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White Horse Auto Wash builds new Culpeper facility

➤ Car wash has plans to open in third quarter of 2018

By Jeff Say

CULPEPER TIMES STAFF WRITER

Washing cars is Bob Rust’s passion.

The owner of White Horse Auto Wash is bringing his passion to Culpeper at a new location at 460 James Madison Highway.

Rust, who started White Horse in Warrenton in 2010, said that the Culpeper location will be the fourth for the business. They also have locations in Woodbridge and Charlottesville.

“We always had a decent customer base in Culpeper,” Rust said.

“Customers have always told us we needed one in Culpeper.”

When they opened the Charlottesville location, Rust said it only made sense to venture into Culpeper and that he has been scouting the area for several years. He originally was looking at the parcel where Panera Bread is currently Culpeper Times • Aug. 24-30, located, but was unable to2017 make

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“Culpeper has always been a hole in the market,” Rust said.

“We really like the market, it’s our kind of people. I think it needs us.

We’re equally excited about getting there.”

He purchased the land at 460 James Madison Highway on Nov. 28, 2017 from Douty Enterprises, LLC., according to county real estate transfers, for $1 million.

The .92 acre location is going to be state-of-the-art, Rust said, with a “cool setup” planned incorporating different lighting than is normally used at a car wash. White Horse is working with a contractor who has a background in lighting for concerts who came up with a proposal to light the facility differently.

“We’re trying to avoid making it a nightclub,” Rust said. “We want to use lights in the right way and I think that will be fun to do.”

The White Horse experience will include an equipment package that Rust says includes the “latest and greatest.” The car wash will offer full-service car washes and customer service.

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CCSO, Girl Scouts partner for bike rodeo The Culpeper County Sheriff's Office and Girl Scout Troop 3126 will host a bike rodeo from noon to 4 p.m. at Eastern View High School March 17.

"Back in August when we were planning the activities for the junior level, we needed to basically a badge of transportation safety, pedestrian safety and bicycle safety," Troop 3126 co-leader Celia Faulk said. "So our idea was to see if the sheriff's department would come and do the rodeo."

The idea grew to include the community as bicycle and pedestrian safety was a concern that was expressed to the CCSO. "We thought it was a great opportunity for the community," Deputy Dana Martz said. "Pedestrian and bicyclist safety is a big concern among youth in the county."

The Girl Scouts have sent flyers out to all the schools and the principals will make a call out beforehand, because participants will need to bring a bike and helmet.

The CCSO will also have a certain number of helmets to give away.

"Anytime we can partner with a great group like the Girl Scouts to spread the word of bicycle and pedestrian safety, it's an excellent opportunity for us," CCSO Deputy Rob Hefner said. "We want people to ride their bikes, but we want to make sure they are riding them in an appopriate manner and the right way."

Hefner said stressing the importance of wearing a helmet is one of the key parts of the presentation.

"No matter how good you are, you always wear your helmet," Hefner said.

The rodeo will feature six stations that include the importance of wearing a helmet, stopping and scanning for oncoming traffic and will conclude with

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"That's why we're so fortunate to have the sheriff's office because they are trained in how to teach the kids," Troop 3126 co-leader Kendra Weast said.

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➤ Wash, from Page 2 give us seriously,” Rust said.

The Rust family started the project in Warrenton in 2008 and finally opened in 2010.

“It’s just been fun for us, we just like washing cars, it’s our passion,” Rust said.

Rust said the group has been preparing for the opening - planned in the third quarter in possibly August or September - by hiring more managers to be available to help facilitate customer service.

“We’ve hired on a couple more people in Warrenton and Charlottesville to get ready for the jump,” Rust said. “If you go to a ChickFil-A when they open, they have a couple higher level managers who help open the store. We’re following a similar pattern. We really try to push the best training right out of the gate, we learned a couple of lessons after opening the last ones.”

White Horse plans to employ between 15 and 25 people in Culpeper, with 10 to 15 full time employees.

They also want to help prepare their younger employees for careers after, so they provide plenty of training.

“We kind of end up being a conduit for the younger community,” Rust said. “So we try to get them some lessons beyond the car wash.

We do a lot of management meetings off site, we just had one on eth-

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ical decision making. We know people will come in and move on, but we want them to have a positive experience while they are here.”

The location at 460 James Madison was one that Rust strategically targeted, as it’s close to many of Culpeper’s shopping centers.

“We wanted to be really close to the main drag,” Rust said. “We’re like the second or third thing on someone’s shopping list, so we want to be near other daily uses.”

He recalled coming across a todo list in a car that read “groceries, haircut, candles and car wash.”

“We couldn’t even make it above candles,” Rust said with a laugh.

“We like to be easy in and out and somewhere people can see us.”

One of the services they offer, which he says has been a real big hit, is an unlimited full service car wash plan for $39.99 a month. Usually, a full service wash is $35 one time. The monthly plan saw one man come through the car wash 316 times in one year.

Rust said that unlike many other service businesses, car washes are still evolving. It’s still a relatively new technology as cars have only been built to handle professional car washes since around the 1970s.

“There’s a lot of stuff that you can just bring up to the 20th century, much less the 21st century,” Rust said. “We kind of saw an industrial business model and we thought ‘this is a retail business,’ so there’s

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White Horse Auto Wash in Warrenton has been open since 2010. a lot of stuff that we thought was low hanging fruit and just made a lot of sense.”

The project, which will cost between $4.5 to $5 million, recycles as much water as it can, as Rust believes it’s actually better for the environment than home washing.

“It’s capital intensive, it’s labor intensive, because it’s labor intensive it’s management intensive.

And you’ve got to deal with the weather. It’s pretty easy other than

that,” Rust said with a laugh.

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By Marshall Conner

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If there is a point of agreement when it comes to any future construction of a YMCA community center it is that all parties including the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors, the public, businesses and the Culpeper Wellness foundation all want a solution that benefits health and wellness in Culpeper County.

The community seeks more opportunities for families, seniors and especially children — that’s a given.

The Culpeper Board of Supervisors would like to add a question for the voters’ approval for the construction of a YMCA recreation center. The Board is seeking a decision on a project that would build a YMCA of over 50,000 square feet on a 40acre property located across Route 229 from the Culpeper American Legion. The center would house a pool, fitness spaces and classrooms at a cost estimated at around $9 to $10 million.

Among the YMCA’s top proponents on the BOS is Supervisor Gary Deal, who has advocated for a community center. At least

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three board members feel that a YMCA in the Catalpa District would either compliment or potentially partner with existing services in the county.

A slight divergence in the optimistic plan occurs when issues of cost, taxation and duplication of existing services in the public and private sector are examined.

The contrasting view is more of a cautious approach to a potential project that could very well cost millions---it seeks more study, financial planning and a question of whether a future YMCA can be sustained by potential membership fees.

In the spring of 2017 the Culpeper Wellness Foundation (CWF) began discussions with members of the Board of Supervisors, regarding the recreation needs of youth and families in Culpeper County and a proposed community center. The Foundation cited three key goals in relation to any future project. First, the promotion of health and wellness in the community.

Secondly, that the project does not duplicate services already in place. Thirdly, that it is sustainable.

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➤ YMCA, from Page 6 In October 2017, the CWF again met with BOS representative to discuss their proposal to build a 50,000 square foot fitness center with a competition swimming pool included, according to the CWF’s press release. At the meeting the Foundation reiterated its interest in working with community leaders to develop and potentially help fund programs and services that meet (any unmet) needs that are sustainable, according to a written statement from CWF’s board.

The Foundation was asked by the BOS to consider an investment of several million dollars to help build and possibly help manage the facility in the meetings. The CWF in the desire to assess the “feasibility of the project” as it was proposed by the BOS, hired Healthplex Associates, a national firm, to conduct a feasibility study that would include a market analysis and a financial forecast based on the known plans being considered.

A 20-page study completed by Healthplex Associates and presented to the CWF in January indicated a potential shortfall of $4.6 million dollars if the YMCA had a membership of 747 in five years of operation thus creating a need for the county to subsidize in the first years of the project, according to the CWF. Additionally, a potential YMCA could impact the current Powell Wellness Center, local childcare businesses, fitness chains and smaller private businesses that serve recreation and fitness needs within Culpeper County.

Currently, the BOS is still in the process making decision on the project by May, then if approved by the BOS it will add a referendum question on the YMCA for a November vote.

Barney Reiley, CEO of the Rappahannock Area YMCA has publicly disputed the potential costs figures given by the Healthplex Associates’ study. He said that Culpeper can sustain a new YMCA, but he also stated that hundreds of extra dollars could be needed to subsidize the future project.

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In contrast, Culpeper Wellness Foundation’s Board issued a series of questions in its Board’s press release that include: “Is the community’s desire for a pool the major driver in the current proposal?”

“What kind of pool is needed and affordable? “ “A community pool that is regular open to the public at no or little cost?”

“Will there be a therapy pool?”

“Will a membership-based facility serve our community best?”

“What resources are already available in our community? Has there been an inventory?”

Culpeper Wellness Foundation’s President Shari Landry thinks that her foundation’s research into the project and the study by Healthplex should lead to a more cautious approach. Based on the information in the report the project would potentially cost more than estimates given by the YMCA. “We want to work with the Board of Supervisors and help the community realize its goals. I think it’s clear that we obtained the study to determine if investing in the proposed 50,000 sq. ft. building/programs is a responsible use of our resources. The study concludes that the project – as currently planned - is not financially feasible,” said Landry. “Our recommendation is that we slow the process and take the time to consider what the community needs and what we can support for the long term considering questions like those outlined in our Board’s response. It’s not that we are opposed to a community center.”

Other questions outside of the ones provided by the CWF’s Board could also be added.

What are the potential benefits to senior citizens to a YMCA? Will Culpeper County’s Parks and Recreation Department and its programs be impacted by a potential YMCA center?

For now, a decision by the BOS awaits in May as additional plans are reviewed by committees.

It is the consensus of all parties that the public will make the ultimate call on the proposed YMCA.

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No cougars in Virginia . . . so far

The mysterious cougar has long had a nearmythical place in the minds of humans, and despite no hard evidence that this big cat is still in Virginia, people here continue to report seeing them.

Recently reclassified as in the genus Puma, the cougar (Puma concolor) has many other common names — puma (as scientists tend to prefer), mountain lion, red tiger, deer tiger or panther. In 2011, wildlife biologist David Kocka, with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) co-authored an article on the status of cougars in Virginia for “Virginia Wildlife,” which is published by VDGIF. When he spoke about “mystery” animals at last year’s “Woods and Wildlife Conference” (see my Feb. 1 column), cougars took up half of his talk.

In his talk, Kocka said of the article, “We went through and pointed out the science behind why we’re pretty sure they’re not here.” In a followup conversation last month, Kocka said the cougar’s status here has not changed. He also wryly noted that there were no confirmed “sasquatch” sightings. (See the sidebar on what DNA testing reveals about this and about the yeti of the Himalayas.)

In a recent email exchange, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) research ecologist Bill McShea, who partnered with Kocka on the article, concurred that cougars are not here. McShea said his team at the SCBI Ecology Center has set up camera traps as part of the eMammal project (emammal.si.edu) “over the past five years or so” at more than 2,200 locations in Virginia. Out of the more than 32,000 wildlife “detections” that came out of the project, less than 5 percent were birds; the rest were mammals, and “none of these were mountain lions.” McShea also mentioned a colleague, Roland Kays, who is doing similar work in North Carolina, and as with “any other scientist putting an effort into camera trapping,” Kays found no mountain lions there.

People who think they’ve seen cougars tend to be passionate about what they think they saw, and even scientists I have talked with have said cougars came to mind in encounters of mysterious animals from a distance. But, as any scientist

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While there is no hard evidence that cougars are here in Virginia, they could be coming our way. knows, in identifying an animal observed, first rule out the common before considering the rare. Kocka also acknowledged that we humans tend to be bad at judging size from a distance without a good frame of reference.

In “Wild Mammals of Virginia,” published in 1947, authors Handley and Patton write that the last eastern cougar in Virginia was killed in Washington County in 1882. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (tinyurl.com/wi-lastcougars), the last records of eastern cougars are believed to be in Maine (1938) and New Brunswick, Canada (1932). As ➤ See Cougar, Page 8

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➤ Cougar, from Page 9 Kocka noted in his talk last year, the only established population of big cats in the East today consists of 160-200 Florida panthers, a subspecies of the eastern cougar that was not extirpated.

And anyone who thinks they’ve seen a black puma should know that they don’t come in that color, although there are big cats in Asian and South American that do.

It’s a normal human thing for our creative brains to fill in information gaps; it’s part of what has protected us from predators, and it extends to other parts of our lives. Think of how movies appear to us as one continuously moving image when they are actually a series of single frames strung together.

Or consider the diminishing reliance on eyewitness testimony in trials.

The Innocence Project, which works to appeal convictions of people that have been unfairly incarcerated, has researched such testimony since the 1990s, when DNA testing was first introduced. According to an article in “Scientific American” (tinyurl.com/ wi-eyewitness), the project found that 73 percent of the 239 convictions overturned through DNA testing were based on such testimony. Wildlife biologists can now also use DNA to easily determine the species from which collected samples come, such as fur and scat.

Photos can be trickier to analyze, and Kocka says he is as skeptical of those as of eyewitness accounts. Most photos received from the public are lacking a frame of reference for size, are fuzzy, don’t show the entire animal or otherwise are inconclusive. Most trail cam photos are also taken in low light, when wildlife tends to be more active, which doesn’t help. Experts with whom I’ve shared photos I’ve received purportedly of cougars have determined most are of domestic cats, with a few bobcats or dogs.

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Some photos of cougars that continue to cycle through the internet are hoaxes, passed on by people who may not know they are hoaxes.

Although they are purportedly taken in Virginia, they were either taken out West or “photoshopped” to look like they were taken here, Kocka says.

Fortunately, Kocka says, someone in his office is good at sleuthing out the fakes. (I usually start with snopes. com.)

If cougars are not here now, will they return? According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) website (tinyurl.com/wi-twra), in the United States cougars occupy the most extensive range of any New World terrestrial mammal: from the Canadian Yukon to the southern tip of South America, and from the West as far eastward as the western edge of the Dakotas, Nebraska and close to the eastern borders of Colorado and Texas.

And they are coming our way — albeit slowly. “They will probably arrive in my lifetime,” McShea says.

TWRA reports 10 confirmed sightings, spread over four counties in Tennessee, since 2015, which was the first year evidence could be confirmed.

Cougars found in the East recently come mainly from western populations, Kocka says, and most have been young males, such as a cougar hit on a highway in Connecticut a few years ago. As Kocka explains, young males tend to disperse in search of new breeding territory to avoid competing for mates with more-mature males.

Most of these pioneering males don’t survive, and females are needed to establish a population. That point makes a hair collected in Tennessee perhaps more interesting than other evidence of the cougar’s eastern expansion. According to TWRA’s DNA testing, it came from a female cougar “with genetics similar to cougars in South Dakota.” A few of the cougars found in the Northeast in the past 70 years were “likely released or escaped

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captives,” and “some cats had a South American genetic profile,” according to the USFWS species profile (tinyurl. com/wi-ec-profile) of the eastern cougar.

A 2012 study compiled confirmed locations of cougars outside of their established range during 1990-2008.

The results suggest, according to TWRA, that the cougar “is recolonizing the Midwest with a range expansion eastward.”

Missouri has had more than 60 sightings of pumas since 1994 and, perhaps most significantly, the first female was confirmed there in January 2017, Kocka says. Pointing to the large expanses between Tennessee and established cougar populations, TWRA concludes that “it will likely be a long time” before cougars establish a population even that far east.

Several experts I’ve talked with about cougars have noted one of the ways we’d know if they were here: dogs. A lot of Virginia hunters use dogs, Kocka says, and in response to being pursued by dogs, cougars usually climb a tree where available. So far, no hunters have reported their dogs treeing a puma. © 2018 Pam Owen Pam Owen is a writer, editor, photographer, and passionate nature, conservationist living in Rappahannock County, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. You may reach her at nighthawkcomm@gmail.com

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When it comes to the sasquatch, aka Bigfoot, scientists have found no evidence of it either, according to a July 1, 2014, article in the journal “Science” (tinyurl.com/wi-bigfoot). A lot of the reported “sightings” of sasquatches have been proven to be hoaxes of one sort or another, but DNA testing of 57 hairs the scientists collected from “Bigfoot enthusiasts and museums around the world” came from a wide range of distinctly nonmythical subjects.

Some were found to not be hairs at all but rather plant or glass fibers, and seven hairs didn’t provide enough DNA to determine the species they did come from.

The others turned out to be from various bear species, or from horses, wolves or dogs, a human, cows, raccoons, deer “and even a porcupine.”

From 1930 to recently, evidence has also been collected across the Himalayan mountain range from what some people believe to be a yeti, aka Abominable Snowman. The evidence includes scat, hair and bones. Recent DNA testing of some of some of these samples produced interesting results, according to a Nov. 30, 2017, Smithsonian article (tinyurl.com/wi-yeti).

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Culpeper Medical Center recognized for birth rate ➤ March of Dimes honors Culpeper Medical Center for zero births prior to 39 weeks for elective induction

By Jeff Say

CULPEPER TIMES STAFF WRITER

Novant Health UVA Health System Culpeper Medical Center is in rare company when it comes to delivering babies.

Joan Williamson, of Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association Director, Virginia Patient Safety Organization, presented a group of Culpeper healthcare providers with a banner from the March of Dimes recognizing their work in reducing the number of elective inductions and cesarean deliveries performed before 39 weeks of pregnancy.

“They launched this campaign to decrease non-medical elective ➤ See Births, Page 11

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➤ Births, from Page 10 early deliveries,” Williamson said.

“We’ve done some remarkable work.”

The threshold is to have a one percent rate statewide while the rate nationally is two percent.

Culpeper is at zero.

Dr. Alta DeRoo, UVA Obstetrics and Gynecology, said that reducing the number of early term inductions is a fairly new goal.

“Previously there was not an established standard in the early 2000s in terms of early term inductions,” De Roo said. “So early term inductions may have been done before 39 weeks. When they were done before 39 weeks it was associated with increased risk of a baby's respiratory efforts. What we found is if we did not induce babies before 39 weeks, they ended up having better outcomes.”

Even babies born just a few weeks early have higher rates of hospitalization and illness than full-term infants. Although the overall threat is small, the risk of death more than doubles for infants born at 37 weeks of pregnancy when compared to babies born at 40 weeks, for all races and ethnicities. Babies who survive an early birth often face lifelong health challenges, such as breathing problems, cerebral palsy, and

learning disabilities.

“You guys have made a big improvement and you’ve maintained the game,” Williamson said.

DeRoo said the hospital is delivering about 500 babies a year and Culpeper is ahead of the game by not having full-term births. She said that having preterm births from medical issues is a “not common” issue among their patient base but it is something that occurs.

Putting policies in place to avoid scheduling c-sections or in-

ductions prior to 39 weeks of pregnancy has become a priority for the birth center.

“Inductions aren’t for everybody, some people would like to know when the baby is coming and maybe some more predictability,” De Roo said.

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Scoop on Davis a sweet addition to downtown

By Jeff Say

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Visitors on East Davis Street now have a place to get their ice cream fix.

Steve and Linda Dohl, owners of Poppy and Chalk at 201 E. Davis St., opened Scoop on Main two weeks ago.

Opened on Feb. 9, the store was a highlight of Culpeper Renaissance Inc.’s annual Mardi Gras.

Despite the steady rain throughout the day, the brightly colored ice cream shop was filled to the brim with frozen treat aficionados.

Dohl said they often heard from visitors coming into Poppy and Chalk looking for a place to get an ice cream cone downtown.

They had nowhere to send them, so when the space they had rented out previously - to the Original Hope Co. and Bride and Joy - became open, they decided to solve the problem themselves.

“I can’t tell you how many times during the summer when people come in and ask ‘is there any place around here to get a good cone of ➤ See Scoop, Page 13

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➤ Scoop, from Page 12 ice cream?’,” Steve Dohl said. “We had a beautiful space and we took advantage of it.”

They’ve partnered with Gifford’s Ice Cream out of Maine to offer 10 flavors - ranging from chocolate, vanilla and mint chocolate chip to smores and camp coffee.

This will be the first time Giffords is offered locally, though they have retailers in Manassas and Haymarket.

“It’s not carried in stores, it’s pretty much an East Coast thing,” Dohl said.

Dohl said that after deciding to open an ice cream shop, he and his wife did a lot of research before deciding on Giffords as their offering.

“They’ve been very accommodating and they’ve got great ice cream,” Dohl said. “They have lots of different flavors and we’ll add more in the spring. I looked at a number other of places. looked locally but I wanted to make sure I had a premium ice cream.”

If the crowds on Saturday of Mardi Gras are any indication, the residents of Culpeper are fans of the brand.

“Saturday was packed,” Dohl said. “So far people are responding, I know my wife put it on Facebook and it blew up. People have

been waiting for something like this in Culpeper.”

Opening in February seems odd for an ice cream shop, but Dohl said they were excited to fill the space beside Poppy and Chalk and it gives them time to prepare for the inevitable summer rush.

“It gives us an opportunity to learn the trade,” Dohl said.

A scoop of Giffords costs $3.25, $4.25 for a double and $5.25 for a triple. A milkshake costs $5.25.

They offer toppings as well - sprinkles, chocolate chips and candies, in either a waffle or cake cone.

The Dohls opened Poppy and Chalk in December 2014 on East Street and moved to its current location in November 2015 at Clarke Hardware closed. The building was built in 1900 and is owned by the Culpeper Masons.

Poppy and Chalk specializes in restoring vintage furniture, they carry an array of chalk paint for enthusiastic do-it-yourselfers or they’ll do it for you.

Visitors on a recent weekday strolled through the store, sipping on a milkshake, which is part of the plan, Dohl said.

“We hope to get them through the door and then have them look around,” he said with a laugh.

Store hours are 1 to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

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CCHS girls state playoff bound PHOTO S BY IAN CHINI

Culpeper County High School Senior Tatyana Loney (21) (right) dribbles against Skyline last Friday. CCHS defeated Skyline 51-34 and then defeated Armstrong 52-50 to earn an automatic bid to the Class 3 state title.

Freshman Amanda Fairfax (bottom right) dribbles against Skyline last Friday.

Culpeper County High School's boys basketball team defeated Manassas Park 75-57 but lost in the Class 3B semi-final playoff game against John Marshall 106-74.

Culpeper County High School Senior Elijah Nelson (bottom left) led the Blue Devils with 22 points.

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SHAMROCK SHUFFLE 5K

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Stephen’s Episcopal Church – Women’s Group The Order of Daughters of the King (DOK) is a spiritual sisterhood of women dedicated to a life of Prayer, Service and Evangelism, making a commitment to Jesus as our Savior, and following Him as Lord of their lives. Please contact us for more information. Address: 115 N. East St., Culpeper | Parking: 120 N. Commerce Street | 540-825-8786 | ssec@ststephensculpeper.net |www.ststephensculpeper.net.

SPAY YOUR PETS • The

Season are Changing! Perfect time to get your cat and dog spayed and neutered. Spay Today's our area's non-profit, reduced-priced spay and neuter program. CHOOSE from MANY vets throughout the area. Contact Spay Today: https://spay-today.org or call 304.728.8330.

BLAND CONTEST • The Culpeper Mid-Day Lions is proud to announce that they once again are hosting the annual local contest featuring vocal and instrumental talent in honor of renowned musician James Bland a 1873 graduate of Howard University. Mr. Bland wrote more than 700 songs, the most famous being "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, the state song of Virginia from 1940 until 1997.

This contest is scheduled for 18

Culpeper County Library hosts mini golf in the library on March 2 and 3 as part of its 20th anniverary at its current location.

February at 2 p.m. at the Culpeper Baptist Church, 318 S West St. in Culpeper. Local citizens are invited to attend and cheer on Culpeper's finest musicians. The winners of the local contest will be joined by winners from other locations in our Region for a similar contest to be held at the same location, same time on March 4 beginning at 2 p.m.. Winners from both contest will receive cash prizes and the winners of the second contest will continue competing first at District, then State and if continued success they will represent our area in the national contest.

PRAYER SERVICE •

Reformation Lutheran Church, will hold their monthly Healing Service on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 601 Madison Road, in the Town of Culpeper.The Healing Service begins at 6 p.m. After the service prayer teams will be available for personal prayer and anointing with

oil. You do not need to be a member of the church to attend.

SPAGHETTI DINNER •

Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary will host a Spaghetti Dinner Feb. 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. (or until the food is gone). Adults - $8, Children 6-12 - $5, children 5 and younger - free.

Carry outs available. Parking in rear of firehouse. Spaghetti with Homemade Italian Sauce, Salad, Bread, Dessert and Beverages. All you can eat!

EVHS COMEDY CLUB • Cyclone Comedy Club Night will be held Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The Cyclone Boosters welcome Reese Waters and another comedian for 1.5 hours of fun. Advance ticket sales are $15 for adults and $10 for students (high school students show student ID). Make checkes payable to EVHS Athletic Boosters.

Online ticket sales at www.

• The Shamrock Shuffle 5k run/ walk will be held March 17 at 9:30 a.m. Check in begins at 8 a.m. Registration is $40 for an individual or $70 for a couple. $25 for a student and $12 for the youth 1K. The race will be held at Verdun Adventure Bound, Rixeyville.

Proceeds benefit the Blue Ridge Chorale of Culpeper, Inc. Sign up online at www.brcsings.com.

FEB. 22

LIVE MUSIC • Enjoy dinner or a drink to Culpeper’s Kate Hohman at Grass Rootes, 195 E. Davis Street, 540-764-4229. No cover.

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SPAGHETTI DINNER •

Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary will host a Spaghetti Dinner Feb. 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. (or until the food is gone). Adults - $8, Children 6-12 - $5, children 5 and younger - free.

Carry outs available. Parking in rear of firehouse. Spaghetti with Homemade Italian Sauce, Salad, Bread, Dessert and Beverages. All you can eat!

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EVENTS FOR CULPEPER, FAUQUIER, MADISON, ORANGE AND RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTIES

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Cyclone Comedy Club

LIVE MUSIC • Enjoy dinner or a

PRAYER SHAWL • Learn

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drink to Culpeper’s David Gilmore at Grass Rootes, 195 E. Davis Street, 540-764-4229. No cover.

to knit or crochet. Held at Reformation Lutheran Church located at 601 Madison Road in Culpeper each Monday from 10-12 a.m. All welcome. Contact Diane Vanderhoof at 540-604-0068.

QUILTING • Join others each

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Saturday who enjoy quilting at Reformation Lutheran Church located at 601 Madison Road in Culpeper. All welcome. Quilts are given to SAFE and other local organizations. Contact Diane Vanderhoof at 540-604-0068.

ST. STEPHEN’S MEN’S GROUP • The Brotherhood of

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• The Women’s Ministry of Antioch Baptist Church would like to invite you to their Black History Program at 2 p.m. at 202 South West Street, Culpeper, VA 22701.

Light refreshments will follow in the lower level of the church.

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EVHS COMEDY CLUB • Cyclone Comedy Club Night will be held Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The Cyclone Boosters welcome Reese Waters and another comedian for 1.5 hours of fun. Advance ticket sales are $15 for adults and $10 for students (high school students show student ID). Make checkes payable to EVHS Athletic Boosters.

Online ticket sales at www. cycloneboosters.eventbrite.com. At door ticket sales $20 for adults and $15 for students.

Cyclone Comdey Club Nigh will be held Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.

impacts for all of us. Please mark your calendar and bring a neighbor, bring a friend and come out and help to make difference in our community.

LIVE MUSIC • Enjoy dinner or a drink to Culpeper’s Christina Niston at Grass Rootes, 195 E. Davis Street, 540-764-4229. No cover.

gmail.com. Director Dave Detwiler was the lead trumpet for The United States Army Band from 19732000 and is currently the Principal Trumpet for the National Symphony Orchestra Pops.

BINGO • Mid-Day Lions Sunday

Night Bingo. Help support local groups with a fun night of games.

Held at Pepper’s Grill located at 791 Madison Road in Culpeper (by Best Western). Doors open at 5 p.m.

Games begin at 6:30 p.m. Three progressives each night, $1,000 jackpot.

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ce n ie d u CHURCH A st te n o C t h ig N e th CHURCH embers m PANCAKE SUPPER • Mitchells Presbyterian Church will hold its Annual Pancake & Sausage Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Our “all you can eat” dinner, complete with homemade sausage and gravy, apples, and more, will be $8 for adults and $5 for children under 12. Youngsters under 5 will eat FREE. Extra “take home” sausage will be for sale. Proceeds will benefit local missions and youth programs. Please call 825-1079 for information.

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TEAM JORDAN • The

• St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church - Join us in Worship. We offer three Holy Communion Services each week: Sunday at 8 a.m. or 10:30 a.m., Childcare from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Wednesday Centering Prayer at 11 a.m. followed by Healing and Holy Communion at 12 p.m. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church: Address: 115 N. East St., Culpeper | Parking: 120 N. Commerce Street | 540-825-8786 | www.ststephensculpeper.net |ststephensculpeper.net.

PIEDMONT COMMUNITY BAND • Piedmont Community

Band will host rehearsals on Sundays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Culpeper Baptist Church, 318 S. West Street. The band is seeking musicians of all ages and skill levels. This is an excellent opportunity for middle and high school age students to enlarge their horizons and gain more musical experience as well as qualifying for "community service" credit on future work or college applications.

Email piedmontcommunityband@

• Mountain View Community Church's Sermon Topic: "Romans 8 - No Condemnation: Overcome" Worship Service Times: 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Live Stream available at 10 a.m. via our website www. mountainviewcc.net. Children's programs available for birth - 5th grade. We are located at 16088 Rogers Road, behind Brusters Icecream. Small groups also meet throughout the week.

540-727-0297

CHURCH • St. Stephen’s

Episcopal Church – Women’s Group The Order of Daughters of the King (DOK) is a spiritual sisterhood of women dedicated to a life of Prayer, Service and Evangelism, making a commitment to Jesus as our Savior, and following Him as Lord of their lives. For information: 540-825-8786 | ssec@ ststephensculpeper.net | www. ststephensculpeper.net | Parking: 120 N. Commerce Street.

ts show en ud st ol ho Sc h ig (H ts en ud St 0 next Team Jordan will be 10 a.m. Roscoe H. Ford Police Community Room 740 Old Brandy Rd. Snacks from Chick-fil-A and of course Knakal's Bakery will be provided. The guest speaker will be Erick Kalenga from Project Rize. Erick is very involved in many activity in our community and is working hard to make positive

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able to EVHS Athletic Boosters

St. Andrew offers men and boys the Discipline of Prayer, Study and Service, to follow Christ and bring others into his kingdom.

Newcomers are welcome to join us for breakfast each Tuesday at 7 a.m.

Contact 540-825-8786 Address: 115 N. East St., Culpeper | Parking: 120 N. Commerce Street Visit www. ststephensculpeper.net

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PRAYER GROUP • Centering

Prayer Group at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Join us for an hour of reflection and prayer, each Wednesday at 11 a.m., followed

by Healing and Holy Communion service at noon. Contact 540-8258786. Located at 115 N. East Street.

CHESS • Culpeper Chess Club meets each Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Culpeper County Library located at 271 Southgate Shopping Center. All ages and all skill levels welcome, even those who have never played. Come learn a new skill! For information contact Charity Karstetter at 540727-0695 or culpeperchessclub@ hotmail.com.

FEB. 28

RRCS MEETING • The

Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission will hold its regular meeting at 1 p.m. on Feb. 28 at the Commission offices located at 420 Southridge Parkway, Suite 106 in Culpeper. The agenda and associated materials are available one week in advance of the meeting at the RRRC offices and online at http:// www.rrregion. org.

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SUBMIT YOUR EVENT!

Desk at the Library any day through Feb. 26. On Saturday, March 3, the course will still be set up for use LIVE MUSIC • Enjoy dinner or a on a first come, first served basis. drink to Culpeper’s Kate Hohman This is a free event. Calfee Garden at Grass Rootes, 195 E. Davis Club members will be adding Street, 540-764-4229. No cover. to the decoration with beautiful floral arrangements. Sponsors are FILM • “The Life of Emile Zola” needed to decorate each hole with (Warner Bros., 1937) obstacles for the golfers to play In this Best Picture Oscar winner around. The purpose is to depict William Dieterle directed Paul your particular business. If you Muni as French novelist Zola who would like to sponsor and join in defends the falsely accused Captain the fun, contact Kathy Clevenger at Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut in an 540-825-8691 or visit www.cclva.

Oscar-winning performance). The org for more information.

Dreyfus case, which was a cause célèbre of antisemitism during FILM • “The Sting” (Universal, the latter years of the nineteenth 1973) century, formed an exciting climax Robert Redford plays a Great to Zola's career as a champion Depression-era conman seeking of truth and liberty, and is, revenge on the racketeer (Robert consequently, the dramatic highlight Shaw) responsible for the murder of this film biography nominated of his mentor. He enlists the aid for nine Academy Awards. The film of confidence artist extraordinaire was added to the National Film Paul Newman to gather together an Registry in 2000. Free, at the Library impressive array of con men eager of Congress Packard Campus to settle the score with Shaw. One Theater located at 19053 Mt. Pony of the biggest hits of the early '70s, Rd. in Culpeper, VA. No reservations “The Sting” picked up seven Oscars including Best Picture, Director, taken.

Screenplay and Best Adapted Score FILM • True Love has a pit. for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable Olive U (at the bar) is your setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime chance to taste, learn and pair music. The film was added to the Spanish Olives with cheese.

National Film Registry in 2005.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Cheese and Rated PG. Free, at the Library of Olive pairing? Yeah, that’s a tasty Congress Packard Campus Theater “thing” you should know about located at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. before all the hipsters catch on. In in Culpeper, VA. No reservations this 90-minute class you will taste taken. and learn about Spanish olive varieties and enjoy pairing them with artisanal cheeses. Included in the class are Losada Olives, Artisanal Cheese, Water, a 15-page LIVE MUSIC • Enjoy dinner or a educational handout together with drink to Culpeper’s David Gilmore the Olive U presentation by ACS at Grass Rootes, 195 E. Davis Certified Cheese Professional, Street, 540-764-4229. No cover.

Jeffery Mitchell. As we are at Foti’s, they will have a special menu for FILM • “Empire of the Sun” class participants together with (Warner Bros., 1987) refreshments available for purchase Based on J.G. Ballard’s autobiographical novel and directed

by Steven Spielberg, this historic drama stars Christian Bale as a spoiled 13-year old British boy LIBRARY CELEBRATION living with his wealthy family in • On Friday, March 2, the 20th pre-World War II Shanghai. During anniversary of the Culpeper the Japanese invasion, Bale is County Public Library celebration separated from his parents, and will begin with something that with the help of an American many people have never seen. An expatriate and hustler (John 18 hole miniature golf course will be Malkovich), he learns to survive in a set up throughout the stacks. The Japanese prison camp. Rated PG. Library will close at 3 p.m. that day Free, at the Library of Congress so the course can be set up. The Packard Campus Theater located doors will reopen to the public from at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. in Culpeper, 6 to p.m. for a Homemade Dessert VA. No reservations taken.

Buffet and Mini Golf for a five dollar fee. Pre-registration is required. To pay the fee, stop by the Circulation

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FILM • “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” (Columbia, 1958) Special-effects master Ray Harryhausen provides the hero (Kerwin Mathews) with a villainous magician and fantastic antagonists, including a genie, giant cyclops, fire-breathing dragons, and a sword-wielding animated skeleton, all in glorious Technicolor.

Harryhausen's Dynamation process, which blended stopmotion animation and live-actions sequences, and a thrilling score by Bernard Herrmann makes this one of the finest fantasy films of all time.

“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” was added to the National Film Registry in 2008. Free, at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater located at 19053 Mt. Pony Rd. in Culpeper, VA. QUILTING • Join others each

Saturday who enjoy quilting at Reformation Lutheran Church located at 601 Madison Road in Culpeper. All welcome. Quilts are given to SAFE and other local organizations. Contact Diane Vanderhoof at 540-604-0068.

MARCH 4

CHURCH • St. Stephen’s

Episcopal Church - Join us in Worship. We offer three Holy Communion Services each week: Sunday at 8 a.m. or 10:30 a.m., Childcare from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Wednesday Centering Prayer at 11 a.m. followed by Healing and Holy Communion at 12 p.m. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church: Address: 115 N. East St., Culpeper | Parking: 120 N. Commerce Street | 540-825-8786 | www.ststephensculpeper.net |ststephensculpeper.net.

PIEDMONT COMMUNITY BAND • Piedmont Community

Band will host rehearsals on Sundays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Culpeper Baptist Church, 318 S. West Street. The band is seeking musicians of all ages and skill levels. This is an excellent opportunity for middle and high school age students to enlarge their horizons and gain more musical experience as well as qualifying for "community service" credit on future work or college applications.

Email piedmontcommunityband@ gmail.com. Director Dave Detwiler was the lead trumpet for The United States Army Band from 19732000 and is currently the Principal Trumpet for the National Symphony Orchestra Pops.

Want your event to appear in the Culpeper Times What's Happening expanded regional weekend calendar? Email editor Jeff Say at jsay@ culpepertimes.com.

BINGO • Mid-Day Lions Sunday

Night Bingo. Help support local groups with a fun night of games.

Held at Pepper’s Grill located at 791 Madison Road in Culpeper (by Best Western). Doors open at 5 p.m.

Games begin at 6:30 p.m. Three progressives each night, $1,000 jackpot.

CHURCH • Mountain View

Community Church's Sermon Topic: "Romans 8 - No Condemnation: Overcome" Worship Service Times: 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Live Stream available at 10 a.m. via our website www. mountainviewcc.net. Children's programs available for birth - 5th grade. We are located at 16088 Rogers Road, behind Brusters Icecream.

CHURCH • St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church – Women’s Group The Order of Daughters of the King (DOK) is a spiritual sisterhood of women dedicated to a life of Prayer, Service and Evangelism, making a commitment to Jesus as our Savior, and following Him as Lord of their lives. For information: 540-825-8786 | ssec@ ststephensculpeper.net | www. ststephensculpeper.net | Address: 115 N. East St., Culpeper | Parking: 120 N. Commerce Street.

MARCH 6 AGING TOGETHER • Join Aging Together from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for a program on ‘Educate Before You Medicate’, Culpeper Town Police Department, 740 Old Brandy Rd., Culpeper. Learn from Johna Inskeep, Pharmacist at Walgreen’s, and Office Michael Grant, Culpeper Town Police, about safe medication use and storage. Bring your unused or expired medications for secure disposal. The program is free, open to the public and refreshments will be served. Call Aging Together at 540-8296405 or email info@ agingtogether.org.

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What’s Happening EVENTS FOR CULPEPER, FAUQUIER, MADISON, ORANGE AND RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTIES

RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY

at the Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Rd. Tickets: $35 adults/$15 students at castletonfestival.org

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PIEDMONT SOFTBALL CHILI BOWL: • Enter your

MARCH 17

BREAKFAST AND BAKE SALE • Old-Fashioned Country

Breakfast and Bake Sale is 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church, Sperryville. Donations $6 adult and $3 children 10 and under, to benefit the Rappahannock Relay For Life/ Dahlia Lane Team Hope. For more information, call Cindy Sanders 540-675-3636 or Mary Bywaters 540-675-1566.

SHRIMP DINNER • Amissville

Volunteer Fire and Rescue will be having a shrimp and oyster dinner from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Adults are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. $20 for children 4-12 years old for Seafood. $10 for Children 4-12 years old for Hot Dogs. Free for children 3 and under. Soft Drinks are included, and we will also be serving Oyster Stew, Hush Puppies, Cole Slaw, and Hot Dogs. There will be a Bake Sale, and a 50/50 raffle.

For tickets, please contact Connie Compton at 540-522-5411 or Bonnie Bowers at Warrenton Auto Service or you can buy tickets at the door.

deepens, the queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity.

Popcorn, candy, water available for purchase. Cost $6.

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MARCH 3

• Reporter Randy Rieland and others involved in the Rappahannock News-Foothills series on rural transportation challenges will be discussing the issue with residents and community leaders at 2 p.m. at Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church in Sperryville.

rated comedy and magic show, The Magic Duel, is coming to the Little Washington Theatre with an 8 p.m. performance. With audience involvement providing plenty of improvisational detours, the show features loads of comedy and mindboggling magic done right before the audience’s eyes. This is magic and comedy for grown ups; not kids, and is recommended for those over 15 years old. Theatre is located at 291 Gay St., and tickets ($25) are available by calling 540-675-1253 or at www.littlewashingtontheatre.com

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MARCH 2

FIRST FRIDAY AT THE MOVIES • "Victoria and Abdul"

at 7 p.m. at Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay St., Washington.

Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favor with the queen herself. As their friendship

Wine and Dine Month in Rappahannock County is in March. For more details and to make reservations: http://www.opendoortour. org/category/trails/rappahannock-county-artisan-trail/

MAGIC DUEL • The highly

BACH AND BLUEGRASS:

• Join the Vanderbilt Chorale in performance, featuring Nashville's finest bluegrass, jazz and soul, under the baton of Maestro Tucker Biddlecombe.

7 p.m. at the Castleton Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Rd. Tickets: $10 at castletonfestival.org

MARCH 10

HAM AND OYSTER DINNER

• Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue will be having its All You Can Eat Ham and Oyster dinner from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the station.

Cost for adults $30, kids ages 4-10 $15, 3 and under are free. All proceeds will be used to fund daily operations. For more information, call 540-675-3615 and speak with one of the members.

RAINER MARIA RILKE AND THE SHADOW OF AUGUSTE RODIN • A vibrant

portrait of the friendship between two of the twentieth century's greatest artists, the German Poet Rilke and the French Sculptor Rodin in song and word with Rachel Corbett, award-winning author, Tyler Nelson, Castleton's beloved tenor, and actress Dietlinde Turban Maazel. 7 p.m.

chili — and eat a lot, too — in Piedmont Softball Association's annual fundraiser for its fast-pitch girls' league, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the old Bill Payne Auction Gallery, 10 Maddox Lane, Amissville. All who bring a pot of chili compete for awards in in categories of exotic, hottest, and basic chili, with the chili receiving most votes winning the title of 2018 PSA "Bestest Chili" and possession of the unique PSA Chili Bowl perpetual trophy for one year. Rollicking cake walks, as well as silent and live auction items and more. All-you-can-eat chili and cornbread is $8 admission; $4 ages 6 to 11; kids 5 and under free. Drinks and hotdogs will be available for sale also. Registrations also will be accepted for any girls born anytime from 1999 through 2012 interested in playing softball this year. For more information, check the league's website: piedmontsoftball.net or email amissville.softball@gmaIl.com; also on Facebook: Piedmont Softball Association-Amissville

FAUQUIER COUNTY APRIL 7

YARD SALE • The Remington Lions Club located at their club house at 1326 James Madison Highway (H/W 29) in Remington is hosting a yard sale on Saturday, April 7 between the hours of 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Fees are $40 inside with one table or $20 outside without table. Point of contact for reservations is Debbie Embrey (540) 718-3177.

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Culpeper Times • Feb 22-28, 2018

VIEWS

A Beginners Guide to Artificial Intelligence

If I asked you to describe the first thing that pops into your head when you hear Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), what would it be? Do you imagine a world where machines take over the planet like Skynet in The Terminator movie series? Or maybe something simpler such as when you use your phone to ask Siri or your Echo speaker to ask Alexa, “What will the weather be like today?”

Regardless of what first pops into your head, most of you probably imagine a world where a machine both thinks and acts like a human autonomously. In reality, A.I. is a computing device that can mimic human thought and decision-making ability. The device can perceive its own environment and act on its own to reach the goal.

The field of A.I. has been around since 1956. A Dartmouth College research project conducted during 1950’s described A.I. as human intelligence “so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”

There is an extensive list of A.I. research that includes reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, and perception. A.I. also applies principles from statistics, probability, economics, mathematics, psychology, and neuroscience.

A.I., in its simplest form, is gathering data points, recognizing

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a pattern, then acting upon the pattern to achieve the desired result. If you are on Facebook you already see the results of this within the ads on your news feed. Facebook has so many data points on you and your interests that when a company purchases an advertisement, Facebook knows who to show the ad to.

Then, as the ad is shown over a period of time, Facebook will fine tune the audience to similar types of people that will also find the ad relevant. Afterwards, if the company chooses to run another ad, it can select what is called a “lookalike audience.”

Lookalike audiences are brand new people that share similar traits

(data points) as existing customers.

Cybersecurity is going thru a renaissance now with advances in A.I. Cloud hosted security programs can now detect irregular patterns in data traffic that represent a variety of new types of viruses or intrusions relatively on the fly. Within a couple of hours, a new zero-day virus will be automatically stopped in its tracks from spreading, protecting the rest of the computer network from infection as the security system is continually learning.

Stopping a new threat like this use to take days to resolve, if not longer, was very labor intensive, and that’s if it was detected in the first place.

The biggest change we will see in our day to day life in the next couple

of years will be self-driving cars.

Autonomous vehicles have been getting a lot of main stream media attention with leaps in technology

by Google, Tesla, and Uber. Believe it or not, this is a field that has been running experiments since the 1920s. Virginia and Washington D.C. have allowed autonomous car testing on public roads since 2015.

The A.I. involved for driverless vehicles includes sensors to detect the vehicles environment, tracking other objects around the vehicle, GPS positioning, even visual object recognition.

The computer in the car must interpret all those data points and continually make its own decisions to get from point A to point B, while monitoring other traffic around them, other unexpected obstacles, such as a pedestrian or a child running into the street after a ball, and follow the general rules of the road As computing power increases, the advances in Artificial Intelligence will continue to make huge strides. Honestly, who wouldn’t prefer to sleep on their commute to work in the morning or stream a show that Netflix A.I. recommends to you, rather than fighting road rage inducing traffic anymore?

Bring it on! *online version has links for additional info John Barker is the Chief Operating Office with Attollo Systems LLC in Culpeper. You may reach him at jbarker@attollosystems.com or 540317-3150 ext 1001

Need to know promotional trends for 2018 MARKETING MINUTE

If you would like your promotions to be on point this year, here are five need to know trends for 2018: 1.Color - Goodbye Greenery, Hello Ultra Violet.

The Pantone Color Institute forecasts global color trends for the purposes of branding and product development. Each year they announce a Color of the

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year. Last year was a vibrant Green (search “PMS 15-0343”). This year is a “Complex and contemplative” Purple (search PMS 18-3838). Should you rush and re design your logo, or throw out all your promotional items?

No, but you might want to weave purple into your marketing. Pick promotional items such as screen printed shirts or client thank you gifts that have Purple accents. People are more aware of color and it’s ability to convey a message.

2. Events and Displays - Looking the part is more affordable than ever.

The amount of suppliers offering

events and displays is on the rise. As a result, the cost of full color event tents, pop up displays, etc. is coming down while the quality and variety is increasing. It has never been easier to make a “Wow” impression at an event.

3. Apparel - Wearable Technology continues to evolve. Built-in heart rate monitors in jackets and blue tooth speakers in headwear are two examples. Both are great choices for Employee Wellness campaigns. Socks, yes socks! The same more affordable ➤ See Trends, Page 21

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Why do school shootings happen?

PARDOE’S PERSPECTIVE

It doesn’t require a PhD to peel back the proverbial onion on school shootings like the one recently in Florida to look for why these happen.

Here’s what I think…

We are not raising our kids to cope with issues.

We have gone out of our way to coddle children so much that they have a hard time coping with popularity, bullying, sexuality, puberty, and every other thing that bombards young men and women. In colleges we put in “free speech zones,” and implement censorship of anything that night offend someone. Rather than try and teach children to find ways to cope with what they are feeling, we try and remove those things. This makes the kids unable to deal with the real-world and when they reach a boiling point, they explode in violence.

Mental health problems are medicated rather than treated. In my youth, our country closed most of those facilities out of concerns for patients’ rights; opting to try and medicate people to levels where they should be able to control themselves.

The problem is, some people don’t take their meds, or go off of them, or the meds don’t work. Simply put, some people need to be put away before they hurt others.

The internet and universe of connectivity. Kids are connected to each other more than ever, without personal interactions. Texts replace

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conversations. The web provides them with an endless universe of violent videos with no filter. Most families don’t restrict their internet access for their teenagers, leaving kids to explore violent avenues that were unheard of when we were children. The internet provides simple exposure to violence without a counterbalance as to why it is wrong.

Our fixation on notoriety and fame at all costs. We are a society puts people like the Kardashians up as role models. We care more what some idiot actor in Hollywood thinks than our elected officials. People go on reality TV and make asshats out of themselves just for a moment of fame. Teenagers see this and see how shooters make worldwide press in a matter of moments. They don’t think of the implications, only the result.

Bad parenting. Yes, I will say it, rotten parents. How do these kids get semi-automatic weapons and keep them at home without their parents knowing? That sure would not have happened in my parent’s house. Children are raised with no consequences for their actions.

The parents don’t teach them the fundamentals of being members of our society. They rely on the schools to do that. It does not take a village to raise a child – it takes good parents to teach right from wrong. Parents spend their time trying to avert punishment from their kids, rather than letting them learn and understand the repercussions of their actions.

There are few to no deterrents to prevent students from starting a shooting. Our schools were built decades ago and are outdated from

➤ Trends, from Page 20 sublimation printing used for Events and Displays is also being used in printing full color socks. Full color socks are a popular choice for school and team spirit wear.

4. Packaging - We are seeing greater availability and variety for full color packaging, an affordable way to give your next marketing campaign an edge.

Think box mailers, gate keeper gifts, client “thank you’s” and take home gifts. For example, we have several hotel and restaurant clients that us this type of marketing.

They present a small custom box with confections at the end of a meal as a little take home gift.

Custom packaging is great to have

a security perspective. We put in security guards that are little more than uniformed, unarmed targets. We have done little to implement true security at a school that would stop or inhibit a shooter, especially one of the students. If the children went through metal detectors, had their lockers randomly searched, if there was a welltrained and armed security force that was visible – it might just convince a would-be shooter to not act.

The media. The media has an agenda and leads with that when there is a shooting. First, they turn shooters into celebrities, putting them on the news constantly, for weeks or months if there is a trial. Second, they exaggerate or outright lie about the scope of the issues to make this a gun issue. During the Florida shooting, some sixteen news outlets ran with the story that this was, “…the 18th mass school shooting since the start of 2018.”

It was as deliberate lie. Only three of these incidents were someone entering a school deliberately to discharge a weapon.

We glorify violence. The music kids listen to is heavily laden with violence.

Video games reward those that rack up the most kills or cause the most damage. Gang culture is idolized in some communities. We have allowed our youth to immerse themselves in violence without consequence.

You will note that I didn’t mention guns as a cause. Gun technology in terms of semi-automatic weapons has been the same since WWII. The guns have not changed to cause this problem, WE have changed as a society.

Tackle that issue, and we can make school shootings a thing of the past.

inside to suit the recipient.5. USA Made - The availability and demand for USA made products is on the rise. According to the Advertising Specialty Institutes latest global study, 63% of Virginians have a more favorable view of an advertiser after we receive a USA made promotional item. The national average is 53%.

So next time you get a quote for your marketing materials, you might want to ask for a quote on a comparable USA Made alternative.

on hand for spontaneous gifts too, as you can put whatever you wish

If you have a question to put to Sophie on marketing your business, you can contact Sophie Hudson at: Kash Design, 629 Sperryville Pike, Suite 204, Culpeper, VA 22701 540.317.1473, mail@kashdesign.com, KashDesign. com

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The Frenchman's Corner receives TripAdvisor award The Frenchman’s Corner, the #1 retailer of Neuhaus Belgian chocolate amongst other high-quality chocolates and pastries today announced that it has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence. Now in its seventh year, the achievement celebrates hospitality businesses that have earned great traveler reviews on TripAdvisor over the past year.

"We are, one again honoured to be awarded the 2017 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence," The Frenchman's Corner owners Meg and Marc Ast said. "We strive to make every customer’s visit a pleasurable experience and welcome them into the Frenchman’s Corner retail family.

Every individual that enters our shop is deserving of the white glove service that we pride ourselves on."

“TripAdvisor is excited to announce the recipients of the 2017 Certificate of Excellence, which celebrates hospitality businesses that have consistently received strong praise and ratings from travelers,” said Heather Leisman, Vice President of Industry Marketing, TripAdvisor. “This recognition allows us to

publicly honor businesses that are actively engaging with customers and using feedback to help travelers identify and confidently book the perfect trip.”

The Certificate of Excellence accounts for the quality, quantity and recency of reviews submitted by travelers on TripAdvisor over a 12-month period.

To qualify, a business must maintain an overall TripAdvisor bubble rating of at least four out of five, have a minimum number of reviews and must have been listed on TripAdvisor for at least 12 months.

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chamber advantage The Pulse of Business in Culpeper • Volume 4, Issue 40

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The Inn at Kelly’s Ford Omar Aizaz, Owner 16589 Edwards Shop Road Elkwood, VA 22734 540.399.1779 theinnatkellysford@gmail.com Bed & Breakfasts/Inn

Culpeper School Board member Marshall Keene attended the Virginia School Boards Association Orientation for New Board Members in Richmond, VA. State Legislators and Education leaders from all across the Commonwealth attended the orientation. Topics covered included an overview of the roles and responsibilities of school boards and superintendents, school law, school division budgets, working with your local appropriating body, and parliamentary procedure.

WELLSPRING HEALTH SERVICES is proud to welcome Dawn Gasteazoro, LMT, BCTMB, certified massage therapist.

Dawn believes that massage should be relaxing and brings a therapeutic approach to her technique so that her clients not only feel relaxed after a massage but also feel better. She is skilled in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Prenatal Massage as well as kinesio-taping.

Rosson & Troilo Fire Protection Services Pep Troilo P.O. Box 82 Brandy Station, VA 22714 540.825.9100 peppe@rossintroilo.com Fire Extinguishers The Experience Church Pastor Rock Savage 509 South Main Street Suites #111/#114 Culpeper, VA 22701 540.229.4965 txculpeper@gmail.com Churches

DOGWOOD VILLAGE would like to recognize Fedie McClung for her contributions to our facility. Fedie retired from her nursing career in 2003 at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has been a dedicated volunteer at Dogwood Village since 2007. She enjoys reading, listening to books on tape and loves to garden. She is pictured with Ms. Mildred Butts.

NICHOLAS, JONES AND CO., PLC welcomes Roger S. Sheaffer, E.A. to the firm. Roger is originally from Mt. Joy, PA and has been an Enrolled Agent since 2003. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration/Accounting from Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania.

NARMADA is excited to announce that their 2014 YashVir (meritage blend) won gold in the Virginia Governors Cup!

NICHOLAS, JONES AND CO., PLC is excited to announce that they have expanded its services this year to include the Bookkeeping and Payroll Department. This is located in the NJC annex building right next to their main office.

CULPEPER BAPTIST CHILD DEVELOPMENT Center, Inc. received Level 2 in the VA Quality Initiative for Early Care providers recently. Reaching Level 2 of Virginia Quality means at least 50% of our lead teachers obtained their CDA

credential or have 12 child-related credits from an accredited college.

Our teachers have worked vigorously to become the best early childhood educators they can be to provide a quality learning environment for children.

Congratulations to FAYE’S OFFICE SUPPLY on their 24 years in business! Faye’s would also like to wish Rachel a Happy Birthday!

DUCKETT-CORBIN TEAM AT MONTAGUE, MILLER & CO. REALTORS are proud to announce that Wes Corbin has obtained his real estate ABR designation (Accredited Buyer Representative) w/ a certification in New Home Construction and Buyer Representation. These certifications will allow him to better assist buyers with new construction purchases and the home buying process.

Windstar Technologies, Inc. David Groot, President 451 James Madison Highway, #108 Culpeper, VA 22701 540.829.7827 solutions@windstartech.com Information Technology Pelican Aircraft Consulting Michael Hogan, President 12469 Beverly Ford Road, #3 Brandy Station, VA 22714 703.431.2288 Aircraft Consulting

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CHAMBER VALOR 2 CULPEPER AWARDS DINNER Where: Boxwoods Celebration Venue, 4488 True Blue Road, Culpeper.

When: March 22, 6 to 8 p.m..

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When: March 28, 7:30 to 9 a.m.

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Culpeper Times • Feb 22-28, 2018

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All our food is HOMEMADE and prepared with the freshest ingredients and cooked to order!

Special occasions, such as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are a time when we take a break from our overVOTED Meg Oremiatzki-Ast filled days and nights and take a Best BBQ in Culpeper... day or weekend with our special Come experience the difference! someone and go out to dinner or escape for a romantic weekend.

540.317.5718 Chef Tony 129 E. Culpeper Street Champagne or wine and chocolate at The Stable, behind the Culpeper Post Office Catering Available always seem to be a big part of & Private Parties everyone's celebration but there isn't a lot known about the pairing Make your reservations now! of the two to make it a pleasurable experience.

Even if you are hosting a dinner party and your guests offer to bring some chocolates, with this information at your fingertips, you can guide them to the MADISON INN RESTAURANT correct chocolate for the type of wine you will be serving.

HOURS: Mon. Closed | Tues.-Thur. 11am–8pm | As a high-end chocolate boutique, we are frequently F-Sat. 11am–9pm | Sun. 11am–3pm COFFEE & SwEET SHOPPE NOw OPEN: asked what is the best chocolate to go with different wines. This is what we have discovered.

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8AM - 3 PM, lastly white chocolate (cocoa butter, sugar and milk CLOSED Mon. & Sun. solids), not technically a true chocolate, here is what you should be looking for in your wine; Sweetness. That is 217 N. Main Street, Madison, VA correct, it is advisable to pair chocolate with sweet wines, (540) 948.5095 Ports, Muscat’s, Shiraz or Syrah.

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When sampling dark chocolate, the wine should be very sweet, dark, rich and smooth, either a fortified or low tannin wine.

Milk chocolate, because of the higher percentage of sugar, the best pairing is with a lighter version of a similar wine that would be used for dark chocolate. This wine should also be very sweet.

Because white chocolate is very sweet, the best pairing would be with a dessert wine.

When you select your wine, go with the fruitier reds with less-high alcohol content.

The recommendation is to stay away from dry red wines and champagne. The high level of tannin in dry red wines is very strong and somewhat bitter which over powers the sweet taste of chocolate. It is very tricky to pair chocolate with champagne. Champagne is too acidic to be paired with chocolate. Anyway, I am a purist when it comes to champagne, so I prefer to just have a glass with no accompaniment.

The best chocolates to pair with wines would be the traditional truffle. When it comes to pairing with wine, they line up to the darkest of red wines to the lightest of white wines. Some good choices for chocolate truffles would be, the Classic, Cognac or Strong Dark truffle is excellent with dark red wines. For medium-bodied wines, you would enjoy the Tiramisu or Cappuccino truffle and for the dessert wine, the Champagne truffle would be the perfect match. All truffles listed above are Neuhaus Belgian chocolates and can be procured on our website or at our retail location in historic downtown Culpeper.

The Frenchman’s Corner wishes you a very happy special occasion, whatever it may be.

In the end, the pairing of wines and chocolates are a personal preference and I strongly recommend that you buy some wine, buy some chocolates and have a wine and pairing party and give our chocolates a try along with your favorite wines. One can always try a hightannin red wine with chocolate, however, you will need to select a high-tannin chocolate, 85% or higher.

If you happen to be visiting wineries over the weekend before Valentine's Day, we will be participating in a wine and chocolate pairing event at Wilderness Run Vineyards in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Stop by and see what your tastes buds tell you about their wine and our chocolates.

I will leave you with this, the wine should always be slightly sweeter than the chocolate or dessert that you are pairing it with.

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Culpeper Times • Feb 22-28, 2018

CRIME SOLVERS

ARREST REPORTS

Robert Michael Johnson

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Age: 30, Black/Male Hgt./Wgt.: 5-11/160 Hair/Eye: Brown/Brown Last known: 22069 Constitution Hwy., Rapidan, Va. Wanted for: Probation Violation on Felony Charge.

Franklin Roosevelt Ferris Age: 52, Black/Male Hgt./Wgt.: 6-2/225 Hair/Eye: Black/Brown Last known: 1330 Old Fredericksburg Rd., Culpeper, Va. Wanted for: Sentence to Community Based Corrections Program or Facility.

Shemea Inez Penn Age: 29, Black/Female Hgt./Wgt.: 5-4/141 Hair/Eye: Brown/Brown Last known: 410 Laurel St., Culpeper, Va. Wanted for: Revocation of Suspended Sentence and Probation.

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Culpeper County Sheriff's Office: Feb. 13-19 Following are the county police reports from Feb. 13-19.

Reports are provided by the law enforcement agency listed and do not imply guilt, however are the charges placed by the CCSO.

Age: 29, White/Male Hgt./Wgt.: 5-11/171 Hair/Eye: Brown/Blue Last known: 687 Arrington Mountain Rd., Haywood, Va. Wanted for: (2) counts of Probation Violation on Felony Charge.

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February 14 Dondre Maurice White, 20, 3000 block 26th Ave., Temple Hills, Fail to appear Raina Lyn Weakley, 45 13000 block Alum Springs Rd., Culpeper, Probation: violation on felony charge Roberto Colon, 50, 800 block Virginia Ave., Culpeper, Bail/Peace release (3 counts) February 15 Christopher Paul Nicolet, 54, 15000 block Lee Hwy., Amissville, Violation of stalking protective order Matthew Martinez Stanton, 24, 1800 block Picadilly Circus, Culpeper, Assault & battery -family member Heather Lyn Tyler, 33, 9500 block James Madison Hwy., Culpeper, Contempt of court

February 16 Kenneth Ryan Brown, 24, 6400 block Grand Brooks Rd., Spotsylvania, Possession of schedule I, II controlled substance, driving with suspended or revoked license, possess or distribute controlled paraphernalia

February 17 Amy Lynn Philyaw, 33, 15000 block Hall St., Culpeper, Jail: prisoner fails to report to jail Lawrence Russell Johnson Jr., 37, 10000 block Eggbornsville Rd., Rixeyville, Fail to appear Thomas Michael Thompson, 26, 100 block Dungadin Rd., Front Royal, Possession of controlled substances February 18 Roger Thomas Dodson Jr., 50, Winchester, Grand larceny Rodney O’Neil Banks, 49, 24000 block Lignum Rd., Lignum, Unauthorized use: animal / vehicle / etc, larceny >=200 Homer Henry Rice, 32, 18000 Waterloo Rd., Amissville, Assault & battery -family member

February 19 Mark A. Wheeler Jr., 24, 100 block Land Or Drive, Ruther Glen, Driving under the influence of alcohol, eluding police -endanger persons or police car, driving w/ suspended or revoked license, possess a certificate of title issued to another Jessica Ashley Gordon, 32, 9300 block General Winder, Rapidan, Probation: violation on felony charge February 20 Kristopher Michael Buchele, 44, 19000 block Clover Hill Rd., Jeffersonton, Possession of marijuana, possess or distribute controlled paraphernalia, possession of controlled substances Nicolas Taylor Sullivan, 25, 19000 block Camp Rd., Culpeper, Violation of pre-trial release (2 counts) Ian Bryan Houseman, 38, 1000 block Lakeview Dr., Cross Junction, Phone: annoying or ringing

Culpeper Town Police: Feb. 12-18

Following are the police reports from Feb. 14-20. Reports are provided by the law enforcement agency listed and do not imply guilt, however are the charges placed by the police department.

February 12 Dante Terrell Waters, 29, Friendship Way, Culpeper, Assault & battery -family member 3rd offense Patrice Nicole Davis, 36, 200 block Queen St., Culpeper, Assault & battery -family member Eli Edward Walkup Jr., 40, 500 block Virginia Ave., Culpeper, Fail to appear, assault & battery -family member Patrick Aaron Griffin Azor, 26, 100 block W. Williams St., Culpeper, Fail to appear Marcos Ernesto Mejia-Asuncion, 18, 14000 block Hazel River Church Rd., Culpeper, Breaking & enter w/ int to commit felony, Firearm: use in commission of felony, contributing to the delinquency of a minor Gisela Murillo Jiminez, 30, 600 block Kings Grant Rd., Culpeper, Assault & battery -family member February 13 Karyn Marie Howard, 50, 300 block Snyder Ln., Culpeper, Grand larceny, petit larceny

Bernard Edmond Lamoureaux, 61, 21000 block Mt. Pony Rd., Culpeper, Petit larceny (2 counts) Alan Raymond Kanelopoulos, 33, 600 block N. East St., Culpeper, Revocation of suspended sentence and probation

February 14 Shelton Craig Ferris, 33, 11000 block Fox Hill Ln., Culpeper, Revocation of pretrial Deontaie Dovall Lewis, 19, 1000 block S. East St., Culpeper, Fail to pay fines, costs, or penal ties Kelsey Janelle Haines, 18, 11000 block Torrie Way, Bealeton, Contributing to the delinquency of a minor February 15 Matthew Martinez Stanton, 24, 1800 block Picadilly Circus, Culpeper, Drunk in public, profane language Gregory Wormley Jr., 25, 100 block Marshall Rd., Madison, Revocation of suspended sentence and probation Dante Terrell Waters, 29, Friendship Way, Culpeper, Revocation of pretrial Soncerae Colclough, 37, 2500 block Charles St., Fredericksburg, Revocation of suspended sentence and probation Levelle Dashawn Wright, 20,

200 block Lafayette Dr., Culpeper, Possession of marijuana Bobby Bennett, 39, Old Rixeyville Rd., Culpeper, Monument: unlawful damage, no intent to steal, drunk in public, profane language Bonnie Octavia Roy, 37, 1300 block Spring Meadow Ln., Culpeper, Fail to appear Deontaie Dovall Lewis, 19, 1000 block S. East St., Culpeper, Concealment, price alter merchandise <$200 Richard Randolph Rector, 54, 18000 block Brandy Rd., Culpeper, Driving under the influence of alcohol, drinking while driving or open container, accident: driver not rpt, w/ death/inj/dmag>1000 February 17 Melissa Dawn Corsaro, 42, 11000 block Old Stillhouse Rd., Boston, Driving under the influence of alcohol Amanda Marie Mcdermid, 19, 600 block Highview Ct., Culpeper, Possession of marijuana February 18 Holly Marie Isakson, 37, 7700 block Stockwell Dr., Fredericksburg, Assault & battery -family member

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Moonshine and memories: A cabin full of Rappahannock intrigue begins a new chapter

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From the time Nils Aylor was 11 years old his grandfather would set him on the path to a rustic log cabin that fronted F.T. Valley Road “to pick up his medicine from Doctor Crop.”

“That’s the only name I ever knew, ‘Doctor Crop.’ My grandfather would say, ‘Go see Doctor Crop and get my medicine.’ We lived right over there,” says Nils, pointing south some distance from the cabin. “He was a scruffy old man. And it was always dark in here. It was scary.

“I would knock on this door, and he knew me of course, and then he would walk over and lift up a board and pull a gallon of ’shine out of the floor.”

It didn’t take long for Nils to reach the conclusion that Dr. Crop was no ordinary doctor and his remedy wasn’t entirely medicinal. But that suited the teenager, who by then was enrolled at Rappahannock County High School, just fine.

“I would pull up here in my old ’62 Chevy, grab a bottle — underage — and my friends and I would go hike Old Rag. And let me tell you, it wouldn’t be long before I was preaching a sermon up there,” he laughs.

It is by sheer coincidence that Nils, who today owns and operates Aylor Lawn & Farm in Culpeper, has returned all these years later to the long-abandoned 19th century cabin that for him holds so many memories.

He’s been hired to help dismantle its valuable logs of chestnut — trees once plentiful in these Blue Ridge Mountains — for relocation to Criglersville in Madison County, where they will be painstakingly chinked to original form by building preservationist Timothy Robinson of Heartland Restoration.

“I’ve saved somewhere between 20 and 30 cabins in this county, and in every case it’s the stories surrounding the cabins, not the cabins themselves, that are so important.

It’s the history inside of them,” the builder says.

Robinson ought to know. He has his own personal connection to the tiny log home and the aging man who lived there with his “mistress,” Lois, for so many years.

“I got many bottles here,” reveals the builder, although he didn’t know the bootlegger as Dr. Crop. “He went by several different names. I would always tap three times on the door

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Nils Aylor shows how 'Dr. Crop' would lift a floorboard of his rented cabin and produce a gallon of illicit whiskey. Behind Aylor is Mark Siess, who recently purchased the cabin for relocation to Madison County. so he knew it was me.

“He had whiskey, vodka and gin,” Robinson continues, walking over to the few surviving steps leading to the small loft. “He kept it right here under the staircase.”

Robinson remembers being at the Rappahannock County Courthouse several decades ago when the moonshiner was brought before a judge — not the first or last time the law caught up with him.

“The judge said he was going to fine him $300 dollars,” Robinson recalls. “And he said, ‘Judge, if you do that you’re going to make me have to charge my customers more.’”

There was no shortage of customers. From all county locations — and all walks of life — men, women and even an 11-year-old child would

call at all hours at the cabin, its front door barely a car’s width from the well-traveled highway. The cabin, in effect, was an early version of a drive-thru liquor store, illegal though it was.

And while they paid a bit more for the liquor, for the bootlegger’s customers a quick stop at the darkened cabin was far more convenient than driving to Culpeper, Madison or anyplace else to purchase the state-controlled bottles that, like today, aren’t sold in Rappahannock County.

“If they shut him down one day he’d reopen the next,” recalls Rappahannock County native Bill Fletcher. “He was an integral part of the community, fulfilled a community service, a community need.

And he was always fair to the old timers.

“He never made a lot of money — just enough to live on,” Fletcher says. “As far as I’m concerned, Usters should be admired for what he did.”

Usters?

“Usters Dodson!” Fletcher exclaims.

“He was my favorite uncle,” reflects Sperryville retiree Thaniel Dodson. “People didn’t know about his good credentials. They only knew that Uncle Usters sold whiskey at that cabin. They had no idea that he was a World War II vet, a patriot.

“He never talked much about his war experience, but he had a lot of it — he was in some big battles, especially in Germany” his nephew continues, while sorting through a circa 1910 candy box brimming with old family mementos and photographs, including one of Usters in his U.S. Army uniform.

“England, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and I believe Iceland,” Thaniel reads from notes surrounding his uncle’s wartime deployments. “I don’t know what military outfit he was in [during one such deployment] but he wore a white outfit and skis.”

The nephew pauses for a moment: “He did tell me one time about a big battle [during the winter] when one of his buddies got wounded. They didn’t have a medic to grab him out of there, and they had to take his buddy and put him under a manure pile. This manure is mixed with hay, and you know manure keeps you warm, it’s hot under there. So, they put their buddy underneath there, but he told me they never knew whether he made it or not.”

Having survived the war, Usters returned home and became a “convict guard” near Winchester, although the veteran’s job was short lived.

“He came to realize that some of the guys he had a gun over were World War II vets and he couldn’t continue working there because he was holding a gun over his ‘fellow man’ is how he put it,” his nephew says. “So he quit.”

Usters then moved to Castleton “and while he was there he manufactured some good whiskey, and sold it of course — and drank it,” Thaniel says with a wink. “And then ➤ See Moonshine, Page 32

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The bootlegger's cabin on F.T. Valley Road was photographed one last time last week on the same day it was taken down. ➤ Moonshine, from Page 29 in the early 60s he moved to the cabin on 231 [F.T. Valley Rd]. But instead of making the whiskey he bought it from the ABC store, paid the taxes on it, and resold it to the lower class, the middle class, and the higher class.

“That was way of life, that was his income — no social programs for him,” Thaniel observes. “He took care of a lot of people.”

Local law enforcement during the nearly three decades Usters was in business would only occasionally knock on the bootlegger’s door, and their supposedly unannounced visits — usually on the heels of a citizen’s complaint — normally resulted in a fine at most.

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spected lawyers, in fact, took turns representing the moonshiner whenever he did go to court.

“The last time he was arrested he had been set up with marked twenty dollar bills,” Thaniel says. “I think he had to pull 30 or 60 days [in jail], I can’t remember which.

But after that episode he quit selling whiskey. He said he was tired.

And his health was failing.”

And then came December 19, 1989, a Tuesday.

“To make a long story short . . .

I spent the whole night with him,” says Thaniel. “He wouldn’t let me take him to the doctor. He could have gone to the VA [hospital] or anyplace, but he said, ‘No, I’ll be alright.’ He was breathing hard, he had heart disease and he was a diabetic.”

So his nephew left his uncle for the day, and “when I came in from work that evening I called down to the cabin. It was dark, and Lois answered the phone. And I said, ‘How’s Uncle Usters?’ And I heard him say, ‘Lois, who are you talking to?’ And I heard her say, ‘Thaniel, he says he’ll be down shortly.’

“And while I was talking to her I heard a gunshot go off. I knew right away that he killed himself because of his expression the night before. I could read his mind. And that was the end of an era.”

Robinson, as irony had it, pulled up to the cabin within minutes of Usters’ death.

He walked in to find the moonshiner motionless on the sofa, the stock of his gun resting against his shoulder.

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“He was 74 year old when he died,” notes his nephew, who to this day has taped to his refrigerator not one, but two identical 1973 newspaper clippings from the Rappahannock News showing four members of the Rappahannock Sheriff’s office posing with 25 bottles of whiskey confiscated from Usters’ cabin.

“As you can see one of the photographs is completely faded,” Thaniel says. “So I put up another one.

I figured somebody might come by some day and need to look at that picture.”

Another wink and smile.

“What’s amazing,” Thaniel says, “is that if Uncle Usters was living today he could probably obtain a legal license and manufacture his own whiskey and his own beer and set up a little booth someplace.”