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Fred Gusler, Roanoke City Senior Planner gives details.

The kick off to last Saturday’s “Tools for School” event held at Brown Robert-son Park was rousing and uplifting and had lots of kids rallying around Reverend Edward Mitchell, a pastor from Moneta who led the prayer, and the event’s orga-nizer, Alex Hash, who heads up “Gideon’s Army Community Services.”

Gideon’s Army is the group Hash founded just under a year ago and though it is relatively new on the scene, is already impacting people for the better, thanks to Hash’s unwavering determination to make a difference, and a lot of volunteers who share his vision. Just before sending the kids off to enjoy the various activities stationed around the park, Hash hollered “Ready! Aim! Achieve!”—and with that the kids rushed off to check out the at-tractions.

Like other events organized by Hash and his volunteers, they had several goals in mind for Tools for School. One is to be of practical help to the community … in this case, supplying kids with backpacks and other needed school supplies. The group’s bigger picture goal is to involve more people in helping each other, and experiencing the satisfaction that comes with helping somebody else out, even in a small way. Hash calls it “changing the

world one neighborhood at a time.” Hash himself is the personification of

this effort. He was laid off from a job and during the time he spent look-ing for work, he realized that he needed to get the focus off of himself and on others if he was going to be content, prompting him to organize “Gideon’s Army.”

If onlookers didn’t know that Gideon’s

Army and a school supply distribution were behind the festivities, they would have thought that it was a mini Festi-

val, complete with bouncy houses, hotdogs, drinks, fun music, face painting, basket-ball, candy apples, and even

the Roanoke City Police’s Mobile Com-mand Unit (MCU) on hand for kids to visit and climb all over. Community

Resource Officer W.D. Wood explained that the unit is a complete command cen-ter that is often brought in when there is a crisis, and also makes “appearances” at public events. The kids just enjoyed ex-ploring every nook and cranny.

Twanna Banks brought her children and said that the event “really gives the kids something fun to do,” adding she thought it offered so much more “com-pared to other types of events” that were giving away school supplies. Kimberly Cook, who was baby-sitting her neigh-bor’s three little girls, said “this was a re-ally nice turnout.”

Hash estimated that Gideon’s Army distributed over 300 book bags with sup-plies inside them. He said, “We still had several families that were not able to get any supplies because we ran out.” They directed those families to other places they can receive help. Most of the attend-ees were neighborhood kids but Hash said there were families from all over the area who came.

Hash added, “The kids were thrilled when they realized we were giving book bags because we only advertised school

[Bluegrass]

The Next Generation

5.8 Earthquake Rocks Valley / Atlantic SeaboardIt was a bumpy Tuesday afternoon

in Roanoke and for most of the eastern seaboard as a 5.8 magnitude earthquake was felt from Georgia to Toronto, Canada and as far west as Illinois. “There will be aftershocks,” said John Hole, Professor of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. The profes-sor was right as a 4.2 magnitude after-shock hit Fluvanna County at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday night.

The quake occurred at 1:50 p.m. and lasted about 45 seconds.

The epicenter was located in Mineral in Louisa County which has a popula-

tion of 430. Mayor Pam Harlowe said, “everyone in town is quite shaken up.” As she rode around checking the small city, she saw that all the brick chimneys of the historic town had crumbled but there were no injuries. Schools had cracks and were closed.

“It is a good time to clean out cabinets since they were already emp-tied for us,” Harlowe said with a nervous laugh. “The little town of Mineral is only one square mile in size and the older homes are structurally weak anyway,” said Harlowe.

Residents described their experience differently. Some thought it sounded like a train while others described it like a big wind or explosion. Those in vehicles

didn’t feel anything. Min-eral’s local grocery store had all its shelves emptied into the aisles.

Lynn Payne (retired Roanoke County school teacher) of Glen Allen was very close to the epicenter. She said, “Our whole house shook hard. There was a very loud rumble; I could see the walls moving. I thought a train must have de-

railed. I ran outside, but there were no trains passing by. Then I saw my neigh-bors running outside.”

Sue Preddy of Roanoke said she was under a beauty salon hair dryer and “her head kept hitting the sides – she thought the dryer was malfunctioning.”

Roanoke City’s Mike Guzo, Emergen-cy Management Coordinator, put out a message saying what people should do in an earthquake. He said to remember

[Historic Quake]

Plenty of Energy at Turbine Meeting

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On Tuesday Night the Roa-noke County Board of Super-visors received an earful from citizens at a public hearing but tabled their vote on a proposed large wind-turbine ordinance until their S e p t e m -ber 13th meeting. At which time board chairman Butch Church said they will enact some kind of ordinance. None of the supervisors indicated which way they would vote relative to accommodating the Poor Moun-tain site.

Most of the comments con-veyed by dozens of speakers – more than 50 signed up for their three minutes at the podium – have been covered in previous hearings before the board or the Roanoke County Planning Com-mission, which approved its ver-sion of an ordinance that would cover large wind turbine installa-tions in the future.

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Valley View Residents Receive FewAnswers

There was a different twist to the second meeting on planning the future of the Evans Spring property last Thursday evening at Lucy Addison Middle School. After senior city planner Fre-drick Gusler gave an overview of why the land is tar-geted for develop-ment, he broke the crowd into four separate groups. The previ-ous meeting in July was crowded and it was difficult to hear ques-tions and answers. The smaller group with Gusler still had all hands raised at once and Gusler had a hard time keeping up with

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Gideon’s Army Full of Love and Surprises

[Community]

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NewsPrimary

P3– Dave nutter defeats Tripp Godsey in the 21st District Republican primary while Brandon Bell files as an independent for the 19th.

CornerPreacher’s

P5– George Anderson takes a “pleasure trip” to Greece and comes back with some inspirational thoughts about our greatest cathedral.

Kick Off!Ready, Set . . .

P7– Check out our High School Football and volleyball previews by Sports Writers David Grimes and our ever intrepid Wild Bill Turner.

CorpsRecordP9– A record setting number of cadets were received at virginia Tech last week. The Corps has been matriculating at virginia Tech since 1872.

The Snyder Family band from Lexington, NC features Samantha Snyder on fiddle, Zeb Snyder on guitar and father Bud Snyder on bass.

On Saturday, September 3rd, three of the hottest youth bluegrass bands: The Snyder Family Band, Loose Strings and Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder will perform at

the Blue Ridge Music Center as part of “The Next Generation” concert. These talented groups are on the rise and demonstrate that the traditional music of the Blue

Ridge has strong footing with the younger generation. Alumni Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) from Galax and Sparta will make a special appearance. Best of all the concert is free, thanks to the support of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. Info and tickets are available online at www.blueridgemusiccenter.org or by calling (276) 236-5309.

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Photo by Cheryl Hodges

Rev. Edward Mitchell tells the kids “you can be anything you want to be” at the “Tools For School” event at Brown Robertson Park last Saturday.

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the order.Council members Ray Ferris,

Court Rosen, Sherman Lea and Anita Price were in attendance. Price and Lea stayed with Gu-sler’s group.

Courtney Penn said that Ev-ans Spring was a place where “this community was born [and] there is something [here] that needs to respect that - it should speak to the Valley’s his-tory and tradition … we need to maintain our history and main-tain our heritage.”

The difference between the Countryside property and Ev-ans Spring is that the city owns the $4.1 million defunct golf course. The property surround-ing the unfinished Valley View Interchange is privately owned by four individual entities and the ultimate control is in the zoning.

The four owners are forming a partnership and Gusler admit-ted that there is a break in the connection between the prop-erty at the Hershberger Road ramp and the property at the new Valley View interchange.

A realtor was already trying to buy up property on Brooklyn Street closest to I-581. Brooklyn would connect the two proper-

ties. Kirkland, Fairland and As-pen are close by and would be caught in the middle of the two parcels.

Alfred Dowe, Sr., president of the Fairland Civic Organization asked what kind of connection they had in mind through his neighborhood.

Gusler said,” I think that’s why you had those realtors coming to see you – just a guess.”

Five homes on Norris Street directly face the “dead end” of the overpass ramp. Lick Run will have to be rechanneled. These homes will be purchased by VDOT, leaving an uncertain future for other Norris Street homes. Bishop Edward Mitch-ell, president of the Roanoke chapter of the Southern Chris-tian Leadership Conference, has his home on Norris, not far from the interchange.

Though Mitchell’s house would be spared, he felt certain there would be a connection to Norris that would take traffic from Valley View through to Andrews Street and Roanoke Academy for Math and Science Elementary School. “It would only make sense,” said Mitchell. Gusler said he could see no rea-son for a connection. Mitchell

was not reassured.The bulk of the vacant prop-

erty is not part of any cur-rent neighborhood plan. The purpose was to create one to preempt development and get neighborhood input. “We are developing a plan that will specify a future land use map – how the property should be used - we will then have general policies and design principles in that,” said Gusler.

Gusler assured residents that the surrounding neighbor-hoods would be considered in the design principles. “There will be more traffic, there is no doubt … it is highly unrealistic to say there will be no commer-cial development … there’s go-ing to be some dirt flying,” he said. Norris and Top Hill would likely get the brunt of the “flying dirt” and noise.

Addressing traffic concerns, Gusler explained that narrow streets are the norm now in residential areas. “It keep speeds down,” he said.

Gusler admitted that the Ev-ans Spring design would not be as specific as Countryside since they did not own it.

“Plans are flexible to a degree,” admitted Gusler. There could be

an amendment to the Fairland plan to accommodate connect-ing the two separated parcels.

Council member Price asked how the four separate prop-erty owners were communicat-ing? Gusler said, “some of [the property owners] were ready to come out to do the public meet-ings.” Gusler said he told them that “we don’t have a plan for this area” and “they don’t have concrete agreements in what they are going to do.”

Gusler stressed that with the planned completion of the inter-change in 2015 and the state of the economy, it could be a long time before development takes place. “We’re talking about de-velopment that is going in for future generations – if you have kids or grandkids, they may live and shop in this area,” he said.

“No one is going to be happy with everything in this plan,” said Gusler. The final product will be a culmination of com-promises.

In the next several months the Planning Department will work on a draft plan for public review.

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that it could be a foreshock and there could be another one even stronger. He said to “drop to the ground” and “take cover under a sturdy table” at the first sign of a quake.

Roanoke County elementary schools sent students home a little early. The high schools and middle schools were evacuated safely and the buildings were checked for damage. All were deemed safe.

The quake was the largest on the East Coast since 1897. Federal buildings and National Monuments were closed as af-tershocks were highly likely. Trains were delayed for much of the day as Amtrak officials inspected stations and railroad infrastructure.

A water pipe burst, flooding the Pentagon and though flights resumed at JFK and Newark, there were long delays. The 104 year old National Cathedral in Washington sustained signifi-cant damage to three of its spires and several plaster arches. There was a crack in the Washington

Monument and to break the ten-sion, one tourist said that it was leaning but he could not tell if “it was to the left or to the right.”

Two Nuclear reactors at the North Anna nuclear power facil-ity in Louisa County shut down safely as they were designed to do.

Governor Bob McDonnell issued a statement saying in part, “All indications are that emergency response plans and orderly evacuations have gone well . . . I would like to encour-age all Virginians to check on neighbors and loved ones and to continue cooperating with law enforcement and emergency personnel. All resources of the Commonwealth have been put on alert to assist in any way nec-essary as we move forward.”

Members of the Washington and Lee University community quickly made their way to the Geology Department in the Science Center, where the de-partment’s two seismographs had captured the earthquake on seismograms.

“There are earthquakes in this part of the country, but they are relatively rare events,” said Paul Low, a visiting assistant profes-sor of geology at W&L. “With the preliminary estimate of a 5.9 on the Richter scale, this would actually be an historic event. The largest previous earthquake in Virginia was also 5.9, in 1897 in Giles County, Va.”

“We’re in an area that hasn’t received a lot of tectonic activity

for a very long time,” Low said.Many Californians were un-

fazed by the “moderate tremor.” Californians experience such tremors often and didn’t see what all the fuss was about. Don’t tell that to some Virginians – this event will be the topic of discus-sion for a very long time. Or at least until this weekend’s hurri-cane arrives.

Washington and Lee geology professor David Harbor shows James Crawford the seismograph print out from Tuesday's 5.8 earthquake.

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good faith with you folks,” said Roberta Bondurant, an attorney and resident of Bottom Creek, which is near the proposed wind turbine farm. The tur-bines would generate electricity that would be fed into the AEP power grid.

This meeting reflected a shift in the discussion. Speak-ers seemed to realize that an ordinance is coming; now their focus is to make sure it protects residents living near these types of installations against loss of property value, health hazards and the like. “[We’re] asking for a reasonable ordinance. Make sure you’ve made the best possi-ble decision,” noted Bent Moun-tain resident Patty Haines.

Some liked the proposed or-dinance first crafted by the Plan-ning Commission, while others wanted to see the setback from turbine tower to adjacent prop-erty increased or decreased. Many seemed okay with the 60 decibel noise limit from tower to adjacent property line – but oth-ers wanted to see the noise limit lowered.

While the regulations would cover installations anywhere in Roanoke County, the focus of Tuesday’s (Aug. 23) public hear-ing was the 18-tower wind tur-bine farm proposed for leased land on Poor Mountain, from Chicago-based Invenergy.

“You have an excellent or-dinance,” said Jonathon Miles, a professor at James Madison University who spent 18 months

at the Department of Energy re-cently, in the section devoted to wind power. “We have potential and we have an opportunity [on Poor Mountain].”

Those who spoke against the ordinance, or more specifically against the Poor Mountain pro-posal, talked about 440’ tow-ers and 165’ turbine blades that would mar the view shed, cause harm to bats and birds, or might pose a health hazard. Support-ers of the wind ordinance tried to debunk such theories saying claims to that end are based on old data.

Rob Lawson said he came with his family to live in Roa-noke about eight years ago, with the mountain views being a primary consideration. Even the Sierra Club, which endorsed the Invenergy proposal locally, opposes wind turbines in areas known for their scenic beauty, according to Lawson. “Why would [Poor Mountain] even be on the table?” he asked.

Private pilot Jerry Pulverino disputed any notion that the towers would be a hazard to those flying in and out of Roa-noke Regional Airport. “Air-planes do not routinely fly over Poor Mountain – we fly around

it,” said Pulverino. “What we put on Poor Mountain is not going to have a direct impact.

Southwest Roanoke County resident James Garris, a long time local activist, acknowl-edged that an ordinance is likely to be enacted soon. Now he just wants it to be a good one; “adapt a framework of rules – what in-formation is expected from an applicant? Having that frame-work is so important.”

Garris reminded others in at-tendance that a special use per-mit would still be required for each particular installation – in-volving another public hearing and a vote from supervisors.

“We have once again heard some very good points, pro and con,” said Butch Church as the public hearing, more than three hours long, wrapped up. “We’ll make our decision on Septem-ber 13th. It’s a difficult [issue] no matter where you stand.” The September 13th meeting is not a public hearing. Church does wish to see the wind turbine de-bate wrap up, saying “we want to do the right thing [but] we don’t want to labor on forever and ever.”

supplies. We had 10 different styles and tried to make sure that girls got the pretty ones and the boys the more dark colors.”

One thing Alex Hash is never in a shortage of is “thank you’s” His appreciation in seeing his com-munity come together is unending. He said in an email to his “army,” “I am sure you each saw the fulfillment on the faces of all the children in attendance … Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

He wasn’t the only thankful one; Hash related that “many parents came up to me and expressed such gratitude for the book bags. One mother was

in tears because she had four kids, and was not sure how she was going to purchase book bags for all of them.”

Gideon’s Army next volunteer opportunity is planned for September 20th. They will be collecting canned goods and other foods to partner with South-west VA Food Bank for their “Stamp Out Hunger Month;” the group will also be volunteering at the Food Bank that day. For more information or to volun-teer call 540-632-1251 or email [email protected]

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Brandon Bell Files As Independent Candidate For 19th Senate District

Last Monday the former Vir-ginia State Senator in the 22nd Senate District officially became the Independent candidate in the 19th Senate District—a race people are calling a “rematch” though Bell dismisses the term.

It can’t be ignored that Sen. Ralph Smith won against Sen. Bell, the Republican incumbent, in a 2007 primary. However, Bell was confident and relaxed when he filed. His confidence stems from what he has heard from 19th district constituents. He says “they are tired of both political parties standing in their respective corners with their arms folded - unwavering and refusing to compromise.”

He also says he has learned a lot from past elections - both the primary and his loss to Demo-cratic challenger Sen. John Ed-wards in 1995.

It was a family affair Monday afternoon at the Roanoke Coun-ty Registrar’s office. Bell, 52, was accompanied by his wife Debbie, 6 year-old daughter Sarah and 2-½ year-old son Parker.

Sarah insisted on having her name on dad’s petition and a separate piece of paper was at-tached to the clipboard inscribed with “Sarah Bell.” Above her name was “D-A-D-D-Y” with backward “Ds.” Sarah proudly handed the clipboard over to the Registrar.

Sen. Bell still clings to the “con-servative” side of the political spectrum and when asked what kind of conservative he is, he said “a reality-based conservative.” He contends that “it’s about so-lutions and not locking yourself into a position that’s uncompro-mising.” He sees the Republican Party pulling itself apart.

After filing, Sen. Bell chal-lenged Sen. Smith to at least five debates throughout the district. “Not just forums, but actual debates where [they] could ask each other questions directly,” explained Bell. “A good back and forth debate like on the Sen-ate floor or in the British Parlia-

ment,” he said with a grin.He asked for civic groups or

anyone to host a debate and in-vite both Bell and Smith. If both agree to the format it would be time to drop that remote control and attend this no-pay-for-view event.

He suggested having four can-didates, including those in Roa-noke’s 21st senate district.

Smith proposed a bill requir-ing 72 hours to read the State’s budget before voting. Bell sug-gests an amendment allowing legislators to “take a recess” for a week and let constituents weigh in on the budget before return-ing to Richmond for the vote.

He repeated that if elected he would neither caucus with the Senate Democrats or the Senate Republicans.

“It’s time for people to get out there and tell both parties they are being too extreme,” said Bell. He’s seen party loyalty dwindle and extreme elements take over party identification. He pointed to Smith as being part of the ex-treme few. “This is the big dra-matic contrast people are going to see … people will see [Smith] is not flexible enough in today’s environment,” said Bell.

In the primary Smith used Bell’s support for “smoking legis-lation” as an issue that brought at least a small group to Smith’s side in 2007. “It’s interesting that over the years [Smith] has been [in Richmond] he hasn’t introduced a bill to repeal it either,” said Bell.

Bell, pointing to his two chil-dren said, “not having them ex-

posed to second-hand smoke was more important.”

“People don’t take chances enough in politics,” he added.

Bell couldn’t recall any other former member of the Senate with a party label who later ran as a “true Independent.” It’s not so easy to “do your own thing” when chained to a party. If you break ranks “you may find that you are not on a committee you really want to be on or you may not have your bill heard,” said Bell.

It would take 27 members of the Senate to vote a member off a committee. “You’re much more able to vote conscience in the Senate,” he said.

The rule of twenty-one (21): Bell said he would be able to do more for the Southwest dis-trict because “both parties will need him on every vote.” Even with a wider majority between the parties they still have to please a wide range of views and interests on their home turf.

In general Bell thinks Gover-nor Bob McDonnell is “doing a good job” though he believes that funding for the Virginia Retirement System and funding for roads has only been delayed and Virginia will have to pay in the end.

“The [Governor’s] ‘borrow and spend’ approach to fund roads won’t work indefinitely,” Bell said. He added that “we need a new revenue stream.”

Over time the gas tax would result in a diminishing-return revenue stream as more electric and hybrid vehicles take to the road. They would pay no tax and get a free ride. “It should be a pay-as-you-go system,” he said. He wouldn’t rule out some form of tax.

Bell says he cares about so-cial issues “but if someone is not able to provide food for their family and doesn’t have a job, that trumps everything.”


Brandon Bell with son Parker, wife Debbie and daugher Sarah.

Nutter Defeats Godsey in Low Turnout Republican Primary

Republican Unexpectedly Nominated In Challenge To Unseat Putney

The Republican Party leader-ship tried to convince him not to run, claims the newly chosen nominee.

Monday evening a Roanoke Tea Party member won the nomination at the Republican mass meeting for the 19th Dis-trict House of Delegates, ac-cording to Christine Broughton, Botetourt County Republican Chair. The vote was 26 –18.

It came as a surprise even to the only nominee, Jerry John-son. “I didn’t think I’d get the nomination,” said Johnson in a phone call.

“That’s how our Democracy works,” said Broughton. Jim Crosby, 19th House of Delegates District Chair coordinated the committee meeting. The 19th HOD district covers Botetourt, Alleghany and portions of Bed-ford County.

Del. Lacy Putney, though an Independent, caucuses with the Republicans and Chairs the Ap-propriations Committee. He has held the seat since 1962.

Johnson, 72, is technically retired but still works as an electrical contractor and is a li-censed real estate agent. Origi-nally from Atlanta, Georgia, he lives in Botetourt County with his wife of 50 years. He has two children and six grandchil-dren. He has lived in Virginia since 1988 - part of that time in Franklin County and eleven years at his current residence in Botetourt County.

Johnson is running for one

reason only, he said in a phone interview Monday evening. He wants to “change our system of government,” by repealing the 17th amendment. The Seven-teenth Amendment established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes the part of the original Constitution, un-der which Senators were elected by state legislatures.

His goal is to have any state on its own “propose a consti-tutional amendment without going through Congress.” The other “49 states” would do the same, he said. Once ratified by 75 percent of the states, the 17th amendment of the U.S. Consti-tution would be repealed.

He proposes in section two of a revised 17th amendment that there be “one U.S. Senator per State who serves at the pleasure

of the State Legislature.” A sec-tion three would have all federal judges serving three-year terms. This would prevent what John-son calls “judicial activism.” If they “overstep their author-ity” they will not be reaffirmed when their term expires, John-son explained.

Johnson says he told the 44 gathered at the mass meeting that he “will be elected [and] will accomplish that goal.” All of the Virginia state legislators that he has marketed his proposal to have said “You can’t do that.”

“They’ve never given it a thought … show me in the Constitution where it says a state can’t do that,” demanded Johnson. “They are all wrong and I am right,” he said.

Johnson said “his nomina-tion Monday night was the only Republican mass meeting in the State of Virginia where a vote was taken on an unopposed candidate.” It was a vote to give the nomination to him or to nobody, he claimed. Johnson believes that the 18 votes against him were Putney supporters.

He had just enough personal friends and supporters from his church to grab the nomination.

Once certified, Johnson joins Democrat nominee Lewis Med-lin in an attempt to unseat Del-egate Putney in November.

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Dave Nutter handily defeated Tripp Godsey in Tuesday’s 21st Dis-trict Republican primary. But as the numbers rolled in from Virginia’s State Board of Elections, Godsey, the Roa-noke Tea Party candidate, held a slim lead and ultimately carried both Roanoke County and Roa-noke City. Godsey’s campaign manager, Greg Aldridge, was emboldened, saying that Nut-ter “with all of his money and the governor’s support - we still cleaned his clock here.”

“Godsey was a big winner today,” said Aldridge in a phone call. Aldridge says they have started a Tea Party in Blacksburg where they plan to launch the same strategy.

Aldridge then confirmed Godsey’s commitment to sup-port Del. Dave Nutter for the general election in November.

With 2.3 percent of those

registered voting on Tuesday, Nutter received 66 percent of the total vote, according to the Virginia SBE unof-ficial tally. Nutter achieved the win by garnering 85 per-cent of the vote in

Montgomery County where the turnout was heaviest.

Nutter said in a phone call that he “was sunburned and tired but ready for the run to November.” He felt he had Montgomery and Giles County in the bag all along, and had spent Tuesday at Roa-noke’s Lee-Hi precinct.

Nutter walked Lee-Hi and won that precinct as well as South Roanoke precincts one and two. “You can’t walk every precinct and you can’t take a primary for granted,” said Nutter.

“It’s a struggle to get people out,” said Nutter. He recounted how even his friends were saying that he was going to win anyway, so he put all his effort in getting

his supporters to the polls.Nutter attributed Godsey’s

lead in Roanoke City and Coun-ty to the Valley being Godsey’s home. He plans to work heavily in the Roanoke area going into the general election.

“We’re well positioned going into the general,” said Nutter. “We’ll secure the Republican base and make sure they know who I am,” he said.

“In the primary you are talk-ing to a very select group of peo-ple and in the general election you reach out to all people,” said Nutter.

He will hold to his message that the issue is jobs. “It doesn’t matter whether you live in an urban or rural area or the racial makeup – it’s still about jobs,” he said.

Nutter said he is looking for-ward to debating Democrat in-cumbent John Edwards who he will face on November 8.

“Witness for yourself the ‘revival of Roanoke,’” said Mayor David Bow-ers at Thursday morning’s State of the City address. Gone was the ambitious “Big MAC,” replaced by a lesser lofty goal for the “AC.”

In his 2010 State of the City ad-dress Bowers said Council needed to “jump-start our ‘Big MAC’ capital improvement program.” The Mayor delivered his speech at the “Big M” – the renovated third floor of the Mar-ket Building named “Charter Hall.” A renovated Elmwood Park, with a less costly stage than the proposed 2010 amphitheater, is being designed by out-of-town consultants so the “Big A” becomes a “Small a.”

In 2010 the Mayor said Countryside Golf Course should remain an 18-hole municipal course, with tennis and a swim center. Though there is a new plan now he says “we need to keep the ‘Country’ in Countryside.” By all appearances the “Big C” will become a ‘little c” in 2011.

This year after thanking Joyce Waugh, President of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce, Bowers heaped praise on all the historic restora-tions in downtown. “We’ve got something for ev-erybody here in Roanoke. ‘Revival’ is what we are seeing right outside the window today,” he said.

He checked off the revival list: The Patrick Hen-ry, the Medical School, the Cotton Mill, Fork in the City and the new homes and community gardens in Hurt Park, Belmont, Nazarene and Jackson Park neighborhoods.

He praised the Old Southwest neighborhood and recognized their designation as “the number one neighborhood in the nation.” He touted the downtown traffic jams as a sign of revival.

“Most importantly of all, let’s think about our schools and our safe neighborhoods where we live,” said Bowers.

“Graduation rates are up, schools are clean and

safe and our teachers are staying in the school system,” he said. He thanked School Board Chairman Dave Car-son and Superintendent Rita Bishop for their dedication.

He admitted that “maybe we didn’t pick up the leaves” but Bowers still sees a sense of pride in the residential neighborhoods.

Bowers recognized the new police chief, Chris Perkins, for his new in-

novative crime-fighting techniques - walking neighborhood streets once considered unsafe and neglected, but are now on the rebound. “They are part of the revival,” he said.

He hopes the SmartWay bus connection will receive continued funding and looks forward to completion of the Valley View I-581 interchange that will bring $100 million to the city coffers as a town center. “We’re just not downtown Roanoke anymore,” said Bowers.

Bowers called for expanded pre-kindergarten, daycare and education for youth as he recognized Kris Meyers from Smart Beginnings. Smart Begin-nings has had a positive impact on child develop-ment in our community.

The Mayor’s second challenge was focused on health, saying, “there is no shame in getting exer-cise in the fresh air.” Roanokers need to be good citizens and he called on Nancy Agee, the new President and CEO of Carilion Health Systems, to join in a community initiative for good health. “I challenge each [Roanoker] to lose a few pounds,” said Bowers.

Bowers said people want to move to Roanoke. “They like the diversity of our people – there is much to do. They like the restaurants and the stores, the festivals. We have turned the city around – steady as she goes – people are noticing,” said Bowers.

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Every Drought Ends with a Good Rain This selection is from

Slow Road Home, written in August

2002, a lament during one of the worst droughts in living memo-ry for the old-timers who live in our part of Floyd County. Hun-dreds of wells went dry that year. We’ve never since seen the creek dry up completely. But it’s getting mighty low again, and we’re con-cerned, but hopeful.

The cool breeze is welcomed today, a respite from the unre-lenting heat of summer. But the wind and sun are also the enemy be-cause they carry away what little moisture re-mains in the pasture grasses, for-est and creeks. More than that, even the underground waters that are the source of streams like Nameless Creek are silently ceasing to flow. More water has evaporated from tree and soil to the thin clouds overhead than has fallen from sky to earth dur-ing the past three months.

No current moves the surface of the creek, though minnows still stir the shrinking pools in a claustrophobic frenzy. They struggle to find edible specks in what little water remains in the shallow depressions here and there along the drying creek bed. We are in the midst of a sad and awful drought. There is a ten-dency to take the malice of this dry, parched weather personally, but we should keep the cycles of nature in perspective.

Our valley is a tiny crease carved by water in the more recent stages of Appalachian mountain erosion. The core of the Blue Ridge formed nearly a billion years ago when land masses collided, lifting up a mas-sive bulge of fire-hardened rock. It is hard to conceive now that

these green and gentle mountains began as a bare and rocky dome, higher and more crag-gy and hostile than to-day’s Rockies.

Millennia passed like seconds on na-ture’s clock, and water in unbelievable floods has worn away the old rock, one granite grain

at a time. Time and water have done their work and smoothed off the rough edges of these old mountains. Fragments of those ragged summits of granite and quartz now lie in beach sand and delta soil, and stayed nearer home as the persistent small boulders an early owner pulled from our pasture to form a li-chen-encrusted rock wall along the creek.

One has only to dig down a few inches over by the barn (or suffer the jolting stop of a t-post driver) to know that river cobbles by the tens of thousands have been left there in the san-dy soil, washed long ago down Nameless Creek, whose waters meet Goose Creek not a hun-dred feet from where I sit.

These two creeks tumbling down from those ancient moun-

taintops have cut against the re-sistant rock of the east ridge of our valley, then the west, then back again—each time widening the valley floor by imperceptible inches in hundreds of years—an unthinkably long time to our mortal perspective, a flash of time in a million years of eternal wind and sun, frost and floods.

Floods are cataclysmic, sud-den, drastic and evident in their consequences. Drought like this is chronic and insidious. It drains life invisibly, quietly, leav-ing no record in the sands of ge-ology’s time.

But it is an abundance of water that has carved the hollow of the creek bed and made the valley wide—not water’s absence. It is an abundance of water that has nurtured the broad-leaved forest that covers these mountain hill-sides and allowed them to persist in this leafy biome. Drought has not formed this landscape, and it seems reasonable to have hope that it will not subdue it now.

We will miss the rains for a few more weeks, for maybe one more season, or two. But we must learn to see the cycles of wet and dry as the land sees it, and be patient. If history is any lesson, water will tell the story.

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The Ticking We May or May Not Hear

I always cringe a bit when I hear people use expres-sions like, “I can’t wait for

Friday; TGIF” or, it’s ‘Hump Day’ [Wed.] because the weekend is almost here. It seems to me those folks have a problem which I, until recently, have shared. If I’m looking forward to a day, that’s okay, unless I’m missing the one in front of me. A day is an irreplaceable thing to waste. In spiritual terms, I suspect there’s no such thing as ‘a day off.’

Adapted from Robert H. Smith:The clock is wound but once And no one has the powerTo know just when the clock will stopAt a late or an early hour.Now is the only time you own;Live, love, toil with a will.Place no faith in tomorrow,For the clock may then be still.

I have watched my kids and figured out one of their secrets. For some time I have been en-vious of their ability to tap hap-

piness out of a day. Each one is wrung dry and cast aside as they eagerly grab another. They know how to do it, but cannot explain their method to me. Children

are our superiors in so many ways.

They come to life as a naturally gifted class, possessing a mastery they cannot teach; an artless spirituality and a naive sophistication; a fundamental connect-edness with living we lose as we grow older.

Has this paradox ever struck you? The longer we live, the less we laugh. I recently read that children laugh 400 [or was it 4000?] times a day [each "ha" counts as one, I guess]; adults less than 30 times per day. Children... wise is the person who will take them as mentors.

The answer, I think, is that the young - immune to aging, not being old enough to have any meaningful sense of the future, even of "tomorrow" - live for the moment.

I need to learn to live not for the moment, but in the mo-ment. This does not, needless to say, minimize the importance of future planning and consid-erations, but draws to center fo-cus the truth that each day has its joys, challenges, lessons, and beauties; each day is all of life; life encompassed and compressed into a single brief span and pre-sented to us one measure at a time.

When we lose sight of this reality, while we steadfastly and doggedly discharge our daily responsibilities, it is easy for us, without a thoughtful consent, to allow the future to substitute for the present.

Fascination, a word and con-

cept familiar to children, has been forgotten by too many adults. Most of us possess the capacity to be fascinated. I am enchanted with my Sabrina, my kids, writing and wildlife; and of that allure, I enjoy the benefits of the companions of fascination: focus, energy, happiness, creativ-ity; and there is another blessing: while fascinated, I no longer hear the ticking of that indiffer-ent pendulum which counts off the moments of my life. Now, I no longer fear that sound; but have a sense of urgency to grow as much as I can before the final chime.

I anticipate rebuttal. "Well, kids are young; their whole lives are in front of them. They have no cares and all the time in the world." No cares? A bit cynical are we?

`Their whole life in front of them?' We all think that, adults and youngsters alike. But the truth of it is that all of our clocks are wound to an uncertain ten-sion. Perhaps the Creator says to one, "You will live out the three score and ten." And to another, "For this assigned task, you be in mortal form but for five earthly years; no time for you to take the measure and substance of your dreams before you come again to Me."

I think there is no sorrow in that pronouncement; for sorrow is a thing of earth.

The metronome comes unno-ticed to the ear of those who are fascinated. We are led to what fo-cuses us by our bliss; a yearning; a homing beacon that sets a light in the storm; not a safe harbor; but the right harbor; for each of us.

So, for me, at least, it is im-portant that each day I pause; I look at the sky, smell the air, and look afresh into the faces of those who create and cast my life, be they my Sabrina, our dogs and cats and critters, or a patient I just met [Think of this: of all the patients who visited all ER’s in the world this day, at this hour, why is this particular person in front of me? Now?] Then, when my time is done, whether I move into vistas incomparably more breathtaking than this, or, I go to eternal sleep, I shall go with the full knowing that I appreciated each and every day.

Tick. Tick. Tick.Do you hear the pendulum?

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A study of the Shannon genome would reveal, I suspect, that the Y

chromosome contains a specific gene for playing practical jokes. These Shannon males play “good jokes” – ones that do not harm per-sons or property but add humor and spice to daily life. John, our youngest, most cer-tainly received this gene from his father. An entire column would be needed to enumerate the countless examples of John’s practical jokes, as many of his friends and colleagues will testify, so I’ll save that for another day and focus on an example of such behav-ior by his father, my husband Harry. Harry has an unusu-

ally close relationship with Skip, our son-in-law. They enjoy each other’s company, and spend hours discussing basketball, football, work, and other mutual interests. Skip is especially fasci-

nated with wines and far more knowledge-able than we are on this subject. He reads magazines devoted to wine enthusiasts, vis-its local and foreign vineyards and winer-ies, and knows which wines are best to

serve with various dishes. In fact, he has become a true

wine connoisseur, as well as an excellent cook and we enjoy the meals he prepares and serves on special weekends at the cabin.

On one occasion several years ago when we were visiting Skip

and Kathy at their home in Cary, North Carolina, Skip showed us a case of expensive wine he had just purchased He was especial-ly pleased that he got a discount on the case, and intended to keep this wine to give as gifts to clients. He carefully placed it in the closet for safe keeping until needed. That’s when a diabolical thought entered Harry’s mind.

The next day while Skip was at work, Harry hurried to the gro-cery store and purchased a bot-tle of “Night Train,” the cheapest wine that Kroger had for sale -- $1.99. Then he conspired with Kathy. They removed one bottle of the expensive wine, Kathy agreed to hide it where Skip would not be likely to find it, and Harry replaced it with “Night Train.” They were care-ful to glue the box top so Skip would not know someone had tampered with it.

Months later, when Skip opened the case to remove a bottle, he noticed that one bottle was different.

Kathy came running to see what was wrong when she heard him scream.

“Someone cheated me!” he shouted. “Either someone at the winery or someone at the store thought they pulled a fast one. I’m going to the store first, but I won’t stop until I get this straightened out.”

“Slow down,” Kathy warned him. “Talk to my father before you do anything rash.”

“What good will it do to talk to Dad? What can he do about it?”

“Just talk to him,” Kathy said calmly.

Skip respects his wife’s opin-ions and usually takes her ad-vice, so he called Harry and told him what had happened. He was astounded at Harry’s burst of laughter. When Harry explained his joke, Skip admit-ted it was a good one. He was relieved to see Kathy had re-trieved the good wine and was presenting it to him with a big smile on her face.

This joke is, of course a favor-ite story at family gatherings as we laugh about the time Harry really got Skip.

If only Harry could have got-ten the cheap stuff in that fancy bottle . . .

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The Preacher’s Corner - Cathedral of the Spirit By George Anderson

My wife and I had an opportunity to go to Greece to enjoy a vacation with my daughter, Paige, who lives in Eastern Europe. I’m also a Presbyterian minister who didn’t fully

appreciate the fact I would be visiting ancient biblical sites. A vaca-tion turned into continuing education.

One site we visited was the Acropolis in Athens. As many readers know, the Acropolis is a complex of temples sitting on top of the high-est hill in Athens. The most impressive temple is the Parthenon, once housing a huge statue of the goddess Diana. Symbolizing power, vi-sion, artistry, accomplishment and beauty, the Acropolis was a place people would go to great trouble to see. Much money over the years had been spent to build it, but money was to be made.

This came home to me in a particular way when visiting the Acropolis Museum. That museum is a wonder; built on top of an active archeological dig. Through glass floors outside and inside the museum, you can look down below to see the excavated evidence of a crowded neighborhood with shops, houses, streets and wells.

In the museum, I saw several plates on display, each depicting a wedding. The inscription below the plates said that they were among 20 found at the site of one of the temples where it was popular for weddings to take place. Twenty in one place? I thought, “Gift Shop!” Could these plates have been for sale as keepsakes for those who came to the Acropolis to be married?

Gift Shop or not, it certainly was true that the Acropolis was a place people would visit to gain something. They would come to the The-ater of Donysious, where the plays of Sophocles, Euripides and Aris-tophanes were first performed offering insight into the comedic and tragic dimensions of life; to be entertained by the music offered at the Odeom of Herodes Atticus (and still used for performances today); to learn from philosophers who opened minds to practical truths of mathematics and logic, aesthetic truths of form and function, and hopeful truths of a more pure world beyond this imperfect one of de-cay and mistake; to visit the temples of the gods hoping to win some kind of notice and favor; to see the statues to gods, especially the one honoring the god of their own land. There was even a statue to the “unknown god,” just in case theirs was not represented.

Still, there was money to be made from those seeking inspiration, including those seeking contact with the divine. Some of what Paul saw when he toured the Acropolis was a religious industry. He saw that in the minds of many, spiritual significance was sought in the grandeur of buildings and the promise of ascending a hill to visit the temples and statues to which the gods might descend.

Paul began to speak out about the God he believed could be known as intimately on a remote island like Patmos as on a hill in Athens. Philosophical debate was the thing to do in Greece and some Epi-curians (not religious) and Stoics (more religious), were intrigued by Paul’s arguments and invited him to speak to them on a favorite spot

on Mars Hill that had a good view of the temples of the Acropolis.On my visit, we went up Mars Hill, and I had my wife take a pic-

ture of me doing what any red-blooded minister would do; imitate Paul by pointing to the Acropolis in making a point. The point Paul made is one he would make again in Corinth and Ephesus, the same point Martin Luther would make centuries later when he posted his 95 Theses which led to a dramatic drop in the sale of indulgences: the sale of “God’s blessings.” It is the same point that will always need to be made as long as there is a human longing to know God and an impatient desire to satisfy that longing with what can be bought or built by human hands.

“The God who made all that is,” Paul said, “the Lord of Heaven and earth, cannot be contained in shrines and or anything made or sold by human hands. The living God is the one in whom we live and move and have our being.”

Quoting Greek philosophers in making his point, Paul did encour-age the building of something that brings life to death (he did have the resurrection of Jesus as his text). I’ll call it a magnificent cathedral. God wants us to build this cathedral with the materials of the human spirit. The Cathedral of the Spirit is one that has a foundation of grace and the walls of reconciled relationships, and provides ample room for justice and compassion.

As much as I enjoyed my trip, you don’t have to go to Greece, Israel, or India; the Crystal Cathedral or the Mormon Temple to discover spiritual magnificence. The glorious magnificence of the Cathedral of the Spirit can be found within and among those who learn to for-give, love truly, and serve selflessly.

George Anderson is the senior pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in Roanoke. Visit them on the web at spres.org.

George Anderson points to the Acropolis on Mars Hill.

He was elected to the Tennessee legisla-ture in

1918 at the age of 22, making him its youngest member. But in his first term he was put into the crosshairs of histo-ry, when the Con-gress of the United States proposed the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote.

In order to become law, the Amendment needed to be ap-proved by 36 of the 48 states. 35 states had done so, and 4 more were yet to vote on the issue, when summer came. In order to vote on the matter, special summertime sessions would have to be called, and of the 4 remaining states, only Tennessee agreed to do so.

The session took place on August 18, 1920. Harry Burn arrived in the chamber wear-ing a red rose in his lapel, sig-nifying his long-standing op-position to the Amendment. Proponents of the Amend-ment wore yellow roses. By looking around the room, it was easy to see the legislature was pretty evenly split between red and yellow. Indeed, when the votes were counted, it was deadlocked, 48/48. With only the vote of Harry Burn left to be counted.

He reached into his pocket. He pulled out a letter which his mother had written him and read aloud, "Dear Son: Hurrah and vote for suffrage!

Don't keep them in doubt! I notice some of the speeches

against. They were bitter. I have been watching to see how you stood, but have not noticed anything yet. Don't forget to be a good boy and (vote for) ratifica-tion. Your mother." Harry Burn raised

his head, voted "aye," gave the Tennessee propo-

nents their 49/48 victory, gave the Amendment its 36-state approval requirement, and gave women the right to vote.

Legend has it that, when the news was announced, anti-suffragists stormed the hall and Harry Burn had to hide for his safety. The next day, he addressed the legislature and explained "a good boy always does what his mother asks him to do."

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The Happy Chef - Harry Potter Treacle Tart by Leigh Sackett

My son just had a Harry Potter birth-day party and since

I was a fan of the books long be-fore he was born, a Harry Potter party is no small venture in this house. We went all out and had a blast. And it occurred to me that this may be one of the last “kid theme parties” that my children ask for. Soon they may feel they are too cool for such things.

The same thing happened to Dora! Dora the Explorer was adored in this house. I was forced to play in the Dora dollhouse, the Dora kitchen, dress up the Dora doll - ALL DAY LONG! As much as Dora could wear me down I did feel such sadness the day my daughter declared, “Dora is for babies.” I thought of poor Woody in “Toy Story” and I just hugged Maddie’s Dora doll and told her it would be ok, some little girl would love her again one day.

But the thing is my children are growing up, they do that you know! Now my children like things that are a little more appealing to me than Dora - they are interested in the world, people, how things work, they have opinions, they are caring and they have developed a great sense of humor! Like all little ones, they are working their way

towards the people they are to become and it is so wonderful to watch.

My kids are in that moment that you wish you could freeze for you know it is fleeting – they still like being with me; they even still want me to do lame muggle-like magic tricks at their Harry Potter party. I am aware it is a window in time that only lasts a few years so you have to enjoy it while you can! We should never take any stages in life for granted and especially these magical late childhood years.

I will miss them when I send them to school next week and they will certainly grow and change so much over the course of the coming school year. I guess part of the reason I like “Toy Story” so much is that we are like Woody at the window watch-ing Andy grow and change. Our love is constant, never chang-ing and yet we watch these little ones change and grow and move through the world and some-times move away from us and more into their own. It is so very beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. I suppose it is a bit like our relationship with God. I suppose that is one reason he gives us children, so we can know some part of a love that is His for us. We are so blessed!

If Harry Potter is a still a con-stant theme in your house as well or if you are still stuck in Dora’s world and long for something more stimulating like Harry Pot-ter then try out this inspiring and tasty wizarding treat!For the pastryChilled butter, cut into cubes – 1/6 cups All-purpose flour – ½ cup+1/8 cup Soft brown sugar – 1 tablespoon Chilled water – 1 tablespoon Molasses – 1 tablespoonFor the fillingGolden Syrup (or Maple Syrup or Corn Syrup) – 1/3 cup Butter – ¾ tablespoon Whipping cream – 1/6 cup Egg, lightly beaten – 1-To make the pastry, mix the butter, flour, and sugar together in a food processor, or in a mix-ing bowl, using your fingertips to combine, until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. -Make a hollow in the centre and pour in water and molas-ses (if not enough, add a little bit more molasses) to make a

dough. -Shape into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. -Roll out the pastry and use it to line the forms. Chill in the refrigerator for another 40-60 minutes. -Preheat the oven to 350F and put a baking sheet in the over to heat up. -Gently heat the Golden Syrup in a small saucepan. -Add the butter and stir until the mixture is smooth. -Remove the saucepan from the heat and gently stir in the cream and the beaten egg. Be care-ful not to scramble the egg, if, however, egg white cooks a little, then pour the mixture through a fine sieve to get rid of the egg white lumps. -Pour the filling into the pie shell and bake for 30-35 minutes until the crust is golden brown and the filling has set. -Allow the tart to cool for a few minutes before serving with whipped cream.

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The start of a new school year also means a new home for Community High School, a private, alternative school in downtown Roanoke that places a heavy emphasis on liberal arts. Community High School has moved from 2nd Street and Campbell Avenue to its new home just across the railroad tracks at 302 Campbell SE, in a building formerly owned by the Taubman Museum—which had hoped at one point to use it as an education center.

Instead, the Taubman board sold it to a non-profit; now the renovated former warehouse and retail location, almost 100 years old and rechristened “Big Lick Junction,” houses Community High School on the ground floor and a dozen apartments upstairs. Commu-nity High School also uses one space upstairs for an arts stu-dio, making its total occupancy more than 11,000 square feet in all. One room at the school is slated to become a fitness cen-ter.

Founded about a decade ago, Community High School, which currently enrolls about 60 students, will debut in its new space the day after Labor Day. Small class sizes (5-12 stu-dents) are a principal attraction for many parents and students; financial aid helps a “significant percentage” afford the $9900 yearly tuition for grades 9-12, according to academic director Josh Chapman.

A significant portion of stu-dents, “maybe half,” said Chap-man, come from the Commu-nity School in Hollins, which Chapman calls a “sister school.” Almost all come from the Roa-noke Valley. Students have a 9-5 day with block schedul-ing. Classes are seminar based and have a college feel to them. “About half of the faculty mem-bers have taught in college,” said Chapman.

Second career artists and scholars are also brought in to round out the academic expe-

rience. “I look for people with multiple areas of competency and enthusiasm,” said Chap-man, who earned a degree in anthropology, and has two master’s degrees—one in so-cial science, and one in creative writing.

Also new at Community High School is the latest live theater space in Roanoke, a 150 seat auditorium that will be used by drama students and will also be rented out to parties like the Gamut Theatre troupe, No Shame Theater and perhaps Mill Mountain Theatre, which will be without its main venue for the next year as renovations at Center in the Square take place.

“It’s important for us to col-laborate,” said Chapman last week, as he watched teachers move in to their new spaces and student volunteers load books onto shelves in the library. The Community High School building features the original brick walls and wood flooring, giving it a bit of an industrial look, unlike any other school in the area. One entrance room, featuring the original pine tim-bers, will also become a gallery space that will feature curated shows open to the public. “Re-habbing an old building fits well with the school’s philoso-phy,” said Chapman.

“I think the location is fan-tastic,” said arts teacher Brian

Counihan, as he tidied up his new lecture room, which fea-tures a dramatic view of the Taubman Museum and the rest of downtown Roanoke. “The new rooms are so nice and airy. We can spread out and claim corners. I think there’s more of a sense of belonging and con-nection to the city.”

That connection was en-hanced when Roanoke City donated a piece of right-of-way that has been turned into a green space. It is an outdoor spot where students can eat lunch and study. That was not possible at the old location. “We can finally see green – I didn’t realize there was green in Roanoke,” joked Counihan, who enlists others at Commu-nity High School to help him stage the Marginal Arts Festival each spring.

Every student at Commu-nity High School is required to engage in a “fairly significant amount of creative thinking,” when it comes to the arts, ac-cording to Chapman, who calls that an “important approach to learning critical thinking and problem solving.”

Americans are “less and less good at [critical thinking],” said Chapman, a short story writer himself and an adjunct cura-tor at the Taubman Museum, where he helps put together the popular Conversation series with artists. Standardized test-ing and teaching to pass those tests at public schools have dampened that critical think-ing, according to Chapman.

He couldn’t be more pleased with the school’s new home, and said early reaction from students that have stopped by to take a peek has been enthu-siastic as well. “It’s good for us to stay downtown,” said Chap-man, “and it was very impor-tant for us to stay down here.”

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Community High School has moved into a renovated ware-house space on Campbell Avenue in downtown Roanoke.

Community High School Starts Year In New Home


Roanoke City Convocation Touts School Division Milestones

There were hugs and wel-come back greetings all around as teachers and administrators met again for the yearly con-vocation that Roanoke City Schools holds every summer just before classes begin. There was plenty to cheer about this year, as School Board Chair Da-vid Carson and Roanoke City Schools superintendent Rita Bishop explained during their remarks.

Carson singled out and called to the stage local legislators, in-cluding the retiring Bill Cleave-land, who pushed through a vote in the Virginia General Assembly on the last day of the session, establishing a new law that will allow Roanoke City to decide when it wants to start the school year.

Previously, city schools were not permitted to open until af-ter Labor Day, unless snow days the year before made it likely they would again need an early start. Now the school division can decide when the doors will open each year; this year they will open Monday (Aug. 29), before the Labor Day weekend.

“[We] tried to start the school year when we thought it was best,” said Carson, “like [in] 47 other states.” He praised Cleave-land – who spearheaded the effort, Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Ralph Smith, Del. Onzlee Ware and Del. Greg Habeeb for their support, across party lines, in getting the law changed.

The drum line from William Fleming High School greeted teachers and school staffers as they arrived at the Roanoke Civic Center’s Special Events hall, and the debate team from Westside Elementary demonstrated their skills with a timely topic – the pros and cons of standardized

testing. The school’s step team also put on a rousing display of their talents, before Carson and Bishop took to the podium to review the past school year and to look ahead.

“We’ve got lots to celebrate,” said Carson, who then ticked off several high notes: a high school graduation rate of 83 per cent, a division record (up from 57% in 2005), and every school academically accredited for the first time ever.

With the number of students in Roanoke receiving free or re-duced lunches over 70 percent, Carson marveled at the accom-plishment, even as he chafed at the demands of No Child Left Behind and the financial chal-lenges it creates. “You did it,” Carson told teachers to a round of applause, “I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of all of you.”

Third grade, 5th and 8th grade reading scores are at all-time highs across the division; the number of industry certifi-cations given out by career and technical teachers has more than doubled, to over 400 now, from a few years ago; fifty per-cent of middle and high school students are now enrolled in

fine arts classes, up from 33 per-cent not long ago. “It’s all about them – the children,” Carson reminded his audience, add-ing “how do we help you help them?”

Bishop was presented with flowers and a resolution from the School Board honoring her service before speaking. As usual she was looking ahead. “It’s all about what comes next,” said Bishop, who spoke of a vi-sion “that the district will be a model for urban education [elsewhere].” Bishop mentioned severely under-performing dis-tricts in Detroit and Los Ange-les, where high school gradua-tion rates are abysmally low.

“Sustaining our progress is really important,” Bishop warned, ‘[and] it’s going to take all of us…all of the time, ev-erywhere.” Bishop also noted the varied demographics in the school district, which al-ways presents a challenge: “we can never lose that focus on all children – education is the civil right of this century. Our diver-sity is a source of strength, [and] all students are capable of meet-ing high standards.”

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North Cross: With the loss of 10 starters from last year’s team that finished as state runner-ups in the VISAA, Division 3 play-offs, this could be a rebuilding year as North Cross School pre-pares to do battle this season. The Raiders, who return five starters, will be relying heavily on a trio of players.

“We are returning starting quarterback senior Thomas Weaver, who was a second team all-state in 2010; senior Paul Ross is moving to left tackle and senior Chris Shelton will be handling the snaps,” said head coach Stephen Alexander. Weaver completed 119 of 245 passes for 1700 yards in 2010 and has been looking good in camp thus far, while Ross is an all-state lineman.

“We hope to be able to move the ball through the air and on

the ground in our spread at-tack,” added Alexander. Offen-sively, Alexander mentioned that “we must replace two dy-namic receivers from 2010, as well as a starting tailback.”

Defensively, the front seven are very athletic and physi-cal. Senior Paul Smith, second team all-state last fall, anchors the line, while senior George Revercomb, a second team all-conference player, leads the linebacking corp. “We graduat-ed three starters in the second-ary, so we’re relying on return-ing starter senior Kyle Fraser to be a leader on that unit,” noted Alexander.

New to the North Cross schedule is Norfolk Christian and Carlisle, replacing Ben E. Smith (NC) and Covenant. Al-exander sees his top game as being on Sept. 3 at 2 p.m. when they tackle visiting Norfolk Christian in a rematch of last year’s Division 3 state champi-onship game.

“We play a very ambitious schedule after graduating 11 se-niors, including 10 starters and eight all-conference or all-state performers,” Alexander added.

“Depth will be an issue so staying healthy is key this season.”

North Cross will play all of its home games on Satur-day afternoons this season, open-ing the season this Saturday at home against Charlotte Latin School. Kick-off is 2 p.m.

Hidden Valley: After suffer-ing through a winless campaign in 2010, the future is looking brighter in southwest Roanoke County, as Hidden Valley re-turns basically every player and looks to turn things around in a tough River Ridge District.

The Titans return 10 offen-sive starters this season, which include senior Michael Simonic

(QB, injured all of last season), sophomore Walker Brand (TB), junior Garrett Pierce (FB), se-nior Dee Fletcher (WR), junior Jake Kite (WR), senior Shane Foley (TE), senior Trevor Hol-dren (LT), senior Jared Repass (LG), junior Chris Moses (RG), and junior Jordan Parke (RT).

“We will offer a more bal-anced attack with Simonic back from his 2010 knee injury, along with the continued develop-ment of Brand,” said head coach Scott Weaver, who is starting his third season at the helm. Asked what needed to be improved offensively, Weaver said, “We need to be more balanced.”

The Titans have added Bas-sett to their schedule this sea-son, while dropping Brookville. What can HiddenValley fans expect in 2011? “I am extremely excited to see how this year’s group responds from last year. We basically return every player from last year’s team,” Weaver noted.

“Most of these young men were forced into action as a freshman and sophomore last season. The learning curve and maturation process of our

youngsters last season was ac-celerated due to injury. It will be fun to see the kids get after it this season with all of the experi-ence they gained from last year.” The Titans open their season on Friday, Aug. 26, when they host Patrick Henry at Bogle Field. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

Cave Spring: With the loss of several skilled players from last year’s regional runner-up team, Cave Spring is looking for its younger players to step up this season, as the Knights work to make another playoff run in a competitive River Ridge Dis-trict.

Gone from last year’s team, which finished second in the district and lost in the regional semifinals to Richlands, is the likes of safety Michael Cole, who is at Virginia Tech, and quarterback Josh Woodrum, now at Liberty.

Offensively, Cave Spring re-turns five starters. “We return three of five offensive linemen and a running back,” said head coach Tim Fulton. Returning to the backfield will be Sam Wright, who put in some im-pressive numbers last season. Asked about the offensive areas that needed improvement, Ful-ton replied, “We always want to execute better.” On defense, the Knights also return five starters. “We are returning three of four linebackers,” added Fulton.

New to the Cave Spring schedule this fall will be William Byrd, Martinsville and Lord Botetourt. They replace Staun-ton River, Graham and Patrick Henry-Roanoke. The Knights open their season this Friday night with a road trip to Vin-ton when they take on William Byrd in a 7 p.m. encounter.

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North Cross advanced to the State Final Game where they fell to Norfolk Christian who has four players committed to UVA. (Wilfred Wahee, Courtnye Wynn, Mario Nixon and Kwontie Moore, who was ranked the number one linebacker in the country by Rivals.com.)

High school football is upon us and that can only mean Wild Bill’s predictions for another sea-son. Several key matchups high-light this Friday night football lights. No lumens necessary Sat-urday when North Cross opens its season at home in a 2:00 p.m. tilt.

If hurricane Irene holds off, fans can hopefully stay dry and avoid the um-brellas. Last year we made it through the en-tire season without pre-cipitation, which may be a bad omen for 2011.

Irregardless, if my predictions go awry, I’ll take the blame and be all wet. We’ll also of-ficially open the infamous mail-bag again, so drown me with all your questions and comments. Now, let’s get to week one.

Patrick Henry at Hidden Valley

The Patriots have a new head coach in Alan Fiddler and QB David Prince brings another year of experience to the of-fense. PH is coming off a 6-4 record in 2010, its first winning season since 2000. Hidden Val-ley regroups from a 0-10 record last year with senior QB Michael Simonic behind center after a season-ending ACL injury in a 2010 preseason scrimmage. The Titans return 19 starters who are eager to prove a point. This one looks to be a shootout, but PH may have the bigger guns.

PH-28 Hidden Valley-13Cave Spring at William ByrdThe Knights reached the re-

gional final in 2010 before fall-ing to Richlands 36-23 on a very cold night in far Southwest Virginia, finishing at 8-4. Byrd failed to make the playoffs with its 4-6 record, but never under-estimate the strategy of Terrier head coach Jeff Highfill. Byrd is looking for a quick start, but Cave Spring has all the Wright answers - look for gamebreaker Sam Wright to set the tone in this one. Cave Spring-29 Wil-liam Byrd-19

Amherst County at North-side

The Vikings are still steam-ing over what could have been after its stunning 12-10 loss to Brookville in last year’s playoffs. Amherst County is a perennial powerhouse that will ensure a record crowd for opening night at Jim Hickam Field. Amherst

lost on a late-game bomb in last year’s Region III final to Harri-sonburg after being a state final-ist for the previous three years. Don’t expect Northside to of-fer the Lancers any last-second chances. Northside-22 Am-herst County-13

William Fleming at Franklin County

The Colonels are look-ing for improvement after last year’s winless campaign. Lee Johnson can be expected to get Fleming turned around. Franklin County is the defending Western Val-

ley District champion and the Eagles have speed and size. Travel-

ing to Rocky Mount is not the easiest way to start the season. Franklin County-34 William Fleming-13

Lord Botetourt at James River

Lord Botetourt finished the 2010 season at 3-7 and Tater Benson’s club looks ready to make a run in the Blue Ridge. James River points to this contest every year for bragging rights in Botetourt County. Home team gets the nod. James River-25 Lord Botetourt-19

Roanoke Catholic at CarlisleCarlisle is still looking to es-

tablish its football program in the private-school ranks after going winless in 2010. Roanoke Catholic made the VIS playoffs last season with the help of a rare forfeit, which gave one of

the Celtic opponents an extra win, and Catholic a boost in the points rankings. That playoff op-portunity ended with a road trip and loss to Blessed Sacrament, 48-7. No worry for Catholic in this one. Roanoke Catholic-41 Carlisle-6

Galax at GlenvarGalax rolled into the playoffs

last year for the first time since 2002. They may be headed there again. Glenvar ended the season 6-4, but Kevin Clifford’s squad fell short of the playoffs. The Highlanders are always tough at home, but Galax looks too good to be tripped up. Galax-35 Glenvar-23

Charlotte Latin at North Cross (Sat)

North Cross opens against North Carolina private-school powerhouse Charlotte Latin in a 2:00 p.m. kickoff. North Cross made it to the VIS Division III finals in 2010, before losing to Norfolk Christian 29-14. No-body can accuse the Raiders of scheduling easy opponents. Look for North Cross to run the hurry-up, no-huddle offense in front of the expected standing-room-only crowd at Thomas Field. The numbers may favor Charlotte Latin on a hot August afternoon. Charlotte Latin-27 North Cross-20

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Roanoke Valley High School Volleyball Teams Gear UpCave Spring: Mastering its

River Ridge District opponents will be the key this season for Cave Spring, as the Knights look to make a another ride deep into the playoffs.

“Whoever wins the district will have an easier path to the Fi-nal Four, but in the end it won’t really matter ... mastering our district opponents will be the key to getting into the state finals,” said head coach Tamalyn Tanis, who is starting her 10th season at the helm at Cave Spring. The Knights finished second in the district before winning the dis-trict tournament, ending its sea-son with a 21-6 mark after falling to eventual state champion Lou-doun Valley in the state semis.

Returning for the Knights: Senior Morgan Shannon (OH/RS), who currently has 999 kills and was a first team all-state selection the last two seasons; senior Shannon Craighead (S), who was a first team all-state se-lection as a setter in 2010; senior Lauren Sledd, who has helped lead the team to the final four the past two seasons as an OH her sophomore year and as a libero last fall; senior Kelsey Sine (MB), who has developed into a very quick middle and decent blocker

after coming off an injury her sophomore year; junior Alyssa McKinley (OH), who started as OH last season and now has a greater understanding of the of-fense, according to Coach Tanis.

Newcomers to the varsity pro-gram include junior Erin Hols-inger (MB), who has entered the public school system for the first time. “She is extremely athletic with a very high vertical jump,” says Tanis. Junior Sarah Smith (OH/RS) was on the team last year and displayed her deadly serve in the state semis and sophomore Olivia Sass (RS/S), who gives the team more size on the RS and a good set of hands.

When asked about the team’s strengths and weaknesses, Tanis replied, “Our weakness is still our overall size compared to our neighbors down the road. How-ever, what we lack in height we make up for in athleticism. Plus, the team is training very hard physically and ball control is al-ways a huge emphasis for us so that we can run a fast tempo of-fense.”

As for Cave Spring’s outlook in 2011, Tanis noted, “We have a tough schedule this season with a tournament at Virginia Beach against mostly Group

AAA schools. We also have an-other tournament scheduled with Western Albemarle, Loud-oun Valley and Deep Run. The district will once again prove to be very competitive and tough. Blacksburg has shown much improvement the past two years, Salem is getting on the upswing, and Hidden Valley is huge as al-ways.” The Knights open the sea-son on Sept. 1 at Liberty Chris-tian.

Hidden Valley: With six re-turning starters back from last year’s state semi-final team, Hid-den Valley is once again look-ing to make the trip back to the Group AA state championships in Richmond this season. The Titans, who went 24-3 last fall, claimed the River Ridge District and Region IV crowns, before falling in the state semis under head coach Carla Poff, who is starting her seventh season at the helm. Returning this fall: senior Sarah Patterson (setter), who has committed to JMU; junior Jenny Clark (OH), senior Al-lison Burton (L); junior Lauren Thomas (RS), junior Caroline Boone (MB) and junior Sarah

Gray (DS).Those new to the varsity pro-

gram this season are sophomore Madison Morris (MB), junior Emma Sweet (OH), junior Shan-non Conway (RS), sophomore Skylar Kendrick (DS/L), sopho-more Hannah Podeschi (S/RS) and junior Savannah Kramer (DS).

“We are tall and have lots of hitters and passers,” said Poff when asked about the team’s strengths. Poff sees her team’s top games being against Blacks-burg and Cave Spring. As for the Titans outlook this season, “We hope to repeat, but have lots of work to do.” Hidden Valley opened its season on Tuesday, Aug. 23 by beating Patrick Hen-ry in 3 games.

Northside: the Vikings look to defend their Blue Ridge District volleyball title this fall, as they return eight players off of last year’s team. Returning for another season for North-side, which finished 7-1 in the district and 14-11 overall, are senior Kathleen Carr (OH), ju-nior Kelsey Jarrett (OH), junior Caitlyn Porterfield (S), senior

Erin Thompson (MH), senior Rebekah Washington (OPP), senior Marta Jones (L), senior Kelley Sharpe (DS) and senior Danielle Taylor (DS).

Matches with Osbourn Park, the 7th Annual Viking Fall Clas-sic and all of the Blue Ridge District encounters are the key contests for Northside this fall. “We are looking forward to great competition,” replied coach Crawford, when asked about the season outlook. The Vikings open their season on Saturday, Aug. 27, when they host the 7th Annual Viking Fall Classic start-ing at 9:30 a.m.

North Cross:This year North Cross comes

off back to back VISAA Div.3 state championships after beat-ing Roanoke Catholic in last year’s final. With the loss of 4 starters, North Cross has their work cut out for them. Return-ing from last year, however, are senior all state setter Alexandra Martin and junior all state OH Gussie Revercomb. With the addition of newcomer jr. setter Lynsey Barker, 8th grader MB Piper Roe (5’11 and growing), and a host of JV and Varsity players that have stepped up to fill the vacant spots the Raiders feel that they can compete for the top honors again.

Jr. Ashley Donaho will step into the MB position, senior Nikki Bates from libero to OH, jr. India Helmer DS, sr. Shelby Lipes DS,RS, jr. Grace Cates MH, sr. Adrienne Wynd RS, sr. Sarah Kate Holley RS, and jr. Crystal Edwards MH will all add their talents to help North Cross on their quest for a 3-peat.

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will be counting on six return-ing players to carry the Celtics back to the VISAA, Division 3 state volleyball playoffs in 2011. The Celtics, who won the Blue Ridge Conference with an 8-1 mark and was second in the state tournament, will be led by Aaron King.

Returning for Roanoke Cath-olic, which ended their season with a 24-5 overall record are ju-nior Ava Perez (S), who had 578 assists and 119 aces in 2010; ju-nior Anna Barrera (DS/L), who tallied 54 digs; junior Maria Bar-rera (OH/DS), who notched 54 assists; sophomore Anne Deer (DS/L), who had 111 digs; junior Mairin Guilfoyle (OH/MB), who posted 181 kills, 121 aces and 166 digs; and senior Amie Scott (MB), who recorded 36 kills and 32 blocks.

New to the varsity program are freshmen Alexander Arnold (MB/OH) and Allison George (S/RS), sophomore Danielle Dorman (RS), junior Sarah Fraze (OH) and eighth-grader Ashley Deer (S/RS). “The youth of our team is a both a strength and weakness,” said coach King. “We know they [players] are going to make mistakes, but the potential is there for them to contribute.” The rookie coach sees the Celt-ics top games as those being with LCA, North Cross and Eastern Mennonite. “We will try to con-tinue the success of last year’s team,” said King when asked about this season’s outlook.

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Titans/Pats Kick Off Volleyball SeasonPlayoff hopefuls Patrick Hen-

ry and Hidden Valley squared off Tuesday night at the Hidden Valley gym for the volleyball season opener for both teams. Hidden Valley came from be-hind in the first game for a 25-21 win before taking games two and three 25-20; 25-13.

(Left) Patrick Henry senior Cathy Ren serves for the Pa-triots against Hidden Valley.

(Right) Patriot #11 Sarah Miller tries to blast a kill past the tall Hidden Valley front line.

Hidden Valley RS #2 Lauren Thomas and #4 Caroline Boone celebrate after a Titan point Tuesday night


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“It’s all about problem solving and I’ve discovered a passion for it. I can create anything I want and the only limitation I have is what I put on myself,” she laughed and added, “I have no limits! Everyday, every project is exciting and satisfying.”

Ann, who is owner of Alter Plus in Roanoke, is an inspiring and successful teacher for those who want to just mend or those that have ideas and visions that can’t be bought in stores.

“The first thing you must do is learn your machine. It’s your friend. If you know it well, it will do what you want it to do. Together you can create your vision.

Ann admits that over the 22 years she has had her company and the “I’m not going to say how many years I’ve been sew-ing,” she hasn’t named any of her sewing machines, “But I do talk to them and it did make me very sad to retire several of my machines. I just simply wore them out.”

“I like to teach at all levels.” She enjoys getting a student

from the beginning and help-ing them buy the machine that is right for the types of proj-ects the student has in mind. Then she takes time to explain all the details on how it works and what it can do. “Then we can practice and problem solve using tricks that most people who don’t know their machine wouldn’t even imagine.”

“It’s great fun.”“It’s exciting too when some-

one will come to me with a proj-ect that they haven’t done before and they say that they don’t know how to make my machine do what I want it to do.”

From a project that would place lace inserts into a wedding

dress, to embroidery for a chris-tening gown, piping, beading and high fashion and embroi-dery, are all fun and most often there is a time limit on when the project needs to be finished.

“I can problem solve with them and help them get the project done beautifully and on time. It’s very interesting to work on some of the ideas and visions people have.”

Last week, Ann was ap-proached by a woman who was going to Hawaii. “Her favorite linen Capri’s were thread bare on one knee and she really wanted them repaired if pos-sible. I chose a light weight polyester/cotton material and created a liner. The liner would take the pressure of the move-ment of the body and relieve the pressure on the outer mate-rial. I used a simple zigzag on the worn section and matched the stitching on the other leg. “It looked like it was supposed to be there and had always been part of the garment. The pants were still lightweight and com-fortable for hot weather but now they would last.”

Ann said she spent about one hour figuring out the best way to solve the problem, buy the lining material, create the liner and sew it all back together. Ann said she charged $18 for the work..

“I get people who travel and buy wools from Ireland and silks from China but don’t have any idea what to do with the fabric. We sit down together and figure out the best use of the fabric and then create a design. That’s a lot of fun.”

Besides teaching and han-dling alterations, costume de-sign, home décor, monogram-ming, embroidery and Haute Couture, Ann is one of only a handful of seamstresses who re-pair historical fabric items.

“I spent time in a woman’s home in Virginia about a month

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Ann is in Pennsylvania this week, making a “great coat” for two men to wear with their Civil War reenactment uniforms.

“In that time all sewing was done by hand. You can imagine how thick the layers are. While the primary sewing of the coats will be done by machine, the button holes and other detailing are done by hand and even the buttons have to be put on his-torically correct. There are 24 buttons on each coat.”

“It’s a great project,” she said happily as she was driving north from Roanoke.

“The skills I have - a lot of people aren’t renewing. A lot of skilled seamstresses are leaving us and there is no one replacing them.”

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The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets prepares to be accepted after preliminary training.

Three hundred eighty-five new members of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets reported to the Virginia Tech campus in early August one week before the rest of the campus, for New Cadet Training. The Class of 2015, at 385 strong, will push the Regiment to an overall size of over 960 cadets, the largest corps since 1969. Throughout the week the new cadets were taught by approximately 100 upper class cadets on how to march and perform military drill with precision, how to properly complete a military obstacle course safely, how to rappel down a 40-foot tower, and competed in athletic team-building competitions. In recognition of com-pleting their initial training, a parade marking the acceptance of the new Cadets was held last Saturday. The incoming Class of 2015 joins a long standing tradition at Tech which began with 132 cadets in October 1872, when all students were cadets and Virginia Tech was known as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets is one of just two military corps in the country within a large public university.

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