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April 6 - 12, 2012
Griffith Kicks Off Reelection Campaign
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Roanoke City Revenues Trending Up
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Roanoke City finances are looking up this year though it has not yet equaled its peak performance which came in fiscal year 2009. The measure that Director of Finance Ann Shawver uses in her optimism is growth in the business license tax (BPOL). Shawver told council Monday that for the first time in four years it has increased six percent. “We’re still not back to the peak year of revenue as a whole,” she said “but our City Gov’t businesses here in Roanoke in 2011 are finally seeing growth. The last time they saw growth was back in 2007.” It is a promising indicator for the BPOL tax to be up. Revenues year-to-date have increased .7 percent just .3 percent shy of the expectation of one percent growth. There was also strong enterprise fund performance for the Civic Facilities Fund and stable performance for the Parking Fund. Other local taxes including the food and beverage and occupancy tax are up three percent. That doesn’t include the temporary two-cent increase that expires June 30.
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Notable Author P4– Hayden Hollingsworth has the inside scoop on one of the speakers that will headline this year’s “Book and Author” dinner.
Goodlatte, Griffith and Habeeb Lake Spring Park is 9th district Republican Congressman Morgan Griffith’s favorite place. “This is where I started working,” he said. With redistricting now putting Griffith in the district he represents it was a fitElections ting spot for one of three stops he made around the district on Monday. Delegate Greg Habeeb (R-8) who took Griffith’s place in the General Assembly introduced both Congressman Bob Goodlatte and Griffith. Goodlatte said, “It’s a little bittersweet that the city of Salem that I represented for 20 years will be represented by [Griffith] going into the 9th district.” Goodlatte believed that Griffith being a resident of Salem made it appropriate that he should represent it. Both Goodlatte and Griffith
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Executive Director Beverly Fitzpatrick and Mayor Bowers share a laugh while singing.
Virginia Museum Of Transportation Receives Two Big Gifts
The gift of two steam engines from Roanoke City with the support of Norfolk Southern is a historical gem for Roanoke said Tom Jones, the museum’s board member and past president. “It’s an eventful day, it truly is.” At Monday’s council meeting the city’s 2004 lease of the two steam engines to the Virginia Museum of Transportation was canceled making way for the donation of the engines. The J-611 and A-1218 steam en-
gines have now become 100 percent owned by the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The Class A-1218 locomotive was known for its durability and power. It routinely pulled troop trains at 70 miles-per-hour. The Roanoke shops built 43 of these engines in the 1940s. It is the only 1218 that has escaped the scrap yard.
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“Emergency” at JCHS Prepares Students For Real Life Unsung Heros P9– The 44th Annual Kiwanis Roanoke Metro Unsung Hero awards are announced - see the winners in Sports!
There’s mass mayhem at the Jefferson College of Health Sciences as a major tornado has struck downtown Roanoke. Lots of trauma, people screaming, a woman giving birth, and even several deaths. It all took place last Friday morning and if you didn’t hear or read about it there’s a good reason: it was a simulation, the fourth annual “Interprofessional Simulation Activity,” which allowed students in JCHS programs, mostly seniors, to interact with The Simulated disaster at JCHS was designed as a learning tool. others in a variety of academic structor simulated an epileptic “excited” about the annual exdisciplines. Students from the nursing, seizure in the midst of all the ercise, which has grown in size physician assistant, respira- chaos and was attended to by and scope every year. “At seven-forty PM a tornado tory therapy, health psychology, someone from Carilion’s pastohit Roanoke, Virginia (during ral care department.) laboratory sciences and emera concert), ” participants were Students didn’t know until gency services were among the departments that took part. they showed up that morning told in a pre-briefing by Susan what the emer- Jones, a nursing instructor. “We Some were meeting gency entailed said have many injuries. You must for the first time ever Education Ava Porter, chair of collaborate so we have optimal and used the occathe nursing depart- patient care – we want you to sion to learn more ment at JCHS and one of the teach each other,” added Jones. about working together should There were 14 different cases observers. Others on hand to a real emergency occur. in two rooms at JCHS, which watch included Carilion CEO “Patients” in 9th floor labs were made up with realistic- Nancy Agee and Jefferson Col- formerly housed Carilion Community Hospital. Students had looking wounds and scars; lege president Dr. N.L. Bishop. one hour to diagnose and treat “Together they have to handummies sitting on tables patients before heading back to dle the new situation – which nearby were employed when tubes, for example, had to be in- is new for them,” said Porter. “It present a quick report on their serted down someone’s throat. causes them to really do some activities during a debriefing Faculty members at Carilion thinking and soul searching period. “We are evaluating you Clinic-owned JCHS often took and think – wow, what if this part in the exercise, sometimes had been real?’ Porter said > CONTINUED throwing in a wild card (one in- students for the most part are P2: Emergency
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Patrick Henry Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall The old joke says, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.” And that’s just what members of the Patrick Henry High School Orchestra did. All that practice paid off when they were invited to perform at Carnegie Hall last month. David Lipps is the orchestra’s director. “We sent in a CD from our last year’s spring concert and several people from across the country did the same thing.” There were approximately 60 other entries and four of those were chosen to perform a con- Orchestra members pose in front of Carnegie Hall. cert at Carnegie Hall. According to Lipps, The like you were almost within an Governor’s School of the Per- instrument. The room itself forming Arts in Norfolk was the hall - is an instrument. It’s the only other Virginia group just a joy to work in that every to be chosen. The others were night you play . . . [Everything] from Cincinnati and upstate is going to be heard and it won’t New York. Thirteen chaperones be forgiving; it will do what you accompanied the 76 musicians did. But it’s done very elegantfrom Roanoke to ly and has such a the Big Apple for warm sound. And Honors the four-day trip. just the visual imThe group walked pact of it all is abaround Times Square, visited solutely beautiful-a great place Ellis Island, the Statue of Liber- to play.” ty, and Ground Zero. They also Now that they’re back home, saw Spider-man on Broadway. the next item on the orchestra “That was pretty amazing,” he members’ agenda is a concert at said of the show, adding that the Jefferson Center May 6th to seeing Ground Zero had a show off the group to the comsomber effect on the group. Another highlight was the > CONTINUED concert itself. Lipps says, “It was amazingly great. It felt P2: Orchestra
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