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Amanda Underwood never failed a drug test.She never abused her children.And a child services report rated her home in the lowest category for risk of abuse and neglect.But in 2010, her parental rights were terminated after it was learned she didn’t take one of her children to a scheduled immunization.All her attempts to reverse the termination have so far failed.

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Editor’s note: This story involves three young children. Their names have been changed to protect their privacy.

RANSON — Amanda Underwood says Mary Carper and Andrew Brown never identified themselves when they appeared at the front door of her mobile home in Inwood on the afternoon of July 7, 2009, a Tuesday. But both, in their mid-20s and carry-ing clipboards, were social workers with the Berkeley County Bureau for Chil-dren and Families, the division of the Department of Health and Human Re-sources charged with providing child

protection services. Carper and Brown were there to see Underwood’s stepdaughter, Maria, they told her. The 21-year old mother replied that her husband – Travis Harrell, Maria's fa-ther – was not home, and she did not feel comfortable allowing the two strangers in to talk to the 7-year-old since she was not the child's legal guardian. She said her husband would return in an hour, and asked the two to come back then. Underwood said that Carper reacted angrily. “She said, 'Well, we'll call the police,'” said Underwood. “I said, 'Well, I'd rather

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CHARLES TOWN – With Panhandle youngsters wrapping up the school year weeks early, some worry that needy stu-dents who count on the school system for breakfast and lunch five days a week might spend weeks in early June hun-gry. That shouldn’t happen, says Rick Goff, executive director of the Office of Child Nutrition for the West Virginia Department of Education. “There’s no reason the summer food service programs can’t start early,” he said from his office in Charleston this week. “There shouldn’t be a lag. It ought to be a seamless transition for the schoolchildren.” With no snow days to make up this year, students in Jefferson County will have their final day of the 2011-12 school year just after the Memorial Day long weekend – on May 29. In Berkeley County, where the school year started earlier, students’ final day of the school year is set for May 22. Goff said the summer meal programs

BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff Judge Gina Marie Groh was appoint-ed to a seat on the West Virginia North-ern District Court by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, ending a six-year vacancy on the federal bench. “It an honor, and it is also very exciting now that it is sinking in and becoming a real-ity,” said Groh, a Charles Town resident, soon af-ter hearing of her nomination. “I think it is going to give me an opportunity to learn and grow and exercise my mind.” “I really appreciate it. I am honored by the President’s nomination, and I am so appreciative and honored that Sen. (Jay) Rockefeller had the confidence to rec-ommend me and that Sen. (Joe) Man-

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cutor representing the DHHR, vol-unteered to return custody of Cara and Chris to Underwood as long as she agreed to submit to random drug testing and cooperate with the investigation. Harrell, who had failed a drug test earlier that month, would also have to move out of the home. Underwood and Harrell agreed to the terms of the 'safety plan,' and Yoder ordered the children re-turned to Underwood's custody. But the court order returning custody to Underwood was never filed, the first of three such orders given orally by Yoder that were never filed in this case. In Berkeley County abuse and neglect cases, court orders are usu-ally prepared by a court-appointed attorney called a guardian ad litem, who is charged with representing the best interests of the children in court proceedings. Shepherdstown attorney Tracy Weese was the appointed guardian ad litem for Cara, Chris and Ma-ria. Yoder would later find that Un-derwood’s case had been “ham-pered” by Weese's failure to pre-pare court orders because it created “confusion” in the handling of the case.

'She had no right'

Her children returned to her, Underwood took Chris and Cara home, and Harrell moved out. She lived at home with her children for seven more days. Then on July 27, she got a call from Carper. “She told me that if I didn't bring them to her she was going to call the state cops, and I was going to be charged with kidnapping,” Un-derwood said. Under threat of criminal charg-es, Underwood said she took Cara and Chris to the Berkeley Coun-ty DHHR office, although she couldn't understand how she could be charged with kidnapping. Carp-er took the children back into cus-tody. Two years later, on May 3, 2011, Yoder would issue a finding de-claring that the department violat-ed Underwood's 14th Amendment right to due process when it seized the children a second time, since it had no court order to do so and had never scheduled a preliminary hearing for the court to ratify the seizure of the children. Yoder also noted that there had never been a finding that the chil-dren were in imminent danger – the standard required by law for an emergency taking – while in Un-derwood's care. When the West Virginia Su-preme Court of Appeals later de-nied an appeal by Underwood, the justices brushed off Yoder's finding

of due process violations, saying that “all parties continued to oper-ate as if the DHHR had retained le-gal custody” and therefore it was “clear from her continued partici-pation in these proceedings that (Underwood) waived any alleged due process violation.” “I didn't know she had no right to take my kids,” Underwood said. “When a government offi-cial comes to you and tells you this stuff, you just kind of believe them.” Numerous efforts to reach Carp-er for comment on the case were unsuccessful. When Underwood showed up for her next court appearance on

Sept. 30, 2009, she had not seen her children since they were taken more than a month earlier. The department offered her a deal: if she agreed to plead guilty to medical neglect of her children, officials would grant her an “im-provement period.” The deal out-lined a series of steps she would have to take before she could re-

gain custody of her children. It would also mean that she would get some visitation with Cara and Chris. “I didn't think I would get them back if I didn't plead guilty,” Un-derwood said. “I pled guilty to medical neglect, but I made sure that everybody understood that I didn't think I was neglecting my children.” After Underwood pleaded guilty she was granted the im-provement period along with visitation at the department's discretion. Carper never allowed her to see her children for more than one hour per week, she said.

'They called me unstable'

Underwood quickly found her-self in an impossible world of mu-tually exclusive demands. Her improvement period called for her to find and keep a job, but she was also required to call in ev-ery morning to find out wheth-

er she would have to take a random drug test, which would make her three or more hours late for work. She said she regularly had to drug test between three and five times per week. Shelly Nicewarner, the social services coordina-tor for Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan counties, said department officials are not able to comment on any particular case because they are legally bound to protect the privacy of both children and parents. However, she did agree to answer general questions about department policy. Nicewarner said the DHHR works with parents to accommodate schedule conflicts. “If you really are work-ing these hours, then we're going to make alternate ar-rangements. We're certainly not going to put a person in a position to where they will lose employment because we are forcing them to do something,” said Nicewar-ner. Nicewarner said the de-partment would not put people in a position that would set them up for fail-ure. “Why would we attempt to help someone but then

make it impossible for them to be able to be successful?” she said. Underwood said that is exactly what happened. “I had to call in every day, and then – if it was a drug screening day – I would have to call work and say, 'Hey, I can't come in today. I have to go get a drug screen.'” Underwood got a night job at a gas station so she would be able to take drug tests during the day. However, she first had to complete two weeks of training during day-time hours. “I called Mary Carper and said, 'Look. Two weeks training. I have to work seven in the morning until three in the afternoon. I have to do

it.' And she said, 'I don't know what to tell you. You have to be at these drug screens.' So I went to the drug screens, and I lost my job,” Under-wood said. Soon after losing that job, she se-cured another one doing construc-tion cleanup. She lost that job also because of drug testing conflicts, she said. “When that happened, they called me 'unstable.' They said I couldn't keep a job,” she said. Underwood’s inability to keep a job, along with a consequent loss of housing, would figure promi-nently in the decision to terminate her parental rights. Nicewarner said it is difficult to believe that it would be impos-sible to complete an improvement period because case plans are cre-ated at a meeting between parents, their lawyers, DHHR officials and prosecutors. The group is called a 'Multi-Disciplinary Taskforce,' or MDT. “All improvement periods are agreed upon by a consensus of ev-

eryone. So it's not like I can come to a parent or an MDT and say, 'This is what you have to do.' Be-cause, if I'm telling you that, you have an attorney sitting right be-side of you who is going to dis-agree with it and say to the MDT, 'This is impossible. Can we make other arrangements?'” But Underwood said she was never brought to her initial MDT meeting where the terms of her plan were drawn up. She said the first time she heard about her im-provement period was when she came into court and agreed to plead guilty.

Home study

Unable to pay the rent on the three-bedroom trailer she was now living alone in, Underwood went back home to live with her mother and stepfather in Berkeley Springs. She said her children were close with her parents – the family had lived with them for a time – and she hoped living there would satis-fy the department's demand for sta-bility. It did not. At a hearing on Feb. 18, 2010, Carper testified that Underwood did not “have an appropriate home for her children to come home to.” She said “an unknown caller” had stated that there was “drug use go-ing on in the home.” Underwood's lawyer, Nancy Dalby, objected, saying she wor-ried that the case was “snowball-ing” out of control based on “hear-say.” That was “just not due process,” she said. Carper promised a home study would be completed at Under-wood’s request. A home study is an extensive in-vestigation process during which department officials determine whether a home is suitable for chil-dren. Underwood requested a home study, and Yoder granted it. But the court order was never filed, nor was an earlier order is-sued by Yoder on Nov. 16, 2009 releasing Underwood from a drug screen requirement. The home study was first sched-uled to take place on March 30, 2010, but Carper called to cancel, citing illness and promising to re-schedule. Underwood's mother,

Lori Underwood, kept a log of all the phone calls she made to Carper and her supervisor, Justin Castleman, seeking to re-schedule the home study. Her log shows she left eight messages for Carp-er and spoke with Castle-man three times between March 31 and April 14. By April 22, Under-wood's mother had still not heard back on the home study. In frustration, she wrote a letter of com-plaint to the department. “I don't understand why Ms. Carper will not re-spond to any of my mes-sages,” wrote Under-wood's mother. “This has caused me and my husband more emotion-al stress and I think this is very cruel. Ms. Carper got our hopes up and then just ignores us.” Carper finally called back after Underwood's mother had written the letter of complaint. “The very next time I spoke with her, it was like she held a grudge against me. This is only the sec-ond time I've talked to this woman, and her attitude had done a (180-degree turn). She despised me,” Underwood’s mother said. “The very last words she said to me were: I'm

going to set up this home study, but I'm going to make sure these chil-dren are not placed with you.” But Carper never did the home study, which Underwood believes could have helped the court de-termine whether she could regain custody of her children while liv-ing with her family. Unemployed, convinced the de-partment would never return her children while she was staying with her parents and unable to qualify for many state aid programs with-out custody of her children, Un-derwood moved to La Jose, Penn., where she was able to stay with a family for $50 monthly rent. She contacted local Children and Youth Services to set up a walk-through on the new home, hoping that the Berkeley County DHHR would find it a suitable alternative to her parents' home. She signed up for parenting classes at a Method-ist church, began seeking out men-

Underwood has been fighting to regain her children since they were taken by Child Protective Ser-vices in 2009. So far her numerous legal challenges have all failed.

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you do that then.' And I shut the door.” Carper called a State Trooper, and told the officer she and Brown thought they could smell marijua-na when they came to the door – though no drugs were ever found in the home, and Underwood, who was alone in the house with three children, subsequently passed a drug screen. After Carper and Brown entered the home with the officer, Under-wood and the rest of the family were compliant, according to a re-port prepared by Brown. Carper and Brown informed Un-derwood that they were looking into allegations that her children had been abused and neglected.

'Unsubstantiated'

The social workers had come to investigate claims made in an anon-ymous phone call placed to the de-partment earlier that day, alleging Underwood and Harrell were abus-ing Maria and their other two chil-dren, Cara, 2, and Chris, 9 months. The caller said Maria was forced to do inappropriate chores and to care for her younger siblings, that Underwood refused to feed her and that she had bruises on her legs. The caller said Cara had been dragged across the yard and 'smacked' hard during a temper tantrum and that neither Cara nor Chris had diapers. The allegations were found to be 'unsubstantiated,' according to the report prepared by Brown. The report said both Chris and Cara appeared to be happy chil-dren. Asked about her relationship with Underwood, Maria replied, “Mandy is nice to me,” and stated that she had never been hit by either of her parents. The report stated that Underwood “appeared to be a good mother” when the workers had ob-served her. “(Maria) reported that no one was ever mean to her at her father's home,” according to the report, which indicated the risk of abuse or neglect in the home was 'minimal to low,' the lowest category of risk in the department's rating system. But the report also contained an-other detail — Chris was overdue for his immunizations.

A missed appointment When Brown contacted the fam-ily doctor, Chris's medical records showed that he was behind sched-ule on two rounds of immuniza-tions. Underwood said she had acci-dentally missed Chris's appoint-ment several weeks earlier, and her doctor refused to see her children again until she made payment for the missed appointment. Under-wood relied on Medicaid for her children's medical care, but Med-icaid would not pay for the missed appointment. Underwood said she was sav-ing up to pay the bill and planned to bring Chris up to date on his im-munizations once she had saved enough money. On July 10, three days after Carper and Brown had first come to Underwood's door, DHHR offi-cials were back. This time, it was to take Maria, Cara and Chris into de-partment custody. Underwood remembers the scene. “(All three children were) pulling my shirt, clinging to me, screaming and crying how they didn't want to leave,” Underwood said. “They just kept dragging them away from me like it wasn't nothing – just another job for them.” That same day, 23rd Judicial Cir-cuit Judge John Yoder entered an order granting temporary custody of the children to the DHHR. The order stated that, based on the con-tents of an abuse and neglect peti-tion filed by the department, the “physical well-being” of the chil-dren was in imminent danger, that “all reasonable efforts (had) been made to keep the children in the home,” and that there was no “rea-sonably available alternative” other than taking the children into custo-dy. Curiously, the abuse and neglect petition upon which the court based its findings was not filed until July 15 – five days after the children had been taken into custody. A previous abuse and neglect petition had been filed against Harrell and Maria's bi-ological mother, but it did not con-tain any allegations about Under-wood. Yoder said he was unable to com-ment on the case since it involves minors. Ten days after the children were taken, on July 20, Underwood ar-rived in court for a preliminary hearing. Both she and Harrell took and passed a drug test. Kimberley Crockett, the prose-

Retaliation In July 2011, Underwood filed a federal lawsuit against Carper, along with a number of other child protection workers and officials. The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that Carper pushed hard to remove the children in retaliation for the mother asserting her Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. Brown’s report makes special note of Underwood’s unwillingness to let DHHR workers into her home without a warrant or to seize her children without a court order. “Ms. Underwood was not cooperative with the worker Mary Carper on our initial visit to the home,” noted Brown in his report. “Ms. Underwood was defiant with Ms. Carper when she was notified that the children would have to be removed from the home.” Wexler argues that retaliation is enabled by a system that wields considerable power without being subject to public scrutiny. “This mother did something that parents almost never do: stood up to the worker,” Wex-ler said, adding it is worth speculating “whether this all spiraled out of control simply be-cause the mom did not bow and scrape before the caseworker.” “Workers … have the power of God,” said Wexler. “Rarely is the power of God accom-panied by the wisdom of Solomon.” “The situation you’ve got here is a system where DHHR has nearly absolute power and operates in nearly absolute secrecy. Any system that operates that way is going to breed extraordinary arrogance,” Wexler said. “Workers too often go in with an ‘I am the law’ at-titude, and if you defy them, you wind up in the position this mother is in.”

Reasonable efforts? Check. Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, an Alexandria-based nonprofit that ad-vocates for Child Protective Services reform on a national level, explained the necessity for the judicial finding that ‘reasonable ef-forts’ have been made to avoid child removal. Without such a find-ing, Wexler notes, the state cannot receive federal dollars to sub-sidize foster care for the child being taken into custody. “Before a judge will approve of taking away a child, the judge has to make certain findings, including the finding that reasonable ef-forts have been made to try to avoid taking this child away,” Wex-ler said. “Now, what happens is, instead of a customized hearing to actually look into the matter, it becomes a box you check off on a form.” Wexler said Underwood’s case highlights how that requirement is undermined. “What is so striking about this case is that they checked the box that said, ‘The petition shows us that reasonable efforts have been made,’ before they had even seen the petition. That tells you how pro forma it has become to simply rubberstamp requests to re-move a child. They simply checked off the ‘reasonable efforts’ box, when obviously they had made no inquiry into whether reasonable efforts had been made because they hadn’t even seen the peti-tion,” Wexler said. He said there was one obvious ‘reasonable effort’ that could have been made to alleviate the condition of neglect – namely, that Chris was behind on his immunizations. “For goodness sake. If a child is behind on immunization shots, send a doctor to the home and give the child the shots instead of tormenting the children with years of foster care and then tearing them from their mother forever,” Wexler said. Underwood says she would have gladly gotten Chris immunized if the financial barrier had been resolved. “If they would have said, ‘Look, we’ll help you pay the doctor bill,’ I would have went,” she said. “It’s not like I didn’t want to go.”

Set up to fail Wexler said that ‘setting up fami-lies to fail’ through onerous improve-ment plans is a common practice in many places throughout the nation. “(They) simply set up so many hoops to jump through that some-times conflict in terms of their re-quirements … that it is virtually im-possible to meet the demands. And then they go to court and say, ‘Well, the family had this case plan, and they didn’t meet it. So we can ter-minate parental rights now,’” Wexler said. “The classic example is: you must get and hold a job; and you must vis-it your child regularly; but the visit-ing can only be done during working hours,” Wexler said. “There is supposed to be a case plan custom tailored to whatever the family’s actual problem is, but over and over again what you see are cookie-cutter plans. Every plan will include counseling and parent educ-tion and drug testing – regardless if there is any indication, much less something substantiated, to show that there is a drug problem,” Wex-ler said. “There is a serious question (in a case where there is no docu-mented drug abuse) whether there should be any drug testing at all.” “There is also no reason why the drug testing has to be done during working hours, except for agency convenience or to make it harder for the parent.”

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tal health services and signed up for cash assistance and food stamps, all in the hope of satis-fying the conditions of her im-provement period, she said. However moving to Pennsyl-vania also meant she was un-able to visit her children regu-larly, and Underwood missed a number of scheduled visitations that summer and fall. The DHHR moved to ter-minate Underwood's parental rights.

Day in court

Hearings began on May 13, 2010, and went on, at intervals, until Aug. 31. On Nov. 12, Yo-der entered an order terminating Underwood's parental rights. Yoder's order focuses on por-tions of Underwood's improve-ment plan that she had failed to fully complete. He said she had “failed to ob-tain and maintain stable hous-ing,” had missed visits with her children while living in Penn-sylvania, and had not fully com-pleted a parent education pro-gram. “This court seriously ques-tions whether Ms. Underwood can adequately parent these two small children given both her inability to follow through with the terms of her improvement period and her inability to pro-vide for herself,” Yoder wrote. However, Yoder's initial or-der also contained several fac-tual errors that he later took no-tice of in a second order fol-lowing a motion to reconsider filed by Underwood on Jan. 14, 2011. The DHHR — and Yoder's original decision — stated that she failed to take a court or-dered hair follicle drug test on Sept. 30, 2009. However, Un-derwood had taken the drug test and passed it. She said Carp-er, her caseworker, personally drove her to the test and then later denied that she took it. Yoder found that the DHHR's statement was untrue and even went so far as to formally find

that “the mother did not use il-legal drugs.” “The Court does not have suf-ficient evidence before it to de-termine if this error was an in-tentional misstatement or an un-intentional mistake by DHHR's counsel. However, the Court finds that the misstatement was not harmless in that it represents the tone of this proceeding and the lack of trust that increasing-ly developed between the par-ties, which this Court believes ultimately poisoned the Moth-er's efforts to have her chil-dren returned to her,” the order states. Yoder found that the second

taking of the children – alleg-edly under threat of kidnap-ping charges – had violated Underwood's right to due pro-cess. Yoder found that the case was “hampered” by Weese's failure to draft three separate court or-ders, and noted that it created “confusion” in the case. Yod-er also found that Underwood's progress in her improvement period had been hampered by Carper's failure to return her phone calls.

Per capita, West Virginia re-moved more children from their parents' homes than any state in the nation in 2010 and took chil-dren at a rate more than double the national average, according to data compiled by the Nation-al Coalition for Child Protection Reform based on U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Ser-vices. When comparing the total number of children taken into custody with the total number of children living in poverty – the best predictor of removal – West Virginia ranks ninth, but still re-moved children at a rate almost double the national average. In 2010, West Virginia had the third highest number of children per capita placed in foster care, according to the same report. Richard Wexler, executive di-rector of the NCCPR, argues that the structure of federal grants for state child protection agencies can create an incentive for agen-cies to lean toward child remov-al rather than providing in-home services to families. “Safe, proven alternatives to foster care typically cost less in total dollars. But there can be times where it might cost the state less to use foster care because of

the way federal aid is structured,” Wexler said. This, he explained, can cre-ate a financial incentive to re-move children from low-income households rather than providing in-home services and leaving the children in place. “The federal government will reimburse (the state for foster care services) for any case where the family is poor enough,” Wex-ler said, noting that funding is only available for children from low-income families. “That reim-bursement is for foster care and only foster care. That money can-not be used for anything else, and it is an open-ended entitlement. For every child you take away, the federal government will pick up a part of the tab.” “If you try to avoid foster care, there is no open-ended entitle-ment from the federal govern-ment.” Such financial incentives are not limited to the DHHR. A re-cent state Supreme Court case revealed a practice in West Vir-ginia's family courts whereby guardians ad litem – attorneys ap-pointed by the court to represent a child's best interests, often in abuse and neglect or divorce pro-ceedings – can stand to gain fi-

nancially if the children they rep-resent are adopted. In 2010, the court reviewed a case called “In Re Lawrence A.” involving a Jefferson Coun-ty woman whose parental rights Judge John Yoder had declined to terminate. The DHHR and Tra-cy Weese – who was the guard-ian ad litem in both the Lawrence A. case and Underwood's case – sought a writ of prohibition to force Yoder to terminate the woman's rights, which the high court granted. In her brief to the Supreme Court, Weese admitted partici-pation in what she called “a long standing practice in the Twen-ty-third Judicial Circuit wherein guardians ad litem occasionally participated in adoption proceed-ings for their ward(s).” She further states that she “did discover that this is a practice that was not exclusive to the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit.” David Barnette, a Charles-ton attorney and member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, calls acting as a guard-ian ad litem and an adoption at-torney for the same child a “clear conflict of interest.” Barnette explained that a guardian ad litem's responsibility

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Yoder found that the DHHR had failed to produce several pieces of evidence that might have helped her case, including a report from a substance abuse evaluation that the DHHR said Underwood never took. Nonetheless, Yoder reaf-firmed his decision to terminate her parental rights, though “re-luctantly.” Underwood appealed the de-cision to the state Supreme Court. The court refused to hear oral arguments in the case, issuing a brief 'memorandum decision' in which it dismissed the viola-tions of due process, saying that

Yoder had not returned legal custody to Underwood, though he had ruled that he did. The court also reasserted the claim that Underwood had “failed to complete required substance abuse and psychological eval-uations,” though a report from Eastridge Health Systems dated Oct. 10. 2009 – the one Yod-er noted the DHHR had failed to provide during discovery – shows she did. Underwood filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking

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Underwood gave birth to another daughter in 2011. Her experience has left her with the persistent fear that she will be taken “for no reason.”

A losing battle Appeals on cases involving termination of parental rights have a very low success rate at the West Virgnina Supreme Court. Since the beginning of 2011, the court has reviewed 154 cases involving termination of paren-tal rights. It agreed to hear oral arguments in only four of those cases. In two of the cases in which the justices heard oral ar-guments, the Supreme Court reversed circuit court rul-ings and terminated parental rights. In a third, the court reinstated parental rights subject to further review by the circuit court, because the judge had not sought out the child’s opinion on the termination. In the final case, the Supreme Court overruled a Min-go County judge who had terminated the parental rights of a father – who had only learned he was the child’s fa-ther through a DNA test done after abuse proceedings had begun – even though there had never been any al-legations that he had abused or neglected his children. In the remaining 150 cases, the court issued brief rul-ings called ‘Memorandum Decisions.’ Oral arguments are not heard in these cases. The decisions are typically only two to five pages long and usually devote only one to three paragraphs to the facts of the case. Much of the text in the decisions is identical from case to case. The decision in Underwood’s 2011 Supreme Court ap-peal was one of these 150 memorandum decisions.

to force the state to prove it had the legal right to keep the chil-dren in its custody since they had been taken in violation of the 14th Amendment. The State Supreme Court de-nied the petition summarily, without any explanation for its decision. In July 2011, Underwood filed a federal lawsuit against the DHHR, Carper, Castleman, Nicewarner and several other department officials. The com-plaint alleges that they violat-ed her Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and the West Virginia Constitution. It also al-leges that the actions in her case are part of an ongoing pattern of similar abuses. The DHHR filed a motion to dismiss the case in December, arguing that federal courts do not have jurisdiction over the case. The court has yet to rule on the motion. A trial is set to be held in December, 2012, more than 3 1/2 years after the chil-dren were first taken into cus-tody.

Fear

After her parental rights were terminated, Underwood reunit-ed with her husband and moved to Ranson. She and Harrell say the ordeal has left them in last-ing pain and turmoil. “It's been hell... We were a really happy family. We didn't have much money, but we were happy,” Underwood said. “We have pictures of them everywhere, and it's hard,” Un-derwood said. “I can't sleep at night. Ever since this happened I have been on medication to sleep. I have to take sleeping pills at night because, if I don't, when I lay down in bed all I think about is my kids and how I don't get to see their faces.” “They pretty much just came in and screwed up things," Har-rell said. "Everything was fine with our family and then they come in and she's got all these problems and they tell her to go see the doctor. She wasn't tak-ing drugs, but now they're pre-scribing her drugs to deal with the problems that they have caused."

Underwood gave birth to a daughter, Ameliyah, on March 14, 2011. Because her parental rights to Cara and Chris had been ter-minated, a case was automati-cally opened with DHHR. She says her previous experience with the department has left her fearful and distrustful. “We don't trust anybody,” she said. “We are so scared that they are just going to take her for no reason. Anybody who doesn't like you can call in on you. They will start a case on you for no reason, just some al-legations with nothing behind them.” Underwood and Harrell said they suspect the original anon-ymous phone call placed to DHHR was an act of retaliation. So far, said Harrell, Jeffer-son County DHHR officials have been fairer and more help-ful than those they dealt with in their previous case. “We've been dealing with the

DHHR here in Jefferson Coun-ty, and it has been the complete opposite of how it was going on in Berkeley County,” Har-rell said. Underwood said they had been made a part of the MDT process and have had an active hand in producing their safety plan. “We got to be a part of it this time,” Underwood said. “It does (make a big difference) because, if we can't make an appointment or if (Harrell) has to work or something, we can let them know that right there that it will be a problem.” Underwood said she is look-ing forward to the federal court case. She said she would not be willing to accept a settlement. She wants a trial. “We were wronged. This stuff should have never hap-pened,” Underwood said. “How do you replace the three years you've lost of your kids lives? You can't. These are my kids. These are my life.”

is to advise the court on a child's best interests. If a guardian ad litem also has a “pecuniary inter-est” in the eventual adoption of a child – in the form of legal fees for representing the adoptive parents – there would be a clear conflict with this core responsibility. He added that there would be no party capa-ble of waiving the conflict of inter-est because the interested party is a child. Rebutting what she called a “cri-tique” leveled against her by Yod-er, Weese pointed out that he “did not … remove (her) from serv-ing in this or any other case based upon the 'appearance of impropri-

ety' or an alleged motivation for pecuniary gain.” In 2010, the West Virginia State Bar issued an advisory eth-ics opinion finding that this prac-tice created a conflict of interest. Weese describes its conclusions in her brief. “Essentially the Bar stated it was a conflict to file adoption petitions for pre-adoptive parents when you served as the minor's guardian ad litem.” After receiving the Bar's ruling, Weese wrote that she “immediate-ly stopped participating in adop-tions under those circumstances.” Weese also served as the guard-

ian ad litem for Underwood's children, though no determi-nation could be made about whether she participated in adoption proceedings for them. Adoption records are general-ly sealed, making it impossible to examine the extent to which guardians ad litem in West Vir-ginia continue to participate in adoption proceedings. Wexler said he was shocked to hear of such a practice. “Whoa. That's a new one for me,” Wexler said. “Let me get this straight. The guardian ad litem – who, of course, rec-ommends to the judge to ter-minate parental rights – is also the lawyer for the adopted par-ents?” “I would argue that some-body whose job is to be a law guardian shouldn't be an adop-tion (attorney). Those two jobs should be mutually ex-clusive. Period. Any involve-ment in pushing or promoting one form of permanence or another is in conflict with the job of a law guardian, which is to look out for what is in the best interests of that particular child. Of course, it is infinite-ly worse if this law guardian was involved in getting these particular children adopted,” Wexler said.

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they rely upon a single given standard: the best interests of the child. It’s difficult to imagine, how-ever, that this standard was given full consideration in the case of Amanda Underwood, whose ex-cruciating ordeal at the hands of the Berkeley County Department of Health and Human Resourc-es Office of Child Protective Services, is told in detail in this week’s Spirit by reporter Bryan Clark. It will fall to a federal court to determine the merits of Under-wood’s petition to have her pa-rental rights restored. There re-mains, however, enough evi-dence to strongly suggest that she was deeply ill-served by the CPS office as a result of its failure on numerous instances to perform as responsibly as it should have. Indeed, allegations that CPS case workers obtained the remov-al of Underwood’s children from her home absent any order from the court allowing it and absent any hearing ratifying it; that CPS failed to provide evidence during discovery that would have shown that Underwood completed drug and psychological evaluations, resulting in a ruling against her; that an abuse and neglect peti-tion to terminate her parental rights that asserted a reasonable effort had been made to prevent the children’s seizure would not be filed until five days after the ruling to terminate, are all deeply troubling. In fact there is compelling ev-idence, based on 23rd Circuit Judge John Yoder’s ruling, that CPS was complicit in fostering a climate of mistrust that ulti-mately sabotaged Underwood’s efforts to satisfy the court’s re-quirements and secure custody of her children. The mother even asserts in a complaint before fed-eral court that one of the social workers assigned to her case initiated a campaign of retalia-tion against Underwood for her having the temerity to stand up to the case worker when CPS first appeared at her front door in 2009. What is mind-boggling is that there was no evidence of abuse or neglect, or drug use, except in allegations contained in a num-ber of anonymous — and ulti-mately unsubstantiated — phone calls made to CPS in 2009, but with respect to the one detail upon which CPS began to build its case against Underwood — that she had missed two sched-uled vaccinations for one of her children — CPS neglected, for its part, to seek or offer assis-tance, resorting instead to the ex-treme action of seizing her chil-dren from her home. How can this be argued to have been in the children’s best inter-est? Can the DHHR reasonably de-fend its own case workers threat-ening Underwood with kidnap-ping when their own forced sei-zure of the children by these same case workers — absent any order from the court allowing it, absent any hearing ratifying it— appears to be nothing other than a kidnapping itself? Indeed, 23rd Circuit Judge John Yoder him-self ruled that the removal of these children constituted a clear violation of Underwood’s due process rights. And can DHHR seriously in-vestigate an allegation that Un-derwood’s husband Travis Har-rell once physically dragged one of her children across a yard — never proven — when the re-moval of all three of the children from their mother’s custody re-quired just such an application of

Abuse and neglect — by whom?brute force against the children by these case workers? And what of the account-ability of others involved in the case? Why were court or-ders that would have returned custody to Underwood never filed? Why was an order releas-ing her from the requirements of drug screening never filed? Why was an order approved by Yoder for a home study never filed? Why was the home study never completed? There is a tremendous need to improve this state’s family law system. If DHHR wants to take its role seriously, per-haps it should start with its al-lowance of anonymous com-plaints. West Virginia family law courts, unlike those in some other jurisdictions, are closed to outside review, ostensibly to protect the rights of families. This is, of course, nonsense, and in the case of Underwood, this veil of secrecy has oper-ated instead to ensure that the injuriousness by its courts and its courts’ officers entertain no scrutiny. If West Virginia insists, how-ever, on maintaining such se-crecy, what harm does it do to require those who make accu-sations against others to submit to confidentiality agreements with DHHR, so their own mo-tivations can likewise be re-viewed? What does it say about a ju-dicial system that authorizes more seizures of children per capita than any other state in the nation and then tolerates boilerplate memorandums from its Supreme Court of Appeals such that it is unclear wheth-er the high court’s justices had even seriously reviewed the cases before them at all? What does it say about a ju-dicial system that couldn’t duly recognize the ethical conflict in allowing court-appointed guardians ad litem to moon-light as adoption attorneys, hence allowing them to profit from the very outcome they ar-gued before a court to obtain? One is forced to wonder how widespread such a practice re-mains despite a 2010 opinion barring it by the Public Defend-er Corporation, as well as ad-visory opinions by both Berke-ley County Prosecutor Pame-la Games-Neely and the state Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel. The state’s reliance upon federal money for its foster care program is equally dis-turbing. Had Underwood been lawyered up from the start, rather than attempting on her own to navigate the labyrin-thine requirements of the court, it is unlikely that the “perverse incentive” that fuels the remov-al of children would have been employed. Underwood’s big-gest crime, it seems, was being poor. We’ll finish where we start-ed — with the standard of the best interests of the child. We see nothing to conclude that Underwood’s shortcom-ings as a parent were in any way equal to the response of the family law system against her. Indeed, she appears to have operated in good faith to make every effort to meet the court’s requirements to demon-strate herself a fit parent. The greatest harm done to this fam-ily, and to her children, appears to have been committed at the hands of the Berkeley County’s Office of Child Protective Ser-vices, which failed miserably in its efforts to be thorough and responsible.

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the railroad crossing, which would further contribute to the safety risk to children as they walk to or from the library or participate in outdoor library activities. Also, passing trains, possi-bly 30 a day, would be a major disruption to quiet reading in the proposed reading garden and to business or civic meet-ings within the building itself. Train noise would make it dif-ficult to host outdoor plays or theater presentations by or for children. If one reviews the more than 115 survey respons-es and drawings by Shepherd-stown students about what they would like in a new li-brary, one sees that children requested this outdoor feature

why. During the past year, I have walked the entire brownfield site twice and find it to be a nicely wooded lot that sits at the top of a slight grade and allows for a favorable presentation of a new building. In contrast, the alterna-tive site sits low and is devoid of trees and the gen-eral beauty of na-ture. To me, the alternative site seems more suit-able for a commercial enterprise. Furthermore, the State of West Virginia Division of Environ-mental Protection has studied the brownfield property twice, tak-ing core samples and has deter-mined that the property can be cleaned as necessary to comply with residual standards. The Board of Trustees has dis-

cussed pedestrian safety at both locations. Improvements in safe-ty for children and adults cross-ing W.Va 480 to the brownfield location will be sought through the Department of Transporta-tion when construction is under way. The alternative site prop-

erty and build-ing sit directly on Washington Street, posing a greater risk to

pedestrians. In contrast, a new li-brary building on the brownfield site will sit back from the road, allowing for greater safety than could be achieved by the mini-mal strip of ground in front of the alternative site building. A more worrisome aspect, I be-lieve, is that the Southern States building also sits immediately adjacent to railroad tracks and

There’s no going back on brownfield location

tions on a project. To accept that energy must be redirected is difficult, but accepting the responsibility for the decisions made includes recognizing that there might be another path that would lead to a greater success. This is why the library board should consider reversing their decision to not pursue due dil-igence on the Southern States property. The most fair and compre-hensive response to the offer is to take the time to exhaust all options and then determine the

viable, and perhaps a much bet-ter location for the future of the Shepherdstown Public Library that could create its own vision. The owners of the Southern States property have made a generous offer to the library board of trustees. This should in no way diminish the previous efforts of the library di-rector, board or committees. They have put forth a monumental amount of work and dedication to ensure the expansion and the fu-ture of the library. It does, however, challenge

them to openly assess another opportunity and determine, with the input of the community they

serve, what is the most respon-sible and rea-sonable choice to make for the

future expansion of the library. The work so far has been use-ful even if the library is in a dif-ferent location. Months of focus group meetings and a written survey produced valuable infor-mation about the community’s li-brary needs and those results can still be part of the final project. It is difficult to change direc-

Alternative site deserves a thorough look

Meredith Wait

Jane Blash

I am in complete agreement with the Shepherdstown Li-brary board of trustee’s deci-sion to choose the brownfield site in the southwestern area of Shepherdstown as the site for our new library. I have attended about 24 meetings of the Library Project Steering Committee and com-munity focus groups and have been aware that the library board had previously consid-ered the Southern States prop-erty and existing building as a possible alternative site for our new library. I believed then and I continue to believe now that this alternative site is not an appropriate site for a library. The brownfield site, I believe, is by far the better location for the new library compared to the alternative property. Here’s

It has been at least 15 years of effort to find a new home for the Shepherdstown Public Li-brary. At least two library directors and many board members have left no stone unturned in their admirable efforts. After they exhausted all town locations, Mayor Jim Auxer volunteered the old town dump located outside of town as a potential building site. Thus was born a vision by a dedicated group. There can be no fault found in that, it was the only option available at the time. But now there is an equally

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best course of action. The li-brary board must weigh all aspects of the two sites — lo-cation, costs, impact to the community socially as well as economically, safety. Within all of these lies the answer to where the best future site of the library will be. Until these comparisons are com-piled and examined the proj-ect might possibly stall and perhaps ultimately fail. This would be so unfortunate after so much heart and soul has been put into the project. The Shepherdstown com-munity needs to weigh in again on this very important issue. The Shepherdstown Public Library board needs to hear from the constituency it represents and to help these very dedicated folks hear the community’s wishes. The Southern States prop-

in their written thoughts and drawings. The main point in regard to location is that the brown-field property is within easy walking distance of both Shepherdstown elementary and middle schools. While a recent editorial in the Spirit of Jefferson argues that the alternative property provides an “opportunity” to keep the library downtown, I wonder if the use of the word “opportunity” refers more to the benefit of down-town merchants and their customers and less so to the benefit of library patrons. In answering the library proj-ect community survey last year, library patrons repeat-edly said that access to park-ing for our current library is

Although neither of my parents graduated from college, I knew from an early age that I would. So, in addition to keeping my grades up, I started sock-ing away my babysi t t ing money to pay for tuition. Since we lived in a college town it was also un-derstood that it made no sense to go off somewhere and live in a dorm, no matter how I longed to be out from under my parent’s eagle eye, not when I had a perfectly good bedroom at home and food on the table. So far, I see nothing snob-bish about the path I took to higher education, contrary to what GOP presidential can-didate Rick Santorum yam-mered about during his cam-paign. In fact, lawmakers could take a page from my book as I paid every dime of my tuition on my own, no loans. Of course the hours I spent working, sometimes two jobs, took time away from studying. Fortunately no prospective employer ever asked to see my grade tran-script. I wouldn’t be able to take that route today, however, not the way tuition has sky-rocketed. My niece has been out of school 10 years and still paying off student loans. OK, I admit to having had flashes of badmouthing high-er education here and there myself, but it’s not because I want to somehow whip up voters, although who exact-ly was Santorum trying to at-tract? Sometimes my disdain was because I was jealous of those who had the means to spend a semester abroad, or when one boyfriend after the other decided to run off and go to grad school, leaving me in the dust. Having spent a lifetime in the news business, I encountered a number of reporters with mas-ter’s degrees who had no clue what made a good story and ad-mittedly I didn’t mind poking fun at them. They would have been better served working the night side cop beat for a real education. Assumptions and perceptions about people, whether from pol-iticians or the rest of us, some-times can take little twists. I come from a family of five children and our father made his living building houses, and not in a big developer, big money way. When our high school guidance coun-selor told my older brother that, given those facts, may-be he should consider a trade school, my father was furious at the putdown— even though he was proud of the way he could work with his hands—and long remembered it. On the day my brother graduated from college, Dad wanted to call up the counselor just to let him know. Not everyone wants to go off to the ivy-covered halls of learning and the world is ripe with examples of success without sheepskin. First to come to mind is col-lege dropout Steve Jobs. My first editor had only a high school diploma and to this day I remember how smart and talented he was. One of my best friends had a year at a community college and is pulling down an enviable sal-ary based on her hard work. But Rick Santorum bet-ter not think he has the best putdown of the eggheads. That would go to the time my brother, wearing a jack-et with his college’s insig-nia, ran out of gas and had to walk a half mile to knock on a farmer’s door for help. The farmer spat tobacco juice at my brothers’ feet before snipping. “Real smart there, college boy.” —Nancy Luse writes from Frederick, Md., where she’s thinking of taking a corre-spondence class she learned about on the back of a pack of matches.

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an ever-present problem. If any of us, when shopping in town, would begin using the alternative site library park-ing lot, library access park-ing, ironically, would remain an unsolved problem The brownfield proper-ty itself belonged to the cor-poration of Shepherdstown and was given as a gift to the board of trustees and to the community specifically for the new library project. Shep-herdstown donated this land to the library; the library in-curred no cost for this land. It was given as free land. In contrast, the alternative site property would not be a do-nation; it is not free. It is pri-vate real estate for sale by the owner and does have a price tag. Although I do not person-ally know the asking price, I surmise that the cost of this commercial property would be

high, perhaps adding another 25 to 30 percent to the overall cost of the project. Any money offered by an anonymous individual donor to help purchase this real es-tate, I believe, would be bet-ter spent on library programs, computers, interior space and other resources for children. I understand this donor now fa-vors this approach as well. While I agree that it is some-times appropriate and com-mendable to refurbish an old-er building, I am concerned that the Southern States build-ing, which was originally con-structed for an entirely dif-ferent function, cannot real-istically be remodeled to ful-ly meet the needs of a new li-brary without entailing signif-icant reconstruction costs. The building would need to be ar-chitecturally redesigned, gut-ted, reconstructed, and meet new codes for disability ac-

cess. Old infrastructure, such as plumbing and pipelines would most likely need to be replaced. By contrast, need-ed infrastructure and build-ing and landscaping materials would be known in advance, adjusted as needed, and pose less risk of a cost overrun for a new building. The actual total cost of a new building is yet to be de-termined. That decision will occur through the continuing process of meetings and dis-cussions with the communi-ty, the architect, the financial consultant and the board of trustees. In conclusion, I am very grateful to the corporation of Shepherdstown for the fine gift of town land for our new library. I believe that the re-mediation of this Shepherd-stown brownfield site will serve as a remarkable example of reclamation and renewed

land usage within Shepherd-stown, Jefferson County and the state of West Virginia. I express my sincere thanks to all local, county and state res-idents, governmental repre-sentatives, and State of West Virginia Department of Envi-ronmental Protection agency personnel— especially Patrick Kirby — who have invested much time, effort and person-al devotion to the project and, I believe, will continue to do so. Our current library build-ing and the proposed new fa-cility on a reclaimed brown-field site will serve as tributes to the unique history of Shep-herdstown and to the expand-ed need for reading-related resources, knowledge, skills and pleasure for children and adults alike.

— Jane Blash is a resident of Jefferson County.

erty could be a beautiful vi-sion of its own and create a grand entrance to town; we just need to apply our col-

lective energy to it. There are several community members who have volunteered their ex-pertise to begin the feasibility study and cost comparison and architectural ideas. They are waiting to begin. The owners of the Southern States property have already initiated a Phase 1 site assess-ment to study any environmen-tal issues. The stage is set, the energy is there, now it is in the hands of the library board and li-brary director to take the hard, but necessary step in opening themselves to the change in course. It is the most respon-sible action they can take and we need to encourage it.

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Bryan Clark Spirit Staff CHARLES TOWN – Law-yers for the state and the Jeffer-son County Commission are pre-paring arguments for submis-sion to the Supreme Court after it agreed to stay a lower court’s or-der throwing out the state’s 2011 congressional redistricting plan. The court is expected to de-cide whether to take the case in the fall. Attorney Stephen Skinner up-dated the County Commission last week on preparations for the coming court battle. “I have some good news to report. Obviously (Dave) Ham-

Supreme Court to consider reviewing redistricting

Supreme Court to consider reviewing redistricting

chin wholeheartedly supported Sen. Rockefeller’s recommendation.” Groh also expressed thanks to the local community. “I’ve had the support of this whole community, particularly since we haven’t had one of our own on the federal bench. It’s been a long time coming. It makes me appreciate it a lot more,” Groh said. Groh will be the first female judge ever appointed to the North-ern District Court. “I hope my appointment serves as a role model for other young wom-en who look to achieve in any field and particularly in the legal field,” Groh said. “(The appointment) ex-presses to young women and to mi-norities in general that you don’t have to be the stereotypical idea of who a judge is – an old, white-haired guy – to reach that level.” Groh’s departure from the 23rd Judicial Circuit will leave a vacan-cy that will have to be filled by an appointment from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Representatives from his office said it will likely be several months before potential candidates are vetted and a successor is ap-pointed. The U.S. Senate confirmed Groh to a seat on the West Virgin-ia Northern District Court in a 95-2

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mer and I were successful at trial,” Skinner said. “Unfortu-nately, all the folks on the other side joined together and asked the Supreme Court to stay the decision and effectively keep in place the current plan. The court did grant that.” The stay guaranteed that the 2012 congressional elections would proceed under a redis-tricting plan that keeps Jeffer-son County in a long, snaking district that runs past Charles-ton. Skinner said state officials have until next Tuesday to file their appeal with the Supreme Court, though they could also

file for a 60-day extension. “The counsel for Speaker (Rick) Thompson has indicated that they’re not going to ask for an extension, but – understand-ing the nature of how litigation and deadlines work – I would not be surprised to see a request for an extension,” Skinner said. Once the appeal has been filed, Jefferson County will have 30 days to file its response. The court will decide wheth-er to take jurisdiction over the case, a decision Skinner expects to see in the fall. “The stay will dissolve if the United States Supreme Court does not take the case,” Skinner

explained. “If the court does not take jurisdiction, then I would expect that in the next legisla-tive session there would be a re-quirement for a new congres-sional redistricting.” “If they do take jurisdiction, then we will battle it out at the Supreme Court,” Skinner said. Skinner said he and Hammer have brought in outside coun-sel who specialize in appellate litigation and have experience arguing before the Supreme Court, though he declined to identify them. He said they have agreed not to charge the county for their services. “They are talented appellate

lawyers who practice at the Su-preme Court level. We’re go-ing to have a first-rate prod-uct,” Skinner said. “Dave and I have no ego involved in be-ing the ones who actually write, or even argue at the Supreme Court, although we’ll be there every step of the way.” Commissioner Frances Mor-gan said she is pleased with the county’s prospects for success in the case. “If the Supreme Court re-jects the case, we win because it goes back to what the three-judge panel (ordered.) If the Su-preme Court takes the case then we could still win.”

vote last week. Groh had been nominated for the seat by President Barack Obama in May, 2011, and was unanimously recommended for confirmation by the Senate Judiciary Committee. But her confirmation, along with that of several other nominated fed-eral judges, had been held up in the Senate. A previous nominee put forward by President George W. Bush was never passed through the Judiciary Committee. The issue of stalled judicial nom-inees was beginning to draw the ire of the president and Senate Demo-crats. Earlier this week, Majority

Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., threat-ened to use parliamentary proce-dures to force an up-or-down vote on the 17 nominees currently be-fore the Senate. Some Republicans, in turn, threatened to use parliamen-tary procedures to force 30 hours of debate on each candidate before the vote. Groh’s confirmation is the first of a series of 14 confirmations ex-pected to occur in the coming days following an agreement announced recently between Republicans and Democrats. The only votes against Groh’s confirmation came from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Jim DeMint, R-

S.C., who have said they will vote to block all judicial nominees in re-taliation for recess appointments made by Obama. Judge John Preston Bailey, chief judge of the Northern Dis-trict Court, called Groh a great ap-pointment. “We’re tickled to have her join the bench,” he said. “We know she’s going to do a great job.” The seat has been vacant since 2006, following the death of Judge Craig Broadwater. Bailey said it has taken hard work to keep up with

the court’s docket with one judge short. “The docket is current. I’ve been traveling to keep the docket cur-rent,” said Bailey, who lives and primarily presides in Wheeling but has to travel to hear cases in Mar-tinsburg as well. “I loved the people and the law-yers in Martinsburg, but it’s a four hours each way. It was difficult physically,” Bailey said. There are currently 83 unfilled seats on federal benches throughout the country.


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Annie Mae Nails Burton, 82, of Ranson, died Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at the Shenandoah Cen-ter. Born July 10, 1929, in Good-springs, Ala., she was the daugh-ter of the late Enoch S. Nails and Irene Costello Nails. She is survived by her husband, Noel Henry Burton; son, Charles Warner Eaton Jr. of Maryland; two daughters: Nadine Glassman of Martinsburg, and Carolyn Sue Zimmerman of Charles Town; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers; two half-brothers, and a sister. Services and interment will be private.

Brenda Faye Conkle Lee

Brenda Faye Conkle Lee, 72, of Charles Town, died Thursday, March 15, 2012, at her home. Born April 19, 1939, in Amea-gle, she was the daughter of the late John Thomas Conkle and Thelma Lee Thompson Conkle. She was retired from the U.S. gov-ernment. She was of the Presbyterian faith. She is sur-vived by her husband of 54 years, Harry “Don” Lee; daughter, Belinda Lee Weber of Charles Town; son, John Scott

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Robert Laurence Lowrey

Robert Laurence Lowrey, 83, of Charles Town, died Saturday, March 17, 2012, at Winchester (Va.) Medi-cal Center. Born Oct. 12, 1928, in Albany, Mo., he was the son of the late Laurence Dean and Ruth Quig-ley Lowrey. He was of the Christian faith and a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a career employee of the National Security Agency, retiring in 1979. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Patricia “Pat” Lowrey; three daughters, Brenda Hess of Mt. Airy, Md., Marla McCor-mick of Manassas, Va., and Lisa Gonzalez of Germantown, Md.; son, Kendall Lowrey of Chatta-nooga, Tenn.; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister. Services will be held at 2 p.m.

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Myrtle Josephine ‘Jo’ Mentzer

Myrtle Josephine “Jo” Mentzer, 86, of Sandy Hook, Md., died Thursday, March 15, 2012, at F r e d e r i c k (Md.) Memo-rial Hospital. Born Dec. 18, 1925, in Washington County, Md., she was the daughter of the late John E. Reynolds and Margaret Walker Reynolds. She was a member of the Church of God in Gapland, Md. She was a retired custodian with the Department of Energy in Germantown, Md. She is survived by four daugh-ters, Donna Eagle of Kear-neysville, Beth Cannon of Bruns-wick, Md., Sheena Compher of Thurmont, Md., and Serena Beachley of Sandy Hook, Md.; son, Butch Mentzer of Burkitts-ville, Md.; sister, Louise Merry-

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Lynn M. Vergason

Lynn M. Vergason, of Summit Point, died Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at her home. Born Oct. 15, 1959, in Connecticut, she is sur-vived by her mother, Sal-ly Stanley of Summit Point; hus-band, Wal-ter Vergas-on; daughter, Nicole Boggs; two sisters: Cindy Minor and Carol Stanley, both of San Diego; and a grandchild. Memorial services were held March 17 at the Melvin T. Strider Colonial Funeral Home. Dr. Hen-ry Christie officiated. Interment will be private. Memorials may be made to Bladder Cancer Advocacy Net-work, 4915 Saint Elmo Ave., Suite 202, Bethesda, MD 20814

Mary E. Bennett

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About 150 people were on hand for the annual Easter dinner at the Anna Mae Reedy Senior Center in Ranson on March 16. The event has been sponsored by Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races for more than a decade. Twenty volunteers from Hollywood Casino served meals to the attendees. Al Britton, general manager of Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, said it’s important to be a good neighbor. “We try to be a good corporate citizen for Jefferson County,” Brit-ton said. “We are active in the United Way and actively contribute to Jefferson County Community Ministries.”“The JCCOA appreciates the continued support,” said Amy Wellman, executive director of the Jef-ferson County Council on Aging. “They truly make a difference.”

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PARKERSBURG (AP) — Health officials in the Mid-Ohio Valley are concerned that a mild winter could spur a large jump in the mosquito population. If that happens, Chuck Mapes with the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Health De-partment says the risk of a West Nile virus infection also would increase.

Mild winter brings West Nile concerns to W.Va.

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CHARLESTON (AP) — The West Virginia Senate’s top Republican says he re-mains confident in the state GOP chairman following a flap over election-year strat-egy. Chairman Mike Stuart has been criticized by fellow Republicans and others after calling on voters to repeal table games at a Kanawha County casino. Stuart says Mardi Gras Casino and Resort should be held accountable for not providing promised jobs and development. That caught some GOP lawmakers by surprise, and prompted a meeting be-tween Stuart and Senate Re-publicans. Senate Minority Lead-er Mike Hall says he lat-er received a negative text message sent from Stuart’s phone about the meeting. Hall says he’s letting the matter drop after Stuart de-nied sending it. Stuart did not respond to a request for comment Monday.

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CHARLESTON (AP) — The planet’s top chili makers will be re-turning to West Virginia this fall. And for the first time, the Interna-tional Chili Society’s annual world championship cookoff will have a “homestyle” category without re-strictions on ingredients. The San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based nonprofit group an-nounced Thursday that more than 400 cooks are expected to compete Oct. 5-7 on Mag-ic Island, a park on Charles-ton’s west side along the Ka-nawha River. Charleston hosted the competition in 2009, the first time the ICS held its champi-onship east of the Mississippi River _ traditionally it’s been held in Cal-ifornia or Nevada. It was contested in Manchester, N.H., the past two years. The world championships in-volve red and green chili catego-ries, along with salsa. Competi-tors must first win a regional title from among dozens held around the United States and Canada. A “last chance” cookoff also will give competitors who have yet to quali-fy one final try to enter the event. This year’s competition will in-troduce a “homestyle” category

World chili cookoff returning to W.Va.that includes a cook’s favorite com-bination of ingredients. There are no restrictions or requirements, as long as the entry is homemade and has a chili pepper flavor. Garnishes will be allowed. The goal of the category is to welcome a new breed of chili con-noisseurs.

“Competition chili does not have beans, and we’ve been turning peo-ple away for 46 years,” said Carol Hancock, owner and CEO of the ICS. “Our homestyle category will be the cook’s discretion.” Doug Wilkey, a Shoreline, Wash., dentist whose version of traditional red chili won the 2005 world title, welcomed the home-style category’s addition and the potential for new competitors. “I think it’s fine, especially for West Virginia,” said Wilkey, who attended the 2009 event in Charles-ton. “There’s a lot of people that

like to cook chili back there, and they like to have a ball doing it.” Cars and chili may not seem a great mix at first. But city leaders are banking on that concept, sched-uling the chili cookoff at the same time an annual custom car show is being held just down the block. Last year’s Rod Run & Doo Wop

brought in 960 cars — and thousands of tourists — from the eastern United States. “Our city will be the place to be in this part of the coun-try,” said Charleston Mayor Danny Jones. It took four decades for the world championships to head east due to concerns

over fickle weather, and Mother Nature played a big part in the 2009 cookoff. Severe storms dampened spirits on the first day in Charleston. And the weather was sour in New Hampshire, too, Hancock said. But she liked the way Charleston organizers handled the 2009 event. The city beat out other potential suitors from California, Florida, Kansas and Nevada. She wouldn’t identify the cities. In 2009, the typical competitor “hadn’t been to West Virginia and this part of the country. They had a great time,” Hancock said.

W.Va. college starts veterans history project BECKLEY (AP) — Glen-ville State College has start-ed an effort to collect the oral histories of West Vir-ginians who served in the military. The West Virginia Veter-ans Legacy Project aims to capture the experiences of veterans from all branches of service from World War II to the present. Project di-rector Bob Henry Baber says the project aims to gather more stories from women, Vietnam veterans, minori-ties and southern West Vir-ginians. Baber tells The Register-Herald that he hopes to have more than 200 interviews uploaded online by Veterans Day. The U.S. Institute of Mu-seum and Library Servic-es is helping fund the proj-ect. It will include collecting and digitizing memorabilia, letters, articles and photo-graphs.

BECKLEY (AP) — The state Department of Agri-culture says that the annual effort to control black flies in three southern West Vir-ginia rivers will continue this year. Agency spokesman Bud-dy Davidson tells The Reg-ister-Herald that legislators ensured that about $700,000

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SportsWednesday, March 21, 2012

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HansenA win in his second race in 2012 kept Hansen in the short parade to the Kentucky Derby.

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Jefferson softballAlexandra Witt tamed Handley and Martinsburg as the Lady Cougars won their first two games.

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thePRICEhas beenRightfor two yearsJefferson junior leads track team toward possible third straight championshipBOB MADISON Spirit Staff

Two years ago, Charleston was alive with the anticipation that comes annually with the invasion of athletes who are a part of the track and field state meet. Jefferson High was by no means the group favored to win the team champi-onship. Some of the Cougars that might change the perception of the down-state crowd were only freshmen . . . and fresh-men are mostly unknown to the people liv-ing 300 miles away. When the Cougars pulled together -- freshmen to seniors -- a Class AAA state championship had been secured. And one of those freshman was the di-minutive sprinter Dante Price. Price had finished second in the 100-me-ters with his time of 11:03. Price had finished second in the 200-me-ters in the fast time of 21:84. Two second-place finishes in individual events were worth 16 points to Jefferson’s team trotal. In the 4x100 relay, freshman Price was joined by Tyler Lambert, Devon Thomp-

son, and D. J. Washington. That mixed age group was second in the shortest of relays, timed in 43:47. And then in the 4x200 relay, Price was joined by Lambert, Washington, and Ash-ton Hyler. That unit had three underclass-men . . . and it was second with a time of 1:30.46. Points, points, and more points from Jef-ferson’s sprinters. And a state champion-ship for the team. When Jefferson returned to Charleston in May of 2011, the creditability of the pre-vious year’s state title was thick. Jefferson just might have favorably impressed the state capital denizens. Price was back. He was still diminutive. And he was still just a sophomore. Nothing was ceded to the Cougars. Noth-ing was certain. Cabell Midland High was going to fire its legion of distant runners at the bullseye that had Jefferson’s name on it. Cabell Midland didn’t flinch. But it didn’t have enough weapons to dislodge

Retire the yellow shoes! Try to remember Tommie Mc-Cune’s name. Insert both Aaric Murray and Juwan Staten into the starting lineup. And don’t go wide-eyed and with hat in hand to Stillwater, Ames, Norman, Waco, and Man-hattan (Kansas). In the aftermath of West Vir-ginia’s quiet exit from the NCAA basketball tournament, most Mountaineer people will turn their attention to football and the prospects for the first year in the Big 12 Conference. But first the cleanup from the 2011-12 season must get moth-balled. Darryl “Truck” Bryant has played his last game. His final shooting figures showed him m a k i n g 35.8 per-cent of his field goal at-t e m p t s . On three-pointers, he made 30.9 percent of his tries. Bryant’s 80 turnovers were the team’s most. The yellow shoes weren’t as lucky as Dorothy’s ruby slippers had been in the Wizard of Oz. Since West Virginia is joining the Big 12, maybe Dorothy and Toto will give it some advice on what to expect in Kansas where they had their upbringing. Kevin Jones’ 13 points against Gonzaga lowered his final scor-ing average to 19.9. With the wholehearted approval of Bob Huggins, Jones will eventually be selected into the school’s Ath-letic Hall of Fame. Jones and Bryant were the only two seniors. Little-used freshman Tommie McCune has indicated he will transfer. His name has already been removed from the team ros-ter. The two tallish centers -- Pat Forsythe and Kevin Noreen -- both finished the season on the injured list. Neither contribut-ed while healthy. Neither has any necessary skills to compete with LaSalle transfer, Aaric Mur-ray. Murray will be eligible and the 6-foot-10 scorer/shot blocker will be a necessity on most nights in the Big 12. This season’s five remaining freshmen -- Gary Browne, Aar-on Brown, Jabarie Hinds, Keaton Miles, and Paul Herbert William-son — all have substantial room for improvement. Murray will be a starter. Stat-en, who started as a freshman at Dayton a year ago, will be Hug-

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Danté Price was a double-winner in the short sprints at last year’s state track meet.

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The Big East has seen the last of WVU. The Mountaineers join the Big 12 next season.

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HAGERSTOWN— Four-teen hits, numerous St. Ma-ria Goretti errors, walks, and hit batsmen gave Washington High no fewer than 28 bas-erunners when the Patriots opened their baseball season on the road with a 17-4 win over the Gaels last Thursday. The tone was set ear-ly. Washington scored four times in its first turn . . . and then had only one scoreless inning as it feasted on four different Gael throwers. The Washington hits came in all sizes and colors. Fresh-man second baseman Hunt-er Weaver had a two-run homer, there were several doubles (two on badly mis-judged balls to Goretti’s left-fielder), line drive singles, and ground balls that hand-cuffed several infielders.

And the Gaels committed six errors, walked six, saw their throwers hit three bat-ters, had three wild pitches, and had three passed balls. In addition to all that trou-ble, Washington also stole four bases without ever be-ing caught stealing. The reason the game wasn’t halted by the 10-run rule was because Washing-ton scored six runs in the gloaming of the seventh in-ning after taking an 11-4 lead into the frame. The two Washington start-ers who played until the near-dark end had six at-bats. Austin Larcomb collected four RBIs, Weaver had three, and the Patriots’ third pitch-er, Tyler Mattei, also drove in three runs with a sev-enth-inning double that was


SHENANDOAH JUNC-TION— Strikes and strike-outs from Jefferson com-plete-game pitcher Blake Johnson got the Cougars past Wyoming Area (West Pittston, Pa.), 3-2, in the sea-son opener for both teams on Friday night at Sager Field. Johnson walked only two of the 28 batters he faced in going the distance in his first appearance of the season. He fanned 11, including Eric Wachoviak with two runners aboard to get the game’s fi-nal out in the Warrior sev-enth. Jefferson’s four errors made Johnson’s strikeouts all the more important. The junior right-hander even had a no-hitter through five innings of seven-strike-out pitching. But then Wyoming Area rallied for two runs in the sixth and exposed Jeffer-son’s defense while making it a 2-2 game. A bunt single

was the Warriors’ first hit. In quick succession came a sto-len base, single, a Johnson wild pitch, a second John-son wild pitch that scored Wyoming Area’s first run, a Mike Carey single that made it a 2-2 game, an errant throw back to the infield on Carey’s hit . . . and a single off the glove of an infielder. Coming into the Wyoming Area sixth it was Jefferson clinging to a 2-0 lead. But with two outs, there were runners on second and third and the score was tied. The Warriors’ Bart Chupka drilled a low line drive right to third baseman Cody Mc-Dowell for the inning’s third out. The Cougars had already stranded eight runners when they batted in the sixth. Pinch-hitter Michael King drew a lead-off walk on a 3-2 pitch. Matt Henshaw shoved a bunt past the pitcher’s mound for a hit. Anthony

SHEPHERDSTOWN— An-drew Gallant got saves in both ends of Shepherd’s conference doubleheader sweep of West Vir-ginia Wesleyan. Gallant, who had four saves in Shepherd’s 10-7-record season, had one-inning saves in both the opening, 5-2, win and wild-ride, 16-14, victory in Game 2. West Virginia Wesleyan was 6-10 overall and 2-2 in the WVI-AC after dropping both games. Even in stranding 10 runners in the opener, Shepherd had 11 hits off route-going Adams. The Rams

stranded another 11 runners in the nightcap when they rattled out 16 hits off the combined pitching ef-forts of four Bobcats. The Rams’ left-hander Paul Hvozdovic went five innings in the opener and improved his re-cord to 3-2. He yielded four hits, walked three, fanned four, and both runs off him were earned. He survived home runs by the Bobcats’ Corey Flickinger and Mark Darlington. Chad Murphy had two RBIs and Nathan Minnich one RBI for the Rams. Minnich was 2-for-3

and scored twice. Nash Hutter was 3-for-3 and scored a run. In the nightcap, Shepherd tal-lied five runs in the first when its first six batters reached safely. There were three walks and two hit batsmen in front of Ryan Mes-sina’s grand slam homer. West Virginia Wesleyan chased Shepherd starter Trevor Appleby with a nine-run second inning. And took a 9-5 lead in the pro-cess. Appleby faced seven bat-ters in the second and could not

Strikes, strikeouts mean satisfactory opener for Cougars

Patriots inundate Goretti with 28baserunners

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gins’ point guard. Deniz Kilicli will be a senior. He will contin-ue to make 55.5 percent of his free throws and be haphazard and sporatic in his all-round play. But he will start. Dominique Rutledge made Kilicli’s free throw numbers look like Jerry West’s com-pared to his. Rutledge made an abyssmal 33 percent of his foul shots. He had 20 turnovers in just 218 total minutes in WVU’s 19-14 overall season. Browne and Hinds are point guards. Will both return . . . or will one of both transfer? Miles and Brown are basket-ball opposites. Miles started 30 games and scored a grand to-tal of 46 points. Brown start-ed only the NCAA tournament game against Gonzaga . . . be-cause there never was a player found who he could guard. One of them might quiet-ly leave. Or both could stay around to see why the inside of the “Phog” Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas is consid-ered sacred ground by all Jay-

missed on a dive by a reserve outfielder. Winning pitcher Jared Silva went four innings. He faced 20 batters while allowing five hits and three walks. Silva fanned three. Both runs scored off him were earned. As a hitter, he was

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DiAmario also bunted, but the sacrifice attempt went directly to the pitcher. The quick-foot-ed King was able to beat a late throw to third and the bases were loaded with no outs. After Corey Mangold popped out to shortstop, Fraser Brown was walked on a 3-2 pitch . . . and Jefferson was back in front at 3-2. The score didn’t move as Dennis Jackson and pinch-hitter Sean Spotts both struck out . . . leaving the bases loaded and the Cougars with a one-run lead. Johnson retired the first two bat-ters in the seventh, but then a harm-less looking infield grounder was misplayed and another stolen base had the potential tying run at sec-ond. A walk -- only Johnson’s sec-ond of the night -- had two aboard before Wachoviak went down on strikes to end the great-baseball-weather night on a happy note for the youth-glutted Cougars. Eleven strikeouts had been enough to overcome four errors and one mistake-strewn inning. Jefferson’s earlier runs had come in its first turn when DiA-mario had drawn walk to begin things. He stole second and scored on Brown’s hard ground single to center. After an error, Jackson was walked and a free pass issued to Matt Ballou loaded the bases. Casey Billmyer scratched out an infield single that scored the opening inning’s second run and kept the bases loaded. A strikeout ended the inning . . . and the Cougars had their runs until the sixth when one more proved to be just enough to beat the Warriors.

retire any of them. There were eight hits and three Shepherd errors in the huge uprising. Messina had another RBI in the second when Shepherd moved to within 9-6. After the Bobcats scored an-other three runs in the third off Shepherd reliever Jamie Driv-er, they led 12-6. Darlington’s three-run homer accounted for the runs. Shepherd made it 12-8 with two runs in the third when Aar-on Scoville had an RBI as did Murphy. Hutter singled home a run in the fourth and the Bobcats lead was at 12-9. After Rams’ reliever Sam Beatty yielded a run in the fifth, Shepherd rallied for six runs in its half of the inning. After Minnich walked and Murphy doubled, Jake Cook singled in a run. Travis Sluger’s three-run homer lifted Shep-

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the defending champion Cou-gars. Price was yards better than his nearest competition in the 100-meters. He was the short-sprint champion with his clocking of 11:07. He was slightly better than all the other would-be state champi-ons when winning the 200-me-ters in 22:11. That was a quick 20 team points for the Cougars, who would edge Cabell Midland, 98.5-80. In the 4x100 relay, Jefferson could gather another eight points with its second-place showing. The Cougars secured a second-place with a time of 43:47. It was Price, Lambert, Washington, and Lai-Fang running for the Cougars. Price did not run in the 4x200 relay. Instead he was placed in the meet-winning 4x400 relay. Run-ning alongside Price in that most grueling of relays were Brandon Doughty, Washington, and Ash-ton Hyler.

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Heaps of points in relays buoyed Jefferson’s chances of repeating its 2010 state championship. As an unknown freshman, Price has been one of the guiding forces to a Jefferson High state champion. As a hard-to-miss sophomore, Price had once more been one of the leading lights as Jefferrson High repeated its 2010 state title by hold-ing back Cabell Midland High. Price goes into the 2012 track and field campaign -- just his ju-nior year -- as the state’s premier sprinter. With the blurred image of Price hitting the finish line ahead of the sprint fields preced-ing it to meets, Jefferson has be-come many people’s idea of the “team to beat” in 2012. The Cou-gars have become a symbol of track and field excellence. When Price made an appear-ance as a 400-meter runner at the 2011 state meet, he increased his value to not only Jefferson High but also colleges needing sprint-ers whose range carried from 100-meters to 400-meters. And he has already been a proven re-lay force for two years.

On the second weekend in March, Price was in New York City for the Emerging Elite 60-meter indoor dash. Sprinters from up and down the East Coast attended. In the preliminaries, there were a total of 60 runners entered. Price turned in the best time with his 6.98. In the finals, he bettered that clocking with a personal best of 6.94. Vincent Lowe of Chesa-peake, Va. edged Price with his 6.88 time. The second-place finish at what was called the “New Bal-ance National Indoors” meet staged at The Armory qualified Price for later national events. For Jefferson High, The Price Has Been Right for two years. And both years produced state championships. Price and company will be down in Charleston for the Ga-zette Relays as part of the regu-lar-season schedule. And then comes his third state meet in late May where Price will be a known factor . . . and will again be in the sprinter’s spotlight.

credited with a 3-for-5 evening after a fly ball was misjudged and a hard-hit grounder hand-cuffed the Gaels’ reserve short-stop. He had two RBIs. Larcomb had three hits as the first four batters in Washington’s lineup and their substitutes ac-counted for 13 of the baserunners and eight of the hits. Other than Silva, who bat-ted fifth, the last four starters in the lineup were a combined

1-for-10. The Patriot defense did not commit any errors and right-fielder Drew Hetzel had two ex-cellent running catches on balls he caught while running down-hill toward some trees. It was all the baserunners that paraded around the bases that will be most remembered. Wash-ington never had fewer than five batters in any of its seven turns. And it batted around twice.

hawks. Five freshmen (not includ-ing invited walk-on Williamson) were brought in to possibly cover the losses of Dalton Pepper (who transferred to Temple), Joe Maz-zulla, John Flowers, Jonnie West, and Cam Thoroughman. Will the same number of fresh-men be summoned this year? And how many of them would be moved straight into the 2012-13 starting lineup? How will the Big 12 compare with the basketball Big East? Oklahoma, Texas Christian, Tex-as Tech, and Oklahoma State are not in this year’s NCAA tourna-ment, yet none of them is as low-ly as DePaul or Providence. Kansas, Texas, Baylor, Iowa State, and Kansas State were called as at-large teams to the tournament. Missouri is the con-ference champion and is leaving to join the Southeastern Confer-ence. Texas A&M is also moving out and going to the SEC. The yellow shoes have been retired. If Nike sends another few pairs to Morgantown, they better be worn by the Easter Bunny as he leads a parade of revelers to-ward an egg hunt on the Evans-dale campus.

herd back into a 13-13 tie. Hutter had a single. Michael Lott also singled and so did Scoville. Minnich then delivered a two-run single to give the Rams a 15-13 lead. In the next inning, the Shepherd lead went to 16-13 when Sluger doubled in Brandon Coffey, who had singled. Gallant surrendered a run in the top of the seventh, but re-tired the last three men he faced to close out the win. Minnich had reached base five times after being walked four straight times. Cook was 3-for-3 and scored twice. Sluger was 3-for-5 with four RBIs. Hutter continued his hot hitting, going 2-for-4, and scored twice. Lott was 2-for-4 and scored twice. Murphy drove in two runs. Shepherd actually had 27 bas-erunners in its six innings. Minnich was on base in eight of his nine at-bats. Minnich improved his batting average to .476. Shepherd moved into second place in the North Division of the WVIAC behind only unbeat-en-in-the-conference Seton Hill.


SHENANDOAH JUNC-TION— After it had gone through four totally inexperi-enced pitchers and seen Wyo-ming Area glut the bases with 11 baserunners, Jefferson Coach John Lowery called in starting second baseman Fraser Brown to pitch. It was just the beginning of the sixth inning. When he replaced the strug-gling A. J. Boyd, Brown inherit-ed a 2-0 count on the first batter in the inning. Jefferson had just rallied for five runs in its half of the fifth . . . assuming a two-run lead after it had come to bat trailing by three runs. The Cougars, who had al-ready struck out eight times in four innings, rallied for five runs on four hits (three of them triples), a walk, an error, two stolen bases, and a wild pitch. Brown wasn’t able to retire the man he inherited, who sin-gled. But then with a fistful of strikes, he faced only six more batters in those final two in-nings in getting credit for a save as Jefferson made off with an 8-5 victory in its first of two games played on sun-saturated Saturday.

Brown had gone two innings, allowing only a single to the batter he inherited. He used an age-old, oft-proven baseball adage that advises all pitch-ers “to get ahead in the count” by throwing a stream of strikes and letting the batters get them-selves out when they fall behind in the count. Brown’s outs were necessary. The four pitchers that preced-ed him had allowed 13 base run-ners in their five innings of toil. They had walked seven, includ-ing one by starter Sean Spotts. Spotts was forced out in the top of the first after three batters. He had been struck in the leg by a hard grounder that continued on into centerfield. Casey Billmyer faced seven men. Logan Maloney was in for three innings and four hits and a walk before giving way to Boyd, who walked two of the five men he saw and allowed a hit to an-other. Boyd finished the fifth. When Boyd went to 2-0 on the first Warrior in the sixth, it was Brown being summoned from second base. Wyoming Area didn’t score again. It stranded eight runners in seeing a three-run lead evap-orate in the Jefferson fifth. The Cougars had only three

hits (but two runs) after striking out eight times in only four in-nings. Trailing, 5-2, and with one out in the fifth, Corey Mangold beat out an infield roller that had caromed off the mound. Brown grounded to second and was called out on a throw to first. However, an appeal was made and the plate umpire ruled the Warrior first baseman had his foot off the base. Mangold was at second and Brown was at first. There was only one out. Mangold and Brown each stole a base. Dennis Jackson had an RBI groundout. Consecutive triples came from Matt Ballou, Michael King, and Brandt Petrie. And Jefferson had the last of the in-ning’s five runs. And more im-portantly, a 7-5 lead lead Brown could protect after replacing Boyd. The Cougars sent another seven men to the plate in the next inning, scoring once after three walks and leaving the bas-es loaded. Coach John Lowery had tried five pitchers. Only Boyd had even an inning of previous var-sity pitching. And it was Brown who plugged the constant holes in the dike.

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Fraser Brown connects for a triple in one of Jefferson’s two wins over Wyoming Area. Brown got credit for two saves in the wins over the Warriors.

Search for Cougar pitchers might have yielded Brown

SHENANDOAH JUNC-TION— Jefferson kept its years-long unbeaten softball re-cord against Handley High of Winchester intact as it opened the 2012 season on Thursday with an 8-2 win over the visit-

ing Judges. Alexandra Witt kept the Hand-ley bats in check and the Lady Cougars remained historically all-winning against the Judges. Jefferson was 1-0 and Hand-ley was 0-2 with the loss.

Witt keeps Judges under control

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With singles players Will Wheatley, Patrik Haglund, Aus-tin Thomas, and Alden Roth all registering clean victories over their Hampshire counterparts, the Washington boy’s tennis team blanked the Trojans, 7-0. Haglund was an 8-0 winner and the other three Patriots posted 8-1 wins. The Washington doubles teams of Wheatley/Haglund, Thomas/Roth, and Cullen Irving/Cory Coomler were winners to close out the shutout win. Jill Spuria had an 8-0 win, both Angela Pittinger and McKenzie Littleton won their sets by 8-1 scores, and Melissa Sirbaugh was an 8-2 winner when the Washing-ton High girl’s tennis team smoth-ered Hampshire, 7-0. The Patriots continued to post wins in the doubles matches where Pittinger/Sirbaugh pre-vailed at No. 1, Spuria/Littleton won convincingly at No. 2, and Jessica Fort/Jordan Welsh com-pleting the blanking of the visit-ing Trojans with a win at No. 3

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What better day to be foaled than Jan. 1? That actual birth date gives a thoroughbred a full 365 or 366 days to move toward maturity before the recognized birthday of all thoroughbreds in North America. The snow white Hansen was foaled on Jan. 1, 2009. He isn’t very big, isn’t very tall or weighty. It’s a good thing he had a full year on this earth before turning one. And it’s a good thing he had three full years to mature because his competition for all things Triple Crown this year has been doing nearly as well as the “whiter shade of pale” Hansen. His tale is white. His mane is white. And his smallish body is white. Not gray. Not roan. So white, the Lone Ranger or Ho-palong Cassidy might hop on his back (instead of Silver or Top-per) and ride off into the sunset. Hansen’s sunset is still some years away if his owner has his way. And just by chance, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Stakes winner has an owner named Dr. Kendall Hansen. Where was the hand-wring-ing search for the thoroughbred’s name? Well, I’ll just name him af-ter me, and we’ll go on about our business of winning races and getting to the Kentucky Derby. Dr. Hansen hired Mike Maker to be Hansen’s trainer. Maker didn’t hurry Hansen

(the thoroughbred) along to the races. And he didn’t burden him with expectations or rivals with more experience. The white-coat-ed Hansen was given his first-ev-er start at bucolic Turfway Park in northern Kentucky. In a maiden special weight race at 5 1/2 furlongs, Hansen was wearing blinkers that made him look like an equine Lone Ranger. His first performance was near perfect. He broke well from the starting gate and moved crisply to a comfortable lead. He just kept on putting distance be-tween himself and those behind him that were fading from sight. His margin of victory was chron-icled at 13 lengths. Just two weeks later, he was back at Turfway Park and run-ning in the Kentucky Juvenile Cup. Even though he had raced only once and the distance was upped considerably to a mile-and-a-sixteenth, Hansen was made the favorite. His deportment was exem-plorary. Once again, he fled from the gate and made the lead. The longer distance did not give him any discomfort. When he flashed across the finish line, Hansen had won by 12 lengths. The rest between his second race and the next try was longer than before. And owner Hansen and trainer Make both believed he was ready for much stiffer competition than he had seen at Turfway Park.

As white as pasteurized milk, Hansen is going to Louisville

The threesome -- two human beings and the compact white thoroughbred -- stayed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and went to Louisville for the early-November running of the presti-gious Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Lined up against Hansen were unbeaten Union Rags with train-er Michael Matz and the Califor-nian, Creative Cause. For the first time, Ramon Dominguez would be his rider. Dominguez followed the pat-tern that had been imprinted from the first two races at Turf-way Park. He hustled Hansen from the gate and sent him off to a lead that wasn’t pressured

by any of the others for six fur-longs. How would Hansen respond if he received the fast-closing no-tice from any of the others that they could run alongside him? He found the answer. Rushing toward him came Union Rags and Creative Cause. Around the final bend and those two were almost even with him. For the first time in his short ca-reer, Hansen was seeing hors-es that could do a thing or two themselves. Hansen was along the rail. He was not faltering. Union Rags was alone in the middle of the track. On his own,

he angled to the right as if tir-ing slightly. And finally, Creative Cause was between the two and carving yards off Hansen’s pre-carious lead. Union Rags was eventual-ly straightened and chopped off hunks of Hansen’s lead. Creative Cause was making up ground. But the finish line found Han-sen and his blinkers still in front of Union Rags by a nose with Creative Cause a length behind them. Three races for the Jan. 1 birth-day boy. Three wins. Two-Year-Old Champion of the Year. The pressure of being the win-ter favorite for the 2012 Ken-tucky Derby. What had the doc-tor created when he named the white streak after himself? In their plans for the Kentucky Derby, Dr. Hansen and Mak-er have placed Hansen in two races this year. The first was a stumbling loss in the Holy Bull Stakes. He bobbled leaving the starting gate and then couldn’t outlast Algorithms at the wire. That was the first loss in his four races. Just two weekends ago, Han-sen was made the 4-5 favorite and cruised past a large field in the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct, winning by a comfortable three lengths. A few not-too-tall obsta-cles confronted Hansen in the Gotham. He was outside in post

12 in a 13-horse field. Even with Dominguez shooing him quickly from the gate, he was impeded and kept four-wide through the first turn. Calmly and efficiently, Dominguez advanced him to sec-ond leaving the backstretch. By the time the top of the stretch came into view, Hansen had replaced the pacesetter and continued on his way to a com-fortable win. He is a probable for the Wood Memorial, just in front of the real target in this mission -- the Ken-tucky Derby. A slight possibility is the Vinery Stakes at Turfway Park on March 24. Says Dr. Hansen: “We don’t have to run him again before the Kentucky Derby. We may make that decision . . . whatev-er is best for the horse. as long as everything stays on sched-ule, we’ll probably run him one more time. I think a mile and an eighth would be good for him to build up to the Derby’s mile and a quarter.” Should Hansen keep his luck steered in the right direction and make the Kentucky Derby field, his backers will have no prob-lem finding him. He’s as white as fresh paint on the backyard fence. And he’s likely to be near the lead if he’s not forced to break from way on the outside in the 20-horse field. Whiter than grandma’s hair. And now the winner of four of his five races.

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Hansen will probably run in the Wood Memorial as his last race before the Kentucky Derby the first Saturday in May.

WINCHESTER, Va.— Washington High opened its softball season on a bright note when it rode the one-hit pitch-ing of Devin Williams to a 6-2

win over host John Handley High. Williams’ complete-game effort received enough Wash-ington offense to ruin Hand-ley’s opening game.

Amber Curry drove in two of Washington’s six runs and Kaitlyn Woodward also had two runs batted in to help the Patriots get the Opening Day win.

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Washington’s softball team opened the season with wins over Handley and Hampshire.

Williams’ pitching silences Judges

TED BLACK Spirit Staff

Charles Town offered a pair of maiden special weight events for state-bred three-year-old colts and geldings. In the sec-ond half of the divided maiden special weight event for state-bred sophomores, Ravens Terms (Oscar Flores) benefited from a ground-saving journey down the backside and through the far turn and got the better of Proper Move for a neck victory in the 6 1/2 furlong sprint. The Tim Grams trainee notched his first victory in four tries and pushed his bankroll to-ward $22,000 for owner Karen Steele. Proper Move finished sec-ond for the second time in four

tries for trainer Sandra Dono and owner Randall Conrad. The gelding beat only three rivals in his first two starts, but has since put together back-to-back sec-ond place efforts and Saturday night was in clearly the faster of the two divisions. Several races earlier on the card, Don’tmesswithallen (Jose Montano) lived up to his role as the 7-5 favorite when he surged to command on the far turn and then drew clear late to a three-length score. Trained by Jeff Runco for owner GLM Stable, Don’tmesswithallen had been a solid third in his career debut before winning at second asking on Saturday. At Aqueduct in New York, Hard Facts finished a mod-

est third in the $75,000 Broad Brush Stakes. Hard Facts earned his diploma at Charles Town on Jan. 7 by taking a maiden special weight event as the 4-5 choice under Travis Dunkleberger. Trained by Michael Trombet-ta, Hard Facts would later win a one-mile allowance affair at Lau-rel before testing stakes foes for the first time in the Broad Brush. Also at Aqueduct, Charles Town riding champion J. D. Acosta guided Norman Asb-jornson to a third-place finish in the Grade III, $150,000 Ex-celsior Handicap, which win-ner Marilyn’s Guy may use as a prep for the Charles Town Clas-sic. Norman Asbjornson, trained by Chris Grove, finished 11th in last year’s Preakness Stakes.

Ravens Terms moves to maiden win

From staff reports

SHENANDOAH JUNC-TION— It was St. Maria Goret-ti winning both the boys division and the girls division of the an-nual Jefferson Invitational tennis tournament. The Gaels competed against Berkeley Springs, Clarke County, and the Cougars in both division. St. Maria Goretti’s girls post-ed team wins over Jefferson (6-1) and Clarke County (7-0) in their two matches. Ashley Robinson

won the girls singles champion-ship for St. Maria Goretti. She defeated Clarke County’s Tabby Chandler to win the champion-ship. Robinson and Lauren Winalski were Goretti’s tournament-win-ning doubles team. The Gaels’ twosome defeated Jefferson’s In-dia Watson/Maggie VanVliet in earning the girl’s doubles title. The Gael boys had a 7-0 win over Berkeley Springs and a 7-0 win over Clarke County in their two matches that won them the

championship. St. Maria Goretti’s Aaron Hawk was the boy’s singles champion. Hawk defeated Berkeley Springs’ Dakota Maravelis in the finals. Jefferson’s Kyle Polczynski and Devin Forman paired to win the boy’s doubles title, going 2-0 in their matches against Clarke County and Berkeley Springs. A tiebreaker determined the dou-bles winners because St. Maria Goretti’s Aaron Snook and Bryce Reeder were also undefeated in their two matches.

St. Maria Goretti wins both divisions of the Jefferson Invite

From staff reports

GREENSBURG, Pa.— Seton Hill came into last weekend’s conference games against Shep-herd with an unbeaten (6-0) WVI-AC record. The Griffins were the 13th-ranked team in the country in NCAA Division II baseball. On Saturday, Seton Hill comfort-ably defeated the Rams, 7-3, and 14-6, in a doubleheader that evapo-rated Shepherd’s winning start to its own conference schedule. But then on Sunday in a single game, the Rams rallied for three runs in the 10th inning to drop the Griffins, 5-2. By salvaging the Sunday game, Shepherd im-proved its WVIAC record to 4-3 and shoved its overall mark to 11-9. The 4-3 conference record had the Rams in second place in the seven-school North Division. In losing, 7-3, Shepherd had 11 hits but stranded eight runners, made four errors, and struck out nine times as a team. Starting pitcher Brandon Cof-fey couldn’t get out of the fourth inning.

Nathan Minnich, Nash Hut-ter, Ryan Messina, and Aaron Scoville all had two hits. In the 14-6 loss, Shepherd had all four of its pitchers -- Jus-tin Byrd, Andrew Gallant, Ja-mie Driver, and Matt Copley -- roughed up by the Griffins. The Rams committed three er-rors and left 10 runners on base. Minnich hit his 11th homer of the season while scoring two runs and collecting two RBIs. Coffey and Ryan Messina both had two hits. Michael Lott scored twice. In winning on Sunday, the Rams used the low-run pitching of Paul Hvozdovic to stay with the Griffins for nine innings. Hvozdovic limited the Griffins to seven hits and one earned run while fanning eight in his nine innings. Again, Shepherd had to work around four errors and stranded another nine runners. Minnich’s double had driven in one run and Messina had the other RBI hit in the first nine in-nings. In the 10th, Lott walked. After Scoville safely legged

out what was to be a sacrifice bunt, Minnich hit into a fielder’s choice. Chad Murphy had a sacrifice fly to give the Rams a 3-2 lead. Messina singled in a run as did Coffey . . . and the lead was at 5-2. Gallant pitched a scoreless 10th for the Rams for his fifth save of the year. Hvozdovic im-proved his record to 4-2. Minnich was selected as the D2BaseballNews.com National Player of the Week for the week of March 14. After last weekend against Seton Hill, Minnich had moved his batting average to .475 with 11 homers and 32 RBIs. Minn-ich had 67 total bases and had a 1.098 slugging percentage. In 20 games, he had drawn 23 walks and scored a team-high 25 runs. Shepherd will be back at home at Fairfax Field on Saturday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader against Wheeling Jesuit. A single con-ference game against the Cardi-nals on Sunday also has a 1 p.m. start.

Rams deal Griffins first WVIAC loss

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.— Shepherd and homestanding Win-ston-Salem State split a softball doubleheader on March 13. Win-ston-Salem State took 10 innings to win the opener, 5-4, and then Shepherd responded with a 14-3 win in a game halted after five in-nings because of the mercy rule. The Lady Rams were 10-8 overall and Winston-Salem State was 13-11 overall. Winston-Salem’s winning run in the 10th inning of the opener scored on an error. Both teams had scored single runs in both the eighth and ninth innings. Shepherd only had seven hits with both Jess Mason and Tay-ler Schaefer getting two hits. Schaefer’s hits were doubles. Tricia Bettura was the losing

pitcher. In the nightcap, the Lady Rams collected 17 hits. Schaefer was 3-for-3, Savannah Snyder was 3-for-4, Kris Durham was 3-for-4, Delaney Bell was 2-for-2, and Bi-anca Biondillo was 2-for-4. Sam McQuade had three RBIs as did Bell. Schaefer, Durham, and Biondillo had two RBIs. Tiffany Biggs was the winning pitcher with a five-inning three-hit-ter that featured seven strikeouts. In a weekend tournament in Sa-lem, Va., Shepherd suffered a 5-0 shutout loss to Kutztown after winning a first game against the Golden Bears, 4-3. Biggs fanned nine in the nine-inning win, improving to 5-2. Ma-son had an RBI single that plat-ed Snyder in the ninth of the 4-3

win. Mary Kociencki had a six-hit shutout against the Lady Rams in Kutztown’s win. Bettura was Shepherd’s losing pitcher. Kutz-town was 17-1 overall. On Saturday, Shepherd defeat-ed Chowan again, beating the North Carolina nine, 3-2, in eight innings and then tripping Ship-pensburg, 2-1, in another game. Sam McQuade had a two-run homer versus Chowan. Biggs im-proved her pitching record to 6-2. Biondillo had a solo homer against Shippensburg as Bettura had a complete-game four-hitter. The Red Raiders were 3-2 overall. In its final game at Salem, the Lady Rams fell to California (Pa.), 12-1, and returned to Shep-herdstown with a 13-10 overall record.

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SHENANDOAH JUNC-TION— Brittany Jackson had two RBI’s and Kendra Nicholas also drove in two runs as Jeffer-son defeated St. Maria Goretti, 13-0, in a softball game abbrevi-ated to just two and a half innings by the eight-run mercy rule. After pitcher Shelby McTighe retired the Gaels in order in the first, Jefferson’s offense looked as angry as the storm clouds that were approaching silently from beyond the wall in centerfield.

The Lady Cougars sent 14 bat-ters to the plate in their half of the first . . . and nine of them scored. Jefferson already had enough runs to satisfy the covenants of the eight-run, mercy rule. Nicholas had two singles in the first. And Jackson had a two-run double to the wall in left. Jefferson gorged itself with three walks and a hit batsman in the uprising. After McTighe easily retired the Gaels again in the next inning, the Lady Cougars scored anoth-er four runs in the second. Three

more walks fueled that rally and then a misplayed fly ball to center helped unclog the bases. The sun was gone. The clouds were giving silent notice as to their intent. Would the necessary three innings be played? When St. Maria Goretti gleaned a walk off McTighe and she lost her no-hitter to a single, that part of the game story was no more. Two strikeouts and an infield grounder quickly ended the game. It didn’t rain until later. And the rain drops from the sky didn’t hit the Gaels until they were aboard

their tiny white bus and on the way back to Hagerstown. Jessica Hite and Kendra Nicho-las each had two of Jefferson’s sev-en hits and Lauren Lewis had con-tributed a first-inning, RBI triple.

--------------------- The Lady Cougars defeated Martinsburg, 8-0, on Fridaynight behind the low-hit, shut-out pitching of Alexandra Witt. That game was ended early by the eight-run softball mercy rule. Jefferson was already 3-0 after wins against Handley, Martins-burg, and the Gaels.

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SHENANDOAH JUNC-TION— Finally overcoming its seven strikeouts with its eight stolen bases, Jefferson was able to rally for seven late-inning runs as it overcame the early-game leads of St. Maria Gore-tti. The late-game rallies led the Cougars to a, 12-7, Sager Field win over the Gaels on Saturday afternoon. The Cougars were 3-0 over-all after winning all three times within a 19-hour time frame. Even after scoring three times in the third on hits from Andrew

Grove and Corey Mangold and two Goretti errors, Jefferson still trailed by a run when it tried again in the bottom of the fourth. Grove’s second single helped produce a run that made it 5-5. The Gaels went ahead, 6-5, against pitchers Sean Spotts and reliever Dennis Jackson. Right-hander Brian Kitner was still on for the Gaels when Jeffer-son came to bat in the fifth. Mangold beat out a swinging bunt toward third. Fraser Brown rammed an RBI double to the wall in right-center. Jefferson had created another tie at 6-6. Michael King’s infield ground-

er was misplayed for Goretti’s third error and Brown scored the go-ahead run. Matt Ballou walked. Casey Billmyer walked. and Dennis Jackson walked to force in another run. Grove had a sacrifice fly RBI. And the Cougars were in front, 9-6. When Jackson walked the first Gael batter in the sixth, he was replaced by Brown -- the same pitcher who had closed out an earlier win on Saturday against Wyoming Area (Pa.). Brown got out of the inning un-scathed. Mangold’s triple and hits from

Brown and Grove as well as two more Goretti errors (there were five in all), helped Jefferson score another three runs in the sixth. Brown quickly retired the last three men he saw in the seventh after first walking Josh Moats on four pitches. Mangold had three of Jeffer-son’s nine hits. Brown had two hits. And Grove had two hits. Brown drove in three runs and Grove had two RBIs. Jefferson had literally stolen its way past the Gaels, who were 1-2 overall and struggled itself with eight strikeouts against the four Jefferson pitchers.

Late rallies carry Jefferson past Gaels

From staff reports

Washington pushed its base-ball record to 2-0 on Saturday when it posted an 8-0 win over visiting Hampshire. Senior right-hander Austin Larcomb blanked the Trojans with a complete-game five-hit-ter. Hampshire was kept off the scoreboard mostly because Lar-comb didn’t walk anybody. He

fanned three. Freshman Hunter Weaver and junior outfielder Kendell Smith both collected a pair of hits for the Patriots. Washington was already ahead, 8-0, after only three innings. Ryan Pansch had two RBIs and Jared Silva, Bryan Bayliss, and Pansch all had a hit for the Patriots. Hampshire was 1-1 after the loss.

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CHARLESTON— Hedges-ville, Tug Valley, and Charleston Catholic were the three schools crowned state boys basketball champions over the weekend

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• Brush pick up will resume the first Monday ONLY of each month begin-ning April 2nd. If the pick up day is a holiday, the pick up will be Tuesday. Arrangements for a pickup truck load or larger must be made by calling 304-724-3867 and an advance fee must be paid. You can view the brush policy and guidelines at the website listed below.

• Ranson Parks & Recreation is hosting an INDOOR SPORTING GOODS SALE on sports equipment, fitness equipment or hunting gear on Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 7 am to 3 pm at the Ranson Civic Center. 10x10 space rental is $20 and includes a table and advertising costs. Registration forms are available at the website listed below and must be received no later than March 16th. For more information contact Jimmy Pierson at 304-725-2437 or Kim Spangler at 304-724-3865.

• The Fireworks Committee is working to raise funds to host the annual Jefferson County fireworks display at Sam Michael’s Park and will host a dinner on Friday, May 4, 2012 at the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races Ballroom. Ticket cost is $25 per person and can be purchased at Ranson City Hall, Sam Michael’s Community Center or from any commit-tee member. For more information, contact Chief Roper at 304-725-2411.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Ranson Planning Commission will convene on Monday, March 26, 2012 at 7 pm in Council Chambers for a special meeting regarding zoning and the Comprehensive Plan.• Spring Clean Up is scheduled for the week of April 16-20. Details to follow.

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The City of Charles Town Parks and Recreation Commission is accepting applications for the following part-time positions: 1 Parks / Pool Manager, 3 Assistant Pool Managers / Senior Lifeguards, 8 Lifeguards / Mini-camp Staff, 1 Tennis Pro-gram Assistant Manager, 8 Tennis Program Staff. Applica-tions, requirements and job descriptions are available at City Hall or www.charlestownwv.us. Please forward application and cover letter to City Manager, City of Charles Town, PO Box 14, Charles Town WV 25414. Application review will begin March 26 and will continue until all positions are filled.

The City of Charles Town Board of Parks and Recreation is seek-ing to fill one Board Vacancy. If you are interested in serving on this Board, please submit a letter detailing your interest and qualifications to City Clerk, City of Charles Town, PO Box 14, Charles Town, WV 25414, or [email protected]

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A Jefferson County Schools building at 306 S. Lawrence St. has a new name: the Martin Robinson Delaney Opportunity Learning Center. The Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society asked for the name change to memorialize an influential 19th-century African-American born in Charles Town, and the school board gave the OK at its March 12 meeting. When Delaney was born on May 6, 1812, Charles Town was part of Virginia and slaves and free blacks alike were forbidden

by law from learning to read and write. The Delaneys taught Mar-tin and his four older siblings to read and write anyway. “In fear of being arrested and punished, the family moved to Chambersburg, Pa., around 1823,” explained James Taylor, president of the county’s Black History Preservation Society. “Martin went on to become, among other things, a medical doctor and the highest-ranking African-American line officer in the Civil War. He was recom-mended by President Abraham

Lincoln and commissioned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton the rank of major.” School officials rely on the Opportunity Learning Center to give more individual attention to at-risk middle and high school students. The new name will of-fer students there further inspira-tion, Taylor said. “Naming this particular school for Dr. Delaney was very appro-priate and the ideal school to bear his name,” he said. “After all, his early life here in Charles Town dealt with trying to learn to read and write; so what better

Honoring an icon

place to be named for him than a school where learning to improve these skills is most important?”

The West Virginia Regional Math Field Day was recently held at Shepherd University. The following Jefferson County stu-dents qualified to attend the WV State Math Field day competition: Fourth Grade: First Alternate – Dan-iel Moylan, Wright Denny Intermediate School Fifth Grade: First Place – Daisy Levine, Shepherdstown Elementary School Sixth Grade: First Place – Nick Chap-man, Wildwood Middle School Seventh Grade: Second Alternate – Bai-ly Price, Charles Town Middle School Ninth Grade: Bonnie Walton, Wash-ington High School Tenth - Twelfth Grades: Sec-ond Place - Franco Posa - Jefferson High School; Third Place - James Park - Jefferson High School; Fourth Place - Tim Scott - Washington High School; Fifth Place - Paul Sibrell - Washington High School; and Sixth Place - Levi Spickler - Jefferson High School. The 38th West Virginia State Math Field Day Competition will be held at Concord University on April 21.

10 students qualify for W.Va. regional math field day

On Feb. 26, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3522, Charles Town, and its Ladies Auxiliary, hosted a luncheon and awards ceremony to honor local Jef-ferson County students who were this year’s winners of the annual Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen contests. Certificates of Merit and cash awards were presented to the students by Com-mander Todd Kingsbury and Ladies Auxiliary President Tish Von Wald. The Voice of Democracy contest is a speech contest in which high school students record a three to five minute speech answering the question: Is There Pride in Serving in our Military? This year’s local winners were: First Place – Molly Potter; Second Place – Andrew Scott and Third Place – Jheri Liskey. Potter’s speech was forwarded to com-pete at the District 4 level where she placed third. The Patriot’s Pen contest is a 300-400 word essay written by 6th, 7th and 8th grade students answering the ques-tion: Are you Proud of Your Country? This year’s local winners were: first place – Hunter Palmer; second place – Mia Holland and third place – David Morgan. Essays submitted by first and second place winners were forward-ed to compete at the District 4 level. Palmer won first place and Holland placed third. Palmer’s essay was forwarded as Dis-trict 4’s entry to the Department level for judging, competing against eight other VFW District entries in West Vir-ginia. Palmer won first place at the state level and his essay was forwarded as West Virginia’s entry to compete at the national level. Kingsbury announced at the luncheon that Hunter placed 13th in the national competition and will be awarded a $2,000 savings bond.

Local students honored by VFW

Jefferson High School is in need of volunteers for the all night after prom “lock-in” party. For more information, contact 304-725-8491, ext. 6138 or [email protected].

Volunteers needed for Jefferson High after-prom party

The Appalachian Studies Program at Shepherd University is sponsoring a Celtic Roots travel course in spring 2013. The course will include a travel compo-nent to Ireland, Scotland, and parts of England influenced by Celtic culture and heritage. Shepherd and community members are invited to join students on this journey into the Celtic heartland. The trip will include a visit to the Ring of Kerry, W. B. Yeats’ Coole Park, James Joyce’s Dublin, Blar-ney Castle, Rock of Cashel, Museum of Kerry Life and Gardens, Muckross House and Gardens, and Trinity Col-lege, home of the Book of Kells in Ire-land. Part of the travel will explore the Robert Burns’ National Heritage Park, Glasgow’s Museum of the Ar-

gyll, Sutherland Highlanders Buchan-an Street, Merchant City, Stirling Cas-tle, Sir Walter Scott’s Edinburgh and Abbottsford, and Bram Stoker’s Whit-by in Scotland. The end of trip will be spent in London. Anyone interested in the Celtic Roots trip is invited to join the spring 2013 class sessions exploring the literature, both Appalachian and Celtic, associated with the travel adventure. For more in-formation about the travel course, visit http://webpages.shepherd.edu/sshurbut/travelcourse1.htm. Travelers should contact Dr. Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Appalachian studies coordinator, at [email protected]. Initial deadline for the $500 de-posit is March 31.

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MARTINSBURG – Rendering taps at mili-tary funerals is the traditional way to pay trib-ute to veterans who have served their coun-try. But what happens when a bugle falls si-lent? An airman with the West Virginia Air Na-tional Guard’s 167th Airlift Wing didn’t just find out firsthand. He lent a hand. Earlier this month in Martinsburg, Senior Master Sgt. Todd Kirkwood was augmenting a veterans’ color guard team at a funeral for an Air Force veteran who had served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. “Taps was to sound while we were holding the American flag over the casket, but there was just silence,” Kirkwood said. A member of the local veterans’ color guard team was using a ceremonial bugle to per-form taps when the electronic device insert-ed in the instrument malfunctioned. In Sep-tember 2003, the Department of Defense ap-proved use of the bugle which allows a mem-ber of the military honor guard to play taps when a live bugler is not available. At that time Kirkwood and Senior Airman Ben Smith stepped away from the casket with the American flag in their hands and proceed-ed to perform the 13 steps required to fold the

colors so it could be presented to the family of the veteran. “I heard the funeral director come from behind my shoulder and explain to the fam-ily that there was a technical difficulty and that we would not be able to offer taps,” he said. As he prepared to exit the tent after present-ing the American flag to one of the veteran’s daughters, Kirkwood stopped in front of the funeral director and asked him to request that the family remain seated. “We are going to offer this veteran taps,” Kirkwood said. The Greencastle, Pa., resident marched to where the bugler was standing. “I said ‘Sir,’ in a respectful way, ‘Will you remove the elec-tronic device from your bugle?’” After removing the electronic device, the man without hesitation offered Kirkwood the bugle. “I marched back into position and faced our fallen American hero and his family and sounded taps,” the senior master sergeant said. “I could see within the first two notes com-ing out of the horn the emotional reaction (from the family),” Kirkwood said. “Some members of the family stood and placed their hands over the heart.” “As always, after the final note of taps, we render the final salute,” he said, after which

he returned the bugle to the member of the veterans group and attempted to march back into place alongside Senior Airman Smith. But he didn’t get far. “The family intercepted me as I passed the tent and shook my hand and thanked me,” he said “I simply told them that that veteran de-served to have taps sounded.” Prior to his impromptu rendering of the tribute, Kirkwood had only played the 24 notes a handful of times over the past six months. Chief Master Sgt. Ron Glazer Sr. had recruit-ed Kirkwood to learn to play the notes. Glazer himself was handpicked to sound the bugle at the July 2010 memorial service for U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd. Kirkwood had learned how to play the trumpet in elementary school, a talent he honed through junior high. “That’s going to be the last tangible memo-ry that the family will have of their loved one and you don’t want to mess it up,” Kirkwood said. “You want to offer your best.” Kirkwood has been with the Wing’s Base Honor Guard, an all-volunteer organization, for nearly a year. He has been a member of the 167th Airlift Wing for more than 26 years.

— Sherree Grebenstein is a staff sergeant with the West Virginia Air National Guard’s 167th Airlift Wing.

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There's still time to flex your mental muscles at Brain Games, where dozens of teams from across the Panhandle gather to tackle tough trivia ques-tions. "The main goal of Brain Games is to raise money for the Literacy Volun-teers of the Eastern Panhandle," ex-

plains Judy Malone, the competition's longtime orga-nizer. "It's just a really fun way to do that." Since 1998, Brain Games' registration fees have translated into thousands for Literacy Volunteers, the volunteer organization that provides free tutoring to adults struggling with reading and for those learning English as a second language throughout Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan counties. Bob Fleenor, a Martinsburg resident who was a five-time champion on Jeopardy! in 2001, has competed at Brain Games for the past 11 years as part of a team from the Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Md. "We've won it five times, including the last two," Fleenor explains. "Jeopar-dy! was much less nerve-wracking." This year's competition happens April 1, and teams who sign up before the early bird registration deadline of Satur-day pay $25 per person. After that date, the per-person signup fee increases to $30. Teams must have at least three members and may have up to six. Area businesses sponsor many of the teams and others are composed of friends or family members. This year, the cranial competition happens not in Shepherdstown as in years past but at the James Rumsey Technical Institute on W.Va. 9 east of Hedgesville.

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When technology failed, Senior Master Sgt. Todd Kirkwood of the West Virginia Air National Guard stepped in to play taps for an Air Force veteran who’d served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. “That’s going to be the last tangible memory that the family will have of their loved one,” he said.

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Bridge, Bunco & Mahjong Par-ty: 10 a.m. today at Cress Creek Country Club, Shepherdstown. The 11th annual event benefits Good Shepherd Caregivers. Tick-ets cost $30, which includes lunch. Reservations required. For details, see www.gsivc.org or call 304-876-3325.

Blood drives: Several blood drives are scheduled in the Panhandle for the coming week, including from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at the Veterans Affairs Medical Cen-ter, 510 Butler Ave. in Martins-burg; from 2 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Rocky Knoll School, 52 Advent Drive in Martinsburg; from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at Shep-herd University, 301 King St., Shepherdstown; 2 to 7 p.m. Fri-day at Hedgesville Volunteer Fire Co., 4217 Hedgesville Road; and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Shannondale Community Cen-ter, 58 Mission Road, Harpers Fer-ry. For more information, go to www.redcrosswv.org or contact

the Red Cross's Eastern Pan-handle office at 1948 Wilt-shire Road in Kearneysville. The phone number is 304-725-5015.

Monthly meeting: East-ern Panhandle Conserva-tion District meets 7 tonight. USDA Service Center, 151 Aikens Center, Martinsburg. For details, call 304-263-4376.

Ribbon cutting: Officials from the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce will be on hand for the Hampton Inn & Suites' official grand opening at 5 p.m. today at the hotel at 157 Pimlico Drive in Charles Town.

Birding trip: Nature lovers can meet at 8 a.m. today at Martin’s at 190 Flowing Springs Road, Charles Town, for a birding trip to the Shenandoah River sponsored by the Potomac Valley Audubon Society. For details, email [email protected] or call 240-291-6465

4-H meeting: The Shenandoah Mountaineers 4-H meeting starts at 7 tonight at Middleway Unit-ed Methodist Church in Kear-neysville.

Business leaders: Jefferson Coun-ty Chamber of Commerce's month-ly membership meeting starts at noon Thursday at the Quali-ty Hotel Conference Center, 4328 William L. Wilson Freeway, Harp-

ers Ferry. For details, email [email protected] or call 304-725-2055.Food fundraiser: The Brothers of Harmony Masonic Lodge No. 42 F&AM will sell lunch Saturday from noon until the food is sold out at the lodge on North Maiden Lane in Shepherdstown. Choice of fish or fried chicken with baked beans, cole slaw, green beans, ap-plesauce and rolls for $10. Carry-out is available as is free delivery for anyone who pre-orders five or more meals. For details, call 304-267-2588 or 304-240-9102.

Ghost tours: Charles Town Ghost Tours' 2012 season kicks off at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 100 E. Wash-ington St., Charles Town. Admis-sion costs $10 for those 12 and older or $5 for younger children. For details, call 304-724-6741.

Dinner-dance: Inwood-Bunker Hill Lions Club’s annual Spring Dinner, Dance and Silent Auc-tion starts at 6 p.m. Saturday at Tobin’s Banquet Hall, 6332 Winchester Ave., Inwood. Tick-ets cost $25. For details, call 304-229-7949.

Stories from Iraq: Beth Pyl-es, a former lawyer and minister, has worked extensively in Iraq since 2005 as a member of Chris-tian Peacemaking Team. The free talk begins at 9 a.m. Saturday in the fellowship hall of the Shep-herdstown Presbyterian Church at 100 W. Washington St. For more

on Christian Peacemaking Teams, see www.cpt.org.

Spay Today fundraiser: Walk or run the Tails on Trails, a non-competitive 5K & 10K that be-gins at 10 a.m. Saturday at Blandy Farm State Arboretum in Boyce, Va. $25. For details, call 304-724-6558 or go to www.baacs.org.

Medical seminar: West Virginia University Hospitals-East experts present information for those con-sidering a lap-band procedure for losing weight. The free talk starts at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Rob-ert C. Byrd Health Sciences Cen-ter on the campus of City Hospi-tal, 2500 Hospital Drive in Mar-tinsburg. Reservations must be made by Friday. To sign up or get more information, call 304-596-6900.

Learn about coffee: A coffee tast-ing event happens from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Charles Town Li-brary, 200 E. Washington St. The coffee experts at Charles Town's Jumpin' Java will help participants learn to distinguish different beans and roasts. Free coffee and treats will be served and coffee also will be available for purchase. For de-tails, call 304-725-2208.

Dinner meeting: The Henry Kyd Douglas Camp Sons of the Con-federacy hold its monthly dinner meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Inde-pendent Fire Co., 200 W. Second Ave., Ranson. For details, email [email protected].

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Basketball signup: Boys and girls ages 4 to 18 must sign up by April 13 to take part in the Ran-son Parks and Recreation and Jef-ferson County Parks and Recre-ation's basketball league. The cost is $60 per child, with a discount for multiple youngsters from the same household. Register online at www.jcprc.org. For more infor-mation, call 304-728-3207.

Help for Coach Mike Grant: Next month brings a Cash Bonanza to benefit Mike Grant, the assistant Washington High football coach who has been fighting cancer since late 2011. The April 14 fundraiser, held from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Ranson Civic Center, will offer $6,500 in cash prizes, including a grand prize of $2,500. Also planned: a silent auc-tion, a mini-corn hole tournament, a DJ and other fun. Each $50 tick-et includes dinner for two and one chance for the cash drawing. Be-cause the event will include gam-bling and beer sales, it is not kid-friendly. To buy tickets or drop off items for the silent auctions, stop by Studio M, 132 W. Wash-ington St., Charles Town; Jeffer-son Asphalt, 9390 Middleway Pike, Charles Town; or the Spir-it of Jefferson, 210 N. George St., Charles Town. Direct ques-tions to Ronda Lehman at 304-261-8070.

Poetry sought: Anyone can sub-

mit a poem to be displayed during the Potomac Valley Audubon Soci-ety's April 14 Wildflower Festival. The festival will focus on spring themes. Poems may be dropped off at Four Seasons Books, 116 W. German St, in Shepherdstown, emailed to [email protected] or mailed to Poetry Walk, c/o PVAS, P.O. Box 578, Shepherd-stown, WV 25443. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. April 6. The Wildflower Festival will happen at the Audubon Society's Yankauer Nature Preserve, north of Shepherdstown. For more in-formation, call the Audubon So-ciety at 304-676-3397 or send an email to [email protected].

Spaghetti Night: Martinsburg High's Band Boosters will hold its third-annual Jazz/Spaghetti Night April 21 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the high school at 701 S. Queen St., Martinsburg. The night will in-clude a silent auction, a regular auction, the spaghetti dinner, live jazz from students and more. For details, 304-707-1812......................................................

Send your newsPlanning an event that's open to the community? Send your Com-munity Notes submissions to Christine Miller Ford at Chris-t ine@spir i tof jefferson.com. Items may be faxed to 304-728-6856 or mailed to the Spirit of Jefferson newsroom, 210 N. George St., Charles Town, WV 25414. Questions? Call Ford at 304-725-2046.

CHRISTINE MILLER FORDSpirit Staff CHARLES TOWN – Looking for ways to add a healthy air to springtime? In the weeks ahead, the Eastern Panhandle will be home to a number of 5Ks and other outdoor events. First up is the Miana Stewart Scholarship 5K on April 14. Ran-dy and Mary Stewart of Gerrard-stown are launching the race for runners and walkers to add funds to the scholarship they created in memory of their only child. Miana was killed Oct. 13, 2005, when she came home from Musselman High School and interrupted a burglary at the family's home on Reunion Corner Road. The 5K on the track at Mussel-man's football stadium begins at 9 a.m. The cost is $20 for those who sign up by April 5 or $25 the day of the race. Those who pre-register get a T-shirt. There are discounts for students and members of the Shenandoah Valley Runners. To request a registration form or get additional details, call 304-229-5299. Also next month is This Race Is For The Birds, which happens on April 21 at the National Conserva-tion Training Center in Shepherd-stown. When it began, This Race Is For The Birds was simply a 5K run. Now the event includes two pro-fessionally timed trail races: one 4.9 miles long and another that covers 7.7 miles. A self-timed, two-mile run/walk for families and a free, one-mile fun run for chil-dren also are offered. The race at the NCTC’s lush, 538-acre campus dates to 2002, but last spring's race was cancelled at the last minute because of a federal government budget impasse. Because This Race Is For The Birds is held on federal property,

organizers opted to call off the race when congressional leaders re-mained unable to agree on a spend-ing bill as the April 9 race neared. Just minutes before the midnight budget deadline, Republican and Democratic negotiators agreed on spending reductions. Following days of closed-door talks, the shutdown was averted, but by then the race already had been scrubbed. Proceeds from This Race Is For The Birds benefit the Potomac Val-ley Audubon’s programs for chil-dren. For more on the race, which begins at 9 a.m., go to www.race-forthebirds.org. Another Jefferson County run-ning event is entering its second year. The May 12 Harpers Ferry Half Marathon includes not only the 13-mile race but also a four-mile trail run and a kids’ run. Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, the nation-ally known marathoner and run-ning expert whose autumn Free-dom’s Run marathon has quick-ly become West Virginia’s largest running event, is the organizer of the Harpers Ferry run, a hilly, chal-lenging course that begins at the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The idea, Cucuzzella has said, is to highlight the area’s national parks, engage the local community in healthy outdoor activities and to make Eastern West Virginia a des-tination anyone interested in pursu-ing fitness in an area known for its natural beauty. The race is part of the Two Riv-ers Heritage Partnership, with pro-ceeds going toward the Harpers Ferry-based For the Love of Chil-dren organization’s outdoor educa-tion center and to Eastern Panhan-dle Indigo Children. Details can be found at www.harpersferryhalf.org or by calling Two Rivers Treads, the race head-

quarters at Cucuzzella’s running outfitters in Shepherdstown at 304-876-1100. His website is www.trtreads.org. And for those who'd prefer to ride not run, there's the CASA Riv-er Century, which will bring cy-clists from near and far to Shep-herdstown for a fundraiser for the Eastern Panhandle chapter of Court Appointed Special Advo-cate, which provides volunteers to aid children have been removed from their homes because of abuse and/or neglect. The nationwide CASA program has 10 organizations in West Vir-ginia; volunteers established the Eastern Panhandle CASA in 2003. The self-paced bike ride on May 19 starts on the campus of Shepherd University. Cyclists can choose from routes of 25, 50 or 100 miles. There also is a 25-mile off-road option. Samantha Muncy, the ride direc-tor, notes River Century offers full support with breakfast, lunch and a swag bag for all riders. Aid stations also will be offered, along with a sag wagon for those who sag be-hind and need a hand getting back to the starting line. “It’s a perfect chance to ex-plore the beautiful Eastern Pan-handle,” Muncy said. “The CASA River Century offers routes for all ability levels, from families with children to recre-ational cyclists or serious cy-clists who are looking for a training event early in the sea-son. And you’ll be helping a great cause.” The event raises money through sponsorships and fees paid by rid-ers. Early-bird fees range from $20 for either of the 25-mile routes or $40 for the longer trips. After April 22, the fees increase to $35 or $50. To sign up or find out more about the race, go to www.casarivercen-tury.org.

A new Zumba class is coming to Shepherdstown next month, and April also will bring a Zumbathon in Martinsburg. Starting April 2, Liliana Robeson will lead Zumba sessions at Asbury Church, 4257 Kearneysville Pike, from 7 to 8 p.m. on Mondays. A monthly pass is available with classes costing $5 per week or anyone may pay $7 for an individual class. For more information, call 304-876-3112 or email [email protected]. Then on April 21, West Virginia University Hospitals-East will sponsor a Zumbathon to benefit the March of Dimes. The Zumbathon will be held in the parking lot of The Wellness Center on the City Hospital campus from 9 am until noon. The event is open to the public, and all ages are welcome. Each participant is asked to donate $10. All proceeds will be donated to the March of Dimes March for Babies. Zumba classes will be taught by certified Zumba instructors on staff at The Wellness Center. New ses-sions will start at the top of the hour. Participants determine how long they will Zumba. For more information on the Zumbathon, call The Wellness Center at 304-264-1232 or email [email protected].

Time for Zumba

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella is a nationally known marathoner and running expert who is helping to organize two spring running events, This Race Is For The Birds and the Harpers Ferry Half Marathon.

5Ks, other runs enliven spring in Panhandle

Health needs of county: The Healthier Jefferson County or-ganization will meet at noon Monday in the first floor con-ference room at Jefferson Me-morial Hospital. The group will continue to discuss how best to meet the county's changing needs, how best to partner with other community agencies and will hear from Bob Shefner, the executive director of Jefferson

Healthy ideasCounty Community Ministries. For more information, contact Arlene Fernandez-Anderson, the executive resident for ad-ministration at the hospital, at 304-728-1707 or email her at [email protected]. Trainer classes: Blue Ridge Community and Technical Col-lege in Martinsburg is offering

classes for anyone interested in becoming a certified personal trainer. The course begins Sat-urday and continues through June. For more information, call Ce Nichols at 304-260-4380, Ext. 2411 or Cynthia Hull at 304-260-4380, Ext. 2405 or send an email to [email protected]. The school is located at 5550 Win-chester Ave., Martinsburg.


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Lenten traditionMembers of St. James Catholic Church, includ-ing (above, from left) Christian Samuelson, Syd Smith, and Jack Capriolo and serve up fried fish, french fries, green beans and rolls to hungry parish-ioners and members of the public on Friday eve-ning. The fundraiser meals, held on Fridays dur-ing Lent at the church at 49 Crosswinds Drive in Charles Town, continue from 5 to 8 p.m. this week and again March 30. RIGHT: Keegan Azar, 4, was dining with his parents and four siblings. The meals provide operating funds for the church’s Knights of Columbus charity. Local Boy Scouts handle des-sert, with pies, cakes and other treats available by donation. Organizers note that the church will not host a Fish Fry on Good Friday.

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The cover story of Nation-al Geographic for March fea-tures “The Journey of the Apostles,” focusing on St. Thomas, St. Mark and St. Mary Magdalene. However, it also offers a thumbnail sketch of the jour-neys of all the apostles, as detailed in the New Testa-ment’s “Acts of the Apostles” and other early Christian lit-erature. It makes the point that Mary Magdalene, “from whom Jesus cast out seven demons,” was the first to see Jesus after his resurrection, and the one who let the oth-er followers know that Jesus was alive, despite having died on the cross. She found his formerly sealed tomb empty. However, it is only recently — comparatively speaking — that she has been referred to as the “Apostle to the Apos-tles.” According to the maga-zine, and many stories from c o n t e m p o r a r y sources, Mary Magadalene end-ed her life at Maximilien-Ste. Baume, in the Provence region of France, a long way from the Holy Land. Peo-ple still come to her shrine there, especially wom-en praying to have children. People travel great distances to see the relics of St. Mark in Venice, and to trace the foot-steps of St. Thomas, the mis-sionary to India, or the path that St. James followed on the Iberian peninsula, now known as Spain. The journey as a metaphor for spiritual life predates Je-sus, whose travels through-out the Holy Land are a huge part of his ministry. The be-ginnings of the Jewish nation have their roots in Abram’s departure from Ur to settle in Canaan. His ancestors, Adam and Eve, take a journey they might have preferred not to take when God evicts them from the Garden of Eden for disobeying him. The story of Abram’s wanderings to Egypt, his return to Canaan, his re-naming as Abraham, and the promise that God will make his descendants “as numerous as the stars in the sky” contin-ues with the journeys of those

descendants. Father Abra-ham’s grandson, Jacob, leaves his home to seek a wife and to get away from his wrath-ful brother, whose birthright Jacob stole, and his descen-dants go to Egypt to seek food in a time of famine. The book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is the story of those journeys. The journey of those de-scendants, from slavery in Egypt to a new life in Canaan, which they name “Israel” in honor of their ancestor Ja-cob, forms the central story of the second book of the Bible, Exodus. That journey, led by Moses, a descendant of Jacob, provides the Hebrew people with a history that focuses on the journey. In Israel, they continue to live in tents, and to worship in a tabernacle that is, essential-ly, a big fancy tent, for many years after they complete their 40-year journey to a new

home. It is as if they are always ready to be on the move again. Their experience changes as they become less peo-ple who follow flocks from grassland to grassland, and more people who cultivate land, and need a per-manent place to stay as they do so. Even so, when they remember their history, they are asked to begin

to tell their remembrance of their history by saying, “My ancestor (Abram) was a wan-dering Aramean…” If we go back far enough, all of us have ancestors who were wanderers. John Gardner, the American novelist and teacher, said, “There are only two stories in the world: one is, ‘Someone goes on a journey,’ and the other is, ‘A stranger comes to town.’” The Bible and other great scrip-tures let us know that the jour-ney made by the apostles was not unusual, but rather a part of the human story. St. Augustine said, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their home in you.” As the journey through Lent continues, the saint’s wisdom is worth re-membering.

—The Rev. Georgia DuBose is the priest at St. John's Episco-pal Church in Harpers Ferry.

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Thrift event: Trinity Episco-pal Church Thrift Shop at 104 S. Church St., Shepherdstown, of-fers its "Fill a Bag Sale" Thurs-day through March 31. For de-tails, call 304-876-6990.

Iraq anecdotes: Beth Pyles, a former lawyer and a minister in southern West Virginia, will speak at 9 a.m. Saturday in the fellow-ship hall of the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church at 100 W. Washington St. Pyles has worked extensively in Iraq since 2005 as a member of Christian Peace-making Team. For details, call the church at 304-876- 6466.

Homeschool conference: The Eastern Panhandle Home School Conference starts at 7:30 a.m. Sat-

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urday at Covenant Baptist Church, 7485 Shepherdstown Pike, Shep-herdstown. $25 registration fee. For details, call 304-876-8535 or email [email protected].

Pancake supper: Supper happens from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Chest-nut Hill United Methodist Church, 1523 Hostler Rd., Harpers Ferry. Menu includes pancakes, sausage, sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, applesauce, coffee, iced tea and soda. Adults, $7; chil-dren, 6 to 12, $3.50; under 6, free. For details, call 304-876-6992.

Woman’s Day: The House of Prayer Church of God at 501 W. Congress St., Charles Town, holds its annual Woman's Day at 4 p.m. Sunday with evangelist Michelle Parran, co-pastor of Restoration Temple of Waldorf, Md., as guest speaker and music by the Restora-tion Adult Choir.

Looking ahead

Soup sale: A soup sale happens

from 9 a.m.to 3 p.m. March 30 at St. John Lutheran Church, Harp-ers Ferry. Menu includes vegeta-ble and potato soup; country ham and steamer sandwiches; hot dogs; cakes, cookies, homemade Easter candy and Easter flowers.

Hymn sing: A special hymn sing starts at 6 p.m. March 31 at Silver Grove United Methodist Church. For details, call 304-725-1346.

Special for Easter: Middleway United Methodist Church hosts an Easter egg hunt at 1 p.m. March 31; an Easter Cantata at 10:30 a.m. April 1; and a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. April 5. For more information, call 304-728-4770.

Seder dinner: Dinner starts at 6 p.m. April 5 at Trinity Epis-copal Church, Shepherdstown. $10. There will be a service of Holy Eucharist and the Strip-ping of the Altar at 8 p.m. For details, call 304-876-6990.

Concert: Grammy winner Ja-

son Crabb will be in concert at 7 p.m. April 27 at New Destiny Ministry Center, Kearneysville. Tickets, $20. For details, call 304-725-6185 or visit www.newdestiny.us. For information on Crabb, go to www.jason-crabb.com.

---The Spirit of Jefferson wants your news for our Church Bul-letin. Email notices about your church's special events to Christine Miller Ford at [email protected] with "Church bulletin" in the subject line. Items may be faxed to 304-728-6856 or mailed to Church Bulletin, c/o Spirit of Jefferson newsroom, 210 N. George St., Charles Town, WV 25414. Items for the March 28 edition should arrive in the newsroom by 3 p.m. Friday. Space in our print edi-tion is limited. Questions? Call Ford at 304-725-2046. Or, if you'd prefer to run a display ad highlighting your special event, call Advertising Manager Kar-en Bowers at 304-725-2046.


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012Farm

Far Muse

Ted Kalvitis

For me, one really neat thing about Jefferson County is that it borders the two Virginia coun-ties where most of my life actu-ally happens, Clarke and Loud-oun. I had long been trying to get a column in the Loudoun Times Mirror. The purpose of the col-umn would be to promote the repair business (this was the original purpose of NPR’s Car Talk. The managing editor at the time of my earliest attempts, Pam Lettie, was a regular cus-tomer of my tractor repair busi-ness which I thought would help. When I did an article about the public roadside chalkboard at Lincoln, Loudoun County, in a nationally published magazine, I thought that I was a shoe-in. I submitted a proposal and wait-ed for the phone to ring as if on cue — it still hasn’t. Pam retired from the Times Mirror in favor of doing free-lance photogra-phy and I would have to start over with a complete stranger — not good. I also sent a proposal to the Winchester Star when they ac-quired the Clarke Courier. Tiny Clarke County may have need-ed its own news-paper in the horse and buggy days but in this age of the telephone, au-tomobile and that interwhatchama-callit, its news is easily consoli-dated with that of Winchester and Frederick County which is exactly what the Winchester Star has done. No more Clarke Courier — oh well. I may be making it sound as though I’m “settling” for a col-umn in the Hampshire Review — no way — I’ve been pub-lished nationally for over 20 years so that’s not an issue. To write for the Hampshire Re-view, West Virginia’s oldest newspaper, and to also be pub-lished in the Spirit — the state’s second oldest newspaper, is an honor that makes one feel like a part of a long history. The larg-er publishers that I deal with agree and are quick to mention this with any biographical in-formation. Still, I never imag-ined that writing for the Review would lead to Far Muse becom-ing available in Loudoun. The list of places that car-ry the Spirit has Sweet Springs Country Store listed as being in Purcellville — ah, direct hit, I thought, right in the middle of Loudoun. However, I could not remember seeing such a place there. As it turns out, this is be-cause of a postal anomaly. Sweet Springs is actually in the far north western corner of the county, just inside the state line. The post office at Hills-boro, which is actually clos-er than Purcellville, has no ru-ral delivery service. Rural mail delivery in that area is accom-plished through the Purcellville post office, thus leaving every-one up that way with a Purcell-ville mailing address. I used to do a lot of business up that way back in the 1990s. The area is now served by a very capable and deserving col-league who just happens to live in that community. Now that we’re 13 years into the succeed-ing decade and century, I guess it’s acceptable to wax nostalgic about those days — indeed, a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. Pierre Lampretti had an In-ternational 424 tractor with a Befco finish mower. Pierre is a geological economist who travels the world assessing the value of proposed mining ven-tures. However, whenever pre-sented with a bill, he was sure to remind me that he was “just a poor prospector.” Somehow, this well traveled, highly dig-nified and well spoken gentle-man didn’t quite fit the image of the grizzled, dusty figure peck-ing on rocks and abandoning his worthless claim one pick-axe swing short from the moth-er lode. Pierre spent most of his youth in occupied France under the boot of Nazi dictatorship. He’s not quick to relate tales from this experience though he seems to prefer that those whom he

deals with know about it in a general way. This, I’ve noticed, is not uncommon among those who share this history. Their home was not all that large, I suppose — the many trees and creative gardening made this difficult to determine, anyway. What I found most in-teresting, though, was that it seemed to consist of several cottages, studios, workshops and a library scattered about the wooded grounds along graveled pathways. Pierre’s wife, Sheila, would usually issue my check from the library in this fairy tale setting and we would some-times ponder over some myste-rious antique farm gadget that she had found in the old barn-yard or fence row. Donald Jennings, a retired superintendent of schools, was another pleasant and interesting fellow. Donald’s was the typi-cal retiree hobby farm with a late model Ford/New Holland tractor with a comfortable cab that must have been a real bless-ing while moving snow. Anoth-er tractor was a Massey Fergu-

son 2675, anoth-er cab and load-er equipped mon-ster. I actually have some facto-ry training on this machine which helped some but I was still limit-ed by the tractor’s being so large. A 2,000-pound transmission is a bit much to be tossing around in the field. I usual-

ly abhor sitting around a living room just visiting. After accept-ing my payment, though, I al-ways enjoyed visiting this way with Donald, the large sliding glass door making it possible for me to remain connected to the outdoors. He was a wealth of Loudoun history and subtle country humor. The third trac-tor on the Jennings farm was a Farmall C — my favorite, of course. Part of Donald’s retirement occupation was to look after the neighboring farm belonging to a 60-something little blonde pow-erhouse, Madeline Albright. Al-bright could often be seen walk-ing great distances around the place or gardening, canning and getting her new Mercedes stuck in the pasture. She did all of this in addition to a regular job which required much travel and probably left her with perpetual jet lag. There are some overly enter-prising types who paint worn out yellow industrial tractors ag-ricultural tractor colors and sell them to hobby farmers. Such was the case at Albright Farm. Her Massey Ferguson 135 de-veloped problems and required a new crankshaft, clutch and ex-tensive work on the hydraulics. This was toward the end of the Clinton administration. I told a local Hampshire County building contractor who is fa-miliar with the reality of collec-tion problems that I had invest-ed $2,000 in a tractor belonging to a 63-year-old woman who was already receiving a govern-ment check and was about to lose her job. His eyes got quite large — it was fun. One lesson that I took with me from the Jennings and Al-bright farms is that it serves one well to remember that the back of the barn of one farm may face a familiar path or wood-lot of the next. This lesson was made all the more memorable by my nearly being caught ad-dressing nature in the tradition-al manner by the U.S. Secretary of State, her security entourage and the president of Palestine. There were several other fa-mous clients in that little name dropper’s paradise. I don’t know if all of these people are still around. If I had the opportunity to serve this little enclave again, having aged somewhat, I would likely have to decline. With writ-ing four columns, engaging in a volunteer ministry, repairing and maintaining our home and vehi-cles, the work that I do for my old regulars is quite enough. Well, my reason for wanting a column in Loudoun no longer exists, but here, we are. Hope-fully, more stores in Loudoun will carry The Spirit. I have no idea where this might lead but we may as well complete what was started so long ago.

A subtle incursion

ROBERT SMITH Spirit Staff

WINCHESTER, Va. – There’s a revolution afoot in food con-sumption, and growers and producers are trying to get in front of it. At the eighth annual Forum for Rural Innovation held March 9 in Winchester, Va., farm and agricultural related businesses from multiple states were on hand to showcase innovative programs and projects. The Forum for Rural Innovation is a cooperative educational effort by the Offices of Agricultural Development and Coop-erative Extension in Clarke, Fauquier and Loudoun counties in Virginia; Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in West Virginia; the town of Berryville, Va.; and the Small Business Development Center of the Eastern Panhandle. The purpose of the forum is to highlight new projects that increase farm and rural business profitability. Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture was among the participants. A network of farmers, agricultural pro-fessionals, landowners and consumers living and working in the Chesapeake region, Future Harvest promotes profitable, environ-mentally sound and socially acceptable food and farming systems that work to sustain communities. Economic conditions and a trend toward healthy eating habits are driving consumers to alternate food sources. “With the recession, we have seen double digit growth in organ-ic and locally-produced fresh food,” said Alice Chalmers, execu-tive director of Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustain-able Agriculture.

Mock’s Greenhouse in Berkeley Springs is an example of a local, alternate food source whose business is growing. A hydroponic operation, Mock’s consists of three greenhous-es: one freestanding greenhouse to grow lettuce and one two bay greenhouse to grow tomatoes. The business is one of a handful of Good Agriculture Practices certified hydroponic growers on the East Coast. A variety of produce is grown — bibb lettuce, water-cress, a variety of tomatoes and herbs such as basil, arugula and ci-lantro — and 97 percent of the produce is sold to specialty markets in the Washington/Baltimore area. Representatives from the American Livestock Breeds Conser-vancy from Pittsboro, N.C. showcased their efforts to rescue en-dangered species of farm animals. “Big agriculture relies on a few breeds of livestock for their needs. Many traditional breeds are threatened with extinction,” said Ryan Walker, membership services manager. “We haven’t lost any breeds since our founding in 1977.” The conservancy’s programs include research on breed popula-tion size, distribution and genetic health; research on breed charac-teristics; gene banks to preserve genetic material from endangered breeds; rescues of threatened populations; education about genetic diversity and the role of livestock in sustainable agriculture; and technical support to a network of breeders, breed associations and farmers. Other participants at the forum included Sustainable Piedmont Agriculture, Oak Hart Farm, Small Business Development Center, Michael Harman of the Jefferson County Co-op Extension and Ste-phen Versen of the Virginia Department of Agriculture.

Bill Mackintosh, of MacKintosh Fruit Farm in Berryville, explains the processes by which the farm grows, harvests and markets the large variety of fruits and vegetables they grow every year.

ROBERT SMITH

Sowing good food ideas for the future

Agricultural Scoop

West Virginia Farm Bureau

The monthly meeting of the Jefferson County Farm

Bureau will be held onTUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012

AT 7:30 PMat the Jefferson County Public Services Building.

The meeting is open to the public and JCFB members

are welcome to attend. Meetings are held the 1st Tuesday of every month.

Questions may be directed to Heather Ishman at 304-876-0611 or [email protected].

Monthly Meeting

Program signup deadline is June 1 Jefferson County farmers should note that the deadline to sign up for the 2012 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment and the Average Crop Revenue Elec-tion program is June 1, accord-ing to Robyn Potter, executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Jefferson County. Eligible producers receive direct payments at rates estab-lished by statute regardless of market prices. For details on DCP or ACRE, contact the Jefferson Coun-ty FSA office at 209 E. Third Ave. in Ranson or call 304-725-3471, ext 2. Information can also be obtained at www.fsa.usda.gov.

Loans available to beginning farmers MARTINSBURG — Farm-ers looking for money to pur-chase or operate a farm may want to contact the USDA. According to Dale Dugan Jr., farm loan manager to the US-DA’s Farm Service Agency in Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire and Mineral coun-ties, the USDA has loan funds available for beginning farmer applicants in West Virginia to buy and operate family-sized farms and ranches. “These funds are set aside for applicants who are classi-fied by the agency as begin-ning farmers,” Dugan said. In addition to agency eligibil-ity requirements, a beginning farmer is defined as an indi-

vidual who has not operated a farm for more than 10 years and will materially and sub-stantially participate in the op-eration of the farm. For farm ownership loans, a beginning farmer cannot own farm acreage in excess of 30 percent of the average size farm in the county at the time of application, and they must have at least three years expe-rience operating a farm. Beginning farmer loan ap-plicants do not receive auto-matic approval. Individuals must be U.S. citizens with a satisfactory history of meeting credit obligations; have suf-ficient education, training or experience managing or oper-ating a farm; possess legal ca-pacity to incur debt; feasible plan; and be unable to obtain credit elsewhere. To get more information, write to the local FSA Office at 151 Aikens Center, Suite 5 in Martinsburg or call 304-263-7547, ext. 2.

More than $32,000generated at FFA sale The 69th annual State FFA Ham, Bacon and Egg Show and Sale was held March 12 and buyers’ generosity pro-duced another successful night for the high school stu-dents whose projects were auctioned at the event with the auction raising $32,250. The top six projects of the night and their sale prices were: • Grand champion ham –Ashley Cain, Cameron High School, $8,625

• Grand champion bacon– Andrew Linville, Cabell Midland, $2,475 • Grand champion eggs– Christina Gower, Nich-olas County High School, $1,250 • Reserve champion ham– J.P. Fleshed, Tyler Con-solidated, $2,200 • Reserve champion ba-con – Hope Stewart, Tyler Consolidated, $280 •Reservechampioneggs– Alexis Aston, Cameron High School, $500

The sale has generated more than $1.2 million in the nearly seven decades it has been con-ducted. Sponsors of the show are the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, West Virginia De-partment of Education, Gov-ernor’s Office and clothing manufacturer Carhartt. Ronald Morrison Auction Services and Resource Marketing Inc. have provided free auction services for the show for many years. For more information, visit www.wvffa.org.





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SLAUGHTER COWS 68 head $2 LowerBREAKERS 75-83Breakers H Dressing To $87BONERS $76-85Boners H Dressing $88-93LEAN $70-76THIN & LIGHT $70 DownBULLS Strong DemandYG #1 1928 lbs. at $99.501@ 1050 lbs. at $88.50FED STEERS 20 head Few OfferedHigh Choice 1300-1450 lbs. $128-129; 1500-1600 lbs. $124-127.50Select 1100-1375 lbs. $116-120FED HEIFERS1496 lbs. at 124.75Dairy Replacements NONE By the HeadCALVES 79 head Record PricesHolstein Bull to returning farm $50-80 Higher#1 80-110 lbs. $265-290; #2 80-120 lbs. $250-265; #3 74-120 lbs. $180-235Holstein Heifers Steady Prices1 & 2 74-110 lbs. $180-235Beef X Bull 70-100 lbs. $145-1701 @ 100lbs. at $240Slaughter CalvesGood 70-100 lbs. $65-95BUTCHER HOGS 79 head $2-4 Higher# 1 & 2 270-300 lbs. $72-79# 1 & 3 235-270 lbs. $67-71 300-350 lbs. $65-75Sows 9 head $2-4 Lower400-675 lbs. $59-61; 690-725 lbs. $57-59

Boars 2 head306 lbs. at $46; 480 lbs. at $28.50STOCK CATTLE 173 head Active Bidding From Large CrowdFEEDER STEERS M&L Frames350-450 lbs. $150-187; 450-650 lbs. $145-175; 650-750 lbs. $140-150; 750-825 lbs. $135-145Holsteins200-300 lbs. $115-130; 400-600 lbs. $95-118FEEDER HEIFERS M&L Frames280-450 lbs. $135-160; 450-650 lbs. $130-157FEEDER BULLS M&L Frames300-400 lbs. $175-195; 400-500 lbs. $150-180; 500-650 lbs. $140-154; 650-725 lbs. $130-137; 750-850 lbs. $97-110Beef Stock Cows NONELAMBS NONESHEEP NONEGOATS 17 Head Sold By the HeadMedium Billies $140-185Wethers To $190Selection 1 Kid 20-25 lbs. $52-72Selection 2 Kid 20-35 lbs. $45-55; 50-70 lbs. $75-115PIGS & SHOATS 71 HeadSOLD BY THE HEAD1 Lot 50 lbs. at $65; 75-95 lbs. $70-85BY THE POUND130-180 lbs. $84-86; 180-220 lbs. $60-72

Wednesday March 21 Special Dairy Cattle Sale at 7:15 p.m.

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HOGS: 2 - 200-250 lbs. - $71.SOWS: 1 - $60.LAMBS: 17 - Hi Choice & Prime - $180; Choice - $180.SLAUGHTER EWES: 15 - $88-95. KID GOATS: 20-40 lbs. - $240; 40-60 lbs. - $210-245; 60-80 lbs. - $192.SLAUGHTER CATTLECOWS: 110 – Utility & Comm. - $77-94; Canner & Cutter - $60-68.50; Cutter & Bng. - $73.50-89.50.BULLS: 24 - 1-2 - 1 @ $79.50; $85.50-105.25.STOCK COWS: 62 - BH - $975 -1,550.BABY CALVES: 10 - BH - $110-180. FEEDER CATTLE:STEERS: 430 - Med & Lge #1 –300-400 lbs. - $186-213; 400-500 lbs. – $185-206; 500-600 lbs. – $181-198; 600-700 lbs. - $165-182; 700-800 lbs. - $145-154; 900-1,100 lbs. - $130-134.25. Med & Lge #2 – 300-400 lbs. - $178-182; 400-500 lbs. - $170-187; 500-600 lbs. - $171-186; 600-700 lbs. - $151-167; 700-800 lbs. - $129-144.50;

800-900 lbs. - $127.50-135; 900-1,100 lbs. - $130-134.25.HEIFERS: 529 - Med & Lge #1 –200-300 lbs. - $175; 300-400 lbs. – $156-176; 400-500 lbs. - $150-173; 500-600 lbs. - $147-164; 600-700 lbs. - $134-153.50; 700-800 lbs. - $128-139. Med & Lge #2 – 300-400 lbs. - $130-145; 400-500 lbs. - $142-150; 500-600 lbs. - $143-153.50; 600-700 lbs. - $128-140; 700-800 lbs. - $111-125. BULLS: 320 - Med & Lge #1 –200-300 lbs. - $195-229; 300-400 lbs - $186-211; 400-500 lbs. – $180-200; 500-600 lbs. - $155-170; 600-700 lbs. - $142-155; 700-800 lbs. - $118-130; 800-900 lbs. - $113. Med & Lge #2 – 300-400 lbs. - $160-180; 400-500 lbs. - $160-177; 500-600 lbs. - $142-157; 600-700 lbs. - $124.50-136; 700-800 lbs. - $106-112.GOATS: 47TOTAL: 1,567Regular sale every Monday, 1 p.m. State graded feeder sale 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. Fat cattle sale 1st Monday of each month at 3 p.m.

Farmers Livestock ExchangeWinchester, Va.540-667-1023

Upper crustOfficials with the West Virginia State Fair want to find the state’s top pie baker. Through April 6, anyone may nominate a friend, family member or neighbor at www.statefairofwv.com or by sending your name, address and phone number along with the nominee’s name, address, county and phone number to State Fair of West Virginia, P.O. Drawer 986, Lewisburg, WV 24901. The baker from each county who gets the most votes online will be invited to the fair’s bakeoff on Aug. 11. This year’s fair happens Aug. 10 to 18 in Lewsburg.

With spring’s start on Tues-day, it’s the perfect time for youngsters to visit farms across the Panhandle. Playing with ani-mals and running around in the vast outdoors are what many kids adore. But as fun as a trip to a farm can be, parents know they can be full of danger, too. Fortunately, there are many ways concerned parents can protect their kids without taking the fun out of the visit. Some tips to keep in mind:

Protection from chemicals Kids must be protected from chemical exposure. Exposure can happen in a number of ways, be it inhaling or breathing chem-icals into the lungs or contact between chemicals and the skin or eyes. Kids can even ingest chemicals by eating or swallow-ing something on the farm. Protecting kids from chemi-cals, such as pesticides, requires that parents educate children about caution or warning labels. Teach kids to stay away from items with caution labels. A cau-tion label is typically used to in-dicate hazardous items that can cause minor or moderate injury. Warning labels are often used to indicate items that cause more serious injuries and possibly death. Another way parents can pro-tect kids from chemical expo-sure is to be a good role model. When using chemicals, also be especially careful, wearing pro-tective clothing and discarding containers and other materials properly. Make sure all contain-ers are tightly closed and stored in locked cabinets that are out of reach of curious kids. Protection from animals Animals present a major haz-

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ard to kids when kids visit the farm with livestock or other ani-mals, parents should emphasize the following points so kids can enjoy the animals without risking injury.• Remain calm and move slowly and quietly when around animals.• Avoid an animal’s hind legs and approach larger animals at the shoulder.• Steer clear of animals with new-borns, no matter how cute and cud-dly such animals might appear.• Wear proper attire, including steel toed shoes. Kids should al-ways wear helmets when riding animals. Additional safety measures parents can take include keeping kids away from stallions, bulls, boars and rams, and emphasiz-ing the importance of having an accessible escape route whenever

working with animals.Protection from grains Grain equipment is another potential hazard. Though flow-ing grain might not excite kids who have been around it, kids are often fascinated when they witness grain production on a farm for the first time. It’s very easy for kids to get trapped in grain or swept away by flowing grain, the force of which is diffi-cult to understand by those who have never seen grain produc-tion close up.

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Pam Frye, of Charles Town and Mark Clausen, of Linden, Va. wish to announce their engagement and forthcoming mar-riage. They became engaged on Dec. 30, 2011. Pam is the daughter of Neville Frye of Charles Town and the late Robert “Jake” Frye. She is a graduate of Jefferson High School and is employed by WVUH-East. Mark is the son of Jorgen and Anna Clausen, of Randolph, N.J. He is a graduate of Penn State University, a retired Air Force officer and is currently employed as a defense consultant. A Sept. 15, 2012 wedding is being planned.

Friends and family celebrat-ed Naomi Shafer’s 100th birthday with a March 17 dinner party at her Charles Town home. A 1929 grad-uate of Storer College in Harpers Ferry, she went on to earn degrees from Morgan State College and West Virginia State College in In-stitute and her master’s of arts de-gree from the University of Penn-sylvania. After working for years as a college guidance counselor, her

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Over 50 members and guests celebrated the 96th birthday of the Pack Horse Ford Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution during a luncheon on Feb. 18, 2012, at the Christ Reformed Church in Shepherdstown. Hostesses were Corresponding Secretary Polly Wharton and Second Vice Re-

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gent Mary Davis. Shown, in picture: Dressed in period costume, Martins-burg resident Martin Keeseck-er, President, General Adam Stephen Memorial Associa-tion, gave a presentation about the Revolutionary War Gener-al Adam Stephen’s daughter, Ann.

I believe the seasons are mixed up. In the middle of February, flowers were sprouting up in flower beds all over the community. The local orchardists have peach blossoms coming out too ear-ly and they worry about a late freeze. Here it is the middle of March with daffodils in bloom along the flowerbed at the Grace R.U.C.C. church. Like my father always said, “we will have a robin snow before spring arrives.”

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It feels like seasonal overlapday in March have the aqua-marines as a birthstone with the daffodil and chrysan-themum as the flower of the month. If you are out and about, stop and wish the fol-lowing a happy birthday. Rog-er Lang celebrated on the 2nd; Danny DeGrave falls on the 9th; Todd Basore on the 12th; Nelson Wolf celebrates on the 13th; Breanne DeGrave on the 15th; Shelia Dunbar and Terry Walker Jr. share double birthdays on the 17th; Alverita Stride and D.L. Stuck share the 21st; my sister-in-law Shirley Welsh falls on the 22nd; Lisa DeGrave celebrates on the 28th; Corey Walsh and Juan-ita Anderson Cushman share the day on the 30th. I missed wishing a friend, Jeanne De-Grave, who celebrated a leap year birthday on Feb. 29. On wedding anniversary to report. Congratulations to Vaughn and Kathy Russell on the 15th.

Adopt a Highway Pickup Motorists, please watch for the Adopt-a-Highway signs and bright orange vests as the local Evergreen 4-H Club will be

picking up trash along Kear-neysville Pike and Stubbs Road. Jefferson County Relay for Life Kickoff This past Saturday Frank (Taz) and Krystal Javor were introduced as chairmen of the 2012 Jefferson County Re-lay for Life held at Wildwood Middle School. The lunch room was set up with team ta-bles and games, with an infor-mational table filled with lit-erature on Relay for Life and cancer. Several videos were shown throughout the after-noon. Special speaker and cancer survivor Ray Walls, of Kearneysville, spoke to the crowd of his experiences, and how it touched him and his family’s lives, and the loss of a beloved daughter Barba-ra. Several volunteers were on hand to help. It takes a team of volunteers to organize and carry out this event that will be held in June. As a cancer survivor, I am involved with the Shepherd University Relay for Life to be held March 30 − 31 at the SU Wellness Center located on the west campus. This year will prove the im-

portance of getting the word out. The staff, faculty and stu-dents are involved year round with numerous fund raisers, raffles, dinners. On March 24 from noon to 3 p.m., there will be a “chili cook off” in the Ram’s Den of the student center. Teams will enter their own special chili to be judged and folks can sample a cup or bowl for a minimal price. This is open to the public. As a member of the SU Survivors Team, come out and support us at the chili cook off. Cantata On Palm Sunday, April 1, the choirs under the direc-tion of choir director Raejean Dunning will perform a can-tata at the Middleway Unit-ed Methodist Church start-ing at 10:30 a.m. and again at the Kearneysville Grace Re-formed UCC church at 3 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. The event is open to the public. Leaving you with this thought: The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. That’s all for this week.

Local cycling club cleans up W. Va. 9 The Panhandle Pedalers Cy-cling Club recently completed a litter cleanup of WV Route 9 as a member of the Adopt-A-Highway program, a joint ef-fort by the West Virginia De-partment of Environmental Protection and the Division of Highways. The club keeps the 2.2-mile stretch of the W. Va. R 9 bike path from Currie Road to Bar-dane litter-free by holding clean-up days and enlisting the help of its members. The club’s recent effort gar-nered 31 bags of litter in two hours — an estimated weight of 900 pounds of trash. Adopted highways are iden-tified by a set of signs with the volunteer’s name or organiza-tion placed at the beginning and ending points of the ad-opted road. Since the program began in 1988, volunteers have re-moved millions of pounds of litter from West Virginia high-ways. Many miles of highway remain available for adoption. Anyone interested in joining the program can call 800-322-5530. Anyone interested in learn-ing more about the Panhan-dle Pedalers Cycling Club can visit panhandlepedalers.com.

The March meeting of the Jef-ferson CEOS club was hosted by Linda Poston. Her program for the day was “Ramps: A Spring Ton-ic.” Because they were one of the first green vegetables of the sea-son, ramps were thought to be a tonic for winter ailments. Ramps are a good source of vitamin C. A cup of ramps contain only 32 calo-ries. They also have 1 gram each

students and fellow faculty mem-bers created a tribute that fami-ly members and other loved ones say still describes Shafer today: “When she came to South Phila-delphia High School, she brought dignity, grandeur, tenderness, love, perception, grace, charm, kind-ness, humor, politeness, good-ness, judgment, prudence, integri-ty, sincerity, trust and a talent with young people.”

Ramps are topic of CEOS meetingof protein and dietary fiber. Ramps are found in cool, shady areas. They are found usually in late March or early April. To dig ramps , a pickax or mat-tock is used. One can clean them by holding by their leaves and beat them on the ground to remove the dirt. They can be stored in a cool place or the refrigerator in a plastic bag up to a week.


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Beat goes on: Blaine Gib-son presents his senior per-cussion recital at 5 p.m. Fri-day in the McCoy Rehears-al Hall of Shepherd Univer-sity’s Frank Center. The per-formance is free and open to the public. ‘Blue’ on view: Ellen Hardes-ty’s photo exhibit, “The Color Blue,” begins with an open-ing reception at 6 p.m. March 23 at downstairs in the Jean Heiler Gallery of the Old Op-era House, 240 N. George St. in Charles Town. The art-ist will be on hand until the reception ends just before 8 p.m., when the play “Home Games” debuts. The exhibit also can be seen starting at 7 p.m. on the nights the play is performed and during in-termissions on March 24, 25, 30, 31 and April 1. Free showing: There's no charge to see the award-win-ning documentary "Waste Land," which chronicles art-ist Vik Muniz's time in the world's largest landfill near Rio de Janeiro, Saturday at the Shepherdstown Opera House at 131 W. German St. Sustainable Shepherd-stown organized the 3 p.m. showing. For more informa-tion, email [email protected]. Hit the heights: As part of the Shepherdstown 250 cel-ebration, the Potomac Val-ley Audubon Society hosts a hike to Jefferson Rock Sun-day. Veteran trail hiker Dave

Michener will meet partici-pants at the Harpers Ferry train station at 9 a.m. There is no fee for the hike but parking in the train sta-tion lot costs $5. On the way back to the train station, the group will hike along part of the Appala-chian Trail. Organizers say the hour-long hike will happen rain or shine and will be “relatively easy” but with steep steps. To pre-register or get details, contact Mechener ([email protected] or 703-973-6435).

Young artists: Students’ pencil drawings, watercolors, pastels and collages are part of “A Celebration of West Vir-ginia Youth Art Month in Jef-ferson County,” which con-tinues through March 31 at the Fire Hall Gallery, 108 N. George St. in Charles Town. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more, check out the Arts & Humanities Al-liance of Jefferson County at www.ahajc.org. Hello, cello: Jorge Alvarez-Marron presents his senior cello recital at 3 p.m. Sun-day in the W.H. Shipley Re-cital Hall in the Frank Center of Shepherd University. The performance is free and and

open to the public. Feeling blue: The Bluegrass Music Alliance’s free Tues-day jams are open to musi-cians of all levels as well as to anyone who wants to lis-ten to bluegrass. Jams hap-pen from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Caperton Train Station, 229 E. Martin St., Martins-burg. For details, see www.BluegrassMusicAlliance.org or contact Jenn Jensen ([email protected] or 304-264-8801). Georgetown in Charles Town: Shepherdstown artist

Douglas Kinnett’s George-town paintings can be seen through March 31 at the Fire Hall Gallery, 108 N. George St. in Charles Town. The gal-lery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more, check out the Arts & Humanities Alli-ance of Jefferson County at www.ahajc.org or the Wash-ington Street Artists Cooper-ative at wstreetgallery.com. Discounts for going out: Taking in a show at the Old Opera House in Charles Town can get you a 10 per-cent discount at select res-taurants and on select works at the Washington Street Art-ists' Cooperative Gallery at 235 W. Washington St. in

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22&23New play: Charles Town’s Old Opera House pres-ents the comedy/drama “Home Games” by Tom Ziegler at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Shows continue next weekend at the the-ater at 204 N. George St. in Charles Town. Tickets: $8; $17 for evening shows; $15 for matinees. For more information, go to www.oldoperahouse.org. To reserve tickets, call 304-725-4420.

Wine dinner: Shep-herdstown’s Bavari-an Inn hosts a benefit for the Shepherdstown Rotary Foundation at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Open to the public, the eve-ning costs $65 and in-cludes selections such as oysters, halibut with lobster mousse, pheas-ant breast, champagne kraut, lamb and a des-sert of apple strudel with Tahitian vanilla sauce plus two wines with each course. For more information or to make reservations, call the Bavarian at 304-876-2551.22 Eggs as art: Martinsburg will be home to a Pysanki workshop

Saturday. Expert Sasha Williams will talk about the centuries-old tradition of crafting vividly hued, intricately adorned eggs (a tradition still strong in Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe) and work with attendees to decorate raw eggs with a wax-resist method, where the de-sign is created with melted wax using a copper funnel heated over a candle flame.The class happens from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Divine Journeys studio, Divine Drive, Martinsburg. The $10 fee in-cludes all supplies. The class is limited to 20. To register or get details, email Williams at [email protected].

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Charles Town. The gallery will be open until 7 p.m. Fri-day. For details, call the gal-lery at 304-724-2090 or see www.wstreetgallery.com. Remembering steam-boat pioneer: History lov-ers can learn about James Rumsey’s ties to Shepherd-stown at 7 p.m. March 29 when the president of the Rumseian Society delivers a lecture at the Entler Ho-tel, 129 E. German St. in Shepherdstown. Part of the Shepherdstown 250th an-niversary, the talk is enti-tled, “Stubborn Advocates: How Shepherdstown Came to Carry a Torch for James Rumsey.” A Maryland na-tive, Rumsey was living in Berkeley Springs when he crossed paths with George Washington. Though Rob-ert Fulton is widely credited with developing the steam-boat, it was Rumsey who gave a public demonstration of his steam-powered boat on the Potomac on Dec. 3, 1787 – decades before Ful-ton’s Claremont began fer-rying passengers between New York and Albany.

Salon Series: Shepherd Uni-versity’s Music Salon Series continues Tuesday with two faculty members from the Uni-versity of Louisiana at Lafay-ette: flutist Andrea Kapell Loewy and Yuling Huang-Davie, who earned a master’s in piano per-formance from Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Va. The pair will interpret works by Eldin Burton and Philippe Gaubert at 8 p.m. in the W.H. Shipley Recital Hall of Frank Center. The performance is free and open to the public.

Send us your items for Out&About Do you have a public event you want to publicize? The Spirit of Jef-ferson reaches thousands of readers across Jefferson County as well as elsewhere in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle and beyond. Email the details to Christine Miller Ford at Christine@spiritofjefferson. Items may be faxed to 304-728-6856 or mailed to the Spirit of Jeffer-son newsroom, 210 N. George St., Charles Town, WV 25414. Ques-tions? Call Ford at 304-725-2046. Please provide contact informa-tion in case we have questions. To place a display touting your special event, call Karen Bowers weekdays at 304-725-2046.

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Another change: Teams can chip in an additional $5 to buy one answer at some point dur-ing the contest. It's a natu-ral progression to the popular "Submit a Question" feature in-troduced to the 2011 contest, Malone said. This year, Malone said that teams may submit two ques-tions, one of which will be asked during the games, or they may opt to submit a single ques-tion one that may or may not be used. Malone said that Panhan-dle businesses can help out not only by putting together teams, but through sponsorships and by donating raffle items and door prizes. Questions about Brain Games may be directed to Malone at 304-264-0298 or by emailing [email protected].

BrainFROM PAGE C1 Now that you’ve had a chance to

do some thinking, here are the an-swers to the queries on C1 (all ac-tual trivia questions used in recent Brain Games):

What country sold the Virgin Islands to the United States in 1916? Denmark

What name is Eric Arthur Blair better known by? George Orwell

Where is the International Tennis Hall of Fame? New-port, R.I.

Who wrote the 1986 novel, “Forrest Gump”? Win-ston Groom

What does the Beaufort scale measure? Wind speed

What group sang the 1968 hit song, “Build Me Up Buttercup”? The Foundations

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ten seem like a gamble with one’s future. While both re-tirement plans are tax deduct-ible at the time of contribution, upon distribu-tion the retire-ment money is taxed according to the individ-ual’s tax brack-

et at the time. The uncertainty of not knowing whether the individual might move up in the tax brackets and end up paying more taxes, leads many people to choose a more stable option, also known as a Roth IRA. On Jan. 1, 1998, the Roth IRA was introduced as a part of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, which served to re-duce several federal taxes. The contribution maximum original-ly began at $2,000 and later rose to to-day’s limit of $5,000, but it is important to note that the number varies accord-ing to filing status and income. Different from the 401(k) and Tra-ditional IRA, a Roth IRA does not provide tax deductions upon contri-bution; rather, the individual is taxed at the tax rate when the money is placed into the retirement fund. How-ever, assuming certain requirements are met, all of the interest and earn-ings made on the money in the Roth IRA account are tax free. Therefore, upon withdrawal, the individual is en-titled to the full monetary value of the account, because taxes were already previously deducted. Another benefit of the Roth IRA is the flexibility of withdrawals. Both 401(k)s and Tradition IRAs have a pen-alty fee of 10 percent for early distribu-tions from a retirement plan. However, the Roth IRA is not constrained by the same strict rules. An individual is al-lowed to withdraw the entire value of the original contribution without any penalties. All earnings are also tax free upon withdrawal on condition that the individual is over 59 1/2 years old and the Roth IRA account has been estab-lished for at least five years. Unlike the minimum distribution re-quirements for 401(k)s and Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs do not have a mini-mum distribution requirement. For 401(k)s and Traditional IRAs, after the age of 70 1/2, individuals are required to begin receiving distributions even if they are not yet retired. However, Roth IRAs do not require distributions at any point, so individuals can leave their money in the Roth IRA account and can continue to earn tax-free interest indefi-nitely. This feature of Roth IRAs also means that the accounts are inheritable and can be left behind as assets even af-ter the individual has died. Beginning in 2010 another benefit made Roth IRAs especially attractive. Traditional IRAs and other retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, can be rolled

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CHARLES TOWN— Travis “The Beast” Bagent, winner of more than 15 world championship titles in arm wrestling, now has a new fitness trend in his grip. The Jefferson County native, a left-handed arm-wrestling champion whose story is recounted in the docu-mentary, “Pulling John,” has opened CrossFit 304 in the East Washington Street space formerly occupied by the Energy Fitness gym. A favorite of a growing number of police academies in North Amer-ica, the CrossFit regime relies on cal-isthenics, free weights, gymnastic rings, kettle bells and pull-up bars to create a core strength and condi-tioning program. By working on 10 fitness domains – cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed,

coordination, agility, balance and ac-curacy – a “quintessential” athlete emerges. Greg Glassman founded the pro-gram in California in 2000. Bagent, 36, became familiar with CrossFit when Glassman and other CrossFit-ters recruited him to announce at the CrossFit Games in 2010. Once he be-came a CrossFit employee, it wasn’t long before he became a believer in its workouts. “The program speaks to people,” Bagent said. “It’s not just the physi-cal results — which are amazing — but the connection people get with their bodies through the process. They realize they are stronger than they thought, and can do things they never thought possible. It’s a power-ful response.” Head trainer Sean Leonard agrees, explaining that CrossFit is far differ-ent from the typical gym workout. “CrossFit by definition is constantly

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varied functional movement done at a high intensity,” he said. “What that means is we do something dif-ferent every day so the body doesn’t adapt. Today’s workout might not be done for another year.” Leonard notes that the high in-tensity part of the CrossFit mod-el is key. “We keep the exercises short, intense and fun. Some work-outs may take up to 45 minutes on the high end or 5 minutes on the low end,” he said. CrossFit 304 has offerings geared toward adults and kids. Adult class-

es are one hour, typically split into segments. The first is a warm-up, the second is a WOD, the Cross-Fit acronym for “Workout Of the Day,” and the third focuses on skill work. CrossFit’s classes for young peo-ple break the group into sections based on grade level. Coaches help the young athletes with perfor-mance-enhancing skills for the next season coming up. This spring, the youngsters are learning skills for

n Dr. Mitch Jacques has been award-ed a Certificate of Recognition from the West Virginia governor’s office for his work as dean of the West Virginia University School of Medicine’s East-ern Division in Martinsburg. Jacques, who will retire in June, ac-cepted the honor from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin during the governor’s March 13 stop in the Panhandle.

n Lyle C. Tabb & Sons of Kearneysville will be one of three Panhan-dle business-es honored this spring during the West Virginia Small Busi-ness Awards luncheon in Morgantown. The Tabbs – Lyle C. Tabb III, Howard C. Tabb, Jane M. Tabb, Ly-cle C. Tabb IV and Virginia D. Tabb – are the winners of the SBA’s West

Virginia Family-owned Business of the Year Award. Brothers Michael P. McKechnie and Peter M. McKechnie of Moun-tain View Solar and Wind of Berkeley Springs will be awarded the West Viri-gnia Entrepreneurial Success Award. Kimberley Beth Dole, who owns Dole Accounting Services in Martins-burg, will be named the West Virginia Women in Business Champion of the Year. Nominations for all of the awards were accepted last fall, and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges. National Small Business Week is May 20 to 26, and the state honors will be formally awarded May 30 at The Morgantown Events Center in conjunction with the state SBA’s 2012 Teaming To Win conference. For de-tails, go to www.sba.gov/wv.

n Swallowtail Consulting’s Lorrie Schoettler of Harpers Ferry is teach-ing two classes at Blue Ridge Commu-nity and Technical College in Martins-burg.

One class is an introduction to non-profit management; the other focuses on nonprofit fundraising. For more in-formation, call Schoettler at 304-876-8153 or email [email protected].

n HMS Technologies Inc. of Martins-burg has earned its International Orga-nization for Standardization 9001 cer-tification. Harry M. Siegel, the company’s founder and president/CEO, says the prestigious certification reflects the company’s commitment to its rigorous quality management system, continu-ous process improvement and delivery of the highest level of customer satis-faction. The company, founded in 2003 and located at One Discovery Place off Exit 12 of Interstate 81, integrates in-formation technology and services for entities in the federal government as well as commercial clients. Companies gain certification by im-plementing policies, procedures and

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27TH DAY OF MARCH 2012at the front doors of the Court-house in Jefferson County, West Virginia the following described real estate: All that certain parcel of real estate, together with improve-ments thereon and the appur-tenances thereunto belonging, situate in Shepherdstown District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows: Containing 1.016 acres, more or less, being shown and de-scribed as “P/O Lot 12 Residue 1.106 acres” on a plat (No. 4360) entitled “Plat of Survey Show-ing the Proposed Miller Parent to Child Conveyance” prepared by Appalachian Surveys, Inc., dated August 3, 1994 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 13 at page 12 to which ref-erence is hereby expressly made: TOGETHER WITH septic ease-ment as shown and described on the aforesaid plat as “temporary septic easement for Residue” containing 0.110 acre, more or less, both of which are described by metes and bounds in the Deed next herein after mentioned, with the reference being made to a deed of easement dated the 5th day of August, 1995 from Lynn Miller and Alex Serrano, husband and wife, recorded in the afore-said Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 812 at page 153. It is the intention of this no-tice to sell the secured property by proper description as was in-tended to be transferred and con-veyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

318 Shepherd LaneShepherdstown,

West Virginia 25443 TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee reserves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take possession or make improve-ments in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or re-corded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.

GOLDEN & AMOS, PLLC, TRUSTEE

543 Fifth Street, P.O. Box 81Parkersburg, WV 26102

Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485-0261


Lender: Wells FargoProcessor: Kristi Payton

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D2 Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Legals Spiritof JEFFERSON and FARMER’S ADVOCATE

NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the au thor -ity vested in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 2nd day of November 2006, signed by Robert A. Randall, a single man and Lena D. Overlyey, a single

woman, joint tenants with full rights of survivorship, to Doug-las McElwee, Trustee, which said deed of trust is of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1605, at page 568, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee hav-ing been requested so to do by the Lender, and default having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceleration having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at pub-lic auction at 5:00 o’clock P.M. on the

27th day of MARCH 2012at the front doors of the Court-house in Jefferson County, West Virginia the following described real estate: All that certain lot or parcel of real estate, with the improve-ments and appurtenances there-unto belonging, situate on the west side of the Shenandoah River in the Kabletown District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, which said tract or parcel of real estate is more particularly bound-ed and described as Lot 1101, Section 11, Avon Bend, according to a survey and plat made by Lee A. Ebert, dated April 21, 1969, and designated as “Avon Bend – Section 11” attached to and made part of and record with that cer-tain deed from Avon Bend, Inc., a West Virginia Corporation, to R. Thurl Roy, et ux, dated April 26, 1969, in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 304 at page 145. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

64 Buckingham Ln., Charles Town, West Virginia

25414 TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee reserves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take possession or make improve-ments in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or re-corded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.



Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485-0261


Lender: ProvidentProcessor: Liz

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TRUSTEES` SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned Trustees, by virtue of the authority vested in them by that certain deed of trust dated June 8, 2007, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virgin-ia, in Deed of Trust Book 1654, at page 639, Edgar N. Martinez did convey unto Crawford and Keller PLLC, Trustee, certain real property described in said deed of trust; and the beneficiary has elected to appoint Teays Val-ley Trustees, LLC as substitute Trustees by a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the aforesaid Clerk`s Office; and default having been made under the aforemen-tioned deed of trust and the un-dersigned Trustees, having been instructed by the secured party to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Jefferson County Courthouse, 100 East Washing-

NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 27th day of May, 2005, signed by John E. Snyder and Colleen L. Snyder, husband and wife, to Richard A. Pill, Trust-ee, which said deed of trust is of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1435, at page 472, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee having been requested so to do by the Lender, and de-fault having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceler-ation having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 o’clock, p.m. on the

27TH DAY OF MARCH 2012at the front doors of the Court-house in Jefferson County, West Virginia the following described real estate situate in the District of Kabletown, County of Jeffer-son and State of West Virginia as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of real estate, with improvements thereon and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate at the intersection of the Kabletown Road and General Rogers Road in the Kabletown District of Jef-ferson, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 1, containing 3.38 acres as shown on a plat

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT

OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, ex rel,

West Virginia State Police, Petitioners

vs. $1157 DOLLARS IN U.S.

CURRENCY, Respondents; Owner of respondent

property: BALAGOPAN TAMPY, Last known address:

2705 Keystone Lane, Apt 204, Vienna, VA 22810; PETITION

NO. 12-P-15ORDER OF PUBLICATION

The purpose of this action is to obtain the forfeiture of the mo-tor vehicle below described. Any claimant to the property must file a claim in writing with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia on or be-fore the 13th day of April, 2012, and serve a true copy on Stephen V. Groh, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Jefferson County, West Virginia. Any claim filed must clearly state the identity of the claimant and address where legal process can be served upon the claimant. The property seized and sought to be forfeited in this action is: $1157 U.S. Currency. The Office of the Prosecut-ing Attorney of Jefferson Coun-ty, West Virginia will seek an Order from the Circuit Court directing the forfeiture of the above described property to the State of West Virginia investing ownership of the said property in the Charles Town, West Vir-ginia, in open court in the Cir-cuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, sitting in Charles Town, on or after the 16th day of April 2012.

Laura Rattenni, Clerk of the Circuit Court

of Jefferson County, West Virginia

By: S. Mason, Deputy Clerk3/14/2t

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NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 30th day of May 2008, signed by Joy E. Wash-ington, an unmarried woman, to Christopher J. Prezioso, Trustee, which said deed of trust is of re-cord in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1723, at page 362, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee having been requested so to do by the Lender, and de-fault having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceler-ation having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 o’clock P.M. on the

27th day of MARCH 2012at the front doors of the Court-house in Jefferson County, West Virginia the following described real estate: The following described par-cel of real estate together with all rights, privileges, improvements, rights of way and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situate in the Town of Ranson, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows: Lot No. 8, containing 0.14 acres, as further shown and described on a plat and survey entitled “Site Plan Pres-ton Court Lots” made by Peter H. Lorenze, Surveyor, dated July 2, 1996, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Vir-ginia, in Plat Book 14 at page 20. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

206 Preston Place, Ranson, West Virginia 25438

TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being

purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee re-serves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take posses-sion or make improvements in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or recorded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.



Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485-0261


Lender: Fifth ThirdProcessor: Liz

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NOTICE

The Corporation of Bolivar will be accepting letters of inter-est to fill a position with the Bo-livar Building Commission. Any persons interested may submit a letter of interest to the Town of Bolivar, P.O. Box 37, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425 or fax to 304-535-1474. Attn: Laura Whitting-ton. The deadline for submission is March 30, 2012.3/14/2t

ton Street, Charles Town, West Virginia 25414on:

April 5, 2012At 02:00 PM

All that certain lot or parcel of real estate, together with its improvements thereon and ap-purtenances thereunto belong-ing, situate, lying and being in the Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot No. 22 of Briar Run Estates, which lot is more particularly shown and described on a Plat entitled “Phase I Final Plat Showing Lots 1 thru 37, Par-cel `A` and Residue Parcels `B` & `C` Briar Run Estates” made by Chester Engineers, dated Febru-ary, 1997, said Plat being record-ed in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 14, at Page 75, to which reference is made for a more par-ticular description.

121 Cottontail Drive, Ranson, WV 25438

The aforesaid property is SUBJECT TO any and all ease-ments, rights-of-way, conditions, covenants and restrictions of re-cord or in existence. The sale of the foregoing real property will be made subject to all exceptions, reservations, rights of way, easements, con-ditions, covenants, restrictions, leases and other servitudes of record, if any, pertaining to said real estate, subject to all matters disclosed by an examination and inspection of the property, subject to any and all unpaid taxes as re-corded against said property, and to any further matters announced at said sale. The property is sold subject to an accurate survey at purchaser`s expense. The sale of the foregoing real property will also be made ex-pressly subject to any and all other deeds of trust, judgments, liens, and all other encumbranc-es of any nature whatsoever, if any, having priority over the deed of trust referred to herein. The Trustees reserve the right to adjourn the sale, for a time, or from time to time, without further notice, by announcement at the time and place of sale describe above or any adjournment there-of. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Trustees shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said prop-erty. The Trustees will deliver a trustees` deed to the purchaser without any covenant or warranty (express or implied) in the form prescribed by W. Va. Code §38-1-6. The Trustees make no repre-sentations and warranties about the title of the real estate to be conveyed. If the Trustees are un-able to convey insurable or mar-ketable title to purchaser for any reason, purchaser`s sole remedy is return of deposit. TERMS OF SALE: $25,000.00 cash in hand at the time of sale in the form of a certified check or cashier`s check made payable to “Teays Valley Trustees, LLC,” and the balance in cash closing within 30 days of the date of the sale. Purchaser shall pay for transfer stamps and recording fees. Ad-ditional terms of sale may be an-nounced prior to the sale.

Teays Valley Trustees, LLC600 A-1 Prestige Park

Hurricane, West Virginia 25526(304) 757-7956

http://foreclosure.closingsource.net

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Entitled “Final Plat Lots 1, 2 and 3 (Residue) James L. Rowan Mi-nor Subdivision” made by Peter H. Lorenzen, P.S. dated July 25, 2003, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Vir-ginia, in Plat Book 20 at page 54. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

1 Rowan MinorCharles Town,




Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485-0261



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NOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARING The Historic Landmarks Com-mission of the City of Charles Town will hold public hearings on the following applications as required in Article 14, Historic Overlay District, Section 14.8 of the Zoning Ordinance. The meeting will be held on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 101 E. Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia. HLCS 2012-0002 A request by Service Neon Signs, Inc. for a certificate of appropriateness to install one temporary sign on the site of CVS/Pharmacy during construction, along the 300 block of West Washington Street. The sign will be temporary until con-struction is complete. This meeting is open to the public. Additional information regarding the proposed sign is available at City Hall.3/21/1t



IN RE: CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF

NORMA JEANNE SHEATO

JEANNE ALLEN COOPER; CIVIL ACTION NUMBER:

12-P-19LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLICA-

TION CHANGE OF NAME PROCEEDING

Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of April 2012, at 10:30 A.M. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard NORMA JEANNE SHEA, will apply by Petition to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing her name from NORMA JEANNE SHEA TO JEANNE ALLEN COO-PER at which time and place any interested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publica-tion. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office at, Clerk of Circuit Court, 119 North George Street, Suite 100, Charles Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 7th day of March, 2012.Laura E. Rattenni, Circuit ClerkJefferson County, West VirginiaBy: S.Mason, Deputy Circuit Clerk3/21/2t



IN RE: CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF SABASTIANO

SALVATORO VITANZATO

SEBASTIAN JOHN VITANZA; CIVIL ACTION NUMBER:



Notice is hereby given that on the 2ND day of April 2012, at 1:00 P.M. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard SABASTIANO SALVA-TORO VITANZA, will apply by Petition to the Circuit Court of

Jefferson County, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing her name from SABASTIANO SALVATORO VI-TANZA TO SEBASTIAN JOHN VITANZA at which time and place any interested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publica-tion. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office at, Clerk of Circuit Court, 119 North George St ree t , Char les Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 9th day of March, 2012.Laura E. Rattenni, Circuit ClerkJefferson County, West VirginiaBy: Aerial Carroll, Deputy Clerk3/21/2t



IN RE: CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF

THERESE ZARLENGO PIERCE TO

THERESE MARIE ZARLENGO; CIVIL ACTION NUMBER:



Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of April 2012, at 10:30 A.M. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard THERESE ZARLENGO PIERCE, will apply by Petition to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing her name from THER-ESE ZARLENGO PIERCE TO THERESE MARIE ZARLENGO at which time and place any inter-ested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publica-tion. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office at, Clerk of Circuit Court, 119 North George Street, Suite 100, Charles Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 7th day of March, 2012.Laura E. Rattenni, Circuit ClerkJefferson County, West VirginiaBy: S.Mason, Deputy Circuit Clerk3/21/2t

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LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE CITY OF RANSON

In accordance with W. Va. Code § 8A-7-1 et seq. and § 8A-3-1 et seq., the Ranson Planning Commission will hold public hear-ings on March 5, 2012, and March 26, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. at Ranson City Hall, 312 S. Mildred Street, Ranson, WV. The purpose of the public hearing is to accept public comments on the following: (1) 2012 Ranson Comprehensive Plan; (2) the repeal and reenact-ment of Chapter 19 of the Ranson Municipal Code “Ranson Zoning Ordinance” with amendments to ensure compliance with the 2012 Comprehensive Plan; (3) enact-ment of Chapter 19A the “Ranson SmartCode” zoning ordinance; and, (4) adoption the official zon-ing map of the City of Ranson.” Upon recommendation and ap-proval of the documents by the Ranson Planning Commission, City Council is scheduled to hold two additional public hearings and first reading of an ordinance ap-proving the documents on April 3, 2012, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at Ranson City Hall. Final reading before the Ranson City Council is scheduled for April 17, 2012. Copies of the 2012 Compre-hensive Plan, proposed amend-ments to Chapter 19; the Ranson SmartCode; proposed zoning map; and current zoning map are available for inspection during of-fice hours 9:00 – 5:00 at City Hall or on the City’s website at www.ransonrenewed.com under the “re-sources” tab. All persons are invit-ed to attend and make comments about the proposed ordinances. If you cannot attend but wish to comment, you may write to the fol-lowing address prior to March 26, 2012: City of Ranson, Attn: Zoning Comments, 312 S. Mildred Street, Ranson, WV 25438. Written com-ments received prior to March 26, 2012 will be provided to the Plan-ning Commission and inserted into the official record.

Ray A. Braithwaite, RecorderChris Gaskins, Planning

Commission Secretary2/22, 3/14, 3/21

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE

TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that default having occurred in the payment of a certain indebt-edness secured by a Deed of Trust dated November 14, 2006, between Jason Lawson and Mitchell Lee Klein, Trustee, re-corded in the Office of the Clerk of the Commission Jefferson County, West Virginia in Deed of Trust Book No. 1607 at Page 47, which Deed of Trust authorizes the beneficiary to remove, sub-stitute or add a Trustee, at its op-tion, and the beneficiary having exercised its option and substi-tuted Emmanuel B. Loucas, Con-nie Kesner, and Tressia Blevins as its Trustees, to act in the en-forcement of said Deed of Trust in person, and the undersigned Substitute Trustees having been requested by the beneficial own-er of said indebtedness to en-force said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale at a public auction on

THURSDAYAPRIL 5, 2012

AT 1:30 PMIN FRONT OF THE

JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE

CHARLES TOWN, WEST VIRGINIA

the following described real es-tate with all improvements, ease-ments, and appurtenances there-unto belonging: All that certain lot or parcel of real estate, with the improvements thereon and appurtenances there-unto belonging, situate in the Charles Town District of Jefferson County, West Virginia, more par-ticularly bounded and described by metes and bounds, according to a survey an plat made by Appa-lachian Surveys, Inc., dated April 1985, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Vir-ginia in Plat Book No. 6, at Pages 104-104C, thereon described as Lot No. 65, Section 3, Willowbrook Village. The property having a com-mon address of: 22 Talcon Court, Charles Town, West Virginia 25414 Property is sold subject to pri-or trusts, encumbrances, restric-tions and easements of records, if any. The property is sold subject to an accurate survey at purchas-er’s expense. FEDERAL TAX LIEN: In the event that there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right to redeem the property with-in a period of 120 days from the date of such sale or the period al-lowable for redemption under lo-cal law, whichever is longer. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $16,000.00 by certified check or cashier’s check at sale made payable to Mancini & Associates, the balance in cash or by certified check at closing. Certified funds must be presented to Trustee for inspection at start of sale in order to be qualified to bid. The pur-chaser will be required to com-plete settlement within 30 days of

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S

SALE PRIVATE Notice is hereby given that by virtue of the authority under that certain deed of trust executed by Donald R. Himes, Jr., a married man to Dawn White, Trustee(s) dated August 31, 2001, and re-corded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1035, at page 167, by which was conveyed to said Trustee(s) the hereinafter described real estate to secure the payment of a certain promis-sory note set out and described therein, and default having been made in the payment of said note, the undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) having been appoint-ed Substitute Trustee by an Ap-pointment of Substitute Trustee dated February 13, 2012, and having been requested in writing by the holder of said note, will sell to the highest and best bidder on April 2, 2012 at 2:30 p.m., at the front door of the courthouse of Jefferson County, West Virgin-ia, the real estate conveyed by said deed of trust and situate in Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, together with easements, improvements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and at the time of the signing of the Deed of Trust it was reported that the address was: 35 Mountain View Lane, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 25425 and being more particularly bounded and described therein as follows:All that certain parcel of real property, with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in the Charles Town District, Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, designated and described as Lot 35 of the Ridge Section of John Brown’s Farms River Sec-tion Subdivision, as set forth upon that certain subdivision sur-vey plat prepared by Richard U. Goode, C.L.S. dated November 1, 1965 and recorded in the Of-fice of the Clerk of the County Commission, Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 277, at page 206, TOGETHER WITH rights to traverse the streets and roads of the subdivision in com-mon with other lot owners. And being the same real estate conveyed to Donald R. Himes, Jr. from David E. Gourley and Tam-mie S. Wakefield by a deed dated August 31, 2001 and recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 951, at page 671. This sale is made subject to any special assessments, unpaid taxes, easements, conditions, reservations and restrictions af-fecting the aforesaid real estate. The property will be conveyed in an “AS IS” condition by Deed containing no warranty, express or implied, subject to all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reserva-tions, encumbrances, restrictions, rights of ways, easements, cov-enants, conveyances and condi-tions of record in the Clerk’s office or affecting the subject property. Pursuant to the terms of said deed of trust, the Trustee(s) may postpone the sale by public an-nouncement at the time and place designated for the sale. The West Virginia Housing Development Fund or its designee may pur-chase the property at any sale. The Substitute Trustees shall

the date of the sale, failing which the deposit made will be forfeit and the property resold at the risk and expense of the purchaser. Conveyance will be subject to all easements, conveyances, rights-of-way, conditions and restrictions of record. The property is sold in “as is” condition. The beneficial owner of the Deed of Trust does not make any representations or warranties as to the physical con-dition of the property. Any and all legal procedural requirements to obtain physical possession of the premises after the closing are the responsibility of the purchaser. Risk of loss or damage will be pur-chasers from and after the fore-closure sale. All taxes and utility charges will be the responsibility of the purchaser. All settlement fees, costs of conveyance, exami-nation of title, recording charges, and transfer taxes are at the ex-pense of the purchaser. Trustee makes no representations regard-ing state of title. If the Trustee can-not convey insurable or market-able title, purchaser’s sole remedy is a return of deposit. Pursuant to the Deed of Trust-ee, the Trustee may postpone the sale by public announcement at the time and place designated or by posting a notice of the same, and act by agent in the execution of the sale. The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the subject property from time to time by oral proclamation, which continuation shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee. The par-ties secured by the Deed of Trust reserve the right to purchase the property at such sale.

Daniel J. Mancini, Esq.Mancini & Associates

201A Fairview DriveMonaca, PA 15061

Phone (724) 728-1020Fax (724) 728-4239

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be under no duty to cause any ex-isting tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said prop-erty, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the property after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABANDONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF AC-CORDINGLY. TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale. DATED this 9th day of March, 2012.Richard A. Pill , Substitute Trustee

304-263-4971Kristin A. Shaffer, Substitute Trustee

304-391-86483/21/2t

NOTICE OF

ADMINISTRATIONJefferson County Clerk’s

Probate OfficeP. O. Box 208

100 E. Washington StreetCharles Town, WV 25414

Estate of Marion A. Bouley, deceased

Personal Representative:William Morgan, Executor35 Hunters Wood Court

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425Attorney:

Richard A. SussmannHamstead & Associates, LC

113 Fairfax Blvd.Charles Town, WV 25414

Estate of Betty Marie Edwards, deceased

Personal Representative:Daniel W. Edwards, Executor1731 Steamboat Run RoadShepherdstown, WV 25443

Attorney: Henry W. Morrow, Jr.P.O. Box 459

Charles Town, WV 25414

Estate Marie St. John Magin, deceased

Personal Representative:Helen M. Smith, Executrix

6518 Detrick RoadMount Airy, MD 21771

Estate Charles E. Stewart, deceased

Personal Representative: Betty Cook, Administratrix

401 N. Preston St.Ranson, WV 25438

Estate John J. Walker, deceased

Personal Representative:Elizabeth A. Diggs, Executrix

P.O. Box 156Kearneysville, WV 25430

Estate Julia Lee Walters, deceased

Personal Representative:John J. Walters, Executor6634 River Falls Drive. S.

Jacksonville, FL 32219

Date of f i rst publ icat ion: March, 14, 2012 Claims against the estate must be filed in accordance with the provisions of §44-2-1 of the West Virginia Code. Any person seeking to impeach or establish a Will must make a complaint in accordance with the provisions of §41-5-11, 12, or 13.Any person interested in the above referenced estate who objects to the qualifications of the Personal Representative or the venue or jurisdiction of the Court, shall file notice of an objec-tion with the Clerk of the County Commission within NINETY (90) DAYS after the date of the first publication of this notice or within THIRTY (30) DAYS after service made by the Personal Repre-sentative, whichever is later. Settlement of the estate of the above named decedent will pro-ceed without reference to a fidu-ciary commissioner unless within ninety days from the first publica-tion of this notice a reference is requested by a party in interest or an unpaid creditor files a claim and good cause is shown to support ref-erence to a fiduciary commissioner. If an objection is not timely filed, the objection is forever barred.3/21/2t

INVITATION TO BID

The Jefferson County Board of Education will accept sealed bids from qualified firms for the Mowing/Landscaping of all 20 buildings/ locations owned by the Jefferson County Board of Educa-tion. Plans and specifications can be obtained at the mandatory pre-bid meeting at Wright Denny El-ementary auditorium on Wednes-day, April 4, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. All bids must be submitted no later than 4:00 p.m. on Wednes-day, April 25, 2012 to Joseph W. Starkey, Coordinator of Mainte-nance and Facility Planning; 201 W. North Street, Charles Town, WV 25414. Along with proof of li-ability insurance in the amount of $1,000,000, valid WV Landscap-ing Contractor’s license, a valid WV herbicide application license and three professional references. Mr. Starkey may be contacted at 304-725-5711 or 304-582-8068. The Jefferson County Board of Education reserves the right to re-ject any and all bids and to waive any informality in the bidding.

Susan K.WallSuperintendent

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NOTICE

The accounting of conserva-tor/conservators for the Estate of Christopher Whittington, a protected person, dated 3/6/12, has been filed with the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk.

June K. JovanellyFiduciary Commissioner

Jefferson County, WV3/21/2t

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION

IN THE FAMILY COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY,

WEST VIRGINIAIN RE: THE CHILD OF:

ANGELY SALAZAR, PETITIONER VS. KENNETH SALAZAR, RESPONDENT; CIVIL ACTION NO. 12-D-11

THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT IS TO DETERMINE THE

CUSTODIAL ALLOCATION OF THE MINOR CHILD OF THE

PARTIESTO THE ABOVE NAMED

RESPONDENT: KENNETH SALAZAR

It appearing by affidavit filed in this action that Kenneth Salazar is a non-resident of the State of West Virginia, it is hereby ordered that Kenneth Salazar serve upon Gregory A. Bailey, Esquire, of the law firm Arnold & Bailey, PLLC, Petitioner’s Attorney, whose ad-dress is: P.O. Box 69, Shepherd-stown WV 25443, an Answer, in-cluding any related counterclaim or defense you may have to the Petition for Custodial Allocation filed in this action on or before April 23rd, 2012. If you fail to do so, thereafter judgment, upon proper hearing and trial, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office. Entered by the Clerk of said court March 19, 2012.

Laura E. RattenniClerk of CourtBy: A. Rickard

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ORDER OF PUBLICATION

IN THE FAMILY COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY,

WEST VIRGINIAIN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF:

JEDIDIAH N. BOLYARD, PETITIONER VS. AMY BOLYARD, RESPONDENT;

CIVIL ACTION NO. 12-D-28THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT IS TO OBTAIN A DIVORCE.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED RE-SPONDENT: AMY BOLYARD

It appearing by affidavit filed in this action that Amy Bolyard is a non-resident of the State of West Virginia, it is hereby ordered that Amy Bolyard serve upon Gregory A. Bailey, Esquire, of the law firm of Arnold & Bailey, PLLC, Peti-

tioner’s Attorney, whose address is: P.O. Box 69, Shepherdstown, WV 25443, an Answer, including any related counterclaim or de-fense you may have to the Peti-tion for Divorce filed in this action on or before April 23rd, 2012. If you fail to do so, thereafter judg-ment, upon proper hearing and trial, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Pe-tition. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her Office. Entered by the Clerk of said Court March 19, 2012.

Laura E. RattenniClerk of CourtBy: A. Rickard

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LEGAL NOTICE

Please take notice that the Shepherdstown Board of Appeals will hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at The Town Hall, 104 North King Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia re-garding the following:Appellants: John Mark PullenAddress: 202 East Bones Wright Street, Shepherdstown, West Vir-ginia 25443 Request: The appellant was denied his request on February 20, 2012, by the Shepherdstown Planning Commission, as stated in its Notice of Decision of Feb-ruary 24, 2012. In the Notice of Decision, the Shepherdstown Planning Commission denied a request to construct a two story 16’-8” by 23’-8” sunroom addi-tion to the rear of the house. The property is located in the R-1 Low Density Residential District and this request was reviewed un-der § 9-215 Erosion Control and Stream Protection; § 9-508 Re-quired Lot Area, Lot Width, and Yards in Residential Districts; and §9-902 Building Permits Re-quired — article IV Architectural Standards. This request was de-nied by the Shepherdstown Plan-ning Commission as not meeting the requirements for the rear yard setback of §9-508.It is from this that the appellant seeks a vari-ance for the purpose of construct-ing a two story sunroom addition.

Dawn M. FyeFor The Board of Appeals

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REqUEST FOR BIDS

The Ranson Police Depart-ment will be taking sealed bids on a 1999 White Ford passen-ger van serial #1FDXE4OS2X-HB50997, now through April 13th 2012 at 5:00PM. All bids must be submitted no later than that date containing bid and contact infor-mation for the person submitting said bid. Bids should be dropped off at the Ranson Police Depart-ment, 700 North Preston Street, Ranson, WV between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM.3/21/1t

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BONDED SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S

SALE OF REAL ESTATE Pursuant to and by virtue of an Order of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, entered on February 7, 2012, in Civil Action No. 11-C-207, therein pending under the style of Roy T. Craig, Jr., individually and as Ad-ministrator of the Estate of Roy T. Craig (Sr.), deceased, Petitioner, vs. Crystal Craig, et al., Respon-dents, the undersigned Bonded Special Commissioner will offer for sale at a public auction to be held at the front door of the Jef-ferson County Court House situ-ate at 100 E. Washington Street, Charles Town, Jefferson Coun-ty, West Virginia, on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 12:00 o’clock, noon, all those certain contiguous parcels of real estate, together with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereun-to belonging, situate in Harpers Ferry District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, more particularly described as follows:

PARCEL ONE Lot 4-A, Keyes Ferry Acres, containing 0.702 acre, as shown and described on a plat recorded in the office of the Clerkof the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 275, page 99. [Tax Map 13 (inset 3), parcel 28.0002] BEING all and the same real estate which was conveyed from Athel W. Murphree to Roy T. Craig (Sr.) by a Deed dated the 8th day of August, 2002, and recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s office in Deed Book 1045, page 721.

PARCEL TWO Lot 38-39 and Lot 40-41, Sec-tion E, and Lot 46, Section D, Harpers Ferry Campsites, as shown and described on a plat re-corded in the aforesaid Clerk’s of-fice in Plat Book 1, page 17. [Tax Map 13-D, parcel 171 (Lot 46, Section D); and parcel 205 (Lot 38-39 and Lot 40-41, Section E)] And having a physical address of 146 Stone Bear Lane, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. BEING all and the same real estate which was conveyed from Harold J. Taylor and Muriel A. Taylor, husband and wife, to Roy T. Craig, Sr. and Bonnie Snyder by a Deed dated the 22nd day of June, 1990, and recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s office in Deed Book 661, page 753. BEING ALSO all and the same real estate in which a one-half (1/2) undivided interest was con-veyed from Bonnie Snyder to Roy T. Craig, Jr., Leah [Ellen] Dillow, Crystal [Dawn] Craig, David Mi-chael Craig, Mark [Henry] Craig, Tammy [Jeanette] Penwell, and Andrew Kowalski by a Quitclaim Deed dated the 20th day of April, 2011, and recorded in the afore-said Clerk’s office in Deed Book 1092, page 320. THE CONVEYANCE OF THIS REAL ESTATE WILL BE MADE SUBJECT TO all easements, rights–of–way, restrictive cov-enants, conditions, reservations and other conditions of record found and enumerated in the chain of title and those reason-ably apparent upon an inspection and view of said real estate or as determined by a survey. THIS SALE SHALL ALSO BE MADE SUBJECT TO the rights of any person or persons occupying the premises, if any there be, and the Bonded Special Commissioner shall not be under any duty to cause any person or persons who may be occupying thepremises to vacate the same. The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and the Bonded Special Commissioner makes no warranty of any type as to the con-dition of any improvements located upon the premises, if any there be. The Bonded Special Commis-sioner’s Deed to any purchaser will not contain any warranty of title. The aforesaid real estate will be offered for sale in such se-quence or manner as results in the highest aggregate bid for the real estate.

TERMS OF SALE Cash or bank check on day of sale equal to ten percent (10%) of the highest bid, and the balance due, in cash, forty-five (45) days from the date of confirmation of said sale by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to which this sale shall be ex-pressly subject. All real estate taxes and all other charges and assessments levied against the property shall be pro-rated to the date of settlement. All recording fees and charges and all transfer and excise taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Given under my hand this 22nd day of February, 2012.

D. Frank Hill, IIIBonded Special Commissioner

136 E. German StreetP.O. Box A

Shepherdstown, WV 25443Telephone: 304-876-9333

CERTIFICATE I, Laura E. Rattenni, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, hereby certify that bond and security has been given by the Bonded Special Commis-sioner as required by law. Given under my hand this

22nd day of February, 2012.Laura E. Rattenni

Clerk3/7/4t

NOTICE OF INTENT

TO APPOINT The Jefferson County Com-mission proposes to name per-sons to serve on the following Authorities, Boards, Commis-sions, or Committees on Thurs-day, March 29, 2012, or as soon thereafter as the Commission may decide: Development Authority- (5) Three year terms ending April 5, 2015 Persons who may be interested in the above listed agency should submit a letter of interest and a re-sume or statement of qualifications to the Jefferson County Commis-sion, P.O. Box 250, Charles Town, WV 25414, prior to the proposed date of appointment. Additional information regard-ing these appointments may be obtained by calling the Commis-sion Office at (304) 728-3284.2/29/4t

NOTICE TO REDEEM

(2010-S-0000315 and 2010-S-0000316 – Jefferson County) To: HAMPTON HOMES, LLC, JAMES R. MARTIN AND LARRY F. MAZZA, TRUSTEES, MVB BANK, INC., CITY NATIONAL BANK OF WEST VIRGINIA, DONALD J. EPPERLY, DEEPINDER S. GRE-WAL, HARINDER SIDHU, WORKFORCE WEST VIRGINIA, ROPER BROS. LUMBER CO., INC., LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL E. BRIEL, WILLIAM H. GORDON ASSOCIATIONS, INC., ARNOLD CESARE & BAILY, PLLC, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY/IRS, ROBERT MASON, BOTTNER & SKILLMAN, or heirs at law, devisees, credi-tors, representatives, successors, assigns, all unknown heirs, guard-ians, conservators, fiduciaries, administrators, or lienholders. You will take notice that ELIZABETH H. PRITCHARD, the pur-chaser of the tax lien(s) on the following real estate, Certificate of Sale: 2010-S-0000315 and 2010-S-0000316, Lots #2 and #3, SMITH MT VIEW ESTATES, located in KABLETOWN, which was returned delinquent in the name of HAMPTON HOMES, LLC, and for which the tax lien(s) thereon was sold by the sheriff of Jefferson County at the sale for the delinquent taxes made on the 9th day of November, 2010, has requested that you be notified that a deed for such real estate will be made to him or her on or after April 1, 2012, as provided by law, unless before that day you redeem such real estate. The amount you will have to pay on the last day, March 31, 2012 will be as follows:

Amount equal to the taxes and charges $5,400.00due on the date of the sale, with interest, toMarch 31, 2012

Amount of subsequent years taxes paid on $2,734.39the property, since the sale, with interest toMarch 31, 2012

Amount paid for Title Examination and for $586.25preparation and service of notice with interest from January 1, 2011following the sheriff’s sale to March 31, 2012

Amount paid for other statutory costs with $0.00Interest from following the sheriff’s sale to March 31, 2012

Total Amount Payable to Sheriff – cashier $8,720.64Check, money order, or certified check mustBe made payable to The Honorable RobertE. Shirley, Sheriff and Treasurer of Jefferson County.

Cost of Certification and Redemption – cashier $35.00Check, money order, or certified check mustBe made payable to The Honorable Glen B.Gainer, III, State Auditor You may redeem at any time before March 31, 2012, by paying the above total less any unearned interest. Return to WV State Auditor’s office, County Collections Office, Building 1, Room W-118, Charleston, West Virginia, 25305, Ques-tions please call 1-888-509-6568.3/7/3t

CORPORATION OF SHEPHERDSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS CONTRACT NO. 2 – WATER STORAGE TANK

MARCH 2012 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed Bids will be received by Corporation of Shepherdstown, Post Office Box 248, 104 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, West Vir-ginia 25443, at the specified dates and times for the following work:Contract No. 2: Water Storage Tank, until 2:00 P.M., L.P.T., April 12, 2012. The total base bid price for each contract shall include the costs for furnishing labor and materials and performing all work set forth in the Advertisement for Bids, Information for Bidders, Forms of Proposal, Drug Free Workplace Requirements, WV Job Acts Requirements, General Conditions, Supplemental General Conditions, and Plans and Detail Specifications prepared by Chapman Technical Group. Immediately following the scheduled closing time for the reception of bids, all proposals that have been submitted in accordance with the conditions of this project will be publicly opened and read aloud. The work to be bid upon is described as follows: Contract No. 2 The Project consists of the demolition of the two (2) existing 500,000 gallon ground welded steel water tanks, the construction and commissioning of two (2) 700,000 gallon composite elevated factory coated bolted steel water tanks, a new valve vault, site piping, elec-trical improvements, reconnection of an existing fire hydrant, mis-cellaneous site work, removal and replacement of perimeter fence, removal of the existing valve vault and is identified as Contract No. 2 – Water System Improvements; Corporation of Shepherdstown Wa-ter Storage Tank and is shown on Contract Documents prepared by Chapman Technical Group. Construction time limit is 420 calendar days. Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents may be examined at the following places:

Chapman Technical Group Corporation of Shepherdstown200 Sixth Avenue 104 N. King StreetSt. Albans, West Virginia 25177 Shepherdstown,West Virginia 25443

McGraw-Hill Dodge Reports The Contractor’s Association of WVVirtual Plan Room: 2114 Kanawha Boulevard Eastwww.dodge.construction.com Charleston, West Virginia 25311P-501-321-5406, F-501-625-3544

Each prospective Bidder is required to purchase a minimum of one copy of the Bidding Documents. These documents consist of plans, specifications and a bid submittal packet. The bid submittal packet provides an unbound copy and listing of the items which are to be submitted with the Bid Plans and Specifications may be obtained by each Bidder from the office of Chapman Technical Group, 200 Sixth Avenue, St. Albans, West Virginia 25177, telephone (304) 727-5501, upon payment of the following non-refundable deposit: $80 for Plans & Specifications. If Plans and Specifications are requested to be mailed by the Engineer, Bidders shall also pay $5.00 for the cost of shipping. Failure of any bidder to purchase plans, specifications, and contract documents from the Engineer prior to submittal of bid will result in rejection of said bid. Each BID for each contract must be submitted in a separate sealed envelope containing the executed Form of Proposal, and included in a larger sealed envelope containing the Bid Bond, Power of Attorney, Drug Free Workplace Conformance Affida-vit, WV Job Acts Affidavit, and Contractors License. Both sealed envelopes must have the following information in the lower left hand corner for the respective contract being bid: Contract No. 2 “Name and Address of Bidder”, Corporation of Shepherd-stown, Bid on Water Storage Tank, Contract No. 2, to be opened at 2:00 P.M., L.P.T., April 12, 2012. The Contractor’s Qualification Statement form from the two (2) lowest bidders for each contract must be submitted to Chapman Tech-nical Group, P. O. Box 1355, St. Albans, West Virginia 25177, by 4:00 P.M., L.P.T., April 19, 2012. Prospective Bidders are advised that the contract awarded under this Advertisement for Bids is to be funded by a loan from the West Virginia Infrastructure Council/Water Development Authority. Neither the State of West Virginia nor any of its departments, agencies, or employees is or will be a party to this Advertisement for Bids or any resulting contract. All prospective Bidders are required to attend the Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference to be held at Corporation of Shepherdstown City Hall, 104 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia on March 29, 2012, at 2:00 P.M. for the purpose of discussing the project and tour-ing the project site. Bids shall be opened and read aloud at Corporation of Shep-herdstown City Hall, 104 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443. No Bid may be withdrawn for a period of ninety (90) days after the time of the opening of the Bids. Any Contractor submitting a Bid on this project hereby certifies, indicates, and acknowledges that he has a valid WV Contractor’s li-cense and meets all the qualifications required by the statutes of the State and subdivision in which the work is to be performed. The Corporation of Shepherdstown reserves the right to reject any or all Bids.

BY: Frank Welch, Public Works DirectorChapman Technical Group

P.O. Box 1355St. Albans, West Virginia 25177

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NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 21st day of Sep-tember, 2005, signed by Tammy Babcock, a single woman, to Tasha N. Keller, Esq., Trustee, which said deed of trust is of re-cord in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1481, at page 405. Said deed of trust was re-recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Trust Deed Book 1489, at page 171, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee having been re-quested so to do by the Lender, and default having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the pro-visions in said deed of trust con-cerning acceleration having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 o’clock, p.m. on the

27th day of March, 2012at the front doors of the Court-house i n Je f f e r son Coun-ty, West Virginia the follow-ing descr ibed rea l es ta te : All that certain lot or parcel of real estate, with the improve-ments thereon and the appur-tenances thereunto belonging, situate in Middleway District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, being more particularly bound-ed and described as follows: Lot No. 4 of the Border Square 1, Subdivision in Middleway Dis-trict, Jefferson County, West Vir-ginia, as said lot is described on a plat of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 14 at Page 16, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particu-lar description of said real estate. There is included in this con-veyance the manufactured home which is attached to the premises, It is the intention of this no-tice to sell the secured property by proper description as was in-tended to be transferred and con-veyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

257 Domer Square Kearneysville, West Virginia

25430 TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is

advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee re-serves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take posses-sion or make improvements in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or recorded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by post-ing of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or ad-journed by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The un-dersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or pro-tests regarding the sale, or requests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.


543 Fifth Street, P.O. Box 81 Parkersburg, WV 26102

Telephone (304) 485-3851 Fax (304) 485-0261


Lender: Bank of America, N.A. Processor: Maggie Brown

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IN RE: CHANGE OF NAMEPETITION OF

GRACIE LYNN SECATELLO TO GRACIE LYNN MAHONEY;

CIVIL ACTION NUMBER:12-P-16

LEGAL NOTICE OFPUBLICATION CHANGE OF

NAME PROCEEDING Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of April 2012, at 11:30 A.M. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, SAMANTHA MA-HONEY PARENT OF GRACIE LYNN SECATELLO, will apply by Petition to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing her name from GRACIE LYNN SECATELLO TO GRACIE LYNN MAHONEY at which time and place any inter-ested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publication. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office at, Clerk of Circuit Court, 119 North George Street, Suite 100, Charles Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 6th day of March 2012.

Laura E. Rattenni, Circuit ClerkJefferson County, West Virginia

By: S. MasonDeputy Circuit Clerk

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY,

WEST VIRGINIAIN RE: CHANGE OF NAME

PETITION OF LILLARD WAYNE CONLEY TO WAYNE LILLARD

CONLEY; CIVIL ACTION NUMBER: 12-P-18LEGAL NOTICE OF

PUBLICATION CHANGE OF

NAME PROCEEDING Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of April 2012, at 11:00 A.M. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, LILLARD WAYNE CONLEY, will apply by Peti-tion to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing his name from LILLARD WAYNE CON-LEY TO WAYNE LILLARD CON-LEY at which time and place any interested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publication. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office at, Clerk of Circuit Court, 119 North George Street, Suite 100, Charles Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 7th day of March 2012.


By: S. MasonDeputy Circuit Clerk

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NOTICE OF SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE By virtue of authority vested in the undersigned by a deed of trust made by Gregory S. Hess and Donna Hess to Douglas S. Rock-well, trustee, dated November 1, 2003, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Com-mission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed of Trust Book 1287, at Page 729, default having been made in the provisions of the Deed of Trust and being required by the beneficiary to do so, the un-dersigned substitute trustee will sell at public auction at the front door of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia, on April 5, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. all of the following described real estate: All of that certain lot or parcel of real estate situate in the City of Ranson, Jefferson County, West Virginia and more particu-larly bound and described in Deed Book 950 at Page 56, as follows: BEING all of that parcel of real es-tate in Block 114 containing 7,500 square feet, more or less, and more particularly described as fol-lows: BEGINNING at a point in the east line of Reymann Street, 62.5’ north of the north line of 7th Ave-nue; thence with Reymann street in a northerly direction 62.5’ to the southern line of a 20’ wide alley; thence with the alley in an easterly direction 120’ to the northwest cor-ner of Lot 42; thence with Lot 42 in a southerly direction 62.5’ to a point; thence by a line parallel with 7th Avenue in a westerly direction 120’ to the point of beginning; be-ing the northern one-half of Lots 43, 44, 45 and 46 of Block 144. Reference is made to a plat of the Charles Town Mining Manufactur-ing Improvement Company which is recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia in Deed Book X at Page 1. Terms of Sale: Cash, 10% on day of sale, balance within 30 days; or upon such other agree-able to the beneficiary as the Trustee may deem beneficial in the execution of this trust. The deed from the trustee shall be subject to the lien for 2011 and 2012 taxes and all those reserva-tions, restrictions, easements and other matters of record. Further, the contract from the Trustee shall contain the requirement that the Purchaser pay the West Virginia Excise Tax on the transfer of real property associated with the sale.

James B. Crawford, IIISubstitute Trustee

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NOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY COMMISSION OF

JEFFERSON COUNTY

The County Commission of Jefferson County will hold a pub-lic meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Coun-ty Commission meeting room lo-cated at the Old Charles Town Library on the ground floor, 200 E. Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia 25414. The purpose of the Public Hearing is to approve the Levy Estimate for Fiscal Year 2013. Also at this public hearing, the Commission will receive public comment concerning the Coun-ty’s budget. The draft FY13 budget and documents are available at the following website:www.jeffersoncountywv.org Anyone wishing to provide comment may do so at this meet-ing or by email at [email protected]. The public is invited to attend.

By Order of the CountyCommission of Jefferson County

Patricia A. Noland, President3/14/2t

NOTICE OF ESTATE

SETTLEMENTS I h a v e b e f o r e m e t h e Waiver of Final Set t lement for the fo l lowing f iduc iary : James P. Reinhart, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles H. Reinhart, Jr., deceased. Any interested party may obtain a copy thereof f rom D. Frank Hill, III, 136 E. German Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and may make a written objection thereto, on or before March 31, 2012. Given under my hand this 6th day of March, 2012.

D. Frank Hill, III Fiduciary Commissioner

County of Jefferson3/14/2t



IN RE: CHANGE OF NAMEPETITION OF

KRISTEN LEIGH MORRISTO KRISTEN LEIGH EYLER;

CIVIL ACTION NUMBER:12-P-13

LEGAL NOTICE OFPUBLICATION CHANGE OF

NAME PROCEEDING Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of April 2012, at 11:30 A.M. on said day, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, KRISTEN LEIGH MOR-RIS, will apply by Petition to the Circuit Court of Jefferson Coun-ty, West Virginia for the entry of an order by said Court changing her name from KRISTEN LEIGH MORRIS TO KRISTEN LEIGH EYLER at which time and place any interested party may appear and be heard, if they so desire. You are hereby notified that this matter may be rescheduled without further notice or publication. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office at, Clerk of Circuit Court, 119

North George Street, Suite 100, Charles Town, WV 25414. Entered by the Clerk of said Court this 6th day of March 2012.


By: S. Mason, Deputy Circuit Clerk3/14/2t


Wednesday, December 28, 2011 D4



NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 22nd day of Sep-tember, 2006, signed by James F. Brown, Jr., to Richard Pill, Trust-ee, which said deed of trust is of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1590, at page 340, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee having been requested so to do by the Lender, and de-fault having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceler-ation having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 p.m. on the

27th day of March, 2012at the front doors of the court-house in the aforesaid coun-ty of West Virginia, the fol-lowing described real estate: PARCEL 1: All that certain lot or parcel of land situate in Jefferson County, West Virginia near and east of the Johnsontown Road, being the road between Bardane and Brown’s Cross Road (for-merly known as Brown’s Shop), described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of the lot conveyed to Charles W. Brown by Lewis Sommers by deed dated November 5, 1925, being the northernmost lot shown on plat recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Virginia in Deed Book R at Page 527, thence in a southerly direc-tion with the east line of said larg-er lot 50 feet, thence in a westerly direction by a new line parallel with the north line of said larger lot 100 feet, thence in a northerly di-rection by a new line parallel with said first line 50 feet to the north line of said larger lot, thence with the same in an easterly direction 100 feet to the point of beginning; INCLUSIVE of a perpetual right of way for all purposes of passage and transportation 20 feet wide from the northwest corner of the lot herein conveyed along and south of the north line of that part of said lot retained by Charles W. Brown, et ux., to said Johnstown Road, for ingress to and egress from the lot herein conveyed. PARCEL 2: All that certain tract of land with improvements thereon, situate and being in Charles Town District, Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, par-ticularly described as follows: Said lot being on the road run-ning from Wagley’s Shop to Brown’s Shop and same cut off the North side of a larger Lot owned (or formerly owned) by John M. Coyle, and adjoins the Wilshire School House Lot, by a line running parallel with the divi-sion line between the Lot of said Coyle and the Lot sold by him to Charles Colston, a Plat of which Lot hereby conveyed, showing also other Lots not material to this deed, is of record in the Of-fice of the Clerk of the County of Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book No. “R” at Page 527, being the same par-cel of land and improvements, which was conveyed to the party of the first part herein by deed dated November 10, 1956, by Charles W. Brown and Lelia C. Brown, his wife, which said deed is of record in said Clerk’s Office in Deed Book No. 215 at Page 17, to which said Plat and deed reference is made for further de-scription of the real estate hereby conveyed WHICH SAID REAL ESTATE PARCEL CONTAINS ONE (1) acre, more or less. PARCEL 3: All of that certain lot or parcel of real estate with build-ings and improvements thereon known as the Wiltshire School Building and lot, situate in John-sontown, in the Charles Town Magisterial District, Jefferson County, West Virginia containing approximately one-fourth acre. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

756 Wiltshire Rd. Kearneysville, West Virginia

25430 TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trust-ee reserves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take possession or make im-provements in the premises un-til the Trustee deed is delivered or recorded. A third party pur-chaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees.

Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.


543 Fifth Street, P.O. Box 81 Parkersburg, WV 26102

Telephone (304) 485‑3851 Fax (304) 485‑0261


Lender: Wells Fargo Bank,N.A. Processor: Maggie Brown

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FIDUCIARY NOTICE

The Pe r i od i c Repo r t o f Guardian by, Arthur F. Mag-ner, Jr. and Melanie Magner, Guardian for Angel McDaniel, a protected person, dated Feb-ruary 27, 2012, has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of Jefferson County, West Virginia.

S. Andrew Arnold Fiduciary Commissioner Jefferson County3/14/2t

FIDUCIARY NOTICE

The Accounting of Conserva-tor by, Velvet Alayne Hammond, conservator for the Estate of Tay-lor Daniel Gilly, a protected per-son, dated December 31, 2011 has been filed with the Jefferson County Circuit Clerk.

S. Andrew ArnoldFiduciary Commissioner

Jefferson County3/14/2t

FIDUCIARY NOTICE

The Periodic Report of Guardian by, Arthur F. Magner, Jr. and Mel-anie Magner, Guardian for Angel McDaniel, a protected person, dated February 27, 2012, has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of Jefferson County, West Virginia.

S. Andrew ArnoldFiduciary Commissioner

Jefferson County3/14/2t

NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 23rd day of August, 2005, signed by Chad J. Gauthier and Carrie Ellen Gauthier, as joint tenants, to Richard Pill, Trustee, which said deed of trust is of re-cord in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1470, at page 643, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee having been requested so to do by the Lender, and de-fault having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceler-ation having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 o’clock, p.m. on the

27th day of March, 2012at the front doors of the Court-house in Jefferson County, West Virginia the following described real estate: All that certain lot or parcel of real estate, with the improve-ments thereon and the appur-tenances thereunto belonging, situate in Bolivar Corp. District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, being more particularly bounded and described as follows: 0.31 acres, more or less, as shown on a plat thereof dated October 12, 1971 prepared by Charles R. Atherton, registered Engineer, entitled “Plat Showing Grant of Land from Charlton J. and Penny S. Carey to John Ed-win Hawkinson, which said plat is attached to and recorded with a deed dated October 29, 1971 from Charlton J. Carey, et ux. to John Edward Hawkinson record-ed in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virignia, in Deed Book 335 at Page 248. It is the intention of this no-tice to sell the secured property by proper description as was in-tended to be transferred and con-veyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

1198 Washington StreetBolivar, West Virginia, 25425

TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee

and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee reserves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take possession or make improve-ments in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or re-corded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.



Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485‑0261


Lender: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Processor: Maggie Brown

3/14/2t

NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 23rd day of March, 2007, signed by James R. Gaynor, to Tasha N. Keller Ca-trow, Trustee, which said deed of trust is of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1636, at page 428, and the un-dersigned, R. Vance Golden, III, Trustee having been requested so to do by the Lender, and de-fault having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceler-ation having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 o’clock, p.m. on the

27th day of March, 2012at the front doors of the court-house in the aforesaid county of West Virginia, the following de-scribed real estate: All that certain real estate situate in the Middleway District, Jefferson County, West Virginia and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 9, Section C, of the Fox Glen Subdivision as said lot is described on a plat of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jeffer-son County, West Virginia in Plat Book 2 at Page 293. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

70 Hunting Horn LaneKearneysville,

West Virginia 25430 TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee reserves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take possession or make improve-ments in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or re-corded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of

the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.



Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485‑0261


Lender: Seterus, Inc.Processor: Victor Rollins

3/14/2t

NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 31st day of Au-gust, 2010, signed by Patricia A. Mutton, an unmarried , to Michael Cassell, Trustee, which said deed of trust is of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Com-mission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1815, at page 333, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee hav-ing been requested so to do by the Lender, and default having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceleration having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at pub-lic auction at 5:00 o’clock, p.m. on the

27TH DAY OF MARCH 2012at the front doors of the Court-house in Jefferson County, West Virginia the following described real estate: All that certain parcel of real estate lying just east of Charles Town, in the Charles Town Dis-trict of Jefferson County, West Virginia, and more particularly designated as Lot No. A-5 of Pat-rick Henry Estates, Section A, as the same is designated and de-scribed upon a plat entitled Re-vised Re-Plat for Patrick Henry Estates, Section A, prepared by W.J. Teach & Associates, Inc. dated October 2, 1980, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 6 at page 13. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

279 Patrick Henry WayCharles Town,

West Virginia 25414-3855 TERMS OF SALE: Cash in hand on day of sale or within 30 days of date of sale upon terms to be agreed upon between Trustee and successful bidder, time be-ing of the essence; payment for unpaid real estate taxes to be assumed by the purchaser. The Trustee does not warrant title or fitness to this property; it is being purchased as is; this is a buyer beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. If there is any part of the process of sale which is found to be objectionable, the Trustee reserves the right to cancel the sale. No purchaser should take possession or make improve-ments in the premises until the Trustee deed is delivered or re-corded. A third party purchaser at sale may be required to pay the purchase price plus all recording and transfer fees. Any sale hereunder may be adjourned from time to time with-out any notice other than oral proclamation at the time and place appointed for this sale or by posting of a notice of same. Should the Trustee not appear at the time appointed for the sale and there is no notice posted of a continuance please contact the office of the Trustee to make further inquiry. Any sale may be conducted or adjourned by the designated agent or attorney of the Trustee. The undersigned is fully vested with the authority to sell said property as Trustee by instrument of record. Should any party have any in-quires, objections to the sale or protests regarding the sale, or re-quests regarding the sale, please notify the trustee below by one of the means of communications set forth below.



Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485‑0261



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NOTICE OF

TRUSTEE SALE Pursuant to the authority vest-ed in the undersigned by deed of trust dated the 28th day of June,

2007, signed by Jessica Nelson and William Wenzel, to Craw-ford & Keller, PLLC, Trustee, which said deed of trust is of re-cord in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 1659, at page 524, and Golden & Amos, PLLC, Trustee having been requested so to do by the Lender, and de-fault having been made under the terms and conditions of said deed of trust, and the provisions in said deed of trust concerning acceler-ation having been complied with by the Lender and present holder of the note, said Trustee will sell at public auction at 5:00 p.m. on the

27th day of March, 2012at the front doors of the court-house in the aforesaid county of West Virginia, the following de-scribed real estate: All that certain real estate situ-ate in the Charles Town District, Jefferson County, West Virginia and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 18, Section 17-J, as the same is set forth on a plat of the subdivision thereof, made for Shannondale, Inc., a corpo-ration, by W.R. Amos, Surveyor, dated April, 1970, which plat is re-corded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jeffer-son County, West Virginia in Plat Book 1 at Page 99. It is the intention of this notice to sell the secured property by proper description as was intend-ed to be transferred and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust. The above described real es-tate is reported to have a mailing address of:

59 Fawn DriveHarpers Ferry,




Telephone (304) 485 3851Fax (304) 485‑0261


Lender: Seterus, Inc.Processor: Victor Rollins

3/14/2t

NOTICE OF SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE BY SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Notice is hereby given that default has occurred in the pay-ment of an indebtedness secured by a Deed of Trust dated April 25, 2005, between Michael L. Fowler, Borrower, and John C. Skinner, Jr., Trustee, recorded in the Of-fice of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia on April 26, 2005, in Deed of Trust Book 1421, at 6, and which Deed of Trust authorizes the Lender to substitute a Trustee, at its op-tion, and the Lender having ap-pointed EP Trust Services as Substitute Trustee, by Substitu-tion of Trustee recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 1104, at Page 617, and the undersigned Substitute Trustee having been requested by the owner and holder of the said in-debtedness to enforce the Deed of Trust, will offer for sale at pub-lic auction at the front door of the Courthouse of Jefferson County, at 100 East Washington Street, Charles Town, West Virginia, on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 9:30 o’clock a.m., all that certain real estate situate in the Middle-way District, Jefferson County,

West Virginia, and more particu-larly described as follows:All that certain lot or parcel of real estate just off Route 9, near Kear-neysville, in Middleway District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the Fox Glen Development known as Lot 27-A, as shown on a plat of survey dated June, 1970, prepared by A. G. Hooper, Jr., entitled, “Fox Glen, Section ‘A’”, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commis-sion of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Plat Book 1, at Page 103, to which said plat reference is hereby made for a more com-plete and accurate description by metes and bounds of the parcel hereby conveyed; TOGETHER WITH and improved by a 1970 Topper Mobile Home with Serial Number 3259. AND BEING the same real estate which was conveyed to Michael L. Fowler from Catherine U. Gartner deed dated April 22, 2005, recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 1007, at Page 424. TERMS OF SALE: All cash; 10% on day of sale in cash, cer-tified or cashier’s check may be required of bidder(s) other than the party secured by the refer-enced Deed of Trust, before a bid is received and accepted, to be refunded to the bidder unless the property is sold to him or her. Settlement in 30 days. If the pur-chaser cannot or does not com-ply with the terms of the sale, or fails to settle within 30 days, the Substitute Trustee(s) may con-sider the deposit forfeited and readvertise and sell the property at the risk and cost of the default-ing purchaser, or, without forfeit-ing the deposit, avail themselves of any legal or equitable rights against the defaulting purchaser. If the Substitute Trustee(s) can-not or do not comply with or com-plete the terms of the sale, the purchaser’s sole remedy shall be limited to the return of any de-posit. By bidding, the purchaser agrees that purchaser is not enti-tled to any legal or equitable rem-edy in the event the Substitute Trustee(s) did not have the right to sell. The balance of the pur-chase price shall be due in cash, certified check or wire transfer at settlement. All costs of convey-ing, examination of title, record-ing and transfer taxes and settle-ment fees shall be at the cost of the purchaser. Neither the Sub-stitute Trustee(s) nor the secured party assumes any obligation to deliver possession of the prop-erty. The Substitute Trustee(s) reserve the right to postpone or adjourn the sale for any reason. Further terms may be announced at the sale. The deed from the Substitute Trustee(s) will be sub-ject to any liens for any unpaid real estate taxes, water rents and sewer charges, utility line ease-ments, rights of way, restrictive covenants of record, and mat-ters appearing among the land records and/or upon inspection of the property. The Substitute Trustee(s) will deliver to the pur-chaser a Trustee’s Deed convey-ing the real estate sold, but will be without covenant or warranty ex-pressed or implied. This is a buy-er beware sale and any buyer is advised to retain counsel before the sale. No representations con-cerning the status of title, leases, occupancy, zoning, physical or environmental conditions, ac-cess and/or availability of utilities are made either by the Substitute Trustee(s) or the secured party. The party secured by the Deed of Trust reserves the right to pur-chase the property at such sale. FEDERAL TAX LIEN: In the event that there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right to redeem the property within a pe-riod of 120 days from the date of such sale or the period allowable for redemption under local law, whichever is longer. Pursuant to the Deed of Trust, the Trustee may postpone the sale by public announcement at the time and place designated or by posting a notice of the same, and act by agent in the execution of the sale.

EP Trust Services, SUBSTI-TUTE, TRUSTEE

115 E. Washington Street Charles Town, WV 25414

Phone: 304-725-7029 3/14/3t

TRUSTEE’S SALE OF

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE The undersigned Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the author-ity vested in him by that certain Deed of Trust dated December 5, 1997, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jefferson County, West Virginia, in Deed of Trust Book 883 at Page 221, and by Modification Agreement recorded in Deed of Trust Book 1147, at Page 275, Leslie C. Payne and Stacia L. Fuller did convey unto Douglas S. Rockwell, Trustee, certain real property described in said deed of trust; and the benefi-ciary has elected to appoint Rich-ard A. Pill as Substitute Trustee by a Substitution of Trustee re-


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corded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office; and default having been made under the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and the under-signed Substitute Trustee having been instructed by the secured party to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Jefferson County Courthouse, in Charles Town, West Virginia, on

Monday, April 2, 2012, at 2:36 PM

the following described real es-tate, with its improvements, ease-ments and appurtenances there-unto belonging, situate in the Harpers Ferry District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows:All those certain tracts or parcels of real estate with appurtenances thereunto belonging and situate in Harpers Ferry District, Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, and being more particularly bounded and described as follows: Parcel One: All of Lot No. 556-A in Section 5, and Lot No. 600-A in Section 6-A as said lots are bounded and described in a plat entitled “Resubdivision” of said lots made by James Allison, Surveyor, dated July, 1974, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 512, at Page 575, which Lot No. 556-A, Section 5 being a merger of Lots 556 and 557, Section 5. Parcel Two: All of Lot No. 600-B in Section 6-A as said lot is bounded and described on a plat made by James Allison, Sur-veyor, dated November 1982, and which plat is recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 512, at Page 574. AND BEING the same real es-tate which was conveyed to Leslie C. Payne and Stacia L. Fuller, by deed dated December 5, 1997, from F&M Bank-Blakeley, and re-corded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jef-ferson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 883, at Page 219. The above-described property will be sold subject to any cov-enants, restrictions, easements, leases and conditions of record, and subject to any unpaid real estate taxes. The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Substi-tute Trustee shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or per-son occupying the subject property to vacate said property. TERMS: Ten percent (10%) of the purchase price as a cash deposit with the balance due and payable within 30 days of the day of sale.

Richard A. Pill, Substitute Trustee

P. O. Box 440, 85 Aikens Center, Martinsburg, WV 25404

Phone (304) 263-4971, Fax (304) 267-5840, e-mail: pillfore-

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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION OF WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

PUBLIC NOTICE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PRO-TECTION’S, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE, 601 57TH STREET, CHARLESTON SE, WEST VIRGINIA 25304-2345 TELEPHONE: (304) 926-0440.APPLICATION FOR A WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM WATER POLLUTION CON-TROL PERMITPublic Notice No.: L-27-12 Public Notice Date: March 21, 2012Paper: Spirit of JeffersonThe following has applied for a WV NPDES Water Pollution Control Permit for this facility or activity:Appl. No.: WV0076724Applicant: UFP RANSON LLC 2801 EAST BELTLINE NE GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49525Location: RANSON, JEFFERSON COUNTYLatitude: 39:18:44 Longitude: 77:51:34Receiving Stream:Flowing Springs Run of Shenandoah RiverActivity: To operate and maintain a complete recycle system and best management practices to prevent the discharge of industrial wastes into an unnamed trib-utary of Flowing Springs Run, a tributary of the Shenandoah River. Also, to operate and maintain disposal systems and best management practices for the discharge of untreated storm water from a storm water retention pond with an overflow weir to a pipe, via Outlet 001, to a swale to an unnamed tributary of Flowing Springs Run, a tributary of the Shenandoah River. An antidegradation review has been conducted and Tier 1 protection is provided for the designated uses identified in Title 47, Series 2, Section 6.Business conducted:Manufactures Pressure Treated WoodImplementation:Administrative Order #7473 On the basis of review of the application, the “Water Pollution Con-trol Act (Chapter 22, Article 11-8(a)),” and the “West Virginia Legislative Rules,” the State of West Virginia will act on the above application. Any interested person may submit written comments on the draft permit and may request a public hearing by addressing such to the Di-rector of the Division of Water and Waste Management within 30 days of the date of the public notice. Such comments or requests should be addressed to:Director, Division of Water and Waste Management, DEPATTN: Lori Derrick, Permitting Section601 57th Street SECharleston, WV 25304-2345 The public comment period begins March 21, 2012 and ends April 20, 2012. Comments received within this period will be considered prior to acting on the permit application. Correspondence should include the name, address and the telephone number of the writer and a concise statement of the nature of the issues raised. The Director shall hold a public hearing whenever a finding is made, on the basis of requests, that there is a significant degree of public interest on issues relevant to the Draft Permit(s). Interested persons may contact the public in-formation office to obtain further information. The application, draft permit and any required fact sheet may be in-spected, by appointment, at the Division of Water and Waste Management Public Information Office, at 601 57th Street SE, Charleston, WV 25304-2345, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on business days. Copies of the documents may be obtained from the Division at a nominal cost. Calls must be made 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.3/21/1t

FINAL PLAT PUBLIC HEARING

Public comments are welcome on the final plat (i.e. layout and conditions) for the following subdivision. Comments help Planning Commissioners understand a project. The Planning Commission will approve the project if it meets all legal requirements, particularly the 1979 Jefferson County Subdivision Ordinance, and otherwise disap-prove it or impose conditions. Files may be seen at 116 East Washington Street, Charles Town, 9 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday, (304) 728-3228. Interested parties may provide oral or written comments at the hear-ing, 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2012 in the Charles Town Library meeting room at 200 East Washington Street, at the side entrance on Samuel Street. You may also provide written comments by 10:00 a.m. on the day of the meeting to [email protected], or P.O. Box 338 Charles Town, WV 25414, or fax 304-728-8126.

Owner/ Subdivider

Title Location Description

Arcadia Devel-opment Co.

Harvest Hills Subdivision, Section 2, Phase 2(PC #12-02)

This property is located east side of Route 17 (Flowing Springs Road) and the acres south side of the CSX Rail-road where the two intersect.

22 Single-Family Lots on 8.84 acres.

Cambridge, LLC

Cambridge Manufactured Home Devel-opment Subdi-vision, Section 4, Phase 5(PC #12-03)

The property is located on the south side of Route 17/5 (Flowing Acres Road) and 0.31 miles east of its junction with Route 17 (Flowing Springs Road).

2 Mobile Home Lots and 1 Single-Family Resi-due Lot on 27.0671 acres.

By Order of the Jefferson County Planning Commission President3/21/1t

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304.725.2046

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systems that follow and meet ISO standards, which are assessed by a third-party certification body. As part of the certification pro-cess, an auditor performed a se-ries of audits and will continue ongoing assessments to monitor compliance. To find out more about HMS, go to www.hmstech.com.

n Laura Rau, who owns On the Wings of Dreams shop in down-town Shepherdstown, is once again donating proceeds from crystal sales to the Potomac Val-ley Audubon Society. This is the fifth year shop owner Laura Rau has set aside three cents from each crystal and mineral sold throughout the year to donate to the local Audubon Society. Said Rau: “Supporting the PVAS gives us the opportunity to participate in both environmen-tal and humanitarian efforts. The Society’s work to protect and preserve wetlands and other sen-sitive natural environments are vital in this fast-growing area. The PVAS also sponsors numer-ous programs to educate children about the environment, encour-aging them to get out in nature and away from the computer or TV. It’s an important investment in the future.” This year’s donation of $220 targets PVAS youth programs, which include camps, scholar-ships and naturalist programs that promote conservation and exploration in nature. The shop is located at 139 W. German St. In addition to crys-tals, it offers sterling silver and natural stone jewelry; Native American books and music; in-cense; essential oils; prayer flags, Tibetan singing bowls, and more. For details, go to www.WingsOf-DreamsShop.com.

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over into a Roth IRA account. Originally, individuals whose income exceeded $100,000 were not allowed to convert their retirement plans into Roth IRAs. However, after the changes made in 2010, high income individuals now have the option to make the switch. With the current recession, many peo-ple have lost over 30 percent of their cur-rent retire-ment mon-ey. Howev-er, with the p r o s p e c t of a rising economy, now is the most ideal time to switch from Traditional IRAs and other retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, to a Roth IRA. Contributions made to Tradi-tional IRAs and 401(k)s are not taxed, therefore, when mak-ing the switch, the individual is taxed at their current tax rate. Due to the loss of retirement assets, the amount of money that is to be taxed will probably be less in the current economy. However, once the switch is made, the Roth IRA continues to grow tax free. This is bene-ficial because as the economy improves and individuals re-cover their losses, they will not be taxed on their gains. When rolling over other retirement plans to a Roth IRA, the goal is to make the transition when the individual is in the low-est tax bracket possible, there-fore, paying the least amount of money in taxes.

A Roth IRA provides a sense of stability that other retirement plans cannot offer. By paying taxes at the time of contribu-tion and earning interest tax-free, individuals can better pre-pare for their future. Howev-er, the ability to withdraw the original contribution without penalty is a feature that allows individuals to feel secure about their decision to place money in a Roth IRA account, because if unforeseen circumstances

o c c u r , there is no pun-ishment for tak-ing out the nec-e s s a r y m o n e y. A Roth IRA al-

lows individuals the flexibility to live a prosperous life while also planning for an enjoyable future.

— Rob Hoxton CFP®, AAMS, AIF® is the president and CEO of Hoxton Financial, Inc., a leading fee-only invest-ment advisory firm. He began his career in the financial ser-vices industry in 1986, and he has won numerous awards for his work in the wealth man-agement area. Mr. Hoxton is the developer of The Grow Greenr® Method and the au-thor of Grow Greenr, 10 Steps to a Richer Life, which is available at Amazon.com and Investing in Uncertain Times, which can be downloaded as a PDF file from www.hox-tonfinancial.com. He can be reached at [email protected] and by phone 304-876-2619.

Send your newsThe Spirit of Jefferson wants your business news. Email notic-es on promotions, appointments, awards and other business ac-complishments to Christine Mill-er Ford at [email protected]. Items may be faxed to 304-728-6856 or mailed to Business Briefcase, c/o Spirit of Jefferson newsroom, 210 N. George St., Charles Town, WV 25414. Questions? Call Ford at 304-725-2046.

Head trainer Sean Leonard works with Missy Grove on an alternative to the handstand pushup. CrossFit work-outs are geared to each participant’s level of agility.

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an outdoor facility. Leonard stressed that any-one of any age or ability can get a great workout at Cross-Fit 304. “Since the workouts are scalable, we use that tech-nique to help people accom-plish the goals within their limitations,” he said. “Some people are worried that means they won’t get a workout, but they will. There’s no doubt about that.”

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SpiritMembers of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce were on hand at Paddy’s Irish Pub’s ribbon-cutting ceremo-ny on March 16. Surrounded by staff and guests, owner Pat RIley and general manager Susan Williams cut the ribbon to signify the business’s official opening. Others attending the event at 210 W. Liberty St.: Paul Espinosa, past presi-dent of the chamber; Heather Morgan McIntyre, the chamber’s executive director; Charles Town Mayor Peggy Smith; and Cheryl Keyrouze, president of Communication Outreach of Jefferson County.

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