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BIZ BIO Warrenton Dermatology & Skin Therapy Center offers virtual open house Things look a little different these days at doctor’s offices around the country, and Warrenton Dermatology & Skin Therapy Center is no different.

Dr. J.C. Caballero and his staff are working hard to continue providing care to their patients within the context of the current COVID-19 situation and mandatory stay-at-home orders. Luckily, technology is on their side.

Dr. Caballero explains how Telehealth online medical appointments at Warrenton Dermatology are keeping both patients and staff safe, while providing a continuity of care during difficult times. “People still have both acute and chronic concerns that need to be addressed by medical professionals.

By utilizing Telehealth ‘virtual’ appointments, we are able to see our patients face to face, properly evaluate their condition, and offer solutions to their concerns — all while keeping them safe at home, and not potentially exposing our staff unnecessarily. We do have limited in-office appointments for patients with urgent needs and

Dr. J.C. Caballero skin cancer surgeries that should not wait. However, utilizing widely available technology like Telehealth to our advantage has been a real blessing for everyone involved.”

Patients simply call the office to schedule their appointment, and staff walks them through the simple steps to get set up for their Telehealth visit.

If the patient has internet access, there is no need to delay a medical appointment (routine skin cancer screenings are not performed via Telehealth).

Warrenton Dermatology provides both medical and cosmetic dermatology services, and cosmetic patients look forward to open house events held at the practice each spring and fall.

There is always a festive theme, and it is an enjoyable time for the public to drop by the office to learn more about the latest and greatest skin care products, esthetic services, and nonsurgical cosmetic options offered at the Skin Therapy Center — services such as Botox, Juvederm, CoolSculpting, BBL and Fraxel Dual cosmetic lasers, MicroNeedling, Hydrafacials, etc.

It is also the best savings opportunity of the year, with all products and services being discounted by 20%. However, this spring they’ve had to re-imagine the open house to provide socially-distanced savings and information. So, they are holding their inaugural “virtual” open house, which is a week-long, call-in only event from April 27 to May 1. Each day, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., orders will be taken over the phone by a call center.

Estheticians will also be available by phone to provide consultations, answer

questions, and help callers decide exactly what they want/need.

In the spirit of providing valuable information along with great savings, each day they will also be holding Facebook and Instagram Live sessions with various product representatives and expert staff members. They will highlight a different service area and product line each day. Interested parties should like them on Facebook and follow them on Instagram, to be able to participate in the Live sessions.

All participants will be rewarded with special giveaway and savings opportunities, so be sure to tune in.

Services purchased during the virtual event will be placed on the customer’s account, to be used any time during 2020. Appointments will be scheduled as soon as “stay home” orders are lifted. Product purchases will be available immediately via curbside pick-up.

For more information regarding Warrenton Dermatology’s virtual spring open house event and all of the products and services they offer, go to WarrentonDermatology.com.

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EVHS teachers make makes for essential workers

By Sharon Fitzgerald Culpeper County Public Schools Theresa Sicheri’s regular job is teaching biology and ecology lessons at Eastern View High School. But since the Covid-19 pandemic, she has been sewing masks for essential workers, family and friends.

Along with creating online content for their students, Sicheri and others are doing their part to help the community.

“We have made upward of 300 [masks],” Sicheri said. “We started just to make them to donate to the school and then my husband needed them at his work. I posted a picture of him and it exploded.”

Each day, Sicheri and her friend, Kim Cotter, work in Sicheri’s sewing room to fill “orders.”

Cotter, a preschool teacher at A.G. Richardson Elementary School, cuts the fabric and flannel pieces for each order and Sicheri sews the pieces together.

Along with sewing masks for school administrators, custodial staff, and teachers providing daycare for essential workers, the ladies have mailed masks to nine other states including New York, California, and Hawaii.

“Kim and I are trying to stay busy and focus on something we can do instead of the negative and the numbers,” Sicheri said. “We hear cases and deaths every day. With stay at home orders and missing our students, it beats mourning the school year. That would turn into a lot of anxiety and gloom. This has given us an outlet to provide help to those that need the help and want to protect themselves.”

The women started making the masks for family and friends and then received requests and offers for payment. They have taken funds made — $5 per mask — and purchased enough elastic to create

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A.G. Richardson preschool teacher Kim Cotter (left) and Eastern View biology teacher Theresa Sicheri and have sewn almost 400 masks for people across the country since March 13. The teachers are selling some masks to pay for supplies for donated masks to essential workers and school employees. at least 500 more masks. The women plan to donate any extra funds to a local food bank to help families in need.

Sicheri and Cotter have been spending some of their days breaking down orders, putting kits together, and sewing to the tunes of 1980s music.

“We will keep making masks until demand or elastic runs out,” Sicheri said. “Of course, we love fabric and getting to create something from a piece of cloth as simple as a mask is an outlet for creativity.”

Melessa Suder, who teaches agriculture and is the FFA adviser at EV, started making cloth masks ➤ See Masks, Page 15

Sicheri and Cotter have used their own fabric scraps and purchased elastic to make the masks, which have both a cotton and a flannel side. They have also purchased fabric to fill requested orders related to sports teams, cartoon characters, and events.

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Supervisors to advertise $180M budget ➤ Real-estate rate would stay same; Underwood, Frazier vote no

By Pat Fitzgerald For the Culpeper Times The Culpeper Board of Supervisors voted 5-2 Tuesday morning to advertise a $180.4 million budget that leaves tax rates steady at 62 cents per $100 of assessed valuation on real estate for fiscal 2021.

The previous draft budget, prepared before the COVID-19 outbreak shuttered the economy, was $184.7 million.

“Most of the time, I’m all on board with all of getting together and being able to support this, but I can’t support this at all,” said Cedar Mountain District Supervisor C. Jack Frazier, who against the motion to the move the budget forward. “I feel like … we’re working in the blind here.”

Frazier also questioned whether Culpeper County Public Schools should return some of

their expected unused funds at the end of the fiscal 2020, stating that the district is not spending money on fuel, maintenance and building cuts as the coronavirus has closed all schools throughout the state.

“I appreciate the work staff has done … that said, I’m pretty confident revenue is going to be significantly below what we are looking at,” said Salem District Supervisor Tom Underwood, the other supervisor to vote against the budget proposal. “Further, what we are doing in the county in terms of forecasting revenue adjustments beginning in January of next year is disassociated from what we’re seeing with our businesses all being closed right now, with GDP being forecast down 40% in the fourth quarter. … I cannot support the budget as presented.

“I believe we could be looking at significantly more budget cuts than we are right now,” he said.

Given that Culpeper County’s tax collections occur Dec. 5, County Administrator John Egertson said the Board of Supervisors could consider semi-annual appropriations as an option “since we may not learn too much during

that first quarter.”

“The quarterly appropriations are what we have discussed and we are comfortable with that in order to provide the board a measure of control in revisiting this budget often as it goes forward,” he said.

“That decision does not have to be made today. That can be decided upon adoption of the budget later on in May.” Tuesday’s decision formally seeks to advertise a public hearing on the budget and tax rate on May 5. The board will convene again May 12 to adopt the 2021 budget, tax rates and the Capital Improvements Plan.

Since the May 5 hearing will be a virtual meeting, supervisors are encouraging residents to submit their comments by email at Publiccomment@culpepercounty. gov; by voicemail at (540) 7273427 or by mail at Culpeper County Administration Attn: Public Comment, 302 North Main Street, Culpeper, VA 22701.

Egertson noted that the cuts result in a budget which is reliant upon $75,828,211 in locally supported operating funds — a reduction of $2,274,255 from fiscal 2020.

Sales taxes are expected to be 15% lower than fiscal 2020 and personal property taxes are expected to drop 10%.

Egertson also said building permit fees are expected to be 15% lower. Those reductions are expected to bring in $3,477,569 less in revenue.

The proposed budget also “flat funds” schools by eliminating new positions and coaching stipends and step increases for CCPS staff.

In addition, county employees would not receive “pay for performance” increases.

In addition, cost-of-living increases would be delayed until Jan. 1, 2021.

The fiscal 2021 budget also freezes vacant positions and would cut out all new position requests, except for the Sheriff's Office.

The county's proposed budget would also eliminate the Culpeper Quarterly publication, eliminate Animal Shelter site improvements, nix Planning Commission and board salary increases, reduce Rappahannock Rapidan Community Service Board funding by $50,000 and eliminate the county's $25,000 contribution to Airfest.

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I never knew Kitty personally.

She was before my Cally time. I only know the family legend that she was a Christmas present to animal-loving teenagers in the house. She was not a rescue, like me and most of my friends. Her parentage was known, and she was spoken for soon after her birth, probably around the water cooler at the office. in today’s Public world, The Sounds Town strange of Culpeper but it actually does happen.

Works Department and Light & What that means is she arrived Power Department completed without a name, and there was a sharp the E. Davis Street sidewalk and division of thought on what it should LOVE sculpture improvements be. Some lobbied for Fluffy or Puffy; project on April 1, and released the others for Alice, Esther, or Maria. The area for public use. debate raged at the dinner table about The purpose of this was “cute” names versus “real project names,” until tothe correct sidewalk damage caused Daddy human had had enough. by“Her street roothegrowth, which nametree is Kitty,” announced after created a potential pedestrian hearing argument on both sides.

“Case hazard closed.” from uneven and heaved surfaces.

The partnered Kitty was a greytown ball of fur, wellwith Culpeper Renaissance Inc. to behaved, and fun-loving.

She charmed finance the project a $50,000 even cat-haters in thewith neighborhood. inSince matching funds it was a street withprovided little traffic,by CRI. Theoutdoor new privileges alignment she had and of the sidewalk more area for the wanderedallows about, sometimes bringing street trees, which 40-year-old dead mice to the frontare steps for bragging willow to grow. rights.oaks, Her outdoor privileges were The realignment the sidewalk not monitored becauseofthe family had decided tothe allowLOVE her the motherhood required sculpture to one time only and then … beexperience, relocated.

The refurbished Well, it didn’t take her long to hop with right sculpture is now installed to it.

LED lighting inside of a new brick I was area deniedfacing the pregnancy wall Since planter towards experience from the get-go, I can’t the historic Depot. comment this. But the legend is that “The E.onDavis Street sidewalk Kitty handled it well, and when the time improvement project was came for her to delivery, she chose the necessary to remedy multiple underside of safety a mattress.

Giving birth, pedestrian hazards while however, was an event that shethat didn’t preserving the street trees are want to by do alone.

She wanted female enjoyed residents and visitors. company.

On the topsupport of the mattress, to With the generous of CRI, be specific. the relocated and renovated LOVE Off she waddled to the living room sculpture will continue to serve as and meowed her Mama human back an attractive feature for visitors in to the bedroom. Then she disappeared under the mattress to signify her intent.

The Mama human, figuring she had a report to deliver to the rest of the family, said an encouraging word and left. That was not what Kitty had in mind.

It took three more trips to the living room to get the thick-headed Mama to stay put on the top side of the mattress.

Kitty had definite birthing ideas that were not to be denied. Once her delivery was completed, Kitty reappeared from down under to make her announcement. It was a litter of one; a male whom the family named Skeeziks.

Skeeziks was nothing like Kitty. One can only wonder about his paternal genes.

He was a troublemaker the the downtown area,” said from Director start, and traveled the house with his of Public Services Jim Hoy. tail in the air like a runaway shopping “This is Culpeper’s flagship cart, seeking things to destroy. As his LOVEworks, and is a favorite habits grew worse, he was given a new spot for family photos, proposals, home in another town and taken away selfies, and wedding photos. It in the dark of night, perhaps blindfolded. isNo Culpeper’s first LOVEworks, one mourned his absence. Not even and is one of over 200 across the Kitty.

Commonwealth of Virginia.

‘Reel Kitty lost her motherhood capacity LOVE’ was a tribute soon after anddesigned settled intoas a mellow to theageunique contributions middle – until the day Deka came. of the of wolf, Congress DekaLibrary was a grey posing asNational a Audio-Visual Conservation German Shepherd for the benefitCenter of the here Culpeper,” said Paige Read, townin authorities.

Deka ruled the yard Director ofruled Tourism and One Economic while Kitty the house. day Development for onthe Town they met face-to-face the front steps,of Culpeper. and Kitty greeted him with an imperial “Culpeper Renaissance, Inc.’s HISS. wasDeka, happy make commitment whotocould havea eaten her as an last year flattened to partner withatthe Town appetizer, himself her feet. ofSurely Culpeper thisshock. muchAlthough needed a victimfor of total the Daddy humanpreserves claimed Kitty project which thewas treethe only animal that intimidated lined aesthetic of the lower Deka, end of familyDavis members rolled their East Street and eyes creates a whenever the Daddy pontificated on this sidewalk that is easy to navigate subject.

Boys will be boys. for all visitors to downtown. The Kitty’s adventures remind me ofmade improvement funding was another independent-minded feline. possible with the hard work and Her name was of Reckless. tell you her dedication CRI I'll volunteers story next time. through last year's fundraising And if you are a dog lover, don’t and efforts.

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I have a new book Cally appreciates the Town oftitled Culpeper’s Goes to the Dogs.

It’s available at commitment to downtown Reigning Cats and Dogs, that wonderful improvement projects and in the pet paradise on Davis Street.. partnership with CRI,” stated Jessica Jenkins, CRI Executive Cally Tales in its entirety is available at Director.

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400-450 families expected at food distribution

By Pat Fitzgerald For the Culpeper Times Volunteers with an organization that will distribute food to individuals and families in need are expecting a huge turnout this Saturday.

Empowering Culpeper will hold a USDA food distribution on Saturday, April 18, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Culpeper County Sports Complex, 16358 Competition Drive, Culpeper (near Eastern View High School).

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“We get food from the Blue Ridge Food Bank and we’ve ordered food for 400 families," said Marian Dykes, a committee member and volunteer with Empowering Culpeper. “We don’t have any idea how many people actually will come. We never do. The reason for that is we don’t contact them ahead of time; they come to us.

Before that, we’ve always done that out of the Methodist Church.

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different situation because we are doing it out of the Sports Complex, not the church. Because it’s being advertised, we know that more people are coming. And because people are out of jobs, we know more people are coming and Social Services is telling us more people are coming."

Dykes said that the Sports Complex near Eastern View was selected this time because it has a larger area to accommodate crowds, and has held other such events such as drive-through vaccinations. “We think it’s a great place," she said.

Cars will enter the Sports Complex from Jonas Road, just past the Complex, and then make a left turn onto Competition Drive.

They cannot enter the Complex from Cyclone Way. Culpeper medical corps volunteers will help direct traffic. “[People] will park first, then drive through. They will not leave their cars," Dykes noted.

“They hope to be out there early in the morning to situate cars as we’d like them, because we have to register them, not a lot but they’re name and the amount of people in their family, is all we’re asking. They will get food according to how many people are in the family," she said.

Although the event starts at 9 a.m., "we know that people always come much, much ahead of time," Dykes said. "At 11 we will not be accepting more cars but we will furnish food for everyone who is [already] there.”

The Culpeper Humane Society will also be on site, providing food for family pets. In addition, supplemental "senior boxes" will be provided for those over 60.

USDA has temporarily waived normal income eligibility and registration criteria for all families.

When they arrive, if anyone has a question about food pick-up, they

will have an opportunity to speak to a volunteer as they go through the pickup process.

“We have a very, very extensive list of food we are going to be giving out and I hope we have a lot of people come. Each family will be getting three bags of food plus breads and meats. In each bag there is going to be at least 10 items," Dykes said. “We have vegetables, we have fresh produce, we have meat and we have milk this time, and eggs.

We have canned fruit, we have peanut butter and jelly, we have spaghetti and rice and nice things like beef stew, baked beans and beef chili in cans, mac and cheese, soups and canned vegetables and canned chicken.”

With the help of the Blue Ridge Food Bank, organizers will hold a supplemental food distribution again on May 2 at the Sports Complex. The location of the regular May 16 distribution will depend on whether stay-at-home restrictions are still in place.

“If everyone is still masked and gloved and has to maintain social distancing, we will try to do it again out at the Sports Complex," Dykes said.

And while there may be a need for basic supplies for those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, Dykes said she's lucky she has more than enough help.

“We were so overwhelmed with volunteers last time we are contacting the volunteers we needed and we’re limiting [the numbers],” she said. “We’re happy to have them help, it's just that they’re stumbling all over each other. And isn’t that a good thing, having so many people who want to volunteer?”

For more information about Saturday's distribution, email empoweringculpeper@gmail.com prior to then.

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ZOOMpocalypse: 6 tips for secure, efficient meetings Unquestionably, the level of webinars, virtual meetings, virtual summits, virtual “whatevers” have skyrocketed since much of the country is under stay-at-home orders.

Some organizations have been able to proceed relatively normally working from home.

The sudden work-fromhome orders has upended many traditional office environments that did not have any disaster preparedness plans developed.

I’ve personally attended several virtual meetings that turned out to be busts. The hosts couldn’t get the platform to work right, broadband access was an issue, the video conferencing platform had limitations or meeting facilitators haven’t effectively figured out how to run an entirely virtual meeting yet.

And don’t forget that the influx of so many users to video conferencing platforms has shown security cracks and vulnerabilities, with Zoom getting most of the press.

These six tips will ensure you have a productive and efficient virtual meeting that produce achievable organizational results.

Purposeful, agenda-driven meetings with a defined outcome.

Before you decide to have any meeting, ask yourself, what is the outcome I need from this? If it's just to touch base with the team, drop it. There are better ways to reach out to your team than making everyone assemble. Any meeting you have needs to have a business, objective-driven outcome making it worthwhile, or you

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are burning time and money. Develop a meeting plan with three to five points and stick to it.

Do not have a meeting for the sake of having a meeting. This applies to in-person meetings as well, whenever they can resume again.

Limit the length of the meeting.

A major issue I have seen is meetings that turn into a sprawling marathon of a mess. A meeting will stretch out into a couple of hours, moving away from the set meeting agenda.

NO, STOP IT. If you can’t convey your message succinctly in 30 (maybe 45 minutes), that isn’t a valuable meeting, it is torture, and I can guarantee you that people have tuned out as you enter hour No. 2 or 3.

Know your audience. Going in-depth on 20 different items is probably not relevant for a large group of people. Separate your presentations into smaller chunks that are aimed at specific subsets of people. You will retain their attention better and their gratitude for not wasting time on items that don’t pertain to them.

Limit the number of speakers.

A productive meeting will limit the number of presenters per session. I was an attendee of a meeting this past week that had 22 presenters. It took over 30 minutes just to get through the introductions.

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By Pat Fitzgerald For the Culpeper Times Although rains earlier this week washed away her mural stating "Culpeper Strong: #Stay Home, Save Lives," it hasn't dappened Brittany Smyth's creative spirit.

Late Saturday night, April 4, Smyth created the message of support in chalk — and under the cover of darkness.

“I started around 11 at Smyth night. I had the idea and I had to get my 2-year-old to sleep, and I had to make sure he was down for the night. That way we could go out there and just do it without him waking up. And also, because West Street has heavy traffic during the day, so I didn’t want to be out there during the day — even though it’s died down since everyone is staying home," she said.

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Although she's not an artist, "not by a long shot," Smyth felt the need to get a message of support — as well as a reminder to stay put and stay safe — out to the public.

“I had seen something months and months ago of people doing paintings and even with just the painters tape, doing designs. I thought a heart would be really cool to do — and I really hate the wall in front, actually," she said. “I wanted to do it and this pandemic is the perfect time for it — just make people smile."

It didn't take long to create her mini-masterpiece. “It wasn’t really that long," Smyth said. "I started just after 11 and got all the tape on and then I just filled in all the spots, trying not to have the same colors next to each other. We finished right after midnight."

The reactions to that mural were "all good for that one." As for her other chalk message on another side of the wall — "Honk if you hate Carole Baskin," in reference to Netflix's "Tiger King" phenomenon — "we got mixed reactions on that one. And that was actually the first to go up."

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Heavy rains at the beginning of this week took away both messages, leaving Smyth, her husband, Randy, and son, Xavier, "kind of bummed."

But Smyth expects to put others up soon. “People really enjoyed both of them. We were talking last night about putting something else up since it’s not supposed to rain for a few days, I think," she said.

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Staying connected while isolated It’s easy to feel alone during this pandemic.

As we responsibly socially isolate, it can feel like ages since we interacted with another human outside of our family.

Luckily, in Culpeper, we’ve seen our business community stay connected and active in helping those that need it.

While the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce office is closed to the public, we are still working behind the scenes to help coordinate efforts of our businesses to better Culpeper.

We’ve seen numerous examples in the past few weeks — from local businesses buying meals for healthcare providers and first responders, to manufacturers changing their output to help address shortfalls in the supply chain.

As everyone becomes keenly aware of cleanliness, shelves have become bare when it comes to hand sanitizer. That’s where Belmont Distillery and Old House Distillery have stepped up — changing their product from spirits to spritzers. They’ve

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both started producing hand sanitizer and have worked with local organizations to distribute it to health care providers, food banks, churches and other service organizations.

Culpeper County Public School’s have worked with our local E911 to provide the electrostatic cleaners they use in classrooms and buses to help sanitize emergency vehicles.

CCPS has also been operating a childcare program at Farmington Elementary School for children of those who are working in critical infrastructure.

While they are providing breakfast, lunch and a snack to those students, their workers need sustenance as well. That’s where businesses such as the Ole Country Store, Jersey Mike’s and Domino’s have come into play — providing lunch for the workers and bringing a smile to their face.

We’ve also heard of local businesses banding together to start the Culpeper COVID Mask Operation, a project on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ groups/543548279872759/) that is creating masks for those at high risk in the community.

At the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce, we’ve also been hosting weekly town halls to keep our members informed

of the issues they face during this crisis. Last week we hosted Dave Reardon from the Lord Fairfax Small Business Development Center in Culpeper, Chris Pearson from YHB, CPAs and Consultants and Marty Bywaters-Baldwin from Rappahannock Goodwill Industries to discuss the payroll protection program, loans available to small businesses and unemployment benefits.

This Thursday at 1 p.m. (April 16), we will host healthcare professionals from Novant Health UVA Health System Culpeper Medical Center, Community STARS, Wellspring Health Services and Hospice of the Piedmont to discuss best practices for staying healthy, telemedicine opportunities and challenges the healthcare profession faces during this trying time.

It can feel lonely at times during this crisis, but rest assured that Culpeper is a loving, caring, giving community that is taking care of each other.

Despite being distanced, we’ve never felt so close. We encourage you to reach out to Culpeper Chamber of Commerce to share the positive things you are seeing in our community or to find ways to stay connected during this pandemic.

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Verify with each presenter that they have a reliable broadband connection. You lose the professional look if your presenters can’t get into the meeting or you can’t hear and see them.

When having an open discussion, the moderator needs to call on people A problem I’ve seen during open discussion webinars is a lot of dead air. The host throws out a question to the group, and there is a long silence when no one responds. Then several people speak at once “stepping on each” conversationally. For an active discussion, the host or meeting facilitator needs to call on each person individually. You will create a good flow to the conversation.

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Weekly Tarotscope for April 16: 9 of Pentacles, Justice TAROTSCOPES

In the 9 of Pentacles we see Cara Cutro an independent woman enjoying the fruits of her labor. She’s going it alone and making sacrifices to reach her goals.

Exercising discipline and self control is advised at this time. It’s important to be tactful and diplomatic while enjoying the things we’ve worked hard for. We can see that the figure in the 9 of Pentacles has reigned in a lot of her wilder attributes and channeled them appropriately to create the abundance surrounding her.

These “wilder” tendencies are seen in the symbolism of the hooded falcon. You can also see, ever so subtly placed on the bottom left, a snail. This snail shows us that this is a time to be sufficiently self contained, and to move slowly.

The Justice card brings with it an energy of responsibility. What can we do to prepare ourselves to take action based on ethical principles?

The achievement of independence found in the 9 of Pentacles has its roots here in the Justice card. This is about acknowledging cause and effect, righting wrongs, and doing the right thing to protect the sanctity of our accomplishments.

To reach the goals and fruits of hard work that we see in the 9 of Pentacles, we must follow these basic universal laws that are summarized by the image in the Justice card.

Fairness, equality, and truth are center stage when it comes to any decisions we’re facing at this time.

This combination can also be seen as a suggestion to acknowledge our blessings in order to access a more balanced state of mind.

Cara Cutro is a spirit centered teacher and life coach residing in Sperryville, VA. She is an herbalist, massage therapist, reiki master, intuitive counselor, tarot reader, and the owner of Abracadabra Massage & Wellness and the Wisdomkeepers School. For a full list of services or to setup an appointment with her or one of her team members, book online www. caracadabra.com or call 540-8787085.

Culpeper Times • April 16-29, 2020

➤ Masks, from Page 3 for her family and friends and quickly realized she could turn the pieces around quickly. She soon joined a local Facebook group that is putting crafters in contact with organizations who need masks.

Local groups, such as nursing homes and first responders, post their needs and the members of the group fill them. Organizers for the group then collect the orders and distribute them, Suder said.

As of this week, Suder has made approximately 75 masks using materials she purchased herself or others have donated to her. She now has supplies to make at least 75 more.

“I come from a family of sewing ladies,” Suder said. “My mom and grandmother made most of their own clothes and mine when I was a child. My mother even made her own wedding dress. I'm not as talented as they are/were and I don't make clothing, but I do make quilts, basic curtains, etc. I do enjoy sewing and taking on this mask project has helped keep me busy and maintain a little sanity during this craziness. I'm not much of a TV person so I needed something to keep me busy.”

Jeanie Barlow, the EV’s school nurse, is using her crocheting skills

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to create “mask buddies,” devices that keep the elastic from the mask from bothering the person’s ears. Barlow, who does not know how to sew, learned how to crochet by donating her time to crochet blankets as part of the school’s MakerSpace program.

Right now, Barlow is using her own yarn supply but is looking for large buttons to help put her pieces together. Thus far, she has crocheted 50 mask buddies for workers at a local rehabilitation center.

“I'm glad that I can help,” Barlow said. “I worked in a hospital for 18 years. The thought of our hospital staff not having enough PPE hurts my heart. I salute all of those who are selflessly working in the front lines during this difficult time. You are appreciated. This is the least that I can do.”

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