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The Kilmarnock Volunteer Fire Department will host an appreciation crab feast Saturday, October 6, 5:30 p.m., for those who volunteered at the 83rd annual Kilmarnock Firemen’s Festival.

Appreciation Crab Feast

Kilmarnock Firehouse, 71 School Street, Kilmarnock.

K I L M A R N O C K — T h e Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Neck (BGCNN) is celebrating its 10 year anniver-sary and several community activities are planned.

President Karla Beale on September 28 announced the 2018 recipients of the Wil-liam H. Knull Jr. Community Service Award are Dr. Carolyn Hines and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. William A. Hines Jr.

Over the 10 years, the com-munity has offered much inspiration to the BGCNN leadership and membership, said executive director Phillip Mumford.

“In 2013, the board decided to establish an award to honor and respect individuals who exemplify great service to God, country and the commu-nity. The award was established in the name of Capt. William H. Knull Jr., a man who not only served his country and his community, but also was instrumental in the forma-tion and development of the BGCNN,” said Mumford.

“Capt. Knull admirably served 26 years as a member of the U.S. Navy and, after his retirement, expressed his pas-sion for community service through his 31 years with the Kiwanis Club. While his com-mitment to service was evident in all communities in which he lived, he loved the North-ern Neck where he became a founding member of the Work-force Enhancement Partner-ship and served on the RWC board of directors,” continued Mumford.

“Fortunately for the youth of the Northern Neck today, Capt. Knull served as the first presi-dent and leading founder of the BGCNN. In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the first Knull Award. Following Capt.

Knull as award recipients were many others who have inspired the community and our youth through their unselfish ser-vice,” he said.

They have included Julien Patterson in 2013, Wardell Carter and Robbie Spiers in 2014, Hazel Farmer in 2015 and Dr. Elizabeth Crowther and Edna Davenport in 2016, added Mumford.

Dr. Hines and Lt. Col. Hines have been associated with the BGCNN over the past 10 years and serve on the board, said Beale. Their company, C.W. Hines and Associates Inc., is known as a firm of accomplished and effective professionals. For more than 25 years, the Hines have been management consultants and certified mediators. They’ve facilitated team building, executive coaching, conflict management, leadership and emotional-intelligence skill training and education for hun-dreds of client groups across public and private sectors.

“And best of all, they’ve loved the BGCNN and all of our kids,” said previous board chairman Donna Anderson. “They’ve mentored, guided and coached them and many others to explore and find their own successes. We know them as board members and friends; and all of us recognize them as angels among us.”

They met in elementary school in Lawrenceville and started dating in their teens. They learned from their par-ents, well known civil rights activists, to be creative and resourceful. They developed their talents and those of other teens into creative fundraising efforts for educational and rec-reational field trips. Richmond and the Virginia State Fair were often destinations.

KILMARNOCK—The Lancaster school board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Octo-ber 9, at the LCPS Annex, 235 School Street, Kilmarnock.

High school principal Butch Gross, middle school principal Jessica Davis and primary school principal Mike Daddario will give prog-ress reports, said chairman Audrey Thomason.

The board also expects a quarterly financial report from finance director Whitney Barrack.

The board will meet in closed session to con-duct an evaluation of superintendent Dr. Steve Parker.

HEATHSVILLE—The Northumberland school board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, October 8, at Northumberland High School, 201 Academic Lane, Heathsville.

The board plans to review school quality profile reports from the Virginia Department of Education which were released for each school in the district on September 27.

According to NCPS superintendent Dr. Holly Wargo, board members are expected to discuss Teacher Professional Development Day, which will occur a month from the board’s meeting, on November 8, and personnel recommendations for winter coaching.

WHITE STONE—The White Stone Town Council will review two proposed revenue-gen-erating ordinances tonight, October 4. The council will convene at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall, 433 Rap-pahannock Drive, White Stone.

Council in September directed town manager Patrick Frere and town attorney Matson Terry to draft separate ordinances to increase the town’s cigarette tax and to establish a 2.5% meals tax. The increase and the tax are needed to supple-ment an anticipated $20,000 shortfall in the fiscal year 2019 budget, according to Frere. The shortage results from the closure of the Union Bank & Trust in White Stone, which lowered the projected bank franchise tax revenue.

A public hearing must be held for both ordi-nances, said Frere. He expects council to review the ordinances and set a date for the hearings.

Frere also will ask council to review and approve the town’s financial statements for auditing. The audit is required for compliance with a Virginia Department of Housing and Community Develop-ment block grant. It’s also necessary for separate grant funding from the United States Department of Agriculture. All of the funding is related to the town’s housing rehabilitation and public sewer projects.

Committee chairmen and police chief Cliff Dawson will present reports.

Boys and Girls Club names 2018 William H. Knull Jr. award recipients

From left are Dr. Carolyn Hines and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. William A. Hines Jr.

Reach for the StarsThe Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Neck

(BGCNN) recently announced a Reach for the Stars benefit dinner October 25 at the BGCNN Activity Center, 517 North Main Street, Kilmarnock.

The speaker will be Dr. Christine Mann Darden, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer, data analyst and mathematician featured in Hidden Figures: The Ameri-can Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.

A wine and cheese reception will be held at 5 p.m. The dinner and program will follow. Reservations are $75 per person or $125 per couple; $500 for a table with 6 guests and 2 students.Corporate sponsorship pack-ages are available. For reservations, contact 435-9696 or info@bgcnn.com.

They also learned from their parents the value of hard work and being part of a team focused on getting results. They recall working together in the tobacco fields of Vir-ginia guiding a mule pulling a tobacco sled and pulling the worms off the tobacco.

Throughout the years, on various projects, they’ve expanded their personal and collective experiences and shared them with many across the world. Together and indi-vidually, they’ve impacted thousands of lives.

“The Hines are known for their graciousness and great-ness wherever they go,” said Mumford. “Throughout their lives, Carolyn and William

have focused on youth and pos-sibilities whether it be through their church, their coaching and establishing leadership academies for youth and their commitment to our youth at the BGCNN.”

The Hines have many teen and adult admirers for their inspiring mentoring work, con-tinued Mumford. He was the founding president of the Pen-insula Chapter of 100 Black Men of America, known for its mentoring impact on boys and girls. Both were recognized in 2017 as The Role Models of the Year by that group.

They recently established a College Club for community youth focused on careers and college. Their admirers include

many successful adults they’ve mentored as teens.

“Their guiding principle is, ‘What would Jesus do?’,” he said.

The Hines serve on the board of directors of the Macedo-nia Community Development Corporation, host of the Girls Empowerment Camp and the boys’ Camp SWAG (Serving While Achieving Godliness) and the Northern Neck Youth Leadership Academy. Through their youth coaching, they’ve urged individuals to focus on futures and looking beyond just a job. They’ve urged them to focus on dreams, vision and

planning toward career goals, said Mumford.

Among their admirers is Shyniece Sutton, a teen BGCNN member of six years.

“They’ve believed in me and I know I can do whatever I want. I just want to say thank you to both,” said Sutton.

The BGCNN depends on corporate support to make its programs successful and would like to thank its annual sponsors, Chesapeake Bank and Wealth Management, Union Bank and Trust and Virginia Commonwealth Bank and Wealth Management, said Mumford.

The AgendaLocal Government News

Three-nerved (coastal) Joe-Pye weed

Three-nerved (coastal) Joe-Pye Weed, (Eutrochium dubium) is one of our many native plants that are unjustly considered weeds simply because of their common name. For gardeners, this is one of the more useful of sev-eral local species of Joe-Pye weed because it only grows to a total height of about three or four feet.

Coastal Joe-Pye weed is fre-quently found in damp soils of the coastal plain. Its ovate leaves develop in whorls of three or four on unbranched purple or purple-spotted stems. Pink to purple, dome-shaped, clustered blooms appear in late summer and last through early fall.

Go Native—Grow NativeSubmitted by Gary Chafin, Virginia Native Plant Society, Northern Neck Chapter

Coastal Joe-Pyeweed in bloom

Photo by Betsy Washington

It needs moisture and par-tial shade or sun to flourish and can often be found in the wild alongside ditches, creeks or ponds. As long as there is

ample moisture, it can grow in flower beds. It can be cut back to the ground after frost and will return in the spring, often accompanied by self-sown seedlings.

Coastal Joe-Pye weed pro-vides nectar for at least nine types of butterflies and is the host plant for at least forty varieties of moths. You might ask, “Who was Joe Pye”? That’s something of a mystery but he is believed to have been a Native American healer in colonial Massachusetts who used plants of this genus, per-haps for treating fevers and perhaps as a diaphoretic (sweat inducer).

To choose native plants appropriate for landscap-ing, see “Go Native—Grow Native” at nnnps.org.

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