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he Stafford County Board of Supervisors voted 5-2 on Tuesday against a potential high-speed rail bypass. Supervisors Paul Milde, RAquia, and Meg Bohmke, RFalmouth, cast the dissenting votes. Each wanted more time to consider the issue. The board specifically voted against the eastern Fredericksburg bypass option for the proposed high-speed rail project, which would run 123 miles from Richmond to Washington, D.C. The proposed bypass would use two tacks adjacent to Virginia Railway Express in Spotsylvania, through Caroline County and along Route 3 in south Stafford. The bypass is one of three options the department has considered as part of the Southeast High-Speed Rail project. In mid-August, the board expressed its concerns about the option in a letter to Pete Burrus, chief of rail at the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation. The letter stated that the bypass option would mean significant consequences for residents located near the rail corridor, including excess noise, traffic and reduced property values. The project would also affect George RAIL Washington’s boyhood PAGE 13
Another year of educating and socializing the youngsters of Stafford County got off to a mostly painless and smooth start on the day after Labor Day as thousands of students made their appearance at 31 schools in a county that covers 280 square miles. The students represent 103 countries of birth and speak 47 native languages, according to the division. If anything like last year, the students are 52.6 percent white, 18.7 percent black, 17.4 percent Hispanic, 7.7 percent multiracial, 3 percent Asian and less than 1 percent Native American or native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. For a glimpse of some faces of our future, SEE PAGE 8. SUBMITTED
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n apiary that houses 300 bee hives may not be expected in the suburbs of North Stafford, but a trio of beekeepers works steadily to keep the business abuzz. A father-son duo from a beekeeping family got the business, Honeycomb Heroes, off the ground. They just couldn’t bypass a chance to keep the family business going. Garrett McWilliams, 23, and his father, Jimmy McWilliams, run the company with the help of Garrett McWilliams’ girlfriend, Honey Distribution Manager
Amanda Turner. Honeycomb Heroes is located on five acres in North Stafford. “I believe my first memory was in a bee yard with my grandparents,” said Beehive Manager Garrett McWilliams, who was 12 when his grandfather passed away in 2005. His grandparents owned 800 hives and he learned the beekeeping basics from them. “There was no one able to carry on the business but later, equipment would be put back to use from a honeybee-loving high school graduate and a supportive father,” Turner explained.
Jimmy McWilliams is a Marine Corps veteran and Florida native. He jumped onboard as the pollination coordinator when his son suggested continuing the beekeeping business. Honeycomb Heroes sells honey and beeswax products at local craft shows and farmers’ markets. The trio also travels with their bees to different locations for pollination services. In the winter, the bees are moved to Florida for a solid nectar source. “We love that BEE our job helps inPAGE 13 crease the honeybee
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Man charged with stealing checks from mailboxes A Fredericksburgarea man faces multiple charges after an investigation into utility checks stolen from residential mailboxes, Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office spokeswoman M.C. Morris Mon- ROBERT ELEE PERRY JR cure said. Sheriff ’s deputies allege that Robert Elee Perry Jr., 33, cashed the checks after his name replaced the payee’s. The checks were deposited at a local bank and cleared the victim’s accounts. On June 10 the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office began receiving reports from individuals who wrote personal checks to
STAFFORD DEMOCRATS TO MEET SEPT. 10 The Stafford Democratic Committee will meet from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Sept. 10 in Conference Room ABC of the Stafford County Government Center, 1300 Courthouse Road. Citizens interested in helping with the fall campaigns are encouraged to attend. Representatives from the Virginia Coordinated Campaign are working on both the presidential and congressional campaigns will attend. For more, visit stafforddemocrats.org or leave a message at (540) 300-1870.
pay bills and placed those checks in their residential mailbox for postal pick up. During the next weeks, five separate cases were investigated, Morris Moncure said. Detective T.A. Covington handled one of the cases involving a victim having paid two utility bills and both checks were cashed by Perry. Additionally the victim’s bank account was used for a $400 wire transfer to pay a cable bill that did not belong to her. Det. Covington and Det. C.S. Oxley worked for weeks with the bank where the checks were cashed and identified Perry as the suspect. Perry was served with the warrants at the Rappahannock Regional Jail, where he was being held for another offense from Fredericksburg. More charges are pending as the investigations continue.¬
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Stafford man surrenders to deputies after 80 mph chase along Mine Road A North Stafford man took a relative’s advice and surrendered to sheriff ’s office deputies after he ran away following a high-speed chase that reached 80 mph on Sept. 7, Stafford County Sheriff ’s Of- CLAYTON LEE fice spokeswoman GRAYSON M.C. Morris Moncure said. Clayton Lee Grayson, 22, of Knollwood Court, was charged with felony eluding of police, receipt of a stolen firearm, driving with a suspended license, possession of marijuana and a summons for failure to obey traffic lights. According to Morris Moncure, Stafford County Deputy G.A. Haney saw a car go through a red light and turn left onto southbound Mine Road. The deputy tried to make a traffic stop but the silvercolored Chevrolet Impala sped into the
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The internal fratricide of the Republican Party of Virginia shows no sign of abating, even after the state party’s governing body voted (by the narrowest of margins – a single vote out of 81 cast) to hold a primary to select candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general next year. Some of the hard-core grass-roots activists cried foul, arguing there was a deal already in place for the 2017 nominees to be decided by a convention (in exchange for a state presidential primary this year). The other side said there was no such firm agreement, and carried the day with the case that a broader-based primary would help the party select nominees more palatable to
Virginia’s evolving electorate. We have no dog in the hunt when it comes to the primary-vs.-convention battle; the GOP’s leadership, its State Central Committee, has the power to make the choice among two viable options. Neither we nor any other editorial page has much business pontificating one way or another. But we don’t like dumb politics, and the fact is that while the Democratic Party of Virginia has its own lengthy set of problems at the moment, that party seems much more focused than Republicans when it comes to 2017. Unless something out of the box happens (and it could), Democrats already have their candidates for governor
(Ralph Northam) and attorney general (Mark Herring) ready to rumble, leaving just the selection of lieutenant governor from a field of options that, admittedly, seems on the weak side. Republicans, meanwhile, are likely to have contentious races for all three offices, and the decision to use a primary vs. a convention will help some and hinder others. That’s the way the world works; ask Bill Bolling, who remains convinced (we aren’t) that he might well be governor today if the GOP in 2013 went with a primary rather than a convention. The famous Will Rogers line – “I am not a member of any organized political party; I am a Democrat” – these days could apply to Virginia Republicans.
Could Stafford support Clinton in 2016? It was 1976. That was the year of the Bicentennial, our nation’s 200th birthday celebration. M.A.S.H. and Laverne and Shirley were the top rated DAVID KERR TV shows, and Elton John and Kiki Dee, singing “Don’t go breaking my heart,” was at the top of the charts. It was also a presidential year and it represented the last time that Stafford County, then with a population of only 20,000, would vote for a Democratic nominee for president. Jimmy Carter carried Stafford in the 1976 election. But keeping up a tradition that would last 32 more years, Virginia went Republican and gave its 12 electoral votes to Gerald Ford. That was 40 years ago and Stafford was a different place. There was only one high school, with another just coming online. There was no VRE, I-95 was two lanes each way, and our economy was mostly rural. Like many southern communities, we had maintained a long history of supporting Democrats. But that was already changing. Our population was growing, another 120,000 moved in during the four decades that followed, and a majority, at least until recently, were Republican voters. Sometimes, the vote totals for national Democrats, from Walter Mondale to Bill Clinton in 1992 and Al Gore in 2000, were downright grim. Often, the Democrats didn’t carry a single precinct, but that started to change during the next decade. In local elections Democrats did a little better, winning a short-lived majority of the board of supervisors, and they also learned that there were a few precincts that could win. That is if they worked at it. The election of 2008 was a turning point. While Republicans continued to dominate most other contests in the county, for the first time since that long
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ago election of 1976 a Democrat got a respectable percentage. Barack Obama didn’t win the county, but he pulled an admirable 46.37 percent. By Stafford standards that was a major shift to the Democrats. And what’s more, for the first time since 1964 the state’s vote went for a Democrat, Obama. Another good Democratic year was 2012. President Obama’s Stafford vote slipped only mildly and he got 45 percent. Remember, Stafford Democrats have for years measured their success in national races by the margins of their losses. Also there is one more thing: Both elections, 2008 and 2012, had one thing in common. Virginia was in the crosshairs. The commonwealth was a must-win for both campaigns, and the Obama campaign put lots of money and resources into finding its vote, whether in Stafford or Fairfax, and getting it to the polls. A lot of what’s made Stafford seem more Democrat friendly in these races is the change in the area’s demographics. We’re seven times the size of the county that voted for Jimmy Carter 40 years ago. And while initially GOP friendly, with many more recent arrivals the community has gotten younger. Many new arrivals come from more liberal states and are comfortable voting for Democratic candidates. At the same time the county has become far more diverse. There is a growing African-American population and a rapidly growing Hispanic population. The numbers bear this out, and it’s slowly beginning to affect the vote — particularly in high turnout presidential races. All this should be good news for Stafford Democrats in 2016. However, Stafford Democrats have two problems when it comes to carrying the county, and the first is the Democratic nominee. The Clinton name, at least if you look at President Bill Clinton’s support in the county in the 1990s, was never especially popular. And, in this national security minded community of ours, it’s EDUCATION EDUCATION
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likely the e-mail scandal and her high negative ratings, though much lower than Trump’s, might make it hard for her to win the county. We’ll see. The campaign has just begun and Clinton, historically, has proven to be a disciplined and surprisingly effective campaigner. Also, believe it not, the Democrats (and the Republicans, too, probably) don’t consider Virginia in play anymore. The world has turned upside down. Clinton has a double-digit lead in the commonwealth. Most of her strength is based in the large, strongly Democratic counties in the north. The Clinton campaign is so far ahead that they’ve decided they won’t even be running TV ads. That’s good news for the Democrats overall, but moving some of these campaign resources away from Virginia doesn’t help Stafford Democrats. They could use the extra boost of a strong TV campaign. Still, the local Democrats are running a solid ground game. National Democrats may be skipping the hard sell in the Old Dominion, but they’re still funding a voter ID and get-out-the-vote campaign. Democratic canvassers have been out every weekend since mid-summer and there is a local Clinton campaign headquarters. Also, they’re following the Obama playbook. Use your databases to identify potential voters, and they have good data resources, visit them, visit them again, and finally call them and get them to the polls. It’s not clear, at the moment, that this level of effort is being matched by the GOP. Now, a fair question: Does it matter if Stafford goes Republican or Democrat? The state will likely support Clinton and Stafford is a relatively small community. So, in the scheme of things, the answer is no. Neither camp will lose much sleep over the result. 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. SPORTS SPORTS
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at the beginning of the academic school year, the grants are aimed at supporting teachers, schools and organizations with resources to strengthen and enhance literacy instruction. The foundation has awarded more than $127 million in grants to nonprofit organizations since 1993. It also supports customers interested in learning how to read, speak English or prepare for the high school equivalency test. Grant applications for the 2017 grant cycle to benefit adult, family, summer and
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LIBRARY TO HONOR FORMER DIRECTOR Central Rappahannock Regional Library will honor former director Donna Cote with the unveiling of a portrait by local artist Laurie Watkins at Headquarters Library 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14. This event is open to the public and a reception will follow. A copy of House Joint Resolution No.
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410 honoring her life will also be on display¬, according to a news release. Cote worked for the Central Rappahannock Regional Library for 44 years, serving as director for 34 years. Under her leadership, the regional library system quadrupled in size. Cote was an active member of the Virginia Library Association, serving as both president of VLA and as president of the Virginia Public Libraries Directors Association. She retired in September 2015 and passed away in February of 2016.
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When a local armchair Civil War historian decides to purchase a metal detector and finds an old-looking projectile in his backyard, who’s he gonna call? Probably the local police first, but the local police will call the Marine Corps Base Quantico Provost Marshal Office and PMO will call Quantico’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians. The base EOD section has Memorandums of Understanding with communities as far south as Richmond to respond to the discovery of ordnance. “Our section supports civilian authorities at the discretion of the installation commander,” said Capt. Matthew Anderson, EOD officer for Marine Corps Installations National Capital Region-MCBQ. “Farmers plowing fields, any kind of construction work that turns up suspected military or Civil War ordnance.” Quantico EOD, which is made up of Anderson and six enlisted Marines, is active in the community in many ways. “We help a lot of people out,” Anderson said. “I really don’t say ‘no’ to anybody.” For instance, this June, the section responded to a call from Fredericksburg, where an excavation had uncovered an object EOD identified as a three-inch projectile from a Parrott rifle used by the Union Army during the Civil War. EOD will preserve the projectile and then turn it over to the University of Mary Washington or another historical organization for display. “We get a good amount of that kind of call,” Anderson said. “We’ve responded to probably three this year.” Since the City of Fredericksburg and Stafford and Spotsylvania counties were all sites of major Civil War battles, Civil War ordnance is everywhere. Quantico EOD has identified a mix of Union and Confederate artillery projectiles, musket balls and black powder bullets. EOD’s typical practice is to inert the object—or remove the hazards, often by flushing out the black powder—and then preserve it.
Staff Sgt. George Maize demonstrates the capability of a robot used in defusing unexploded ordinance at the EOD Compound for schoolchildren visiting the facility on Aug. 31. ADELE UPHAUS-CONNER | NORTHERN VIRGINIA MEDIA SERVICES
At that point, they prefer to either pass the item along to a museum, college, or university or keep it for their own library. “Our mission is the protection of personnel and property,” Anderson said. “Often, these things are worth money and we want them to go somewhere they can kind of ‘give back’ to the community, instead of financially benefiting an individual.” He said the EOD library contains about two dozen Civil War pieces and an estimated 700 other items. “We like to keep examples of everything we can,” he said. “Bombs, mortars, rockets, old, new, U.S., foreign.” Members of the public can visit the EOD library by appointment. Marine Corps EOD is the only military EOD branch authorized to deal with inert ordnance, so the Quantico section helps area police departments and federal agencies with this task. They also help museums and historical organizations ensure that the firearms in their collections are safe. This summer, they X-rayed a World War II M1 Garand rifle recovered from the grave of a Marine Raider on Makin Island, now in the collection of the National Museum of the Marine
Corps. The X-rays determined that the chamber and magazine of the rifle were free of ordnance. And last year, they conducted similar work on the ordnance collection at the Navy Yard. Quantico EOD also supports Very Important Persons Protection Support Activity, assisting in the protection of the president, vice president, secretary of defense and others. In June, two Marines from the Quantico section accompanied President Obama when he visited Orlando following the June 12 shooting at the Pulse nightclub. “If we get the mission, we go,” Anderson said. “Most of the tours are short notice and short duration.” Quantico EOD Marines also spend time on security detail at the White House and at Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C. for the Friday evening parades. All of this is in addition to their work at the base, clearing ranges after training exercises and identifying unexploded ordnance elsewhere on base. “We’re super busy,” Anderson said. “If I could double my section, that would be awesome!” Writer: auphausconner@quanticosentryonline.com
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Back to school 2016 The first day of school, the day after Labor Day in Stafford County, brings about many changes for residents. Kids get to have a change of scenery and a chance to add to their texting list. Parents get some time off from the almost constant supervision of the young offspring. School staff and teachers return to the sometimes thankless and mostly rewarding job of forming our future. Take a look at some photos of the first day of school and maybe stir up some memories of your youth.
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Public libraries critical to community Our county libraries are bragging they are Po k e m o n G o gyms, where players of the game can capture virtual Pokemons. MARK STOUT This phone game is all the rage now with kids through adults. I know a minister who plays and is proud his church property is home to three Poke stops. I’m happy to see the library promoting this on its website. Staffers understand that being a Pokemon gym is a wonderful way to attract patrons who may have forgotten about the library. Are public libraries obsolete? It is understandable to wonder this in the world of broadband, eBooks, Netflix and are other digital media services. The library does not seem to have the same gravitation pull it once did for many of us. In reality, our public libraries are more important than ever. Not everyone can afford a computer, or if they can, also afford broadband. Yet
most jobs these days require you to fill out online applications. Our public libraries and their free computers and internet access let those folks find jobs. It also gives all of us a critical backup to our home infrastructure. If our computer breaks the night before an important project is due, we can always go to the library. In a recent column on contingency plans for when things go badly, the library was an important component. Have you converted to ebooks? I love having a book always with me on my phone. While perhaps not as tactilely satisfying as a paper book, the availability of reading material wherever I am is nice. And while I do not mind buying an ebook I might re-read, or at least need to refer to in the future, I do balk at buying the latest best seller. I always checked out those from the library, and did not mind if I had to wait a year or two for them. Did you know you can reserve and check out ebooks from the library as well? Our libraries also give us access to online tools we could subscribe to ourselves, but likely would not because the
subscriptions are too expensive just for occasional use. The latest is Lynda.com, which has thousands of career oriented videos. Without the library, Lynda costs $30 a month. Via the Prince William County library, all those video are free. If you are looking to learn new business skills, these videos are a fantastic resource. There are videos on marketing, design, programming, writing and many other topics. There are even certificate programs you can complete to show future employers the new skills you have acquired. The library also has a host of online databases we can access with just our library card number. A few can only be accessed while at the library, but most can be used from home by library patrons. Back copies of the New York Times and Washington Post are available, legal and taxation files, military and intelligence databases, and many others are readily available. And of course you can search the library’s catalog online, and reserve books. When the book becomes available you will be notified by email so you can get it. Your passport is your library card,
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available for free by visiting any library branch. And for all this, the library still provides reading programs for kids, a voting location, a meeting hall, a casual place for tutors to meet students and meeting places for groups and clubs. They also have classes on computers, English as a second language and other topics. Foremost among the programs for children is the 1,000 Books before Kindergarten program. Children get positive reinforcement for every 100 books, and special awards at the completion of the 1,000. Research has shown that early exposure to books helps prevent reading difficulties later. Get your child’s schooling off to a good start even before they are in school. A public library is critical component of a vibrant community. Recently there were thoughts of outsourcing the management of the Prince William library. I am glad we had second thoughts on that. A library’s primary measure should be the value it brings to its community, not to someone’s bottom line. 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.
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North Stafford volleyball tops Colonial Forge » By David Stegon For Insidenova
For the first two sets, the only thing that went wrong for the North Stafford volleyball team was an issue with the stereo system playing the national anthem. The Wolverines won the first two sets over visiting Colonial Forge with relative easy. North Stafford held a multiple point lead for most of the first set before winning 25-21 and then easily won the second set 25-18. A three-set sweep seemed all but certain until an eight-point Colonial Forge run in the third set and an early lead in the fourth put the night in doubt. “We played like a roller coast: We were up, we were down, but our players need to realize its one long race that needs to be more balanced,” North Stafford coach Nicole Candelora said afterward. Trailing 9-5 in the fourth set, North Stafford returned to the dominant team that cleaned house early in the match. The Wolverines won 20 of the next 31 points on their way to a 25-20 set, and match, for a victory. The win was the first for North Stafford’s senior class against Colonial Forge, who for years has been the class of area volleyball. Maybe this win will help turn the tide.
“I give Colonial Forge all the credit for the way they came back,” said Candelora, who was an assistant at Colonial Forge for nearly 10 years before taking over at North Stafford this season. “Our girls, though, responded how they needed to. In that third set, we began chasing balls that were out of play, making silly mistakes. Once we righted that, the game began to turn back.” Sophomore Sydney Ferguson led the Wolverines with 13 kills and was second on the team with nine digs and four aces. Freshman Victoria Barrett had six kills to go with five aces while Zoe Allen and Abby Geiser managed the offense with 17 and 10 assists respectively. The win was the first of the season for North Stafford. The Wolverines lost their opening game to Briar Woods, a team just two years removed from a state championship. While Tuesday’s win to beat her old school was nice for Candelora, she now has a chance to go against her old boss. North Stafford next plays Colgan High School and Ken Mesa, the former Colonial Forge head coach under whom Candelora worked. Dave Stegon can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.
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Hilland returns to lead William & Mary offensive line » By David Driver For Insidenova
William & Mary offensive lineman Connor HIlland missed action in 2014 and 2015 with injuries. He played in eight games but missed four with injuries in 2014 and then missed two games last year with an injury while starting 11. So it was significant when he was named a third-team all-Colonial Athletic Association player after the 2015 season. “It means a lot. I put a lot of effort into last season. It wouldn’t mean anything if the team didn’t do well,” said Hilland, a graduate of Brooke Point High. But the Tribe certainly did well last season and has high hopes for this year. William & Mary was 6-2 in regularseason play in the CAA last year and finished in a three-way tie with Richmond and James Madison for the conference title. The Tribe, 9-4 overall last year, advanced to the Football Championship Subdivision before falling in the playoffs to Richmond after beating Duquesne. “It was important for us to make the playoffs,” Hilland said. “It was an intense season last year, especially playing Richmond twice in [three] weeks. We were locked-in all of last season.” This year Richmond was picked to finish first in the CAA during its annual media day in July in Baltimore, and William & Mary was tabbed for second. James Madison was pegged for third. “It is a challenge. You definitely have to put the last game behind you and move
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also took a physics class the first part of the summer. Part of summer workouts including getting up at 4:45 a.m. to lift weights before going to class at 8 a.m. “I feel the best I have ever felt. I really focused on my flexibility and conditioning,” he said. Hilland was a three-year letterwinner at Brooke Point, and played offensive and defensive line for head coach Jeff Berry. He was honorable mention all-state as a senior and was first-team all-region and all-district. He was a member of the National Honor Society and the National Society of High School Scholars. Hilland is the son of Robert and Alexandra Hilland, and he is majoring in kinesiology and enjoys weightlifting, fitness, basketball, lacrosse and spending time with family, according to the Tribe media guide. Other Brooke Point products now playing college football include senior wide receiver Aaron Sanders of VMI in Lexington. The VMI roster also includes redshirt junior wideout Pete Reed (Colonial Forge), redshirt freshman offensive lineman Tyler Thacker (Stafford High), freshman wideout Rohan Martin (Colonial Forge) and freshman linebacker Connor Riddle (Colonial Forge). The Liberty University roster includes Javon Frazier (Colonial Forge), a redshirt freshman defensive end. David Driver can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com. SPORTS SPORTS
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population after all the factors working against pollinators,” Turner said. “We also enjoy seeing God’s creation in all the things honeybees can naturally do.” A honeybee can produce honey, beeswax, propolis and royal jelly, she explained. It can collect pollen, which provides different benefits for the body. Honeybees also provide pollination that is crucial to the life cycle. “It’s an amazing sight to see,” she said. Turner, a self-described “military brat” born in Germany, said she always knew bees made honey but never once thought she would experience seeing bees in action and come to appreciate their huge role in the life cycle. “When you think of honeybees, you just think about the honey on your pancakes, but there is actually more to it. … They are such amazing creatures and I love talking to people who are just as fascinated with them as I am.” Bees are the true heroes of the company, according to the beekeepers. Without bees, there wouldn’t be honey, and food crops would not receive proper pollination, resulting in food crop die-off. Unfortunately, honeybees along with other natural pollinators have diminished, Turner explained. The loss is apparent within the beekeeping business overall, but beekeepers have adapted and have been able to utilize more bees to make up for losses. Aside from some commercial beekeepers who have either stopped pollination or completely quit the beekeeping business, hobbyists too have faced major issues with even one to a few hives, Turner explained. “It is not impossible but much harder, so responsive learning is required by the beekeeper,” she said. The hard truth is, bees die at an alarming rate and without intervention they will certainly die, according to Jimmy McWilliams. Beekeeping near a residential area also CLASSIFIED
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on this,” said Supervisor Gary Snellings, R-Hartwood. “They’ve done a fantastic job.” The groundbreaking is expected in November, with completion set for Memorial Day 2017. The Armed Services Memorial Commission, established by the board, has raised $593,000 in donations for the memorial. *discussed handgun permit fees, without taking action. The board plans to return soon to take action on the matter. At a mid-August board of supervisors’ meeting, Milde asked the board to consider reducing fees charged for residents to obtain concealed handgun permits. The fee is currently $50 for a concealed handgun permit. The board is considering reducing the fee by $35. The other $15 is split between the clerk of the circuit court ($10) and the state police ($5). Permit revenue for the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office is approximately $95,000 and $5,000 goes to the clerk of the circuit court, according to board background documents. Background checks are required as part of the permit process. has its challenges, the beekeepers said. Honeycomb Heroes’ many hives are spread throughout the five acres of land. The beekeepers don’t grow anything there; only wild flowers, trees and berry bushes exist on the property. There are also hives on some local properties with open land containing Dutch clovers and other wild plants. The beekeepers said that they try to avoid chemicals as much as possible and it’s important for the general public to be mindful of all pollinators and the chemicals that may affect them. With pollinator awareness on the rise, hobbyist beekeeping has increased, the trio said. Beginning the beekeeping process isn’t difficult, they added, with respect to finding a bee and equipment supplier; however, it can be costly to get started. Turner recommended that interested hobbyists take a few bee classes to learn the basics and gather tips about organic treatments. “Most importantly,” she said, “passion is important to be attentive and care for the bees. You only get out what you put in.” And, they said, buying local honey and its products has clear health benefits. Besides helping the area’s economy grow, local honey is known to ease allergy and cold symptoms. Consuming local raw honey can help because the bees carry pollen around from flower to flower and bring it back to the hive, they said. The honey then mixes with the pollen. Therefore, local honey can help the body become more accustomed to local pollen. This helps build immune systems and creates antibodies to help fight against allergies, they explained. Business hours at Honeycomb Heroes are Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Customers can also place orders and pick up products at the apiary on weekdays. To shop online or for more, call 540498-3573 or visit honeycombheroes.com. OPINION
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GRAPHIC ARTIST (Part-time) Northern Virginia Media Services is looking for a graphic artist to design news and feature pages for the Quantico Sentry newspaper. The position requires knowledge of and experience in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and basic news layout techniques. The graphic artist will work in the public affairs office at Marine Corps Base Quantico three days (Monday-Wednesday) every other week, for a total of 16 to 20 hours. Applicants must pass background checks necessary to work on base, but clearance is not required.
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