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Fatal accident

Local ather, son killed in one-vehicle crWet road may have contributed to uesday aternoon atalitiesBy Roger BianchiniWarren County Report

A local ather and son were killedin a single-vehicle crash on StrasburgRoad in Warren County at approxi-mately 3:50 p.m. on uesday, Nov.3rd.

Virginia State Police Public Inor-mation Ocer Sgt. F.L. yler saidthat a 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truckwas traveling eastbound at RogersMill Road on Rt. 55/Strasburg Roadin Warren County when it let theroad rounding a curve, overturnedand crashed into trees.

Dead at the scene were the driver,William Harold Dodson, 84, and hisson William Taniel Dodson, 5.

Both men had Front Royal addresses.yler said both men had been wear-ing seat belts at the time o the acci-

dent. Te investigation is being con-ducted by VSP rooper A.E. Clark.Clark was assisted at the scene byother state troopers, units rom theWarren County Sheris Oce, aswell as Warren County Fire & Rescueunits rom Front Royal and Forts-mouth.

yler said the road was wet romrecent rain. While not raining at thetime o the accident, it was misty inthe area. Te vehicle let the roadto the right while rounding a curveat Rogers Mill Road. Te driver lostcontrol and the vehicle ipped aterstriking an embankment, overturn-ing into trees. No urther inorma-tion on possible contributing actorswas available at press time.

As a result o the accident, Stras-burg Road was closed until 6:50 p.m.

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Main Street Mill re likely started in outside ragDamage largely contained to kitchen area, pre-Christmas re-openi

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Main Street Mill owner AliceBarnhardt conrmed that thesource o a re that damaged thekitchen area o the well-knownlocal eatery on Nov. 14 was akitchen rag bin located outsidethe kitchens rear door. Te likelyculprit was a carelessly discardedcigarette butt and still-live ashesthat made their way into the bin

ull o greasy kitchen rags on awindy day.

Te re occurred around 4:30p.m. during Sunday businesshours with customers on both

the restaurants rst oor and theaverns second oor. Once rein the wall and ceiling area on thekitchens north side was identi-ed, sta evacuated everyone

without incident. Damage waslargely conned to the kitchenarea with some minor smoke andwater damage elsewhere.

It happened about 4:30 on Sun-day. Mike in the kitchen smelledsomething that didnt seem right,so he had been looking aroundtrying to see where it was comingrom, Barnhardt told us as cleanup work continued on Nov. 19.

Barnhardt said she let thepremises around 3 p.m. that dayand got a call rom her cook say-ing something wasnt right inthe kitchen. About two minutes

later they called 911. Te re ac-tually started in the back alleywhere we keep a bin with our dis-carded linen, she said.

Barnhardt said it was a windyday, which likely contributed tokeeping the believed source othe re, a carelessly discarded

cigarette, alive to the point o cre-ating a re that climbed the out-side wall and made its way intothe space between that wall andthe roo.

Barnhardt said she may havebeen lucky in getting a quick andully staed response rom Coun-ty Fire & Rescue. It was perecttiming. Tey had just nished

going through a traiso we got the ull crsaid they got here o time (to keep itworse), so we were

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Barnhardt said repair work, pri-marily to the kitchen area and itsroo, would proceed in the com-ing weeks. She hopes to have therestaurant re-opened within amonth o the re early to mid-December. As we suspected roma recent upsurge in the numbero Warren County Reports dis-tributed at our Mill location,

Barnhardt reported that businesshad been picking up rom the re-cession-induced slowdown thatseems to have hit all local eateriesover the past year. She added that

she had insurance to cover lostbusiness time, and that buildingowner William Billy Biggss in-surance covered the damage tothe building itsel.

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Warren County reghterswere dispatched to the MainStreet Mill on Sunday (Nov. 14)or a re on the loading dock.Fireghters arrived to nd a windblown re outside the rear othe restaurant and extending upinto the attic and roo area overthe kitchen. A combined interiorand exterior attack by reghtersbrought the re under control inapproximately 10 minutes, butnot beore re had extended intothe roo area. Fire damage waslimited to the exterior stairs and

storage, as well as roo area abovethe kitchen. Damage to kitchenwas limited to re control andsmoke damage. No damage wasdone to the dining areas o therestaurant, even though dam-

age to the kitchen and roo willrender the restaurant closed orapproximately 3-4 weeks. Dam-age estimate by Fire and RescueDepartment is $100,000.

Te re started on the outsideo the building at a rear entranceand stairs to the kitchen in acontainer o soiled rags, etc. Tecause is still under investigationby Warren County Departmento Fire and Rescue re investiga-tors, but is not considered suspi-cious.

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Town the Graham shufeSo, its a scramble, just trying to nd a way to cover up their actions because they know whpotentially illegal and certainly unpopular with the people that are going to be rememberinnext Election Day or beore ousted Vice-Mayor Bret Hrbek

Council scurries or justication on Graham rCouncil on solar consultants: we approved it; we just dont know anything about it


Faced with citizen questions thatwont go away about the legality andreasons or an essentially closed doordecision, out o the public eye ringo a popular and business-orientedtown manager, Michael Graham,elements o the Front Royal ownCouncil have taken to a strategy oMonday-morning actually sixweeks ater the act quarterback-ing.

Tat stab at what appears to be arevisionist history o respective

roles in town spending on solar con-sultants suraced not rom the ocialchannels rst requested by some 00citizens on Oct. 1, but you guessedit, rom the Drop Box Heaven o atleast one anonymous council source the Northern Virginia Daily.

First on Nov. 8, Leonard Sherp,and then on Nov. , John Krogsundreminded council that the 00 citi-zens who signed and rst submitteda letter to council on Oct. 1 seek-ing answers about both the legalityand reasons or Grahams ring haveyet to get a reply rom the towns le-gal department as rst requested amonth earlier. On Nov. 8, Sherp not-ed his appearance was the third o-cial reading into the council meeting

record o the public request or thoseanswers.

But rather than any direct answer tothose citizen inquiries, ve days aterSherps appearance beore council anarticle appeared in the NVD insinu-ating Graham had acted improperlyin writing checks to cover consul-tant expenses three o the reerencedcouncilmen (Chris Holloway, CarsonLauder and om Sayre) were instru-mental in approving.

Te Divine Comedy o councilpublic relations took another inter-

esting turn at the Nov. meetingwhen Sayre appeared to be present-ing a legal deense rom the councildais to justiy his own ignorance osolar consultant expenditures de-spite his work session and town -nance committee roles in orwardingand approving them.

But prior to Nov. , the publishedcomments o those sitting electedocials about the red town man-agers role in paying solar consult-ing ees created an uproar amongboth public critics o Grahams ringand those councilmens roles (director indirect) in it, as well as rom the

sitting mayor and vice mayor at thetime those consultant expenditureswere approved (see related storiesand opinion pieces).

At issue is $15,000 paid to orthrough Blue Ridge Power Agencyor solar related projects. O thatamount $17,000 was paid to GDSAssociates o Marietta, Georgia, whohandled the solar RFP process romstart to nish. During the periodrom September 009 to September010, Blue Ridge Power Agency waspaid a total o $81,000 in consultingees, apparently shocking several othe councilmen who approved thoseexpenditures, as well as the NVDstown beat reporter (details o theseexpenditures are explained in the

ewalt-Hrbek letter/opinion circu-lated to local media).

Short-term memory loss?

Primarily at question appears tobe one procedural issue and severalpersonal competency issues:

First, once council authorizes ex-penditures is town sta supposed toimmediately inorm individual coun-cilmen the day checks are written tocover those expenses or is it appro-

priate to simply include the expendi-tures in the towns monthly nancialreport? And second, are certain council-men suering rom convenient, shortand/or long-term memory loss andi so, does that act impact their com-petency to hold oce?

Despite the act they all approvedthe expenditures and even were in-strumental, along with own Attor-ney om Robinett, in orwarding theGDS expenditure or a solar RFP tosee i a better deal than the originalone brought to them by SolAVerde

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Town the Graham shufeBut whereas some members o the council dont open their packet until thmeeting or would reuse to pick up the phone to talk to the ormer town maunderstand a plea o ignorance. Councilman Shae Parker

yet to be explained excuse, allowingthe termination to be made withouthis direct involvement.

While not in oce at the time theexpenditures were approved by hiscurrent colleagues among others,Hollis Tarpe, who made the Sept.

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Te Daily reports Tarpe saying hewas unaware o the amount o mon-ey spent on solar consultants and he

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Town the Graham shI they say they didnt know what was in the budget, its because they didnt read thebudget and the documents that were given to them. ousted Mayor Gene ewalt

ation o the town budget and expen-ditures related to the solar proposal,those not in a position o needingexcuses or their roles in Grahamstermination seem to have bettermemories.

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o claim that youre not aware ohow much money is being spent onsuch a hot topic issue is a bit per-plexing to me, Shae Parker said ohis colleagues published commentson the solar consultant ees. I recalldiscussions o what it would cost tohave the Solar RFP drated and theresponses reviewed. I believe there iseven a paper trail rom our packetsand meeting agendas and minutes.But whereas some members o thecouncil dont open their packet until

the day o a meeting or would reuseto pick up the phone to talk to theormer town manager, I can under-stand a plea o ignorance.

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I think those comments under-score the Blue Ribbon Committeesrecommendation that the councilhas to get more involved in the bud-get process since we all were awareo the RFP process, om Conkeysaid. In act, Chris [Holloway] want-ed the response period extended sothat unnamed potential bidderscould respond [to the RFP] Mr.Robinett insisted, correctly, that weput the eort out to bid in the rstplace and the council voted to allo-cate the unds necessary to conductthe RFP.

ewalt

I think the biggest problem thatsthere is the act theyre trying to cov-er themselves in getting rid o MikeGraham, ousted Mayor Eugeneewalt said o his ormer colleaguespublished remarks. Te only reasontheyve got is to accuse him o writ-ing checks that were not approved bythe council. Its a way out or themto try to prove to the general publicthat Mr. Graham wasnt doing his jobproperly. But i they say they didntknow what was in the budget, itsbecause they didnt read the budgetand the documents that were givento them. Every month we were givena nancial statement by the nancedirector in packets that come to ourhomes and we can scrutinize it andask all the questions we want to ask,

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Town the Graham shufeI think the biggest problem thats there is the act they re trying to cover themselves in gettinGraham And until the community gets an answer back rom them, I think this is going to bissue. Gene ewalt

ewalt said.Te community wants to know

the reasons why they got rid o MikeGraham Teyve circumventedthe issue ever since they were askedthe rst time the night when the gen-eral public showed up at the meeting(Oct. 1) and said give us a reasonyou got rid o Mike Graham. And aso today (Nov. 19) they have neveranswered anyone as to the reasonwhy.

Ater Shae Parker asked council toaddress whether it would or wouldnot answer those citizens questionsollowing the ourth public requestor answers on Nov. , Mayor Darragreed to put the issue o a coun-cil answer on a uture work sessionagenda.

Darrs predecessor ewalt tookspecic issue with Carson Lauderspublished assertion that Grahamsprivate sector background createdthe alleged problem o not keeping

council inormed about expendi-tures.

I disagree 100 percent with Car-son Lauder in regards to Mr. Gra-hams ability to run the town, ewaltsaid. I think Mr. Graham has done agreat job with the town. I think hescovered all bases and that hes beenan asset to the town in all aspects o

the work that hes done. And like Istated beore, weve got more workdone in the last couple o years thanwed gotten done in the last 10 yearsas ar as projects that have been onthe books or a number o years. Allo these projects have been com-pleted under the leadership o MikeGraham.

Hrbek

I think its pretty obvious it was

a scramble by council members to justiy their actions, another townocial ousted in the May election,ormer Vice Mayor Bret Hrbek, add-ed o the statements attributed to histrio o ormer colleagues.

Hrbek, like ewalt, suered elec-torally rom the NVDs continuedreporting on still unsubstantiatedallegations raised by the same threecouncil sources o bribes being o-ered by SolAVerde ocials to thenown Manager Graham related to the

original solar energy proposal (thosethree councilmen, Holloway, Lauderand Sayre, are currently deendantsin a $30-million deamation andintererence in a business contractlawsuit against the town). Not co-incidentally both Hrbek and ewalt,two o Grahams biggest supporterson council, were deeated in the Mayelection. Tus ar those bribes rstreported in the NVD in early April

ollowing an anonymoo a closed session cowith own Attorneybeen described as than jobs and econothe community rom ting into a public-privpartnership.

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story as expressing surprise at ex-penditures they were instrumentalin approving, also seemed to orgetthat those jobs and economic benetbribes they also expressed shockand dismay at in the NVD duringthe run up to the May election hadbeen publicly discussed at a series ocouncil work sessions they attendedbetween June and November 009.

Te un-smoking gun

Hrbek commented on a urtherspin he perceives being put out re-garding Grahams termination.Even Councilman Sayre on TeRiver (Nov. 18 Valley oday radiobroadcast on WZRV available on-

line at www.theriver953online.com under Podcasts) the other day, al-luded to something else thats outthere that Mr. Graham doesnt wantto have reported on, Hrbek added.Teyre dropping hints that theressomething bigger out there and thatthis is just a small thing that they weregoing to [publicly] hang their hat on.I was with Mike Graham the wholeour years and unless somethinghappened between July 1st (whenthe new council and mayor took o-ce) and Sept. 7 when he was termi-nated it must have happened thenbecause I dont know about it.

So to me its a scramble, just try-ing to nd a way to cover up theiractions because they know what they

did is potentially illegal and certainlyunpopular with the people that aregoing to be remembering aroundthe next Election Day or beore ia certain group o citizens have theirway, Hrbek said. Te beore reer-ence is to the potential o a councilrecall initiative over Grahams termi-nation i it does, in act, conict withthe towns charter or codes regardingsuch actions.

Teyre trying to put somethingout there to make Mike look bad and

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Town nancesI could say the ree Stewards or example, I could stand up and say the committee says cut thnot our job. Its [councils] job to determine whether the service or the reason or the unding Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Matt ederick

Blue Ribbon Committee report a mixed messaFinance committee to council cut, cut, cut but its your decision


At a Nov. 15 work session theFront Royal own Council heard asummary o the Blue Ribbon Com-mittee on Finance report on thetowns budget, revenue and spend-ing trends. Te reports summaryand conclusions were presented

by committee Chairman and lo-cal Republican Committee activ-ist Matt ederick. Te commit-tee had trouble with membershipduring its months o existence,with several members resigningor regularly missing meetings. Inone case, ormer CouncilwomanEileen Grady resigned in protest othe new council majoritys general

direction and actions ollowing thering o own Manager MichaelGraham.

O seven appointed member-ship spots one by each council-man and the mayor ederick(Holloway appointee) ended upacknowledging the participationo only our members other thanhimsel. Tose were Wilma Swiger(Tarpe), retired businesswomanand wie o ailed 010 Republicancouncil candidate and Party strat-egist Joe Swiger; ormer town Fi-nance Director John ONeill (Laud-er); ormer Mayor and Bank Oneexecutive Jim Eastham (ewalt,retained by Darr); and Seton Home

School board member and pro-lieeducational cause nancial consul-tant James Kelly (Sayre). At the onecommittee meeting this reporterattended only ederick and WilmaSwiger were present rom the com-mittee.

Te committee was ormed toreview the town budget and makesuggestions on uture courses o ac-tion by council on budgetary mat-ters. However the rst page o thereport describes the committeesmission as one, nd $1. million;and two, Establish Fiscal Policies& Procedures. (Hey, i they nd

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As or increasing the nancial burden on employees, I want to be clear in emphasizing these are the peopleactually providing the services to our citizens. We need to keep them happy so we can keep the customersreceiving those services happy. Shae Parker

Town nan

that $1. mil, I lost it and I want itback!!!)

It was not clear to us i that lattermission priority to establish townpolicies and procedures was a sel-imposed leap o mission by what

was originally envisioned as simplyan advisory board or perhaps anater-the-act directive issued by acouncil majority seeking to urtherinsulate itsel rom accountabilityor hard economic decisions.

However ederick told us it wassimply a semantics error. You cantry to interpret it that way but thatwasnt the intent. You have to real-ize Jim Easthams a ormer mayor,Ive been a ormer supervisor, JohnONeills was a ormer nancial[department head] we know wecant establish any policies. Wedont have the authority to establishpolicies I guess wordsmithing itwe could have said recommend

policies, ederick said.

We point, you decide

Te committee, I would sayunanimously, decided that our

job wasnt to do the councils job.Councils are elected or specic

recommendations. I could say theree Stewards or example, I couldstand up and say the committee sayscut that. But thats not our job. Itstheir job to determine whether theservice or the reason or the und-

ing is warranted. Our job, I think,and what we did is come up withrecommendations pointing out ar-eas in their budget that have growntremendously. Go into those areas

yoursel and we can help go in andnd areas [to make cuts], edericktold us ater a brie presentation atthe Nov. council meeting.

Apparently the group he reer-enced in the above example tookthe recommendation seriouslyenough to appear on Nov. and

object to the committee recom-mendation their unding be cut.During the Public Presentationsportion o the meeting, incomingree Steward President SandraWilson told council her organi-

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Jim Eastham agreed the com-

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Town nancesI think the quality o lie is important to our citizens and we have a responsibility to help quality even i it costs a bit. As I said, our citizens came out quite vocally and in signicant nit was suggested that we cut the library unding om Conkey

the committees general conclusion

is that despite losing an estimated$600,000 to $800,000 in meals taxee revenues last year due to the5 Corridor restaurant lawsuitdecision, the own o Front Royalhas NO REVENUE CRISIS butrather a SPENDING CRISIS.

By whatever name recommen-dation, advice or consideration most o the committees wordsreect a shrinking government phi-losophy, recommending amongother things: reductions in contributions tocivic and cultural programs oragencies, including Samuels PublicLibrary, the ree Stewards, BlueRidge Arts Council, public trans-

portation (ormerly FRA bus,now trolley); delays in equipment replace-ment; a draw down o und reserves; reductions in employee benetcontributions; reductions in employee hours; Freezes or reductions in operat-ing expenses; Freezes in hiring or replacingtown employees; consequent cuts in town servicesand programs and potential priva-tization o some o those unc-tions.

Despite these suggestions to re-duce spending and consequentlythe unction o municipal govern-ment, there is one suggested ad-dition raising town employeescontribution to their health carecoverage costs.

We asked about the use o gen-eral economic trends like inationand growth statistics as a means omaking recommendations or spe-cic actions to be taken within thetowns budget process, particularlysuch potentially ar reaching ac-

tions as depleting reserves, cutting

sta hours and benet contribu-tions, town services and even thetranser o government unction tothe private sector.

Pick & choose

It is an economic generaliza-tion, Shae Parker observed o thecommittee report. Personally Ielt there were recommendations Iwould not even consider; others Ielt had merit.

As or the use o general eco-nomic trends as measuring sticksor the towns expenditure andspending history, Parker added,Ination and population growth

are the trends they choose to use,but you have to keep in mind in-ation and population growth arealso used in some circles to justiytax increases. We are the sixth larg-est own in the Commonwealth,with one o the lowest tax rates inthe Commonwealth. Is there roomor improvement and more s-cal responsibility? Yes. We cantake their recommendations and

see the easibility and cost savingso implementing them. But as waspointed out to us by the committeeitsel, some things are blurred bysmoke and mirrors. And until youlook at the actual inormation the

analysis is based on you cant get aclear picture o what will help andwhat wont.

Parker also took issue with thereports uber conclusion about aspending crisis.

I do not agree that we have aspending crisis. I think the Com-mittee reviewed the various de-partments and based their re-sponses on 5 and 10-year trends orthe town. In that time most everydepartment has been reorganizedin some capacity, which would re-ect in increased spending on thesurace. But looking deeper intoa department would show thatemployees who may have been

classied in one department, orexample the Street Department,are now classied as HorticulturalEmployees, showing a jump in thatdepartments spending due to em-ployee reclassications.

As or increasing the nancialburden on employees, I want to beclear in emphasizing these are thepeople actually providing the ser-

vices to our citizens. We need tokeep them happy so we can keepthe customers receiving those ser-

vices happy. Recommendations bythe commission to shop around orless expensive insurance is a goodrecommendation, however, pass-ing more cost or the insurance onto the employee or taxpayer is nota solution. We need to take care othe ull time employees we haveand not put a larger burden onthe system with urloughs and thelike. Can we look at part-time em-ployees and contracted labor? Yes,lets look there but remember theseare all just recommendations andnothing is set in stone.

Parkers ellow councilman om

Conkey took a similar tone regard-ing the committees recommenda-tions targeting town sta or ur-ther cuts and additional nancialburdens.

We have a really remarkable

town sta and our people have notgotten a raise in at least three years,Conkey points out. Doing thingsto hurt our sta in order to reducethe tax rate may well be penny wisebut pound oolish. Furloughs wererecommended, but urloughs onlysave money when a department isoverstaed. I we urlough the po-lice department, or instance, wewould probably need to pay some-one overtime to cover anotherpersons unpaid time o. Tat just

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Bret Hrbeks recommendation thatwe cut salaries 5 percent and stopor reduce payments to the library(in the last budget cycle)? My takeon that meeting was that the citi-zens were generally adamant that

they would rather pay some addi-tional taxes than see cuts in theseareas.

I think the quality o lie is im-portant to our citizens and we havea responsibility to help maintainthat quality even i it costs a bit. AsI said, our citizens came out quite

vocally and in signicant numberswhen it was suggested that we cutthe library unding and were over-whelmingly against cutting theirunding. Te library, or instance,

provides services to our citizensthat help educate our children andhelp our adults nd and qualiy or

jobs or better jobs.Isnt that something we should

be doing? Conkey asks. And

how important is tourism to thetown? Should we discourage ourlocal businesses and encourage ourcitizens and potential tourists togo out into the 5 corridor or toother towns?

Critical perspective

Mr. ederick is passionate in hisbelies and has been extraordinari-ly critical o the towns approach tothe budget, Conkey pointed out o

the committee chairs history as ascathing critic o certain town andcouncil personnel. Accordingly,[then nance committee mem-bers] Mike Graham, Kim Gilkey-Breeden, and I met with him last

year while we were working on thebudget to give him an opportunityto share his thoughts with us.

Rather than share his thoughtswith those town ocials agreeingto meet to share budget ideas , ed-erick took another, not unamiliarroute in some surviving councilcircles, Conkey says.

At that time, his only recommen-dations appeared in the NorthernVirginia Daily ater our meetingwhere he said that we had too muchmoney in the various enterpriseund reserves. We subsequentlyormed the Blue Ribbon Commit-tee hoping to garner some specicrecommendations we could use to

reduce spending.Parker also commented on the

general tone o the committee re-port.

Te Blue Ribbon Commissionlooked at revenue into the townand cost going out. All o theirrecommendations were about sav-ings. I do not recall any suggestionsabout increasing revenue, Parkersays. Funding or the EDA is a rev-enue producer or the town itsname is Economic Development that ones a no-brainer. Te oth-ers that were mentioned [or po-tential cuts] are all matched unds.I we cut their unding they lose itelsewhere (state, ederal contribu-tions) as well, so the real questionbecomes do you essentially kill othose cultural and civic entities?

Counterpoint

But not all reactions to the gener-

al tone o the report were negative.Appearing on WZRVs Te Val-

ley oday three days ater receipto the report, Councilman omSayre said it was a veritable revela-tion that really opened my eyes to

alleged, i not pinpointed spendingwaste within the town budget.

O course as pointed out in arelated story, some wonder whyCouncilman Sayres eyes had beenclosed during his our-year coun-

cil tenure and lengthtown nance commhashed through anrecommendations mcouncil.

E-mail queries to

Sayre, Holloway, Laupe, as well as Mayorto be responded to press run. None chosadditionally about thNov. meeting.

Town nan

Engles Angle: Seasons GreeBy Kevin S. EngleWarren County Report

Its the day after Thanksgiving. Atmy house, that means one thing.Well get our rst Christmas card to-

day. Im sure of it. Every year, onBlack Friday, my aunts card arrives

in the mail. Wed get it sooner, but

her kids wont let her mail them anyearlier than she does. Theyre em-

barrassed enough already.I like getting Christmas cards, and

I enjoy sending them too. But somepeople just dont play by the rules.

My rules.

First of all, if I send you one, Iexpect one in return. If you dont,

youre off the list. Of course, the re-verse is not necessarily true. That

is, if you send me a card, but I dontlike you, dont expect one from me.

But thanks for thinking of me. AndHappy Holidays.

I like to send cards to a few former

coworkers, but they just dont get it.One guy only sends a card in years

ending in three and six. And whenhe does, all he can manage is to sign

his name. No note. Nothing. Cantyou take a minute and write a few

sentences? Maybe by not writing

anything, he is telling me something.

Like go away?Another guy is only slightly better.

Hell send a card, but always after he

gets mine. Hes probably hoping Illgive up and not send him one any-

more. His typical response to myHows life?, What have you been

up to? questions is a standard Ev-

erythings ne. Wow, thanks for thenews. I guess hes afraid he might

get Carpal Tunnel syndrome.For him, Im in his category of if

you dont send me a card this year,I wont have to send you one either

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When he does, Ill bet this year is the last yea

How about the annuletters people send? M

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Or what about the kids only photo cards?I dont even know? F

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Community

Project Lead the Way propels engineering care

By Carol BallardWarren County Report

Future engineers are gettinga head start on their careers inWarren County high schools.

Just in its third year, students atSkyline and Warren County highschools are involved in a our-year course which also counts ascollege credit. Teyre learninghands-on skills geared mostlytoward engineering, but the prin-ciples will be useul in whatevercareer they choose. Te our-yearcourse is made up o 90-minute

classes taken every day or onesemester a year.

Tese classes would benet anystudent, helping them to developproblem-solving skills, work ingroups, and get prepared or lieater high school, said MelodySheppard, Director o echnol-ogy and Director o Career andechnical Education in WarrenCounty Public Schools.

Originally presented to eighthgraders in a school assembly,the program attracted about 85students. Both programs nowhave an enrollment o 109, with10 girls enrolled. Students were

very interested ater the assem-bly, said Sheppard.

She talked to math and scienceteachers and targeted studentswho were doing well in thosesubjects. PLW students gener-ally have higher math and sciencescores. A student may have hada B in those classes beore andthe course helps raise it to an Abecause they can see what theclasses are or, she said, and add-

ed that another one o the goalsis to increase the number o girlsin the program and PLW hasbrochures that target emales, tochallenge them to take the classesand see where it develops romthere.

Matt Keel is the PLW en-gineering course instructor atSkyline High School and BarryPotter teaches at Warren CountyHigh School. On a visit to Keelsclasses, it was obvious that thestudents were enthusiastic. Teysat in ront o their computers,listening and ollowing Keels di-

rections. Okay, class, listen up!First bring up a cube, he said.Magically, a cube appeared oneveryones screen. A student hada question and his screen wasbrought up or everyone to lookat. Te entire class was given theopportunity to see the problemand hear the answer rom theteacher. Te image was also pro- jected on the screen in back othe teachers desk. Te instructorcan also interrupt their work on-screen, i he wants them to lookat something or his own teach-ing purposes, and show what hestalking about on all screens.

First-year students, mostly 9thgraders, are introduced to Au-todesk Inventor 3D, an engineer-ing modeling sotware, whichthey use to create a Puzzle Cube.Tey design a ve-piece puzzleand each piece is created romthree-quarter inch wooden cubesand then glued together.

Brandon Sizemore, one o thestudents intending to take all ouryears o the classes, likes the actthat they get to make things. Hesaid, One o our class projectswas to make a cube and I invent-ed an armrest with something tohold popcorn. Im good at mathand science and I like to take

apart and put together toys andmotors. I have a remote controlcar at home and I play aroundwith that. His goal is to be a me-chanical engineer and work at theFerrari auto plant in Milan, Italyone day.

Keel listed several o the goalsor the rst year. Students willcreate, assemble, and present acomplete set o working drawingsor 10 parts in Autodesk Inventor3D modeling sotware. Tey willalso conront a design challenge,ater reviewing a ew possibili-ties, such as designing a lockerorganizer, desktop organizer, or

candy dispenser, and create thenew design in Inventor with a ullset o working drawings.

Students will also be exposed toreverse engineering. Tey mustbring in a mechanism rom homethat consists o six-to-ten partsand complete a visual and op-erational analysis. Teyll take itapart and model all o the partsin Inventor, then use Inventor tomake design improvements tothe mechanism.

One very important compo-nent o the course work is the vir-tual design challenge. Studentsrom separate classes at Skyline

and Warren County will worktogether to design a new productin Inventor. Keel said, Commu-nication and planning is a hugepart o this as the students mustcommunicate via e-mail and out-side o class time. Tis simulatesreal-world situations closely.

Another motivated uture en-gineer, Seth eachout, a ninth-grader in Keels rst-period class,said he likes the work because,were doing a lot o interest-ing stu that Ill get to do in reallie. He said he wants to be ableto help people in the world withcivil problems that they have indaily lie. He continued, I want

to go to college and study aero-nautical engineering to designairplanes. My uncle is a Navy pi-lot and my grandpa. Dad is also apilot. I want to be a pilot, too andjust started trying to get a pilotslicense.

Crucial to the success o thisprogram is a group o volun-teers who act as mentors to thestudents. Te local PLW Com-munity Partnership eam is agroup whose members consist o

about 0 either actengineers. Mike SouCommunity Partnmembers has organcompanied some oon tours o Front Roren County sites wtalked to engineerscompanies and w visited were E.INemours and ComPlastics, the own owater treatment acLantz Engineering site while the projethe Warren Countyto the new middle progress.

Students were gportunity to talk engineers at the sitequestions and wereo how engineeringwide variety o jobso careers available

In the second yeagram, students leaciples o engineerito: Solar, Fuel Cell asign; creating a prosign rom balsa that

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specic orces; creating a bridgein West Point Bridge Design sot-ware; and completing a roboticdesign challenge by creating a

control system using shertech-nic robotic parts and RoboProsotware

Teyll also be making a sel-powered car rom parts oundaround the house and the vehiclewill be judged on distance andpower.

In the third year, digital elec-tronics is the ocus. Teyll cre-ate more elaborate devices like:

Majority Vote - an electronic voting machine that will deter-mine the winner based on certainvoting criteria; Elevator Door - a

machine that will determine anddisplay the position o an eleva-tor door; and Boe-Bot Micro-controllers, which programs amicrocontroller that will tell asmall robot what to do and howto make decisions.

In the nal year, seniors will putto use everything theyve learnedso ar in Engineering Design andDevelopment (EDD).

According to Keel, the studentswill be working on one large de-sign challenge throughout theyear which is a capstone projectsimilar to a thesis.

He said, Its similar to a science

air project except or one thing.At a science air students are re-proving a scientic phenomenon,in EDD the students must solvea problem that hasnt been solved yet. So here are the steps theyollow to do it: Problem ID, Re-search, Decision Process, Design,Build, est and Present.

Tey might work indepen-dently or in a team, they mightwork on something that servesa community need, compete ina national engineering compe-tition, or work on an inventiontheyve always had in the backo their head. When they nishthey are required to present thenal product to a board that willbe made up o members o boththe academic community andthe local proessional communitythrough the PLW Partnershipeam.

Tis high-quality program, ac-cording to Sheppard was initi-ated by Warren County SchoolsSuperintendent Pamela M. Mc-

Innis, and she, along with com-munity partners thought PLWwould be a great opportunity orour school system to prepare ourstudents or an engineering ca-reer. Its ocus is SEM (Science,

echnology, Engineering, andMath) which is another goal orthe school division.

Grant money has come rommultiple community organi-

zations and a graVirginia Departmetion or $50,000. nity organizations were Warren CountEndowment, DuPo

ren County Economent Authority.

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A portrait o humanity John Krobs photos o KyrgyzLocals photographs reveal a common humanity across the globe


John Krobs work took him tothe Central Asian country o Kyr-gyzstan. Along the way, he docu-

mented in photographs somemajor similarities between olksthere and here. Namely, that weall have the same kinds o hopes,dreams and aspirations despitecultural and geographical dier-

ences. Tese photos have mostrecently been exhibited at theCalvary Episcopal Church inFront Royal in a show organizedby Suzanne Silek and GeorgeRutter.

O the impetus or his work

Krob said, I have made somewonderul riends and I am veryclose with many o the amilies inthe villages. I have been to wed-dings, unerals, births, religiousgatherings and school gradu-ations. I have taken a personal

interest in changinand letting the vithat Americans are see on .V.

Tis also goes in hoping this show region as well as thhuman light and npeople. I have ounsmart, caring, loyalTey want the sameas we do ... Whaaround them is outtrol and they are juspolitical allout.

Krob works in countrys capital. EXBS adviser to thein border security He also worked withtional Organization(IOM), and is presenby OSCE OrganiSecurity and Cooperope. John has spenmonths out o the ythe last six years, tto his home and (Dottie) in Chester

Photogrpaher John Krob with ag of Kyrgyzstan

showing forty points on the circle symbolizing the

number of Kyrgyz tribes from which all of the popula-tion is descended.

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where Americans normally stayand wanted to see the countryand get to know the people. Hesaid, I know most o the peoplein these photos and I think thatsimportant. When they know me,they know a dierent America.

Krob was ortunate to be ac-companied by an interpreter/translator who introduced him topeople who invited him into theirhomes. Many Americans havea ortress mentality when wetravel and we dont get to know

the people. It takes a long timeor them to trust, but when theydo, youre amily. Tey dont have

a lot to give, but they will give youriendship, he said.

When out in the country tak-ing pictures and getting to knowindividuals, he discovered thetrue nature o the people. Te

people are historically nomadic,are predominantly Muslim, aredescended rom 40 tribes, andown millions o sheep and hors-es. Teres a saying that there aremore sheep than people.

Te photos reveal how individ-uals and amilies live. One showsa reckle-aced child named Dan-iel, who lives on a arm in Isacraoutside okmak, and works hard.He herds his amilys cows andhauls water to his home beoreschool in the morning. John hastaken a special interests in thisamily and with that, has becomepart o the amily.

Another is a painting o a boy

who is wearing traditional war-rior clothing, illustrating howevery boys dream is to be a war-rior.

Tere is also a photo o partici-pants in a game like polo where

the riders are on native Kyrgyz

ponies which are oner than quarter hoKhan is said to hathis breed o horstheir agility and hare adapted to the

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An elder of the village of Iskra which is a smlocated south of Bishkek. The Elder is theauthority to all matters within the village

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is not about Muslim religion but

about Muslims as people. Te ex-hibit will hopeully give one a bet-ter insight into their country, lie-

style and the day-to-day struggleto carry out a living and protecttheir amily rom the same thingswe do to protect ours.

Beore 9/11, this part o theworld was not known by most inthe U.S. Tis region has been animportant trading route or thou-sands o years. Te amous Silk

Road passed right through Cen-tral Asia. Most o us know verylittle about this region becauseCentral Asia and the Middle East

have not been on the worlds po-litical radar screen till recently.

Te country o Kyrgyzstan ismy home base in Central Asiaand I work and live in Bishkek,the capital o the Kyrg Republic.Te majority o the photos depictthe daily lives o these wonderulpeople within this region. Lo-

cated at the end o the Himalayanmountain range is the grazingrange or hundreds o thousandso sheep and horses; who have

made this countrymain meat supplierets during the war.

When the Sovithey took everythithe skilled labor obeen an uphill batt years But, the do such wonderul p

support o the intermunity will make thpen..., continued K

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With thousands of security personnel on the street,this old lady was determined to take the direct routeto her home. When she approached the line, they

opened up and let her through. I thought this showed

a great respect for her age and determination. I call

this Tienanmen Square of Bishkek.

The country of Kyrgyzstan has had two major revolutions after thedeparted. The 2005 revolution known as the Tulip Revolution and the

revolution. The nation just completed the rst true, transparent electioof this year. Political violence is nothing new in history anywhere in and this picture depicts the violence of such actions.

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Kazakhstan, ajikistan and Uz-bekistan. A pivotal American allyin Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan hashosted an important Americanair base in Manas since 001. Tesprawling base is used to supplytroops in nearby Aghanistan.

A little sign on one o the tablesat the entrance to the exhibit ex-pressed Krobs view on how waraects everyone. It said: Shat-tered Lives War is cruel andunorgiving. Te innocent arethe major victims o any conict.Te human stress, loss o lie andbelongings can be seen in thesepictures. I hope ater you lookat their aces, youll understandwhat tragedies are occurringaround the world.

Krobs respect and love or thecountry is reected in the photos,and their respect or him is evi-denced by the large collection o

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Beginning with spring-ower-ing May, continuing through highsummer then traveling throughautumns alling leaves to its hol-iday-sparkling December nale,Main Streets merchants haveopened up in the evening everythird Tursday o the month andhosted an Art Walk.

Te event, in its second year,gives everyone a chance to meetartists, dine out, enjoy ree re-

reshments and unhurried con-versation in participating stores,listen to music at the Gazebo,and experience Main Streetstores open to a later time.

Te theme on Tursdays walk,Wish List, gave strollers a chanceto visit shops and get a consider-able range o ideas or the ast-approaching season o git giv-ing.

Blue Ridge Arts Council(BRAC) gallery gave many artiststhe chance to display their workthis year. Recent artists included

Kelly Walker, who loves to paintanimals, has her own gallery, and

teaches art classes to children.Jewelry artist, eddy Shea, whowas eatured at BRACs galleryon Tursday wore an intricatesterling silver sugalite pendantand displayed her NeptunesDaughter Collection which shesaid was inspired by visits to theocean.

A little urther down Main, atMain Street Books, Ann Heaptalked about her new book ophotographs and short poems,Shenandoah Glimpses, whichwere inspired by her impres-sions o the Shenandoah Valley.

Michele D. Sommers graciouslyinvited onlookers to watch herpaint a portrait o a canine riendat Gourmet Delights Git andFraming Shop.

Main Street Books was also thesetting a little earlier or AndreaSutclie, the author o anotherbook inspired by the Shenando-ah Valley. Tis book, ouring theShenandoah Valley Backroads,which is illustrated with blackand white photos, is an updated

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