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“Their car broke down in Philadelphia yesterday and they had to pay an outrageous amount to get home‌Even if someone loaned them a vehicle [it] would be helpful‌I hope you will help, I’m running out of people/places to ask.â€? - family friend Carol Vorous (540) 305-6236
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Martiez battles rejection in life & death struggle Family in dire need of reliable vehicle for trips to Philadelphia hospital bedside
Martiez at music class during his last year at Ressie Jeffries in 2010. Courtesy Photo-Ressie staff
By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report We have been distressed to hear that 14-year-old Martiez RowellBradshaw, for whom the Front Royal Town Council declared an official “Day� in support of his battle to survive heart disease culminating with a March heart transplant, is struggling
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for his life as his family continues to struggle to be at his side in the Philadelphia hospital where he remains. Martiez, a past student at Ressie Jeffries Elementary and current student at WCMS, became only the second youth to receive an artificial heart on Jan 26. He then received what was to be his permanent heart, a human transplant on March 27. However we have been informed by Ressie library assistant and family friend Carol Vorous that Martiez’s body has been rejecting his new heart, leading to increased doses of anti-rejection drugs administered in an attempt to save his life. “They will do another biopsy around May 3 to determine if the drugs have helped or if he is at the same stage of rejection,� Vorous told us on April 25. “I honestly don’t know what they will be able to do for him. I have tried to research this to gain a little more knowledge, but there is absolutely no information in regards to what happens after a body rejects the heart. None of the sites say whether he will be placed on the donor list again or where they go from there. “The other thing I want to ask is if you would be willing to put something in the paper asking anyone
in this community to donate a reliable car for his mom to go back and forth to the hospital. Their car broke down in Philadelphia yesterday and they had to pay an outrageous amount of money to get back home this morning,� Vorous wrote us on April 25. “I have asked several places in town and have been turned down. Most of the places want them to pay half the rental cost, which they cannot afford. Someone donated a car to them when this first happened, but it had something wrong with it that they couldn’t afford to get
fixed. Even if someone loaned them a vehicle to use for the next couple of months would be helpful. It just needs to run and be reliable, nothing leaking or broken. I hope you will help me, I’m running out of people/ places to ask.� There you have it people – we are confident someone will hear this family’s plea for help as they stand with their oldest child in his battle for life. Carol Vorous may be contacted by e-mail at cvorous@ wcps. k12.va.us or phone at (540) 3056236.
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County’s newest small business alliance plans for future In uncertain times with more national competition, ‘LOCAL’ is community
FRIBA’s membership says a resounding NO. But it would seem the ultimate answer rests in the hands of Front Royal and Warren County’s citizens and the dollars they take into the marketplace. FRIBA hopes that armed with the kind of information presented on April 23, local citizens will see the benefit of focusing their spending habits on local and independent businesses with their roots, like their customers, in Warren County and the Northern Shenandoah Valley.
Bill Sirbaugh and Jennifer Keck discuss strategies for small businesses in the modern marketplace. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report The Front Royal Independent Business Alliance (FRIBA) held its first post-organizational meeting at the business of one of its members, George McIntyre’s Apple House in Linden on April 20. McIntyre provided dinner and with other Steering Committee members summarized the group’s purpose and hopes for its membership. Those hopes can be summarized as promoting the small, local independent business community as they fight both an ongoing, four-year, recessionary economic downturn and an influx of corporate chain businesses courted and prevalent in the 522 North Corridor and eventually – who knows, perhaps right across the street from the Apple House if commercial development plans for that area pan out once the recession eases. “Buy Local; Eat Local; Play Local; Live Local,” the group’s informational pamphlet boldly reads on its cover. Promotion of one specific business group’s – small and independent – interests is not the only rationale for emphasizing the importance of buy-
ing local in the public’s mind. Speaker Bill Sirbaugh, of the federally-sponsored Lord Fairfax Small Business Center, elaborated on some of the reasons. Statistics indicate that small and local businesses provides 80 percent of the jobs in America. That is even more true for Warren County, Sirbaugh said, where “89.3 percent of businesses in Warren County have less than 20 employees.” And as telling for local economies here or anywhere, Sirbaugh added that for every dollar spent at a truly locally-owned business, 40 percent more of that dollar stays in that community than if that dollar was spent at an out-of-state, corporate chain. “A hundred dollars is nice round number,” Sirbaugh said to make his point. “For every $100 spent at, say a Target or Wal-mart, $30 stays in the community. For every $100 spent in a locally-owned small business, $40 more stays here. That is $70 versus $30 on every $100 spent that stays in the local economy when spent at an independent, small, local business.” Of 6,400 business licenses issued in Front Royal and Warren County, 90 percent are issued to small business, yet increasingly those small indepen-
The FRIBA Steering Committee, from left, Apple House’s George McIntyre, Royal Oak Computers Craig Laird, Weathervane Graphic’s Weathely Boehmer, Tourism & Business Marketing consultant Jennifer Keck, and Weichert Realty’s Andi Robinson. dents are finding it difficult to survive in the face of a one-two punch of first, less capital in the hands of the vast majority of the spending public; and second, more of what money the public does spend being attracted to national chain stores and restaurants. “We’re just asking the town and county ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ … we better start looking out for Warren County and ourselves,” the Apple House’s McIntyre told the FRIBA crowd after feeding them. “Small business people need to stand up and speak up … we need to get on the same page in this community.” One of the goals stated by both those two and other FRIBA steering committee speakers, including Craig Laird and Jennifer Keck, was a constructive partnership with other lo-
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Barber Shop not the bad guy I would like to make a comment on your Don’t Park at Richards Barbershop while you go into Subway article. I am not an employee now but I worked for Richard for years and the parking was a problem 10 years ago. Subway chose to lease out half of their parking lot (to ice cream stand), I’m sure to make some more money, all while leaving their customers less room to park, so they started parking in our lot. Well imagine you would like on your lunch break to come get a haircut only to find 8 cars in the barber shop parking area. Would you stop? I seriously doubt it and I know this because I barely made any money at those times. We all used to sit out on the front porch of the Barber shop and we would kindly ask people to not park there because IF WE DON’T CUT A HEAD OF HAIR WE MAKE NOTHING! YES NOTHING, SIT THERE MAKING ZERO UNTIL A PERSON WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR! Can you imagine you could be do-
ing well if only you had the use of your parking lot? There have been signs up and we tried to be nice for years and let the “Oh, I’ll only be in Subway for 10 minutes continue to park there. Have you ever seen that Subway during lunch hours? YOU DO NOT GET OUT IN 10 MIN … Well, I think it’s all wrong. I feel sorry for this Mother of a bus of kids but she broke the law for 10 minutes. What is it about a sign that says no parking unless you’re going to the barber shop so hard to understand? I’ll tell you, its because there is nobody standing there in the lot enforcing it. There’s been signs stating what’s allowed for years. She chose to break the property owner’s law. Why do you not feel this way? What you printed sounds like the owner should be viewed as a horrific jerk that has no heart, even for a bus load of children. Never at any time should this woman have been given an “Oh, I’m so sorry for you and all your children” break ... So go ahead and break the law since you have so many kids. Maybe she should seriously think what laws she breaks while she is in the company of so
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On Friday, April 20, at approximately 4:29 a.m., Warren County Sheriff ’s Office and Fauquier County Sheriff ’s Office deputies responded to a report of a stabbing at 3163 Freezeland Road, Linden, Va. The victim was identified as Christopher Stephens, age 22, of 3163 Freezeland Road. Stephens sustained approximately 30 stab and or laceration wounds from the assault. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital and was listed in stable condition. The victim and the suspect were known to each other and the incident was not a random act. The suspect, Joshua Profitt, age 29, of 8389 Woodline Court, Manassas, Va. was arrested later that day by the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office. Profitt has been charged with malicious assault and is currently held in the Warren County Jail without bond. The case is still under active investigation. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office Investigation Division at (540) 635-7100 or online at www.warrencountysheriff.org under the crime tip section. (From a release)
many children and I believe when she broke the law and insinuated that her children could possibly be in danger because of car seats and had to make a few trips, give me a break. SHE CHOSE TO BREAK A PRIVATE PROPERTY LAW, GOT TOWED AND SHE’S THE POOR MOTHER WITH SO MANY KIDS. Well, Richards barbershop did nothing wrong and neither did the towing company, they did their job. What someone should be doing is asking Subway why they continue to allow the ice cream truck to take up most of their parking, not caring at all about where their customers have to park or who else it might affect. I think what has been done to the barber shop and the towing company is down right wrong. Angie E. Cates (by e-mail, no address) (Managing editor’s note: we remind readers that the towing incident described in the story referenced here occurred at night after the barber shop was closed for business and the parking lot was empty other than for Mrs. Thomas’s van.) Towing methods, fees are at issue Dear Editor, In the last couple weeks since the initial story published in your paper, I have received phone calls and been stopped all over town by people sharing their knowledge of the parties involved in my daughter’s towing incident. In a town where everyone knows everyone and everyone else’s business, it’s easy to understand. I would like to clarify a few things if I may. For me, this was never about the barber shop itself as much as the towing company. When she called me saying “Mom, I need to pay $75 right now or they are taking they van”, I was infuriated, as any involved mother/grandmother would be. I couldn’t believe the rate they were charging her just to put the van back on the ground, having never actually moved it. To me, that rate was just plain wrong, highway robbery. In the last couple years I used towing services and was only charged $50 for an actual tow from one place to another. I myself went down to the barber shop after this event, and there was only one sign, the one on the building. He has since added some more in the wake of this. BUT to me that one sign was misleading, making it appear as if the spots next to the building were the ones reserved and not the whole lot. I advised my daughter to call the police that night and find out how legal the whole event was and the fee she was
forced to pay. The driver that didn’t just ignore her as much as admitted he watched her park, telling her they sit down there watching and some people even wave at them when parking. I feel like she was taken advantage of. From the fact that they saw and were on her in minutes, to my grandchildren crying, to the $75 fee, which seems almost like extortion when her vehicle never left the lot, to me just defies basic common decency. I bumped into Richard, the barber shop owner at another business after all this, and tried to ask him a question. Before I could finish the sentence he interrupted me going on and on about the businesses on either side of him. I kept asking him to please let me finish, finally he let me ask, “Had you been the tow truck driver on Good Friday when my daughter parked there and seen her come out with all those children and the three-year-old screaming “my bus”, would you have charged her $75 to put it back on the ground?” To which he smirked and said, “Yes”. I said “that’s indecent – that is so not decent”, and walked away. The day this paper put the story on the shelf, I was across the street at another business while another woman was being charged $75 and her vehicle wasn’t even loaded, just parked behind, this time involving the local authorities. It bothers me as a citizen and a mother that this is going on. I never knew until my daughter parked there or I would have warned her never to do so. I have lived here all my life and am still confounded at just the basic indecency of the whole matter, and that apparently it’s been going on for a while. When TV 3 ran their story, it mostly concentrated on the barber shop and my daughter. But I was happy to hear for myself that the fee she actually overpaid is apparently not legal. Hopefully others who faced this will report it to the state as well. I am glad she wrote you guys, and glad it has become public. If certain aspects of it can’t be prevented, at least it warned others. That is all she wanted to do, was warn people. I just hope it hasn’t given any visitors to our small town the wrong impression town offsetting the friendliness one usually encounters. Brenda Flint Front Royal Barber Shop – no choice? Editor, My name is Katrina Burkhart and I am a barber at Richards Barber Shop. I have been employed there 11 years. After reading the article entitled the
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Letters wrong place to park after a day in the park by Jonathan Bennett, I decided I need to give a few comments. Over the years I cannot tell you how many times I have heard clients remark they were going to come get a haircut but the lot was packed and thought we were busy. The cars in lot were Subway customers because I was not busy. If I’m not cutting hair then I am not making money. It is a piece work trade. We have many clients who like to run in and get a quick haircut on their lunch break but sometimes they cannot find anywhere to park. Also after hours Subway customers eat in the shop lot and throw their trash out in our parking lot only for us to have to clean up the next morning. There is no trashcan supplied by Subway on that side of the building. As Front Royal grows, this problem was becoming worse and with the heavy tourist season approaching my employer really had no choice but to do this. I have witnessed many times our lot completely full and not one car belonged to a client of the shop. It up-sets me that the article made this barber shop look bad when we were not the ones breaking any law. Most of the time if someone gets towed we don’t even know it has happened. Now I actually have people telling me they will never use this business. Why?? If Mrs. Thomas had not had 6 children with her I bet this would not have been a big story. Yes, I feel bad when someone has been towed but what choice do we have? Katrina Burkhart Warren County What’s the Big Deal? Duncan replies to questions Editor: I have read with interest some of the comments posted following articles in the various Front Royal–Warren County community newspapers about issues discussed at the Front Royal Town Council candidates forum sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. At that forum, various candidates referenced the research I have conducted over the past 3 years about the extensive financial outlays that Town taxpayers have made for water and sewer infrastructure as well as the significant future costs needed to maintain and upgrade this capital infrastructure. Some of those posting comments have essentially asked two questions that I’d like to address: Question 1: What’s the big deal about Town water and sewer expenditures that has raised the ire of some Town taxpayers about the actions of the current Town Mayor and Council
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and generated the discussion at the candidates forum? Answer: The big deal about water and sewer expenditures, based on my extensive research of Town budget and other Council records, is that from 1960 to 2010, taxpayers living
or located within the Town of Front Royal limits have paid $49,661,798 or 93.1% of the capital infrastructure costs for water and sewer provided in Warren County. Although the Town Council has extended water and sewer service to allow major new in-
dustrial and commercial businesses and jobs to be located in the County, Warren County taxpayers outside the Town boundaries have only paid $3,695,374.95 or 6.9% of the capital costs. The monthly fees paid by users funds the operating costs of the system, not the major capital infrastructure costs such as for the water treatment plant, sewer treatment plant, construction of major trunk lines, and bonding costs. While a small portion of sewer and water connection fees are used to support capital infrastructure expenses, monthly
water and sewer service use fees do not. The Town Council has long been a good partner in working with the County to attract new business and industry to the County, both within the limits of the Town and outside the limits of Town. However, when new businesses or residents get added outside the Town limits, Warren County’s tax base benefits but not the Town’s. Therefore, when the Town pays for infrastructure that serves businesses outside the Town, there is no offsetting revenue that comes
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ATLANTA – The Holiday Inn & Suites Front Royal Blue Ridge Shadows in Front Royal, Virginia received the IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) 2011 Torchbearer Award, the company’s most prestigious award. The Torchbearer Award was presented during the 2011 IHG Americas Investors & Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Oct. 24–26, 2011. The Holiday Inn & Suites Front Royal Blue Ridge Shadows is one of only 116 properties within the Americas chosen from the IHG system of more than 4,400 hotels for achieving the highest levels of excellence in all aspects of operation - from quality to customer satisfaction. A 2011 Torchbearer trophy, the company’s symbol of excellence, will be on permanent display at the hotel. “We strive every day to provide every one of our guests with the best possible stay, meeting or event,” said Brent C Jackson, General Manager of the Holiday Inn & Suites Front Royal Blue Ridge Shadows. “We are honored that IHG recognized the efforts … I am very proud of the staff of the Holiday Inn & Suites Front Royal Blue Ridge Shadows and I am excited to celebrate this award with each and every one of them.” The hotel also announced another honor from IHG, the selection of Mabel Delgado as 2011 Best of the Best Executive Housekeeper of the Year Award. Nominees were selected based on performance that goes above and beyond normal job responsibilities by providing outstanding and unique service to the property, to the guests and to the community. “It is with great pleasure that I recognize Mabel Delgado, for providing one of the best guest experiences in our industry,” said Kirk Kinsell, president, the Americas, IHG. Nearly 5,000 franchise owners, operators and company officials attended the 2011 IHG Americas Investors & Leadership Conference. (From a release)
Most presidents welcome the company of a dog in the White House. The reason is simple: every Commanderin-Chief needs at least one faithful friend in Washington. For our current president, that loyal pal is Bo, a black and white Portuguese water dog the Obamas added to the family in 2009. Trained on the Wall Street Journal, Bo has since become a regular companion to the president, hanging around the Oval Office, running through the West Wing sniffing out hostile senators, and flying high on Air Force One. But after November, will Bo still reign as Top Dog or will he be deposed by some fresh Republican pup? When campaigning began last year for the 2012 election, some of the GOP candidates’ dogs must have been wagging their tails at the prospect of Bo becoming a one-term presi-dential pet. But one by one, the Republican contenders fell off the political radar, leaving Mitt Romney to tackle the Obama White House. However, with no dog currently in the Romney household, it’s uncertain if there will be a Massachusetts mutt to run Bo out of town in November. The former governor may have a tough time convincing any canine to join team Romney after an old tale of possible animal abuse recently resurfaced. It seems during a family vacation back in the 1980s, the Romneys stuffed an ill, family dog, Seamus, into a carrier atop their car as they set out for Canada. While the story gives new meaning to the term “putting on the dog,” the incident really just illustrated that Romney was clearly a supporter of the controversial No Dog Left Behind Act. Seamus proved to be a brave road warrior and survived the ordeal, but Romney can definitely forget about that PETA vote, now. And he can expect Democrats to regurgitate the incident ad nauseum through November, instead of focusing on more pressing issues like predicting what breed of dog he will bring to the White
House, if elected. I think the perfect match for Romney would be a Great Dane, since both are tall, somewhat dignified, and even-tempered beasts. And in the past, Great Danes were used to hunt boars. So given Romney’s successful pursuit and disposal of Rick Santorum, it would be an ideal choice. If Mr. Romney thinks he has a serious shot at the White House, he would be well advised to study the history of previous presidential pooches that have left their mark in the Oval Office. While Mr. Obama may be a good role model on how to treat dogs, Franklin Roosevelt was every dog’s dream. No one had a better President/First Dog relationship than FDR and his Scottish terrier, Fala, who moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 1940 and accompanied the president everywhere. Fala was spoiled rotten and lived better than much of the country which was still suffering from the tail end of the Great Depression. Every morning, for instance, Fala would receive a bone that arrived on Roosevelt’s breakfast tray. (This is in marked contrast to Bill Clinton who spent much of his second term in the “dog house,” and probably didn’t get many early morning treats from Hillary). Along these lines, Fala slept in a special chair at the foot of the presidential bed. Clinton should have been so lucky. Away from the White House, Fala often accompanied the president on his travels whether by train, boat, car or plane. Although he rarely traveled by aircraft, Roosevelt actually was the first president to fly while in office. I’m not sure how many flights Fala took with Roosevelt, but you can be certain his faithful friend would have been lovingly secured in a seat beside the president, and not strapped to a wing. (Nick Thomas has written features for more than 150 magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor. He can be reached at alongtheselines@gmx. com)
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townspeople have is that while Warren County taxpayers within Town limits pay the exact same tax rate to Warren County as Warren County taxpayers outside the Town limits to support County services, Town taxpayers continue to be asked to pay a “Town Council” share (and the current Council has been agreeing to provide this extra share) for library and economic development services, even though Town taxpayers have already paid their share as Warren County taxpayers and no higher level of service is being provided to Warren County citizens within the
Engle’s Angle: A Pint for you. A Cookie for me. By Kevin S. Engle Warren County Report
My probation officer suggested I do something nice. Something to “give back”. Something to impress the judge. So I gave blood, and no, I didn’t play rugby. I did it, but I didn’t like it. Sure, giving blood is a good thing to do, but so is going to the dentist and how many of us enjoy that? First of all, someone pricks your finger with a jet-powered stapler-like device. They say it’s to test your iron level. I think they just want to see if you can take it. I had tears. Next, you have to answer all those embarrassing questions about your sex life as it relates to animals, with individuals of the same and different gender, and with those who have sex “professionally”. At least you can do it on a computer, in private, without having to give away all your secrets to someone you’ve known for about 30 seconds. Of course, if you answer the wrong way, then you get to discuss those questions in more detail with your new friend. After that, they take your blood pressure and pulse. Painless, but for me, it’s a problem. They want your pulse to be above fifty. Mine usually isn’t. Of course, if they’d taken it when they jammed that staple gun into my finger, it would’ve been close to a hundred and fifty. My low pulse means I need a special exemption. “Do you exercise?” they ask me. “Yes, my pulse is normally low.” They do a brief huddle and decide to let me continue. And now it’s time for the business at hand. And that requires a needle. Needles don’t bother me, unless they’re headed my way. At least my veins are easy to find. No poking, prodding or digging is necessary. Being
the baby I am, I don’t watch. Some blood takers are better at this than others, and those are the ones I prefer. With them, the needle is in before I know it. But others aren’t quite so gentle. I’m afraid they’re going to break the needle off in my arm. And that’s when it hits me. What if I fall asleep, and the person taking my blood does the same thing? Will I ever wake up? I fight the urge to nod off. My life may depend on it. I overheard an interesting conversation. “How’d you do?” one guy asked his friend. “Four minutes 34 seconds.” “That’s good. But not as good as three fifty-eight.” “Dang! I’ll get you next time.” I didn’t realize for some, this is a competition. Speed donating. We humans like to compete don’t we? I’ll pass on that one. And get this. I can now earn rewards for donating blood. Yup. Just like I accumulate frequent flyer miles, or gas points at the grocery store, I can do the same thing at the blood bank. I’m sorry, but that just seems a little strange. There is one good thing about all of this. The cookies. Your reward for donating is cookies, or pretzels if you prefer, and juice. I like cookies. And you get one of those little red stickers telling everyone you donated. That’s cool. As I walked out the door, I felt a sense of accomplishment. I had done a good deed. My probation officer would be proud. But I was ashamed of myself. Eight minutes and two seconds. I can do better than that.
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Town boundaries vs. those outside the Town boundaries. In years past when the Town Council and County Board split the cost of many services and the Town population was about half of the County population, this meant that Town taxpayers picked up 75% of the cost of these services (100% of the Town “share” plus 50% of the County “share”) while those in the County only paid 25%. While the percentages no longer disadvantage Town taxpayers as greatly as in the past, the question remains, since everyone pays the same tax rate to the
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A tow truck lurks off alley, behind the barber shop building at 524 N. Royal Ave. By Jonathan Bennett Warren County Report Two weeks ago, this paper published an article about a local woman having her van almost towed and the events that followed. In the subsequent days, more information has come our way regarding the towing company in question, their methods, and the people on the receiving end of those methods. It’s not uncommon for a news story to go in a different direction from the one it might have started in. In the first article, the focus was on Christina Thomas and the ordeal she and six of her seven children encountered as a result of parking illegally and the manner in which they were treated thereafter.
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Since the first article, some new characters have emerged in this stillunfolding play, and we feel obligated to go where the facts take us, taking care not to besmudge anyone’s character or livelihood while maintaining an accurate presentation of those facts. Setting aside the inconvenience and animosity that’s become associated with the parking lot at 524 North Royal Avenue, there appears to be activity contradicting applicable legal codes at both the town and state level being conducted in plain sight by C & J Towing. Shenk’s Rusco has operated at 518 North Royal Avenue, a few doors down from the parking lot that is central to this story. Someone associated with this lawn & garden shop spoke with me on condition of anonymity, as they did not want to draw any negative attention to their business. But this person did have some interesting things to share, particularly about an incident that occurred on Friday, April 13th – Bad Luck Friday – a week after Christina Thomas avoided a tow with an $80 payment on a $75 charge. On the afternoon of the 13th, a couple from West Virginia came to Shenk’s to pick up a lawnmower. “They parked in the lot not knowing that they weren’t supposed to,” says the source. “When they came into our store, I asked them where they parked. They told me and I told them
to hurry up and go move their car. They guy immediately went out and, what do you know, C & J Towing had already pulled in and blocked their car in. Remember, we’re talking a matter of minutes. C & J can’t dispute that. I’m a witness and the couple are wit-nesses. This has got to stop.” The source explained that this – asking new customers where they parked in a preemptive effort to keep them from being towed – is now common around the store. Upset their car was being blocked in at demand of a cash payment, the female half of the couple called the police and within minutes, officers from both the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office and Front Royal Police showed up. “One of the town officers told the couple that they would have to ‘refer it up to someone higher in town’, whatever that means,” the source says. “The cops knew that what was
happening was wrong on some level but said they couldn’t do anything about it. So the guy paid the tow truck driver and they let him move his car.” The fee the couple was told by the tow truck driver they had to pay to re-access their vehicle – $75. This is where the real problem lies, and it surrounds the issue of legality. Front Royal Town Attorney Doug Napier explained that there are no ordinances in town regarding what can be charged for a ‘drop fee’; that is, what a tow truck operator can charge for preventing a vehicle from being moved without actually towing it away. “We take our cues regarding that sort of thing from the state,” says Napier. “Our main focus in the Town Attorney’s office is to represent the Town Council and its agencies. There currently is no Towing Advisory
Board in place in Front Royal, though there has been in the past and hopefully will be again in the near future.” Napier suggested taking a look at Town Code Section 158-41. The town code’s parameters cover towing fees not in excess of $75. This means that the vehicle must actually be moved from the property in order to garner that amount. Yet there actually is a section of that code that deals specifically with vehicles that are almost towed, but not. It says that if the illegal parker returns to the vehicle before a tow truck has moved it, the towing company is to charge “no fee in excess of $35,” what’s described as a “pre-towing fee.” So, it appears there is, after all, a local statute regarding these scenarios. But even if the Town still had to take directives from a state agency in these matters, that agency would be the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators. According to Interim
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Yes. However, is it legal to pull a tow truck in front of or behind offending vehicles to block their exit and then demand $75, cash only, when the town says $35 and the state says $25 are the maximum allowable charges? One would think it can’t be. A company like C & J has been operating with impunity by stating they are honoring their end of a contract; and as Front Royal Police Chief Richard Furr asserted in the first article, “This is a civil matter, not a police matter.” So what recourse do the individu-
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als caught in this scenario have? C & J appears to be violating town and state codes regarding what they can charge as a pre-tow fee. Thus far no punishment has been meted out for that and there appears to be no official groundswell to change the situation. But if enough people lobbied their elected officials to make it a police matter and not just a civil inconvenience, C & J might be held accountable to what we have been told by state authorities and ascertained from local codes is legally permissible.
“This has gone on for too long,” says the source at Shenk’s. “We’ve had people say that they won’t come back to our store just because of this. We have to then assure them that we have nothing to do with people being towed and persuade them to keep doing business here.” Meanwhile, Christina Thomas has taken it upon herself to provide Shenk’s with complaint forms to be distributed to customers who feel they have been wronged by the towing policy and fees. “As for us,” says the source, “we’ve taken to putting up signs both inside
and outside our store warning people about that parking lot. And we inform customers that the towing company will either tow their car, or [over charge] them to let them move it.” The source recalled a guy coming into the shop not long ago. They warned him to move his car when he told them where it was parked. He said he wouldn’t be long and he’d take his chances. “Sure enough, when he walked out, C & J was blocking him in. They made him pay to get their truck out of the way.” The price? You guessed it – $75.
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A lucky Friday the 13th ends at Royal Auto Center An hour and less money than it takes to fill up - on the road & street legal By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report This April 2012, Friday the 13th was both an unlucky and lucky day for me. I’ll start with the unlucky. Perhaps thrown by the early onset of warm, even hot weather, including the warmest U.S. March in the 117 year history of such measurements, I headed for Family Pharmacy mistakenly thinking its closing hour had already seasonally changed to 6 p.m. I made the early-evening run to pick up a prescription I had called in a few days earlier. Oops, 5:30 was closing time – a half hour late. I headed home grumbling to myself and pondering the possibility of a Friday the 13th weekend gout attack. Turning toward mid-town
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“The subcontractor doing the pilings work at the station did place an ad for workers in a local paper in early March. More than 100 applications were received and the subcontractor hired 10 local people from a total staff of 26 …” – Dominion Media Relations Director Jim Norvelle
Dominion responds to power plant work force questions By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report We asked Dominion Power officials about work force and hiring issues raised by local pipefitter Patrick Younk in a letter to the editor in our last issue. As you may recall, Younk wrote, “Being a proud Local Union 602 pipefitter, I contacted my business agent
about who is going to man the job for construction. He went to Zachry Construction on site here and was told under no uncertain terms that they will be bringing in their own work force from Texas. Like I said, I am a union worker, but my concern is not about a pro union/non-union issues. Rather, this is about taking care of our employment base in Warren County and Virginia.”
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Media Relations Director Jim Norvelle replied for the company and told us by e-mail on April 23 that Dominion “always works with its contractors … to hire as many local craftsmen as they can that are qualified to do the work.” Norvelle cited numbers at earlier Dominion projects in Virginia to bear this out. Those included 800 of a total of 2,400 workers (about 35 percent) on site of the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in Wise County who are local; and about 30 percent (no numbers available) local work force at a more recent project at Dominion’s Bear Garden Power Station in Buckingham County.
“Construction has just begun at the Warren County Power Station. Currently, there are fewer than 70 construction workers on site,” Norvelle pointed out, adding, “Zachry, which formed a consortium with Burns & McDonnell of Kansas City to build the power station, has had an employment flyer on the Warren County website (www.warrencountyva. net) since February 2012. Zachry also has opened an employment office in Front Royal. The address is 400-B Kendrick Lane, Front Royal, 22630 and it has been accepting walk-ins since March 5, 2012 (while the office has been undergoing remodeling). “Through the end March, Zachry
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“Construction has just begun at the Warren County Power Station. Currently, there are fewer than 70 construction workers on site. Zachry … has had an employment flyer on the Warren County website … and has opened an employment office in FR [at] 400-B Kendrick Lane.” tractor hired 10 local people from a total staff of 26 (the remainder of the staff were long term company employees).” Of the Warren County project, Norvelle added, “The total projected workforce at peak construction in 2013 is expected to be 900-1,000, with 700 of those being direct hires
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Younk replied he was grateful there were plans to hire a portion of the workforce locally but also wondered if bringing in certain blocks of skilled trade workers from out of state, “including electricians, plumbers and welders,” has more to do with lower comparative pay scales in Texas versus Virginia.
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“I think we were both proud of the opportunity to be there on the radio, remember television was just starting as of 1947-48, and it wetted our appetite for broadcasting.” – Don Richards on his and fellow 1951 Syracuse graduate Dick Clark’s work on SU’s campus radio station
Richards recalls his and Dick Clark’s early days Broadcasting legend brought youth culture, integration into American homes
Don Richards displays note from Dick Clark dated July 19, 2011, explaining Clark ’s problems traveling to their Syracuse University Class of 1951 reunion. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report The April 18 passing of Dick Clark recalled not only an exceptionally long broadcasting career, but much more. Clark’s 1954 move from a broadcasting novice’s spot as a commercial “station break” announcer for a local Philadelphia radio/TV ABC affiliate into an emergency replacement spot as host of a local afternoon teen dance show was more than a fortuitous professional moment. Months after the 24-year-old Syracuse University graduate solidified his position as host of a show catering to local kids not all that much younger than himself he had two ideas in rapid succession. They were ideas that both reflected the times and times that were on a horizon – the 1960’s explosion of youth culture
and the racial integration of not only that culture, but American society as a whole as the 1950s moved toward the tumultuous 1960s. On April 19, the day after the 82year-old Clark succumbed to a massive heart attack following a medical procedure, and eight years after suffering a serious stroke, Warren County resident Don Richards shared some personal memories of his and Clark’s breaks into broadcasting following their 1951 graduation from Syracuse. Richards and Clark met as undergraduates working for the campus radio station. “I think we were both proud of the opportunity to be there on the radio, remember television was just starting as of 1947-48, and it wetted our appetite for broadcasting,” Richards said. Upon graduation both got their first
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Dick Clark, left, and Don Richard’s 1951 SU Yearbook photos jobs in Utica, New York; Richards as an announcer/disc jockey for a CBS affiliate radio station, WIBX; Clark as an announcer with a new, local TV station, WKTV. “After we’d both signed off for the day, we’d get together for pizza and few beers and discuss the world and how things were going,” Richards fondly recalled (comforting how some things stay the same). By the end of the following year,
1952, both had moved on to larger market jobs that would shape their professional careers. “One day early that year he told me had gotten an offer from WFIL in Philadelphia, an ABC radio-TV affiliate. That December I got a job with WTOP in D.C., the CBS radio-TV affiliate, which worked out pretty well for me when I eventually replaced Walter Cronkite in the D.C. market when he moved on to the national
news with CBS,” Richards says of the first big breaks for the young Syracuse broadcasting alumni. So the young broadcasters with parallel career tracks from Syracuse campus radio to Utica, New York local markets found themselves in bigger markets not far from each other in the east coast corridor. “He invited me up and I visited Dick and his first wife, Mary, in Philadelphia. He was just a staff announcer at the time doing station breaks. But a short time later both the host and producer of the station’s Monday to Friday, afternoon dance show got into trouble for getting to know some of the girls on the show, who were high school kids, a little too well. Well, they eventually got arrested and the station management came to Dick and said, ‘Look, we’re in a bind, can you help us out and take over the host spot while we look for a replacement?’ Of course he said yes – and he did very well. He related to the kids, heck, he was 24, 25 at the time – and he pinned down the spot as the show’s host.” Within about a year, Richards said Clark has the first of the two ideas that would shape his and, to a certain extent, America’s television futures. “It was his idea to approach the
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“How well I remember those post Syracuse days in Utica! I can still remember eating leftover frozen pizza (I’d leave some in the glove compartment overnight at times.) Many moons have passed since those days in Utica and Philadelphia.” – Dick Clark, from July 2011 letter to Don Richards
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Dick Clark during a 1957 broadcast of “American Bandstand”
Don Richards at the microphone at Syracuse campus radio station, circa 1950-51. network about picking up the show. Remember, there were only three television networks then. And ABC gave the show, it was just called ‘Bandstand’ then, I think, a sevenweek shot. Within four weeks it was the highest rated afternoon show in the U.S.” Richards explained that Clark and “Bandstand” eventually moved from Philadelphia to New York after parent network ABC decided to give the idea of a teen, after-school dance party a late-afternoon ride across America. “I think management at WFIL was happy for his success. As an ABC affiliate of course they could pick the show up but it was no longer really local for them,” Richards said. “And eventually he and the show ended up in Hollywood.” Within a year of that move from Philadelphia into the national consciousness, before the end of 1955, Clark’s second idea for what was now “American Bandstand” was broached. “I think it bothered him that there were no black kids allowed on the show and he approached ABC about integrating,” Richards said. It was no small proposal in 1955. But perhaps amazingly, with the social movement for racial equality and civil rights in its infancy and Jim Crow laws of separate and unequal in force throughout much of the nation, one of the three national television network’s managements said yes.
And the rest, as they say, is history. Of course it is a history still being written and wrestled with 57 years later as the conse-quences of deeply-institutionalized racism within America’s social and political landscapes continue to make headlines all too frequently. But in 1955, a vision of a more inclusive and united social path forward was brought into living rooms nationwide to the beat of rock & roll, under the stewardship of a TV dance show host and the American Broadcasting Network. So despite any later alleged flaws in how that vision was executed, old video shows American Bandstand’s integration as a part of our social and cultural history. And it was with memories of those times in mind that Don Richards approached news of the 60th reunion of Syracuse’s graduating class of 1951, last July. He reached out by letter to his old friend and campus broadcasting buddy about attending. Citing
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good memories.” At the reunion, Richards didn’t forget his old broadcasting buddy. “I decided to dedicate my reunion trip to Dick, who is certainly one of, if not the Class of ’51’s most famous member He requested a “reunion packet” for his absent friend, who as one of the university’s most famous graduates, was gladly accommodated by reunion organizers. Richards mailed
a box with the packet, including an ID badge with Clark’s 1951 yearbook photo, other Syracuse paraphernalia, and photos of the campus radio station and DKE frat house, where Clark was member and later a financial supporter, as he also was of the university. After receiving his reunion “care package” from Richards, Clark wrote on Sept. 11, last year, “I can’t tell you, Don, how much I appreciate your letter and all the reunion gifts. Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness … I’ve really enjoyed the photographs of the Carrier Dome, the shots of WAER with the copy of the weekly program guide, and also the photos of the guys at the DKE house, complete with the members’ signatures … Boy, what memories … All in all, I vicariously enjoyed the trip back for our 60th reunion through your eyes. I can’t believe you went to all the trouble you did. I most appreciate all your efforts. Thanks, once again, for your kindness.” And so ended a final trip down memory lane for two Syracuse alumni, both of whom made their respective marks in broadcast journalism as the era of television was just beginning to usurp radio as the standard of mass communications at the midpoint of the 20th Century.
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National Day of Prayer at Front Royalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gazebo, 2011 By Carol Ballard Warren County Report This year on Thursday, May 3, pastors and lay leaders from local churches will gather at the Gazebo in Front Royal at 6:30 p.m. for an hour to join in prayer with others from across the country in the National Day of Prayer Community Service. They are continuing a long tradition that began in 1775, when the Continental Congress asked the colonies to join in praying for wisdom as they
formed the nation. Leaders have never stopped asking the people to pray with them. This includes President Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proclamation of a day of â&#x20AC;&#x153;humiliation, fasting, and prayerâ&#x20AC;? in 1863. And some ninety years later, a joint resolution by Congress signed by President Truman, declared an annual, national day of prayer. In 1988, President Reagan amended and signed the law to permanently set the day as the first Thursday of every May.
In 2001 a group of local Christians led by Denni Giovinazzo and assisted by Cherie Ray and David Lingebach wished to make this an annual event in Front Royal and it has been held every year for the last twelve years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prayers are directed to the leaders of our local, state and national governments, the people of the local community, state and country,â&#x20AC;? stated Lingebach. They consider it essential that the diversified Christian community come together to pray, and believe that there is much spiritual strength in the local churches gathering as a unified body. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These services are only possible with the support, assistance and participation of many others in the community. The committee relies on volunteers and donated or bor-rowed equipment while footing the bill for advertising, printing, mailing, and other expenses with their own personal funds,â&#x20AC;? said Lingebach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all well worth everything we give to it,â&#x20AC;? says Giovinazzo and added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Only God can bring the kind of change our country needs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to those who believe in Him to come together to ask for His mercy and grace. And we consider it an honor to serve in this way.â&#x20AC;? This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service will be led by
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Waysideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Young Playwrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Festival slated for April 30 MIDDLETOWN - The Wayside Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 Young Playwright Festival Performance is Monday, April 30th at Wayside Theatre, Middletown, VA. The winning show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love through the Ages,â&#x20AC;? receives a professional Staged Reading performance on the Wayside Stage at 7 p.m. and admission is Free to the public, with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Talk Backâ&#x20AC;? with Artistic Director, Warner Crocker and the winning author, Molly Kaufman, at the conclusion of the performance. The Playwriting Festival is sponsored by First Bank, BB & T Bank and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Molly Kaufman, a student at Woodbridge Senior High School, and who lives in Manas-sas, won First Place in the 2012 Playwriting Festival for students in our regions public, private or home schools. Molly receives a professional staged-reading performance open to the public, the T Carter Fussell 2012 Outstanding Playwright Award, a $100.00 gift bag from First Bank and tickets to a show in the 2012-2013 Season. Molly is attending VCU majoring in playwriting this fall. Molly spent a month working on rewrites with dramaturg, Thomasin Savaiano, who will also direct and cast her production with a combined cast of local actors for the FREE per-formance on Monday, April 30th. The cast is: Wayside Company Member, Heather Reid; Wayside Interns, Leslie Putnam, Michael Petyak; Wayside Intern and Berryville local, Joette Orndorff; Shenandoah University student, Rob Mobley; and local actors, Theresa McGuirk, Matthew Baldoni, and Michael Reid. Tiffany Waters, a senior at Skyline High School who lives in Front Royal, won Second Place with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Current Events.â&#x20AC;? Tiffany will be presented a $50.00 gift from BB & T at the April 30th performance and tickets to a show during the 2012-2013 Season. Wayside Theatre is the second oldest professional theatre in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and is celebrating its 50th Golden Anniversary of presenting high quality, professional entertainment. Additional information can be obtained by calling the box office at (540) 869-1776 or visit the theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at www.waysidetheatre.org. Wayside Theatre is located in Middletown, Virginia on US Route 11, Main Street, I-81 at Exit 302, just north of the intersection of I-66 and I-81.
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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that nasty smell coming from that tree? Courtesy Photos/Clint Keller By Leslie Fiddler Warren County Report March 31 marked the end of the initial Suburban Whitetail Management of Northern Virginia bowhunt in the Town of Front Royal, cluster number one. Over the course of about a month, eight hunters took 26 deer along the Leach Run stream valley from Happy Creek to Rte. 55; 21 deer were processed and donated to Hunters for the Hungry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re breaking for fawning season,â&#x20AC;? said SWMNV member Whit Wagner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We exceeded our goal of 20. We did not realize there were that many deer. We saw 346 deer on huntable properties with many more deer seen on neighboring properties. There is a tre-mendous number of deer - the area is way overpopulated.â&#x20AC;? SWMNV is hunting under the auspices of the Front Royal Police Department on a deer population permit (DPOP) issued by the Virginia Department of Gaming and Inland Fisheries (DGIF). Town Council gave final vote on the program on Monday February 27. The hunt began a few days later. In a March 29 e-mail to this writer DGIF biologist Fred Frenzel explained that â&#x20AC;&#x153;The need for deer pop-
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the age of 1-½ and give birth when they are 2 years old. A healthy doe in good habitat will generally produce two young per year for the rest of her life, which could easily be 8 to 12 years or more. Approximately half of her offspring will be females. Each of them will produce two young per year throughout their lives and half of their young will also be female and will also produce two young per year for their life spans.â&#x20AC;? He continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of this can lead to an incredible increase over time. I have an example from a study area in Michigan (White-tailed Deer, Ecology and Management, Wildlife Management Institute, 1984, pp. 211212). The area was enclosed with a deer-proof fence and 6 deer were released inside (2 bucks and 4 does). After 5 years with no population control the herd was estimated at 220. The herd was then thinned over time to a level of 10 deer. Controls were stopped and after another five years the population was up to 212.â&#x20AC;? While DGIF uses Cultural Carrying Capacity to guide population control Bill McShea of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute suggests that â&#x20AC;&#x153;success should be by ecological benchmarks and not only by cultural carrying capacity.â&#x20AC;? In his paper â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ecology and Management of White-Tailed Deer in a Changing Worldâ&#x20AC;? McShea notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;whitetailed deer have significant impact on woody seedlings and herbaceous plants. These impacts have ramifications for animals that share these resources and for other trophic levels.â&#x20AC;? Jerry Peters of greenfire.org describes the impact â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intense deer browsing destroys food, water and shelter for small mammals, ground nesting birds, amphibians and insects.â&#x20AC;? Wagner said that SWMNV may be joined by more locals come September. In a March 12 email Lt. Keller
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tion that “JOBS ARE GOOD for the community – if you want one, or a better one, elect me!” Hot on the heels of that one, the issue of taxes created a divide in which three candidates pretty much said they would NEVER raise taxes and essentially didn’t believe in them, while others accepted them as a necessary evil if you believe in governmentally-provided services at cheaper rates than you could get from the
private, for-profit sector. Are any other familiar election-season panderings necessary to explain why I put off writing this election preview as long as humanly possible? Perhaps … nah, that’s it. Jobs are good As the first council candidate asked what the most important issue fac-
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Town election acre Royal Phoenix Business Park at the former Avtex site). Of course more seriously, one reason the soonto-be-released property is a blank slate was the failure of Hrbek and fellow candidate Tewalt, among others, to overcome opposition to the solar field/solar panel proposal of SolAVerde for Royal Phoenix. The SolAVerde group included two local businessmen, Arctic Air‘s Greg Horton and Poe Construction’s Donnie Poe, along with international business “player” Willi Lauterbach. Perhaps ironically this election could be a late referendum on both that defeated sustainable energy plan and the subsequent firing of Town Manager Michael Graham by a council block spearheaded by candidates Holloway, Lauder, as well as non-candidates Hollis Tharpe and the conveniently absent on occasion Tom Sayre in the wake of Hrbek and Tewalt’s 2010 defeat at the polls. Hrbek alluded to that initial plan to turn the Avtex Superfund environmental disaster site into a model for future, clean energy production, continuing on the jobs theme he initiated, “What I’d like to see us do out there is model a scientific-eco-biotech, alternative energy, sustainable energy research facility out there modeled after the Howard Hughes Medical
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From left, candidates Ron Harvey, Gene Tewalt and Linda Allen Institute in Loudoun County, where we would have research and development that’s going to spin off into research and development, entrepreneurial jobs, quality positions, quality industry, quality jobs and really inject some adrenalin into the backbone of the economy of Front Royal and be a leader, a global leader frankly so that we become a destination not only for tourism, but also for high quality industry and jobs.” Current Vice Mayor Chris Holloway was next up and agreed with Hrbek that bringing “living wage
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jobs” to the community was a desirable priority over the next four years. “We don’t need people traveling up and down the road 60, 100 miles instead of bringing jobs to the area,” the vice mayor said, perhaps referencing at least in part, his own experience as a contractor and electrician in the current economic climate. Next to the plate was incumbent Carson Lauder: “It’s jobs – you can’t change it; it’s jobs, jobs, jobs. How do we get those jobs? That’s the key. You get someone who will get on the telephone, gets on the Internet, talks to people, who knows people all over the world, so we find people who are interested in bringing things to Front Royal,” Lauder said, returning to the theme of creating a “headhunter” business recruitment position, a highly paid one no doubt, on town staff. “It’s a not a hard thing to do but it’s an awesome task. The EDA hasn’t had the time to do this. They’re working mainly with industry,” Lauder asserted of what he perceives are flawed efforts on behalf of the town by the local Economic Development Authority. Au contraire However last month, reacting to comments of this kind originating on council, EDA Executive Director Jennifer McDonald appeared before
From left, candidates Bret Hrbek, Chris Holloway and Carson Lauder - perhaps sharing memories of the “good old day” when they were on council together, 2008-10. council to describe her efforts to recruit retail and service businesses to the town in recent months. She said those efforts were aborted by either negative feedback by local, downtown business groups – “That’s not the kind of business we want downtown,” McDonald reported of the greeting of a discount retail operation looking at a downtown location; or by negative comments of other business people lamenting a lack of cooperation by the town that led them to state within earshot of a prospective client, “If I had it to do over, I would never come to Front Royal.” Consistent vision? And funny, it seems to us that the type of private-sector networking and aggressive national recruitment being lauded is exactly what a previous council hired Michael Graham as town manger to accomplish – bring his private sector corporate business experience to town government to both run the town more efficiently and realize opportunities like those alluded to by Hrbek when he opened this discussion of jobs and the town’s employment future. But if we recall correctly, based on either personality, political or business agendas, both Lauder and Holloway were instrumental in driving the very sort of proposal Hrbek cit-
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ed as a best-case scenario for Front Royal’s future out of town and out of the “River Phoenix” site. It was a proposal both Hrbek and former Mayor Tewalt strongly supported, as they did Graham as town manager. In the batter’s box Robbie Tennett followed. “I agree it’s jobs also,” he said, citing the county’s 522 Commercial Corridor and Shenandoah Shores Road as prime targets for commercial development. Manuel Vicente stepped up and said “overregulation” was a primary deterrent to business recruitment and job creation. He then pointed out he is fluent in both English and Spanish, skills he said could serve him well in serving the interest of all town businesses or those who might want to visit as tourists or whom he might visit to recruit to the town’s business community. “Not to sound like an echo but jobs are certainly the most important issue,” Daryl Funk continued the theme. “If people aren’t working they can’t afford to pay their taxes, they can’t afford to do much of anything. So, we have to work to do that (bring jobs) and as my colleagues have said, it’s a difficult issue … but it is the number one issue, getting people back to work.” Funk agreed attracting new business to Royal Phoenix would be crucial as that site is ex-pected to be released to certain business and light industrial uses later this year by the EPA following over 20 year of cleanup and remediation of the site. Funk reasoned that his experience as an attorney could help in business recruitment. Then unexpectedly, someone jumped ship. “I think keeping the community safe and developing in the right way [is most important],” Ron Harvey said. “Tourism, recreation, something for our youth to do, low taxes – these are things over the next four years we need to continue to address,” the
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Town election lieve we need to have our tax base as equitable and broad based as possible. While he did not elaborate in the 90 seconds given for answers, past statements indicate Hrbek adheres to a fairly narrow vision of “legitimate purposes of government” including public safety and utilities.
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retired high school teacher and boys tennis coach said. Former Mayor Eugene Tewalt then redirected the conversation back into a job-related flow – “I think one of the biggest things we have, not only in Front Royal but across the nation is economics. We need to get back to the basics and in Front Royal alone, not talking about the corridor, but about Front Royal alone we need to work with the downtown business associations to try and promote these businesses and people because small business is the backbone of America, it’s not the big business and corporations. So, we need to work with them, work with tourism in the community trying to promote our area. And I think by promoting our area to tourism we can bring in businesses that would be an asset to the Town of Front Royal and I think that would be good for the community.” “Well, I agree that jobs are the number one priority but I want to add two parts to that,” Linda Allen began. “One is economic development, I’d like to see a person dedicated to that particular job and I’d like to see it done by plan, very carefully to achieve the kind of goals that we have in mind for what we want Front Royal to be.” She then referenced her background in science and technology and the potential of recruiting more research and development, software and computer related clean business to the town, adding, “The second part for me is to grow tourism because that enriches the merchants here and I’d like to see that happen.”
however, pointing the finger at state or federal governmental mandates on things like clean water and wastewater standards forcing the municipal hand on revenue accumulation. “Do I want to raise taxes – heck no; do I want to pay them – heck no; but sometimes you have to under dire circumstances,” Lauder concluded. Harvey was short and to the point, stating, “The only time to raise taxes is when it’s necessary.” In a similar, if slightly more detailed answer, Tewalt said he would raise taxes only when necessary to accomplish a municipal need to the benefit of the town and its citizens who pay those taxes and receive those services. He observed his stance in favor of a slight tax hike to maintain a town police program the state was poised to drop funding of may have cost him the 2010 mayor’s race. Allen agreed with Tewalt that taxes should only be raised to accomplish what needs to be done for the general good of all the town’s citizens. Fiscal and social “Reagan” conservative Hrbek stated, “For the legiti-
Taxes And then there was the old election-year favorite – can’t live with them; can’t live without them – or can you? The topic was taxes, which provide revenue for the services, personnel, facilities and utilities that municipalities utilize to provide services ranging in the town’s case from law enforcement, trash collection, road maintenance, snow removal, to cen-
tral electric, water and sewer utilities. Three of the nine council candidates expressed a NO new taxes EVER philosophy. Others, while expressing an aversion to them, said they understood that in some case they are necessary to provide services citizens have come to expect at prices that do not include profit above, but only the revenue stream necessary to provide and maintain the service or utility. Vicente, an employee in the admissions department at Seton Home School, pointed to preponderance of hidden taxes. “There are hidden taxes that are being raised all the time; when we go to the store people are suffering from inflation, which is a hidden tax, nobody talks about it being a tax. But I don’t see how we can add to that burden and I don’t see anyway we can raise taxes. I don’t envision that I would ever be in favor of that.” Holloway pointed out he “has always been against taxes” and has never voted for a tax increase (even an revenue neutral equalization one) during his four-year term. “And to be honest with you I can’t think of a time I would agree to raise taxes,” he said, before hedging somewhat, adding, “Maybe down the road but it would have to benefit the town. But as of right now I can’t see myself voting to raise taxes at all.” “I don’t believe in raising taxes whatsoever but I understand in some extreme situations,” Tennett said, hesitating unable to get the words “you must do it” out of his mouth, before continuing, “but I am really, firmly against raising taxes.” Funk said the current economic climate is “is certainly the wrong place, the wrong time to raise taxes.” He suggested municipal austerity, adding, “With people out of work the town needs to live within its means, look at spending and that sort of thing …” He did not, however, state he would never consider raising taxes. Lauder admitted to not liking to pay taxes or raise them. But he acknowledged times it must be done;
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Battle of the Tims – Front Royal’s mayoral race Challenger Ratigan versus incumbent Darr – who will drive the bus?
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would police themselves,” Ratigan said of ways to increase accountability and action on renter complaints about maintaining basic standards in their living place. Ratigan added he would emphasize cooperation with the private sector – and the county – rather than an adversarial environment, to create a positive and friendly environment for business owners. “Were it is possible we should view codes as suggestions rather than specific directions that hinder businesses,” Ratigan said. “We should all try to be on the same page.” Ratigan said the town should be proactive with lo-
Tim Ratigan: Challenger Tim Ratigan has outlined a mayoral campaign he said will emphasize bringing the town’s renters, of which he is one, into the process of choosing who leads the town in which they live. Ratigan said he would spearhead efforts to see all the town’s renters are treated fairly. “There are many good landlords – we have one – but there a few bad eggs. Maybe we could encourage a landlord’s association that
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Okay, this is BIG!!! – a direct link between a council majority – you know who you are, boys – commies and a United Nations policy cartel promoting a growth plan designed to preserve the environment and save millions of tax dollars in infrastructure costs sembly not to repeal the state UDA mandate. The release went on to elaborate on the rationale for UDAs and related Planned Neighborhood Development guidelines – millions in transportation and utility infrastructure savings to localities across Virginia, preservation of more of the state’s farm and agricultural land, as well as Virginia’s small-town ambience. “The traditional neighborhood development envisioned by UDAs is reflective of the beloved, historic towns of Virginia and our best older suburbs
that engender a sense of community that we have lost as development has become more scattered,” said Dan Holmes of the Piedmont Environmental Council. “Who, the people”? Vicente first alluded to his stance against UDAs and PNDs (Planned Neighborhood Development) which the town and county agreed to implement together while UDAs were state law, when he introduced himself as a candidate at the March 12
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Dwayne Mauck had grown up listening to the family legends about his great-great-great-grandfather Jonas and great-great grandfather James Newton Mauck who both fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side and about five years ago, he got curious about them. He looked up their names and was able to confirm their military records, then discovered that they had been buried in Warren County out in Bentonville on Bordentown Lane. He and his father Alton and son
Derrick went to the family cemetery and saw the stones had fallen over. So they cleaned and restored it, then called the Mosby Camp-that is the Col. John S. Mosby Camp #1237 in Front Royal-and requested a military funeral for their grandparents. The Color Guard went to the site and delivered a musket salute at the grave site. “I was so touched. They didn’t know me and all these people showed up. My cousin and I had a part in setting the Southern Cross of Honor for our Confederate graves there. I was so impressed that I joined the group,” said Mauck.
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To advertise in Warren County Report: Contact Alison at alisond@warrencountyreport.com • 540-551-2072 or Angie Buterakos at angie@warrencountyreport.com - 540-683-9197 public. Prizes awarded. Sunday, April 29, 2012 All day Forecast for 22630 55° | 39° 8am - 4pm Warren County Fair Flea Market. Warren County Fairgrounds. The Flea Market is open every weekend expect during the fair. For more information: (540) 635-5827 http:// www.warrencountyfair.com/15.html. Monday, April 30, 2012 7pm - 8pm Council Work Session. Town Hall, 16 N Royal Avenue, Front Royal. Council will have a Work Session tonight in the Town Hall Conference Room. The public is invited. Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:30pm - 1pm Tourism Tuesdays. 95.3 - the River radio station. Hear the latest tourism related news and events every Tuesday at 12:30! If you can’t listen live check out the podcasts at http://www.theriver953online.com. 2pm - 3pm Ambassador’s Club. Chamber Office.
7pm Andy Guest/ Shenandoah River State Park will sponsor a presentation by our local caving organization, Front Royal Grotto. See examples of typical caving gear and hear some great tales. Come learn and have all your questions answered, at the Park visitor’s center in Bentonville. Call 540-622-6840 for directions. Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:30am - 9:30am Small Business Committee. Chamber Office. 12:30pm - 1pm Warren County Business On The River 95.3 6pm - 10pm FOP Spring Carnival. Carnival Grounds, Crosby Road, Front Royal. The Annual FOP Spring Carnival is tonight. It consists of adults’ & children’s rides, games and food provided by both Five Star Amusements and the Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department. The FOP Spring Carnival has provided safe and fun entertainment for the community since 1987.
PUBLIC MEETINGS SCHEDULED Join the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) for a public meeting on the Super NoVa Transit / TDM Vision Plan on May 15, 22,or 24. The meetings are an opportunity for public input on current and future transit and TDM needs to connect Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and D.C. DRPT ensures nondiscrimination per Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 9am - 10am Tourism Committee. Chamber Office. 6pm - 10pm FOP Spring Carnival. Carnival Grounds, Crosby Road, Front Royal. The Annual FOP Spring Carnival is tonight. It consists of adults’ & children’s rides, games and food provided by both Five Star Amusements and the Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department. The FOP Spring Carnival has provided safe and fun entertainment for the community since 1987. 6:30pm - 8pm Community Prayer Service. Main Street, Front Royal. Local pastors and musicians will participate in a prayer service inobservance of the “National Day of Prayer” at the Gazebo located at Main/Chester Streets. Friday, May 4, 2012 7 am -2pm Relay Yard Sale at 1800 Kendrick Ford Rd, Front Royal. Something for everyone! 10am - 5pm Library Used Book Sale. Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. Join the Friends of Samuels Library for the GIANT Semi-Annual Used Book Sale today. 1:30pm - 2:30pm Education Committee. Chamber Office. 6pm - 11pm FOP Spring Carnival. Carnival Grounds, Crosby Road, Front Royal. The Annual FOP Spring Carnival is tonight. It consists of adults’ & children’s rides, games and food provided by both Five Star Amusements and the Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department. The FOP Spring Carnival has provided safe and fun entertainment for the community since 1987. Saturday, May 5, 2012 Cinco de Mayo 8am - 4pm Warren County Fair Flea Market. Warren County Fairgrounds. The Flea Market
FrVaToday.com is open every weekend expect during the fair. For more information: (540) 635- 5827 http:// www.warrencountyfair.com/15.html. 9am - 1pm Fashion Show. Main Street, Front Royal. Downtown Front Royal, Inc. invites you to a second hand fashion show with clothing from various businesses on Main Street. See what is available downtown!! FREE and open to the public. 10am - 5pm Library Used Book Sale Samuels Public Library, Front Royal. Join the Friends of Samuels Library for the GIANT Semi-Annual Used Book Sale today. 5pm - 9pm Cruise Inn. Quality Inn, Front Royal. Enjoy a car show this weekend. 6pm - 11pm FOP Spring Carnival. Carnival Grounds, Crosby Road, Front Royal. The Annual FOP Spring Carnival is tonight. It consists of adults’ & children’s rides, games and food provided by both Five Star Amusements and the Front Royal Volunteer Fire Department. The FOP Spring Carnival has provided safe and fun entertainment for the community since 1987. Sunday, May 6, 2012 8am - 4pm Warren County Fair Flea Market. Warren County Fairgrounds. The Flea Market is open every weekend expect during the fair. For more information: (540) 635-5827 http:// www.warrencountyfair.com/15.html. 2pm - 3pm R-MA Open House. Randolph-Macon Academy, Front Royal. Open House is today. Please arrive at 1:30p. Students interested in applying for the 2012-13 school year or the 2012 summer camps and programs are encouraged to attend with their parents. Please register:(540) 636-5484 or www.rma.edu.
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those on and I should be good to go. I went to Auto Zone for the wipers – I’m an equal opportunity, in-town, parts purchaser – opted for two of the cheaper $5.99 blades and made the four blocks back in about five
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To the Voters of Front Royal From Timothy P. Ratigan Candidate for Mayor
Taxpayers have noticed issues with the current Mayor/Town Council.. A few issues leading to this dissatisfaction follow: Long term loss of revenue because our elected officials lowered the rates for water/sewer of Dominion Power Plant when Dominion complained. Now, other companies are expected to come begging for lower rates too. When the current Mayor broke the tied vote on Council to change the local elections from May to November, he voted to keep May. Is that a Mayor who listened to the majority who asked for November? Over the current Mayor’s term, there has been an exodus of experienced, capable higher level employees and police officers.
minutes. “That’s about what we charge for the blades. Our prices are good, comparable to the parts places – and if you need an oil change we’ve got excellent prices there too,” Alex said, indicating a chart running from about $20 to $35 depending on how many quarts it took. A quick check of the wipers and Alex handed me back over to Morgan for a re-inspection. A second once over and I was street legal for the first time in 11 months. All in about an hour – and at $53.45, including inspection and re-inspection fees, less money than it takes to fill the tank up with gas nowadays ($61-and-change, and that at Martin’s, one of the cheaper gas places in town, last time). Oh yea, there were the runs to Advance Auto and Auto Zone for parts. But even factoring that total of $16.77 in for bulbs and blades, about $53 for parts and labor and $17 for the inspections; pretty remarkable for the back end of a Friday the 13th experience. Oh, and I never got that gout attack over the weekend and made my prescription run Monday, shortly after my inspection – and my window is still working … lucky, lucky, lucky. rogerb@warrencountyreport.com
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Ask Stewart Dear Stewart, What’s happening this year for Arbor Day? The Thompson Family Dear Friends,
Ask Stewart 540-635-4734
This year we are celebrating the official part of Arbor Day on Saturday, April 28th, at 8:30 a.m. at the Gazebo/Visitors Center on Main Street. Front Royal will be receiving the 13th “TREE CITY USA” designation and the Growth Award for the 12th year for demonstrating tree care efforts above and beyond the Tree City USA requirements. The Town, the Urban Forest Advisory Council and the Tree Stewards really work hard to make this happen.
The program will start with Mayor Tim Darr reading the “Proclamation to Honor Arbor Day 2012”. Harold Fisher from the Virginia Department of Forestry will award the “Tree City USA” designation to the Town. Then the FR/WC Tree Steward President, Sandy Wilson, will present the “Tree Steward Service Award” to one of our most dedicated members, John Cannon. At 9:00 am the ceremony will conclude with the planting of the Annual Arbor Day Tree at the Happy Creek Arboretum. The public is invited to attend. Did you know that Arbor Day started in Nebraska back in April of 1872? Prizes were offered by the State Board of Agriculture and the result was more than ONE MILLION trees were planted in Nebraska
that first year! One of the pioneers moving into the Nebraska Territory was J. Sterling Morton from Detroit Michigan who became the editor of the state’s first newspaper and spread his enthusiasm for trees to his readers. It was Mr. Morton’s birthday, April 22nd, which was chosen for the permanent observance date. The most common date for the state observances is the last Friday in April, but other Fridays are used for scheduling activities and to coincide with the best tree planting weather. Today, as I think about another Arbor Day Celebration I’m awed by what was possible from one man’s enthusiasm and courage. Trees are the answer!! Stewart
Humane Society of Warren County
The Front Royal/Warren County Tree Steward program began in 1997 with volunteers dedicated to improving the health of trees by providing educational programs, tree planting and care demonstrations, and tree maintenance throughout the community. The group now consists of over 30 active members with several interns working toward becoming certified tree stewards from our annual “All About Trees Class”. Each month Stewart will answer a question from our readers. Please forward it to “Stewart” in care of frwctreestewards@comcast.net and we may publish it in a future issue. Please visit our website at www.treesfrontroyal.org.
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Monday thru Sunday 10 am to 4 pm- Closed Wednesdays • 1245 Progress Drive, Front Royal, VA • 540-635-4734 • humanesocietywc@gmail.com
The Humane Society of Warren County will have a Rabies Clinic on Sunday, June 3rd from 10AM-2PM. We will offer 1 and 3 year Rabies vaccines, microchipping, ear cleaning, and nail trims. Please call for details: 540-635-4734
Humane Society of Warren County will have a scrap metal drive on Saturday, May 26th. Please bring your unwanted scrap metal to the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter at 1245 Progress Drive. All proceeds from the drive will benefit the shelter.
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Shorty - 5 year old male Beagle/Basset mix. Shorty is the sweetest little dog you could hope to meet. He just loves to be loved.
Maggie - 2 year old female Pit mix. Maggie loves to play with other dogs, and is also great with cats!
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25,781with trade assist
0%
Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends 5/15/12. Not valid with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.
Reg. $149.95
99
95
MEET OR BEAT
6 for 3 s monthble a avail
99
6,300 OFF MSRP
Some vehicles slightly higher
95
Stock #12R4120
FEE not included.
COMPLETE Vehicle Detailing • Hand wax • Hand wash • Clean interior ONLY $ • Clean engine compartment & trunk
$
New Season, New Car Feeling!
RAM 1500 QUAD AND CREW
SAVE
10 TO CHOOSE
Your vehicle’s finish really took a beating this Winter!
BUSINESS OWNERS:
Check Our Service Specials
Additional $1000 rebate on your new Ram Truck!
Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends 5/15/12. Not valid with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.
$
Some vehicles slightly higher
Based on retail price. Not to exceed 10% off total parts and labor. Excludes retail parts, tires, collision/body shop parts and service. See supervisor for details.
Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends 5/15/12. Not valid with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.
ONLY
Up to 5 quarts. Additional charge for synthetic motor oil and diesel engines
20% OFF
ANY SERVICE OR REPAIR (Max. discount $175)
6 for 3 s monthble a avail
Stock #12RW90
S A V E UP TO $ 3 ,3 00 OF MSRP F
Stock #12GJ145
10
99
10% OFF
39
NITROGEN GAS FILLED TIRES aren’t affected by changing temperatures and they’re ideal for tire monitoring system equipment found in today’s vehicles. This service will: Improve fuel economy; Extend Tire Life.
$
6 YEARS + TAKE
Brake Pad Replacement Special
PLUS Multi-Point Inspection
$
Up to 5 YEARS OLD TAKE NEW 2012
Oil & Filter Change Special ONLY
VINTAGE CLUB SPECIAL
JEEP WRANGLER SPORT
25,770
Additional charge for synthetic motor oil and diesel engines.
Ask about Our Exclusive Tires for a Lifetime Program!
3.6L, 4x4, 6-Spd, CC, PW, PL, Anti-Spin, Tube Steps, Keyless Entry
$
NEW 2012
4 TO CHOOSE
JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE
Plus 10% OFF Any Recommended Service or Repair
$
• Check and top-off all vital fluid levels • Check and adjust tire pressure to specs • Inspect light bulbs • Multi-Point vehicle inspection
Stock #12GC137
Stock #12JO138
FREE PIT STOP!
NITROGEN TIRE FILL $ 95
Competitive Pricing on Tires!
SRT8 CENTRAL
NEW 2012
$ERVICE!
Plus any applicable tax, shop supplies and environmental fees. One coupon per visit. Coupon must be presented prior to service write-up. Offer ends 5/15/12. Not valid with any other coupons or in-store specials. Good only at MARLOW MOTOR COMPANY.
NEW 2012
2 Challenger’s 1 Charger
FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
DODGE JOURNEY AWD
29,544
Power Windows, Locks, 3rd Row Flex Seating, Premium Sound, Heated Front Seats, 19” Wheels
$
s e c i r P s a G on the Rise... $AVE ON
CHRYSLER 300 LTD
Stock #123S75
Stock #12TO100
Luxury, Style, Room and 31 MPG Hwy!
Starting at $29,542
NEW 2012
RE-INVENTING CUSTOMER SERVICE! Sunroof, Leather, Heated Seats, 3.6 Ltr V6, Navigation, Premium Sound & Much More. 2 TO CHOOSE.
CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY
28,298
3.6L, FWD, 6-Spd Auto, PW, PL, PS, CC, Premium Sound, Entertainment, U Connect, Bluetooth, Sirius XM, Power Sliding Door $
Price includes all rebates and incentives. Rebates are in lieu of discounted finance rates. TAX, TAGS & TITLE FEES not included. $289 PROCESSING 0% financing available on approved credit on select models. Some savings offers require financing through Ally or Chase. See dealer for details. Offers expire 5/3/12.
with
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24,490
2011 JEEP COMPASS 4WD Two to choose
$
19,990
2011 JEEP LIBERTY 4WD Stock #A78A
$
19,990
4x4, 22K Miles
$
25,990
2011 FORD MUSTANG PREMIUM Grabber Blue, loaded. Stock # A94A
$
23,782
2009 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED Loaded, Orange. Stock # 12WR81A
$
22,950 Vehicles subject to prior sales. Prices do not include tax,ONLINE tags, fees and A$289 processing. 635-4158 • WINCHESTER 888-862-7569 • MARLOWMOTOR.COM • APPLY WITH 30 SECOND CREDIT APPLICATION!!!!!!
2008 JEEP COMMANDER LOADED OVERLAND Hemi
$
26,990
2010 BUICK LACROSS 22K Miles, Stock #11GJ224A
$
25,990
NEARLY NEW SUBARUS, 2 FORESTERS, 1 IMPREZA OUTBACK
Mon - Fri 7AM - 7PM • Sat 8AM - 5PM • Closed Sunday