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Charity clothing bins - good cause or get-rich scheOut-o-state, non-prots may be pocketing millions while doing little or charity

By Roger BianchiniWarren County Report

Since last year you may have seenthem sprouting like weeds theblue bins claiming to be charitableClothes and Shoes DonationsCenters.Sounds harmless enough and

they always seem to be at highlytraveled and convenient locations.Te ones I was initially aware o,rst two, then three in the RoyalPlaza Shopping Center in ront oK-mart, are oten overowing intothe parking lot despite the admon-ishment to Please do not leave anyitems outside the bin.Others have since cropped up in

locations, including the car washat Fith Street on Commerce Av-enue, the old Jiy Lube at NorthRoyal and 14th Street, and the re-opened Liberty Gas Station at 5thStreet and North Royal Avenue.

However, a reader inquiry aboutexactly who was collecting andwhat charity was proting romthese collection bins led us to acloser inspection o the inorma-tion on the bins.

Te donated items will be soldand ater expenses Charity re-ceives guaranteed xed monthlyrevenue without risk o nancialloss, the second paragraph underthe logo o the Childhood DiseaseResearch Foundation (CDRF)reads. Te CDRF logo was on allthe boxes we ound around FrontRoyal.Hmm, ater expenses Charity

receives guaranteed xed monthlyrevenue immediately raised alarmbells.Okay, Im used to seeing used

clothes and what not sold to thebenet o a charity or civic orga-nization operating discount stores

LOCALLY. Among those thatinitially come to mind are Te Sal-

vation Army Store on South Street,the Abused Womens Shelter Sec-ond Chance Store and Blue RidgeHospice Trit Store, both on EastMain Street.But Charity capitalized in a

third-person context under the

logo o an alleged medical researchoundation o unknown locationstruck this cynic as suspicious.Te rst paragraph on the bin ex-

plained that the CDRF was a non-prot and operating division oOptimal Medical Foundationwhose mission is to provide publicawareness to promote and urtherresearch, treatment and educationprograms on disease aecting chil-dren and adults.Nice, i somewhat vague.Once home, we did on online ex-

ploration o both organizations.CDRF and OPM share a Fremont,

Caliornia mailing address and a(905) 681-3135 phone number. On

websites reerencing it we couldnot nd an OPM website, onlymyriad sites reerencing it OPMis listed as a 501-C-3 non-protwith most recently reported (009)annual revenue o $5,31,406 withassets o $64,415; an asset rangeo $100,000 to $499,999; and an in-come range o $5 million to $9.999

million ... Hmm, neget over that $10-m wonder i thats wlevel o governmenkicks in???For almost 10 y

Medical Foundation mitted to nding anpoint o care, rapid dsolution or the betteily health, here in the(sic) and around the today to nd that soWe noted the m

United States and sp inxpensive.Curious or a $5-m

million, decade-old

website, or at least isidiarys, we thoughour ngers do the wwe gave the 800 numCDRF on the blue ca ring and got a recoidentiying the cloth

Theyre spreading like a cancer ... but does it signicantly

benet cancer - or any other disease - research?

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Te phone call

Ten we tried the 905 numberlisted on the company websitesand o all things got a human be-ing.I identied mysel as a reporter

calling rom Front Royal, Virginia,about the clothing collection binsand how revenue was distributedbetween expenses and the Char-ity as stated on the blue boxes.Youll have to e-mail your ques-

tions and Ill orward them tosomeone in a position to answerthem, I was told.And your name, I asked.

Judy, was the reply.Are you with an answering ser-

vice, I queried, trying to get a eelor exactly who I was talking to andwhether she was in a corporate o-ce or simply elding calls rom

home or a call-service center.No, Im the secretary today, Judy

said.oday hmm, I thought again.Last name?Green, came the slightly hesi-

tant reply.With an E on the end or not?Im not giving you anymore in-

ormation you have enough al-ready, Judy told me.Even the spelling o your last

name? I asked.Green like the color, Judy re-

lented.

And the e-mail address?Look at the website, Judy replied

beore hanging up on me.

Te media reports

Okay we went surng or thirdparty reports on both organiza-tions.Uh oh.We ound two online reports

rom 011 in which one or the oth-er company was mentioned; onethird-party state database trackingo OPMs business in Pennsylvaniabetween 00 and 008; and a Jan-uary 01 Canadian BroadcastingCompany (CBC) V news reporton the show Te National on thephenomena o the Clothing BinWars.

None o the news reports werepromising.Some Charity Drop Boxes For

Prot Posers the headline o aMarch 8, 011, report by WJBKFOX-Detroit aliate and reporter

Ronnie Dahl read.Check Your Charity was the

headline o June , 011, imeSpecials report by Bill Saporito.Te CBC Te National V

report cited multiple so-called

charitable collectiengaged in a cut-thin various Canadianthat was making sTe report includedone company, who

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cerned about the work orce to bebrought in by Zachry ConstructionCorporation (based in exas) or theconstruction o the new Dominionpower plant on the countys north

side. Being a proud Local Union 60pipetter, I contacted my businessagent about who is going to manthe job or construction. He went toZachry Construction on site here andwas told under no uncertain terms

that they will be bringing in theirown work orce rom exas.Like I said, I am a union worker, but

my concern is not about a pro union/non-union issues. Rather, this isabout taking care o our employmentbase in Warren County and Virginia.Warren County is suering 6.3-per-cent unemployment right now. Tisnew plant will take 700-plus con-struction workers to build. My con-cern is why should we be arming allthis work opportunity to out-o-statepeople? When Washington D.C.awards bids or construction proj-ects in the District, it is contingentthat the contractor will use a givenpercentage o the local work orce toman the project.

What Dominion has oered us is a

tiny appeasement deal to satisy lo-cal government that sees the uturetax revenues promised, but orgetsabout the local people struggling tosurvive in this recession. Te tem-porary inux o out o town workers

might help some local businesses ora short period o time, but this doesnothing or the local trade peoplethat are more than qualied to buildthis plant, and who would keep their

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Do you have ond memories o yourrst car? I dont. And the reason canbe explained in two words: Chevy Ch-evette.

Okay, you can stop laughing now.I know this was not a vehicle that a

young, testosterone-primed male o the

1980s could worship as it rattled alongthe Interstate pow-ered by an enginethat roared like an electric toothbrush.

So ater driving around unknowinglyor weeks with a Ram Me sign some-one had at-tached to the back bumper,I realized it was time to trade up to a

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Car names are important to automo-bile manuacturers. Tey are keenlyaware that public recognition and ac-ceptance o a name can inuence a ve-hicles commercial success in a highlycompetitive industry.

Consider the Jeep Wrangler a greatearthy name or a car. But the Kia Kick-it probably wouldnt inspire much con-sumer condence.

Vehicles are oten christened withnames that intrigue or arouse our sense

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Exotic places also sell cars: Dakota,Monte Carlo, Malibu, Park Avenue, a-hoe, and Yukon all exciting destina-tions and, presumably, exciting cars. ALincoln Lubbock might never make ito the showroom oor.

Ten there are drivers who selectspecic models according to his or herproession.

Cant you see an astronomer behindthe wheel o a Mitsubishi Eclipse; anoptometrist in a Ford Focus; or a pilottaking o in an Isuzu Ascender?

And what proctologist could resistparking a Ford Probe outside the sur-

gery?Te late explorer Sir Edmund Hillarywould have elt right at home climbinginto a Mercury Mountaineer, althoughhe would have been wary about theChevy Avalanche.

And almost certainly the inamousHeidi Fleiss would have treated hergirls to a eet o Escorts.

Te animal kingdom has also beenwell represented in the automobilename game over the years. But not

just any animal oten it is one thatsymbolizes power, strength or speed.So the Mercury Cougar, Dodge Ram,

and Ford aurus workedin name).

But there have been suctions to muscular monBeetle was a cute, pop

justly deserved its quainwo animal categories

pecially popular: horsesaddition to the Mustang,

up the best equine nameand Pinto as well. Wiseproduced a Ford Geldinlittle too Freudian or yoers.

During the energy conadministration, Dodge co their own with the Colo efciency, when cars wter little animals, such asTere were even VW Rabing all over the reeways

Our eathered riends hrepresented with the JeeFalcon, and the Buick chickens made an appe30s and 40s with the Ban

From the 60s and 70s, the Barracuda and thewhich were great lookinhead o Plymouths mar

ment should have takenother companies that Corvette Stingray, Fiat SDodge Viper. Now theclassic cars with names

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car names that may nobe recognized as anima

Mercury Sable. A sabledescribed as an elegant

ly, the Mercury marketeover weasel.

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suggested by his bosses, the driver

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ness were said to bring in as muchas $1,000 a week, which could to-tal over $600,000 per year i main-tained or 5 weeks, with a muchsmaller at ee amount going toassociated charities (that sounds

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Saporito opened with an explora-tion o a cancer research undrais-ing tandem similar to the OMF/CDRF relationship: Its not that

the National Breast Cancer Re-search Center is a scam. Its morelike a charity within a charity, runby an organization called the Walk-er Cancer Research Institute. Teparent organization, based in Ab-erdeen, Md., dutiully les tax re-turns that show it raised $1.7 mil-lion in 009 and spent 5 percento it on undraising. Te returnalso reports that the organizationspent exactly $487,505, or about 4percent o its income, on research

most o it or probing plant lieor anticancer compounds. Giventhat kind o research commitment,the group is unlikely to make sig-nicant advances anytime soon.Tat said, Saporito continued,

Walker has a better chance o ac-complishing something than the

National Charity or Cancer Re-search, part o the Optimal Med-ical Foundation Inc. in Fremont,

Cali. Te group gathered $5.3 mil-lion in 009, o which zero seemsto have gone toward research.

Te Pennsylvania Department oState database reported on pro-

essional undraisingthe state that inclusolicitor middle mecharities over a seveOptimal Medical

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between April 30, 008 and April30, 009. O that amount, $106,346(15 percent) was reported receivedby charity.Te WJBK FOX Detroit V re-

port stated, Tere are some o the

drop boxes that are out and posi-tioned in various locations that areor prot businesses where theybasically take the goods and thensell them, and thats their prot,Moseley said. Te report contin-ued, Looking closer at a Child-hood Disease Research Founda-

tion donation box, in the secondparagraph it states that donateditems deposited will be sold andater expenses the charity gets rev-enue Many times or prot com-panies will team up with charitiesso those organizations are gettingsome money, but, o course, itsreally a prot organization thatsrunning the whole thing.

While the Detroit V reportnoted that some municipal gov-ernments have passed codes thatdo not allow such drop boxes tobe placed in their community, thatis apparently not the case here in

Front Royal and Warren County.

A business proposition

According to Janice Hart, whomanages tenant relations at RoyalPlaza Shopping Center where Irst saw the CDRF drop boxes, sheencountered no local code require-ments when approached about ac-quiring rental space or the dropboxes in the Royal Plaza parkinglot. Hart told us the space or theboxes is essentially leased by theproperty owner to the box pro-

vider much as store ront space is.Hart, who is also the FRPD Com-munity Relations Specialist, said to

her knowledge there were no localmunicipal code regulations thatapplied to the boxes since they areleased on private property. Bothtown and county ocials were ex-amining any applicable local codes

that might apply to the boxes whenwe went to press.While Hart said she chooses to

donate to local charities like BlueRidge Hospice and the WomensShelter, she pointed out you cantcontrol with whom people choseto donate items like clothes to thebenet o which charitable causes.Well, hopeully a little knowl-

edge will go a long way in helpingpeople make a more inormed de-cision based on what will help themost reputable charities to the ac-tual benet o those in need, par-ticularly in our own community.

Local perspective,

local loss

Here is the part that concernsme, there are community orga-nizations that take donations orthe good o our community, Blue

Ridge Hospice being one, alongwith Goodwill, Salvation Army,Second Chance, C-Cap and Habi-tat or Humanity, just to mentionthe ones that I am aware o, JeaniaAylor o the Blue Ridge HospiceTrit Store says. All o us are pay-ing town taxes, purchasing busi-ness licenses and creating revenueor this beautiul town that we livein, as well as doing our part to helpthe less ortunate in our communi-ty maintain a better quality o lie,whether it be Blue Ridge Hospiceproviding quality end-o-lie care;or other local organizations suchas Salvation Army, which helpshomeless get back on their eet; or

the womens shelter,en conquer abusive getting back on theirBlue Ridge Hospi

sands o dollars in tions a year. We do

organizations in ousuch as C-Cap, Hamanity, local churchhomes when they hthe elderly as I am local non-prots do I honestly believe

in this town is awarezations that truly helnity. Tat being saidair to our communthat we and other ltions are not receivinnations due to thesbeing placed aroundI truly believe i p

stood that these boplaced by organizatiostates, some as ar awnia, and the questioncharitable donationmake versus prots would insist that thetoday. I can tell you a committee that raorganizations and some research that ously, this company tblue ones around towF rating.

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As instructed by outary riend Judy Gre

Caliornia, on April ted an e-mailed listabout the companysubsidiary base o cprots like CDRF, lection networks, rbution and pay scalement and operatioApril 11 deadline oro April 1, we had reply rom OMF maWe do know this,

cording to its subsiand other online rewas incorporated inware, perhaps; lists ione subsidiarys buas Fremont, CalioU.S. Banks home oKansas; and its accaddress in LivingstoHowever, where t

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Lolas take on Dog Park groundbreakA Siberian Huskys canine perspective o a coming doggie playground

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Well, ater ve years o talkingabout it, ground was nally brokenon the Eastham Park to provide apark or us dogs and, as ar as I know,I was the rst to squat on the grass-- at 9:47 a.m. Saturday, March 31 -- while a bunch o mostly male dogswere out there sning around orprecisely the right spot. So lets hearit or us emales, guys!

By the way, girls and boys, dogso all ages, when the park nallyopens or business (pun not intend-ed), be sure to turn let at the end

o Luray Avenue or youll end up inthe Shenandoah River. I wooed acouple o times at amily matriarchAlene Eastham, and Jim and DeniseEastham, even though Denise is thecurrent Human Society president,but they were too wrapped up inthings to pay me much attention.Denise had a small dog with her, butI didnt pay much attention to himeither so there! Tat past, he toldme his amily had donated the landor the dog park, and the trail, andeverything else that was so beautiularound there. You dogs are gonnalove it!

Details, or the English language,were never my orte in San Antonio,

exas, where I come rom, but orthe record, Ill woo a ew acts aboutour park so you olks owned by usdogs will know where to go (punnot intended) and what the rules arewhen the park is opened to us thissummer (the Warren County DogPark Association needs a ew moredollars beore this will happen, or soI was told).

First, there will eventually be divid-ed areas or big dogs (that includesme, a Siberian Husky) and smalldogs (thats probably most o theothers, including the Easthams dog

whose name I ailed to get). Terellbe a bunch o entry gates to get romone enclosure to another (thats whatKelly Walker and her olks need themoney or) but well gure out howto go over or under these ences inno time at all. You bet! For the peo-ple we take to the park, there will benine benches to sit on. I read roma piece o paper lying on the groundthat said, not in dog language, that,apart rom the areas designated towe honored dogs, this was a multipurpose acility that will containathletic elds, trails, (the aoremen-tioned) dog park, a parking lot in-tended to serve the park and boatramp located on an adjacent prop-

erty... I think maybe the boat rampis or those dogs traveling to the dogpark by water.

Tere were a bunch o high a-lootin olks in attendance by 9 a.m.when Doug Stanley, a big name in thehood, began calling the shots on theopening o the Eastham Park rail.He held out the hand o welcome toall o us (which I was tempted to bite,then thought better o it). Several othe biggies stood in a line with pairso scissors and cut a red tape, whichwas a bit strange to we dogs. Also, Idiscovered later, this really had noth-ing to do with us. Te dog park stucame later, but we had to wait alongwith everyone else, to get to the im-portant bit which or many o the 40or so dogs in attendance was whenMayor im Darr announced thetown would donate three used rehydrants to the park association.

Ten the crowd clapped like crazyand we dogs went nuts when LindaGlavis talked about a legacy or gen-erations (and dogs) to come. Lindaused the and dogs part which gotall our attention plus a lot o barks,growling and carrying on. In act, alot o barking, growling and snort-ing made much o the speechiyingincomprehensible to most. We didget to hear the mayors tribute to Ms.Kelly, whom he said was the drivingorce behind the establishment othe dog park so, on a personal note,Id like to thank her in behal o allo Front Royals canines or her workand undraising that she did and isdoing. A group o my male riends

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One o the unniest tpened during the dogleast rom a dogs poiwhen a couple o my behaved colleagues torereshment table. Cwent ying every wh

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visited the Warren County Fire &Rescue Volunteer Fire Company tocelebrate Wrights third birthday.

It was Cara Broadhead and her sonsway o saying thanks to the SouthWarren Fire Company personnel orhelping them toward Wrights third

birthday. Just over two years earlier itwas personnel rom that departmentthat were rst responders to a carwreck a pregnant Cara Broadheadand her not quite two-year-old son

had on an ice-strewn BrowntownRoad.

In a March letter o appreciation toCounty Fire Chie Richard Mabie orthe South Warren companys hostingo her sons birthday party on Feb. 5,Cara Broadhead explained, Withouta doubt, the visit was the highlighto my sons birthday. Whats more,is that we werent just celebratingWrights special day, but also ourcommunity In December 010,my son and I were involved in a caraccident on a dreadully icy Brown-

town Road. Fireghter [Fred] Reyn-olds was a rst responder Beingour months pregnant and with mynearly two year old in the vehicle, Iwas overwrought about their saety

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kindness and care that I received,

which came ooding back when Isaw Mr. Reynolds again. FireghterReynolds was a calming presence inwhat was denitely the scariest inci-dent o my lie. His concern and careor us reassured me that we were go-ing to be all right. And we were.

In lieu o presents, the amily askedguests at Wrights party to make do-nations to the South Warren Volun-teer Company.

We are happy to report that wewere able to collect $300, CaraBroadhead wrote Chie Mabie, add-ing, Tough just three, my son knewquite well that he was sharing hisbirthday with the reghters. Whenwe advised him we collected a lot omoney, he happily declared, Tis willmake the reghters very happy!

Mrs. Broadhead added that thebirthday party was not only un buteducational Aterwards several othe parents advised that they wentover re saety with their childrenwhen they returned home, adding,Besides educational and just plainun, you may have inadvertently cre-ated a recruitment air since I know

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(CE) program provides a multi-tude o options or grades 6-1 andsome o the most dedicated instruc-tors and remarkable students that Ihave had the pleasure to meet. Teclasses all eature hands-on projectbased experience. I had a chance totalk to three o the classes and theirinstructors maybe I should reerto them as mentors given their realworld experience and dedication totheir students.

Mr. Devin Smith (Culinary Arts),a 199 graduate o Warren CountyHigh School (WCHS) and the CEprogram, has years o experience at

our own local Soul Mountain Caand Barbeque Shack restaurants, aswell as extensive catering experience.Smith leads a lively class and shareshis joy or cooking and his thirst topass on the tradition. Eric Isner, oneo his students, commented that hewas going into the culinary arts andcredited his instructor. He also statedthat cooking is jus t plain un.

Mike Abel (Electricity and Cabling),a 1988 graduate o WCHS and theCE program, spent 19 years in theeld and credits his instructor (EarlFranken) or inspiring him. His stu-

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Te CE program is so much moreextensive than I imagined. I hadhoped to talk to participants in themany other courses involved includ-ing: Family Career and CommunityLeaders o America (FCCLA) andthe Power o One program (Christi-na Tarp), Building rades (Mr. Rob-inson), Automotive echnology (Mr.Maguschak), Welding (Mr. Little),Computing echnology (Mr. Breed),echnical, Architectural, and Engi-

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Dedicated instructors giving backto the community combined with re-markable dedicated students shouldbe inspirational to all o us. Onceagain, we tip our hats to the teach-ers and students o Warren County.For more inormation on the CEprograms contact Melody Sheppardat (540) 635-713.

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By Carol BallardWarren County Report

Te last day o March, also Distribu-tion Day or the Glass Slipper Project,was a sunny, ower-lled spring day.Balloons danced in the breeze at thedoor o their new home in the BlueRidge echnical Center at the 40Luray Ave. Middle School

Inside, the Fairy Godmothers o theProject were surrounded by moreballoons and volunteers, girls and

boys looking or the right dress orsuit, ood and drink, riends and am-ily, and a joyul party atmosphere.

Te colorul dress, shoe and jewelrycollection reected the sparkle andbeauty o the day outside. Te kind-ness, vision and energy o Pam Wa-ters, Jackie Jenkins, ara Smith andSheri Mitchell-nicknamed the FairyGodmothers-has worked to createa magical place where hundreds ogorgeous ormal dresses and dressysuits or boys, can be accessed orupcoming spring proms.

Some children miss out on theexperience because o the cost. Wewant them to have a good high schoolexperience, Pam said.

Carol Ashley, a junior at WarrenCounty High School, who was therewith her mom Lorie, ound a daz-zling, blue oor-length dress and said

she would wear it once then donateit back to the program. Her schoolsprom theme this year is Masquer-ade, so she tried on a mask, but shesaid shes an art student, so will useher creativity instead o taking it withher.

Ill probably make my own out oeathers and beads, she said.

Te appearance o a completely un-expected visitor added to the generalun. Devaunte French, a brave War-ren County High School studentcame in with several giggling girls

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Te Glass Slipper donated 10 dress-es or contestants to wear at thatWomanless Beauty Pageant und-raiser held at the Warren CountyHigh School on April 1 or AndrewCornwell who is in treatment orNon-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

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Te Godmothers continue to beoverwhelmed with the support andgenerosity o the community.

My daughter Holly counted over400 dresses when setting up or thedistribution event. Someone donateda new beaded dress that must havecost over $00-a remarkable dona-tion, said ara.

Although hundreds o people are

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very much appreciated, a ew nameshave come up or special thanks.Superintendent o Schools, Pa-

mela McInnis and Melody Sheppard,(Director o echnology and Ca-reer and echnical Education o theBlue Ridge echnical Center), wereresponsible or the donated space.Mr. Robinsons third period build-ing trades class built partitions andput up separating curtains and wallsor the mens and womens dressingrooms, said Jackie.

ina and Jackie gave high praise toPam as the backbone o the project,

and ina ended with, Tis has arexceeded what we ever imagined.

Its a blessing, it makes us tickled,said Jackie.

Pam will be at the location on LurayAve. rom Wednesday to Friday rom-5 p.m. until the Warren countyproms are over.

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Business & commuMy husband will never go to that barber shop And let me tell you, i I was stranded in the Sahara, Idcarry the childs seats across the desert beore I ever call that towing company or salvage yard or anything,ever. Christina Tomas on atermath o unlucky barber shop lot parking decision

Te wrong place to park ater a day in the p

By Jonathan BennettWarren County Report

Christina Tomas and six o herseven children had spent the a ter-noon playing at Fantasyland Play-ground in Front Royal. Te kids,ages one to 14 years old, workedup quite an appetite running and

jumping and sliding and having a

good time. As the day slipped to-ward dusk, a vote was taken onwhat to do or dinner, and the con-sensus was the Subway sub shopon North Royal Avenue at SixthStreet.Te Subway was close by and

it would be a quick way to eedthe sizeable Tomas brood, nowhungry and tired and not wantingto wait on dinner when they gothome.Christina loaded up the bus, the

amily moniker or her 15-passen-ger Dodge Ram van.We drove to the Subway, and

when we got there, there just wasntenough space in their small parkinglot or the van, Tomas says.What she did next would inadver-

tently spoil what had so ar beena pleasant aternoon out with herkids and unhappily reveal just howun-neighborly certain aspects otheir small-town home can some-times be.Unable to maneuver the bus into

the crowded Subway lot, Tomassaid, I decided to park at the bar-ber shop next door. Let me say upront that I knew I wasnt parking

in the designated lot or Subway Big mistake.Christina said it was about 7 p.m.

and the barber shop next doorat 534 North Royal Avenue wasclosed, its parking lot empty. De-spite seeing the Barber Shop Park-

ing Only signs, she decided a briestop ater business hours wouldntbe an issue Big mistake, .

Tomas and the children wentinto Subway and got their subs totake home with them. She claimsthey were in the restaurant or no

more than 10 minutes. Te teenag-ers led the pack as they started out

o the sub shop.Tats when I heard the older

kids yelling that the bus was beingtowed. I didnt be-lieve it at rst,but when I got to the door, sureenough, the van was being loadedonto a rollback. I couldnt believewhat I was seeing.Now, anyone whos ever had a ve-

hicle towed knows how rustratingand even hu-miliating an ordeal itcan be; never mind that more otenthan not, its expensive, too. Whattranspired rom this point on wasall three o those things, and an al-ready problematic situation turnedeven more upsetting and insultingor Christina and her children.

I was carrying the one-year-oldand I ran over to the tow truck.Tere were two guys and I askedthe rst one i I could at least havemy car seats, as I have a one and athree-year old and need the seats inorder to get those two kids home isomeone comes to pick us up. Teguy completely ignored me. I asked

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yes, she could have but that was it. Hethese children with wed just gone into quick. He was indiecare, she observes. she then asked how mcost to get the van ond driver phoned told her it would be

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To the Taxpayers in the Town of Front Royal,

I am writing to you today to express my strong concern about decisions, being

current Front Royal Town Council, that have signicant long-term nancial imp

Front Royal taxpayers but that have been reached without the backing of adequa

information. As a candidate for Town Council in the upcoming May 1st election

to ensuring that future decisions of that Council are made based on solid, detaile

and nancial data and analysis that show that the Councils action is truly in theinterest of the Town and its citizen taxpayers. If elected, I will ensure that the se

engineering consulting rm with at least 25 years of experience in the design an

of water and sewer infrastructure -- including recent design and cost analysis ex

pumping stations, water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants, water an

associated earthmoving and grading, and bid supervision is hired by the Town

engineering and nancial aspects of proposed development proposals requesting

or sewer services to ensure that these proposals are in the Towns best interests a

compensating the Town for both the capital and on-going operating cost of these

A fairly recent such action which was taken without the benet of such experti

Councils commitment to Dominion Virginia Power (DVP) to provide a primary

line plus a secondary backup water line to the proposed DVP plant to be located

limits in Warren County in exchange for a contribution of only $3.5 million from

construction of the secondary backup water line. (DVP requires a secondary em

line in the event of a disruption of the primary line.) While $3.5 million may so

person like a substantial commitment from DVP, in fact, the cost of building a t

secondary backup water line is likely to run 3 to 4 times what DVP has agreed t

is expected to pay the balance of the infrastructure costs? The taxpayers of Fron

though the DVP plant will not be located within the Town limits and therefore w

Town taxes that might offset the capital (construction) cost of that infrastructure

obviously have to pay the Town for the water it uses; however, they also got the

to agree that they would only have to pay the same rate as Town users, not the dother users in the County currently pay. While I support efforts to bring new bus

to Front Royal and Warren County and concur with DVPs need for a secondary

line, I do not support taxpayers of Front Royal having to foot the bill for infrastr

businesses such as DVP which will not return tax dollars to the Town to offset t

that infrastructure.

I believe that it is imperative that future Councils have on-call engineering an

expertise available to advise them and provide recommendations when billion d

such as Dominion Virginia Power come before the Council asking to connect to

or when decisions need to be made on cost-sharing between developers, the Cou

the Town Council on projects such as the Leachs Run water line and roadway.

engineering and cost information, the Council runs the formidable risk of buryin

taxpayers in a sea of long-term debt. This is not a risk I believe Town citizens s

to accept.

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a vehicle at a tow yard, thats up toeach individual business what theycharge.

So I had to pay the $75 in cash onthe spot to get the van o the roll-back, said Christina. Id spent the

cash I had in Subway. I had to usemy sons birthday money he hadon him, $60, and call my motheror the remaining amount. Tankgoodness I was able to get a holdo her, because they said they weregoing to tow the van i I couldntcome up with the cash right then.My mother came with another $0.So, I gave them $80. Tey didnt o-er the ve in change and I was soustered, I orgot to ask or it.Christina said that had the one

tow truck operator not shown hera little decency (even i it was con-descending), she wouldve beenstranded there with six kids, two owhich are required by law to be in

child saety seats when she nallyound a ride home that would re-quire more than one trip rom theparking lot to her house.o add spite to the insulting way

the tow truck operators treatedher, she said the Subway employeewhod just made their sandwichescame out and was laughing and

joking with the more asinine o thetwo drivers.

It turns out that C&J owing andRecovery, owned and operated byJohn H. Smedley, Jr., has a contractwith Richard Simpson, the ownero the barber shop at 54 NorthRoyal Avenue, to tow any vehicleparked in his lot that is not a pa-tron o his business. Asked how heknows whos in the barber shop andwhos not, Smedley had this to say:Id rather not go into how we

know who to tow. But i I drive by,or one my drivers does, and its notduring business hours at the barbershop and theres someone parkedthere, were contracted to tow the

vehicle out o the lot.Asked i the rate is always the

same, Smedley said that it can vary.Sometimes its more, sometimesits less, depending on the time oday or night it is.I pointed out that i it is during

business hours, C&J couldnt pos-sibly know who is in the shop bylooking at the cars parked in thelot. One might conclude that thetowing company drivers lie in waitnearby or make a regular circuit

ater hours, waiting to pounce onany vehicle there, including thoseo Subway customers i that lot isull or like Tomas, the vehicle istoo big to maneuver a crowded lot.Id rather not comment on that,

Smedley says. What I will say isthat she knew she wasnt supposedto park there and she did anyway.She says she was in there or may-be ten minutes. How do we knowthat? We hear that all the time rompeople, that they were only parkedin that lot or a ew minutes. Whatdoes that mean, a ew minutes? Shewasnt singled out.Tey hear this all the time rom

people, ater and during business

hours?Again, no comment.Rita Eberhardt is the manager at

the Subway where Christina andher children got dinner that eve-

ning. Weve seen this happen orawhile now. People get towed outo that lot all the time. We dontget involved, but Ive heard thatthe owner o the barber shop sayshes losing business because o

people parking in his spaces. I dontknow how true that is, but to mymind, this being a small town, Idthink business owners would wantto work together and not createproblems or one another. I dontsee how someone parking there ishurting his business, especially inthe evenings when hes closed.What o the Subway employee

who, according to Christina Tom-as, joined the C&J driver in mock-ing her misortune?I wasnt there and I dont know

anything about that, but Ill cer-tainly look into it, Rita said.We contacted own Councilman

Hollis Tarpe, who weighed in on

the matter. I think what peoplemight not realize is that whensomeone parks a vehicle on privateproperty, the owner o the proper-ty, whether theyre present or not,

assumes responsibiparks illegally on prigets out o the car, gets hurt, guess who ater? Te property oTarpe said he hap

that the parking lot posted no parking the case, its at the otion who gets toweIn this case, Subwayadvised to somehopeople coming into tpark in Subways spaRichard Simpson o

ber shop and while reached or commenter, his son would conthey do have a contowing to haul caro his athers shop. how it works, really ather has had the little over a year now

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Business & communityTere were two guys and I asked the rst one i I could at least have my [child] car seats Tdriver] completely ignored me. I asked him again, begging by this point. He smirked at me atinued ignoring me. I dont have to tell you I was urious by now. - Christina Tomas

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Te Front Royal own Councildiscussed a charter called grosslyoutdated by the councilman whobrought the issue to a March 19 worksession.

Noting there are reerences to both1949 tax maps and a our-personcouncil in the towns enabling mu-nicipal document, Shae Parker toldhis colleagues, It would be nice tobring the charter into the times.

Other shortcomings mentioned byParker were a November successionprocess or the vice mayor that doesnot match existing procedures or rel-

evant election schedules and a coun-cil appointment/removal processor members o the Board o ZoningAppeals that is currently done by thecourt.

Parker also suggested the town ex-plore potential benets o becominga city.

We are the sixth largest town inVirginia, Parker pointed out. Hesaid that with boundary adjustmentsunder consideration as a potentialmeans o solving corridor revenue is-sues and the towns size and popula-tion increasing were that to happen,not to consider all options would beoolish.

Parker said despite the opinion osome county ocials he spoke with

that a town would have to have apopulation o at least 50,000 when itmoved to become a city, his researchindicated that rather, certain citydesignations require only a popula-tion o 5,000.

Te smaller city status would enablethe new, small city to establish a con-tract with the existing county publicschool system, rather than have toestablish its own city public schoolsystem.

Even i we decide its a bad idea, Ithink we should start thinking morelike a city, Parker later told us .

Im okay with looking into it, aseemingly skeptical om Sayre com-mented.

Mayor im Darr noted the charter,obsolete or not, gave him the au-thority to appoint committees. Tatobservation led to a humorous ex-change on Parkers being appointedto take the point as a town commit-tee to study the city option.

Te charter also says you can con-trol the police orce, Parker replied,leading to some laughter and side-ways glances toward town PoliceChie Richard Furr, present or secu-rity.

I it is a committee it will requireminutes, own Manager Steve Burkepointed out.

Tey will be the shortest minutesin history, Council Clerk Jennier

Berry deadpanned.Sayre then suggested a loose ver-

sus tight committee, though itwasnt clear exactly how that desig-nation might impact legal guidelinessurrounding how the meetings areconducted and recorded.

own Attorney Doug Napier ap-peared to solve the problems by sug-

gesting it be called a work grouprather than a committee.

Parker suggested sta take care oupdating the basics such as the num-ber o council members, how BZAappointments are made or reerenc-ing the most recent tax maps. At thatpoint a council work group, commit-tee or whatever, could take the leadon discussion o more substantivechanges, including those that mightdirectly impact the towns uturemakeup, boundaries and designationas a town or city.

I rescind my comments about ap-pointing a committee, Mayor Darrsaid.

Conkey then suggested another re-

cently relevant and substantive char-ter change, adding a requirementthat candidates or elected town o-ce MUS get on the ballot by pe-tition. Tat change to the charterwould appear to head o moves likethe recent internal local RepublicanCommittee exploration, led by Se-ton Home School Director and then

Republican Executive CommitteeSecretary Mary Kay Clark and Coun-cilman Sayre, to nominate partisanRepublican candidates to town elec-tions. Such a move that would haveremoved incumbent Mayor Darrsparticipation as long as he remainsemployed by the ederal governmentdue to Hatch Act restrictions.

Responding to a question rom Car-son Lauder about the rationale orthe ballot by petition change, Con-key deadpanned, o avoid partisanelections where our beloved mayorwould be unable to participate.

Conkey also suggested requiringthe mayor to vote on all issues, ratherthan just break ties as he does now.

Darr has since stated opposition tosuch a change, including at the re-cent Chamber o Commerce-spon-sored Candidates Forum, as did hisopponent, im Ratigan.

Parker concluded the conversationhe began by adding that contact withstate representatives would be nec-

essary to see i any ccharter or the towns sor city could be accotimely manner. Approgeneral assembly wouor both charter and tion changes.

Is it easible beoreasked.

At the rate the curresembly is moving on budget, our guess is n

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Te couple was back in the head-lines last September when Michaelesuddenly let her husband and turnedup on tour with Journey guitaristNeil Schon.

While both were present, neitherSalahi spoke publicly during the one-hour-and-our-minute, April 9 hear-ing. Schon, named in a related $50-million lawsuit led by areq Salahiseeking damages rom the split and

publicity surrounding it, was notpresent but was represented by Fair-ax attorneys Bruce M. Blanchardand Stephen A. Cobb. No one rep-resented a third deendant in areqSalahis lawsuit, Journey promotioncompany DB Entertainment. Terewas disagreement between sidespresent over whether DB Entertain-ment had actually yet been served inthe case.

An attempt to rush discovery andset a date or a pre-trial conerence

in the divorce be-ore the scheduledApril 18 oreclosure auction wasabandoned ater a brie discussion.Te decision not to propel a hearingdate orward was made ater bothsides agreed neither party wantedto continue making payments onthe home due to the level o debtinvolved. Neither side indicated anydesire or a court order related to as-set distribution to be issued to blockthe oreclosure sale.

Is it an asset worth preserving,

Judge Dennis L. Hupp asked attor-neys or both sides.

Tere is no benet to either to con-tinue to make payments because it isso ar underwater, Michaele Salahisattorney Edward Barnes told thecourt.

He lives there and has no oresee-able income, areq Salahis attorneyGeorgia Rossiter added o the mostimmediate impact o the oreclosureon the couple.

A bankruptcy will stop the ore clo-

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