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Scrutiny of incumbent Delegate On-zlee Ware’s (11th District) campaign expenditures continues at the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) in Rich-mond. A hearing was scheduled for July 10 but has been postponed.

According to James Alcorn, Policy Advisor with the SBE, James Hopper (Senior Attorney General) acts as advisor to the SBE. An issue-by-issue analysis of relevant facts regarding Ware’s campaign finances was sent to Hopper.

Alcorn’s July 5 email, obtained by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), re-vealed that a letter was sent to the State’s Attorney’s office pointing out that it con-tains “all the issues, even if the recom-mendation is that the issue is outside of our authority.” The letter itself is exempt from FOI due to the attorney/client priv-ilege.

Questions arose when Mark Powell, campaign manager for Democratic pri-mary opponent Martin Jeffrey, submit-ted a complaint to the SBE in a letter dated May 19. Issues of Ware’s campaign ethics became the focal point of Jeffrey’s unsuccessful campaign.

The June 9 primary results were heav-ily in Ware’s favor but the scrutiny of his campaign finances did not end there. State Board of Elections Campaign Fi-nance Manager David Allen, in a June

10 certified letter identifying Powell’s complaints, asked Ware for an explana-tion of expenditures that were listed as “reimbursement.” Allen pointed to the campaign finance law that states, “In no case should the treasurer en-ter simply ‘reimbursement’ in the item or service column.”

Allen also asked Ware for missing addresses related to the expendi-

tures. In one instance, a reimbursement to “cash” needed to be broken down to include the names and addresses for the lump sum expenditure. The most recent filing ending in June, has an item under

the column “Person or Com-pany Paid,” listed as “Cash Withdrawal,” with a bank ad-dress in the amount of $1,300

for “flushers” and poll workers. This is

the same issue Ware was asked to correct in a previous filing.

In several instances amounts reim-bursed to Ware were in whole num-bers. Allen stated that the number of reimbursements in rounded amounts of $300 and $500 was suspicious. Ware had until June 22 to file amendments, along with receipts. The Roanoke attorney has hired Chris Piper, former head of the state board’s campaign finance division and now a political reports analyst at the Washington, DC law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP. In a July 2 email Lawrence Noble, an attor-ney with the firm, was questioning the authority of the SBE and its process of handling complaints.

Complaints to the SBE must be re-ceived 21 days after the filing deadline to qualify for an amendment, but Ware has amended his filing for full-year 2009. All amendments have now been filed and receipts have been received for 2009. Virginia’s Attorney General office is continuing its review and will com-municate any findings at the next Board of Elections meeting. Whether the State’s Attorney will recommend investigation remains to be seen. The SBE staff hopes the conclusion brings clarity to the “gray

[Local Outreach]

Photo by Valerie Garner

Onzlee Ware and Mark Powell during a less controversial moment.

Roanoke and Chilean Youth Make Big Impact in Virginia

One Million Approved For Flood Control ProjectCongressman Bob Goodlatte has

announced that the House of Rep-resentatives approved $1.075 million for the flood control project on the Roanoke River. The funding was included in the FY 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Act.

The Roanoke Flood Control Proj-ect, an undertaking of the Army Corps of Engineers, includes about 6.2 miles of channel widening along the 10-mile project that will reach through the City of Roanoke and will include construction of a recreation-

al and environmentally beneficial greenway along the entire length of the Roanoke River through the City of Roanoke.

“The House passage of this criti-cal legislation is another huge victory for Roanoke. Pending Senate approval, the funding included in the FY 2010 Energy and Water Ap-propriations Act brings the total to over $35 million that the Congress has appropriated for the flood con-trol project thus far,” Goodlatte said.

The flood-control project will be built in several phases. The first phase which has been completed runs from the regional sewage treat-ment plant in Southeast Roanoke

and up the river toward Wasena Park. A ground breaking ceremony for this phase was held in October

2005 at the 9th Street Bridge located in Southeast Roanoke. The remain-ing phase will run from Wasena Park to the Salem City line.

Goodlatte continued, “Numerous

times in our city’s history the River has spilled over her banks destroying property and sometimes taking lives. This comprehensive flood control plan will ultimately protect lives and property and this funding will en-sure the project continues moving forward.”

The Energy and Water Develop-ment and Related Agencies Appro-priations Act of 2010 will now be referred to the U.S. Senate for further consideration.

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Clearbrook Wal-Mart Plans Unfold

For many people, the phrase “youth group mission trip” usually conjures up visions of young people leaving

home and traveling to work, minister and worship somewhere far away, often in a for-eign country.

This summer, members of the student ministry of Roanoke’s Church of the Holy

Spirit have turned that model on its head. Partnering with a group of Chilean students whose mission field is Virginia, they have spent the past two weeks ministering to those in their own backyards, participating in what is known as the “Impact Tour – I Love Vir-ginia!”

Photo by Paola Frantz

C a v e Spring Su-p e r v i s o r C h a r l o t t e Moore ad-dressed the Clearbrook Civic League last week about sev-eral issues, i n c l u d i n g the Super Wa l - M a r t slated for that southwest Roanoke County neighborhood. Moore had a meeting with Wal-Mart repre-sentatives and Roanoke County staffers last week.

“Roanoke County staff has given them a list of proffers that need to be met before a build-ing permit can be issued,” said Moore.

Development plans haven’t been submitted yet. Buck Mountain Road and Stable Road will be aligned at the stoplight on Rt. 220 but Buck Mountain will not be improved at this time, said Moore.

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Charlotte Moore cleans up.

Council Tables Amphitheater; Lisk Honored

Roanoke City Council had second thoughts Monday, voting to remove the Elmwood Park Amphitheater from its capital project list. Not long ago it had appropriated $1.2 million in funds for an engineering study, a precursor to the $13 million project itself.

Councilman Court Rosen had asked council to reconsider the recent vote to move ahead, something he also discussed on his blog. “I simply do not believe that Roanoke can afford such a luxury at this time,” he wrote several weeks ago.

By a 4-2 vote, council voted Monday to table the Elmwood Park project for now. Mayor David Bowers, who, along with Rupert Cutler, were the only

[City Notes]

Gwen Mason discusses her reason for voting against a new amphitheater.

Ware’s Campaign Finance Issues Rest with Attorney General’s Office

[Onzlee Ware]

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Impact Tour founder Miguel Hernandez greets visitors at one of the group’s outreach gatherings in a Richmond neighborhood last week.

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After spending last week sharing their message of hope and love in Richmond, the lo-cal youth group is hosting the group of youth and their leaders from Santiago, Chile. They are leading outreach events locally at the Valley View Wal-Mart, Tanglewood Mall, and the Wil-liamson Road Library.

The weeklong mission out-reach in Roanoke culminates Friday night (July 24) in a free community concert in Elm-wood Park that will feature a cross-cultural mix of music and entertainment including Latin, hip-hop and praise music, a step team, a dramatic presentation and multi-lingual speakers.

The group is made up of youth and leaders from the San-tiago, Chile, branch of Youth With A Mission (YWAM), an international Christian out-reach organization; the student ministry of Church of the Holy Spirit (CHS); and the North Ro-anoke Baptist Hispanic church plant, Convivencia Familiar Chrisiana.

According to Angela Natt, CHS’s minister to students, the

concert is designed to foster an environment for united wor-ship and reach across language, culture, age and denomination barriers.

“The message we hope to ring out from the epicenter of our community: ‘God loves Roa-noke and God loves YOU’,” Natt writes in her invitation letter.

“People get a lot of ‘religion,’ not a lot of love,” she said.

The free concert will feature three worship bands with dis-tinctly different cultural wor-ship styles, incorporating dance and drama. Natt promises food vendors, gifts, give-a-ways and an over-all spirit of celebration.

“Most of all, we want to bless God’s heart as we unify and take the incredible Gospel we have been entrusted with to the streets of our city,” Natt said.

Student ministry leaders from CHS developed a relation-ship with the group of Chilean missionaries over the past seven years. While members from the Roanoke church have traveled to Chile several times over that time, this is the first trip for the Chileans to visit and minister in

Roanoke.The “Impact Tour” was

birthed from a vision given to Miguel Hernandez, who works with YWAM in Santiago.

“I really believe there is a lonely generation [out there to-day] with great potential. They are desperate; it’s like they are

wearing t-shirts asking, ‘can you love me?” Hernandez said after a time of prayer and worship in downtown Roanoke Tuesday.

For more information, con-tact Angela Natt at Church of the Holy Spirit, 540-772-4915

> Impact From page 1

Photo by Pam Rickard

Angela Natt, Student Ministry Leader at Roanoke’s Church of the Holy Spirit (far left), leads a group of students from Roa-noke and Santiago, Chile, in prayer at a meeting in downtown Roanoke Tuesday.

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A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a charge of threatening a juror against Bill White.

The Roanoke based white supremacist (and residential proper-ty landlord) has been in federal custody since last October, when a Chicago federal grand jury indicted him for an alleged on-line threat against a juror in the 2003 Matthew Hale trial.

The jury sentenced Hale, a fellow white supremacist, to 40 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a federal judge presid-ing over a civil trial in which Hale’s group was involved. The same judge, Joan Lefkow, lost her husband and mother in 2005, both shot

dead in Lefkow’s basement.In an opinion filled with nearly three dozen pages of legalese and

footnotes for case law, the judge basically ruled federal prosecutors failed to show it had any evidence White’s on-line rant against the Hale juror was a direct threat of violence.

The judge also found recent case law points to legal protection for White’s writings under the First Amendment. White faces similar charges here in Roanoke. It’s unclear what, if any effect, the Chicago judge’s ruling will have here.

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Radford University nursing teacher Ginny Weisz will not be the Democratic candidate to run this fall against Republican incum-bent Morgan Griffith in the Virginia House of Delegates 8th Dis-trict. Weisz withdrew earlier this week but said she would endorse someone else at the Democratic caucus, which will be held next Tuesday, July 28 at the Roanoke County 419 Library at 7:15 pm.

Weisz, who teaches nursing both on the Radford campus and at the Higher Education Center in Roanoke, gave this statement to the Starcityharbinger.com blog: “I am pleased to announce that the vi-sion that we’ve all had for change in Virginia - and especially in the 8th House of Delegates District – is strong and continuing, and I am prepared to endorse an excellent candidate next week as I withdraw my candidacy today.

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I have greatly enjoyed the campaign and deeply appreciate the support of so many people who are excited by this promise of change. I look forward to the 8th District campaign as it contin-ues.”

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a turn lane in front of the resi-dents who live along Route 220 southbound was discussed at the Civic League meeting. (Wal-Mart planned to close on all of the properties it needed by mid-July, noted Moore.) The pro-posed completion of the store will be either the summer of 2010 or the spring of 2011.

During an earlier Clearbrook Civic League meeting, Moore discussed the possibility of recruiting volunteers for the Clearbrook Fire Department, which just ended a joint oper-ating agreement with Roanoke City. But Moore found few tak-

ers for volunteers that would augment the career staff: “Due to non-activity by volunteers, Roanoke County has no choice but to formally disband the vol-unteer fire department,” Moore said earlier this week.

The first term supervisor also informed civic league mem-bers that the Cave Spring area had just been voted one of the top 100 best places to live in the USA by Money Magazine.

“I wasn’t surprised about the study,” said Moore, a Cave Spring native.

“I’ve always thought that we live in one of the most beautiful

places in the world. I was very pleased to know that we had made the top 100 list. Our com-munity is very clean, has great economic growth, gorgeous mountains, and is conveniently located near shopping, schools, restaurants and recreation areas. We are close to Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia Tech and The Blue Ridge Parkway.”

An outspoken environ-mental advocate, Moore said, “citizens deserve a lot of credit for helping to keep our valley clean. When they adopt high-ways and gardens and pick up litter, they show that they really

care in leading by example.”Moore wants to do better in

the future: “I would like to see our valley maintain its natu-ral beauty, by preserving our wa-ter and air quality. I would also like to encourage developers to preserve as much green space as possible, add more sidewalks and walking trails that could possibly extend to our green-ways, build sustainable devel-opments and collect water run off.” By Gene Marrano

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council members to vote against the motion to table the proposal said the on-again, off-again vote “harkens back to [the debate over] Victory Stadium.”

David Trinkle, who was unable to vote while away on vacation and has championed the cause of an outdoor facility to serve Roa-noke, was clearly shocked and dismayed by the Council’s action in his absence. Although Trinkle himself took the same tact when calling for a vote on the proposed Riverside amphitheater location when then Councilman Brian Wishneff, who opposed that site, was absent.

In response to this week’s vote Trinkle stated, “Two weeks ago the A and E design phase for an amphitheater was approved 6-1; today without any new information and in my long planned absence it was voted down 4-2. I am disappointed that it won’t happen but I am also disappointed that my colleagues on city council who had promised me they would table it so we could ALL be present to de-bate it did not do so . . . If I knew then what I know now, I honestly do not believe I would support the tearing down of the obsolete Victory Stadium. If I knew how hard it was to start bold capital im-provement projects in Roanoke, I would have supported a renova-tion of Victory Stadium to present day usage- namely an outdoor performing arts venue. I ran- with current council member Mrs. Mason on this issue. I supported Mr. Rosen and Vice Mayor Lea who said they supported the concept. Kudos to our leaders from long ago who actually built a 20,000 seat stadium that was well used and had an economic impact for decades.”

At a news conference on Tuesday, Councilwoman Gwen Mason defended the councils decision to vote saying that Trinkles pres-ence,” would have just resulted in a 4-3 vote in lieu of a 4-2 vote.”

Rosen simply stated that moving ahead with the amphitheater at this point in time was, “not in the best interest of the taxpayers…people are struggling out there.”

Lisk honored: “He gave up a job to remain in Roanoke and gave up his ascension to mayor in order to promote racial healing.” Those were some of the remarks made about the late David Lisk, a former Roanoke City Councilman and past executive director of Roanoke’s Sister Cities organization. Lisk, who passed away in late May, was honored with a resolution Monday.

Lisk’s son, Tim, and members of the Roanoke Kiwanis Club – Lisk was a faithful attendee, were also on hand. A pilot/flight in-structor in the U.S. Air Force, David Lisk came to Roanoke in the early 1950’s and never left, even foregoing a job with Burlington Industries when they wanted to transfer him out of town. He was “known for his outspoken advocacy,” read the resolution passed by City Council.

“I certainly learned a lot from him,” said council member Gwen Mason, who noted that until Lisk fell ill, “he was there,” at numer-ous local civic events.

Mayor David Bowers ticked off a list of Lisk’s accomplishments: he helped found the civilian police department, he worked with more than a dozen non-profit local agencies, and he “embraced…the Sister Cities International movement.” In 1965 he helped Won-ju, South Korea, become Roanoke’s first Sister City. “Mr. Lisk never gave up his dream,” said councilman Rupert Cutler. His “final vi-sion,” added Cutler, was the new “Sister Cities Corridor” at the Roa-noke Civic Center.

When Mayor Roy L. Weber died suddenly in 1974, then-Vice Mayor Lisk was in line to succeed him. Instead, Lisk stepped aside, allowing Noel C. Taylor to become Roanoke’s first African-Amer-ican mayor.Bowers characterized Lisk’s gesture, which paved the way for Taylor’s 17-year tenure, as “very noble.”

By Gene [email protected]

> City Notes From page 1

areas” they struggle with now.Allen complains they are un-

derstaffed and those gray areas in campaign finance law make interpretation difficult. One ex-ample he gave was the definition of “personal use” of campaign funds. Ware has used his cam-paign funds for the Juneteenth celebration in Roanoke, paying TAP and a Juneteenth coordi-nator from his campaign funds.

Ware told Allen he planned to repay his campaign fund with the proceeds from the event. In addition, a $300 application in December 2008 for 501(3)© status (for Juneteenth) was filed using campaign funds.

Both candidates for Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuc-cinelli and Steve Shannon, con-firmed Allen’s assertion that “disclosure” is the means by

which voters can judge candi-dates’ use of campaign funds. Cuccinelli said that the Attorney General should be consulted for any gray areas.

The State Board of Elections has a website where citizens can look up their representative’s contributors and expenditures, at www.sbe.virginia.gov. The Virginia Public Access Proj-ect at www.vpap.org is another

source. It is a non-profit group that sheds light on how money plays a role in Virginia politics. It’s all about disclosure, says Al-len and Alcorn.

Ware plans to introduce a bill in the next session of the Gener-al Assembly that would require bank statements and receipts be remitted a month following the filing deadline.

By Valerie [email protected]

> Ware From page 1

Democratic candidate for governor Creigh Deeds was in Roanoke earlier this week to an-nounce a comprehensive plan he claimed would create jobs and renew Virginia’s economy. It includes targeted tax cuts for small businesses, partner-ships to generate new jobs in the alternative energy industry and initiatives to jump-start an economic recovery in rural re-gions.

“Energy technology is the future,” said Deeds at the news conference.

Speaking at the State & City Building on Campbell Avenue, which was remodeled to LEED standards, Deeds was accompa-nied by U.S. Senator Mark War-ner. Deeds also appealed for a common sense approach to solve Virginia’s statewide trans-

portation challenges via biparti-san leadership.

The 100-year-old State & City retail/office/residential complex was the first building in the Ro-anoke and New River Valleys to receive the U.S. Green Building Council’s prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environment Design certification. It is one of the first buildings in Virginia

to combine LEED-certification and historic preservation.

The “Deeds Plan to Jump Start the Economy” targets ad-ditional resources for worker training and education, includ-ing a health care option for the temporarily unemployed and new tools to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. It also com-mits to expand access to broad-band and wireless communica-tions to the entire state.

“Our plan will jumpstart our economy, create jobs, reduce taxes on small businesses and position Virginia to succeed and win in a new economy once we recover from this chal-lenging time,” Deeds said. “This plan also provides targeted resources to help families fac-ing unemployment, workers in need of job training, and stu-

dents interested in high-wage, high-demand jobs.”

Warner, who won high marks during his 2002-06 term as governor for his focus on increasing educational and economic opportunities across the Commonwealth, said, “Vir-ginia led the nation in telecom in the 1980’s; we helped lead the Internet revolution during the 1990’s, and I firmly believe that the next generation of jobs and wealth will be found in the ‘green’ economy.”

“[Deeds] has put together a road map that allows Virginia to grasp that opportunity and take advantage of all of those possibilities if we prepare Vir-ginians to take a leadership role in the alternative energy field,” Warner added.

The Deeds plan includes giv-

ing tax credits to businesses that create jobs, offering loan guar-antees for Virginia community college students, building a Vir-tual Energy Research Triangle to coordinate R&D in green

energy industries and develop-ing high-speed rail, while also expanding traditional freight and passenger rail.

Deeds Releases Plan To Jump Start Virginia’s Economy

Creigh Deeds (left) and Mark Warner talk about Deeds’ “Jumpstart” plan.

By Gene Marrano

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Every family has a member who is the essential cog in the

household machine. My mom was that person when I was growing up. Through any crisis situation my mom remained steadfast, without even a hint of panic. Though she often would strike a Ma-chiavellian pose, professing that she "rather be feared than loved," Mom was in fact a soft-hearted matriarch who loved her brood unconditionally.

On several occasions, my mother was briefly hospital-ized with chronic lower back problems, leaving my father,

sisters and I to fend for our-selves in her absence. Al-though a palpable void was apparent to all, everything ran rather smoothly until Mom's return.

Like my mom, my wife Ja-net is the captain of our family vessel and similar to my mom, she runs a tidy ship. A for-mer gymnast who spent years hurling her body hither and yon, Janet also has issues with her lower back which will re-quire surgery within the next few weeks. Unlike my mom, who had four brilliant and ca-pable daughters and a loving husband with an abundance

of household skills to keep the boat afloat, Janet has only me, my son and three goofy hound dogs to bridge the gap until she regains full mobility.

Adrift in uncharted wa-ters and void of any domestic skills, Will and I struggled to decide which one of us was proficient enough to step up and fill Janet's shoes. (Note: Had our dogs been blessed with opposable thumbs we would have invited them into the conversation; however, we felt that we had to draw the line somewhere.). We proceeded to compile a list of "Pros and Cons" describing our strengths and challenges, opting to explore this matter scientifically.

My list of "pros" included age and experience and we agreed that Will's "pros" were youth and strength. So much for the short list of positives. The discussion regarding our weaknesses became a lengthy volley with each candidate re-calling tales of the others in-adequacy.

Being male, the first topic we debated was food. Clearly (I thought) I would have an advantage in this category. Aside from a few dishes he can actually create, Will's culinary experiences normally begin

with our hungry boy shout-ing his order at an electronic menu, and ends by driving to the second window for pick-up. Pulling from his historical data bank, Will then remind-ed me that I was the guy who once set himself on fire while making spaghetti. This was a difficult point to dispute as I had nearly incinerated my-self when the bottom of my t-shirt touched the stove eye as I reached for pasta in the cabinet above. As flames rose towards my chin, I discovered the true function of our sink’s sprayer attachment (I always wondered what that thing was for) and doused the inferno inches from my beard. Will: 1, Dad: 0.

Cleaning was next on our list, a chore foreign to most men, and Will and I are no exception. If not for Janet, our home would be consid-ered a bio-hazard and would be condemned by the City of Roanoke if the Sheriff ’s depu-ties could fight their way past a twenty foot ball of dog hair to serve the subpoena. Recall-ing that Will had once tried to help his Mom clean the house by firing up a gas-powered leaf blower in our living room (and setting off all of our smoke alarms in the process), it be-

came clear that I would be manning the mop and vacu-um. Will conceded his case without re-buttal. Will: 1, Dad: 1.

The next topic considered was dog care and mainte-nance. To our pack Janet is the sun, the moon and the stars. The dogs see Will and me more as temporary board-ers, occupants in the postal vernacular. Responding only to their mother's voice, Shiloh, Roscoe and Mya will often turn a deaf-ear to anyone who tries to summon their pres-ence, opting to await official word from the top. Hounds are rarely in a hurry which is precisely the reason I love them. In comparison my dogs make me look "dynamic!"

Will argued that he would be a better choice for this de-tail due to his standing in the household chain of command which is as follows...

1. Janet 2. The dogs3. Will*4. The fish5. Me (I used to occupy

the sixth slot until the lizards passed away).

*Will was in the number two spot until age five, when he jumped on the back of Tara (our since departed Coonhound) and rode her around the house like Roy Rog-ers.

We quibbled on through the night about who would

handle Janet's work during her convalescence yet, in the end, agreed on only one thing. We concurred that neither one of us could handle half of the stuff Janet does on a daily ba-sis, and that the scope of her work stretches from the obvi-ous chores to the little unseen tasks that both of us have ei-ther never considered or have always taken for granted.

Relax and recover, Janet. With a little luck and a meta-phorical can of WD-40, the family machine just might survive the calamitous care of your two favorite men; how-ever, I bumped up the hom-eowners policy just in case. Rest well.

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After a light spring rain and the pass-ing of not-too-dis-

tant thunder overnight, we packed up to head home from Mt. Rogers. Not three miles of hardtop east of our camp-ing spot, we drove through a tenth-of-a-mile stretch where big trees had freshly been twisted and snapped. A small but powerful tornado must have barely missed churning through the middle of the crowded campground where we had spent the night.

I was shocked. In central Alabama where I grew up, tornados are normal. But not here!

The trouble with norms is that they are simply the peak of a curve, a "measure of cen-tral tendency." Today's norms are by no means fixed forever. They can fluctuate towards

drastically greater or lesser measures that would seem inconceivable by current standards. As one of my favor-ite Bruce Cockburn songs from the 70’s puts it, "the trouble with normal is it al-ways gets worse."

A few important things are getting worse, and a century's-worth of statistical records of heat and cold, wind and rainfall may be destined for the his-tory books.

Humankind is facing the consequences of decades of ignoring or deferring the fu-ture. We have not possessed the will or wisdom to do what seemed so apparent that we must do starting in the earli-est days of our environmental consciousness: to live within our means; to accept that there are limits to growth; to recognize we will always depend on the soil-water-air more than on Wall Street; to pay as we go with regards to natural resource use and to play fair. Now we've made our

bed, and our chil-dren will lie in it.

At (or slightly beyond) the very brink of possible catastrophic shifts from normal, we are faced now with a grotesque, sci-ence-fiction kind of predicament (this is NOT a test!): we've got very little ener-

gy currency with which to do future business; and we're tip-ping toward the point of no return for global climate dis-ruption that can turn today's norms (and every living and economic system dependent on them) upside down.

But let's gather our wits and focus. In spite of dire warn-ings recently from Nobel laureates meeting on climate change, there is still a chance we can limit average global warming to not more than 2 degrees C.

Granted, this sounds like such a small change, but those norms of our ordinary industrial-age biological and meteorological world that we've been talking about are very finely tuned, hence our narrow "normals." And we simply must understand that this thermal creep is the single most serious challenge and threat that humankind will have faced in all its his-tory. It's almost impossible for me wrap my head around this, but I must. We must.

It is possible that if we all act together, we can nudge the enormous atmospheric barge of CO2, alter its for-ward momentum just enough to divert it from the rocks ahead. We can't stop it cold in its tracks in our lifetimes, and even with extraordinary,

consistent cooperation and common purpose it will take decades to bring CO2 lev-els back to what most scien-tists believe to be the balance point: 350 parts per million.

Did you know that number? Bill McKibben argues that it is the most important number mankind might ever bring into our common language. Why? Because according to NASA's Jim Hansen and co-authors, "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization de-veloped and to which life on earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."

You will certainly be hear-ing more about this num-ber in the months ahead. It is an abstraction really. We haven't words big enough to express the magnitude of our predicament. But num-bers are universal. This fig-ure will give ordinary people around the globe a common place to look, a common goal to which to insist all world leaders move. And if we can change in that direction, we just might be able to give our children's children a life that is normal--by any recent his-torical measure.

In the concluding words of those same Nobel Laureates I mentioned before:

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We leave our bikes, with the consta-ble’s blessing, lean-

ing up against the weathered brick of the tiny, police station. The town of Broadford seems rather colorless as we walk briefly though it on this overcast grey day. Our plan is to execute a cursory tour of the Isle of Skye via a day of hitchhiking. We’ll be able to cover a little more ground this way, assuming we can get rides, and besides, after seven weeks of cycling it’s time for a change of venue. And it’s nice leaving most of our stuff with the bikes today, only tak-ing our valuables and our ever-needed ratty rain jackets.

My friend Ben and I are on an extended low-budget bicycle tour through Great Britain and Ireland, and here on the west coast of Scotland we feel like we’re really in the heart of it. My Scottish heritage nudges me from all sides.

Traffic is light, but we put on our best “harmless American kids” expressions and soon an old Austin Healy jerks to a stop just beyond us. It’s piloted by two zany older women on holi-day from Liverpool. It’s nice to be in the cozy little car –the cold mist outside having gained mo-

mentum- and we enjoy chatting with the two sisters. They are traveling to Portree, a town in the interior of the island, about 25 miles away, and that suits us perfectly.

This place is dead, or so we think on first glance. Upon further investigation, however, we find some life. As is often the case in these small towns, the pubs and shops are marked with the smallest of signs, if at all. We duck into a pub for tea and scones, a mainstay of our victuals as of late.

A few hours later, the novelty of exploring this part of Skye has worn off and we start hitch-hiking back the way we came. Just when our faith in getting a ride is wearing thin an aging dump-bed lorry chugs up and stops next to us. We climb up next to a big bear of a man who smiles benignly but says little. We bounce down the road –and I do mean bounce; the truck seems to have no functioning suspension whatsoever- back towards Broadford and our bikes.

We jump from the high truck to the puddles below and bid our friend adieu. Now several things happen at once. As the lorry chugs and bounces out

of sight, we start walking into Broadford to collect our bikes, and my hand goes instinctively to my pocket for reassurance that my wallet is still there. It is not. Unease pangs in my gut as my hands race over my body searching for other possible wallet resting places. No luck. Deeper despair fogs over me as I realize exactly what happened: My wallet bounced right out of my pocket while we jolted along in the lorry. Furthermore, I feel certain that my little purse fell behind the seat and into the gloom of rust and rubbish un-derneath. There’s no telling if the wallet will ever be found, certainly not any time soon.

Ben and I trudge forlornly to the Police Station. Our bikes are as we left them, unlocked and unmolested. The station is closed for the day, so we write a note to the constable about los-ing the wallet, and slide it under the door. We pedal off towards the landing for the ferry to Mal-laig, the village on the main-land to which we’ll head in the morning. By the sea next to an ancient stone wall we set up our tarp for the night, and there we discuss our predicament.

The year is 1980, and deal-ing with a money problem in

a foreign country is not as simple as it might be today. No electronic banking, no money machines on every corner. Ben and I had one credit card between us, and now it likely resides in the rubbish under the seat of the truck. Otherwise we have cash in British pounds, and not enough of that on which to fin-ish the trip in spite of our ability to live on the cheap. Ben’s cash supply is meager, and my equal-ly short supply is now lost with the wallet. Furthermore, being what some might refer to as ir-responsible free-spirits, we have as yet given little thought to the more subtle aspects of money and banking. We have learned, however, that money is hard to get and easy to spend.

In Mallaig, a classic Scottish seaport with a harbor full of colorful fishing boats and the pungent salt air smell draping everything, we visit the local bank. The manager is an ef-ficient, short and balding man who politely explains that we just can’t get a cash advance on a credit card based on the num-

bers on a crumpled receipt. He does al-low me to cancel the credit card, which apparently is the re-sponsible thing to do in cases like this. One may ask, why not just call home to the USA. Surely that would not have been

too difficult? True perhaps, but we never considered it.

The perceived complexity of the logistics of calling the US and somehow getting money that way was inconceivable to us.

We roll on through southern Scotland tending toward our next big destination, York, Eng-land. It rains a lot, but we are ac-customed to it. “This is the rain-iest summer in twenty years!” the locals are always reminding us. We pinch pennies, or in this case, pence. We eat bread and jam for every meal.

“What about the Willsons?”, Ben remarks, cool rain flowing down his cheeks. Hmmmm.., the Willsons, Norman and Eleanor. We met them some weeks before in a small vil-lage in Wales, where they run a modest bed and breakfast. They had said, “If you have any trou-

ble at all give us a call”. “Yeah, yeah, whatever” is probably what we thought at the time, but they were so nice and even after talking to them for only a brief time they felt like family. When we left them Eleanor had urged us to call in an emergency and then pressed a slip of paper with a their address and phone number into my hand.

They handled all the details. We merely had to get to York and the branch of the Royal Westbrook Bank. Sixty pounds in cash –more than enough to finish the trip- was waiting there, wired to us from the Will-sons in Gwynelln.

Six months later I’m at school again and a parcel awaits me at home. It contains my ragged wallet and all its contents. As my fingers press the worn leath-er, memories flood back to me. I think of past adventures and adventures to come. But most of all I think of the people I’ve met and the love and generosity of the human spirit.

I tend to forget about all that rain in my face.

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Some criminal defendants in Virginia are seeing their cases dismissed due to a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling which said that crime lab reports cannot be introduced

as evidence in trials unless the analysts who wrote them appear in court to testify about the results. With only about 160 ana-lysts in Virginia, and more than 60,000 crime lab tests done each year, the new requirement would overwhelm backlogged crime labs, with the result of some defendants going free because ana-lysts could not be present in many cases.

The Washington Post and Associated Press have reported that since the ruling on Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, several drug and drunk driving cases have been dismissed in Virginia. They also report that prosecutors from around the state are call-ing for an immediate remedy.

That is the same thing that State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli says he is hearing from prosecutors as he travels the commonwealth in his Republican bid for state attorney general – the state’s top law enforcement job.

Cuccinelli says the court’s ruling was a good one – protect-ing the Sixth Amendment constitutional right of defendants to cross examine witnesses against them. But he also says that Virginia’s law needs to be rewritten immediately to ensure this

right is protected, while at the same time keeping those who are guilty from getting off scot-free because a witness wasn’t available to testify. He has asked Gov. Tim Kaine to call an immediate one-day special session of the General Assembly to amend Virginia’s law to comply with the ruling.

Rewriting the law may be the quick-est and perhaps best way to ensure compliance. Three states did not have their laws affected by the Supreme Court decision, and according to Cuccinelli, it would not take much to change Virginia’s law to conform to these other states.

Yet, two weeks ago, Kaine’s office initially said it was too early to convene a special session. That meant legislators would have to wait until the General Assembly convened its regular session in January before they could change the law. In the meantime, though, cases would continue to get dismissed as courts could not guarantee defendants a “speedy trial,” as they are obliged to do, while waiting for January to roll around.

With prosecutors calling the situation dire, why did Gov. Kaine think that there was no need for a special session, and that this could possibly wait until January? Even an editorial from the liberal editors of the Washington Post points out that Cuccinelli’s idea “merits serious consideration.” To be fair, the governor said he was looking for an administrative solution – one that would not involve the General Assembly convening to change the law.

But was there a little politics involved, too? Many media hinted at that. Cuccinelli is, after all, the Republican candidate for state attorney general, and his opponent, Steve Shannon, is in the Governor’s party. Shannon’s campaign manager pushed politics further by sniping that the Senator’s request for a special session was “a PR stunt that would cost taxpayers money.”

To the contrary, Cuccinelli says that the cost of convening a special session would be less than the cost of hiring just one more lab analyst (and if the law isn’t changed, it is likely that many analysts would need to be hired).

On Wednesday, the governor decided to call for the special session to be held August 19. Good policy won the day over bad politics.

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A day before some 9,000 athletes descended upon the Roanoke Valley for three days of ath-letic competition, supporters and sponsors of the Coventry Commonwealth Games convened at Hotel Roanoke for an opening reception. Among the program’s highlights was the debut of a Virginia Amateur Sports “Wall of Fame,” wherein the Roanoke-based organization that runs the annual state games recognized a hand-ful of board members and sports organizers that have helped the Commonwealth Games thrive over the past 20 years.

“Twenty years of excitement, character build-ing and genuine camaraderie,” said VAS Board Chairman John Montgomery.

Despite historic drops in the level of donations and, “not a penny of state funds,” Montgomery said the games soldier on. Key sponsors that have stayed the course were also recognized at the reception.

Former Patrick Henry High School principal Elizabeth Lee and attorney David Paxton, both long time board members, were among the first group of honorees that will have plaques in their honor on display at VAS headquarters in Roa-noke. Long time sports organizers Wally Beagle and Tommy Saunders are also members of the new Wall of Fame.

Attendees heard from Kimberly Eakin, owner of the Wine Gourmet shop on Franklin Road, and a former Army sharpshooter. Eakin said she was a “seriously competitive person,” who had that fire stoked early on by entering a shooting contest held at the first Commonwealth Games.

“It sparked a desire to go further,” said Eakin. Going further ultimately meant traveling the country with the Army’s sharpshooting team, teaching marksmanship along the way. The Commonwealth Games said Eakin helped many “hit the bull’s-eye,” by building confidence for other tasks in life.

Keynote speaker Tiffany Roberts, a former World Cup and Olympic gold medalist in soc-cer, gave a preview of her Opening Night cer-emony keynote address at the reception. Now the co-head coach for girls soccer at Virginia Commonwealth University and a three time Parade All-American, Roberts said her journey to Olympic gold with Mia Hamm and company, “was a dream. [But] it’s really not about that gold medal – it’s about the impact that sport has had on my life.”

Soccer made Roberts a “risk taker and con-fident,” and convinced her that “it’s okay [for a girl] to be tough.” As for events like the Coven-try Commonwealth Games, “this is how it all started.”

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Commonwealth Softball

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What an absolutely amazing week it was for all of us over the age of 35 . . . Almost.

As an ever ripening-on-the-vine 48 year old I watched with increasing joy the rise of both Tom Watson and Lance Arm-strong as they swung and ped-aled their way to the very pin-nacle of their respective sports once again.

At age 59 Tom Watson’s run was especially remarkable. For those of you who don’t follow such things, Watson played his way to within a single 8 foot putt of winning the British Open, a “Major – Major” tournament if you will, that would be akin to and no less surprising than Buzz Aldrin saying he would be piloting a space shuttle to Mars next week.

But standing over the 8 foot putt Watson looked like he’d just swallowed a bag of canar-ies. You could literally see the dreaded “yip” building – like a giant wave rising up that was going to wash both he and the magical dream away. He had about as much chance of mak-ing that putt as I did. (i.e. very, very little.) It was just too much to ask. I mean, really – winning the British Open at Age 59?

But there he was and as God taught me long ago, Anything is possible.

So I thought maybe, just maybe . . . But when he struck the ball it immediately faded hard right and woefully short and suddenly old Tom looked every bit his years and about 17 million over-35 hearts all over the world gave a collec-tive groan of despair that might have been heard by Aldrin even if he had already arrived on the red planet.

It didn’t take an astronaut to know it was over for Tom. He got annihilated in the playoff by 4 strokes. It wasn’t even close.

The worst thing about watch-ing the whole implosion (and especially that shabby putt) was that the rest of us over-35’ers knew that we were well on our way to that place too. A sooner or later reality where bodies be-gin to fade and ultimately fail and even gut wrenching per-severance backed up by a great attitude and no small amount of luck isn’t enough to overcome a slowing metabolism and the in-exorable onslaught of gravity.

Oh the humanity.But hope springs eternal (or

so someone says) so as I awaited stage 15 of the Tour de France where Lance Armstrong and the boys would return to the Alps to show the world that if you work at it hard enough, even at 38 you can still beat all

those young whip-persnappers. (Espe-cially one in particu-lar by the name of Alberto Contador).

I was haltingly optimistic. This in spite of the fact that over a weekend beer with my best friends in the neighbor-hood, I had predict-ed Lance’s demise would be no less than Tom’s.

“There’s something about the age of 37 or 38,” I said shaking my head. “At some point I think you realize – I know I did – that you just can’t quite do a lot of the physical things that you did at say 27 or 28. It’s just the way it is . . . Muscle fiber begins to change, synapses slow just a bit. I hate it, but I think Lance isn’t going to be able to respond if Al-berto takes off like he did early in the race. I’m afraid ol’ Father Time already has a pretty good grip on Lance’s back wheel.”

The brown bottle in my hand might as well have been a crys-tal ball. As the riders began their final ascent, the top dogs were all together including Al-berto and Lance, but with about 5 miles and 2000 more feet to go Alberto turned to Armstrong and said something. Perhaps

he shared some re-quired comment about team strat-egy, but the words, “See ya Pops,” must have been in there somewhere because Alberto broke out of the pack like the proverbial bat from the lower beyond and steamed away from Lance and the rest of the group like

they were standing still. You read it here first: No

one is going to win the Tour de France at age 38. My guess is that Lance, of course, knew this all too well but he also knew that getting back in there to mix it up with the greatest com-petitors in his sport was the best way he could generate support for cancer awareness.

This is probably no less ad-mirable than Watson continu-ing to play simply because he loves the game and the life it has given him.

Which begs the question - Do such noble endeavors even need to result in a win?

Well, we all love an underdog and a fairy tale ending, but as much as I was pulling for the both of them I think the answer is decidedly, “no.”

Defeats such as these have

their own unique glory in dem-onstrating humility and balance and grace at the highest levels of worldly competition. Maybe the opportunity for such out-weighs any trophy upon the shelf – even a 2nd British Open or an 8th Tour de France.

So perhaps it was still a great week after all – even if for most of us we just got that much older. For as physical strength, endurance and accuracy fade, in their place true wisdom can arrive in so many forms. And for Tom and Lance and the rest us, perhaps that’s not such a bad trade.

Besides – there’s always next

year. I’m a pretty good rider – maybe I’ll enter the Tour . . .

Hope does spring eternal you know.

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Saturday, July 26th • 10 am—5 pm Sunday, July 27th • 11 am—4 pm

The largest antique show in the Roanoke Valley with over 50 outstanding dealers featuring formal, country and children’s furniture;

decorative accessories; vintage prints; rare books and manuscripts; silver and linens; estate jewelry and much more!

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> July 27Creating a Digital Memory ScrapbookRecording Family Memories: A Be-ginner’s Course for Recording Oral HistoriesMonday, July 27, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm. Computer Lab, Main LibraryThis is a crash course in how to col-lect spoken memories. You will learn how to establish a project theme, create questions to ask family mem-bers, use digital recording equipment, and transcribe your interviews.

> July 30Life Book Seminar presented by Philip GriffithThursday, July 30 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Penn Forest Wesleyan Church, Fel-lowship Hall, 3735 Chaparral Dr, Roanoke, VA 24018Fee: $25 per couple at the door or pre-register by Tuesday, July 28 and save $10 per couple To pre-register or for more informa-tion: Contact Cathy Wallin at [email protected] or 540.989.1312

> August 5ALS Night at the BallparkThe Salem Red Sox and th e ALSAssociation are hosting a special night at the ballpark Wednesday,August 5, 7 p.m., to raise money in the fight against Lou Gehrig’sDisease. Tickets are $6 in advance ($1 off regular price). Tickets are good for general admission seating, and only for August 5, or its rain date, if nec-essary. For more information, email Rick at [email protected]

> August 7Manif SpacialeThe famed Montreal originating space-framed bike event, is happen-ing in downtown Roanoke, Friday, August 7, 4:30 - 6 pm.Any questions? do feel free to ask:http://carlessbrit.tumblr.com/

> August 14VCE Food ExpoThe Alleghany, Botetourt, Craig, and Roanoke offices of Virginia Coopera-tive Extension (VCE) have teamed up with many sponsors to host the

first “Taste of the Roanoke Valley Food Expo,” Friday, August 14, 2009, from 2 – 8 pm, at the Greenfield Rec-reational Park just north of Daleville. Tickets are $2 each (children 12 and under free with paying adult) and can be purchased by calling Botetourt (540-473-8260), Craig (540-864-5812), or Roanoke (540-772-7524) VCE offices. Tickets are limited and should be purchased prior to the Food Expo.

> August 17Creating a Digital Memory Scrapbook Part 2Compiling Your Digital Memory ScrapbookMonday, Aug. 17, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, or Monday, Aug. 24, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Computer Lab, Main LibraryIn this session, you will learn how to scan your photographs, choose digi-tal images, sound and video clips, and create a presentation.

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AMVETS Chapter 40 and the Sunshine & Butterflies Leuke-mia Foundation are teaming up to sponsor a charity poker run motorcycle ride and breakfast to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital to help find a cure for childhood cancer. The event will take place this Sun-day, July 26, at the AMVETS Post, 911 Tazewell Ave. SE in Roanoke.

The ride will begin and end at the AMVETS Post. The first rider will start at 11:30am, fol-lowing Routes 24, 122 and 220, and will pass by Carilion Hos-pital for the children in the pe-diatric unit. Donation is $20. Registration is from 8:00 am

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Macayla Anglin is the inspira-tion for the Sunshine & But-terflies Leukemia Foundation.

The Virginia Department of Transportation and the City of Roanoke will hold a public hearing to discuss plans to widen the section of Tenth Street in Roanoke that starts just south of Fair-fax Avenue and extends to Williamson Road. The proposed proj-ect will provide bicycle lanes, curbs and gutters and sidewalks. Turn lanes will be added at Tenth Street’s intersections with Hunt Avenue, Grayson Avenue and Orange Avenue. The proposed improvements will focus on improving safety and traffic flow.

The public hearing will be held Thursday, July 30, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Lucy Addison Middle School located at 1220 Fifth Street in Roanoke. The hearing will be held in an “open house” format with no formal presentation given. Citizens can attend at their convenience during the two hours.

Written comments about the project may be submitted at the meeting, or until August 9, by mail to Mr. Richard L. Caywood, P.E., Virginia Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 3071, Sa-lem, VA 24153. E-mail comments can be sent to [email protected]. Please reference “Tenth Street Widening Comments” in the subject heading.

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Luna Innovations Incorporated, a company focused on sensing and instrumentation solutions and pharmaceutical nanomedicines, voluntarily filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia.

The company emphasized last week that it expects to continue to operate normally to serve customers, develop and manufacture products, and maintain employment at all facilities during the re-structuring process.

“The jury verdict in our dispute with Hansen Medical in April obviously presented a very serious potential negative outcome for Luna as well as its creditors, shareholders and other stakeholders,” said Kent Murphy, Chairman and CEO.

Luna was attracted to Roanoke from its original home in Blacks-burg as the result of its relationship with Carilion Clinic. A jury

ruled in April that Luna had breached its contract with Hansen Medical and had misappropriated trade secrets belonging to Han-sen.

“As previously reported, the jury in our litigation proposed an award to Hansen in excess of $36 million,” Murphy added. “Since then, we have filed motions with the court in California to have the award reduced, and Hansen has filed motions to ask the court to increase the award. While we believe we have arguments as to why the award should be significantly reduced, there is no way to predict the outcome of the litigation.”

“In the absence of reasonable settlement of that dispute, we believe that today’s filing is in the best interests of Luna and our shareholders, creditors and communities, while providing the first step toward securing a future for Luna. We intend to build on our history of innovation and product development, outstanding prod-

ucts, and excellent customer service,” Murphy said.As part of its filing for reorganization, Luna is requesting the

Virginia court to estimate Hansen’s claims in litigation at less than $1.3 million. If that motion is successful before the court, company officers believe the proposed reorganization plan would result in creditors receiving 100 % of their allowed claims.

“The plan that we proposed and filed today, if confirmed by the court, would pay our creditors on their valid claims and leave our current shareholders in place while allowing us to continue to build upon the recent achievements of this company and the potential of our product pipeline,” Murphy said. “It was after long and care-ful consideration with our board of directors and outside advisors that we concluded this was the right move. I believe that the actions taken today represent the best path for Luna and all of our stake-holders.”

E. Stephen Lilly, Executive Vice President and Chief Op-erating Officer of First Com-munity Bank, N.A. and Chief Operating Officer for its hold-ing company, First Community Bancshares, Inc., has been ap-pointed to the Executive Com-mittee of the Board of Direc-tors for the Virginia Economic Bridge (VEB) Corporation. Lilly will fill a vacant position on the committee and his term will last for two years.

VEB is a non-profit organi-zation that focuses on business, economic and workforce de-velopment for the state of Vir-ginia. Organized in 1989, the VEB has many initiatives in-cluding the Virginia’s Business Pipeline, Virginia Community Analysis, Research and Devel-opment Program, Virginia’s Linked Workforce Initiative, SWVA Online - Virginia’s Great Southwest and is the program management organization for the Return to Roots program.

Lilly has served on the VEB’s Board of Directors for three years. The Executive Commit-tee has many important func-tions including long-range strategic planning, setting organizational and business initiatives and overseeing the budgeting process.

“It has been a pleasure to serve on the board of the VEB, and I’m proud of our many accomplishments during my time with them,” Lilly said. “I look forward to serving on the Executive Committee because it means new challenges and opportunities. I will continue to do my best to improve the business and employment envi-ronment in Southwest Virginia and throughout the state.”

Lilly has been in his cur-rent role at First Community Bank since 1997. His career in banking and operations began in 1981. He serves on a num-ber of industry and local area boards and committees.

For more information go to: www.virginiaeconomicbridge.org.

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Guy M. Harbert, an attor-ney with Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, has been named to the Virginia Super Lawyers for 2009 in the category Personal Injury Defense: General.

Super Lawyers names Vir-ginia’s top lawyers as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics magazine. The designation is based on the re-sults of a survey of more than 19,000 lawyers across the state. The goal is to select Super Lawyers as the top 5 percent of Virginia attorneys in more than 60 practice areas.

The 2009 Virginia Super Lawyers are recognized in a special advertising section in Richmond Magazine in July, as well as a separate magazine publication, Virginia Super Lawyers 2009.

Guy M. Harbert is Virginia Super Lawyer

Roanoke City’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) presented Preservation Excellence Awards at City Council’s Monday evening meeting. These awards recognize noteworthy individuals and proj-ects, highlighting outstanding rehabilitations, renovations, appro-priate in-fill design, and other preservation-focused projects within the City of Roanoke. The awards are non-competitive. The only cri-terion for nominations is that the projects be “preservation-related,” and have been completed within the past year.

This year, the ARB amended the award guidelines to include individuals and projects outside of the H-1 and H-2 Historic Dis-tricts, in an effort to highlight more projects throughout the city. The following projects were recognized:

Category 1: Projects within the H-1 and H-2 Historic Districts • 117 Campbell Ave., S.E./Mill Mountain Coffee Building, David

Johnson, Owner. Johnson chose to take the next step in investing in Downtown Roanoke by purchasing and renovating a building in the Historic Market District.

• 509 Day Ave., S.W., Donald Harwood, Owner. Harwood re-constructed the house’s front porch with a modern, artistic inter-pretation of the traditional one-story porch in Old Southwest that incorporated a star motif in the scroll-sawn railing design.

• 524 Day Ave., S.W., Jason Malroy, Owner. Malroy removed the house’s non-historic vinyl siding, repaired and restored all win-dows, installed period-designed porch railings, replaced tongue and groove flooring, constructed a new porch handrail, fully renovated the interior, and added a new period-appropriate front door.

• 505 6th St., S.W./Cotton Mill Lofts, Ed Walker, Owner. Walker converted the former Roanoke Mills Building into 108 apartments. Most significant to the appearance of the building was the restora-tion of the original steel-sash windows that had been replaced over the years with glass block. The one- and two-bedroom apartments and live/work units retain the maple floors, exposed brick walls and structural post and beam system.

• 510 Mountain Ave., S.W., Daniel George, Owner. George in-stalled new two-over-two windows and siding to finish the house’s second story rear addition that expanded the master bedroom. He also enclosed an unfinished first floor rear porch into a functional screened-in sun porch, re-installed the historic porch columns and handrails on the front porch, and painted the house.

• 833 Marshall Ave., S.W., FourSquare Property & Development, LLC, Owner. FourSquare Property and Development purchased two American Four Square houses side by side in the 800 block of Marshall Avenue, S.W. The renovation of 833 Marshall took a two-unit house and returned it to a single family residence with its original 1912 interior configuration and exterior design. Modern updates were added to the kitchen and bathrooms, and an addi-tional 300 square feet of living space was added by renovating the attic into a family room.

• 551 Marshall Ave., S.W./Fork in the City of Roanoke, Ed Walk-er, Owner. The building, which features a distinctive cornice and clipped corner entrance, had been painted white and the storefront windows filled in. Now painted chocolate brown with orange and blue accents to emphasize the interesting brick work, the storefronts have been restored with sliding windows to enhance the indoor/outdoor experience. Inside, heart-of-pine flooring was uncovered, the tin tile ceiling was faux-painted and two patios were added.

• 1008 Franklin Road, S.W./St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Colum-barium Landscaping Project, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Owners. This columbarium landscaping project represents an excellent re-habilitation of that garden space adjacent to the church.

Category 2: Projects Throughout the City (outside the local his-toric districts)

• 35 Campbell Ave., S.W./The Hancock Building, Ed Walker and Scott Graeff, Owners. With financial support from the City of

Roanoke, the team decided to remove the red brick façade and un-dertake the full restoration of the Art Deco façade and street level storefronts.

• 400 Salem Ave., S.W./Fulton Motor Lofts Building, Bill Chap-man, Owner. The project included the restoration of a 32,000-square-foot automotive building into 22 custom lofts and two of-fice-retail spaces. In an effort to maintain the historic integrity of the building, the exposed concrete ceilings, steel beams and columns, brick walls and concrete floors were repaired and kept.

• 701 Patterson Ave., S.W./Access Building, Todd Marcum and Tony Pearman, Owners. The rehabilitation of this former auto-motive-based building into an 8,500-square-foot office building included installation of cast-in-place concrete, concrete masonry, new aluminum storefront facade, acid staining concrete floors, painting, acoustical tile ceilings, chair lift equipment, HVAC sys-tems, and electrical systems.

• 1813 Rorer Ave., S.W., Blue Brick Buildings and Renovations Inc., Owners/Contractors. The porch was returned to its original state.

• 1917 Maiden Lane, S.W., Erica Taylor, Owner. Renovation included the removal of the vinyl siding and the aluminum clad-ding on the windows, door frames, soffits and eaves to expose the original rafter tails, second-floor cedar shake siding, and first-floor novelty siding. The project also included the removal of the old three-tab shingle roof and installation of new architectural shingles, installation of metal half-round gutters, and total repainting of the house in five different colors appropriate to the Arts and Crafts style of the house.

• 1540 Maiden Lane, S.W., and 1532 Bluemont Ave., S.W./Ter-race Apartments, Total Action Against Poverty, Owners. The Ter-race Apartments is a seven-building complex built in 1950 to house families of working class World War II veterans. The renovation of these seven buildings was undertaken using the Secretary of Inte-rior’s Standards for Rehabilitation; the project was designed to pre-serve the historic features and materials.

• 2720 Rosalind Avenue, S.W., Eugene and Laura Elliott, Owners. This project consisted of reconstruction of the front porch and up-per balcony on this circa 1902 Victorian home to uncover an origi-nal tower and details. Work included removal of a sleeping porch (a later addition to the house), as well as significant repairs to gut-ter, eaves, and trim. A new “Juliette” balcony was also constructed, using existing wood siding and trim. Restoration of original porch forms was determined by historic photographic evidence. Infor-mation provided by the City of Roanoke.

Architectural Review Board Delivers Awards

Photo by Gene Marrano

The new interior of the Access building - a former car dealer-ship on Patterson Ave. in downtown Roanoke.

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“I’m a player, ” explains Mike Conner in his office at Wil-liamson Road Service Center in northeast Roanoke, recogniz-able for the giant Paul Bunyan figure standing outside the cen-ter’s front door. By player, Con-ner means he’s a bluegrass musi-cian. “I fix cars so I can eat and I play bluegrass for a living,” said the Bent Mountain resident. Growing up with bluegrass at home, Conner started out play-ing piano at a time when elec-tronic keyboards were unheard of.

“You couldn’t go to a jam ses-sion unless it was in a building somewhere with a piano. So I wanted to start playing guitar.” Conner’s musical passion pro-gressed from there to the point where bluegrass “has just always

been my first love.” Since 2001, Conner has been

involved in the planning and staging of FiddleFest, which will be held this year on the campus of Hollins University July 31 - August 1. This year’s program will be a mixture of old and new features.

“This is the first year that we’ll have Tony Rice there,” says Con-ner, “[and] the first year that Mountain Heart will be there.” The latter musical act will fea-ture a new lead singer who hails from Martinsville. Other new performing acts will be Balsam Range, based in Carolina, and Blue Moon Rising, which Con-ner describes as a “new, very, very popular group.” Back for this year’s FiddleFest will be the Country Gentlemen, led by

Randy Waller, who picked up the baton from his late father, Charlie Waller.

“We’ll start each day with our workshop series,” said Conner. “It’s an opportunity for learning

musicians, or even advanced musicians, to sit down with professionals,” whose livelihood comes from making music or singing, “to pick up some tips from them. You get to spend an

hour-and-a-half each day, and if you buy a two-day pass,($45) it’ll get you into everything.”

This year’s afternoon show (August 1) will be held in a new, much larger location, Babcock Auditorium. The afternoon will feature what Connor terms “Pro-Jams,” where professional musicians “just kind of get to-gether on stage and do what they do. There’s no format, there’s no show . . .They just get up there, somebody hollers out a song and they take-off.”

The evening performances will be held outdoors at “Tin-ker Beach,” a grassy area behind Tinker Hall on the university campus. “It’s a natural amphi-theater,” says Connor. “It’s just a beautiful area.” Conner believes FiddleFest affords Hollins Uni-

versity the opportunity to forge a greater connection with the Roanoke Valley.

“They want to bring people on campus that may not, for any other reason, come onto the campus to see what the facili-ties are, what’s available there, because maybe they feel like they’ve been a little closed off - even though they’ve been here since 1842. This is kind of their chance to open up to the com-munity in another way.”

Further information about FiddleFest can be found at roa-nokefiddlefest.org. Tickets can be purchased at the website by credit card, or by calling 777-1418.

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A group jams during last year’s FiddleFest.

Ruth Waalkes, director of artistic initiatives at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, has been named executive director of the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. She will begin this position in late September.

In this new position, Waalkes will have overall responsibility for the programming and operation of Virginia Tech's Center for the Arts, a yet-to-be-built complex of new and renovated facilities, which will house a 1,300-seat performance hall; a visual arts gal-lery; and teaching and research spaces that will include a creative technologies lab, a collaborative performance lab, and a communi-cations studio.

Construction on the center is projected to begin in 2010 and is scheduled to be completed by 2013.

"As the first director of the Center for the Arts, Waalkes will pro-vide critical leadership as we work to enhance the quality of life on our campus and in the community we serve by offering a broad and rich set of cultural experiences," said Mark McNamee, senior vice president and provost. "Fulfilling the promise of the university's Arts Initiative and building an arts center is no small task, but Waal-kes' success at the University of Maryland uniquely qualifies her for this very important position."

"The Center for the Arts will create significant opportunities for Virginia Tech, and for Blacksburg and the surrounding region," said Waalkes. "It will be filled with a broad array of dynamic perform-ing and visual arts programs, and will offer people many ways to

deepen their experience with the arts. I am honored to serve as the center's executive director, and look forward to working with cam-pus and community partners on this extraordinary project."

Waalkes has been director of artistic initiatives at Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center since 2002. In this role, she oversaw all artistic planning and programming at the center, which has become a vital part of both the University of Maryland cam-pus community and the greater arts landscape in the metropolitan Washington D.C. region since its opening in 2001.

"The forthcoming construction that will create the new Center for the Arts is a critical component of the broader Arts Initiative, which will support new ways of teaching and learning at the many intersections between the arts and other disciplines," said Minnis E. Ridenour, chair of the Arts Initiative Steering Committee. "Plan-ning for the new Center for the Arts continues to move forward under the direction of our international architecture firm, Snohetta, and the naming of the executive director is a key decision in prepar-ing for the breaking of ground in the summer of 2010 and the open-ing of the center in June of 2013."

The center will support a new Center for Creative Technologies in the Arts which will bring together the visual and performing arts with Virginia Tech's scientific, computing, and engineering capa-bilities. Its efforts will be focused on developing new methodologies of teaching, experiencing, and delivering the arts.

Ruth Waalkes Named Executive Director of Virginia Tech's New Center for the Arts

The Roanoke Public Libraries and the Roanoke Arts Commis-sion are inviting public input that will be used to enhance the sculptural installation titled, "Reading Garden," which is scheduled to be placed at the Gainsboro Branch Library this fall.

"Reading Garden" will be a work of functional art, part of the "Bench People" series by Colorado-based artist Madeline Wiener. In a nod to the library location, it will feature two fig-ures holding open books, as well as other seating areas made of carved stacks of books.

Individuals or groups are in-vited to submit essays, poems, or art to be etched onto the ac-tual components that make up the sculpture.

"Ms. Wiener uses her sculp-tures to foster cultural exchange through art," says Sheila Um-berger, Director of Libraries. "The figures invite people to climb on and explore or simply sit and relax with a good book."

According to Doug Jackson, chair of the Roanoke Arts Com-mission, "It was important to the Commission that the art-ist chosen for this Percent for

Art project interact with the community." Wiener, who was selected in May to produce the sculpture, is known for her in-teractive pieces, which made her the ideal artist for this project.

In June, she came to Roanoke for the first of two workshops to brief citizens about "Reading Garden," and encourage partici-pants to share ideas. A second workshop will be held at the time of installation. Materials submitted for the sculpture will also be considered for inclusion in a book celebrating Gains-boro.

Submission forms and guide-lines are available at all Roanoke Public Libraries locations, or at www.roanokeva.gov/Gains-boroGarden. The deadline for input is Aug. 24. Submissions will be accepted at the front desk on the first floor of the Main Library, or may be mailed to: Roanoke Public Libraries, 706 S. Jefferson St., Roanoke, VA 24016, attn: Gainsboro "Read-ing Garden."

For more information, con-tact Sheila Umberger, Director of Libraries, at 540-853-2475 or e-mail, [email protected].

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