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A civil case against three Virginia anglers that began last Tuesday in Covington could set a precedent that would limit the public’s right to use and enjoy rivers and streams across the state.

Dargan Coggeshall, one of the anglers named in the civil case, said: “I was fishing a section of the Jackson River that I have fished for years and an area that the Vir-ginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has said was public water. I was told by a game warden that I could paddle and wade so long as I stayed within the high water mark. I don’t un-derstand how a private entity can usurp the public’s right and in effect seize state owned property that all citizens have the right to enjoy.”

The case, North South Development, LLC, et. al. v. Frank Garden, et. al., has been brought by a development compa-ny seeking to create a private trout fish-ery for purchasers of its properties on a stretch of the Jackson River that histori-cally has been patrolled, managed and

promoted as public water by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The suit charges the anglers with civil tres-pass for getting out of their kayaks and wad-ing the river while fish-ing and seeks $10,000 in damages.

North South Devel-opment owns River’s

Edge, a private community and golf course on the banks of the Jackson River several miles upstream of Covington. The company claims it owns the river

bottom through a King’s Grant on a 3-mile stretch that flows past its second-home lot sites and golf course de-

velopment. Since none of the defendants claim to own the river bottom, their law-yers asked the court to attach the state as a third party defendant to the suit, but on July 25 Judge Bo Trumbo ruled that he was not compelled to have the Com-monwealth join the case and so now it is up to the defendants to prove that the North South De-velopment does not own the river

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Long Way From Home

Photo by Travis Surber

Staff Sgt. Travis Surber, a native of Franklin County and a paratrooper with the 173rd Brigade Combat Team’s Battle Company of the 2nd Battalion 503rd Infantry Regiment parachutes out of a C-130 Hercules

Transport Aircraft and into the Ukraine sky. This marks the first time the Sky Soldiers of the 173rd have jumped in Ukraine. Surber and his fellow mates will be training and conducting multinational airborne operations and field training exercises through August 5th as part of a U.S. Army led, multi-national exercise known as Rapid Trident, taking place at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Keep Travis and all our troops in your prayers.

Floydfest Bigger Than EverFloydFest hoped its 10th anniversary would be an “eXperience,” which is how it

was billed, and for the thousands that showed up it turned out to be just that. The music extravaganza ran out of tickets on two of its four day run (last Friday and Saturday) and some had to pay extra to camp in the VIP section since the regular camping spots sold out before the end of 2010.

The vibe at FloydFest, which is set on a large tract of leased land near the Floyd and Patrick County borders, was as good as ever, even if a few actually complained that it had gotten too big in its tenth year. The array of food vendors, many offering organic dishes, was probably the best ever, and the beer and wine garden did brisk business.

As always, the music offered at all 11 venues on site was eclectic, interesting and often new to many listeners. FloydFest has become a favorite of those who travel the music festival circuit every year, attending similar events throughout the south-east and elsewhere. Many in the crowd sported t-shirts from listening ventures in far flung spots.

“We’re inspired by all of you,” the lead

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“Sportsplex” and Co-Op Proposed for Countryside

In a closed session this past Monday, Roanoke City Council chose Northwest Recreation Club, Roanoke Valley Youth Soccer and Roanoke Natural Foods Co-Op for further consideration to occupy part of the former Countryside golf course property.

The Northwest Recreation Club proposes a soccer complex that takes up most of the cen-tral area available for development. The area set aside for recreation in the Master Plan adopted by City Council allowed for up to a maximum of 13 acres. Northwest Recreation Club is ask-ing for 17.5 acres. The remaining three acres of residential mixed-use property is adjacent to the Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) which re-ceives considerable air traffic noise.

Councilwoman Anita Price’s husband Charles Price is a Northwest Region I football coach. Price and Northwest Recreation Club President Clay Dawson have been lobbying for the property for a year.

The proposal includes four full-size soccer / multipurpose fields with an additional smaller practice field. One soccer field can also be used for football. At least one field could have artifi-

[City Gov’t]

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Congressman Bob Goodlatte voted in support of the revised Budget Con-trol Act which prevents the government from defaulting on current obligations while taking steps toward ending Wash-ington’s culture of spending. The legisla-tion, which passed by a bipartisan vote of 269-161, contains a two-step process for cutting historic amounts of spend-ing. It cuts and caps government spend-ing immediately.

“Today the House passed the revised Budget Control Act, which prevents the government from defaulting on our cur-rent obligations while taking the neces-sary steps to rein in Washington’s out-

of-control spending,” said Goodlatte. “This legislation, which is the result of bipartisan negotiations, cuts more fed-eral spending than it increases the debt limit and takes the critical first steps to-ward bringing fiscal responsibility back to Washington.”

The legislation will save $917 billion over 10 years in exchange for raising the debt ceiling by $900 billion until approxi-mately February. Before the debt ceiling can be raised again, Congress and the President must enact spending cuts at least as large as any potential in-crease in the debt ceiling. The proposal

requires that both the House and the Senate vote by the end of the year on a balanced budget Constitutional amend-ment, like the one Goodlatte introduced on the first day of the 112th Congress. Goodlatte was also pleased that the re-vised Budget Control Act accomplished all of these goals without raising taxes.

“With forty-nine out of fifty state governments, including Virginia, required to balance their state budgets, people are

amazed that the federal government is not restrained in this way and strongly support a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” said Goodlatte.

“After all, living within your means is a concept that most Americans are all too familiar with and they expect nothing less from the federal government.”

Fellow Republican Morgan Griffith found himself on the opposite side of the vote, however, and had this to say about the legislation and his hope for further reform:

“Last week I made the difficult deci-sion to compromise and voted for Speak-er Boehner’s plan. While the Boehner plan was not perfect, it was a realistic ap-proach and a step in the right direction.

Goodlatte Supports Budget Control Act - Griffith Votes No

Photo by Gene Marrano

The band “New Monsoon” plays on the Hill Holler stage at Floydfest.

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A fisherman plies the waters of the scenic Jackson River.

Latest Jackson River Suit Pits Landowners Against Fishermen

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For the recreational investment by the club, the city will not receive any monetary compensation. As a nonprofit the city will not receive any tax revenue. The club antici-pates that their investment will generate col-lateral tax revenue from out of town teams. The city paid $4.1 million for the property and is still paying on the debt. NWR asks for a 20 to 40 year lease.

A letter of interest from John Lipscomb of L & M, LLC, a group interested in the prop-erty, proposed purchase of the tennis build-ing and 2.5 acres. It was rejected in favor of NWR. Lipscomb offered $100,000 for the

property that would have established a ten-nis camp featuring a well know national pro. The for-profit entity would have generated tax revenue.

The Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op let-ter of interest is a lease-purchase offer. The lease for the 12.2 acres would start at $100 annually in the first year, with an option to purchase the parcel for $90,000 by the end of the tenth year. They propose crops, orchards, chickens, and a donkey (to deter predators) along with 22,000 square feet of loop tunnels used in the early production of crops.

In addition, a 2000 square foot office and produce packing structure would include retail space for community shopping two days a week. Roanoke Regional Airport owned the parcel before a land swap agree-

ment transferred ownership to the city. The land was occupied by homes in the 1980s. The homes were relocated when the airport was expanded. The property is located in the direct flight path of runway six.

The original purpose for purchasing the golf course property was to increase Roanoke’s housing stock and tax base. That proposition fell through years ago and the city has been struggling to offload the prop-erty ever since.

In a design yet to be developed, the neigh-borhood will get an investment of $1.5 mil-lion in capital improvement funds for trails and natural areas.

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> Budget From page 1

Among other things, it required passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitu-tion before a second increase in the debt ceiling.

However, the legislation be-fore us today was not quite as good. By contrast, today’s deal only requires a Balanced Bud-

get Amendment to be voted on – not passed. I hope the Demo-crat controlled Senate will pass a Balanced Budget Amendment as a common sense solution to solve America’s debt problem, but it is far from certain. Ad-ditionally, there is a provision which, if there is congressional

inaction, would allow Presi-dent Obama to effectively raise the debt ceiling an additional $1.2 trillion, triggering an equal amount of blind cuts.

After thoroughly reviewing the legislation and hearing from constituents, I came to the con-clusion that I should not vote

for this bill.”Griffith was one of 66 Re-

publican members to oppose the Budget Control Act of 2011. ninety-five Democrats voted against the legislation.

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singer from Old Crow Medicine Show told the audience before their performance last Thursday night, joking also about the “whole bunch of hairy dudes to boot” that were in the audience at the Dreaming Creek main stage. Earlier that day Trampled By Turtles warmed up the crowd with a rousing set. “I heard them from the campground and said I needed to come over and take a look,” said one Floyd camper.

Linda Harrison of Roanoke, a retired schoolteacher, wanted to go to Woodstock in 1969 as a recent college graduate, but her mother nixed that notion. “FloydFest is a good substitute these days,” said Har-rison, as she watched New Monsoon play on the Hill Holler stage. “It’s not as wild as Woodstock was,” noted Harrison, who likes to people-watch at FloydFest and “loves the food. There are three times more vendors

than there were a couple of years ago. I just enjoy it.”

At the other end of FloydFest, far away from the thousands that flock to the main stage to hear headliners like Old Crow Med-icine Show, several dozen people listened while Virginia native Heather Berry played and sang her old time music. The workshop stage was sponsored by the Virginia Foun-dation for the Humanities, which showcases and records little-known musicians from all over the Commonwealth.

It had been about three years since Berry played at FloydFest. “We were real excited about coming back,” said Berry, a Shenan-doah Valley native who was accompanied by her husband, also a musician, as she played. Berry was also looking forward to spending time at FloydFest X simply as a spectator.

“There’s so much music here and it’s a great atmosphere, wonderful folks,” said Berry. “We love playing here. You couldn’t ask for better folks or a better place to have it.”

Those who like the music and overall at-mosphere at events like FloydFest and the recent Floyd Fandango may want to check out the 36th annual Virginia Wine Festival in Centreville (Sept. 17-18), which is now managed by Kris Hodges, Erika Johnson and the Across the Way production team- the same ones who manage Floydfest.

“You guys are going to have so much fun this weekend,” a member of the group Trampled By Turtles said as FloydFest X kicked off last Thursday; “I wish we could stay longer.”

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bottom and that it belongs to the state.

“If the developer wins, it could serve as precedent to privatize other riverbeds in the state,” said Bill Tanger, chairman of the Friends of the Rivers of Vir-ginia. “It could embolden other landowners to post streams and assert ownership of the bed.”

“This is a case in which ev-eryone who enjoys Virginia’s rivers and streams has a stake,” said Jeff Kelble, Shenandoah Riverkeeper. “Although the suit deals with the Jackson River, I am concerned about how a de-cision against the anglers might be used to restrict the enjoy-ment of public waters such as the Shenandoah, James, New River, Roanoke, Chickahomi-

ny, Rappahannock and scores of others.” For more than two years, the developer of the Riv-er’s Edge golf community along the Jackson River has been post-ing “No trespassing, fishing, boating or wading” signs along a stretch of the river, just below a Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ boat ramp at Smith’s Bridge.

On its website, the fish and game department lists that stretch of the river as public water. Anglers have understood for years that they could fish and wade in that area so long as they did not go above the high-water line.

Over the course of more than a year and several fishing trips, one of the defendants, Cogge-

shall of Charlottesville, had sev-eral encounters with the owners of the development after launch-ing his kayak at Smith’s Bridge and floating downstream. At productive looking spots, he would get out of his kayak and stand in the river to fish, which is where the developers would approach him from the bank, claiming he was trespassing, threatening to call law enforce-ment and snapping pictures.

Coggeshall said, “Although I had checked several times with the VGDIF and the Alleghany Sherriff ’s Department to sub-stantiate my right to stand in that section of the Jackson River and fish, the harassments con-tinued. I didn’t ask to be sued. I just wanted to fish in a river

which the state promotes as a public fishery.”

On August 16, 2010, the an-glers were served with warrants charging them with a Class 1 Misdemeanor of criminal tres-pass. In October, 2010 a Gen-eral District Court judge dis-missed the charges against all three men. In February 2011, the development company and one of its lot buyers filed the civ-il trespass case in the Alleghany Circuit Court.

For more information on the Virginia River Defense Fund vis-it: virginiariversdefensefund.org.


Potential Goodlatte Challenger Would Have Voted “No” On Budget Act

Would-be candidate Andy Schmookler is looking to unseat Congressman Bob Goodlatte - a tall task if there ever was one. He wants to earn the Demo-crat nomination to run against Goodlatte in the 2012 election.

Harvard and Cal-Berkley edu-cated – and once selected by Esquire magazine as one of the people who are changing the nation – Schmookler isn’t all that crazy about the debt ceil-ing compromise, which saw many votes from both sides of the aisle cast against it before be-ing passed and signed into law. Sixty-six Republican members opposed the legislation along with 95 Democrats.

“Bad behavior is being re-warded,” said Schmookler, not-ing that the debt ceiling had been raised dozens of times in the past without having other issues attached to it. “You don’t play politics with it,” added Schmookler, a long time fixture on the radio in the Shenandoah Valley as a political commenta-tor, who has also been heard on NPR also.

Schmookler called the debt ceiling/deficit reduction de-bate “a violation of our politi-cal norms,” and sees a pattern of bad political conduct that has been “scandalous” over the past decade; behavior he says is rewarded because no one con-fronts them on it. He also says President Obama did not insist forcefully enough that the debt ceiling issue be handled on its own, without being attached to a deficit reduction bill. Democrats in particular said Schmookler

have done a poor job of con-fronting bad behavior from the opposing party, and have not used the bully pulpit to their ad-vantage.

In any case it’s the “crash of the economy” and the worst economic times since the Great Depression that have set the country back, according to Schmookler, and the new debt ceiling bill will not address that. He claims that the majority of citizens polled and most politi-cians – even Republicans – were okay with tax increases for the wealthiest Americans, or just let-ting the Bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest expire. This in spite of data that shows the top 25% of wage earners now pay over 86% of income taxes and that the bot-tom 50% pay only 2.7%.

Schmookler is also critical

that the Tea Party has been able to “extort really destructive de-mands” from the rest of the Re-publican Party, while “holding a gun to the American economy.” Meanwhile the Democrats have demurred to those demands, something he is very critical of. He also said the party should have run stronger campaigns in 2010, since he believes most of the nation was okay with tax increases on the wealthiest at the time. He claims that most Dems ran away from that issue, and from their support of the health care legislation many had voted for.

That didn’t help in many cases anyway and numerous Demo-crat incumbents wound up be-ing voted out of office. “The Democrats were out messaged on every issue… People went to the polls believing falsehoods,” said Schmookler, who saw a re-peat of that pattern in the debt ceiling vote.

Andy Schmookler may have a very uphill battle in his quest to unseat Bob Goodlatte next year, but said he will run – if nomi-nated – as “the candidate who speaks the truth.” His criticism of the debt ceiling compromise may only be the beginning.


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Held for the third year, last Saturday’s Touch-a- Truck event at Roanoke County’s Green Hill Park was overflowing with activ-ity which included crowd favor-ite, Firemen’s Foam, as well as a petting zoo and food vendors.

And then there were the “trucks.” Almost any vehicle fits the bill, including Fire Trucks, Garbage Trucks, Race Cars, Back Hoes, Small Planes, Boats, Police Cars, Dump Trucks, TV Trucks, Army Cars, Tow Trucks, Freightliners, Helicop-ters, Cement Mixers, Front End Loaders, Cherry Pickers, Street Sweepers, Bob Cats, Ditch Witches, Antique Cars, Limou-sines and many more.

The free event, allowed kids and adults to sit inside, touch and learn all about vehicles they usually don’t have the opportu-nity to be up close and personal

with. Wendi Schultz, Tourism / Event Coordinator for Roanoke County said “everyone had a fabulous time. It is indeed one of our most popular events. We estimate about 8,000 attended this year and everyone we spoke with was thrilled.”

She added that “there were almost 150 vehicles and next year we anticipate having close to 200. Several of the companies who participated this year have already told us they want to bring more next year. We are so glad that we can bring this kind of family fun to the Roanoke Valley each year!”

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Kids stood in line for a turn to swing on tow-straps suspend-ed from tow trucks.

The Firemen enjoyed spraying the children who had a ball as well getting soaked at this year’s event.

The intense heat kept lots of kids gathered below the fire-men’s spray.

The first Tuesday in August every year “National Night Out Against Crime” has neighbors gathering to stand up against criminal activity. This year Tim Heaphy, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, kicked the day off in Roanoke at the Hurt Park neighborhood in front of their community gar-den.

Mark Powell, director and founder of the Roanoke Com-munity Garden Association, started the garden as a way to evoke neighborhood pride.

The Hurt Park neighborhood is a success story. The neighbor-hood has suffered from poverty and the lack of opportunity over the years but good things are be-ginning to happen.

“Things are getting better … a diverse array of interests and energy has come together to re-vitalize this neighborhood,” said Heaphy. The “Goonz” gang has been eradicated from the area. The gang was selling crack co-caine, committing violent rob-

beries and injuring many citi-zens. They entered the homes of drug dealers and were assaulting women and children.

Botetourt County Sheriff Ronald Sprinkle and Common-wealth Attorney Joel Branscome jump-started the Goonz case.

Home invasions reached a peak of 87 over a 16-month pe-riod in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 only 11 people reported inva-sion robberies had taken place following prosecution of the Goonz gang.

Heaphy attributed the success to police investigators and pros-ecutors. Roanoke City’s Chief Chris Perkins along with police chiefs and sheriffs from Vinton, Botetourt and Roanoke County flanked him in front of Hurt Park’s community garden. He thanked them all for their coop-eration in building a case against violent criminal enterprises.

Heaphy says he seeks to com-bat crime with a comprehen-sive approach. He believes in coupling enforcement solutions with crime prevention and pris-oner reentry programs. Heaphy

calls it a “three-legged stool” strategy.

With the additional resources gained by completion of the Promise Neighborhood grant the community will now also have the ability to knock down stumbling blocks that get in the way of education.

Freedom First Credit Union is developing affordable neigh-borhood banking in Hurt Park as well. Freedom First received Corporate Citizen of the Year from the NAACP at their re-cent banquet. They have been instrumental in providing fi-nancial education and offering short-term loans that help avoid predatory lenders.

Heaphy chose the Hurt Park Community Garden as a sym-bol of “weeding out criminal elements and planting the seeds of hope and progress. With nur-turing Hurt Park will be a thriv-ing community,” he said.

Heaphy joined Roanoke City police Tuesday evening traveling to several neighborhood “Night Out” events. He planned to cel-ebrate, relax and eat with the community.

“Tonight, neighbors here and across Roanoke will stand united in the fight against crime … Each citizen will be part of the solution to criminal activ-ity in their own backyards,” said Heaphy.


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Mark Powell (left), Tim Heaphy, AUSA Charlene Day.

Diversity In City Workforce DisappointingBrenda Hale, President of the

NAACP Roanoke Branch, said of Monday morning’s Diversity Report to Roanoke City Council that she “was a little disappoint-ed in the staff racial mix.” Hale thought the city’s gender mix is also inadequate.

Caroline Glover, director of human resources, gave coun-cil an overview of the diversity of Roanoke City’s workforce of 1,621 employees. Males make up 64.16 percent, while females make up 35.84 percent of the city’s workforce. Female promo-tions lagged behind male pro-motions in 2010.

Hale wondered aloud about the position level females were hired into compared to males. “Are they being hired in manage-ment or supervisory positions or are they glorified custodians,” asked Hale. The city did not cap-ture data for new hire work as-signments.

As of April, Roanoke City’s minority population stands at 31.22 percent as recorded by the VEC. Roanoke City’s minority workforce is somewhat lower, at 21 percent. The percent of minority new hires came in at about the same rate.

Staff hiring has picked up in 2010 compared to the lean years of 2008-2009. Prior year calcula-tions reflect years of downsizing and seemed to have hit females more than males. “In 2010 hiring picked up to a more normal rate,” observed Assistant City Manager Sherman Stovall.

Glover admitted that Fire / EMS is “predominantly a white male dominated environment.

There is a struggle in the Pub-lic Works department getting skilled applicants, and diversity is minimal,” she said.

Budget cuts have required a reduction in the “Professional Development in Leadership” program. A smaller budget has led to the city being very selec-tive in the recruiting of new em-ployees. No-cost or low-cost job fairs are the norm. The Human Resources department works closely with Total Action against Poverty and other organizations.

Councilman Ray Ferris said he’d like to see the percentage of minority applicants to determine if minorities were either not ap-plying or not being hired.

Hale believes that qualifica-tions for city positions need to be clearly defined. If a minority applicant is not qualified, then “it sets them up to fail - it takes away their hope,” she said. Vocational education plays a big part in suc-ceeding in many of the city’s po-sitions.

Hale was dismayed by the “to-tal silence on military veteran re-cruitment.” Veterans are already a trained skilled workforce. “It doesn’t get any better than that,” she said. “The Non-Commis-sioned Officer Association is where they should be looking,” added Hale.

Glover explained that recruit-ed applicants have a hard time getting through the Police and Fire/EMS academy. Stovall said that they had been more aggres-sive in recruiting minorities in the past, and they plan to step it up again as the budget improves.

Recycling Set To Reap Rewards

A recycling awards program with Coca-Cola Bottling Con-solidated Operations LLC can win a Roanoke City resident a $50 gift card from Kroger start-ing in October. A sticker will be mailed to residents to affix to their recycle bins if they want to participate. It is not mandatory.

The city hopes to increase the 38 percent recycling rate and save on tipping fees. The plan is to entice more people to recycle, and recycle correctly. “One day the city will break even,” said sol-id waste manager, Skip Decker.

On the scheduled day of pick-up, the “Recycle and Win” prize patrol will check participating bins for accurate placement of recyclable material. Bin contam-ination will result in disqualifica-tion. Roanoke is the first city in Virginia to enact the program, which has been successful in Ra-leigh and Charlotte, NC.

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Enough Already - Least Interesting Act in the Circus Needs to GoIn the late 1970s or early 1980s I first heard of

the concept of animal rights from a professor at Hollins College, as it was called then.

To me those two words, "animal rights," seemed as alien as, say, the words “nuclear donut.”

Time has proven that the notion of an-imal rights was an idea that made sense to a lot of people.

No longer do we expect to hear it only from a social science professor at a social gathering at a party marked by learned talk and the popping of wine corks.

Animals have never been a reason to attend a circus. Not for me. And the sight of elephants chained to stakes outside arenas and tents and swaying neurotically while awaiting their turn in the ring has always appalled me. The sight of big cats peevishly swatting at their so-called

tamer’s whip reminds me not of man’s mastery over beast but a sleeping teenager’s angry response to the appearance in his bedroom door of a parent

bearing a list of Saturday chores.The possibility, however remote, of

human bloodshed doesn’t entertain me, either.

This year, for my birthday in March, my daughter Katharine provided three tickets to an April performance of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus at George Mason University Pa-triot Center in Fairfax. My son Michael and I joined her for a Sunday afternoon show. I was eager to see what effect the

wild animals would have on me and apprehensive that I might find them indispensible which would mean my farewell to the traditional circus.

From the blast of the band instruments

through the opening parade and the ringmaster’s masterful greeting (I’d have bought a CD of his performance if any had been available), the percus-sion-heavy afternoon was quick, crisp, and awe-inspiring thanks to the superlative skill of the jug-glers, tumblers, acrobats, fliers and other ordinary people doing, as they say, extraordinary things.

Then came the elephants, with their ho-hum bal-ancing on stools; really in today’s fast-paced world, would pachyderms on roller skates be too much to expect? Then came the big cats, sourpussed as ever when their trainer bid them, under threat of a lash-ing, to lie down, roll over, and get up.

To my surprise this interlude was not completely worthless. It enabled me to notice that the beasts seemed to be staging a workplace protest. Their unenthusiastic obedience drew the show nearly to a halt. Baseball can be a slow game but the drama more than offsets the pace. A slow circus or one

slowed by some of its featured performers is as vex-ing as a slow computer

As Judy Collins said, send in the clowns. Why drag those poor beasts out of their habitats

anyway? The sheer number of cable TV shows de-voted to animals and their environment no doubt has made humans, including children, more fa-miliar with wild things than they have ever been in history.

Cirque de Soleil is on to something and tradi-tional circuses could save themselves a lot of money and grief by quietly dropping their least contented cast members and spotlighting their most remark-able ones—the humans who risk life and limb to entertain us with feats of almost unimaginable skill, feats that place them, whipless, in real danger.

First Year of Medical School: Successfully Completed

The Virginia Tech Caril-ion School of Medicine will start its second

class this week. Out of more the 2700 applicants, around 250 were invited for interviews and a small fraction of those were offered a spot in the class. On August 1st, forty-two students will begin a journey of at least seven years to complete their training.

That set me to thinking about those in the charter class; what was their experience like? I asked Dr. Mark Greenawald, Associ-ate Dean for Student Affairs, to arrange an interview with a group of them. Even though I went through medi-cal school a long time ago, the memories of that first year are vivid: The worst year of my entire life. I won-dered if I would find the same to be true for these students.

What a difference! In the commodious confines of the medical school library I met with four quite astounding students. It was immediately apparent that they were much more mature than the students I dealt with for so many years as a clinical pro-fessor of medicine at UVA. First of all, they were older, ranging in age from 28 to 31. They all had previous successful careers after their graduation from college, but after a number of years felt unfulfilled, not challenged, and believing there should be more to a profession than what they were experiencing. Let me in-troduce them.

Matt Joy, a graduate of the Uni-

versity of Southern California in Performance Music. He worked in Los Angeles in the music in-dustry playing in bands and do-ing solo guitar performance. He is married and they are expect-ing a baby boy in the near future. His wife works.

Don Vile grew up in the Phila-delphia area and is the first in his family to attend college. A biomedical engineering gradu-ate from Harvard, he entered the work force as a software

programmer after the company for whom he was going to work im-ploded when the dot com bubble burst. In the Washington area, he worked with people he enjoyed. He is mar-ried and they have a little girl.

Elizabeth Glazier graduated from the University of Geor-gia with a degree in

advertising. She worked in that field in the metropolitan Wash-ington area for a number of years. She speaks with an ease that testifies to her communica-tion skills. Her husband contin-ues to live in Maryland and she commutes on weekends. They have no children.

Jarred Hicks graduated from Lee University in Tennessee with a degree in psychology and worked for Wachovia and then an internet marketing company before going to UNC at Cha-pel Hill to prepare for medical school. He is unmarried and says that if you are single guy in Roanoke, med school is a good place to be; there is little time for social life.

Each has a research project. Matt is studying predictors of success in bariatric (weight re-duction) surgery particularly as related to knee replacement. Don is working with rotavirus, a causative agent in gastrointes-tinal problems. Elizabeth is col-laborating with VT professors in genomics of melanoma. Jarred is doing research in hospital disas-ter evacuation. Each will publish a paper prior to graduation.

They all had a positive view of their first year at VTC. All had been back to college to get the prerequisite courses completed since none had planned on medicine as a profession. Rec-ognizing this was a new school, they anticipated there would be a learning curve for the school as well as the students. They were pleased with the responsiveness of the faculty to their requests and comments. They found the course of study challenging, but not overwhelming. Already in their second year they are expe-riencing new and more difficult material.

Since they are participating in a problem based learning program they have developed interpersonal communication skills that are valuable. Working in groups of seven students with a mentor for eight weeks on a particular clinical problem they are responsible for teaching each other under the watchful eye of faculty. It took several cycles as they learned how to depend on one another; any sense of com-petitiveness was replaced with cooperation.

There is much more to say about their experience, but I left with the following impressions: If these are typical students, the future of medicine is in good hands. I hope that I will be able to meet with them again at the end of each year and follow their progress. As I walked to my car, I could not help but contrast how much happier they seemed than my classmates of long ago.

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The Preacher’s Corner - By Stuart RevercombStriving and Receiving - Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31

In the chapters just ahead of the above ref-erenced scripture we learn that things are about to get very interesting for Jacob who,

with all his wives and possessions and herds, is get-ting ready to cross back into his brother Esau's ter-ritory .

Yup, that Esau - the one he has flimflammed and pilfered and conned like a small town carnival huckster. And he has just received the news that his brother is approaching from the north with over 400 men. Jacob is scared - and rightfully so.

After considering his limited options, he divides all of his possessions (people, goods and herds) into two parties - figuring that if Esau attacks the one then maybe the other will get away. He then prays to God and seeks his help, admitting that he's not worth all the blessings he's received. He also re-minds God of the promise he made to him that he would indeed be blessed if he (Jacob) returned to this land.

"Don't forget God, I'm your guy. I've always tried to do my best - but things look mighty tough."

Returning to a more "practical" line of thinking he decides to offer Esau presents and he takes his remaining possessions and sends them forward - telling his servants to put some distance between themselves so that the different portions of gifts will come in waves and perhaps appease his broth-er from whom he has stolen just about everything of real value.

There is nothing else left to do and that night Jacob sends his two wives, his two female servants and his 11 sons across the small brook that was be-fore them. He then goes back across where he finds himself alone. Jacob knows there is no way out.

But then a strange thing happens - and all we are told by way of introduction is that "A man wrestled with him until the breaking of day . . "

And in this striving Jacob never gives up. And apparently this angel or representative of

God or God himself as Jacob later boldly claims, is very impressed with the attribute of tenacity - sticking with it - persevering. And when "the man" realizes he can't get away he touches the socket of Jacob's hip and puts it out of joint. But this doesn't help either and finally the man says, "let me go be-

cause the day breaks!" And Jacob responds with all the passion of a man that wants to live anew and overcome the challenges before him: "I will not let you go unless you bless me!"

The man asks Jacob's name (presumably in order to bless him) and Jacob in turn asks him HIS name and you can almost hear the laughter in the man's voice - "Why is it that you ask MY name?" And he blesses him there.

Jacob limps onward into the morning seemingly no better off - and maybe worse - than he was be-fore.

But the day goes entirely different than he ever could have imagined. Somehow through the mys-tery of his striving and struggling and wrestling with God, things have been put right with Esau, and his brother welcomes him with an attitude of forbearance and forgiveness. Esau even winds up leaving him with some of the servants that HE had brought.

Hasn't your own intuition told you this your whole life - and hasn't life itself also born out the idea that this is what it takes? A willingness to wrestle and to strive - to not always play it so safe or exactly as the book might have it . . . To perse-vere - to endure - to have the nerve and the moxie to ASK for the blessing, even when you know you don't deserve it?

That God isn't looking so much for the strongest or the smartest or even the bravest as he is for the persistent seeker that works well with what he's got . . . The honest doubter in lieu of the overconfident zealot who arrogantly believes he or she has God all figured out . . . The person with little who is willing to take a high risk - in lieu of the one who seeks to protect what he already has.

Jacob seeks. Jacob wrestles. Jacob never gives up. Jacob asks for the man's name!

And in the end Jacob receives God's favor and intercession.

That we would all wrestle so boldly.

Stuart Revercomb is the pastor at Peace Presbyte-rian church on Cloverdale Road. Visit them at www.peace-church.net

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Economics As If People And Planet Mattered

Is it just me, or does most everyone you talk to these days think that

most everything in politics, economics, society and the environment is broken on a grand scale? Wonder why?

We’ve blindly fol-lowed a seriously flawed Human Busi-ness Plan for the past century. During that time, we shifted from a needs-based to de-sires-based economy for profit, not perma-nence, and proceed-ed as if the planet’s capacity to give and to recover from insult were infinite. Corporations came to wield unprecedented power over governments, people and planet; their single bottom line has been profit in dollars only. We have acted as if our species’ best interest was the only mea-sure of progress and economic health.

Lately, many are acknowl-edging that the Human Enter-prise is on the cusp of rapid, urgent, revolutionary reorien-tation, because the old maps are leading us to a dangerous place. These past standards of business simply cannot guide us to the future we want for the next generations. At last, per-haps, we’re not only putting on the brakes at the very edge of the precipice, but radically re-versing the direction we must go from this point on, to move us away from, not ever closer, to the brink.

In spite of this somber in-dictment of what has hap-pened here on my watch, I am newly hopeful. While in such a positive delusional state, let me share an abbreviated sampling of personally-encouraging shifts and insights that seem to me to show we are able—while only possibly willing--to fix what we’ve broken or badly bent while there is still time. I’m day-dreaming here, so just

indulge my fantasies.* The future won’t wrongly

pit economy against environ-ment in an either-or battle. In the new economic model, the full value of services to hu-manity provided by healthy,

resilient oceans, soils, forests and the biodiversity of organisms will be given their true val-ue and their health will be as important a bottom-line con-sideration as profit. [Search: triple bot-tom line]. National and corporate ac-

tivities that harm the overall health and sustainability of those globally-shared natural systems will incur shareholder outrage and heavy penalties.

* Corporate profitability and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will no longer be seen as the best measure of how the economy is working for you and me. Measures, such as the Genuine Progress Indica-tor (GPI) adopted at the state level by Maryland and others, will give us truer measures of the well-being of all, not the disproportionate new wealth of the few.

* Along these same lines, the nation of Bhutan is using an index of national health called Gross National Happiness. The Happy Planet Index is the measuring tool of the National Economics Foundation of the UK, an organization which has as its logo “economics as if people and planet mattered,” reminiscent of the subtitle of Brit EF Schumacher’s prescient 70’s book on this very topic called “Small Is Beautiful.”

* As more of us consume the planet, the pie does not get any bigger. All our eggs are in this one basket; all humanity’s life support comes from this ONE spaceship Earth. We will necessarily learn to live within our means, and find that there

can be progress and prosperity without growth, as that term has come to be understood. [Search: steady state econom-ics]. We can live rich lives with much less STUFF. In the end, the average environmen-tal footprint for all of us will be equal to or less than ONE Earth-worth of raw materials.

So there you have it—a short sample of visions in my daydream for the future. I’m thankful, at least, to be able to dream today, in spite of the nightmare realities we see be-fore us daily in the news. But there IS hope, if we come to discuss and understand this critical time in our history, then to care and act unselfishly and soon.

If these changes do indeed take place, they will not be easy and they will not be sud-den, but they cannot be de-ferred much longer. If these changes do happen, the new place where they take us will represent a conversion from our role as overlords to stew-ards. If we craft a New Plan and these changes do become reality, our greatest grandchil-dren will be forever grateful we finally found our way, and had the wisdom and courage to fix what was broken.

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Growing Old[Er]It was a sun-charged day;

the air was spiced with scents of spring. I saw

them as I sped by in my car. T’was but a passing moment: an old man with a poodle on a leash. He bent low to pet the dog’s head, though with his age-stiffened hand it was more of an affectionate thumping. His achy knees wouldn’t loosen; his back joined in the conspiracy to prevent flexion. It was an old man’s bend. One with which I am becoming progressively ac-quainted.

He seemed to be saying to the little dog, “Oh, you have to use the bathroom? I’ll turn my head then. Oh yes, take a moment and smell the grass. No. No. I’m in no hurry. Take what time you need.”

I thought about the full range, the texture and richness of the kindness I had witnessed. The mysterious dispensations of providence: the poodle given to the old man; and he to the poodle; a double-stranded blessing. The elderly live in a cold climate, I think; and this little dog is the sun that warms an old man’s heart.

During a cattle drive there are three positions: scout, point and drag. Scout is way ahead; point is a bit ahead; and drag is way behind the herd. Son Cailan and I went cycling the other day. He rode `scout’; I brought new meaning to the phrase `riding drag.’ He would loyally stop and wait for me to labor - and sometimes walk the bike - up the hills. I could see it in his face, long thoughts stole over him, silent as ground-fog.

Part of the problem was a

poorly adjusted bicycle, yes; and part that I hadn’t cycled for twenty years. But the large part is that I have logged fifty years thus far escaping the process of natural selection. My son had to wait for me. That must have felt strange to him. This real-ization forced its way painfully into his understanding.

This bicycle trip - this od-yssey - was metaphor of his own odyssey. His all-powerful poppa is slowly growing older and weaker. My son is becom-ing stronger. That’s how human

existence is. Go back as far as you will; look forward as far as you’re able: life is life.

Still, it must be a somber realization for him. No less so for me. I knew as a parent, I would model much for my children. Some-how, the realization that I would also have

to model aging for them never once occurred to me.

[Present day:] No question; the mirror doesn’t lie: I’m get-ting up there. I was walking along the other day and some kid yells out a car window, “Hey, old man!” I looked around for the `old man’ in reference. As stark fate would have it, I was alone on the street.

But, I’m a bit far along for an identity crisis. So, I’m get-ting on in years, starting to flake and, in spots, rust. But still, I wouldn’t go back to what I was in my youth; too much misspent energy; too many wrong directions… And ego? The memory shames me. Still, I have no wish to out-live the average sea turtle. I live, I hope, on a small planet called `real-ity.’ I work towards this more private end: to finish my soul’s manuscript; and finish it well.

In the average lifetime there are but 27,500 days, and I have lived most of mine. The good news: the remainder are now the more precious to me. I’m sixty-five years in the making. The pages of the novel entitled ‘Garvin’ are gradually yellow-ing and beginning to curl. Still, the old book don’t look too bad considering how long it’s been on the shelf.

I regard my dwindling in-ventory of strength and youth philosophically. To my added inventory has come a drop-ping away of me-centeredness; there’s a gathering calmness within. Also, now an older captain, I view some tranquil waters with suspicion. Hav-ing sailed certain seas before, I remember the hidden shoals just beneath the surface; shoals which appear only on dated maps, maps unavailable to the young. This is called wisdom. In other words, just because a course seems safe and hazard-free, doesn’t make it so.

Pressed to honesty, most of us, even those not yet having our steps guided by the evening light of old age, sense the com-ing of our concluding years. Hopefully, I watch as my earlier need to impress others is grad-ually over-taken by a tranquil-ity which leaves me better able to concentrate on what is truly important, and to be grateful for what is and what has been.

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Virginia has a new weapon in the fight against the brown marmorated stink bug, a thumbnail-sized pest that has made headlines over the past year for the trouble it caused growers and homeowners alike.

On June 29, the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted an emergency exemption to use the insec-ticide dinotefuran to control the stink bug on stone and pome fruits in Virginia and six other states. Chris Bergh, tree fruit and grape specialist for Virginia Cooperative Ex-tension and associate profes-sor of entomology at Virginia Tech, prepared the applica-tion for the pesticide’s use as part of Extension’s larger ef-fort to ward off the stink bug in Virginia.

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Roanoke College has one of the most beautiful campuses in the country, according to students surveyed by The Princeton Review. The an-nual guidebook also lists Roa-noke among the nation’s great schools for majors in business and finance, computer science and computer engineering and psychology.

The College’s scenic setting, marked by its classic Colle-giate Gothic architecture and mountain views, was No. 18 in a ranking of the top 20 beau-tiful colleges and universities that is published in the 2012 edition of The Princeton Re-view’s Best 376 Colleges. The book, in its 20th edition, was released on Aug. 2.

Roanoke debuts in this well-known guidebook that lists enrollment and admission sta-tistics, rankings of the top 20 schools in 62 categories and survey results from 122,000 students attending under-graduate institutions named to the publication’s prestigious honor roll.

“It’s wonderful to be rec-ognized for the beauty of our campus,” Michael Maxey, president of Roanoke College said. “However, the real attrac-tion for students is what hap-pens in the classroom. Roa-noke’s fine faculty members create a learning environment for our students that is second to none.”

Roanoke’s offerings for stu-dents who major in business and finance, computer sci-ence and computer engineer-ing and psychology helped the College to be named among The Princeton Review’s best schools in these academic sub-jects. The Princeton Review uses institutional data and in-put from the National College Counselor Advisory Panel and its own admissions experts to determine the best colleges and universities for 15 of the most popular undergraduate majors.

Accessible professors and an exhilarating entertainment life also earned high marks from Roanoke students surveyed by The Princeton Review.

In Roanoke College’s two-page profile, students de-scribed the college’s professors as approachable and personal, largely a result of the school’s small class size. These stimu-lating relationships shape stu-dents’ views of the College, according to The Princeton Review.

“The professors are very lively and passionate about the subjects they teach,” said one student who was surveyed by The Princeton Review.

Some students surveyed said professors push them to think at challenging levels.

“I was able to do graduate level research synthesizing carbon nanotubes the very

first week of school,” one stu-dent, a health sciences major, said in the survey.

Also, opportunities through-out the region to experience the outdoors, explore down-town Roanoke and drive to nearby Blacksburg and Natu-ral Bridge enhance life at Roa-noke College, students said. On campus, Roanoke’s Greek scene and a wealth of weekend events are highlights.

“Life at Roanoke is, to put it simply, pretty sweet,” The Princeton Review concluded.

Students surveyed said they typically find a niche in the College’s clubs and organiza-tions. Greek life at Roanoke, which has four fraternities and five sororities, is “healthy,” The Princeton Review reported.

Students also said they like Roanoke’s Fintel Library and the career services office, and they feel safe on campus. Roa-noke students said they also like the array of options for dining off-campus.

Enrollment at Roanoke is 2,039; 44 percent of students are male and 56 percent are female. The College’s English, economics and science depart-ments, in particular, received high praise from students sur-veyed. Still, the most popular majors are business/com-merce, English language and literature and psychology, re-ported The Princeton Review. Roanoke’s popularity as a first choice for students is reflected in record-breaking enrollment for the past seven years.

Six buildings on Roanoke’s campus are listed on both the Virginia Landmarks Regis-ter and National Register of Historic Places, including the Administration Building and the former Roanoke County courthouse.

Students gather at the gazebo on the Roanoke College Campus.

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Redick Returns To His Roots - Wiser And Wealthier These Days

J.J. Redick has come a long way from his days as a star player at Cave Spring High School where he led his team to a Group AAA state bas-ketball championship as a senior. At Duke he set an NCAA record for three point shots and was named the two-time col-lege player of the year.

Then it was on to the National Basketball As-sociation, where over the past five seasons Redick has “leaned out” (just four percent body fat!) and is now considered a decent defender – something that he would have never been called five years ago. In 2010-2011, for the first time ever, playing for the Orlando Magic, Redick averaged double figures in scoring (10.1 ppg).

Before last season he also scored big financially, netting a

three year, 19 million dollar con-tract. Not bad for a jump shoot specialist and spot starter, al-though Redick has become more proficient at going to the net on drives in the last few seasons.

Redick was in town last week for a fundraiser golf tournament at Ballyhack and a concert that supported his new charitable foundation that will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network and CHIP (see jjredick.com for more details). With life more settled these days, he figured it was time to give back to the community.

“For the first year of doing these events it couldn’t have gone any better,” said Redick, who stayed for part of the following week to run the J.J. Redick NBA skills camp for 13-17 year old boys, held at North Cross School. Redick’s coach at Cave Spring, Billy Hicks, helped organize and run the three-day camp with his former protégé. Kids from West Virginia, Ohio and North Caro-lina were among those in atten-

dance.Hicks said Redick wanted it to

be a no-nonsense camp where he could focus on the skills that could help attendees become better ballplayers. Hicks noted that one of the sessions with Redick would be on playing de-fense; “he’s gone from being a de-fensive liability [early in his NBA career] to a guy now that’s con-sidered among league coaches to being a very good wing defend-er. He guards Kobe [Bryant], he guards D Wade [Dwayne Wade], he guards Ray Allen …the best scorers in the league.”

Several former Cave Spring players and others that attend-ed local high schools—Logan Singleton, Zach Barrett from Hidden Valley and now Roa-noke College—also helped out. “These guys have worked really hard with the kids,” said Hicks, who was grateful that Redick was involved. It’s tough for Redick to get back to Roanoke these days with his busy schedule and life in Orlando, which now includes wife Chelsea.

The impending NBA lock-out may have taken some of the pressure off Redick, at least for the time being, according to Hicks, who has won two more Group AA state championships in the post J.J. Redick era. As for the NBA skills camp, Hicks is hopeful it will piggyback on the annual golf tournament every year. “The fifty kids that are here have gotten unbelievable value out of this camp,” said Hicks, who added that Redick had been “extremely hands on.”

Before the last day of camp got started, Redick spoke about the impending NBA lockout, which came following a season where he claimed revenues were at an “all time high.” Players are get-ting money back from escrow and can make it through the sea-son if they don’t get on the court at all, according to Redick.

He eats well and exercises year

round; coming from a family that ate plenty of organic food, Redick also has an eye for what’s healthy and what’s not. “I stay in shape year round,” he noted.

“There’s some really good talent here,” said Redick about the camp-ers he had worked with at North Cross. He went to plenty of camps him-self growing up, includ-ing some run by Hicks,

and looked at them as “a brief opportunity to improve. I always wanted to take something away from every camp.”

Redick figures he turned the corner as an NBA player two seasons ago when he shut down Boston’s Ray Allen in the playoffs and started several games. A fi-nals appearance against Los An-geles that season was one of his career highlights.

Redick said playing in Europe as a way to stay in game shape during an extended lockout is “not an option” for 90 percent of those in the NBA and is not something he is considering at this time. But, come January, if he is not playing yet and is fully recovered from abdominal sur-gery this summer due to muscle tears, Redick would consider al-lowing a foreign team to “rent” him. “But I do enough on my own to stay in great shape.” He figures the lockout could be a long one; “there’s no incentive for the owners [who want to change the league salary structure] to negotiate in good faith. It’s going to be a while.”

Seeing Redick show up also inspired some campers; “when J.J. walks in everybody looks at him and goes ‘how does he play in the NBA? He looks just like me,’” said Hicks. “What sets him apart is the work ethic.” Hitting a close in, running shot perfected several years ago helped earn that 19 million dollar contract – that’s what Redick told his starry-eyed campers – that it wasn’t only his long range jumper.

Hicks can only hope that the next J.J. Redick might have been among the campers, heading to Cave Spring and perhaps on his way to stardom elsewhere.

“I love working [and] talk-ing with Billy. It’s always good to trade stories,” added Redick about his long time mentor.

Stallings Puts Exclamation Point On Fantastic Greenbrier Classic

PGA TOUR rookie Scott Stallings captured the moment Sunday afternoon at the second Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

The 26-year-old rookie rolled in a six foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to send the throng packed around the par-three eighteenth at The Old White TPC into a frenzy.

As the ball slid into the mid-dle of the cup with authority, Stallings threw his putter into the air before celebrating the $ 1.08 million first prize with his caddy, Josh Graham.

Only 30 minutes earlier, Stall-ings had sunk a similar putt on the same 72nd finishing hole to put him in a three-way playoff with Bob Estes and Bill Haas. The three finished with a 4-day

total of 270 (ten under par).The beefed-up Old White qui-

etly took down this year's chal-lengers. The winning score was 12 shots higher than last year's 22-under total. Phil Mickelson, a 4-time major winner with 39 Tour wins, and eight-time ma-jor winner Tom Watson, both missed the cut. Likewise for de-fending champ Stuart Appleby, who carved up The Old White last year with a final-round 59.

Sunday's round provided plenty of excitement for the huge gallery. Twenty five play-ers finished at or within 5 shots of the winning 210 total. Greenbrier owner Jim Justice announced at the trophy pre-sentation the attendance for the week-long golf tournament had totalled 213,000.

The Greenbrier Classic concert series, including Tim McGraw, Keith Urban and the Black Eyed Peas, drew huge crowds to the fairgrounds in

nearby Lewisburg. Friday night's attendance for The Black Eyed Peas was estimated by Green-brier officials to be 56,000.

High School Football Practice Starts At The Water Cooler

Billy Hicks talks to NBA Skills campers at North Cross.

J.J. Redick and his coach at Cave Spring, Billy Hicks, col-laborate on a camp drill.


Scott Stallings sends his putt on its way into the cup in Sun-day's playoff to capture the $1.08 million first prize.

2011 Greenbrier Classic champion Scott Stallings hoists the winner's trophy.

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Retirement residents seeking to take advantage of the envi-ronmental and health benefits of green living now have a new choice with "The Pines at Bran-don Oaks. " City officials, Bran-don Oaks executives, construc-tion partners and green business leaders celebrated the comple-tion of the area’s first sustainably developed retirement residence with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week.

"As one of the valley’s premier retirement communities, Bran-don Oaks is not only commit-ted to the health and vitality of its residents, it is also commit-ted to environmental steward-ship. With the opening of The Pines, Brandon Oaks is honor-ing its commitment to both," said Brandon Oaks Director of marketing Bonnie Allison.

“Residents of The Pines have access to all of the services and amenities that Brandon Oaks provides, including home main-tenance, landscaping, house-keeping, community dining, group outings, social activities and much more,” explained Ex-ecutive Director Andy Dickin-son. “Living at The Pines, they are also able to take advantage of the health benefits of green living.”

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“The Pines are more con-ducive to asthmatics,” says the concerned Skeezix, “especially as Margaret’s allergies are so bad we can’t even have carpets or drapes.”

In addition to being the first to offer green living, Brandon Oaks is the first retirement com-munity in the Roanoke Valley to be certified as a Cool Green Biz by the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce. In partnership with the Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition, the Cool Green Biz program is designed to recognize mem-ber businesses that have made a commitment to sustainable business practices. To achieve certification, the Brandon Oaks campus was evaluated and scored based on its implemen-tation of green practices, such as reducing waste, promoting clean air and water, conserving natural resources and enhancing the quality of life for employees, residents and neighbors.

Brandon Oaks is a nonprofit lifecare retirement community. Open to everyone, Brandon Oaks operates under the spon-sorship of Virginia Lutheran Homes. Established in 1966, Virginia Lutheran Homes (orig-inally Virginia Synod Lutheran Homes) serves residents in three locations: Brandon Oaks in Roanoke, Luther Manor in Virginia Beach and Luther Crest in New Market.

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Chris Morrill, Joyce Waugh, Andy Dickinson, Paul White, and Skip Zubrod celebrate the completion of "The Pines" retire-ment residence with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week.

Three Carilion Clinic Hospitals Recognized For Quality Of CareCarilion Roanoke

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Michael Cleveland To Play Music Center Kick Off of Galax

Bluegrass fiddle-fireball, Mi-chael Cleveland and his award winning band "Flamekeeper" will headline the "Bluegrass Fever" concert being held on August 7th at the Blue Ridge Music Center that will kick off the great week of music at the Galax Old Fiddler’s Conven-tion.

Eight-time winner of the IBMA Fiddler of the Year award, Cleveland has lead Flamekeeper in taking home the IBMA Group of the Year award 4 times. Both his CDs “Flamekeeper” and “Let Er Go Boys” have received the IBMA Instrumental Album of the Year award and the band’s new CD “Fired Up” is getting air-play across the country.

Cleveland has performed with Rhonda Vincent, Dale Ann Bradley, Vince Gill, Mar-ty Stuart, J.D. Crowe and the New South, Audie Blaylock and Redline, Melvin Goins and others. The group has a new lineup that Cleveland says he is excited about bring-ing to Galax. The band now features Charlie Cushman on banjo, Ashby Frank on vocals/mandolin, Charlie Lawson on vocals/guitar and Blake Bowen on vocals/bass.

Kicking off the Bluegrass Fe-ver concert will be hometown

favorite, Houston Drive, so-named in memory of banjoist, Houston Caldwell. They’re no slouches in this group either. Houston Drive won the blue ribbon for Best Bluegrass Band at the Old Fiddlers Convention last year and will be stiff com-petition this year as well with their powerful singing and hot picking.

Tickets for the Sunday Au-gust 7th Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper / Houston Drive concert are $20. Children 12 and under are free. The Con-cert starts at 7pm and seating opens at 5:30pm. Smokehouse BBQ is available at the concert. The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Local Physician Pens New NovelClement Binnings, a family

physician and vice-president for Primary Care Associates in Salem, VA., reveals his heart and soul in a recently released novel set in his native city of New Orleans. Dr. Bin-nings graduated from L.S.U. Shreveport in 1977 with a degree in English Education and was awarded the college’s Mastery in English Award. He served as the editor and a contributor for its Spec-tra Literary Journal. After teaching for three years, he changed careers, graduating from L.S.U. Medical Center in Shreveport in 1984. While there, he was the medical school’s editor for its Synapse Newspaper. He completed his residency training in Roa-noke Memorial’s Family Med-icine program in 1987 and has been practicing in Salem for the last twenty-four years. He drew from his knowledge and experiences of life in New Orleans and his insights as a seasoned physician to create this unique psychological vi-sionary drama.

Binnings says he added the subtitle, “A Love Story,” to emphasize the book's prima-ry emphasis: it’s all about the “love.” The author describes the story as one that contrasts the harsh insanity of child and spousal abuse with an

ideal vision that demonstrates the healing power of abso-lute love. Hurricane Katrina served as the catalyst that awakened the rescuer in him, compelling him to respond through writing, intertwin-ing the personal conflicts of his characters within the con-text of this devastating storm. Prior to putting pen to paper, Binnings joined the medical team organized by The Vir-ginia College of Osteopathic Medicine which set up three clinic encampments along the storm-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast. Hurricane Rita forced their evacuation after two weeks of service.

The story’s protagonist, Lola Parrish, is a young in-nocent who learns early in childhood to escape the in-sanity of her abusive home by diving deeply into the inter-nal realms of her being where she is soothed by the voices of angels. While panic and dis-

sociative tendencies manifest during the storms of her life, culminating with Katrina, the “Angel” responds to her heart’s call for love in a way that transforms not only her, but those who have entered her life. The story is richly multi-layered, woven with subplots that converge sur-prisingly at the end.

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Local Artist Gets International Opportunity

As a part of The Arts Council of the Blue Ridge’s new Artist Exchange Program, local artist Chico Harkrader will visit Opole, Poland this summer. The Arts Council has been working closely with Roanoke County on this project, as Opole is the County’s Sister City.

Harkrader was chosen out of the submissions sent to Opole for consideration by their arts panel. “It was very difficult choice,” wrote Janusz Karpin-ski, The Head of International Relations Office in Opole.

This program is an extension of artview, the international art exhibition held in Roanoke last November that brought international artists from Roanoke’s Sister Cities to create new installation pieces. The Arts Council now seeks to give more artists in the Roanoke area similar opportunities.

Harkrader will spend two weeks in Opole

working with both artists and arts organizations/institutions in this cultural exchange. Upon his return, he will share his experiences and created works through lectures to the public and to local schools.

“The Artist Exchange Program is part of The Arts Council’s mission to support local artists,” states Arts Council Executive Director, Rhonda Morgan. This opportunity provides exposure and great networking opportunities for artists, and also promotes Roanoke on a more global scale.

Working with the Roanoke Valley Sister Cities Organization, Harkrader’s visit to Opole marks the first artist exchange to occur through this program and will serve as a model for future ex-changes with other cities.

For more information visit: www.theartscouncil.org

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American Life in Poetry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The Peace of Wild Things

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

Nearly all of us spend too much of our lives thinking about what has happened, or worrying about what's coming next. Very little can be done about the past and worry is a waste of time. Here the Kentucky poet Wendell Berry gives himself over to nature.

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