become a magnet for white supremacists, drawing tiki-torch-carrying marchers in May, the KKK in July and the deadly Unite the Right rally August 12. The latter has spurred cities in other states to remove their own Confederate monuments, but such action in Virginia has been stymied by state law. In Charlottesville Circuit Court, the Lee supporters were older, whiter, more tie- and seersucker-wearing, with more Colonel Sanders’ beards. And at least one of those

the nation’s founding, and he asked, “How many people are erecting monuments these days for the Algonquin War?” Judge Moore pointed out the law doesn’t say “has been erected,” and that while he wanted to apply a common sense ruling, “I’ve got to consider what the law says.” Main also said proof of the General Assembly’s intent was a law it passed last year clarifying the 1997 law, legislation that was not signed by Governor Terry McAuliffe. “That particular bit of evidence is ambivalent,” said Moore, and could mean the law is not retroactive but “that’s the way we want it now.” Main argued that anyone with an interest in the matter had standing, and he described the plaintiffs, some of whom had contributed money for the litigation. That was an argument Moore didn’t seem to buy. “The fact someone funds litigation doesn’t create standing,” he said. Nor did he go for the fact that one of the plaintiffs, Edward Bergen Fry, is the greatnephew of the sculptor Henry Shrady. “That’s a question for me, just because he’s related to the person who created the statue, how does he have something legally at stake?” asked the judge. After a 30-minute recess, Moore said he needed more time. He also held off okaying the renaming of Jackson Park because the deed made that name a condition. In addition, he sustained the city’s argument that the plaintiffs could not claim damages, because there were no actual damages. In May Moore granted a temporary injunction to prohibit the city from removing Lee while the issue was under litigation. With the city likely to vote to remove the statue of Jackson September 5, and with both statues now covered with black tarps, he’ll be hearing motions on those matters September 6. He also promised those left at the end of the hearing that someone would be disappointed. “I don’t know how I’m going to rule,” he said. “There’s strong merits on both sides.”

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hristopher Cantwell, who has been dubbed the “Crying Nazi” by critics of his teary YouTube video made after the August 12 alt-right rally and before he turned himself in to police August 24, was denied bond August 31 by a judge who cited a widely seen Vice interview that she said showed Cantwell’s approval of the violence that left local woman Heather Heyer dead. Wearing a black-and-white jail jumpsuit, with his formerly shaved head sprouting patches of brown hair, Cantwell secured a $25,000 bond Thursday for two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one felony count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance stemming from the August 11 tiki-torch rally of hundreds of white nationalists through UVA Grounds. “A guilty man does not come back and turn himself in,” said his attorney, Elmer Woodard of Pittsylvania County. “If he was a flight risk, he would have already flighted.” But Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Tracci, who appealed the decision August 31 in Albemarle Circuit Court before Cantwell’s scheduled release at 4pm, said the alt-right radio show host is a threat to public safety. He also cited Cantwell’s August 13 interview with Vice News, in which he said Heyer’s murder during the Unite the Right rally was more than justified. “We’ll fucking kill these people if we have to,” he told reporter Elle Reeve in that interview. When she asked about the next alt-right rally, he said, “It’s going to be really tough to top, but we’re up to the challenge. …I think a lot more people are going to die before we’re done, frankly.” In circuit court, Cantwell’s muttonchopped attorney Woodard described his client as a “shock jock,” who made statements about murdering people to the 1,000 or so who listened to his Radical Agenda podcast without actually intending to kill anyone. Cantwell said the shock on his show was “race related,” but that he “never advocated that people kill Jews or blacks.” “Did you shoot, kill or maim anyone before you got out of Charlottesville?” asked Woodard of his client, who listed the four guns he brought with him to Virginia. Ultimately it wasn’t Cantwell’s weaponry that made Judge Cheryl Higgins decide to deny bond. She said she considered the “characteristics of the person,” and the words he used that “show a certain level of approval of the violence” of the August 11-12 weekend. She also noted his lack of community ties, despite an offer to live with a local person who Cantwell said he only knew through the Unite the Right rally. Cantwell’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 9.

Vice News reporter Elle Reeve interviewed Christopher Cantwell in McIntire Park August 11, hours before the alt-right tikitorch rally from which his charges stem.

Also in court August 31 was Richard Preston, the Baltimore man charged with firing his gun during the Unite the Right rally. He appeared via a video call in Charlottesville General District Court, where he said his family is working to find an attorney to represent him, and he has no other ties to the city. About 20 people charged with obstructing justice or obstructing free passage during the July 8 Ku Klux Klan rally in Justice Park were scheduled to appear in the same courtroom August 31. All but one case was continued. Thomas Freeman, a 52-year-old Twin Oaks resident, pleaded guilty for locking arms with other protesters in front of the entrance to Justice Park. “We wanted to make it known that we, citizens of the city, did not want the KKK in the park,” he tearfully told the judge, who imposed a $100 fine, or offered a punishment of 10 days of community service instead. “We applaud and admire a citizen who stands by his or her principles in a manner such as exhibited today,” Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman said in a statement. His office will continue to offer defendants of the free passage cases, “in which the citizen willingly submitted to his or her arrest and cooperated with the arrest process,” the opportunity to complete 10 days of community service and have their cases dismissed. Outside the courthouse, Freeman said he grew up in the ’70s and remembered his parents driving him over the James River Bridge from Hampton to Smithfield, so he wouldn’t have to swim with kids with different skin tones. “I feel guilty,” he said. “I am ashamed. …As a white man, I think it’s my job to stand up and say no, you’re not going to do that anymore.” Freeman had a message to those who look different than him. “We’re with you. We have your back. We’re not going to allow people who look like me to beat on you.”

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harlottesville City Council now has a mayor on restriction. Council is made up of five elected equals, with the mayor playing a largely symbolic role, and that was a lesson Mayor Mike Signer appears to have forgotten. On August 30, his fellow councilors held a three-hour closed door meeting to discuss the “performance and discipline of an elected official.” Afterward, Councilor Kathy Galvin said the elected officials had accepted Signer’s apology and were not requesting his resignation, a signal of the gravity of the confrontation. It was a humbled Signer who read an apology to reporters and citizens gathered in council chambers. “In the deeply troubling and traumatizing recent weeks, I have taken several actions as mayor, and made several communications, that have been inconsistent with the collaboration required by our system of governance, and that overstepped the bounds of my role as mayor, for which I apologize to my colleagues and the people of Charlottesville.” The only “ill-advised” action Signer specifically apologized for was an August 24 Facebook post in which he publicly pointed the finger at City Manager Maurice Jones and Police Chief Al Thomas for the devastating events of August 12. Jones was called into a closed session with councilors on August 24, and the next day, a copy of a nine-page Signer-written memo demanding explanations from Jones was leaked—a breach that some sus-

pect Signer of, but which he has adamantly denied. Jones publicly responded August 26 to the allegations in the leaked memo, and he noted that in the middle of the violent white nationalist crisis, Signer was clamoring to get into the command center and twice threatened to fire Jones and Thomas when his entrance was denied. The remainder of Signer’s tenure as mayor comes with conditions, which he listed in his apology, flanked by somber fellow councilors. Those include meeting with senior staff only with another councilor present, except for regular check-ins with Jones; being more mindful of the time of the council clerk; allowing fellow councilors to make announcements and comments at council meetings, and not making pronouncements as mayor without working with his colleagues—and having one present if he did so. “My comment to two former mayors was, ‘Wow,’” says former mayor Blake Caravati. “Unfortunately it’s necessary. It’s also mortifying to me. Not so much the apology, but the four to five will-dos. That’s mortifying.” Following the August 12 Unite the Right rally, Signer called for a special session of the General Assembly to allow localities to repeal monuments, which did not come up on the council agenda. Nor did his capitalof-the-resistance rally, for which he had council clerk Paige Rice send out a notice. On August 17, less than a week after the hate rally that resulted in the deaths of three people and dozens of others injured, Signer posted a photo of himself leaping in front of the Love statue erected in Central Place on the Downtown Mall, with the message, “After a hard week, Cville is back on our feet, and we’ll be stronger than ever. Love conquers hate! @virginiaisforlovers!” “I was a bit disappointed in that public relations thing,” says Caravati. “It’s not all good. We’re struggling and we’ll get out of it, but it’s not all good.” For some, like longtime resident Mary Carey, council calling Signer to the principal’s office did not go far enough. “It was a slap on the wrist,” she says. And she’s concerned about Signer’s political aspirations, and says he’s publicly said he was going to become governor and president. “In the short term, he’s debilitated,” Caravati says. “He can rehabilitate himself. Right now, it might be difficult, but he’s a stalwart guy.” Signer’s term as mayor ends in January, and the likelihood of him being elected to another term, says Caravati, “at this time doesn’t seem probable.”

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alse equivalence makes me sick. Likely it does the same to you, too, even if you don’t recognize the symptoms. It’s rhetorical MRSA, an indestructible super-bug that infects the mind and body politic. And as has been widely reported, a new strain of contagion took hold on August 15 when the 2016 Electoral College Winner declared that yes, Virginia, Nazi-resisters are as bad as Nazis. With his toxic words about the “very fine people” standing up for white supremacy, Trump attacked civic decency, democratic values and American history. Sadly, it was a familiar pain. Last time I felt it this bad was when members down at the Church of Privileged Self-Righteousness declared there was “no difference” between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Way back then, such folks had the media to lean on for some of their claims. Plenty of so-called liberal-leaning pundits equated the computing issues and defensive personality of one candidate with the vulgarities and incompetence of the other, a known sexual predator, racist, liar and cheat who was entirely unqualified to run a local street cleaning crew, let alone the United States. Chanting “they’re all the same,” a critical number of true believers sat out the election, leaving the rest of us, but especially the nation’s most vulnerable, with a raging staph infection. If, after all that has happened since, you still think skipping out on Election Day is inconsequential, you’re not paying attention. And yet, a recent study from the Washington, D.C.-based research firm Lake Research Partners, released by the Voter Participation Center, predicts that about 40 million fewer people will vote in 2018 compared to 2016. The biggest drop-off is projected to be among millennials and unmarried women, crucial members of what’s

called the “rising American electorate,” which also includes blacks and Latinos. In Virginia, the center projects, roughly 1.1 million RAE voters will stay away from the polls next year. The study, based on census data, does not sample why nonvoters and non-registered voters would choose to stay home. We can only guess. But you had to travel only as far as the MLK Performing Arts Center for the August 27 “recovery” town hall and the August 21 Charlottesville City Council meeting before that to understand how little trust Virginians have in government these days—and why. And yet, local voting is the best way to throw the bums out, if that’s your goal. Leading up the federal elections in 2018, here’s another reason to get in practice and vote on November 7: the race for state attorney general. Democratic incumbent Mark Herring is running against Republican John Adams, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who opposes reproductive choice and marriage equality and vows to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations. Herring, among other things, supports Obama’s Clean Power Plan and has the endorsement of gay rights groups. Perhaps even more crucially at this moment, Herring is inclined to let localities manage their own statuary and Adams is not. No doubt, false equivalence is toxic. The same can be true for malaise. Maybe you can’t do anything about the sputum coming out of Trump’s mouth. But you can beat back the spread of malaise. The center that commissioned the voting study noted it’s likely more effective to register new voters than to try to persuade disaffected registered voters to give a damn. When left unchecked, no differenceism can be as harmful as false equivalence. So get your rest, Virginia, and then take your medicine: Register two voters and call me in the morning.

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When two sides are as passionate about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline as those who love it and those who loathe it, a lot gets lost in translation. Here’s how Dominion spokesperson Aaron Ruby and Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Greg Buppert answer the same five questions.

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ake a short drive through Nelson County and you’d need all your fingers and toes to count the number of deep blue signs with lambasting white block letters that tout the words “NO PIPELINE.” The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, proposed in September 2014 to run through bucolic Nelson on its way from West Virginia to North Carolina, has amassed intense opposition by environmentalists, property rights enthusiasts and landowners who cringe at the idea of the 42-inch-wide fracked gas pipeline slicing through their backyards. Though the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which will eventually approve or deny the $6 billion project, has echoed major owners Dominion Energy and Duke Energy in saying the 600-mile pipeline will have a limited impact, it is undisputed that the ACP will change the lay of the land along its route—disputably forever. Construction is anticipated to begin at the end of the year, with the pipeline in service by the end of 2019. Since 2005, Richard Averitt has lived with his family—including his wife, two children, parents, sister, sister-in-law and their respective families—on four parcels that span 135 acres in Nelson. Sitting on a red bench on the porch of his Nellysford home, he motions to the heavily wooded area behind his abode. “If [the pipeline] does blow up, our house is in the incineration zone, which means everything you see would be turned to splinters or dust. It would kill all of us if we were here. It would obliterate this house,” says Averitt. “But even if it doesn’t ever blow up, is it going to leak and taint our well water and will we be drinking it without knowing? Is it going to pollute

Greg Buppert: No. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline will deliver natural gas to power plants. However, consistent with national trends, more energy-efficient buildings and appliances in Virginia mean the economy can grow without building new power plants. If Virginia doesn’t need new power plants, then we don’t need a new pipeline.

Do the majority of people support or oppose the Atlantic Coast Pipeline? AR: There are many diverse views about the pipeline, but it’s clear the majority of Virginians support the project and want to see it built. Most Virginians want cleaner electricity, lower energy costs and a growing economy, and they understand that it takes new infrastructure to make that possible. That’s why more than 25 local governments along the route have supported the project, and why public opinion polls consistently show 2-to-1 support among all Virginians.

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What other options exist? AR: Because our region’s existing pipelines are fully tapped, public utilities in Virginia and North Carolina decided in 2014 that they needed new pipeline infrastructure to meet the growing needs of their customers. After exploring numerous options from multiple pipeline developers, they chose the Atlantic Coast Pipeline as the most cost-effective option for their customers. GB: Studies confirm that existing pipelines have space to move gas to Virginia and North Carolina. But Dominion won’t reap the same profits if it uses existing pipelines instead of building its own. FERC—the federal agency charged with Greg Buppert reviewing natural gas pipeline projects—has not meaningfully evaluated whether existing pipelines are a less costly, less destructive alternative to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

GB: Opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline continues to grow as citizens grasp the corporate self-dealing driving this project. The McAuliffe administration embraced the project in 2014 without having all the information needed to understand its environmental damage and its cost to utility customers. It’s now up to the governor and DEQ to ensure that Virginians are protected from this unnecessary project. What will be its biggest effect? AR: First and foremost, this pipeline is going to provide cleaner electricity and affordable home heating to millions of Virginians. Because of our company’s transition from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas and the billions of dollars we’re investing in new solar projects, our customers could see their carbon footprint shrink by 25 percent over the next eight years. We are making historic progress in reducing our environmental footprint, and it’s projects like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that make it possible. GB: Renewable energy is poised to transform how we get and distribute energy in Virginia. The cost of solar technologies drops each year, unlike coal and gas, and we are a few years away from affordable battery storage systems. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a $6 billion investment in gas that will undermine Virginia’s transition to clean renewable energy, possibly for decades.

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Will the Atlantic Coast Pipeline be safe? AR: Public safety is our top priority, and we’re taking every precaution to make sure the pipeline operates safely. Before the pipeline goes into service, we will inspect every weld with X-ray equipment and pressure test the entire pipeline with water to make sure it’s totally secure. Once in service, we will monitor the pipeline 24 hours a day, seven days a week from our gas control center, where

GB: Landowners all along the route are rightly concerned about pipeline safety. When a high-pressure transmission pipe ruptures, it can produce an intense, large fireball beyond a local fire department’s ability to control. Dominion’s decision to go through the steep, landslide prone mountains of western Virginia only exacerbates these concerns.

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operators can remotely shut off individual sections and take immediate action if they find any abnormal conditions. The pipeline will be regularly monitored by aerial and foot patrols, and the interior will be periodically inspected with robotic devices that will allow us to find and fix any damage before it’s a risk to public safety. These overlapping layers of protection are the reason underground natural gas pipelines are the safest form of energy transportation in the U.S.

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By Samantha Baars our land? Will I walk out of my front door every day for the rest of my life and look at the way they clear-cut all the trees and irreparably damaged the place that we built as our family homestead? I think I would be too angry and too bitter. I think I’m going to have to reimagine my life if we lose. It’s brutal.” So why keep fighting, when, historically speaking, those protesting pipelines have had little chance of prevailing? “I don’t have a plan B,” says Averitt. “I expected to live out my life right here.” The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, if approved, won’t actually touch his residential property. The proposed route runs through his sister’s neighboring parcel and continues to travel into the wilderness about 250 yards from where he sits on his porch. In order to build it, the pipeline’s construction crew— Spring Ridge Constructors, LLC—will bulldoze a 125-footwide path along its entire course before digging a trench to lay the pipe. Because of the steep mountainous terrain behind Averitt’s home, which includes a 15-foot-wide ridge that drops off at 35 degrees on both sides, the crew will need to cut away at the hill and level the area until they have a flat enough work space. In total, they will remove mountain and ridgetops for 38 miles of the pipeline’s proposed route. But Dominion has always maintained that after it removes the soil and constructs the pipeline, it’ll put the dirt back. “What does ‘putting it back mean?’” Averitt asks. “They say, ‘We’re required to put it back.’ How? If you just pile all that dirt back on, first off, it doesn’t look like what it used to look like. And secondly, even if you did, the first time it rains, what’s going to happen? It’s just going to wash down.” He adds, “The process of installing the pipeline is so ungodly destructive to someone’s land.” And once Dominion does purchase an easement from a landowner, the power giant will have permanent ownership and access to it, meaning it can access the easement whenever it pleases. For that reason—and many others—Averitt says landowners along the route should have a say in whether FERC gives the greenlight to the project. But when Dominion sent a letter to his sister, Dawn Averitt, in February 2015, the company said it wanted to perform a precondemnation survey of her land, and if she didn’t give her approval, they would take her to court.

Is there a need for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline? Aaron Ruby: Public utilities in Virginia and North Carolina are depending on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to generate cleaner electricity, provide home heating for a growing population and power new industries like manufacturing. Our region’s existing pipelines are fully tapped. They cannot support a growing economy or the transition to cleaner energy. Pipelines in Hampton Roads, for example, were stretched so thin in recent winters that public utilities had to shut off service to more than 100 industrial facilities just to keep homes warm and hospitals running.

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Spruce Creek Resort and Market Richard Averitt bought 100 acres across from Bold Rock Hard Cider on which he hoped to build a $35 million five-star boutique resort. The pipeline’s proposed route runs right through it.

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NELSON Roberts Mountain Almost six miles of mountaintop will need to be removed to run the pipeline across Roberts Mountain. In total, 38 miles of ridges will be decapitated along the route.

BUCKINGHAM Compressor Plant This proposed 40,000 horsepower pipeline compressor site on the edge of Yogaville has been heavily protested. It could interrupt the community’s silent sanctuary.

“So any time you transfer that asset to anything other than a city, county, state or federal government entity, in my opinion, it’s a violation of the constitution,” Averitt says. “And we’re going to sue over that.” In a blue and tan plaid button-down shirt and jeans, Averitt jumps in his gold Toyota 4Runner with a yellow “don’t tread on my property rights” bumper sticker on the back, with the same coiled black snake featured on the historic Gadsden flag. With one hand on the wheel, as the vehicle bounces its way down rocky roads to his commercial property, Averitt uses his other hand to trace the pipeline’s route with his index finger across brightly illustrated site plans. If approved, the ACP will traverse Spruce Creek, the waterbody Averitt would like to name the resort after, and steamroll through plans he’s made for interconnected tree houses and a luxury spa. Averitt says his project would create more than three times the permanent jobs of the entire 600-mile pipeline. Although Dominion projects that the ACP will create 17,000 jobs, Averitt says that number is inflated, with some of those jobs being for pipeline contractors from Texas, Oklahoma and West Virginia. “They’re going to come in, they’re going to build along a whole bunch of areas for about 18 months if Dominion’s right, and then they’re going to go away and there’s no more than 40 permanent jobs on the entire 600-mile route,” he says. Spruce Creek Resort and Market would have about 125 permanent jobs plus additional seasonal opportunities for employment. Dominion, however, projects more than 2,000 permanent operational jobs. In 2014, public utilities in Virginia and North Carolina decided a new pipeline was needed to meet customer demands. They chose Dominion and Duke Energy’s proposed ACP as the most cost-effective option, which will replace coal plants with cleaner burning natural gas and provide electricity and heating to “millions” of homes, says Dominion spokesperson Aaron Ruby, who has been defending it ever since. Almost immediately, opposition emerged from people who say the natural gas industry is declining due to cleaner methods. Some studies show that the state’s 2,200 miles of

existing pipelines have the capacity to move more gas to Virginia and North Carolina, according to Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Greg Buppert. And while pipeline opponents argue that their rights of way could be used to house the ACP, thus nixing the need for a new route, Ruby says it doesn’t quite work that way. Back in Nelson County, Averitt stops the 4Runner and crunches his way to the creek. He stands between two trees marked with orange ties that signal the route for the pipeline. His face is hard. “We’re going to fight. We’re in this all the way to the end, and we’ll go to the Supreme Court if we can find standing and can’t win before that,” he says. “They won’t cut a tree down on our property before they take us away in handcuffs, because at some point, you have to say, as a citizen, ‘I won’t stand for this.’ This is our Boston Tea Party.”

Neighborhood watch Just a few miles away in the Fortune’s Point neighborhood at the top of Wintergreen, David and Nancy Schwiesow are fighting their own battle. “It’s beautiful here—peaceful, quiet,” says David as he sits on the ledge of his living room fireplace. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows reveal expansive mountain views that look as though they were peeled off a canvas. “Quality of life is pretty close to perfect here.” But there’s a chance it won’t be for long, he says, if Dominion runs the Atlantic Coast Pipeline through four of the six parcels in Fortune’s Point. The company plans to clear a 300-foot-wide-by-300-footlong space directly across from Wintergreen’s only entrance. There, they will drill about 5,000 feet through the mountain, which will go under the Blue Ridge Parkway and into Augusta County, according to the Schwiesows. In Fortune’s Point, the ACP’s proposed route slices through the center of the first and second parcels, narrowly misses the Schwiesow’s cul-de-sac and curves back through two of their neighbors’ properties—one of them being Friends of Wintergreen Chairman Jonathan Ansell. FOW is a citizen group that doesn’t oppose the ACP, but has proposed four routes members say will be much less destructive. David, a FOW founder, drives along the pipeline’s route, pointing out that parcels one and two will practically be destroyed, and their owners have said they will no longer be able to build on them. He pauses to admire three neighborhood deer before driving to the entrance of Ansell’s home—one of the 10 “most valuable properties in Nelson,” David says. CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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Nancy and David Schwiesow live in Wintergreen’s Fortune’s Point neighborhood, where four of six parcels could be sliced by the ACP. It could also cross the resort’s single entrance, leaving them trapped if the pipeline blows.

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Throughout the entire process, Dominion has said it will only use eminent domain as a last resort. “I would argue, with absolute conviction, that they used eminent domain since the very first communication,” Averitt says. “They stepped up and said we want to come to your land for a precondemnation survey to decide if we will condemn your land—or take your land. They basically cocked the gun with the very first communication. ...So anything Dominion says about this idea that they worked with landowners is garbage.” Averitt also received a letter the same week as his sister. This one, though, was regarding 100 acres of commercial property he bought four years ago. Much to his dismay, Dominion said it wanted to run its pipeline through that, too. In fall 2013, Averitt, along with his father and wife, bought the large plot of land across from Bold Rock Hard Cider in Nelson County for a passion project. On the land that runs from Spruce Creek, down to Horizons Village and back, they hoped to build a five-star boutique resort similar to Big Sur’s Post Ranch Inn or Meadowood in Napa Valley. The $35 million project was to be called Spruce Creek Resort and Market. Internationally renowned for its ability to combine built and natural landscapes, Charlottesville-headquared architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz was in on the plan, too. “We hired them because that was such a perfect fit for what we wanted to do,” Averitt says. “We wanted to build a place that felt like it had always been there. To do that in real estate development is hard. You can’t go in and bulldoze and start from scratch.” The team configured a design plan and began doing economic estimates and recruiting investors. When the pipeline notice showed up in the mail, Averitt says he didn’t think Dominion would actually choose that route, and he decided to proceed with his resort plans. They applied for and received special-use permits from Nelson County, and the next step, he says, was to spend between $1 million and $2 million on true engineering, such as stormwater runoff and landscaping plans. “All the engineers and investors and other people we were going to work with said we can’t put a couple million dollars into something that could be eviscerated by the pipeline,” Averitt says. “So we’ve been on hold ever since—and fighting like hell.” Dominion, however, has said the Atlantic Coast Pipeline won’t affect Averitt’s plans to build a secluded boutique resort in the wilderness. And FERC agrees. “They said they believe the two things can coexist,” Averitt says. “That we can build our dream project on this land after they clear-cut five and a half acres, level the ground with thousands of trees gone and reshape the land. That it’s still then compatible with a boutique five-star resort is, of course, absurd.” The Averitts are currently working with appraisers and eminent domain counsel for the worst-case scenario of loss of property value. “But value is not what we want to fight about,” Averitt says. “We believe this is an absolute unconstitutional taking and abuse of eminent domain.” To take the value of somebody’s land from a private company—in his case Rockfish Valley Investments LLC—and give it to another private shareholder-owned corporation—Dominion—is not what eminent domain was designed for, according to Averitt. It was designed for the government to transfer land value or assets in a case where the public needs it for public use. “Eminent domain is an extreme power, and with it comes extreme responsibility to ensure that land is never taken from a landowner unless the public needs the land and there is no other practical means to meet the need,” he says, and adds that this has recently been abused by claims that the public “benefits” of the pipeline, like lower energy bills or creating jobs or new tax revenue, are good enough reasons. The line should be drawn any time the power of the state is used to take from any individual or business and give the value of the taking to another individual or business, he says.

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“We’re going to fight.We’re in this all the way to the end, and we’ll go to the Supreme Court if we can find standing and can’t win before that. They won’t cut a tree down on our property before they take us away in handcuffs, because at some point, you have to say, as a citizen, ‘I won’t stand for this.’ This is our Boston Tea Party.” RICHARD AVERITT

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Ansell’s home is for sale, but no one’s biting, David says. “People aren’t buying houses that are going near the pipeline,” says Nancy, who has worked in real estate for 35 years. “If I had a client that was considering house A and house B, with everything else being equal, they’re not going to buy a house that’s near the pipeline.” Adds David, “If we hadn’t built here, we wouldn’t build here.” “Not in our wildest dreams,” says his wife. One of the main concerns for the Schwiesows is safety. Because the pipeline, if approved, will pass directly across the sole entrance and exit to the resort. During peak times, there are 10,000 people on the mountain, which would create a potentially catastrophic safety risk if an explosion or gas leak occurs, they say. Emergency medical providers wouldn’t be able to reach them. The blast zone—or the potential impact radius—for the 42-inch pipeline is 1,100 feet on either side. “Imagine 1,100 feet up the mountain,” David says. “A solid wall of fire. ...You can’t stop it. We’ll be trapped up here. It would literally be the single biggest catastrophe in Virginia’s history.” A 20-inch gas transmission line exploded in Sissonville, West Virginia, in December 2012, shooting flames almost 100 feet into the air, destroying four residences, damaging five others and obliterating an 800-foot section of Interstate 77. “The fire melted the interstate and it looked like lava, just boiling,” said Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper to MetroNews on the accident’s one-year anniversary. “We have never had anything like that on any of our pipelines,” says Ruby, whose company has built more than 15,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines in the country. “A catastrophic failure of that nature is extremely rare.” From 1994-2013 in the U.S., the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s pipeline data records show 855 serious incidents with gas distribution and transmission, which resulted in 319 fatalities, 1,254 injuries and more than a $1 billion in property damage.

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In an anti-pipeline mission called Walking the Line, about 30 protesters hiked 150 miles of the ACP’s proposed route through Virginia.

“When it was going across my property, I considered it a win for everybody but me,” Ballowe says. “I wouldn’t be so selfish as to deny the greater good in my own self interest.” And while local pipeline opponents may be the vocal majority, Ballowe says some ACP champions in the community are afraid to express their opinions. “I know one [business owner] that was supportive of the pipeline and some [opponents] found out that he was and they worked very hard to try to negatively impact his business just because of his support for the pipeline,” Ballowe says. Dominion’s Ruby says a number of people along the route support the project, but aren’t comfortable speaking to the media after being subjected to hostility. “There is a concerted effort by pipeline opponents to harass and intimidate people in the community who speak out in favor of the pipeline,” he says. “Supporters have had anti-pipeline signs posted on their property. They’ve been accosted at the grocery store and at their places of business.” One group of pipeline opponents, however, wants to focus on the positive. “A lot of folks don’t want to get drawn into protesting, or get wound up about things or be frustrated with Dominion,” says Cville Rising co-founder Lee White, whose environmental group formed at the end of last year. “Our focus is to try to have more of a positive, forward-looking perspective.” For 16 days and 150 miles, a core group of about five people organized by White hiked the ACP’s proposed route from Highland County through Bath, Augusta and Nelson counties, eventually ending at the site of what could be the pipeline’s highly controversial compressor station in Buckingham County. For this outing, called Walking the Line, hikers joined and dropped off along the way, with about 30 pipeline opponents marching together at one point. “The vision was that of a celebratory, peaceful walk of resistance, to share the stories of the communities and the beauty of the landscape that would be impacted,” White says, and adds that one of the most powerful moments was trudging up the Deerfield Valley, located between Bath and Augusta counties, for three days, walking 10 miles a day. “When you walk up those mountains, you can’t even comprehend how they could physically build these pipelines,” White says. The proposed ACP will swing across Deerfield Valley for 30 miles. “That was one of the most impactful parts because you get a good sense of how the valley will be decimated. There will be nothing there.” The group had a theme song along the way, an old bluegrass tune called “Sow It on the Mountain”: “Sow it on the mountain / reap it in the valley / because you’re gonna reap just what you sow. If you’ve been a gambler / you’d better quit your gambling / ’cause you’re gonna reap just what you sow. If you’ve been a tattler / you’d better quit your tattling / ’cause you’re gonna reap just what you sow. If you’ve been a liar / you better quit your lying / ’cause you’re gonna reap just what you sow.”

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this is a recipe for disaster at least the size of what’s going on in Houston, probably even worse.” Birds chirp and bugs buzz as Reed sits on the porch of his remote log cabin in Nelson County. He says his 120-acre slice of wilderness was compromised by one of the pipeline’s previously proposed paths, but because more than 300 route adjustments have been made, his land is no longer directly affected. He is, however, still in the blast zone. But the man who has done conservation work for 30 years says his fight is about more than that. “My interest is in protecting the national forests and, of course, those belong to everybody,” Reed says. “They provide resource values and amenities you just can’t get anywhere else.” Because the ACP is proposed in a national forest, its approval will require 14 amendments of existing plan standards that impact soil, wetlands, old growth, the Appalachian Trail and endangered species. The pipeline would destroy 214 acres of national forests and eliminate almost 5,000 acres of interior forest habitat, according to Wild Virginia. It would also cross about two and a half miles of porous and unstable karst areas on U.S. Forest Service land. Reed says bisecting one of the most contiguous areas of the George Washington National Forest with a 125-foot clear-cut required for the pipeline is something that can’t be mitigated. The forest will never be able to repair itself. “The idea that the national forest could be destroyed is a death by 1,000 cuts,” he says. “You take one massive cut right through the middle of it and the forest will never be the same, and will never recover to any extent in our lifetime and maybe ever.” FERC has also said that the ACP could negatively impact seven endangered species along the route: the Indiana bat, northern long-eared bat, Roanoke logperch, Madison Cave isopod, clubshell mussel, running buffalo clover and small whorled pogonia. Adds Reed, “It’s unfathomable that federal agencies and state agencies would consider these types of impacts insignificant.” Plenty of people have voiced support for the project, including Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, but environmentalist Reed, in his Wild Virginia T-shirt, says anyone who looks at it objectively can see that “it’s the wrong thing at the wrong place at the wrong time, and no good can come from it.” “The number of people that support the pipeline are totally limited to the people who benefit either financially or ideologically from it,” Reed says. “I have not met anybody in three years that, when they understand the circumstances, doesn’t question it.” But lifelong Nelson resident and former chairman of the Nelson County Chamber of Commerce Carlton Ballowe, who lives in Faber on one of the ACP’s previously proposed routes, doesn’t fit that bill. He supports the pipeline because it’ll bring revenue to the county, spur statewide economic development and make the country less dependent on foreign sources of energy, he says.

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It’s been 48 years since 124 people were killed in Nelson County during Hurricane Camille. The most impacted area at the time was Davis Creek, on the southern end of Roberts Mountain. Now the ridge is full of debris flow from the natural disaster and other subsequent landslides. Dominion would like to run its pipeline through there, too. Ernie Reed, the president of environmental group Wild Virginia and an active member of Friends of Nelson, lives near the foot of Roberts Mountain and has been vocal through the years-long fight against the ACP. The mountain, near the 166th mile of the proposed route, is one of the tallest peaks in the area, a place where environmental groups have studied the potential effects of the pipeline. It’s an extremely narrow ridge, and he says between 20 and 60 feet of mountaintop will need to be decapitated to make a surface flat enough for the pipeline. “You can imagine the number of steep slopes and waterbody crossings and the potential for massive erosion,” Reed says, adding that the site is already sensitive from the havoc wreaked by Camille. He compares this to a recent example of Hurricane Harvey’s effect on Houston, Texas. There, the water runs straight to the roads. “Well, if you have a 10-foot ditch that’s been filled in with a pipeline and it crosses the steepest areas across the Allegheny Mountains, the Allegheny Plateau, the Blue Ridge Mountains, Reeds Gap, the Blue Ridge Parkway and then back down through here all the way to the James River, all that water will just scour out that entire pipeline route,” Reed says. “And what’s in the middle of that pipeline route is a natural gas pipeline, so you look at what damage happened in Nelson County from Hurricane Camille and add something that’s flammable and toxic on top of that, and

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Area singer-songwriters are taking the problem of homelessness into their own hands at the Six Pack Songwriter Showcase to benefit PACEM, an organization that provides meals, shelter and companionship to those in need. Organizer Jason Burke brings together Peyton Tochterman, Will Overman, Mark Roebuck, Susan Munson, John Kelly and Debra Guy for a promising night with local benefits. Burke says he chose PACEM because, “I wanted to refocus my personal energy away from what the parks are named and wanted very much to challenge myself and others to focus on the people who essentially live there.” $12-15, 5pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

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music Jazz Collective #9. Enjoy bop, swing, Latin, funky soul jazz and a chill vibe. Free, 6:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Open Mic Night. Josh Mayo hosts an open mic night where collaboration is encouraged. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Deli and Pub, 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713. Steady Flow. A six-piece funk-powerhouse quickly claiming its spot as one of the best live acts around. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. The Oratorio Society of Virginia Auditions. Central Virginia’s longest-running community chorus invites interested singers in all voice parts to audition. Free, 7:30pm. Municipal Arts Center, 1119 Fifth St. SW, Ste. A. 295-9850. Uncle Billy on the Patio. Putting a fun spin on countless favorites. Free, 6pm. Three Notch’d Brewing Company, 946 Grady Ave. 293-0610.

dance Bachata Fusion. The Charlottesville Salsa Club presents an introductory bachata lesson followed by an eclectic Latin mix by DJ Butchata. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

words J. Harvey Wilkinson III Author Event. Wilkinson presents his book, All Falling Faiths, reflections on the promise and failure of the 1960s. Free, 6pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

etc. Eyes on Art Tour. Engaging people with Alzheimer’s in meaningful discussions about art. Reservations required. Free, 2:30pm. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 973-6122.

Thursday 9/7 music 502 Fossils. Getting the night started with some rockin’ tunes. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. All Who Wander IRC Benefit Concert. Join David McCormick, Tracy Coward, Brian Kay and Sian Ricketts for a benefit concert featuring everything from 18th-century Scottish tunes to Bob Dylan songs. $25, 7:30pm. The Haven, 112 W. Market St. 973-1234.

The Anatomy of Frank. The release of South America, an album exploring nostalgia, relationships and mortality through introspection and assured indie rock. With Wes Swing. $12-15, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Robert Jospé Express Trio. Featuring Robert Jospé, Dane Alderson and Butch Taylor performing jazz, blues, funk, Latin and African rhythms. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

The Convolution of Pip and Twig. See listing for Thursday, September 7. $10-15, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Telemetry. Flautist Kelly Sulick and clarinetist Shawn Earle perform new works by University of Virginia music graduate students. Free, 8pm. The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, 209 Monticello Rd. 984-5669.

The Convolution of Pip and Twig. PEP members Kara McLane Burke and Siân Richards tell the story of twin sisters whose safe and routine world is blown open when one twin follows her heart into the unknown. $1015, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Tequila Mockingbird. Original six-piece groove rock. Free, 6pm. Blue Mountain Barrel House, 495 Cooperative Way, Arrington. 263-4002.

The Fall of King Henry (Henry VI, Part 3). In Shakespeare’s brilliant, brutal and innovative play, England’s royal cousins play a deadly game of thrones. $21-44, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Currys. Homegrown acoustic folk trio incorporating elements of country, bluegrass, blues and rock. Free, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke. 823-4878.

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Tret Fure. The Songmaker Series presents the women who helped pioneer women’s music in the 1980s. $20, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

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Adam Larabee Trio. Jazz with Adam Larabee and Brian Caputo on drums and Randall Pharr on bass. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. See listing for Friday, September 8. $25, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Alligator. Focusing on the energy, instrumental interplay and experimentation of the early days of one of America’s most unique bands, the Grateful Dead. Free, 5:30pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910.

Much Ado About Nothing. While the villainous Don John devises a scheme to shatter the nuptials of Claudio and Hero, the young lovers conspire to trick Beatrice and

Saturday 9/9 music An Lar. Fine Irish music from a host of fine musicians. Free, 5pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Bryan Elijah Smith with Jay Austin. Alternative Americana music for some great vibes. Free, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke. 823-4878. Chamomile and Whiskey. Raucous bluegrass and Americana. Free, 7pm. Veritas Vineyards and Winery, 151 Veritas Ln., Afton. (540) 456-8000. Classical Guitar Festival. The first annual Classical Guitar Festival of Charlottesville brings together artists with workshops, lectures, performances and a competition. $60, all day. The Haven, 112 W. Market St. 973-1234. Eric Franzen. Jazz piano from a talented player. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Freefall: The Judy Chops. High-energy Americana. With Red & the Romantics. Free, 5pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St SE. CONTINUED ON PAGE 35

Bob Bennetta. Interpretive jazz piano reminiscent of the greats. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. Critically acclaimed quartet Brooklyn Rider joins other musicians to open the 18th annual festival. $6-25, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333. Cones with The Blenders and Woods Running. Chill, groovy tunes followed by folksy jams and an ambient wall of sound. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947. DJ 2 Low. DJ 2 Low mixes it up. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. Fultones to the Max. Get the night started right. Free, 7pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Greg Ward. Island reggae on the patio. Free, 8pm. Wild Wing Café, 820 W. Main St. 979-9464. Jake Robertson. Canadian singer-songwriter and frontman for the band Cardinal Chase plays an acoustic solo set. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. Jersey Jam. Featuring music by DJ Double U. 21-plus. $5-15, 11pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. KYLE. A California rapper with one of the most unique voices in music. With Buddy. $20-25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. Matthew Willner and Enemies. Local guitarist and artist Matthew Willner plays the Whiskey Jar with a rotating lineup of musicians. 21-plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

The Michael Elswick Gathering. Performing versatile jazz classics. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Outlaw Bubba McCauley. Authentic outlaw country. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

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Pickin’ & Grinnin’: Open Music Jam. Have fun playing your instrument, singing along and just listening to music from our local talent. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

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The Bob Bennetta Quartet featuring Dick Orange. Dinner and jazz. Free, 6pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

Ante Up Comedy Night. Chris Alan hosts a comedy night. 18-plus. Free, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

Benedick into admitting their much denied love. $29, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

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Scott Ward. Live music on the patio. Free, 5pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

One Mic Stand. Featuring both seasoned and up-and-coming performers on everything from poetry and comedy to political satire, storytelling and more. Free, 7pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Rapunzel’s Open Mic Night. Take your first step toward stardom. $2, 8pm. Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660.

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Rawhide Rex: 4K Restoration. Long unavailable, Rawhead Rex has been restored in 4K by Kino Lorber, and remains a favorite of Clive Barker fans. $10, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 375 Merchant Walk Sq., 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

Moving. An original work by Sean McCord that spans 30 years and follows the lives of several different residents of one apartment. Free, 8pm. Belmont Arts Collaborative, 221 Carlton Rd., Ste. 3. 422-4700.

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All together now The Vailix links card game and comic books to musical narrative By Erin O’Hare arts@c-ville.com

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ob Richmond grew up reading comic books, playing card games and listening to music—all three activities afforded him the opportunity to explore. Sometimes, he’d discover that there was more to explore—like more comic books, television shows, movies, etc.—and the excitement he felt over exploring an even wider imagined world, he says, was unmatched. A few years ago, Richmond decided to create a fantasy world of his own. He began with a card game, one that had its own mythology, and in order to figure out what that world might feel like, Richmond—a professional musician who’s played in a number of local bands (including Superunknown) and owns Bay 1 Studios— turned to music. Song ideas became narrative elements to a wider story for the card game and allowed Richmond to work through relationships happening in the story. He put together a band of seasoned local musicians to help him navigate further—Brianna “Bri” Litman on lead vocals, Cory Teitelbaum on lead guitar, Jamie Booth on drums and Bruce Stocking on bass. Together, they make up the hard rock band The Vailix, making the music that orbits the story told through Richmond’s card game, The Forevergone, and comic book series, The Tales of the Cloud Ocean. The story is this: After a catastrophe, planet Atla is covered in a toxic fog and survivors take to the skies, living in towers high above the fog and traveling via airship. A young woman, who is estranged from her father, has an overprotective mother.

But because of where the young woman comes from, because of who she is, she wants more from her life than what’s been laid out for her—she wants to own her own destiny. In order to do so, she needs allies and she needs a ship. The ship is called The Vailix, and it comes equipped with a crew...the band members. The card game and one set of songs— the Aeronaut EP—were released in 2016, and this week, The Vailix will release its second EP, Architect, at The Ante Room. The first book in the comic series comes out this fall. All of the parts work together, but you don’t need to know the comic book or the card game to understand the songs, and vice versa. Each piece is “interlocking, but not integral to the others,” says Richmond, and the themes are universal. Where Aeronaut explored the question “How do we fit into our own story?,” the Architect EP is about confronting and embracing destiny and learning to deal with the consequences of what follows—narratively, it fits with the comic book, but it’s a story in itself. Richmond writes most of the songs, but it’s up to the rest of the band to breathe life into them. “We’re here to make what’s in Rob’s head come out of big speakers in a club,” says Teitelbaum. It’s an unusual thing for Charlottesville (or anyplace, for that matter), but it’s perfect for the con crowd—The Vailix will be the musical guest of honor at RavenCon in April in Williamsburg, where they hope to reach a larger fan base. This is more than just a card game, comic books and songs, says Richmond. “Our fans are part of the crew. The crew serves the ship. The ship is The Vailix. The band serves the fans...the fans are The Vailix.”

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Saturday 9/9 Gallatin Canyon. Air-tight bluegrass arrangements and soaring vocal harmonics. Free, 5pm. Jefferson Vineyards, 1353 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. 977-3042. Jake Robertson. See listing for Friday, September 8. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. Larry Becker and Brett Twitty. Also known as The 5 and Dimers, playing an eclectic mix of roots, country and blues. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. Live Music at Keswick Vineyards. Enjoy Virginia wine with great music and food. Free, noon. Keswick Vineyards, 1575 Keswick Winery Dr., Keswick. 244-3341. Mojo Parker and The Blues Katz. Authentic blues. Free, 8:30pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500. Music Fresh Squeezed with Brooklyn Rider and others. Six string virtuosos of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, including quartet Brooklyn Rider, mix it up in an evening of improv, exploration and discovery. $6-25, 8:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948. NFL Kickoff Party. Hosted by Denzyfromdablock and Ball Hawk, featuring music by DJ Crush Groovey. 21-plus. $10, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Outlaw Bubba McCauley. Authentic outlaw country. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. The Blazing Saddle Tramps and The Red Roosters. Western swing music in the oldschool style. $7, 8pm. Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, 924 Front St., Lovingston. 263-6660. The Gladstones. Four-piece rock ‘n’ roll. Free, 7:30pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. The Pollocks. A serenade of greatest hits and new material. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

West African Drum Circle. Bring your own drum or use one provided at this weekly drum circle. $5 suggested donation, 11am. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

stage Love’s Labour’s Lost. The King of Navarre and his three schoolmates are ripe for an education in love from the Princess of France and her three ladies. $29, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Fall of King Henry (Henry VI, Part 3). See listing for Thursday, September 7. $2959, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

words FLOAT book talk. A. M. Carley, author of FLOAT: Becoming Unstuck for Writers, signs books, answers questions and offers private five-minute sessions for struggling writers. Free, 10am. Baine’s Books & Coffee, 485 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3577.

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hen Elizabeth Meade Howard’s father died at age 90, she found herself adrift without a beacon. Not only had she lost her parent, she’d lost her model for aging well. An award-winning journalist, she began to interview friends, neighbors and professionals she admired— some of them famous—inquiring what aging successfully meant to them. Her quest became the book Aging Famously: Follow Those You Admire to Living Long and Well, due out on September 10. The thesis of the book, she says, “is to look to your own mentors. See how they’re living their later years, and if there’s something good in it, take from that.” Each chapter distills a single subject’s life into just a few pages, a task that Howard says was most difficult for those she knew well. The self-described “semi-native” encountered some of her subjects in Charlottesville—such as artist Hartwell Priest and Jefferson School teacher Rebecca McGinness, for example. Others she sought out, and some she met through circumstance and persistence, such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson during his visit last month to Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church-Unitarian Universalist in Charlottesville. While all of the interview subjects are over 60 and many have since died, Aging Famously is not only about aging well, but about living well at any age. Local resident Mary Lee Settle, who quit her job as an editor at Harper’s Bazaar to become a writer, told Howard, “It’s a risk not listening to your soul. ...Your job is to take the next step and

the next step is always into the dark.” Poet laureate Stanley Kunitz agreed with such persistence but also acknowledged those steps in the dark don’t have to be alone. “It’s very important to feel one’s self as part of the world you live in, and to care about others as well as your own being,” he said. Walter Cronkite credited his energy to a boundless curiosity, a characteristic, he told Howard, that compelled him to observe his own appendectomy reflected in a mirror. Gordon Parks, the first African-American photographer to work for Life and the first African-American to write and direct a Hollywood film, recognized the necessity of work. He told Howard, “Survival came from working hard. Whatever you want in the world somehow or another comes to you

through hard work.” But balance, too, is necessary. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks wrote Howard that to maintain a long life one must “Learn how to rest.” A theme that arises among the diverging narratives is the importance of creativity. “Aging well requires some imagination,” Howard says, in order to find workable solutions for obstacles such as being unable to drive. All of her subjects, she says, were “mentally flexible and looked at life in a variety of ways.” Their creativity endured despite the effects of health problems, too. “They were not dancing into old age,” Howard says. “But they had enough drive that they plowed through it. And they were gifted in that they had that sense of purpose and curiosity. I think that overrides a lot of pain and loss.” They also had in common “a certain willingness to take a risk or to be rejected,” she says, such as one subject who revived her acting career in her mid-70s. Howard ponders what might prevent some people from taking such risks, and perfectionism comes to mind. “I’d like to be Joan Didion, but I’m not,” she says. “You have to do it as well as you can do it.” In interviewing people at this advanced stage of life, Howard found herself bearing witness to her subjects’ love, loss and all that they had survived. Kunitz was in his 90s when she visited, and his wife had recently died. “He was pretty compromised...and sad,” Howard recalls. Afterward, she stood in the hallway and cried “because I thought, ‘This is really an exceptional experience, a sweet time, and it’s not going to happen again.’ I’m not a religious person but it was close to something spiritual.”

Walter Cronkite credited his energy to a boundless curiosity, a characteristic, he told Howard, that compelled him to observe his own appendectomy reflected in a mirror. etc. Third Annual Street Arts Festival. Featuring street artists, live music, food and children’s activities, with noted artist Nils Westergard working on walls at the brewery. Free, noon. Basic City Beer Co., 1010 E. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-1010. Looking Inward Meditative Art Tour. Join docent June Heintz for an hour-long exploration of art through a variety of meditative practices. Reservations required. Free, 11am. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 243-2050.

Sunday 9/10 music Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival with Brooklyn Rider. Six string virtuosos perform music old and new, including a period arrangement of Mozart’s concerto mas-

terpiece for violin and viola soloists, Sinfonia Concertante. $6-25, 3pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 295-5395. David Tewksbury. Soulful indie-folk singer-songwriter drawing influences from jazz, soul, art rock, blues and pop. Free, 3:30pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094. Haze and Dacey. Live music on the lawn. Free, 2:30pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8020. Ken Nelson and the Jazz Rascals. Cajun jazz brunch soundtrck. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. King Golden Banshee. Raucous, colorful, traditional Irish music. Free, 8pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387. Patrick and Aaron Olwell and Friends. Energetic Irish jam session with the Olwells playing fine renditions of traditional tunes. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

Paulien. Close your eyes, open your ears and float on the sounds of Paris. Free, 2pm. Stinson Vineyards, 4744 Sugar Hollow Rd., Crozet. 823-7300. Six Pack Songwriter Showcase and PACEM Benefit. A benefit featuring Will Overman, Susan Munson, John Kelly, Debra Guy and Mark Roebuck. $12-15, 5pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Tara Mills and Jimmy Stelling. A powerful mix of modern-day folk, bluegrass and Americana. Free, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

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Shakespeare in the Vineyard. Bard Unbound presents a one-night-only production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, with six actors bringing 23 feuding, witty characters to life. $25, 6pm. DuCard Vineyards, 40 Gibson Hollow Ln., Etlan. (540) 923-4206.

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The Vailix EP Release with Galaxy Dynamite. Female-fronted hard rock band uses music, light and art to tell stories based on a sci-fi graphic novel series. $10-12, 7pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

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Miss Gay Charlottesville Pride Pageant. Join Miss Dreama Belle and Bunny Nicole for the revival of the Miss Gay Charlottesville Pride Pageant. $35-50, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

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Peter and the Starcatcher. Embrace the endless possibilities of imagination in this action-packed coming-of-age prequel to Peter Pan. $25-54, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine. The Fralin Downtown, a new film series on the arts, presents the story of sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Free, 7pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W Main St. (512) 495-9600.

The Convolution of Pip and Twig. See listing for Thursday, September 7. $10-15, 2pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

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Lunchtime Talk on the Permanent Collection. An informal presentation on aspects of the museum’s collections and special exhibitions. Free, noon. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, 155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592.

Second Sundays in Palmyra. Special historical exhibits, guided walking tours, demonstrations of heritage crafts, live period music and a chance to meet with area artists. Free, 2pm. Historic Downtown Palmyra, 72 Main St., Palmyra. 589-7910.

May it Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers. A deeply intimate and revealing look at the Grammy Award-nominated North Carolina band fronted by Seth and Scott Avett. Free, 7pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W Main St. (512) 495-9600.

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Lulled to sleep Lost in Paris is a slow-moving charmer By Kristofer Jenson arts@c-ville.com

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Lost in Paris is a French romantic comedy that may miss the mark with American audiences.

Enter Dom, a homeless man who treats his life on the street as a game to find maximum class in minimal resources. When Fiona loses her luggage (don’t worry about why or how, the sole motivator for everything in this movie is antics), Dom is the one who finds it, but treats the money and clothing as his own. When Dom and Fiona finally meet, she is part charmed by his relentless dedication to being an impoverished libertine, then outraged when she realizes he has the belongings she lost. Begin the hatred-to-love story. Gordon greatly impresses with her exceedingly well choreographed physical comedy.

Fiona (the character) is never fully at ease, and even when she is sitting completely still there is an energetic restlessness. But when the scene calls for big gestures and lots of movement, Gordon delivers with the grace and thoughtfulness of a skilled dancer—even if it is just being blown back by a brisk Canadian wind. Similarly, Abel exudes the same irrepressible charm as Dom (the character), who always sees every setback as an opportunity to do something inspired, despite his socioeconomic standing. The French name of the film captures some of this dynamic—Paris Pieds Nus, which approximately translates to Barefoot Paris.

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There is a lot to like in Lost in Paris, but as with any story that mostly consists of strung together gags, where every movement and line of dialogue is exaggerated even when it’s not

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supposed to be funny, finding something to love can be difficult. Though it is only a lean 83 minutes long, it seems that Gordon and Abel use up most of their ideas in the first 30 to 40 minutes. Perhaps there is a uniquely French dynamic to this sense of humor that is missed by an American, judging by the quantity of giggles and French whispers at the press screening. Your mileage with its brand of humor may vary, but it must be said that Lost in Paris is long on charm but short on raison d’être.

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adcap francophone antics and lanky physical comedy are served aplenty in Lost in Paris, the new film from co-writers, co-directors, co-stars and spouses Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. Even without knowing that bit of information about the film’s co-creators, it is clear that the pair constructed the cinematography, set pieces, physical humor and punchlines around their specific strengths and appeal as performers, and it is their charm and enthusiasm that help their story navigate through its unfortunately frequent lulls. Your enjoyment of Lost in Paris will depend mostly on how amused you are by blithe, breezy, directionless silliness, as there is not much else going on here. The film tells the story of Fiona and Dom (their characters’ names), an unlikely pair that cross paths through a series of misunderstandings and unfortunate events. Fiona, who lives in a remote, snow-covered Canadian town, receives a letter from her aunt Martha (legendary French actress Emmanuelle Riva, who passed earlier this year), and goes to visit Martha, who is not altogether mentally sound, in Paris. Fiona arrives at her aunt’s apartment, only to find that Martha is missing. Fiona is then left to her own devices in the City of Lights, with her limited French and impossible quantity of luggage—she packed as though she planned on hiking in the Alps, external frame backpack and all. (Whether this is a joke specifically about Canadians or visitors to France in general is anyone’s guess, as are many of the gags that are silly but often totally pointless.)

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ellair Market’s Jefferson sandwich— maple turkey, cranberry relish, cheddar cheese, lettuce and herb mayonnaise layered between two slices of pillowy French bread—is a lunch staple for many in town. But for Charlottesville native Mason Hereford, a quirky and imaginative chef with nostalgia for all things ’90s, it’s the sandwich that started it all (he ate two a week for a decade while he lived here). Hereford’s New Orleans sandwich shop, Turkey & The Wolf, known for its outrageously good bologna sandwiches, collard green melt, tomato sandwiches and a serious allegiance to Duke’s Mayo, was recently named the best new restaurant of 2017 by Bon Appétit magazine and landed on Food & Wine magazine’s top 10 best new restaurants of 2017 list.

Tilman’s, a cheese shop and wine bar, will open later this fall at 406 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall, in the space most recently occupied by My Chocolate Shoppe. More details to come, but Tilman’s will serve cheese and charcuterie, salads, sandwiches and snacks, plus wine and beer. It’s not all eat-in, though—if you can’t pause to sit in the sunny space that extends all the way out to Water Street, you can buy food and drink for later. Douglas Kim, the chef who helped craft the menu at Ten when the restaurant first launched, is opening his own restaurant, Jeju Noodle Bar, in New York City this fall, and it’s been named to Eater New York’s Most Anticipated Restaurants of Fall 2017 list. According to Eater, Kim, who previously cooked at Per Se and Chef ’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, will serve casual Korean ramyun at Jeju. Last week, Jake Busching Wines launched Orphan No. 1, an experimental bronze wine made from surplus pinot gris grapes that were treated as red wine grapes (the juice is fermented in contact with the skins). The wine is a collaboration between many wine experts in town, including Busching, Joy Ting (winemaker and head enologist at Michael Shaps Wineworks), Paul Ting (Joy’s husband, and a member of the Wine Guild of Charlottesville), Priscilla Martin (general manager and wine director at Tavola) and

Bellair Market’s Jefferson sandwich, with turkey, cheddar cheese, lettuce, herbed mayo and cranberry relish on a French roll, served as inspiration for Charlottesville native Mason Hereford when he opened the New Orleans-based Turkey and the Wolf restaurant in July 2016.

Will Curley (wine buyer for Ten Course Hospitality and manager at Brasserie Saison). The wine is available for purchase in select locations in town, including jakebuschingwines.com and through the Wine Guild. Four local vineyards—Early Mountain, Stinson, Veritas and Ankida Ridge—have teamed up to create the Commonwealth Collective, a collection of winemakers with their respective vintages using grapes unique to Virginia soil. Chopt Salad opened two weeks ago in the Barracks Road Shopping Center. The

company offers keep-you-full-until-dinner salads with handmade ingredients from local artisans such as MarieBette Café & Bakery. Ethically raised meats from Virginia are the specialty of JM Stock Provisions, which has a flagship location in Charlottesville and a store in Richmond. But according to JM Stock partner James Lum III, the company will shutter the Richmond location so it can focus on expanding its wholesale business to Charlottesville and Richmond restaurants.

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Culinary and cultural historian Michael Twitty discusses food history and genetics (he has traced his family’s genealogy from Africa and Europe to America), as part of the 11th annual Heritage Harvest Festival. Festival admission: free-$28, 10:30am. Monticello, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pwky. heritage harvest festival.com

This second annual 75-mile bike ride goes from Devils Backbone Brewery’s Outpost Tap Room in Lexington to its Basecamp Brewpub & Meadows in Roseland. Riders 21-plus can enjoy DB beer at the after-party. $70, 8:30am. Devils Backbone Outpost Tap Room, 50 Northwind Ln., Lexington. db brewingcompany.com

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isa County. At the tasting, be sure to ask Wallace about the origins of the varieties you sample: “Taste is good, but when you have a story, a recipe, it takes you back to some time and some place that is really good,” Wallace told C-VILLE back in July. Wallace also wrote The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, regarded as the book on year-round gardening in the region. So if you’re itching to start your own garden, or just try your hand at growing your own tomato plants, she’s the one to talk to (Wallace will also be signing books from 1:15-1:45pm and discussing seed saving and a four season garden).

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Seed saver, master gardener and Heritage Harvest Festival co-founder Ira Wallace will serve up more than 100 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and a few dozen varieties of heirloom peppers, melons and collards in the tasting tent from 10am-4pm on Saturday. Most of these varieties have been grown locally, by Wallace and other gardeners at Twin Oaks and Acorn communities in Lou-

Most people would be surprised to know that ginger beer “was never meant to be a soft drink,” says Georgia Dunn, brewer for Island Ginger Beer and a presenter at this year’s festival. When the British settled Jamestown, they quickly discovered that the water was not safe to drink, Dunn says. Water supplies, which contained a naturally occurring

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Taste Heirloom Wheat: Biscuits 1:30-2:30pm, Chef demonstration tent Scott Peacock, a chef famous for his biscuits (and a close friend of the first lady of Southern cooking, the late Edna Lewis) will use heirloom wheat to prepare a biscuit that, to his knowledge, hasn’t been prepared in centuries. To go along with the biscuit, “canning evangelist” Kevin West will make and serve a complementary preserve.

Virginia-based chef Joy Crump and senior editor and food columnist for The Atlantic Corby Kummer will talk about how small changes in food habits can help demolish food waste... something important to consider, because 40 percent of all food produced in the United States is wasted before it even gets to the table.

Michael Twitty The festival affords four chances to hear acclaimed culinary and cultural historian Michael Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. Twitty’s work focuses on the intersection of food, history, politics, economics, genealogy and race.

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amount of arsenic, were also contaminated with microorganisms that cause cholera and dysentery. While the settlers didn’t quite understand what was causing their illness, they did know that consuming alcohol— which killed many of the microorganisms— mostly kept the illness away. “Production of alcohol evolved as the primary means to preserve one’s health,” Dunn says. And beer specifically had long been used to solve problems with contaminated water, she says. Making beer requires just two basic ingredients—water and a form of starch/sugar—so just about anyone could do it, and the low alcohol level of beer allowed people to drink it whenever they needed to stay hydrated, says Dunn. “Adding ginger provided additional benefits, as it is naturally anti-microbial,” says Dunn. “It’s the one thing that creates a hostile environment for every other living organism but that our stomachs love and that we thrive on with all of its nutritional benefits.” By the mid-1800s, there were about 1,500 ginger beer breweries in the United States (not to mention the homebrewers out there). All of that changed with Prohibition. No longer able to produce the fermented, traditional ginger beer but still needing to sustain a business, brewers converted their equipment to make a soft drink, Dunn says, and ginger beer—or, ginger ale—“landed next to the Cokes and Pepsis in the grocery store.” But when Prohibition was lifted a generation later, the market was set; ginger beer in its initial form never returned. Most ginger beers on the market today are soft drink variations. “Prohibition beer,” as Dunn calls it. Chances are you’ll never think of your whiskey ginger or Moscow mule the same way again after hearing Dunn’s noon-1pm talk on “Drinking History: Jefferson and Ginger Beer.”

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I don’t usually recommend giving gifts with strings attached. On the contrary, I advise you to offer your blessings without having any expectations at all. Generosity often works best when the recipients are free to use it any way they see fit. In the coming weeks, however, I’m making an exception to my rule. According to my reading of the omens, now is a time to be specific and forceful about the way you’d like your gifts to be used. As an example of how not to proceed, consider the venture capitalist who donated $25,000 to the University of Colorado. All he got in return was a restroom in a campus building named after him. If you give away $25,000, Scorpio, make sure you at least get a whole building named after you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now that you’re getting a taste of what life would be like if you ruled the world, I’ll recommend a manual. It’s called How to Start Your Own Country, by Erwin Strauss. You could study it for tips on how to obtain national sovereignty, how to recruit new citizens and how to avoid paying taxes to yourself. (P.S.: You can make dramatic strides toward being the boss of yourself and your destiny even without forming your own nation.)

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Will a routine trip to carry out an errand take you on a detour to the suburbs of the promised land? Will you worry you’re turning into a monster, only to find the freakishness is just a phase that you had to pass through on your way to unveiling some of your dormant beauty? Will a provocative figure from the past lead you on a productive wild goose chase into the future? These are some of the possible storylines I’ll be monitoring as I follow your progress in the coming weeks.

ropes and other props. I see you as having a kinship with de Ville in the coming weeks, Capricorn. I’d love to see you embark on a big adventure that would involve you trying on the role of a pioneer. This feat wouldn’t necessarily require strenuous training and physical courage. It might be more about daring creativity and moral courage.

Aries (March 21-April 19): You’re half-intoxicated by your puzzling adventures—and halfbewildered, as well. Sometimes you’re spinning out fancy moves, sweet tricks and surprising gambits. On other occasions you’re stumbling and bumbling and mumbling. Are you really going to keep up this rhythm? I hope so, because your persistence in navigating through the challenging fun could generate big rewards. Like what, for example? Like the redemptive transformation of a mess into an asset.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Science fiction proposes that there are alternate worlds alongside the visible one—hidden, yes, but perhaps accessible with the right knowledge or luck. In recent years, maverick physicists have given the idea more credibility, theorizing that parallel universes exist right next to ours. Even if these hypothetical places aren’t literally real, they serve as an excellent metaphor. Most of us are so thoroughly embedded in our own chosen niche that we are oblivious to the realities that other people inhabit. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Aquarius, because it’s a favorable time to tap into those alternate, parallel, secret, unknown or unofficial realms. Wake up to the rich sources that have been so close to you, but so far away.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): “Free your mind and your ass will follow,” sings funk pioneer George Clinton in his song “Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts.” And what’s the best way to free your mind? Clinton advises you to “Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind.” That’s because the ideas you obsess on will eventually grow into the experiences you attract into your life. “Good thoughts bring forth good fruit,” he croons, while “Bullshit thoughts rot your meat.” Any questions, Taurus? According to my astrological analysis, this is the best possible counsel for you to receive right now.

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200 W. Market St., Charlottesville, VA 22902-5027 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Wine & Beer On Premises & Mixed Beverages license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Chris Humphrey, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be Submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing Date of the first two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered At www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

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Anonymous Egg Donors Needed The Reproductive Medicine & Surgery Center of Virginia is looking for young women interested in helping couples who are unable to conceive using their own eggs. To be an anonymous egg donor, we need applicants who are: • Between 21 years - 31 years old • In good general health • Within normal weight range

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JUDICIAL SALE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Pursuant to Decrees of Sale, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale pursuant to Section 58.1-3965 et. seq. of the Code of Virginia, on the 2nd day of October, 2017, at 12:30 p.m., at 1 Main Street, Madison, Virginia 22727, on the front steps of the Courthouse of the Circuit Court of the County of Madison, Virginia, the following described properties for payment of delinquent taxes: PROPERTY OWNER

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Region Ten Community Services Board

Community Services Associate II/ Carlton Road

Transitional residential program providing education and support services to individuals recovering from serious mental illness seeks a dynamic and dedicated candidate. Be part of a team assisting individuals with apartment and community living skills. The CSA II provider offers instruction in daily living skills, provides assistance obtaining community resources, monitoring of psychiatric and behavioral status of residents and provides medication management. This position provides an opportunity to help people in recovery. Applicant must at a minimum meet certification as Qualified Paraprofessional – Mental Health QPP-MH) . $13.15 hourly.

Case Manager Wellness Recovery Specialist

Join the Wellness Recovery Team! Duties include therapeutic interventions, facilitating groups and activities designed to enhance coping skills and social interactions among the residents, developing ISPs, and coordinating appropriate follow up upon discharge. Schedule is flexible and includes days, evenings, some weekends and holidays. Qualifications include current QMHP status, great enthusiasm for consumer contact, very recovery and person centered, and enjoys being a part of a team that does remarkable work and achieves amazing results. $40,036.37 annually.

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John & Retha Alderton Tax Map Parcel No. 41 46K

$10,000.00

Thelma Bibbs, et al Tax Map Parcel No. 62 14A

$57,000.00

Alvin Cheatham Tax Map Parcel No. 64 40C

$8000.00

Donald MacConkey Tax Map Parcel Nos. 35A 1 2 8 & 35A 1 2 9

$15,500.00

Malinda Strother a/k/a Melinda Tax Map Parcel No. 50 108

$8,000.00

Terms of Sale: CASH. Ten Per Cent (10%) bidder’s cash deposit of the sales price will be required, with balance due 14 days from entry of Decree Confirming Sale. Property to be conveyed by Special Warranty of Title, free and clear of all liens except 2017 real estate taxes, which will be prorated. Sale subject to confirmation by the Circuit Court of Madison County. Property is sold AS IS. The Special Commissioner makes no representation as to the properties actual acreage, boundaries, access, suitability for development, or any other representation of any kind. For information: Refer to tax maps available for inspection in Clerk’s Office of Madison County Circuit Court. For further information contact: Sean D. Gregg The Law Offices of Sean D. Gregg, PLC 111 East Main Street P. O. Box 1300, Orange, Virginia 22960 - (540) 672-7070

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FORECLOSURE SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE AT PUBLIC AUCTION

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28.5 ACRES OF VACANT LAND IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA Albemarle Tax Map No. 11400-00-00-02200 SALE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE ALBEMARLE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURTHOUSE In execution of a Credit Line Deed of Trust, being dated May 26, 2010 and recorded on May 26, 2010, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court in Albemarle County, Virginia, in Deed Book 3885, page 598, the undersigned as Trustee under said Credit Line Deed of Trust, will offer for sale at public auction the parcel listed below: All that certain lot or parcel of land, together with the improvements thereon and appurtenances thereunto appertaining, in Albemarle County, Virginia, containing 28 ½ acres, more or less, shown as Parcel 114-22 on the Tax Map of Albemarle County. BEING the same property conveyed to Nolan L. Saylor by deed from Raymond L. Saylor, also known as Lafayette Raymond Saylor, dated September 30, 2002, recorded September 30, 2002 in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Albemarle County, Virginia, in Deed Book 2280, page 505. Albemarle County Tax Map # 11400-00-00-02200 (the “Property”).

Our In-Home Services Program provides staff to work one-on-one to implement individualized service plan goals. Staff work with the individuals in their own homes as well as engaging them in community activities. We have the following In-Home Direct Support Staff vacancies available: Crozet: Part-time, 20 hours a week (M-F 5-7:30 p.m. and 6-8 hrs on a weekend day.) Charlottesville: Part-time, 15 hours per week (M-F 3:30 - 6:30.) We also have Direct Support Professional openings in our Residential Programs To see a full listing of all of our positions, and to learn more about what The Arc is doing to support our community, please visit our web site at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/ In addition to offering a challenging and rewarding experience The Arc also offers competitive compensation, paid training, and for full time staff an attractive benefits package which includes health, dental and vision insurance, as well as life and long-term disability insurance, among other offerings. We encourage you to apply on-line at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/job-vacancies/. You are also welcome to visit our offices at 509 Park Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 to apply in person, or fax them to 434-977-7864. The Arc of the Piedmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

JUDICIAL SALE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Pursuant to Decrees of Sale entered in the following matters, the undersigned Special Commissioner will offer for sale pursuant to Section 58.1-3965 et. seq. of the Code of Virginia, on the 2nd day of October 2017, at 11:00 a.m., on the front steps of the Courthouse of the Circuit Court of the County of Greene, Virginia, the following described properties for payment of delinquent taxes: Property Owner Linda Allen Tax Map Parcel No. 48-2-47

Current Appraised Value $20,000.00

Alban & Betty Berry Tax Map Parcel No. 36-2-B

$10,000.00

John & Celia Durrer Tax Map Parcel No.59-A-8 and 59-A-9

$20,000.00

Harvey & Joann Ellinger Tax Map Parcel No. 37C-3-97

$162,000.00

L&L Corporation Tax Map Parcel No. 49A-23-M-17

$20,000.00

Terms of Sale: CASH. Ten Per Cent (10%) Bidder’s Deposit will be required, with balance due 14 days from entry of Decree Confirming Sale. Property to be conveyed by Special Warranty of Title, free and clear of all liens except 2017 real estate taxes, which will be prorated. Sale subject to confirmation by the Circuit Court of Greene County. Properties are sold AS IS. The Special Commissioner makes no representation as to the actual acreage, boundaries, access, suitability for development, or any other representation of any kind. For information: Refer to tax maps available for inspection in Clerk’s Office of Greene County Circuit Court. For further information contact:

Sean D. Gregg The Law Offices of Sean D. Gregg, PLC 111 E. Main Street P. O. Box 1300 Orange, Virginia 22960 540-672-7070 (phone) 540-672-7077 (facsimile)

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Nancy R. Schliching, Trustee 530 E. Main Street P.O. Box 2057 Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-220-6108 NRS@lplaw.com

Are you passionate about applying your skills to ensure the greatest quality of life possible for fellow community members in need? If so The Arc urges you to consider opportunities with us. Our mission is to ensure full community inclusion and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the provision of high quality services and advocacy.

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TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit of the greater of $10,000 or 10% of the winning bid, shall be paid at the sale by cashier’s check made payable to Bidder (to be assigned to Trustee if Bidder is successful), with the balance upon delivery of a trustee’s deed within 30 days of sale. If the initial deposit is less than 10% of the winning bid, then the successful bidder’s deposit MUST be increased to 10% of the winning bid by cashier’s check or wired funds within three (3) business days. Settlement shall be held within 30 days after the date of sale unless otherwise postponed at the sole discretion of the Trustee. Sale is subject to the covenants, conditions, restrictions, rights of way, and easements, if any, contained in the deeds and other documents forming the chain of title to the property. Property is sold “AS IS, WHERE IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS” and “WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTIES.” TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT. The deposit shall be applied to the credit of successful bidder at settlement; or, in the event of failure to complete settlement within the time set forth after the date of sale, in accordance with the terms of sale, the deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs of sale, including Trustee’s fee, and the Property shall be resold at the cost and expense of the defaulting Purchaser. Risk of loss or damage to the Property shall be borne by successful bidder from the time of auctioneer’s strikedown at the sale. Purchaser shall pay all settlement fees, title examination charges, title insurance premiums, and recording costs. Current real estate property taxes will be prorated at closing as of date of sale. Rollback taxes, if any, will be the responsibility of the Purchaser. THE TRUSTEE RESERVES THE RIGHT: (i) to waive the deposit requirements; (ii) to extend the period of time within which the Purchaser is to make full settlement; (iii) to withdraw the Property from sale at any time prior to the termination of the bidding; (iv) to keep the bidding open for any length of time; (v) to reject all bids; and (vi) to postpone or continue this sale from time to time, such notices of postponement or setting over shall be in a manner deemed reasonable by the Trustee. Announcements made on day of sale take precedence over all other advertised terms and conditions. Employees, directors and officers of Farm Credit of the Virginias, ACA, and their immediate family and companies in which they have an interest are not eligible under federal regulations to purchase this property at foreclosure. FOR INFORMATION SEE: www.lplaw.com/foreclosures

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CLASSIFIEDS VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE IN RE: TRUSTEES OF THE UNION CHAPEL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE WOOLEN MILLS

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Clinical Trials ESETT Seizure Study Repeated or prolonged seizures may be life-threatening emergencies. Patients presenting to the UVA Emergency Department with seizures that do not stop after first-line drugs will be given one of three drugs commonly used to treat continuing seizures. The purpose of the study is to see which of the drugs works best. This is a public disclosure notice. Patients may opt out of study participation or may discontinue being in the study at any time. For full information go to www.esett.org. Principal Investigator: J. Stephen Huff, MD. UVA Emergency Medicine and UVA Neurology seizure@virginia.edu IRB-HSR #18470

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this cause is to request that this Court appoint the Petitioners, Dimitra A. Costan, Preston Syme, and Francis McQ. Lawrence (“Petitioners”) as Church Trustees of the Union Chapel of Charlottesville Woolen Mills pursuant to Virginia Code Section 57-8, and to authorize and approve the gift and conveyance of the Woolen Mills Chapel property located at 1819 East Market Street in the City of Charlottesville to the Woolen Mills Chapel Foundation, a Virginia Nonstock Corporation formed for the architectural and historical preservation of that Property. An Affidavit of Publication having been made and filed showing that the unknown parties in the above-entitled cause are those who may have been or currently are members of the congregation of the Union Chapel of Charlottesville Woolen Mills. Upon consideration, this Order of Publication is granted, and it is ORDERED that the above-named unknown parties shall appear here on or before the 17th day of October, 2017, after proper publication of this Order, to protect their interests in this cause. Entered:August 21, 2017 JUDGE, Richard E. Moore

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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE TINA W. ROEBUCK, Plaintiff

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V. JEAN ALEXANDER, et al, Defendants

Openin mer, 2017;

AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the above styled suite is to obtain partition of real property located in the County of Albemarle, Virginia. The property that is the subject to this action was conveyed to Annie Thompkins by Deed from P.M. Jones and Sallie M. Jones dates April 19, 1900 in the Clerk’s Office of this court in the Deed Book 136, page 231. The property that is the subject to this action is described as all that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the County of Albemarle, Virginia, situated on State Route 712 (Plank Road) containing 5.637 acres, more or less, as shown on a survey of S.L. Key Incorporated Land Surveyors & Planners, dated May 18, 2007, attached to the Motion for Judgment as Exhibit A (hereinafter the “Property”). And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the following Defendants are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Jean Alexander, 212 Dean Park Road, Jackson, GA 30233; Zebedee Whindleton, Jr., 3106 Bradley Circle, Marina CA 93933-3303; Nolan Saylor, 1006 Maple Avenue, Rockville, MD 20851; James L. Saylor, Jr., 4815 Somerville Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1039; M. Harriet Saylor c/o James L. Saylor, Jr., 4815 Somerville Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1039; Lucille Saylor, 105 Barbourville Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32301; Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132; Brenda Lee Robinson Gibbons, c/o Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132; Anna Marlene Robinson-Withersty, c/o Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, Mckeesport, PA 15132.

ENTERED THIS 10 DAY OF August, 2017 Jennifer Shifflett Deputy CLERK OF COURT

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I ask for this: William M. Marshall P.O. Box 1068 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 VSB #17726 Phone: 434-295-7113 FAX: 434-977-2874

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And it further appearing from the affidavit filed according to law that the Plaintiff has used due diligence to ascertain all of the owners of the property but has been unable to do so and that there are or may be persons unknown who claim an interest in property, namely the heirs, devisees, successors and/or assigns in and to the title and interest of Annie Thompkins it is therefore ORDERED that the above non-residents and any persons claiming an interest in the property which is the subject to this action appear on or before the 5th day of October , 2017, at 9 A.M., in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests.

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