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Jefferson College of Health Sciences and Virginia Western Community College continue to strengthen ties between the two institutions. The most recent evidence of this was an articulation agreement signed last week that will allow Virginia Western grad-uates to have a guaran-teed slot at Jefferson College, which is now located at the former Carilion Com-munity Hospital site. Carilion still offers urgent care there and JCHS students get on-the-job training as well. The school offers four year degrees in nursing and other health care fields.

The articulation agreement pertains to the Healthcare Management Program at JCHS, which will enable VWCC graduates with associate’s degrees to transfer without a hitch. Virginia Western al-ready has such agreements in place with other colleges and universities around the state.

VWCC president Bobby Sandel joined Jefferson College president Nathaniel L. (NL) Bishop for a signing ceremony,

flanked by other offi-cials and students. The two schools previously put an articulation agreement in place for a nursing program, so that Virginia Western graduates could pur-sue a four-year degree at JCHS.

“We anticipate that this agreement will be the first of many that we

will undertake,” said Bishop of the docu-ments he and Sandel were about to sign. “I look forward to these collaborations.” The Healthcare Management Program focuses on leadership skills for those that look to land administrative roles in the field. Having “more well trained health care professionals,” sent out into the

workforce is the goal for both schools, according to Bishop, and working together makes that more of a reality.

“We’ve been developing a closer and closer relationship with Virginia West-ern Community College over the last couple of years,” said Bishop after he and Sandel signed pa-pers and shook hands. The two

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The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets will be repre-sented at the NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville on April 1 by the regimental band, the Highty-Tighties. The band has been invited to perform the national anthem prior to the start of the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race and will be marching on the race track.

“We are excited to share our music and Hokie pride with Martinsville,” stated Band Cadet Commander, Cadet Maj. Jonathan Corns of Critz, VA., a senior majoring in history in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and pursuing a minor in leadership studies who is enrolled in Army ROTC. Corns is a recipient of the

Agility Dogs Put Best Paw Forward In Yearly Show

Dogs dodged raindrops as they jumped through hoops, ran through tunnels, and weaved through polls on their way to the finish line in the annual Star City Canine Club Agility Trial held at Hollins University last weekend. Rain poured down for the majority of the 3-day event. Last year, the canines and their hu-mans had to contend with snow and ice.

Anne Marie Green from Salem competed with Bella, her 3-year-old Sheltie.Green says her family was watching an agility trial on ESPN2 and the children

wanted another dog after theirs had died. “There was a Sheltie going through the weave polls. My son said, ‘I’d like to

have that kind of dog’, and I said, ‘I think I would, too’. . .So we got her (Bella) and then we took the basic classes, Puppy Kindergarten and Obedience and stuff at Star City Canine and then started taking agility with them, too.”

[Education]

Legislative Breakfast Mood Mirrors Richmond

The tension in Richmond for the most part did not openly carry over to Friday’s 2012 leg-islative breakfast, though one could hear in-klings of it if listening closely.

The breakfast is held annually by the Roa-noke Valley Chamber of Commerce. On the dais were senators Ralph Smith and John Edwards and delegates Nick Rush, Greg Ha-beeb, Charles Poindexter, Onzlee Ware and Chris Head.

Chamber CEO John Francis wondered why legislators could not get their act together on transportation funding saying, “unfortunately little progress was made this year in finding long term solutions to adequately fund our growing list of transportation infrastructure.”

Part of that list included extending Amtrak to Roanoke and legislation that would provide more access to capital for small businesses. President Joyce Waugh asked questions sub-mitted by some of the 100 attendees.

Del. Chris Head (R-17) while not pointing fingers at the Senate took the opportunity to bemoan the failure to pass a budget and ap-point judges by the end of the session.

The increase of the transient occupancy tax for Roanoke County from 5 percent to 7

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The U.S. Census Bureau has an-nounced that the population of the Roanoke Valley Urbanized Area is now 210,111, and includes part of Montgom-ery County. The Roanoke Valley urban-ized area grew by about 11% in land area and the population grew by 6.4%. Long range transportation planning is conducted by the Roanoke Valley Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) as designated by federal law, and this increase in population will likely trigger designation as a Transportation

Management Area (TMA) in the next few months.

Because a small part of Montgomery County is also now part of the urban area, Montgomery County will likely be represented as part of the Ro-anoke Valley Area MPO later this year after the boundary is adjusted. The Office of Man-agement and Budget defines the criteria for designation and the U.S. Census Bu-reau uses 2010 Census data to make the designations.

Federal law requires the formation of a MPO for any urbanized area with a population of more than 50,000. The Roanoke Valley Area MPO was created in 1979 to plan and budget the use of

federal transportation dollars in the Roanoke region. The U.S. Department of Trans-portation recognizes the

Roanoke Valley Area MPO as the entity responsible for transportation-related planning within the Roanoke urbanized area boundary.

Currently, MPO activities are directed by a 15-member Policy Board that es-tablishes regional transportation policy, approves the long-range transportation plan and the transportation improve-ment program, defines committee du-ties, and adopts an annual unified plan-ning work program.

The voting members of the Policy Board include representatives from the

Roanoke Valley Likely to be Designated Transportation Management Area

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One of Saturday’s K9 participants makes her way through the course.

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The eminent domain amendment that will go before voters in November is a hot but-ton issue for the Virginia Municipal League and localities. Delegate Charles Poindexter said, “property rights are fundamental to our form of government. I don’t see that the legislation prevents development … it just makes it a little more legitimate.”

Greg Habeeb said, “nothing has changed in the tiniest bit than what they currently are.” What is controversial, said Habeeb, is that a property owner can get compensated for lost profits and lost access. “It just adds additional categories for damages [now] born by the property owner,” said Habeeb.

“For those who actually read the bills – it takes the burden off the property owner and puts it where it should be which is on

the local government deciding to take their property”

Roanoke City Manager Chris Morrill said that the constitutional amendment is still a concern. “While we understand the issues people may have with eminent do-main, the amendment's language on lost access, lost profits are very troubling. Could this language be interpreted to include hav-ing to compensate a business when a street is temporarily closed for repaving or for a parade? Recognizing the overreaching of this clause in the amendment, the General Assembly tried to fix it by passing legisla-tion defining these terms. However, the constitution trumps legislation and courts could interpret this clause to the detriment of communities.”

“Moreover, current laws already restrict use of eminent domain so a constitutional amendment is probably not necessary,” said Morrill in an email.

VML contends that “The amendment is unnecessary and will harm Virginia’s citi-zens by severely limiting the ability of local governments and the state to carry out proj-ects that help improve life for the Common-wealth’s population, due to the amendment’s language on lost access, lost profits and the loss of eminent domain where economic development, increasing jobs and increas-ing taxes are involved.”

Eminent Domain Amendment to Go Before Voters

Peggy C. and Raymond E. Reed ‘57 Regi-mental Band Emerging Leader Scholar-ship and will be commissioned in the U.S. Army this May.

The Highty-Tighties formed in 1893 and is today the oldest collegiate band in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They are a field band, and they provide mili-tary music for all cadet activities. The group also performs at numerous events on campus to include every home foot-ball game, in the local community, and around the nation. The Highty-Tighties

have three ensemble groups, the South-ern Colonels, the jazz ensemble; En Corps, a string quartet; and a brass quin-tet.

The band performs in many parades each year such as the University Home-coming Parade; the Veterans Day Parade in Roanoke; and the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City, which they marched in this past Saturday.

The history of the band is rich and full of accomplishments. Going back to the time of the Spanish-American War,

they have upheld their motto ‘Deeds not Words.’ After being told they were not going to be allowed to help the war ef-fort as cadets, a large group of bandsmen dropped out of school and enlisted. They never saw action but legend has it that in honor of their service, they were later awarded their white presidential citation cord, still worn by all members today, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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percent was a team effort said Head. Roanoke’s Senator John Edwards carried the bill on the Senate side. The money will go to the Convention and Visitors Bureau for marketing the Roa-noke Valley.

Ware said this having been his 9th session “the lights have really been turned on for me – it takes you a while to learn the process.” He commended the Republican delegates for their nonpartisanship “It takes un-derstanding that it’s not about Democrat or Republican … we’re the envy of other House members,” said Ware.

Franklin County’s Delegate Charles Poindexter quipped that “contrary to the reports I didn’t spend all my time on two percent of the legislation,” a reference to the nationally pub-licized social issues that hit the comedy circuit. “We took the bull by the horns on the Virgin-ia Retirement System and made some significant steps forward in reforming the system.”

Sen. Edwards is hoping that the final budget will contain $150,000 for another year of bus service to Lynchburg where Ro-anokers can catch the Amtrak train. “It has been a huge success,” said Edwards. This Amtrak train is the only one of a few that is making money. He felt that within two to three years there would be an Amtrak

train coming to Roanoke.Senator Ralph Smith (R-19)

carried a bill that eliminated bureaucracy for septic tank in-stallers. (SB662) Septic install-ers will now get a break from taking classes if they have prac-ticed their trade for at least eight years. Del. Poindexter’s HB1262 mirrored it on the House side.

On the budget impasse Smith said, “sometimes we do a lot of dancing around protecting our turf … but we are blessed in having a two-party system and not a one party system like other countries have.” Smith has never missed a day or vote in any session or committee since taking office.

Delegate Habeeb defended Governor Bob McDonnell’s re-jection of the Senate’s proposal to index the gas tax to inflation saying, “until the public views their transportation needs as more important than the dol-lars we were talking about, it’s simply that the political system won’t allow anything of great significance to occur.” Habeeb’s 8th District constituents rank transportation at the bottom. It will only become important to the public when safety and economic development become more important to the pub-lic. “This year was a complete failure on the funding side,” he said.

Del. Poindexter opposed the

bill to revamp the Common-wealth Transportation Board members making them rep-resentatives of congressional districts versus the VDOT con-struction districts. It would have decreased the influence of rural Virginia, he said.

A question about the slow pace of judicial appointments went to Sen. Edwards and Del. Habeeb who both serve on their respective judicial subcommit-tees. Edwards said getting agree-ment on judges has become more of a problem. He blamed the House Judicial Committee that Habeeb serves on for send-ing bills to the Senate that take away discretion from judges when they take cases under advisement. “I think that is un-ethical - I think it is an infringe-ment on the independence of the judiciary.” He expects that political fight to continue.

Habeeb said once the budget is in place, “judges will fall into place that got bogged down in the partisanship on the Senate side.”

On the extra taxpayer dollars legislators will receive for the special session Del. Ware said, “Trust me it is more horrible for me to be [in Richmond] than the $200 per diem that I receive.” That brought laughter from attendees.

Sen. Smith advocated for doubling the salaries of legisla-tors and expecting more from them in return. “Every citizen should have the opportunity to get out there and afford to cam-paign and win election.” His point was that there were quali-fied Virginian that could not af-ford to serve.

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six member localities (urbanized portions of Bedford, Botetourt and Roanoke Counties, the Cities of Roanoke and Salem, Town of Vinton), as well as the Greater Roanoke Transit Company, the Roa-noke Regional Airport Commission, the Roanoke Valley-Allegha-ny Regional Commission, and the Virginia Department of Trans-portation. In addition, ex-officio (non-voting) members include the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration.

Planning and administrative staff to the Roanoke Valley Area MPO is provided by the Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Com-mission, which also serves as fiscal agent. A TMA is a Metropolitan

Planning Organization with an urbanized area boundary popula-tion of 200,000 and above.

An area designated as a TMA enjoys certain benefits and incurs additional requirements beyond those of small urbanized areas. TMA designation gives the MPO extra funding and planning re-sponsibilities, including: the transportation planning process must include a Congestion Management Plan, and the MPO will receive yet to be determined federal funding allocations for surface trans-portation projects and planning.

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Roanoke Protestors Decry New Health Care Mandates

More than 100 protests were planned across the United States last Friday, gatherings characterized as rallies for reli-gious freedom. “The rally is in response to the Health and Hu-man Services [dept.] mandate that will require all employers to pay for insurance that covers early abortion drugs, steriliza-tions and contraception…and for all private insurance com-panies to cover these things,” said Suzanne Guilfoyle, one of the organizers in Roanoke, where at least 100-150 were on hand for a noon-time rally out-side the Poff federal building in downtown Roanoke.

President Obama did tweak the mandate after the initial furor, which was part of the Health Care Act of 2010 now being contested in the U.S. Supreme Court as being un-constitutional. That tweaking allowed that religious organiza-tions can serve people of their own faith (such as at a church) to their liking, but provided no exemption for employers at religious universities, schools, non-profits or media outlets. It does require that the insurers themselves must offer that cov-erage for such services.

“Basically, pregnancy and women’s’ fertility is now a dis-ease that needs to be covered by health insurance,” said Guil-foyle in characterizing one facet of “Obamacare” that has some up in arms. (Many supporters of women’s’ rights however ap-plaud the health care mandate that now requires insurance coverage.)

At the Poff building rally private school students from Roanoke Catholic mixed with protesters of all ages, includ-ing local Catholic priests. Pete Larkin, representing Republi-can Congressman Bob Good-latte and the 6th District, was also on hand.

Father Kevin Deaton from

St. Elias Catholic Church led the invocation and spoke to the crowd as well: “Thank God to all of you for coming,” said Deaton, “bless our solidarity [and] the cause for religious freedom.” Deaton called the new mandate to cover contra-ception, early abortion drugs and the like “an attack on re-ligious freedom.” He blamed Supreme Court decisions over the past few decades in help-ing to create a safer climate for abortion “and [other] vices.”

Deaton said he was not speaking as a Democrat or as a Republican in opposing the mandate, which could become moot if the Supreme Court ulti-mately shoots down the health care reform package passed two years ago as unconstitu-tional. “The compromise with evil will turn that government into a dictatorship of moral collapse,” he warned.

Teresa Clarke from Salem was standing on the corner at Franklin and 2nd Street, hold-ing up a sign in protest. “It’s important to stand up for our religious freedom,” said Clarke, who is Catholic. “It’s an attack on our…faith.” What Health and Human Services wants to cover added Clarke, “goes against our religious teach-ings.”

Requiring insurers rather than employers to cover those services doesn’t satisfy Clarke either, since the church uses many of those insurance com-

panies. “That would make us complicit.” Clarke said people don’t really know what the Health Care Act really entails, and how it could endanger their freedoms.

“This is a real battle for our religious freedom…only the beginning,” said Clarke, who envisions religious schools and hospitals closing down instead of having insurers cover the services in question. She be-lieves the Supreme Court will find the health care legislation unconstitutional but suspects the Obama administration would just find a way around that decision. “I have real con-cerns about that.”

Andrea Sexton was one of the speakers: “this HHS man-date is severely redefining what it means to be a religious in-stitution. We need to stand up and say no. This is not about contraception. This is about re-ligious liberty… a fundamental right to practice a religion … and have your conscious re-spected.”

Sexton, also a Salem resi-dent, said Catholics around the country – and other reli-gious groups, even some athe-ists, have been energized by the debate. “They understand this is about the U.S. Constitu-tion and what it means to be an American. This is [about] the first amendment.”

The Hollins event was Bel-la’s first competition a year ago. “We’ve traveled a little bit down to North Carolina and Virginia shows and we’re hav-ing a lot of fun.”

But it can become expensive if you decide to travel to trials. “If you go somewhere where you need to spend the night, like we went down outside of Charlotte for two nights, my husband and I. So it was like a little mini-vacation.”

Green and Bella won hoop-ers and tunnelers in their cat-egory. They also received a qualifying score in tunnelers. “You try to aim for a qualify-ing score that’s based on doing the course the right way and the time involved. So you get a qualifying score and then you can get first, second, or third place depending on your

speed.” The secret to having an

award-winning team of hu-man and canine is “Practice, lots and lots of practice-and patience. The dogs don’t screw up; the people screw up. And so it’s lots of practice. And some dogs are more naturally good at agility. Shepherd dogs seem to be (good at agility). You don’t see a lot of hound dog-types. They do other things.”

While everyone wants to win, Janet Jonas of Salem says the main thing is to have fun. “If they go off course, it’s your fault. Your dog didn’t do it - you did it. You sent the dog to the wrong thing or moved something wrong, so it’s your fault.”

She’s been competing with 6 1/2-year-old Golden Retriever

Emmy since the dog was two. It’s her second Golden Re-triever agility dog. “Goldens really want to please you. She’s very soft so I have to be care-ful not to do many corrections because it just de-motivates her; if I can’t do it perfectly, I don’t want to do it. So you have to be careful with Gold-ens . . . You can’t do a lot of reprimanding.”

If someone is thinking about getting their dog involved in agility, she suggests observing a trial first. The Roanoke Ken-nel Club is hosting an AKC trial in May at Camp Bethel.

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have talked about prospects for health care employment in the future – how it remains one of the few boom markets. “It only makes sense for us to comple-ment each other, rather than compete with each other. This is a manifestation of those conver-sations.”

“[We’re] seeking a seamless route,” said Dr. Bishop of the new agreement. Sandel joked that Western was “trying to keep up with NL, he’s got this fancy building now,” and expansion at Jefferson College, which now has more than 1100 students, twice as many as there was five years ago. There are more than 13,000 students of all ages at VWCC currently, which is add-ing a new science building and has other plans for expansion of its own.

Sandel called Bishop “a ter-rific person.” As for the agree-ment, Sandel noted that, “rela-tionships make things happen.” He sees Jefferson College as ready to take that “next step” as it adds more four-year degree

programs.Sandel termed the agreement

“two great colleges making a difference in this region.” He didn’t know the exact details but feels like transferring students must have at least a C average to qualify and a 2.0 GPA in order to have credits accepted. Bish-op, coming up on two years in his role at the Carilion-owned school, said Sandel “has been a wonderful friend and mentor,” during that time frame.

“We want to see things hap-pen for our students,” said San-del, who believes that commu-

nity colleges should be a place where people build their work-force skills. “Our mission is to prepare people…for the work-force. The relationship we have with Jefferson College is a real step in that direction.”

“A seamless transfer [should become] a reality for students,” said Sandel. “It means no has-sles … I’m delighted to have this relationship. We’ve gone out of our way to make this [articula-tion agreement] happen”

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“Because I Can’t Touch You...”

He was bald, old, wrinkled, spot-ted, and deaf; and

he could no longer walk - or even stand - without assis-tance. But he had not always been that way. Forty nine years ago when they first met - she told me with a smile of romance freshly remembered - he was tall and strong and wonderful. So she married him.

Her love of him resides much in memory, I think; she loves him so now because she loved him so then. Maybe that’s how love is.

I spoke to her, not of today, but of later. Tending him was getting too much for her; she, like he, was aging. A nurs-ing home placement would need to be considered some-day; someday quite soon. She smiled as if having heard this suggestion before.

“I’ll hang with him as long as I can,” she said. “That’s just how it is with him and me.” [What better explanation could I ask?] It seemed to me that her view of their love was a vision of Christmas morn-ing; a never-fading anticipa-tion.

She went on, “I bought him a hospital bed, one that cranks up and adjusts, you know? He hated it. Wouldn’t say why; just kept grumbling. That’s not like him. Finally I said, `Once and for all, tell me why you don’t like the bed!’

“He paused. Looked away and whispered, `Because I can’t touch you.’

“So I got myself a bed to put right next to his; same height. It took some doing. But now, sometimes, when I lie there watching him sleep in the

moonlight, he’ll stir, reach over, touch my hand and smile. He nods a little nod and drops back into deep sleep.”

`She lies awake and watches him,’ I thought to myself. In her lonely medita-tion, I wonder who

she sees; her young man from long ago; or a man no longer so. She knows that one day she will have to put him in a home; and her heart breaks; breaks for this man who hates his bed because he needs to touch her; needs to know she is there.

Their minister was at the hospital with them. Three o’clock in the morning. He’s here with two of his flock. This is a man who puts his money where his faith is.

He takes me aside; he’s worried. “She’s killing her-self taking care of him, Doc. She needs to get him into a home.”

My answer came without thinking; born in some deep part of me after seeing the love in her eyes when she spoke of the old man: “Bet-ter to die once, than to die a little every day after she’s had to send him away.”

I don’t believe that fairness is necessarily a part of the di-vine plan. The very absence of fairness in our daily lives provides, at best, an insecure footing to believe in it. I think that fairness is something the human heart imposes upon the harshness of living, to support our need for order and benevolence.

Still, as we stand in uneasy witness to this almost sacra-mental violation, doesn’t it seem a defilement, loving as these two people love, that their story will end as it must; with her putting her loved one away?

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A Sunshine Nation: Revisiting Our National Energy Policy

Years ago, while liv-ing in the “Sunshine State” of Florida,

I argued with a representa-tive of a regional energy util-ity (one fueled by natural gas and petroleum) who informed me that solar energy was not a viable solution to the high energy demands of the State’s citizens. She offered the high costs of conversion from fos-sil fuels to solar technologies hand-in-hand with a low re-turn on investment until years later. Further the representa-tive pointed out the unreli-ability of sunlight as a source of constant power and then touted the low demand for alternative energies. I asked her if she could really say such things objectively, given her high-paid position with the utilities company. I couldn’t help but wonder if her argu-ments were also similar to those offered against the auto-mobile when inventor Henry Ford was informed that the horseless carriage was only a fad! Or, better yet, when inventor Lee DeForest pos-tulated, “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibil-ity.” Peter Ustinov once re-marked, “If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an ex-pert saying it can’t be done.”

We are a “Sunshine Nation” too often manipulated by the experts and stakeholders of an outmoded energy technol-ogy, bellowing mightily, “So-lar energy isn’t feasible.” Yet, given that the amount of solar energy hitting Earth exceeds the total energy consumed by humanity by a factor of over

20,000 times, it’s a simple mat-ter of technology investment – a qualitative, not quantita-tive approach to societal need – and not any pre-ordained impossibility as sug-gested by these prog-nosticators with a coarse commitment to their industries’ bottom line! Solar energy IS feasible; and those who argue against it, including a small conservative cadre of ill-informed (or ill-willed) poli-ticians on Capitol Hill, are snakes in the grass for suggesting otherwise. If they were truly for energy inde-pendence in the United States, they would have been fighting for solar, wind, and geother-mal technologies years ago!

Last year, I made a pitch in this newspaper column for a national energy policy (see the 7 April 2011 issue). Now I would like to revisit my pro-posal in summary, especially as our national elections loom on the horizon. The target date for full implementation of my proposal is somewhere between 2050 and 2075.

• Part 1: Convert most coal-fired power plants to natural gas by 2020.

• Part 2: Phase out all other carbon-emitting power plants by 2025 to 2030.

• Part 3: Build an addition-al 200 to 400 nuclear power plants in the United States by 2025 and, at the same time, aggressively pursue alterna-tive types of power genera-tion such as solar, hydro, and wind.

• Part 4: Shut down all carbon-emitting power sta-

tions, including natural gas, by 2050.

• Part 5: Decommission all nuclear power plants and pro-vide all energy needs via alter-

natives by 2075.• Part 6: Phase

out all federal gov-ernment subsidies (e.g., tax breaks and government protec-tion programs) that keep gasoline prices artificially low for consumers; simul-taneously, provide a carrot-and-stick incentives program

to the automobile industry to develop clean, safe, and eco-nomically encouraging trans-portation technologies. As activist and attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. once said, “You show me a polluter, I’ll show you a subsidy.” Carbon-based energy companies probably remain solvent only with the help of subsidies from the fed-eral government.

• Part 7: Emphasize con-servation and stewardship in a world of 7 billion people trying to live sustainably with finite resources. For example, adamantly refuse the devel-opment for petroleum explo-ration and extraction of the Arctic National Wildlife Ref-uge (ANWR) and other irre-placeable treasures held in the public trust. Further, disallow the Keystone XL Pipeline (see my 12 January 2012 column) and other such proposals for their likely impacts on the en-vironment and their unlikely positive influence on energy independence and net jobs creation for the nation.

Note that these various parts are not incremental steps, but

are interlinked components of a systems approach to our national energy needs. Of course, this plan guarantees the extinction of petroleum, coal, and natural gas compa-nies, at least as they are cur-rently engineered. Indeed the term, fossil, may apply to more than just what they ex-tract from the Earth, but also to their dead-end technologies and the outdated mind-sets in their board rooms. Thus, it’s particularly irksome during this election year cycle that so many politicians and pundits are advocating vociferously for short-term quasi-solutions for our collective energy needs. Developing ANWR, installing a cross-country pipeline, and pushing for more and more exploration for limited natural resources such as petroleum and coal (even via potentially dangerous methods such as hydraulic fracturing) are all dead-end, quick-fix diversions from the only sustainable path ahead: the promotion and ex-pansion of next-generation en-ergy sources to power society. It’s just a matter of resolve to turn such dreams into reality for our nation abundant with near-limitless sunlight, wind, and geothermal resources. “It is difficult to say what is im-possible, for the dream of yes-terday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow,” (Rob-ert Goddard, 1882-1945).

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I had watched her, just a few minutes before, as she stood there…crying.

“I can’t do, I can’t do it,” she said, tears running down her face.

“All my life I’ve been afraid of heights. I can’t help it, it just terrifies me.”

It didn’t matter that she was surrounded by friends encour-aging her, friends who who be-lieved in her, friends who be-lieved that she could do it. She looked up at the 40-foot climb-ing wall and terror flooded her face.

“It’s O.K.,” I said. “You don’t have to do it. Just stand and watch.”

She seemed visibly relieved.Slowly, one by one, a half

dozen students or more and made their way up the climb-ing wall in the hot New Mexico sun.

The most agile and daring seemed to scurry up the wall with little difficulty. The others were more cautious, carefully picking out their hand- and footholds, working their way up the wall slowly. All of them, once they got twenty-five or thirty feet up the wall, were glad they were in safety har-nesses.

Even some of the most con-

fident climbers were a little un-nerved to be up three stories high.

And then, out of nowhere, I heard her voice.

“I’m going to do it,” she said, her voice quivering.

I was shocked.“You don’t have to,” I re-

minder her again. “No one is going to think any less of you.”

“No,” she said. “I’ve got to do this.”

She walked over to the climb-ing instructor and asked him to help her with the harness.

I saw the students look her way and then quietly nudge the person beside them.

Some smiled broadly as they watched Sara get into the har-ness, but others weren’t quite sure what to feel.

Then the moment came. Sara stepped toward the wall,

looking straight ahead, too ter-rified to look up and think about what awaited her.

She didn’t have a lot of up-per-body strength—and her thick glasses made us wonder whether she even see the hand-holds. But she reached up and grabbed one. Then, another. She put her foot on one of the holds.

I watched as she lifted her body up. Her leg began to

tremble. Her body was quiver-ing.

“You can do it, Sara. You can’t do,” shouted her fellow students.

She was only about six to eight feet off the ground the first time she stopped, pressing her body close to the wall.

“Don’t give up, Sara! Don’t give up!” shouted her room-mate.

“You can do it,” echoed the others.

But she didn’t move. Her eyes were closed and tears were rolling down her cheeks. She seemed frozen in place.

“It’s O.K., Sara. You can come down if you need to. It’s all right,” I said.

“No,” she said, her voice trembling. “I’ve got to do this.”

She reached her right hand a little higher and grasped the next handhold.

Slowly, ever so slowly, she lifted her right knee until she was able to find a spot for her right foot.

Her roommate had now come close to the wall. “Sara! Sara! I’m here. Don’t be afraid. I know you can do it.”

But Sara was getting tired. She was now about eighteen feet up the wall and her arms and legs were shaking.

“Take your time, Sara. Just take it slow and easy,” I said. I was so proud of her. I couldn’t believe that she had made it as far as she had.

And then she started cry-ing again. But this time, it was more than mere tears. It was a sob—one of those deep “I just can’t do this anymore” kind of sobs.

This time it was the climbing instructor who stood almost under her.

“It’s O.K., Sara,” he said in a soft and reassuring voice. “You’ve done well—really, real-ly well. It’s O.K., you can come down now. We’ve got you.”

All of us expected her to be-gin making her way down.

“No,” she said, her voice breaking. “I’ve got to do this. I’ve got to!”

My eyes filled with tears.The others began to cheer:

“Sara! Sara! Sara! Sara!”Quietly, underneath their

shouts of encouragement and support, I heard her small voice: “Help me, God. Please help me.”

A moment later, her hand reached up again and grabbed another handhold.

As Sara inched her way to the top, all of us knew that we were watching something re-

markable. It was an extraordi-nary act of faith, bravery, and courage.

We knew that Sara was terri-fied, absolutely terrified.

We knew she was facing her deepest fear.

And when she finally made it to the top, down on all fours, completely unable to stand be-cause of the height and the ex-haustion, but smiling from ear to ear, we went wild. We were screaming and laughing and cheering and crying.

People must have heard us for miles.

I’ve never witnessed any-thing else like it in my life.

I think about Sara on top of that forty-foot climbing tow-er…

…and Moses going back to face Pharaoh,

…and Abraham leading

Isaac up Mount Moriah, …and Jeremiah saying yes to

God’s call even though he was little more than a kid,

…and Mary responding to the angel Gabriel, “Be it unto me according to thy word,”

…and Jesus rising up from prayer in the Garden of Geth-semane,

and I think about how deep and real their fear was.

And I think to myself, “May-be, with God’s help, I can face some of my fear too.”

Gary Robbins is the pastor of Greene Memorial United Meth-odist Church in downtown Roa-noke. Visit them on the web at: www.gmumc.org.

Zero To Seventy In Eight Hours

For anyone looking for a day vacation, there is no better experience

than a spirited jaunt from Roa-noke to Mount Airy. Sounds kind of boring at first, though, in a "we're going-to-visit-Aunt-Helen-so-shut-up-back-there" way.

The trip along the parkway was more sedating than having been slipped a mick-ey in a mausoleum. Sometimes nature is, well, boring, and kudzu only serves to blur that experience. "Look, there's a weep-ing willow." How can you tell?

Finally, a change occurred, which saved me from near-total insanity: a T-intersection intro-duced itself to me -nay, saved, me from going out of my mind. "Hello", it said cheerfully, as T-intersections are wont to do, unlike four way intersections which are too busy for such frivolity. "If you're interested in heading south, I'd be happy to lead you to Stuart. Or, if you prefer something lighter, I have a very nice Mount Airy just across the state line."

Mount Airy, as it turns out, is deceptively complicated for a small town. Seems that no mat-ter which way you turn, you end up right back in another part of Mount Airy, unless you don't turn. Then you end up in Level Cross, and not the one made fa-mous by the guy driving iconic number 43.

Well, who visits Mount Airy without seeing the historic dis-trict? Yes, I saw Floyd's City Bar-ber Shop. I think the original Floyd still works there. Wish I had gotten to town before five. Then I might have gotten up a good game of checkers and asked if Ray Hollister ever got that vaccination.

As an aside, the historical district is a one way street. I learned that when I accidentally turned right and almost had a head-on collision with another

dumb tourist. Whew. That's all I'd have needed - to be cited by Barney under a 301.25, which would surely have led to my ei-ther being fined twelve dollars or spending two nights in jail. Rough stuff, I'll tell you.

A very calm and serene trip to Mount Airy, followed by walking around in a very laid back tourist area, was the perfect lead-in to the trip home: gentlemen, start your engines.

Let me say right here and now that the moonshiners of the day could have

put Europe's finest road rac-ers to shame. I drove, at daring speeds, over any number of switchbacks. I had the advan-tage of driving a relatively new car with front wheel drive. To have driven an old car with rear drive at those speeds through those turns without losing con-trol would have required noth-ing short of world class driving.

Yup, Old School drivers would have put me to shame on those roads. Then again, it's easy to be motivated to be a great driver when you're being chased by federal agents for a libertarian view when it comes to paying tax on alcohol.

Today was about starting off slowly and speeding things up. Typical day for me. If the 45 mile per hour trip along the parkway was somewhat of a ho-hummer, the 70 mile per hour trip through those turns was an inexpensive substitute for caffeine. No side roads were anywhere near the stretches of roadway I was on, nor were there any other drivers or pedestrians. It seemed that the later the day got, the better everything felt. By the time I got home, my happiness with life was at full speed.

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Roanoke Neighborhood Services Coordinator Seeks to Make A Difference

The difference between work-ing in the private and public sectors says Bob Clement, N e i g h b o r h o o d Services Coor-dinator for the Office of Neigh-borhood Services in Roanoke City, is simply one of money and public service: in the private sec-tor, the first goal is profit and making money, while the public sector aims to make a difference in people’s lives. “I think as long as I’m making a difference in other people’s lives, helping it to be better than the way I found it, that’s what it’s all about, regardless if it’s here in Roanoke or else-where,” says Clement.

In his capacity as Neigh-borhood Services Coordina-tor, Clement works with resi-dents, to help them become the voice of their respective communities. “I think it’s real important that our resi-dents become engaged in the city in which they live, that they have a voice in the de-cisions that are being made to affect the neighborhoods in which activities are taking place.” As an example, Clem-ent says that if the city wants to install curbing and side-walk in a neighborhood that currently lacks such features, “it only makes sense to me that those residents who live in that neighborhood should have a voice [as to whether] they want that curbing and sidewalk or not.”

A descendant of the 1980s

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Among the programs Clement offers is a nine-week Leadership College that al-lows city residents the op-portunity to meet the vari-ous directors and department managers who provide the services they receive and pro-vide access to them. “It helps create a relationship based on trust, understanding and knowledge, as opposed to a relationship that might not necessarily be based on fact,” notes Clement.

Another Neighborhood Services initiative, the Wel-come Roanoke program, in-troduces new residents to those services they may need to know about, such as sol-id-waste pick up schedules, recycling programs and pet ordinances. “We think it’s important that they under-

stand, because doing so helps to ensure a smooth transition into our city,” says Clement.

Among the projects Clem-ent is currently involved with are concerns about the Ivy Springs property. The new interchange planned at Val-ley View Mall by VDOT will open up approximately one hundred acres of land for possible development on the other side of Interstate 581 from the mall. Because the property is privately owned, the city, Clement explains, “wants to engage the sur-rounding neighborhoods to make certain that whatever development is done on that property is blended in with the existing neighborhoods - so there’s a smooth transition between the two.”

His goal is to bring the neighborhoods together as one community. “When I first arrived here in Roanoke, I found the neighborhoods to be very [isolated]. They were primarily concerned only with the activities that were taking place in ther individual neigh-borhoods,” says Clements. “My goal has been to bring all the neighborhoods together in partnership with the city so that we are in essence one community—a community of neighborhoods.” That’s not easy perhaps: presently, there are roughly 42 neighbor-hood planning areas across the city, not all of them with neighborhood organizations to represent them. “My goal is [for] each of those planning areas [is to have] a voice, rep-resenting each neighborhood within those planning areas.”

A Roanoke native, Clem-ent graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business. He then went to work in the airline in-dustry and became involved with community work in each place he lived. In 2003 those experiences helped him land his present job in Roanoke. Clement feels the major les-son he has learned has been the importance of working with all socioeconomic levels within a community, to bring it together.

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The seventh annual Blue Ridge Literacy Scrabble Tournament brought more than 225 players to the Jefferson Center’s Fitzpatrick Hall. Literacy Executive Direc-tor Russ Merritt says this was the biggest tournament ever, due to adding an afternoon session in addition to the evening session. “Doing the afternoon allowed us to expand the program.”

Merritt and his staff hoped to raise $10,000 which is about the same as in previous years. “The money is used to provide sup-port for our volunteer tutor pro-gramming, recruiting and train-ing tutors, providing materials for learners, and administrative support.”

Blue Ridge Literacy currently serves the Roanoke Valley. “We are just in the process this spring of expanding into surrounding counties.”

Merritt says scrabble makes sense for a literacy organization. “It’s a great way, since we play by teams, rather than mano e ma-no-one on one. It’s three person teams and that adds fellowship. It’s a great way to have a whole lot of fun and actually do a little bit of learning.”

What makes a good scrabble player? “Someone who reads a lot. A good scrabble player is someone who has a love of words; someone who has an abil-ity to kind of put pieces together-a puzzle solver.”

Carol Duvall knows what it takes to be a good scrabble player. She took part in her first

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There was some luck involved in her team’s success. “We actu-ally got away with a word, and that was part of it. And we got the s’s and things like that. S’s are vitally important. S’s and blanks can make all the difference in the world.”

“The secret of winning is truly knowing the placement of the letters. You don’t have to know words and that’s what holds off a lot of people from playing is because they feel like they have to know all the words. So you need to learn the 2-letter words and then you need to know how to place them. The placement on the value tiles is really impor-tant.”

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Patrick Henry Dedicates New Baseball Facility

Patrick Henry High School dedicated its new baseball fa-cility last Friday afternoon prior to the Patriots matchup with Salem.

State Senator John Edwards, a 1962 graduate of PH and member of the Patrick Henry athletic hall of fame, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. He was joined by school adminis-tration officials, school board members, as well as a large group of PH supporters.

The facility's makeover, after a $300,000 funding approval by the Roanoke City School Board, began last July and in-cluded new outfield fencing, backstop, sprinkler system, in-field drainage system, warning track and complete resodding.

"We basically redid the whole facility, except the dug-outs," PH head baseball coach Aaron Haigler said Friday. He hopes the new field will even-

tually attract area baseball tournaments and be a site for Commonwealth Games base-ball.

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right-off is that our players now have a facility they can take pride in," Haigler pointed out.

State Senator John Edwards throws out the first pitch Friday afternoon at the dedi-cation of Patrick Henry's new baseball facility.

PH head baseball coach Aaron Haigler said the new Patriot baseball field is " a facility that our players can take pride in."

Spartans Outlast Patriots In 10-8 Slugfest

Salem and Patrick Henry found the new PH baseball fa-cility to be a hitter's paradise last Friday afternoon as the two teams combined for 31 hits, as Salem prevailed 10-8.

Jake Wright went 5-for-5 and Andrew Stockstill 3-for-5 to lead PH. Corey Hayth and Locher Grove each had two hits for the Patriots.

Dustin Garst was 3-for-5 for Salem, and Austin Brown went deep with a first-inning homer to pace the Spartans.

Salem's Austin Brown circles the bases after his blast over the left-center field fence in the first inning.

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Cave Spring Tops Northside With 4-2 Boy Soccer Win

Cave Spring opened a 3-0 lead midway through the first half, and the Knights held on for the 4-2 win over Northside in non-district boys soccer ac-tion at Cave Spring

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Northside forward #6 Daniel Palmieri and Cave Spring senior midfielder #10 Jacob Sortore battle for possession.

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With seven starters back off of last year's 8-2 team, the North Cross girls soccer team are aim-ing for first place in the Blue Ridge Conference this spring.

Suiting up for the Raiders, who finished 17-5 overall last year are, eighth-graders Sarah Maurer, Campbell Lake and Mary Kate Graeff. Freshmen Hope Pollock, Avery Sturm, Anna Robison, Sar-ah Shaff, and Annie Elwell. Sophomores Paxton Helmer, Anna Cooper and Rosalie List. Juniors Anna Sawyer, India Helmer, Ragan Comer, Lynd-sey Barker, Madison Altice, Gussie Revercomb and Ashley Donaho. Seniors Rachael Wright and Nikki Bates.

"While we graduated the best player in the con-ference Hallie Martin and first team all-conference Kaki Comer, we are returning four all-conference players and three other starters. India Helmer, who tallied 46 points last year, will have more a leadership role this season with the absence of Martin. Ragan Comer returning from a season ending knee injury is also key in anchoring down the back with so many young players around her. Hope Pollock, Avery Sturm, Anna Robison, Anna Sawyer, Rachael Wright logged major minutes last season and should have big years with expanded roles this season. The addition of Sarah Maurer in goal is also a great addition to our team. Sarah is

one of the best goalkeepers in the state for her age level, and make a defense that was stout last year even better," said head coach James Brown.

The coach further added, "This year's team has the potential to have a solid year. With that said, we are very young. Several players gained valuable experience last year, but the learning curve will still be there. Learning from our young mistakes is key."

As for the top matches of the season for the Raiders, they include the VES Invitational, which features some of the top teams in the state and the biggest match of the season will be against East-ern Mennonite in April. "Last year, they (Eastern Mennonite) were our only loss and my team is looking forward to the challenge," added Brown.

"Graduating nine seniors is never easy. How-ever, I am very excited about the prospects of this team. I believe we are faster, more technical as a whole, and deeper than we were last year. Once we come together and learn our roles, we will be a very tough outing for most teams," Brown said.

North Cross opens its season on Tuesday, March 13, at home against Roanoke Catholic.

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Wild Bill’s Weekly Sports Roundup Cave Spring Downs Botetourt 7-6 With Late-Inning Comeback

Cave Spring's Taylor Asima-kopoulos' suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the seventh plated Dani Duff with the win-ning run as the Lady Knights came from behind to defeat Lord Botetourt 7-6 last Friday afternoon at Cave Spring Field.

The slugfest saw Cave Spring open a 4-1 lead after three in-nings, only to see the Lady Cavaliers strike for five runs in

the top of the fifth. Botetourt's big blow came on a Samantha Barton 3-run blast deep over the center field fence.

Cave Spring fought back from the 6-4 deficit with single runs in the fifth and sixth innings to knot the score at 6-6, setting the stage for the final-inning rally.

Lady Knight Courtney Coo-per led the Cave Spring attack, going 3-for-4, including a 2-run

homer to center in the first. Cooper also added three RBIs and had three stolen bases. Duff was 2-for-3 for Cave Spring.

Barton led the Lord Botetourt hitting, going 3-for-4 on the af-ternoon.

Asimakopoulos went the distance in the circle for Cave Spring to pick up the win.

Cave Spring #17 Courtney Cooper slides across the plate for one of her three runs scored in the win over Lord Botetourt.

Lord Botetourt starter Sa-mantha Barton fires from the circle Friday afternoon.

A Cave Spring base runner slides safely to the plate as Lady Cavalier catcher Aubrie Jessee brings down the tag.


It’s Final-Four time in New Orleans, and Bourbon Street should be the happening place this weekend, the bourbon notwithstanding.

This year we’ll have two teams from Kentucky, a Big-East team, a Big-Ten team, a Big-Twelve team, two #2 seeds, and a SEC squad. This looks more like an Elite-8, but trust me, I got it right. It’s only four.

People have been asking me to predict the winner, so I’ll give it a shot. My sentimental favorite is clearly Louisville. Former Hidden Valley standout Luke Han-cock is sitting out a transfer year after leav-ing George Mason, but he is a Rick Pitino fa-vorite for next year.

I covered Luke during his years at Hidden Valley, and his mom has told me she’ll hook me up with passes next year. Sounds good to me; nothing I like better than some Cardinal basketball, and a couple of mint-juleps at Churchill Downs to watch the ponies run. Now, if I can get the Star-Sentinel to throw in a plane ticket and a room at the Hilton (both doubtful) I’ll be covering ole Luke again for our local readers.

My overall favorite is Ken-

tucky. They look way too dominant to me, unless the statistics catch up with them. I’m a numbers guy, so here’s the rub- Kentucky shot almost 94.6% percent from the free throw line in their win over Indiana. If things, as num-bers usually do, average out, the chickens may come home to roost. Should the Wildcats lay an egg at the charity stripe, look for an upset.

On the “I-told-you-so” front, the ACC quietly bowed out when N.C. State and UNC were eliminated over the weekend.

You’ve got to like Wolfpack head coach, Mark Gottfried, who pulled off the mas-

terful turnaround of State in just one year. Not a lot of ex-

cuses from Gottfried on need-ing ten years to get a recruiting class in order. And, the Wolf-pack came very close to send-ing Kansas back to the Land of Oz.

Want some inside scoop on ACC basketball, and specifi-cally, UVA?

Cavalier Head Coach Tony Bennett will be the guest speaker at the April 16th meeting of the Roanoke Valley Sports Club. Non-members are welcome to attend, and can

obtain more information by calling Dave Ross at 293-3548. Bennett will offer a Q&A ses-sion after speaking, so come prepared. Meetings start with a 5:45 social, with dinner to follow.

Now, to the bulging mail-bag, where last week’s insight into Peeping Toms brought out some unexpected com-ments from the readers:

From Violet in Covington: I thought you missed the mark saying Peeping Toms were a victimless crime. We had one years ago, and the culprit re-moved the window screen, peeped through the blinds, then reached in and stole my husband’s cuff links and upper plate off the nightstand.

From Fred in Roanoke: I heard about a Peeping Tom so bold that after not seeing anyone actually climbed in the window. He wandered into another room and went out that window when someone heard him. The fool got caught because he jumped into a win-dow well.

From Anonymous: Never jump to conclusions on the possibility of a Tom. My hus-band and I were lying in bed watching TV one night when I noticed the curtains moving. I quietly slipped my husband a note saying “I think there’s a Peeping Tom outside our window.” He got up, slipped outside with a baseball bat, but found nobody. Turned out it was a snake under the cur-tains.

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munity for the past 40 years, Community School students selected the recipient and presented the annual Hero Award to Don Mason, founder of Angels of Assisi in recognition of his efforts to “promote the welfare of mankind and being an inspiration role model for others”.

Accepting the award Mason said “We care for animals regardless of their condition . . . blind, no legs. We maintain a no-kill shelter based on ahimsa Hindu wisdom of do no harm whether physical, mental or emotional.” After thanking the students, Mason invited them to volunteer at the shelter and promised that “it would be a worth-while experience.”

Mason founded Angels of Assisi in 2003 with a no-harm and no-kill philosophy. Under Mason’s direction Angels of Assisi provides low-cost den-tal and health care for pets, spaying and neutering services, a farm animal sanctuary, and foster care and adoption services.

Community School’s Annual Hero Award hon-ors the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and exemplifies his peaceful efforts. The students se-lect the recipient and design and build an award to compliment them.

Award designer Moss Stratton, 12, explained that the 2012 award is a mosaic and was “divided into four equal sections, each one bordered with a narrow space. The panels appear to be stopped in time, keeping them from moving toward each other as they close the gap. Concentric circles represent the coming together and melding of the world’s people. Each layer is a step toward the cooperation and integration of all peoples. At the core is a sectioned mirror, one that the observer

looks at and sees his own reflection. Peace, har-mony, and unity begin with each individual.”

Community School is celebrating its 40th year and an open house for elementary and middle school will be held on April 3 at 7 p.m. www.com-munityschool.net

Community School’s 40th Anniversary Hero Award -- a 3x3 foot mosaic named “Coming Together for a Brighter Future” -- was de-signed by Moss Stratton and custom-built by Community School’s middle school Friday art group: Rocky Best, Phineas Chapman, Sophie Gettings, Jaren Hollandsworth, Este Kaiser, Bucky Mason, Kimberly Stephenson, Moss Stratton and Cais Thomas.

Pin Wheels for PreventionApril is Child Abuse Pre-

vention Month and Children's Trust volunteers will be plant-ing a pinwheel garden on the grounds of Virginia Western Community College located in the area of the Community Arboretum on Colonial Av-enue. Roanoke residents can show their support for the wellbeing of children by vol-unteering their time to help with the planting activities on Friday, March 30, 2012 from 9:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. Bring a friend!

Roanoker's Childhood Memoir PublishedThe publication of Bridge-

water Stories - A Childhood Memoir by Wilma Casey War-ren was celebrated at a recep-tion honoring the new author Saturday afternoon on March 24 at Our Lady of the Valley Nursing Home. Now in her 80's, author Wilma Warren had been working on the book for almost twenty years, with time off to deal with health issues, when friends and family helped her put it together.

People came from all over, especially the Bridgewater-Har-risonburg area and Roanoke Valley to spend time with Wil-ma, visit with old friends and take home a copy of the long-anticipated book. The books were signed by Wilma and son Stephen Warren, who edited the book. Unique to the gath-ering were the "testimonials" of people who are featured in the book.

The stories are set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the 1930s Depression Era. Wilma was the youngest of five children of Abner and Em-ily Casey, and only a tot when the family moved from their native Arkansas to Broadway, Virginia where her father was Ranger of the Dry River Dis-trict in the George Washington National Forest. Two year later the ranger station was moved to Bridgewater and that's where the stories begin, with friend-ships that have lasted through the decades.

The stories are a slice of small town Americana where friend-ships were the ultimate source of people's well-being and joy of life, and when "the adults seemed to go out of their way to make life fun for us children." The Bridgewater Baptist Church was the church home for each one in the family and Wilma credits her Sunday school teach-er, Mrs. Byrd, for her "bedrock belief in God." Those years were also enriched by the proximity of Bridgewater College with its ties to the larger world of schol-arly interests and the arts as well

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Confused about how much you are being charged for your employer-sponsored 401(k) plan? New regulations may soon provide some clarification.

Beginning this year, (2012) your 401(k) plan statements will be much more descriptive, of-fering you details on the dollar amount deducted for fees and expenses each quarter.

The U.S. Department of La-bor issued the regulations to help the more than 72 million Americans enrolled in 401(k) plans better understand the ef-fect fees can have on the returns they receive. The additional dis-closures must also document the type of services that are provid-ed in exchange for each charge, and provide performance data on the various mutual funds of-fered under the plan, including the funds' one-year, five-year and ten-year returns.

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WVTF Public Radio Names New Music Director

WVTF Public Radio has named Steve Brown as its new music director. Since October 2011, Brown has hosted the weekday "Morning" and "After-noon Classics" from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., “a lengthy announcing schedule by any broadcasting standards,” said WVTF Pro-gram Director Rick Mattioni.

In his role, Brown now pro-grams all the classical music for the weekdays and Saturday afternoons. In addition, Brown updates the playlists that ap-pear on the WVTF website and maintains the music library. He posts to the station’s Facebook page and takes calls from lis-teners. He is also the producer and host of the live broadcasts of the Roanoke Symphony Or-chestra (RSO) and “Inside the Music”podcasts. He will also continue to serve as the direc-tor of public service announce-ments.

"Steve Brown's expertise in broadcasting, his encyclopedic knowledge of classical music, and his artistic activities in the community make him the per-fect music director, producer, and host of WVTF's classical music programs," says Mat-tioni.

Brown found his way to WVTF in 2001, when the sta-tion was still broadcasting from a much smaller studio before the construction of the new broadcast center on Kingsbury Lane. Before joining WVTF, he worked in the Office of Spon-sored Programs at Virginia Tech.

During his time at the station, his responsibilities and time on the air has changed. “I started ‘Afternoon Classics’, had the ‘Classical Encounter’ show for five years, co-hosted the RSO concerts with Bill Svec. [Seth Williamson’s] passing has been the greatest change I’ve expe-rienced at WVTF. Of course, I’d rather not have come into this position as I did. Seth Wil-

liamson was rightly an extraor-dinarily popular personality, a remarkable person with an incredibly wide base of knowl-edge and interests. I can’t - no-body could take his place," says Brown.

Mattioni says he feels lucky to have Brown on board. “He works very hard to make selec-tions that reflect the full breadth of the WVTF [classical] music library of 8,500-plus CDs, which translates into roughly 70,000 individual pieces of music. I count on Steve to promote the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and train part-time and substi-tute announcers. He programs, produces, and hosts a regular daily broadcast of the highest quality, and he has the extraor-dinary ability to maintain that quality and control when faced with unexpected regional and national breaking news, local and regional emergency infor-mation, and critical weather and traffic reports.”

"Steve's knowledge, insight, and clarity make him the per-fect host for our audio podcast series. He can go head to head with anyone when it comes to discussing music, and much more," says Rodney Overstreet, marketing director of the RSO.

RSO and Long Island Phil-harmonic Music Director and Conductor David Stewart Wiley says, “We are undeniably blessed to have a person of Steve Brown’s

understanding and passion for the orchestral repertoire at the helm of our beloved WVTF’s classical music programming. As the conductor of the RSO, it has been a real benefit for me to have Steve host and produce our live performances, rebroad-casts, and the “Inside the Music” podcasts.”

Steven White, Metropolitan Opera conductor and artistic advisor for Opera Roanoke, says, “The advantage of having Steve Brown serve as WVTF’s music director is that he is a fabulous musician, conductor, and composer himself, and he knows the music inside and out.”

Brown remarks, “I’m really enjoying it. I try to pick upbeat major key stuff primarily, es-pecially in the morning, but I can get adventurous. I love in-troducing good but unknown composers and works. That’s the great thing about this music, no matter how much you know, there’s always something new. Personally, I love Beethoven, Haydn, big romantic piano concertos and symphonies, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

“I’m just doing my best, play-ing music that I like and that I know other people enjoy, and want to listen to,” says Brown. “I try and balance favorites with new works that are worthy of at-tention, and I hope the fact that I really love this music comes through to the listeners.”

Brown served 21 years in the U.S. Navy. During his time in the service he worked in broad-casting and served as a choir director. He also did a stint at WUWF Public Radio in Pensa-cola, Fla.

Brown is active in local the-ater and serves as associate con-ductor and unofficial composer in residence for the Blacksburg Community Band. His original body of work in music and the-atre includes five musicals, three plays, and hundreds of composi-tions that have been performed by orchestras and bands both locally and around the world.

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try and the Americana mu-sic genres will appreciate the songwriting ability and de-livery of Darrell Scott, whose new studio album, “The Long Ride Home” made its debut recently. The Nashville area resident worked with friends like Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Dennis Crouch and Kenny Malone on the project – but he also invited heavyweights like Patti Griffin, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Lloyd Green and Tim O’Brien to participate. Some of the top country mu-sic session players in Nashville appear on Long Ride Home. “That’s why it sounds like an old country record – it is basi-cally,” said Scott from the road last weekend.

Oh yes, his father Wayne, with whom Darrell Scott co-wrote two songs on the album – when he was all of 16, also makes an appearance on Long Ride Home. The father-son duo went off to a cabin in the woods to write “The Country Boy” and “You’re Everything I Wanted Love to Be.”

“It’s crazy or wild that it has taken this many years to put them on a record,” notes Darrell Scott, who is now 52. “It’s a good memory to have with my dad. We met in a re-ally good place [while writing together].”

The song Someday stands out in his mind “from an emo-tional place,” for Scott on the Long Ride Home. “It tells the truth. I like that.” Pay Lake is just pure fun for him: “that one always puts a smile on my face.” Duets with his father and Guy Clark are favorites as well. “It was a great place to sort of come home,” said Scott of his new album.

Scott calls Long Ride Home a tribute to the country mu-sic of his youth. The three time Grammy nominee and winner of Americana music awards goes back to his roots with the new album, which is more pure country. Growing up with two Kentucky parents, “that’s all you ever [heard]. I couldn’t help but have those roots.”

Scott appears with a 5 or 6 piece band this Friday night at the Jefferson Center – the only stop on his current tour he said that there would be such a large entourage. “It’s because Dylan Locke is such a great fan and supporter of my music [Locke programs music at the Jefferson Center] and also for what he brings into Roanoke.”

Normally it’s just me and a guitar, said Scott from the road in Seattle, where he nursed a coffee while waiting for a train. As for Roanoke, where he has performed a handful of times, Scott likes the vibe.

“The people there love mu-

sic…they know more about [roots] music than other ar-eas; and they appreciate it,” said Scott, also giving a nod to folks in Western Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, “especially stuff that has any connection at all to Appalachia.” Scott deems his own music as “earthy and organic, Americana in its ap-proach.” Bluegrass, blues and country are also in the mix. “First and foremost its singer-songwriter stuff.”

Besides bringing a full band to Roanoke this Friday – the only stop on the tour with that accompaniment – Scott will also spend time with students at The Music Lab, which works with high school and middle school musicians from the Roanoke Valley. “It’s fantastic,” said Scott of the Music Lab concept. Providing a place to teach young students about music and the music busi-ness is important, especially as school budgets for arts-related classes are pared down.

“If the community doesn’t do it, who will?” he asks. Scott hasn’t seen many venues like the Music Lab. [Locke] has something unique going on. I haven’t seen it [elsewhere] yet.” Locke’s own roots as a musi-cian are a factor, said Scott.

Even at 16, Darrell Scott couldn’t envision doing any-thing else but writing and singing songs. “I thought this would be it. It’s a good little road and it’s still going.” See darrellscott.com for more on the artist and his new album Long Ride Home.

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Williamson Road Library Introduces New Art, LayoutThe entire library system in Roanoke city is undergoing a

transformation process, as neighborhood branches are mod-ernized and services are added. The latest evidence of that was at the Williamson Road branch last week, when Phase I improvements including a new children’s library that has been moved, a relocated teen center and striking artwork on the front windows were unveiled.

New movable shelving can make way for bigger programs and $25,000 has been spent on books and DVDs. Five more computers and another for preschoolers are also recent ar-rivals. All of the computers now access the internet via wire-less, which means they can be moved to accommodate special events or changing layouts at the branch.

Sheila Umberger, director of library services for the city, said a $50,000 donation from Friends of the Library made Phase I improvements at the Williamson Road branch (3837 Williamson Rd.) possible.

“This branch has the highest door count…besides the main library [on Jefferson],” noted Umberger. A door count of 90,000 annually and a circulation that has gone up fifty percent over the past five years attests to the popularity of the branch, which abuts a large residential neighborhood in Roanoke city.

Three teen Scrabble teams from the branch advanced to a tournament last week that was also a fundraiser for the Blue Ridge Literacy program. “We have a very active teen pro-gram,” said Umberger. Artwork on end panels, in the new children’s library area, was designed by someone who moon-lights for Disney Pixar.

The Williamson Road library is also a community center, something that improvements will only make more of a real-ity. “We have a lot of support,” said Umberger. The “walkable community” around the corner and its position on one of Ro-anoke’s busiest corridors gives the branch plenty of visibility. “Everyone’s real excited about it,” said Umberger of reaction from the Williamson Road community.

The Phase I project includes Japanese-style wood cut prints on the windows, artwork created by Hollins University profes-sor Jennifer Anderson, her students and youngsters at Breck-enridge Middle School. Umberger asked Susan Jennings, the city’s public art coordinator, for her help in bringing art to Williamson Road.

“This helps fulfill [facets] of our arts and cultural plan, which was newly passed in August by City Council,” said Jennings of one goal, which was to work with local schools and colleges to produce and display public art. “I like to en-courage local talent,” added Umberger. Jennings was looking to place a public art project anyway, noted Umberger, “so it worked out perfectly.”

Hollins students created the larger portraits; 8th graders at Breckenridge contributed the smaller “bubbles,” which Um-berger said constituted “their hopes and dreams.” Sixth grade students who saw it now want to do their own bubbles, ac-cording to Umberger. The artwork is in the teen area, which now includes graphic novels and video games that can be checked out.

Roanoke City Arts Com-mission Chairman Nathan Harper was on hand for the official unveiling: “being able to bring so many different groups together [for the art project] … was really a won-derful collaboration. There are a lot of great opportunities to fulfill principles of the arts and cultural plan.”

That plan called for col-laboration by many groups to move arts in the region for-ward. Harper also liked that art students at Hollins Uni-versity were able to work with Breckenridge Middle School teens on their wood cut bub-

bles. Harper said he was intrigued by the story behind each of the black and white vignettes.

Roanoke City libraries shelved plans to build a “super branch” on Peters Creek Road and instead are plowing the $13 million slated for that project back into remodeling of its current neighborhood outlets. A new branch in the Coun-tryside neighborhood is also on the drawing board. Reno-vations at the branches should start this summer; Umberger presented a plan to City Council earlier this year.

A doubling in size of the current footprint at Williamson Road is on the way but that could take 2-3 years. A drive through service and more parking are part of those plans too. The modest Phase I improvements funded largely by dona-tions are a first step. “What we’re trying to do is make it the best we can,” said Umberger, “we just keep plugging away.”


Sheila Umberger is director of library services in Roanoke City.

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of a Virginia mountain winter. A morning sunset caught her attention and resulted in another piece to be featured in her April show called “7:09 a.m.” In addition to the above, Barbara will also have five new collages in her featured artist show.

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