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ormer Spotsylvania County Administrator C. Douglas (Doug) Barnes has been appointed interim county administrator by the Stafford County Board of Supervisors. Barnes will fill the position vacated by Anthony Romanello, who is taking a position as deputy county manager in Henrico County. Supervisors C. DOUGLAS BARNS plan to name a permanent county administrator by January 2017, according to county spokesperson Shannon Howell. Doug Barnes served Spotsylvania County in many capacities for 38 years. He was hired initially as the landfill supervisor in 1977 and was the director of solid waste management from 1986 to 1992. He was director of public works from 1992 through 1998. He was the director of general services from 1998 through 2003. He served as interim county administrator, interim deputy county administrator and deputy county administrator from 2003 to 2008. He became county administrator in October of 2009 and retired on May 31, 2015, Howell said. Barnes has been active in the Spotsylvania community through his volunteer work with the fire department, rescue squad and as an EMT. He INTERIM has a B.A. in Economics, PAGE 13 with a minor in Business
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hen a loved one with limited verbal abilities goes missing, Project Lifesaver can be a godsend, according to the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office, which participates in the program. People enrolled in Project Lifesaver typically have autism, Down syndrome, Alzheimer’s or another condition that limits their verbal abilities. Through the program, clients wear a small personal transmitter around their wrist that emits an individualized tracking signal. The signal helps authorities quickly find people who are lost or missing. Most people who use the system are found within a few miles of their home, according to the international program, which estimates an av-
erage 30 minutes of search time. The lightweight, battery-operated bracelets direct a radio signal to hand-held receivers the deputies use, according to Stafford County Public Information Officer M.C. Morris Moncure. It’s been a lifesaving system that is efficient and affordable. Stafford Deputy Jim Hamilton manages the system as part of his duties. “Most clients and caretakers are appreciative that their calls are taken care of promptly,” he said, noting the program’s existence in the 12 years he’s been with the sheriff ’s office. Hamilton said that in his experience with the program since 2004, there have been about 12 calls from family and caretakers of missing people who have the bracelets. They were all located between 20 minutes and just over an hour
with the program, Hamilton said. Afterward, local rescue workers are called in to determine if medical services are necessary, he added. One local couple learned about the program about 10 years ago in Spotsylvania before moving to North Stafford. Their daughter, who has Down syndrome, went missing from a shopping trip with her mother in Fredericksburg, Hamilton said. The family later began using the PLS bracelet. “The program has given them peace of mind ever since,” Hamilton said. Lee and Maria Warford’s daughter, Cecilia –Cece as she is nicknamed --got separated while shopping with her mother at Fredericksburg’s Central Park a decade ago . LIFE “It’s been really good, PAGE 13 although we haven’t had
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Brooke Point grad’s scarf design helps Clinton rally A Brooke Point High School Class of 2008 alumna and former 'SACKdress' business owner Anna Johnson recently found herself being screened by the U.S. Secret Service while entering her current place of work at Knotty Tie Company in the Santa Fe Art District of Denver. The start-up was expecting a visitor with presidential aspirations on Aug. 3, according to a news release. After vaguely referring to the Denver tie company in her Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, Hillary Clinton added Knotty Tie to her list of campaign stops in Colorado. The original mention was that her opponent Donald Trump has his tie collection made in China, and not Colorado. After hearing of Clinton’s shout-out, the designers at Knotty Tie got busy creating custom chiffon scarves for the former first lady. Designer Anna Johnson created two scarves using Clinton's campaign colors, the release stated. "I designed one using the 'H' campaign logo made up of layered florals to show her feminine side as the first female presidential candidate and the other was a Colorado flag made up of her slogans 'I'm with her' and 'Stronger Together,’ all in her campaign colors" said Johnson, a 2012 VCU Fashion Design graduate and former Stafford County business owner. When the Democratic presidential nominee arrived at Knotty, she took a tour of the facility and shook hands with employees.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shares a moment with Brooke Point High School graduate Ann Johson, who created two scarves for the former first lady. PHOTO BY ASHLEY KIDDER
As she left, Clinton bought a tie for her husband, and the Knotty Tie crew presented her with the scarves they had designed. Clinton and her entourage quickly left for a rally in Commerce City, Colorado, but the excitement continued inside
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Credit is due justices of the Virginia Supreme Court,
attorney general who can’t be counted on to defend
not necessarily for their ruling against Gov. McAuliffe
state law or, we fear, offer nonpartisan opinions when
on voter-rights restoration – we have no particular
they would run counter to his own views.
position on the intricacies of that tempest – then at
It’s therefore up to legislative leaders to demand
least on one specific part of the decision.
accountability, but unless they are deemed to have
The justices ruled that, despite prognostications to
standing to do so, one branch of government (the
the contrary from pundits and legal experts, mem-
legislative) is effectively neutered in holding another
bers of the Republican leadership of the General As-
(the executive) accountable.
sembly did have legal “standing” to sue on this issue.
Supreme Court justices are right to provide the
Why is this important?
legislature access to redress when they believe the
Because currently in the commonwealth, we’ve
executive is bypassing the law.
got a governor who is marching to his own drummer and, more worrisome, an almost militantly political
No matter who is in control of the governorship, such a check on unbridled power is vital.
Gerrymandering, voter suppression rules facing tough time in courts Virginia has produced some of the finest statesmen America has ever known. George Wa s h i n g t o n , Thomas Jefferson, James Madi- DAVID KERR son and George Mason. They held a firm belief in rights of the citizens to choose their own government. However, Virginia has always had a tough time living up to that philosophy. At one point the commonwealth had one of the lowest voter participation rates in the nation. Mind you, things have changed a lot since then, but that tendency to try and keep the average voter away from the polls is still there. It’s almost as if, deep down, our elected officials really don’t trust us that much. If they did, why would our General Assemble still be drawing districts to assure that the outcome is almost guaranteed? During the last state election there were only eight seats in the House of Delegates that were considered competitive and just six in the state Senate. Over 50 members of the House got in without opposition. This meant that roughly 10 percent of the population had a serious choice to make. Everyone else, if they didn’t have an interesting local election, might as well have stayed home. Many did. However, this hasn’t gone unchallenged. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision to change the boundaries of a predominantly African-American congressional district. The claim, which the court supported, was that African-American voters were bundled into one spider-like district (the district map was a sight to behold) in order to limit their impact on other districts. As a result, Virginia has adopted a new district map drawn by the court. It wasn’t a proud moment for the commonwealth.
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There is another lawsuit pending, this time regarding General Assembly seats, that makes the same claim about bundling African-American voters. In this case, it’s at the House of Delegates level. This suit didn’t fare as well in the lower courts so it’s hard to tell whether the U.S. Supreme Court will be willing to overturn a lower court decision or not. But this distrust of the voters goes well beyond creative district drawing. Consider the timing of our elections. They’re in odd years when there are no national offices on the ballot. We’re one of only two states that do this. The whole idea is to keep the turnout low. Voters turn out in presidential and for congressional elections, but not so much in odd years. It’s not uncommon going door-to-door to find that voters have no idea there is even an election. However, when it comes to the business of voter suppression, that’s another matter that has engaged the court. The General Assembly tried to enact some rather ridiculous rules making it harder to vote this year, but thankfully, they were vetoed by the governor. One rule would have made it difficult for military personnel, stationed overseas, to vote. What were they thinking? However, other states managed to enact such rules and
a few days ago saw their legislation overturned by the Supreme Court. Hopefully, the General Assembly took note. The General Assembly, at least the GOP majority, tends to buy into the narrative that voting in Virginia is rife with fraud. It’s irrational, but it’s their story and they’re sticking to it. Our registrars go to great lengths to guarantee clean elections, and they do a good job at it. The reality is that the authors of these restrictive or intimidating voting rules want to make it harder for the elderly, low-income people and minorities to vote. Fortunately, the Supreme Court, with its recent decision, might have put a lid on this behavior for a while. In the long term, Virginia, hopefully, might grow tired of these battles. They just don’t seem to stop. The state spends a lot of time in court, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars, and our reputation suffers with each snippet of coverage. It might prove easier, in the long run, to embrace a more competitive and fairminded approach to drawing districts and managing our electoral process. David Kerr, a former member of the Stafford County School Board, is an instructor in political science at VCU and can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.
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Traffic is stopped by signals and in the old-fashioned way as the Little Yellow Train returns to depot at the museum.
Stanley McInturff, right, tries his hand at controlling the one-cylinder diesel engine that powers the Little Yellow Train. The 78-year-old McInturff got some help from veteran engineer Corey Smith, left, who is 19-years-old.
Little Yellow Train brings history to life The shrill horn pierced the warm Saturday morning air and the one-cylinder diesel engine chugged to life, making an effort to pull about 15 visitors loaded onto the Little Yellow Train owned by the Rappahannock Railroad Museum. The 2-mile excursion aboard one of the track cars, used for track maintenance and inspection between the 1930s and ’60s, takes visitors on a Spotsylvania County-owned spur still used by freight trains. Passengers can get a feel for the not-too-comfortable ride that was part of being a railroad worker in the last century. Museum president James F. Taylor said that the little yellow train takes 50 -75
passengers in three or four trips Saturday mornings, starting around 9 o’clock. The museum itself, open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon March 15 to the end of October, is housed in three rail cars, two cabooses and a baggage car, and gives visitors a glimpse of days gone by. Cabooses, which were the last cars of a train, provided some of the comforts of home for workers and provided communication with the locomotive for safety. They were phased out in the mid-’80s when technology replaced the workers. Anyone with an interest in railroads is welcome to join the organization, Taylor said.
The museum is housed in a baggage car from 1927 and in two cabooses, one from 1969 and another from 1972.
A Pennsylvania baggage car houses memorabilia of railroad history at the Rappahannock Railroad Musem that spotlights the rail workers’ job.
The Little Yellow Train pulls into the depot at the museum after a milelong trip on the Deep Run spur, with engineer Corey Smith at the controls. The 19-year-old Smith has been involved with the museum long before he became a teen.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Prince William County Fair The Prince William County Fair, the largest in the state, kicks off Friday and runs through Saturday, Aug. 20, at the county fairgrounds, 10624 Dumfries Road in Manassas. Gates open at noon Saturdays and Sundays, and at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday (except for a 2 p.m. opening on Tuesday, which is $2 admission/$2 rides day). Adult admissions are $5 to $10 per day, and children pay $3 to $6.
North Stafford Farmers Market 125 Hospital Center Blvd., Stafford Open Sundays through Nov. 20 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Creek. Space is Limited. Pre-registration required. $2 each or $6 per family.
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Take some time to de-stress with coloring sheets, dot to dot sheets, markers, colored pencils and more!
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JRSSC Olympic Games Jeff Rouse Swim & Sport Center Online fitness challenge rousecenter.com
Bluemont Concert Series Dixie Power Trip – Aug. 13; Matuto – Aug. 20 7:30 p.m., Maury School Stadium Hanover St. and Kenmore Ave., Fredericksburg Admission: $5/person, $4 Bluemont Friends & seniors; $2/ children under 12 bluemont.org
Celebrate Virginia Concert Series Aug. 19 – Vince Neil of Motley Crue Aug. 26 – Martina McBride Sept. 15 – ZZ Top Sept. 24 – Boyz II Men CelebrateVirginiaAfterHours.com
9 a.m. Departing from Rappahannock Railway Workers Museum 11700 Main St. Fredericksburg Take an excursion on a railroad train out of Spotsylvania Business Park and along Deep Run. Rappahannock Railroad Museum cars will be open to tour before or after the train ride. There is no fee for this ride or the museum, but donations are accepted for restoration and operations. rcnrhs.com
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Stampmill Sam’s Gold Adventure
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lake Anna State Park 6800 Lawyers Road, Spotsylvania Become a prospector and follow in the footsteps of “Stampmill Sam.” Visit the Goodwin Gold Mine and discover how gold was mined in Virginia in the late 1800s. Then pan for gold on the shores of Pigeon Run
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Stafford to Honor Olympians Stafford County will honor all its Olympic athletes at a special unveiling of a mural and reception at the Jeff Rouse Swim and Sport Center at 5 p.m. Aug. 16.
The American Red Cross bloodmobile makes its monthly stopover at the Porter Library from 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug.18.
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Porter’s Awesome Seniors Exercise Class Thursdays, Aug. 18, 25, Sept. 1 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Porter Library For adults seated exercise for the 55+ group.
Red Cross Blood Drive Thursday, Aug.18, 1 to 7 p.m. Porter Library It’s easy to donate blood! Sign up at redcrossblood. org or call the Porter Branch at 659-4909. Walk-in donors welcome. Donors must be 17 years or older.
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National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle Aug. 25 (Quantico Marine Corps Band) 7 p.m.; admission & parking free The concerts will be held outdoors on the grand entry plaza to the museum. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or picnic blankets. Concessions will be available. Admission and parking are free. In inclement weather, the concerts will be held in the museum’s Leatherneck Gallery. marineheritage.com
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Stafford Songfest Sundays 5 to 7 p.m. Pratt Park, Celebration Stage 120 River Road, Stafford
4 p.m. Washington Metro Investment Club McCoart building, Woodbridge 703-801-1465
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Williams: Don’t let summer pass you by It happens every year. We look forward to the warm we at her, outdoor activities, ice cream, snow cones, popsi-cles, vacations, and all LAURIE C. WILLIAMS the great things that come along with summer. And then before you know it we realize the end of summer is drawing near. For the same reasons most kids love summer, dogs love summertime too. We often have more free time, we spend more time enjoying sports and outdoor activities, and the sunshine just makes us all a little bit more joyful! But here we are, approaching the middle of August. School will be starting soon and daylight will begin dwindling away. Yet, it’s not too late to make these last few weeks of summer count. 1) Early morning walks. You can still beat the heat if you take a stroll just after the sun has come up. Yes, it’s early and we all love to sleep in when we can, but not only is this the best time temperature-wise, but you are also less likely to encounter a lot of other dogs and people, especially if you have a reactive dog. 2) Lunch with your pooch at an outdoor cafe. The Stafford/Fredericksburg area has quite a few pet friendly eateries that provide outdoor seating where dogs are welcome. Check the Facebook page
Pet Friendly Fredericksburg to get recommendations for some great spots. 3) A weekend getaway. There used to be a time when finding pet friendly lodging was a rare commodity, but nowadays there are multiple properties that do. Just be sure to check the reviews on the hotel website and/or sites like Trip Advisor to make sure the property is truly “pet friendly” and not just “pet barely tolerated.” 4) Make “pupsicles.” When it’s superhot outside, dogs love cool, frosty treats too. Use an ice cube tray to make “pupsicles” by freezing a little diluted chicken broth, with tiny pieces of kibble or mini dog biscuits, carrot chips or green bean pieces inside. Put one in their dish and let them lick and enjoy! 5) Teach your dog something new. Summer is the perfect time to take a class with your dog and learn a new activity, such as agility, rally, flyball, dog parkour, tricks or scent work. Classes are usually a little smaller during the summer months, so you might also receive more one-onone attention. 6) Let your dog get wet! We spend so much time trying to keep our dogs dry, how about letting them get wet for a change. Kiddie pools are not just for toddlers, and sprinklers don’t have to be limited to watering the grass either. Your dog might love both. 7) Take him Pokémon hunting! Don’t let your dog miss out on this latest smart-
phone craze that has taken the country by storm. The objective of this app is to locate and “catch” animated Pokémon characters that are hidden around town. But you can only get to them by venturing outside to find them. No couch potatoes al-lowed! Time’s a wastin’, so don’t delay. You and
your canine companion can still take advantage of these last few dog days of summer. Stafford business owner Laurie C. Williams CPDT-KA is a television and radio personality and nationally recognized dog trainer. She can be reached at info@ pupniron.com.
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Butters is a 6-year-old, female yellow Lab. She is very sweet and loves being outside most of the time. She gets along with children and strangers. She is housebroken and up to date on her vaccines. She will need to be spayed. She can be seen at the Stafford County Animal Shelter, (540)-658-PETS.
Lacey is a 7-year-old miniature poodle. She is spayed and up to date on her vaccines. She seems to do well with larger dogs, but absolutely loves meeting people. She is housebroken and can be seen at the Stafford County Animal Shelter, (540)-658-PETS.
Nina is a friendly American foxhound mix. She is curious and loves to follow her nose. She loves to be petted and gets along with other dogs with proper introduction. Nina can be seen at the Fredericksburg Regional SPCA, (540) 898-1500.
Almond Joy is a quiet, gentle, sweet kitty who came to the SPCA with her kittens and they have been adopted. She is a little shy but really opens up around other cats. She loves food and is looking for a quiet home. She can be seen at the Fredericksburg Regional SPCA, (540) 898-1500.
Tootsie is one of the few remaining 14-weekold blue tick hound mix pups. She is full of playful puppy energy and would do well with other dogs and cats if properly introduced. If you are interested in Tootsie, or any of her siblings, visit staffordspca.org for an adoption application.
Creamsicle is a 10-week-old male tabby. His brother, Tic Tac, is also available for adoption. Adopt both kittens and get a discount on adoption fees. Creamsicle is not neutered, but will have to be when he comes of age. Please fill out an application at staffordspca.org.
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Germanna part of national effort to slash textbook costs Germanna Community College finalized details to join a national initiative to develop courses using open educational resources designed to reduce and eventually eliminate textbook costs. Germanna is one of 39 community colleges in 13 states chosen for the program, according to the college. The national community college reform network Achieving the Dream says the effort is intended to help remove financial roadblocks that can derail students’ progress and to spur other changes in teaching, learning and course design that will increase the likelihood of finishing a degree. “Students, especially those most strapped for funds for college, will directly benefit from the development of courses and degrees with no textbook costs,” said Cheryl Huff, a Germanna professor who has led the Virginia Zx23 (zero text book cost for the state’s 23 community colleges) effort. “Evidence is showing,” Huff said, “that students who are prepared from day one with everything they need for a course are more likely to persist, and be as successful, if not more so, than they would be in classes requiring expensive textbooks they often cannot buy.” Germanna is part of the OER Virginia Community College Consortium that also includes Central Virginia Community College, Lord Fairfax Community College, Mountain Empire Community
Germanna professor Cheryl Huff has led Virginia’s zero text book cost effort for the state’s 23 community colleges. PHOTO BY ROBERT A. MARTIN
College, Northern Virginia Community College and Tidewater Community College. The annual cost of textbooks is about $1,300 for a full-time community college student or about a third of the cost of an associate’s degree. Students who don’t complete college are over 50 percent more likely than those who graduated to cite textbook costs as a major financial barrier, according to a study by Public Agenda. Also, using digital and interactive open educational resources such as
open courseware will encourage faculty to teach students in more engaging and dynamic ways and invite students to become more actively involved in their own learning, according to a news release. The initiative’s requirement to create entire degree programs using OER also will trigger a re-examination of course content and sequencing to build up-to-date degree programs. The effort is intended to spark more rapid adoption of OER within higher education, beginning with community colleges. Today, there are enough open educational materials to replace textbooks in required courses in four, two-year programs: business administration, general education, natural or general science, and social science. But only a few colleges are using those resources. The OER Degree Initiative will create a library of open courses available to other institutions and the public at large. “This initiative will help further transform teaching and learning in the nation’s community colleges,” said Karen A. Stout, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream. “Extensive use of OER will enable students to have access to more dynamic learning tools and a richer academic experience at a cost that will help more students complete their studies.” “Some of Virginia’s community colleges have led the way in using OER content exclusively,” said Glenn DuBois, chancellor of the Virginia Community College
System. “Studies of our institutions have shown that OER reduces costs and contributes to better grades, higher course completion rates, and faster degree completion.” Northern Virginia Community College’s pilot OER courses have increased pass rates by 9 percent compared to nonOER courses. A recent multi-school study found that students using OER took an average fall semester credit load of 13.3, compared to 11.1 credits for students using traditional books. If this holds, students using OER would complete their degrees a year earlier for a 60 credit-hour degree.
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Merit School expanding, adding new locations in fall The Merit School, a member of the Minnieland Academy family of six schools, is adding a newly built school at the Quantico Corporate Center in Stafford. The Merit School of Quantico
Corporate Center is under construction. Less than a mile from the Quantico gate in Stafford County, the new school will offer infant through school-age care and Montessori programs.
Virginia to award student cybersecurity scholarships Applications are now being accepted for a $1 million state scholarship fund for students studying cybersecurity. The Virginia Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship Program will award $20,000 a year to eligible students who are studying how to safeguard computer networks, data and electronic resources. In return, the students must commit to public service by working at a Virginia state agency
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School software and making plans for the disaster to come Have you planned on things going wrong in your tech life? They will. Better to plan on it now and be ready. And if you are sending a student MARK STOUT away to school with a laptop, plan now on it breaking, getting stolen or some other catastrophe. In July we talked about backup options. Have you started using one yet? Have you set up your student with an automatic, offsite backup system so they do not have to think about it? You will need it. That is almost a certainty. What about anti-virus for the PCs at home and those going to college? Get them installed now, and if there is a subscription, make sure it is paid through the end of the school year. For the college students, check the school’s bookstore or website. Often schools have requirements for anti-virus software for all PCs that use their networks, and site licenses to provide it to students for free. Before you buy any software for students,
check with the university. Besides site licenses that provide free software to students, they also have academic discounts for other software often at vast savings. For $20 a month students can get a full range of Adobe software products for a year (and then just $30 a month). The package includes Acrobat, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Audition and many more. These are professional grade software packages. Premiere was used to edit the movies “Deadpool” and “Gone Girl,” for example. They likely have discounts on Microsoft Office subscriptions and also for specialized software certain majors might need. Architectural, engineering, mathematics, physics and other fields need specific and powerful software that would be costly if it were not for student discounts. Some of these discounts are available to teachers and staff of colleges, universities and school districts as well. What happens if your PC breaks or goes missing? With a little planning, you can have both a short-term and longterm solution set to go. Let’s assume repair is out of the question. If your PC is mission critical to your life and it will be for a student, try and have a
backup PC set to go. That can be an older PC still in workable condition, or one used by another family member whose need is not mission critical. Should a student’s laptop go missing, you can express ship out the high school-age sibling’s laptop, and the high schooler will just have to share Mom or Dad’s PC for a while. Or maybe you are fortunate enough to have funds available to buy a new PC directly from Amazon and have it shipped to your student. If neither of these solutions is available or you need a PC while waiting for a replacement, know where one is available for your use. Colleges have PC labs. Here we have PCs available for use at the library or for rent by the hour at Fedex Office. Students should be in the habit of not only saving current projects like papersin-progress to their PCs but also to a cloud account or to a USB drive. That way, if they have to use a public PC to get a paper completed, they do not have to start over. And they should know how to recover files from their cloud backup system. What if your phone goes missing? For a student, not having a phone can be a safety issue. There are apps to help keep a student safe as they walk across a dark campus at THEME: FAMOUS ACTRESSES ACROSS 1. *Grace Kelly was first actress on a U.S. one 6. Brow shape 9. *Audrey Hepburn starred in “My Fair ____” 13. Dugout vessel 14. Ciao in the U.S. 15. Postemployment insurance 16. “Welcome to my humble ____” 17. *Thompson of “Some Kind of Wonderful” 18. Like a neon sign 19. *She portrayed Crawford 21. *Actress with most Oscar nominations 23. Hawaiian wreath 24. Pauper’s permanent state 25. A great distance away 28. River in Bohemia 30. Crazy ____ card game 35. Words from Wordsworth 37. Makes mistakes 39. First sound of the day? 40. Lymphatic swelling 41. *Geena or Bette 43. Red carpet purse 44. Turns grape into
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night. This week’s post at FamilyTechOnline.com has a link to some of those apps. Your replacement options are the same as for a PC: Buy a new one immediately or borrow someone else’s whose need for a phone is not as critical. If you use your phone for business, then as a cost of doing business you should have funds in reserve to buy a new phone immediately. This is why I use Google Voice. My phone number is not tied to a physical phone. If I have to replace my phone in a hurry, I can easily have calls sent to the new phone. If I had a small business, I’d only give out my Google Voice number. Plan now for your PC or phone to break or go missing. If it is going to mean borrowing a replacement device from another family member, let that family member know now why that might happen and the importance of them being part of the solution. Taking away a teenager’s phone or PC to help out their college sibling will never go smoothly, so lay the groundwork early. For links mentioned in the column or to share this column online, go to familytechonline.com. For Mark’s contact information, visit markstout.info on the web. 6. Competently 7. Pastrami holder 8. ____ and desist 9. Opera house box 10. Up to the task 11. Between stop and roll 12. Swerve 15. Opening between esophagus and stomach 20. Was sick 22. Golf peg 24. Like a certain Nellie? 25. *She’s also known for workout videos 26. Bedazzle 27. Made over 29. Toot your own horn 31. Mountain valley 32. Dislikes intensely 33. It’s a fact 34. *This Maggie
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Colonial Forge Eagles have plenty of depth » By David Stegon For Insidenova
As Bill Brown looks down the Colonial Forge football roster, he picks a few standout players before needing to take a quick pause. “I’ve named a few players, but there are so many more that I could name,” he said. “This team is incredibly deep at a number of positions. I guess if there were not so many players that I expect to contribute, we wouldn’t be looking at a very good season.” Brown should know. The Virginia High School League Hall of Famer enters his 37th season as a football coach. As usual, Colonial Forge will be among the area’s top teams this season. Brown said 45 players return to this year’s varsity roster, including an offensive line that will feature five seniors, all of whom played significant time as juniors. Zeke Hand and Brent Campbell anchor the line from the guard spots. They’ll help power a rushing attack that highlights the team’s depth. Brown counts five players who could step-in at running back without a drop-off in production. That, of course, doesn’t mean the Eagles will only run the ball. Quarterback Ethan Garwood returns under center for his junior season, and he’ll throw to a talented group of receivers, including sophomore Joshua Sarratt. Last year, Sarratt started on both sides of the ball and has shown to be an explo-
Bill Brown begins his 11th season at Colonial Forge. He has an overall record of 85-32 with the Eagles.
sive playmaker who is beginning to get attention from colleges. “In the old days, I would have a runoriented offense, and that meant throwing the ball 12 times a game,” Brown said. “With the way the game has changed, we may now throw the ball 25 times per game, but we expect to use the experience we have on the offensive line to our advantage.” The defensive side of the ball looks strong as well. Hand doubles as a defensive tackle and is joined in the pass rush
by Ray Smith, who plays both defensive end and linebacker. The Colonial Forge program has been incredibly consistent with only one losing season since 2002. After going 9-2 last season, there is no reason to expect a drop off. The Eagles, though, will hope for better results in the post-season. After entering the 6A South Playoffs as the top seed, Colonial Forge was upset by Riverbend in its first round game. Dave Stegon can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.
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Mountain View grad hopes to be part of Yankees’ plans » By David Driver For Insidenova
In late July the New York Yankees traded three of their veteran pitchers, sending Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs, Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians and Ivan Nova to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Yankees, with an aging roster the past few years, may be looking to get younger and that brings hope to some of the prospects in the minor league system of the American League East club. That includes starting pitcher Kyle Haynes, 25, a Mountain View High graduate who has been in the rotation this summer of the Triple-A Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre RailRiders in the International League. Haynes hopes the Yankees will get younger. “Definitely, especially on this team. We are a pretty young team for Triple-A,” said Haynes, standing outside the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre clubhouse during a recent series against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in Pennsylvania. “It is fun to see younger guys get a chance in New York.” In early August two of his Triple-A teammates, outfielder Ben Gamel, 24, and pitcher Nick Goody, 25, were promoted to the Yankees. And around the same time, top prospects Clint Frazier and Ben Heller joined Scranton/WilkesBarre after they had been acquired by the Yankees from Cleveland in the trade for lefty reliever Miller, a former standout at the University of North Carolina.
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Haynes was drafted in the 20th round out of VCU in 2012 by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was then traded by the Pirates to the Yankees for big league catcher Chris Stewart prior to the 2014 season. Haynes was a reliever earlier in his minor league career but has been a starter this season. The right-hander split the 2015 season with the Double-A Trenton (New Jersey) Thunder of the Eastern League and Triple-A, where he made seven starts. Haynes has been at the Triple-A level this season and was 4-4 with an ERA of 4.73 in his first 16 starts. In his first 83 2/3
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innings he gave up 97 hits and 37 walks with 63 strikeouts. “He has a real explosive fastball,” said teammate Mark Montgomery, who is from Bruton High in Williamsburg and pitched at Division I Longwood in Farmville. “He has pitched pretty well for us,” Al Pedrique, the manager for the RailRiders, said of Haynes. “He has to work on command on all of his pitches.” Other Virginia products with the RailRiders this season have included pitchers Conor Mullee, who is from Ashburn and went to Broad Run High; Tyler Webb, who is from Nassawadox and played at Northhampton High and the University of South Carolina; and outfielder Jake Cave, who is from Hampton and was drafted by the Yankees out of high school in 2011. Haynes was on the disabled list earlier this season but then returned June 11 to pitch at Columbus, Ohio. He had one of his best outings July 3 at Buffalo, New York as he allowed no runs in seven innings while giving up seven hits. The right-hander went five innings and gave up five runs on July 30 at Pawtucket, Rhode Island and did not figure in the decision against the top farm club of the Boston Red Sox. Two days after that start he ran 10 foul line to foul line sprints in the outfield before a game in Bethlehem, Pa. Haynes EDUCATION
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also played a light round of catch with another pitcher in the outfield before batting practice on a night that Cave started in center field and batted leadoff for the Yankees farm club. Haynes said he will throw about 20 pitches in a bullpen session in between starts at this time of year. “At this time of year the arm strength is already there,” he said. “Physically I have felt pretty good coming off the DL. It took a little bit to get my breaking stuff back. I have had mixed results; I will have a bad game and then a good game. The command is something I need to work on. Hopefully it will get better.” Haynes is able to talk to teammates who have pitched in the big leagues, such as veteran lefty Phil Coke, 34, who spent part of 2015 with the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago Cubs. “They will come up to us (younger pitchers) and offer advice. It has been great,” Haynes said. The former VCU standout has been impressed with outfielder Cave, who nearly made the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day roster as a Rule V draft pick before being returned to the Yankees system after spring training. “The thing that impresses me is the way he plays so hard,” Haynes said. “It is good to have a guy like that in the outfield.” David Driver can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com. SPORTS
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Stafford homes cheapest in Northern Virginia A typical 2,500-square-foot home that might go for $397,500 in Stafford County would fetch $472,500 in Prince William County, $715,000 in Loudoun County and an eye-opening $1.13 million in Arlington, at least based on new per-square-foot figures from RealEstate Business Intelligence, an arm of the local multiple-listing service. Arlington led the pack among Northern Virginia jurisdictions with a median sales price of $453 square foot for sales of existing homes, according to figures reported Aug. 12. Second was Falls Church at $417 per square foot. The median home-sales price in Falls Church exceeds that in Arlington, $708,000 to $627,000, in the most recent report, with the
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to use it,” Lee Warford said of the bracelet. He said he feels a sense of security in having his 46-year-old daughter wear the wrist device. The day CeCe Warford went missing, her mother checked McDonald’s, which is a favorite spot. She wasn’t there. Maria Warford panicked and called her husband, who told her to call 911. An officer showed up within five minutes with a K9 and the family showed the officer a photo of their daughter. The dog immediately changed from “happy-go-lucky to working dog,” Lee Warford said. Upon searching, the dog sat down in front of a nail salon and when the officer checked inside, CeCe Warford was there getting her toes soaked and nails painted “fire-engine red,” her father said. The Warfords, who also have a daughter, Andrea, and a son, Anthony, say they are “absolutely thankful for the program.” On July 27, a 27-year-old male with Down syndrome went missing near Shelton Shop Road and Whispering Pines Lane in North Stafford. Warford, who lives nearby, was one of many residents who received a neighborhood alert. He and his neighbors were among those looking for the man, who
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difference due mainly to the larger percentage of single-family homes in the city. Also on the per-squarefoot list: Alexandria at $417, Fairfax County at $359, the city of Fairfax at $286, Loudoun County at $203, Manassas Park at $195, Prince William County at $189, Manassas at $175 and Stafford County at $159. All jurisdictions posted increases from a year before, ranging from 0.2 percent in Arlington to 10.8 percent in Manassas Park. Topping the list among local jurisdictions was the District of Columbia at $520 per square foot. Among Maryland jurisdictions, median sales prices were $256 in Montgomery County, $215 in Howard County, $204 in Anne Arundel County and $165 in Prince George’s County.
was quickly located. On June 26, a 15-year-old boy with Down syndrome was reported missing by his father about 3:40 p.m. from their home on Chesterwood Lane in Stafford. Twenty-six deputies responded to the search and the Stafford Volunteer Search and Rescue Team was activated. The boy was found unharmed near Stefanigia Road in Stafford at approximately 5:15 p.m. A helicopter from the Fairfax County Police Department and K-9 bloodhound units from the Spotsylvania and Fauquier County sheriff ’s offices assisted in the search. Lee Warford said that as his daughter has gotten older, she’s learned to stay around the house. She broke her ankle a year-and-a-half ago and doesn’t walk as well as she used to. She is legally blind and her depth perception is not good, her father said, but she still gets around. The bracelet costs the Warford’s $25 a month. An officer comes around once a month to maintain the bracelet’s battery and the strap that holds it in place. CeCe Warford doesn’t mind wearing the bracelet, which she calls her “watch,” her father said. Its cost is of little matter to the family, because the bracelet brings peace of mind. “That’s certainly well worth it,” Lee Warford said. For more, visit projectlifesaver.org.
candidates for interim county administrator. The board felt that Doug Barnes is a great fit for Stafford in terms of his local government experience and concern for employees. We are confident he will make our transition to a new county administrator as seamless as possible, without the business of government skipping a beat.” Anthony Romanello’s last day with Stafford County will be Aug. 19. Barnes will start work Aug. 15.
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CIRCUIT COURT OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGES 13-16. Tax ID: 53F-4-23.
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $167,000.00, dated January 10, 2007, recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Stafford County on August 20, 2007, as Instrument Number 070020128, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Stafford County, 1300 Courthouse Rd, Stafford, VA on September 12, 2016 at 9:00 AM, the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: LOT 23, SECTION 4-A, SPRING VALLEY, SHOWN ON PLAT OF SURVEY DATED MAY 22, 1970, REVISED FEBRUARY 16, 1973 AND OCTOBER 10, 1973, RECORDED IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE OF THE-
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of $10,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be required in cash, certified or cashier’s check. No more than $9,000 cash will be accepted as a deposit. Settlement within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced at sale. This is a communication from a debt collector. This notice is an attempt to collect on a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Loan Type: Conv/ Conv (Trustee # 569095) Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, LLC, C/O Atlantic Law Group, LLC PO Box 2548, Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-7101, website: http://www. atlanticlawgrp.com. FEI # 1074.04639 8/12 & 8/19/16
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Nova Jobs Envoy of Woodbridge We are moving forward We are developing a new team here at Envoy of Woodbridge. The excitement is growing and we welcome potential candidates to join our team. Do you want to be part of a changing culture and a highly energized team? Do you have the ability to be part of a change process?
If so, come and check us out. Tuesday, August 16th from 10am - 8pm and enjoy a hot dog or hamburger during your visit. Director of Admissions RN’s, LPN’s, CNA’s and Social Workers are all welcome. Envoy of Woodbridge 14906 Jefferson Davis Highway Woodbridge, VA 22191 Phone: 703-491-6167
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HVAC INSTALLERS/ HELPERS McCrea Equipment Company
is seeking experienced installlers for immediate hire! Must have a minimal of three years experience installilng flues, line sets and outdoor units on residential new construction jobsites. Must have own hand tools, valid driver’s license ande clean driving record. Must have CFC license. Must have a DOT or be able to obtain a DOT card. Criminal background and drug testing will be required.
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McCrea Equipment Company has immediate need for Independent sheet metal subcontractors for work in Virginia. Plenty of work, start right away. Must have all required licenses and meet all insurance requirements. Own vehicle and tools.
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Looking for a bilingual Receptionist (Spanish & English) to work in a medical office setting. Experience preferred but not required. Please send resumes to Kavoosmesbahi@yahoo.com Manassas based excavating company is searching for a
Field Service/Shop Mechanic with experience working on heavy equipment, diesel engines. Must have valid driver's license and clean driving record. Must be able to work some Saturdays. Pay is based on experience. For serious inquiries only, please contact JC at 540-827-7134.
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Do you enjoy helping local businesses market their products and services? Are you a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment? Northern Virginia Media Services/InsideNoVa.com is hiring two outside account executives to build and manage advertising campaigns for local businesses.
OUTSIDE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Working out of either our Woodbridge or our McLean office, this rep will sell print and digital advertising to local businesses. You’ll be given a book of business but will be expected to build that territory. The ideal candidate will have some business-to-business sales experience, but it does not necessarily have to be in the media industry. More critical skills are a willingness to call on new businesses and an ability to make persuasive presentations. Position is full-time and offers a suite of benefits, including medical insurance, a 401(k) and paid time off. Northern Virginia Media Services publishes four local weekly newspapers, in Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William and Stafford counties; two military base newspapers, at Fort Belvoir and Marine Corps Base Quantico; Washington FAMILY Magazine, and the region’s leading news website, InsideNoVa.com. Our newspapers reach 130,000 households a week, and InsideNoVa has nearly 400,000 unique visitors a month.
To apply, send resume and brief cover letter to Bruce Potter at bpotter@Insidenova.com.
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