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June 22 - 28, 2012

[Valley Rail Heritage]

Steam Returns to Roanoke

Downtown Service District Expands

City Manager Also Recognized As GFOA President

Beautiful Hosts P3– Miss Virginia and several Miss Virginia Preteen Contestants will be hosting events at the Roanoke Rescue Mission next week.

Photo by Dorr Tucker

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Overcoming Grief P4– Lucky Garvin takes a hard look at grieving and life and comes up with some hard won but inspiring answers.

The Big Top! P6– The Salem Fair is gearing up for a Silver Anniversary celebration this July as America’s largest free gate fair turns 25-years-old.

Another Emmy P9– John Carlin and FOX 21/27 receive an EMMY for their “John Carlin’s Virginia” story on guitar maker, Wayne Henderson.

This striking picture of the 207 was taken on the Roanoke Belt Line between Franklin Road and Norwich in June of 1967 by Roanoker Dorr Tucker. Note the young boy with the Schwinn “Stingray” bike complete with “banana seat” that was very popular that year. The boy’s orientation away from the train with the look-back over his shoulder indicates there was at least some trepidation as the mighty steam locomotive roared by. (Publisher’s Note: This is one of my favorite pictures that we have published by a local photographer.)

Almost eighteen years after the last whistle sounded in downtown Roanoke, a steam train is returning this summer.

As part of the Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam Program, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) and the Roanoke Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society will be offering two public steam excursions in the Roanoke area during June and July.

Steam locomotive #630 owned by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum of Chattanooga is no stranger to our city. The coal fired consolidation type engine was operating as # 207 for the then owner East Tennessee & Western North Carolina of Johnson City back in 1967. In May of that year the 1904 vintage engine was brought to Roanoke to operate on the Roanoke belt line to mark an event for what is now the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Roanokers won’t be able to the ride on the belt line, which is out of service, but they will have the opportunity to ride behind the locomotive from Winston-Salem to Roanoke or from Roanoke to Pulaski / Bristol.

General admission seating will be provided in climatecontrolled coaches with comfortable seats and large windows.

Roanokers will have the opportunity to let steam carry them over tracks where regular passenger trains stopped operating

many decades ago. The locomotive will be ex-Southern Railway #630, a 2-8-0, built in 1904 in Richmond and recently restored to service by TVRM in Chattanooga.

June 24, Winston-Salem, N.C. to Roanoke one way with bus connection.

• Bus departs Roanoke Visitors Center (the former N&W Passenger Station), 101 Shenandoah Avenue NE, at 7:30 am • Train departs Winston-Salem 10:00 a.m.

• Train arrives Roanoke 4:00 p.m.

• Route: Norfolk Southern R-line (“Punkinvine”) between Winston-Salem and Roanoke • Locomotives: Steam locomotive 630 with diesels assisting • Equipment: air-conditioned coaches, snack and souvenir car • Fare: $95. Includes box lunch and bus transportation July 7, Roanoke to Pulaski or Bristol one way with bus return to Roanoke.

• Train departs Roanoke Visitors Center (the former N&W Passenger Station), 101 Shenandoah Avenue NE, at 9:00 am • Train arrives Pulaski at 1:30 pm, Bristol at 4:45 pm • Route: Norfolk Southern main line between Roanoke and > CONTINUED Bristol P2: Steam

Roanoke City Council has approved the expansion of the Downtown Service District to encompass the existing Carilion property that includes the clinic, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, Cambria Suites Hotel and vacant land that is east of Jefferson Street.

Sean Luther, president & CEO of Downtown Roanoke, Inc., expects the 72 parcels to g e n e r at e $135,000 that will be used for promoting and servicing the Downtown Service District. He said that Sean Luther, the addi- president and tionalfunds CEO of Downwould also town Roanoke ensure continued Incorporated.

operation of the Star Line Trolley and strengthen the relationship between Roanoke’s core and the Jefferson redevelopment area.

Justifying the predominantly Caucasian makeup of the residents of the downtown district, Luther and council stressed that the downtown 24011 zip code only had several dozen residents in the 2000 census.

There was no displacement of minorities only a filling of a void. Luther said, “Just because this is not a gentrifying district does not mean we are particularly satisfied with the diversity > CONTINUED P2: Downtown

If You Find a Fawn, Local Soap Box Derby Racers Compete for Spot in 75th Anniversary Race Leave it Alone

It’s that time of year again when white-tailed deer fawns are showing up in yards and hayfields and concerned citizens want to know how to help.

In almost all cases, the best way to help is to simply give the fawn space and leave it alone.

Concerned people sometimes pick up animals that they think are orphaned. Most such “orphans” that goodintentioned citizens “rescue” every spring should have been left alone. Most wild animals will not abandon their young, but they do leave them alone for long periods of time while looking for food.

Fawns, born from April through July, are purposely left alone by their mothers.

A hidden newborn fawn.

Female deer, (does,) stay away from the fawns to avoid leading predators such as dogs or coyotes to their location. The white-spotted coat camouflages a fawn as it lies motionless in vegetation.

By giving it a wide berth, you also reduce the risk of inadvertently leading predators to the hidden fawn. Does will return several times each

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Instead of staying indoors this summer and playing video games, some kids are on the track-race track, that is-competing for a world title. The local Soap Box Derby competition was held Saturday at Roanoke County’s Walrond Park with 24 drivers-boys and girls-competing for two spots in the 75th Anniversary of the All American Soap Box Derby World Championship Race in Akron, Ohio next month. One local winner will represent the Stock division, ages 7 to 13 and the other in Super Stock, ages 10 to 17.

Del Waldron is President of the Star City Soap Box Derby and says today’s cars are very different from those in the past.

“When I raced they were made of wood, so you actually had to spend all winter to build it and

Photo by Beverly Amsler

A young girl rides by with a smile after crossing the finish line first in one of last weekend’s many heats. then you got one shot down the track. Now they come in kits.”

Inside each $540 kit is the hardware, a floorboard, the axels, and a red, white, or blue plastic shell. Waldron says Su-

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> Steam

The best chance for widespread storms moves in on Friday as a cold front slides in. Temperatures will rise to near 90.

Hit or miss showers and storms are possible over the weekend and for Monday with temperatures rising into the upper 80s.

Low 80s return with sunshine on Tuesday.

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• Locomotives: Steam locomotive 630 with diesels assisting • Equipment: air-conditioned coaches, snack and souvenir car • Fare: $80 Roanoke-Pulaski; $80 Pulaski-Bristol; $125 RoanokeBristol The Roanoke Chapter of the NRHS was founded in 1968 in Roanoke to preserve and disseminate information on western Virginia’s rail heritage, most specifically that of the Norfolk and Western and

Virginian Railways. The chapter is quite active in the preservation and restoration of historical rail equipment, documentation, and structures relating to the railroads in our area.

For tickets and information, see www.tvrail.com/pages/21st-Century-Steam or call 423-894-8028

> Downtown of the district.”

Luther said they were seeking a partnership with the city and the private sector to diversify downtown in unit ownership, income type, education and family so downtown “will be for all residents of the city.”

Mike Sutton of Blue Eagle Enterprises with properties in the Downtown Service District supported the extension of the district. “We are very aware of where our tax assessments go and we are comfortable with that … it is vital to the long-term success of our region,” said Sutton.

In other business, Roanoke City Manager Chris Morrill was recognized for becoming the Government Finance Officer Association’s 2012-2013 president at the association’s June 12 annual business meeting in Chicago, Illinois. In his GFOA speech, Morrill expressed his thanks to the mayor and city council for recognizing the value that

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his association with the GFOA can bring back to Roanoke.

He remarked “how popular with the media” he and other city managers had become in light of the current budgetary squeeze on local municipalities.

Morrill was congratulated by the business community at the City Market Building.

Mayor Bowers read a resolution recognizing the honor. Bowers said Morrill brings credit to Roanoke. “We support you – we’re watching your back to make sure you are successful as president of the GFOA and as city manager of Roanoke,” said Bowers.

The purpose of the Government Finance Officers Association is to enhance and promote the professional management of governments for the public benefit by identifying and developing financial policies and best practices and promoting their use through education, training, facilitation of

> Fawn day to move and/or feed their young. You probably will not see the doe at all since she only stays to feed the fawn for just a very few minutes before leaving it alone again.

If a fawn or a rabbit has been “rescued” when it shouldn’t have been, it can often be released at the same location. Parents tend to remain in the area for at least a day, looking for the lost youngster.

If a wild animal has been injured or truly orphaned, do not take matters into your own hands. You may locate a licensed wildlife rehabilitator by calling the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) dispatch at 804-3671258 (24 hours, 7 days a week).

You may also visit the VDGIF Web site (www.dgif.virginia. gov) for that same information.

Raising a wild animal in captivity is illegal unless you have a

state permit. Each animal’s nutritional, housing, and handling requirements are very specific and must be met if they have any chance of survival. Feeding the wrong food to a fawn can make it very sick and possibly lead to its death. For example, cow’s milk will induce very severe diarrhea in fawns.

Another caution: do not chase fawns. If a fawn cannot be captured easily and quickly then it should be left alone. A prolonged chase will stress the animal and can lead to capture myopathy, a fatal condition due to severe muscle and kidney damage.

With even the best professional care possible, the survival rate of rehabilitated fawns and many other animals is very low. More than 50% of fawns brought to rehabilitation facilities die before being released due to injuries they come in

with and unavoidable physical stress during the rehabilitation process. Of those fawns that are released, a very small percentage survives the first year in the wild. Furthermore, many rehabilitation facilities have to turn fawns away due to limited housing and staff. Treating fawns takes resources away from treating animals that are rare or endangered.

Wildlife managers have additional concerns about fawn rehabilitation. The process requires deer to be moved, treated (often in contact with other deer), and then released back into the wild. Often, rehabilitated deer must be released into areas with already high deer populations.

Movement and commingling of deer increase the risks that contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis or chronic wasting disease (CWD), will be introduced into Virginia’s wild deer. In fact,

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The best advice for someone who wants to help wildlife is to keep it wild. Once people interfere, we reduce the opportunity for animals to be cared for by their natural mothers and we increase the risk of harming our wildlife heritage.

More information can be obtained on the agency’s website: http://www/dgif.virginia.gov/ wildlife/deer/. Among the useful resources is a revised brochure entitled ‘Keeping Deer Wild in Virginia.’

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Voting Precincts / May Elections Still on Agenda As requested by Roanoke City Council, Electoral Board member Melvin Williams gave a status update on reducing voting precincts from the current 32 to 19. His initial presentation was at a September 2011 briefing to council. Williams was then asked to form a task force comprised of constituencies that included the Roanoke Chapters of the SCLC and NAACP, and members of the Mayor’s Commission on Disabilities and neighborhood groups.

On January 3, 2012 Williams came back to council along with registrar Leverne Shepherd and fellow electoral board members Rev. Carl Tinsley and Gordon Hancock and with the help of city GIS map expert Kenny Har-

ris, presented a reworked plan.

Since that time Williams has been waiting on council’s direction on how to proceed but City Council was under the impression that Williams was organizing public input from stakeholders.

“Quite frankly we have been waiting to hear from you through the City Manager’s office,” said Williams. Mayor Bowers interjected that there had been some kind of misunderstanding. Williams said his office is not equipped to schedule public hearings. “We’re certainly willing to participate and to assist, to discuss the ins and outs and the issues that may arise in consideration of the plan.”

Court Rosen told Williams

that the electoral board should be the lead and not the City Manager’s office. Dave Trinkle was pleased with the January presentation and said, “With the city administration’s help - start rolling that [plan] out.”

Williams reminded council that the presentation has been on RVTV and online since January and stated again that the electoral board has no experience in setting up public hearings. City Manager Chris Morrill suggested “drop-in sessions” be held around the city and offered to work with Williams. The expectation is to complete all public input hearings in 90 days.

Besides the Roanoke Chapters of the NAACP and SCLC, Bowers suggested that both the city’s

Republican and Democratic parties participate. The deadline for council adoption is December 31. Department of Justice approval does not have to be received by that date before it is effective for the 2013 elections.

Councilman Sherman Lea asked City Attorney Tim Spencer if he had found someone to assist in facilitating a discussion on moving city council elections from May to November. Spencer said that Dr. Harry Wilson - Roanoke College Department of Public Affairs, would help facilitate a public discussion. Dr Wilson holds a Ph.D in Political Science from Rutgers University.

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Protect Your Vehicle From Auto Theft With VIN Etching

The Roanoke City Sheriff ’s Office, the Roanoke Police Department and the Virginia State Police HEAT program are cosponsoring a free VIN Etching for all vehicles on Saturday, June 23rd at the Valley View Target store parking lot located at 4802 Valley View Blvd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Roanokers with a vehicle of any kind qualify for this free VIN etching. It doesn't matter if your car, truck, van or motorcycle is old or new, foreign or domestic, it is a candidate for auto theft. Protect your vehicle by getting it VIN etched. It is simple, fast and free.

VIN stands for vehicle identification number. The federal government assigns every vehicle an identification number.

The HEAT (Help Eliminate Auto Theft) program etches the VIN number into all the windows of the vehicle. If the vehicle is stolen, all the windows have to be replaced, at great expense to the thief, thereby discouraging them from theft in the first place.

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Cars line up for engraving at last year’s event. common auto theft myths such rolet, 1997 Ford 150 and 2004 as no one is going to steal my car Dodge Ram. or my car is too old to get stolen.

Another myth: "Nobody is Your older vehicle is a target going to steal a van." Number because it is easier to steal than seven on the list of most stolen newer models. The top three vehicles is the 2000 Dodge Carastolen cars are the 1994 Honda van. No matter what the model Accord, 1995 Honda Civic and or make, your vehicle could be the 1991 Toyota Camry. Older targeted for auto theft. models of cars and trucks are Protect your vehicle with VIN popular with thieves because of etching and you might qualify the value of their parts. for a discount on your insurance "They steal foreign cars and I as well. The VIN etching is fast drive a truck made in the USA," and free for all cars, trucks, vans is another myth about auto and motorcycles on Saturday. theft. Numbers four, five and No appointment necessary! six on the most stolen list are all

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Area Golfers Raise Funds for Cancer Patients

A group of friends looking for a way to help cancer patients ended up raising $12,000 with their first annual "Swinging for a Cure" golf tournament. The friends, who have each been touched by cancer ­either personally or through a loved one, wanted to do something to help others who were struggling because of the disease.

The "Swinging for a Cure" golf tournament at Ashley Plantation included a drawing for a shiny pink golf cart, provided by Butterfield's Golf Cars and Turf Equipment of Montvale. The event raised a total of $12,000, exceeding the organizers’ first year goal.

"This is just the beginning, we'll do even better next year," said Butterfield's Sonny Helms.

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Bob Hartman, Robin Hartman, Tracie Gordon and Richard Goad watch as Sonny Helms, with Butterfield's Golf Cars and Turf Equipment, presents the check to Aaron Rivers, representing the Carilion Clinic Cancer Center Sunshine Fund. through the Carilion Foundation to the Carilion Clinic Cancer Center Sunshine Fund.

The fund provides financial support to patients for transportation and other needs associated with their treatment.

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Restored Alter Presented to Catholic Historical Museum of the Roanoke Valley A magnificent altar was donated by St. Elias to the Catholic Historical Museum of the Roanoke Valley and it now graces the many religious collections on display.

The restoration took two years of hard work in the garage of John Vitello as part of an Eagle Scout Project. John is a Cave Spring student and found this project an opportunity to not only show leadership but to also to benefit his community.

The altar is from the late 1930's to early 40's. Lead paint was present so special safety equipment was used in the restoration. The intent of the museum is to relocate to a much larger facility to expand their vast collection of artifacts. Currently the museum is located on Campbell Avenue in downtown Roanoke.

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Long Gone Dog Receives Voter Registration Forms When Tim Morris got his mail last week he found a pretty big surprise, a document asking his dog Mozart to register to vote.

Not only is Mozart a dog but he's been dead for two years.

"I opened it up and looked at it and I just laughed," Morris said. "I thought it was a joke at first but it turns out it's real."

The form is addressed to Mo, the family's nickname for the dog.

What amazed Morris is that if Mozart was human he would have been eligible to vote for the first time in 2012.

"He would have been 19 years old this year and he passed away two years ago," he said. "I still have no earthly idea how they got his information."

10 On Your Side looked deeper and found that the voter registration forms were sent by the nonprofit Voter Participation Center, not the State Board of Elections.

So we contacted the Voter Participation Center and found that they purchase mailing lists from vendors and while they do try and check every name, the organization admits that some do fall through the cracks.

The voter registration efforts are focused on groups like young people, minorities, and unmarried women.

This could help explain why the Morris' dog Mozart didn't receive a registration form until now, since he would have been 18.

The Board of Elections said they've received similar complaints but since the Voter Participation Center is a private organization they can't stop them from sending voter registration forms.

As for Morris, he's hopeful the problem can be controlled so animals like Mozart won't be deciding elections anytime soon.

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Contestants Will Serve as Mission Hosts During Miss Virginia Week

Twenty six Miss Virginia Preteen Contestants will be in The Rescue Mission clinic holding the first “Teeth and Tiaras” event. The girls will be in the clinic on Wednesday, June 27, from 12:30pm –2:30pm, educating shelter children about why they do not have to be afraid of the dentist. They will also teach proper brushing techniques.

Each child will receive a dental hygiene kit the preteen contestants have assembled.

Guests of the Rescue Mission’s Hospitality Dining Room will also get to experience Miss Virginia Week in a special way. For two days during the official Miss Virginia Pageant Week being held June 25-30, contestants will be serving lunch at the Rescue Mission.

On Tuesday, June 26, the current Miss Virginia, Eliza-

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beth Crotts, and 2012 Pageant Mistress of Ceremonies and former Miss Georgia, Bobbie Eakes (who is also a double platinum recording artist and two-time Emmy nominee for best lead daytime actress), will be at the Rescue Mission serving lunch in the hospitality dining room.

Also on Wednesday, the Rescue Mission hospitality dining hall will be hosted by pageant teens, 25 of them to be exact, as part of the Third Annual “Beauty & the Feast” Last year, former Miss Virginia Preteen event.

The 2012 serves at the 2011 Beauty & the Feast. contestants for Miss

Virginia’s Outstanding Teen will be on site in the dining hall beginning at 11:00am.

The Outstanding Contestants will serve lunch to about 300 people. This feast will be a family style lunch of baked chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, and fixins on the side. The twenty five teens will do it all, from hosting the tables, manning the ice cream station, serving the food and cleaning up afterwards.

The Miss Virginia’s Outstanding Teen and Preteen scholarship program is part of the Miss Virginia organization. The teen program is a state preliminary to the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen competition. A sister company to the Miss America organization, Miss America’s Outstanding Teen (MAOT) promotes scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement for America’s teens. Through the national competition, MAOT encourages and rewards the talent, communication skills, community service and academic achievement of girls between 13 and 17 years of age. MAOT has provided over $3 million in scholarship assistance to its participants since 2005.

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n the 5th day of begun to mend.

May, that year of Punchline: I hadn’t even our Lord 2011, my talked with them yet… beloved Dobie, Rock died. We Strange. had a vet come to see him one I thought of a job I had last time and release him from forgotten: a groundhog we an incurable spinal disease. had released some time back.

But in the midst of my loss, I One thing about groundhogs learned a few things: I learned though, once you release them, that love and loss are recipro- they become occasionally cals [the more you love, the dangerous. I took his food up, more pain you feel]; they are and there he lay, sunning himlike joy and sorrow, also recip- self. I did a thing I shouldn’t rocals, each necessary have done: I sat down for the other to be. right beside him. That I learned there ill-advised deed soon are but two rules for took its place in that grieving: transforming after#1- The process of noon. grieving takes as long This wild groundas it takes; not one hog, and his one inch second more, not one teeth, crawled up on second less. my lap and went to #2- See rule numsleep; obviously not Lucky Garvin ber one. an instinctive move The definition of grieving: for a wild animal and for the That process by which grief next twenty peaceful minutes, is transformed into a grati- gratitude continued to nudge tude that the loved one had grief out of the way… and I ever been a part of our life; don’t know why. and when I say ‘loved ones,’ Before I leave this part of the I’m talking two-legged, four- afternoon, allow me to add in legged, feathered or furred. this fact: this groundhog came The usual graph of griev- to us as an adult. The family ing starts high with grief and had captured him as a baby, trends downward as we heal kept him until adulthood as towards gratitude. Something a pet [illegal], then changed was very wrong; my graph was their minds. Before giving going up. Months after the loss him up, they had given the of our boy, I was still falling; GH a name. What had they try as I would, I could find no named him? solace. Sabrina noticed this, of Punchline: They had named course, and said to me, “You him Lucky. Lucky… Where must get to the Fathers.” have I heard that name beWho are the Fathers? Dear fore? friends of ours who labor in Later that night, my son a nearby monastery. We met and his lady came to visit, and them because one day, Sabrina she brought her dog, Tommy. and I decided to stop using Tommy just loved me! We propane, and one thing led to played together for a long another. while, then I went up to my ofBut, clearly, I needed their fice. After a bit, Tommy came help. up to visit me. Strange to say, I left them a voice message, he didn’t get all wild and crazy, and that’s when this unforget- he just rested his head against table afternoon began. The my leg like my Rock used to oppression of Rock’s loss be- do. I loved on him a bit, he fell gan to ease; gratitude began to asleep at my feet. elbow grief aside. I felt better Punchline: In order for than I had in months. I had Tommy to climb the carpeted

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stairs to my office, he pulled himself up using only his two front legs. You see, like Rock, his back legs don’t work so well; he feels no pain, he just stumbles and falls a lot, like Rock used to.

But there’s a question hanging in the air about us. Do you feel it? The question is: what happened that afternoon?

Did Heaven take note that Ol’ Garvin was in a hard patch, couldn’t free himself, and sent him a helping Hand? Or, was this just a peculiar unrelated series of events which led to my healing. You make the call; I’ve already made mine.

Oft-times disparate events, events with no apparent connectedness – propane and monasteries, two dogs who love me, each with severe spinal disease, and a groundhog who bears my name –all in the same afternoon - are patiently braided together by The Guiding Hand and presented to us anonymously to do with what we will: a palette of possibilities.

These connections occur far too frequently to be brushed aside as mere coincidence; and that, beyond any human ability to predict, one thing leads to another…

There is a story of the great pianist Paderewski: he was making his way onstage to a packed house. Both the curtains and the lights were coming up, and the maestro noted, to his great surprise, a small boy – a refugee from the audience, had found his way backstage to the piano - playing ‘Chopsticks” quite indifferent to the thousands of people watching him.

Not wanting to frighten the boy, Paderewski moved in quietly behind him and whispered, “Keep playing. Don’t stop. You are not playing alone.” Then, reaching around both sides of the youngster, he added a beautiful complex melody that transformed ‘Chopsticks’ into an unforgettable musical memory. Perhaps we are all but playing ‘Chopsticks’; it is with God’s help that our music improves.

I would say to those of you who might be suffering: Keep playing. Don’t stop. You are not playing alone... Believe me, I now know it to be true.

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US Postal Service Holds One Way Ticket to Oblivion

ection 8 of The ConThe US Postal Service (USPS) stitution of the United has grown in size to 32,000 retail States, declares, among locations. 416 processing cenmany other things, that “The ters, 574,000 workers, 218,000 Congress shall have Power to vehicles handling a diminishestablish Post Offices and post ing number of pieces of mail Roads.” It does NOT say that numbering about 170 billion the federal government needs per year at last count. Annual to own the post offices revenue amounts to nor does it say that all about $67 billion. postal employees must Using simple be government workmathematics, the ers. average cost of hanIn fact, if you will go dling mail is 39.4₵ to the back or side of each. Losses since any USPS facility, you 2001 have totaled will see trucks that are about $18.7 billion contracted to carry in delivering mail to mail to and from that every address in the Dick Baynton facility. This brings US. In addition, the us to the concept of USPS has $45 bil‘outsourcing’ post office activi- lion in unfunded liabilities in its ties to private business. retiree healthcare account. Do There are more than 1.1 mil- you suppose we taxpayers will lion retail businesses in the US be once again called upon to according to a publication of the fund the ‘bailout’?

US Census Bureau. While many Who is at fault for these losses of these small to medium-size that are accumulating at the rate businesses would not have the of $25 million per day? Let’s room or the interest in having start with the US Senate that rea post office division or depart- cently turned down the request ment, many would welcome the of the USPS to close half its opportunity. processing centers, 3,700 retail Earl’s True Value Hardware, locations and eliminate 28,000 Inc. in Fredericksburg, VA has jobs and Saturday delivery. had a post office department One of the locations that probsince 2000. Keri DeBernard, ably would have been shuttered a VP of the company says that is Hope, MN where the office they have complete mailing serves eight customers a day service with 400 square feet of that require about one minute designated space for the depart- of service attention each. Rement. And Rett Ward of Tin- ports indicate that about 80% of nell’s Finer Foods, Inc. in Roa- all postal facilities lose money. noke mentioned that when his Also open for criticism are grandfather opened in the post- the four major unions whose WWII era it was both a grocery goals are the highest possible store and a post office! compensation and benefits for What goes around comes their dues-paying members around. plus fancy salaries for their of-

ficials and staff. These unions are the APWU, NALC, NRLCA and the NPMHU. Conversations with present and former postal employees suggest that it is nearly impossible to get rid of persistently indolent workers. In addition, the no-layoff contract features inhibit the ability of management to reduce an otherwise hardworking well-trained workforce to match the workload. Retirement benefits can start at age 55 for a career USPS employee who has made modest contributions to healthcare and retirement income for up to 30 years and receives generous benefits for another 30 years.

Comparing the USPS with UPS and FedEx, the USPS is the least productive, suggesting restrictive work rules, lackluster leadership, superfluous people and processes and other wasteful practices.

Creative solutions could start with placing all possible activities into the hands of private enterprise which will result in improved productivity and the elimination of surplus / unmotivated people, processes and obsolete assets.

The endless cycle of government over-promising to workers and under-performing for taxpayers must come to a screeching halt. USPS management as unwitting partners with uncompromising unions and an irrational Congress are in the process of writing a one-way ticket to oblivion.

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It Wasn’t A Male Thing, After All “Check out what Dean Da- life she and Skip enjoy makvis is driving! A big black Ford ing improvements – clearing truck! Is that cool, or what?” underbrush, planting wild “Dean Davis” is my daugh- flowers, and arranging interter Kathy, associate dean of esting rocks she finds on her the Poole College of Manage- hikes. A truck would surely ment at North Carolina State. come in handy, she reasoned.

One of the female students At Christmas, when the commented on her unusual cabin is decked with holiday mode of transportation. decorations, a live Christmas Recently I wrote tree, and a blaza column about ing hearth, they family members invite us to join and their connecthem for an oldtion to vehicles. I fashioned celebranoted that all of the tion. Of course, stories involved my sometimes access husband and sons, can be difficult, if thereby concluding snow blocks the that emotional athalf-mile driveway tachment to motor from the paved vehicles is strictly road. When the Mary Jo Shannon a male thing. Now cabin becomes I am compelled to their permanent retract that conclusion. My home after retiring, a truck daughter must have acquired with four-wheel drive will the same gene that is evident be a necessity. But that day in her brothers. (She also in- will not arrive for a few more herited her father’s ability to years, so her truck remained a fix anything that needs fixin’.) daydream – until last ThanksSoon after building Cross giving.

Creek, a log home in the Each year since their marmountains of Carroll County, riage, Kathy and Skip have Kathy began to dream of buy- spent the Thanksgiving holiing a truck some day. At pres- day in Knoxville with Skip’s ent their cabin is a respite for elderly aunt. Last year Kathy her family – a haven of peace loaded her aged Ford Escape and rest on weekends and va- with the makings for a festive cation times. During their es- dinner and headed west on cape from the routine of city I-40 with the girls, Erin and

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Sarah, and Cara and Syrah, their two dogs. Skip had left his workplace in D.C., picked up his mother in Richmond, and was already in Knoxville awaiting his family’s arrival.

When Kathy was about thirty miles from her destination, black smoke suddenly began to pour from the Escape and it gave up the ghost.

A cell phone call brought Skip to the rescue and the family arrived safely at Aunt Gracie’s.

The Escape was not so fortunate. Towed into Knoxville, it received a dire diagnosis – a blown engine (thrown rod), not worth fixing. Kathy had said she would drive it ‘til it died. She did.

Determined not to let the situation spoil the holiday, they proceeded to prepare dinner and celebrate as usual.

They even shopped the discount stores on Black Friday.

Then they faced the reality of securing a means of transportation for Kathy.

Leaving the girls and the dogs to enjoy the remainder of the weekend, they headed back to Raleigh to shop for a car. But Kathy fell in love with a black Ford 150 pickup, four- wheel drive, with an extended body and an eightfoot bed. “I’ve always wanted a truck,” she said, “and now is the time to get it!” So they sealed the deal and headed back to Knoxville to get the girls, the dogs and the license plates from the dead Escape.

And then, once again, return to Raleigh.

So that’s why Dean Davis drives a cool truck to work five (or six) days each week.

And every available weekend she and her two dogs head for the cabin in Carroll County.

It wasn’t a male thing after all.

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Life Imitates Art . . . And Then Some

Give Me A Ring

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othing will drive a you borrowed dad's new Corperson crazy quite doba to impress your one true like a chronic ringing love -and promptly tweaked the in the ears. rear bumper when you backed Anyone who has suffered into the dumpster next to the from Tinnitus can tell you how convenience store. awful it can be. The constant Ah, wonderful memories. ringing in your ears Disaster strikes as can motivate you the aged tape, dry to trudge down to rotted from years the basement in of sitting in a dessearch of that Seals sicated Campbell's & Crofts eight-track Soup carton manutape your girlfriend factured during the returned to you Ford administrawhen she broke up tion, spews itself all with you for not takover the intricate ing her disco roller inner workings of skating back in '75. what is now stone Nick Thomas Popping the musty age engineering. cartridge into that With the last notes stereo you could never part with heard on that tape extinguished will surely serve to deflect atten- for all time, your ringing returns tion from the constant "rrrr..." with the vengeance of a presound which has driven you to schooler throwing a tantrum. desperate measures.

Desperate for relief and mournOf course, you could just ing the passing of the last vesas easily have slid in a CD and tige of your youth, you trudge listened to distortion-free mu- all over your home turning on sic courtesy of the Computer every fan you can, hoping that Age. But there's a reason why their noise will prevail. you trudge down into subterSadly, you discover that not ranean territory which your real only does it not help, but actuestate agent once called "seven- ally serves as a conductor for hundred charming square feet the ringing now doing victory of living space". You locate a rolls around your malleus, inpocket knife on top of the tool cus, and stapes. (That's hambox, half-buried in a red, oil- mer, anvil, and stirrup to those soaked old shop rag. Armed who missed the film strip.) By with the means to pare the ste- now you've gone outside in the reo's speaker wires, you revel hopes that an atmospheric difin knowing that your agonized ference might do the trick. It otic experiences will soon be doesn't make any noticeable treated to "Diamond Girl" while difference. Fighting to regain you reminisce about that time your sanity, which is becoming

as weak as the ringing is strong, you begin humming in a short, intense, monotonic effort to stop the bumblebee-type sound.

You keep hum-humming for all you're worth.

It works! At first, relief only lasts about a second, but each time you hum, the ringing stays away a little longer than the last time. Determined to stave away the infernal sound, you press on with the confidence of someone who knows that they're going to prevail over incredible odds.

That's what gives you the self confidence to keep at it as too many folk stroll past you, giving you the "someone help this guy" look normally assigned to people who yell at trees or wear golf shoes to church.

It was worth it, as it turns out.

You kept at it until the ringing went away. Although this won't last long, you nonetheless give thanks and celebrate the moment, complete with a broken old eight track tape and the social alienation of five people who are going to spread the news about that guy who walks around town, hum-humming with his fingers in his ears and alarming passerby who clearly have never been tasked with hum-humming away extraneous ringing.

If you've experienced this, please give me a ring.

I'm all ears.

Oscar Wilde wrote that Life imitates Art more than Art imitates life. And he wasn't even considering the tourism factor.

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erhaps the most Europe. The success of the noteworthy thing recent Twilight movies has about the Lord of caused an uptick in travel the Rings movie trilogy was to Castle Bran in Romania, the fact that it wasn't shot the ancient home of Vlad in Europe (as author J.R.R. the Impaler, better known as Tolkien envisioned Dracula. And now it), but on the other Bulgaria is getting side of the world, in on the vampire in New Zealand. trade. A news report Rings fans were this morning claims blown away, and that, at a burial site declared that New in the Black Sea Zealand WAS, in town of Sozopol, fact, Middle Earth. "vampire skeletons" Thousands of fans have been found booked flights to with iron rods visit the locations stabbed through Mike Keeler where the films the stomach and were shot. As a result, many chest. Almost immediately, of the sets and landscaping travel companies in Germacreated for the films was left ny and Britain announced an in place, to allow visitors to uptick in "vampire vacation" get their full Rings fix. They reservations.

Meanwhile, could take tea in Bag End, re- Hollywood is shooting more live the Battle of Helms Deep, films in Eastern Europe to and look out over Rohan take advantage of creepy hisfrom the door of the Golden torical locations and cheapHall. Meanwhile, in real life, er production rates. "The Rings director Peter Jackson Chronicles of Narnia" was decided to shoot The Hob- shot in the Czech Repubbit, the prequel to the Rings. lic, "The Black Dahlia" was And of course the best way to filmed in Bulgaria. Yup, in do that is to take full advan- life as in film, Dracula's altage of some of those loca- lure is proving hard to kill. tions. Which has resulted in Luckily, if you should travel the odd problem of having to these exotic locations and to clear the set of fans of the return with a peculiar ailment LAST movie before shooting Contact Nick Thomas at scenes for the NEW movie.

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The Preacher’s Corner While the technologies now available in our modern culture have made us more efficient, they’ve also weighed us down by providing us with opportunities to “do more and more, faster and faster . . .” and for many of us it seems to be an addiction that we just can’t say “no” to.

Like a parent that indulges a child with whatever he or she wants, we often indulge ourselves simply because we CAN and because EVERYONE else is doing it.

Of course in our heart of hearts we know that these are two of the worst reasons to do anything. But we seem to keep chasing the next new shiny gadget anyway. And while we think we’re operating smarter and better with all of our technology, I’m not so sure that’s always the case.

One humorous example that lived itself out at a meeting recently involved a friend who had the latest version of Apple’s handy-dandy IPAD. He had arrived at the meeting singing of all its abilities and was full of

proclamations like, “Everyone needs to have a device such as this . . . To try to operate without one today is to be left behind in the dark ages . . .”

I knew where he was aiming his barb.

Sitting next to me was a newer member of our team who had arrived on time with nothing more than a pencil and a yellow legal pad. “This works just fine for me,” she responded.

This, of course, elicited a 10 minute demonstration of what the IPAD could do while hooked to a wireless internet system. It was fairly impressive.

After “Mr. Technology” was done we finally got our meeting underway.

But unfortunately only a few minutes had passed when “Don’s” IPAD slid off the table and the front screen shattered rendering it totally useless. Not a word was said as he forlornly lifted it from the floor. But a moment later “Debbie” took her legal pad and pencil, extended her arm and (yup, you guessed it) dropped them together to

the floor. She then picked them back up and said, “Now where were we?”

It was indeed a funny moment and a heady reminder that sometimes the old school way of doing things has some significant benefits. Not that we should completely avoid what technology can bring us, but we do well to remember that it does have both its dangers (ability to take over one’s life) and limitations (electricity required.)

Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

(Mathew 6:19-21) So, seek to find a balance in the worldly things you must use in the day to day of life and never let them overtake and threaten your true calling to “store up treasures in heaven.”

We should all utilize the good gifts of this world (including technology) which God has given us through the inventiveness and perseverance of those who have gone before (we stand on many shoulders) but remember that the only thing permanent in this world is God’s great love itself.

And perhaps legal pads and pencils.

Stuart Revercomb is the Pastor at Peace Presbyterian Church in Roanoke. Worship with them at 10:30 AM on Sunday mornings or visit them on the web at peace-church.net

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Simplify, Simplify, Simplify . . .

(or an iron rod through the chest), you can be diagnosed

by Dr. House (sort of). Fans of the Fox series House know that the good doctor works out of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. But, in reality, for the past 8 years while the show was running, there WAS NO PrincetonPlainboro Teaching Hospital.

It was a fiction. Meanwhile, in real life, the small town of Princeton has grown so fast that the REAL Princeton Hospital just wasn't meeting the area's needs. And there wasn't any available Real Estate to build a new hospital downtown. So folks looked elsewhere and found a suitable spot: in neighboring Plainsboro!

And so we come to this: on May 21, 2012, the final episode of House aired, and the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital ceased to exist. On the next day, May 22, 2012, the brand new Princeton Plainsboro University Medical Center opened its doors.

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25th Annual Salem Fair is Fast Approaching

The Salem Fair is gearing up for a Silver Anniversary celebration this July as America’s largest free gate fair turns 25-years-old.

To mark the occasion, the fair will once again feature fireworks on the Fourth of July and stay open two extra days this year.

The 14-acre midway at the Taliaferro Complex will be open for business 13 big days from Tuesday, July 3, through Sunday, July 15.

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“When John Saunders and I came up with the idea of a community fair, we hoped it would be successful, but to have this type of staying power is a testament to not only the fair, but also the fairgoers, who are very loyal.”

In 2011, attendance at the Salem Fair rose by nearly 10 percent as approximately 315,000 folks experienced the sights and sounds of the annual event. Creative arts and horticulture exhibits also were up more than 25 percent last year as over 500 individual exhibitors put their produce, baked goods and crafts on display.

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The Red Sox ended the first half with a stellar 41-28 record. Lynchburg was the runaway winner in the Northern, taking that division by a whopping 7 1/2 games over Potomac. Putting things in perspective, Salem would have beaten out Lynchburg by 2 1/2 games if the Red Sox were in the Northern Divi- Red Sox third baseman sion.

Michael Almanzar holds down the hot corner during Salem's weekend series against the Carolina Mudcats.

Salem standout Jackie Bradley, Jr. was promoted to AA Portland after Sunday's final first-half game.

Around The Pools With The RVAA Regular Swim Season The six-week Roanoke Valley Aquatic Association regular season in now underway. Monday evening Our Lady of Nazareth Swim Club visited Hunting Hills Country Club.

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Sundays are 'Bring your dog to the Park' at Salem Memorial Stadium and two big hitters, Sully (left) and Noah were on hand last weekend as the pair held court on the concourse behind home plate.

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As many of those who attended last year’s event A huge surprise in pro golf last Sunday as Webb Simpson survived the fog-covered Olympic Club remember, things took a turn for the worse when in San Francisco to capture the U.S. Open by one last-minute entrant T. Audrey sashayed on stage shot over Michael Thompson and Graeme Mc- in a stunning tomato-red chaffon gown to hopefully claim the festival’s prized title.

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An impromptu gathering of the judges suspiSimpson has some great ties to the Roanoke Valley. Ten years ago, in May 2002, Simpson won cioned that T. Audrey was actually a tomato-dragthe age 15-18 Scott Robertson Memorial golf queen imposter before crowning a pair of winners to appease the howling audience. Never a dull tournament at Roanoke Country Club.

The Greenbrier Classic PGA TOUR event in moment in Shawsville, and I can assure you I’ll be White Sulphur Springs, WV starts July 2nd, and there for the entertaining, fun-filled afternoon.

You’ll also want to hold the weekend of July tournament officials announced last week that the sale of entry badges will be suspended on 20-21 for what may be the the biggest two-legged event to hit the valley in decades. RememWednesday, June 27th. ber, you heard it here first, when you tell With Tiger Woods in the field and this one to your grandkids. a star-studded musical lineup for the During the scheduled Salem Red Sox Greenbrier Concert Series, crowds are games against the Wilmington Blue Rocks expected to exceed 230,000 for the week, on both nights, all in attendance will witnecessitating the cutoff. ness the famous Monkey Rodeo. That’s The two most fan-friendly tournament right, ladies and gentlemen, monkeys that days will be Tuesday’s Youth Day, where will ride on the backs of dogs between First Tee Roanoke Valley will again Bill Turner innings. A must-see in my book. participate, and Wednesday’s Pro-Am. I’m planning to appeal (no, beg) to Both offer the best opportunities for gallery members to get autographs and see the Red Sox Director of Media Relations and outpros close-up before the serious play starts on standing radio announcer, Evan Lepler, to allow me in the booth for my play-by-play monkey roThursday.

Speaking of Tiger, we saw a new-look Woods deo expertise.

Something like this could be the grass-roots during Sunday’s U.S. Open front-nine. After a horrendous start of bogey-bogey-double bo- for Roanoke successfully getting another oft-progey that effectively took him out of contention, moted professional sports connection. How about Woods birdie response later at #8 was something paramutual monkey racing?

Finally, to this week’s mailbag, where once again heretofore unseen. As the ball rolled into the cup, Woods waved at the hole and laughed. Totally dif- the Mill Mountain Star web-cam has offered more ferent than the club-throwing and fist-pumping celestial surprises. Apparently, with school out, shenanigans previously common place. A new the idea of going to the overlook to text or call friends to go on-line and see you, has brought a Woods temperment for the future? Hope so.

Friday night, June 22nd, the Southwest vs Cen- new activity into the mix.

The overlook may be a great place to view the tral Virginia All-Star Classic football game, featuring area high school stars, comes to William moon, but recently there’s been way more moons than the Old Farmers Almanac ever imagined.

Fleming Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:00 pm.

It’s time for Wild Bill’s ‘Mark Your Calendar’ And, let me give you fair warning- no crescents here; just a full waxing gibbous. summer event-planner.

You’ll want to be at the Meadowbrook Center Until next week, get those telescopes positioned in scenic Shawsville on Saturday, August 18th for the annual EastMont Tomato Festival. Activities and send your comments to: info@theroanokewill include a TomatOlympics and the requisite star.com crowning of the 2012 Tomato Festival Queen.

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Patrick Henry Star Named First Team All American

Claiborne Lucas was named First Team, All-American in Girls Lacrosse for the 2012 season. This not only a first for Patrick Henry High School, it is a first for the Southwestern Virginia area. This is a strong endorsement for the development of lacrosse in the Valley and at Patrick Henry High School.

Claiborne was part of the original recreational teams that developed in the Valley about 10 years ago. In the Fall Claiborne will further develop her game on the Varsity Girls Lacrosse team at Virginia Tech, which notched Virginia Tech bound Claiborne Lucas advances the ball in a a big win against perennial pow- match-up against Salem earlier this year, er house UVa this spring.

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Today’s global economic environment is a mixed bag of opportunity and risk that will leave even the most seasoned investor pondering what direction to take in 2012.

Encouraging news, such as a decline in the U.S. unemployment rate or rising corporate profits, is often immediately eclipsed by sobering news, such as credit rating downgrades for European countries and the slow recovery of the U.S. housing market.

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One way to reduce your liabilities is by taking advantage of historically low interest rates and refinancing your mortgage at a lower rate. This technique has the potential to enhance cash flows and allow for more money to be dedicated toward your investment goals.

Securities-based loans might be a path to take for investors who are in need of liquidity, but are not prepared to realize losses at the current time. Given the low interest rate environment, securities-based lending can help increase your savings rate by consolidating other higher-interest rate loans or debt to a more favorable rate to enhance your cash flow.

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Local Startup Company Organizes Baseball Clinic For Challenger Program

Some Little League baseball players who have overcome all sorts of odds to even be on the field were treated to a baseball clinic featuring Salem Red Sox players last Saturday. The first annual Salem Red Sox Challenger Baseball Clinic welcomed players from the Challenger Baseball program, a little league baseball division for boys and girls from ages 4-22 with physical and mental challenges.

“The Challenger players and coaches are thrilled to get a chance to play at the Stadium and look forward to making memories with the Salem Red Sox,” said Sid Witt, Jr., assistant district administrator for the District 12 Challenger Little League, before the event.

The Challenger Clinic was organized by a small local firm called Bulldog Field Equipment, a husband and wife team that have come up with a new patent-pending version of the pitching rubber used in baseball. (The rubber strip where every pitcher must begin their delivery to home plate from, with the tip of one foot touching the rubber.) Cathy and Chad Kropf are working on some other products, but right now the pitching rubber they introduced earlier this year has been a winner. Cathy Kropf estimates that already a third of the 30 major league baseball teams are using their pitching rubber.

“This pitching rubber is something we’ve talked about for years and years,” said Kropf.

Minor league clubs, colleges and recreation departments have also ordered Bulldog pitching rubbers, which Kropf said are more durable that the thinner ones currently on the market.

“Ours has 40 pounds of rubber, [others] have 12 pounds of rubber. It doesn’t bow and twist,” said Kropf. The Bulldog model, while more expensive, lasts longer and can be flipped over once it becomes worn on one side. The Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers are among the big league clubs using Bulldog pitching rubber, which made its debut just this

Salem Red Sox players and staff all got in on the act to make the special children's day entertaining. past January at a sports turf expo in California. “We’re just like yay, that’s ours,” said Kropf.

Their pitching rubber will be used at the Kansas City Royals baseball park next month for the Major League All-Star game.

“We’re excited about that,” Kropf noted.

Chad Kropf used to clean out the stands at Kiwanis Field, where Salem’s minor league baseball team once played, before becoming the groundskeeper. He then worked for the Atlanta Braves at their spring training complex in Florida, where Kropf met his future wife.

After working for Roanoke City and Botetourt County parks and recreation, he now takes care of playing fields at Virginia Tech, where Cathy Kropf also works in the sports marketing department.

She used to work for the New York Yankees minor league farm system – where she had organized four Challenger Clinics. Running the clinics through Bulldog Field Equipment offered some protection insurance-wise, said Kropf. Since Chad Kropf is working for the Salem franchise again in a part time role on the grounds crew, the connection was made.

Sid Witt Jr. and his father, who run the local Challenger program, were contacted and agreed to offer the clinic to the youth players. Salem Red Sox manager Bill McMillon was approached by Tracy Schneweis, assistant general manager and director of facilities for the club, who was hoping that a handful of Sox players could help out by demonstrating some baseball skills.

Instead McMillon offered his whole team. “This clinic is something that we have talked about doing in the past, but never acted on, so for it to finally become a reality is both long overdue and something that excites us very much,” said Schneweis.

One youngster who had been confined to a wheelchair since a car accident was so motivated by being at the clinic that he stood up for the first time in a long while in order to throw a baseball. “He was so excited,” said Cathy Kropf, “[and] we were so excited.” Another little girl, who often sleeps or doesn’t smile, “was awake and smiling the whole time,” last Saturday.

The Challenger players came back for a Red Sox game that night, where one of them threw out the first pitch.

At the end of the clinic, Red Sox players signed autographs.

The Challenger youngsters in turn signed autograph sheets that Red Sox players posted in their lockers on Sunday morning before a game. “The kids really touched the player’s hearts,” said Kropf, who hopes to see the Challenger Red Sox clinic become an annual event. Perhaps the field at Salem Memorial Ballpark will soon feature their Bulldog pitching rubber as well.

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Calvary Baptist Calls Seung Won Cho as Minister of Music Calvary Baptist Church has called Seung Won Cho to the position of Minister of Music and Organ Master effective June 17, 2012.

Among his many previous accomplishments, Seung Won served as church musician in various churches in Illinois, Texas and Korea and was Chorus Master and Vocal Coach at the University of Texas Butler Opera Center, Director of Music, University of Texas Campus Opera Society Orchestra, Director of Music at the College of Theology, Yonsei University and Opera Vocal Coach and Accompanist at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Seung Won is presently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and Choral Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his Master of Music and Choral conducting from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Music, Choral Conducting and Organ Performance - Summa Cum Laude - from the Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Seung Won is married with (young twins.) His wife is completing her doctorate in Child Development from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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John CarlinVirginia Wins Emmy Art or Science? Origami Master For Story On Wayne Henderson Brings His Skills To Roanoke

WFXR FOX 21/27 has announced that it has received an EMMY for the John Carlin Virginia story on guitar maker, Wayne Henderson.

Mr. Carlin, along with photojournalist Curt Schruth received Emmys this past Saturday night in Washington, DC; winning in the Arts and Entertainment Feature Segment. They competed in The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Science which includes television stations in Virginia, The District of Columbia and Maryland.

The winning entry was a profile on guitar maker, Wayne Henderson. People wait up to 10 years for Wayne Henderson to build them a guitar. He builds each one by hand in his small wood shop in Rugby, Virginia which has a population of just seven.

His guitars are world famous, and he himself has played at Carnegie Hall, but when asked what he planned to do for an encore he said, "Well next weekend I'm playing at

John Carlin and Curt Schruth at last week’s award ceremony. the Rugby volunteer fire de- John Carlin's Virginia," said partment."

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Roanoke Church To Host 2012 Summer Organ Music Festival If you're the regular organist for a church, or even a regular church goer, you get little opportunity to hear other organists, or other than church music on the organ. So Tom Baugh, at Christ Episcopal on Franklin Road, started a summer festival of organ music, bringing in top performers for Tuesday evening concerts during July.

The first performer, Baugh himself, is no slouch with a demanding performance schedule from Texas to New York. A graduate of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, he studied organ further with a famous teacher in Lyon, France. At Christ Church, he plays a D. B. Fisk organ installed under his guidance in 2004. An instrument he calls "eclectic, capable of a variety of musical styles."

This year's group of performers also includes Charles Ludwick, 26, a doctoral candidate in organ at the University of Texas at Austin. Ludwick hails from West Virginia where he served his home church as organist as a teen, and sang, too, following the path of his parents and grandparents. In the course of his bachelors and masters work at the University of Texas, he's substituted in "every main line denomination, in all of the different liturgical traditions." Right now, he's the organist at a Catholic church in Austin and teaches. Obviously, he's chosen church music as his career. "I don't know what else I would do," he said, given his love for it.

Duke fans will have more to cheer than the basketball team when they hear the final performer in the series, Dr. David Arcus. A native of New York, he did his graduate work at Yale before coming to Duke, where he is the Duke Chapel organist. As well as teaching, he plays for daily services and for weddings – as many as three a day. Arcus looks forward to coming back to Roanoke, as he performed here in 1995 at First Presbyterian in an American Guild of Organists

Dr. Lang’s appearance in Roanoke is part of a collaboration between Virginia Tech and the Science Museum of Western Virginia. He has been an avid student of origami for over forty years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with over 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed.

Dr. Lang is one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics; he has consulted on applications of origami to engineering problems ranging from air-bag design to expandable space telescopes.

Dr. Lang was born in Ohio and raised in Atlanta. Before becoming a full-time origami artist he worked as a physicist, engineer, and R&D manager. He has authored or co-authored over 80 technical publications and has 50 patents awarded and pending on semiconductor lasers, optics, and integrated optoelectronics.

He lectures widely on origami and its connections to mathematics, science, and technology, and teaches workshops on both artistic techniques and applications of folding in industrial design.

The workshop will be held on Saturday, June 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Taubman Museum of Art. No previous origami experience is necessary and the workshop is open to those 12 and above. Admission for this event is free. Seating is limited; to RSVP, call the Taubman Museum at 540342-5760. Additional slots may be available on Saturday morning at the start of the event.

“Crane” Origami by Dr. Lang.

“Skunk” Origami by Dr. Lang.

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Duke Chapel Organist David Arcus concert. And he and his wife stayed with friends in Fincastle. Arcus enjoys doing improvisation.

"I get a theme and do something on the spot."

Although he likes hiking and travel, he enjoys and loves music so much he feels he doesn't need hobbies. He's looking forward to playing the C. B. Fisk instrument. And to playing a special concert just for the Roanoke audience. "I try to make it so they [the audience] are excited to come back for more."

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Carilion Clinic Receives $4.1 Million Award From The Center For Medicare

Carilion Clinic will launch a three year program to improve the health of patients in rural Virginia through better management of their medications. The program will be funded by a $4.1 million award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The award is part of CMS's Health Care Innovation Challenge, a $1 billion fund to support initiatives that have the potential to improve care and lower the overall cost of healthcare.

The Carilion Clinic project will focus on improving the management of medications for patient in 23 underserved rural counties served by Carilion New River Valley Medical Center (CNRV), five community hospitals and 17 primary care practices.

"This is great news for our patients," said Carilion President and CEO Nancy Howell Agee.

"We've already seen promising results with chronically ill patients in our Patient Centered Medical Home practices. This award will make it possible to expand our reach further into our rural communities."

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CNRV will train more than 30 pharmacists in advanced care and chronic disease management protocols. Through care coordination and shared access to electronic medical records, the pharmacists will work directly with patients to help them manage their medications, resulting in better health, reduced hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and fewer adverse drug events.

"We truly believe this project can make a difference, both in quality and cost of care," said John Piatkowski, M.D., Carilion Clinic Vice President and CEO of CNRV. "As physicians, we can manage patient's medications when they are hospitalized but after they leave, mistakes or failure to take medicines as required can result in serious consequences, unnecessary hospitalizations and worsening chronic conditions." According to Piatkowski, extending close medication management into outpatient settings can significantly improve the safety and efficacy of the medication administration.

The program also advances the role of pharmacists in improving the health of patients, according to William Lee, Director of Pharmaceutical Services for CNRV and the Carilion Western region hospitals. "The ongoing monitoring process will not only increase patient safety and compliance but also decrease any potential adverse events from the medication therapy," Lee says.

"The impact of the adoption of electronic health records and other new technologies has now made it possible for the pharmacists to make an even greater difference in our community."

The program will be available to patients in the rural counties served by CNRV, Carilion Giles Community Hospital and Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital during the first year of the program. It will be expanded to Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital, Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital and Bedford Memorial Hospital in the second year.

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