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Town Council 

By Roger Bianchini 

Warren County Report 

The controversy swirling 

around a potential censure of 

Front Royal Town Councilman 

Thomas Sayre over a closed door 

meeting with the judge presiding 

over the Route 5 Corridor lawsuit 

escalated on Jan. 1. 

Less than three days after authorization 

was given to the town 

attorney to proceed with the 

drafting of a Resolution of Censure 

of Sayre, the councilman 

appeared on WZRV’s News at 

Noon show to defend his actions 

related to his Dec. 8 closed door 

discussion with Judge Dennis L. 

Hupp. He also took the opportunity 

to attack his colleagues who 

might support his censure. 

“Obviously some of my council 

members are blowing this out of 

proportion for political purposes. 

The election starts today,” Sayre, 

who is up for reelection this 

spring, told WZRV News Director 

Mario Retrosi. 

However some of Sayre’s subsequent 

radio remarks about 

what he told Hupp in chambers 

have raised further issues about 

Sayre’s conduct and potential 

breaches of ethical standards. 

“Nothing confidential was said; 

nothing was said to influence or 

respect the judge on the merits 

of the case,” Sayre stated. He 

also claimed to have received the 

opinion of two Virginia attorneys 

specializing in legal ethics, who 

“I am proud of the fact I have spoken out for the people to keep them abreast of what is going on. 

And obviously some of my opinions are in disagreement with some of my fellow council members. 

I think nothing would make them happier than to be able to gag me.” – Thomas Sayre 

Sayre goes on attack mode – ‘election starts today!’ 

Council debates whether proprietary info disclosed in Dec. 8 Sayre-Hupp meeting 

Chris Holloway, center, may be nervous about his 

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told him they “do not see any 

ethical violation.” Sayre did not 

identify the attorneys nor elaborate 

on what information was at 

their disposal when they made 

these representations to him. 

Defending his actions during 

the Jan. 19 work session discussion 

of a censure Sayre verified 

Judge Hupp’s e-mail observation 

that he had informed the 

judge that the town water-sewer 

bills would be going out with the 

meals tax-based fees still attached 

so the judge “wouldn’t be angry.” 

[Town staff and councilmen 

queried explained the reason the 

last water-sewer bills went out 

with the meals tax fees included 

was that there simply was not 

enough turn around time to alter 

the bills after Hupp’s Nov. 30 decision.] 

In conversations with Vice 

Mayor Bret Hrbek and Coun- 

cilmen Tom Conkey and Shae 

Parker following Sayre’s Jan. 1st 

radio appearance we asked if they 

agreed with Sayre’s representations 

that he had violated no 

ethical standard or revealed any 

confidential information regarding 

the still pending legal case. 

All three indicated that to the 

best of their recollection the fact 

the water-sewer bills were going 

out as they had in the past 

had only been a topic of closed 

session discussion about consequences 

and strategies in the 

wake of Hupp’s Nov. 30 ruling on 

the first aspect of the case. 

We asked Town Attorney Tom 

Robinett, who led that closed session 

discussion of legal issues and 

strategies if that was in fact the 

case. 

“That is consistent with my 

recollections and I do not recall 

any previous or subsequent dis- 

cussion of that (the water bills),” 

Robinett stated. The town attorney 

declined further comment 

about the Dec. 3 closed session 

called in reaction to Hupp’s first 

decision on the case. 

“If that’s the case he did reveal 

proprietary information from a 

closed session to the judge,” Conkey 

observed. “This one incident 

is indicative of others in which 

Mr. Sayre has gone to radio, TV 

or newspapers – and today’s 

comments are another example. 

He has divulged information 

gathered in confidence and released 

information that could 

be damaging to the town for his 

own benefit. I’m comfortable that 

requesting this resolution is not 

a political ploy,” Conkey, who is 

not up for re-election, said. “I feel 

the fact Shae brought it forward 

is coincidental,” Conkey said. 

Sayre disagrees. He began his 

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Town Council 

Jan. 1st News at Noon remarks 

by reading a prepared statement 

in which he stated he had not 

violated any professional or municipal 

standards of behavior. He 

called his meeting with Judge 

Hupp basically informational 

gathering (see related story) rather 

than any attempt to influence 

the judge on as yet rendered decisions 

on the corridor lawsuit. 

“If it was an error and if it made 

the judge uncomfortable I do 

apologize,” Sayre said of his Dec. 

8 meeting in the judge’s chambers. 

Gag order or insanity? 

However Sayre did not extend 

that apology to any of his colleagues, 

whom he accused of attempting 

to stifle his opinion on 

issues. 

“I am proud of the fact I have 

spoken out for the people to keep 

them abreast of what is going on. 

And obviously some of my opinions 

are in disagreement with 

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“That’s insane – why would he 

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said it was. What Tom [Sayre] 

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I think the council is just trying 

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Hrbek, who is also up for re-election, 

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conversation with Hupp about a 

pending case involving the town. 

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“That’s insane – why would he say that? … I watch L.A. Law and I know not to talk to a 

judge about a case. This is about a town councilman who is an attorney who goes into 

chambers to talk to a judge [about a pending case].” – Vice Mayor Bret Hrbek 

This is about a town councilman 

who is an attorney who goes into 

chambers to talk to a judge [about 

a pending case],” Hrbek said. 

“If this were a football team, 

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better than the coach and says 

he knows better than the coach. 

Then he goes and gives the playbook 

to the competition and says 

the coach is [a jerk]. What do you 

do with a player like that? – He’d 

be cut,” Conkey surmised. 

However, Sayre told Retrosi he 

believes it is others who will be 

“cut” this spring. 

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“I think you guys are going way overboard with this thing and it’s a shame 

that you’re doing it. I think it’s going to backfire on you. You’re making a 

mole out of a mountain hill.” – Councilman Thomas Sayre 



It’s late January and the ground 

is finally visible up here on the 

Knob five weeks after the twofoot 

“White Christmas” snowfall 

and consequent three weeks of 10 

to 0 degree temperatures. But as 

the Town of Front Royal’s spring 

election season approaches a big 

chill is setting in that could freeze 

out one incumbent councilman 

– or play into his political hands, 

he says. 

A move to censure Front Royal 

Town Councilman Thomas Sayre 

surfaced at a Jan. 19 council work 

session. Shae Parker received 

a majority consensus to direct 

Town Attorney Tom Robinett to 

draft a Resolution of Censure of 

Sayre, as well as preparation of an 

official complaint to the Virginia 

State Bar regarding actions by 

Sayre on Dec. 8. The Resolution 

of Censure, essentially a hard slap 

on the wrist for conduct deemed 

inappropriate as a councilman, 

and consideration of the formal 

complaint to the Virginia BAR 

over a possible breach of professional 

standards will come forward 

for votes at the Jan. 5 regular 

council meeting. 

The move to censure a sitting 

councilman may be unprecedented 

in Front Royal. On Jan. 1 

town staff indicated they could 

find no record of a previous censure 

by council. 

At issue is a Dec. 8 conversation 


Sayre had with presiding Warren 

County Circuit Court Judge Dennis 

L. Hupp regarding the Route 

5 Corridor suit. 

Sayre’s municipal and perhaps 

professional problems are that at 

the time of his conversation with 

Hupp about the lawsuit involving 

the town and three national 

chain restaurants, Cracker Barrel, 

Applebee’s and TGIFriday’s, 

the judge was still considering a 

ruling on aspects of the case. 

Those aspects involved requested 

compensation for all 

past, paid meals tax-based fees by 

the restaurants since their 007- 

008 openings. Based on their 

“pass through” nature, Hupp 

had ruled on Nov. 30 such fees 

accounting for perhaps 90-plus 

percent of the restaurants’ water-sewer 

bills were not enabled 

by the 1998 Corridor Agreement 

between Front Royal and Warren 

County. Eight days after Sayre 

approached the judge about the 

case Hupp ruled the town owed 

Town Council 

Sayre facing censure by colleagues 

Conversation with judge over then-unresolved corridor suit at issue 

Thomas Sayre, white shirt, responds to censure 

move initiated by Shae Parker as Chris Holloway 

reads from Parker’s request and attached e-mail from 

Judge Dennis L. Hupp describing his discomfort over 

Sayre’s in-chamber actions of Dec. 8 regarding 522 

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only since Jan. 9, 009, the date 

the suit challenging the fees was 

filed. That amount covering a 10month 

period is about $1 0,000. 

That second ruling will save the 

town a year or more of additional 

compensation to those restaurants, 

as well as the potential of 

compensation to the corridor’s 

other restaurants not party to the 

lawsuit. That decision could save 

the town hundreds of thousands, 

if not a million dollars or more. 

And therein lies the dilemma 

for the council regarding Sayre’s 

Dec. 8 conversation with the trial 

judge. Did Sayre’s chambers conversation 

with the judge jeopardize 

the town’s position on the 

reimbursement ruling? 

An awkward position 

At the Jan. 19 work session, 

Parker produced a copy of a Dec. 

9 e-mail from Judge Hupp to attorneys 

for both sides in the case 

describing his discomfort at the 

direction Sayre’s conversation 

took once in chambers. 

The judge wrote the attorneys 

that once Sayre identified himself 

as a town councilman he 

immediately told Sayre he could 

not discuss the “restaurant case” 

because there were unresolved 

issues. However Sayre persisted, 

asking about a time frame on 

the reimbursement decision and 

whether or not a written order on 

the first ruling had been submitted. 

The judge wrote that Sayre 

also informed him the town’s 

new water bills would go out with 

the meal’s tax fee included due to 

time constraints and hoped he 

“would not be angry” over that 

fact. 

“Quite frankly, he put me in an 

awkward position,” Hupp wrote 

attorneys William Rowe, Carter 

Glass IV, Robinett and Clay Athey 

among others. “During the conversation, 

I tried to be as abrupt 

as I could without being discourteous. 

The whole conversation 

lasted about a minute, and I think 

I have recounted it in its entirety 

or almost so,” Hupp concluded. 

Parker said Sayre’s conversation 

with the judge, which he noted


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Town Council Warren 

to influence the judge … I suppose they could have asked for a mis- 

Not quite Camelot’s round table - Front Royal’s mayor 

and council listen to Shae Parker’s explanation of 

his initiative to censure fellow Councilman Thomas 

Sayre. 

was unauthorized by council, 

had jeopardized the town’s legal 

position in the case, setting the 

groundwork for a possible plaintiff 

appeal of the compensation 

ruling. 

Asked about the potential of 

an appeal of the reimbursement 

decision based on the possibility 

of council inquiries to the judge 

prior to the rendering of that decision, 

Rowe declined comment 

in mid January. However, on Jan. 

1 , Rowe filed the written order 

Hupp instructed him to prepare 

in the case following the Dec. 1 

completion of his ruling on the 

case. That order is currently under 

review by the town. 

Over-reaction? 

As Parker read his brief statement 

seeking consensus on the 

censure and BAR complaint, 

Sayre perused a written copy and 

said, “Wow.” 

Sayre defended his actions in 

approaching the judge and stated 

council was not aware of the full 

scope of his intent in approaching 

Hupp. 

“You don’t know why I went 

in to talk to Judge Hupp. I mean 

it wasn’t just specifically about 

this. I mean there were appeals of 

other cases [with] the judge that 

I wasn’t a party to and I just happened 

to be there that day with a 

case.” 

Be that as it may, Hupp’s Dec. 

9 e-mail clearly states that once 

they were alone in chambers, 

Sayre immediately referenced his 

role as a town councilman, rather 

than as an attorney. Hupp’s reaction 

was to immediately state 

that he could not talk about “the 

restaurant case” due to the unresolved 

issues. Despite that asser- 

tion, Hupp noted Sayre continued 

to press him on information 

about the restaurant case. 

“I think you’re going way overboard 

… and I think it’s going to 

backfire on you,” Sayre told council 

at one point, adding perhaps 

the unintentionally succinct metaphor 

“You are bringing forward 

a mole out of a mountain hill.” 

Mole or mountain hill, Sayre 

insisted, “It really wasn’t that big a 

deal. I mean I am totally stunned 

the council and Parker would 

even seek to do this. I think it’s 

dirty pool and I don’t think there’s 

any basis or anything that’s bad 

behavior for something like this.” 

Parker disagreed. He pointed 

out that according to the judge’s 

e-mail Sayre had ignored Hupp’s 

immediate request he not discuss 

the “restaurant” case once 

the attorney identified himself as 

a councilman behind the judge’s 

closed chamber door. 

“We need to distance ourselves 

from this and that’s basically why 

I’m requesting the Resolution of 

Censure,” Parker replied to Sayre. 

“And also the terms [by] which 

you entered the judge’s chamber, 

I think it’s quite evident from his 

letter that he wasn’t aware you 

were entering under those auspices 

– and it could very well be 

a violation of the Virginia State 

Bar.” 

Sayre replied that his request 

for information on a written ruling 

did not fit the criteria of an 

“ex-parte proceeding” that could 

run him afoul of the state bar. 

“I wasn’t trying to get ex-parte 

from him. And if he wanted to 

end the conversation he could 

have. I wasn’t there just to talk 

about this,” Sayre insisted, adding 

that he wanted to inform the 

judge the town was sending out 

“This could have potentially been a very devastating event for us … 

trial.” – Councilman Tom Conkey 

water and sewer bills as they had 

in the past in the wake of his first 

ruling eight days earlier. – “I was 

hoping he wouldn’t be angry.” 

Sayre added, “In essence, I 

mean I care and love this town 

so much that I’m just discussing 

about a case that’s …” As Sayre 

hesitated, searching for his next 

word, Councilman Tom Conkey 

interjected. 

“The problem sir is that as a representative 

of the council and of 

the town, when you make a statement 

you represent the council 

and you represent the town. You 

have consistently and repeatedly 

gone to the newspapers, gone to 

the television, gone to the radio 

expressing your personal concerns 

as a representative of this 

town. This is the straw, if you will, 

that broke the camel’s back … If 

Judge Hupp had not been as fair 

and understanding as he is, this 

could have potentially been a very 

devastating event for us,” Conkey 

observed. “Potentially our opposition 

(in corridor suit) could 

have suggested that what you did 

was an attempt to influence the 

judge on a ruling he had not yet 

made. I’m not an attorney, but I 

suppose they could have asked 

for a mistrial, which would have 

cost the town.” 

It was at this point Sayre shot 

back with his most aggressive reaction 

to the censure initiative. 

“I think you guys are going way 

overboard with this thing and 

it’s a shame that you’re doing it. 

I think it’s going to backfire on 

you. You’re making a mole out of 

a mountain hill,” Sayre concluded 

for the defense. 

With Sayre and Parker both up 

for re-election, or actually election 

in Parker’s case as a firstterm 

appointee, we asked Parker’s 

reaction to Sayre’s “backfire” 

comment. 

“Public officials should be held 

accountable for their actions 

– and that should take place in 

public,” Parker replied, perhaps 

pulling a page from Sayre’s own 

“handbook” on transparency in 

municipal government. 

Regarding Mayor Eugene 

Tewalt’s call for direction on the 

matter, Parker observed, “I heard 

no dissent in the room other than 

from Mr. Sayre.” 

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Del. Clay Athey has proposed 

legislation to reform Virginia’s 

Higher Education System to increase 

accessibility for students 

across the state and give those 

students the workforce skills 

necessary to attract new employers 

to the Commonwealth seeking 

a highly educated and skilled 

workforce. 

Athey’s proposed Reform 

Agenda for Higher Education includes: 

HB 1005 – Creates the Community 

College Scholarship Match 

Program to provide matching 

funds to community college foundations 

to provide scholarships 

for students seeking a technical 

or associate degree. Funds may 

be paid on the basis of one dollar 

of state general fund appropriation 

for every one dollar donated 

by private individuals, foundations, 

or corporations beginning 

on July 1, 010. These funds shall 

be used to award scholarships to 

students who (i) are domiciled 

residents of Virginia, and (ii) are 

enrolled in a Virginia community 

college. 

HB 100 – Mandates that state 

funding be disbursed to four 

year public institutions of higher 

learning based on total number of 

Virginia domiciles enrolled at the 

university. This bill provides that 

notwithstanding any other provision 

of law, funds allocated for 

capital and operating expenses by 

the state the public institutions 

of higher education in the Com- 

monwealth must be disbursed 

based upon the total number of 

Virginia domiciles enrolled in 

the undergraduate programs at 

each institution in the previous 

biennium. This bill ensures that 

Virginia universities which focus 

on educating Virginians instead 

of out of state students benefit financially 

from that decision. 

HB 1007- Provides that the board 

of visitors or other governing 

body of each public institution 

of higher education in Virginia 

must establish rules and regulations 

requiring that 80 percent 

of the undergraduate student 

population of the institution are 

Virginia domiciles. State funds 

must be withheld from any institution 

that does not fulfill the 80 

percent requirement. Many good 

students are being denied admission 

to Virginia’s schools to make 

room for out of state students. 

Taxpaying Virginia families deserve 

to have their family member 

be first in line for admission 

to a less costly Virginia public 

university. 

HB 1011- Authorizes the Vir- 


General Assembly 

Athey proposes higher education legislation 

Chief sponsor for five major education reform bills 

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to a four-year public institution 

of higher education in the Commonwealth, 

upon acceptance to 

the institution. This bill builds 

upon the Guaranteed Admission 

Program which I patroned to successful 

passage six years ago and 

is being used by thousands of students 

at Virginia community colleges 

each year. The new program 

permits a student who is unsure 

when starting community college 

about their life’s work to complete 

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studies and be assured that 

all of the credits they complete 

for the certification will transfer 

to a Virginia university. 

Athey concluded: “Governor Bob 

McDonnell has asked me to serve 

on his Higher Education Task 

Force which is being tasked with 

reforming Virginia’s Higher Education 

System to create 100,000 

new graduates over the next 15 

years. Only by expanding access 

to our Higher Education System 

can we hope to prepare more 

Virginians for the jobs of the future. 

These bills which I will be 

proposing as part of that reform 

effort will help ensure that new 

industries who choose Virginia’s 

Pro-Business, Pro-Education climate 

facilities will have access to 

Virginians educated at our community 

colleges and universities 

who are well positioned to secure 

those new jobs as we eventually 

emerge from the current recession.” 

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Indictments 

January indictments by 

the Warren County Circuit 

Court Grand Jury: 

Valerie Rose Chandler 

The Warren County Circuit 

Court Grand Jury charges that 

on or about August 15, 009, in 

the County of Warren, Valerie 

Rose Chandler, 31, of 5 Bragg 

Dr., Front Royal, VA 30, did 

unlawfully and feloniously fail to 

stop and give aid and information 

after being involved in an automobile 

accident resulting in personal 

injury as well as property 

damage in excess of $1,000.00. 

Sarah Elizabeth Galloway 



on or about September 30, 009, 

in the County of Warren, Sarah 

Elizabeth Galloway, 9, of 80 Barrett 

Rd., Front Royal, VA 30, 

did unlawfully and feloniously 

drive or operate a motor vehicle 

while under the influence of alcohol 

or any other self-administered 

intoxicant or drug. The 

accused committed this offense 

after having committed two prior 

violations of § 18. - or an offense 

set forth in subsection E of 

§ 18. - 70 during a period often 

years from the date of the current 

offense, in violation of § 18. - ; 

18. - 70; 18. -10 of the Code of 

Virginia (1950) as amended. The 

accused commited the offense 

while having a blood alcohol 

concentration of more than . 0 

percent by weight by volume or 

more than . 0 grams per 10 liters 

of breath. 

Kristen Elaine Haubeil 



on or about August 1, 009, in 

the County of Warren, Kristen 

Elaine Haubeil, 7, of 1 83 West- 

ern Lane, Front Royal, VA 30, 

being a parent of, guardian for, or 

person responsible for the care of 

E.F. a child under the age of eighteen 

years, committed a willful 

act or omission in the care of such 

child that was so gross, wanton, 

and culpable as to show a reckless 

disregard for human life. 

Ryan William Haubeil 


Court Grand Jury charges that on 

or about August 1, 009, in the 

County of Warren, Ryan William 

Haubeil, 7, of 1338 Frog Hollow 

Rd., Winchester, VA 03, being 

a parent of, guardian for, or person 

responsible for the care of E.F. 

a child under the age of eighteen 

years, committed a willful act or 

omission in the care of such child 

that was so gross, wanton, and 

culpable as to show a reckless 

disregard for human life. 

Daniel Shannon Johnson 



or about December , 008, in the 

County of Warren, Daniel Shannon 

Johnson, 35, of 55 Crestwood 

St., Leesburg, VA 0175, 

did unlawfully and feloniously, 

wrongfully and fraudulently use, 

dispose of, conceal or embezzle 

U.S. currency, belonging to Mattress 

Warehouse, and having a 

value of $ 00.00 or more, which 

he had received for Mattress 

Warehouse, or which he received 

by virtue of his office, trust, or 

employment with such company. 

Jamie Lee 


Court Grand Jury charges that: 

COUNT ONE: On or about August 

5, 009, in the County of 

Warren, Jamie Lee, , of 93 

Stuart Dr., Front Royal, VA 30, 

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alarm, or recklessly causing a risk 

thereof, did unlawfully engage in 

conduct having a direct tendency 

to cause acts of violence by the 

person or persons at whom such 

conduct was directed while in a 

street, highway, public building 

or other public place. 

COUNT TWO: On or about 

August 5, 009, in the County 

of Warren, Jamie Lee did unlawfully 

possess or distribute controlled 

paraphernalia, specifically 

a hypodermic syringe, needle 

or other device adapted or designed 

for the adminstration of 

controlled dangerous substances 

by hypodermic injections under 

circumstances which reasonably 

indicate an intention to use such 

controlled paraphernalia for purposes 

of illegally administering 

any controlled drug. 

COUNT THREE: On or about 

August 5, 009, in the County of 

Warren, Jamie Lee did knowingly, 

intentionally and feloniously possess 

a controlled substance listed 

in Schedule I ofthe Drug Control 

Act, namely, Heroin. 

Stephen Christopher Oakes 



or about September 19, 009, in 

the County of Warren, Stephen 

Christopher Oakes, 3, of 007 

8th St., Baltimore, MD 1 5, did 

unlawfully and feloniously possess 

a Schedule II controlled substance, 

to-wit: Phencyclidine. 

Cody Durham Smoot 



or about October 7, 009, in the 

County of Warren, Cody Durham 

Smoot, 18, of 37 3 Guard Hill 

Rd., Front Royal, VA 30, did 

unlawfully and feloniously take, 

steal, and carry away the goods 

and chattels of Kirk Weaver, towit: 

a 000 Dodge Neon valued at 

$ 00.00 or more. 

Michael Albert Valerio, III 



COUNT ONE: On or about November 

1 , 009, in the County of 

Warren, Michael Albert Valerio, 

III, 5, of unknown address, did 

unlawfully and feloniously drive 

or operate a motor vehicle while 

under the influence of alcohol, 

this being a fourth offense committed 

within ten years of three 

prior offenses. 

COUNT TWO: On or about November 

1 , 009, in the County of 

Warren, Michael Albert Valerio, 

III, did unlawfully and feloniously 

operate a motor vehicle while his 

license was revoked. 

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November 1 , 009, in the 

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COUNT ONE: On or about November 

9, 009, in the County of 

Warren, Michael Ray Williams, 


18, of E. 19th St., Front Royal, 

VA 30, did unlawfully and feloniously 

assault and batter Brian 

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reason to know that said Brian 

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Indictments 

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McAlister’s opens first N. Va. deli operation here 

Riverton Commons location first of four planned for D.C. Metro area 

Let’s EAT!!! - McAlister’s Manager Steve Ricks and staff are ready to serve up 

some old fashioned deli sandwiches and other specialties the chain is known 

for. 

Car burns after I-66 collision 

The burned Toyota prepares to leave 

the scene. 

The photos accompanying this story are just to remind 

those of you who were caught in this westbound 

backup on I- around 10 a.m. on Jan. 1 , 

that things are better today – aren’t they? 

According to state police a 199 Toyota, 

shown here burned on the back of a flatbed as it 

was prepared to leave the scene, caught fire after 

making contact with a 1998 Ford F-800 truck as 

westbound traffic slowed for road construction 

about a mile west of the Linden interchange. The 

driver of the Toyota, Burton Cooper Jr., 5 , of Inwood, 

West Virginia, and his passenger, Kimberly 

Cooper, 1, also of Inwood were able to exit the 

Traffic is backed up out of sight east 

of the Linden interchange. 

vehicle before it caught fire. Both were transported 

to Winchester Medical Center with unspecified 

injuries. Medical transport helicopters were 

involved. 

There was no report at the scene that the driver of 

the Ford, Douglas Thomson, 9, of Gordonsville, 

was treated for injuries. 

Burton Cooper was charged with reckless driving 

following the investigation of Trooper S.A. 

Southerland. The westbound left lane was opened 

to haltingly moving traffic within about an hour 

of the accident. The right lane was opened shortly 

before noon. 

McAlister’s Deli, a quick-casual 

restaurant chain known for its 

hot, fresh sandwiches, spuds and 

“Famous Sweet Tea” opened a location 

at 70 Riverton Commons 

in Front Royal on January 18. 

This location is the first of several 

McAlister’s restaurants planned 

for the Northern Virginia area. 

Steve Ricks, owner of the new 

Front Royal location, has been in 

the restaurant industry for more 

than 0 years, working for chains 

that include Chili’s and On the 

Border Mexican Grill and Cantina. 

When Ricks left his position 

as area director for On the Border 

in 008, he wanted to open a 

concept that was family-friendly, 

had a strong product line and 

growing across the country. For 

Ricks, McAlister’s Deli fit all of 

these qualifications. 

“From efficient counter ordering 

and attentive table service to 

the high-quality deli-style foods 

at a great price value, I knew that 

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fit for the Front Royal community,” 

said Ricks. 

Ridgeland, Miss.-based McAlister’s 

Deli offers over 100 menu 

items featuring traditional sandwiches, 

panini, spuds, soups, 

salads and desserts. The recently 

introduced “Choose Any Two” 

menu option gives guests the 

ability to choose two of any half 

sandwich, spud, salad or Panini, 

or a cup of soup for $ . 9. 

Typical sandwich prices including 

Ruebens, subs, BLT’s and 

special choose-your-own meats 

range from $5. 9 to $ .99. A “Big 

Nasty” open-faced roast beef on 

a 1 -inch hoagie with gravy and 

cheddar cheese goes for $7.99. 

In addition to dine-in and takeout 

service, McAlister’s Deli also 

offers catering for gatherings and 

meetings, with a selection of deli 

and sandwich trays, vegetable, 

cheese and fruit trays, breakfast 

trays, box lunches and desserts. 

Currently, McAlister’s Deli has 

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Athey garners General Assembly reappointments 

Delegate Clifford L. Clay 

Athey, Jr. (R-18) was re-appointed 

on Jan. 13 to serve as Vice- 

Chairman of the Courts of Justice 

Committee for the Virginia 

House of Delegates. 

In his role as Vice-Chairman, 

Delegate Athey will also serve as 

Chairman of the Civil Law Subcommittee 

of the Courts Committee. 

The Civil Law Subcommittee 

oversees proposed civil 

legislation affecting the Virginia 

Court System. The House 

Courts of Justice Committee 

hears over sixty percent of all 

the bills introduced in any legislative 

session and recommends 

all the appointments to vacancies 

in the Virginia Judiciary. 

Athey was also re-appointed 

to the House Education Committee 

and will serve as Chairman 

of the Students and Day 

Care Sub-Committee. 

Delegate Athey was also 

re-appointed as Chairman of 

the House Policy Committee. 

Athey’s other committee assignments 

include a re-appoint- 

ment to the Health, Welfare and 

Institutions Committee which 

oversees all laws relating to 

healthcare in Virginia as well as 

re-appointment to the Militia, 

Police, and Public Safety Committee 

which oversees law enforcement 

agencies throughout 

Virginia. 

With the latest appointments, 

Athey joins a handful of senior 

legislators who serve on four 

Standing Committees in the 

House of Delegates. 

(From a release) 


the Golden Chain award to Philip 

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has both excelled in customer 

service and provided the highest 

quality dining experience while 

continuing a solid financial performance 

during this challenging 

economy. In the same year, McAlister’s 

was named one of the Best 

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Magazine for their commitment 

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A stop at the Postal Business 

Center to check company mail 

on the way to catch the Vikings- 

Cowboys NFC playoff game at 

the Melting Pot on Jan. 1 led to 

an impromptu reunion with Otis 

the rescued poodle dog, his pal 

and bodyguard dog Simon and 

their walkers Tim and Tammy 

Darr. 

After a lick from Otis – I know 

he remembers me from my early 

visit at the Humane Society shortly 

after his and cat pal Milo’s rescue 

– and a warning bark or two 

and sniff from Simon, I found myself 

in the midst of an unplanned 

press conference with Darr as he 

and a Front Royal Town Council 

hopeful traded signatures on 

their ballot petitions. 

Running again, are we? I said 

exhibiting the astute investigative 

reporting skills honed to a fine 

edge over years of covering the 

River City political beat. 

Yes, the former Front Royal 

Vice Mayor and School Board 

Chairman told us. 

For what? I pressed home my 

investigative edge. 

Readers may remember Darr, 

then a sitting town councilman 

and the vice mayor, aborted a 

planned run for mayor two years 

ago when it was discovered he 

needed a kidney transplant. 

Fortunately Tim found a match 

close to home, from wife Tammy 

in fact, and now it appears he is 

picking up where he left off in 

008. 

Darr verified that fact “officially” 

by e-mail the next day. 

“I am pleased to announce my 

plans to run for Mayor of The 

Town of Front Royal in the May 

“I feel that my past experience in local government combined with strong leadership skills and passion for 

the town and it’s citizens gives me the ability and forethought to help the council develop goals … and make 

decisions that not only will effect the town in the short term but also for many years to come.” – Tim Darr 

Darr will challenge Tewalt in mayor’s race 

Aborted 2008 challenge picked up by former vice mayor 

th, 010 General Election. As a 

lifelong resident of this town, I 

believe with my past experience 

as a Councilmen and Vice Mayor 

of The Town of Front Royal as 

well as Chairman of the Warren 

County School Board I have the 

knowledge and desire necessary 

to serve the citizens of this community 

with strong leadership, 

experience and dedication,” Darr 

e-mailed us on Jan. 17. 

We asked about his health and 

a rumored exploration of whether 

a promotion at his contract security 

job at the Pentagon might 

have kicked in Hatch Act restrictions 

on federal employee runs 

for local political office. 

“My kidney transplant was a 

complete success,” Darr replied. 

“On May 0th, which is 1 days 

after the election it will be the 

two-year anniversary of my 

transplant. My health is great, it’s 

actually better now then when I 

served as vice-mayor. I have been 

fortunate and have had no issues 

or problems, my energy level is 

back to normal and I am looking 

forward to the campaign. 

“I can assure you that I have taken 

all of the proper steps to gain 

approval to be eligible to run in 

this election. The only issue was 

the office change from council 

to mayor and I wanted to make 

Tim Darr 

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have any issues. The real problem 

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“The reason I would like to continue as mayor for another two years is to see through work on 

the Happy Creek Road Project, development of the solar farm and completion of the mandated 

improvements to the town’s wastewater treatment plant.” – Mayor Eugene Tewalt 



Not to be outdone by the 

competition, Front Royal Mayor 

Eugene Tewalt has made it official 

– he will seek re-election 

for a second, two-year term this 

spring. 

Tewalt’s announcement – not 

that it wasn’t expected – comes 

just in time not to loose any 

competitive edge in the upcoming 

race. Former Vice Mayor Tim 

Darr announced his intention to 

run for mayor in mid-January as 

well. So it seems the anticipated 

mayoral race slugfest of 008, 

aborted when Darr needed kidney 

transplant surgery, is finally 

upon us. 

“My plan to run this year has 

been made since my first run in 

008,” Tewalt told us. “I hoped 

to get four years in and then see 

if I wanted to go any further.” 

Tewalt was a sitting councilman 

in early 008 and it was 

anybody’s guess who would be 

favored in a head-to-head run 

against his co-councilman and 

then two-term vice mayor after 

Mayor Jim Eastham announced 

he would not seek a third term. 

As we did with Darr (see related 

story), we asked the mayor 

if he was fully recovered from 

his recent health issues, in his 

case unexpected triple by pass 

surgery on Sept. 18. Tewalt reminded 

us he never had a heart 

attack, only chest pain that 

headed pending trouble off at 

the pass. 

“My heart surgery is fine. I’ve 

been released by my heart doctor 

and the only thing I need to 

change is my eating habits,” the 

mayor told us. 

So with a once-delayed mayoral 

battle royal brewing, why 

is he compelled to re-enter a 

municipal political fray that to 

at least one outside observer 

doesn’t always appear to be that 

much fun? 

Tewalt replied that he believes 

that as a retiree, he is in a position 

to devote the required 

amount of time to a job he estimates 

he spends two to four 

hours on every day. The fact that 

among the positions he is retired 

from is the Town of Front Royal 

Public Works Director, gives 

him the kind of experience and 

knowledge most beneficial to 

leading the town government, 

Tewalt believes. 

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government as the town engineer 

and public works director, 

served six years on council 

and two years as mayor. Having 

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on the infrastructure needs of 

the town. The reason I would 

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two years is to see through 

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farm and completion of the 

mandated improvements to the 


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Speight knew his 8 victims, shot at police helicopter prior to surrender 

Law enforcement officials have charged Christopher 

B. Speight, 39, of Appomattox, Va., with one count 

of First Degree Murder involving the deaths of eight 

individuals. 

Law enforcement officials have 

charged Christopher B. Speight, 

39, of Appomattox, Va., with 

one count of First Degree Murder 

involving the deaths of eight 

individuals. Speight was taken 

into custody at 7:10 a.m. on Jan. 

0, after surrendering to SWAT 

Team members. Further charges 

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cooperating with investigators. 

Speight remained confined 

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security perimeter 

around the murder sight the entire 

time of the search operation. 

He managed to conceal himself 

overnight in the wooded area and 

then turned himself in to authorities 

at daybreak. At the time of 

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bulletproof vest and did not have 

a weapon in his possession. 

Speight was acquainted with 

the victims. He had lived at the 

residence where the murders 

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and owns land adjacent to 

the residence. Speight is being 

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No arraignment date has been 

set. Speight’s motives remain under 

investigation. 

The following eight victims 

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Ronald I. Scruggs II, 1 , of Dillwyn, 

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Emily A. Quarles, 15, of Appomattox, 

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Karen Quarles, 3, of Appomattox, 

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Jonathan L. Quarles, 3, of Appomattox, 

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Dwayne S. Sipe, 38, of Appomattox, 

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Lauralee Sipe, 38, of Appomattox, 

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Joshua Sipe, , of Appomattox, 

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Morgan L. Dobyns, 15, of Appomattox, 

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“We are advertising for positions, so if anyone out there is interested in serving on the advisory 

board they can contact us, go to the website – www.warrencountyva.net – get a copy of the citizen 

application that is there ...” – County Administrator on WCDSS Board applications 



Like we said an issue or so back 

– the smart money is on a total 

overhaul of the Warren County 

Department of Social Services 

Board of Directors sooner than 

later. 

According to Warren County 

Administrator Doug Stanley applications 

are now being taken 

for appointments to the volunteer 

job of a lifetime – the newly 

retooled and advisory-only above 

mentioned Board of Directors of 

WCDSS. The existing board, minus 

Jean Kresge whose term expired 

on Dec. 31, is still in place, 

though as of Jan. 1 only in an advisory 

capacity with no decision 

making authority regarding expenditures, 

contracts or budgetary 

matters as has been the case 

in the past. 

As of a Dec. 15 unanimous vote 

of the county supervisors, Stanley 

(that lucky boy) now has sole 

administrative authority over the 

county social services department. 

The new – or old until the 

new one is appointed – board will 

first meet in its new role in February. 

The plan at hand is to appoint 

DSS board members by magisterial 

district, matching the district 

(Happy Creek, North River, South 

River, Fork, Shenandoah) makeup 

of board of supervisors. Stanley 

said at-large current members 

may apply for reappointment as 

long as no two reside in the same 

district. 

I’m sure there’ll be a rush toward 

that reappointment line by 

sitting volunteer members Prudence 

Mathews, Lillian Sloane 

and Carol Ramos and their current 

supervisor colleague on the 

board, Linda Glavis (come on 

Linda, you told us it’s been a hoot 

so far) … but just in case that 

doesn’t happen, applications are 

available at the Warren County 

Government Center or online, 

Stanley explained. 

“We’re two weeks into the 

transformation and changes to 

replace the administrative board 

with the advisory board,” Stanley 

told us on Jan. 15. “We are advertising 

for positions, so if anyone 

out there is interested in serving 

on the advisory board they 

can contact us, go to the website 

– www.warrencountyva.net – get 

a copy of the citizen application 

that is there and turn it in.” 

Applications should be in by the 

last week of January and Stanley 

hopes to have a list of prospective 

candidates to submit to the 

supervisors at the Feb. 3rd board 

of supervisors meeting. 

As all you faithful readers are 

aware, the sitting WCDSS board 

– other than Glavis – came to 

odds with the county board of 

supervisors over a perceived 

lack of support in what has become 

an increasingly contentious 

three to five year conflict with a 

small group of vocal and sometimes 

litigious critics led by what 

Shenandoah District Supervisor 

Richard Traczyk once termed 

the “Gang of Three” – Linda Selover 

(multiple FOIA suits against 

DSS), Judith McClosky ($ 00,000 

civil suit over 007 termination 

by DSS Director Ron King) and 

William Pierceall (FOIA etc. – see 

related story). 

So how’s it going, we asked our 

intrepid county administrator? 

“It’s been a busy two weeks for 

me. The first thing Ron (King) did 

was give me a copy of the state 

DSS board handbook. I took it 

home over the Christmas holidays 

to review and kind of bring 

myself up to speed,” Stanley said 

of the 78 page state guide to administration 

of what is essentially 

a department with both state 

and local oversight and controls, 

not to mention a funding mix of 

which local money accounted 

for about $800,000 of a $ million 

budget last time we checked. 

In exchange for that seasonal 

gift, Stanley gave King a memo 

outlining his expectations for 

the administrative shift to direct 

county oversight of social services. 

Among those changes will be 

a monthly director’s report to the 

supervisors of the kind formerly 

given to the DSS board of directors. 

“Feb. nd will be Ron’s first 

meeting working with me to try 

and finalize an implementation 

schedule to address each and every 

issue identified in the QMR 

(state DSS Quality Management 

Review) and (third party consultant) 

Springsted Review by Feb. 

1,” Stanley added. 

At the urging of county DSS 

critics the supervisors funded an 

approximate $10,000 independent 

review of the county DSS 

prior to receipt of the then just 

recently completed state QMR 

last year. Despite a generally favorable 

state assessment and 

consultant’s introductory observation 

that the county social 

services department was “not in 

crisis,” North River Supervisor 


Glenn White and what he estimated 

at approximately a dozen 

departmental critics focused on 

a series of largely bureaucratic, 

administrative and record-keeping 

shortcomings to justify the 

administrative overhaul now underway. 

Other administrative changes 

will help align WCDSS functions 

more in line with county policies 

for its other departments. As 

Springsted’s report noted, much 

of the confusion on DSS personnel 

and administrative functions 

comes from social services existence 

under a mixture of state 

and local guidelines and policies. 

“We’re going to take a look at 

credit card statements from the 

last few years, we’ll probably do 

some random auditing of some of 

the invoices and statements to get 

a good comfort level as respect 

to the last few years. And this is 

standard to all our departments 

– all overnight travel subject to 

prior approval, so I gave him 

(King) the forms we use here at 

the county. And I asked them to 

abide by our purchasing policies, 

which are similar but a little bit 

tighter than those of the state.” 

Stanley said the goal is to bring 

the social services department 

more into line with county policies 

without making the move to 

have the state declare the local 

DSS a “deviating agency” (from 

state guidelines), which would 

entail significantly more county 

expense. However, Stanley said 

the potential move toward “deviating 

agency” status and its additional 

county expenditures would 

be evaluated after the first six 

months of the new administrative 

system being in place. 

WCDSS 

Social services board moving toward the future 

Want to have some fun? Applications being taken for new DSS board 

The county administrator 

seemed to agree that the impetus 

of the initial changes was not 

to rock the boat of a department 

rated as doing a good job of providing 

a crucial service to those in 

need throughout the county during 

an extremely tight state and 

local economic climate. Rather, 

the immediate goal is to improve 

and clarify administrative 

and record keeping functions to 

eliminate any room for questions 

about integrity or oversight that 

have been the focus of the departments 

handful of primary critics 

over the past several years. 

“I need to get a level of comfort 

… and this brings it in line with 

some of the county policies that 

we’ve implemented through the 

years,” Stanley concluded. 

Another suggested change will 

be the placement of a citizen and 

employee suggestion box in the 

lobby area of the social services 

department. And while his first 

complaint-based review of DSS 

was not born of that “suggestion 

box,” Stanley did observe that he 

had already conducted one review 

based on a citizen complaint. Can 

we see it, we asked, or are we going 

to have to FOIA it? With our 

handwritten FOIA waving, Stanley 

acquiesced to our request: 

Date of Complaint: Jan. 1 , 

010, it read. 

Complainant (you’ll never 

guess): William Pierceall 

Complaint Disposition: Complaint 

is unfounded … 

Uh oh, I smell trouble brewing 

right here in River City (see related 

story). 

rogerb@warrencountyreport.com


Pierceall vs. Stanley 

Date of Complaint: Jan. 1 , 010; 

Complainant: William Pierceall; 

Complaint Disposition (of county administrator): Complaint is unfounded. 

Stanley’s first DSS finding runs afoul of guess who 

Whistleblower Pierceall: not ‘just another gripe by a chronic complainer’ 

At odds already? After 17 days in the saddle of WCDSS oversight, County Administrator Doug Stanley, left, finds himself at odds with 

DSS’s primary critic William Louis Pierceall. Apparently Stanley doesn’t know the difference between Pierceall’s definition of a complaint 

versus a blown whistle - silly boy. 



Well it didn’t take long for Prudence 

Mathews warning to the 

Warren County Board of Supervisors 

to be careful for what you 

wish for regarding department of 

social services oversight to kick 

in – 17 days to be exact. 

Mathews has served as Chair 

of the county department of social 

services board of directors 

for the past three years. In that 

role she has often found herself 

at the point in defending herself, 

the social services board and department 

from often virulent 

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decision-making authority from 

her board, Mathews warned in 

November, “We gladly turn it over 

to you because, as we see it, it’s 

your turn to feel the pain …” That 

pain as recounted in some detail 

in our “Year in Review” issue of 

early January has been generated 

in no small part by William Louis 

Pierceall. 

For three years Pierceall has 

hammered at the integrity and/ 

or competence of Mathews, her 

board and WCDSS Director Ron 

King. Pierceall has appeared at 

recent supervisors meetings with 

the look of a man on a roll as the 

county supervisors aligned with 

his desire to move oversight of 

the county social services department 

away from the volunteer 

board chaired by Mathews. 

If not yet the pain, County Administrator 

Doug Stanley has 

already felt the lash of Pierceall’s 

mass e-mailed criticism 17 days 

into his tenure as WCDSS’s new 

administrative authority. Whether 

that criticism becomes painful 

will depend largely on how the 

supervisors react. – Will they 

cave on the county administrator 

as they appeared to cave on the 

WCDSS Board of Directors in 

the face of Pierceall’s lengthy and 

often unsubstantiated criticism? 

Stay tuned. 

A Jan. 17 e-mail from Pierceall 

reacting to Stanley’s finding on 

Pierceall’s allegation of DSS funding 

fraud was cc’ed to the entire 

board of supervisors, among others 

including 18th District Delegate 

Clay Athey and th District 

State Senator Mark Obenshain 

– oh Doug, we barely knew ye … 

As reported elsewhere in this 

issue, Stanley’s first administrative 

review of a citizen complaint 

about WCDSS involved Pierceall 

– or did it? 

“Mr. Pierceall made a complaint 

regarding the Warren County 

DSS Fraud Investigator Position 

(perhaps coincidentally a position 

formerly held by another 

WCDSS critic, terminated DSS 

employee Judith McClosky),” 

Stanley’s summary of his complaint 

investigation begins. “In 

essence it was his opinion that the 

Department was misappropriating 

federal funds by fraudulently 

funding the Investigator position 

due to the fact that he had documentation 

that the position was 

performing other duties such as 

in-take, which were not permitted 

to be funded by these funds.” 

Stanley’s conclusion – “Complaint 

is unfounded. I have received 

concurrence form the 

state DSS on the response (that 

needed in-take duties are allowed 

by the federal funding stream). In 

fact, they noted it is fairly commonplace 

in smaller DSS offices.” 

Uh oh … 

As if dismissing Pierceall’s 

complaint as unfounded weren’t 

enough, the fact another of Pierceall’s 

favorite targets, WCDSS 

Director Ron King, was the 

source of the original information 

on funding streams for the 

fraud workers position may have 

been just too much for one selfstyled 

citizen activist to bear. 

Pierceall’s Jan. 17 e-mail to 

Stanley, presented as an addition 

to the supervisor’s Jan. 19 agenda 

packet, begins innocuously 

enough. 

“Mr. Stanley, Your acceptance 

of the administrative responsibility 

for DSS appears to have 

produced immediate improvement 

in the exchange and flow 

of information. I am pleased you 

have taken positive steps with 

your approach to examining and 

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“I do not regard our casual conversation as making a complaint. I regard it as answering your 

request for…actionable information. A citizen who comes forward with actionable information 

should not be demeaned as “just another gripe by a chronic complainer”. – William Pierceall 

What to do? A Jan. 19 quorum of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, from 

left Richard Traczyk, Chiarman Archie Fox and Linda Glavis may be pondering 

their next step in oversight of the county social services department - let’s spend 

more money, Mr. Bill thinks its a good idea. At least Tony Carter and Glenn White 

had the sense to miss this one. 

addressing citizen concerns and 

asking for actionable information.” 

Geez, that wasn’t so bad … 

Chronic complainer? 

But after lulling Stanley into 

complacency with a flowery 

compliment, the inimitable Mr. 

P struck by proceeding to lecture 

the county administrator on the 

difference between “complaints” 

and “citizen whistle-blowing.” 

“You have mentioned several 

times you encourage citizens to 

step forward with actionable information. 

Recently I provided 

such information to you verbally 

when I directed your attention 

to DSS misappropriating Federal 

and State funds specifically dedicated 

to fraud investigations,” 

Pierceall wrote. “I was surprised 

to receive an answer in the form 

of a written “Complaint Response” 

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for citizens to provide you with 

actionable information. A citizen 

who comes forward with actionable 

information should not be 

deamed “just another gripe by a 

chronic complainer” (emphasis 

added). Such mischaracterizations 

denigrates taxpayer whistle-blowing 

efforts. I urge you to 

separate complaints from actionable 

information.” 

Now the question that immediately 

pops into our mind is 

what “action” do you take on “unfounded” 

information, whether it 

is officially deemed a “complaint” 

or not? 

The following 1 paragraphs 

of Pierceall’s e-mail don’t really 

clear that up. 

Rather, they dispute the assertions 

of DSS Director Ron King 

concerning the funding streams 

for the fraud investigators position, 

essentially ignoring Stanley’s 

contention that information 

was verified at the state level. In 

conclusion Pierceall suggests the 

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financial audit” of the social 

services department in order to 

further bolster his claims of DSS 

director wrong doing. 

In the 0 paragraphs preceding 

and 3 following the above 

“schooling” of the county administrator 

on complaints versus 

whistle-blowing, Pierceall supports 

his basic thesis that King is a 

crook and Stanley a dupe already 

leading the board of supervisors 

into troubled waters. – “I suggest 

to you the above information as 

well as the reference material 

below provided for your consideration 

will once again demonstrate 

the absolute necessity for 

this audit of accounts,” Pierceall 

concludes of his 5 paragraphs of 

reference material and opinion. 

However nowhere in those 5 - 

plus paragraphs does Pierceall 

give an estimate of the cost in 

county taxpayer dollars for this 

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sure of which would be to bolster 

fired WCDSS part-time fraud 

investigator Judith McClosky’s 

position in her $ 00,000 “Fraud 

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against King and the county social 

services department over her 

007 termination. 

No comment 

Following Pierceall’s reading of 

much of the above stated support 

of a “proper forensic financial audit” 

of WCDSS into the record of 

the supervisors’ Jan. 19 meeting, 

we asked County Finance Director 

Carolyn Stimmel if she knew 

the cost of such an audit. She replied 

no, that in her 10 years in 

municipal finance here she had 

never been involved in such an 

audit. 

Taking advantage of Pierceall’s 

presence at the meeting we decided 

to ask him about audit 

costs. 

“I’ve got a question, Bill,” I began. 

“I have no comment,” Pierceall 

replied. 

Somewhat taken aback that our 

first line of inquiry was dismissed 

so quickly, I switched tacks. 

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Pierceall did not acknowledge 

the question. 

At various meetings in recent 

months Pierceall has given either 

a county Reliance Road or Strasburg 

address, at other times he 

has used a Middletown PO Box. 

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of Warren County Commissioner 

of the Revenue John Smedley 

whether there were public records 

of Pierceall paying taxes 

in the county. He said Pierceall 

had real estate listed in Warren 

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check indicated the taxes on that 

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Art 

By Kevin Seabrooke 

Special to Warren County Report 

While winter’s snow and ice can 

still be seen in our little corner of 

the Shenandoah Valley and the 

days for pleasant hikes lie months 

ahead, it’s still possible to enjoy 

the beauty and the cultural history 

of one of our national treasures 

-- Shenandoah National Park and 

the Skyline Drive. 

In indoor comfort, with relaxing 

music, one can enjoy “Art of 

the Park” on exhibit at the Sun 

Studio in Front Royal through 

Feb. 13. 

These 1 watercolors by noted 

local artist Sandra Varney are also 

a good place to begin what will 

be a year-long celebration of the 

park’s 75th anniversary. 

“When they visit the park a lot 

of people don’t’ set out to connect 

the past and the present,” Varney 

says. “That’s something I wanted 

to do with these paintings, to 

make people aware of the huge 

sacrifices that people made, losing 

their land and homes to make 

this park available for everyone to 

enjoy.” 

Varney and her husband, Tom, 

have had a long relationship with 

the park, having come out from 

Northern Virginia camping with 

their children for years before 

moving to Warren County. In fact, 

In indoor comfort, with relaxing music, one can enjoy “Art of the 

Park” on exhibit at the Sun Studio in Front Royal through Feb. 13. 

‘Art of the Park’ features images 

Glimpse of history of Shenandoah National Park, which is celebrating its 75th year in 2010 

“The Visitor” By Sandra Varney 

Tom, who camped in the park 

when he was a child, now works 

in the bookstore at the Dickey 

Ridge Visitor’s Center during the 

season. 

“I’ve sort of made an effort 

through art to bring a greater ap- 

“Ghost House” By Sandra Varney 

preciation for the park because 

so many people have no idea of 

what went into creating the park 

and what was there before,” Varney 

said. “I hope at least some 

will wonder about the people who 

lived there.” 

During her research and fieldwork 

over the year it took her to 

do the paintings for the exhibit, 

one of the works, “The Visitor” 

lead to an extraordinary opportunity 

for Varney. 

The painting features a red fox 

in the Bolen Cemetery on Keyser 

Run Road, deep in the shadows of 

the forest. 

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“When they visit the park a lot of people don’t’ set out to connect the past and the present,” Varney says. 

“That’s something I wanted to do with these paintings, to make people aware of the huge sacrifices that 

people made, losing their land and homes to make this park available for everyone to enjoy.” 

“Dickey Ridge” By Sandra Varney 

which is an obelisk, to be unique 

in the park. 

“I discovered a member of the 

Bolen family who lives in Luray 

and I called her,” Varney related. 

“She was in her 90s, and she recalls 

with clarity the day the men 

came, she called them ‘revenuers,’ 

and forced her family off of their 

land.” 

The woman told Varney the 

Bolen family once owned 1,000 

acres, and that the “revenuers 

burned all the out buildings and 

took apart the house stone by 

stone.” The family got 5 cents an 

acre for the land and $1 per acre 

for the orchards. 

Varney is aware that there are 

many of descendants of families 

who lived on the park land in still 

in the area. 

“Many still have feelings about 

the creation of the park,” Varney 

said. “I asked her if she was still 

bitter about it and she told that ‘if 

you can’t get over something in 90 

years, you’re in trouble.’” 

The painting called “Ghost 

House” is one Varney thought 

would only interest her, but she 

said she’s had lots of questions 

about it. The painting features 

a ghostly transparent house on 

Dickey Ridge, its solid foundation 

in the middle of the very real 

Angel’s Korner 

woods. 

“The interesting thing about 

that piece of property is that it was 

not taken,” Varney said. “It was 

bought later. If you go up there, 

the whole wall and the steps are 

still there. It gives me such an eerie 

feeling.” 

She has visited all of the sites 

she painted for the show, hiked 

there and soaked up the atmosphere, 

taking the photographs 

herself. 

“I don’t ever paint from photographs 

other than my own,” Varney 

said. “That’s just something 

I believe. Clearly I was not that 

close to the bear and some of the 

old buildings I had to rummage 

around to find photos to work 

from.” 

Varney said she was a little 

surprised by the response to the 

paintings, about half of which 

have already sold since the November 

opening. 

“I had no idea idea any of the 

paintings would sell, they were 

of such specific subjects,” Varney 

said. “When I painted an owl, a 

bear, a school house, it didn’t occur 

to me that people would want 

that to hang over their mantle.” 

Varney came across the buck 

she painted by accident. 

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and saw the very tip of horns 

coming out of the brush and I 

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are curious and, little by little, he 

crept out and he posed for me.” 

Varney’s personal favorite in 

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on a ridge. She painted it from a 

photo she took 15 years ago. 

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Varney does a show every year 

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“Candy is a fabulous promoter 

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Varney hopes that her show and 

the park’s anniversary celebration 

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Culture & art 

‘Art with a Memory’ – and a view on East Main Street 

One of Particia Windrow’s views of Florence. 

By Tory Failmezger 


Changes Gallery and Antique 

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Front Royal has two truly memorable 

exhibits, “Art with a Memory” 

and “Eleven Views of Florence”. 

Both run through March 

010 (closed the first two weeks 

in January). 

“Art with a Memory” is the work 

of Joe Cunningham and striking 

it is. Joe is a local Winchester artist 

and his work features recycled 

materials and handmade papers. 

Joe first got to know Patricia Failmezger 

(the shop owner) through 

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Joe next took on woodblock print 

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results. Patricia’s favorite 

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Another is above. 

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the spiritually he sees in 

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“patron saint of lost causes who 

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James Kilby receives MLK Community Service Award 

Two locals, Reverends Kilby and Woods honored on MLK Day 

Rev. James M. Kilby receives the Martin Luther King 

Community Service Award from Maurita Washington, 

Chairperson Trustee of the Mt. Zion Bapitist Church 

of Warrenton on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Day. 



On Jan. 18, Front Royal resident 

James M. Kilby was honored during 

the 0th Year celebration of 

the Martin Luther King Jr. Community 

Service Awards hosted 

by Mt. Zion Baptist Church of 

Warrenton, Va. 

Based on a nominating letter 

from a descendant of the family 

that once owned Kilby’s ancestors 

as slaves, the Front Royal 

community activist was one of 

several people honored for carrying 

on the spirit of the late civil 

rights leader during ceremonies 

at the Highland School Center 

for the Performing Arts. Kilby 

also accepted an MLK Day Community 

Religious Service award 

for another local, Rev. Alfred 

Woods who was committed to 

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On Saturday (that’s the Sabbath), January 30th at 1:30 PM 

at Samuels Public Library we will present information on who 

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other events that day. 

Illustrating a direct connection 

to the great Civil Rights leader 

for whom the award, and now the 

day is also named as a national 

holiday, it was noted in Phoebe 

Kilby’s nominating letter that as 

a young man Kilby participated 

in the Aug. 8, 19 3, Washington 

D.C. Civil Rights demonstration 

at which Martin Luther King 

delivered his historic “I Have a 

Dream” speech. 

“Today, he is living out Dr. 

King’s dream that ‘the sons of 

former slaves and the sons of 

former slave owners will be able 

to sit down together at the table 

of brotherhood,’ ” Phoebe Kilby 

wrote of James Kilby, adding that 

the relationship the two have established 

illustrates the Kilby’s 

commitment to King’s dream. 

“He has welcomed me, a daughter 

of the slave owning family that 

once held his ancestors, to his 

table and home. We have joined 

together as members of the Historical 

Education Movement to 

increase awareness of racism 

and racial inequality in the 21st 

century and to work toward racial 

justice, healing and reconciliation 

in Front Royal, Warren 

County, and Virginia,” Phoebe 

Kilby concluded in her nomination 

of Kilby (all emphasis in 

original). 

“I would also like to point out 

that James Kilby established an 

anti-racism organization in 1991 

based in Annapolis, MD, called 

T.E.A.R. – Treat Every American 

Right. One of the major purposes 

of this organization was to 

promote mutual respect for all 

people. An early action of the 

group was to sponsor a fundraising 

effort to support Frank Wills, 

the security guard at the Watergate 

complex who first discovered 

evidence of a break-in at the 

Democratic National Committee 

headquarters. Frank had not 

benefited from Watergate notoriety 

as had many of the white actors. 

He had fallen on hard times. 

James and his group wanted to 

recognize this unsung American 

hero. By arranging for Frank 

Wills to attend various church 

services and be interviewed on 

television and radio, T.E.A.R. 

raised awareness of Frank’s important 

role in U.S. history, a role 

as important as that played by 

many of the white Watergate actors, 

and was able to raise money 

to help him get back on his feet. 

“James Kilby is guided in his 

life and community work by 

his spiritual faith. He serves as 

Associate Minister at the Mount 

Vernon Baptist Church in Front 

Royal, VA. … He also serves 

on the clergy list for the Valley 

Health – Warren Memorial 

Hospital and is on call to provide 

spiritual support to patients 

every Tuesday of each month … 

and for approximately five years 

has been a member of the Salvation 

Army Advisory Board for 

Warren County, helping to serve 

the hungry a meal each Thanksgiving 

and ringing the bell for the 

Salvation Army kettle at Christmas,” 

Phoebe Kilby wrote of her 

nominee’s ongoing accomplishments 

in community service. 

Congratulations, Rev. Kilby and 

Rev. Woods. 


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following is a recent donation 

and is available for checkout. 

For many years history has 

recorded, in great detail, the 

accomplishments of mankind 

that often excluded women 

in any significant capacity. It 

has only been when women 

began to force their presence 

that changes occurred. So it 

was with the creation of this 

volume. The women of Virginia 

expressed a deep desire 

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who lived and died in the 

initial settlements in this state 

as well as the history of those 

who followed. In the 19 0’s, 

the members of The Virginia 

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Eight have picked up petitions to get on town ballot 



With all the hoopla surfacing about mayoral challenges, 

council censures and political backfires, 

we decided to check with the County Registrars 

Office to see exactly who was circulating petitions 

to get the required number of verifiable signatures 

of town residents necessary to be placed on local 

election ballots. 

You may be interested to know that in addition 

to Mayor Eugene Tewalt, former Vice Mayor Tim 

Darr and sitting Councilmen Shae Parker, Thomas 

Sayre and Bret Hrbek, the latter the current vice 

mayor, petitions have been picked up by former 

County Supervisor and Warren County Republican 

Committee Chairman Matt Tederick, current 

first-term town planning commission member 

Arnold Williams and unsuccessful 008 write-in 

council candidate Robert “Robbie” Tennett Jr., a 

cousin of former Mayor Robert “Bob” Tennett. 

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realizing this exploration. 

The extent of the research 

that was done to produce this 

book is revealed not only in the 

content but the photographs, 

as well. To say ‘a picture is 

worth a thousand words’ is almost 

an understatement when 

viewing the numerous images 

that are portrayed in order to 

make the past come alive. In 

addition, one learns of the 

strength of the women who, at 

that time, had many obstacles 

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Reading/Book Gift program to the local 

elementary schools. Shown is Melanie 

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School Library. The Caldecott winning 

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Each month a different Kiwanian will 

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The Front Royal Oratorio Society will 

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In the modern world of rampant, 

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and endless wars against 

faceless and far away enemies, 

it is sometimes easy to become 

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suffering outside our immediate 

sphere of reference such as family 

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what is casually called the poorest 

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past records of major modern 

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once the ripple effect of disease 

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or adults coming to terms with 

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“We are seeking old yearbooks, photos, jackets – any kind of memorabilia [of old WCHS]. 

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A major facelift and renovation is currently under 

way at the historic old Luray Avenue school building, 

shown in a 2007 file photo. 

whether it’s a plaque or something 

that will say ‘donated by’ or ‘from 

the collection of’- something to 

that effect. I’m sure there is a lot 

of stuff out there and Buck will be 

the contact person for this,” Mc- 

Innis said of Smith, whose e-mail 

is bsmith@wcps.k1 .va.us and 

phone, 5 0 35- 171, extension 

1. 

“This is historic building and 

is important to the people who 

went through it,” Smith observed. 

“It served as our high school for 

many years and a lot of people 

have a lot of fond memories of 

those days. And making the transformation 

from a high school into 

a middle school, since the school 

was so important to so many 

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people we want the community 

to have an opportunity to put 

things back into the school that 

they remember that were special 

to the time they were there.” 

McInnis pointed out that the 

renovated school will have two 

large, indoor courtyards near the 

new main entrance to the building’s 

east side where the museum 

will be located. – “So we’ll have 

the real museum pieces here 

[in the entranceway] but those 

courtyard rooms, which are big, 

can be used to display things to 

the public as well,” she said. 

McInnis said they would like 

to have the materials to choose 

from by early to mid-summer so 

the museum can be in place for 

the fall semester 010 opening 

and official school rededication 

ceremony on Sept. 8. 

The new WCMS is slated to 

open with a student body of 750 

to 800 seventh and eighth graders, 

replacing the current 15th 

Street WCMS for the fall semester. 

The system will likely return 

to a post Labor Day schedule that 

semester to accommodate the 

preparations and any construction 

tweakings that may be necessary. 

McInnis explained that 

the current middle school administration 

and staff will move 

en masse into the new-old school 

along with the systems th and 

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“We are looking for things that 

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thing like this, something to kind 

of honor the past as we move into 

our future.” 

Smith then displayed an old 

school letter jacket, circa 1951-5 

including some bowling letters – 

talk about the past, though Smith 

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Stump, now Ms. Lou S. McGuinn. 

museum is envisioned to hold 

more than just athletic memorabilia. 

So many memories 

What the schools system is 

seeking from WCHS alumni by 

donation or loan to the museum 

are all variety of things that will 

reflect the times, scholastic and 

social life of the school and community 

through a landmark 7year 

historical epoch that saw 

not only Warren County, but the 

nation survive a lot. 

That “lot” included not only 

freshman and sophomore years 

– a struggle in anyone’s lifetime, 

but also the climb toward and 

anxiety over junior and senior 

proms, Homecoming courts, the 

struggle toward graduation and 

life beyond adolescence. 

Over old WCHS’s lifetime that 

beyond was punctuated by a series 

of wars beginning with “the 

Big One” – WW II, whose storm 

clouds were gathering as the high 

school was built, through Korea, 

Vietnam, past and current Middle 

Eastern conflicts, not to mention 

a “Cold War” with its ongoing 

threat of nuclear annihilation 

– I know some of you remember 

those “duck and cover” get under 

your desk drills designed to give 

students the illusion of safety in 

the face of nuclear holocaust and 

radioactive mushroom clouds 

– ah the good, old days … 

Then of course on the home 

front there was the recently celebrated 

50th anniversary of the 

achievement of civil rights nationally 

and racial equality in 

education; the changing and 

sometimes circular trends of 

clothing and hair styles that put 

a face on everything else. And 

perhaps in the long run the most 

era-defining thing, the march of 

technological achievements beyond 

nuclear weapons into the 

once science fiction, then science 

fact realm of space flight and exploration 

by both man and man’s 

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kids go into therapy if you threaten 

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Engle’s Angle: What I Meant to Say 

By Kevin S. Engle 


Warren County Report Publisher and Editor-in-Chief 

Daniel P. McDermott enters the 

crowded room and walks toward the microphone. 

“Thanks for coming out folks. I appreciate 

you being here on such short notice. Let’s 

get right to it. I’d like to introduce someone 

you all know very well. Our humor columnist 

Kevin Engle.” 

Raucous applause greets Mr. Engle as he 

stands and shakes Mr. McDermott’s hand. 

“Thanks Dan. And thank you all very 

much. I’m grateful for the warm welcome. 

Please sit down.” 

He takes a drink of water as the audience 

settles into their seats. 

“Ladies and gentlemen, there’s no easy 

way to say this and so I’ll just say it. I’m 

stepping down immediately as the humor 

columnist for the Warren County Report.” 

A loud groan goes up from the crowd. 

“I’ve given this a lot of thought. I need to 

spend more time with my family.” 

“Excuse me Mr. Engle, but isn’t it just you 

and your wife? And don’t you see each other 

every day?” 

“Yes, that’s true. My wife and I do spend 

a lot of time together. What I meant to say is 

I need to take care of a few health concerns 

that I’ve been neglecting for some time.” 

“Excuse me Mr. Engle, but didn’t your doctor 

just give you a clean bill of health?” 

“Yes, he did. All my tests came back normal 

and I’m happy to report I’m in excellent 

shape. What I meant to say is I want to slow 

down a bit. Do some things I’ve been want- 

ing to do. Things like golf and fly fishing.” 

“Excuse me Mr. Engle, but don’t you suck 

at golf? And don’t you hate to fish?” 

“Yes, you’re right, but I like to eat fish. 

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travel and there are lots of places we want to 

see.” 

“Excuse me Mr. Engle, but with all the 

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“You’re right. My wife and I are both a little 

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“Excuse me Mr. Engle, but didn’t you just 

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time?” 

“Yes, I did. I really do like it, especially 

when I get feedback from my readers. What 

I meant to say is Dan and I have talked about 

this and we’ve decided to part ways. It’s time 

the paper went in a different direction.” 

“Excuse me Mr. Engle, you got canned 

didn’t you?” 

“I did, but I got a really nice severance 

package.” 

“Excuse me? Mr. Engle, here’s your free 

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On Saturday, Jan. 1 , Front Royal’s 

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The Middle Eastern theme of 

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until the ensuing investigation 

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dots. 

Okay, here we go – there are 

these two guys that get pulled 

over in a van for failing to 

heed a traffic light on 3 0/5 

North at Shadows Drive, near 

the Gas Mart and Holiday Inn 

Express. The driver is ID’ed as 

Mohammad Butt, of Villa Avenue 

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Lone (are you sure it wasn’t 

MKL Beavis?), of North Buckmarsh 

Street in Berryville. 

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morning of Jan. , about 7 

a.m. according to the Warren 

County Sheriff’s Office Press 

Release of the following day, 

and our intrepid duo may not 

have yet had their morning 

dose of caffeine. 

So sure, why not accept 

WCSO Deputy Chad Lamma’s 

request to search the vehicle 

registered to the driver based 

on nothing more than a simple 

traffic citation? Certainly 

there was no ethnic profiling 

going on because our red light 

runner and his companion are 

both named Mohammed. And 

after all, the guys know there’s 

no contraband hidden in the 

vehicle, so the path of least resistance, 

right? 

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$90,000 cash is this in this 

bag? Lamma apparently asked 

after discovering the unusual 

amount of pocket change in 

the vehicle. 

Now here is where that extra, 

or first for that matter, 

cup of coffee may have helped 

out our intrepid early morning 

travelers out. According to 

the WCSO Press Release both 

Butt and Lone “denied ownership 

of the money,” which was 

then seized by the deputy. 

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summons for the traffic violation. 

Mr. Lone was released 

without being charged. An 

investigation is ongoing in regards 

to this matter,” the Jan. 7 

press release concludes. 

The week after the aforementioned 

traffic ticket, search 

and seizure, we queried Warren 

County Sheriff Daniel T. 

McEathron on the status of 

the money. – Could I come 

over and roll around in it or 

at least get a photo of the guys 

playing a pretend high stakes 

game of poker in the evidence 

room with it? I asked. 

You’re getting nowhere near 

that money, Bianchini, the 

sheriff gently told us – and we 

don’t play pretend poker with 

evidence either, he indicated. 

And no, there was no mug 

shot of Mr. Butt based solely 

on his traffic citation and 

inadvertent possession of 

$90,000 of which neither he 

nor his passenger claimed any 

knowledge thereof that chilly 

January morning. 

So did they say whose money 

it was, how it got there, 

where they were heading??? 

The questions began flowing 

in our mind. However, the 

sheriff indicated no further information 

was yet authorized 

for release as the investigation 

continued. 

Actually sheriff, I think Mc- 

Dermott gave $90k of company 

money to these guys to 

invest in some Iraqi oil fields 

– or maybe some new camera 

lenses … Hey Dan, you got a 

receipt for that 90 grand, don’t 

you? Wasn’t the guy’s name 

Mohammed something or the 

other? 

“He’ll have to talk to the IRS 

about that,” the sheriff told us 

to tell publishing boy wonder 

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Haiti relief 

Haiti, from 27 

now stretched across the globe, 

from the D.C. Metro area, where 

his mother Rosita still lives in 

Silver Spring, to Rochester, N.Y., 

Switzerland, Australia and Warren 

County where one sister also 

lives. 

There are still relatives in Haiti 

and Cassagnol said it appears all 

are safe. Luck seemed to be with 

them, he said, as several were out 

of their building just prior to the 

quake striking and bringing it 

down. 

As recently as 1997 Cassagnol 

had gone back to Haiti as part 

of an effort to consult on improvements 

to Port-au-Prince’s 

International Airport. Now that 

airport is the object of much 

speculation as a primary point of 

entry for emergency medical and 

relief aid. As a pilot hoping to 

soon fly emergency medical aid 

in, verifying the condition of the 

airport is crucial. 

Pastor Bill Kerns 

and wife Robin 

“I really was impressed with 

how good the runway was back 

then – there were no cracks,” he 

recalls. He said early reports indicate 

the airport can still take traf- 

Reggie Cassagnol and Merve Bourque 

Pastor Bill Kerns extends YOU a personal 

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the music and message 

and feel free to ask 

questions We meet at 

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on 8th Street, behind 

the Knotty Pine 

Restaurant 

Information on Chierici’s H.O.P.E. organization 

is available at http://hopehaiti.org 

fic allowing some aid to come in. 

As we talked with him on Jan. 18, 

Cassagnol said he hoped to have 

accumulated enough emergency 

medical supplies locally to make 

Cassagnol hopes to fly relief supplies into Haiti within a week in this Cessna 310 

housed by another pilot at FRR. 

a flight in a twin engine Cessna 

310 housed at FRR into Haiti in 

about a week. 

In addition to setting up such a 

relief flight into Haiti, Cassagnol 

is networking with local groups 

and organizations on accumulating 

relief supplies. He mentioned 

Beth Iden, United Way and the 

Red Cross as part of efforts to acquiredonated 

supplies from businesses 

like Rite Aid. However 

another networking aid project 

is being done nationally with several 

of his sisters, including county-based 

Nellie Cassagnol-Goen 

and Rochester, New York-based 

Rose-Marie Chierici. The latter 

runs the non-profit, volunteer 

organization H.O.P.E. or Pwoje 

Espwa. A letter from Nellie Cassagnol-Goen 

to friends notes that 

previously her sister’s H.O.P.E. 

organization’s focus has been to 

assist the people of Borgne, Haiti, 

an area of about 800,000 in northern 

Haiti, in achieving equitable, 

just and sustainable living conditions. 

She also points out that 

her sister returned from work 

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Just bulldoze everything, clean 

it up. The industry would have 

to be moved outside Port-au- 

Prince. We’ve got to create work 

and a means for them to survive.” 

As we discussed Haiti’s situation 

and his family’s ongoing efforts 

in support of the nation, both before 

and after the Jan. 1 earthquake, 

retired Eastern Airlines 

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office. Bourque commented that 

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in accumulating relief packages 

for the beleaguered nation. 

Bourque’s experiences with 

Haiti were in his professional 

life, when he would pilot commercial 

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the spirit and generosity of Haiti’s 

people. 

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about $15 and I’d give them to 

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them through the fence and they 

would give me these intricate, 

carved figures in return. So many 

I couldn’t even carry them all. But 

I didn’t want to refuse them because 

they had gone to so much 

trouble,” Bourque recalled. 

“They can take a 55 gallon 

drum, take the top off it and create 

a piece of art that over here 

would be worth a couple hundred 

dollars. But down there it gets 

just enough to eat,” Cassagnol 

recounted wistfully of a people 

whose creative impulse, spirit and 

resiliency is now being stretched 

to the limit. 


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FRLP Proposed Rezoning: 

The Facts. 

• FRLP has proposed rezoning 149.3 acres from the R-E zoning classification, allowing 

1 unit per acre, to the R1-A zoning classification, allowing no more than 2.2 units per 

acre, or a maximum of 320 Single Family Detached dwelling units. Over 45 acres will be 

permanent open space compared with zero open space with the By-Right development 

plan. 

• The proposed Rezoning will contribute 7.4 million dollars in cash and infrastructure 

improvements to the Community and an additional 3.2 million in tap fees. The by-right option 

will generate a total community contribution of $990,000, all in tap fees. 

• For an additional 221 units, the Community will receive $9.5 million dollars in cash and 

improvements more than the By-Right alternative, including. 

•Improvements to 606 and Happy Creek Road intersection prior to the 25th and 

50th building permit. Including east and westbound turn lanes on H.C. Road and 

a traffic light. 

•Fully dedicated and constructed community park to include one multi-purpose playing field, basketball court, 

and playground. 

•Applicant will construct approximately 2.2 miles of a future east-west connector road below provided that the 

town constructs the remaining 4/10ths of a mile. 

• If the Community chooses 30 more years of by-right growth then the only way to fund necessary improvements will be by 

increasing local taxes and water and sewer rates. 

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billbarnett@hughes.net dvazzana@gmail.com jduggan@jdugganassociates.com

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