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King William County Public Schools is pleased to announce that Suzi Sherman, a second-grade teacher at Cool Spring Primary School, has been named the 2013 Region III Teacher of the Year.

Mrs. Sherman was chosen from among candidates nominated by the following school divisions: Spotsylvania, Stafford, West Point, Fredericksburg, Richmond County, Westmoreland, Colonial Beach,

Northumberland, Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, King George, King and Queen, Lancaster, Matthews, and Middlesex. Each candi-date submits a portfolio to the Virginia Department of Education highlighting his/her accomplishments, edu-cational philosophies and community activities. A panel, including classroom teachers, representatives of professional and edu-cational associations, the business community, and the 2012 Virginia Teach-er of the Year reviewed the portfolios and letters of recommendation and chose the eight Regional Teachers of the Year from across the Commonwealth. Mrs. Sherman, along with the seven other Regional Teachers of the Year, will be interviewed by this pan-el in October. The panel will then name the 2013 Virginia Teacher of the

Year at a ceremony on October 12 in Richmond. Mrs. Sherman is beginning her 7th year of teaching at Cool Spring. She currently serves on the Lead-ership Committee, is the second-

grade Chairperson, serves on the Superintendent’s Advisory Com-mittee and the Gifted and Talented Education Committee. In addition, she is the Indian Education After-School Program Coordinator. Mrs. Sherman was also named the “Ap-ple of My Eye” at Cool Spring in February of 2008 and 2011. In a letter of support written by a parent of one of Mrs. Sherman’s students, Mrs. Sherman is described as an educator, coach, mentor, and counselor. “Mrs. Sherman saw my son’s natural intelligence and wit and found ways to motivate and en-courage him. Everyday she greets her students with ‘Good Morning, my little angels.’ Every child in her class knows that they are loved and respected.”Dr. Mark Jones, Superintendent, said, “Mrs. Sherman embodies those qualities that have made our public schools great for many years. She cares deeply for each student, ensures that each student learns at high levels, models behaviors nec-essary to be a successful student and citizen, and supports those in need of assistance. The School Board, administration, faculty and staff are extremely proud of Mrs. Sherman being named Region III Teacher of the Year.

While many students spent their summer enjoying the recreation-al aspects of Virginia, Air Force JROTC Cadets from King William County prepared for the upcoming school year with a summer orien-tation program. New Cadets, un-der the leadership of King William High Air Force Instructors, were paired with upper-class Cadets for an orientation which would give them a head start on the school year. The new cadets with their upper-class mentors engaged in a program of physical fitness, leadership edu-cation, Air Force orientation, and drill and ceremonies. The program allows the new cadets to enter high school with not only an understand-ing of the unique requirements of AFJROTC, but provides a famil-iarization of what the high school experience will be. The culmination of the training

was a field trip to our na-tion’s Capitol where ca-dets enjoyed a walking tour of Washington DC. The cadets visited six of our nation’s monuments and the Smithsonian American History Mu-seum. AFJROTC is an elec-tive program provided to the young men and women of King William County whose mission is to “Build Better Citi-zens for America.”

Photo Caption:Students from the KWHS ARJROTC at-tend summer orienta-tion.

Chickahominy Fall Pow-wow a SuccessJesse Fortune and Louis Campbell Lead Dancers

by A. Kay Oxendine

CSPS Teacher Named 2013 Region III Teacher of the Year

King William High School AFJROTC Helps Build Better Citizens For America

Under beautiful skies, the Chickahominy tribe celebrated their pow-wow. King and Queen Residents Jesse Fortune and Lindsay Fortune were able to attend, and Jesse had the honor of being head dancer at this year’s event. In the picture to the left, Jesse is shown with Louis Campbell from Baltimore, Lindsey poses for the

camera, and in the photo to the right, Jesse and her family are shown together during her giveaway. Pictures from various photographers from Facebook.According to Jesse: “I am so honored to have been able to represent my family and to be head lady for this year’s Chickahominy pow wow.”

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will be doing their National Drug

Take Back Event on Saturday,

September 29th.

There will be two location: Nicks Spaghetti and Steak House on Rt. 33 in Shacklefordsfrom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pamunkey Regional Library Parking LotUpper End of County10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As you know, this event allows people to drop off any type of drug, prescription of non-prescription to law enforcement for safe disposal. As always, no questions are asked and you remain anonymous. If you could please put in this week edi-tions of your newspapers, we would be extremely grateful.Also, if you could send a quick response back to this e-mail, I would appreciate it. Been having trouble with e-mail and want to make sure you all are receiving infor-mation!!!

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An eight foot tall Fraser fir tree grown by Rodney Richardson of Mt. Rogers Christmas Tree Farm in Whitetop, Virginia, was chosen Grand Champion by the Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association (VCTGA) at their August convention. The panel of judges selected the winning tree on the basis of several criteria including foliage, density, unifor-mity, taper and market-ability. As winner of the Grand Champion title, Richardson is entitled to provide a tree for the Governor’s Mansion this year and also to en-ter a tree in the next Na-tional Christmas Tree Contest in August 2013. A win there will give him the opportunity to pres-ent the White House tree to the Presi-dent and First Lady next Christmas. Richardson is no stranger to this title of Grand Champion. He and his late wife Cynthia previously presented the tree for the Governor’s Mansion in 2009, as well as the official state Christmas tree that graced the South Portico of the State Capitol that year. VCTGA’s Grand Champion winner in the wreath category is Sher-rie and Carlos Taylor of Severt’s Tree Farm in Elk Creek, Virginia. They will present wreaths to the First Lady in November to grace the front doors of the Executive Mansion. The Taylors used Fraser fir for their winning design and also took the second place award in the tree contest. The presentation for the Grand Champion Christmas Tree and the

Grand Champion Wreath took place at the VCTGA’s annual meeting in Waynesboro August 23 through 25. At that meeting, they also presented their President’s Award to Matthew J. Lohr, Commissioner of the Virginia Depart-ment of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Lohr, who cuts the tree for his family at a farm in the Shenandoah

Valley each year, says that C h r i s t m a s trees are a great renew-able resource. “For every tree grow-ers cut,” Lohr said, “they plant three new ones.

Real trees are recyclable and they can provide habitat for fish in lakes or ponds. In the field, they release oxygen into the air and provide that wonder-ful aroma that only comes from live trees.” Consumers who want to find fresh, local, Virginia Grown Christmas trees in their area should log onto vir-giniachristmastrees.org or explore the Virginia Grown Guide to Choose-and-Cut, Fresh-Cut and Live Christmas Trees at VirginiaGrown.com. Click on Christmas Trees under “Where to Find Virginia Grown.”

Elaine LidholmDirector of CommunicationsVirginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services102 Governor StreetRichmond VA 23219804.786.7686

VIRGINIA GRAND CHAMPION CHRISTMAS TREE AND WREATH EARN GROWERS THE PRIVILEGE

TO PRESENT A TREE AND WREATHS TO THE GOVERNOR AND FIRST LADY

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Dear Editor,

With all the recent discussion and debate about the Constitutionality, or lack thereof, of all the massive amount of legislation coming out of DC, I was very excited to recently learn about an upcoming class and seminar on the U.S. Constitution. I have been telling everyone I know about it and someone suggested I write into the newspaper to inform even more people. The class is be-ing offered by The Thomas Jeffer-son Center for Constitutional Res-toration and is called “Restoring the Founder’s Dream”. The instructor is none other than Dr. Glenn Kim-

ber who is world renowned Con-stitutional Scholar, lecturer, and writer. He has written over 100 books related to the U.S. Constitu-tion. All are welcome and the class is being held at Randolph Macon College (RMC) on Saturday 22, 2012. I would like to strongly en-courage all elected representatives of any level and from any political party to attend. There is a nominal fee for the materials. For additional info please email dghc4@msn.com. Hope to see all of you there.

Mrs. Dawna LeeMechanicsville, VA 23116

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This is President Obama’s grand vi-sion for America. Since Obama took office in January 2009, five million “green” jobs were promised, and as of 2010 225,000 had been created. 80% of the green loans, loan guar-antees, and grants given out by De-partment of Energy went to Obama backers: •SunPower, after receiving $1.5 bil-lion from DOE, is reorganizing, cut-ting jobs. •First Solar, after receiving $1.46 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs. •Solyndra, after receiving $535 mil-lion from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection. •Ener1, after receiving $118.5 mil-lion from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection. •Evergreen Solar, after receiving millions of dollars from the state of Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy protection.•SpectraWatt, backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, filed for bankrupt-cy protection. •Beacon Power, after receiving $43 million from DOE, filed for bank-ruptcy protection. •Abound Solar, after receiving $400 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection. •Amonix, after receiving $5.9 mil-lion from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection. •Babcock & Brown (an Australian

company), after receiving $178 mil-lion from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection. •A123 Systems, after receiving $279 million from DOE, shipped some bad batteries and is barely op-erating. It cut jobs. •Solar Trust for America, after re-ceiving a $2.1-billion loan guaran-tee from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.•Nevada Geothermal, after receiv-ing $98.5 million from DOE, warns of potential defaults in new SEC fil-ings.That is only a partial list.If this all sounds eerily familiar, it should.Especially the part about how an elected politician is breaking a campaign promise to not raise tax-es. Obama said he would lower taxes and is actually raising them. He will claim that circumstances change and American have to adapt to them.One similarity is inescapable. The excesses of the past are going to have to be paid. Thanks to the failed presidency of Obama, those excess-es have grown disproportionately larger.

Walt FitzhughHanover, VA 23069

Title: Obama’s Past Record’s Sealed Why doesn’t anyone out there ever ask why President Obama’s past re-cords are sealed? Probably Answer: HE HAS A LOT TO HIDE!! Fact (you won’t see/hear this on the “lap-dog” networks): President Obama’s “dream” is to systematically trans-form America into a Leninist style of Socialism where Government controls and owns EVERYTHING

in the country. There will be no wealthy people at all except those who work for the Obamas and the Government. Watch the movie Obama’s 2016 to see the shocking truth about Obama’s dream. You owe it to yourself, your family, and your country to view this amazing before you cast your vote in No-vember. God bless America!

Stephen BrownMechanicsville, VA 23111

If President Obama is hoping to fire up the youth vote, he’d better hope they don’t read the news. Friday’s jobs report showed that as bad as things are in general, they’re even worse for young workers. The un-employment rate for 16-to-19-year-olds jumped nearly a full point in August, to 24.6 percent. And for 20-to-24-year-old, it rose to 13.9 percent. Apparently, the only thing keeping young people’s hopes up these days is their illusions. A new survey by TD Ameritrade found that nearly 40 percent of members

of Generation Z, those aged 13 to 22, still expect to receive an in-heritance. Reality check: with this economy, only 16 percent of parents think they’ll have anything to leave their children. Their kids’ only hope of an inheritance is if their parents die before they exhaust what little savings they have. So if your kids offer to help you down those steep stairs, just say, “No, thanks…I’m good.” Kenneth HawkMechanicsville, VA 23116

Title: The Silent Majority I know that there is a “Silent Ma-jority” of Americans out there that “Get it,” and, even though they may not be avid activists for their candidate, they wil, in fact, vote accordingly no matter how much venom and out-and-out lies are spewed by the Liberal Left to distract them from their candi-

date. This “majority” knows what CHANGE America really needs and it’s not from the inside or from the outside, it’s at the TOP!

Mrs. Judy J. RichardsonRICHMOND VA 23222

Title: The Truth About Obam-aCare President Obama and his Chica-go Cronies tout the “Affordable Health Care Act” (an oxymoron) in regard that it will provide health care for everyone. He also says that it will cut the National debt and provide tax cuts for the Mid-dle-class. Lies, lies, lies!! Obam-aCare will go down in American History as the highest tax increase ever! This adversely impacts ev-eryone, especially the Middle-class where many small business-es fall into the $250,000 category, which the impending high taxes and “spreading the wealth” could put them out of business. Result: thousands more on welfare. In regard to his promise of re-ducing the National Debt, do you know that $500 Billion will be taken out of Medicare to help pay for this bill. Medicare will become a thing of the past! How do you feel about something that you paid into all of your working life only to have it taken away? It WILL happen! What do you think of Obama’s “Hope and Change” now? Doctors will be opting out and/

or retiring due to this terrible law. Reputable health insurance com-panies and several medical supply companies will be put out of busi-ness, due to the excessive costs of this law. Thousands of jobs will, therefore, suffer the consequenc-es. Also, how would like a Wash-ington bureaucrat standing be-tween you and your Doctor telling him/her what he/she can prescribe and what can’t be prescribed? If put fully into effect, Obam-aCare will resemble a Socialistic style of a system used in Europe and Canada. Ask a Canadian what they think of it. The gov-ernment taking over your health care is one more step towards the government controlling your life. Our Socialist Commander-in-Chief can call it whatever he wants, but it’s still SOCIALISM!! Bottom line: In November, vote for anyone that has vowed to RE-PEAL this terrible law. The fu-ture of America depends on YOU._____________________________________________________Mr. Major MansfieldMechanicsville, VA 23111

Dear Editor:

Sunday, October 7, 2012, is shap-ing up to be a very interesting day. Thousands of Pastors have finally had it with government tyranny dic-tating what can and can’t be done in the pulpit. These brave souls will be drawing a line in the sand and con-gregations all over the fruited plane are encouraging more to join the cause. They are planning to chal-lenge the IRS by deliberately preach-ing politics ahead of the presidential election despite a federal ban on en-dorsements from the pulpit. The defiant move, they hope, will prompt the IRS to enforce a 1954 tax code amendment that prohib-its tax-exempt organizations, such as churches, from making political endorsements. Alliance Defending Freedom, which is holding the Octo-ber summit, said it wants the IRS to press the matter so it can be decided in court. The group believes the law violates the First Amendment by “muzzling” preachers.The purpose is to make sure that the pastor, and not the IRS, decides what is said from the pulpit. This is

a head on Constitutional challenge. Pastors participating in the Oct. 7 “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” will preach sermons that will talk about the candidates running for office and then make a specific recommenda-tion. The sermons will be recorded and sent to the IRS.The hope is that the IRS will respond by doing what they have threatened to do all along, strip a Church of it’s tax exempt status, which will allow it to be challenged in court. Many are predicting that it shouldn’t take long for a judge to strike the 1954 tax code amendment down as un-constitutional. Thus, freeing up the pulpits to once again be able to speak boldly about the social issues of the day and Biblical issues such as excessive debt.

Please inform and encourage your Pastor to join “Pulpit Freedom Sun-day” on October 7th. God Bless America! Wilma RoyerMechanicsville, VA 23111

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My family and community have been in mourning since we learned that a beloved tribal member, and family friend was murdered. Faith Hedge-peth’s body was discovered by her roommates and friends on September 7, 2012, around 11 am, and that dis-covery changed a lot of lives. When I first heard the news, I was absolutely devastated, but spent the next few days and week becoming a master sleuth. I was determined that I was going to help solve this case. But I realized the more I thought I was un-covering, the more it was devastating. You see, this is real. This is a real person that was full of life and love and who brought so much joy to my daughter and my life. And her light was extinguished by another person’s hand. No matter what you do, Faith is still gone.This realization humbled me and forced me to take a step back. I was slated to go to Pembroke, and had planned on going so to the Ameri-can Indian Women of Proud Nations Conference, to Arts in the Park, and to the Chickahominy festival this past weekend. But the truth is, when all was said and done, my heart was still broken over the loss of someone so beautiful. Domestic Violence is real. It affects so many of our loved ones who suffer in silence. This is not accepted and as a Native American, I can state it is not traditional. So I have been praying over what to say to help so many in their heal-ing. I began compiling a list of things that can maybe, can help at least one person out there. There are things we prepare our children for, but we also need to let them know the following: 1) Not everyone you meet is your friend.2) Not everyone has your best interest at heart.3) Not everyone who comes into your life understands you. Now saying that, here are some fur-ther things to consider: 1) We all have a right to live at peace and exercise our right to live free.2) No one has a right to make you feel trapped. Don’t allow them to do so.3) When people make threats, believe them. Don’t wait for them to prove it - a threat is a threat; take it seriously.

4) If you feel like you are in an un-healthy relationship, do what you can to get out. 5) If you are having troubles ending the situation, tell someone; a friend, your priest, your mom, a family mem-ber, a teacher, a co-worker. No mat-ter your age, we all sometimes find ourselves in uncomfortable situations. Sharing your concern will help open the door for answers. 6) Don’t beat yourself up. Everyone

makes mistakes in our lives, all of us. Instead of continuing to punish yourself and make the situation worse, forgive yourself, and move on. Brush it off.7) If you feel like your life is in danger, do not hesitate to call 911. 8) Cherish you and re-

alize how incredible you are. Make sure you take care of God’s magnifi-cent gift. YOU.9) Love doesn’t hurt. Abuse starts with words, then an attempt to change how you are. Then a forcible way of controlling your being. It does not discriminate; it affects every race, ev-ery gender, all ages, all over the world.10) Listen to your mama and your el-ders. I know all of us rolled our eyes over Mom’s advice. But truth be told, my mama never told me a lie. She spoke with love and her words rang true. There is nothing I can do to bring Faith back to life, but I most certain-ly can make sure her death was not in vain. We can all join together to educate ourselves and our children, so that we don’t ever experience such heartbreak again. Until next time......a.kay oxendine Editor’s Note: As of press time, no one has been arrested for the mur-der of Faith Hedgepeth, nor have the details of her death been publicized. If anyone has information concern-ing this violent crime, please contact Chapel Hill Police or Crimestoppers. A reward of $28,000 has been offered for information that may lead to an ar-rest.

Knowing When to Say When by A. Kay Oxendine

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to have guest writer Philip Search back with us in 360 View. In the last few years, Philip has gone on to place and win at several weight lifting competitions, and continues to be an inspiration to us all. Please check out his web site at www.philipsearch.com.

Everyone knows that overeat-ing leads to excess weight (body fat stores). All food is energy. If the body does not need the en-ergy, it stores the extra calories for later. So, is it sugar, carbo-hydrates, fat, protein, or maybe all the above? The only way to determine the answer is to go inside the hu-man body and take a look at how fat gets there in the first place. Let’s follow a bite of pepperoni pizza and see what happens to its sugar, fat and protein. The food enters your mouth: • Saliva contains enzymes that break any starch in the food down to sugar. • This, along with any fat and water in the food, travel to the stomach, which churns them up. • Pepsin (an enzyme that digests protein) and hydrochlo-ric acid further break down the food, turning it into a substance called chyme. • The mixture enters the duodenum, (the place where the gall bladder secretes its bile). • This bile dissolves the fat in water, thinning it out and making it easier to absorb. • Enzymes from the pan-creas enter the duodenum and further break down the sugar, fat and protein.Now everything is dissolved and is in fluid form, so it is ab-sorbed through the lining of the small bowel. Fat, sugar and

protein now go in separate di-rections.What happens to sugar:• It also goes directly into the blood stream, and several different organs take the sugar they need as it passes by. • Some is stored in the liv-er as glycogen. • Whatever is left is con-verted to fat and stored in fat cells with the excess fat above, also known as adipose. What happens to fat:• First, it goes into the blood stream and travels to the liver • The liver burns some of the fat, converts some to other substances (one is cholesterol) and sends the rest to fat cells, where they wait until they are needed. • Fat that waits, is what is around our waist line, lower back, under-arms, and legs.What happens to protein:• It is broken down into building blocks known as pep tides. • Then, it is further broken down and it becomes amino ac-ids. • The amino acids are ab-sorbed through the small intes-tine’s lining and enter the blood stream. • From here, most amino acids build the body’s protein stores. • Excess amino acids are excreted, and any protein that it built in excess is stored as body fat. This is such a simple concept, “excess turns to fat.” ©September, 2012. Philip Search. www.philipsearch.comAll rights reserved. Repro-duction without permission is strictly prohibited.

Food Becomes Body Fatby Philip Search, ISMA, ISCA, Nutrition Cert, Master Level 3 Trainer

The Republican Party of King and Queen County cordially invites you to attend its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 2nd, at Nick’s Restaurant, in Shacklefords, Va. Social time be-

gins at 6:00 PM, followed by dinner at 6:30 PM. The cost is still only $17.00 which includes coffee or tea, rolls, en-tree, dessert and tip. Our meetings are open to the public and we urge you to come and bring your friends. Please call for reservations - Roberta @769-1856; Bill @ 512-1688, or Barbara @ 785-4060. Please come prepared to pay your 2012 dues which were pay-

able in January, and will entitle you to vote on important issues. Thank you.

Do you ever ponder and turn the clock ahead 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, or more, wondering how your kids will turn out? Do you consider that your parenting today is shaping the most precious of God’s gifts? Par-enting can be a little scary some-times, can’t it? We wonder if he or she will be making the decisions that lead to peace and joy, or those which bring heartache and pain. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. We have been discussing the attributes of a Christ-centered home. We have discussed that joy, orderliness, grace, service and spiritual disciplines are all components and reflect the love of Christ in a family. Today’s article is our last in this series “How do you create a Christ-centered home?” from Focus on the Family. The last attri-bute we will discuss is “God’s Pur-

poses”. “A Christian home is a place where the family’s goals are founded upon His values and the vision for the future is consistent with His plan.” Translated into “everyday language”, this means that we do things God’s way and not our way, and we raise children to do the same. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for

you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. The place to dis-cover God’s values and vision is in His Word. 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scrip-ture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make

us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

The Parent’s Corner

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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Ser-vices reminds small agricultural cooperatives and small busi-nesses engaged in aquaculture that the application deadline for federal economic injury di-saster loans is October 9, 2012. The loans from the Small Busi-ness Administration (SBA) are available in Virginia as a result of Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee and continuing ex-cessive rainfall from August 27 through October 31, 2011. Eli-gible localities include Charles City, Isle of Wight, James City, Prince George, Southampton, Surry and Sussex counties and the independent city of Newport News. With the exception of aquacul-

ture enterprises, agricultural producers, farmers and ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA. The loan amount can be up to $2 million with interest rates of three percent for pri-vate non-profit orga-nizations of all sizes and four percent for small businesses, with terms up to 30 years. The SBA de-termines eligibility based on the size of the applicant, type of activity and its finan-cial resources. Loan amounts and terms are set by the SBA and are based on each appli-cant’s financial condition. These working capital loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll,

accounts payable and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. The loans are not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

Applicants may apply online us-ing the Electronic Loan Application (ELA) via SBA’s secure website at https://disaster-loan.sba.gov/ela.Disaster loan in-formation and application forms

may also be obtained by call-ing the SBA’s Customer Ser-vice Center at 800.659.2955 (800.877.8339 for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) or by sending an email to disastercustomerser-

vice@sba.gov..Loan applica-tions can be downloaded from www.sba.gov. Completed appli-cations should be mailed to: U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. Completed loan applications must be returned to SBA no later than October 9, 2012. Elaine LidholmDirector of CommunicationsVirginia Department of Agricul-ture and Consumer Services102 Governor StreetRichmond VA 23219804.786.7686

GOOD KARMA will be hosting their Annual Fall Sale on Saturday, October 13 at King William High School from 7AM - 1PM (rain date

October 20).

Yard sale spots are available for $10 each and consist of four student parking spots. Tables are not provided. Gates will open at 5:30AM and

yard sale spots are offered on a first come first serve basis. Yard sale spots must be set up and ready no later than 7AM and you must be prepared to

leave the premises no later than 2PM.

If you would like to reserve a spot or have any questions please contact Lisa Woody at

994-8742.

Please note: A $1 discount will be provided to ALL partici-

pants who make a 4 can dona-tion to the GOOD KARMA “Fill A Box” Non-Perishable

Food Drive.

GOOD KARMA is a non-profit organization formed in March of 2010 by friends, family members and citizens of King William and surround-

ing counties. GOOD KARMA works closely with their local School Systems and Social Service Organizations to collect food and monetary donations to provide assistance for less fortunate members of our com-

munities.

If you would like more information or would like to volunteer your time or services PLEASE contact Lisa Woody at the number listed above.

DEADLINE OCTOBER 9, 2012, TO APPLY FOR SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ECONOMIC INJURY DISASTER LOANS IN VIRGINIA

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A new program at King William High School, offered through Great As-pirations Scholarship Program Inc., will provide free, confidential, one-on-one counseling to students seek-ing financial aid and scholarships for continuing their education after high school—whether that includes tech-nical school, community college or a four-year college.

GRASP is a non-profit organization with highly trained advisors who are adept at navigating the maze of the college financial aid process and pa-perwork. Susan Teerlink, who will be the GRASP advisor for KWHS, has close to 10 years of experience help-ing students with financial aid and scholarships, including completing the Free Application for Federal Stu-dent Aid and the College Scholarship Service Profile.

Beginning Oct. 5, Ms. Teerlink will be available to meet with students at KWHS on alternate Fridays. Ap-

pointments can be made through the school’s counseling office.

The GRASP program at KWHS is made possible through King William Delegate Chris Peace, who believes that an education is key to a prosper-ous future and wants to invest in the county’s best and brightest. Due to funding provided by a donation from the Friends of Chris Peace, GRASP’s services will be available at no charge to KWHS students and their families.

GRASP advisors also are in high schools in Hanover, Charles City and New Kent Counties as well as 64 other schools and venues through-out Virginia. More information about GRASP can be found at www.grasp-4virginia.com.

Media Contact:Bettsy Heggie, CEO 804.527.7726/bheggie@grasp4vir-ginia.com

NEW HELP FOR KW HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS LOOK-ING FOR FINANCIAL AID

AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Successful Open House Night at HHMSOpen House Night at Hamilton-Holmes Middle School on August 30 was a great time for HHMS families to come together after a relaxing summer break and enjoy seeing each other again. Students were eager to receive their schedules and meet their new teachers while their parents could take care of paying fees and completing forms. Rising 6th graders also had the chance to learn how to use their lockers before the hectic first days of school. Hamilton-Holmes looks ahead to an exciting 2012-13 school year under the new ad-ministrative leadership of Principal Beverly Young.

“Miss Dawn” Promotes Library Card Sign-Up Month

By Katie Kilgore, Kindergarten Teacher

On Tuesday, September 18th, kindergarten classes at Cool Spring Primary enjoyed a visit with “King William” and Dawn Shank, “Miss Dawn”, from the Pamunkey Regional Library. The children listened to a story about some funny animals who love to read books. Mrs. Shank helped “King William” explain how each kindergartner could get his/her very own library card and start checking out books. The kindergarten students loved meeting “King Wil-liam” who still doesn’t realize that he’s a puppet!

Cool Spring Holds Open HouseBy Joy Washington, Library/Media Specialist

On Thursday, August 30, 2012, Cool Spring Primary welcomed families to the 2012-2013 school year from 2-7 p.m. First and second grade families visited with teachers throughout the evening, while kindergarten and pre-school families were presented with an “orientation” to familiarize them with procedures and provide valuable information for the start of their school year.

Second grade student Krista McKinney waits with her mom while Cool Spring staff member Michelle Vest looks for her data sheet to inform Kris-ta of her teacher for the new school year.Photo by Joy Washington

Cool Spring PTA President, Kristen Kite chats about the PTA with second grade student Hailey Hill and her mother while former Cool Spring stu-dent Skylar Harper looks on.Photo by Joy Washington

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“Miss Dawn” Promotes Library Card Sign-Up Month

By Katie Kilgore, Kindergarten Teacher

On Tuesday, September 18th, kindergarten classes at Cool Spring Primary enjoyed a visit with “King William” and Dawn Shank, “Miss Dawn”, from the Pamunkey Regional Library. The children listened to a story about some funny animals who love to read books. Mrs. Shank helped “King William” explain how each kindergartner could get his/her very own library card and start checking out books. The kindergarten students loved meeting “King Wil-liam” who still doesn’t realize that he’s a puppet! Sign up now for Oct. 18

Great SouthEast ShakeOut

Virginia leads in registrations for multi-state

earthquake drill

RICHMOND, Va. – With one month to go un-til the first Great SouthEast ShakeOut set for Thursday, Oct. 18 at 10:18 a.m., Virginia leads the way in registrations for the multi-state simultaneous earth-quake drill. Nearly 390,000 Virginians have signed up to practice “Drop, Cover, and Hold On,” the recommended response to an earthquake. Virginia has joined Geor-gia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland and the District of Columbia to help people understand the safe response to an earthquake and to promote par-ticipation in the Great SouthEast ShakeOut. To date, total registration stands at 560,000. The drill is open to everyone – individuals, families, businesses, organizations, schools and colleges, government agencies can sign up at www.shakeout.org/southeast. Once registered, participants will receive information on how to plan their drill and how to engage communities to become better prepared for earthquakes and disasters. The ShakeOut earthquake drill, modeled after similar efforts held throughout the nation, provides an opportunity to learn and practice the appropriate, safe response to an earthquake: · Drop to the ground· Take Cover under a sturdy table or desk if possible, protecting your head and neck· Hold On until the shaking stops

Virginians can learn more about the ShakeOut at www.vaemergency.gov. Click on the ShakeOut graphic. Also, the Great SouthEast ShakeOut website provides many resources for planning a drill and learning how to get better prepared for recovery from an earthquake. To find these resources, go to www.shakeout.org/southeast/resources Coordinating partners for the Great SouthEast ShakeOut include the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium and Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since 2011, CUSEC has coordinated ShakeOut activities in Alabama, Arkan-sas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennes-see.

The Virginia Department of Ag-riculture and Consumer Services today released results from a sur-vey conducted September 1 by the Virginia Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The survey indicated that Vir-ginia’s soybean yield prospects have increased since the last forecast on August 1.Timely rains coupled with warm, sunny conditions have improved crop conditions. Soybean producers expect to harvest an average of 36 bushels per acre from 540,000 acres, an increase of two bushels per acre from the previous fore-cast on August 1. Production is expected to total 19.44 m i l l i o n bushels. V i r g i n i a corn yields are expected to average 95 bushels per acre, up four bush-els from the previous forecast on August 1. Production is expected to total 33.25 million bushels, which is down 17 percent from last year. The state’s cotton yield is fore-cast at 988 pounds per acre, up from 914 pounds per acre on August 1. Cotton producers will harvest 85,000 acres in 2012 which is down 30,000 acres from the previous year. Production is expected to total 175 thousand bales.

The state’s peanut yield is fore-cast to be 3,700 pounds per acre. This is a 400 pound per acre in-crease from the August forecast. Production is expected to total 74 million pounds from 20,000 acres for harvest. Burley tobacco yield is forecast to be 1,900 pounds per acre, bringing total production to 5.13 million pounds from 2,700 acres. Last year’s average yield was 1,900 pounds per acre with a total production of 3.80 million pounds harvested from 2,000 acres. Flue tobacco yield has an in-crease of 170 pounds per acre

from the p r e v i o u s f o r e c a s t to 2,400 pounds per acre. Pro-duction is e x p e c t e d to total 48 m i l l i o n

pounds from 20,000 acres.Fire tobacco yield is forecast to be 1,900 pounds per acre. Pro-duction is forecast at 722 thou-sand pounds from 380 acres. Elaine LidholmDirector of CommunicationsVirginia Department of Agricul-ture and Consumer Services102 Governor StreetRichmond VA 23219804.786.7686

Representative Charles GrahamNorth Carolina House of Represen-tatives1315 Legislative Building16 West Jones StreetRaleigh, NC 27601(919) 715-0875(919) 754-3303 FAXcharles.graham@ncleg.net COMMITTEES:AgricultureAppropriations (Justice & Public Safety)Commerce & Job Development (Business & Labor)EducationElectionsInsuranceTransportation ChairmanJoint Legislative American Indian Affairs Caucus

The Legislative Review From the Office of Representative Charles GrahamSeptember 13, 2012 The North Carolina General Assem-bly continues to move closer to the 2013 session, and I have been busy

preparing for our return by meet-ing with constituents and interest groups here at home and in Raleigh. My focus remains on job creation and economic development and the required systems such as education and infrastructure improvements needed to support our economy. I welcome your ideas about how we can put people back to work in our community, even as more of our teachers and other vital public ser-vants continued to be fired as a re-sult of the misplaced priorities of the majority party in Raleigh. Our state’s unemployment rate remains the fifth-worst in the nation. This week I wanted to share some of the new laws that will go into ef-fect on October 1, many of which I supported. These laws will improve public safety in our state. Public Safety - The General Assembly mod-ernized its emergency management laws (HB 843) this past year, laying out the responsibilities of the gov-ernor and local authorities in the event of an emergency or disaster. The law also includes prohibitions against price-gouging and details what steps officials are permitted to take in the case of an emergency. - Motorists must now attempt to move over a lane on the roads so that workers in highway mainte-nance vehicles and utility vehicles who are working beside the road can operate safely. Previously the law only required motorists to move over for public safety vehicles, such as police cars or ambulances (HB 345).

- Street gangs and the prop-erty on which they operate can now be declared public nuisances under a new law (HB 673) approved this year. - The Metal Theft Prevention Act (HB 199) strengthens laws against the theft of precious metals by requiring permits for purchases of certain metals and making it a specific crime to harm property during the theft of precious metals. - The names and addresses of minors involved in school bus crashes can now only be disclosed to the public in certain circumstanc-es (SB 227). - A new law creates the crime of unlawfully selling, surrendering, or purchasing a minor. The law also requires the North Carolina Confer-ence of District Attorneys to study what other measures may be needed to stop this type of crime (SB 910). - A wide-ranging law approved this past session creates a new first-degree trespass offense. The law (SB 141) also requires the Depart-ment of Public Safety to continue to assist offenders trying to re-enter society successfully and gives local crime labs and certain forensic sci-entists more time to obtain accredi-tation and certification. - Probation violators who abscond or try to avoid arrest will

no longer be eligible for public as-sistance until they surrender to the courts (HB 1173). Miscellaneous Our nation this week marked the

11th anniversary since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I continue to stand behind the members of our military who were called upon to defend our country af-ter that attack, and my thoughts and prayers

remain with the victims and their families. Next week is Constitution Week, a commemoration of our nation’s founding document. Activities will be planned across the state. For more information, contact your lo-cal chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Please remember that you can lis-ten to each day’s session, commit-tee meetings, and press conferences on the General Assembly’s website at www.ncleg.net. Once on the site, select “Audio,” and then make your selection – House Chamber, Sen-ate Chamber, Appropriations Com-mittee Room or Press Conference Room.I do consider it an honor and a priv-ilege to serve as your voice in the North Carolina House of Represen-tatives. Please feel free to contact my office with your questions, con-cerns, and comments.

Charles Graham

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I recently w a t c h e d a video on Huff

Post where Rick Santorum, the for-mer presidential candidate, delivered a speech at the Values Voter Summit yesterday. In the video Mr. Santorum said, “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite, smart peo-ple on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do.” He went on to say: “The basic premise of America and the American values will always be sustained through two institutions-- the church and the family.”“Smart, elite people...” “colleges and universities...” The only people on their “side” are the ones that believe in an invisible, vengeful deity that they can’t see or prove to others that it exists. The people duped into fol-lowing a religion so fraught with cru-elty and contradictions are the same people that he is actively trying to re-cruit for some imaginary war against intelligent self-thinkers.My question is this-- Why does it have to be a “battle” between us and them? Why can’t we all work together to make a better world for everybody to live in and share with each other? Why can’t the smart, elite thinkers combine forces with the de-ist to create a society where people have enough food and a warm place to sleep, while practicing the prin-ciples of spiritual beliefs like, “Love thy neighbor,” or “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Why do we have to be at war just be-cause we hold different views?The things Rick Santorum is spouting are the reason we see so many people fighting and being nasty during politi-cal discussions lately. They are trying to separate us into warring factions so that they can control us; divide and conquer. If they can sow division be-tween the American people they can start to control us. For the most part they’re already in control, to a degree anyway. Both sides of the political spectrum have sewn fear into our daily lives. We’re bombarded daily with threats of terrorist, murderers, rapist, baby killers et al on the nightly news. Usu-ally, we sit and watch the mayhem in our world today and we wonder what is happening to the country and to the rest of the world and it makes us afraid. The news anchors will sit in their studios and sow a steady diet of doom and gloom and it reaps fear in our minds. They will report story after story of tragedy and unrest and then usually at the end of the broad-cast they will show a fluff piece. “Ter-rorist bombed the ___ today... and we leave you now with a video of some

guy’s cat.” We’re Americans, we love our coun-try and we love our countrymen. That’s how we were raised, and that’s what we all believe down in the depths of our hearts. We’re not the guys that shoot women in the back of the head for allegedly committing adultery, all the while screaming about how our good our god is. We’re not the guys that kidnap children and force them into sex trade or slavery or turn them into killing machines against their will, hunting humans in jungles be-cause we disagree with them.We’re the people that reached out to an island nation after it was devas-tated by an earthquake, even though hardly any other country reached out to Joplin, Missouri. We’re the people that reached out to help half a world away when several different coun-tries were ravished by a giant tsuna-mi, even though very few countries reached out to New Orleans.We reach out to each other when di-saster strikes, because that’s who we are. Americans almost disdain the help of outsiders, not wanting foreign aid when we can damn well do it our-selves. People need to realize, though, that there are disasters every day in this country. Millions of people, a good deal of which are children, go to bed hungry every night. Millions of people are suffering needlessly because they have inadequate or no health coverage. Our planet is being raped and murdered by big corpora-tions in the name of profits. It’s not a slow process, either. It’s happening rapidly and with great frequency and devastating effect. These are just as disastrous as a hurricane, tornado or an earthquake.Why can’t we have free health care? Canada has free health care, so do France and England. We’re Ameri-cans, we pride ourselves on being better at everything than the rest of the world and yet, we can’t figure out free health care? The problem with free health care is there’s no profit in it. Health care is a multi-billion dol-lar industry and companies can’t cash charity, CEOs can’t bank goodwill, and shareholders demand more than a sense of having done something good for their fellow man. The biggest op-ponent to free health care is the in-surance industry. What does that tell you? I don’t know how to change the system, but it’s broken. We have sat back and watched as corporations put profits before people and outsourced our security in the name of the bot-tom line. How do we respond to all of this? Do we hold the corporations accountable for their actions and the destruction they are dealing us? No, we blame each other. We blame the single mother on welfare because she can’t find a job. We blame the dis-

abled, saying in our minds, “They’re just too lazy to work!” Never consid-ering what life is really like living on the handouts of our government and charities. It must be those people, it’s their fault our country is going down the crapper. We blame immigrants for daring to come here in search of a bet-ter life for themselves and their fami-lies. We blame whole races of people because they are working towards the demise of our country as we know it, or so we are told and made to believe.We’ve become complacent and it is our downfall. We have forgotten that the government should listen to us and not the other way around. They pass laws based on who paid them the most money and yet we don’t charge them with a crime. We let them get away with injustices and inequities in their positions as our leaders, forget-ting that they are supposed to work for us and we allow them to get away with being in the game for them-selves. As long as we can get that fancy new gadget that’s hit the mar-ket we falsely believe everything is okay. As long as our toys are bigger, prettier, faster or has more memory than the other guy’s, we’re okay with the status quo. They tell us that if we go out and spend money that this will be the fix the economy needs. They tell us that if the fruit logo company can sell enough new phones it will be the boost America needs to get back on her feet.Politicians are playing third rate ma-gicians with us, they want us to watch their right hand so that they can dis-tract us from what’s going on in their left. The sad part is, we know they’re doing it and we let them. We scream about campaign reform and nothing gets done. We scream about corrup-tion but as long as Joe Senator or Jill Congressperson is spouting the best party line, we ignore it.Ask yourself this: If one politician has offshore bank accounts and dodgy tax returns and the other politician imple-mented a covert police operation that went horribly wrong and was com-pletely ill conceived from the start, why are they not under investigation?Richard Nixon lied about his people breaking into a hotel room to get a look at some files and we screamed for his head on a platter. Bill Clinton had sex in the Oval Office and we al-lowed them to spend millions of dol-lars to investigate a white stain on a blue dress so we could find out just what really went on. That’s not even the most bizarre part of that story. When we found out what really went on, what did we as Americans do? We shrugged. Clinton was impeached, he went back to work, and “Oh, by the way, I’m sending American troops to Kosovo.”We’ve let them draw battle lines and convinced ourselves that this was

the answer, blame the other guy. We stand behind a president because of his race or against the same for the same reason. We call each other names and belittle each other, fight-ing a hopeless war of the words on a computer while they ruin our coun-try. We accept their rhetoric as truth, knowing in the back of our minds that rhetoric is rarely truth. We ignore the real issues when the real issues are the problems we should be address-ing head on.Recently I was standing in line in a grocery store and overheard a young teenage girl ask her mother, “What’s Keystone Pipeline?” while pointing at a checkout stand magazine rack. The mother replied, “I don’t know, some Washington scandal.” Ask just about any Canadian about Keystone and they will tell you exactly what it is. It is a way to feed America’s insa-tiable thirst for oil that is destroying their countryside. Now Big Oil wants to drag their hose across our lands despite the devastating impact it will have on our fragile ecosystems. Big Oil is destroying Canadian water-ways, and Boreal forests, the second largest defense against greenhouse gases on this planet, while creating ten times the amount of greenhouse gases than Los Angeles makes in a year while searching for sludgy, dirty oil. They are poisoning the land and the indigenous population and we’re letting them.We are Americans, the sum total of all of our parts. We are every parent’s son or daughter who have gone off to war, never to return. We are the mil-lions and millions of poor, living in abject poverty, wondering why the god we have devoted our lives to has deserted us. We are every college stu-dent hoping to find a good job after graduation and every grandparent or elder looking for a peaceful retire-ment after a lifetime of hard labor. We are the working stiff living hand to mouth and the white collar worker hoping to buy that new home in a better neighborhood. We are the fifty-eight year old, disabled person won-dering if the social security system will fail us, leaving us begging on the street. We are the children looking at all of this and wondering what kind of world we will inherit from our par-ents.This October I pray that America will pay attention. I pray that during the presidential campaign debates that we will be watching their left hands for the truth and that we won’t al-low ourselves to be distracted by the flashy non-issues in their right. Most of all I pray that America will come to her senses and remember that we are all in this together and realize that together we can fix the problems pull-ing our nation apart so that we can be great again.

We Are Americans.... Aren’t We?by Geddes Lindsay

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Ever since I became the Commis-sioner of Agriculture two years ago and gained a broader view of agri-culture throughout the entire state, I have noticed that Virginia really values its farmers. Of course agri-culture is the state’s largest indus-try, and I’m sure that earns us some points right there. But I think there is a deep-seated appreciation of our farmers in Virginia and a realization of how much they contribute to our quality of life.In talking with Commissioners from other areas, I realized that not every state has quite the same level of ap-preciation. Like any other state, we have our de-tractors. As a whole, however, I feel quite confident saying that Virginia takes as good care of its farmers as any other state, and perhaps better than many. Let me cite the newly created Agriculture and Forestry In-dustries Development (AFID) Fund as a recent and excellent example of how Virginia strives to keep agricul-ture as our number one industry. Because our agricultural system is so efficient, farmers seem to do more with less than any other group of workers I know. We often em-ploy fewer people than other indus-tries but have a tremendous output. In what other industry can three or four family members and a couple of paid workers produce 600,000 broilers . . . or a couple of hundred beef cattle . . . or 287,000 gallons of milk each year? I can’t think of another industry that has the same impact as farming. Did you realize that each American farmer feeds his or her own family plus 155 other people around the world? Since the employee base on fam-ily farm tends to be low, it has been difficult for farmers to receive some of the incentive and development grants that are available to the rest of the population. But this year, Governor McDonnell and the Vir-ginia General Assembly fixed that. They established the AFID Fund. This fund takes into account the ef-ficiency of agriculture and makes grants available for expansion and development that normally would go to businesses employing far more people. It’s a brand new program. We only announced it a couple of weeks ago,

but I am very excited about the pos-sible outcomes.Let me explain briefly why we need such a program and then how it works. Despite being the Common-wealth’s largest industries, agricul-ture and forestry related projects of-ten have trouble qualifying for many traditional economic incentives be-cause of their relatively small size, lower wages, lack of interstate com-petitiveness, seasonality and other factors unique to agriculture. The primary purpose of these new grants is to attract economic development prospects involving agriculture and forestry operations to locate or ex-pand in Virginia. The prospects must be processing/value-added facilities us-ing Virginia-grown prod-ucts.

The crite-ria for mak-ing the grants or loans include (i) amount of jobs expected to be cre-ated, (ii) anticipated amount of pri-vate capital investment, (iii) antici-pated additional state tax revenue expected to accrue to the state and affected localities as a result of the capital investment and jobs created, (iv) anticipated amount of Virgin-ia-grown agricultural and forestal products used by the project, (v) projected impact on agricultural and forestal producers, (vi) a return on investment analysis to determine the appropriate size of any grant or loan and (vii) an analysis of the impact on competing businesses already lo-cated in the area.

The AFID is funded at $1 million each in this fiscal year (July 2012 – June 2013) and next fiscal year (July 2013 – June 2014). AFID funds are broken into two catego-ries - $750,000 statewide going to large grants to assist local efforts in expanding current or attracting new agriculture and forestry process-ing or value-added facilities using Virginia grown products, while the remaining $250,000 is dedicated to small grants to assist localities in improving local economic devel-opment efforts relating to agribusi-ness. The guidelines and application for these smaller grants will be com-ing out later his year.

All of the funds will be allocated as grants to political subdivisions, so it is important for farmers and agri-businesses to work with their local government economic development officials to build their businesses. It is important to know that if the lo-cality is interested in applying for the grant and providing the required local match, then they should con-tact Stephen Versen, our AFID pro-gram contact, to discuss the program and share initial project details. His e-mail address is stephen.versen@vdacs.virginia.gov and his phone number is 804.786.6911. More in-formation on the AFID program, in-cluding program guidelines, can be

found on our web-site at vdacs.vir-ginia.gov/agribusi-ness/afid.shtml. This fund will have a lasting impact on farmers by attract-ing industries that create new markets

for Virginia grown products. It does so by requiring at least 30 percent of the agriculture and forestry prod-ucts used by the grant’s beneficiary to come from the Commonwealth. Having an incentive that rewards companies buying Virginia grown products, the program encourages every company locating or expand-ing in Virginia that uses any kind of raw agricultural or forestal com-modity to take a hard look at getting those materials in the Common-wealth. Through this process, these companies engage with VDACS, Cooperative Extension, produc-ers and other segments of the agri-cultural community and discover a whole new segment of Virginia ded-icated to their company’s success. I believe the program will also en-courage business to make long term investments in the Commonwealth. You see, the types of businesses this fund supports are almost by defini-tion place-based and tied to the land. Long after these incentive dollars have been spent, the new or expand-ed businesses will continue to use local producers in their the critical supply chain to continue to add to the local economy for the long term. While the program is brand new and no projects have been formally announced, I can tell you that judg-ing by the phone calls coming in,

we should see a great deal of vari-ety in the projects funded. Some of the inquiries we’ve already received include two different cheese proj-ects, improvements to an existing a saw mill, two projects that would process and preserve local foods for sales year round (particularly to schools) and a project to upgrade feed mill equipment at a local farm-ers’ cooperative. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. The diversity of agriculture in Virginia is tremendous, but it is not as amazing as the creativity of our farmers and agribusinesses. I am excited about this program and the new markets they will create for Virginia farmers and forest land owners throughout the state. One of Virginia’s strongest draws, both for tourists and businesses, is our beautiful countryside and vibrant rural communities – two things made possible by a strong agricultural and forestry sector. In order to keep these sectors strong, especially in the face of rising de-velopment pressure, robust new markets for Virginia grown products must continue to develop. That’s the beauty of the new AFID program. By working with localities to stra-tegically invest in new and expand-ing businesses that use Virginia grown products, we are helping to create the new markets our produc-ers need. Their success translates to higher values for the working lands that sustain their production. This means vibrant rural economies and farmland that stays in farming. And it is exactly this kind of cycle – de-velopment supporting agriculture, agriculture preserving our rural communities and rural communities attracting new development – that we hope the AFID program will en-courage. Elaine LidholmDirector of CommunicationsVirginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services102 Governor StreetRichmond VA 23219804.786.7686

GOVERNOR’S NEW GRANT FUND RECOGNIZES UNIQUE NEEDS OF AG-BASED BUSINESSES

By Matthew J. Lohr, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS)

FAMILY LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH has re-located to, 7283 Richmond-Tappahannock Hwy, Aylett, VA, (the old Holladay House Furniture Bldg.) on Sundays @ 10:30 a.m. We want to invite you to our exciting wor-ship experience. Children will enjoy Kid-zLife worship and KidZoo. COME JOIN US! For more information, contact: Gus Agostino (804) 769-2534 www.visitfami-lylife.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hope Alive Family Church invites the LA-DIES to a Wednesday morning fellowship with discussion, sharing and encourage-ment: “How To Find God’s Master Plan For Your Life.” Times are Wednesdays from 10 - 11:30AM. Hope Alive Family Church is located at 7753 Richmond Tap-pahanock Hwy. in Aylett for more informa-tion contact the church @ 804-769-7299 or by e-mail: hopealive@verizon.net Also check us out on Facebook. Regular service times are 10:30 Sunday mornings with Back to Basics bible study at 9:30. hopeALIVE Kids have Breakfast and a movie at 9:30 and Superkid Acad-emy beginning at 10:30. hopeALIVE kids presents the uncompromised, life-changing Word of God to children in fun and age ap-propriate ways. Hope to see you there!Hope Alive Family Church is located at 7753 Richmond Tappahannock Hwy. in Aylett. For more information contact the church @ 804-769-8872 or by e-mail: hopealive@verizon.net Also check us out on Facebook. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CORINTH CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 9153

Dabney’s Mill Rd., Manquin, VA 23106Minister: Sonny Claiborne, (804) 746-2762 Monday - Choir Practice, 6:30 pmWednesday- Bible Study, 7:30-8:30 pmSunday School - 10 am, Sunday Corpo-rate Prayer - 10:15 am, Sunday Worship Service - 11 am, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sharon Baptist Church invites you to join us for worship. We are located at 901 Sha-ron Road across from King William High School. Sunday mornings start with cof-fee & doughnuts at 9 am in the Fellowship Hall, followed by Sunday School for all ages at 9:15 am. Our Morning Worship Service starts at 10:30 am. Nursery pro-vided. We have a Sunday Evening Bible Study & Children’s Activities at 6 pm. Ad-ditional Bible Studies at 10 am on Tuesdays and at 7 pm on Wednesdays. Youth (7th – 12th graders) meet at 7 pm on Wednes-days. Church office hours are 9 am to 3 pm Monday – Thursday. Call the church at 769-2320 for more information.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Indian View Baptist Church invites every-one to their Sunday services - each Sunday at 11:00 AM. Join us this Sunday and ev-ery Sunday. 13349 King William Road, King William, VA 23086, (804) 350-1555.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Millers Tav-ern holds services at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. Nursery and Sunday School are available during the 10:00 service, which is accompanied by the choir and or-gan and followed by a coffee hour. All are

welcome. Corinth Christian Church, located at 9153 Dabney’s Mill Road, Man-quin, VA 23106 (about 8 miles off Rt. 360), would like to invite you to its Sun-day School at 10 am, Cor-porate Prayer at 10:15 am,

Worship Service at 11 am, Choir Practice on Monday nights at 6:30 pm and Bible Study on Wednesday nights at 7:30 pm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A new ministry has opened its doors at the old Dyson Store in Dowsell. ROCsolid Outreach Center has opened a THRIFT STORE. This ministry helps many in need. Donations are welcome. Pastors Lonnie and Dana Brawley invite to browse the selection of clothes, shoes, house wares, electronics and furniture. Open Monday-Saturday 10 am - 6 PM. Call 804 317 7415 if you need donations picked up.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CALLING ALL YOUTH! Coming to Ay-lett is Hope Alive’s Pit Stop Youth Group. We welcome all youth 13-17, grades 6-12 to join us for a fun-filled pursuit of the things of God. Regular Wednesday Pit Stop services are at 7pm in the church fel-lowship room. Join the Facebook page at Pit Stop Youth or contact via e-mail hope-alivepitstop@gmail.comLADIES please join us from 10:00 to 11:30 am Wednesday mornings for ongoing fel-lowship with discussion, sharing and en-couragement: “How To Find God’s Master Plan For Your Life.” REGULAR SERVICE times and hope-

ALIVEKids Superkid Academy are Sun-day mornings at 10:30am. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Ha-nover Courthouse. We are a friendly, fam-ily-oriented Episcopal church a few miles from King William County, at the intersec-tion of Rts. 301 and 54 (537-5516). The doors are open to our King William neigh-bors, and we’d love to have you visit and worship with us. Our Sunday schedule is: 8 AM, Holy Communion; 9:15, Christian education for adults and children; 10:30, Holy Communion. Refreshments and fel-lowship follow both services. On the sec-ond Sunday each month we have a Second Sunday Luncheon, free and open to all, where we sit down and catch up with one another. We have a special ministry to chil-dren, love to have babies in church, and welcome all persons of any sort to our wor-ship services and parish life.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Epworth United Methodist Church, locat-ed at the corner of Route 30 and Epworth Road in King William County, invites you to worship with them. Church service be-gins at 9:00 am followed by a time of re-freshments and Sunday School classes for all ages begins at 10:30 am. There are reg-ular bible study groups and youth groups available. For further information please contact Pastor Bill Walker at 769-1949 or visit our web site at www.EpworthUM-CAylett.org.

These Churches Welcome You to Their Places of Worship

Indian Rivers Humane Society meets on the second Thurs-day of each month at the King William Volunteer Fire De-partment and Rescue Squad at 6:30 p.m. Meetings are open to the public and we welcome new volunteers to our group! Please contact (804) 885-3109 for directions or additional information. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Blue Grass Jam 2nd Monday in each month 7pm-until Open to the Public King William Tire & Auto Rt. 360 in Manquin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VFW Post 83561658 VFW RoadWest Point, VABINGOEvery Thursday niteDoors open 5:20 p.m.Early Bird 7:20More info 804-241-9795~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Participation in the KING WILLIAM T.E.A. PARTY (Taxed Enough Already) is open to all citizens of good will. No sign up, no dues, no obligation. KWTP is an all-volunteer, grass-roots group of citizens who believe in honoring the US Constitution, limiting the size and power of government at all levels, cutting spending, and reducing taxes. Find us on Facebook and www.kwteaparty.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Frog Level Volunteer Fire Dept. is seeking vendors for our fall festival and parade on Oct. 27. If interested please email crozell@verizon.net or call 804-338-8697

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~GOOD KARMA will be hosting their Annual Fall Sale on Saturday, October 13 at King William High School from 7AM - 1PM (rain date October 20). Yard sale spots are available for $10 each and consist of four student parking spots. Tables are not provided. Gates will open at 5:30 AM and yard sale spots are offered on a first come first serve basis. Yard sale spots must be set up and ready no later than 7 AM and you must be prepared to leave the premises no later than 2 PM. If you would like to reserve a spot or have any questions please contact Lisa Woody at 994-8742. Please note: A $1 discount will be provided to ALL partici-pants who make a 4 can donation to the GOOD KARMA “Fill A Box” Non-Perishable Food Drive. GOOD KARMA is a non-profit organization formed in March of 2010 by friends, family mem-bers and citizens of King Wil-liam and surrounding counties. GOOD KARMA works closely with their local School Systems and Social Service Organiza-tions to collect food and mon-etary donations to provide assis-tance for less fortunate members of our communities. If you would like more informa-tion or would like to volunteer your time or services PLEASE contact Lisa Woody at the number listed above. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

UPCOMING POW-WOWS

October 2-6 Cherokee Indian Fair Cherokee Fairground Cherokee, NC Call: Howard Wahnetah 828-554-6471OctRappahannock Pow-wowIndian Neck, VA

October 19-20Waccamaw Siouan Powwow Tribal Grounds Bolton, NC Call: 910-655-8778

October TBD Meherrin Powwow Ahoskie, NC Contact: me-herrinpowwow@aol.com

November 2 NC Indian Senior Citizens Coalition Conference Fayetteville, NC Call: Helen Cook 910-424-3846

November 3 Native American Cultural Festival Guilford Na-tive American Art Gallery Greensboro, NC Call: 336-273-6605 November TBD4th Annual Charlotte Mecklenburg Ameri-can aIndian Heritage Month CelebrationCharlotte Museum of History Charlotte, NC Call: 704-568-1774

November 11 weekendGreat American Indian ExpoThe Showplace, Richmond, VACall: Barry Richardson, 252-538-0821

15th St. James Waccamaw Siouan “FESTIVAL”Saturday, November 10 at 10:00am in EST at St James Vol-unteer Fire Department

November17-17th Annual American Indian Heritage Cel-ebration NC Museum of History Raleigh, NC Call: 919-807-7979

University of Maryland’s 8th Annual Powwow, Saturday, December 8, 2012, from 10:0am - 6:00pm, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, UM College Park, 20742 POC: Dottie Chiquelo chicodh@umd.edu. Grand Entry at 11:00am.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Art Studio @ 301Teressa PearsonMinh Chau TruongPeggy Wadlington~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Testifying Toastmasters, Eastern Hanover’s only OPEN Toastmaster club, has changed its meeting times to the 2nd and 4th THURSDAY of every month. Still at 630-800 pm at Hanover Nazarene Church. If you seek better commu-nication skills and more confidence in a safe environment, come out to the Testifying Toastmasters! Contact Sandy Sanders, Membership/PR VP at eesjresquire@netscape.net or 804.779.3057 . Testifying Toastmasters is a outreach service of Hanover Nazarene Church to the Me-chanicsville community. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Grace Temple MinistriesWednesday Bible Study 7:00p.m at KWFR Community Hall in Aylett Va. Subjects include, What is the Gospel? What is true Repentance and Faith toward God through Jesus Christ? What is the Church of The Living God? The apostle’s doc-trine including the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Scriptural role of men and women in the local Church. Biblical truth concerning marriage, divorce and re-marriage. Contact Reverend Dennis Lee Dabney at 804 633-1261 or scripturalrestoration7@hotmail.com. Thanks for your prayers in advance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~September 30, 2012: The members of Christian Fellowship Ministries (CFM) would like to invite you to go with us as we travel to Farmville, VA! Pastor Mary Edwards will be speaking at Heartland Outreach Ministries on Sunday Sep-tember 30, 2012 during their morning service, where Chuck Graves is the Pastor. For more information please contact 804-769-1192, 804-562-8059 cfm23086@yahoo.com.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~October Announcement –Christian Fellowship Ministries will be in a monthly revival! The Elders and Ministers will be speaking each Thursday and Friday in October at 7 pm nightly! Please come and be blessed by the Lord! Christian Fellowship Ministries is located at 304 W. Chinquapin Rd. King William County, VA. For more information please contact 804-769-1192, 804-562-8059 or cfm23086@yahoo.com.Sunday October 14, 2012: Come join the members of Chris-tian Fellowship Ministries (CFM) as we continue to celebrate our Pastor! There will be a Birthday Banquet to celebrate and honor Pastor Mary Edwards on Sunday October 14, 2012 following the morning service. Come and be a blessing to this great servant of God! Christian Fellowship Ministries is

located at 304 W. Chinquapin Rd. King William County, VA. For more information please contact 804-769-1192, 804-562-8059 begin cfm23086@yahoo.com.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Saturday, October 6St. Paul Lutheran Church - 3rd Annual Indoor/Outdoor Fall Festival -- 8100 Shady Grove Rd, Mechanicsville. 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. rain or shine. Arts/crafts, food, baked goods, In-flated Jumping Ark & activities for kids of all ages. Come join us for a day of family fun. This Year’s Theme: Give Thanks.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~October 10 : Brett-Reed Memorial Presbyterian Church continues “Wednesday Matinee” – a monthly fellowship and Bible study that includes lunch and a short lesson based on the old Andy Griffith TV series; watch an episode and dis-cuss the ethical and Biblical implications of what happened that week in Mayberry. Wednesday Matinee will begin at noon, October 10 in the church fellowship hall. Since the West Point Ministers’ Association resumes its weekly Soup & Sermon at noon on Wednesdays in November, October 10 will be Brett-Reed’s final Wednesday Matinee in 2012; it will begin again follow-ing Easter in 2013. Call 843-2343 by Monday, October 8 to reserve a place. Members of churches in West Point and surround-ing counties are invited to share in the fellowship and lively discussion. Donations will be accepted to cover the cost of lunch, with any extra monies going to support St. David’s ministries in Aylett and the Good Neighbor Center in West Point. Brett-Reed has two ground-level entrances in the back of the church and is handicapped accessible. The church is located at 29680 King William Road., 7 miles west of West Point and 19 miles east of Central Garage on Rt. 30. Bring old friends and meet new ones at the Wednesday Matinee! Nancy Summerlin Pastor Brett-Reed Memorial Presbyterian ChurchP.O. Box 250West Point, VA 23181804-843-2343e-mail: nancysummerlin4@yahoo.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~September 30, 2012: The members of Christian Fellowship Ministries (CFM) would like to invite you to go with us as we travel to Farmville, VA! Pastor Mary Edwards will be speaking at Heartland Outreach Ministries on Sunday Sep-tember 30, 2012 during their morning service, where Chuck Graves is the Pastor. For more information please contact 804-769-1985, 804-562-8059 cfm23086@yahoo.com. October Announcement –Christian Fellowship Ministries will be in a monthly revival! The Elders and Ministers will be speaking each Wednesday through Friday in October at 7 pm nightly! Please come and be blessed by the Lord! Chris-tian Fellowship Ministries is located at 304 W. Chinquapin Rd. King William County, VA. For more information please contact 804-769-1985, 804-562-8059 or cfm23086@yahoo.com.Sunday October 14, 2012: Come join the members of Chris-tian Fellowship Ministries (CFM) as we continue to celebrate our Pastor! There will be a Birthday Banquet to celebrate and honor Pastor Mary Edwards on Sunday October 14, 2012 following the morning service. Come and be a blessing to this great servant of God! Christian Fellowship Ministries is located at 304 W. Chinquapin Rd. King William County, VA. For more information please contact 804-769-1985, 804-562-8059 begin cfm23086@yahoo.com.

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Do you have a ghost story from Ha-nover County? Would you like it to be included in my book Haunted Hanover? If so, I would love to hear your story.Contact me at Haunted Hanover, P.O.Box 2381, Mechanicsville, Va 23116. Your information can be kept pri-vate if you wish.I look forward to your scary stories.

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Acquinton SCA Gives Back to Community

SCA President, Taylor Hubbard, and the Acquinton SCA Of-ficers presented GOOD KARMA’s Lisa Woody with a collec-tion of canned goods from their student-initiated canned food drive. Students encouraged participation in the food drive on

Back to School Night and during the first week of school.

Pictured from left to right: Mattie Watkins, Lani Bareford, Krystle Yarbrough (SCA Sponsor), Ryan Getz, Taylor Hub-bard, Lisa Woody (GOOD KARMA), Zaaron Foster, and

Mary-Stuart Slack.

On September 22, 2012, my fa-ther’s family joined for our an-nual reunion. Many folks may not reunite each year, but as we get older, we all can appreciate having a good reason to come to-

gether in love.

This year, many stories were told, we ate, laughed and danced. Nothing is ever more important

than family - cherish yours!

2012 Richardson Reunion by A. Kay Oxendine

Good Karma Food Drive

“3rd Annual Fill-A-Box”

Non-Perishable Food Drive

“What goes around comes Around”

Join Us! Help those in need by donating non-perishable, healthy food items to the “Fill-A-Box” Drive.Our goal is to fill 200 boxes for those in need in King William County for the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

Please join our volunteers, area businesses and local social service departments.

Drop Off Locations: Twin Rivers Realty; Guardian Angels Daycare; Woody’s Garage, Inc.; Boyle Dentistry; Dr. Germane Orthodontics; King William Circuit Court; EVB –Central Garage; 360 Hardware; Breath of Fresh Air; King William Parks & Recreation Office

Collection Dates: September 15, 2012 – December 15, 2012

Need more info? Want to join our organization?

Contact: Lisa Woody – (804) 994-8742Email: goodkarmaorg@gmail.com