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An amendment to the Countryside Master Plan irritates neighborhood

Now in its 7th year, the annual Run with Grace 5K drew more than 150 runners and walkers to Patrick Henry High School last Saturday. Run with Grace was established after the sudden death of former Patrick Henry High School cross country and track standout Grace Lovegrove, who died after suffering cardiac arrest as a freshman at Christo-pher Newport University, while on a training run in 2005.

Run with Grace supports the PH cross country and track teams, and a scholarship estab-lished in her memory. Harrison Toney was the overall winner this year, but the biggest win-

ner perhaps was the drawing power of Grace Lovegrove, and how more than seven years after her death she brought former friends and track teammates out to the Patrick Henry cross coun-try course for a 3.1 race.

Among those who came were coaches and teammates from Christopher Newport, where Lovegrove was just a freshman. Grace’s mother Lisa was all smiles on Saturday as she helped keep things organized before and after the separate women’s and men’s races, and the one-

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Blue Ridge Bluegrass is Back

Photo by Erynn Marshall

Joe Mullins and The Radio Ramblers will appear at the Blue Ridge Music Center June 23rd.

Countryside Proposal Saves Barn and Silo

ABEAR Performance Train-ing has submitted a letter of in-terest for development on the former Countryside Golf Course property. The proposed proj-ect would renovate the former barn and retain the adjacent silo. The property is located at the intersection of Frontage Road and Highland Farm Road. The 8½-acre area would be devel-oped with a baseball infield, bat-ting cages and bullpens, and an unlit field for football and soccer practice. Sale price negotiations are continuing.

City Council reviewed the proposal and has given approval to open up the concept to public review and move to the formal proposal stage. Council approval at this stage does not involve any commitment by the City or ABEAR said Chris Chittum Planning Administrator.

ABEAR is a for-profit ath-letic performance trainer. They provide instruction, programs

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River and Rail Restaurant Offers Southern CuisineOriginally from North Caro-

lina, Aaron Deal, the executive chef for the River and Rail Res-taurant, which recently opened its doors, has plenty of family ties to Virginia. “I have a family in Richmond,” he explains, “and my father and his family were raised in Danville - so the South and the food that is served in this area have always been very close to my heart. Its what I was raised on, its what I enjoyed as a child.” Lee and Karri Atwood teamed up with friends Whit and Lauren Ellerman to open the eatery, hiring Deal, who was a semi-finalist for the James Beard contest.

In addition to the Southern in-fluence in his dining tastes, Deal was clas-sically trained on French food. The River and Rail Restaurant, a 70-seat facility locat-

ed in South Roanoke (2201 Crystal Spring Avenue, in the former Lipes Pharmacy space), serves both kinds of food to the public. Current business hours are 5-11pm

for dinner, Tuesday through Saturday. (see riverandrailres-taurant.com for updates and to make reservations, or call 400-6830).

Deal describes River and Rail’s menu as “Southern and French comfort food.” The restaurant is “designed to be warm and welcoming and that is going to resonate through-out the dining room. We will have outside seating available. The menu itself is designed to be friendly—[for] vegetarians and people who have gluten allergies. We’re able to accom-

modate anyone and everyone who comes in and dines with us.”

The River and Rail is designed to accom-modate diners who have just completed a

Aaron Deal has opened a restaurant in the former Lipes Phar-macy location on Crystal Spring Avenue.

Goodlatte Wins 6th Congressional Republican Primary

Incumbent 6th District Con-gressman Bob Goodlatte didn’t have to wait long for Tuesday’s primary results to roll in showing an inevitably wide margin of vic-tory. Goodlatte received almost twice as many votes as did his primary opponent, Karen Kwi-atkowski, who received 34 per-cent of the vote. Seven percent of active voters participated in Tuesday’s Republican primary.

Kwiatkowski won the city of Harrisonburg by 14 votes and came close in Rockingham and Page counties. Roanoke City and Roanoke County went for Goodlatte overwhelmingly, at 71 percent and 77 percent respec-tively.

Tuesday evening Goodlatte celebrated his win with his wife Maryellen, his daughter Jennifer and about 70 supporters at Ho-

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Grace Run Honors Fallen PH Alum

Photo by Gene Marrano

A collage of pictures and mementos honors Grace Lovegrove.

The concert season has returned to The Blue Ridge Music Center and will begin with this week’s annual Friday night concert that is set to welcome The Wayne Henderson Festival to the area. Next week (Saturday night June 23rd) the

center welcomes noted Bluegrass-gospel performers Joe Mullins and The Radio Ramblers as well as The Snyder Family. Hailing from Xenia, Ohio, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have an energetic mix of bluegrass, gospel music, a capella

quartets and tasteful, down-home humor as well. The group has performed at The Ryman Theater, on Song of the Moun-tains for PBS and toured across North America (through 20 states) each year. Their newest album, Hymns from the Hills, is #15 on the Billboard Bluegrass charts; but more importantly, this groups sings their bluegrass and gospel songs from the heart.

Opening up the show will be The Snyder Family band from Lexington, NC featuring Samantha Snyder on fiddle, Zeb Snyder on guitar, and father Bud Snyder on bass. Samantha started playing music > CONTINUED P2: Blue Grass

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at three years old and Zeb at seven. Since that time they have recorded CDs and won numerous awards including a fiddle hand crafted by Luthier, Jimmy Edmonds and a guitar made by Wayne Henderson at the 2007 Jimmy Edmonds Homecom-ing. This year both Samantha (now 13) and Zeb (now 17) won first place ribbons in the 2011 bluegrass fiddle and guitar categories at The Old Fiddlers Conven-tion in Galax.

The concert starts at 7pm, Saturday June 23 with seating opening at 5:30 pm. Tickets are $10 or $8 for students and se-niors. Children 12 and under are free. For info call (276) 236-5309 x112. Tickets are

available at The Galax Visitor Center, on-line at www.BlueRidgeMusicCenter.org and at the gate. Come early and enjoy the free new museum, the “Roots of Ameri-can Music.” (Please bring lawn chairs and a picnic if you would like. Smokehouse BBQ will be available for purchase.) The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The summer-evening concert series oc-curs every weekend through mid-Sep-tember in the outdoor amphitheater at the foot of beautiful Fisher Peak (only 10 miles from Galax).

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run or walk, or are arriving from elsewhere for a date night or special dinner. “We can re-ally accommodate any of that,” says Deal, “and I think that’s re-ally one of the main focuses that we’ve tried to maintain, not only with that, but with our price point being very reasonable.” Entrées won’t cost over $28 and $30, and smaller plates and ap-petizers can be shared through-out the table. “It’s really meant to be a true dining experience,” says Deal who adds that he wants the facility to be not only for special occasions but one for

people who want a burger and who’ve gotten off work as well.

“I really want this to be a res-taurant that local Virginians can get very passionate about and that they believe in. That is my goal because I think that’s where it’s going to sustain us, and that’s what’s important to us.”

The River and Rail will feature staples of beef, chicken, pork, etc. Deal gets excited about the prospect of serving deviled eggs “and wonderfully cured and produced country ham. All sorts of different grains [as well]. There’s local mills, there’s local

produce. We will be offering a lot of vegetarian dishes, a lot of vegetable dishes. You’re looking at fresh pastas that we’ll be mak-ing in-house, all sorts of things like you might find in a rustic or bistro type atmosphere.”

The designation “River and Rail” is meant to be a hom-age to Roanoke City, since the Roanoke River and the railroad industry played such an impor-tant part in the area’s develop-ment. “When you think of The River and Rail,” says Deal, “you think of Roanoke and we want to be a Roanoke, Virginia, res-

taurant. That’s the goal.”Professionally, Deal has

reached the point where he has found what he sees as, “The best expression of the food that I want to cook and the food that makes me happy. And that is why I’m here at The River and Rail. I like the area, I like be-ing back home, and I’m excited about the opportunity.”

By Melvin E. Matthews, [email protected]

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mile fun run. “Every year more and more people come out – it’s a good neighborhood race,” said Lovegrove.

The scholarship that money is raised for goes to an “average kid,” said Lovegrove. The best students get academic assistance she said, while the best athletes also can get tuition assistance. Run for Grace is designed to help those in the middle of the bell curve. “We wanted a well-rounded kid who did well in school and who also was not neces-sarily a [varsity athlete].” The Foundation for Roanoke Valley administers the schol-arship now, but the winner is chosen by a committee at Patrick Henry. Carilion Clinic has been a major supporter of Run with Grace, both financially and logistically on race day, as Lovegrove points out.

Even those without direct ties to Patrick Henry return every year to help, by running

or assisting with registration, course moni-toring, etc. “She would of loved it,” said Lisa Lovegrove with a chuckle about Grace, “she loved being the center of attention.” As the first grandchild and the only one for six years she got plenty of attention.

Grace was also about 5’8” and 100 lbs, which lent itself to the runway modeling she did on occasion. She “ate like a horse,” as well said mom; a caricature of Grace used on the race website depicts her holding a Cheerwine and a Hardee’s Thickburger – two of her favorite calorie-laden treats.

Tim Scott ran with Grace for just one sea-son at Christopher Newport, but he comes back for the 5k anyway. “Her personality and just spreading the love that she showed ev-erybody at CNU,” is why he returns to run. “I just want to continue to run with Grace every year that I can.” Cassie Stilley helped

coach Lovegrove in cross-country at CNU: “She was really a part of the team right away. Everybody liked her – no enemies, no gos-siping. She was really a good teammate to everyone.”

“It seems like it was just yesterday,” said Lisa Lovegrove of her daughter’s untimely passing. Run with Grace allows people to remember her once a year, and to raise money for two good causes at the same time. “Once a year people just stop and think for a minute- its Grace’s race…on her home cross country course. This is where we’re going to run it.”

See complete race results at runwithgrace.com or starcitystriders.com

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tel Roanoke. Goodlatte spoke to his supporters and cam-paign staff thanking his team and vowing victory in Novem-ber against his rival, Democrat Andy Schmookler of Shennan-doah County.

With the right leadership Goodlatte said, “We should have a strong effort to balance our budget and reign in the power of the federal government.” He touted the more than 30 bills that the Republican dominated House of Representatives had passed but languished in a pile in the Democratic controlled U.S. Senate.

He added, “I look forward to another five months of cam-paigning and we will start right away reaching out to all the vot-ers of this district.”

When asked later if there were any surprises in the campaign results he said, “Once we decid-ed to run a positive campaign

I felt very good about how we were developing this race. We think the response we got was probably in spite of the relent-less attacks and was a testament to running a positive campaign resulting in a landslide victory.”

Goodlatte said he would evaluate whether to debate his Democratic opponent later as they plan how to conduct the next campaign.

Virginia Senator Ralph Smith who earlier introduced Good-latte, talked later about Friday’s gathering of the Republican Central Committee who will possibly toss the that year’s members decision to hold a primary in favor of a conven-tion. “I have been a supporter of conventions for a long time,” he said.

Smith introduced a bill (SB276) in the 2012 session that would give political parties the authority to determine the

method for nomination and not the incumbent candidates. He supports conventions across the board and hopes the RPV re-considers changing from a 2013 primary to a convention.

Smith’s bill was defeated in the Senate because some sena-tors said it would impact can-didates who were not members of a party. Smith responded by saying, “then go and get your own party.” He said the two-party system has worked well in comparison to dictator-type countries that have 50 political parties.

Smith said it scared incum-bents because, “Quite frankly it takes power away from elected officials.” He contends that neither party is closed to any candidate wanting to volunteer or join a committee. If people don’t like the way a party is be-ing run “they are entitled to come help change the system.”

This is the type of bill Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had put in when he was in the Senate, said Smith.

He praised Lt. Governor Bill Bolling for his fairness when breaking tie votes and had hoped he would stay put. Cuc-cinelli and Bolling are squaring off for the Republican nomina-tion for governor in 2013.

A convention is said to fa-vor Cuccinelli while Bolling is banking on the already decided primary means of winning the nomination. Recent polls show Cuccinelli way ahead of Bolling in a primary but Smith disputes those numbers. Smith said he has not endorsed either Cuc-cinelli or Bolling.

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and motivation to athletes and clients. They also run the Gator Aquatic Center. Robert Hebert and Matt Overman are trainers.

The Frontage Road parcel was the former home of the 18th fairway of Countryside Golf Course that was purchased by Roanoke City in 2005 for $4.1 million. Former City Manager Darlene Burcham presented to City Council a use for upscale housing and an interest from homebuilder Toll Brothers, Inc. That interest evaporated and the city has been struggling with what to do with the prop-erty every since. The golf course in need of repair fell victim to budget cuts and was closed in March of 2010.

The parcel with the barn abuts a row of villa homes on Tuck-awanna Circle that are primarily rentals. However, Chittum said he has received comments from owners and renters not pleased with the close proximity of the field and baseball diamond.

The Countryside Master Plan adopted by City Council in June 2011 identified the parcel as

ideal for light commercial such as offices, educational uses, and light industrial development for assembly. Chittum said that it matched the plan under the “commercial” criteria as a non-profit that would bring 10-15 jobs.

No public meeting is planned for the proposal. Comments, questions and concerns should be directed to Chris Chittum, Planning Administrator at [email protected] Phone: (540) 853-2356.

An amendment to the Coun-tryside Master Plan is going be-fore the Planning Commission June 21. A date will be set for a public hearing. The amend-ment is to change the 12-acre parcel that once belonged to the Roanoke Regional Airport from agriculture to recreation. The Planning Department initiated the change when the neighbor-hood rejected the Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op plans to house over 400 chickens on the site.

The Northwest Recreation Center has plans for a soccer

sportsplex and use of the tennis building. Charles Price, Council Member Anita Price’s husband and Clay Dawson have been working with the city to fit four soccer fields in what was des-ignated for recreation on the central parcel of the former golf course across from the William Fleming stadium. All four fields will not fit together in the cur-rent configuration and North-west Recreation approached the planning department and asked to place two of the soccer fields on the agricultural parcel.

The parcel is centered between two neighborhood groups – Miller Court and Countryside

Neighborhood Alliance. Nei-ther group wants soccer fields adjacent to their homes that have already devalued by an average of $22,000, said Vince Barci of Countryside Drive. Susan Hall who lives on Ranch Road said, “I can’t understand why we are already amending the Master Plan after we’ve had all these meetings. Now after seven years of meetings we have to fight the city again. I’m tired of this – where is the promised certainty.”

An artist’s rendering of the Countryside barn and silo.

(Right) The Snyder Family Trio

By Stuart Revercomb

-Valerie Garner contributed to this report.

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Save A Ton Website Now Includes Energy Calculator

An educational and marketing campaign that deals with saving energy has now won awards for its website and print ads, and has re-ceived kudos from the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors for a school-based program that encourages students to come up with energy conservation ideas.

The Save a Ton campaign, conceived by Roanoke County’s RC CLEAR committee with help from Roanoke City’s Clean & Green citizen’s group, is all about showing local residents and businesses how they can each save one cubic ton of carbon emissions each year. Now the Save a Ton website (www.save-aton.org), which has won awards recently for its design and mes-sage, features an energy savings calculator. Visitors can calculate their annual financial savings by implementing several simple steps – using compact fluores-cent light bulbs, driving a bit less, turning the thermostat up this summer and using energy-effi-cient appliances, for example.

RC CLEAR, the county’s ICLEI-affiliated group, wanted to make sure saving a ton would not be a difficult task. More sav-ings can be realized through ad-ditional insulation, weather strip-ping, etc., something pointed out to local residents and business owners during a round of free energy audits performed by con-tractors hired by TAP.

“The Save a Ton site offers lots

of easy tips to help residents of the Roanoke Valley and beyond save a ton of money on energy costs,” said Anne Marie Green, director

of general services for Roanoke County. “Now, with an energy savings calculator, it takes just a few minutes to figure out what you can save.” The calculator also provides the option to calculate carbon emissions.

Save a Ton is a multi-media campaign that encourages peo-ple to visit www.saveaton.org to learn about energy savings and share their ideas and results on social media. The website offers tips, links and resources in five categories – lighting, vehicle ef-ficiency, energy conservation, weatherization and water con-servation.

The Roanoke Valley-Allegh-any Regional Commission is overseeing administration of the Save a Ton website and the related Facebook page, a task that falls in part to Jeremy Hol-mes. “The goal there is to pro-vide energy saving tips and show things that have a real impact on household budgets,” said Holm-es, “things that save you money pretty quickly.”

In fact appealing to people’s bottom line – for those not necessarily interested in reduc-ing carbon emissions for more altruistic reasons – was a major goal for RC Clear and affiliates when launching the Save a Ton campaign. The website will also

guide people to local contractors and retail outlets, where they can find some of the resources needed to make their home or business more energy efficient – from compact fluorescent light bulbs to outfits that can provide energy audits.

Holmes points out that saving on energy costs – and reducing carbon footprints – can be an economic development engine. “We’re finding that there are more and more folks interested in providing these services. We’re trying to build up that program.” Overseeing the website con-forms to the commission’s goal of regionalism, since local gov-ernments in both the Roanoke and New River Valleys are sup-porting Save a Ton.

“It just sort of made sense that the Regional Commission…would sort of take on the man-agement of it…and take pressure off the local governments, ” said Holmes, who oversees sustain-ability efforts for the commission and heads up the Ride Solutions program that encourages alter-nate transportation methods like bicycling.

The Save a Ton campaign is supported by the Clean Valley Council, Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition, Community Al-liance for Energy Efficiency, Ride Solutions, RC CLEAR, Roanoke County, Roanoke Valley-Allegha-ny Regional Commission, City of Roanoke, City of Salem and Town of Blacksburg.

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LewisGale Offers New Procedure for Detecting Early-Stage Lung Cancer

When it comes to detect-ing early-stage lung cancer, LewisGale Regional Health System offers one of the most advanced lung navigation system available in the area at LewisGale Medical Center.

LewisGale is the first in Western Virginia to offer the super Dimension i∙Logic Sys-tem as an option for patients with lesions deep within the lungs. The Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy (ENB) combines GPS-like technology with a catheter-based system to locate, biop-sy, and prepare to treat lung lesions that were previously hard to reach.

“This device allows us to go into the outer aspects of the lungs, in a minimally in-vasive manner, which we pre-viously could not reach with-out open surgery or a chest needle biopsy,” said Lewis-Gale Pulmonologist David Killeen, D.O. “This system allows us to use the patient’s CT scan in combination with electromagnetic sensors to locate the abnormality inside the lungs that was detected on the scan. It operates a lot like the GPS system in a car.”

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The Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy (ENB).

Roanoke Valley United Way Awards Grants to 53 Nonprofit Programs

The United Way of Roanoke Valley (UWRV) has awarded grants to 53 non-profit programs that serve the residents of the Roanoke Valley.

The goal of this year's community invest-ment process was to create an impact in the three main focus areas of education, income and health. By focusing on these three pri-orities and investing funds in programs that align with them, UWRV hopes to solve root issues that affect the building blocks of a good life. The goals are that children enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and later on in life, that individuals and families are financially stable and that all citizens of the Roanoke Valley lead healthier lives.

UWRV received 54 grant requests total-ing more than $3 million. More than 80 community volunteers spent over 1,200 hours reviewing program applications, conducting site visits and question and an-swer meetings with program staff, and de-liberating at length as they conducted the program reviews to ensure that programs demonstrated the closest alignment to UWRV's impact goals in the areas of edu-cation, income and health.

Volunteers were instructed to look at the funding process through a whole new lens and to not consider past allocation amounts, but instead to look at how each program fits in with UWRV's new education, income and health impact areas. Each program was evaluated on alignment, program need, col-

laboration, outcome measurements, and the program's financials and budget.

In addition to focusing on the three im-pact areas of education, income and health, UWRV will be using this transition as an opportunity to open the community invest-ment process up to the community at large, making it a more competitive process for future funding. Of the 53 programs receiv-ing funding, 26 programs were awarded varying increases from what they have re-ceived in the past.

"There are so many worthy programs in the Roanoke Valley and we would like to be able to fully fund all program requests," said Wayne Strickland, Chair of the UWRV Community Impact Council and Executive Director of the Roanoke Valley Alleghany Regional Commission. "The nonprofit orga-nizations in the Roanoke Valley are making a great difference in our community; how-ever, we have some very ambitious goals in the areas of education, income and health so we have to be extremely strategic in allo-cating funds now and well into the future."

The hope is that the new funding system by UWRV ultimately will help local non-profits work together and will allow the community to better track the progress of important community goals, however, the UWRV board members recognize that the new open pro-cess will leave gaps in some important

community programs.To help those programs that performed

well but did receive lower funding, UWRV has set up a transition funding pool that has been specifically designed to reduce the po-tential impact of the funding loss resulting from the increased competition from this year's process. This one-year "assistance" is not meant to restore the program to its original funding level, but is there to help the agencies adjust to the new funding level and to step them down over the next 12 months.

"We have a great responsibility to be good stewards of the money that is donated to the United Way. It is our goal to make sure that every investment is utilized to support programs that are going to make the big-gest impact in our community," said Frank Rogan, President and CEO of UWRV. "This process is one of the main reasons why do-nors believe in our mission."

Aside from investing in diverse programs that are making significant and positive im-pacts in the community, UWRV is putting resources towards coalition work, focused collaborations, and volunteerism to make our community a better place to live. Dur-ing fiscal year 2012-2013 a total of $2.972 million will be granted to these programs.

Fire Hydrant Flushing Scheduled Throughout City

Roanoke Fire-EMS person-nel are currently testing fire hydrants throughout the city. Fire hydrant flushing is neces-sary to both test the function of the hydrants and to flush sedi-ments that build up naturally over time in water lines. The testing should be complete by the end of July.

While the hydrant flushing will remove most sediment, many residents may experience temporary water discoloration. While discolored water is ordi-narily safe to drink, it is best to flush any discolored water from pipes by turning on all cold-

water faucets in your home or business at once. Avoid turning on hot-water faucets so the dis-colored water is not drawn into hot water heaters. This flushing should remove discoloration in less than five minutes.

"We annually test hydrants to ensure that they are in proper working condition," said Fire-EMS Chief David Hoback. "We regret this temporary inconve-nience to the city's water sup-ply," said Hoback, "but hydrant flushing helps maintain the proper functioning of hydrants for the safety of citizens over the long-term."

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Who Succeeds and Who Doesn’tAh, commencement

time! A bright mo-ment at whatever

level it occurs. What follows in the next decades will run the gamut from brilliance to disas-ter. Who can predict?

In 1980, Reuven Bar-On, Ph.D., was walking across the campus of the University of Texas/Galveston and he asked himself that question. Ob-serving his fellow faculty mem-bers he wondered how some had great careers and others did not. He embarked on a 17 year-research project that re-vealed some interesting and verifiable data.

In the late 1980s, Pe-ter Salovey of Yale and John Mayer of the University of New Hampshire began systematic research and coined the phrase Emotional Quotient or EQ. Daniel Goleman, a re-porter for The New York Times, wrote a book in the 1990s that caught the public’s attention in presenting much of the early evidence of the power of EQ

Each of us is born with quan-tifiable mental abilities, or sim-ply IQ. There are scant data to show that you can increase that inborn factor, although it can certainly be lowered by variety of self-destructive behaviors.

There are countless self-help

books that might offer a simi-lar approach but the Emotional Quotient movement goes be-yond that. There are hundreds of studies that demonstrate that EQ impacts success, including profitability, and leader effec-tiveness, among many other desirable attributes.

It would seem obvious that if one’s emotions are mature and work well with society in gen-eral that life would be better.

Available now are de-tailed workshops that are a starting place for corporations as well as individuals to begin to develop skills that are designed to increase the EQ. It won’t take place over a weekend,

but with proper coaching and follow up training, raising

the EQ is possible. If that can happen, then perhaps the na-tive IQ can function more ef-fectively both in the workplace as well as in relationships.

In discussion with Dana C. Ackley, Ph.D., a local friend, I found that his book on EQ has been distributed world-wide; he has given lectures and con-ducted workshops globally. After decades of a successful practice in counseling psychol-ogy, he now devotes himself fulltime to this discipline. His website, eqleader.net , as well

as searching the entire field of EQ on the internet, will give a comprehensive picture of what this movement entails.

There have been 16 areas of emotional intelligence identi-fied as essential. The title of each is somewhat self-explan-atory, although each encom-passes a vast array of behaviors. Here is the simple list: Emo-tional Self Awareness, Emo-tional Expression, Empathy, Flexibility, Assertiveness, In-terpersonal Relationship, Stress Tolerance, Self-Regard, Social Responsibility, Impulse Con-trol, Self-Actualization, Prob-lem Solving, Happiness, Inde-pendence, Reality Testing, and Optimism. How much of these traits each person has as part of personality is contingent on a host of factors, of which genet-ics and parenting, educational and societal exposure may be quite important. That they can be modified is beyond doubt.

If you are a valedictorian or if you have had few educational advantages, EQ is important and can be altered in a posi-tive direction. There are on-line testing sites for assessing where one stands on this scale, just as there are for IQ. Some are free and worth every penny you spend. This is a complex process and if one is serious about it then find a reputable resource for testing. It will be worth the cost.

I once took an online IQ test and I don’t intend to repeat it. It surely has not increased. If it has declined I don’t want to know it. I took a free EQ test and it showed that I was highly developed emotionally. From the phrasing of the questions anyone who can read would have done as well. Attached were interesting offers to buy products, which I resisted.

And to you graduates from elementary school (which now features cap and gown) to the Ph.D. candidates, here’s wish-ing you the highest success of which you are intellectually and emotionally capable. Just remember, learning is a life-long process and it’s not just about facts.

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“Summer Fun…and Service”“It is summer and I don’t have

to do anything I don’t want to”…..I was told by a ten year old boy the other day. Actually, I have heard about twenty different versions of this over the past few weeks by many children. In many of these cases parents have been struggling all school year to get these same kids to do their chores, finish their homework, turn off the video games, go to bed, etc. and now the pressure is off. As one parent commented recently, “I don’t have to worry about any of those things for three months, whew”. Quite frankly, many parents are more relieved than the kids that summer is fi-nally here.

I fully agree, summer should be filled with fun, staying up late, going to the pool, vacations…. but let’s not miss a great oppor-tunity to do a little fine tuning with our kids, or really our par-enting. In summer we have a wonderful time to more firmly impress the “cause and effect” mechanism in our children. I used to look forward to summer breaks as much as the next kid. I wanted to go to the pool, play basketball, and in general just goof off….and I did.

Yet to this day I still remem-ber the beginning of several summers when my mother would have a dump-truck load

of mulch dumped…..under my basketball goal….without my permission. The message was clear. You want to play basket-ball, you move the mulch. Yes, our parents were clearly more intelligent than we ever knew.

Ask yourself this question: Do you and your spouse do something for the general upkeep and functioning of the home every day that benefits everyone in it? Why shouldn’t your kids? I have asked this question often over the past months to several kids and none have disagreed with it.

They understand the logic, they just don’t like it. In summer we have the opportunity, with-out the distraction of school, to teach cause and effect very simply. Require daily service of your kids.

The motivation is there in the form of freedom, the pool, or just goofing off. Just put things in their way. It can be as simple as a list on the fridge each day with requirements that need to be taken care of before anyone goes to the pool, has a friend over, goes to the movies, etc. Yes, this means that little Johnny has to take out the trash and clean the bathroom before he gets to do what he wants. It is great to give freedom, just re-quire service first.

By requiring service over the

summer we begin to address the underlying issues related to most school-year problems like homework and chore avoidance. When children are required to serve, they don’t typically like it, but they get over it. They learn that how they feel about it really doesn’t matter. Children begin to expect to have responsibili-ties that are followed by privi-leges and freedom and, more importantly, they learn that when a parent says you have to do ____, they will back it up.

Without an expectation of service or obligation, our chil-dren become entitled. They develop an expectation of free-dom and privilege just because they want it. It used to be that we required much of our chil-dren with some freedom and privilege given. Now it seems that we are expected to provide much freedom and privilege without obligation. Challeng-ing this message is one of the biggest cultural battles a family can face and yet it is nothing new. There is much truth in the apostle Paul’s writing that “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat”.

Challenge your children to do a little service to the family this summer. It can go a long way in making the return to school a bit healthier.

Keith McCurdy

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The Preacher’s Corner by Gary Robbins

How Many Red Dots in Your Life?

You are in Paris, standing in front of an old city map.

Scattered across the map are small red dots.

The dots are not McDonalds or gas stations or theatres or 5-star restaurants.

The dots represent schools and orphanages, hospitals and clinics, seminaries and retreat centers-all the result of the deep faith and extraordinary heart of Vincent de Paul.

As a Protestant, I have to confess that I have not spent a lot of time studying the lives of Roman Catholic saints. That’s a shame, for as I spend more time with Vincent de Paul, Te-resa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, and Benedict of Nursia, my own spiritual life is stretched and deepened.

The details of Vincent’s life are fascinating.

Born in the southwest of France in 1581, Vincent was one of seven children and spent much of his early life tending sheep.

When neighbors recognized the boy’s gifts, money was scraped together to send him

to school. Later, his father sold a yoke of oxen to help Vincent begin his university studies.

Unbelievably, while return-ing home by ship one summer, Vincent was captured by Turk-ish pirates, taken to Tunis, and sold as a slave.

Helped to escape, Vincent came to the attention of a Cardinal who invited him to Rome. In Rome, church lead-ers grew so impressed with Vincent that they sent him to represent them to Henry IV, King of France.

Between his visits to the royal palace, however, Vincent attended to the work that he most loved: he spent days and nights caring for the sick and dying in one of Paris’ largest hospitals.

When he was called later to serve as chaplain to the wealthy Gondi family, Vincent made an indelible impres-sion on the family persuading the influential Count Gondi to ignore the codes of honor and humbly accept invective and insult rather than defend his honor. And moved by Vincent’s personal example,

Madame Gondi soon spent her days providing care to the peasants who worked on the family estate.

When two of the district’s wealthiest and most fashion-able ladies began spending their days nursing the sick and caring for those stricken by the plague. The groundwork was laid for the Sisters of Charity.

Before his life was over, Vincent founded orphanages, hospices, asylums, and hos-pitals for the indigent. He established prison ministries all across France, with a spe-cial concern for the convicts chained to the oars in the gal-leys of ships. He called thou-sands of priests and laity to the humble service of the poor and provided a wealth of op-portunities for intense, struc-tured missions to those living in misery and squalor. And he set up, in effect, the first shel-tered workshops and parish nurse programs.

But as Albert Holtz reminds us: Vincents great works for the poor were not his rea-son for existing God was. He didn’t go around giving his life to the poor; he gave it to God. Because Vincent de Paul knew he was loved by God, he could love God in return, and cover [the] map of Paris with all [those] lovely dots.

Vincent de Paul extended extraordinary mercy toward others because he understood how fully God had extended extraordinary mercy to him.

And what of us? To quote Holtz again: “Each of us, whatever our state in life, is ex-pected to leave a bunch of red dots sprinkled across the map of our own life, marking places where our love has made a dif-ference.”

I know that there are times that I wonder about the red dots in my life. What about you? If people were to look at a map of your life, how many red dots would they see?

Gary Robbins is the pastor of Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in down-town Roanoke. Visit them on the web at: www.gmumc.org.

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The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm--perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washing-ton woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeep-ers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on July 19, 1910.

Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a but-ton in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Fa-ther’s Day. However, many men continued to dis-

dain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they de-rided the proliferation of such holidays as a com-mercial gimmick to sell more products--often paid for by the father himself.”

During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park--a public reminder, said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Rob-ert Spere, “that both parents should be loved and respected together.” When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and sup-port the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was a national institution.

In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presiden-tial re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.

The Origins of Father’s Day-It’s only when you grow up, and step back from

him, or leave him for your own career and your own home — it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforc-es love.~ Margaret Truman

-To her the name of father was another name for love. ~ Fanny Fern

-It’s amazing when you have a girl. ‘Cause if you’re a man, it like opens up your eyes. And you know, I realize I’m the man in her life. And my relationship with my daughter is going to affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life. ~Chris Rock

-It was my father who taught me to value my-self. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ~Dawn French

-The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. ~Garrison Keillor

-I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met

was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. ~Hedy Lamarr

-Fathers just have a way of putting everything together. ~Erika Cosby

-He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures….but he was never in them. ~Erma Bombeck

-A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold

-Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradi-varius to a gorilla. ~Jim Bishop

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Heat 1 TBS fat in skillet. Add leeks, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook until softened...about 5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and let cool.

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Cook for 4-4 1/2 minutes.Remove with a slotted spoon

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Why Does the Bible Say, "Honor Your Father and Mother"? by Carey Kinsolving

"Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids," read a sign in Brussels, Belgium.

Or as author Jean Kerr wrote, "The real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like one."

The fifth commandment is designed to keep parents sane by giving children a principle to guide their behavior and at-titudes toward their parents. I asked my friends to tell me how they honor their parents. If their behavior matches their answers, their parents are not only sane but very happy.

"I honor my parents by giv-ing them hugs and kisses. I also honor them by buying them TCBY treats," says Angela, age 10.

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"I obey my mother and father by getting up in the mornings as sweet as pie," says Kaitlin, 7.

I'm still working on this one. When I wake up, I'm grateful if I don't hurt myself by tripping over the furniture.

Kaitlin also said, "When the Bible says your days will be longer (if you honor your fa-ther and mother), it means you will live longer."

In a society obsessed with

living longer, how many doc-tors recommend honoring parents? God promises a long life to those who honor their parents.

"I honor my parents by obey-ing," says Christine, 10. "Like when they say to get them some water, I do it. I treat them like a king and queen."

I'll bet Christine's parents treat her like a princess. It's so easy to take parents for grant-ed. Can you imagine a society where the Bart Simpson at-titude wasn't glorified? Why imagine when it's within your power to be gracious to your parents instead of disrespect-ful? They're not perfect, but neither are you.

"I love my mother and fa-ther," says Gardner, 11. "They are the best. I try to obey them. I know they love me, and I love them."

Something tells me that Gardner will never visit a psy-chiatrist's office to find himself. Because he knows his parents

love him unconditionally, he's secure and able to love them in return. Love fosters love.

Years ago, I saw my friend Peter reprimand his 2-year-old son with a light tap on his hand. Following a gentle tap, his son began to cry.

The light tap hardly war-ranted tears. Suddenly, I un-derstood and said to Peter, "Your disapproval hurts worse than the tap on the hand." He nodded.

Only a father who loves his son can evoke such a response. This is the power of uncondi-tional love.

God's love for his children is akin to parents' love for theirs, with one very important dif-ference: Even the best parents have flaws. God is perfect.

Jesus is the ultimate example of a son honoring his father. He listened to his Father's voice and did only what he heard from his Father. His love for his Father and desire to please him was so great that he could say, "He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Fa-ther who sent him" (John 5:23). Their will was one.

Obedience and honor are interconnected. The Apostle Paul wrote that Jesus humbled himself and "became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross."

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• Put a face on your dog. Gluing on googly eyes gives the dog a cute look.

• You can write messages under the ears and on the inside of your new card.

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Knights Drop State Baseball Semifinal 4-3 To Powhatan

Cave Spring battled back from an early 3-0 deficit to knot the score at three, but Powhatan plated the deciding run in the top of the sixth as the Indians knocked off the Knights 4-3 in the Group AA state baseball semifinal Friday afternoon at Calfee Park in Pulaski.

The Knights got themselves in a hole in the top of the first after a pair of walks set the table for Indians' Zach Bartlett.

Bartlett deposited a hanging curve deep over the right field wall that left the historic Calfee Park with room to spare, land-

ing in the front yard of a house that sits well above the signature short porch of the stadium.

Cave Spring and its starting pitcher, UVa-Wise bound Steve

Klaiber, settled down and the Knights began their comeback.

Knight's third baseman An-drew Peterson drew a one-out walk in the second, before Jake Schuyler's single sent Peterson to third. Ryan Gerhardt followed with a base on balls that loaded the bases for Cave Spring.

Reece Kingery, hitting in the 9-spot for Cave Spring, sent a single up the middle, plating Peterson and Schuyler, cutting the Powhatan lead to 3-2. Grif-fin Stanley walked to reload the bases, ending the day for Indian starter, and one-handed pitcher, Andrew Corbitt.

Corbitt had intrigued the Calfee crowd with his talented ability to juggle his glove into a fielding position, after each pitching effort.

Powhatan reliever Jamie

Schaller averted further damage by the Knights, coaxing a force-out at the plate on an Austin Epperly grounder, followed by a strikeout of Klaiber.

Cave Spring tied things up in their half of the fifth. Stanley opened with a single and was advanced to second on a per-fectly executed Austin Epperly sacrifice bunt. Stanley moved to third on a sac-fly to center, and scored moments later on a wild pitch.

Klaiber, in the meantime, had settled in on the mound for Cave Spring with the help of the talented Knight infield who turned three double plays. Shortstop Terrell Simmons and third baseman Peterson both started twin killings around the horn on grounders, with Peterson adding a third when he gloved a scorcher to the hot corner and caught a wandering

Indian baserunner well off the bag.

Powhatan scored the eventu-al game-winner in the top of the sixth when Tyler Allen's deep drive to center barely escaped the outreached glove of center fielder Stanley, scoring pinch-runner Joe Manion.

Cave Spring was unable to mount a second comeback in the last two opportunities. The Knights finished the season at 18-9. Powhatan followed up their win over the Knights with a 4-1 win over Brookville Satur-day in Radford to claim the AA title.

"It was a well-played game by both teams," Cave Spring Head Coach David Dunstan noted

after the game. "We didn't hit in the spots we needed. It happens. I'm proud of these guys. Steve (starter Klaiber) battled all day. Walks will kill you."

"We had a great season," Dunstan added. "This is a great group. They've been to the states three years in a row."

Cave Spring first baseman Jordan Bryant drops the tag on a pickoff attempt of a Powhatan baserunner.

Knights catcher Ryan Ger-hardt settles under a skied popup behind the plate.

Cave Spring starter Steve Klaiber looks in for the sign Friday afternoon at Calfee Park.

Knights batter Griffin Stanley has his batting eye as he takes a pitch just below the knees.

Cave Spring catcher Ryan Gerhardt comes up throw-ing after fielding a Powhatan bunt attempt.

The Knight dugout comes alive as Cave Spring mounts a comeback.

Swanson, Watts Grab Titles In Roanoke Valley Golf Hall Of Fame Championship

University of South Caro-lina and former Hidden Valley standout golfer Meredith Swan-son fired a final round 2-under 71 to run away with Sunday's Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame Women's Championship at Ashley Plantation.

It was Swanson's third straight WHOF title and sixth overall, the first coming when she was 13 years old. Her 5-under, 139 two-day total bested runner-up Lyndsey Hunnell by nine shots.

In the team competition, Roanoke Country Club cruised to a 38-shot win over Hanging Rock. Cave Spring's Meagan Board, 16, helped RCC to the victory with a final round 76, tieing her for third in the indi-vidual race with eight-time win-ner Dot Bolling. W&L-bound Sara Moir, also from RCC, tied for fifth with Hanging Rock's Sara Cole at 159.

In the men's championship, 17-year old Korey Watts fired a final-round 71 and 3-day total of 209, as he held off a trio of challengers down the stretch to win the title by three shots over Marshall Bailey. Watts' playing partners in the final threesome, ex-pros Matt Chandler and Jus-

tin Young, tied for third at 213.In the men's team competi-

tion, Hanging Rock posted a 4-shot victory over runner-up Botetourt Golf & Swim Club.

Roanoke Country Club won its fourth straight women's Hall of Fame team championship as Meredith Swanson (second from right) claimed the individual title, her third straight and sixth overall.

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By Bill Turner [email protected]

High school spring sports finally reached its con-clusion last weekend with the VHSL Spring Jubilee at Radford University.

Here’s a look at how the Wild Bill ‘Big-11’ teams fared in all the various spring sports during the fi-nal stretch.

Cave Spring lost in the Group AA State Baseball Semifinals, 4-3, to eventual champion Powhatan at historic Calfee Park in Pulaski on Friday in a game that started only two hours after the Cave Spring graduation ceremonies were completed at the Salem Civic Center.

Great effort by Head Coach David Dunstan and the Knights in a hurried road trip that saw mortar boards switched to baseball caps before manning the first base dugout.

Hats off to Powhatan starting pitcher Andrew Corbitt, who throws for the In-dians despite having only one hand. Corbitt posi-tions the glove on his left arm, fires to the plate with his right before quickly juggling the glove back to his right hand to gain the ability to field. Great ex-ample of how perseverance and determination can overcome an obstacle.

In the Group A boys tennis team final, Glenvar fell to George Mason 5-0. The Highlanders were eliminated by a Mason team that won its third straight state title and who have provided Glenvar’s only loss for two consecutive years.

It’s only mid-June and the start of the high school football season is over two months away, but area standouts take to the gridiron next Friday (June 22nd) at William Fleming for the Southwest/Cen-tral Virginia All-Star Classic.

“Big-11’ players picked for the Southwest All-Stars include Ryan Gerhardt and Tyler Francis (Cave Spring), Marty Bishop (Salem), Jacob Mabry (Glenvar), Gino Saunders and Adam Hardister (Northside), Keith Jennings and Joe Barton (Wil-liam Byrd), and Nick Conte (Patrick Henry).

The head coach for the Southwest squad will be Tim Fulton of Cave Spring, while Heritage’s Brad Bradley will lead the Central. Bradley should be a familiar name to Roanoke high school football fans. He was head coach at Patrick Henry before moving to Amelia County two seasons ago, leading to the arrival of Alan Fiddler at PH.

Monday night’s Stanley Cup final saw the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Kings dispatch New Jersey 6-1 to take the best-of-seven series 4 games-to-2. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick was named MVP of the Fi-nals, garnering the Conn Smythe Trophy.

Another prior Kings netminder has some con-

nections to the Roanoke area. Former Roanoke Ex-press goaltender and current Smith Mountain Lake resident Daniel Berthiaume was the Kings goalie during the 1990-92 seasons. Berthiaume, known even then as ‘The Bandit’ first took to the pipes for LA in October 1990 against Vancouver, before go-ing 27-21-5 in his stint with the Kings.

In Major League Baseball, the upstart Washing-ton Nationals are atop the National League East heading into this weekend’s interleague matchup at Nationals Park against the New York Yankees. Expect record crowds in DC for anyone making the 4-hour trip for Fri-day night’s game or the afternoon contests on Saturday and Sunday.

The NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder should be a dandy, as the Thunder start-ing five should give plenty of challenges

to LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. It’s just over two weeks until the much-anticipat-

ed Greenbrier Classic PGA TOUR stop at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Vir-ginia. With Tiger Woods, Phil Mickleson and Tom Watson among the pros in this year’s field, along with Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart, Toby Keith and Lionel Richie on the Greenbrier Concert Series stage, re-cord crowds are expected.

At press time, tournament badges priced at $189 were still available through Friday, June 15th at First Tee Roanoke Valley and area high schools, where part of the proceeds are returned to the lo-cal organizations. The badges include admission to each day of golf and all concerts.

Finally, we conclude this week with a correspon-dence that took me to task over the now-famous Mill Mountain web-cam. Arlene, from Roanoke, blasted me that she has enjoyed the web-cam and the views it offers of the overlook and vistas of the Roanoke Valley. “I’ve never seen anyone displaying their fanny, nor can I see the first sign of a flag or flagpole. You shouldn’t put that stuff in.”

Well, Arlene, a prior week reader’s comment referred tongue-in-cheek to the hilarious Fannie Flagg, a long-time co-host of the old Candid Cam-era show. It was not intended to reference buttocks or the stars and stripes.

Until next week, I’ve got to regroup. I see the Ab-solut . . . Now if I can just find the Bloody Mary mix.

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Well-educated peo-ple either unemployed or under-employed are showing up in homeless shelters. The economy still remains sluggish, says the re-port on the homeless in the Roanoke re-gion.

Many of those who experience homeless-ness over and over have alcohol, drug and mental health problems that are very dif-ficult to address. The region has an excellent system of emergency and transitional housing and services.

Under funding has made it difficult to maintain a suf-ficient amount of quality, af-fordable housing in areas with good public transportation. The number of people identi-fied in the 2012 Point-In-Time (PIT) count that took place in January is slightly higher than in 2010 and 2011.

For the third year the Com-munity Housing Resource Center partners and the ser-vice referral network worked to stabilize the impact. The Blue Ridge Continuum of Care and the Roanoke Al-leghany Regional Advisory Council on Homelessness worked diligently to use scarce resources. Creative new partnerships brought the Alleghany Highlands service providers into the network.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop-ment (HUD) requires com-munities to conduct an annu-al point in time count [PIT] of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing home-lessness. The Virginia PIT oc-curs yearly on a single night in late January in each juris-diction. The Roanoke Valley/Alleghany Regional Advisory Council on Homelessness is the lead entity for conduct-ing the annual point-in-time count in the Roanoke region. The data collected provides valuable information to area service providers, policy makers, and the general pub-lic on the individual and fam-ily challenges and barriers as-sociated with homelessness.

A report issued to the Vir-ginia House Appropriations and Senate Finance Com-mittees by the Virginia De-partment of Housing and Community Development states that in the annual 2011 point-in-time count conduct-ed by localities statewide, at least 9,025 individuals were homeless during a 24-hour snapshot in January 2011. Four to five times that num-ber may actually experience homelessness at some point during the year, according to national homeless studies. Many of these persons have special needs based on situa-tions ranging from physical or mental disabilities to chronic substance abuse. Of the total homeless population, many

are also victims of other cir-cumstances such as job loss or domestic violence.

In 2012 the number of homeless in the Roanoke Re-gion increased by 4.7% from 536 in 2011 to 561 in 2012. An inability to pay rent, lack of jobs and substance abuse problems were most often cited as reasons for being homeless. The 4.7% increase is calculated based on HUD’s counting criteria, which does not allow inclusion of the homeless who are counted in jails. There would actually be a decrease of one percent (6 people) this year (579) over last (585) if jailed populations were included in the count.

In the City of Roanoke, un-employment ranged from a high of 9.1% in January 2011 to 7.9% in December as com-pared to ranges of 6.9% to 6.1% in the Commonwealth of Virginia. These and other socio-economic indicators continue to be painful re-minders of the effects of the economic downturn on vul-nerable individuals and fami-lies, concluded the report.

Of those surveyed this year, 55.4% came to Roanoke in a homeless condition as a result of referrals, seeking services and shelter availability.

The annual point-in-time survey coupled with the use of the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS can determine whether the homeless population is in-creasing or decreasing. It is a tool to evaluate the effective-ness of programs and strate-gies in place to help address the issue of homelessness.

Included in the Point-in-Time survey for this year are homeless individuals who were also surveyed as part of the Virginia Coalition to End

Homelessness [VCEH] 1000 Homes for 1000 Virginians initiative. The goal of the initia-tive is to identify and house the most vulner-able homeless people. These individuals cy-cle between the streets, emergency shelters, hospital emergency rooms, incarceration and mental health fa-cilities. The combi-nation of poor health

status, mental health and/or substance abuse issues and homelessness make them far more likely to die while liv-ing on the streets. Jefferson College of Health Sciences Physician Assistant students administered the 100,000 Homes Vulnerability Index. The instrument will be used prioritize those individuals that have been homeless the longest.

Of these 561 individu-als who were homeless 240 homeless adults participated in the PIT survey process. Children under the age of 18 were not surveyed. 100% of shelters elected to participate in the survey.

Seventeen people surveyed who were experiencing home-lessness on the streets met the Vulnerability Index criteria. These individuals reported 45 emergency room visits in the previous three months and 14 inpatient hospitalizations in the past year. Many have suf-fered physical attacks. Three individuals were in need of immediate housing due to their medically vulnerability condition.

A by-name registry will be used to track these individu-als from one year to the next. The survey is confidential and will serve to identify new strategies for adequate hous-ing.

Foundation For Roanoke Valley Announces Over $100,000 In Scholarships

The Foundation for Roa-noke Valley awarded more than $100,000 in educational schol-arships during its annual schol-arship reception.

The Foundation administers 49 endowed scholarship funds, and it received more than 700 applications for scholarships this year. Recipients were select-ed on a competitive basis using criteria established by donors at the creation of the scholarship endowment.

The Foundation’s largest scholarship, its “Holland Schol-ar Award,” is always at least $10,000 and is given annually to an outstanding graduating senior from the Roanoke Valley who shows exceptional prom-ise in his or her future college career. For 2012, the $14,000 scholarship was presented to Ashley L. Cummings, a senior at James River High School. Cummings will attend Liberty

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Hoops Happening At William Fleming High School This Week

Over 100 basketball campers were having the time of their lives learning fundamentals of the game as well as life-lessons at the Twin Hoops Basketball Camp.

The event, under the direction of Damon and Ramon Williams, continued daily throughout this week at William Fleming.

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