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WAHS PRINCIPAL NAMED
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SALAD GREENS
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RURAL HISTORIC
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LITTLE BOY BLUE
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THE NAME GAME
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CVFD HONORS
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LIBRARY DESIGN
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GARDEN WEEK
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AFTON CHAPEL
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VINEYARDs HONORED
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INVISIBLE CHILDREN
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AMATeuR GOLFER
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SCREEN SIZE
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WAHS GIRLS LAX
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PEACHTREE
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Second Trumpet
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CROSSWORD
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Bereavements
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Harris Teeter
Grand Opening
Set for May 6
Harris Teeter will open its Crozet
store in the Blue Ridge Shopping
Center on Rt. 250 May 6 with an 8
a.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony attended
by corporate officials. The
42,000-square-foot store is the chain’s
first designed to meet LEED standards
for environmentally sustainable buildings.
Based in Charlotte, Harris Teeter
will open another new store in Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina, the same day,
bringing its store count to 181.
Harris Teeter spokeswoman Jennifer
Thompson said the Crozet store will
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By Allie Pesch
Western Albemarle citizens told
local Supervisors Ann Mallek (White
Hall District) and Sally Thomas
(Samuel Miller District) to reduce
County spending and not to raise real
estate taxes at three town hall meetings
the supervisors held in March to gauge
public opinion on budget issues. Later
in the month the board decided to
advertise a tax rate of 74.2 cents per
hundred dollars of assessed value for
public comment.
Appearing together at Henley
Middle School on the 9th, before a
crowd of about 50, the two supervisors
were told by one speaker, “Everybody
is cutting back. Wait until the tide goes
up again before raising taxes. Two and
a half cents is too much.”
Thomas called the real estate tax “a
lousy tax” and noted that two-thirds of
Albemarle’s government revenues
comes from local sources whereas only
50 percent of Augusta County’s does.
Old Crozet School Takes
In Two New Schools
Local Supervisors Told
to Cut Spending, Leave
Tax Rate Alone
The Field School of Charlottesville
and Old Crozet School Arts (OCSA)
are the likely tenants of the Crozet Old
School, the County spokeswoman Lee
Catlin announced March 19 at the
Crozet Community Advisory Council
meeting. Combined, the two schools
will lease two-thirds of the building by
this summer, if all goes well.
The results of the County’s Old
School Reuse Study community workshop
in June 2008 indicated the community’s
preference for the future use
of the Crozet Old School was for a
community center that could provide
performance and assembly space in the
old auditorium, including such uses as
dance classes, arts spaces, community
movies, and programs for youth and
the elderly in the old classrooms. The
County advertised across the state in a
search for tenants and received five
applications, two of which were from
the Field School and OCSA.
The Field School of Charlottesville,
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The difference is a larger state contribution,
she said. But another speaker,
who also owns property in Augusta,
Crozet’s
Hometown
Grocery
By Clover Carroll
continued on page 8
Dabney Via, Charlie Flemming and Agnew
Morris at the groundbreaking for the IGA,
June 1967.
The Crozet Great Valu is a local
family business that has stood the test
of time. A Crozet institution since
1946, this hometown grocery store
that both buys and employs local has
been built with love and dedication by
three generations of the Wagner family
and has established a reputation for
excellence. Since it was incorporated
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Crozet gazette
from the Editor
Don’t Put a Check in the Mail
Thomas Jefferson famously said
that there should be revolution
every 20 years or so. It’s been a generation
since the Revenue Sharing
Agreement between the City of
Charlottesville and Albemarle
County was signed in 1982 and it’s
due for an overthrow. The agreement,
ratified by a referendum,
amounted to a cease fire in the turbulent
annexation politics of that
day as expanding cities plucked the
juiciest fruit, the lucrative commercial
tax sources, that sat just across
county lines, usually do-si-doing
around the residential areas that
demanded expensive services.
A year after Albemarle and
Charlottesville signed their truce,
according to which the county
began its annual tribute payments,
the General Assembly called a halt
to the brawling with a moratorium
on annexation that remains in effect
to this day. Albemarle is the only
county in Virginia that makes an
annual payment to a city. Had it
resisted a deal for another year, the
city’s threat to pocket Fashion
Square Mall would have simply vanished.
Albemarle has been faithful to
the deal even though its citizens feel
abused by it, watching their county
services shrink and tax bills rise in
leaps and bounds as the city swaps
out the bricks on its downtown mall
or opens a new transit stop that
makes an architectural statement on
behalf of typically empty buses. Ten
cents of every tax dollar paid by
Albemarle residents is being spent
at the discretion of Charlottesville
City Council. That was a reason for
a tea party back in 1776.
The agreement allows for a
divorce if the city and county consolidate,
if state law abandons the
concept of independent cities, or if
“the city and county agree to cancel
or change the agreement.” Naturally,
the city doesn’t see a reason to talk
about not getting $18 million next
year. On their end, it ain’t broke, so
what’s to fix?
But they’ll be ready to talk when
they don’t get their check. The
Supervisors should show that they
are prepared to withhold payment
and ultimately drag the business
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to a cordial negotiation of new
terms.
Ultimately, the agreement has to
go. That will mean the establishment
of a new boundary that sufficiently
enlarges the city’s tax base.
The county’s “urban ring” around
the city is de facto a part of the city,
so what we have is one urban area
being administered by two governments.
The growth of the urban ring
has shifted county politics, which
should be about rural and town
administration, to suburban priorities
that will continue to produce
conflicts within the county’s natural
character. The economic crisis is, as
the say in parliamentary procedure,
calling the question. We might as
well answer it.
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No, We Don’t Need Crozet Station
The [March] article about Crozet
Station ends with architect Bill
Atwood saying, “I think the businesses
in Crozet Shopping Center
need Crozet Station to happen,
especially when Harris Teeter gets
going.” The presumption is that the
people who shop in downtown
Crozet are people who would prefer
to shop in newly built, cookie cutter-type
stores, such as Harris
Teeter.
The unspoken truth, however, is
that there exist different kinds of
people and each kind prefers different
types of stores.
The only reason that Harris Teeter
is coming into existence is to provide
food for folks in the new developments—mini-Charlottesvilles—
surrounding Crozet. Most, if not
all, of these residents probably shop
now in Charlottesville because—
let’s face it—they are city folks, not
country. Downtown Crozet is not a
setting they are comfortable with.
But there are plenty of us who
prefer the rural feel of Crozet and
we aren’t interested in regularly
shopping at stores such as Harris
Teeter. For those of us who love the
down-home comfy atmosphere at
the present IGA [properly, Crozet
Great Valu], walking into a Harris
Teeter is akin to walking into a hospital—spic-and-span
sterility as far
as the eye can see.
The premise that Crozet needs a
facelift—essentially a rural beautification
project—to bring customers
downtown is inane and downright
insulting. It’s reminiscent of urban
renewal programs, such as Vinegar
Hill in Charlottesville, which
destroyed the lives of perfectly
happy folks because some people,
usually from outside of the community,
had the final say regarding
whose sense of aesthetics should
prevail.
Redevelopment pushes up the
costs of living here because of the
subsequent increase in real estate
assessments, taxes, and rents. Local
small stores won’t be able to afford
these increases, and that is the reason
why businesses in Crozet
Shopping Center DON’T need
Crozet Station to happen.
Marlene A. Condon
Sugar Hollow
Private Rooms
One hears how great the new
Martha Jefferson Hospital is going
to be these days. The question is;
will this new hospital have all private
rooms? If so, what will happen
to those people who need semi-private
rooms in order to go this new
hospital? Because Medicare and
some insurance companies won’t
pay for private rooms, unless the
patient pays the difference or
Medicare or the insurance company
deems in a medical necessary. This
difference would work a hardship
on most people. Will this put a rush
on the U.Va. Medical Center for
semi-private rooms?
June McCauley
Crozet, Va
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Crozet Lions Club
70th Annual Variety Show
Friday April 3 and Saturday April 4, 8 p.m.
Brownsville Elementary School Auditorium
Rockfish Gap Turnpike
Local acts
Silly gags and high jinks are the rule.
Pilot Club Yard
Sale April 4
The Albemarle-Charlottesville
Pilot Club will host its annual
spring yard sale at the Meadows
Community Center in Crozet on
Saturday, April 4, from 8 a.m. to
1 p.m.
Tabor Presbyterian
Easter Egg Hunt
April 11
Tabor Presbyterian
Church will host an
Easter Egg Hunt
Saturday, April 11, at
11 a.m. All children in
Crozet who are accompanied by an
adult are invited to join the fun.
The event will be at 5803 Tabor
Street across from the church.
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Playground
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Center will host a “Playtime” concert
April 4 from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
to benefit the RVCC’s playground.
The Jan Smith Trio, the Virginia
Ramblers, Kim & Jimbo Cary, and
the Afton Amblers will perform.
Tickets are $15, those under age
12 admitted free; Tickets available
at the RVCC Treasure Chest and at
the door. Food, sodas and spirits
will be available.
For more information, call
434-361-0100.
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Crozet To Meet
April 6 and May 4
The Woman’s Club of Crozet will
meet at the Crozet Library April 6
from 2 to 4 p.m. Crozet resident
Terry Crone will demonstrate techniques
and projects on the antique
art of tatting. Those who have some
old handwork items are invited
to bring them to share with the
group.
On May 4 Dr. Lily Hargrove,
from Crozet Family Medicine, will
talk on “Summer-izing Our Bodies”
and offer tips and techniques on
how to protect ourselves during the
hot season of the year. Everyone is
welcome to attend. For more information,
call Jo Ann Perkins at
823-4987.
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Walk and Run
At Miller School
April 18
Miller School of Albemarle will
host the Farina-Hart 5K Walk and
Run Saturday April 18 at 8 a.m.
All participants will receive a race
T-shirt. The school’s cross country
course offers one of the area’s grandest
views of the Blue Ridge mountains
at mile 2.
Cost is $25. All proceeds go to
the American Cancer Society. For
more information, call 823-4805
ext. 229.
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Spruce Creek Park in Nellysford (in
the big field off Glenthorne Loop,
Rt. 627) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It
is free and open to the public.
Kite demonstrations and competitions
will feature members of the
Richmond Air Force, a professional
organization of kite flyers. Some
performances are done to music.
Free kites and assembly will be
available to the first 100 children to
arrive. Other children’s activities
include basket races with parachutes.
At noon children in attendance
will unfurl a 1,200-square-foot
American flag while the Star
Spangled Banner is played.
At 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. free dualline
group kite flying lessons will be
offered. Stunt kites will be flown,
instruction offered and kites can be
purchased from 2 Guys Flying of
Staunton.
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Seedtime is a time of faith and hope—faith in
the vitality of the seed and hope that Providence
will again supply the nurture through harvest
time.
Pleasant Green, the old Wayland homestead
west of Crozet, Virginia, has witnessed an abundance
of seedtimes over the past 175 (!) years. It
has seen the local economy progress from tobacco
to fruit to industrial manufacturing. In 1838, as
one of the newer homes in western Albemarle
County, it stood by while Claudius Crozet
(1789–1864), Principal Engineer for the State of
Virginia, passed by its front porch, marking a furrow
for future railroaders to follow. A dozen years
later it served as a place of respite for Colonel
Crozet while teams of laborers worked to fulfill
his vision of a great road “over and through the
Blue Ridge.”
With the 1836 chartering of the Louisa
Railroad, predecessor to the Virginia Central
Railroad, the pace of life that had characterized
old Virginia was altered for all time. Along that
rail line, 20 miles north of Richmond and 90
miles east of Jeremiah Wayland’s Albemarle
County abode, stood another plantation with ties
to the Old Dominion’s aristocracy.
Hickory Hill plantation was established on
land long associated with the Carter family of
Shirley Plantation. Political and social opportunities
were the norm in this family also allied with
the Nelsons of early Virginia. General Robert E.
Lee was yet another esteemed member of this
extended family. Anne Butler Carter moved to
Hickory Hill following her marriage to W. F.
Wickham. Their first child, Williams Carter
Wickham, had been born in Richmond in 1820,
prior to his family’s move into rural Hanover
County.
Williams Carter Wickham grew up on the
Hickory Hill estate and, along with his father,
watched as the Louisa Railroad was constructed
through their working plantation. A stop was
established there, appropriately named Wickham,
and their crops were loaded at its adjacent rail
siding.
Following his graduation from the University
of Virginia, W. C. Wickham entered law practice
in 1842. Much of his time was spent, however,
managing the business affairs of Hickory Hill. By
1849 he had married, was serving as a justice on
the Court of Hanover County and had been
elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. His
military responsibilities began with his appointment
as Captain of a cavalry unit in the Virginia
militia.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, his company
aligned itself with the Confederate Army.
Wickham participated in many of the major battles.
He was severely wounded more than once,
captured by the enemy and paroled. He was promoted
to Brigadier General in September 1863
and served in that commission for 13 months.
By the end of the war’s hostilities in the spring
of 1865, the Virginia Central Railroad had suffered
severe damage. The states of Virginia and
(newly formed) West Virginia partnered to
rebuild and expand this rail link so vital to their
economic recoveries. Williams Carter Wickham
was hired as president of the Virginia Central
by Phil James
Williams Carter Wickham and Crozet, Virginia
Williams Carter Wickham was a graduate of U.Va., a
Brigadier General in the Civil War, a State Senator,
President of the Virginia Central Railroad and Vice-
President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
This early woodcut shows a train approaching “Wickham’s Corn-Sheds” on the Virginia Central Railroad in Hanover County.
Railroad Company that November, and when the
company merged with the Covington and Ohio
Railroad in 1868 to form the Chesapeake and
Ohio RR, Wickham was retained as president of
the new corporation.
Monies required to fund expansions to the
refurbished railroad were severely lacking during
the nation’s reconstruction period. Wickham
secured solid backing when he was able to trumpet
the merits of the C&O to a group of investors
headed by railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington.
Huntington assumed the presidency of his newest
investment and Wickham became his vicepresident.
Meanwhile, back in dear old Albemarle
County, the details of the last will and testament
of Samuel Miller had been hammered out in the
courts, and preliminary work had begun on
Miller’s monumental gift to the orphaned children
of his native county. The closest point on
the railroad to receive delivery of materials for
Miller’s school and shops was the Mechums River
Depot. Because of the enormous scope of the
project, Miller School officials petitioned the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to establish a
whistle stop three miles west of Mechums River
at a point closer to the road to Batesville.
After watching the steady procession of goods
and traffic along the eastern edge of his farm during
the summer of 1876, Abraham Wayland (son
of patriarch Jeremiah) settled in his mind what
needed to be the next logical step. He sent his son
Charles, then 15 years old, on horseback to the
surrounding farms to collect signatures on a petition
requesting the C&O establish an official stacontinued
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Wickham—continued from page 5
Pleasant Green in Crozet, Virginia, was the ancestral home of the Wayland family and hosted Claudius Crozet for a season
during the 1850s while the Blue Ridge Railroad was under construction.
A bronze statue of Williams Carter Wickham, sculpted by
Edward V. Valentine, was erected in Richmond’s Monroe
Park in 1891.
tion at the location of Miller School’s busy whistle
stop.
That Centennial Year petition resulted in a
personal visit from the vice-president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company,
Colonel Williams Carter Wickham. The trackside
meeting adjacent to the Wayland and Ballard
farms was brief and to the point. Wickham was
presented with a list of possible names for the
C&O’s newest station and, as legend states, he
replied directly to those in attendance, “The name
[of the new station] will be Crozet—or nothing!”
Williams C. Wickham (1820–1888) died
while at work in his office in Richmond. He was
interred alongside other family members at his
beloved Hickory Hill in Hanover County. In
1891 his “comrades in the Confederate Army and
employees in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company” presented to the City of Richmond a
memorial statue. Fashioned in bronze by noted
Richmond sculptor Edward Virginius Valentine,
the monument was erected in Richmond’s
Monroe Park. The sentiments of the donor groups
were summed up simply—WICKHAM:
“SOLDIER, STATES-MAN, PATRIOT,
FRIEND.”
Charles L. Wayland (1861–1953) also experienced
many seedtimes through the course of his
busy life. As a young man he worked as a telegraph
operator in the Crozet and Waynesboro
train depots. His larger work, in addition to providing
for a family of ten, was as a commercial
nurseryman, peach grower and exemplary citizen.
At nearly 90 years of age he still recalled as a special
highlight his youthful ride through the countryside
collecting signatures on his father’s petition—and
the naming of the depot and village of
Crozet, Virginia.
The base of Wickham’s monument in Monroe Park records
the high esteem of those who knew him best.
Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections
and old photographs of life along the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Albemarle County, Virginia. You may respond
to him at: P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987 or philjames@
firstva.com. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2009 Phil James
This map of central Virginia was published in an October 1864 edition of The New York Herald. Though obviously not
drawn to scale and rife with spelling errors, it still shows the war-era villages along the Virginia Central Railroad.

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Credit Union Robbed at Gunpoint
A young white man of medium
height and weight, flashing a small
handgun in his left hand, robbed
the Crozet branch of the U.Va.
Community Credit Union in the
Clover Lawn shops on Rt. 250
March 13 at about 10:20 a.m. On
entering, the robber demanded
money, then jumped through the
teller window in front of Susan
Miller, took an undisclosed amount
and ran away west down the parking
lot behind the adjoining block
of businesses.
Albemarle County Police immediately
announced a description of
the suspect and released photos
from the security cameras. Teller
Betty Raines, branch manager Alan
Shenk and a customer witnessed the
robbery. They told police the suspect
was wearing a grey hooded
sweat shirt, with a white T-shirt protruding
from the bottom of the
sweat shirt, tan or khaki trousers,
white tennis shoes and a blue bandanna
with white spots over his
face.
No one was caught and two
weeks later Police Lt. Todd
Hopwood said the case is still being
investigated. Anyone having information
related to robbery should
contact the police at 296-5807 or
Crime Stoppers at: 977-4000.
Miller came back to her spot.
“You gotta get back up on the
horse,” she said. Her retirement date
is coming up soon and it’s looking
even better now.
Credit Union superiors, citing
the police investigation, told the
employees not to describe what happened
for the Gazette. Meanwhile
they work on as normal, but they
remember the day clearly.
The bank robbery was the first in
town memory in at least 20 years.
The former First Virginia branch in
the Crozet Shopping Center, now a
BB&T branch, was robbed about
25 years ago when a man presented
a threatening note to tellers there.
He was later caught. The old porticoed
Virginia National Bank,
destroyed in 1980 to make way for
what is now Bank of America, had
its night deposit box broken into on
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a Sunday night about 35 years ago
and the many church and store
deposits were stolen. That robbery
was never solved.
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Utah. A link to crimereports.com is
also at the bottom of the police
department’s homepage.
Police hope to use the service to
alert residents to nearby crime, to
relay traffic information and to get
public help in solving crimes. Not
all types of crimes, such as those
involving sex or juveniles, are
reported on the service. For the widest
report, select “Show All” on the
site’s mainpage. ACPD data is
posted at 5 a.m. every morning.
Please Join The Field School
and Their Families at
The Community Building
at Claudius Crozet Park
Saturday, April 25
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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For a multi-family style yard sale!
40% of merchandise sold will benefit
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It’s Your Turn: Gaming
At the Crozet Library
Saturdays, April 4, May 2, 2 p.m.
Come and hang out in our game
space with video games, board and
card games, and snacks–learn a new
game or bring an old favorite. Drop
in and bring a friend.
Grades 6-12.
Registration is requested and begins
two weeks before each session.

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Crozet gazette
Budget—continued from page 1
Supervisors Ann Mallek and Sally Thomas
challenged that point. Local government
in Augusta is one-third the
size of local government in
Albemarle, he said, and Augusta
pays its employees less.
Speakers generally opposed the
idea of a rainy day fund. Thomas
was inclined to favor it because she
believes current revenue predictions
will turn out to be too high and the
county will end up in the red.
Mallek said she had got the message
that now is not the time build up a
reserve fund.
“Surely the government could cut
back,” said another citizen. “When I
heard that during a crisis the county
was talking about raising taxes, I
thought you were out of your
mind.”
There will be no pay increase for
county employees this year, Thomas
noted, and 57 vacant positions are
not being filled.
Citizens also challenged the revenue
sharing agreement with the City
of Charlottesville. “It’s still a good
asked the city to be let out of it.”
But Charlottesville officials, for
obvious reasons—they will get $18
million from the deal this year—
have no interest in talking about
changing it, she said. The deal was
struck in 1982 when the county
feared the city was about to annex
valuable commercial property along
Rt. 29 north. A year later, the state
imposed a moratorium on annexation
that remains in effect. Albemarle
is the only county in Virginia that
makes payments to a city.
“I hope we can develop a better
relationship with the city and do
more regional projects,” said Mallek,
suggesting that then county taxpayers
would get more benefit from the
money they give to Charlottesville.
Jo Ann Perkins, wife of late supervisor
Walter Perkins, said, “Cut back
on consultant fees. We hire people
for those jobs already. Please look at
that.”
Thomas said sales tax revenue to
the county could go up when a new
GPS system for locating the point
bargain,” responded Thomas. “We
of sale is implemented. The implication
is that under the current system
some sales may have been wrongly
regarded as having occurred in the
city.
Pam Carmagnola said she was
willing to pay higher taxes for
schools. She said she was alarmed at
talk about no teacher raises or the
possibility of eliminating school
nurses.
At a meeting the next night at
Murray Elementary School attended
by 18 people, including school
board members Diantha McKeel
and Jon Stokes, Albemarle Truth in
Taxation Alliance chairman Keith
Drake (who videotaped the meeting,
as well as a later one Mallek
held at the White Hall Community
Center) challenged school expenses,
especially in the central office.
Thomas replied that, “We are
cutting down on everything we do.
Mostly cutting in the planning and
zoning departments. We made a
major mistake when we decided
what the budget would be because
you [citizens] think we are adding.
We are trying not to fire people. But
businesses are firing people and they
won’t take us seriously until we fire
people.”
“Taxes have been raised more
than double and that can’t be sustained
and shouldn’t have been done
in the first place,” said one speaker.
“A lot of people have been run out
of the county by taxes.” When he
asked people there who opposed a
tax increase to stand, 10 stood up.
Thomas said she heard from other
people who are willing to pay more.
“You’re sitting in a county with a
low tax rate. We have
efficient government
and an efficient tax rate. A
lot of people care about the schools,
music programs, teacher compensation,
JAUNT.”
Drake noted that the commercial
real estate tax rate had been raised
9.7 percent and that cost was going
to be passed on to consumers.
A resident of the southern part of
the district said that southern
Albemarle residents feel neglected
and that they pay higher taxes only
to watch fire and rescue services be
improved in northern areas.
“Supervisors seem to concentrate on
the urban ring,” he said, “and
neglect the rural areas. But still we
pay to support that. We don’t want
more service, but we don’t want to
pay more for what we have.”
When the revenue-sharing agreement
was condemned again,
Thomas predicted that breaking it
would probably lead to the city
reverting to town status, thus
becoming part of the county. She
maintained that the county can’t get
out of the deal. Drake noted that
the deal’s article 5 calls for shared
services and said the spirit of that
section is not being upheld.
Mallek faced about 45 constituents
at her meeting in White Hall
on the 17th. A painted sheet of plywood
outside the Community Hall
read: “Mallek Taxes 6:30.”
Challenged on the revenue-sharing
agreement, Mallek said, “If we
take it to court we will surely lose.”
“Keep pressure on the city until
this is rectified,” she was advised.
The deal views the county as receiving
the full market value of all property
and does not take into account
the reduction from the land use program,
she was reminded.
“Do we get any benefit from the
deal?” she was asked. “Having a
healthy community,” Mallek
answered.
Even though the deal was ratified
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Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 9
by county voters in a referendum,
one citizen said, “It was a contract
written under duress because the
city was threatening annexation.”
“We need to play hardball,” said
another.
Ray Jones, the county’s director
of finance until he retired in 1990,
said, “We’ve been victims of our
own success. We’ve allowed things
to be taxed that shouldn’t be.” He
advised Mallek to have the board
inform the city that the county is
going to terminate the deal. That
got a loud round of applause. “I’d
love to see us go back under general
law. The city would have to prove
‘necessity’ in order to annex, which
is unlikely. Take away $18 million
and they’ll talk to you.” The deal
provides about 10 percent of the
city’s budget, he noted.
“The county should be able to
live on 71 cents and still do the
things you want. Going line-by-line,
I guarantee I can get millions out of
that budget. Learn to say no,” Jones
said.
Cliff Fox noted that the county’s
new economic development policy
calls the University of Virginia and
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Center the “primary economies” of
the area, but neither of them pays
taxes. “The county is stuck in a paradigm.
Because they don’t have an
industrial base, they look to land
[for taxes]. We need to promote
business development. The other
problem is that county land use policy
promoted a shift away from light
industrial uses to regional shopping
centers. Those don’t have good
jobs.”
Joe Jones objected to the policy
of assigning every parcel in the
county a building site value, even
though many parcels have none,
such as those in mountain areas,
thus falsely inflating the tax value of
the land.
Mary Ford said, “The county is
trying to pacify us” with the decision
to raise rates but not enough to
create a reserve fund. “Assessments
will go back up and then that higher
tax rate will be there and it will be
another increase.”
“Is the middle class going to be
allowed to live in Albemarle?” asked
Keith Ford. “We have a terrible mess
because we didn’t manage the money
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we had. Nobody manages what
we’ve got. They just ask for more.”
That brought loud sustained
applause. “Income from taxes has
probably tripled in recent years and
we just spent it. People who have
been here for 200 years are being
forced off their land.”
“It’s loud and clear that you don’t
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April 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11 at 7:30 p.m.
want taxes raised,” Mallek
responded.
“We’re not here to negotiate with
you about whether 74 cents is a
good compromise,” said Sarah
Henley. “Your constituents are saying
cut spending and do not raise
taxes. We don’t want it raised above
71 cents.”
Francis Named New
Principal at WAHS
David Francis was appointed
principal of Western Albemarle
High School March 27. He has been
serving as the school’s interim principal
this year and was a part-time
assistant principal at the school since
2004. His administrative experience
includes seven years as principal of
Nelson County High, four years as
principal of Bluestone High in
Mecklenburg County, seven years as
principal of Goochland County
High, and four years as assistant
principal of Madison County High
School. He also has eleven years of
classroom teaching experience as a
social studies teacher. Francis holds
Dave Francis
a bachelor’s degree in history from
West Virginia University, a Master’s of Education in secondary education
from Madison College and an Education Specialist degree in
administration and supervision from the University of Virginia. He was
selected from a pool of 30 internal and external candidates.
“It’s been a wonderful experience these five years [at Western],”
Francis said. “I’m honored to be asked to continue in this role. This is a
wonderful school with a great faculty and great parents. I mean it sincerely.
It’s phenomenal.”
The faculty stood and applauded when his appointment was
announced at a morning meeting. “I was quite touched,” said Francis.
“They’ve been very supportive all year long.”
April 4 & 11 at 2:30 p.m.
V. Earl Dickinson Building, Main Stage Theatre
Tickets: $10 Adults $8 Students/Seniors
Tickets are available now at Sidetracks, Plan 9 Music and
the PVCC Cashier’s Office during normal business hours.
Or purchase tickets in advance with VISA/MC
by calling the PVCC Box Office at 434.961.5376
Tickets are also available at the PVCC Box Office
two hours before each show.
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School—continued from page 1
currently located in Claudius Crozet
Park, is a middle school for boys.
This year the school has 29 students
in grades five through seven. Plans
for their new space include expanding
to grades five through eight and
between 40 and 50 students. The
private school is to occupy six of the
old school’s classrooms in the front
of the building, along with the auditorium,
some office and kitchen
space, and the main entrance.
“We are very excited about the
opportunity to fix up the inside of
the school,” the Field School’s Head
of School, Todd Barnett, said. “It’s
going to be really cool to move into
an old school and bring it back to
life.
“There is nothing exclusive about
us,” Barnett emphasized. “We are a
school that has absolutely no public
funding—we’re not a rich school,
we’re a struggling non-profit in
many respects—but we’re going to
use some of our limited funds to
really make that school beautiful,
with the help of many volunteers as
well.” Once the lease is approved,
the school will start work on the
space this summer in order to begin
classes there in September.
The newly-founded Old Crozet
School Arts (OCSA) is a non-profit
school for arts instruction. OCSA
grew out of the County’s Old Crozet
School Re-use Workshop and the
community’s enthusiasm for revitalizing
the old school as a cultural and
community center.
OCSA will be overseen by Sharon
Tolczyk, Artistic Director, and
Mollie Washburne, Administrator,
and governed by a Board of
Directors. OCSA is currently applying
for 501(c)(3) non-profit status.
Pending the County’s approval,
OCSA hopes to begin classes Labor
Day week.
“We see this as a collaborative
and creative venture with the
County and community, to make
use of the building and to try to
establish a vital means of fulfilling
what the community wants in the
building,” Tolczyk said.
OCSA is to occupy a portion of
the rear of the building and will use
its own side entrance. The school
plans to turn its portion of the old
classrooms into studios, each to be
coordinated by a teacher or group
of teachers centered around one of
the arts. Immediate plans for
OCSA’s part of the old school’s renovations
include sprung dance floors
in two of the studios and fixing up a
third studio to be designated for art,
as well as cosmetic updates throughout.
OCSA will offer a schedule of
classes throughout the day, including
instruction for students of all
ages and time schedules, “from preschoolers
to senior citizens,” Tolczyk
reports. The non-profit will be
tuition-based, but they intend to
have a scholarship program as well.
“We feel the best step towards a
community cultural center is to
establish a school of arts instruction,
thereby creating interest and talent
in the arts, helping to establish the
school as a place where those things
are happening.”
However OSCA will not be
“McGuffey west,” Tolczyk affirmed.
The primary purpose of OCSA is
instruction. The vision of the
school’s founders is to have one
place where there are classes in all
the arts—theater, dance, painting,
sculpture, music, even yoga, pilates
and martial arts. Tolczyk emphasized
her hope for OCSA to be “a
place for kids who are interested in
the arts to come, a place where the
community can come and take
classes for fun,” while at the same
time a place where “people learn to
think and create out in the world.”
As of now, John Hancock, an
Associate Professor of Art at PVCC
and a renting member of the
McGuffey Arts Center in
Charlottesville, will be the OCSA
Visual Arts Advisor. Boomie
Pedersen, Co-Artistic Director of
the Hamner Theatre in Afton, will
be the school’s Theater Advisor and
Instructor. Elizabeth Roberts, who
is principal bassoon and outreach
coordinator for the Charlottesville
and University Symphony and a
member of the music performance
faculty at UVa, will be Music
Advisor and Instructor. Tolczyk will
also serve as the Dance & Movement
Coordinator and Ballet Instructor.
She encouraged those interested in
becoming involved in OCSA as a
student or by offering instruction to
contact the school through its new
website with their ideas.
The two schools will have separate
leases, which are currently
under review by the Board of
Supervisors. OCSA also must apply
for a Special Use Permit to allow
their students to drive to school,
which the current permit, obtained
by the Charlottesville Waldorf
School several years ago, does not
provide.
The leases will hold the tenants
responsible for routine repairs and
maintenance up to a maximum of
$2,500 in any one year. The County
will continue to schedule projects to
protect the integrity of the building
for systems such as roofing and
bricks/mortar. The Field’s School’s
lease will allow them use of a certain
part of the grounds that the school
will maintain. The remainder of the
grounds will continue to be the
County’s responsibility to maintain.
The tenants will be able to make
alterations and improvements to the
facility with prior County approval,
at the tenant’s expense.
For more information visit www.
albemarle.org/oldschool, www.oldcrozetschoolarts.org
and www.fieldschoolcv.net.
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Salad Greens
© Marlene A. Condon
Condon’s Corner
By the time spring and warm weather arrive, I
am really in the mood for fresh salad greens. If
you would like to grow yourself a salad, it’s not
too late to get some seeds into the ground!
Greens—those leafy veggies that have green
edible foliage—are not difficult to grow and they
are full of nutrients. They are low in calories but
high in vitamins A, C, and folic acid, as well as
the minerals calcium and phosphorus. Greens are
also a good source of iron, and they add fiber to
your diet.
When you think of greens, your first thought
might be of lettuce, and there are many kinds of
lettuce to choose from. But there are other greens
that, in my opinion, are actually a lot more flavorful,
such as spinach and Swiss chard.
Most greens do best in spring in our area,
because the heat of summer causes them to bolt
(start flowering), creating a bitter taste in the
leaves.
You must be certain that the soil is not too
acidic (which is typically the case in Central
Virginia) because greens grow best in nearly neutral
or only very slightly acid soil. Buy a home
soil-testing kit to ascertain the pH, and add limestone,
wood ashes, or bone meal if the pH is less
than 6.5.
The fact that your greens are mostly leaves
means that they need a good supply of nitrogen.
You can amend the soil with compost, aged animal
manure, or nitrogen fertilizer.
Greens grow rapidly and need a good supply of
water (hard to come by these days). They must
have about an inch of water every week, which,
in normal years, they would get from spring rains.
However, if a week goes by without this much
rain falling, make up for the shortfall yourself to
keep the plants tender and mild tasting.
There are quite a variety of leaf lettuces (also
known as “looseleaf” lettuce) to choose from,
especially if you buy your seeds from a catalog. (If
you do not normally receive seed catalogs in the
mail, check out gardening magazines at the public
library for seed sources.) Leaf lettuce does not
form a hard round head like the popular head lettuce
that is sold in grocery stores. Instead it consists
of loosely joined leaves that grow in a circle
around a central point. There are red-tinged varieties
that add nice coloring to your bowl of salad
and I highly recommend that you try them for an
artistic touch!
You should sow the tiny lettuce seeds as early
in the spring as your soil can be easily worked.
NOTE: It can be difficult for eager gardeners to
delay planting until the soil has dried out from
melting snow or spring rains. But smart gardeners
are patient souls who know better than to
tread on wet soil to avoid compacting it.
Be very careful not to sow the seed too thickly
because it has a high germination rate and you
will not only waste seed, but also bring about
work for yourself. Lettuce needs to be well
thinned, with enough space between individual
plants that they just miss touching each other. Try
to pick lettuce every day so you can enjoy many
fresh salads before warm weather hits.
Spinach is my favorite green for the garden. I
never cook mine because it makes such a flavorful
salad ingredient when it’s raw. It is delicious with
homegrown radishes and green onions, and perhaps
some store-bought fresh mushrooms. Add a
hard-boiled egg and perhaps some bits of crumbled
bacon and you do not even need a salad
dressing for a taste-treat delight! (However, I’m
sharing my favorite salad dressing with you later
in the column.)
Sow spinach seeds as soon as the soil is workable
in spring. Spinach goes to seed in warm
weather, with the leaves becoming tough and bitter
and thus inedible.
Seeds should be planted one inch apart.
Seedlings need to be thinned to three inches apart
as they grow and you can eat the thinnings. Most
varieties of spinach have thick leaves that are
crumpled or “savoyed” and grow as a rosette.
If the soil is acid, add some lime. You might
also want to spread mulch around your plants to
keep mud from splashing onto them during
rains.
You can eat individual leaves as soon as they
are big enough to be worth taking, using scissors
to snip them off so that you don’t pull up the
entire plant.
If you want fresh greens during the summer
months, your best choice might be to grow Swiss
chard. Chard is planted four to five weeks before
the last frost date, with about 8 seeds per each
foot of row. Seedlings (which can be eaten) are
thinned to stand about 8 to 10 inches apart.
Leaves can be picked as soon as they are 6 to 8
inches long and eaten raw in salads, which is how
I use this vegetable.
Mature chard is 20 to 24 inches high and it has
a deep strong root that can even survive through
the winter months with some protection. If the
plants get large, pick only the inner leaves that are
no bigger than 10 inches or so if you want to eat
Marlene’s Favorite
Homemade Salad Dressing
Place into a covered bottle:
½ cup Heinz Gourmet red wine vinegar
(or your own favorite brand)
1 cup salad oil (vegetable oil of your
choice)
5 Tbsp granulated white sugar
1 tsp ground mustard
½ tsp celery seed
1 tsp salt
4 green onions, minced
¼ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp Worcestershire sauce
½ tsp Lawry’s seasoned salt blend
Shake well until thoroughly mixed.
NOTE: This recipe makes 1/3 of a quart and
can be tripled to make a full quart, if desired.
Store the salad dressing, tightly covered, in the
refrigerator, where it will keep well for about a
month. Shake well before each use.
them fresh. The outer leaves will be less tender
and courser in flavor, but older chard can be stirfried
or steamed (use as little water as possible to
preserve nutrients).
The regular form of this plant has white stalks
with puckered green leaves, but my favorite variety
has red stalks that contrast nicely with the
leaves. Of course, I may feel this way because red
is my utmost favorite color!
Harris Teeter—continued from page 1
be 25 percent more energy efficient than the
industry average. On other environmental goals
she said, “We have installed water saving devices
and fixtures that use over 51 percent less water.
The refrigeration system will have a historically
low refrigerant charge and all of the heat generated
from the refrigeration system is used to heat
the store.”
As a whole, the building’s materials are 38 percent
recycled content and more than 30 percent
of all building materials were manufactured
regionally, defined as within 500 miles of the
store. Fifty percent of all wood used came from
certified sustainable forests.
Construction was managed so that 82 percent
of construction waste was diverted from the landfill,
she said.

page 12 s APRIL 2009
Wayne Theatre and
YMCA to Host
Mad Hatter’s Easter
Parade April 11
Children of all ages are invited to attend the
Mad Hatter’s Easter Parade, hosted by the Wayne
Theatre Alliance and the Waynesboro YMCA in
Waynesboro’s Constitution Park at 11 a.m. on
Saturday, April 11.
From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
children will have an opportunity
make their own decorative
hats for Easter, have
their faces painted by local
artists and have their pictures
taken with the White Rabbit.
Dixie Pony Rides will also
provide pony rides.
At 11:30, Steve the Magic
Guy will perform his magic show including comedy,
magic, trained birds and balloons. At 12:30
the Hamner Theater will present The Porker
Brothers 3, a “green” version of the Three Little
Pigs. At 1:15 the Mad Hatter will line up children
and their hats to circle the grounds.
Special certificates will be given to those with
the most creative, most unusual, most colorful,
most original and most expressive hats made at
the event. Special certificates will also be given to
marchers in the parade wearing hats they fashioned
at home.
At 1:30 the White Rabbit will end the day
with a hunt for his “special” eggs filled with treats.
Children will be divided into age-appropriate
groups for the hunt.
There is a small admissions fee for the Mad
Hatter’s Easter Parade. Pony rides, food and beverages
are available for an additional charge. For
more information about the event contact
Courtney Ledbetter at 540-943-9999 or email at
assistant@waynetheatre.org.
Crozet gazette
Western Albemarle Association
Advances Rural Historic District
By Kathy Johnson
Members of the Western Albemarle Association
are moving forward with plans to submit an
application to the federal government for the formal
establishment of the proposed Greenwood
Rural Historic District.
Jennifer Hallock, of Arcadia Preservation,
LLC, told the WAA board at a meeting in March
that she has “almost completed the survey.”
Hallock reported that files are organized and she
is currently working on the property descriptions.
“Once the descriptions are done, we’ll be ready.
We hope to finish by December and file by the
beginning of 2010,” Hallock said.
Asked if they had received much opposition to
the plan, both Hallock and Doug Gilpin, the
attorney for the group, said, “Not much.
Hopefully this [survey work] has helped to create
great public awareness.”
The organization announced their plans to
apply for the proposed Greenwood Rural Historic
District at a public meeting last September. At
that time, the group requested public support in
completing the survey; each piece of property
within the 10,000-to-14,000 acre proposed area
must be photographed and documented. The onsite
field surveys were started last October and
that work is nearing completion.
Designation of the proposed area that includes
parts of Nelson and Albemarle counties was
described last fall by the organization’s treasurer,
Charles Cory, as being “an honorific designation.
No one has to ‘do’ anything and it won’t keep
anyone from doing something they want to do.
What the designation would provide is possible
tax credits from both the state (25 percent) and
the federal (20 percent) governments in remodeling
projects that might return a structure to its
original form.” The designation might also
encourage land conservation easements.
Frances S. Scruby, a member of the organization,
said, “We continue to raise funds to pay for
this. We are tax exempt. All the funds are being
raised by committee. No ‘Hollywood’ stars,” she
laughed. “All local. No stimulus funds. No government
money.”
Those interested in supporting the plans for
the historic district can send donations to the
Western Albemarle Association, P.O. Box 95,
Greenwood, VA 22943.
Same day appointments currently available

Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 13
IGA—continued from page 1
The Square when Red Front Grocery was there.
Agnew Morris with a salesman for American Tobacco Co. in 1987
in 1977, the store has been owned by many of the store’s employees who
serve as its stockholders. No wonder they care so much about customer service
and the quality of their product! Who among us doesn’t love that rare
sense of community and personal service every time we shop at the store?
Who doesn’t appreciate having their bags carried to the car, or being trusted
while they run home for the checkbook? This is a store where customers and
staff know each other, where product requests are honored, and where you
can count on finding fresh local fruit, bread, honey, and more. The CGV
and local businesses like it are part of what gives the town of Crozet its character
and makes it such a special place to live.
The store got its start in 1929 as an A&P. At that time it was located in
The Square, sharing with the Crozet Drug Store the corner building that
until recently housed Uncle Charlie’s. When the A&P closed in 1946, Jack
Wagner—who had moved from Waynesboro to work at the A&P—partnered
with Albert Sandridge and Dabney Via to open the Red Front Grocery in
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Jack Wagner at the register of Red Front.
the same location, while Jack’s wife Nannie ran the Five & Dime next door.
The Red Front continued to serve the growing Crozet population until
1967, when it gave up its lease to the expanding Crozet Drug Store. But in
the meantime, the partnership decided in 1965 to open an IGA (Independent
Grocers’ Alliance) franchise around the corner in the new strip mall. The
store was originally about half its present size, located at the far end of the
strip and stopping at the yellow posts that now occupy the cereal aisle.
Continuing to grow and thrive, the Crozet IGA became incorporated in
1977, with V.L. James, current manager of the meat department, Agnew
Morris, and Jack’s son Lyle becoming major stockholders. In 1979 they
expanded the store to its present size, and about ten years ago, the IGA franchise
was dropped and Richfood created the Great Valu franchise.
The emphasis on hard work and service is partly the result of current proprietor
and manager of the CGV, Jean Wagner, who became the principal
stockholder after her husband Lyle passed away in 2005. Jean’s life has been
intimately connected with the Crozet Great Valu from the start. Working
from home, Jean started her business career by keeping the books for her
father-in-law, Jack Wagner—and she has never looked back. She passed the
accounting function to Agnew Morris and Dabney Via, and when her
youngest child started school, she began to work at the store two days a
week, doing everything from cash register to managing inventory. She still
remembers hearing Jack, Charlie Smith, and Jack Apperson talk politics and
entertain the customers by telling jokes and stories. As her children grew,
they too became involved in the business, with Greg handling the computers
and David managing daily business. Jack and Nannie Wagner both died
in 1988, and management passed to Lyle.
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page 14 s APRIL 2009
Crozet gazette
By Dr. Robert C. Reiser
Little Boy Blue
The baby was blue. Not sad but
actually blue in color. Deep dark
blue. Cyanotic. Things that turn
babies blue tend to be bad, and they
tend to worsen very quickly. The
referring hospital wanted the baby
transferred stat via helicopter.
His name was Abraham and he
was 10 days old. His father was a
surgical resident in his fifth year of
training. Abraham had been born
healthy and done well up until the
day before when he had begun to
turn ever more blue. His only medical
history was a circumcision performed
when he was eight days old.
Most circumcisions are performed
in the first day or two of life while
the baby is still in the hospital, so
this timing stood out to me. I
learned that Abraham was born into
an orthodox Jewish family and had
been circumcised at home by a type
of rabbi known as a mohel. This
custom is over 3,500 years old and
is called a bris. It signifies a covenant
between the child and God.
Like any good physician, my first
diagnostic move was to Google up
“bluebaby.com” which advised that
time was critical. I must retain an
attorney immediately. Whoops!
Wrong website. I am not an obstetrician.
Back on track, I began to review
the causes of cyanosis in a newborn.
Normal babies are pink because that
is the color of richly oxygenated
blood cells. Blue is the color of
blood cells deprived of oxygen. The
most common reason for this is a
defect or hole in the infant’s heart
that shunts blood away from the
lungs. Babies can do okay with this
for a brief period after birth because
there is normally a temporary hole
from the aorta into the pulmonary
artery, while the fetus is in the
uterus, which can shunt blood back
into the lungs. This hole closes in
the days and weeks after birth.
When it closes it closes fast and
some of these babies suddenly get
into a great deal of trouble rapidly.
Ten days old would be about the
right timeframe for this temporary
hole to be closing, leaving the baby’s
blood without access to the lungs
and oxygen.
Yet the more I heard about this
baby the less it sounded like he was
in trouble. Abraham was feeding
and pooping normally and seemed
alert with stable vital signs. His sole
abnormality was his striking blue
color. Additionally a blood test to
measure his arterial oxygen level was
normal. This meant Abraham had a
problem with his hemoglobin, not
his heart.
Hemoglobin is a twisty molecule,
a pigment really, in our red blood
cells that carries oxygen. The pigment
changes color when it binds
oxygen: red when fully saturated
with oxygen and blue when the oxygen
is released to the cells that need
it. At birth, Abraham had had normal
hemoglobin. Now something
had changed and the hemoglobin
could no longer bind oxygen. It
remained blue even after traversing
the lungs, and so did Abraham.
The list of chemicals that can
change hemoglobin in this way is
short, but Abraham had no known
exposures to any of these chemicals.
I went back on the Internet to
research this bris business, since that
seemed to directly precede the sudden
change in Abraham’s coloration.
Bris is a highly ritualized circumcision,
commanded directly by God
in the biblical book of Genesis to
be performed on the eighth day of
life (and to any newly purchased
adult slaves—ouch!). As a sacred
covenant, it has not changed substantially
in 3,500 years, with one
peculiar and very recent exception.
It seems that mohels are now advertising
their services on the Internet
and, in an effort to stay competitive,
some are offering a topical anesthetic
called EMLA cream to be
placed on the surgical site 10 minutes
prior to circumcision to numb
it up.
The FDA in 1998 recommended
against this practice because EMLA
has been known in rare cases to
mutate hemoglobin into a related
pigment called methemoglobin.
Methemoglobin cannot bind oxygen
and so the color of the blood
cells remains blue or, more accurately,
brownish blue. Abraham had
acquired methemoglobinemia, a
hemoglobin-based cyanosis caused
by the EMLA cream. Mystery
solved, “House MD” style, and I let
the referring physicians know of my
conclusion. The cyanosis would
reverse as soon as the EMLA wore
off. I also offered my unsolicited
opinion that one shouldn’t mess
continued on page 29

Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 15
By Charles Kidder
The Name Game
Whenever I refer to a plant for the first time in any particular column, I
typically use its common name, then follow with its scientific name, for
example, purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). I am not including the
scientific name just to show off, especially since I often have to look it up
myself!
The scientific name—often referred to as the Latin name, although many
of the words were originally Greek—is the only way to be sure we are all
talking about the same plant. Appealing as they often are, common names
vary tremendously for many plants. For example, Calycanthus floridus goes
by sweet shrub, Carolina allspice, bubby plant and boobie plant (no letters
about that last one, please). And of course, these are just the names one
might encounter in the United States. If you go even to the UK, names
might differ greatly, and of course in non-English-speaking countries, all
bets are off. So, particularly for professional botanists and horticulturists, the
scientific name is absolutely indispensable. I wouldn’t count myself among
either of those groups; still, I was glad to find scientific names on plant labels
in Japan, since I found their common names indecipherable.
Scientific names are the same around the world, but they can change over
time; unfortunately, they were not on the stone tablets Moses brought down
from the mount. Change does not happen by someone’s whim, however.
There are academics who specialize in either taxonomy, the naming of plants
(or really any organism), or systematics, the relationships among different
species or other groups.
Traditionally, much taxonomy relied on flower structure, often on characteristics
not visible to the naked eye, but visible with a hand lens or a lowpowered
microscope. But now biology allows scientists to peer deep into
genes and see how much genetic material plant A shares with plant B. This
has led to some major restructuring of plant groups and their names.
Consider the Aster Disaster, for instance. Until a few years ago, all asters
had the scientific name Aster, and life was good. Then, scientists got busy
and determined that the only true Asters were from the Old World. Related
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were split into different genera
and ended up with horrific
names like Eurybia and
Symphotrichon. (Don’t those
just roll off the tongue, now?)
At times like these, botanists
and horticulturists often
part ways. The latter group,
especially plant purveyors,
appreciates some stability in
plant names, especially those
that are easy for lay people to
pronounce and remember.
And as gardeners, these names
are not just of scientific interest.
When we set out to buy
plants, we may want to be sure
we get the same one we just
spotted at a botanical garden
or in a gardening publication. You’d be right if you call these daisies.
Or we bought a great plant
last season, and now we want to get more of the same. So, plant labels or
catalogs may continue listing the former scientific names along with their
replacements.
Everything we’ve talked about so far applies to what are known as “straight
species,” that is, just the plain old plant that you might find in the wild.
Things really get interesting when we start looking at cultivated plants, especially
the varieties that have been developed by horticulturists. These cultivars—a
contraction of “cultivated variety”—require names of their own, as
well. Cultivar names are affixed in accordance with the International Code of
Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. Among other rules, cultivar names should
be in a modern language, not Latin; also, they appear in single quotation
marks and are not written in italics.
Let’s say that after years of careful breeding, I have developed a great new
purple coneflower, which is officially named Echinacea purpurea ‘Really Big,’
owing to its flowers being as big as dinner plates. Despite all my hard work
to develop this plant, I don’t own the name, and anyone else can propagate
and sell it.
Unless, that is, I obtain a patent for this new plant. That’s why you might
see something like PP 16235 affixed to a plant name. (That patent applies to
Echinacea ‘Sunrise,’ incidentally.) PP stands for Plant Patent, while PPAF
means Plant Patent Applied For. Patented plants cannot be legally propagated
without paying royalties to the appropriate person or entity.
We get into somewhat murkier waters when we consider trademarked
plants; these are typically denoted by the TM following the plant’s name.
(According to one nurseryman, trademarks are not valid when applied to a
single cultivar, but it’s okay to trademark a series of different cultivars. I am
not sure I totally followed his argument, but I am not a lawyer. Legalities
aside, there are a slew of trademarked plants out there.) Assuming it has not
also been patented, trademarks only protect the name of a plant, not the
rights to the plant itself. So, if one person trademarks his rose as Wowie
Zowie TM , I can sell the same plant as Holy Moley TM and hope that you’ll be
persuaded that my plant is not only different from the other, but clearly better.
If you flip through gardening magazines, you’ll see that trademarked
plants and series are the big thing. Glossy ads feature stunning photography,
not just of the plants, but of horticultural rock stars touting them. The
Proven Winners series is just one name that comes to mind. Last year they
introduced a Buddleia hybrid known as ‘Blue Chip,’ also known by their
trademark, Lo & Behold TM . Many gardeners would prefer this butterfly
bush, since it stays at 3’-4’ ft tall and is nearly sterile.
Part of what we are seeing with all this plant “branding” may indeed be
improved plants—by most definitions—but much is marketing and hype.
Pay close attention to plant labels and catalog descriptions, as well as horticultural
articles. And remember that names like Crème Brulee TM and Key
Lime Pie TM are meant to entice, as well as to inform.

page 16 s APRIL 2009
Crozet gazette
CVFD Honors Firefighters
The Crozet Volunteer Fire
Department began its 2009 awards
dinner at the Elks Club in
Charlottesville March 14 on a solemn
note as Mark Carlson led their
five-member honor guard, all at
attention and with grave dignity in
their expressions. He rang a bell to
honor the memory of two life members
of the department who died in
2008, Roger Lee Baber Sr. and Ray
Page “Pete” McCauley. Glen Fink,
dressed in a Scot’s Highland plaid
kilt, then played Amazing Grace on
the bagpipes with all the melancholy
that instrument can convey.
The department had bought the
silver bell, symbolic to firemen from
the early days of organized departments,
for just such occasions.
CVFD President Preston Gentry
presented Community Service
Awards to The Green Olive Tree, a
steady and substantial contributor
to the CVFD. Nancy Virginia Bain
accepted on behalf of the thrift
store, which will mark its 30th anniversary
with a community reception
on Saturday, April 25, at Crozet
United Methodist Church from 1
to 4 p.m.
Pam Garrison accepted an award
on behalf of WCYK 99.7 FM and
another award was made to the
Charlottesville Newsplex, broadcasters
of TV stations WAHU 27
(FOX), WCAV 19 (CBS) and
WVAW 16 (ABC).
Carroll Conley accepted an award
on behalf of J. Bruce Barnes, Inc.,
which was recognized for its longstanding
policy of allowing employees
who are also volunteer firefighters
to leave the lumberyard to
answer emergency calls during work
hours. The Western Albemarle
Rescue Squad was also thanked for
its brotherly bonds with the CVFD
and for its friendly assistance at fire
and car accident scenes.
Local attorney Nicholas Munger
also received a community service
award for his professional help to
the department over the last three
decades.
Chief Hubba, (whose name is
recorded in official records as
Warren Wood) presented a “Finding
Nemo” award to Adam Shifflett,
who, thankfully, narrowly escaped
drowning after he fell asleep at the
wheel one night a while driving
home and drove into the pond
opposite Maupin’s Fruit Stand on
Rt. 250. He was given a pair of
swimming goggles. A special award
also went to Doug McGlothin for
his selflessness to the department.
Gentry said it was hard to choose
recipients for the President’s Awards,
which go to volunteers for service
beyond the call of duty, because, he
acknowledged, “everybody gives
what they can.” The awards went to
Glen Fink and Tom Loach, who,
Gentry noted, is also in training to
become an Albemarle County sheriff’s
deputy.
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more than 400 calls last year, and
Pete Oprandy.
The Firefighter of the Year Award,
which is customarily introduced
with a slideshow biography of the
recipient, went to Roger Lee Baber
Sr. posthumously. Gentry called all
the life members present, about 18,
to come forward and stand as a rank
for the presentation. The slide show
called Baber “Crozet’s bantam
rooster” and Garth Brooks’ song
The Dance was played as slides of
Left top and bottom: The CVFD Honor
Guard, left to right; Jeff Bodine, Joshua
Pugh, Mark Carlson, Tom Loach and
Michael Boyle.
Above: Glen Fink played the bagpipes to
mark the passing of Roger Lee Baber Sr.
and Ray Page “Pete” McCauley.
Baber at various ages cycled by. Five
members of his family came forward
to accept the plaque and in a
hushed, poignant scene hugs and
handshakes were exchanged. Baber’s
wife Faye had stayed home rather
than face that moment.
Then the awards portion of the
evening concluded and the dance
party began.
Charlottesville volunteers covered
the Crozet firehouse while Crozet’s
firefighters met for the annual
event.

Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 17
County Wants to Finalize Library Design
A design for Crozet library should
go to the Albemarle County Board
of Supervisors for approval by June,
county director of facilities development
Bill Letteri told the library’s
design committee at its meeting
March 23.
Challenged by committee member
Bill Schrader, who heads the
effort to raise $1.3 million to furnish
the interior and buy books, to
explain the haste if construction of
the building is being postponed
until 2013, Letteri answered that
“the county team is pursuing, very
hard, funding for grants to pay for
the library.” Building costs are substantially
lower–quotes are now
coming in at $225 per square foot,
Letteri said, more than $100 less
than the county’s original budget
estimate—and the county wants to
be ready to take advantage of that
favorable bidding climate if possible.
Schrader said he would prefer to
delay final design until nearer the
actual construction date in order to
allow for flexibility, especially in case
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The latest design for Crozet library as it will look from the Blue Goose building on Crozet Avenue.
of technology changes.
Letteri said that should technology
advances dictate design changes,
they would be made in the approved
design. When the committee agreed
that it wanted blueprints as soon as
possible in case money becomes
available, Letteri cautioned that that
prospect is unlikely.
Letteri reported that public reaction
to the design, collected at the
open house held in February at
Crozet United Methodist Church,
was that the building is too big, that
the façade is either too modern or
not fitting with Crozet, that deeper
excavation of the lower level for
future expansion is preferable, that
there should be entrances from both
new main street and Crozet Avenue,
that the library’s interior layout is
good, and that it should be built as
soon as possible.
Architect Todd Willoughby from
Grimm and Parker Architects,
designers of the library, introduced
changes to the teen area and showed
how an angled parking layout would
create a larger landscaped area. That
raised a concern about whether
school buses could steer through the
lot. Willoughby noted that the lot
accommodates firetrucks and delivery
trucks.
Another issue with the parking
lot was a possible connection to
Tabor Presbyterian Church to the
south. Tabor is designing an addition
to the church. Willoughby said
that, fortuitously, the grades of the
lots would be very close and that a
connection would save the cost of a
retaining wall along the lot boundary
and also allow for overflow parking
for both sides.
Barbara Westbrook said that
Tabor is adamantly against such a
connection.
In other design changes,
Willoughby pointed out the hip
roofs over the tower elements (the
public had reacted negatively to the
flat roof style) and a canopy that
will cover the sidewalk from new
main street to the library’s main
entrance. The central clerestory windows
that willl admit light into the
center of the building have been
reduced from six to four feet high,
he added.
Supervisor Sally Thomas suggested
a hip roof for the canopy and
Supervisor Ann Mallek said that the
main roof also should not be flat. A
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Garden Week Highlights Free Union
Crozet gazette
By Kathy Johnson
Five of the star attractions of the
76th annual Garden Week are in
Free Union on Sunday and Monday,
April 19 and 20. For more than 75
years the Garden Club of Virginia
has used garden week to raise funds
for restorations of historic gardens
and landmarks in Virginia.
The country homes and gardens
tour in Free Union will feature not
only spectacular gardens but an
architectural array of homes including,
it is believed, one of the fewer
than 12 homes in the county that
date from the 1750 to 1790 period.
The Ballard-Maupin House is listed
on the National Register of Historic
Places and the Virginia Landmarks
Register and while historical records
state that the “earliest history of this
property is unclear,” it is believed to
have been built by Thomas Ballard
sometime soon after his purchase of
the land in 1750.
Ballard gave the house and some
land to his son, James Ballard, Sr.,
and following his death in 1804 it is
believed that his son, James Ballard
Jr., may have done some remodeling.
In 1854 the land was sold to
Gabriel Maupin. The property
transferred several times after his
death in 1866 and received further
remodeling in 1934, when it was
renamed Plainview Farm. The current
owners, Mr. and Mrs. George
Neff, carefully restored the home in
1995.
Those who tour the Ballard-
Maupin home and gardens will see
evidence of its history in the handmade
bricks, hand-planed ceiling
boards, double-beaded ceiling joists
and random-width heart pine floors
(all dating from the 1700s). The
house also contains rose-headed
nails and a six-panel wooden door
with applied moldings dating from
the early 1800s. Rock-lined gardens
of daffodils, Cranesbills geraniums,
iris, peonies and other spring flowers
surround the house along with
fruit trees, Linden, American hornbeam,
witch hazel, paperbark maple,
walnut and yellowwood trees.
The Ballard-Maupin home will
be open to the public for the first
time. Weather permitting, refreshments
will be served from 2 to
5 p.m. The home is located at 4257
Ballards Mill Road.
The Cabin at Turtle Creek is
located near the Ballard-Maupin
Waterperry Farm
home at 4803 Wesley Chapel Road.
This home is named for the 1790’s
cabin that is original to the property
and for the nearby creek that is habitat
to numerous species of turtles.
The cabin was “discovered” enclosed
in a 13-room farmhouse and first
renovated in the early 1980s. It has
since been converted to a guesthouse
for the estate.
Owners Mr. and Mrs. Lee Waibel
are opening the cabin and the extensive
grounds to the public for the
first time. Paved walkways, including
a brick paved arbor with an
inviting bench for a view of the surrounding
gardens, mountains and
fields and several ponds, dot the
landscape and several include frog
sculptures. The grounds includes
nearly 200 species and cultivars of
trees, shrubs and ornamental
grasses.
Nearby at Tupelo Farm, 3403
Millington Road, the homeowners
employ organic gardening practices
and a pasture is being converted to
native grass and wildflowers. The
1870’s farmhouse has been restored
and the current owners commissioned
Nelson Byrd Woltz
Landscape Architects to develop a
farm master plan.
An August 2008 magazine article
praised the work done on this estate
by Thomas Woltz, saying “Woltz
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traditions and plants–both
native and imported–in designing
the garden…. Locally quarried fieldstone
walls retain the heat of the
springtime sun and establish curving
terraces for a peach orchard, a
gesture at Albemarle County’s history
as one of the state’s largest producer
of peaches in the 19th century.
Nearby, on a smooth flagstone
terrace, a group of half-buried boulders
has the same geological composition
and similarly mounded shapes
as the Blue Ridge Mountains that
loom over the farmland.”
Rain collection is practiced at
Tupelo Farms and the flagstone terrace
surrounds a pond with flowing
water. The gardens and grounds are
open to the public for the first time.
Morrowdale Farm, at 3365
Millington Road, is a working
Thoroughbred, beef cattle and hay
farm of 300 acres. Originally part of
the 1748 English grant to St.
Martin’s Parish, the farm is currently
owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson
McNeely, III.
A rose-covered arbor leads the
way to the mid-19th century main
house. The house is native clapboard
and tin-roofed. American and
English antiques fill the cozy but
elegant rooms and sporting art and
sculpture are noteworthy.
Outside, white picket fences
enclose charming gardens reminiscent
of Williamsburg with boxwood-lined
beds filled with fresh
greens, vegetables and perennial gardens.
Dependencies include barns,
a children’s playhouse, an old school
house and an old icehouse. A
chicken coop that once belonged to
the owner’s grandmother was relocated
to Morrowdale. A pool and
pool house are privately sited off the
boxwood allee. House and gardens
are open and the gardens are wheelchair-accessible.
The final home on the tour is
Waterperry Farm, owned by
Katherine Kane and Olin West and
located at 4284 Ballards Mill Road.
This 1810-style farmhouse was
rebuilt following a fire in 1868 and
the extensively landscaped grounds
are owner-designed.
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Crozet gazette
Afton Chapel Builds On Its 100 Years
P. Buckley Moss’s Afton Chapel scene
By Kathy Johnson
After more than 100 years, and in spite of a
small congregation, the little chapel on the side of
the mountain just beyond the post office at Afton
continues with services each Sunday.
On August 1, 1899, a deed transferred “a piece
of land lying near Afton on the south side of the
Old Turnpike Road containing one-half acre
more or less.” The deed was between J. R. and
Margaret E. Goodloe, who owned the property,
and the trustees of the Afton Baptist Sunday
School (J. B. Lane, R. D. White and J. H.
Goodlow). The deed gave the Baptist denomination
the right to erect a building on the site to be
used as a Baptist Sunday School.
Though it was deeded to the Baptist group, it
was not established exclusively for Baptists. The
deed authorized the Baptist denomination to
have the “right to use said building for preaching
or other religious services two Sundays in each
month and other Protestant denominations will
have the right to use it the two remaining Sundays
of each month.”
And for the past 109 years that agreement has
held. Bill Keith, Afton resident and trustee at the
church has been trustee “since 1955 or ’56,” he
said. A quiet and modest-appearing man, Keith
was waiting patiently on a recent Sunday for the
congregation to arrive. “sometimes we have five,”
he said, “Sometimes 15. It varies. It’s a mix of
ages. We don’t have a Sunday school right now,
but if we get a few more children we will.”
Longtime Afton resident June Curry used to
attend regularly before it became too physically
difficult for her to get there. “At one time when
people came to church they might take up two
pews—Father and Mother and all the children,”
she said. And Curry remembers when the owner
of the Afton Inn used to lend the church the
pond at the inn for baptisms during the summer
months.
“Back then,” Curry said, “That was the only
church close enough that people who didn’t have
cars could go to. Most of ‘em walked or rode
horseback or horse and buggy. You know—that
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little church was full every Sunday.” Not so these
days—but Keith has hopes.
“The people who come come from all over—
Afton, Waynesboro, Raphine. All over,” Keith
said in a quiet voice. And pastors from a variety
of denominations still offer services. “Jimmy
Garwood is Methodist,” said Keith. “Bob Nelson
says he’s not Baptist, but he’s close enough. Lloyd
Fitzgerald is Pentecostal.”
The Chapel’s website explains, “Different ministers
from the local communities preach and lead
the worship. The singing is Southern Gospel,
Bluegrass, traditional hymnody, and some
Christian praise. Guitars, autoharps, harmonicas
and a piano provide the heartfelt music.”
In the past, primarily because of dwindling
membership, there have been some financial difficulties
and some talk that the church would
have to close. But money seems to come when
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Mountfair Vineyards
Honored by Gov. Kaine
Mountfair Vineyards was one of
four wineries chosen to pour at the
Governor’s Mansion reception to
open the General Assembly in late
January.
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the quality of Virginia wines and
the value of the industry.”
Following Mountfair’s debut at
the Governor’s mansion, the 2008
Governor’s Cup Wine Competition
results were announced on February
26. Mountfair Vineyards’ 2006
“Wooloomooloo” Petit Verdot
Chris Yordy and Fritz Repich
blend was awarded a gold medal
and the 2006 “Belated” Merlot
blend and “Inaugural” Cabernet
Franc blend won silver medals.
“What excites me most is the recognition
we have received for all the
wines we have produced. It speaks
to our consistency in quality,”
remarked Chris Yordy, Mountfair
Vineyards’ managing partner.
The 27th Annual Governor’s Cup
Wine Competition was judged by a
prestigious panel of nationally recognized
wine experts. A panel of
approximately 44 judges evaluated
over 250 entries from 46 Virginia
wineries. After a full day of tasting
and deliberation, the judges awarded
22 gold medals, 45 silver medals and
64 bronze medals.
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Crozet gazette
WAHS Students
Join Campaign to
Free Child Soldiers
A traveling group that visits high schools across
America to raise awareness about the horrible plight of
child soldiers in Uganda, and to raise funds to defeat the
practice, visited Western Albemarle High School March
13 and presented their documentary film on the problem
during the lunch break.
Young boys and girls from ages 8 to 11 are being
seized and forced to join a rebel army as soldiers. They
are taken in their sleep and those who attempt to escape
are hacked to death with machetes. Sometimes a brother
or sister is murdered to gain the compliance of the
abducted child. A boy named Jacob, interviewed in the
film, said he would rather die than live as he did as a
child soldier. He did escape and lives in fear.
Joseph Kony, the leader of a rebel army, the LRA
[Lord’s Resistance Army], which has no political aims,
attempts to pit northern Uganda against the south and
has abducted 30,000 children over the last 15 years.
A Catholic priest interviewed in the film described
the army as a cult based on Kony as a Christ figure. “He
is a clear example of a person who lives for evil,” he said.
Kony has immense personal power and reportedly thinks
he is a god.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague
named Kony the first person it wanted to try. In 2008
Kony agreed to a peace conference near his base camp,
but then didn’t show up for it. He fears justice because
Carolyn Schneller, April Salisbury, Teddy Nelson, and Alex Preve
are leaders of the WAHS students involved in the campaign to free
African child soldiers.
of atrocities he has committed, typically carrying out
massacres of villages. He killed 620 people on last
Christmas Day. He is estimated to have 3,000 child soldiers
under his control now.
The campaign to free the children began in 2003 as
the somewhat quixotic effort of three California teens,
Bobby Bailey, Loren Poole and Jason Russell, who visited
Africa and ultimately created the film about the
children. The movement grew into a letter-writing campaign
to congressmen and on April 25 a mass event in
100 cities and nine countries will try to draw public
attention to Kony’s evil.
Last year WAHS students raised $6,000 to contribute
to the effort to free the child soldiers. To learn more,
visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
Crozet Golfer Garners
Regional Award
By David Wagner
Crozet’s Nick Little has been tabbed as the amateur golfer of
the year for 2008 by the Central Virginia Golfers’ Periodical.
Little said the honor ranks “pretty high up there, but in a different
way.”
After Little won several local tournaments in 2008 and captured
the Battle Trophy, the CVGP felt Nick deserved the
Amateur Golfer of the Year title. The Battle Trophy is awarded
according to a point system that accumulates in local tournaments
throughout the year (equivalent to a NASCAR champion
winning the Nextel Cup championship).
Little is in his fifth year at Radford University, where he was
an NCAA golfer. Since completing his eligibility in 2008, he
has been acting as an assistant coach for the Radford golf team.
He will be playing in two amateur qualifying events this spring,
one in South Carolina and the other in Charlotte. He hopes to
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Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 23
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indeed! Oh, the addiction is information
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always have it. Ask my wife—I won’t
wear shirts without a pocket where I
can stick my Uni-ball Vision Elite
pen and my Mead® spiral-bound
3x5” flip-top notepad.)
For those times when I just “have
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don’t you think? Okay, maybe just
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BlackBerrys have been providing
mobile email since before the turn
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paging back in 1999).
Compared to the iPhone, they are
“old school” for sure. But I still love
mine, especially since it’s fully integrated
with my email and automatically
synchronizes with my work
calendar and contacts, and of course
provides full Internet access without
requiring a computer.
For me, my BlackBerry and its
1½” x 2” color screen is just big
enough to allow me to rifle through
a good entry on Wikipedia. But
after more than a handful of lookups,
my craving shifts from wanting
to know more to wishing I had a
bigger screen to read this on! Then
again, my desire for a bigger screen
even hits me when I’m working on
my laptop. So much so that when
I’m at my desk at work or in my
home office, I extend my screen by
adding an external monitor. More
on that another time.
It’s clear that I’m not alone. I
think the recent growth in the “netbook”
(or mini-laptop such as the
Asus Eee PC or the Mini Series by
HP and/or Dell) is a direct result of
people finding the small screens
of cell phones too restrictive and the
bulk of a notebook computer too
big to comfortably carry around
easily—not to mention they’re so
expensive. Thus the sub-$500
subnotebook that can run Windows
XP or Linux, and sports a very
usable screen appears to be thriving.
It fits neatly between the tiny screen
of a BlackBerry and the full laptop
computer in screen size, weight and
perhaps, unfortunately, processing
power.
My focus here though, is screen
sizes, and more importantly, screen
resolution. The latter of these two is
probably one of the least understood
and most undervalued elements in
the computer selection process for
general consumers. Because as much
as screen size matters, it’s the resolution
that tells the real tale and it’s
where most people get confused.
The thing is that screen resolution
is what determines how much
you can view on your screen at one
time. And depending on what you
do with your computer, it may be
beneficial to see additional windows
on the screen—or a larger spreadsheet
or more content when doing
page layout, for example. On the
other hand, the greater the resolution
at any given screen size, the
smaller the content will appear onscreen,
which could make it more
difficult to read if you have vision
issues. Personally, I prefer the highest
resolution I can get. Next month,
I’ll explain why and show some
examples that I hope will clear up
size vs. resolution issue.
For now that’s it. I just realized,
though, that I failed to expose anything
personal about my wife—but
I did let you know I’m a little weird
about my pen and notepad requirements
for one. If you knew I religiously
modified each one to fix the
spiral wiring so the cover flips over
just right, that’d probably be a little
more than weird, no?
Send feedback and suggestions to
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Albemarle Ballet Theater
Scholarship Donors Recognized
In a short ceremony at its dance
studio on the second floor of the
Fruit Growers buildings March 28,
Crozet’s Albemarle Ballet Theater
awarded posters and plaques expressing
gratitude to local citizens and
businesses who contributed nearly
$6,000 this year to the school’s
scholarship fund. Over the years the
fund has collected nearly $30,000
to cover the cost of lessons for some
students. “We appreciate what an
asset you are to our town,” said
Carroll Conley on being handed a
token of thanks.
On hand were, from left to right,
ABT director Sally Hat and husband
Gary, Jean Wagner, Donna
and Carroll Conley, Nancy Virginia
Bain and June Andrews representing
the Green Olive Tree, Bill
Tolbut, and Elizabeth Burgess.
Kneeling are students Madeline
Adams, in her third year, Samantha
Maupin, in her first year, and Amia
Salisbury, also a third-year dancer.
Other invited contributors
included Old Trail Golf, The Blue
Ridge Optimist Club and Trimwood
Carpentry in Orange County.
The ABT teaches nearly 100 students.
Nearly 50 will perform in the
studio’s annual show at Piedmont
Virginia Community College, slated
for May 31 this year. The show will
include a production of The Doll
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Junior Ranger Day is April 25
Shenandoah National Park has
special activities planned for
National Junior Ranger Day
Saturday, April 25.
There is no charge for the programs
and no need to register.
Special “Junior Ranger Day”
patches, buttons, and certificates
will be available. Junior Ranger Day
activities meet at Byrd Visitor
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Drive, unless otherwise noted. Most
programs are open to visitors of all
ages.
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Byrd Visitor
Center open: exhibits and
information.
9-9:20 a.m. Kids Corner. Ages
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have a bug’s life! Children must
be accompanied by an adult.
Auditorium.
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Touch Table.
Get a feel for nature’s diversity.
10-11 a.m. Birds of Prey program.
Meet live raptors, face to
beak! Big Meadows
Amphitheater, in picnic area.
10-noon Stony Man Hike. Meet
at Stony Man parking area,
mile 41.7, for a hike to
Shenandoah’s second-highest
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11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet a law
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WAHS Girls
Lacrosse Knocks
Off Salem
By Nick Ward
April showers came early this year, with a
steady downpour ceaselessly pounding the field at
Warrior Stadium during the girls varsity lacrosse
game against Salem March 27, and this may have
something to do with the ladies blossoming into
such a tremendous force so early in the season.
Nancy Haws’s team is lead by standout senior
Bridgett Lynn, who will be heading to George
Washington University to continue her lacrosse
career. Lynn, along with her other talented teammates,
put on a great show in the rain last week,
beating their foe 18-12.
The Warriors got off to a fast start while the
rain was just a drizzle, outscoring Salem 4-1 in
the first five minutes of the game. Salem struck
first, scoring a goal less than two minutes into the
first half. Haws’s team bounced back quickly on
the sodden ground, with Lynn scoring two goals,
Ellen Shaffrey scoring one, and Stewart Summers
adding another, giving the girls a comfortable
lead.
Salem added their second goal as the rain began
to pick up, cutting into WAHS’s 3-goal lead, but
Shaffrey added her second goal of the evening
with 12:26 left in the first half, giving the Warriors
a 5-2 lead. Lynn scored her third goal not long
after, using her foot speed and amazing dodging
ability to slice through the Salem defense and
shoot a beam into the bottom lefthand corner of
the net. Not to be outdone, Shaffrey, who is only
a sophomore, scored for the third time with 6:00
left in the first half on a quick stick goal on a pass
coming from behind the goalkeeper.
With three minutes left in the first half, and
the rain coming down at a new high for the evening,
Salem scored, making the score 7-3
Warriors. On WAHS’s next possession, junior
Front row, left to right: Kate Wiggans, Cora Letteri, Alex Berr, Sierra Wangensteen, Kellen Haley, Jordan Haws, Stewart
Summers. Second row: Caitlin Boles, Effie Nicholaou, Erin Jordan, Madeline DuCharme, Anna Liebowitz, Bridgett Lynn,
Anna Krueger, Rebecca Dallas, Caroline Turner, Jeanette Fellows. Back row: Abby Wheeler, Katherine Nicholson, Michaelle
Hirschi, Coach Emily Pellicia, Coach Erica Perkins, Head Coach Nancy Haws, Samantha Maynard, Meg Schwenzfeier, Ellen
Shaffery. Not pictured: Katie Lesemann.
Jordan Haws scored a goal on an 8-meter shot
after a penalty. And quickly after, just before the
half was to end, Lynn added her fourth tally after
running a complete circle through the Salem
defense before shooting a bounce shot from right
outside of the crease, making the halftime score
9-3 Warriors.
As halftime drew to a close, it was obvious that
both teams were prepared for a serious second
half, but the Warriors’ focus prevailed as Lynn
scored her fifth goal only 18 seconds into the second
half off an assist from Shaffrey. Although the
WAHS got off to a hot start in the second half,
Taylor Tate of Salem would not be denied, scoring
back-to-back goals in the next three minutes,
cutting into the Blue and Gold’s large lead. With
17 minutes to go, the score was 10-5, and Salem
had the momentum.
Tate’s antics inspired her teammates, and Salem
went on to score another three goals unanswered
by the Warriors, narrowing the gap in the score to
a slight two-goal lead by Western. With all of the
momentum on the Maroon and Black side,
WAHS needed someone to step up and end their
scoring drought in the rain. Anna Liebowitz
strode gallantly into the spotlight and managed
to trickle in a goal, through the mud and the
muck and between the goalkeeper’s legs, with
13:58 left in the half. Liebowitz was not finished
and on the next Warrior possession assisted on
another of Shaffrey’s goals off a penalty
restart. Lynn continued the WAHS rally with her
sixth goal of the game, giving the Warriors a 13-8
lead.
Salem won the ensuing faceoff and was able to
push another goal past the Warrior goalie, but
Summers quickly answered with her second goal
of the contest. Caroline Turner quickly followed
suit, scoring a close-range goal off an assist from
Lynn, broadening the Warrior lead to six goals,
15-9.
As the game wore on, and the boys varsity
team, who played after the ladies came out onto
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Peachtree League Opens Its Season
Crozet gazette
Former major-leaguer Don
Wright, the first Peachtree
League player ever to be
drafted to The Show, gave a
pep talk to the boys and girls
on the 2009 season’s 29 teams
as the league opened play
March 21.
Despite the bright sunlight,
the air temperature was 29
degrees and there was frost on
the field as players and their
families gathered at Claudius
Crozet Park at 9 a.m. Some
players, dressed only in their
uniforms, began to shiver after
a few minutes. As teams found
their positions for the opening
ceremony, two loudspeakers
broadcast rock and roll and
country music that could be
heard in Orchard Acres, about
a mile and half away to the
west.
T-ball teams stood near the
outfield fence with the Rookie
teams in an arc behind them.
Next came the Minors, and
finally the Majors stood just
outside the infield.
Peachtree president Cheryl
Madison welcomed the crowd.
“We want the kids to learn
baseball and have a great
time,” she said. “We officially
have restrooms. After many
years. They are open.” Then,
looking around at about 350
boys, she added, “Please lift
the seat.”
The national anthem was
played and the crowd faced
the American flag waving
from the left field foul pole.
Next Madison introduced
every team, its sponsor,
coaches, players and team
mom. Each player stepped
forward from his group of
teammates and doffed his cap
to the crowd as the team rosters
were announced.
Wright told the players to
“play hard and hustle, be good
sports, be nice and to have
fun. Now let’s play ball!”
Wright also made the first
pitch of the season, a toss that
split the strike zone with ceremonial
dignity. He shook
hands with many players and
coaches afterward. The league,
now 53 years old, had 48 players
when he was in it.
Peachtree Little League Rosters
Major League Teams
Indians
Foster Well & Pump Co., Inc
Coaches: Tim Hughes, Billy Wagner,
Mike Satterwhite
Chris Hughes
Gill Tinder
Alex Thomas
Malik Morris
Sam Anderson
David Strucko
Gayvn Elsie
Steele Henley
Brooke Henley
Will Wagner
Brandon Hawley
Nationals
R. A. Yancey Lumber
Team Mom: Johanna Kennedy
Coaches: Kevin Kennedy, Jeff
Thompson, Karen Rowlingson
Blaine Kennedy
Spencer Elridge
Isaac Rowlingson
Kaleb Herr
Bradley Jones
Jacob Thompson
Brady Pittman
Joshua Meeks
Andrew Williams
Julian Washington
Aaron Bauer
Devil Rays
Carlyle Group
Coaches: Eric Shobe, Jack Jones
Luis Carraznna, John Harris
Matthew Shobe
Ryan Jones
Justin Barbour
Lorenzo Carrazana
James Harris
Kyle Rose
Patrick Andrews
Elizar Prieto
Jonathan Dance
Jay Wagner
Matthew Donaldson
Phillies
Nonesuch Farm
Team Mom: Roberta Whitehurst
Coaches: John Masselli, Steve White,
Ron Vanderveer
Stephan Kuzjak
Jonathan Peterson
Caleb Handley
Anthony Sapino
Bryce Whitehurst
Connor Dillard
Zachary Vanderveer
Peter Slechta
Jeremy Pugh
Ryan Adcock
Luke White
Diamondbacks
Central Virginia Builders
Team Mom: Debbie Smith
Coaches: Henry Smith, Jess Haden,
Scott Baker
Kelly Kirby
Matt Mandell
Ryan Sukovich
Walker Smith
Landon Smith
John Carr
Alexander Respeto
Marcus Respeto
Rivers Spence
Joseph Smith
Emmett Haden
MINOR League Teams
Yankees
J. Bruce Barnes, Inc.
Team Mom: Brandy
Copeland
Coaches: Eddie Hoffman,
John Masselli, Trey
Copeland, Gordie Croll
Ben Masselli
Caleb Hoffman
Wyatte Copeland
Van Valente
Sam Warren
Owen Grinnell
Connor Croll
Jacob Jackson
Eric Rogers
Jack Hanchett
Rockies
Lee Insurance
Services, Inc.
Team Mom: Sally Wallace
Coaches: Matthew
Wallace, Jack Jones, Luis
Carrazanna, Dave Bruns
Mark McGill
Gabriel Carrazana
Maxwell Barnes
Will Wallace
Tyler Jones
Jackson Bruns
Benjamin Forster
Gunnison Horridge
Zachary Phillips
Andrew Rakes
Trevor Chandler
A’s (Athletics)
Morris Home
Improvement
Team Mom: Jill James
Coaches: Sam Bloom,
Preston Eichelberger, Tracy
Knight
Daniel Donaldson
Arlo Bloom
Lane Eichelberger
Michael Donaldson
Lucas Knight
Shaun James
Juan Gonzalez
Nicholas Hagspiel
Aaron Greenough
Sebastin Crescimanno
Jordano Bakalian
Red Sox
Monticello Animal
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the Traveling Vet
Coaches: Jonathan Hexter,
Carolyn Hexter, Troy
Herring, Ricky Morris,
Grant Bullock
Jason Erkel
Bobby Bowen
Thomas Hexter
Matthew Bullock
Mitchell Morris
Creed Herring
Maxwell Benzian
Caleb Harris
Chad Dickerson
Donte Cory
Noland Robertson
Nationals
Sports Photos
Coaches: David Donahoo,
Matt Cole, David Vance,
Brandon Donahoo
Samuel Lepage
Jason Donahoo
Nathan Vance
Jerry McDaniel
Matt McDaniel
Cole Blundin
Bradley Fox
Jackson Smith
Camp Forston
Madison Weikle
Elizabeth Weikle
Cubs
Cavalier Septic
Service
Coaches: Steve White,
Doug Henley, Jim Larkin,
Steve Moore, Will
Schmertzler
Chris Miller
Marc Henley
Dylan Moore
Ryan Waid
Mitchell Larkin
McKinley Larkin
Wiley Martin
David Martin
Teddy Stoke
Austin Herring
Wesley Ross
Tigers
Crozet Lions Club
Coaches: David Klein,
John O’Connor, Kevin
Murray, Rob Riding
Ethan Murray
Darren Klein
Jeremy Wagner
Adam Long
Danny O’Connor
Benton Turner
Harrison Marshall
Tyler Huneycutt
Anthony Shifflett
Nathan Ridings
Matthew Brady

Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 27
ROOKIES
Red Sox
Domino’s Pizza
Team Mom: Jamie Lively
Coaches: Travis Morris,
David Miller, Jason
Lively, John Rusina
Benjamin Christopher
Jacob Lively
Trevor Morris
Luke Wilson
Miles Barrell
Benjamin Elliott
Jacob Rusina
Isaac Musser
Benjamin Hurt
Joshua Truslow
Caleb Johnson
Reese Miller
Peyton Miller
Cubs
Blue Ridge Builders
Supplies
Coaches: Mike Hull, Dale
Simmons, Soren Burkhart
Wyatt Hull
Jackson Hom
William Hom
William Edwards
Zachary Swales
Daniel High
Daniel Brown
Logan Gonzalez
Alexander Burkhart
Jacob Jordan
Kenneth Shumate
Jacob Jordan
Elijah Sacra
Braves
Greg’s Painting
Team Mom: Jennifer
Layne
Coaches: Greg Shifflett,
Annette Shifflett, Marcus
Clark, David Pugh
Lacey Pugh
Gracie Shifflett
Taylor Strickler
Tyler Tinder
Austin Ross
Spencer Chandler
Matthew Kuzjak
Antonio Moyles
Richard Hill
Devin Powell
Gabrielle Banks
Shane Coyle
Orioles
Crozet Eye Care
Team Mom: Cary Shaffer
Rodney Shaffer, Steve
Hawkes, T.D. Layman,
Donna and Matt Walker
Owen Shaffer
Camden Layman
Jeremy Baber
Liam Harris
Doyle Gehring
Andrew Harlow
Mason Meulenberg
Jessica Walker
Kendra Steepe
Joseph Hawkes
Jackson Thorton
DiaMondbacks
Bat Masonry
Team Parent: Darren
Simpson
Coaches: Jason Bryant
Bobby Stinnette
Chris Shifflett
Shawn Johnson
Jake Bryant
Abigail Johnson
Zachary Simpson
Ian Le
Katherine Whitley
Josiah Luftig
Carter Shifflett
Andrew Shifflett
Walter Johnson
Kaelyn Moore
Evan Sposato
Tyler Simpson
Mets
Green House Coffee
Coaches: Chris Bowen,
Jamie Spence, Matt
Blundin, Mike Allen
Lucas Allen
Nathan Amtmann
Cole Blundin
Joey Bowen
Kevin Cheely
Sam Cochran
Grant Copeland
Alex Ix
Christopher Smith
Remington Spence
Landon Abrahamson
Reds
US Joiner LLC
Coaches: Steve Heon,
Chris Yordy, Ken Thacker,
Steve Averette
Carter Averette
Garland Freeauf
Kendall Heon
Jacob Selverstone
Charles O. Thacker
Wyatt Thomas
Max Tracey
Gabriel Nafziger
Richard Weikle
Eli Yordy
Cheku Louis
Thomas Castleman
Tball
Braves
Parkway Pharmacy
Coach: Josh Gehring
Brayden Crickenberger
Cody Frazier
Travis Frazier
Devin Christopher
Eli Thorton
Jacob Sakoff
Braedon Gehring
Maggie McLaughlin
Jack Case
Guss Hankle
Ted Hankle
Dedrick Sims
Tigers
Maupin Electric Co.,
Inc.
Coach: Mark Meulenberg
Spencer Powell
Talia Sherman
Henry Meulenberg
Kyle Keyton
Shawn Morris
Noah Murray
Brendon Duffy
Alexis Larkin
Charles Lepage
Calvin Harlow
Nathan Scott
Destiny Powell
Phillies
Gary Albert’s State
Farm Agency
Coach: Jodi Harris, Mark
Petty, Rod Shaffer
Michael Gauss
Spencer Hinton
William Wawner
Chloe Walkup
Will Turner
Carter Shaffer
Jacob Petty
Shannon McCance
James Kirby
Isabella James
Gavin Harris
Sophie Rumsey
Orioles
Curtis Heating and
Cooling, Inc.
Team Mom: Katie Hughes
Coaches: Dean Hughes,
Chris Pugh, Duane
Morris
Lydia Morris
Trevor Hughes
Dagan Pugh
Mason Hughes
Haileigh Dillon
Joshua Sime
Briana Strickler
Brycen Holsapple
Jeremy Thacker
Zachary Thacker
Alexis Thacker
Randolph Parrish
Cardinals
UVA Community
Credit Union
Team Mom: Sylvia Sacra
Coaches: Jim Sacra. Jamie
Snow, Jason Wolff, Gerri
Titus
Austin Beceria
Jarred Wolff
Austin Zimmerman
Megan Life
Lily Marcel
Nathan Titus
Matthew Kleudworth
Brendan Quigley
Matthew Elias
Tyler Sandridge
Khalia Robertson
Nicolas Sandridge
Kaleb Forbes
Yankees
The Green Olive Tree
Coach: Jack Roy
Samantha Hawley
Gabriella Von Achen
Jack Smith
Luke Vance
Phillip Oakey
Jay Harris
Cole Brady
Griffen Brady
Jackson Roy
John Moore
Tyler Spano
Thomas House
Rockies
Crozet Great Valu
Coaches: John Kupfner,
Peter Wray, Alisa Sposato
Peyton Wray
Daniel Karpovich
Andrew Shifflett
Eric Moneymaker
John Kupfner
Gibbs Gresge
Adam Bonenfant
Emily Sposato
Olivia Wagner
Harrison Miracle
Reagan Simpson
Austin Shifflett
Dustin Shifflett
Red Sox
Crowder
Comprehensive
Dentistry
Coaches: Jamie Spence,
Ray Crowder, Marc
Selverstone, Joel Barredo
Jameson Spence
Ray Crowder
Garrett Kane
Antonio Moyles
Alison Selverstone
Allison Beitzel
Gavin Saucerman
John Crombie
Waylan Coyle
Tristen Barredo
Luca D’Auria
Ethan Kinder
Reds
Spinal Surgery
Associates, Plc.
Coaches: Dan Meenan,
Matthew Wallace, Ned
Hardy
Kevin Sukovich
Gabriel Elliott
Lucas Rose
Katherine Wallace
Ross Hardy
Turner Smith
Giovanni Strazzullo
Phoebe Strazzullo
James Meenan
Parker Elliott
Jackson Douvas
W.Kelso Stackhouse
Giants
Fardowners Miners
Team Mom: Kelly Carter
Coaches: Mark Crosgrove,
Jason Fitzgerald
Ashna Nitzsche
Ben Nitzsche
Dillon Crosgrove
Nathan Fitzgerald
Sheppard Henson
Addy Reich
Joseph Schinstock
Emerson Wiener
Andrew Russamano
Diego Russo
Tomas Russo

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Second Trumpet
Has Echos of
Crozet
Larry Miles
When people who believe in God talk about
looking for evidence of his mysterious hand in
the events of life they will sometimes say, “No
such thing as coincidences.” In Larry Miles’s novel
Second Trumpet, a Christian thriller about a terrorist
attack on Washington, D.C., coincidence–
or is it?—plays a pivotal role and only the reader,
none of the characters, gets in on God’s view of
what happens.
The novel is Miles’s second book and it draws
on Crozet settings—the vacant Acme Visible
Records plant, Mint Springs Valley Park, Starr
Hill Brewery—not far from his home in Western
Ridge to be the scenes of action. The descriptions
of most of these spots might only be suspected by
Crozet locals for whom they will provoke a familiar
feel. Other descriptions are more explicit. But
the geography of the story has a palpable Crozet
locus.
Miles’s day job is as an area sales manager for
Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company.
His turf is central Virginia and the Shenandoah
Valley. He supervises a sales force of seven.
Miles enlisted in the army when he graduated
from high school at age 18 and served in the
Rangers. He earned the rare distinction of being
an enlisted man chosen to go to West Point. After
he received his commission in 1992, he rose to
the rank of captain, first in the Rangers and later
in the 3rd Infantry Division. His wife Michelle
thought his career would be in the military but
he announced one day that he thought it was
time to get out while he was still enjoying it. He
wanted to get out, he said, because duty was constantly
separating him from Michelle. He didn’t
think it was good for a marriage.
He took a job as a manager in a factory that
made jet engine parts near where they were living
in Columbus, Georgia. That experience inspired
his first novel, a 140,000-word story that a literary
agent took on, but so far no publisher has
accepted the book. Miles had written about 15
short stories while in college and a few magazine
articles. “I got one published,” he said cheerfully.
“My Dad said my first book was ‘Southern literature.’
It’s semi-Tom Wolfe style, similar to A
Man in Full, and it has an interracial couple in
it.”
Miles was not raised as a churchgoer. But after
his parents divorced while he was still a boy, his
father was saved. “In the army I felt an attraction
to go to church. At a Baptist church I heard a
Navy SEAL who had been wounded in Vietnam
and later became an evangelist.” Miles was saved
on that occasion.
Michelle was raised on farm in Galax and the
couple wanted to get settled in Virginia. Through
army friends who had gotten civilian jobs, he
learned of an Abbott sales job in central Virginia
and when he landed it they moved to Crozet.
“It was a blessing,” Miles said. For the first five
years he was constantly on the road, calling on
doctors and hospitals. While he was driving, he
would listen to the Calvary Satellite Network,
which is no longer heard in the area. “I called it
the rolling seminary. I listened and learned a lot.”
He bought a Bible he had heard President George
Crozet gazette
W. Bush mention that divided the whole text into
365 daily readings. Eventually he felt confident
enough to teach adult Sunday school.
The family attends First Baptist Church on
Park Street in Charlottesville. They had been driving
around looking for Baptist church when they
first moved into the area and, feeling a little frustrated
at not finding any, pulled into a parking lot
to turn around and discovered they were in the
church’s lot. They’ve been happy there for eight
years and have not seriously investigated Crozetarea
churches.
“I think of myself as Christian. I feel comfortable
with any denomination. I try to line up my
views with what’s in the Bible,” Miles said. He
went to a Catholic high school and he has subsequently
developed an extensive and accurate
knowledge of Bible verses. “People worship differently,
I found out.” Politically speaking, he
held hard core law and order views to start out,
he said, and he remains generally conservative,
but life has taught him that a lot of what he
thought ought to work when he was younger
turns out not to.
His sister is a public prosecutor in Anne
Arundel County, Maryland, and one day she suggested
that he sit in on a trial involving a gang
murder in which the victim had been killed by
hammer blows to the head. The accused was “a
17-year-old boy. I felt compassion for him and I
thought someone needed tell him about Jesus and
how his life is not really over.” Michelle told him
God seemed to want him in a prison ministry.
Miles became involved in The Bridge, a prison
ministry at the Charlottesville/Albemarle/Nelson
Regional Jail. The Bridge operates a camp in
Buckingham County where released offenders
spend their first 12 months and two houses in
Charlottesville where those who have learned selfdiscipline
can stay while they complete their reintegration
into society, Miles said. “It’s mainly an
outreach ministry to people with drug and alcohol
addictions,” he explained. The program gave
Miles his first real exposure to Black spirituality,
which plays a decisive role in the novel. The jail
also figures prominently as a setting in the life of
a major character, Colin Calhoun, a land developer
who is arrested for tax evasion.
Miles was present for a mysterious healing of a
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Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 29
young girl at U.Va. hospital in the summer
of 2005 and about that time also
heard a prophecy that New Orleans
would be flooded, as it was by Hurricane
Katrina a couple of months later. He
went back to that prophecy and discovered
that it also included a description
of Washington, D.C., in flames. An
image of the Capitol burning is on the
cover of the novel. “Some people think
this prophet is a quack,” Miles admitted.
One day when he was sitting in a
parking lot after making a call at a doctor’s
office in Dayton, the inspiration for
the story came to him. “God gave me
the idea for the Second Trumpet, the
whole plot, in about 45 minutes. I knew
I needed to write it.”
Prophecy pops up in the story, which
is launched by recurring nightmares the
protagonist, Sam Morgan, experiences.
The hinge of action is predicated on the
rumor that the Soviets hid suitcase
nuclear bombs in the U.S. during the
Cold War. What if a terrorist could get
possession of one? Black pastors play
decisive roles in facing the danger and a
black jail inmate, Jamal, possesses an
advanced spiritual awareness. He reappears
unexpectedly as the story’s final
pages return to Crozet.
“No character is modeled on a real
person,” Miles explained. “I write from
my experience, but it’s not me.” In the
story, Sam Morgan has two daughters,
just as Miles does, and Morgan likes coffee
a lot, as Miles does. But that’s as
much as they have in common, Miles
said.
Tate Publishing and Enterprises, a
Christian publishing house in
Oklahoma, picked up the book and
issued it in June. Miles liked Tate’s
emphasis on marketing and their willingness
to give him authority over the
story. They wondered about Jamal’s
speaking with a dialect, but when Miles
insisted on it, Tate’s editors demurred.
“They found a lot of mistakes for me
and they designed the cover.” Miles has
gotten one check from them, for less
than a dollar, but at least he can say he
got paid something, he joked. The deal
says Miles is not eligible for royalties
until 5,000 copies have been sold. The
book is available at the major book
retailers and from Amazon.com. Miles
has had book signing events arranged
for him, but he said he thinks those will
be worth the effort only if the audience
is mainly Christian.
He is nearly done with his third novel,
which he called “Christian Tom Clancey
on the international level.”
“I would like people to take a bigger
view of God than they may have,” he
said. “We need to invite him to be part
of our lives every day, not just Sunday
Afton Barn and Greenhouse
Destroyed by Fire
A dairy barn and greenhouse were destroyed by fire on Sunday,
March 29, at AM FOG on Route 151 in Afton. The cause of the fire is
unknown. Strong winds kept flames from reaching the adjoining greenhouses,
office and store, saving them from destruction.
Fire trucks and men from five area fire departments—Rockfish,
Wintergreen, Faber, Lovingston and Crozet—turned out to fight the
early afternoon blaze. The fire burned the dairy barn, including most of
what was called “the mushroom house” on the barn’s lower level, and all
of one greenhouse, and damaged an additional greenhouse. Some farm
equipment and plants were also lost in the fire.
CROZET
325 Four Leaf Lane, Suite 10
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 823-2290
Blue Boy
—continued from page 15
with 3,500 years of tradition (or the
FDA).
We all agreed the helicopter could
stand down.
There was just one problem: the
EMLA cream should have worn off
two days ago. Inquiries to the nursing
staff revealed that the father (an
MD) had obtained an entire tube of
EMLA from the pharmacy and was
continuously re-applying it to his
son’s surgical site with each diaper
change to assuage a stereotypically
male concern with that particular
part of the anatomy. This tradition
too is over 3,500 years old and also
should not be messed with.
On discontinuation of the EMLA
cream the baby subsequently pinked
up and did fine. The father may
have some issues to work through,
though.
And, oh yes, as we say in the
borscht belt, the mohel gets to keep
the tip.
Jim Rice, D.D.S.
Jennifer Rice, D.D.S.
Your comfort is our
#1 concern
NELLYSFORD
2905 Rockfish Valley Highway
Nellsyford, VA 22958
(434) 361-2442
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The thrift store will mark its 30th anniversary this month with a reception open to the community on Saturday, April
25, at Crozet United Methodist Church from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Green Olive Tree Spruces Up for Spring
The Green Olive Tree thrift shop closed for a week in March to pack winter clothes (they have
been sent to missions) and set out spring and summer items. While they were at it, they had the
store interior repainted a creamy yellow, installed an air conditioner, made new curtains, de-cluttered
ruthlessly and made labels and signs for prices and displays. Customers who came in when
the store reopened did a double take. The store seems comparatively bright and spacious now. “It’s
been a great effort,” said volunteer Eleanor Kroeger. “Everybody’s delighted by the fresh new look.”
The register tape was curling on the floor, longer than it had ever spooled out before, and the volunteers,
feeling camaraderie, were dizzy over the jump in sales. And there were new donations to
sort, too. In the front windows, Easter decorations brightened the ledges. All the stuffed toy bunnies
in them are looking for new cuddle buddies.
CCAC Resolution On the 30th
Anniversary of The Green Olive Tree
Whereas, seven Crozet
ladies came together in 1979
for Bible Study and fellowship,
and out of this gathering
grew the idea of starting a
used clothing store to serve
Crozet; and
Whereas, June Andrews,
Nancy-Virginia Bain, Ruby
Garnett, Sarah Rogers, Mary
Shirlen Willets, Evelyn Doyle,
and Grace Waller were blessed
with good sense, compassionate
hearts, and total dedication
to their project, named
“The Green Olive Tree;” and
Whereas, the Green Olive
Tree took root, thrived, and
outgrew each of its succeeding
locations, supported by a large
group of loyal volunteers over
the years; and
Whereas, from its modest
beginning the Green Olive
Tree came to share its proceeds
with over a hundred different
ministries and organizations
around the world,
giving away well over
$500,000; and
Whereas, not only have
tons of clothing been
exchanged, but the Green
Olive Tree has become a community
center where people
can share love and support,
ideas and worries,
and come away refreshed
and up-lifted; and
Whereas, the Green
Olive Tree has served our
community faithfully for
thirty wonderful and generous
years, and continues
to prosper with the
help of numerous volunteers
and board members,
all who serve without
compensation; so
Therefore Be It
Resolved, that the
Crozet-western Albemarle
community, speaking through
its representatives on the
Crozet Community Advisory
Council, recognize and applaud
the work of the Green
Olive Tree, and wish it continued
success in its service to
so many. It has been a true
blessing for our community.
Adopted Feb. 19, 2009
Christian-based
Christian-based Preschool
Preschool
is now accepting applications for
now accepting applications for
infants through four year olds.
two through five year olds
Call 823-6500
or e-mail
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aftoneric@aol.com
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Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 31
Crossword by Heidi Thorson
Across
1. Arm bone
5. Descendent of
Muhammad
11. Elbow need
12. Kingdom of southeastern
Europe
14. ___ bring May flowers
16. Fire
17. A unit of elec. charge
19. Make visible
20. Fate
23. Applied with a wand
24. April is the ______
30. Hurrying
31. Brought out
32. Bart’s sister
36. Pine
37. Alpha’s opposite
39. Doris Day film
45. Of a lion
46. Rave
47. Speeding
48. TV award
Down
1. Russian river
2. Ambles
3. Main star
4. Pedro’s pal
5. A.A.R.P. members
6. “Say what?”
7. Akin to goth
8. Uncooked
9. Suffix with serpent
10. Crozet volunteer
13. Declare
15. Cattle call
18. Hatch’s state
20. Kit-___
21. Any doctrine
22. Star in Scorpius
constellation
23. Chinese food additive
24. Master cook
25. Tire type
26. Pretender to throne
27. And more
28. Untruth
29. It’s bitter
32. Chop
33. JPG file
34. Potion
35. Type of discrimination
38. Pale
40. Business metric
41. Corporate abbr.
42. Nero’s 52
43. Hotel
44. Opposite pos
Solution on page 34.
CROZET
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Mae Hazelwood - Owner
Open Monday - Saturday
Appointments encouraged. No credit cards.
Full line of Paul Mitchell & Biolage Matrix
434.823.5619
Crozet Shopping Center
Hillsboro Baptist Church Free
Spaghetti Dinner April 25
Everyone is welcome at Hillsboro Baptist Church’s
Spaghetti Dinner Saturday, April 25, from 6 to 8 p.m.
There is no cost; just bring your family and friends and
share a meal at the Hillsboro Baptist Church Fellowship
Hall, 6406 Hillsboro Lane, in Yancey Mills. For more
information, call 823-1505.

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LAX—continued from page 25
the sidelines to cheer for their classmates, the
rain continued and the field conditions grew
steadily worse. Neither team had an easy
time staying on their feet while making cuts,
and ball control became an issue. Although
the girls were playing in slop for the final
seven minutes or so, the mental toughness of
Haws’s team showed in the foul conditions,
and the Warriors were able to extend their
lead even further. Lynn scored her seventh
and last goal of the night, capping off a wonderful
evening for herself. Turner scored her
second goal quickly after Lynn’s seventh, giving
the girls an 18-10 lead, securing the victory
with only five minutes remaining. Salem
was able to score two goals in the waning
seconds of the match, but the Warriors held
strong in the rain and added another win to
their season total.
Library—continued from page 17
pitched roof might complicate qualification
for LEED certification [as a sustainable
building], Willoughby cautioned. In the end,
the flat roof had enough defenders among
the committee that Mallek relented.
“I wouldn’t say this building is emblematic
of Crozet,” Willoughby summed up the
style issues. “It’s trying to walk a tightrope
between modern and traditional.”
New CCAC Members
New Crozet Community
Advisory Council members
David Mellen, of Smallwood
Farm north of Crozet, Meg
Holden, who lives near
Brownsville Elementary School,
and Paul Clark, president of
the Old Trail Homeowners
Association, joined the CCAC’s
March 19 meeting although
their appointments were not
official until April 1. They
replaced David Wayland, Mac
Lafferty and Beverley
Ergenbright, who were not eligible
for renewed terms. There
were 12 applications for the
vacancies. CCAC members are
appointed by the Albemarle
County Board of Supervisors
to advise the board on issues
related to growth in Crozet.
The CCAC’s present task is
the mandated update of the
Crozet Master Plan in 2009. It
meets on the third Thursday of
the month at 7 p.m. at The
Meadows community room
and the public is encouraged
to attend.
TAX PREP & FINANCIALS
TPF BUSINESS SERVICES
BLUE GOOSE BUILDING
1186 CROZET AVENUE
(434) 823-1420
Taking appointments for tax preparation
Or, do your own on our website:
www.execusite.com/taxprep_financials
Crozet
Baptist Church
5804 St. George Avenue
434-823-5171
GRACE
If any day should be a day of grace, it’s Easter Sunday.
It’s the day we celebrate the incredible grace God had
for us. It’s the time when we reflect on the gift of new
life, of hope, and a future set free from the burdens of
our past. That’s grace - the opportunity to leave our
past behind and start again fresh. Let’s do it together!
Easter Sunrise Service, 6:30 a.m. Mint Springs Park

Crozet gazette APRIL 2009 s page 33
Bereavements
James Doyle, 80 February 28, 2009
Sarah L. Stuart Brown, 85 March 1, 2009
Oscar Wilbert Meadows, 67 March 1, 2009
Vito Anthony Perriello Jr., 68 March 1, 2009
Ray Oneal Snow, 84 March 4, 2009
Bertha Lucille Cabell Walker, 58 March 5, 2009
Imogene Wood Porter, 83 March 6, 2009
Jean K. Collins, 81 March 7, 2009
Elden Ray Knight, 81 March 7, 2009
Bennett Franklin Moubray, 77 March 7, 2009
Betty Gene Geist, 70 March 8, 2009
Agnes Harding Fisher, 80 March 12, 2009
Pearl C. Cross, 75 March 13, 2009
Lloyd Boston, 91 March 14, 2009
Virginia Wolfe Kent, 75 March 14, 2009
Richard Aldine Davis, 66 March 15, 2009
Ruth Louise Breeden, 84 March 16, 2009
Alberta Jones Gray, 88 March 17, 2009
Peggy Jean Jarvis, 70 March 17, 2009
John William Ward, 88 March 20, 2009
Raymond F. Bishop, 93 March 21, 2009
Henry William Washington, 64 March 21, 2009
Tyler Scott Harlow, 20 March 22, 2009
Charlie Jefferson Johnson, 82 March 22, 2009
Mary Ann Clements Phillips, 87 March 22, 2009
Edward McCue Brown, 85 March 26, 2009
Mary Jane Elliott Moneymaker, 84 March 27, 2009
IGA—continued from page 13
But besides her business acumen,
Jean Wagner has other talents that
many don’t know about. Moving to
Crozet from Staunton at the age of
9 when her father became part
owner of Trimble’s Dry Cleaners,
the then Jean Trimble began taking
piano lessons from Mrs. James
Clark, who had a studio behind the
Gillums’ house on St. George Ave.
Jean and other piano students were
allowed to leave Crozet Elementary
Hillsboro
Baptist Church
Community Easter Service
Sunday, April 12 @ 10:00 a.m.
Henley Middle School
A temporary “stimulus?” We want
lasting joy and meaning and love!
2000 years ago, Jesus’ victory
made these blessings available.
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School during the day to walk across
the creek to the studio for their lessons.
She continued to study piano
for nine years, until she graduated
from Albemarle High School, where
she met Lyle Wagner. By the time
she returned to Crozet after majoring
in music at a Virginia college,
Jean had become an accomplished
pianist. She served as organist and
choir master at Emmanual Episcopal
Church in Greenwood for ten years,
and later helped to supplement the
music program and put on shows at
Crozet Elementary School.
Currently Jean carries on her love of
music by singing alto in Schola
Cantorum, a Waynesboro music
group to which her sister also
belongs. In 1963, Jean married Lyle
Wagner, and Greg was born in
1967, the same year the Crozet
Great Valu opened. David was born
a few years later and still works at
the store.
Over the years, the Crozet Great
Valu has become a downtown
Crozet institution. Jean has maintained
the same climate of personal
service set by Jack in the ’50s and
’60s, carried on by Lyle in the ’70s,
and continued by the stockholder/
employees to this day.
“I’ve always followed what my
father-in-law Jack Wagner taught
me: ‘There’s a grocery store on every
corner; the one thing that sets us
apart is service.’” And it shows! As
your groceries are bagged and carried
to your car, you can enjoy a
chat with one of the many WAHS
students or graduates—like Eric
White, Slava, or John Shannon, to
name a few—who work as baggers
and often stay to become checkers
and stockmen or to work their way
through college. Whatever product
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Chapel—continued from page 20
needed. Afton resident Goodloe
Saunders says he remembers his dad
used to donate “from time to time
and my Great-Uncle Sam and father
left them some money in their
wills.”
Keith said the members don’t
have to “dress up. Whatever you
want to wear is just fine.” And worshipers
still sit on pews that were
purchased by church members in
1899 for $150. And, while tradition
is important, Keith is proud to show
a copy of a print done by P. Buckley
Moss. “She’s done two,” he said with
a smile. The print is a Christmas
scene with Moss’s typical Amish or
Mennonite figures in front of the
church.
Services at Afton Chapel are held
each Sunday at 11 a.m. Trustees for
the church include Keith, and
Darlene and Rodney Via.
Garden Week
—continued from page 19
to cozy seats and flowerbeds filled
with Rosemary and other herbs. A
shaded area offers a weathered bench
and table surrounded by hostas,
rhododendrons, and other woodland
loving plants. Blooming dogwoods,
peonies and hydrangeas
anchor another of the garden rooms
and nearby an old bullpen is now
home to a healthy array of roses.
Impressive stonewalls and softly
manicured hedges help bring it all
The Cabin at Turtle Creek is located near the Ballard-Maupin home
together. Garden paths lead to a
secluded hammock, tennis and basketball
courts, an outdoor pingpong
table, a pool and pool house
and an attractive guesthouse.
The gardens are open on Sunday,
April 19, from noon to 6 p.m. and
again on Monday from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Advance tickets are $30
and available at a number of
Charlottesville locations. Day of
the tour tickets are $35. Children
6-12 are $15. For ticket locations
and directions to the homes, visit
www.gardeninginvirginia.org or call
434-296-8996.
The Garden Club strongly recommends
carpooling. Those attending
should wear comfortable walking
shoes—no spike heels, strollers
or backpacks allowed in the homes.
No smoking or pets on tour and
interior use of cameras and video
equipment is prohibited.
Box lunches are available to benefit
The Farmington Hunt Club for
$15. Orders must be prepaid and
received by April 10. Reserved
lunches will be available April 19
and 20 from 11:30 to 2 p.m. at
Chapel Springs. Checks should be
made payable to Farmington Hunt
Club and mailed to Carol Easter,
Attn: HGW Luncheon, 2679 Free
Union Road, VA 22901. Tickets are
non-refundable. Maps and additional
area garden tour sites are also
available at the above website.
Visit us... at the Home and Garden Show in John Paul Jones Arena!
Visit our booth at the Blue Ridge Homebuilders
Home and Garden Show 2009. Friday April 10,
Saturday April 11, Sunday April 12. See what’s
new in building and decorating. And enter our
drawing to win a Holland Grill ($649 value)!
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Bishop Jackson
Coming to Mt.
Salem Gospel
Church
Bishop Wayne Jackson of the
New Beginnings Church of
Culpeper will be the guest speaker
for the morning service at Mt. Salem
Gospel Church Sunday, April 5 at
11:30 a.m. Sunday School is at
10:30 a.m. followed by Praise and
Worship at 11:30 a.m., four Sundays
each month. All are welcome. Mt.
Salem Gospel Church is at the intersection
of Old Three Notch’d Road
and Three Notch’d Road, just east of
the water treatment plant, in
Mechum’s River.

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Crozet
Agnew and Lois Morris, 1998
IGA—continued from page 33
you may be missing, your request will
be honored. Working stockholders lend
the store a rare sense of continuity—not
only have most of the employees worked
there for years, but they probably grew
up in Crozet. What a pleasure it is to be
served by neighbors, like getting produce
help from Pete Maupin, wine
advice from Jessie McDaniel, meat cut
to order by V. L. James, help in frozen
foods from Darrin Dance, or help finding
just the right ingredient from inventory
manager Brad Knight—and these
Jean Wagner
are only a few of the employees who
make everyone welcome and give the store its friendly character.
You can find everything you want at the CGV, from cage-free eggs to a
range of international wines to Celestial Seasonings teas. Jean and her predecessors
have always made a point of buying local whenever possible,
meaning that our purchases not only support the local economy but also
are fresher and more nutritious than products shipped from across the
country or beyond. You’ll find apples and peaches from Chiles Orchard,
freshly baked breads from Goodwin Farms in Afton, raw honey from the
Golden Angels Apiary in Singer’s Glen, tofu from Twin Oaks, granola
from Innisfree, breads and cookies from the Mission Bakeshop, and hummus
and salsa from Red Hill Farm. Recently, the CGV has added a natural
and organic food section managed by Fabienne Swanson, including
freshly ground organic coffee from the Righteous Bean in Afton and bulk
rice, lentils, nuts, and sea salt in bins purchased from Fabulous Foods.
Fresh seafood has also been added now that they found a reliable source
from Northern Virginia—the same vendor that supplies Fardowners
Restaurant.
A lot has changed from the post-war Red Front to the modern, healthoriented
CGV. One thing that hasn’t changed in all those years, however,
is the continuity of proprietorship, long-term employees, and superior,
friendly service. While Jean has some concerns about how the new Crozet
Station will affect business during the construction phase, with her usual
practical and positive outlook she believes that in the long run it will
improve business for everyone in the shopping center. When asked about
her plans for retirement, Jean smiles ruefully. “I don’t think about retirement
so much as just slowing down.” And that’s good news for her customers.
We are lucky to have such a warm, friendly, local, family business
in the heart of Crozet. As one customer said to a store employee: “You
take care of me better than anybody else does.”
Your Local
Grocery Store
Serving Western
Albemarle
since 1946
FRESH FISH
AVAILABLE ON
THURSDAYS
Henley Orchard
Chiles Orchard
Red Hill Farm
Goodwin Farm
Holloway Farm
Mission Home Bakery
Munson Firewood
Standard Produce
Cavalier Produce
J.W. Sieg & Co. Inc.
King Family Vineyards
Crozet
BE LOCAL,
BUY LOCAL!
Shop Crozet Great Valu for fresh
products from these local businesses:
White Hall Vineyards
Veritas Vineyard
Nelson Co. Vineyards
Albemarle Co. Vineyards
Pollak Vineyards
Chateau Morrisette
Starr Hill Brewery
Golden Angels Apiary Honey
Hungry Hill Farm Honey
Righteous Bean Organic
Coffee
Produce Guys
Shawn Gibbs, Pete Maupin (28 years of selecting
the best fruits and vegetables for Crozet), Ben Hensley
5732 Three Notch’d Rd.
Crozet, Virginia 22932