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Town – County
Family Practice recently returned
from a volunteer stint bringing medical
help to the poor in Honduras. He
says the long-term health project
called HOMBRES is doddering on
its financial legs. Seems that while
our Valley residencies - Ball’s own
and the Shenandoah Valley Family
Practice Residency in Winchester,
joined by a health center on Rhode
Island and the VCU/MCV Department
of Family Medicine - have
provided volunteer health professionals
to help a small clinic they
established on the impoverished island
in 001, financial contributions
have backslid. Doctors, dentists and
other health professionals locally
will be asked to bump up their donations
to keep the Honduras clinic
in business. Also, Ball is looking for
more health professionals to join the
“brigade” of volunteers who help out
at the clinic - typically, about two
weeks each year.
A Vino Thanksgiving
Warren County cops, the army, the
feds, and a state police bomb squad,
called out unexpectedly on Thanksgiving
Day, did not miss their turkey
dinners, thanks to Rachel and Chris-
tian Failmezger, managers of Vino
E Formaggio on Main Street. The
Failmezgers had already invited the
needy and the lonely to free dinners
at the restaurant. When the multilaw
enforcement task force had finished
a gun, ammunition and drug
(marijuana) bust resulting in the arrest
of David Anthony Boles of Front
Royal (see related press release), they
received their dinners courtesy of
Vino E Formaggio. The restaurant
says they served up to 60 people, including
the law enforcement folks,
free dinners between 1 and 6 p.m.
Thanksgiving Day.
As a postscript to this story, we
had occasion to visit the local animal
shelter to buy tree ornaments ($10
apiece) and heard that Boles was well
known to staffers, one of whom remarked
on his kindness to animals,
particularly cats – it must not have
been them he didn’t trust while allegedly
arming himself to the teeth.
FR Rotary donates to shelter
The Rotary Club of Front Royal
has approved a $ 5,000 contribution
- spread over five years - to establish
a shelter area on the old 19-acre
Fishnet property, now under devel-
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Morgan’s Ford Bridge #s
We received a reply to a query to
VDOT about costs of the 004 repairs
cited in our Morgan’s Ford
Bridge story last issue after that issue
went to press. Consequently, VDOT
official Ed Carter informed us those
repairs “cost about cost $90,000
or approximately $350 per square
foot.” Carter added that he believed
that number is where current bridge
preservation supporters were getting
their $1.5 million estimate on repairs
to the existing bridge as an alterna-
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tive to the approximate $7.1 to $7.3
million cost of a two-lane replacement
bridge.
“That is misleading,” Carter said of
the $1.5-million estimate. “That 004
work was an emergency repair of one
span on the shallow side of the river.
It was not a rehab as the existing concrete
is too deteriorated to utilize.”
Chilly Blacksburg trip
A group of 50 intrepid college football
fans followed Front Royal Rotarian
Doug Stanley (Warren County
executive director) to Blacksburg on
what turned out to be the coldest day
of the year – Saturday, Nov. 4. After
sitting atop freezing metal bleachers
in 8 degree, windy weather (in fairness,
Stanley had warned the group
of a forecast drop to 36 degrees from
Ready for
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the previous day’s 60-plus) the only
warm folks were the Virginia Tech
fans whose team beat UVA 17-14 in
the final seconds. A guest who braved
the elements was Staff Sgt. Malcolm
Barr, Jr. The USAF sergeant traveled
from Stuttgart, Germany, to see his
team win the all-local matchup. Rotarian
Cal Coolidge shivered as he
announced his attendance at his “last
football game”, as did fellow Rotarian
Malcolm Barr, Sr. The group was
greeted by Rocklander Jeff Lehew
and his wife who provided hot food
and drinks and a roaring log fire at
their tailgate party near the bus parking
lot before and after the game.
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