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Cave Spring Middle School returning students were probably a bit wide-eyed with wonder this past week when they returned after the summer break. After all, they spent last year in trail-ers on the Hidden Valley High School property (6th and 7th graders anyway; 8th graders were at Cave Spring High School) while Cave Spring Middle was torn down and rebuilt in one year. The late 50’s era school – which used to be Cave Spring High School – underwent a com-plete makeover, to the tune of

26.8 million dollars.Everything is completely

new, except for the gym and auditorium, the only portions of the old school that remain. Both were refurbished, how-ever. Martins Brothers Con-tractors were still putting the finishing touches on the new school last week, a three story structure that expands the ca-pacity of the school from 675 to 900 students. That means some students who attended Hidden Valley Middle (and

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A Little Chili Please?

The Texas Tavern has announced that a number of pieces of memorabilia from “Roanoke’s Millionaire’s Club” would be sold in an on-line charity auction to benefit another Roanoke institution – Saint Francis Service Dogs.

“People are constantly asking us for old signs and menu’s

as a souvenir from the Tavern,” said Texas Tavern owner Matt Bullington. “I had these old signs and menus collecting dust at home and it hit me that this is what people have been asking for. We wanted to help a Roanoke non-profit

CO2 Emissions On the Rise In Roanoke

Dr. Sean McGinnis, direc-tor of the Virginia Tech Green Engineering Program, told Roanoke City Council Mon-day that there was no doubt that carbon emissions were on the rise in Roanoke City since 2005 and partially as a result of the recession CO2 emissions had been trending down.

The “Save a Ton” program was initiated to reduce carbon emissions by 10 percent in five years with an end goal in De-cember 2014. The calculation equates to a yearly one ton emission reduction per Roa-noke City household.

A group of businesses had committed to a 20 percent re-duction. McGinnis said those companies already exceed their 20 percent commitment. Still, for the first year since 2005, carbon emissions as a whole are trending upward. Emissions are up .2 percent

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Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Welcomes Third ClassA wilderness educator, an

auto-safety engineer, and a high-consequence pathogens researcher — these are just a few of the diverse backgrounds that students bring to Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine’s newest class.

When these students, and 39 others, joined the school’s third class in early August, they were part of an exclusive bunch: few-er than 2 percent of applicants were admitted to the Class of 2016.

More than 3,200 applicants vied for only 42 slots nearly double the contenders for the school’s inaugural class just two years ago.

In welcoming the class during orien-tation, Dr. Cynda Johnson dean of the school, noted that in today’s complex and rapidly changing medical field, physi-cians must assimilate an overabundance of facts. “More information than ever, ex-ists,” she said, “so we need to teach you more than medicine. We need to teach

you how to be critical thinkers and how to be leaders in your field.”

The incoming class is already accom-plished. Fourteen members hold gradu-ate degrees in such fields as physiology, epidemiology, and cancer biology. Their MCAT scores ranged from 29 to 40, with a median score of 33.

Members of the Class of 2016 hail from 14 states, with two-thirds from Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Nearly

half received their bachelor’s degrees from one of just four institutions: Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Virginia. Other undergraduate institutions represented include Colgate University, George Washing-ton University, Stanford Uni-versity, UCLA, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Southern California, the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, Virginia Commonwealth University,

Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University, Washington & Jefferson College, and The College of William & Mary.

In an informal survey on their first day, many of the matriculants cited the school’s unique curriculum as its prima-ry attraction. The school focuses on four value domains: basic sciences, clinical sciences,

The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Class of 2016.

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Republican VP Candidate Paul Ryan: “We Did Build It.”

Political analyst Dr. Bob Denton was impressed by Re-publican VP candidate Paul Ryan’s performance at Roa-noke’s Northwest Hardware store Wednesday morning. “It was a strong contrast compared to Biden,” he said. “He’s a good storyteller – relaxed, casual and he related to the audience.” He gave good references to Virginia and Roanoke. His attacks were measured and “he certainly ex-cited the crowd … he’s a natural in terms of speaking,” said Dr. Denton.

Attendee Mark Oliver of Roa-noke told The Roanoke Star that Ryan “was a very good strategic [VP] pick because of his eco-nomic policy. He’ll bring the country back … we don’t need capitalism destroyed.”

Though Donna and David Gearhart of Smith Mountain Lake were U.S. Senator Marco Rubio fans they were warm-ing up to Congressman Ryan.

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Marty Misicko describes the new school as Superintendent Lorraine Lange (right) and Cave Spring school board mem-ber Fuzzy Minnix (left) look on.

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Jazz – a Saint Francis service dog – orders up a “bowl with” as a suprised Caroline Sander looks on. Photo by John Carlin.

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P4– Johnny Robinson discovers an arrowhead believed to be over 5000 years old while taking a hike through the N.C. mountains.

4-Life”“Tri-ingP6– A group of intrepid bike riders from England make their way through Roanoke on the way to L.A. in support of several charities.

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P7– Sportswriter David Grimes gives the outlook for two more volleyball teams: Cave Spring and Hidden Valley.

Former DPVA chair Richard “Dickie” Cranwell and council members Sherman Lea and Bill Bestpitch gave the Democratic rebuttal to VP Republican Paul Ryan’s remarks on Wednesday.

Cranwell said that he welcomed the dialogue with the presump-tive nominee. He said that they do not agree with the Mitt Rom-ney and Paul Ryan philosophies to privatize social security. “We also do not agree with your policies to take Medicare, one of the two suc-cesses of the federal government and turn it into a voucher system which is essentially rationed healthcare.”

They also did not agree with the cuts that the Romney/Ryan team pro-posed for cuts to the Veterans Admin-istration budget at a time that there are thousands of soldiers still in war zones. “Your policies are not good for seniors, not good for the middle class and certainly not good for our soldiers in the military,” said Cranwell.

Bestpitch’s main concern was that the Republican ticket would take away the guarantee of Medicare and instead hand out vouchers letting seniors fend for themselves. “Ryan has proposed a plan that Romney has said he will sign to privatize Medicare – in spite of what a lot of people think Medi-care’s administrative costs are less then private insurance compa-nies.” Overhead cost will go up and the profit insurance companies promise to their stockholders will cost every senior $6400 a year. “Even Newt Gingrich has called it right wing social engineering.”

Bestpitch continued saying they want to repeal cancer screen-ings and the closed Medicare prescription donut hole would be scrapped. Seniors are spending less on prescription medication and are getting free preventive care. “All that would go away under Romney and Ryan,” said Bestpitch.

President Obama is committed to strengthening Medicare said Bestpitch. “The AARP has endorsed his plan because it will ex-tend the life of Medicare for a full eight years without cutting ben-efits,” he said.

Lea said, “let me be clear - What was said back there – when it is put to the test it is not true.” President Obama cut taxes for

small businesses eighteen times said Lea. “When Wall Street banks refused to lend money to small businesses … President Obama passed lending re-form to make it easier for small busi-nesses to get the money they need to create jobs.”

Under Obama said Lea the country has had 29 straight months of private sector job growth for a total of 4.5 million new jobs. “That’s a fact,” said Lea.

While Romney was the governor of Massachusetts his state was 47 out of 50 in job creation. “The reality is they support giving tax breaks to the wealthiest individuals in this coun-try,” said Lea.

“All of a sudden amnesia comes,” he said. Ryan criticizes the stimulus and

he forgot about the letter that he wrote asking for stimulus money for the state of Wisconsin.

“We tried this top-down theory and it crashed our economy and devastated the middle class,” said Lea. “We’ve been there – it failed – that’s a fact.” With Obama he said everyone gets a fair shot.

Lea said he was confident that President Obama and Vice Presi-dent Biden would be reelected.

“I am very optimistic – don’t know a whole lot about him yet,” said Donna Gearhart. They were a bit surprised by the pick. David Gearhart said he was an avid Ryan supporter and that Ryan brings “youth and vigor - he is part of a new breed of politicians coming up.” They both agreed that Ryan understands the fiscal issues the country faces.

Sen. Ralph Smith gave the invocation, Sheriff Octavia Johnson led the Pledge of Allegiance and Virginia Senator Steve Newman and Congressman Morgan Griffith warmed up the crowd. They all built off President Obama’s comment made in Roanoke on July 13th when he said, “You didn’t build that” when referring to entre-preneurs and businesspeople who successfully started their own businesses.

The star who was used to introduce Ryan was Radford “Crumb and Get It” business owner Chris McMurray, who gained noto-riety when he rejected VP Joe Biden’s advance team when they asked if Biden could visit his business while on his way to Blacks-burg. McMurray respectfully declined, saying “it was nothing per-sonal but I just happen to disagree with the President and Vice-President on a few things.”

He said as businesses, “we know what it means to take risks … we represent thousands of small business owners – they did build their businesses.” Government should stay out of businesses, said McMurray.

The crowd and Northwest Hardware employees chanted, “We built it.” Paul Ryan followed McMurray saying, “When people reach success in our society that’s a good thing.”

Ryan continued - “There’s this guy I’ve known for a number of years—I am going to be talking to him in mid-October—his name is Joe Biden. You might have heard of him. He just said that the middle class is coming back. We’ve got 23 million people out of work - struggling to find work today. Unemployment has been above 8 percent for 42 straight months and the real unemploy-ment rate’s more like 15 percent. He said last summer was going to be the ‘Summer of Recovery.’ It’s a summer later and it’s still worse. They said that the private sector is doing just fine that we need more government. This is President Obama’s imaginary recovery. It’s not here. We have a mountain of uncertainty that is plaguing small businesses. And we have a person, in Mitt Romney, who knows through experience, the challenges that businesses face; how job creation works - that the engine of opportunity, the nucle-us of our economy is not the government, but the success of small businesses, the entrepreneurs, the people of this country. That’s what makes the American Dream spread and grow for everybody.”

Ryan said, “When we win we will repeal Obamacare.” He blamed President Obama for taking $716 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare, asking, “Do you think that is achievement?”

He advocated for using all energy options including the Key-stone pipeline, held up for environmental reasons, and railed against regulations. He advocated for “having a good education system that is parent controlled … for getting people back to work.”

Ryan said, “We have to stop sending jobs overseas … We have to stop spending money we don’t have … We’ve got to get this deficit under control.” Over the years both Democrats and Republicans have put in loopholes that are picking winners or losers through government regulation. “We’ve got to clean that mess up.”

Ryan said: “Thomas Jefferson said it so beautifully – the idea of America is so precious.” He then added, “it was not too late to turn things around. We need leadership now.”

Dr. Denton said that with only 5 percent undecided it is all

about getting out the base. He expects campaign ads to become more negative and Virginia will be seeing a lot more of the can-didates. “Ryan has the ability to connect with constituents,” said Denton. “There is clearly more substance there than what Sarah Palin brought to McCain’s ticket.” Denton thinks the election is now a base election and creating enthusiasm is key to get each party’s base to the polls.

Denton said the Democrats have tried several strategies that just have not stuck. He didn’t see the abortion issue or Medicare work-ing in their favor. “Ryan has taken the fight to the Democrats on it. The Republicans are winning the frame of that particular issue – Medicare and the taxes and the deficit.”

With only 10 weeks to go until election day it sure is shaping up for an interesting race and Roanokers are getting a front row seat.

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research, and interprofessionalism to prepare future physicians for the ever-changing medical landscape.

Rather than learning passively, students interact with clinic patients and analyze real-life cases in facilitator-guided, small-group discussions. They take classes with nursing, physician assistant, and allied health students, an experience that helps prepare them to thrive in multidisciplinary teams. Threaded throughout the curriculum is instruction in the principles, methods, and ethics of basic, clinical, and translational research.

“The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine has a one-of-a-kind curriculum,” said David Sabbagh, a member of the Class of 2016 who holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Michigan. “I was impressed with the school’s strong research component. I also liked the collaborative culture and opportunity to develop personal relationships with faculty. I chose this medical school over four others.”

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and Saint Francis made sense as another organiza-tion that was created right here in the Star City.”

Saint Francis Service Dogs raises, trains and places service dogs with people who have disabili-ties. The dogs help a range of people from chil-dren with autism, to adults with severe arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other debilitating illnesses. Like the Texas Tavern, Saint Francis is uniquely Roanoke.

“We were so happy the Texas Tavern reached out to us,” said Saint Francis Executive Director Cabell Youell. “It costs $25,000 to raise and train a service dog which we then place for free. We are so dependent upon the goodwill of the com-munity, and fundraisers like this are perfect,” said Youell.

The six items, framed at no charge by Simply

Framing by Kristi have been placed on eBay. Bid-ding began at 1 p.m. on Wednesday August 22 and ends at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, August 29th.

The items include two club breakfast menu signs, one main menu sign, one that reads, “Chile, you’ll like it” and another that touts the Tavern’s famous Hot Dog Chile.

Photos of the memorabilia can be seen at www.texastavern-inc.com, or the Facebook pages for the Texas Tavern and Saint Francis Service Dogs. The two organizations worked jointly on a You Tube video featuring the sale items, Tavern mar-keting director Molly Bullington and some of the Saint Francis dogs sitting at the famous counter alongside some of the restaurant’s patrons.

Councilman Bill Bestpich gives his response.Photo by Valeie Garner

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“Crumb and Get It” Cookie give away booth with Chris McMurray owner - Left to right: Kay Poulsen, Barbara Duerk, McMurray, Sharon Reasor.

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Chris McMurray introducing Paul Ryan to the crowd.Photo by Valeie Garner


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Texas Tavern Memorabilia.

then were destined for crowded Hidden Valley High School) were rezoned for the new Cave Spring Middle.

The new school uses a geothermal well system, which of-fers savings on utility expenses. More than 54,000 square feet have been added with the third floor. There’s a new technology lab, art room, music studios, a greenhouse, durable terrazzo tile floors and an outdoor plaza. “The [school board] mem-bers saw that it might be advantageous to take down the old school building and do this,” said Cave Spring school board Representative Fuzzy Minnix, who said that the old school was showing its age and would have needed major repairs anyway.

“We found out that we could [build new] for not a whole lot more than it would cost us to refurbish the old building,” noted Minnix. “Now we’ve got one that will go for another 50-60 years.” This is the second year in a row that a new school has been opened in the County; the new Mason’s Cove El-ementary School debuted last fall. The lower-than-expected construction costs for that project, due to favorable conditions in a down economy, freed up about 10 million dollars that could be applied towards Cave Spring Middle School, accord-ing to Minnix.

Principal Steve Boyer said students would have an orienta-tion session when they came to school for the first time this week, before being sent on to class. Parents, used to dropping their kids off for school, will have to get reoriented as well – the new drop off entrance is on Ranchcrest Drive behind the school, not on busy Brambleton Avenue.

Boyer also said students would be given a tour of the new building; he said teachers would be “very lenient” as young-sters figured out the new lay of the land and where their classrooms were. “I still have teachers trying to find their way around, it’s so big.”

The new school, which features a cafeteria that can seat 300, new ergonomic chairs for students and the lat-est technology, provides a better learning environment according to Boyer. “It has so much to offer our teach-ers and our kids. We have so much more than what we had in the old building, just the space and the natural light to begin with, and the additional technology.

Boyer estimates that the attendance figure this year will come in around 740. Hidden Valley Middle School students that were slated to be transferred to Cave Spring Middle were given the option of finishing out their middle school years at Hidden Valley – if they provided their own transportation. Some took advan-tage of the offer, but not many according to Boyer.

It will take several years to normalize the population between Cave Spring and Hidden Valley high schools, after the more-balanced student populations at the two middle schools work their way through. Boyer said the enrollment figures at the two middle schools are com-parable this year. After 24 years in the school system, Boyer is excited about the changes as well. A “memory wall” in one corridor features yearbook sections and student photos, erected in homage to the old middle school.

Roanoke County Schools Superintendent Dr. Lorraine Lange was on hand for a tour last week, as construction work-ers scurried about putting things in place. “We’ve been so fortunate in Roanoke County to have the building that we’ve had,” said Lange, referring to recent construction projects. “We’ve been good [money] savers and we’ve been able to do a lot of things that other systems haven’t.”

A pool of money, set aside every year by both the school board and the Board of Supervisors, means there are funds

to pay the debt service on new construction projects, despite diminished tax revenues. “We’re pleased that so many of our schools have been renovated or are brand new,” said Lange.

The mild weather over the past winter is one major reason the new school was finished on time (in just one year), accord-ing to Operations Director Marty Misicko, who noted that some “finishing touches” will still be applied throughout the fall. “We are good to go,” he said about this week’s debut.

from 2010.Data used for emission calculations is

gleaned from VDOT in the form of vehicular miles traveled and from natural gas and elec-tric bills. An increase in traffic on I-81 is the main contributor to CO2 emissions for the Roanoke Valley. The annual miles traveled is up almost 11 percent.

The increase in exhaust emissions out-weighs the reduced natural gas and electricity energy savings. They came in at a five-percent and two-percent reduction respectively, said McGinnis.

McGinnis is concerned that it shows that even with the economy not reaching full re-covery emissions are already rising. Higher emissions will affect air and water quality – and ultimately Roanoke Valley residents’ health. He reminded council of their commit-ment to reduce CO2 emissions.

As examples of what it takes to improve air quality, McGinnis said it would take an en-ergy reduction of 40 percent in 10,000 homes or bulb replacement with 200,000 CFL bulbs or 1200 cars increasing fuel efficiency from 20 to 35 mpg to reach the 10 percent goal.

“We need to redouble our efforts,” he said, “sustainability requires leadership.”

Vice-Mayor Court Rosen admitted, “We are going in the wrong direction.” McGinnis con-firmed that the upfront cost of saving energy was a deterrent. The cost over time would de-crease with new technology but would still not be able to keep up with economic expan-sion that would produce even more emissions in the meantime.


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Florida Attorney General Bondi Stumps For Romney in Roanoke

Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, came to Roanoke last Saturday to visit the Roanoke Republican Victory Headquarters and stump for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

The headquarters is located on Rt. 419 next to Tanglewood Mall. Bondi was the lead at-torney general, along with 26 other states attorney’s general, in the lawsuit seeking to overturn Obamacare. She said that while the effort was not totally successful, the individu-al mandate provision has been declared a tax and she believes it violates the Constitution.

Her position as the lead attorney in the lawsuit has vaulted her into the spotlight with the Romney/Ryan campaign. Bondi be-came Florida’s first female Attorney General in 2010, defeating her Democratic opponent in a landslide in her first run for office, after serving 18 years as a front-line prosecutor in the State Attorney’s Office. She is also a fre-quent guest commentator on the FOX News Channel.

She stated that one of her goals, as she trav-els around the country, is to change the face of the debates between the candidates. She said Romney and Ryan are focusing on the “Great American Comeback,” and that they are keeping things on a positive level. She said that in contrast Obama, “has done noth-ing in three and a half years and makes petty, personal attacks. What matters is jobs, pros-perity, bringing America back and repealing Obamacare.”

Bondi spoke of her travels with Romney and his family up and down the east coast during the last week. She was impressed by his commitment to women during the cam-paign and his plans to help women after he is elected. She has been setting up “Women for Mitt” phone banks, to get the word out that unemployment among women during the Obama administration is “up over 8% and the poverty rate for women is over 14.5%, – the highest in 17 years. Over 400,000 women have lost their jobs under Obama.”

Bondi stated that “Paul Ryan actually has a budget plan in place and Mitt turned around the Olympics. These are leaders who lead by example. Can you imagine what a runaway train we would have with four more years under Obama? There would be no account-ability whatsoever. Think about that.”

She said Florida and Virginia face a lot of the same problems, but in a different way. Florida is suing the EPA over water standards and Virginia is suing the EPA over coal and off-shore drilling. “Obama banned drilling in Virginia until 2017. That is costing Virginia thousands of jobs. We need to have energy independence and Mitt Romney is commit-ted to bringing jobs to Virginia and to make Virginia energy independent.”

Bondi also talked about Romney’s plan to protect and restore funding for Medicare,under which everyone 55 years old and older will be protected. That is why his “Day 1” objective is to begin the repeal of Obamacare.

She encouraged the crowd to volunteer for Romney and Ryan by making phone calls, go-ing door to door, putting out yard signs and letting their friends know how important it is to get women to vote. Bondi will be a fea-tured speaker at the Republican Convention in Tampa later this month.

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Speaking in Roanoke on July 13, 2012, sup-pose President Obama had said, ‘The govern-ment doesn’t build things by itself, it gets help from people like you! Our government can’t do anything without your stalwart financial sup-port!’ His words of wisdom would have reverberated around the Globe!

However, what he did say was, “If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” The implication was that individual achievement has never succeeded without bureaucratic in-tervention.

It is true that the ‘self-made man (or woman)’ is an illusion because of the support of employees, advisors, friends and supporters. But to im-ply that private enterprise is helpless without government is oblivious delusion. As President Reagan once said, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

Although our government has quasi-com-mercial ventures, most government budgetary items are expenditures. The USPS, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Amtrak and other government-operated enterprises are simply money pits of lost opportunity by misguided planners, inad-equate managers and misleading politicians.

In general, government’s job is to develop and propagate an environment that allows pri-vate citizens, employees and employers, to cre-ate added value. Incremental (stimulus) funds that are spent for and by government are dollars squandered that can’t be spent by private enter-prise and investment.

Every penny of public infrastructure is paid for with money that came from individuals and commercial entities. Government workers es-timate the cost of infrastructure items, receive bids and engage contractors to complete the construction. The project is paid for with money that was taken from taxpayers. The people, not the government, fund infrastructure like roads and bridges. There may be a controversy about which came first, the chicken or the egg but there is no question that the moneymakers came be-fore the money takers!

When the government collects our money, the reasonable expectation is that elected and appointed officials will spend those funds in the best interest of the public. Upon investigation, this capital is often not spent for the highest and

best use. Examples of waste and fraud abound.

In many of our cities, counties, states and federal government, spending ex-ceeds revenues. Taxpayers are blind-sided after-the-fact by accumulated en-titlements and other public debt. Rather than reign in spending, these officials often insist on tax increases. At some point, the politicians that were elected to serve the people start making de-mands on the taxpayers!

An example is the proposed fed-eral budget, produced annually by The

President of the United States. The most recent budget that includes forecasts for 2012 through 2021 shows expenditures of about $45.9 Trillion and receipts amounting to $38.7 Trillion. That’s a shortfall of $7.2 Trillion ($7,200,000,000,000)! The total debt will then be more than $23 Tril-lion when added to the present outstanding debt. The debt will be more than $65,000 per person in 2021, assuming a US population of 350 million.

Government leaders disregard our concerns about unsustainable spending coupled with high unemployment, the costly new healthcare law (deceptively named the ‘Affordable Care Act’), the languishing economy (GDP of 1.5%, 2nd Qtr. 2012) and the surge in government employ-ees.

The steps for getting our overwhelming debt under control are to recognize and publicize the problem at all levels of government, cap the debt limit, produce a balanced budget and do it NOW! This is probably unachievable consider-ing the pressure from special interests and the outlandish lengths career politicians go to for votes.

If you think we elect politicians to generate huge debt and deficits of 18%, raise your hand! If you did not raise your hand, think about whom you are going to vote for in future elections.

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The finely-tooled notch is what caught my eye on the frigid January day. My wife and son and I are hiking on a lonely trail in the substantial mountains of western North Carolina. Winter wind blows through the naked trees and rem-nants of the last snowfall cling in the shadows. I bend to inspect the rock with the notch and recognize the un-mistakable evidence of it being worked by human hands. The black chert ar-rowhead -I guess that’s what it is – is protruding out of the frozen earth just enough for me to make out the precise notch and part of the fine cutting edge.

Marybeth and Taylor are also on their hands and knees now – our faces inches apart – marveling at the tool trapped in the frozen ground. And trapped it is. The ground is frozen like concrete, tenaciously clutching its treasure. Ah, but this tenacity is about to meet its match in my persistence as I start to chip away, millimeter by millimeter, the frozen earth entombing the arrowhead.

I deploy a twenty-first century tool, my Ker-shaw 1620 folding knife with a three-inch blade. The hardened 477 carbon steel edge is not made for this type of work, but I insist, and gingerly uncover more and more of what is looking like an exquisite projectile point.

It may sound a little over-dramatic to say that I’m holding my breath as I carry out the exact-ing work, but I’m really anxious to see if this thing is intact. After all, I have found a number of broken-in-half arrowheads over the years, so I realize that there’s a good chance that this one’s in a similar state.

Bits of frozen earth fall away as I continue to chip at it with my modern blade. I’m silent now, and Taylor and Marybeth stand reverently by. There, I have it. The ancient tool slips free of the soil, free from where it’s lain for hundreds of cold

winters, hundreds of sultry summers.I wipe the remaining debris from the tool, spit

on it, wipe it again on the hem of my jacket and inspect it. I hold it in the palm of my hand, rotat-ing it with cold fingers, and I offer it to my wife

and son for their inspection.We’re amazed; not only was the

spearhead fashioned with great skill – obvious in its design and execution – but it is almost perfectly preserved.

Later, the piece would be dated to between five and seven thousand years old (!), but today, the way the deep black chert gleams in the waning sun-light, it’s almost as if it was made just last week.

Now it’s two years later in late sum-mer and I’m hiking in the same area. A hint of Autumn is in the air, borne by the cool north wind. The leaves are drying out, the green of the foliage is fading. I’m thinking about the spear-head, but more than that I’m thinking of the an-cient one who visited me from across the ages through the tool which he made and used.

I think about the way he lived his life; of the similarities and dissimilarities of his life and mine. I like to think that we all live in the time we’re meant to occupy, and that the maker and user of the spearhead – I’ll assume they are one and the same – also occupied his own special place in time. To know that through his elegant work he has influenced my life across a span of thousands of years, that he inspired my thinking through his patience, skill, and artistry, is strik-ing and sublime.

May we ever strive to positively affect the fu-ture through the way we approach and live our own lives in the here and now.

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If you live in bear country and you keep bird feeders up all summer, you can expect visitors. I live near the Blue Ridge Mountains so American Black Bears occasionally visit my yard from June through August to forage for birdseed that has dropped from my feeders. They need to settle for seed on the ground because my feeder pole is about nine and a half feet tall. That height keeps the feeders out of reach of the bears, and al-though they try to climb the pole, a baffle quickly stops them!

It is illegal in Virginia to deliberately attract bears to your property by putting out food for them. In my situation, these bruins are simply cleaning up abandoned food that needs to be fed upon by some animal rather than sitting there to eventually rot. Because birds and other kinds of critters do feed on seed that has fallen, there is never enough left on the ground to keep a big bear around for very long.

Bears eat many kinds of food. I’ve watched a bear eat my Touch-me-not plant stems as well as the fruits on my Autumn Olive shrubs. They also feed on insects, small mammals, and carrion. Thus, even if I had no feeders out, a bear could be expected to wander through looking for any of the aforementioned items.

If your bird feeders are vulnerable to destruc-tion by bears, you should consider not putting them out except when these animals are den-ning, from mid-to-late fall through winter. Black bears are often said to hibernate but they do not exhibit the main characteristic of true hiberna-tion—a drop in body temperature to within one degree of the surrounding temperature.

Their metabolism does drop substantially, their heart rate decreases from 40 to 50 beats per minute to 8 to 19 beats per minute, and their respiration (breathing) is slowed down to 2 to 4 times a minute, but true hibernation requires an even greater reduction in these functions. As a result, black bears often remain inactive only during the coldest months, whereas a true hiber-

nator will be in a deep sleep most or all of the winter.

A bear does not want to interact with humans so it will not usually come into a yard with peo-ple outside. I’ve lived in my home for 25 years and have only seen bears when I’m inside.

Naturalist Marlene A. Condon is the author/photographer of The Nature-friendly Garden: Creating a Backyard Haven for Plants, Wildlife, and People (Stackpole Books; information at www.marlenecondon.com). If you have a ques-tion about plants or animals, or gardening in a nature-friendly manner, send it to [email protected] and please watch for an answer in this paper.

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I have always held closely to the broad-shouldered belief that there are no such things as ghosts. Yet, I’ll never forget the eve-ning I almost changed my mind…

Let’s go back maybe 25 years ago when I was much involved with rehabbing properties. I had acquired a once-handsome, maybe elegant, antebellum house with acreage 40 miles from where I lived, situated on a flat, desolate tract of pasture land.

It stood in isolation, though there was a modern home three hundred yards to my left, concealed by forest, and a store to my right, equidistant, equally tree-obscured. A lonely, seldom-travelled two-lane road lay in front of the property, soon lost in the woods to the right and to the left, connected the two.

The house had a name: The Depot. It was so named because years ago, it was the way station for the stagecoach traverse, midway between Danville and Roanoke. As the legend goes, one extremely cold and blustering night a mail coach pulled up, but no one came inside. The station manager, alerted by the rattling of tack, and alarmed by the absence of the driver, pulled on a mackinaw, lowered his head against the storm, only to find the driver apparently asleep on the coach box. He pulled at him to wake him up and the man fell dead, frozen, at his feet. The horses, by habit, had found their way.

There were other such events over the years, but none of such a paranormal bent to ignite speculation, that is, until the voices started. This I was told by curiosity-seekers who came to visit me working. They seemed rather nervous, I thought, and, every now and then, one would caution: Just be sure and be out of here by dark. Why? The voices. Okay. Right.

I had loaded my pickup with supplies one morning, and was heading for the Depot, when I was stopped by a check point run by game wardens looking for contraband animals.

The officer was a big, no-nonsense grey-haired fellow who asked where I was bound. When I told him, he stiffened. “I know the place. It’s haunted. Voices. I was set up there one night after dark; maybe 10:00. I was watching for poachers. Then I heard the voices, a man’s and a woman’s, coming from that cursed house. Then I heard a ‘thunk’ and the voices stopped.”

“What did they say?”“Wasn’t clear. Man’s voice, woman’s voice; that was clear.”“What did you do?”“Got out; haven’t been back;’ not going back.”“Why’s it haunted?”

“Don’t know; don’t care. Just take my advice: be out of there by dark.”

I spent the next few weeks half-expecting a giddy multitude of translucent figures dancing noiselessly roundabout in a spectral, seventeenth century cotillion, hopefully convivial. I couldn’t

help but keep an eye out for tools, skittered by an un-seen hand, to begin moving about. But then, as far as voices, my constantly running power tools likely drowned them out. I left each day before dusk; but one day I was delayed a bit; it was full evening. I had loaded the truck for the trip home, I was locking the door, and . . . I heard the voices…

A man’s voice clearly; a woman’s voice clearly, their words unintelligible. Their conversation, while soft was nevertheless quite audible. Then a thunk, and the

voices ceased.I stood there cursing my lack of courage and toilet

paper. I was determined not to let fear trump ratio-nal thought. As I waited, a car went slowly down the road. Ten minutes later, it drove back. I assumed the driver had visited the small grocery mart just down the road. Still, I stood there, determined to figure this out. This time I heard the thunk first, then the voices began and faded.

Suddenly, I had an idea. I raced my truck up the road to the house. A man and a woman were carrying grocery bags in the door. I got out, introduced myself, asked them a strange favor. I told them why. The woman said, “We’ve heard about the voices, of course, but we’ve never actually heard them ourselves. I raced back to the Depot, and sure enough, a man’s and woman’s voice, then a thunk. The two had granted my request: talk about any-thing, but do it in a normal fashion. They did, and the mystery was solved.

Ultimately, the answer was more scientific than superstitious. The Depot and the house beyond had been built, unknowingly, on an acoustic corridor, like the Greeks sought before construct-ing an amphitheater; a uniquely natural terrain of such special features that normal speech projected several hundred yards with perfect fidelity. The Depot was a bit further, and girded by trees, thus the voices, but not the words, were heard.

The couple had never heard the voices because they were the voices! Oh, and the thunk? Their car door closing.

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“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10)

For many of us these words are very famil-iar, perhaps too familiar. You grew up reciting them at church or have heard others pray them as part of the “Lord’s Prayer.” You may even pray these words on a regular basis yourself. But how often do we stop to think what they mean? Do we ever wonder what it would look like if this really happened?

Every four years the world comes together to celebrate the Olympics. Every Olympics we hear stories of inspiration and amazing human achievement. We hear of athletes overcoming tragedies, physical limitations, losses and pain to accomplish remarkable feats that the world watches with absolute wonder. For a couple of weeks, the Olympics make us all feel like chil-dren again as we experience the wonder and watch with awe.

During the Olympics another common dis-cussion surrounded the question of who was the “greatest.” Was Michael Phelps perfor-mance in Beijing, the “Greatest” Olympic per-formance ever? Was this years men’s basketball team greater than the “Dream Team” of 1992? Are Misty May and Kerri Walsh the greatest women’s beach volleyball doubles team in his-tory? (Btw, when did we get so into beach vol-leyball in the Olympics anyway?) Perhaps one of the liveliest conversations about greatness surrounded Usain Bolt. According to Bolt, “I am a legend. I am the greatest athlete to live.”

One of my favorite movies is “Chariots of Fire” which follows the story of two 1924 Olym-pic athletes, Harold Abrahams of England, and Eric Liddell of Scotland. The film captures the drama of the two storied Olympiads, filled with great races, drama, defeat and triumph. The film also chapters the motivation behind why each of these men ran.

As Harold Abrahams says in movie, “I’ll raise my eyes and look down that corridor, four feet wide, with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence…but will I?” Eric Liddell, on the other hand, tells his sister in the film, “Jen-ny, God has made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure.” Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done.

If Usain Bolt had to give an answer for his running, I agree with Kevin DeYoung (senior pastor, University Reformed Church) that it would be something like, “I (Usain Bolt) made me fast and when I run, I feel my pleasure.” Now before you snicker and roll your eyes con-descendingly at Usain Bolt, let me submit that

you and I have more in common with Bolt than Liddell. See, Bolt is all about seeing his king-dom come and his will be done, not God’s. If you are not a Christian, ultimately, that is the only kingdom you are seeking to build. If you are a Christian, our growth in grace is the pro-cess of God dismantling our small kingdom of self and involving us in God’s great and glorious kingdom. You and I are more like Bolt than we want to admit. God invites us to something so much bigger.

See, our kingdom of self makes us think about our job only in terms of what I can get out of it. Be it stuff, success, affirmation or a cocktail of several together. We approach our marriages in terms of what we get from it. With our children, we love them, as long as they are promoting our kingdom. For example, when you have a nice relaxing evening in mind and your children are being particularly disruptive, you and I are far more apt to get angry. Or when a customer, or your boss, calls and berates you on the phone for a mistake with an important account. If their harsh words have merit, you feel frustrated or disappointed in yourself for “dropping the ball.” If their words have no mer-it, you might feel indignant at the accusation. Anger at being questioned or challenged. It is only as we see our homes as kingdom outposts which God intends to use to bring about His Kingdom and His will, that we are able to see things differently. No longer do we see the in-terruption of our children as simply a nuisance, but as God working His kingdom more deeply in us as well as an opportunity for His kingdom to transform our children. For His kingdom to come and His will to be done means that you and I must become more like Christ.

How would your life be different if you re-ally prayed and longed for “His kingdom to come and His will to be done” in your life? In your marriage? In your parenting? In our Val-ley? As one author has written, “God calls us to abandon our little kingdom of one and then welcomes us into his big kingdom of glory and grace.” It is a kingdom so much bigger, so much richer than what we often seek or accept. It is rooted in the finished work of Christ for those who have turned, by grace, to Him. May He grant us the grace to seek His kingdom and the humility to have the gospel of Christ put to death our kingdom of self. Because as my fa-ther taught me years ago, records are made to be broken…even Usain Bolt’s.

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The excitement of the London Olympics came to Roanoke with a group of family and friends known as “Tri-4-Life” pedaling into the Star City. They started their 21 day cycling challenge across America August 13th in Washington, D. C. and expect to end with a triathlon in Los Angeles, August 29th. In be-tween they’ll cover 2800 miles and 12 cities in 10 states.

Liam Hahlon, the British group’s spokesman, says the event got its start a decade ago after two deaths in the family of very young people due to health-related issues. “We didn’t really understand and we kind of struggled coming to terms in dealing with that loss. It brought us together as a unit.”

So they decided to spread a mes-sage of healthy living and raising money for charity through a tri-athlon that first year. Many of the 20 or so riders have completed 10 triathlons. They decided to bring their message to the U. S. this year with the Olympics as a backdrop. Hahlon says the London Olympics “was a fantastic platform for us.”

The team is all men, although women ride with them in the U. K.

According to Hahlon, “They’ve spent the last two years, every weekend, most evenings, either get-ting fit or out in the community fundraising or awareness-raising in schools about the things we want to promote.”

Ryan Liam’s nephew is the 2012 World Triath-lon Champion and one of the cyclists. “It’s great to be around family and friends doing something we love and taking a very special message and meeting new people and sharing the experience.”

Rob, another team member, says he got in-volved with Tri-4-Life “as a way to give some-thing back. I’ve been very lucky in business and family and pretty much inspired by a Rotary-type organization, I left my time to do something for someone else. I love the idea of the healthy living, healthy lifestyle, but also trying to men-tor young kids to be responsible for their own actions and to really promote themselves in the future with education.”

Hahlon commented about the beautiful road they traveled over the “Blue Mountains” and noted, the “tarmac is lovely, smooth, you know in England some of those aren’t so good.” He says team members are used to rough surfaces

in the rural areas around Wales where they ride.However, one of the riders was sporting a

bruise under his eye after falling from his bike when he crossed some railroad tracks in the rain.

Woody Sadler, the district governor of Rotary and other Rotary officials exchanged banners with the U. K. group. England has an organiza-tion similar to Rotary and Tri-4-Life is support-ing PolioPlus, a Rotary charity.

Hahlon presented Roanoke Mayor David Bowers with a commemorative plate from Councillor Sharron Sullivan, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, in recognition of the city’s support of their cause.

Mayor David Bowers joked that he liked the title “Lord Mayor” and said, “It’s such a great pleasure to have you come through Roanoke. I know you’re going to Los Angeles and you may see some stars when you’re in Los Angeles, but remember that here in Roanoke you saw the star up on the mountain.”

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its new Roanoke location at 5363 Peters Creek Road. “The Sabrina & Lucky Garvin Spay Neuter Clinic” building was previously occu-pied by Nationwide Insurance and has undergone an over $400,000 makeover, said Executive Director Kelly Cass.

The makeover gave them the opportunity to layout the clinic to maximize flow and efficiency. Between the two clinics they have 40 full and part-time employ-ees. “Most of the full-time staff are medical,” said Cass. “We have great volunteers who have medical backgrounds too.”

An open house was held last Thursday and on Monday the clinic, dedicated in honor of local physician (and Roanoke Star columnist) Lucky Garvin and wife Sabrina, began per-forming their first surgeries. There were three patients spending the night there already.

The clinic is an extension of The Waldron-Ricci Spay Neuter Clinic in Christiansburg that will celebrate their 10,000th surgery soon. Ser-vices are provided to the SPCA and rescue or-ganizations at reduced rates. Their services are open to anyone and everyone, said Corrie Prat-er, director of Marketing and Development. Though primarily a spay and neuter clinic, they do offer vaccinations, microchipping and nail clipping – all done at the time of surgery.

Sophie, a rescue dog, and her owner Lynda-Sue Napier, Practice manager were the official greeters at the opening. Sophie wore an official Mountain View Humane T-shirt and lapped up all the at-tention she could handle.

They are open Monday through Thursday. A pet can be left in the morning and picked up the next day. Thursday’s are for pediatric animals, said Prater. “They don’t take as long to come out of anes-thesia so we can send them home the same day.”

Trapped feral cats can be brought in at a discounted rate and are housed separately. “We will help you on how to get them trapped,” said Prater.

The shiny glass enclosed surgery room has three new surgical ta-

bles that cost $2500 each, the anesthesia machines were $2800 and oxygen level sensors $800. “We have great donors,” said Cass, that was evident on the lobby wall plaques at the entrance.

“As long as you’ve got the subsidy funds for people who can’t pay the full price it can actually be self supporting,” she said.

Medical director Meghan Byrnes oversees three veterinarians be-tween both locations. It only takes one and one-half minutes for Byrnes to perform a cat neuter. The goal is to perform 30-35 a day, said Prater. After each surgery the animals get a “green tat-too.” The tattoo is to prevent unnecessary sur-geries when animals change hands or a feral cat is caught a second time.

After surgery each animal gets special han-dling. They are wrapped in a blanket with a microwave-warmed tube sock filled with rice and placed on a warm mattress. Of the long list of donation items needed, blankets, cleaner, cat and dog food were at the top. “We always need tube socks,” she said.

There is a whole room filled with washers and dryers. “Every animal that comes in gets their own set of surgical equipment, blankets, towels and drapes. Everything gets washed on a con-stant basis.”

The garage, once used by Nationwide, sold them on the location and their new transport truck, donated by Oakey’s Pet Funeral Home and Crematory, is their pride and joy. It makes loading and unloading animals in inclement weather much easier. The truck sports the slogan “Take the Hip-to-Snip Trip.” It is used for rescue organization transport and as advertising for free animal transfers at parking lots. The group is happy to pick up a pet and bring them back free of charge.

Check out the $20 special for pit bull spay and neutering going on now: www.mountainviewspayneuter.org.


Lynda-Sue Napier with her dog Sophie get attention at the clinic’s Grand Opening.

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Mayor Bowers points out the Roanoke Star to riders.Photo by Beverly Amsler

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Roanoke and British Officials.Photo by Beverly Amsler

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J.J. Redick and Company Return for Camp, Golf Tourney

Local high school basketball stars of yester-year came back last week for J.J. Redick’s sec-ond skills camp, which the former Cave Spring-Duke star turned NBA player (Orlando Magic) runs with his old high school coach, Billy Hicks. The pair won a state Group AAA title with the Knights when Redick was a senior, before he went on to become a two-time College Player of the Year at Duke.

Redick, now a sixth year pro for Orlando, timed the camp to coincide with his second annual J.J. Redick Celebrity Golf Classic at Bal-lyhack last weekend, which raised money for the Chil-dren’s Miracle Network and CHIP (Childhood Health In-vestment Partnership of the Roanoke Valley). Last year the first golf tourney raised more than $100,000, with $40,000 earmarked for both charities.

“Last year was a lot of fun,” said Redick, who convinced a number of current and former NBA players to com-pete this time. “We’ve already raised more money than last year.” A silent auction and a VIP dinner at a private home helped fill the cof-fers. “We’re just trying to make it a very special experience for all of these people that have been so generous.” (Donations can still be made at jjredick.com).

Redick was also “thankful” for all of the counselors and coaches that gave up three days of their time. “It’s really a cool thing what we’ve done with this camp. What we’re doing is build-ing community. What we’re all giving is our time.” All of the camper tuition fees are actually going to the Boys and Girls Clubs locally, where Redick is helping to start a college scholarship program.

Redick, whose younger sister Abby helped out at the camp (she plays basketball for Drexel University in Philadelphia) has transformed his body in recent years, dropping body fat and adding muscle for the long, rigorous NBA sea-son. He has been spending most of his summer living in the SoHo section of New York City, working out with trainer Alex Cobb. Cobb was on hand to help out with workout routines at the camp last week, which was focused on mid-dle and high school basketball players.

Counselors at the skills camp included Luke Hancock, the former Hidden Valley High School star who spent two years at George Ma-son University before transferring to Louisville. Hancock, who will play for Head Coach Rick

Pitino, sat out last season as per the NCAA rules on transferring but is ready to go this fall.

“Last year was tough,” said Hancock, who had to sit as the Cardinals advanced all the way to the Final Four. He made the trips with the

team, but missed being out on the court. “I haven’t had that experience in a long, long time.” Hancock sank a winning three pointer for George Mason in the NCAA playoffs two years ago, his collegiate highlight to date. “I can’t wait to be back out there.”

He has two years of eli-gibility left and “couldn’t be happier” about his decision to transfer. “I feel like I will be playing for the best coach in the country,” said the shooting guard/small for-ward. He was named a team captain for Louisville despite never having played a game to date.

Also on hand was former Cave Spring standout Josh

Henderson, a 7-footer who helped Hicks win two more state titles (at the Group AA level) before he went on to Vanderbilt. Henderson, who

has been sidetracked by foot problems over the past few seasons, was sporting a boot on his left foot last week, which he still has to wear part of the time.

Henderson came back too early from a pre-vious foot problem and had to undergo sur-gery; pool therapy has been part of Henderson’s rehab regimen. “While my foot hurts I’m trying to work on everything else,” said Henderson last week. He had surgery four months ago and expects to start running on the basketball court in a few weeks

“I should be good to go for games [this fall]. We kind of rushed it the first time.” Henderson, who said he expects to start if he’s healthy, has three years of college eligibility left. At the skills camp he worked with some of the taller post players. It was nice, said Henderson, to keep up with former teammates like Clay Lacy and Coach Billy Hicks via Redick’s skills camp. “I grew up with these guys,” he noted.

“These guys are getting an unbelievable expe-rience,” said Hicks about the skills camp. “The fact that [Redick] spends so much time out on the floor with them, lecturing them every day, “it’s been an amazing experience for these kids.”

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J.J. Redick hits his tee shot Saturday afternoon at Ballyhack to benefit CHIP and Children’s Miracle Network.

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With eight returning players, the Hidden Val-ley volleyball team is once again poised to battle for the top spot in the tough River Ridge Dis-trict and make another run deep into the state playoffs come mid-November.

Returning for the Titans, who went 20-5 last season and ad-vanced all the way to the state semifinals, junior first team all-region and all-district selection Caroline Boone (MH, 367 kills, 74 blocks, 94% serving percent-age), junior first team all-district selection Jenny Clark (OH,174 kills, team leading 230 digs, 94% serving percentage, 46 aces), se-nior Lauren Thomas (Right side hitter), junior Madison Morris (MB), senior Emma Sweet (OH), senior Sarah Gray (DS), junior Skylar Kendrick (Libero) and junior Hannah Podechi (Setter).

New to the varsity squad are sophomores Erin Newell (OH/MB) and Sarah Mitchell (RS),

along with juniors Maddie Wilson (S) and Brooke Mitchell (OH/MB).

When asked about the team’s strengths, Poff said, “Experience and five seniors are strength.

Our new setter is doing great.”During the pre-season, Hid-

den Valley won both of their scrimmages against Group A Auburn, who lost in the state fi-nals and EC Glass. Both contests went just three games.

The Titans see their top matches this season as being with Salem, defending state champion and rival Cave Spring, along with Patrick Henry.

“We hope to be a state final-ist contender and return to the state tournament,” added Poff, when asked about this season’s outlook. “We hope to win the district this year in a tough River Ridge District.”

With 14 starters back, the Hidden Valley Titans are striving to make a return trip to the regional playoffs this season in a tough River Ridge District.

The Titans, who went 7-5 and lost 41-20 to Christiansburg in the second round of the Region IV Tournament, will see Nic Ratliff (senior, 5-10, 176, QB) Walker Brand (junior, 5-7, 182-RB), Garrett Pierce (senior, 5-10, 181, FB), Jake Kite (senior, 6-1, 188, WR), Chad Frazier (senior, 5-10, 155, WR), Jabob Bowen (senior, 6-2, 235 TE), Jordan Parke (senior, 5-11, 300, RT), Chris Moses (senior, 6-2, 234, RG), Troy Paplomatas (senior, 6-0, 225, C), Hunter Boone (sophomore, 6-1, 198, LG), Deven McDaniel (senior, 6-3, 200, LT) and Landon Dermott (junior, 5-8, 151, K), as probable starters on offense this season.

“We return five players on our offensive line with varsity start-ing experience,” said Head Coach Scott Weaver. Brand returns for his junior season with 1,600 career rushing yards already un-der his belt. Last season’s second leading rusher Mason Dermott is back, along with Pierce and Atkins.”

According to Weaver, Ratliff and Frazier are in a battle for the starting quarterback position.

Kite, who led the RRD in receptions last fall, along with Fra-zier and Mason Dermott give the Titans three reliable players out on the edge.

“The 2012 Hidden Valley Titan offense should be very bal-anced,” said Weaver. “With an experienced offensive line, we plan on being able to run the ball effectively while being able to pass protect long enough to get the ball outside to our experi-enced receiving corp.”

Defensive probable starters include Kite (SS), Frazier (S), Colin Johnson (senior, 5-8, 166, CB), Billy Howe (junior, 5-10, 172, CB), Massi Flici (junior, 6-2, 215, MLB), Nate At-kins (sophomore, 6-0, 201, MLB), Ian Kemp (senior, 6-4, 240, DE), Jacob Bowen (senior, 6-2, 235, DE), Nic Traeg-ner (senior, 5-5, 165, NG), Kieran Wardale (senior, 6-0, 230, DT), and Parke (DT).

What are the Titans strengths on defense? “The middle of our defense – with Kite and Flici,” said Weaver. These young men have gained valuable experience last season playing quality opponents. Kite will play as a four year senior starter, while Flici will be a three year starter at the middle as a ju-nior. This season we expect these players to be the heart of our defense.”

As for the defensive concerns, Weaver added, “In fall camp we hope to find some young men to step in and start on the defensive line. As a staff, we would like to keep as many of our linemen going one way. We need two or three of our younger players to step up and fill that void, so that we can keep our offensive lineman fresh.

Jonathan Richmond (senior, 6-0, 179) will handle the punting duties, while Kite will handle punt returns and Ma-son Dermott (sophomore, 5-6, 154,) will take care of kick returns.

“We should be very tough from the inside out,” Weaver noted. “We return a lot of experience from last year’s playoff team and we hope to build on that experience this season to see how far this team can go.”

The Titans open their season Friday, Aug. 24 at Patrick Henry. Game time is 7 p.m.

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Wild Bill’s Weekly Sports RoundupFinally, it’s here. Week one of high school

football is upon us and I’ll be heading out to two games to get a quick look at four of the Wild Bill ‘Big-11” squads.

Home games tonight (Friday) offer fans the opportunity to see Friday night lights across the valley, with con-tests set for the stadiums at William Fleming, Patrick Henry, Cave Spring and Lord Botetourt.

Two ‘Big-11” members, Salem and Roanoke Catholic, won’t hit the gridiron until next week, but there’s plenty on hand tonight to get the crystal ball warmed up. So, without further ado, let’s get right to this week’s picks.

North Cross at Charlotte Latin: The only local defending state champions get the first look in week one. North Cross graduated a host of starters from the 2011 team and the early roster numbers have been a challenge for Head Coach Stephen Alexander. Char-lotte Latin, a perennial private school pow-erhouse, came to Roanoke last year in game-one, knocking off the Raiders 23-0. North Cross isn’t afraid to play the best. Although this game will pay dividends down the road, a win by the Raiders may be a very long shot. Charlotte Latin- 35 North Cross- 9

Franklin County at William Fleming: Fleming has only one win in it’s last two seasons, but Head Coach Lee Johnson has the program heading in the right direction. Look for Fleming, with lack of depth in the running game, to open it up through the air. Franklin County knocked off the Colonels twice in the 2011 regular season. The Eagles are typically big and fast. Franklin County – 28 William Fleming – 13.

William Byrd at Cave Spring: The Terri-ers return several starters on both sides of the ball, while Cave Spring lost both quar-terbacks and the greatest rusher in Knight history, Sam Wright, to graduation. The big question is how the lines for both teams will perform. Jeff Highfield, the dean of ‘Big-11” coaches, always has a few tricks up his sleeve. Connor Baker, out with a leg injury in 2011, returns at QB for Cave Spring with up-and-comer Alex Emery in the wings. This one should be close. Cave Spring – 23 William Byrd – 22.

Glenvar at Galax: Galax slipped by Glen-var 17-14 in last year’s opener, then reeled off thirteen more wins before losing to Clintwood in the state final. Glenvar made the playoffs before finishing the season 6-5. Highlanders Head Coach Kevin Clifford has some key spots to fill, and playing in Galax on opening night, where football is king, is no bargain. Galax – 30 Glenvar -20.

Northside at Amherst County: The Vi-kings lost big-time players in key positions after a great 2011 season that came to an end in the playoffs against eventual state cham-pion Brookville. Northside always has a com-

mittment to the weight room, and the line play will be crucial in this one. Nine players return on defense for the Vikings, and that may be enough for a well-conditioned Burt Torrence squad. Northside – 20 Amherst

County -13.James River at Lord Botetourt:

The annual game for bragging rights in Botetourt County that eventually may be a thing of the past. Botetourt welcomes former Cave Spring defen-sive coordinator Jamie Harless as its new head coach, and Harless brings a clear-cut philosophy that committ-

ment paves the road to success. Lord Botetourt got a great catch here. They celebrate in Daleville. Lord

Botetourt – 27 James River – 12. Hidden Valley at Patrick Henry: I prom-

ised an upset last week, so here it is. PH will be a speed machine in 2012, with VA Tech-bound David Prince at quarterback. The Patriots have made great strides under Head Coach Alan Fiddler, despite competing in the grueling AAA ranks. Hidden Valley slides down Grandin Road with 14 returning starters and a running game that may well impress. Line play will be the key in this one, and the Titans have some very big and ver-sitile players on both sides of the ball. Hid-den Valley Head Coach Scott Weaver was the turnaround story in 2011. Weaver says play-ing PH is an opportunity to improve. It may be a Titan shocker. Hidden Valley – 24 Pat-rick Henry – 19.

We close this week with a look at a Wild Bill late-night product review and an E-bay update that hit close to home.

Admittedly, I’ve never ventured writing about the world of undergarments, at least until a recent pitch for the apparently hereto-fore unrecognized women’s accessory called the ahh-bra. The pitch says no hooks, clasps, eyes, lines, bulges or wires. All pluses in my book, unless, of course you’re hanging a pic-ture.

The ad shows ladies from the size of Twig-gy up to Mama Cass stepping into this thing (yep, that’s right, you step into the ahh-bra to get it positioned). Comes in various col-ors, but they suggest yellow, because “wear yellow-catch a fellow.” That’s enough. I give the ahh-bra a Wild Bill Five-Star thumbs up, . . . or step-up in this case.

FInally, this week e-bay barred all prod-ucts involving magical pitches, such as Tar-ot cards or anything that promotes hexing spells. Don’t worry readers- my Ouija Board is in a safe place, crystal ball hidden and se-ance table locked up. Count Isvandelecki and I are pleading the fifth. We’ve got football to do.

Until next week, remember. . . Wear lots of yellow and send your comments to: info@T he R o anoke -Star.com

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Hidden Valley Looks To Build On Playoff Experience

By David [email protected]

Cave Spring Look To Defend State Group AA Volleyball Crown

With eight returning players, the Cave Spring volleyball team is poised to defend its Group AA volleyball crown when the Knights open their season this fall.

Cave Spring had a successful 2011 campaign, as they captured the River Ridge District regular season volleyball crown, the Region IV and Group AA titles to end the season with a 29-3 mark.

Returning for the Knights are senior Erin Holsinger (OH/MB), senior Alyssa McKinley (OH), junior Olivia Sass (S/RS), senior Sarah Smith (RS/DS), senior An-nice Link (DS) senior Kendall Scott (MB), junior Lauren Sig-mon (S) and junior Kallie Wilkes (DS).

New to the varsity program are freshmen Piper Roe (MB), Cait Flippin (OH/RS), Alayna Foutz (OH), junior Emily Fulton (OH/RS), along with sophomores Tessa Klimaitis (MB) and Charity Kli-maitis (MB).

When asked about the team’s strenghths and weaknesses, head coach Tamalyn Tanis, who is starting her 11th season said, ” Our strengths would be that we are taller than we have been in a very long time. If we can maintain the speed and ball control that we have when we are undersized,

then we will have a very exciting season. Howev-er, we are young and there will be some growing pains to go along with that.”

Cave Spring sees its top matches as being Western Albermarle, Grafton, and a new tourna-

ment for the Knights in Knoxville TN. Cave Spring is also hosting a tournament of champions at the Spectrum Sports Academy in Oc-tober that will feature the Knights, Hidden Valley, Patrick Henry, Au-burn, Kellum (reigning AAA state champion), Western Albermarle, Bath County, and two teams from WV that were in the state tourna-ment last year and are historically contenders for state titles. Also state powers Atlee and Deep Run (AAA) and possible a team from Illinois.Other than that, the Hid-den Valley and Patrick Henry matches should be strong locally.

What does the 2012 season look like for the Knights? “If the young players can adapt to the speed of our offense and if we can main-tain our ball control while train-ing two new setters, then we will be strong. Fortunately, we have a

strong schedule so that we can build throughout the season and hopefully gain confidence before the post season,” Tanis added.


Cave Spring Senior #8 Alyssa McKinley will be a key con-tributor for the Knights.

Titan Senior #4 Caroline Boone will be serving it up hard for Hidden Valley.

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Neathawk Dubuque & Packett to Acquire The Becher Agency

Neathawk Dubuque & Packett (ND&P), a full-service advertising, marketing and pub-lic relations agency, has announced plans to acquire The Becher Agency (tba) in a move that creates the largest agency in the Roanoke Valley.

“We are delighted to grow our locally managed office with the acquisition of a well-respected and well-connected agency with particularly strong capabilities and award-winning results in public relations,” said Todd Foutz, executive vice president of ND&P. “Our combined staffs, comprising some of the most talented and recognized advertising professionals in the region, will provide clients with unprecedented expertise in creative services, online interaction, social media, public relations and other commu-nications that help businesses and organiza-tions succeed.”

Thomas Becher, owner and president of The Becher Agency, will join ND&P as senior vice president, leading the combined compa-ny’s public relations and crisis communica-tions practices.

“We look forward to bringing our expertise to a larger team of professional communica-tors to better serve a variety of organizations,” Becher said. “Both firms share a great deal of respect for each other, and we have previous-ly worked together to provide outstanding service to mutual clients. We look forward to continuing to provide local, strategy-based creative solutions to a variety of clients in our region and beyond.”

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Once the acquisition closes, ND&P will have 54 employees in Roanoke, Richmond, Chattanooga, Tenn., Charlotte and Durham, N.C., and Tampa, Fla. The combined entity will total 17 full-time positions in Roanoke office.

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The deal combines the legacies of two re-nowned names in the Roanoke advertising market – Howard Packett and John Lambert. ND&P acquired The Packett Group in 2004. Becher purchased the assets of Lambert’s agency in 2006.

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the upcoming Art Market on September 8, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Vendors may sell original paintings, photography, jewelry, fiber art, stained glass, mixed media, wood, re-purposed art, metal art, pottery and more. Interested artists may reserve a space for $5. Live music will be provided by Southwest Virginia Songwrit-ers Association.

Contact Mary Beth Layman at 540-983-0613 or [email protected] prior to the event.

Blue Ridge Music Center PresentsOld-Time & Bluegrass Breakdowns

On September 1, the Blue Ridge Music Center will host the Old-Time & Bluegrass Breakdowns concert featuring two great bands. It will be a memorable night of bluegrass hot picking and powerful old-time music and one of BRMC’s last main stage concerts of the season.

Travers Chandler has been turning heads with his singing and mandolin playing in the bands of James King, Dan Paisley and his own band Avery County. Travers Chandler and Avery County came together in 2009 with the intent of preserving the legacies of blue-grass music’s lost heroes, while bringing these sounds to new audi-ences. They have played on the WPAQ Merry-Go-Round, PBS’ Song of the Mountains and festivals throughout the Blue Ridge. These hot pickers will prove their merit on the main stage Saturday night.

The Dry Hill Draggers of Franklin County started with banjo player Jimmy Boyd and his brother Billy Boyd in 1981. Their uncles all played old-time music, including Uncle Charlie Boyd, who was buried with his fiddle. With a solid reputation for hard-driving, flat-footing music, today the band consist of the 2nd generation players who carry on in the unique stringband tradition of the Blue Ridge. In Jimmy’s own words: “The old-time music drew me in to play it. Music like that is in your genes. You are what your genes are.” To this day, Dry Hill Draggers are widely regarded as Franklin County’s best old-time band.

The Old-Time & Bluegrass Breakdowns Concert starts at 7pm on Saturday, September 1st. Concert seating opens at 5:30pm. Admis-sion $10/$8 students & seniors. Children 12 and under are free. Pic-nics welcome. Smokehouse BBQ available. No pets or alcohol. For info call (276) 236-5309 x112 or online at www.BlueRidgeMusicCen-ter.org and at the gate. The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Roanoke College Olin HallSeptember - October Lineup

SEPTEMBER Art Exhibition: September 7th-October 12thOlin Gallery Annie Waldrop – Leaves | Smoyer Gallery Acquisitions· Annie Waldrop Lecture, Friday, September 7th, 5:30 p.m. Olin Recital Hall· Opening Reception Friday, September 7th 6-8 p.m. Smoyer GalleryThis exhibition by local artist Annie Waldrop will encompass mixed media collage, drawings, sculpture, installation, video and sound. Annie Waldrop’s work seeks to re-imagine a feminine narrative by linking personal experience and cultural myths with elements found in nature. By twisting wire, incorporating old photographs with organic materials and fabricated objects she reveals a meditative process that pays homage to family ties across generations and creates an unbroken lineage suggested by intimate symbols of the life cycle, fertility, and rebirth. Ultimately, each piece created is a spare reliquary, infused with ritual, mystery and a sense of hope.www.anniewaldrop.com

Kandinsky Trio Concert: Silver Anniversary ConcertSaturday, September 15, 7:30 p.m. | Olin Theater | $20/12The Kandinsky Trio celebrates its 25th season with a unique commissioning project entitled “25 X 25.” Twenty-five composers are writing 25 short pieces, commemorating the Trio’s quarter century of music making. The works will be performed through the next two seasons of the Trio’s series at Roanoke College. The composers include Gunther Schuller, Richard Danielpour, Hilary Tann, Mike Reid, Jon Grier and John D’earth.

RC Faculty Jazz and Friends ConcertSunday, September 23, 4 p.m. | Olin Recital Hall | Non-ticketed, free eventA revue of jazz standards and new music performed by Roanoke Valley professionals. Faculty Recital: A Program of Romantic Piano MusicGordon Marsh, piano.Sunday, September 30, 2012, 4 p.m. | Olin Recital HallConcert features a range of romantic masterpieces for the piano, including Franz Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Op. 90; Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No. 3, Op. 47; Johannes Brahms’s Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79; and Gabriel Fauré’s Nocturne No. 74.Admission Free OCTOBER

Performing Arts Series Presents: Anthology: 25 Years with Anonymous 4 Tuesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m. | Olin Hall TheaterTickets are $12 Adults, $8 Seniors and Students, $5 groups 8+The Performing Arts Series presents the iconic vocal group in their only Virginia performance this season. To mark their 25th year together, Anonymous 4 have created a truly unique and very special concert program, ANTHOLOGY 25. It features ancient, traditional, and modern works from each of their 19 prize-winning, chart-topping harmonia mundi CD’s, in one, two, three and four voices, ranging from 11th century plainchant, richly harmonic English conductus and spicy French motets of the 13th century, exotic 15th-century Hungarian polyphony, 19th century shape note hymns, and contemporary works.

The New Yorkers Company (**New Yorkers PR photo.jpg)Friday Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m. | Olin Theater | Complimentary Ticket RequiredThe New Yorkers, an innovative theater company, includes six young actors, writers, musicians and directors who will present work they have written and shaped especially for their debut per-formance in Virginia. They are in residence at Roanoke College for a week in October through the generosity of a Copenhaver Grant. Their work originated with the internationally-known Dutch company, Orkater.

RC Wind Ensemble with Blacksburg Community BandThursday, October 11 7:30pm | Olin Theater | Non-TicketedThe Roanoke College band will perform with guests, Blacksburg Community Band, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Blaha.

Art Exhibition October 26th-December 2ndOlin Gallery Roanoke College’s Studio Art FacultySmoyer Gallery Gretchen Batcheller, Cole Hartson and Jeanne Stewart· Opening Reception October 26th from 6-8 in Smoyer GalleryThis exhibition will showcase current work created by the Roanoke College’s Studio Art Faculty: Scott Hardwig, Eliz. S.-K. Heil and Katherine Shortridge.Hardwig teaches ceramics and sculpture at Roanoke College and received his master of fine arts degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and has been a member of the college’s faculty since 1977. Heil joined the Roanoke College faculty in 1981 and teaches photography, computer graphics and printmaking, earning her master of fine arts degree in print-making and drawing from Northern Illinois University. Shortridge received her master of fine arts degree from Indiana University and has taught painting and drawing at the college since 2003.This exhibition in conjunction with the Studio Art Faculty show will highlight work by Gretchen Batcheller, Cole Hartson and Jeanne Stewart. Batcheller taught painting and mixed media courses during her 2011-12 visiting professorship in the Roanoke College Fine Arts Department Hartson has been teaching Graphic Design at Roanoke College in the art department since 2003 and Stew-art is the college’s new professor of Arts and Crafts in Schools.

The Market Gallery to Feature Artists Mary

Bullington and Ed BordettThe Market Gallery featured artists are Mary Boxley Bull-

ington and Ed Bordett from August 28 through September 22. Please join us to meet and chat with the artists at their reception Friday, September 7, Art by Night, 5:30 to 9 p.m. Mary will pro-vide a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m. and Ed at 7 p.m.

Mary Bullington works almost exclusively from memory and the imagination. Mary notes, “I usually “mix” mediums, includ-ing acrylics, white and black gesso, watercolor &/or gouache, oil pastels, charcoal, and colored pencil. Much of my work is collage, which allows me also to combine separate paintings on paper to new effect. I love color, layering, and texture-- and per-haps most of all, surprise”.

Ed Bordett’s recent work features the gardens and backyards of Fincastle. Ed works primarily in oils on panels.

The Market Gallery, a regional artists’ cooperative, is open 10 am to 5:30 pm Tuesday - Saturday, and on Friday until 8:30 p.m. It is located at 23 Salem Avenue, Roanoke, VA 24011, the cor-ner of Wall St and Salem Ave in Roanoke’s historic downtown market.

For additional information call The Market Gallery (540) 342-1177 or visit www.marketgalleryroanoke.com

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City Partners With Foundation for Roanoke Valley in Funding Community Art

The City of Roanoke and the Foundation for Roanoke Valley have announced a partnership to offer mini-grants toward implementation of the city’s Arts and Cultural Plan. Grants be-tween $500 to $2,500 will be awarded to non-profits, schools, and organizations to fund proj-ects that have a clear community benefit, are collaborative in nature, and which advance one or more of the city’s three main arts and cul-tural policies: “Vibrant Region-Healthy Econ-omy;” “Livable Communities-Engaged Neigh-borhoods;” and “People-Education-Lifelong Learning.” A total of $12,000 in grants will be awarded.

The city’s first Arts and Cultural Plan was adopted by City Council in August 2011. The plan was developed by the Roanoke Arts Com-mission and the city’s Planning, Building, and Development Department with partner orga-nizations, as well as citizen input drawn from numerous focus groups, public meetings, and a survey. Additionally, analysis of other commu-nities’ best practices in arts and cultural devel-opment helped to shape the plan.

The Foundation’s executive director, Alan Ronk, noted: “When the city approached us to

partner on this effort, we jumped at the chance to help double the amount that could be award-ed this year. Our Community Catalyst Funds are intended to make important projects hap-pen, and we look forward to seeing the many creative ideas that flow from the grants process.”

Mayor David Bowers expressed his appre-ciation to the Foundation by saying “Arts and Culture are an important business in the Roa-noke region. The programs which these grants support will add to the vitality and diversity of the city, making Roanoke a place where people and businesses want to live, work, and visit. We are grateful to Foundation for Roanoke Valley for joining us to sustain the arts in the City of Roanoke.”

Grant applications and information can be downloaded by accessing the link on the city’s homepage at www.roanokeva.gov., under “Read About.” For further information, contact Susan Jennings, Arts and Cultural Coordinator for the city, at [email protected]. Go to www.foundationforroanokevalley.org for more information about Foundation for Roa-noke Valley.

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