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A second act in suds Warrenton car wash owner expands to fourth site By Anita L. Sherman
By James Ivancic
Community Editor
Times Staff Writer
It’s a crisp early morning. The sun is shining, and the air is chilly. SUVs, cars and pickups are lined up at White Horse Auto Wash in Warrenton. Many of the drivers are women holding cups of coffee from the nearby Starbucks as they wait their turns. Put your car in neutral. Make sure the antenna is down. Okay, now take your foot off the brake and your hands off the steering wheel. Sit back, relax and let White Horse do the washing. According to Brandon(Gaille) Marketing, in the last 15 years, there has been a 69-percent increase in car owners who use car wash facilities rather than washing their cars themselves. An estimated 8 million vehicles a day are washed at car washes.
While population is booming in Northern Virginia, the upward pace is more leisurely here in Fauquier County. Fauquier had 69,465 people living within its borders in 2017, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau in March. The population was up 6.1 percent from the 65,203 living in the county in 2010, the year of the last nationwide census. By contrast, Prince William County’s population rose 15 percent over the same time period, to the current 463,023 individuals. Loudoun County’s population increased more than 27 percent and now stands at 380,000. Population growth in Fauquier “has been fairly consistent. I don’t see it abating either,” said Andrew Hopewell, assistant chief of planning for Fauquier County’s Community Development Department.
See SUDS, page 5 White Horse Car Wash owner Bobby Rust started with the Warrenton location in 2010 and now, after expanding to Woodbridge and Charlottesville, is opening his fourth location in Culpeper. PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER
See CENSUS, page 4
TELLER MANIA: Former Liberty star Wyatt Teller is expected to be taken in this month’s NFL draft. Page 30
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The story of Fauquier’s Lt. Presley Neville O’Bannon and the Marine Corps sword. Page 6
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Middleburg life suits him Trey Windwehen was among a handful of men who joined more than 100 women to hear motivational speaker Maybeth Rosato at the March 28 Fauquier Chamber Women’s Business Council luncheon. Windwehen happened to be a classmate of Rosato’s in a public-speaking class taught by Warrenton coach Norma Thatcher. Ever honing her craft, Rosato invited the class to watch her speech and gave kudos to Thatcher at the event. Windwehen works for Piedmont
FAUQUIER FOCUS Fine Properties in Warrenton, a real-estate business launched in 2015. The principal broker, Chip Miller, spent 10 years with a large real estate firm but, together with Classified Sales Consultants Jeanne Cobert, 540-878-2491 jcobert@fauquier.com Evelyn Cobert, 540-878-2492 ecobert@fauquier.com
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completed my first half-ironman,” smiles Windwehen. Have a home to sell or looking to buy? You can reach Trey at Piedmont Fine Properties at 540-3475277 or his cell at 361-648-3812. Visit www.PiedmontFineProperty. com — Compiled by Anita Sherman
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his wife, Becky, they had a dream of opening a local, boutique firm. Windwehen joining the firm about a year ago was serendipitous. Born and raised in Victoria, Texas, Windwehen graduated from Southern Arkansas University on a cross-country and track scholarship. After college, friends encouraged him to take a job in real estate in Atlanta, Georgia. “I’ve always seemed to have a love for homes, as a kid I wanted to be a home builder like my grandpa,” said Windwehen who lived there for 12 years where he met and married his wife, Stephanie. They now have a 1-year-old daughter, Charlotte. Stephanie’s parents, living in Virginia, wanted the couple and their first grandbaby to be closer and encouraged a move to Middleburg. That they did and bought a home through Becky Miller, who then offered him a job in the process. Windwehen enjoys working in Warrenton. “It’s a big place with a lot going on that has a warm, small-town feel.” When he isn’t working, Trey enjoys spending time with his family, which often includes hiking local trails along with the family dog, Atticus. He also likes checking out the local wineries. A new interest has him even more on the run. Perhaps it’s the call of a rural environment and cross-country memories running through his veins these days. “I just got into triathlons and
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POLICE BRIEFS Bealeton house fire remains under investigation
The cause of an early-morning house fire that destroyed a home on Morgansburg Road south of Bealeton March 27 remained under investigation this week, according to the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office. The blaze at 11400 Morgansburg Road was first spotted by passing motorists at about 5:16 a.m. that Tuesday morning, according to sheriff’s department spokesman Sgt. James Hartman. No one was in the house when the fire began, Hartman said. The Lois Volunteer Fire Department’s Company 13 responded to the blaze. They arrived to find the empty, two-story house with fire showing from all sides and through the roof, the department reported in a March 27 Facebook post. Units operated on the scene for several hours. There were no reported injuries. The fire occurred in the same stretch of Morgansburg Road that law-enforcement officials shut down for more than 18 hours six days earlier, on March 21 and 22, while trying to coax an armed man from a home there. James William Baker, 43, was arrested at about 11:30 a.m. March 22 in connection with that incident. He was charged with brandishing a firearm and domestic assault. The two incidents were unrelated, Hartman said.
Seattle man arrested for suspicious packages sent to area military bases
Federal law-enforcement officials have arrested a Seattle man in connection with suspicious packages sent recently to several Washington-area U.S. government mail-processing facilities, and they are warning
residents to remain cautious about any unexpected or unfamiliar parcels that might arrive on their doorsteps. In a press release, the FBI’s Washington field office reported March 27 that the packages were received by mail-processing facilities at Fort Belvoir; Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and Fort Lesley J. McNair, both in Washington, D.C.; the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren; and the Central Intelligence Agency at Langley. Each package was collected and will be analyzed at the FBI Laboratory at Quantico. An initial investigation determined the packages contained “potential destructive devices” and appeared to be sent by the same individual from the Seattle area, according to the press release. Thanh Cong Phan, 43, was taken into custody March 26 by FBI Seattle and the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office at his residence in Everett, Washington, the press release said. Phan made an initial appearance in the Western District of Washington on March 27. The FBI statement said it’s possible that more packages were mailed to additional mail-processing facilities in the Washington area and continues to advise people “to remain vigilant” and not touch, move or handle any suspicious or unknown packages. “The FBI takes all suspicious packages seriously and has been coordinating with our local, state and federal partners on established protocols of how to handle suspicious packages,” the statement said. Any suspicious packages should be reported to the Prince William County police department or the FBI at tips.fbi.gov. The joint investigation with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service continues.
Pipe work to close Route 837 until April 17 Pipe work that began Tuesday, April 3, will close Route 837 (Old Marsh Road) in the Bealeton until April 17, according to a VDOT press release. The road will be closed to allow workers to replace a pipe just west of Route 674 (Green Road). The road will reopen to traffic the afternoon of Tuesday, April 17. During the closure, drivers can access Route 837 from Route 17 (Marsh Road) or via Route 663 (Balls Mill Road). Access will be maintained to all private and commercial entrances. Message boards are in place to notify the public. Updates and other real-time travel information can be found on the 511 Virginia website, the free VDOT 511 mobile app or by calling 511 from any phone in Virginia. Local updates are also posted to Twitter.com/VaDOTCulp.
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