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P3– Roanoke County’s Second Annual “Touch a Truck” event brought young connoisseurs out in droves.

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P4– Hayden Hollingsworth misses Walter Cronkite and the good old days when news was news and opinions were shared at the water cooler.

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Stephen Turner an-nounced his candidacy for the Republican nomina-tion for Roanoke County Sheriff last Friday at the Roanoke County Court-house. The special election will be held in November.

Thirty-five support-ers, including the County Treasurer Kevin Hutchins and Commonwealth At-torney Randy Leach, was there to support Turner’s nomination. Mike Bailey, Roanoke County Republican Chair, introduced the candidate.

Turner, 57, is a lieutenant with the Ro-anoke County Police Department and a graduate of Virginia Western Commu-nity College and Radford University.

After graduating from Andrew Lewis High School, Turner enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving as a military policeman in South Korea. He continued his service in the Army Reserves in Salem until 1978.

He said that he prides himself “in be-ing fair to people and won’t expect any-one to do a job they are not trained to

do.”Turner summed up

his style of management by saying that he “be-lieves in teamwork ... I’m not going to have all the answers.” Fiscal manage-ment and belt tightening are two things he plans to bring to the office if elect-ed. Turner will examine the budget and look for ways to streamline where possible.

“I believe in transparency; there should be no secrets,” said Turner. He concluded by saying that, “no one should fear some-thing coming out of this jail that will bring ill will. I don’t want any surprises.”

He began his law enforcement career as a Roanoke County sheriff ’s office aux-iliary police officer in 1976. In 1977 he became a Deputy Sheriff and was pro-

moted to lieutenant in 1989. He spent five years as a vol-unteer firefighter with the Cave Spring fire department.

In 1990 he became a lieutenant in the newly formed Roanoke County police depart-

> CONTINUEDP2: Sheriff

Greenbrier Classic a Big Hit

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Stuart Appleby became only the fifth player in PGA Tour history to shoot a round of 59 as he won the inaugural Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs by one shot over Jeff Overton. The victory was worth $1,080,000 which is likely the highest paying round of golf ever played within a couple hours drive of Roanoke. Over 178,500 patrons attended the week-long tournament, as the exclusive Greenbrier Resort exceeded all expectations, includ-ing the lofty ones set by owner Jim Justice. In addition to golf, the Classic hosted concerts by Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Reba McEntire and Rascal Flatts. Above: Stuart Appleby (right) receives congratulations for his vic-tory from Jim Justice as Jim Nantz of CBS Sports (center) looks on.

Gov. McDonnell Tours RoanokeGovernor Bob McDonnell arrived at Steel Dynamics at noon on Wednesday and

was greeted by Steel Dynamics General Manager Joe Crawford, Charles Hunter Chair of the Roanoke Economic Development Authority and Dennis Cronk, CEO of Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group.

Vice-Mayor David Trinkle introduced Governor McDonnell and touted Roa-noke’s two existing Enterprise Zones. Trinkle said, “as a small business owner myself I was able to take advantage of a grant.” Roanoke was the first city to create Enterprise Zones. In recent years it has been converted from a tax incentive program to a cash grant program.

McDonnell started his address by saying, “I have three priorities: jobs, jobs, jobs.” He remarked that though the state “has a little bit of a budget surplus, we have a ways to go … the commercial real estate industry

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Fleming - City Schools “Never Been Better”

School Administrator Rita Bishop intro-duced Gene Jones, the new William Fleming principal, at Monday’s joint meeting with City Council and the School Board.

“The only thing new about William Flem-ing is a new building and a new stadium,” remarked Jones. His lofty goals this year are to increase the graduation rate by 10 percent and increase the promotion rate of first time 9th graders.

No slacking on the first day of school – it will be “homework from day one,” says Jones. He’ll make full use of technology to position Flem-ing at the “critical thinking level,” in an effort to make it the best school in the state.

Jones, with his “comfortable shoes on and ready to roll,” took the school board and coun-cil members on a tour of the new stadium.

Mike Farris, president of J. M. Turner, was the tour guide. While on the field, turf council members tossed a miniature football (not po-litical) back and forth with little success. The turf is a composite of sand and recycled rubber. It will withstand football, lacrosse, discus, pole vaulting, shot put and long jumping for up to 12 years.

Other School Business:Revisiting the school funding formula will

take place through joint services during the upcoming budget cycle as suggested by council

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> CONTINUEDP2: Fleming

The Board of Directors, staff, and fam-ilies of the West End Center for Youth are celebrating a banner year in the Center’s history. On the heels of its 30th anniver-sary last year, the Center has achieved its greatest fundraising success to date. The Center has just finished its 2009/2010 fiscal year, and has announced that the annual giving increased 18% over both the previous year and the average giving of the last decade.

According to the Executive Director

Joy Parrish, West End Center’s success can be attributed to “the efficacy of the program, the teamwork among the staff, the board, and The Advance-ment Foundation, and the generosity of donors in spite of the unprecedented chal-lenges of the current economic climate.” With such strong support from the com-munity, and with such meaningful out-comes, both Parrish and Board Chair James Creekmore, feel the West End

Center is well positioned to continue helping children with limited resources find unlimited opportunities.

In the beginning of the 2008/2009 fiscal year, the board and staff developed a strategic plan that included a

bold three year capital campaign to in-crease operational reserves and to estab-lish a permanent endowment. The goal was to raise $2 million. Over the course of the last ten years, the annual giving

has averaged $520K. With the increase in annual giving

to over $616K, the Center has now se-cured $1.368 million in pledges and gifts toward the campaign goal. The Center’s Campaign Chair, Walton Rutherfoord, said, “The obvious explanation for the campaign’s success is that [the] pro-grams work and outcomes demonstrate that fact. For example, over 80% of the

West End Center for Youth Succeeding in Tough Economy

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Governor McDonnell shakes hands with Dennis Cronk as Charkes Hunter (left)and City Manager Chris Morrill (right) look on.

> CONTINUEDP2: West End Center

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Center’s students graduate from high school compared to the city’s 67% graduation rate. This statistic is even more impressive when you consider that many of the Center’s children are from economi-cally disadvantaged families and considered to be at higher risk for academic failure than the general population.”

With such effective programming and a strong funding base, the Center is sure to continue to lead the next generation of Roanoke’s youth to become productive citizens. The success stories that have come from the Center’s after-school and tutoring programs are nu-merous. Each child who attends the Summer and After-School pro-

grams learns valuable social and leadership skills, healthy decision making, as well as positive diet and nutrition options. Over the last 30 years, the West End Center has had a .03% teen pregnancy rate compared to the current 6% rate for Roanoke City.

A few examples of the Center’s recent community efforts include the first annual 5K Race for the Kids, held on July 3rd, and the re-cent opening of the West End Center Community Garden, which is now open on Wednesdays from 4 – 7 p.m.

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> West End Center From page 1

member Bill Bestpitch.Bestpitch also wanted to have in place a

20-year school facilities remodeling and maintenance plan. “A roof replacement that you’re not ready for is not the kind of thing that should sneak up on us,” said Bestpitch.

He found it “troubling that issues like that end up having such a tremendous impact on certain neighborhoods.” Bestpitch felt that parents had bought homes near schools they wanted their child to attend only to see them close. The family then moves out of the city.

Council member Ray Ferris said there was “no excuse to move out of the city away from this school system … The perception of city schools needs to change.”

Council member Court Rosen remarked that over the past two years investment per student had risen from $4200 to $4800. He praised the school system for successfully

juggling the school closings while produc-ing an optimum outcome.

Bishop confirmed that the school’s fa-cilities have “never been in better condition then they are in this school year.” Five mil-lion dollars has been spent for roof mainte-nance in the last two years with an additional five million of planned capital maintenance stretching to 2015.

Council member Sherman Lea stressed the importance of student safety, say-ing that, “disruptive students [should be] moved out immediately.” Bishop produced a 2008 – 2010 drug dog search schedule. A total of 28 searches were conducted yielding “nothing found.” Forest Park Academy will be added to the schedule this year. “These kids know the searches are going to hap-pen,” said Bishop.

Bishop reassured Lea that the schools’ transportation system was prepared for

smooth operation this year. The outsourc-ing of the buses to Krapf Bus Company has yielded a saving of $250,000 and 30 new buses.

> Fleming From page 1

By Valerie Garnerinfo@newsroanoke.com

Anita Price and Mike Farris of JM Turner survey the new field at William Fleming.

ment. He supervised patrol officers and civilian employees at the emergency communications center.

He and his wife Vicki, along with their two daughters, live in the Hollins area and are members of Southview United Methodist Church. He emphasized his family values.

He said it was former Roanoke County Sheriff O. S. Foster who warned him to keep politics out of the sheriff ’s office. “I want every-one that’s employed here in the sheriff ’s department to know their

job does not depend on politics; they will have a job,” said Turner.Turner will challenge Democrat Mike Winston, who’s been serv-

ing as Roanoke County’s sheriff since the resignation of Gerald Holt on March 1. Roanoke County School Board Chairman Mike Stovall, a former Vinton police officer, is running as an Independent in the special election.

> Sheriff From page 1

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> Governor From page 1

being largely flat, we need creative ways to identify new and innovative ways to cut cost and find new markets.”

McDonnell said he wants to, “cut down on the tax burden and strengthen right-to-work laws, and reduce government bu-reaucracy.” He also stressed the need for government to be more helpful and friendly by partnering with the private sector. He thanked Delegate Onzlee Ware for his help in the General Assembly in that regard.

With $75 million more dollars in the Governor’s Opportunity Fund, the governor plans to use it to entice businesses to Virgin-ia with tax credits. He plans on opening up trade offices in several countries he recently visited including Holland, Germany and the U.K. He expects some good announce-ments in the next few months on business relocations to Virginia. In April McDonnell will be going to India and China. “You’ve got to be where the customers are to find these new markets,” said McDonnell.

Crawford reiterated McDonnell’s remarks about expanding markets in China and In-dia. “It’s getting more difficult to compete … we need to sell more steel,” said Crawford.

Several Roanokers remarked that they were pleased to be able to speak directly with the governor and McDonnell made it clear that the feeling was mutual. “It’s your government, and we want to know how we can make it work better for you,” he said.

“One of our ideas is to make government smaller and simpler while providing an im-mediate infusion of new revenue for trans-portation by privatizing Virginia’s state-run ABC stores,” said McDonnell. His philoso-phy is that state government must be fo-

cused on core priorities instead of services that should rightly be provided by the pri-vate sector offering Virginians more choice and convenience.

Besides using the expected $400 million plus proceeds for critical transportation needs, he expects to keep the state’s general fund coffers full with the state’s share of in-store liquor sales.

Dennis Cronk expects privatization of the ABC stores to meet resistance by law-makers and doesn’t necessarily think, “it is a done deal.”

The interim report of the Governor’s Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring will be issued by September 15th.

Governor Holds Town Hall Meeting Weds Night

McDonnell is launching the ‘Virginia Speaks’ statewide town hall tour as a tool to garner input. Wednesday night’s town hall meeting at the Roanoke County’s Admin-istration building on Bernard Drive was standing room only as expected.

The capacity for the room was inked in a new policy adopted by the Board of Su-pervisors on July 27. Accordingly only 105 citizens were allowed in, but there may have been a few extras. Months of wrangling with political party chairs led to less severe pen-alties for breaking the new rule. It remains to be seen if the governor will have to pay a $70 deposit or get a pass by the Board of Su-pervisor -- three of which are Republicans.

Thomas Ryder a Roanoke County teach-er was one of the many that attended the meeting. “We have seen state per-pupil sup-port drop from $5277 (a level that ranked

us 36th amount the states) to the current $4548,” said Ryder. Supporters for revising the number higher insist that the 16% cut in state support for public education has the highest impact on poor rural and urban divisions, undercutting workforce develop-ment, and ensuring that the existing patterns of poverty and unemployment persist.

Prior to the meeting Ryder said he was hopeful that other teachers would also at-tend to press McDonnell. “The Governor shares our goal of a high quality teacher in every classroom; however, unlike state workers, Virginia’s teachers are seeing no bonus, and many are facing pay cuts or loss of employment. When we compare the sal-ary of the average teacher to that of the aver-age wage earner, Virginia ranks 48th. This [low] level of investment in the teaching profession will not ensure that our children have great teachers.”

McDonnell has made sweeping cuts in the state budget, but his education propos-als for Virginia have included moving $480 million per year from school administra-tion and putting it directly into the class-room, establishing more specialized high schools to support high-demand industries and increasing online learning through vir-tual schools. McDonnell also has frequently expressed his support for President Barack Obama’s ideas on increasing parental choice through charter schools.

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Ripped from the script of “Glee,” two top singing Roa-noke-area teens were awarded $1,000 scholarships to pursue studies in musical theater. The Virginia Gentlemen Barber-shop Chorus gives the award annually in honor of John Tully, a former member of the chorus.

This year's winners are: Corinne Davis, a 2010

graduate of Hidden Val-ley High School in Roanoke County. This fall, she’ll attend the Shenandoah Conservatory, part of Shenandoah Univer-sity in Winchester, Va., where she’ll major in musical theater. Corinne earned a 3.9 GPA at Hidden Valley, where she sang with the Ladies Ensemble. She won honors as most outstand-ing soloist at the National Performing Arts Festival com-petition in New York City, and was also honored by the Roanoke County Center for the Performing Arts as “Most Valuable Performer.” Corinne is the daughter of Dave and Pat Davis.

James “Jay” Huckle, a 2010 graduate of Blacksburg High School. This fall he’ll attend James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. as a musi-

cal theater major. Jay earned a 3.52 at Blacksburg High, where he performed with a men’s a capella group and a madrigal chorus. Jay was named to the Virginia All-State Choir in 2010 and the Virginia Senior Honors Choir in 2009. Jay is the son of Bill and Susan Huckle.

The students were selected from 16 students who were nominated by choral directors at area high schools. This is the sixth year that the Virginia Gentlemen have awarded two scholarships to area vocal mu-sic students. They were award-ed plaques by the Virginia Gentlemen at ceremonies ear-lier this summer.

The Virginia Gentlemen is celebrating it’s 50th year as a volunteer choral organization. The multi-award-winning group is the premier male a

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Take a field full of trucks – small ones, big ones, bigger ones and loud ones. Throw in a flying vehicle or two and wa-tercraft. Add commercial vehi-cles, public safety vehicles, you name it. Then let kids climb all over and in them (curious adults too) and call it “Touch a Truck.”

The second annual event, sponsored by Roanoke County

Parks, Recreation & Tourism, took place at sprawling Green Hill Park just outside of Salem. Touch a Truck evolved out of the Summer Blast program and

was a major hit with youngsters last Saturday. Climbing inside and honking horns seemed to be the major goal of many.

There were Roanoke County, Roanoke City and state vehicles – including a 17,500 lb. state police tactical truck with heavy armor – along with an assort-ment of private vehicles, heavy equipment, a Martinsville Speedway pace car, Virginia Tech’s student race car, etc.

Elsewhere children tried swings that dangled from heavy equipment cranes or

waded through soap bubbles created by Roanoke County firefighters. Roanoke’s Star City Trolley made an appearance, as did Carilion’s Lifeguard 10 he-

licopter.Franklin County’s Cable 12

showed off their mobile news gathering equipment. Former

NewsChannel 10 weatherman Jamey Singleton is back in the forecasting business with community-based Cable 12. The station doesn’t cover many hard news events, although the recent death of firefighters Posey Dillon and Danny Altice was a notable exception.

“They are asking us, who in the world are we?” said Single-ton of the Touch a Truck ap-pearance. Some wanted to be in front of the video camera Cable 12 had set up at Green Hill Park, while others wanted to be behind the lens. “They want to push some of the but-tons in the back of the van where our director is,” noted Singleton.

Others wanted to learn about the green screen chroma key that weathermen like Sin-gleton stand in front of when delivering a forecast. “All kinds of different skills that they’re learning in school right now,” said Singleton. That seemed to be the point of Touch a Truck – a chance to have some fun, encounter vehicles most will never get near, and perhaps provide fuel for thought re-garding career paths. “I’m so excited,” said one young boy as he lined up for the chance to sit in a fighter plane cockpit.

Brian Clingenpeel, the pub-lic education specialist with Roanoke County fire and res-cue, was there as well, dem-onstrating their show and tell safety trailer. It was filled with harmless steam to simulate smoke, as Clingenpeel stood at one end, urging children to “get low and go,” showing them the correct way to leave a house that’s on fire.

“They do a great job of get-ting a variety of [vehicles] out here,” said Clingenpeel. “We’ve been swamped. We had over 350 people in the first hour. It’s a very good place for us to be.” During the school year, Clingenpeel, a former minister, brings the safety trailer around to county schools.

“I think it’s a great idea,” said Singleton; “how many times do you see community events where the kids are wel-come and invited to be a part of what’s going on?” He is go-ing to suggest such an event to Franklin County parks and recreation officials. At Touch a Truck the kids were not only welcome – they were the stars of the show.

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“And that’s the way it is.” When he signed off the

nightly news with those words, we all went to bed be-lieving that was true; good or bad, we had the feeling that he had given us the headlines in a balanced way.

Now one has to weigh care-fully what is said. Has it been fully researched? Are all points of view presented without bias? Is there an agenda behind the histrionics? How much relevance does the news have beyond voyeurism? Does the reporter/anchor-person pay more attention to whether we’re get-ting the facts or being more enter-taining than a com-petitive source? And most disturb-ing of all, does the public really care that all those questions are frequently an-swered the wrong way.

I first began to have seri-ous doubts about television newscasts years ago when the nightly news aired a segment about a brand of pickup truck that exploded, apparently spontaneously. The film clip showed the truck innocently sitting in the middle of the field and, suddenly it blew up. Seemed a little odd to me that they just happened to be there with their camera crew, but the anchor reported it as an actual fact. The manufacturer astutely saw smoke coming from under the frame before the explosion and suggested

that was the fuse burning to-ward the dynamite the net-work had placed in the chas-sis. Mr. Anchor subsequently reported that was, indeed, the case, but no one had told him about it, so he thought it was a real event. Decades later he trotted out the same excuse over the bogus letter of then-candidate Bush’s military ser-vice. Maybe he was innocent on all counts, but the network

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have been treated to an even more dis-turbing event: The Shirley Sherrod Ca-per. The facts are well known: Based on a misleadingly edited talk posted on the Internet by

Andrew Breit-bart, a low level Department of

Agriculture employee was summarily fired. Once some-one checked the actual facts, it took a pleasingly short time for everyone who had rushed to judgment (and there were many) to scamper to the near-est restroom and remove the egg from their collective faces. The only person who came out with enhanced dignity was the “culprit” herself, Ms Sherrod. Then, to compound matters, it was somehow the President’s fault. Go figure.

Thomas Jefferson, author of many famous statements, once said he would rather live in a country without a government than one without a newspaper. He might take a different view

of that now with instant news since selling wares seems to be the modus vivendi. If truth is served, so much the better, but that doesn’t seem to influence their quest for ad revenue, popularity, and survival.

Out of habit and hoping that Walter Cronkite will de-scend from the studio lights, I still watch the evening news on a broadcast network. Aside from the anchorperson preen-ing and every reporter starting their commentary with, “Well, (insert name of your favorite anchor) . . .” the most arrest-ing thing about evening news is that you will find out more than you ever wanted to know about the health of the view-ers. Nearly all commercials are about women constructed out of brass tubing who can’t control their bladders, exces-sive flatulence, arthritis in joints of which most are un-aware they possess, pills that will instantly turn one into an amazingly sexy person, teach you to dance and improve your bedroom performance so dramatically that you may have to go to the emergency room to be rescued from your passion.

That’s where the money comes from for the newscasts . . . Big Pharma, as it has become known. Science Daily reports the cost of advertising is al-most twice the amount phar-maceutical companies spend on research and development. Because of the current climate of reporting, there may be an increasing market for the anti-gas preparations.

So how do we really get the news we need? The answer is “very carefully.” One might even change the word to “skeptically.” At least we can amend Will Rogers’ comment about all he knew was what he read in the newspapers. Life must have been simpler then. I wonder what he would have to say about television, the In-ternet, bloggers, and journal-ists who are more interested in notoriety than truth.

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I have to start this article with a big praise to all of the folks who coordinated the “Diamond Dash” in downtown Roanoke on Saturday. If you are unfamil-iar with this, it was a scavenger hunt through downtown Roa-noke with 500 of your closest friends. The winning couple walked away with a $15,000 Ri-tani diamond ring. At this point two facts need to be shared: Yes, my wife and I participated in the hunt and No, we did not win the ring. The whole experience did however make for a wonderful afternoon.

When we first arrived we really did not know what to expect. As we saw the other couples arriving, it was clear that it was not our typical peer group. Actually, upon reflec-tion, the bike I was riding was older than most of the couples in the hunt. While we had at-titude and wisdom, we were clearly outmatched by agility and the ability to text messages without concentrating on every letter and not knowing where to find correct punctuation sym-bols. Actually, I am still not sure where to find those on my cell phone and I want to know what the heck a droid is. Oh, there were a few others in the “cell phones weren’t invented until I was in college crowd”, but the majority were young “whip-per snappers” as my wife so af-fectionately referred to them. Our claim to fame is that when all was said and done we actu-ally held our own and finished much closer to the top than the bottom of the pack.

While we were both amazed that no one was killed running and riding around through downtown traffic (there really isn’t much on Saturday after-noon), the real highlight was the experience of doing something new and exciting with each other. Now, this does not mean that my wife and I lead boring lives; it is that we live very rou-tine lives. Routines in and of themselves are not a bad thing. The prob-lem is when routines become entrenched, they become ruts.

An entrenched routine or rut is one that has little room for new experiences or adventures. It may well serve a purpose, but lacks excitement or intrigue. Let me give you a simple ex-ample. Most couples have three to four restaurants in their typi-cal list of ”where to eat” when they go out. Everyone knows the menu and usually orders similar items each time they are out to dinner. Someone told me once that “what follows the same old restaurant and the same old food….. is the same old conversation.”

Now let’s compare this with a challenge I often give couples. I tell them for the next 6 months they are not allowed to eat at any restaurant more than one time and they cannot eat at a restaurant they have previously visited in the past 6 months.

While this sends sharp pains of panic in some, I often see

the wheels begin to turn in the minds of others. I begin to hear comments like “Oh, we can go to that Thai place I keep hear-ing about” or “I love trying new things.” Yes, these are the same couples that have always been free to eat wherever they want, but they have been in a rut, they just had to be set free. Now they have to actually find new restau-rants, read menus, try a bunch

of new foods both good and bad…..they have to be ad-venturous.

When we engage in new, adventurous experiences with others, a unique bond is either cre-ated or strength-ened. We have gone through something together, something novel, different, ex-

citing. When you lose this in a marriage, things often become dry. Make sure you have space in your routines for a little ad-venture. It is even OK if the ad-venture is scheduled, it just has to happen every once in awhile. My wife and I are already ex-cited about the next “Diamond Dash“……if I can just learn to text without requiring complete silence and cessation of all con-versation and surrounding ac-tivity, we might have a chance.

Make a place for a little ad-venture in your life!

Routines, Ruts and New Experiences

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“Buon giorno.” We’ve passed many day hikers today –the Italians love their mountains and love hiking among the high peaks- but the woman in Suisi, the town 1500m below us, was right. We’ve got the Bolzano Rifugio practically to ourselves. The old stone hostel is over 120 years old, and I can almost feel the presence of alpinists past as I enter the darkly paneled com-mon room, breathing in the thick essence of the place.

The good-natured, two-man staff on duty seem to be quite amused at this couple from the United States, out here in these mountains with their three young sons, knowing only a few bits and pieces of Italian, but possessing lots of American en-thusiasm. The young men take good care of us, and according to my dog-eared journal “that was the best spaghetti I have ever eaten!”

We are at an elevation of 2500m in the Dolomite Alps of northeastern Italy. Known for stark, barren, and colorful rock formations and little vegeta-tion, this place is otherworldly. In places it seems like an alien landscape.

Early morning is my favorite hiking time. We’re climbing up a steep trail above the rifugio. Fog lies low among the peaks and soon hides the hut from view. It’s quite cool –jackets are zipped up tight- and everything has that extra-fresh feel to it. Break-fast was the standard bread and jam, and the hut keepers made sure we took along extra for our lunch later. The boys are scam-pering along ahead of us, the youngest especially keen to keep up with his big brothers.

In a few hours we come to another hut –this one tiny and particularly cozy- in a protected pass called Sasso Lunga. The hut mistress has just cooked a batch of delicious kaiserschmarm -kind of a fruit pancake- and she insists that we sample the still-warm traditional treat. Okay, Bella, twist my arm.

There was armed conflict in the Dolomites during World War One, when Italy fought Austria over the disputed bor-der, high among the moun-tain ridges. Today there is still evidence of the struggle, and evocative are the tunnels bored through the mountains, and the via ferrata –“paths of iron”-which one encounters. Via fer-rata consist of iron ladders and

chains affixed to the pinnacles and cliffs, and allowed for troop movement over terrain which would otherwise have required technical climbing. Today some of the via ferrata are maintained for use by modern hikers and climbers, and many of the trails we traverse today are along mule tracks created during the war.

Hiking affords opportu-nity not just to experience the mountains close-up but to meditate and daydream and plan for adventures beyond the current one –that’s right, plan-ning for the next one already. Strange, huh? Besides imagin-ing animal shapes among the rock spires we walk among, the boys are planning a tree house this morning. “I think we’ll have a special ladder that hangs down inside from the top all the way to the ground, with some kind of trap door in the ceil-ing and the floor.” They plan to construct it when we get back home. It may never happen, but it doesn’t really matter, I think, as just the fun of planning it is hard to match.

Late afternoon finds us step-ping through a real lunar land-scape. Scree slopes crunch un-der foot and limestone spires tower overhead, bright white in the sun, striking against the blue sky. The Dolomites, named for an18th century geologist, are made up of calcium carbon-ate, much of it actually ancient coral reef 230 million years old. Sheesh, I think, and we’ll only be here for a few days.

The big sun is sinking in the sky and according to the map we’re close to the Passo Princ-ipe rifugio, our destination for the night. Sure enough, Adam spots it up ahead in one of the only flat areas around, dwarfed by soaring cliffs above it. There are lots of people around it, but as we approach we notice that

many are leaving, and within an hour after we arrive only the five of us and the hut keeper and her young family remain. The rest are Italian day hikers, return-ing to the valley below for the night. I’m instantly moved by the place. The fiery, dark-haired hut mistress is definitely queen of the roost and never speaks in an even tone of voice. Passion-ate, she argues with her hus-band like she’s going to kill him one instant, and the next minute she is as loving as can be. She is delighted to have us Americans visit their hut and even her sul-len husband softens up after a while, as he watches our sons play with his. I’m fascinated with the “relaxed” standards of cleanliness of the place –the husband-cook’s kitchen apron is absolutely black with grease and the squat toilet out back is not for the faint of heart- but I can tolerate it in light of the spirit of generosity and passion for life which fills the shabby rifugio.

Above the hut is a rock out-cropping which is just right for watching the shadows lengthen and the light change as evening comes. As the sun drops lower in the sky the spires around us light up in enrosadira, or "al-penglow," that alpine light ef-fect that creates golden glowing peaks in the fading gleam of the sun. We just sigh in reverence at the sight and the feel of it, our powers of speech being, as they are, inadequate.

It’s getting chilly out as we re-enter the cozy hut. Rosina serves us perfectly prepared linguini, cheese and spinach. The wind rises that night and the narrow bunks cradle us. The window panes rattle and from the kitch-en emanates, gently muffled, Rosina’s hearty soulful laugh.

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A Christian view of the body has gotten a bad rap in a modern American reading. Some read the Christian writings of antiquity that empha-sized a future liberation and conclude that ancient Christians were “anti-body,” and thus anti-bodily pleasure: “Poor, guilty God-haunted people, miss-ing out on life in their viewing bodily existence as a regrettable trial so as to give souls a chance to be saved.”

While this may be an accurate reading of some who lived on a guilty extreme, it is not fair to the Christian tradition in the main. It is a modern reading of ancient writings, a first world reading of third world realities.

Consider how differently bodies were expe-rienced in antiquity. Today, we Americans have reason to expect that most will live beyond an expected age of retirement with some measure of vitality. Older adults may not be able to bound up and down steps or play hoops with teenagers as they used to, but still are able to enjoy full lives. Many – not all – spend most of their lives enjoy-ing good health, only periodic pain, and pleasures that come with good food, exercise, and what might too quickly be called “safe sex.”

But consider life before modern medicine; be-fore sterilization practices were used before sur-gery, before surgery even, before antibodies were developed in the early 1950s. Take for instance the year the smallpox vaccine was developed, the year of our country’s birth, 1776. Childbirth was the leading cause of death for young women. It was the unusual family that did not have at least one child die before adulthood. Many physical problems corrected by commonplace surgery to-day were then untreated leading to chronic, pain-ful conditions. Periodic plagues could wipe out huge populations. Teeth rotted and joints ached without medicine to lessen the pain. Without refrigeration, food poisoning was commonplace. People lived with intestinal parasites. Basically, it was the rare adult who did not live with chron-ic pain and the experience of premature death among family and friends. And so, it wasn’t that people- even young people- hated their bodies. They were afraid of them.

It was to that anxiety over the dangers of the body that Christian theologians offered advice for survival and hope and encouragement for eter-nity. To judge writings about a future liberation from bodies as prudish is to miss the pastoral care offered to people who knew death could come at

any time and who hoped they would not be for-ever trapped in carnal containers so often racked with pain and disease.

And so, when the Apostle Paul talked about body and spirit, he was using a vocabulary the Greek world could understand in separating the two. But while he “spoke Plato,” he was not Plato. Paul proclaimed that we would be raised bodily with Christ. In other words, while pain and suf-fering will be left behind, we will maintain our bodily identity that separates us from each other, and from God, and thus allows for relationship. We will enjoy a new body and a new spirit, just as there will be a new heaven and a new earth.

From his perspective, faith in the bodily resur-rection helps one embrace bodily existence right now. He warns us others not to base their lives on servicing what will not last; seeking bodily plea-sures as the end of life; but to live according to the Spirit. To live according to the spirit is to place bodily lives in service of God.

Think of the faith he encourages as “Bodily Be-lieving.” Bodily believing affirms and celebrates bodily lives even while being realistic about dan-gers and limits. It means taking care of bodies as temples so as to have strength to serve God. It means expressing physical intimacy as an expres-sion of relational integrity. It means eating, be-cause we need to eat to live; but also means being responsible about what we eat, how much, and what we should do in relation to those who do not have enough to eat. It means working; but working in a way that honors ethical standards. It means playing because God’s creation is good and play is a celebration; but it also means working for a world of peace and justice so others can be free to play. It means resting because bodies need rest; but also worshipping because our Sabbath rest is found in God.

Maybe his words are harder to understand for those who do not live with pain and for whom death is a theory. But for those in the know about what happens with bodies, his words ring true and hopeful in calling for good management of bodily lives today while living in hope for a bodily liberation beyond death.

(My thanks to Dr. Margaret Miles whose 2010 Sprunt Lectures informed this column.)

George Anderson is Senior Pastor at Second Pres-byterian Church, visit them on the web at www.spres.org.

Bodily Believing - by George C. AndersonPreacher’s Corner

As we move from July into August, all thoughts turn to sandy beaches, lazy afternoons, and the Roman Empire.

In ancient Rome, the year was originally laid out as ten months stretching from early Spring to the winter solstice. The first four months were named after gods (Mars, Aphrodite, Maia and Juno) and the rest were just numbered (Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, Decem-ber). After that, there was a non-descript winter pe-riod, before starting again with Mars' month.

In 46 BC, Julius Caesar im-proved things by defining the winter period as two new months, named for Janus, the god of new beginnings, and for Februa, the Roman festival of purification. He moved the be-ginning of the year to Janus 1st, the day the Senate took office. He also staggered the number of days within each month, 31 in Martius, 30 in Aprilus, etc. throughout the year, with Feb-ruary taking the remaining 28 days (except for Leap Years) for a total of 365 days. It was a great achievement, but Julius enjoyed the new calendar for only a year before he was assassinated.

He was succeeded by his ad-opted great-nephew, Augustus

Caesar. Augustus declared his great-uncle a god, and renamed the month of Quintilis as Julius, in honor of Julius' birthday in that month. Augustus Caesar proved to be an excellent leader,

so after his death, he too was declared a god and the month of Sextilis was re-named Augustus. In order to give Julius and Augustus equal memorials, both of their months were given 31 days.

From that point on, every Roman leader wanted to be "Emperor of the

Month." Nero renamed April as Neroneus; Domitian re-named October as Domitianus; Caligula renamed September as

Germanicus. Emperor Com-modus went off the deep end and renamed ALL TWELVE months in honor of himself, but since he was a fool, nobody took him seriously. In the end, none of these changes lasted.

Yep, the ultimate measure of fame is staying power. And for over 2000 years, nobody's been able to knock Julius and Augus-tus off their calendar pedestal, or climb up there with them.

So hail Caesars, the only two mortals who achieved the ul-timate celebrity status: Perma-nent Pinup.

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Drop-Box For City Payments Removed From Reserve Avenue

As of Monday, Aug. 2, the payment drop-box for the CityTreasurer's Office located on Reserve Avenue has been re-

moved due to the demolition of the Parks and Recreation Building at that site. City Treasurer Evelyn Powers is working to determine alternate locations for payment drop-boxes. A notification will be sent out and information posted on the city's website once the new locations have been established. The current drop-box in front of the Noel C. Taylor Munici-pal Building at 215 Church Ave. will remain in place with no changes.For more information, contact the Treasurer's Office at 540-853-2561.

RCPS Holds School Choice Meetings for Five Schools

According to No Child Left Behind Act regulations, students at Title I schools that have not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two years are eligible for the School Choice Option and /or supplemental education services. Parents of students who attend the schools below are invited to an Open House at their school to learn about No Child Left Behind legislation and school choice options. Open House -School Choice/Sup-plemental Education Services Information Meetings: Thurs-day, August 5, 2010 Westside Elementary School cafeteria, 6 PM /. Monday, August 9, 2010 Hurt Park Elementary School cafeteria, 6 PM / Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Round Hill Ele-mentary School cafeteria, 6 PM / Thursday, August 12, 2010 Lincoln Terrace Elementary School cafeteria, 6PM / Monday, August 16, 2010 Addison Middle School cafeteria, 6PM. Stu-dents must be enrolled in their home school prior to the start of this school year in order for school choice transfer requests to be reviewed. For more information, please contact Dr. Vella Wright, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning at (540) 853-6113.

Salem After Five set to Wrap Up Successful 2010 Season

The popular “Salem After Five” concert series wraps up an-other successful summer on the Salem Farmers Market Friday, August 20th at 5:30 pm. The featured band for the fifth and final concert of the summer is “Domino” and proceeds from the event will benefit the Salem-Roanoke County Food Pantry. The popular concert series is sponsored by the City of Salem Parks and Recreation, Q99-FM, RE/MAX - Real Estate One of Salem and Pepsi. Admission: Adults - $5, children 12 and un-der are free. There will be a children’s play area set up in the

Market, as well as food vendors featuring Bastian’s Bar-B-Q, Salem Pizza & Subs, Salem Ice Cream Parlor and Ol’ Mule Hot Dog Co. No coolers, outside food or drinks, rollerblades, skateboards or pets allowed on the premises. For additional information call Salem Parks and Recreation at 540-375-3057

Girl Scout Information and Sign-UpFor girls in Roanoke County and Roanoke City South West -

The Trefoil Service Unit will hold two Information and Sign-Up events: Monday August 30th, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM at the Roa-noke County Library Headquarters on 419 meeting Room and Monday September 20th 6:00 – 7:30 PM at the Raleigh Court Library, 2112 Grandin Road - Outside the front entrance. Girl Scouting is open to all girls in Kindergarten through grade 12. Come learn about Girl Scout opportunities, and sign-up your daughter. Questions, contact Trefoil Service Unit Team Manager 540-774-3607.

Roanoke Weekly Gas Price UpdateAverage retail gasoline prices in Roanoke have risen 3.7

cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.51/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 0.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.75/g, according to gasoline price website RoanokeGasPrices.com. Including the change in gas prices in Roanoke during the past week, prices yesterday were 3.7 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 2.5 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 2.1 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 21.6 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago. "Gasoline prices in a majority of the United States have been stuck in narrow range over the past several weeks," said Patrick DeHaan, GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst. "The longer oil and gasoline prices remain in this tight range, the harder it will be for prices to break out of that threshold." DeHaan cites the lack of significant economic improvement and quiet tropics thus far as a reason prices have failed to move significantly. "Unless we start seeing consistent-ly good economic news or several large tropical storms, gas prices should remain relatively muted," he adds.

Low-Phosphate Dishwasher Detergents That Work

There are several low-phosphate dishwasher detergents that performed very well in Consumer Reports’ latest tests, which is good news for the traditionally low-scoring eco-friendly products.Consumer Reports tested 24 low- or no-phosphate dish detergents and found four Recommended products. Al-though none equaled the excellent (but now discontinued) product that topped CR’s Ratings in August 2009, seven were Very Good. Consumer Reports testers smeared dishware with a mix of 17 foods (pots got a mac-and-cheese blend) and then baked on the foods and cleaned the items in identical dish-washers to assess how each detergent performed.

Finish Quantum (30 cents per load) topped the Ratings, followed by CR Best Buy, Finish Powerball Tabs (22 cents per load), which scored Excellent for dishes and pots, and bested some detergents that cost more.

Cascade Complete All In 1 (28 cents per load) and Cascade with Dawn ActionPacs (23 cents per load) earned a score of Very Good in CR’s tests, but all Cascades, like all Finish prod-ucts, aren’t equal. Other Cascade and Finish products were scattered throughout the Ratings.

Past tests found that some low-phosphate products per-formed the worst overall, but the newest formulations are worth a try. Here are the details on Consumer Reports other findings:

• Bleach made little difference. Most of the top performers have no bleach, and it didn’t seem to act on baked-on soils. Bleach might help though with tea or similar stains.

• Enzymes might help. Most of the tested detergents have enzymes, which can break up food for easier removal.

• Types might not be a tipoff. Tablets and pacs tended to score high and gels low, but it’s too soon to say whether that trend will continue.

• Quantumatic isn’t worth the price. At $10 (44 cents per load) for the dispenser and first cartridge, Finish Quantumatic dispenses 12 doses of detergent from a cartridge automatically. It performed well, but takes up space in the dishwasher and is less effective than other products that cost less.

Consumer Reports also tested Martha Stewart Clean liquid detergent which would have been lowest-rated of all, but the company said it has since changed its formula. More informa-tion on phosphate-free detergents can be found in the Septem-ber issue of Consumer Reports, available on newsstands Au-gust 3 and online at www.ConsumerReports.org.

Is Fatherhood Dying?If you know a child in a single-parent home, that child is

most likely being raised by Mom.According to the latest U.S. Census figures from November

of 2009, 84 percent of the custodial parents in the 13.7 mil-lion single-parent households in the U.S. are mothers. Only 16 percent of custodial parents are dads. Many fathers blame the court systems, which they believe favors the mothers in most cases, but one expert believes that men have more control over that paradigm than they might think.

“When it comes to deciding who gets the kids, it’s natural for judges to want to place them with the parent who is nurturing and sensitive,” said Michael Taylor, motivational speaker, life coach, and author of A New Conversation With Men (www.coachmichaeltaylor.com). “Let’s face it. In most cases, it’s dif-ficult to cast most fathers -- even the good ones -- in that light. But I don’t think it’s out of reach for any man to become that person, and to exude it in his daily life.”

Taylor believes that the greatest challenge we have in our so-ciety right now is to redefine masculinity.

“Most men are tired and frustrated with their lives and are looking for something new and different,” he said. “Men want

to learn to be genuinely happy with their lives but most of them do not know how to accomplish this. They are sold on the bill of goods by the past generation that men are aloof and authori-tarian, and that’s part of being a man. The first thing we need to do is discard all the media and culture madness that has created the problem in the first place. I believe that every man can learn to be a great husband, a great father and a trusted friend. To get there, we need to break the bonds of a culture that has taught us all the wrong things about what it means to be masculine, and embrace a new paradigm of masculinity that empowers them to reach their full potential.”

The cornerstone for this new paradigm, according to Taylor, includes developing stronger connections to the ideas of love, compassion, understanding, acceptance and forgiveness.

These qualities are not signs of weakness,” Taylor said. “They are actually signs of strength, and when men reject these as-pects of themselves, it leads to all sorts of dysfunction and un-happiness. We’ve grown up in a culture that teaches men that marriage is a prison, and that being monogamous is somehow not manly, when in fact, the successful and happy husbands and fathers out there know that to be the opposite. If we can reverse these beliefs, I believe we will begin to see a dramatic reduction of issues like high divorce rates, high school drop-outs, domestic abuse and high incarceration rates.”

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National Night Out is an event designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness while strengthening neighbor-hoods and fostering police-community partnerships.

Neighborhoods all over Roa-noke City hosted events Tuesday night by turning on their porch lights and dishing out full-blown all-you-can-eat buffets. Gruff the crime dog made his rounds followed by police and Fire/EMS crews who enjoyed a short-lived break while talking with the people they serve.

It’s all about fighting crime and sending a message to crimi-nals that the neighborhoods are fighting back. Criminals were in hiding Tuesday night. Cama-raderie between the police and citizens took over the streets.

This year the Countryside Neighborhood Alliance fought back by having their watermelon feast at the entrance of the now closed golf course. The dead end has been host to unsavory activ-ity since the course closed and overgrown weeds created a hid-ing place for uninvited guests.

The solution is coming per Acting Police Chief Chris Per-kins and Zone 4 Lt. Mac Babb. Perkins and Babb solved the problem of blocking the fire hy-drant located at the dead end. A gate will be erected and fire sta-

tions will have the key.Council member Sherman

Lea visited the Countryside Drive dead end and took a few arrows about the closing of the golf course. “It’s what is best for the city,” said Lea. He said a 9-hole golf course with high-end housing is the ticket to a skeptical electorate.

The barricades provided by the city kept vehicles from inter-rupting the chatter as neighbors were still communing well after the 8:00 p.m. last call for water-melon.

Other communities hosting events were: Fleming Court with their “inter”-National Night Out potluck, a fish fry hosted at Fair-land Civic Organization, more food at Grandview Neighbor-hood Watch, Dorchester Court, Southeast Action Forum, and Oak Grove Farms Neighbor-hood Watch.

Watermelon feasts were held as well at Old Southwest and Riverland-Walnut Hills. Cook-outs were hosted by the Melrose Rugby Neighborhood Forum, the Loudon Melrose Neighbor-hood Forum and Airlee Court Neighborhood Watch Associa-tion.

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Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer was the guest speaker Monday evening at the annual Hokie preseason football banquet held at Hidden Valley Country Club.

Beamer offered a rundown of the upcoming Tech season and his high expectations for the team. He noted that this year’s offensive squad looks exceptional with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback and extensive depth in both the running back and receiver positions.

“With the size and speed we have in our receivers, it gives us the opportunity to score quick-ly, “ Beamer pointed out. “We have numerous strong running backs. It’s just a matter of put-ting it all together.”

He noted that the motto for

the team this year is respect. “We want respect among our teammates, our opponents and our audience. “

Beamer answered questions from the crowd and gave his opinion of the recent realign-ment that took place in college football, noting that he had expected four, 16-team mega conferences. “It’s all about who brings value to TV,” he pointed out. “And, there is still uncer-tainty over where Notre Dame will end up.”

He was especially proud that Tech was recently rated number one by a Raleigh newspaper in a ranking of teams in a category relating to graduation and win-ning seasons.

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For the first time in nearly three months, the Salem Red Sox have risen to the apex of the Carolina League. At 60-44 overall after winning four of five in last week’s homestand at Lewis-Gale Field, the Red Sox have reassumed the top record in the league for the first time since early May. Entering Mon-day’s action, the Red Sox sat one half game ahead of the Win-ston-Salem Dash in the overall standings and one game ahead of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in the second-half standings.

Despite beginning the second half with just two wins in their first nine games, the resurgent Red Sox have found their stride, taking 16 of the last 25 from their Carolina League brethren. Although Salem’s last four wins have come only by a total of six runs (two by one run and two by two runs), the Sox have proven the mettle to prevail in a variety of ways, regardless of whether the final is 9-8 or 2-0.

In fact, those were the two final scores in Salem’s abbrevi-ated two-game sweep of the Lynchburg Hillcats on Thurs-day and Friday (Saturday night was rained out and will only be made up if absolutely neces-sary for playoff determination purposes). Thursday night fea-tured some raised emotions, as the benches cleared in the third inning when the pitch that im-mediately followed two homers flew up and in on a Lynchburg batter. The dugouts and bull-pens emptied, but there were no physical confrontations. And when the baseball resumed, the Red Sox used two four-run in-nings, including a magnificent two-out rally in the last of the seventh, to surge to a 9-8 vic-tory.

Friday’s action included very little offense, yet the Red Sox were able to find the winner’s circle again. Will Middlebrooks blasted a two-run homer in the bottom of the first, and there

would be zero offense from ei-ther team the rest of the way. Righthander Michael Lee, who on Monday was named as the Carolina Pitcher of the Week, tossed seven scoreless innings to earn his team-best eighth victory of the season. With five strikeouts and zero walks, Lee completely stymied the Hillcat lineup before giving way to the bullpen. Lance McClain and Kyle Fernandes preserved the shutout victory with a couple solid innings, and Fernandes picked up his team-best eighth save. Third Baseman, Will Mid-dlebrooks concluded July as Sa-

lem’s most impressive offensive performer. In 25 games, the Texarkana, Texas-native hit .333 with six homers and 27 RBI.

The Salem Red Sox return home for an 8-game homestand on Thursday, August 5 through Thursday, August 12. Join us for a fun-filled week! For complete information on upcoming pro-motions or to buy tickets, go to www.salemsox.com.

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The topic of sportsman-ship and the consideration rightly or wrongly given to one's rivals in a race was brought starkly to the fore on the Port de Bales in Stage 15 of the recently complet-ed Tour de France. Andy Schleck's already legendary dropped chain will be talked about forever, but this past week in Blacksburg, profes-

sional racer, Isaac Howe, of the Mountain Khakis fueled by Jittery Joe's team, acted in a way that will never result in a single shred of controversy, but should be remembered for just as long as Schleck's chain and Contador's reac-tion.

The young rider from New Hampshire took the win in the criterium, 4th in the time trial, but missed the crucial break in the road race to fin-ish 3rd overall.

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was getting ready to wrest free of the fading field, two riders collided, throwing an unfortunate third off the left side of the road, which had no shoulder, and 40-50 foot straight drop into a dry creek bed as the likely destination for the seemingly doomed racer.

Howe, however, saw the incident, and saw the rider go down. He stopped imme-diately and managed to grab the ankle of the rider as he was about to plummet over the edge. Howe, who current-ly sits in 2nd overall in the yearlong USA Crits series, waited with the fallen rider for motorcycle officials to ar-rive. When they did, Howe set off in pursuit of the field, which he quickly rejoined, but at that point, the winning break was long gone.

At the time, few knew what the 24 year old had done, but it soon became clear that Howe had in fact saved the rider's life.

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One glance in the stands at any Salem Red Sox home game reveals the obvious: there are many, many female baseball fans at Lewis Gale Field on a regular basis. Yet some of those ladies might want to know more about the game, especially if they didn’t grow up around baseball – how it’s scored, some of the terminology, what it’s like to step out on the diamond and throw a ball around or swing a bat.

That’s where Baseball 101 came in last Saturday, as several dozen women spent three hours in the clubhouse and on the field, soaking up some baseball wisdom from Red Sox players, coaches, broadcasters and front office staff. Senior assistant gen-eral manager Allen Lawrence led the women on a tour of the

stadium, which opened as Sa-lem Memorial Baseball Park in 1995.

Radio Broadcaster Evan Lepler was up next, holding court in the lower level club-house as the Baseball 101 class heard stories about long bus

trips, major league players that came through Salem (Boston’s Daniel Nava was here last year – he hit a home run in his first major league at bat this season) and the odds of Salem making the playoffs this season.

Some asked Lepler questions that many men would have trouble answering – like what is the difference between slugging percentage and on base percent-age, or how do you tell a passed ball from a wild pitch? Like the pro that he is, Lepler laid it all out in easy to understand ter-minology.

Red Sox director of ticket-ing and special events Jeanne Boester said this was the third time in five years that the Sa-lem single-A ball club had tried Baseball 101, “to try and reach our women fan base. We do a lot of stuff for kids and men, but we’re trying to reach out to a dif-ferent audience. We thought this would be a good way to do it.”

For the past two years Base-ball 101 has been tied in with the Susan B. Komen for the Cure Foundation; the event last Saturday ended with lunch and a talk by two breast cancer sur-vivors. Participants also were given two tickets to a Red Sox game. “It’s a neat way of getting women involved,” said Boester.

Wanda Hendrick knew so little about professional baseball when attending her first game in 2009 that when everyone stood for the 7th inning stretch she thought it was time to leave. So she did. Now the diehard Red Sox fan drags her brother to games. She called her brother once, when he still lived in Ida-ho, to ask him, “what’s an RBI [run batted in?].”

Hendrick, an old pro now, called Baseball 101 “a good chance to get inside the stadi-um, to see things you normally don’t.” A year later Hendrick calls herself a tremendous fan. “I come to all the games and I know what RBI means . . . I also know not to leave in the 7th in-ning now.”

Red Sox hitting coach Carlos Febles seemed to be enjoying himself as he helped out with the program. “This is great for the fans. I did it last year. That’s how we get fans a little more in-volved with our franchise. We’re having fun with these ladies.”

In the outfield grass Salem Red Sox trainer Brandon Henry showed the women stretching techniques the players use be-fore games - twists, chops, etc. “We do [stretches] twice a day,” said pitcher Kyle Fernandes, who also displayed his trade-mark sense of humor. “I know this stuff is boring, but it’s my life,” he noted.

When some of the women dropped thrown balls during one exercise, Fernandes re-marked with tongue in cheek, that “ladies, this is a game of catch – not fetch.” For comic re-lief he even did the Hokie Pokie, shaking it all about for the Base-ball 101 Class of 2010.

“My husband would be proud,” said one woman as she deftly caught and threw a base-ball to her partner on the out-field grass at Lewis Gale Field.

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Wielding a $50 million dollar start-up budget and an intent to employ 50-100 people by year’s end, Virginia Tech Carilion Re-search Institute (VCTRI) Ex-ecutive Director Dr. Michael Friedlander has the ears of many in town. The new biomedical in-stitute, slated to open Sept. 1st., is adjacent to the Virgina Tech Carilion Medical School on South Jefferson St, which wel-comes its first class earlier this week.

On July 22 the NewVa Cor-ridor Technology Council (NCTC), a local trade group centered on the intersection of technology and business, hosted Friedlander at their monthly “Tech and Toast” breakfast meeting in Roanoke. Friedland-er spoke about the opportuni-ties for biomedical innovation that the institute could provide. He first put forth the question of “how to go about making a difference” by way of research. Making a difference, Friedland-er said, requires defining focus areas, identifying talent, provid-ing resources and forming part-nerships.

After giving a brief overview of the focused research areas planned for the VCTRI, (includ-ing the study of degenerative aging disorders, technological advances such as imaging and bioengineering that can be used in treatment), he honed in on one particular area of research that the institute will undertake as the main subject of his pre-sentation: cognitive functioning in the brain.

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epidemic”, he pointed out that brain traumas account for the bulk of ER visits and said there are between 1.5 million to 3 mil-lion traumatic brain injuries in the U.S. per year. Taking current events into account, he noted that a good number of wounds in recent military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have been “largely non-penetrating con-cussive” injuries that can directly affect brain function.

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Autism, icreasingly diagnosed in recent years, is a brain disor-der of social interactions. While FMRIs have been used in the past to observe the brain in iso-lation, they are now being used to analyze brain activity simul-taneously while people interact and undertake behavioral tasks. This allows researchers to un-derstand how activity traits in some parts of the brain such as the cingulate cortex may be re-lated to severity of autistic symp-toms.

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“They asked me to help them set up their Prison Pup pro-gram … where inmates at a me-dium-security prison in Bland County raise and train puppies for us [in the initial stages of training]. I have worked in a prison clinic in law school, so I had experience working with prison bureaucracy . . . I was very intrigued by the idea. Af-ter that was established, they asked if I would join the board. Then [one thing] kind of led to another.”

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The training process lasts two years, and usually begins when a dog is roughly eight weeks old. Some of the dogs receive training at a volunteer’s home, with Saint Francis providing the necessary instructions and equipment, and the volunteer trainer bringing the puppy to weekly classes.

Dogs can also receive train-ing in the aforementioned Prison Pup program in which inmates who are part of the “Honor Dorm” program raise dogs. “The men there have lots of time,” Youell says, “They’re able to really do a lot of work with these dogs to bring them along. Our dogs, overall, have

improved in quality since they’ve had the Prison Pup program.”

The program, Youell ob-serves, is mutually beneficial to the inmates and Saint Francis as it gives inmates, “something to do that’s worthwhile where they feel like they’re making a positive impact in the world.”

When the dog is 12-15 months old it begins working with a professional trainer. The training is normally completed by the time the dog is two and-a-half years old. The animal is then paired with a partner who has been on a waiting list and the two begin working to-gether.

“It’s quite a long procedure,” explains Youell, “[and] about half the dogs can’t do it. These dogs are ‘career changed,’ and placed at homes as pets.” Once the partner and dog have been matched, the partner recerti-fies the animal every two years. When the dog can no longer function as a service animal, it is allowed to remain with the partner as a pet, and a succes-sor dog is furnished.

Saint Francis mainly uses golden retrievers and Labra-dor retrievers as service dogs. These breeds, Youell says, “gen-erally have a very nice temper-ament—easy to teach. They are tall enough to be able to reach light switches and strong enough to be able to hold open commercial doors. They’re also perceived by most people as friendly. That’s important—we’re not trying to scare people away.”

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