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HARPERS FERRY – First daughters Malia and Sasha Obama traded the White House for some whitewater on a recent Saturday. As President Barack Obama headed to Charlotte, N.C., to test the political waters as the Democratic National Conven-tion gave his re-election bid its official kickoff, his daughters spent the day in Harpers Ferry. River Riders guides Charlie Evans and Matt Hardester ar-rived at work Sept. 1 ready to ferry a high-profile client, but

ROBERT SNYDERMatt Hardester and Charlie Evans, raft guides with Harpers Ferry’s River Riders, found themselves with high-profile clients on Labor Day weekend: Malia Obama, 14, and her 11-year-old sister, Sasha.

Current eventsWhitewater lures Obama girls to Harpers Ferry

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CAIRO – Though Euell Gib-bons is no longer a household name, a West Virginia gather-ing inspired by the folksy na-ture writer’s passion for for-aged delicacies is still going strong. The 45th annual Nature Won-der Wild Food Weekend is set to begin Sept. 21 at North Bend State Park near Parkersburg. Put on by the National Wild Food Association and the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, the festival and con-

ference is the longest-running such food event in the United States, according to organizers. Participants must register in advance, but the three-day fes-tival is open to anyone and typ-ically attracts lifelong forag-ers as well as those just getting started. The cost to attend starts at around $250, but the exact price depends on the lodging participants choose. Options range from camping out in the woods on site to the more hotel-like setting of the state park’s lodge. North Bend has hosted the event since the fall of 1968

when Gibbons himself served as keynote speaker. At the time, he was the well-known author of “Stalking the Wild Aspara-gus’’ and followup books fo-cused on seafood and herbs. He came to the event – and every subsequent festival until just before his death in 1975 – at the request of Edelene Wood, a teacher and natural food pio-neer from Parkersburg who’d struck up a correspondence and then a friendship with the like-minded Texas native. The event remains much as

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO / PETE SOUZA Three days after Malia Obama, left, and Sasha Obama came to Harpers Ferry for a day of whitewater rafting, the pair along with dad, President Barack Obama, sit in the Treaty Room of the White House and watch on TV as first lady Michelle Obama takes the stage to deliver her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

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Members of the Jefferson Cougar Air Force Jr. ROTC open Independent Fire Company's 9/11 Remembrance ceremony Tuesday in Ranson. The observance, which began at 9:58 a.m., when the first of the World Trade Center towers collapsed, included remarks by Ed Hannon, the deputy director of Jefferson County's Emergency Services Agency, along with the singing of the National Anthem by Washington High School student Haelly Ramirez.

A somber reminder

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Still growing strongRamps, roots, rattlesnake, other wild things shine at W.Va. festival

BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff CHARLES TOWN – County Republicans say they are disap-pointed with a recent court de-cision that removes the name of a party candidate from the bal-lot in November. Jefferson County magistrate candidate Ronald “Ronnie” Bell will not appear on the bal-lot as a result of a ruling last week by Circuit Court Judge David Sanders. The decision leaves three incumbent Demo-crats and only two Republican magistrate candidates on the ballot. In arguing for a reversal, Jef-

ferson County Ballot Com-mission mem-ber Gary Dun-gan said Sand-ers’ ruling sets a danger-ous precedent that expands the powers of local ballot commissions,

allowing them to remove can-didates from the ballot. He has requested that the Secretary of State appeal the ruling to the West Virginia Supreme Court. Assistant Prosecuting Attor-ney Stephanie Grove defended the move, noting that existing

court precedents have already established that grants bal-lot commissions this authority. Grove told the County Com-mission last week that if Bell had been allowed to stay on the ballot and had been elected, the county would have been forced to hold a special election for the post of magistrate. According to court docu-ments, Bell moved from Jeffer-son County to Loudoun County, Va. on June 3, though he did not inform the clerk of his move. Bell’s final financial disclosure, which was filed last week — almost three months after the June 19 statutory deadline —

Republicans chafe at election rulingCandidate Ronald Bell’s name will not appear on the ballot

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BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff

CHARLES TOWN – The man who was shot by police after he barricaded himself in a home outside of Charles Town over the weekend did not have a gun, according to a statement released Tuesday by West Vir-ginia State Police, though they say he “was armed with a black metallic object that he repre-sented to be a firearm.” Initial news reports quoted Jefferson County Sheriff Rob-ert Shirley, who said a shot had been fired from the house. Steven Wayne Taylor, 53, of Virginia Beach, Va., remains in an undisclosed medical facility and is expected to recover, ac-cording to police. First Sgt. E.D. Widmyer, Cpl. J.S. Chumley and Sr. Trooper P.S. Kennedy of the West Vir-ginia State Police were placed on administrative leave follow-ing the shooting, along with Dep. Sgt. R.L. Fletcher of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s De-partment. This is standard pro-cedure during the investigation of any officer-related shooting, according to the statement. Fletcher has been fully

No gun on man shot in police standoff

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cleared to return to duty and is expected to be back in service some time next week. Widmyer, Chumley and Kennedy have also been cleared and returned to full duty following an internal review. The incident began Sun-day when Taylor entered a home at 810 E. Washington St., and barricaded himself inside.

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West Virginia State Police re-sponded to the call, which went out at 2:20 p.m. Police were assisted by Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies and other law enforcement officers, who were told Taylor had threatened to kill anyone entering the house and that he was armed with a 9 mm handgun during the nearly three-hour standoff, police say. The standoff ended at about 5:09 p.m., after shots were fired and Taylor was taken into cus-tody and transported to Jeffer-son Memorial Hospital, accord-ing to police. An investigation into the in-

cident is being conducted by Trooper C.J. Hill. Warrants against Taylor have been is-sued for assaulting police offi-cers, making terroristic threats and daytime burglary. An earli-er warrant sought for a felon in possession of a firearm charge was not issued because Taylor did not have a gun. First Sgt. C. E. Platt and Sgt. E. D. Anderson of the State Po-lice will conduct an investi-gation into the officer-related shooting. A final report on the incident will not be completed for several weeks.

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ROBERT SNYDER

Students from Ranson Elementary School skipped rope Sept. 6 during the schoolwide picnic, a tradition that invites schoolchildren, parents, siblings, teachers and school administers for a fun evening meal on the school grounds. Picnickers enjoyed grilled hot dogs, baked beans, mac and cheese and drinks provided by the school. Individual families brought along salads, side dishes and desserts to share.

Skipping school

A standoff on Sunday at 810 East Washington Street ended with the shooting of Steven Wayne Taylor of Virginia Beach, Va.

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Public input sought Traffic officials on Monday will hold an informational meet-ing at the Charles Town Library regarding a West Virginia De-partment of Transportation pro-posal to install a traffic signal at the intersection of U.S. 340 and Bakerton Road. Public input will be sought starting at 7 p.m. Ques-tions should be directed to Matt Mullenax at 304-263-1743.

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Before the start of the 2012-13 school year last month, staff members at Charles Town Middle School accepted donations of school supplies from American Public University System.

Traditions come from repeat-ing something year after year, and Jefferson County Schools leaders say they’re grateful for the back-to-school tradition start-ed by American Public Universi-ty System back in 2009. This August marked the fourth straight year that the Charles Town-based university has de-livered thousands of pounds of school supplies to area schools, including Page Jackson Elemen-tary School, Wright Denny Inter-mediate School, Charles Town Middle School and Ranson Ele-mentary School. Each year APUS employees contribute all types of school supplies to this project. Accord-

ing to school system spokes-woman Gail Woods, each year the amount of supplies donat-ed has increased. For 2012-13, some 50,033 items were given to the four schools, for a donation that totaled 2,695 pounds. Said John Hough, APUS vice president of community college relations and outreach: “Amer-ican Public University Sys-tem is an integral part of Jeffer-son County, and we want to fo-cus our attention on helping the schools as much as possible. We are delighted that we can furnish these much-needed supplies for the students in the four schools. We look forward to continuing this tradition in future years.”

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lists an address in Sterling, Va. as his current residence. Bell received the highest number of primary votes of any Republican magistrate candidate and was reportedly active in the magistrate train-ing process prior to moving. Bell informed the Repub-lican Executive Committee of his departure in June, and Dungan said the committee had contacted the secretary of state’s office to try to find a way to remove him from the ballot and appoint a replace-ment candidate. The efforts were stymied because Bell failed to produce a notarized written statement indicating that he had left the state, Dun-gan said. When County Clerk Jen-nifer Maghan and Democrat-ic ballot commissioner Reva Mickey were informed of Bell’s departure earlier this month, a mad dash began to find a way to remove him from the ballot before the bal-lots were finalized. The ballot commission took action to remove Bell’s in a 2-1 vote, with County Clerk Jennifer Maghan and Democratic ballot commis-sioner Reva Mickey voting to remove Bell’s name, while Dungan voted against the measure. He argued that the commission did not have the authority to take such an ac-tion. Maghan then filed a peti-tion in circuit court asking Sanders to affirm the ballot commission’s action and to authorize Bell’s removal. In his ruling, Sanders upheld the commission’s decision. “I thought that the process served the voters of Jefferson County well,” Mickey said. “They were not placed in a position to vote for someone who did not live in West Vir-

ginia, and therefore was ineli-gible to be a candidate for mag-istrate.” Dungan disagrees. “I felt that there was no au-thority (to remove Bell) the way it was done,” Dungan said. “In all the research we’ve done, I’ve seen nothing that says the ballot commission has the au-thority to remove anybody.” Dungan said the Republican Executive Committee relied on advice from legal staff with the secretary of state. He said the committee was advised that there was no way to remove Bell from the ballot without a written statement. “The (Republican) Execu-tive Committee is in a position of having been badly damaged by relying on election advice from the state’s chief elections office – the secretary of state,” Dungan said, adding the Aug. 20 deadline for the party to ap-point a replacement candidate has since passed. Dungan said he has drafted a letter to Secretary of State Nat-alie Tennant, urging her office to appeal the circuit court’s ruling. He also asked the state Legislature to consider draft-ing new legislation to explic-itly state that ballot commis-sions cannot remove candi-dates, if the decision is not ap-pealed. “I believe that the ability of any three-member ballot com-mission in the state to remove a candidate from the ballot either before or, as in this case, after the deadline to appoint an alter-nate candidate, opens the door for great election mischief in the state,” Dungan wrote. Bell’s removal leaves the race a contest between three incumbent Democrats – Bill Senseney, Mary Paul Rissler and Gail Boober – and the two remaining Republican challeng-ers – Bill Arnicar and Peter On-oszko. Each voter will be asked to choose three of the five can-didates in the November elec-tions.


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Art in time of warShepherd student sees selling her work as a way to help Syrians fleeing strife

Yasmeen Alkordi is an artist and student at Shepherd University who grew up between Damascus, Syria and Oklahoma. Several of her art-works are on sale at Jumpin’ Java in downtown Charles Town, with half of the proceeds going to aid Syrian refugees. Her works are inspired by her dual origins. She incorporates intricate Arabic calligraphy with Western representational and abstract art.

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Want to see more?Some of Yasmeen Alkordi’s works are on sale at Jumpin’ Java in downtown Charles Town, with half of the proceeds going to aid Syrian refugees. More of her work can be seen on her weblog: mighty-truth.blogspot.com.

“The Bottles Project” tells the story of the art-ist’s aunt, who has been confined in a home in Saudi Arabia for years. Says Yasmeen Alkordi: “I’m traveling between two different worlds. I’m in the middle. I like to mix opposites together, both with colors and with the clash between representational art and the calligraphy. It is kind of like how I pursue life, because I am from two completely different cultures.”

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Yasmeen Alkordi was taken by her father to live for a time in Da-mascus, Syria so she could learn the lan-guage and culture of his native country.

Now, Alkordi, an art student at Shep-herd University, is raising funds for refu-gees fleeing the conflict there by selling pieces of her art at a downtown Charles Town coffee house. In 2011, Syria erupted into conflict following the Arab Spring, then slow-ly degenerated into a drawn-out armed conflict that many commentators say ei-ther has already or may soon turn into a full-blown civil war. At least 26,000 people have been killed in the conflict so far; a quarter-million have fled as refugees into neigh-boring countries; and 1.5 million have been internally displaced, according to the United Nations. Alkordi, who last visited the country when she was 10, said it has been diffi-cult to watch the conflict unfold on tele-vision, knowing that many of her friends and family live in an area that has been devastated by the conflict. Alkordi lived in a lower-middle class neighborhood near the center of Damas-cus populated with shopkeepers, steel-workers and taxi and bus drivers. “It was hard,” she said. “Everyone was lower-class at the time. You didn’t real-ly see anyone who was wealthy. People tend to just be at the lower-middle class level. And then there is the very lower class, who just live in the streets.” “They bombed right beside the house that I grew up in,” she said. “It is kind of like a stab in the heart. I am just glad that most of my family is alive. Some of them may not be because they lived closer to where the bombs fell, and I can’t get ahold of them right now. “It’s hard to think about it because when I was over there it was a very different time. It is hard to think that now there are people killing each other in the streets. But

BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff that’s what’s going on there right now. It’s the place that I grew up with, that I know by heart, and I’m afraid that it will be lost once a war starts, if a war starts.” Bystanders in the conflict have suf-fered greatly throughout the last year, with legions fleeing to refugee camps just outside the Syrian border in Turkey, Leb-anon and Iraq, among other countries. Alkordi said the international commu-nity needs to step up efforts to aid these refugees, who often arrive at the camps with nothing other than the clothes on their backs. In order to raise money to help the refugees, Alkordi is selling several art-works at Jumpin’ Java in downtown Charles Town, including several draw-ings, paintings and sculptures. Alkordi says she began developing her artistic talent in middle school, and by high school she was entering art competitions. Her work reflects her divided origins, mix-ing intricate Arabic calligraphy with west-ern styles of painting and drawing. “I’m traveling between two differ-ent worlds. I’m in the middle. I like to mix opposites together, both with col-ors and with the clash between repre-sentational art and the calligraphy. It is kind of like how I pursue life, because I am from two completely different cultures,” said Alkordi, who also lived for a time in Oklahoma, where her mother is from. And she says her art’s message also has a dual aspect, inviting western audi-ences to learn more about Syrian history and culture while also taking a harshly critical stance on the oppressive aspects of some Islamic societies – particularly on the oppression of women. On the one hand, as a woman with Syrian heritage living in the post-9/11 United States, she has seen the rise of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. “Especially around 9/11, people would call me a terrorist. I was like, ‘I had nothing to do with it.’ Not everyone who is Arab or Muslim is a terrorist. Not everyone who is Arab or Muslim is vio-lent,” Alkordi said. “It’s sad, because most people don’t even know where Syria is. It’s an impor-

tant country, like all countries. A lot of important things came from Syria, like math,” she said, referring to the inven-tion of algebra. As an American woman who has seen first-hand the sometimes violent and de-grading treatment of women in some Islamic nations, Alkordi’s art makes strides to raise awareness of the dire plight of women in the Middle East. One piece, “The Bottles Project,” was recently accepted to an art competition in Maryland. It features a Koranic verse used to justify the subjugation of wom-enformed into the shape of a woman’s head and has been painted on top of a case full of bottles. The piece was inspired by the plight of her aunt, who lives in Saudi Arabia, where women’s rights are severely curtailed. Her

aunt was married off as the third wife of an older, abusive man at age 15, Alkordi said. After his death, she became the ward of her husband’s sons, who left her confined alone in a house for years. She was unable to leave because Saudi women are not al-lowed to be on the street unless accompa-nied by a male relative. The bottles serve as a metaphor, Alkor-di said, for her aunt’s confinement. “The bottle contains and suppresses whatever is in it. And that is what hap-pened to her. She was put into this house for years. No one was there except for her,” Alkordi said. “She cannot go out on the street herself unless she is accompa-nied by a legal guardian. She cannot un-cover her face. She has to be covered com-pletely from wrists to ankles. She is the basic equivalent of a dog in that culture.”


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unaware just who would be making the trip down the Po-tomac and Shenandoah – un-til they walked into River Rid-ers’ headquarters at 408 Alstadts Hill Road and caught sight of the Obama daughters. “We already knew we’d be leading someone important that day,” explained Evans, a 22-year-old Bunker Hill resident. “Three Secret Service agents had come in on Thursday to get in-formation and to find out wheth-er we’d be willing to submit to background checks.” Evans and Hardester – who already had undergone back-ground checks as raft guides – got the all-clear from the Secret Service and headed off to spend the day giving 14-year-old Ma-lia and Sasha, 11, and several of their friends the same fun rafting trip that draws thousands of lo-cals and out-of-towners to River Riders each year. The Harpers Ferry trip came on the last weekend of summer break for the Obama girls, who attend Sidwell Friends School in Northwest Washington. The private pre K-12 Quaker school – where Chelsea Clinton, Amy Carter and the offspring of Presidents Nixon and Franklin Roosevelt studied when their fa-thers were in the White House – began the 2012-13 school year on Sept. 4. “They just wanted to have fun – as normal an experience as pos-

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sible,” explained Hardester, 23, a native of Deep Creek Lake, Md., who has worked at River Riders for five years. But the trip was out-of-the-or-dinary for Hardester and Evans. With Sasha and three friends in Hardester’s boat and Malia and four friends in Evans’, the rafts’ other passengers were Secret Service agents – with two other rafts, each carrying Secret Ser-vice agents, following behind. Though the agents changed from dark suits into casual wear at River Riders, they made the trip armed and wearing their trademark shades and sober ex-

pressions. “All our rafting trips involve joking around – as guides, we tell jokes to get everyone to feel comfortable,” Hardester said. “We told all the cheesy jokes we always tell and we got a re-action from the Obama girls and their friends, but it was hard to get the Secret Service dudes to laugh. “They brought their own crickets.” The raft guides describe Ma-lia and Sasha as polite but ini-tially reserved during the three-hour tour. “They definitely had fun,” Hardester said. “You

could tell they felt more and more comfortable as the trip went on. They splashed each other and they’d scream when we’d hit rocks. When we had a juice break, everyone got in and swam and floated around in the current.” While a burst of whitewater did pop a Secret Service agent out of his raft at one point dur-ing the voyage, things went swimmingly for the Obamas and their friends. “They didn’t have any problem,” Evans said. Did the Obama girls have such good time that they’ll come back to River Riders? Hard-

ester said he suggested the first daughters check out River Rid-ers’ newest features, the zipline course that opened last year and the Aerial Adventure Park that debuted in May. “Being so close to D.C., we get people here from the Brit-ish Embassy, from India, Swit-zerland, Russia,” Hardester said. “Political people from D.C. are a large part of our clientele, but getting to take the presidents’

daughters rafting – it’s still sur-real to think about it.” Seeing the security required simply to spend an afternoon out with friends gave both guides a new perspective on how differ-ent the Obama daughters’ lives are from a typical young per-son’s. Said Hardester: “It just feels really good to know we helped them have this fun experience.”

MARTINSBURG – With the West Virginia Air Nation-al Guard hosting the Thun-der Over the Blue Ridge Open House and Air Show here this weekend, officials warn that traffic will be affected both Sat-urday and Sunday. Highway officials say driv-ers not headed to the air show should use the alternate travel route of Interstate 81 to bypass the base during the event days. U.S. 11 from Novak Drive to Paynes Ford Road will remain open for this year’s event. Law enforcement may stop travelers periodically to allow pedestrian traffic to cross U.S. 11. Parking will be prohibited on the following streets begin-ning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday until 8 p.m.: U.S. 11 from Novak Drive to Paynes Ford Road; Business Park Drive from Novak Drive to I-81 Bridge; Stewart Avenue from Wren Street to Winchester Av-

enue; Kelly Island Road from Paynes Ford Road to base en-trance; Paynes Ford Road from U.S. 11 to Airport Road; Airport Road from Paynes Ford Road to Novak Drive; and Novak Drive from U.S. 11 to Airport Road. No parking will be allowed in the Orgill business lot on Busi-ness Park Drive, the Polo Ralph Lauren lot on Novak Drive or in the Park and Ride lot located near the I-81 bridge. After the air show, spectators have the option of heading to-ward I-81, U.S. 11 South and Novak Drive toward W.Va. 9. Business Park Drive will turn into two lanes heading toward I-81. Parking on base is limit-ed to VIPs, vendors, volunteers and performers only. Handicapped parking is avail-able at the Sino Parking Lot lo-cated on Novak Drive. There will be a bus shuttle service that will drop off spectators near the flight line on the base.

‘Thunder’ expected to affect traffic

Tyler Wilt, the talented Washington High quarterback diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, spent time Sunday at the New York Jets’ home opener with quarterback Tim Tebow. The visit came thanks to a teammate of Tyler’s who contacted the Florida-based Tim Tebo Foundation, which gives young people facing life-threatening illnesses the star treatment at one of Tebo’s NFL games. Tyler, who made the trip to New Jersey with his family, also came away with Tebo’s autograph – not on a foot-ball or jersey, but right on his surgical scar.

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Workers with the Charles Town Utility Board will flush the wa-ter system in Charles Town, Ran-son and other parts of Jefferson County starting Monday. Field crews will be opening and operating fire hydrants to scour and clean the inside of the water mains through Sept. 19. Officials say the work is neces-sary to maintain water quality standards. Officials ask that residents avoid washing clothes when

crews are in the neighborhood, as there can be some discolor-ing or sedimentation of the wa-ter during the flushing process. This discoloration is not harmful and should clear up quickly. Those who experience color-ing or sedimentation should al-low some water to flow from kitchen or bathroom faucets. Questions or concerns may be directed to the Charles Town Utilities at 304-725-2316 or 304-725-8484.

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it was in its earliest days, with an itiner-ary of expert-led nature hikes, contests for top recipes featuring wild ingredi-ents, and a social hour that includes the chance to try dishes made with well-known West Virginia-grown delights such as ramps, paw paws and black walnuts but also obscure roots, herbs, greens and berries and all manner of meat, from venison to rattlesnake. It is the practice of Wood, the long-time president of the West Virginia Wild Food Association, and other or-ganizers to gather the wild items when they’re at their peak, then keep them tucked away in the freezer to be trans-formed into desserts, soups, appetizers and other dishes on site at the festival. Over the years, Wood has shared hundreds of dishes including ramp cornbread, hickory nut syrup, pecans spiced with sassafras and pawpaw ice cream. “You can come to the weekend and have a great time without know-ing anything at all about wild foods,’’ said Wood, who says the festival draws many of its participants from all over West Virginia as well as from outside the state. “This is a perfect event for those who have a curiosity. You can go out in the woods and learn about foods and medicine that come from the wild and then go to the social hour and see for yourselves how amazing wild foods can taste. The weekend is a terrific in-troduction into the whole notion of wild foods.’’

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The number of wild-food events be-ing held across the nation is a grow-ing trend. Many have grown weary and wary over the years about filling their dinner plates with mass-produced foods. Thanks to salmonella outbreaks and other packaged food scares involving everything from peanut butter to fresh spinach, the lure of eating organical-ly grown food – or even eating foods straight from Mother Nature – has more appeal than ever. Northbend is an ideal setting for the gathering, organizers say. Wood-land forests surround the park, which

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boasts miles of hiking trails and a fishing-friendly 305-acre lake. The park is situ-ated in Ritchie County, about 25 miles east of Parkersburg in Cairo (pronounced “Care-O”), a town founded in 1895 and named after the Egyptian city because of its abundant water and fertile land. Though the festival celebrating foraged foods is now a West Virginia tradition, the event had had critics early on. When it began, Wood said, many old-er folks, including Wood’s own mother, initially rejected coming to the festival because it conjured up memories of the Great Depression. In that period, count-less struggling families, particularly in West Virginia and other parts of Appala-

chia, depended on wild plants and game for their daily bread. “Doing wild food classes, I realized that in West Virginia, a lot of people from my mother’s generation didn’t want to talk about what they’d done to get through the Depression,’’ said Wood, who was a toddler when the stock market crash forced her white-collar family to move from Parkersburg to a farm in rural Wood County where they would spend the next seven years. “When I’ve given wild food talks in other states, you don’t see that kind of shame,” Wood said. “In Minnesota, they’ll tell you all about eating gophers and prairie dogs. In the Piedmont section

of North Carolina, we were talking about eating frog legs and people told me, ‘We would eat the whole frog.’ ” In the festival’s early years, Wood also often heard from people who assumed the festival was connected to a counter-cul-ture lifestyle, Wood said. Times have changed. “People don’t have those kinds of asso-ciations now, certainly not about hippies,” Wood said, “and these days very few con-nect foraging with the survival foods they ate during the Depression. Now it’s some-thing a lot of people just feel a curiosity about. “They see wild foods not as survival foods but as gourmet.’’

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Mr. Chairman: I have been struck with one fact, that the best orators who have added their praise to his fame,— and I need not go out of this house to find the purest eloquencein the country,— have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is John Brown. Every-thing that is said of him leaves people a little dissatisfied; but as soon as they read his own speeches and letters they are heartily content-ed,— such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all. Taught by this experience, I mean in the few remarks I have to make, to cling to his history, or let him speak for himself. John Brown, the founder of liberty in Kan-sas, was born in Torrington, Litchfield Coun-ty, Connecticut, in 1800. When he was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set to keep sheep and to look after cattle and dress skins; he went bare-headed and barefooted, and clothed in buck-skin. He said that he loved rough play, could never have rough play enough; could not see a seedy hat without wishing to pull it off. But for this it needed that the playmates should be equal; not one in fine clothes and the other in buckskin; not one his own master, hale and hearty, and the other watched and whipped. But it chanced that in Pennsylvania, where he was sent by his father to collect cattle, he fell

in with a boy whom he heartily liked and whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave; he saw him beaten with

an iron shovel, and otherwise maltreated; he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward in life, whilst he himself was petted and made much of; for he was much consid-ered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hun-dred miles. But the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in him that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived. And thus his en-terprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge, a plot of two years or of twenty years, but the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years be-fore. Forty-seven years at least, though I in-cline to accept his own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, “This was all settled mil-lions of years before the world was made.” He grew up a religious and manly per-son, in severe poverty; a fair specimen of the best stock of New England; having that force of thought and the sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness. Our farm-ers were Orthodox Calvinists, mighty in the Scriptures; had learned that life was a prepa-ration, a “probation,” to use their word, for a higher world, and was to be spent in loving and serving mankind. Thus was formed a romantic character abso-lutely without any vulgar trait; living to ideal ends, without and mixture of self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men we know; ab-stemious, refusing luxuries, not sourly and re-proachfully, but simply as unfit for his hab-it; quiet and gentle as a child in the house. And, as happens usually to men of romantic character, his fortunes were romantic. Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his pic-ture and trace his adventurous career. A shep-herd and herdsman, he learned the manners of animals, and knew the secret signals by which animals communicate. he made his hard bed


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GOVERNORGov. Earl Ray Tomblin, DemocratOffice of the Governor, State Capitol, 1900 Kanawha Blvd., E. Charleston, WV 25305304-558-2000 or 1-888-438-2731 Submit a comment at www.governor.wv.gov.

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State offi-cials have al-ready made it clear that West Virgin-ia will have to tighten its financial belt for the next fiscal year be-ginning July 1, 2013. But last week produced the first tentative hints that budget cuts in state govern-ment may be necessary as early as Jan. 1, halfway through the current budget year. These hints were the re-sult of lower-than-expected state rev-enues for the first two months of the current fiscal year. General fund receipts for August of $287 million were $14 million less than expected — still far less than the results for July where the number was $2.5 million below the estimat-ed amount. Violent storms that did so much damage in the state in late June are considered the major reason for these lower figures. One of the two categories is per-sonal income tax receipts for August that reflect money collected by busi-nesses during July. The state received $13.9 million less than expected in August because many businesses temporarily shut down for a period in July because of the devastating storm in late June. This caused an 8 percent drop in employer withholding tax re-ceipts for July that were reported and paid in August. Another key factor was the de-cline in coal production that resulted in only $36 million of coal severance tax receipts in August. That amount was 46 percent less than the yield in August of 2011 and $9 million less than the earlier estimate for August of 2012. However, there are some positive numbers during the first two months of the current budget year. Consumer sales tax collections in August were $96.4 million, or $4.1 million more than predicted. And the corporate net income tax receipts in August were $4.1 million — $1.6 million more than predicted. State officials who track the bud-get revenues have made it clear that September’s results — the end of the first quarter in the current fiscal year — will be the crucial barometer of whether the state will need to start tightening its budget belt on Jan. 1, 2013. As Deputy Revenue Secretary Mark Muchow told a reporter last week, September is the month when corporations file their first estimated quarterly tax reports and also when those corporations file their final 2011 income tax returns. This is also when those who are self-employed and individuals who don’t have taxes withheld from their earnings turn in their first quarterly payments. The two months of sagging state budget figures has prompted the ex-pected political implications. Re-publican gubernatorial nominee Bill Maloney has accused incumbent Democrat Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of leading the state into a “fiscal cri-sis.” Tomblin’s spokesperson has re-sponded that the governor is “balanc-ing the budget while cutting taxes.” It would probably be overly op-timistic to hope that September can produce $16.5 million more than the predicted receipts for the month so that the state’s general fund would end the first quarter of the budget year in a break-even condition. But any amount that at least reduces that $16.5 million shortfall created the first two months would be a good sign. Meanwhile, it was not afforded much publicity, but West Virginia’s ranking as the state with the lowest labor force participation in the Unit-ed States had to come as a surprise to many of those who listened to this panel discussion at the recent annual

I write to the Spirit in response to the editorial posted by Sean O’Leary on Aug. 29. Although I understand his knee-jerk de-sire to pigeonhole the Tea Party into a neatly biased box as liber-als are subject to do. I prefer, as a Tea Party supporter, to define myself and while at it refute Mr. O’Leary’s errors regarding the Tea Party, the right, the left and government. I believe in limited govern-ment. Tea Party people may be socially liberal or socially con-servative, but what we have in common is a desire for liberty that we believe was the basis for the Revolution of 1776. We came together during the run up to the Obama Care vote, when we perceived a blatant attack on our liberty through higher taxes and a government mandate that requires citizens to purchase something. O’Leary wrote in his arti-cle that socialism and commu-nism were examples of the ex-treme left and that Nazism and fascism are examples of ex-treme right wing thought. This is simply untrue. Nazi stands for National Socialist Party. They called themselves social-ists because they were social-ists. Fascists like Franco, Castro and Hugo are extreme leftists. They use government to pun-ish their enemies and reward their friends. An ideology that believes in limited government cannot reconcile itself to sup-port limiting authority. Com-

munism, socialism, Nazism and fascism are four examples of extreme leftist thought. The ex-treme of the right is not Nazism but anarchy. I understand the necessity of government and fear its over-reach as did the founders of our nation. The Bill of Rights does not give the government author-ity over the people but ensures the people’s authority over the government. Libertarians be-lieve government is best, clos-est to the people that it serves and the tax dollars required for such government receive the biggest bang if they don’t have to be filtered through layer after layer of bureaucracy. Consider the politics of the left and right. They have dif-fering beliefs from where human rights come. Leftist thought assumes that those rights come from government. Libertarians believe that hu-man rights are unalienable and come from God or nature. These are natural rights. Lib-ertarian thought concludes that if rights were to come from a government of men, then men can take them away. If your rights are natural, no gov-ernment can take them away or give them to you. It’s not complicated. It only becomes so when people try to fit these ideologies where they do not belong.

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– Excerpts from remarks delivered by President George W. Bush to Congress on Sept. 20, 2001: Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Tempore, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: In the normal course of events, presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the Union. Tonight, no such report is needed. It has already been delivered by the American people. We have seen it in the courage of passengers who rushed terror-ists to save others on the ground. Passengers like an exceptional man named Todd Beamer. And would you please help me welcome his wife Lisa Beamer here tonight? We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers working past exhaustion. We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers in English, Hebrew and Arabic. We have seen the decency of a loving and giving people who have made the grief of strangers their own. My fellow citizens, for the last nine days, the entire world has seen for itself the state of our Union, and it is strong. Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to de-fend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our ene-mies, justice will be done. I thank the Congress for its leadership at such an important time. All of America was touched on the evening of the tragedy to see Republicans and Democrats joined together on the steps of this Capi-tol singing “God Bless America.” And you did more than sing. You acted, by delivering $40 billion to rebuild our communities and meet the needs of our military. Speak-er Hastert, Minority Leader Gephardt, Majority Leader Daschle and Senator Lott, I thank you for your friendship, for your leadership and for your service to our country. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the world for its out-

‘Even grief recedes with time and grace’ On John Brown

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America will never forget the sounds of our national anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris and at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. We will not forget South Kore-an children gathering to pray out-side our embassy in Seoul, or the prayers of sympathy offered at a mosque in Cairo. We will not forget moments of silence and days of mourning in Australia and Africa and Latin America. Nor will we forget the citizens of 80 other nations who died with our own. Dozens of Pakistanis, more than 130 Israelis, more than 250 citizens of India, men and wom-en from El Salvador, Iran, Mexico and Japan, and hundreds of British citizens... On September the 11th, ene-mies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Amer-icans have known wars, but for the past 136 years they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning. Americans have known surprise attacks, but never before on thou-sands of civilians. All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack. Americans have many ques-tions tonight. Americans are ask-ing, “Who attacked our country?” The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loose-ly affiliated terrorist organiza-tions known as al-Qaida. They are some of the murderers indicted for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and respon-sible for bombing the USS Cole. Al-Qaida is to terror what the Mafia is to crime. But its goal is not making money. Its goal is re-making the world and imposing its radical beliefs on people every-where. The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim schol-ars and the vast majority of Mus-lim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam. The terrorists’ directive com-mands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans and

make no distinctions among mili-tary and civilians, including wom-en and children... There are thousands of these ter-rorists in more than 60 countries. They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan, where they are trained in the tactics of terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around the world to plot evil and destruction. The leadership of al-Qaida has great influence in Afghanistan and supports the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. In Afghanistan we see al-Qaida’s vi-sion for the world. Afghanistan’s people have been brutalized, many are starving and many have fled.Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed for own-ing a television. Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dic-tate. A man can be jailed in Af-ghanistan if his beard is not long enough. The United States respects the people of Afghanistan — after all, we are currently its largest source of humanitarian aid — but we con-demn the Taliban regime. It is not only repressing its own people, it is threatening people ev-erywhere by sponsoring and shel-tering and supplying terrorists. By aiding and abetting murder, the Taliban regime is committing murder. And tonight the United States of America makes the fol-lowing demands on the Taliban. Deliver to United States author-ities all of the leaders of al-Qaida who hide in your land. Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens you have unjustly imprisoned. Protect foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers in your country. Close immediately and permanently ev-ery terrorist training camp in Af-ghanistan. And hand over every terrorist and every person and their support structure to appropriate authorities. Give the United States full ac-cess to terrorist training camps, so we can make sure they are no lon-ger operating. These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act and act im-mediately. They will hand over the terror-ists, or they will share in their fate. I also want to speak tonight di-rectly to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your faith. It’s

practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah. The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hi-jack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab friends. Our ene-my is a radical network of terror-ists and every government that supports them. Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terror-ist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. Americans are asking, “Why do they hate us?” They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democrat-ically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. They want to overthrow exist-ing governments in many Mus-lim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa. These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atroci-ty, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because we stand in their way. We’re not deceived by their pre-tenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They’re the heirs of all the murder-ous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandon-ing every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarian-ism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in his-tory’s unmarked grave of discard-ed lies... This is not, however, just Amer-ica’s fight. And what is at stake is not just America’s freedom. This is the world’s fight. This is civilization’s fight. This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom. We ask every nation to join

us... Perhaps the NATO charter re-flects best the attitude of the world: An attack on one is an attack on all. The civilized world is rallying to America’s side. They understand that if this ter-ror goes unpunished, their own cities, their own citizens may be next. Terror unanswered cannot only bring down buildings, it can threaten the stability of legitimate governments. And you know what? We’re not going to allow it. Americans are asking, “What is expected of us?” I ask you to live your lives and hug your children. I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat. I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We’re in a fight for our princi-ples, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their eth-nic background or religious faith. I ask you to continue to support the victims of this tragedy with your contributions... After all that has just passed, all the lives taken and all the possibili-ties and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America’s future is one of fear. Some speak of an age of terror. I know there are struggles ahead and dangers to face. But this coun-try will define our times, not be defined by them. As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror. This will be an age of liberty here and across the world. Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger, we have found our mission and our mo-ment. Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us. Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return al-

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on the mountains with them; he learned to drive his flock through thickets all but impassable; he had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool, and that for a course of years. And the anecdotes preserved show a far-seeing skill and conduct which, in spite of ad-verse accidents, should secure, one year with another, an honest reward, first to the farmer, and afterwards to the dealer. If he kept sheep, it was with a royal mind; and if he traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests con-fided to him. I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which politi-cal gentlemen, in and out of Con-gress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown. It would be far safer and nearer the truth to say that all peo-ple, in proportion to their sensibil-ity and self-respect, sympathize with him. For it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and love that casts out fear, without sympathy. All women are drawn to him by their predominance of senti-ment. All gentlemen, of course, are on his side. I do not mean by “gen-tlemen,” people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity, “fulfilled with all nobleness,” who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of their bed; like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more. For what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood? What but to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor? Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy, or to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery. As well complain of gravity, or the ebb of the tide. Who makes the abolition-ist? The slave-holder. The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruc-tion by savage passions. And our blind statesmen go up and down, with committees of vigilance and safety, hunting for the origin of this new heresy. They will need a very vigilant committee indeed to find its birthplace, and a strong force to root it out. For the arch-aboli-tionist, older than Brown, and old-er than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love, whose other name is Jus-tice, which was before Alfred, be-fore Lycurgus, before slavery, and will be after it.

business summit meeting at The Greenbrier, sponsored by the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Tom Witt, professor emer-itus of the West Virginia Univer-

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sity College of Business and Eco-nomics, made this startling decla-ration in a statistical analysis prior to the panel discussion involving WVU President Jim Clements, two other college presidents, the president of a national education-al alliance and a Charleston attor-ney.

Witt must have stunned many of those present when he said re-cent figures indicate West Virgin-ia has the lowest labor force par-ticipation in the nation — a star-tling 53.7 percent. He couldn’t re-sist adding that people who say “we have hard-working West Vir-ginians are wrong. Hardly work-ing is more like it.”

And of course, the primary reason for this ranking is the lack of education among many residents of this state. The more startling statistic, though, is that by 2020 when more than half of the jobs in this state will re-quire a career certificate or col-lege degree, just slightly more than one in every four adults in this state — an estimated 28 percent — will have those qual-ifications. Finally, recent reports in the Charleston Daily Mail indicate that retired Cabell County Cir-cuit Judge Dan O’Hanlon now earns $120,000 a year as vice chancellor of the Higher Edu-cation Policy Commission in addition to his lucrative judi-cial pension of about $95,000 a year. And he has also charged taxpayers for thousands of dol-lars in travel expense in his new

job. O’Hanlon began his job as vice chancellor of technolo-gy with the Higher Education Policy Commission on Nov. 1, 2010 — the day after he re-tired as a circuit judge. And since January, 2011, O’Hanlon has charged the state about $11,500 for travel between the HEPC headquarters in Charles-ton and the Morgantown offic-es of WVNET, the state agen-cy that provides Internet ser-vices to college campuses. He considers published reports of his retirement income as val-id, which also includes state-funded travel such as a $3,800 trip to Las Vegas. He insists he’s providing a “good deal for the state” because he is actual-ly working dual jobs that saves a $120,000 annual salary for a separate WVNET director.

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A8 Wednesday, September 12, 2012Out&aboutOur weekly entertainment calendar

“Dirty” musical: The Old Opera House wraps up its run of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” a fun musical comedy based on the hit 1988 film with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. See the play at the theater at 204 N. George St. Thurs-day, Friday or Saturday evening or a Sunday matinee. “DRS” focuses on two con men on the French Riviera, one suave and sophisticat-ed and the other kind of a drip. When the two can’t work together, they begin to battle each other, with the loser agreeing to leave town. To reserve tickets or get details, call the OOH box office at 304-725-4420.

Free films: Movie lovers who also love a bargain have two choices in Shepherdstown this weekend. First, on Friday night, there’s a showing of the Chi-na-made 1992 indie, “Shower,” another in the Shep-herdstown Film Society’s free fall series. The mov-ie, which examines an aging businessman coping with modernization and family angst, starts at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Hall on the Shepherd University cam-pus. On Saturday, the Shepherdstown Opera House offers a free showing of the 2007 documentary, “Birdsong and Coffee: A Wake Up Call.” The movie – which focuses on the economic and environmen-tal connections between farmers in Latin America, coffee drinkers in the United States and the health of migratory songbirds throughout the Americas – starts at 6 p.m. at the theater at 131 W. German St. For details, call the theater at 304-876-3704.BAVARIAN INN

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A9Spirit of JEFFERSON and FARMER’S ADVOCATE Wednesday, September 12, 2012News/Obituaries

Elsie Mae Webster

Elsie Mae Webster, 83, of Charles Town, died Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in Sumter, S.C. Born Jan. 27, 1929, in Balti-more, Md., she was the daugh-ter of the late Robert Israel Smith and Jessie Mae (Wood) Smith. She retired in 1994 after 16 years as the deli manager at the IGA Market Manor Store, Charles Town. She was a member of As-bury United Methodist Church, Charles Town and was a member of the Susanna Wesley Sunday School Class for 60 years. She graduated from Union Bridge, Md. High School. She is survived by three sons: Eddie I. Webster, of Winchester, Va., William R. Webster and wife Sandy, of Umtilla, Ore., and Ger-ald P. Webster and wife Rhonda, of Sumter, S.C.; one daughter, Pa-tricia A. Shultz and husband Bar-ry, of Martinsburg; 13 grandchil-dren and 18 great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Alek William Webster, who died June 4, 1961, and one son, Carl A. Webster. A graveside service was held on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, at Edge Hill Cemetery, Charles Town. The Rev. Duane L. Jensen officiated. Condolences may be expressed at www.mtstrider.com.

George Franklin Cummings

George Franklin Cummings, 84, of Harpers Ferry, died Satur-day, Sept. 8, 2012, at Jef-ferson Me-morial Hospi-tal. Born Feb. 23, 1928, in Harpers Fer-ry, he was the son of the late George Mahoney Cummings

Kenneth L. Staubs Sr.

Kenneth L. Staubs Sr., 75, of Charles Town, died Sept. 6, 2012. Born Jan. 3, 1937, in Millville, he was the son of the late Aldridge F. and Mary V. Rodgers Staubs. He had been employed by PNGI at Charles Town Races. He was preceded in death by one son: Mark Eric Staubs; one stepdaughter, Robin Williams; and one stepson, Collin Canino. He is survived by his wife, Su-zanne G. Staubs; one son, Ken-neth L. Staubs Jr.; three step-daughters, Tracy Tito-Arroyo, Tammy McBrearty and Cin-dy Cole; 12 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; one broth-er, Paul D. Staubs Sr.; one sister, Barbara A. Cook; and numerous nieces and nephews. A private memorial will be held at a later date.Ruth Francis Weisenburg

Ruth Francis Weisenburg, 79, of Hedgesville, died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, in Monroe, Ohio. Born Oct. 31, 1932, in Lex-ington, Va., she was the daugh-ter of the late Thomas and Lillian Fitzgerald Breeden. She was retired from Crown Cork & Seal Company of Win-chester, Va., and was a graduate of Charles Town High School.

and Nellie Irene Mitchell Cum-mings. He was a veteran of the Air Force and a member of St. James Catholic Church in Charles Town. He was a rural letter carrier for the Harpers Ferry routes for over 30 years. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Jane Cummings, at home; one daughter, Nancy Cummings Brooks of Hamilton, Va.; two sons, David C. Cum-mings and John M. Cummings of Harpers Ferry; one sister, Nancy Jane Mock of Harpers Ferry; one brother, Thomas Cummings and wife, Pat, of Harpers Ferry; and one grandson. He was preceded in death by one son, Joseph Andrew Cum-mings, and one sister, Helen Lou-ise Ferguson. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. Thurs-day, Sept. 13, 2012, at St. Peters Catholic Church in Harpers Fer-ry with The Rev. Fr. John Led-ford as the Celebrant, assisted by Deacon David Galvin. Interment will be in St. Peters Catholic Cemetery in Harpers Ferry. The family will receive friends at the Eackles-Spencer & Norton Funeral Home tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. with a prayer vigil at 8:30 p.m. Condolences to the family may be expressed at his obituary at www.eackles-spencerfuneral home.com.

She is survived by two sons: Johnny Weisenburg, of Lon-don, Ky., and Mark Weisenburg, of Hedgesville; two daughters: Elizabeth Spaeth, of Middle-town, Ohio, and Lisa Toquothty, of Pensacola, Fla.; eight grand-children; seven great-grandchil-dren; and one sister, Lucy Burck-er, of Martinsburg. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Weisen-burg. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Brown Funeral Home South Berkeley Chapel in Inwood. Online condolences may be offered at www.BrownFuneral-HomesWV.com.

Daniel L. Cummings

Daniel L. Cummings, 63, of Harpers Ferry, died Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, at his residence under the care of Hos-pice of the Panhandle. Born Aug. 31, 1949, in Loudoun Co., Va., he was the son of Jack L. Cum-mings and Frances B. (Brown) Cummings of Winchester, Va. He was employed with Leach/Wallace of Baltimore as a con-sulting engineer. He graduated from Loud-oun Valley High School, class of 1967 and served in the Navy from 1968 to 1971. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife of 40 years, Debra H. (Hughes) Cummings, at home; one son, John P. Cum-mings of Milford, Mass.; one daughter, Jennifer P. Kackley of Inwood; three grandchildren; and one sister, Vicki Garrison of Hamilton, Va. Services will be held at a later date. Interment will be private. Condolences may be expressed at www.mtstrider.com. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Pan-handle, 122 Waverly Court, Martinsburg, WV 25403 or American Cancer Society-Jef-ferson County Relay for Life, c/o Patricia Ott, 145 Don-ald Drive, Charles Town, WV 25414.

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ABOVE: Legions of volunteers turned out at locations throughout the Eastern Panhandle Tuesday, a part of the United Way’s Day of Caring. A slew of United Way volunteers showed up to help do much needed repairs at Shenandoah Womens’ Center’s Charles Town branch. LEFT: Bill Florence, vice president of gaming operations at the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, helps to repair the walls at the Boys and Girls Club of Charles Town.

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CHARLES TOWNto train as a hairstylist, the career he’d dreamed of since childhood. He also went through a divorce and became open about his homo-sexuality. After graduating from the International Beauty School in Martins-burg, Loy spent the next two decades working in Martinsburg. “I’ve always had my own salon. I’ve been very lucky,” he said. He loved the work. “My main goal in life has always been to help other people feel good about themselves,” he said. “Seeing people leave feeling better about how they look, feeling better about them-selves – that makes me feel good about what I chose as my career.” But in early 2010, Loy’s world was upended by a drama he said began when a then-friend announced that he’d signed Grammy-win-ning rock star Lady Gaga along with Adam Lambert of “American Idol” fame to come to Sam Michaels Park near Shepherdstown for a concert that would help launch Loy’s new line of hair products. Soon The Journal in Martinsburg ran a front-page article about the April show, complete with photos of Gaga and Lambert. Though many in the Panhandle were skeptical from the instant that the tale hit newsstands, others bought in and began paying $100 or more per ticket. To some, a Gaga show in West Virginia didn’t sound completely far-fetched. The “Born This Way” singer, born Stefani Joanne An-gelina Germanotta in New York City in 1986, does have family and relatives in the Mountain State. Her mother Cynthia Bissett graduated from West Virginia Uni-

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could drink some of this beer then replace it, marking the years on the bottles that replaced the ones that we had emptied. We had some inspirational teachers in high school and so excelled in the subjects of art and history. We developed a game of commemorating his‑toric events that coincided with the year on each bottle that we opened. Paul opened 1910 and started the Mexican Revolution as Halley’s Comet sailed over‑head. Villa and Zapata took off on horseback across the Mexi‑can desert soon to be followed in the German sky by Ricken‑backer and Von Richthofen. Burns and Allen discussed higher finance with Jack Benny while mobsters shot it out in a garage in Chicago. I was feel‑ing a little gassy from the Hin‑denburg disaster so I reached for the attack at Pearl Harbor. Big mistake. Oh, the humani‑ty. The party ended somewhere around the Cuban Missile Crisis and Lowell and I drove to our respective homes on the tractor paths that skirted the fields. The following morning will live on in infamy. I was lying there, head pounding, trying to will the morning away. Sens‑ing my plight, my fiendish lit‑tle brother played one of my Frankie Yankovic records at full volume in the living room. The phone rang – it was Paul. “Pick


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The Jefferson FFA Alumni Chapter held a grilled corn booth for the first time at the 60th an‑nual Jefferson County Fair. The Alumni supports the Jeffer‑son High School Jefferson FFA Chapter students by providing fi‑nancial support for funding local, state, and national trips, schol‑arship awards, and many other contests and events that mem‑bers participate in throughout the year. The Jefferson FFA Alumni would like to thank the following for their support and donations to make this fundraiser the suc‑cess that it was: Jefferson County Fair Board, Butler’s Farm Mar‑ket, Kitchen Orchards, Martin’s Food Market, Wal‑Mart, Walls Vault Service, LLC, and the fair‑goers who were kind enough to stop by.

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Luke Loy, owner of Hair By Luke at 332 N. Mildred St. in Charles Town, said his life has been transformed since 2010 when a Lady Gaga concert scam threatened to destroy his professional reputation.

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Want to go?What: Hair By Luke, a beauty salon offering hair, nail careWhere: 332 N. Mildred St. in Charles TownWhen: By appointment, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tues-day through Friday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. SaturdayTo know more: Call 304-582-2818 or email [email protected]

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Loy said that his friend — named in court records as Dean DeSana — had come up with the idea for the concert as a way to bring attention to Loy’s hair prod-ucts. Loy said he became involved not in setting up plans for the con-cert, but only to sell tickets. He opened a designated bank account and began to deposit checks written by ticket purchas-ers. He said that money went to DeSana, then living in Martins-burg, who also stopped by his hair salon daily to pick up cash from ticket sales. He says that he was scammed by DeSana in the same way that ticket buyers were. The friend “used my trust and my reputation to take from people,” Luke said. “People bought tickets because they trusted me.” When questions about the con-cert’s validity arose and then au-thorities became involved, Loy said that although he hadn’t kept any of the proceeds from ticket sales, he wanted to make things right for those who’d spent mon-ey on a concert that never came to be. He asked his mother to lend him money from her retirement account. “She knew I was inno-cent, and because of the people we are, we knew we had to do the right thing,” he said. Through his lawyer, refund checks were issued to all tick-et purchasers. Once the checks cleared, officials dropped all charges against both Loy and DeSana. The Gaga saga – and Loy’s legal woes – generated world-wide news, with coverage in The Washington Post, The Sun in Baltimore, The Associated Press and other mainstream press out-lets as well as on “Access Hol-lywood” and other TV programs and news shows and on TMZ.com and in other celebrity maga-zines and websites. The spotlight wasn’t a posi-tive for Loy, though. “So many people heard the gossip and still don’t know the truth of what happened,” he said. “I ended up losing everything, in-cluding my house and my busi-ness. I could have lost the rep-utation I’ve spent the last 20-plus years building but enough people knew me, knew the kind of work I do and the way I care for people. “I was fortunate and had so many people stick by me and de-fend me – people who did know the truth and who want to see me do well. I was down for a while, but I would not give up.” The path to Loy’s current hap-piness started over the summer after he and his partner, Chuck Larochelle, found a “for sale” sign on a house at 332 N. Mil-dred St. in Charles Town. “I’d been wanting to move back to Jefferson County,” said Loy, whose parents, children and three grandchildren all live in the area. Larochelle liked the down-

town location, which makes for an easy commute to his job in Northern Virginia, Loy said, and the home offers plenty of space to operate Hair By Luke down-stairs and for more living quar-ters above. Another plus: the way area residents have made them feel at home. “It’s been so wonderful,” Loy said. “From the time we started moving in, people would stop and welcome us to the neighborhood. A lot of people wanted to know if I planned to open a shop. I just can’t say enough about the warm welcome we’ve received. It’s just been an incredible experience.” Before giving the go-ahead for the salon, city licensing officials had questions about what Loy calls “the whole Gaga mess,” but he found the process fair and of-ficials eager to help more busi-nesses take root in the area. “It’s very community-oriented here,” he said. “I told everyone right from the start, I believe in giving back. Businesses have to make money, but you can’t just take – you have to make that effort to give first.” As he waited for the city’s all-clear, Loy set about creating the right look for his new salon. He said he knew he wanted a space that had a classic, upscale look but that everyone would find in-viting and comfortable. “I take care of doctors and law-yers and high-end folks, but lots of everyday people, too,” he said. “I’m not the typical hairdress-er, ‘Get ’em in, get ’em out.’ If someone wants to come here and spend the whole day, that’s fine by me. I wanted a place with a very calm, welcoming feel to it.” As a business owner, one man-tra he follows is to treat every customer as if he or she has come in as a first-timer. “It’s very natural, I think, for any business owner to get accus-tomed to clients over time and to think, ‘Oh, they won’t mind if I’m running a little late,’ and to begin to act as if the custom-ers who have been with you for a while will continue to come to you even if you’re not treating them like a priority. I don’t do that. Ask anybody. “I care about the people who come here and treat them like family. I don’t even like using the word ‘client.’ That’s not how I think about the people who come to me.” As news filters out about his new salon, Loy said he’s taking appointments and seeing clients come from Jefferson as well as Berkeley counties and beyond. To further get out the word about Hair By Luke, he plans to hold an open house, probably sometime in October. Despite all the uproar over the Gaga-Lambert concert that wasn’t, Loy clearly is not bitter. “I could have been hardheart-ed toward the people who tried to ruin my reputation, but that’s just not me,” he said. “I’ve always said, with business or anything in life, you can’t look at your losses – you have to look at what you have now. I’m very grateful for everything I have.”

up two cases of beer and come over here and help me clean this up.” I complied. Paul was being prudent, addressing the mat-ter right away rather than al-lowing it to be forgotten thus leaving him to pay for the beer. Paul was a farmer, after all. Lowell had made himself scarce or hadn’t yet regained consciousness. I arrived at the Hoephner farm just before noon – a few bags of empties awaited – incriminating evi-dence, which I was asked to

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transport off of the premises. I was issued a pen and Paul and I set about marking the bot-tles of beer that I had brought. “You look like you could use some ‘hair of the dog,’ ” he said handing me a bottle of beer, “I’ve been saving this just for you.” I looked at the year marked on the bottle – 1969. “Mmm ... man on the moon?” I mused aloud. “No ... Woodstock, you dum-my,” Paul said, correcting me. Oh, to be eighteen again knowing what I know now – I would have had at least enough sense to stay out of Ozzie’s milk house. Maybe. I might have hidden my Polka records, anyway.

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CHARLES TOWN – When the author of “The Anvil” passed away in early 1993, the news merited coverage in The New York Times, a worthy end for a Charles Town resident who was one of West Virginia’s most re-vered writers and the scion of a powerful Mountain State politi-cian. During an amazing writing career that stretched more than eight decades, starting with a published poem when she was just 11, Clarksburg native Julia Davis found success not only as a poet and playwright, but also as New York City newspaper re-porter (in 1926, the newlywed

was one of the first women hired to write for The Associated Press news service), a mystery writer (under the pseudonym F. Draco) and novelist. The Barnard College grad, who died six months before her 93rd birthday, also published es-says, short stories, and articles for Redbook, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian and other maga-zines. Her initial acclaim came in children’s fiction and biog-raphies, with her first book, “Swords of the Vikings,” win-ning a Newbery Medal nomi-nation. She went on to snag the Newbery in 1930 for “Vaino: A Boy Of New Finland” and had other books named to the New-bery Honor list.

Throughout her life, Davis bal-anced her writing with the needs of children in her care. Unable to have children herself, she moth-ered a half dozen stepchildren and stepped in to find homes for orphans through her work with the Children’s Aid Society in New York, even raising some of those children as her own. By the late 1980s, more than quarter-century after publishing her play on John Brown – the 1961 work was Charles Town’s contribution to the commemora-tion of the centennial of the Civ-il War – Davis was newly wid-owed when she left New York to settle in Charles Town, where she spent the rest of her days.

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John Brown has been called many things. A monomaniacal terrorist. An idealist and zealot. Psychologically unbalanced. A great American who gave his life to a cause to which he sub-scribed.

Indeed, Brown, who arrived in the quiet of night to lead a violent assault on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859, defies easy classification. Northern Re-publicans distanced themselves from his fiery rhetoric of a violent insurrection – even Frederick Douglass regarded him warily – while Southerners despised him; he was buried with the noose used in his hanging still fastened to his neck. And there are no easy answers provid-ed of him in ‘The Anvil,’ the two-act play written by West Virginia writer Julia Da-vis for the Civil War Centennial Commis-sion in Charles Town and first performed here in 1961 in the same location where the historical events unfolded – the Jef-ferson County Courthouse. In her foreword, Davis said the play, which is an abbreviated re-enactment of the actual court transcripts of Brown’s weeklong trial and conviction, was in-tended to allow Brown to be revealed in his own words. “Right or wrong, he should be played with nobility, and with the respect due a man willing to sacrifice his life for an idea,” wrote Davis of her interpretation of Brown, which is set to be performed Sept. 21 to 23 as part of this year’s annual Charles Town Heritage Festival. Indeed, the title of the play suggests that Brown was just an empty vessel to whom destiny attached a role much great-er than the man’s life itself. “Sometimes in history there comes a man, pointed like a compass at one star, a man of iron, an anvil on which God beats out his purposes,” wrote Davis, an award-winning novelist and playwright who was living in Jefferson County when she died in 1993. While Davis’ script galoshes about in the ambiguity of a moral injustice going toe to toe against a violent insurrection, the producer of this year’s performance, Harpers Ferry resident Jerry Bayer, re-jects equivocation. Bayer, who last produced the play in 2009 with his wife, Marianne, calls

UneasyDrama that relives Brown trial comes to Charles Town


CHARLES TOWN — Local fans of history can look forward to more than this month’s produc-tion of “The Anvil.” Besides the play at the histor-ic courthouse in Charles Town where the doomed abolitionist was convicted of treason in 1859, the September calendar includes a number of somber remembranc-es, lectures, a gala to commemo-rate a future president’s 1794 wedding here, and more. A look at some of what’s hap-

pening across Jefferson County this month: Harpers Ferry Starting Thursday, the Harp-ers Ferry National Historical Park hosts a three-day extravaganza to commemorate the 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry, which included fighting on Maryland Heights and resulted in the largest surrender of U.S. troops during the Civil War. On Thursday, Gettysburg Na-tional Military Park historian D. Scott Hartwig will speak on the battle at 7 p.m. at Mather Train-ing Center. Another highlight of the event

will be a lecture from Drew Gil-pin Faust, Harvard University’s president since 2007. A Virginia native and a Civil War historian, Faust is the first woman to lead the school in Harvard’s 376-year history. Her free lecture, “War Stories,” begins at 7 p.m. Satur-day at Mather. The sesquicentennial celebra-tion also will include special rang-er-led hikes, bus tours, panel dis-cussions, book signings with au-thors of Civil War-related books, live period music and kids activi-

High-profile heritage events slated for SeptemberHistoric celebrations

Dr. Patrick Fetta, a chiropractor from Richmond, Va., rests during a break outside Bethesda United Methodist Church near Shepherdstown. He was part of a group of about 90 Civil War re-enactors that spent Sept. 7 marching from Harpers Ferry to Maryland’s Antietam National Battlefield. This weekend brings the 150th anniversary of the battle, and special commemorations are planned, including a walk from Antietam to Shepherdstown.

Playwright Julia Davis, who was living in Charles Town when she died at 92, was married four times. She first wed William Ad-ams on Long Island, N.Y. The couple divorced in 1932 after nine years of marriage, but remarried in 1974.

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Want to go?What: “The Anvil” by Julia DavisWhere: Jefferson County Couthouse, Charles TownWhen: 7 p.m., Sept 21 and 22; 2 p.m., Sept. 23How much: Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for those under 20 and over 60.For details: For tickets, call 304-876-1825, or purchase them at the Anvil Restaurant, the Bolivar-Harpers Ferry Library, the Charles Town Library and County Histori-cal Museum and Dish Res-taurant. Seating is limited and admission is required.

Brown a “domestic terrorist.” “People look upon John Brown as a savior,” Bayer said. “He was a homicidal maniac. This guy was nuts. He came to Harpers Ferry in the dead of night and the first person they shoot is (Hayward Shepherd) a freed black man. One of the la-dies in the play is Mahala Doyle. John Brown killed her husband and her two sons. He took them out of their house and hacked them to death. If Charles Man-son had an ancestor, it’s John Brown.”

Because the play is taken from the actual trial, Bayer said there is little room to romanticize the fiery abolitionist. “There’s nothing done here that legitimizes his efforts and makes him to be some kind of hero,” said Bayer. In the play, Bayer also por-trays Brown’s appointed defense attorney, Thomas Green. Mari-anne Bayer will play the part of Brown’s wife, Mary, one of only two female roles in the play. As in years past, including in its original 1961 production, all the roles are taken up by area residents. Shepherdstown resident Joe Yates has participated in the play many times, and this year

reprises the part of Brown himself. Yates is also making his directorial debut with this year’s production. Yates said he has come to see Brown as someone who lived dur-ing a very violent period in Ameri-can history, to which he responded in kind, but for a just cause. “Despite the fact that he had the ability to kill people, which is not a sane act, he was devoted to a cause that you could hardly argue was not a just cause,” Yates said. “I often ask the question: Is it wrong to do wrong for the right reason?” Yates said the infamous Pottawat-omie Massacre that resulted in the slaying of members of the Doyle fam-ily is better explained as a response by Brown to pro-slavery forces. “Dig into history a little and you see they were planning to do the same thing to him,” Yates said. “It was a very violent time in our his-tory.” Echoing Davis, Yates said Brown cannot be easily summarized, but noted that once he was faced with a conviction, made his trial a statement about the evil of slavery, thereby seeking to transcend his own crimes. “Clearly he was sorry people were killed (at Harpers Ferry),” Yates said. “But he also reaffirms the fact that there’s a higher cause at stake here. John Brown cared deeply about the abolition movement, and he cared deeply enough to sacrifice himself so that slavery would end.”

Jerry and Marianne Bayer reprise their work as producers of this year’s per-formance of “The Anvil” and both also act in the play. Jerry Bayer plays the part of John Brown’s defense attorney, Thomas Green, while Marianne plays Brown’s sorrowful wife, Mary.

This weekNARFE 2250 to meet: The Jeffer-son County Chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employ-ees Association will meet at noon on Wednesday at Billies Restaurant in Ranson. Guest speakers will be candidates for Assessor and County Commission.

AARP meeting: The Jefferson County Chapter #799 of AARP will meet on Thursday in the social hall of the Asbury United Methodist Church on North Street in Charles Town. The board of directors will meet at 10: 30 a.m., with the gener-al membership meeting following at 11 a.m. For questions, call 304- 671-3183 or email peggy.burcker@ long&foster.com.

Master birder program: The Poto-mac Valley Audubon Society is offer-ing a new “Master Birder” program. The program is intended for experi-enced birders who want to take their knowledge and skills to a higher lev-el. The program’s first workshop will begin Thursday with a 7 to 9 p.m. classroom session. The cost will be $75 per person for PVAS members and $100 per person for nonmem-bers. On-line registration is available on the PVAS website at www.poto-macaudubon.org. or contact Matt Orsie at 304-261-5602 or [email protected].

Cathedral State Park birding trip: The Potomac Valley Audubon So-ciety is planning a field trip to West Virginia’s Cathedral State Park on

Saturday. To register, go to www.potomacaudubon.org or contact Kel-ly Wolf at 304-229-6229 or [email protected].

Concert season debut: Friends of Music will launch the 2012 — 2013 season with a performance by the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra on Saturday at 8 p.m. Guest conduc-tor Jed Gaylin will be at the podium in the Frank Arts Center at Shepherd University.

Free community workshops: The Alzheimer’s Association West Vir-ginia Chapter will host a set of three community workshops at Fisher-man’s Hall in Charles Town on Sat-urday from 9 a.m. to noon. The free informational workshops are de-signed to provide caregivers and

community members with informa-tion about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. To RSVP, call 304-599-1159. For questions, call 1-304-725-2128.

Insect walk: The Potomac Val-ley Audubon Society will sponsor an evening “insect walk” along the C&O Canal in the Sharpsburg area on Sept. 15 starting at 7 p.m. Reg-ister at www.potomacaudubon.org or contact Kelly Wolf at [email protected] or 304-229-6229.

Memorial service: The Shepherd-stown Chapter 128, United Daugh-ters of the Confederacy, will be hold-ing a memorial service to honor the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg and Shepherd-stown on Saturday at Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown. The service will start at 10:30 a.m. The speaker will be Nicholas Redding.

Trip planned to Montpelier: Pack Horse Ford Chapter, DAR, is offer-ing a trip to Montpelier on Satur-day. The trip costs $80 per person, which includes chartered bus, all ad-mittance fees and tours, boxed lunch, and gratuities. For questions and to obtain a reservation form, call 304-876-3817 or email [email protected]. Seating is limited and paid res-ervations should be received by Aug. 31.

Commemorative walk: Commem-orating the 150th anniversary of the

Battle of Antietam on Sunday start-ing at 5:30 p.m. The walk will start in Sharpsburg, Md. and end in Shep-herdstown. For questions and to reg-ister for this free event, go to http://www.antietamremembrance.org.

Meet the candidate: The Jefferson County African-American Non-Par-tisan Political Action Committee in-vites all to meet Howard Swint, 2nd Congressional Candidate for West Virginia on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Fish-erman’s Hall, 320 S. West Street in Charles Town.

National Conservation Training Center tour: 698 Conservation Way, Shepherdstown on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. The tour will be followed by a wine and cheese tasting event.

Hawk-watching trips: The Poto-mac Valley Audubon Society will sponsor two hawk-watching trips in mid-September. The first trip will be Monday to the Washing-ton Monument on South Mountain just outside Boonsboro, Md. The trip will begin at 8:30 a.m. Pre-reg-istration is essential. To pre-register and get specific directions, contact Sandy Sagalkin at 240-291-6465 or [email protected]. The second trip will be on Sept. 20 to Snicker’s Gap in Virginia. No pre-registration is required. For ques-tions, go to www.potomacaudubon.org or contact the phone or email address shown above.

Martin Delany presentation: The Jefferson County Black history Pres-ervation Society and the Martin Ro-bison Delany 200th Anniversary Commemoration Celebration Com-mittee will sponsor a presentation on Delany’s life in South Carolina after the Civil War. James Surkamp will be the featured speaker. The program will be held on Monday at 7 p.m. at Fisherman Hall in Charles Town. For questions, call 304-725-9610.

Community Ministries luncheon: Jefferson County Community Min-istries is holding a luncheon on Tues-day to recognize longtime President Jim Keel, and the many volunteers who keep the program going. The luncheon is pot luck, and will com-mence at noon at Asbury United Methodist Church in Charles Town. All are invited.

Heart disease seminar: West Vir-ginia University Hospitals-East will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on ways to prevent heart disease. The sem-inar, titled Preventing Your Heart Attack 101, will be held on Tues-day in the WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center on the City Hospital campus. Sign-in for the community mini-medical school program begins at 6:30 p.m., with the program to follow from 7 to 8 p.m. For questions or to register for this program, phone 304-264-1287, ext. 1760.

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Volunteers needed: Fund-raiser volunteers are needed for the 19th annual haunted fairgrounds being held Oct. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27. This event is sponsored by the Ki-wanis and Country Roads Car Club, with money going to help the food pantry, Panhan-dle Free Clinic, fire and rescue organizations and Santa’s Toy Shop. Earn a school credit for community service. To volun-teer, call 304-725-4141 or join the meeting today at 7 p.m. at Jefferson County Fairground building No. 3.

Historic preservation con-ference: Join the Preserva-tion Alliance of West Vir-ginia during its statewide historic preservation confer-ence, and learn from the tra-dition of historic preservation throughout Jefferson County on Sept. 27 through 29. Dur-ing the conference, attendees will explore some of Jeffer-son County’s historical plac-es including several Wash-ington Family Homes, the downtown Shepherdstown historic district and Harp-ers Ferry National Histori-cal Park. For questions on the schedule and fees for the con-ference, visit www.pawv.org, email [email protected]. or call 304-345-6005.

Blood drive: Mountain Com-munity Center will be host-ing an American Red Cross blood drive on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. To be eligi-ble to donate, you must be 17 years of age, meet weight and height requirements (110 pounds or more, depending on their height) and be in rea-sonably good health. A person can give every 56 days. To do-nate, bring a Red Cross blood donor card or other form of positive ID. Sign up on-line at www.redcrossblood.org.

RESA 8 offering firefight-

er course: RESA 8 will of-fer a 120 hour Firefighter 1 course starting Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. at the Friendship Fire Company in Harpers Ferry. The class will meet on eve-nings and weekends. Course fee is $25. The book is $65. To start a career in fire ser-vice, an individual must at-tend a Fire Fighter 1 class-es. Applicants are encour-aged to pre-register online at www.resa8.org or by calling the RESA 8 office. For ques-tions, contact Dave Plume by phone at 304-267-3595, ext. 112 or by e-mail [email protected].

Professor of the year nomi-nations needed: The Faculty Merit Foundation of West Vir-ginia has announced that nom-ination forms for the 2012 Pro-fessor of the Year Award have been distributed throughout West Virginia. Professor of the Year nomination forms are also available online at www.wvhumanities.org. Nomina-tions must be postmarked no later than Nov. 2, to be eli-gible for consideration. For questions, contact Ken Sulli-van at 304-346-8500.

Tree donations sought: Shep-herdstown’s 250th Anniversa-ry Committee is encouraging residents to celebrate the an-niversary by donating trees to the town’s historic Elmwood Cemetery this fall. To donate a tree or learn more about the process, contact Richard Blue at the Cemetery at 304-725-2201 or [email protected]. Contributions to the Tree Fund can be sent to Tree Fund, Elmwood Cemetery Associa-tion, Inc. PO Box 561, Shep-herdstown, WV 25443. The cemetery’s website is at http://elmwoodcemeteryshepwv.org.

Low cost veterinarian ser-vice offered: Spay Today is

the area’s reduced-cost spay and neuter program for dogs and cats. At the time of sur-gery, initial shots and tests can also be obtained at lower rates. To find vets and more infor-mation, go to www.baacs.org or call 304-728-8330.

New art grant program an-nounced: Building and ex-panding arts opportunities for Berkeley County residents is the goal of the new grant pro-gram being announced by the Berkeley Arts Council. Sub-missions for the first applica-tion cycle are due by Monday. Applicants must be residents of, or operate from facili-ties within, Berkeley Coun-ty. More details and an appli-cation package are available on the Berkeley Arts Coun-cil website, www.berkele-yartswv.org/amplify. Email questions to [email protected], or call 304-262-1611.

Council on Aging bus trips: The Jefferson County Coun-cil on Aging and Jefferson Capital Tours will be offer-ing bus trips throughout the year. Trips offered include: Inner Harbor Gospel Cruise — Oct. 13; Antietam Cow-boy Christmas Show — Nov. 14; Christmas in Williams-burg, Va. — Dec. 5 and 6. For questions or to register, con-tact Chasidy Rosa-Morales at 304-725-4045 or stop by JCCOA, 103 W. Fifth Ave., Ranson.

Send your newsPlanning an event that’s open to the community? Send your Community Notes sub-missions to Robert Smith at [email protected]. Items may be faxed to 304-728-6856 or mailed to the newsroom, 210 N. George St., Charles Town, WV 25414. Questions? Call 304-725-2046.


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Shepherdstown This weekend, Shepherdstown hosts a special program com-memorating the town’s role in the aftermath of another, better-known Civil War battle. The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with some 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers hurt or killed. The fighting, which unfolded just a stone’s throw from Shep-herdstown in the Maryland vil-lage of Sharpsburg, is a key part of the history of the town, which has been marking the 250th anni-versary of its founding through-out this year. In the days after the Sept. 17, 1862, battle, near-ly every home and business in Shepherdstown was turned into a makeshift hospital or morgue. On Sunday, anyone is welcome to join a three-mile walk that will recreate the trek made by some 10,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who were wounded in Sept. 17, 1862. The free walk, sponsored by Shepherdstown 250 and the Sharpsburg Heritage Festival, begins at 5:30 p.m. For details, go to antietamremembrance.org. The day before, an Antietam

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Remembrance Illumination starts at 7 p.m. and will include the placement of 3,654 candles on the battlefield to honor each of the soldiers who died there. Saturday’s hour-long program will include an artillery salute. On Thursday, Shepherdstown 250 will host a special program open to anyone interested in learning more about the clothing local residents made and wore in the 18th and 19th centuries. Kathy Corpus, an assistant professor of Family and Con-sumer Sciences at Shepherd, will deliver the free program, which begins at 7 p.m. in Room 210 of Stutzman/Sloanker Hall, located on the northwest corner of High and King streets. For details, contact Elise Baach ([email protected] or phone her at 304-876-7060). Next week, Shepherdstown 250 and the Shepherdstown Op-era House are offering a special showing of two locally made videos on the fighting in Anti-etam and the battle’s aftermath in Shepherdstown. The free showing, at the the-ater at 131 W. German St., starts at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Featured will be a 40-minute video: “Anti-etam: Decisions Sorely Missed,” which follows selected people at the battle showing history-mak-ing decisions each made – or failed to make – during the bat-tle. After a 15-minute intermis-sion, guests will see the 54-min-ute video, “Shepherdstown’s Wounded Thousands.” It draws from diaries and letters of towns-people there when the grievous-

ly wounded men flooded into Shepherdstown.

Charles Town There’s good news and bad news for those who appreciate George Washington’s ties to the area. Unlike in years past, the public this fall won’t have the chance to tour Claymont Court and other private homes with ties to the first president and his family through the Washington Homes Tour. But the good news is good indeed: history fans can in-stead attend a gala to celebrate a high-profile wedding held in Charles Town in 1794. Saturday marks the 218th an-niversary of the wedding of en-

trenched 43-year-old bachelor (and future president) James Madison to Dolley Payne Todd, a pretty 26-year-old Quaker widow from North Carolina. Though the pair would spend their newlywed years in Phila-delphia, they began their mar-ried life at Harewood, the home built in 1770 by Samuel Wash-ington, George Washington’s younger brother. (At the time, a sister of Dolley’s lived at Hare-wood with her husband, Samu-el’s son, George Steptoe Wash-ington.) Organizers of Saturday’s event, which begins with hors d’oeuvres at 5 p.m. and in-cludes a buffet dinner at 6 p.m., say Harewood’s elegant pan-

eled drawing room looks nearly the same as it did when the Mad-isons married there. Tickets cost $100 per person, and proceeds will go to Friends of Happy Retreat, the non-prof-it organization dedicated to pre-serving another of Jefferson County’s Washington homes. Happy Retreat, built in 1780, belonged to Charles Washing-ton, the first president’s young-est sibling and the man who founded Charles Town. For de-tails on purchasing tickets, go to www.happyretreat.org. Organizers say the Washington Homes Tour will resume in 2013. History-related special events in Charles Town continue next week, when Discover Down-town Charles Town hosts an-other Third Thursday event. This month’s theme is “Charles Washington’s Town.” The downtown fun, happening from 5 to 9 p.m. on Sept. 20, will include a concert and a Colonial dance workshop with Michael Barraclough, who will instruct participants the Virginia Reel and other traditional dances. The free instruction, open to anyone of any age, will take place downtown on North Charles Street from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Organizers say the empha-sis will be on having fun and that those taking part need neither a partner nor dance experience. Another element of the Third Thursday: a history-themed cos-tume contest. Organizers plan to

award those who dress up with prizes in categories such as best Colonial costume, best histori-cal character, best Civil War cos-tume and most authentic histori-cal costume. And then starting at 10 a.m. on Sept. 22, Charles Town holds its third-annual Heritage Festi-val with highlights that will in-clude actors portraying George and Charles Washington avail-able to pose with visitors and a variety of guided walking tours of downtown that will allow vis-itors to see the Jefferson Coun-ty Courthouse (built in 1837) and the nearby site where Brown was hanged as well as the loca-tions of structures dating back to the town’s founding in 1786. There’s also an open house planned at Fisherman’s Hall, built in 1885 and used over the years as the area’s African-American community center. The heritage festival also will feature kids activities; a first-ev-er pie bake-off; the 2012 Heri-tage Quest Historic Downtown Scavenger Hunt (available to individuals, teams, families; to register, email [email protected] or stop by Skipper’s Downtown Dips and Deli at 114 W. Washington St.); and the day’s finale, a concert with the band Touché at 6 p.m. at Jefferson Memorial Park. To learn more about the event, email ctheritagefestival.com or find “Charles Town Heritage Festival” on Facebook.

COURTESY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITYDrew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War historian and the president of Harvard University, will speak at 7 p.m. Saturday at Mather Training Center as part of Harpers Fer-ry’s observance of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Harpers Ferry. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture, which is free and open to anyone. Harewood on Saturday will be the site of a gala marking the 218th anniversary

of the wedding there of future president James Madison and Dolley Payne Todd. The event, which begins with hors d’oeuvres at 5 p.m., costs $100 per person. Proceeds benefit Friends of Happy Retreat, the non-profit organization dedicated to preserving another of Jefferson County’s Washington homes.

WASSEL PHOTO AND DESIGNPartying like it’s 1799: Organizers of Discover Downtown Charles Town’s Third Thursday have chosen the history theme, Charles Washington’s Town. The Sept. 20 event will include a costume contest. On Sept. 22, the celebration continues with Charles Town’s Heritage Festival.

Community CalendarLooking aheadBolivar Heights bird walk: The Potomac Valley Audubon Society will sponsor a bird walk in the Bo-livar Heights section of the Harp-ers Ferry National Historical Park on Sept. 19. The trip will begin at 8 a.m. and last two to three hours. The event is free and no pre-regis-tration will be required. For ques-tions, go to the PVAS website at www.potomacaudubon.org or contact Deb Hale at [email protected] or 304-535-2346.

Lecture on the U.S. Constitu-tion: “Manufacturing Intent: Five Ways to Abuse History While Pre-tending to Interpret the Constitu-tion” is free and open to the public on Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Rob-ert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies Auditorium, 213 N. King St., Shepherdstown.

‘SAIL’ invites community: Shep-herdstown Area Independent Liv-ing or “SAIL,” invites members of the community to join friends and neighbors for coffee and con-versation to learn more about the organization. SAIL is a non-prof-it whose mission is to enable its members to remain active, con-nected, independent and in their homes and community as long as possible. For details and reserva-tions call the office at 304-870-7245. Meetings will be held on Sept. 19 and 26 at 10 a.m. at the homes of current members. Oth-er sessions will be scheduled as needed. Visit the website at www.shepherdstownSAIL.org.

Benefit concert: The 8th annu-al concert for the benefit of the

Shepherdstown Battlefield Pres-ervation Association will be held Sept. 21 at the train station at Shepherdstown. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Don Oehser and Todd Coyle will provide the entertain-ment. A $10 donation is request-ed at the door. There will be free food, adult beverages for a small donation and soft drinks. An auc-tion with Civil War interest is also planned. For questions, visit http://www.battleofshepherdstown.org/.

Pancake breakfast fundraiser: The Jefferson County Council on Aging will host a pancake break-fast on Sept. 21 from 7 to 9 a.m. Menu will consist of pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage links, fried potatoes, baked apples, juice and coffee. Cost is $3 for ages 60 yrs. and up; $4 for ages 59 yrs. and under. Carryout will be available. All proceeds will go towards the Jefferson County Conquerors of Alzheimer’s. For questions, con-tact Chasidy Rosa Morales at 304-725-4045.

Battlefield tour: In order to com-memorate the 150th anniver-sary of the Battle of Shepherd-stown, the Shepherdstown Bat-tlefield Preservation Association Inc. plans to hold a tour of the site of the 1862 Battle of Shepherd-stown. On Sept. 22, two tours of the battlefield will be led by two Civil War historians. The first tour will begin at 2:30 p.m. and the second tour at 3:30 p.m. The cost will be a donation of $30 per par-ticipant. Tickets for the battlefield tour are available on SBPA’s web-site at: http://www.battleofshep-herdstown.or.

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Jefferson County always was a second home for Davis. She’d spent nearly every summer of her child-hood with her maternal relatives at Media Farm, the Jefferson County estate that has been in the family since 1780. That Davis would write a play about Brown – one of the most di-visive figures in American history, certainly the biggest game-chang-er ever in the Panhandle – should be no surprise. Stories about slav-ery, the Confederacy, the Civil War and other pivotal events in early U.S. history turn up in Davis’ works again and again. Neither would it be a stretch for her to set her drama in a courtroom. Both her father and his father made their living as lawyers. Her paternal grandfather had served as one of the delegates to the Wheeling Convention, the gathering that led to the creation of the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863.

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Her father earned his law de-gree from Washington & Lee and argued cases before the U.S. Su-preme Court, though today he is best remembered for his political contributions. Elected to Congress, he served as a London-based diplomat and Solicitor General under President Woodrow Wilson and then ran for the White House in 1924. He lost to incumbent Republican Cal-vin Coolidge, but remains the only West Virginian ever to top a major party ticket. It was on June 20, 1899, the 36th anniversary of the founding of West Virginia, that Davis’ parents wed after a long courtship. A shy man, John W. Davis was left devastated the following summer when Julia Leavell McDonald died of a bacte-rial infection three weeks after their daughter’s birth. With her mother’s passing, the baby they’d originally named Anna for her paternal grandmother instead became her late mother’s name-sake. In his grief, John Davis focused

had come to Harpers Ferry to get arms, tools and a collapsible iron boat frame for the exploring party.) Still living in New York, Davis married a second time to Paul West, an assistant to famed magazine edi-tor Henry Luce. Though still writ-ing, Davis also took up a second ca-reer, working to find homes for or-phaned children. She left that job and New York when West headed off to fight in World War II. Transplanted to the Davis home in Clarksburg, she spent years re-searching and writing the 1944 book, “The Shenandoah” after Ste-phen Vincent Benet asked her to contribute to The Rivers of Amer-ica Series.

Divorced a second time in 1949, Davis continued to pursue her inter-est in local history with “Cloud on the Land” and “Bridle the Wind,” both set in Jefferson County (though in different time periods). After her father’s death in 1955 and the death of third husband Charles P. Healy the following year, Davis used her recollections of life on the McDonald family farm as well as other happy early memo-ries of Clarksburg and London for the autobiographical, “Legacy of Love,” published the same year as “The Anvil.” She continued to mine her family stories to shed light on key events in American history, next culling her grandfather’s diaries to create

on his career, leaving his daughter to be raised by his parents in Clarks-burg during the school year. She spent summers with her maternal relatives in Charles Town. Time in the Panhandle gave Da-vis all manner of literary fodder. In 1931, she penned a children’s biography of Stonewall Jackson, who was born in her hometown but who is famous for the Civil War ex-ploits he led in Martinsburg, Harp-ers Ferry and other parts of the Shenandoah Valley. Davis, whose maternal grandfa-ther served as an officer under Con-federate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, set her novel, “Remember and Forget,” at the McDonald farm. She called on family letters and memoirs to tell the story of a family split between loyalty to their country and to the state they loved. In 1938, following her divorce from her first husband William Ad-ams, Davis wrote “No Other White Men” about the expedition of Meri-wether Lewis and William Clark. (The Panhandle tie: In preparing for the trip west in early 1803, Lewis

COURTESY OF GOLDENSEAL MAGAZINEWest Virginia native Julia Davis, who died in 1993, wrote the play, “The Anvil,” which will be performed in Charles Town later this month. Davis’ re-creation of the trial of John Brown served as Charles Town’s contribution to the Civil War cen-tennial in 1961.

Julia Davis’ mother grew up here in Charles Town, on the McDonald family’s Media Farm. The paternal side of her family also has ties to the Shenandoah Valley, though her great-grandparents left the area for Clarksburg in 1816. Her father came to Charles Town in 1892 to earn money for law school. His teaching job put him in contact with 19-year-old Julia McDonald and the two married in 1899.

Community CalendarCar show: Rock Spring Church, 114 Poor Farm Road, Kear-neysville on Sept. 29 starting at noon. Street rods, muscle cars, an-tique and custom cars, trucks and motorcycles will be on display. Live music, door prizes, 50/50 drawing, children’s activities, food and craft vendors will be of-fered. For questions, call 304-724-1942 or email [email protected] or [email protected].

Spaghetti supper: Leetown Unit-ed Methodist Church, Sept. 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. The cost for the all-you-can-eat supper is $7 for adults; $4 for children 12 and un-der. Carry out will be available.

For questions, call 304-725-8304.Stauffer’s Marsh birding trip: The Potomac Valley Audubon Society will sponsor a birding trip to its Stauffer’s Marsh Na-ture Preserve in Berkeley County on Sept. 30. For questions, go to the PVAS website at www.poto-macaudubon.org or contact San-dy Sagalkin, at 240-291-6465 or [email protected].

Annual life chain: Corner of Washington and George Streets in Charles Town on Oct. 6 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Participant’s are asked to hold a pro-life poster at intersection for 1 1/2 hours. For questions, 304-728-0993 or email [email protected].

the 1967 work, “Mount Up: A True Story Based on the Reminiscences of Major E.A.H. McDonald of the Confederate Cavalry.” In 1974, the widow married a fourth time – again tying the knot with William Adams, the American pilot she’d first fallen in love with in London more than a half-century before. Rather than consider retirement, Davis continued to produce books and shorter pieces, including arti-cles on early women political fig-ures, Victoria Woodhull and Belva Lockwood, for the Smithsonian and an ode to President Carter’s young daughter Amy after the Georgia Democrat’s election in 1976. In 1980, Davis went farther back in her family’s history for “Never Say Die: the Glengary McDonalds of Virginia,” which recounted An-gus McDonald’s flight to America after the 1746 Battle of Culloden and how his branch of the McDon-ald clan grew in Virginia, Ohio and the land that would become West Virginia. Widowed again in 1986, Davis began living full-time in Charles Town. She also kept writing, with work that included the lovely nar-rative for the Jefferson County His-torical Society’s book on historic homes, “Between the Shenandoah and the Potomac.” In the introduction to “Harvest: Collected Works of Julia Davis” published a year before her death, Davis told interviewer Bill The-riault that while her writings may not match up to those of Edna Fer-ber, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty and other contemporaries, she could look back on her life’s work – and her life – and feel content. “You have a good mind,” she re-called her father telling her, “but your heart is mush.” “I wish he were alive today, be-cause I would say ‘Father, the heart paid off better than the head,’ ’’ Da-vis told Theriault. “Maybe I could have written better if I had no other interests, but I could not have lived better. “I couldn’t have been happier.”

Davis’ father, John W. Davis of Clarksburg was elected to Congress and served as a London-based diplomat and Solicitor General under President Woodrow Wilson. He ran for the White House in 1924 and lost to incumbent Republican Calvin Coolidge. He remains the only West Virginian ever to top a major party ticket.

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B6 Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Legals Spirit of JEFFERSON and FARMER’S ADVOCATE

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

The undersigned Trustee, D. Frank Hill, III, by virtue of the au-thority vested in him by that cer-tain Deed of Trust from Nancy A. VonBaumann (also known as Nan-cy A. Von Bauman), widow, dated the 29th day of January, 2010, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Deed of Trust Book 1794, page 81, under which Deed of Trust and the promissory note secured thereby default having been made, and having been directed to foreclose thereunder by the Secured Party/Beneficial Owner, Magnolia Man-agement, Inc., a Maryland corpo-ration, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Jef-ferson County Court House situ-ate at 100 E. Washington Street, Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, on September 14, 2012, at 9:00 o’clock, a.m., all that certain parcel of land, together with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belong-ing, situate in Shepherdstown Dis-trict, Jefferson County, West Vir-ginia, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of Lot 42 as shown and de-scribed on a plat of Mecklenburg Heights recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 1, page 35; thence on a line which is an ex-tension of the southern bound-ary of Lot 42 [S. 83° 44’ 40” E.] in a westerly direction 60 feet to a point; thence N. 12° 00’ E. 200 feet to a new point; thence in a north-easterly direction 60 feet, more or less, to the northwestern corner of Lot 42; thence with the western boundary line of Lot 42 200 feet to the point of beginning, said to con-tain 0.28 acre, more or less.[Tax Map 7-B, parcel 89] BEING all and the same par-cel of real estate which was con-veyed to Cyril H. VonBauman (sic) and Nancy [A.] VonBauman (sic), husband and wife, from Willis E. Gano, Jr. and June L. Gano, husband and wife, by a Deed dated the 17th day of July, 1970, and recorded in the afore-said Clerk’s office in Deed Book 318, page 383. The said Cyril H. VonBaumann died a resident of Jefferson County, West Virginia, on December 21, 1990, and by operation of the survivorship pro-vision contained in the aforesaid Deed full fee simple title vested in Nancy A. VonBaumann. THE SALE AND CONVEY-ANCE SHALL BE MADE FUR-THER SUBJECT TO all restric-tive covenants, conditions, ease-ments, rights-of-way and limita-tions of record, and to the lien for all real estate taxes and assess-ments, if any. THE SALE SHALL ALSO BE MADE SUBJECT TO the rights of any person or persons occu-pying the premises, if any there be, and the Trustee shall not be under any duty to cause any per-son or persons who may be oc-cupying said premises to vacate the same. The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and the Trustee makes no warranty of any type as to the condition of any improvements located upon the premises, if any there be.TERMS OF SALE The property shall be sold to the highest bidder at the time and place of the sale at which time a payment equal to five percent (5%) thereof shall be paid with the balance due within thirty (30) days upon tender of the Deed. The Trustee’s Deed to any pur-chaser shall be without any cov-enant or warranty, express or implied. The cost of recording the Deed and the transfer stamps shall be borne by the purchaser. The Trustee reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to continue the sale to a later date by announcing such a continu-ance at the time and place set forth above for this sale without further advertisement. Dated this, the 17th day of Au-gust, 2012.

D. Frank Hill, III, Trustee136 E. German Street

P.O. Box AShepherdstown, WV 25443

(304) 876-93338/29/3t

NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a certain Deed of Trust dated August 10, 2007, and of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Deed of Trust Book No. 1667, at page 610, made by Wild Goose Farm, LLC, Christopher B. Shultz, and Charles C. Shultz, to Scott K. Swaim and David D. Pill as Trust-ee, to secure Valley Farm Credit, ACA, n/k/a MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA, as Beneficiary, (here-inafter referred to as the “Deed of Trust”), in the payment of the max-imum principal sum of Two Million Nine Hundred Fifty Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($2,950,000.00), evidenced by a promissory note dated August 10, 2007, (herein-after referred to as the “Note”), and pursuant to the Deed of Trust wherein Valley Farm Credit, ACA, n/k/a MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA was authorized and empowered to remove the trustees appointed in the Deed of Trust and appoint substitute trustees in the place and stead of the trustees named in the Deed of Trust, and the un-dersigned, Kenneth J. Barton, Jr. and Austin M. Hovermale, having been so appointed as Substitute Trustees by the terms of a Substi-

tution of Trustee of record in said Clerk’s office in Book No. 1103, at page 661, and default having been made in the payment of said indebtedness and the Substitute Trustees having been requested in writing so to do by Valley Farm Credit, ACA, n/k/a Midatlantic Farm Credit, ACA, the owner and holder of said note, said Substi-tute Trustees, on the 20th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2012, at 11:00 A.M., will offer for sale and sell at public auction in front of the Jef-ferson County Courthouse, 100 East Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia, to the highest bidder therefor, all of the follow-ing described realty, together with its improvements and appurte-nances, situate, lying and being in Shepherdstown District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows:PARCEL 1: A tract or parcel of land situ-ate in Shepherdstown District, Jefferson County, State of West Virginia, to the west of Shepherd Grade Road (WV Secondary Route 5/2) at its intersection with Terrapin Neck Road (WV Sec-ondary Route 7) on the waters of the Potomac River, more particu-larly described as follows: Beginning at (201) a point in the centerline of WV Sec. Rte. 5/2, corner to Stockstill (D.B. 426/488) and in the line of U.S.A. (D.B. 708/129); thence with U.S.A S. 13d57’06” W. a distance of 227.48’ to (203) a point in the centerline of WV Sec. Rte. 5/2, corner to U.S.A.; thence with U.S.A. in part, Moss (D.B. 802/755) in part, Ross (D.B. 893/49) in part, and finally with Grim (W.B. EE/478) S. 09d28’40” E. a distance of 1503.87’ to (204) a point in the centerline of WV Sec. Rte. 5/2, comer in the line of Grim; thence leaving Grim and Rte. 5/2 and with Limeroc Farm (D.B. 8491515) for eight lines, firstly N, 83d40’04” W. a distance of 793.43’, passing (72) a found 10” wooden fencepost at 22.69’, to (67) a found 8” wooden fence-post; thence S. 51d34’32” W. a distance of 815.10’ to (206) a set No. 5 capped rebar; thence S. 65d06’01” E. a distance of 80.85’ to (207) a set No. 5 capped rebar in a stonepile, in the bed of Rattlesnake Spring; thence S. 13d59’27” W. a distance of 676.50’ to (59) a found 8” wooden fencepost; thence N. 61d00’33” W. a distance of 997.08’ to (50) a found stone; thence N. I6d56’14” E. a distance of 884.64’ to a found 5” wooden fencepost; thence N. 52d09’45” W. a distance of 120.16’ to a found 4” wooden fencepost; thence N. 68d52’36” W. a distance of 1403.79’ to (208) a set No. 5 capped rebar near a fence intersection corner in the line of Limeroc Farm and to Spencer (D.B. 417/396), said corner being located S. 68d52’36” E. a distance of 172.23’ from (39) a found stone; thence with Spencer in part and finally with Wilkins (D.B. 499/681) N. 30d21’15” E. a distance of 1871.61’ to (32) a found 5” wooden fencepost; thence with Wilkins for four lines, firstly N. 39d16’18” E. a distance of 479.04’ to a (209) a set No. 5 capped rebar; thence N. 77d21’51” E. a distance of 374.22’ to (23) a found 8” wooden fence-post; thence S. 70d52’27” E. a distance of 463.81’ to (13) a found 6” wooden fencepost; thence S. 05d37’42” W. a distance of 158.73’ to (11) a found 8” wooden fencepost corner to Wilkins and to Wilkins (D.B. 555/133); thence with Wilkins for two lines, firstly S. 21d22’45” W. a distance of 447.14’ to (210) a found 8” wooden fencepost; thence S. 21d08’42” W. a distance of 105.21’ to (211) a found 8” wood-en fencepost; thence with Wilkins in part and finally with Stockstill (D.B. 426/488)S. 77d19’59” E. a distance of 1545.10’, first passing (4) a found No. 5 capped rebar (DiMagno) at 830.31’ and passing secondly (202) a set No. 5 capped rebar at 1530.10, to (201) the Point of Beginning containing 163.280 acres more or less as surveyed by ALPHA ASSOCIATES, INCOR-PORATED during May 1998 and as shown on the Plat of Resur-vey. [Tax Map 3, Parcels 13 and 13.008]PARCEL 2: That parcel of real estate de-scribed as “Tract A 10.5197 acres” on that plat recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Com-mission of Jefferson County, West Virginia in Plat Book 7, page 22, to which plat reference is made for a more particular description of the real estate hereby conveyed. [Tax Map 3, Parcel 13.0006] The sale of the foregoing real property will be made subject to all exceptions, reservations, rights of way, easements, conditions, covenants, restrictions, leases, and other servitudes of record, if any, pertaining to said real estate, subject to all matters disclosed by an examination and inspection of the property, subject to any and all unpaid taxes assessed against said property, and to any further matters announced at said sale. The sale of the foregoing real property will also be made ex-pressly subject to any and all other deeds of trust, judgments, liens, and all other encumbranc-es of record, if any, having priority over the Deed of Trust. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-

FIDUCIARY NOTICE

The accounting and inventory of the Bank of Charles Town Trust Department, Guardian for 1.Brandon James Oliver, 2. Melis-sa Lynn Oliver, dated August 13, 2012, has been filed with the Cir-cuit Court of Jefferson County.

June K. JovanellyFiduciary Commissioner

Jefferson County, WV9/5/2t

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE

TRUSTEE’S SALE

Notice is hereby given that de-fault having occurred in the pay-ment of a certain indebtedness secured by a Deed of Trust dated March 1, 2007, between Jacque-lyn A. Fisher, George F. Fisher and Rockwood Title and Settle-ment Group, Trustee, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Com-mission, Jefferson County, West Virginia in Deed of Trust Book No. 1632 at Page 287, which Deed of Trust authorizes the beneficiary to remove, substitute, or add a Trustee, at its option, and the beneficiary having exercised its option and substituted Emmanuel B. Loucas, Connie Kesner, and Tressia Blevins as its Trustees, to act in the enforcement of said Deed of Trust in person, and the

undersigned Substitute Trustees having been requested by the beneficial owner of said indebt-edness to enforce said Deed of Trust, will sell at a public auction to the highest bidder, the follow-ing hereinafter described real es-tate on:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 AT 5:00 PM

IN FRONT OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY

COURTHOUSECHARLES TOWN, WEST VIRGINIA

That certain lot or parcel of real estate, with the improve-ments and appurtenances there-unto belonging, situate in the Shepherdstown District, Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, more particularly described as follows: “Lot No. 29, of Steeple Chase, containing 2.19 acres, as more fully shown on that certain plat prepared by R. Michael Shepp, L.L.S., of Appalachian Surveys, Inc., dated June and July, 1988, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virgin-ia, in Plat Book 8, at Page 28.”District 9/Map 23A/Parcel 29PROPERTY ADDRESS:4 Prides Xing, Shenandoah Junc-tion, WV 25442 Property is sold subject to pri-or trusts, encumbrances, restric-tions and easements of records, if any. The property is sold subject to an accurate survey at purchas-er’s expense. FEDERAL TAX LIEN: In the event that there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right to redeem the property with-in a period of 120 days from the date of such sale or the period al-lowable for redemption under lo-cal law, whichever is longer. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $34,000.00 by certified check or cashier’s check at sale made payable to Mancini & Associ-ates, the balance in cash or by certified check at closing. Certi-fied funds must be presented to Trustee for inspection at start of sale in order to be qualified to bid. Conveyance will be by Spe-cial Warranty Deed subject to all easements, covenants, rights-of-way, conditions and restrictions of record. The property is sold in “as is” condition. The beneficial owner of the Deed of Trust does not make any representations or warranties as to the physical con-dition of the property. Any and all legal procedural requirements to obtain physical possession of the premises after the closing are the responsibility of the purchaser. Risk of loss or damage will be purchasers from and after the foreclosure sale. All taxes and utility charges will be the respon-sibility of the purchaser. All settle-ment fees, costs of conveyance, examination of title, recording charges, and transfer taxes are at the expense of the purchaser. The purchaser will be required to complete settlement within 30 days of the date of the sale, fail-ing which the deposit made will be forfeit and the property re-sold at the risk and expense of the purchaser. Trustee makes no representations regarding state of title. If Trustee cannot convey insurable or marketable title, pur-chaser’s sole remedy is a return of deposit. The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the subject property from time to time by oral proclamation, which con-tinuation shall be in the sole dis-cretion of the Trustee.

Daniel J. Mancini, Esq.Attorney for the Trustee(s)

Connie Kesner, Tressia Blevins and/or

Emmanuel LoucasMancini & Associates

201A Fairview DriveMonaca, PA 15061

Phone (724) 728-1020Fax (724) 728-4239

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out notice other than oral proc-lamation at the time and place appointed for the sale. The Suc-cessor Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids. TERMS OF SALE: 10% cash in hand on day of sale, and the balance in cash at closing within 30 days of the date of the sale. The purchaser(s) shall pay for transfer stamps and recording fees. Additional terms of sale may be announced prior to the sale. Dated this 29th day of August, 2012. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES: Kenneth J. Barton, Jr. Austin M. Hovermale9/5/3t

TRUSTEES` SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned Trustees, by virtue of the authority vested in them by that certain deed of trust dated March 13, 2009, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virgin-ia, in Deed of Trust Book 1757, at page 105, Ronald C. Walters and Theresa T. Walters did convey unto Douglas McElwee, Trustee, certain real property described in said deed of trust; and the ben-eficiary has elected to appoint Teays Valley Trustees, LLC as substitute Trustees by a Substi-tution of Trustee recorded in the aforesaid Clerk`s Office; and de-fault having been made under the aforementioned deed of trust and the undersigned Trustees, having been instructed by the secured party to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auc-tion at the front door of the Jef-ferson County Courthouse, 100 East Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 on:

October 1, 2012At 11:00 AM

Land situated in the County of Jefferson in the State of WV All of the following real estate in Charles Town District, Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, more particularly described as, to wit: Parcel 1: Lots 8, 9, and 10 in Section 9H of the Shannondale Subdivision as said lots are de-scribed on a plat of records in the Office of the Clerks of the County Commission of said County in Deed Book 233, at Page 25, to-gether with a 10` wide “Buffer Zone” Strip in section 9H of the Shannondale Subdivision as de-scribed on a plat of record in said clerk`s Office in Deed Book 421, at page 141. Parcel 2: Lot No. 1 in Section 4 of the River View Park Subdivi-sion as said lot is described on a plat of records in said Clerk`s Of-fice in Deed Book 235, at Page 102. Commonly known as: 79 Wild Rose Ln, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

79 Wild Rose Lane, Harpers Fer-ry, WV 25425 The aforesaid property is SUBJECT TO any and all ease-ments, rights-of-way, conditions, covenants and restrictions of re-cord or in existence. The sale of the foregoing real property will be made subject to all exceptions, reservations, rights of way, easements, con-ditions, covenants, restrictions, leases and other servitudes of record, if any, pertaining to said real estate, subject to all matters disclosed by an examination and inspection of the property, subject to any and all unpaid taxes as re-corded against said property, and to any further matters announced at said sale. The property is sold subject to an accurate survey at purchaser`s expense. The sale of the foregoing real property will also be made ex-pressly subject to any and all other deeds of trust, judgments, liens, and all other encumbranc-es of any nature whatsoever, if any, having priority over the deed of trust referred to herein. The Trustees reserve the right to adjourn the sale, for a time, or from time to time, without further notice, by announcement at the time and place of sale describe above or any adjournment there-of. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Trustees shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said prop-erty. The Trustees will deliver a trustees` deed to the purchaser without any covenant or warranty (express or implied) in the form prescribed by W. Va. Code §38-1-6. The Trustees make no repre-sentations and warranties about the title of the real estate to be conveyed. If the Trustees are un-able to convey insurable or mar-ketable title to purchaser for any reason, purchaser`s sole remedy is return of deposit. TERMS OF SALE: $20,000.00 cash in hand at the time of sale in the form of a certified check or cashier`s check made payable to “Teays Valley Trustees, LLC,” and the balance in cash closing within 30 days of the date of the sale. Purchaser shall pay for transfer stamps and recording fees. Ad-ditional terms of sale may be an-

nounced prior to the sale.Teays Valley Trustees, LLC

600 A-1 Prestige ParkHurricane, West Virginia 25526

(304) 757-7956http://foreclosure.closingsource.net9/12/2t

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Jefferson County Emergency Communications invites quali-fied vendors to submit responses to submit responses to its Re-quest for Proposal (RFP) for a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Managements System (RMS) and Mobile Data System (MDS). The full RFP and sup-porting documentation can be obtained by visiting the Jefferson County website at www.jefferson-countywv.org and clicking on Bid Opportunities.9/12/2t

CORPORATION OF SHEPHERDSTOWNJEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

CONTRACT NO. 1A – STREETSCAPE REPAIRSCONTRACT NO. 1B – CONCRETE CURB IMPROVEMENTS

AUGUST 2012

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed Bids will be received by Corporation of Shepherdstown, Post Office Box 248, 104 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443, at the specified dates and times for the following work:

Contract No. 1A: Streetscape Repairs, until 1:30 P.M., L.P.T., Sep-tember 27, 2012.Contract No. 1B: Concrete Curb Improvements, until 1:30 P.M., L.P.T., September 27, 2012. The total base bid price for each contract shall include the costs for furnishing labor and materials and performing all work set forth in the Advertisement for Bids, Information for Bidders, Forms of Proposal, Drug Free Workplace Requirements, WV Job Acts Requirements, General Conditions, Supplemental General Conditions, and Plans and Detail Specifications prepared by Chapman Technical Group. Immediately following the scheduled closing time for the reception of bids, all proposals that have been submitted in accordance with the conditions of this project will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The work to be bid upon is described as follows:

Contract Nos. 1A and 1B The Project consists of streetscape repairs by removing/re-install-ing brick pavers and subgrade improvements at three (3) street inter-sections; installation of approximately 865 LF of 6” concrete curbs; and is identified as Contract Nos. 1A – Streetscape Repairs and Con-tract No. 1B – Concrete Curb Improvements; Corporation of Shep-herdstown Water System Improvements and is shown on Contract Documents prepared by Chapman Technical Group.

Construction time limit is 60 calendar days.

Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents may be examined at the following places:

Chapman Technical Group Corporation of Shepherdstown200 Sixth Avenue 104 N. King StreetSt. Albans, West Virginia 25177 Shepherdstown,West Virginia 25443 McGraw-Hill Dodge Reports The Contractor’s Association of WVVirtual Plan Room: 2114 Kanawha Boulevard Eastwww.dodge.construction.com Charleston, West Virginia 25311P-501-321-5406, F-501-625-3544

Each prospective Bidder is required to purchase a minimum of one copy of the Bidding Documents. These documents consist of plans, specifications and a bid submittal packet. The bid submittal packet pro-vides an unbound copy and listing of the items which are to be submit-ted with the Bid Plans and Specifications may be obtained by each Bid-der from the office of Chapman Technical Group, 200 Sixth Avenue, St. Albans, West Virginia 25177, telephone (304) 727-5501, upon payment of the following non-refundable deposit: $50 for Plans & Specifications. If Plans and Specifications are requested to be mailed by the Engineer, Bidders shall also pay $5.00 for the cost of shipping. Failure of any bid-der to purchase plans, specifications, and contract documents from the Engineer prior to submittal of bid will result in rejection of said bid. Each BID for each contract must be submitted in a separate sealed en-velope containing the executed Form of Proposal, and included in a larger sealed envelope containing the Bid Bond, Power of Attorney, Drug Free Workplace Conformance Affidavit, WV Job Acts Affidavit, and Contractors License. Both sealed envelopes must have the following information in the lower left hand corner for the respective contract being bid:Contract No. 1A“Name and Address of Bidder”, Corporation of Shepherdstown, Bid on Streetscape Repairs, Contract No. 1A, to be opened at 1:30 P.M., L.P.T., September 27, 2012.Contract No. 1B“Name and Address of Bidder”, Corporation of Shepherdstown, Bid on Concrete Curb Improvements, Contract No. 1B, to be opened at 1:30 P.M., L.P.T., September 27, 2012. The Contractor’s Qualification Statement form from the two (2) lowest bidders for each contract must be submitted to Chapman Tech-nical Group, P. O. Box 1355, St. Albans, West Virginia 25177, by 4:00 P.M., L.P.T., October 4, 2012. Prospective Bidders are advised that the contract awarded under this Advertisement for Bids is to be funded by a loan from the West Virginia Infrastructure Council/Water Development Authority. Neither the State of West Virginia nor any of its departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party to this Advertisement for Bids or any resulting contract. A Pre-Bid Conference shall not be held. If Contractors have ques-tions, direct them to Chapman Technical Group. Bids shall be opened and read aloud at Corporation of Shepherdstown City Hall, 104 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443. No Bid may be withdrawn for a period of ninety (90) days after the time of the opening of the Bids. Any Contractor submitting a Bid on this project hereby certifies, indicates, and acknowledges that he has a valid WV Contractor’s li-cense and meets all the qualifications required by the statutes of the State and subdivision in which the work is to be performed. The Corporation of Shepherdstown reserves the right to reject any or all Bids.

BY: Frank Welch, Public Works Director Chapman Technical Group

P.O. Box 1355St. Albans, West Virginia 25177

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT

OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

IN RE: CHANGE OFNAME PETITION OF:

SHIRLEY ANN KNOTT TO SHIRLEY ANN SMOOT;

CIVIL ACTION NUMBER:12-P-76

LEGAL NOTICE OFPUBLICATION FOR CHANGE

OF NAME PROCEEDING Notice is hereby given that on the 26th day of September 2012,

at 1:00 p.m. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard Shirley Ann Knott will apply by Petition to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing her name from Shirley Ann Knott to Shirley Ann Smoot at which time and place any interested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publication. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office: Clerk of Circuit Court, 119 North George Street, Charles Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court the 30th day of August 2012.

Laura E. Storm, Circuit ClerkJefferson County, West VirginiaBy: Becky Chalk, Deputy Clerk

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 D4

Spirit of JEFFERSON and FARMER’S ADVOCATE Legals Wednesday, September 12, 2012 B7

TRUSTEES` SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned Trustees, by virtue of the authority vested in them by that certain deed of trust dated August 19, 2011, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef‑ferson County, West Virginia, in Deed of Trust Book 1857, at page 679, Mark A. Davis did convey unto Stephen L. Thompson of Ka‑nawha County, Trustee, certain real property described in said deed of trust; and the beneficiary has elected to appoint Teays Val‑ley Trustees, LLC as substitute Trustees by a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the aforesaid Clerk`s Office; and default having been made under the aforemen‑tioned deed of trust and the un‑dersigned Trustees, having been instructed by the secured party to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Jefferson County Courthouse, 100 East Washing‑ton Street, Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 on:

October 8, 2012At 01:00 PM

All those certain parcels of real property, with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in the Ranson District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, designat‑ed and described as Lots 15, 16 and 17, Block 152 of the Charles

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Charles Town Utility Board832 South George StreetCharles Town, WV 25414

Sealed BIDS for the construction of City of Charles Town, Charles Town Utility Board, Huntfield Pump Station & Force Main, Transfer Pump Station, will be received by the Charles Town Utility Board, 832 South George Street, Charles Town, WV 25414 until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 9, 2012 then immediately publicly opened and read aloud. Sealed bids may be mailed to the noted address or hand de‑livered to the Charles Town Utility Board, Monday through Friday be‑tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. A mandatory pre‑bid conference will be held at the Charles Town Utility Board Office at 1:00 p.m., on Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Representa‑tives of the Owner and Engineer will be present to discuss the project. Attendance is mandatory. Bidders are required to at‑tend and participate in the conference. Bids are for furnishing all labor, materials, equipment, and perfor‑mance of work for the improvements to Charles Town Utility Board, Huntfield Pump Station & Force Main, Transfer Pump Station consist‑ing of the following approximate items of work: This contract consists of the construction of modifications to the existing Huntfield Sewage Pumping Station, construction of a new force main line from the Hunt‑field Pump Station to the new Tuscawilla wastewater treatment plant, and construction of a new Transfer Sewage Pump Station including the following major items: 2 – 100 HP 600 gpm Submersible Pumps; 2 – 60 HP 375 gpm Submersible Pumps; 2 Flow Meters with Vaults; 8’ x 12’ Wet Well; 6’ dia. Valve Vault; 14,060 LF of 8” C900 Class 165 PVC Force Main; 280 LF of 6” C900 Class 165 PVC Force Main; 280 LF of 4” C900 Class 165 PVC Force Main; 7 EA Air Release Valve As‑semblies; 2 EA Flushing Valve Assemblies; 170 LF of 16” Steel Cas‑ing (Bore and Jack); 175 Ton Asphalt Paving; 2 Stream Crossings; 1 Railroad Crossing and all other work necessary to complete the proj‑ect as detailed in the contract documents prepared by Rummel, Klep‑per & Kahl, LLP. All BIDS shall remain open for ninety (90) days. The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations:

City of Charles Town Reed Construction DataCharles Town Utility Board 30 Technology Parkway, Suite 500 832 South George Street Norcross, GA 30092Charles Town, WV 25414 Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, LLP Altoona Builders Exchange1 Grand Central Park, Suite 2040 1927 Union AvenueKeyser, WV 26726 Altoona, PA 16601 Contractors Association of West Virginia Construction Employers Association 2114 Kanawha Blvd., East 2611 Fairmont AvenueCharleston, WV 25311 Fairmont, WV 26554

Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS containing Contract can be obtained from the office of the Engineer, Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, LLP, 1 Grand Central Park, Suite 2040, Keyser, WV, Phone (304) 788‑3370, upon a non‑refundable payment of $200.00, plus ship‑ping charges, if any. All contractors must purchase Plans, Speci‑fications and Bid Forms from the Engineer in order to bid. A five percent (5%) Bid Bond or certified cashier’s check must ac‑company all Bids. Prospective Bidders are advised that the contract awarded under this Advertisement for Bids is to be funded by a loan through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program (CWSRF). Neither the United States nor any of its departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party to this Advertisement for Bids or any resulting contract. Bidders on this work will be required to comply with the President’s Executive Order No. 11246, which prohibit discrimination in employ‑ment regarding race, creed, color, sex, or national origin.Bidders must comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Davis‑Bacon Act, the Anti‑Kickback Act and the Contract Work Hours Standards Act. Recipient shall not entertain the use of businesses that are listed on the “Excluded Parties List System” at www.epls.gov in accordance with 2 CFR Part 1532 and Subpart B and C of 2 CFR Part 180.Per the requirements of the Article 21‑11‑11 of the Code of the State of West Virginia, any Contractor submitting a Bid on this project hereby certifies, indicates, and acknowledges that he/she has a Contractor’s license from the State of West Virginia and meets all the qualifications required by the statutes of the state and location in which the Work is to be performed. Successful Bidders shall be required to comply with all laws per‑taining to prevailing wage rates for the State of West Virginia as is‑sued by the West Virginia Division of Labor and the federal wage rates issued in accordance rate for a worker classification, the Contractor will be required to 1) identify the applicable State and Federal wage rate for the worker classification, and 2) select and pay the highest of the wage rates for the worker classification. Wage Rate Decisions are included in the Contract Documents and will be updated as required by addendum prior to bid opening date. Per the requirements of the Article 21‑1D‑5 of the Code of the State of West Virginia, any Contractor submitting a bid for a public im‑provement construction contract shall provide an affidavit of compli‑ance that the Contractor has a written plan for a drug‑free workplace policy. Failure to complete the Drug Free Workplace Conformance Affidavit Bid Form shall result in disqualification of the Bid.Compliance with all other applicable federal and state regulations is required.

Date: September 4, 2012

City of Charles TownCharles Town Utility Board

Project EngineerRummel, Klepper & Kahl, LLP

Keyser, WV 267269/5/3t

Town Mining, Manufacturing and Improvement Company`s Addi‑tion, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission, Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book X, at Page 1.Being the same property con‑veyed to Mark A. Davis by Deed from Stoler Associates, L.L.C. a Virginia Limited Liability Com‑pany recorded 06/07/2007 in Deed Book 1037 Page 149, in the Clerk`s Office of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia.

212 East 13th Avenue, Ranson, WV 25438

The aforesaid property is SUBJECT TO any and all ease‑ments, rights‑of‑way, conditions, covenants and restrictions of re‑cord or in existence. The sale of the foregoing real property will be made subject to all exceptions, reservations, rights of way, easements, con‑ditions, covenants, restrictions, leases and other servitudes of record, if any, pertaining to said real estate, subject to all matters disclosed by an examination and inspection of the property, subject to any and all unpaid taxes as re‑corded against said property, and to any further matters announced at said sale. The property is sold subject to an accurate survey at purchaser`s expense. The sale of the foregoing real property will also be made ex‑

pressly subject to any and all other deeds of trust, judgments, liens, and all other encumbranc‑es of any nature whatsoever, if any, having priority over the deed of trust referred to herein. The Trustees reserve the right to adjourn the sale, for a time, or from time to time, without further notice, by announcement at the time and place of sale describe above or any adjournment there‑of. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Trustees shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said prop‑erty. The Trustees will deliver a trustees` deed to the purchaser without any covenant or warranty (express or implied) in the form prescribed by W. Va. Code §38‑1‑6. The Trustees make no repre‑sentations and warranties about the title of the real estate to be conveyed. If the Trustees are un‑able to convey insurable or mar‑ketable title to purchaser for any reason, purchaser`s sole remedy is return of deposit. TERMS OF SALE: $13,000.00 cash in hand at the time of sale in the form of a certified check or cashier`s check made payable to “Teays Valley Trustees, LLC,” and the balance in cash closing within 30 days of the date of the sale. Purchaser shall pay for transfer stamps and recording fees. Ad‑ditional terms of sale may be an‑nounced prior to the sale.

Teays Valley Trustees, LLC600 A‑1 Prestige Park

Hurricane, West Virginia 25526(304) 757‑7956

http://foreclosure.closingsource.net

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NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE is hereby given pursuant to and by virtue of the authority vested in the Substitute Trustees, Richard A. Pill, David D. Pill, and Amanda E. Steiner, any of whom may act, by that certain Deed of Trust dated March 21, 2007, ex‑ecuted by Borrower, Frank Hardy to the Trustees, of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Book 1635, at Page 00582. Richard A. Pill, Da‑vid D. Pill, and Amanda E. Stein‑er were appointed as Substitute Trustees by APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE dated August 1, 2012, of record in the Clerk’s Office in Book 1113, at Page 21. The borrowers default‑ed under the Note and Deed of Trust and the Substitute Trustees have been instructed to foreclose under the Deed of Trust. Accord‑ingly, the Substitute Trustees will sell the following described property to the highest bidder at the front door of the Courthouse of Jefferson County, in Charles Town, West Virginia, on the fol‑lowing date:

25th day of September, 2012at 11:06 a.m.

The property is described as of that certain lot or parcel of land, together with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and being more particularly described as follows: That parcel of real estate con‑taining approximately 1.00 acre, on the east side of the Shenando‑ah River in Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, more particularly described as follows; Beginning at a stake in the center of the County Road; thence in a southerly direction 210 feet to corner of the lands of Frank Dillow, thence more or less at right angles west along the line of Frank Dillow 300 feet to a cor‑ner of the lands of said Dillow and Emanuel Dillow; thence again at more or less at right angles along the lines of the said Emanuel Dillow, north a distance of 200 feet to a corner of the lands of the said Emanuel Dillow and the County Road; thence along the said County Road a distance of 88 feet to the point of beginning.TERMS OF SALE: 1) The property wil l be conveyed in an “AS IS” physi‑cal condition by Deed containing no warranty, express or implied, subject to the Internal Revenue Service right of redemption, all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reservations, encumbranc‑es, restrictions, rights‑of‑ways, easements, covenants, convey‑ances and conditions of record in the Clerk’s office or affecting the subject property. 2) The Purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by the West Virginia Code § 11‑22‑1. 3) The Beneficiary and/or the Servicer of the Deed of Trust and Note reserve the right to sub‑mit a bid for the property at sale. 4) The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the subject property from time to time by written or oral proclamation, which continuance shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee.

5) The Trustee shall be un‑der no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said property, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the prop‑erty after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABAN‑DONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF ACCORD‑INGLY. 6) The total purchase price is payable to the Trustee by certi‑fied or cashiers check within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, with ten (10%) of the total purchase price payable to the Trustee at sale by certified or cashiers check. Given under my hand this 21st day of August, 2012.

Richard A. Pill, Substitute Trustee

David D. Pill, Substitute Trustee

Amanda E. Steiner, Substitute Trustee85 Aikens Center

Martinsburg, WV 25402(304) 263‑4971

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TRUSTEE’S SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned Substitute Trustees, by virtue of the author‑ity vested in them by that certain Deed of Trust dated November 20, 2000, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed of Trust Book 990, at Page 339, Mitchell L. Mallory and Connie B. Mallory did convey unto M. Rebecca Linton and Todd M. Beckwith, Trustees, certain real property described in said deed of trust; and the beneficiary has elected to appoint Richard A. Pill and David D. Pill as Substi‑tute Trustees by a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office; and default hav‑ing been made under the afore‑mentioned Deed of Trust, and the undersigned Substitute Trustees having been instructed by the secured party to foreclose there‑under, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Jefferson County Courthouse, in Charles Town, West Virginia, on Tuesday, September 25, 2012, at 11:00 AMthe following described real es‑tate, with its improvements, ease‑ments and appurtenances there‑unto belonging, situate in the Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows:All that certain lot or parcel of real estate situate on the east side of the Shenandoah River on the east side of West Virginia State Route 9 in the Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia and being more particu‑larly bounded and described as follows: Being all of Lot C Resi‑due containing 53.308 acres as shown on a plat made by Ap‑palachian Surveys, Inc., dated August 11, 1998, entitled “Mal‑lory Property” said plat being re‑corded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission, Jef‑ferson County, West Virginia, on April 30, 1999, in Plat Book 16, at Page 60. TOGETHER WITH a non‑exclusive 50 foot ingress/egress easement as shown on said plat for access to and from State Route 9. At the time of the execution of the deed of trust, this prop‑erty was reported to have a mail‑ing address of Route 9, Skyline Springs Corp., Harpers Ferry, WV 25425. AND BEING the same real estate which was conveyed to Mitchell L. Mallory and Connie B. Mallory, by deed dated March 17, 1997, from Nathaniel A. Back and Dorothy D. Back, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 859, at Page 333. The above‑described property will be sold subject to any cov‑enants, restrictions, easements, leases and conditions of record, and subject to any unpaid real estate taxes. The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Substitute Trustees shall be un‑der no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said property. TERMS: Ten percent (10%) of the purchase price as a cash deposit with the balance due and payable within 30 days of the day of sale.



P. O. Box 440, 85 Aikens Center, Martinsburg, WV 25404

Phone (304) 263‑4971, Fax (304) 267‑5840, e‑mail: pillfore‑


NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE is hereby given pursuant to and by virtue of the authority

vested in the Substitute Trust‑ees, Richard A. Pill, David D. Pill, and Amanda E. Steiner, any of whom may act, by that certain Deed of Trust dated December 23, 2010, executed by Borrower Stephen Settle to the Trustees, of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef‑ferson County, West Virginia, in Book 1831, at Page 703. Richard A. Pill, David D. Pill, and Aman‑da E. Steiner were appointed as Substitute Trustees by AP‑POINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE dated August 9, 2012, of record in the Clerk’s Office in Book 1113, at Page 239. The bor‑rowers defaulted under the Note and Deed of Trust and the Substi‑tute Trustees have been instruct‑ed to foreclose under the Deed of Trust. Accordingly, the Substitute Trustees will sell the following described property to the high‑est bidder at the front door of the Courthouse of Jefferson County, in Charles Town, West Virginia, on the following date:

25th day of September, 2012 at 11:09 a.m.

The property is described as of that certain lot or parcel of land, together with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in Ranson District, Jefferson Coun‑ty, West Virginia, and being more particularly described as follows: ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or parcel of real estate, with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belong‑ing, situate in Ranson District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, being more particularly bounded and described as follows: Lot 21, in Block 162, as the same is bounded and described on a plat of the lands of J. Russell Fritts, Incorporated, Block 162, in Ranson, by C.R. Atherton, C.E. recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef‑ferson County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 3, at page 72. TOGETHER WITH that cer‑tain deed of easement for the basement entrance as recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 579, at page 66. AND BEING the same parcel of real estate conveyed to the Grantors herein by Date dated December 16, 2010, from Bar‑bara Griffin and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 1088 at page 406.TERMS OF SALE: 1) The property will be con‑veyed in an “AS IS” physical con‑dition by Deed containing no war‑ranty, express or implied, subject to the Internal Revenue Service right of redemption, all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reser‑vations, encumbrances, restric‑tions, rights‑of‑ways, easements, covenants, conveyances and conditions of record in the Clerk’s office or affecting the subject property. 2) The Purchaser shall be re‑sponsible for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by the West Virginia Code § 11‑22‑1. 3) The Beneficiary and/or the Servicer of the Deed of Trust and Note reserve the right to submit a bid for the property at sale. 4) The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the sub‑ject property from time to time by written or oral proclamation, which continuance shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee. 5) The Trustee shall be un‑der no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said property, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the prop‑erty after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABAN‑DONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF ACCORD‑INGLY. 6) The total purchase price is payable to the Trustee by certi‑fied or cashiers check within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, with ten (10%) of the total purchase price payable to the Trustee at sale by certified or cashiers check. Given under my hand this 22nd day of August, 2012.




Martinsburg, WV 25402(304) 263‑4971


NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE is hereby given pursuant to and by virtue of the authority vested in the Substitute Trust‑ees, Richard A. Pill, David D. Pill, and Amanda E. Steiner, any of whom may act, by that certain Deed of Trust dated November 25, 2009, executed by Borrower, David Thompson to the Trust‑ees, of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commis‑sion of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Book 1787, at Page 475. Richard A. Pill, David D. Pill,

and Amanda E. Steiner were ap‑pointed as Substitute Trustees by APPOINTMENT OF SUC‑CESSOR TRUSTEE dated June 29, 2012 of record in the Clerk’s Office in Book 1111, at Page 547. The borrowers defaulted under the Note and Deed of Trust and the Substitute Trustees have been instructed to foreclose un‑der the Deed of Trust. Accord‑ingly, the Substitute Trustees will sell the following described property to the highest bidder at the front door of the Courthouse of Jefferson County, in Martins‑burg, West Virginia, on the fol‑lowing date:

25th day of September, 2012 at 11:03 a.m.

The property is described as of that certain lot or parcel of land, together with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in Ranson Corporation District, Jef‑ferson County, West Virginia, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot, tract, or par‑cel of land together with the im‑provements thereon and the ap‑purtenances thereunto belonging situate in the City of Ranson, Jef‑ferson County, West Virginia, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 90, Block C, Phase 1, Lakeland Place at Fair‑fax Crossing, as shown on a plat entitled “Final Plat Showing Revi‑sion of Phase 1, Block A Through E, Lakeland Place at Fairfax Crossing” made by Dewberry & Davis, LLC dated October 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virgin‑ia, in Plat Book 22, at Page 57.TERMS OF SALE: 1) The property will be con‑veyed in an “AS IS” physical con‑dition by Deed containing no war‑ranty, express or implied, subject to the Internal Revenue Service right of redemption, all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reser‑vations, encumbrances, restric‑tions, rights‑of‑ways, easements, covenants, conveyances and conditions of record in the Clerk’s office or affecting the subject property. 2) The Purchaser shall be re‑sponsible for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by the West Virginia Code § 11‑22‑1. 3) The Beneficiary and/or the Servicer of the Deed of Trust and Note reserve the right to submit a bid for the property at sale. 4) The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the sub‑ject property from time to time by written or oral proclamation, which continuance shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee. 5) The Trustee shall be un‑der no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said property, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the prop‑erty after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABAN‑DONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF ACCORD‑INGLY. 6) The total purchase price is payable to the Trustee by certi‑fied or cashiers check within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, with ten (10%) of the total purchase price payable to the Trustee at sale by certified or cashiers check. Given under my hand this 21st day of August, 2012.




Martinsburg, WV 25402(304) 263‑4971


ORDER OF PUBLICATION

FAMILY COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, WV

Charlene V. Morris, Petitioner

vs. Abraham Hadna Campbell,

Respondent; Case Number: 12‑D‑339

The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony. It appearing by af‑fidavit filed in this action that the whereabouts of Abraham Hadna Campbell are unknown. It is here‑by ordered that he serve upon Charlene Morris, 207 McDon‑ald Street, Ranson, WV 25438, an answer including any related counter claim or defense you may have to the complaint filed in this action on or before 10/05/ 2012. If you fail to do so, thereafter judg‑ment, upon proper hearing and trial, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the com‑plaint. A copy of said complaint can be obtained from the under‑signed clerk at her office. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 29th day of August, 2012.

Laura E. StormClerk of Court

By: D. PittingerDeputy Clerk

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Your County.Your Vote.

The voter’s guide to Jefferson County will be coming out in late October.

Attention political candidates!If you want to send your

message to the Jefferson County votes contact us today at the Spirit at 304-725-2046

for more information.Deadline for advertising space reservations is October 5, 2012


B8 Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Legals Spiritof JEFFERSON and FARMER’S ADVOCATE

FIDUCIARY NOTICE

The accounting of Conserva-tor by, James K. Ruland, con-servator for Maria N. Briscoe, a protected person, dated August 14, 2012, has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of Jefferson County, West Virginia.

S. Andrew ArnoldFiduciary Commissioner

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PUBLIC NOTICE

The meeting of the Medical Staff Executive Committee of City Hospital, Inc., will convene at 12:30 p.m., Friday, Septem-ber 14, 2012 in the City Hospital Board Room (8th Floor), Martins-burg, WV. This meeting is open to the public.9/12/1t

IN THE FAMILY COURT


TO: DAVID BENJAMIN, Respondent, Address

unknown; Magistrate Court Case No.: 12-D-198;

Family Court Civil Action No.: 12-DV-152ORDER OF PUBLICATION

PROTECTIVE ORDER 1. The object of this suit is to obtain protection from the Re-spondent. 2. The object of this publica-tion by Class I legal advertise-ment is to notify Respondent of the Protective Order prohibiting the above-named Respondent from having contact with certain individuals. This Order may affect property and other rights of the Respondent. Violating this Order may subject the Respondent to criminal sanctions. The Respon-dent is strongly encouraged to obtain a copy of this Protective Order from the Circuit Clerk of the county listed above. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: If appearing by evidence duly taken in this ac-tion that you could not be found in or that you have left the State of West Virginia, you are hereby notified of the Order referenced above, a copy of which may be obtained at the Jefferson County, Circuit Clerk’s office. This Protec-tive Order will remain in effect un-til September 4, 2013. The Respondent may appeal this Protective Order pursuant to W.Va. Code Section 48-27-510, within 10 days of the date the Or-der was entered. Issued this 5th day of Septem-ber, 2012 at 9:13 A.M.

Laura E. Storm, Circuit ClerkBy: A. Rickard, Deputy Clerk

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AIR QUALITY

PERMIT NOTICENotice of Intent to Approve

On June 4, 2012, Golden Tri-angle Construction applied to the WV Department of Environ-mental Protection, Division of Air Quality (DAQ) for a permit to modify a concrete batch facility located at 34 Bradstone Lane, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV. A preliminary evaluation has determined that all State and Federal air quality requirements will be met by the proposed facil-ity. The DAQ is providing notice to the public of its preliminary de-termination to issue the permit as

NOTICE OF CONSTITU-

TIONAL AMENDMENT ON 2012 GENERAL ELECTION

BALLOT

Repeal The Two Consecutive Term Limitation for Sheriffs

Amendment To repeal section three, article IX of the State Constitution which provides that a person who has been elected or who has served as a sheriff during all or any part of two consecutive terms shall be ineligible for the office of sheriff during any part of the term im-mediately following the second of the two consecutive terms, and that the person holding the office of sheriff when this section is rati-fied shall not be prevented from holding the office of sheriff during the term immediately following the term he is serving.9/12/1t

13-2938. The following increase in po-tential emissions will be autho-rized by this permit action: Par-ticulate Matter less than 10 mi-crons, 0.21 tons per year (TPY); Particulate Matter, 0.24 TPY; Car-bon Monoxide, 4.26 TPY; Volatile Organic Compounds, 7.79TPY. Written comments or requests for a public meeting must be re-ceived by the DAQ before 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 12, 2012. A public meeting may be held if the Director of the DAQ deter-mines that significant public inter-est has been expressed, in writ-ing, or when the Director deems it appropriate. The purpose of the DAQ’s permitting process is to make a preliminary determination if the proposed modification will meet all State and Federal air quality requirements. The purpose of the public review process is to ac-cept public comments on air qual-ity issues relevant to this determi-nation. Only written comments received at the address noted below within the specified time frame, or comments presented orally at a scheduled public meet-ing, will be considered prior to fi-nal action on the permit. All such comments will become part of the public record. Mindy HendricksonWV Department of Environmen-tal ProtectionDivision of Air Quality601 57th Street, SECharleston, WV 25304Telephone: 304/926-0499, ext. 1360FAX: 304/926-0478 Additional information, includ-ing copies of the draft permit, ap-plication and all other supporting materials relevant to the permit decision may be obtained by con-tacting the engineer listed above. The draft permit and engineering evaluation can be downloaded at: www.dep.wv.gov/daq/Pages/NSR2011PermitsforReview.aspx9/12/1t

TRUSTEES` SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned Trustees, by virtue of the authority vested in them by that certain deed of trust dated February 21, 2008, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virgin-ia, in Deed of Trust Book 1704, at page 675, Carl B. Butner, III

and Amber C. Ewell did convey unto Conrad Law Firm, Trustee, certain real property described in said deed of trust; and the ben-eficiary has elected to appoint Teays Valley Trustees, LLC as substitute Trustees by a Substi-tution of Trustee recorded in the aforesaid Clerk`s Office; and de-fault having been made under the aforementioned deed of trust and the undersigned Trustees, having been instructed by the secured party to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auc-tion at the front door of the Jef-ferson County Courthouse, 100 East Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 on:

October 8, 2012At 01:02 PM

ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or par-cel of real estate, with improve-ments thereon and the appur-tenances thereunto belonging, situate in Ranson District, Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, being more particularly bounded and described as follows: Lot 287, of Briar Run Phase VI-A, as the same is designated and described on a plat entitled “Final Plat Briar Run Phase VI-A Part of the Lands of Marcus En-terprises” and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission, Jefferson County, West Virginia in Plat Book 24, at Pages 15 & 15A. AND BEING the same parcel of real estate conveyed to the Grantors herein by Deed dated February 21, 2008 from Build-ers Unlimited, Inc. and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission, Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed book 1047, at page 492.

62 Fuzzy Tail Drive,Ranson, WV 25438

The aforesaid property is SUBJECT TO any and all ease-ments, rights-of-way, conditions, covenants and restrictions of re-cord or in existence. The sale of the foregoing real property will be made subject to all exceptions, reservations, rights of way, easements, con-ditions, covenants, restrictions, leases and other servitudes of record, if any, pertaining to said real estate, subject to all matters disclosed by an examination and inspection of the property, subject to any and all unpaid taxes as re-corded against said property, and to any further matters announced at said sale. The property is sold subject to an accurate survey at purchaser`s expense. The sale of the foregoing real property will also be made ex-pressly subject to any and all other deeds of trust, judgments, liens, and all other encumbranc-es of any nature whatsoever, if any, having priority over the deed of trust referred to herein. The Trustees reserve the right to adjourn the sale, for a time, or from time to time, without further notice, by announcement at the time and place of sale describe above or any adjournment there-of. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Trustees shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said prop-erty. The Trustees will deliver a trustees` deed to the purchaser without any covenant or warranty (express or implied) in the form prescribed by W. Va. Code §38-1-6. The Trustees make no repre-sentations and warranties about

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT


SCOTT COYLE, in his capac-ity as Code Official for the City of Charles Town, West Virginia, and CITY OF CHARLES TOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, a Municipal Cor-poration, vs. ANDRA TWYMAN and LETTIE TWYMAN JACKSON and X, Y and Z being all unknown persons claiming an interest in 410 S. West Street, Charles Town, West Virginia, described as lot 11, fronting 2.9 poles on Mordington Avenue, on the plat of Wm. F. Weir-ick, recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County in Deed Book S at page 117.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION The Object of the above en-titled action is to obtain an order and decree from the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, granting the condemnation and sale of the real estate at 410 S. West Street, Charles Town, WV. And it appearing by affidavit filed in this action that Andra Twy-man and Lettie Jackson Twyman are non-residents of the State of West Virginia, whose last known address were 18201 Swan Stream Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877-3848, and 925 Belaire Lane, York, PA 17404 respec-tively, and it appearing that there are or may be persons, other than those named in the Complaint as Plaintiffs and Defendants, whose names are unknown to the Plain-tiffs and who are made defen-dants by the general description of unknown defendants, claiming an interest in 410 S. West Street, Charles Town, West Virginia, de-scribed as Lot 11, fronting 2.9 poles on Mordington Avenue, on

LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE CITY OF RANSON

In accordance with W. Va. Code § 8A-7-9, the Ranson City Council will hold a public hear-ing on October 2, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. at Ranson City Hall, 312 S. Mildred Street, Ranson, WV. The purpose of the public hearing is to accept public comments on a pro-posed zoning amendment peti-tion filed by Uniwest Companies, to change the current zoning from Highway Commercial (HC) to T4, consisting of all those certain lots or parcels of real estate situated on Lots 1C and 1D of the Jef-ferson Crossing II Commercial Subdivision on Pimlico Dr., in the Corporation of Ranson, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and being more particularly identified as Tax Dist. 8, Map 8, Parcels 24.13 & 24.14, consisting of approximate-ly 5 acres more or less. Copies of the proposed zoning amendment and map are available during office hours 9:00 – 5:00 at City Hall.

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Jefferson County, West Virginia

Mission Ridge Subdivision – Site Work

The Jefferson County Com-mission is accepting sealed Pro-posals/Bids on behalf of the Mis-sion Ridge Property Owners As-sociation, Incorporated (Owner) for the completion of site work which was left unfinished by the developer at the Mission Ridge Subdivision in Jefferson County, West Virginia. The project is lo-cated on Route 9, approximately 1-1/4 miles east of the Shenan-doah River Bridge. The scope of work generally involves the placement of the as-phalt surface course on all subdi-vision streets, placement of stone shoulders, the widening and in-stallation of turn lanes on WV-DOH Route 9 at the subdivision entrance, pavement striping and temporary traffic control.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

All persons having claims against the Estate of Lelia H. White, deceased, whether due or not, are notified to exhibit same with voucher thereof legally veri-fied to the undersigned at The Of-fice, 923 S. Samuel St., Charles Town, WV, on or before the 10th day of December, 2012. Other-wise they may, by law, be exclud-ed from all benefits of said Estate. All beneficiaries of said Estate may appear on or before said day to examine said claims and other-wise protect their interest. Given under my hand this 10th day of Setpember, 2012.

June K. JovanellyFiduciary Commissioner

Jefferson County, WV9/12/2t

the title of the real estate to be conveyed. If the Trustees are un-able to convey insurable or mar-ketable title to purchaser for any reason, purchaser`s sole remedy is return of deposit. TERMS OF SALE: $21,000.00 cash in hand at the time of sale in the form of a certified check or cashier`s check made payable to “Teays Valley Trustees, LLC,” and the balance in cash closing within 30 days of the date of the sale. Purchaser shall pay for transfer stamps and recording fees. Ad-ditional terms of sale may be an-nounced prior to the sale.

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the plat of Wm. F. Weirick, record-ed in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County in Deed Book S at Page 117, it is ordered that Andra Twy-man and Lettie Twyman Jackson and each unknown defendant do serve upon Braun A. Hamstead, Plaintiffs’ attorney, whose ad-dress is 113 Fairfax Boulevard, Charles Town, WV 25414, an answer or other defense to the complaint filed in this action on or before October 15, 2012, oth-erwise, judgment by default will be taken against you at any time thereafter. Entered by the Clerk of the Court this 10th day of September, 2012.

Laura E. StormClerk of the Court

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A mandatory pre-bid confer-ence will be held on Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at 10:00 A.M. (local prevailing time) in the Jefferson County Commission Meeting Room, located in the Charles Town Library, basement side entrance, at 200 East Wash-ington Street, Charles Town, WV. The detailed scope of work and bidding requirements may be obtained from the Jefferson County Engineering Department, 116 East Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia, 25414, Phone: 304-728-3257; or viewed on the Jefferson County web page at: www.jefferson-countywv.org9/12/1t

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CACAPON STATE PARK — Low medalist Patrick Glenn carded a nine-hole round of 41 over the Cacapon State Park lay-out as Jefferson trimmed Berke-ley Springs, 193-200, in a golf match played last Thursday. The other Jefferson scores that

counted toward the team total were turned in Bryce Lusbaugh (48), Quentin Foust (48), and Zach Johnston (56). The Indians had Rhett Beddow (46), Chase Bowers (48), Chris DeVeling (52), and Corey Osborne (54) as their top four players.

Washington’s golfers were led by the nine-hole round of 34 turned in by low medal-ist Ryan Mumaw when they grouped together to defeat visiting St. Maria Goretti at the Locust Hill course outside Charles Town. Mumaw’s under-par round actually set a Wash-ington High scoring record for nine holes. Also count-ing toward Washington’s team total of just 154 were Robert Fleming (38), Dylan Mumaw (39), and Patrick Burgess (43). Jacob Shuff had a round of 47 and Ryan Fleming carded a 49.

The Gaels had a team total of 196 and were paced on the afternoon by Mike DiMercu-rio (42) and Nik Steiner (44). Ryan Mumaw and Robert Fleming both carded nine-hole rounds of 38 when the Patriots defeated visiting Martinsburg, 158-238. last Thursday at Lo-cust Hill. Patrick Burgess had a round of 40 and Ryan Fleming fin-ished his nine holes with a score of 42. The two Washington indi-vidual scores that were not in-volved in the team total came from Dylan Mumaw (43) and Jacob Shuff (45).

MARTINSBURG — With Essence Underwood account-ing for 19 points, Sophia Foster 10 kills, Karli Boober eight kills and 13 digs, Alexus Bonner 18 assists and eight service points, and Keisha Nunn 19 digs, Mar-tinsburg’s volleyball team was able to deal visiting Jefferson a 3-1 loss in a match played in the Martinsburg Field House on Tuesday of last week. Jefferson had Miranda Day with 18 digs and Molly Langland with 12 digs, 12 assists, and three service aces. The game scores saw Mar-tinsburg start off winning Game

One, 25-23. After the Lady Cou-gars evened the match by win-ning Game Two, Martinsburg came back to win Game Three (25-17) and Game Four (25-17) to wrap up the match win. Martinsburg evened its record at 1-1 and Jefferson was 1-2 with the loss. When Jefferson traveled to Winchester to face homestanding James Wood, the Lady Cougars couldn’t match the Lady Colonels and fell in three straight games. The game scores favoring James Wood were 25-13, 25-14, and 25-9. The Lady Cougars were 1-3 overall.

INWOOD — Unbeaten Mus-selman was forceful in all three games of its shutout, 3-0, vol-leyball win over visiting Wash-ington. The 7-0-0 Lady Applemen demonstrated their power and talent taking the first game (25-11) and following that success with wins in Game Two (25-13) and Game Three (25-11). Taylor Lord had 18 kills and 13 digs for the Lady Applemen. Washington was most com-

petitive in the second game where it once trailed only 6-5 before Musselman erupted to score 19 of the next 27 points. Amanda Sosnicki and Bea-ta Lienhard both had their best games of the night for Washing-ton in Game Two. Washington was 0-2 with the loss. Last Thursday, the Patriots were at home and faced She-rando High from Stephens City, Va. The Warriors won the even-

ly-played match, 3-2, to give Washington an 0-3 overall re-cord. On Monday, the Patriots couldn’t solve their own serv-ing problems nor could they keep visiting James Wood from scoring well when the Lady Colonels were serving. The re-sult was a 3-0 James Wood win with the game scores being 25-17, 25-17, and 25-19 favor-ing the Virginians. The Patriots were 0-4 and the Lady Colonels were 5-1 overall.

MARTINSBURG — Jefferson won its fourth girls soccer match in five matches this season when it defeated Martinsburg, 5-2, last Tuesday at Cobourn Field. Rachel Ransom was the night’s most prolific scorer when she to-taled three goals. Haley DeBaugh wasn’t far behind in the scoring column when she posted a pair of Jefferson goals. Jessica Shakesprere had two Jef-ferson High assists and Kiersten Barnholt also was credited with a pair of Lady Cougar assists. Mad-die Hinkle had a Jefferson assist as the Lady Cougars moved their overall record to 4-1-0. Jefferson goalkeeper Shelbie Spenser was credited with six saves against the Lady Bulldog offense. Mercersburg Academy opened its girls soccer season success-fully when it got two goals from Paige Wolny and a goal from Ka-tie Miller that helped it defeat visiting Jefferson, 3-0. The Blue Storm attempted 22 shots while the Lady Cougars had 11 shots at Mercersburg Acade-my goalkeeper Teal Tasker, who was credited with five saves. Jefferson had a 4-2-0 record following the match.

BOB MADISON Spirit Staff

One of the most popular race tracks in the land is Saratoga, an old-line expanse where the first races were held in 1862. Where the grandstand is basical-ly the same structure it was 150 years ago. Where the immacu-late dirt course is watched with experienced eyes and the two turf courses are nestled around a large infield lake that hosts Can-ada geese and even a tame white duck or two. The six weeks of the annual Saratoga meeting extended this summer from July 20-September 3 and gave those picnicking under the massive oaks behind the long grandstand just what they wanted -- a relaxing afternoon of unhur-ried pleasure and a chance to see some of the best jockeys, trainers, and thoroughbreds in the country. For all the Todd Pletchers, Chad Browns, and Steve As-mussens (among the trainers at The Spa), Ramon Dominguez-es, Javier Castellanos, and John-ny Velazquezes (among the jock-eys there), and Stonestreet Sta-bles, Repole Stables, and Phipps Stables (among the well-heeled owners) there are still a few crews and riders trying to claw their way toward the upper reach-es of the Sport of Kings. A thoroughbred which was in that clawing-upward category was the nearly-white gelding, Sports-writer. A three-year-old whose niche hadn’t been established. Sportswriter had been tried on the dirt in sprints by his sec-ond trainer (little-known Rudy Rodriguez) and second owners (equal parts of the “everyman” racing scene, Michael Dubb and Michael Imperio). The almost-white Sportswriter couldn’t last on the lead in most of those dirt course sprints. But he was a stakes horse. His talent was easily seen. Trainer Rodriguez believed the owners when they told him Sportwriter’s

best surface could be the grass. His closest relatives were best on the grass. At Saratoga, on August 8, Sportswriter would justify the log-ic and reasoning his owners and their trainer had pieced together. He was entered in the $100,000 Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Stakes series. The distance was seven furlongs. There was some evidence the grey winner of three lifetime rac-es in 11 tries just might not favor the grass, either. His lone start in 2012 on that surface saw him plod home sixth in the New York Stallion Series Spectacular Bid division. But that race was on a yielding course labeled only as “good” and it was at Belmont Park on Long Island. The firm course at Saratoga might suit him better. Afterall, the sixth-place mishap was his only finish worst than third in all seven of his starts this year. King Kreesa, a winner in his last two stakes races, was the crowd’s betting favorite. Strategy had been hatched that Sportswriter would not sprint to the lead, but would be held in check for a possible “one run” in the stretch that might overtake the race’s leaders and send him off to the winner’s circle. Some of the planning was ne-gated right at the outset when Sportswriter was brushed com-ing out of the starting gate and recovered only well enough to still be in last place in the early furlongs. But he was only about five lengths off the lead and was helped by Castellano’s ability to get him to the rail where he could save ground. He moved past one horse as the pacesetters fled through the backstretch and neared the curve leading to the home stretch. Cas-tellano saved ground near the hedge as the thoroughbreds were steered around the bend. Once the home stretch opened

Sportswriter finds his grass niche at Saratoga

to the field, Catellano left the rail and set after King Kreesa, now in front by three lengths after biding his time in a stalking position. It was Sportswriter, joined for a few moments by Sleepy Freud, moving to the leader. And then the crowd of about 15,000 gave throat to a louder sound when the grey took a short lead over the betting favorite. King Kreesa was not wilting. He inched back in front about 70 yards from the wire. But the mo-mentum given Sportswriter by Castellano continued, carrying the twosome ahead again. The last surge had been energy enough to win the duel by a neck. Back in the winner’s circle, trainer Rodriguez waited a few minutes for his young daughter to get to the light-hearted celebra-tion. When she bounded into the enclosure, the photographs the aforementioned horsemen would find to be routine were met with the upraised arms of enthusiasm from the two owners, trainer Ro-driguez, his daughter, and a few other smiling faces. The “little guys” had won a race at The Spa. A thoroughbred whose on-track history had been almost exclusively on dirt racing surfaces had won an important race on the grass. The win was Sportswriter’s first stakes success. Back in the tree-shaded pic-nic area where hundreds of fami-lies still munched on their fried chicken, and apple pie, and drank their New York “tea” all was still leisurely and slow-paced. Saratoga had just seen a first-time stakes winner. But there were six more races on the af-ternoon card . . . and the geese were waddling through the large infield chasing June bugs and en-joying the sunshine.

Patriots kept off balance by Musselman, James Wood, Sherando volleyball

Martinsburg prevails over Jefferson volleyball

Glenn paces Jefferson golf team win over Indians

TOD MARKSSportswriter made a charge through the stretch to win the Cab Calloway Stakes at Saratoga in mid-August.

After going undrafted in the June NBA selection process of free agents, Kevin Jones (four-year WVU forward who last played in the 2011-12 sea-son) has formally signed a three-year contract with the

league’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The $2.2 million deal guar-antees Jones $50,000 and he would earn the league mini-mum of $450,000 if he makes the team roster for the 2012-13 season.

Ransom nets three, DeBaugh two in soccer win over Bulldogs

Kevin Jones gets Cavaliers contract

Low scores spice Patriot golf victory

ANDREW WILT

James Wood visited Washington on Monday and defeated the Patriots, 3-0, despite this set by a Patriot player.

Four games they lost for the Temple Cup Four games right from the start So Cleveland ends with ache in back And anguish in its heart Oh, where is Cleveland’s pennant pole? In the town of oyster stew And where’s the gol-darned Temple Cup? Afraid we got that, too —Ode to the 1896 Champion Baltimore Orioles after they swept the Cleveland Spiders 4-0. The Temple Cup was a cup awarded to the winner of a best-of-seven, post-season championship series in the National League, from 1894–1897.

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STEPHENS CITY, Va. — After falling to West Virginia schools Martinsburg and Mus-selman in its first two games of the season, Sherando got its first win of the 2012 campaign when it defeated a third West Virginia school -- Washington -- on Fri-day at Arrowhead Stadium. In winning, 41-7, the Warriors rushed for over 400 yards and had their defense intercept three Washington passes. Both teams had 1-2 overall re-cords after the first three weeks of the season. Washington has an open date this week. Sherando managed to score touchdowns with its first three possessions. Washington’s only score came on a 10-yard pass from Patric Baylor to Michael Grant. With Sherando in front, 21-7, play had to be suspended because lightning was sighted. When the game resumed, She-rando’s Taylor Loudan (255 rush-ing yards on 13 carries) scored

again on a 42-yard run. Loud-an had an earlier touchdown on a 27-yard screen pass from Reid Entsminger. Minutes later, Loudan raced 74 yards to the Patriot one. George Aston scored from there. A 46-yard interception return by Sherando’s Joe Daley carried all the way to the Washington one. Aston scored again on an-other very short run. Loudan’s third touchdown (from 21 yards away) finalized the 41-7 count. Sherando stayed with its rush-ing offense throughout the sec-ond half. Isaiah Williams did the bulk of the work for Coach Bill Hall’s team. Williams had 95 yards on 13 tries in the second half. Trailing by a significant mar-gin limited the number of options the Patriots had to get back into the game. Other than Grant’s TD catch in the early going, the Pa-triots couldn’t score again.

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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION — The first quarter had only min-utes left before it ended. Mill-brook already had three touch-downs in its game against Jeffer-son. After halftime, the Pioneers scored another three touchdowns in the third quarter alone. In all, the once-beaten Pio-neers had eight touchdowns be-fore the mandatory fourth quar-ter was played . . . and they even-tually left Jefferson High was a 55-6 win over the Cougars. Millbrook had been doused in an opening loss to Tuscarora (Va.) and then defeated Broad-way by two touchdowns. Jeffer-son had been involved in a 52-7 loss at Woodgrove and then had beaten Mountain Ridge (Md.) by a 40-12 count to even its record. Mistakes and an inability to ever disrupt Millbrook’s offense helped ruin the Cougars in their bout with Millbrook. And then Millbrook generally controlled Jefferson’s offense, yielding only

a 65-yard touchdown pass from Andrew King to Geoff Walker in finishing with its seven-touch-down margin of victory. A poor snap when the Cougars tried to punt on their first posses-sion led directly to a 7-0 lead for the Pioneers. It wasn’t long be-fore Millbrook quarterback Jus-tin Neff was involved in his sec-ond score when he found Taylor James with a 13-yard pass. Millbrook’s successful onside kick was made into a 35-yard scoring march after Justin An-derson had a ground-covering 27-yard run. The first period closed with Millbrook holding a 21-0 lead. T. J. Bruce took an eight-yard pass from Neff for one of Mill-brook’s second-quarter scores. Walker scored for Jefferson and then Neff threw nine yards to James to let the Pioneers leave the field to the Jefferson band at halftime with a 34-6 lead. Three more touchdowns with

Millbrook scores early and often


When it was early and Shep-herd trailed American Interna-tional, it was a fumble recovery by its special teams on a muffed punt by the Yellow Jackets that provided the Rams’ first points. On the first play after the game resumed following a driving rain storm, another Shepherd special team blocked a short field goal, keeping the score tied. Later, Corey Washington blocked a punt that was turned into a quick touchdown. In the fourth quarter, the Rams blocked another field goal. And with its defense giving the Rams fortunate field position with Washington’s interception return and another fumble recov-ery after Yellow Jacket quarter-back Kevin Arduino had his arm whacked while trying to pass,

Shepherd had all its points in a 34-7 win in its first home game of the 2012 season at Ram Sta-dium. Special teams and defense. Lightning and pelting rain. And a crucial blocked field on the first play following the unsettling thunder storm that drove nearly everybody to shel-ter in rest rooms, Sara Cree Hall, the press boxes, the Rams Den, and the Kenneth Boone locker rooms. American International was playing its first game. After tak-ing a quick-strike seven-point lead on the same sort of pass pat-tern that had been used success-fully against the Rams the week before by Shippensburg, the Yel-low Jackets were stung them-selves by four turnovers and the

ADAM HOLSTON

Jefferson receiver Darrod Doleman gets yardage against Millbrook.

WILLIAM RANSOM

Shepherd wide receiver Bobby Brown catches a 16-yard touchdown pass from Bobby Cooper in the Rams’ 34-7 win over American International.

Patriots, Cougars come up empty in losses

Joe Kelley’s 1909 American Tobacco Company baseball card. He was a player/manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League. He played with the Maple Leafs through 1910 and managed the Maple Leafs from 1912 to 1914, winning a pen-nant in 1912.

Captain of the original ‘dream team’


Colleges often tout their football team’s three-year lettermen. A player has done well enough on the field to show the playing time needed to earn a letter in his first three years on the team. Finding a player with three undergraduate degrees in just three years is a sports infor-mation director’s dream come true. Dewey McDonald started his academic/football days at Fair-mont State in August of 2009. He had been a three-sport ath-lete at Jefferson High, play-ing a pivotal role on a football team that had an undefeated regular season as well as do-ing very well in basketball and track and field. As a senior, he was a Class AAA state cham-pion in both the high jump and as a member of the winning 4x100 relay team. McDonald became Fair-mont’s starting free safety as a freshman. His season-ending credentials were such that he was named to the All-WVIAC first-team defense. And he was excelling in the

Degrees in hand, McDonald now has a cast on his arm

Joe Kelley’s ‘swagger’ helped lead the Orioles to three world championships

As the Baltimore Orioles con-tinue their improbable run for the American League Pennant, it is time to pay homage to one of the greatest Orioles to ever play the game — Joe Kelley. Kelley was known by many nicknames during his Hall of fame baseball career. Swaggering. Kingpin. Handsome Joe. Cheater. Adored by the ladies, loved by the fans, hated by umpires and despised by sportswriters, Kel-ley played major league baseball for 17 years, from 1891 to 1908,

amassing a .317 lifetime batting average, 1,194 RBIs, 65 home runs — this was the dead ball era of baseball — and 443 stolen bases. He batted over .300 for 11 consecutive years, with a high of .393 in 1894. His 194 triples ranks ninth all-time 104 years after retiring from the game. He once had nine consecutive hits in a doubleheader, with the last four hits being doubles off of the pitching arm of Cy Young. As an outfielder, he had a .955 lifetime fielding percentage.

And it took him 63 years to make it to the Hall of fame. Kelley played for a slew of teams during his career — the Boston Beaneaters, Pittsburgh Pi-rates, Baltimore Orioles, Brook-lyn Superbas, Cincinnati Reds,

classroom as well. McDonald attended summer school where he took six hours. As a sophomore, the 6-foot-1, 205-pound safety was again one of the conference’s most pro-ductive players. He was recog-nized again as a first-team All-WVIAC defensive player. In the classroom, where he was concentrating on courses in busi-ness and marketing, McDonald made all “A’s”, save one “B”. His second summer at Fair-mont saw him take a 12-hour course load. The stellar work in the many

classrooms had made McDon-ald an Academic All-America as recognized by the NCAA. Back for the 2011 football season, McDonald and fellow Jefferson High classmate Ry-land Newman (also a starter in the Fighting Falcon secondary) were juniors. WVIAC teams had already seen too much of McDonald to be lulled into thinking he was a player they could pick on for passing success. Opponents went away from

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Dewey McDonald (21) will miss the 2012 season with a broken arm.

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Boston Doves and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League as a player/manager — but it was his time with the Ori-oles that was legendary. Kelley, along with hall-of-famers John “Mugsy” McGraw, “Wee” Willie Keeler and Hugh-ie Jennings, was a key part of the “Big Four,” the nucleus of the renowned 1894-1895-1896 world champion Baltimore Ori-oles. Along with his teammates, Kelley was instrumental in de-veloping many innovations seen in today’s game. And, like the majority of play-ers back then, they weren’t above cheating. Among the innovations was the renowned “Baltimore Chop,” where the ball is hit forcefully into the ground near home plate, producing a bounce high above the head of a fielder. This gives the batter time to reach first base safely before the ball can be fielded. To help facilitate the bounce, the groundskeeper would bury a hard concrete-like substance at a

strategic point in front of home plate to make the ball bounce even higher than normal. This made it possible to get a double off of the play. Hiding balls in the outfield was another ruse used by Kel-ley and his teammates. The groundskeeper at Baltimore’s Union Park was told to keep the grass high in the outfield. A visiting player would hit into the deep underbrush, and Kelley or one of the outfield-ers would come up with one of the planted balls, hold the hit to a single or cut down the base runner at second. The ploy worked until an in-famous game against the St. Louis Browns. When St. Lou-is’s Tommy Dowd hit a ball to left center field, the run-ner at first, Joe Quinn, ran to third. Using a hidden ball, Kel-ley threw him out. But just as the single umpire was about to call Quinn out, fellow outfield-er Steve Brodie, who had pur-sued the real ball to the fence, whipped it in, botching the in-side play. After an argument, the umpire forfeited the game to St. Louis. Kelley responded with Irish wit when asked about playing dirty

baseball. “We bathe as much as the next and this talk is all non-sense. The Baltimore boys only defend themselves when playing against teams that treat us mean, especially that bunch from Cin-cinnati.” Kelley was no fan of umpires. Before a game, an umpire asked to borrow his pocket watch. Lat-er in the game, with Kelley at bat, the umpire called a strike. Kelley, infuriated at the call, got into a heated argument with the umpire and forgetting that the pocket watch was his, pulled it out of the umpire’s pocket, threw it on the ground and stomped on it. The umpire laughed and re-sponded, “Not only are you out of here, Kelley, you’re an id-iot. That was your watch you stomped on.” One of his antics even drew the ire of sportwriters. As a fa-vorite player of ladies in his time, he would sometimes pull a comb and mirror out of his pock-et between plays to groom him-self, much to his admirer’s de-light. In reality, it was a shrewd tactic, as the mirror would stay in his hand and he would shine sunlight in the eyes of the batter. Kelley was also involved in a play that is possibly the only

time a fair ball was hit over the fence for an out instead of a home run. The night before a game, a windstorm blew the outfield fence down at Union Park. Work-ers managed to repair most of the fence before the game, but part of the fence was still sloping at a 45- degree angle. A hard-hit ball went soaring over Kelley’s head. Kelley never stopped as he raced after the ball, running straight up the slope, and catching the ball as he tumbled over the fence. In a 1923 interview, John McGraw had this to say about his former teammate: “Joe had no prominent weakness. He was fast on the bases, could hit the ball hard and was as graceful an out-fielder as one would care to see.

He covered an immense amount of ground and had the necessary faculty, so prominent in [Tris] Speaker and others, of being able to place himself where the batter would likely hit the ball.” After he retired, Kelley was all but forgotten to the annals of baseball history. Although he died on Aug. 14, 1943, he saw John McGraw get elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937 and Willie Keeler get elected in 1939. Two years after his death, Hughie Jen-nings was elected to the Hall. His adoring wife, Margaret Mahon Kelley, waited patiently all her life for her husband to receive the ultimate honor. Unfortunate-ly, she died shortly before he was honored by the Old-Timers Com-mittee in 1971.

My great-grandfather, Joseph J. Kelley Jr. had this to say about his father at the 1971 induction ceremony: “Mr. Commission-er, ladies and gentlemen, on be-half of my brother, my children and most of our grandchildren who are all sitting out in the au-dience today, we wish to ex-press our deep appreciation to the Old-Timers Committee for placing my father in the Hall of fame. We have just one re-gret and that is that my blessed mother could not be here today for she lived her life waiting patiently for this wonderful oc-casion, but died just two years ago at the age of 93.” “Swaggering” Joe Kelley. One of the best baseball players. Ever.

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TOP: The “Big Four”, clockwise, from top left: “Wee” Willie Keeler, John “Mugsy” McGraw, Hughie Jennings and Joe Kelley.

ABOVE: Joe Kelley (middle) shortly before his death with sons Ward (left) and Joe Kelley Jr. (right)

RIGHT: Joe Kelley was the slugger of the famed “Big Four.” He batted fourth in a lineup that saw bat-ters one through four all reach the Baseball Hall of Fame. PHOTO COURTESY BABE RUTH MUSEUM

PHOTO COURTESY MARY J. KRAUSE

PHOTO COURTESY ROBERT SMITH

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its first three possessions of the second half had Millbrook sail-ing along with a 55-6 cushion. There had been a successful pass completion from punt formation. Rze Culbreath had intercepted King. And another high snap on an attempted punt had been ac-cepted in Jefferson’s end zone for the eighth touchdown in 32 min-utes. Jefferson’s first home date had been soured by the free-scor-ing Pioneers. This week, Dun-bar High from Washington, D. C. gives the Cougars a second home game on Friday at 7 p.m. The Crimson Tide is already 3-0 and unscored upon and has post-ed wins of 39-0 over McKinley (Washington, D. C.), 28-0 over Oxon Hill, and 34-0 over Op-tions.

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three blocks the Shepherd spe-cial teams continually provided. Shepherd had no turnovers. So devastating had Shepherd’s special teams been, that the Rams had a 28-7 team by the half. At the half, American International

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the two-time all-conference play-er. With statistics that saw one in-terception in 11 games, McDon-ald was a second-team all-confer-ence selection last season. Even with one interception, he still had 73 tackles, five pass breakups, and four tackles for lost yardage. During this past summer, there was an 18-hour course load . . . and when the school term was ended, McDonald had three un-dergraduate degrees. In business management. In marketing. In sports management. There was the fourth year of football (and possibily a profes-sional career) if the much-deco-rated scholar wanted it. He would take his 3.94 cumulative grade point average to course work that would lead to a graduate degree in business administration. Fairmont had rallied to a 7-4 overall record in 2011. Enthusi-asm had arisen in place of the or-dinary seasons that had come be-fore. Fairmont was scheduled to play Clarion (Pa.) in its 2012 football opener. But McDonald wouldn’t get to play. In a scrimmage just days be-fore the Sept. 1 game with Clar-ion, McDonald suffered a bro-ken arm. He was on the sidelines when the Golden Eagles trimmed Fairmont, 7-0, in the opener. It is likely McDonald will miss the entire 2012 season, ac-cepting a medical redshirt waiv-er that will allow him to play his fourth year of eligibility in 2013. Three undergraduate degrees in three years. A 3.94 grade point average. And now work toward a graduate degree with an arm in a cast. The NCAA loves to tout its ac-ademic successes. And Dewey McDonald is a true academic success. All “A’s”, save one “B”. And a two-time first-team All-WVIAC selection as a safety as well.

Off the tee On Sept. 6, the Sleepy Hol-low Ladies played golf through a light, pleasant rain. The game of the day was “Drivin’ Miss Daisy” (front or back) minus handicap. Maggie Whitehair won with a 27. Debbie De-Leonardo placed second with a 31 and Lynne Wiseman fin-

ished third with a 33. Deb-bie DeLeonardo won Dai-ly Putts with 16. The Senior Club Championship scheduled for Sept. 13 is postponed until Sept. 20 due to an annual high school invitational to be played at Sleepy Hollow. The ladies must exit the course by 1 p.m. The last day of golf for the year will be Sept. 27 and a fun, nine-

hole tournament will be played and then pizza, chef salad, sweets, etc. will be shared. AT-TENTION: all women consid-ering playing golf are welcome to join in the group’s festivities that day. Please contact Maggie Whitehair at (304) 725-7765 or Dot Sager (304) 725-4439 if you plan to attend.

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had four more first downs than did the Rams. There had been 34 yards rushing and 124 yards passing on Shepherd’s side. In addition to its mostly stagnate offense, the Rams had already been penalized six times of the even dozen infractions that would be walked off against them. Yet, Shepherd sat atop a 28-7 lead.

When the special teams weren’t delivering field position or blocks against American In-ternational’s kicking game, the Shepherd defense was quick to provide an interception and fumble recovery close to the Yellow Jacket end zone. Much of the second half was played under leaden skies that dumped more rain on the hud-dled crowd and the getting-

soaked teams. Shepherd didn’t allow any more points, recover-ing another fumble and limiting the Massachusetts-based visi-tors to only seven first downs. Robert Hayes had blocked a field goal. Dominique Dix-on had caused Arduino’s early fumble. Washington intercepted Arduino just before Shepherd’s third score. And Washington blocked a punt just before Shep-

herd’s fourth score. Dom Tolson recovered a fum-ble when the Yellow Jackets made a third-quarter threat. And the final special teams contri-bution came when another field goal was snuffed in the second half. All in all, it was a Shepherd win made by special delivery by the special teams and the de-fense.

When & Where, an area senior women’s volleyball team, has quali-fied for the National Senior Games by winning its age group tournament in Charleston. The next National Games will take place from July 20-Aug. 1, 2013, Cleveland, OH. Area attorney, Homer Speaker, qualified for next year in the men’s racketball age 60 bracket at a tournament hosted by Shepherd University. Howard Mann and Gary Phalen both qualified in a so-called “open state” in the men’s age 65 basketball division. Richard Durham qualified at Charleston in swimming and is going to the Cleveland-based national event. The When & Where senior volleyball team finished first in a tourna-ment held in Charleston that qualified it for the 2013 National Senior Games in Cleveland, OH. Team members shown in this photo are Rob-erts Cole, Debbie Hart, Donna Yost, Marti Glassford, Patti Moore, Sha-ron Rife, and Diane Brock.

Senior volleyball team qualifies for National Games

SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— Five goals were scored in the second half of last Tuesday’s boy’s soccer match featuring Jefferson and Martinsburg. Those goals came after only one goal had been scored in the first half. Six goals were scored on the night. And both sides had three of them as the match ended in a 3-3 tie. Jefferson was 1-1-4 in its six matches this season and Martinsburg was 3-0-4 in its seven matches.

The visiting Bulldogs held a precar-ious 1-0 lead at the half. But the Cou-gars notched three of the next four goals to move temporarily ahead, 3-2. When the Bulldogs scored the last goal of the match, the score would re-main knotted at 3-3 until the end. Brett Stuart, Austin Ogden, and Tucker Ryan had the three Jefferson goals. Ogden was credited with an as-sist on Ryan’s goal and Austin Dough-ty had an assist on Ogden’s goal.

Myles Newhouse scored the match’s only goal when Washington defeated visiting Elkins, 1-0, in boy’s soccer on Saturday at Marcus Stadium. The victory moved Washington’s overall re-cord to 2-2-1 and left the Tigers with a 5-3-1 overall mark. The match was scoreless at halftime before Newhouse scored early in the second half. Washington goalkeeper Ted Kowalski helped keep the Tigers at bay and off the scoreboard with a number of saves in both halves. It wasn’t as if the game was without scoring

opportunities for both teams because shot-at-tempts cropped up throughout the 80 minutes of play. Elkins’ goalkeeper also made a number of sig-nificant stops. But in the second half, the Patriots swarmed Tyler Gray with shots and Newhouse sent his try past the fast-moving Elkins’ goal-keeper. The Washington defense didn’t allow any goals. Kowalski and company kept Elkins from scoring. And the 1-0 win evened the Patriots’ re-cord after five matches.

Cougars vs. Bulldogs ends in boys’ soccer tie

ADAM HOLSTON

Jefferson and Martinsburg played to a 3-3 tie that left the Cougars with an overall record of 1-1-3.

Patriots blank Elkins, 1-0ANDREW WILT

Tim Goben (17) and Daniel Bouchoc (10) are met by two Elkins players in Washington’s 1-0 win over the Tigers.

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