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By Roslyn Ryan

As emergency response operations go, the Cartersville Volunteer Fire

Department isn’t particularly big. But, to President Roger Myers, that is no excuse for not being the most prepared and profes-sional outfit they possibly can.

Myers, who took over the leadership of the department in January, has big goals for his group, including increasing the number of training opportunities available to his volunteers and continuing to update equip-ment. The department will soon take pos-session of a 1995 Pierce model fire engine, which they purchased from a fire depart-ment in Amissville, Va. They have also spent the past few months participating in specialized training operations, including a day spent working with CSX officials and a program focused on vehicle extraction.

Sitting in the small office in the back of

see Volunteers > 2

New Cartersville Volunteer Fire Department President Roger Myers says goal for department is “be prepared”

Man with a plan

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Large photo: The new fire truck the Cartersville Volunteer Fire Department will acquire from Amissville, Va. Inset:

Department President Roger Myers.

Cheerleaders take charge of fundraising effort. See page 14.

County celebrates its very own Blue Star memorial in honor of veterans.

See page 9.

It’s time for dinner: Do you know what cut of meat you’re fixing? See page 17.

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Accepting Fall Consignmentsbeginning in August.

By Roslyn Ryan

When you get right down to it, vol-unteering is kind of an odd way to spend your time. Let’s face it: just about all of us are stretched to the max in one way or another these days, be it for time or for

money. And with the demands put on us by busy careers and often busier per-sonal lives, it just doesn’t seem to make sense –or cents as the case may be—to go giving our pre-cious time away for nothing.

Add to that that so many of those who give so freely to their communities are not the ones with oodles of extra time to spare. No, they are usually the ones with full time jobs and growing families, those who have probably earned the right to put their feet up on a lazy Saturday afternoon (for an example, see our story on volunteer firefighter Roger Myers in this month’s front page).

Ask most of the people who do vol-

unteer why they do it, and you are likely to get a quizzical look, a shrugged shoul-der—perhaps a chuckle. What you will also almost always get is an answer some-thing along the lines of “I just see a need and I fill it.” Some do it for religious rea-sons, and many do it simply for the sense of satisfaction that comes from helping their fellow Cumberland residents. You’ll see them just about everywhere in this community, from the Master Gardeners who donate their time beautifying the county to the little league coaches who spend hours sweating it out on the dia-mond. You see them out in full force when there is an emergency, and again when there are residents in need of a meal, a ride or even just a friend.

No, no one ever got rich by donating their time. But here’s where you come to the best part, the beautiful equation of volunteerism: the more people you have in a community willing to give away their time and energy for nothing, the richer that community becomes in just about everything.

And to so many of us who have had our lives made better by the tireless work of so many of our dedicated community volunteers, that somehow just makes per-fect sense.

the fire station on Cartersville Road, Myers insists that he did not take on the role of President with the idea of mak-ing sweeping changes. “What we’ve tried to do is to bring a more modern approach to something they have been doing quite well for years,” he said. Myers noted that, due to the efforts of those includ-ing the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors and staff, Cumberland Fire Chief Kevin Ingle, Jessie Proffitt and District Chief Dean Dunn, his transition into the President of the department has been a smooth one.

A career firefighter, Myers says the events of September 11, 2001 brought home to every department the impor-tance of being ready for any-thing that might happen. While the bulk of the calls his department responds to are

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vehicle accidents and brush fires, they train and prepare for many different types of emergencies.

As with all volunteer fire departments large and small, funding is invariably as issue. “We live in a very supportive community,” said Myers, “but, as with anything, it’s never enough.”

In order to help raise funds for the department, the Cartersville Volunteer Fire Department will be holding a Hillbilly Raft Race on July 30 at Cartersville Landing.

The family-friendly event, set to kick off at 9 a.m. (see box), will feature three divi-sions, including Canoe/Kayak, Open Division (for those who want to build their own motor-less rafts), and the Tube Division.

At the end of the race, participants will be able to enjoy entertainment, games and food.

Along with funding chal-lenges comes the always-

present issue of man hours. As Myers and the other vol-unteers work to build their department, just about all of them are doing so while also working full-time jobs elsewhere. Myers works as a firefighter for the City of Richmond when he isn’t vol-unteering in Cumberland, and admits that the hours can definitely add up.

Myers said it certainly isn’t a bad thing to have a team with a wide range of skills and experience. After all, who could argue with the benefits of having a body shop owner next to you when you come upon a vehicle extraction, or a mechanic when a motorist needs assistance.

“Everyone brings some-thing unique to the table,” said Myers, obviously pleased with the skill and dedication of the department he is a part of. “When we are all on the same page and working together we can do some amazing things.”

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or be shuttled and dropped off at a location at the half way point. Those that put in at Columbia are responsible for having their cars taken to Cartersville to be parked until completion of the float. (float times vary due to river depth and currents) Please consider the half way float as ambient temperatures affect the elderly and small chil-dren severely. Please bring good sunscreen ya’ll. This aint racin, this is relaxin!

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Friends of Bear Creek Lake monthly meeting at Bear Creek Lake State Park 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Bear Creek Hall

WW2 Veteran’s Meeting. Second Wednesday of each month at St. John Neumann Catholic Church located behind Flat Rock Village Shopping Center at 7:00pm. All are welcome.

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Welcome Campfi re at Bear Creek Lake. Campground ‘A’ shelter. At this free “Glad to meet you” program, Park staff will introduce you to Bear Creek Lake and the surrounding area. Learn local lore and history, as well as tidbits about the critters that live here. For more in-formation check [email protected]

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Buckingham Farm-ers Market. Community farmers’ market carrying local produce; homemade baked goods; fresh beef and lamb; hand spun yarn; gourds; wood products; fresh herbs; shrubs and bedding plants. Interested vendors should contact Market Manager, Sam Goin. Market Schedule: Begin-ning the fi rst Friday in April and ending the second Friday in November. 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. Location: Route 20 and Route 15, Dillwyn, VA

JULY 17, SUNDAY

Hobson’s Chapel United Methodist Church. Pow-hatan, VA invites to attend their annual Homecoming Service on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 11:15am. The service will be led by the Reverend Won Lee and the message will be delivered be the Reverend Richard Bucher, pastor of Thomas Chapel UMC. Special music will be provided for the service. Following the service we will have a cov-ered dish fellowship dinner on the grounds.

Rotary Club of Farmville Meeting at 12:00pm. 201 High Street, Farmville, Va.

JULY 19, TUESDAY

H.O.P.E. – Helping Others Prepare for Eternity is a Ladies Group that meets every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm in the Fellowship Hall at Carters-ville Baptist Church. All women are invited to join us. H.O.P.E encourag-es Christian development of ladies in our church and community through mis-sions, spiritual outreach, community involvement, and Christian fellowship. We take our name to heart and work hard to do God’s will on many levels, supporting local, state,

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Can You Canoe? This is a “How to Canoe” program suitable for beginners. Participants will learn canoe structure, safety and strokes and have time to get more comfortable and capable when piloting a canoe. All equipment provided. Pre-registration required by 9:00am the day of the program. There is a $ 5.00 per person fee for this program. Family rates available, but please no children under six years old. For more information call (804)492-4410. Web-site: Bear Creek Lake

JULY 22, FRIDAY

Buckingham Farm-ers Market. Community farmers’ market carrying local produce; homemade baked goods; fresh beef and lamb; hand spun yarn; gourds; wood products; fresh herbs; shrubs and bedding plants. Interested vendors should contact Market Manager, Sam Goin. Market Schedule: Begin-ning the fi rst Friday in April and ending the second Friday in November. 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. Location: Route 20 and Route 15, Dillwyn, VA

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Cowboy Days and Civil War Encampments at Buckingham’s Historic Village at Robert E Lee Wayside. Saturday from 10:00am until 4:00pm.

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Three Fold Cord Bike Rally, July 29-31, 2011 presented by Living Wheels Christian Motorcycle Association Powhatan. Live mu-sic by Covenant Band. Rally Location: Cozy Acres

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Conservation District offers financial cost-share assistance for the installation of con-servation practices to producers and land-owners in Buckingham and Cumberland counties. The District accepts continuous sign-ups for cost-share applications all year round.

The District offers cost-share assistance for: the installation of practices that include stream exclusion fencing with a 35 foot buffer (herbaceous or riparian), cross-fenc-ing for rotational grazing, and providing an alternative water source, with well and pipeline; establishing grass and/or legume vegetation on erodible cropland; designing a storage facility for liquid or solid waste from highly concentrated livestock and poultry areas; designing a facility to manage the treatment and disposal of poultry and swine carcasses; planting pines or hardwoods on

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Vol. 3 No. 1 June 2011

The Centra Foundation addressescommunity health issues through edu-cation and funding of screenings andprograms that emphasize wellness, dis-ease prevention and early intervention.

George A. Hurt, M.D.Chairman

Samuel P. CardwellVice Chairman

George W. DawsonPresident

Kathryn M. Pumphrey, Ed.D.Executive Vice President

Lewis C. AddisonTreasurer

Robert R. Chapman IIIMelanie Christian

A.C. (Buzzy) Coleman Jr.Rodger W. Fauber

Paul F. Fitzgerald, M.D.Robert H. Gilliam Jr.John J. Halpin, M.D.

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The Centra Foundation addressescommunity health issues through edu-cation and funding of screenings andprograms that emphasize wellness, dis-ease prevention and early intervention.

George A. Hurt, M.D.Chairman

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Kathryn M. Pumphrey, Ed.D.Executive Vice President

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Robert R. Chapman IIIMelanie Christian

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club’s long time dream of a Blue Star Memorial for the community to honor all members of the armed forces past, present and future became a reality. Committee meetings were held over the past two years and various fund raisers also took place in order to raise money to purchase the $ 1200 sign. The Cartersville Community Cemetery Board generously donated the space for its placement and VDOT completed the project by installing the sign.

All veterans in the Cartersville and Cumberland area were invited resulting in a large turnout with all service branches rep-resented. Local veterans and dignitaries par-ticipated in the ceremony along with the Color Guard and bugler from Cumberland High

School. Community residents contributed their talents of music, song, prayer and poetry with words of pride and gratitude for our veterans, the afternoon concluded with a reception held at the Cartersville Rescue Squad.

The Blue Star Memorial program was begun after WWII by the National Council of State Garden Clubs. The garden clubs felt this high-way, by-way and gardens beautification project was a fitting memorial to the men and women who have fought or are now serving in the defense of our country. The Blue Star Memorial is very meaningful to our community as many young men and women have joined the military over the years. The Cartersville Garden Club is very proud to present this memorial to them.

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County Garden Club earns ‘Blue Star’ for Cumberland

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Terri Marshall and Jan Caldwell stand proudly in front of the county’s new Blue Star memorial.

CUCPS Adopts BoardDocsBeginning July 1, 2011, Cumberland

County Public Schools began maximizing the effectiveness of their board meetings by using the paperless meeting solution called BoardDocs LT.

BoardDocs was developed in partner-ship with K-12 administration and board members to eliminate the cost and time of duplication of paper handouts, speed up the workflow, make information more acces-sible to the general public, and still meet the legal requirements of public school boards, county commissions, and municipal gov-ernments. This process will allow interested parties to review information prior to board meetings and allow all documents associ-ated with board meetings to be distributed more quickly and efficiently.

This new eGovernance initiative will replace the old method of compiling, print-ing, binding and distributing paper agenda packets by hand. School board members, central office staff members, and technol-ogy staff members have already received training on BoardDocs and will begin using the program for the July School Board meeting.

Community members will be able to access the new eGovernance features via the district’s Web site at http://www.cucps.k12.va.us, using the Quick Links drop-down menu.

School Board honors community volunteers

The School Board recognized commu-nity volunteers at the June School Board meeting. While recent trends indicate that volunteerism is declining, it seems to be thriving at Cumberland County Public Schools.

Volunteers serve many roles at CUCPS, including mentoring, coaching, fundrais-ing, performing office tasks, and taking pic-tures. The following community members were recognized at the meeting:

• Sharon Allen—assisted middle school girls’ basketball team

• Todd Bradbury—volunteered for game duty and mentored both students and staff

• Grover Cleveland—filmed home and away varsity football games

• Rebecca Dorsey—assisted with ele-mentary copying and other tasks

• Paul Duty—assisted softball team

• Louis Evans—assisted track and field team

• Diane Jackson—operated scoreboard for volleyball

• Rodney Jackson—assisted softball team

• Gwen Jefferson—organized fundraiser for new cheerleading uniforms; provided the cheering squad dinner for a game night

• Ron Langhorne—assisted girls’ bas-ketball team

• Trey Lawson—assisted JV baseball team

• Harry Marshall—mentored football teams

• Carole Martin—donated items for “Play for a Cure” volleyball games; provided dinner for the cheering squad on a game night; took pictures at many school events

• Kendra Mulleins—assisted in special education department

• Juanita Parker—assisted with the ele-mentary office and tutored

• Nancy Parker—operated scoreboard for volleyball

• Patty Pedrick—assisted in a kinder-garten class

• Desean Shearn—operated scoreboard for middle school basketball

• Melissa White—assisted with elemen-tary dismissal and bus notes

• Alvin Witcher—operated scoreboard for varsity football

• Bruce Zirkle—coordinated availabil-ity of the Cumberland Volunteer Rescue Squad.

Finance Director to speak at Technical Assistance Academy in August

Mr. Chip Jones, the Director of Finance and Operations for Cumberland County Public Schools, has been selected to present at the Technical Assistance Academy for Coordinators of Title I, Title II, and Title III Programs.

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Thomas Shumaker (top photo) competed at the Piedmont Area Junior Livestock Show held in Blackstone VA on May 21, 2011. Thomas was named Champion Senior Beef Showman and had the Grand Champion Market Steer and The Reserve Champion Commercial Heifer. Thomas is a Member of the Cumberland County 4-H Livestock Club.

Sarah-Jane French (bottom photo) competed at the Piedmont Area Junior Livestock Show held on May 21, 2011. The day was filled with several competitions that Sarah-Jane showed in. Sara-Jane had several wins: Champion Junior Sheep Showman, Champion Intermediate Beef Showman, Grand Champion Market Lamb, Reserve Champion Market Lamb, Grand Champion Ewe Lamb, Grand Champion Feeder Steer and Grand Champion Registered Heifer. Sara-Jane is a member of the Cumberland County 4-H Livestock Club.

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Contributed reportIf someone could go back in time to visit a teenage Marcus

Gregory to tell him that he would one day be named Assistant Athletics Director and Director of Basketball at Fuqua School, it may have drawn a laugh.

But it surely wouldn’t have drawn a second thought.Gregory was a standout guard on the Prince Edward County

High School basketball team. In his mind, there were too many differences between him and how he saw Fuqua. He didn’t want to go there, and he was sure they didn’t want him.

Maybe he was right at the time, but Gregory, who went on to star as a point guard at Hampden-Sydney, has learned a lot of lessons since then. One of them is admittedly cliché.

“Never say never,” said Gregory, who was also named the Falcons’ varsity boys head coach. “Never in a million years, would I have imagined I would end up here. You don’t know

what path God is going to take you down.”But why Fuqua?“It’s more a question of why not,” said Gregory. “I know it

will catch a lot of people’s attention, but I feel it’s a great place to be now. It has great academics for kids in the area. I hope I can open some eyes and show that there are some different options for students that are wanting to take their athletic talents to the next level, while they also work on strengthening their academic standing.”

Going against the grain is nothing new for Gregory, who coached the varsity team at Cumberland High School last year and prior to that was a part of the program on the middle school level. Given the rivalry between PECHS and Cumberland, that, itself, was a stretch.

“Like I said, you never know. Leaving [Cumberland] had a lot to do with the direction of my main job. I felt my career was

going in one direction, and their options weren’t the same, so I had to look at other career options.

“I was interested in returning for my second year, but this opportunity opened up, and it was something I couldn’t pass up.”

Gregory was not reappointed as a teacher for the 2011-12 school year, but he was as boys basketball coach at CHS. A coaching stipend doesn’t put food on the table or pay the light bill.

“I’m grateful for the time and effort he put into the basket-ball programs at Cumberland over the last three years,” said CHS director of Athletics Matthew Pearman. “We’re much bet-ter off for him having been here, and we wish him the best.”

Pearman said that Cumberland is conducting a search for its next boys basketball coach.

Gregory is conducting searches of his own. For players. After a stretch of solid basketball that has resulted in five-consecutive VISBS Division III Tournament appearances, the Falcons are expected to be hit hard by the graduation of 6-8 All-State center LeVon Harper. Replacing him will be difficult.

“There have been some past successes here, and we have something to build off of,” said Gregory. “Fuqua can become a recognized competitor for titles in the private school ranks. There are a lot of talented kids, good kids, around here that get overlooked. Maybe it’s because of where we are, or for whatever reason — but this can be a place where they can get noticed.”

He does have some connections at the top level of college basketball.

“Fuqua School has just hired a terrific young man to run its basketball program,” said William & Mary head coach Tony Shaver, who was Gregory’s coach at Hampden-Sydney. “Marcus is one of my favorite people. I have been fortunate to coach some fine young men but few can match the energy and infectious enthusiasm of Marcus.

“He was a strong, committed leader as a player and I’m confident he will carry those traits with him as a coach. I think Marcus will do great things for the young men he touches but will also be in a position to strengthen ties in the community.”

Gregory credits Shaver and James Scott, his coach at Prince Edward, as playing key roles in not only his basketball life, but in other areas as well.

“I haven’t talked to Coach Scott at this point, but he’s always been there. I have confided a lot in Mr. [Gerald] Roach [at Prince Edward]. He’s been a heavy resource for advice in my life. He gives me both sides of the fence, and sometimes tells me things that I don’t want to hear, but need to hear anyway.”

One thing Gregory has learned is to have a plan, and to have it ready to go at a moment’s notice. He has already started to work on recruiting players.

“There is returning talent for a good Fuqua team. We have to first recognize what we have to work with, and go from there,” said Gregory, who added that in addition to talking to

Fuqua taps former CHS coach to lead school’s hoops program

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Fuqua School’s longtime Athletics Director, Skeeter Fore, left, recently welcomed Marcus Gregory, right, the school’s new Assistant Athletics Director and Director of Basketball.

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This summer has been extremely busy for the CHS cheerleaders as we prepare for the upcoming season in the fall. As a community service, cheerleaders Evyn & Nicole Jefferson, have volunteered at the Cumberland County Public Library Summer reading Program. They assist the library staff with attendance, crafts and snacks. After the tremendous amount of support they received from the community last year with their fundraising efforts, they felt this was a great way to say “thanks” to those who helped us reach our goal of pur-chasing new uniforms.

For the last few weeks, the cheerleaders have had the privilege of working with Longwood University Coach and cheerleaders.

It has been an amazing experience to watch these young ladies grow and develop such great skills and confidence. This fall will be thier first attempt at com-petitive cheerleading with the James River District.

These young ladies are not afraid of hard to work to get where they want to be. Recently they held a very successful car wash in which the cheerleaders washed cars for 5 hours. They will be having another car wash Sat. Aug. 6, 2012 at the Shell Station in Cumberland Courthouse from 8 a.m.-12 noon.They hope to see the community out to support them as they prepare for the

upcoming season.

potential students about the boys basketball team, he’s also talking to kids who may be able to help the school in other areas — not only in sports — as well. “Long term, we have to start building a base from young players in the lower school, up through the middle school and to here. We’ve got to have a balance.”

Gregory said that he’s talked to a number of possible recruits.

“Two of them are girls. I’m wanting to improve all aspects of the programs here. Not just the boys basketball team. And not just the athletics programs.”

“We are just thrilled to have Marcus Gregory join the Fuqua School community,” said Fuqua School president Ruth Murphy. “Clearly he is a man of character, dedication, and talent. I am confident that his knowledge of basketball, his experience as an athlete at Hampden-Sydney College, and his natural ability to relate to young people will enhance our athletics program as we continually work to provide the best possible sports options for our students.”

It’s one thing to get a van of good basketball players together to take them to Richmond for a weekend of basketball games. It’s another to convince someone to come to a school, and then to find a way to fund his or her tuition.

“That’s going to be an issue,” said Gregory.

“We’re going to have to do some fundraising for all the programs here, and that’s one of the visions we’ve talked about. It’s not unlike what they do at Hampden-Sydney. You don’t want cost to get in the way of a student that is willing to do the work academically.”

Gregory did say that it would take the right kind of student to succeed in his system and at Fuqua. For him, the two are one in the same.

“You’ve got to be willing to come here and work in the classroom,” said Gregory. “I’ve always stressed that with any of the kids I work with, whether it’s my younger brothers or the ones in the community. If you don’t put academics as your priority, you’re not going to be successful here. But at the same time, you’re not going to be successful in my system,

either.” Gregory will also assume duties as the

Assistant Athletics Director. He’ll be working with longtime coach and AD Lewis “Skeeter” Fore.

“I’m pleased to have him here,” said Fore. “I remember seeing him play and lead the basketball team at Hampden-Sydney. If he approaches this job the same way he did with those teams, the basketball programs will have no trouble getting to that next level.”

“I’m going to learn all the ins and outs of this job. Everything from fundraising to lining fields,” said Gregory. “I’m just grate-ful to have this opportunity.”

Nathan King is the Sports Editor for the Farmville Herald.

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CHS cheerleaders spread their cheer


IN THE GARDEN

By David Bare Plants are always busy sucking up

water, drawing in carbon dioxide and passing out oxygen. It never stops. Your job is to keep them watered, and the rest will proceed unabated, barring a few minor inconveniences. The prob-lem is that when you are ready to kick back, head for the beach and relax a bit, the plants are still chugging along and expecting you to do your part.

Plants do not take vacations. It is hard enough returning home

from vacation without crunchy plants on the welcoming committee. Consider some of the following ideas for keeping plants moist and avoiding the prema-ture autumn effect.

• FIND A FRIEND: Your best bet is to find a like-minded gardener and trade watering weeks with them. There’s no substitute for a friend who knows the difference between dry and moist soil and what plants need which. Don’t expect the neighbor’s kid to know the difference between a basil plant and a butterfly bush.

• MULCH: Mulching is always a good practice. It won’t keep the garden moist in your absence, but it will help. Mulch helps retain moisture and shades the soil from the sun’s full intensity. It also helps keep out the weeds.

• IRRIGATE: A small investment in a drip irrigation system and a bat-tery-operated timer can be the trick

for serious gardeners. Whether you are tending open ground or contain-ers, you can easily set up a simple drip system for around $100. See the simple videos at www.dripworksusa.com/.

• REARRANGE: Houseplants should be watered thoroughly and taken from sunny windows to a shady cooler part of the house or outdoors beneath a tree. Sometimes this is enough to get them through a week.

• HUMIDIFY: You can create your own humidity dome by placing pot-ted plants in a large, clear-plastic bag after watering them well. Use stakes to elevate the bags off the foliage; wet plastic shouldn’t sit on the leaves. Tie the bag with a rubber band at the top

after inflating it like a balloon. You can count on a week of moisture from this arrangement.

• WICK: Capillary action can be employed in a couple of ways. An old trick is to take cut up strips of an old towel and place them in a bucket of water beside your potted plant. Make sure the strips are long enough to go from the bottom of the bucket up into the pot and buried 3 or 4 inches into the soil. As the soil dries the towel will wick more moisture into the pot. This trick can be employed on a smaller level with yarn running up the drain-age hole of a potted plant and into a nearby container of water, such as a margarine tub. One caution: If you

are watering outside plants, be sure to cover the bucket with screen. A week is enough time to breed a horde of mos-quitoes in your bucket.

• PLAN: If you know you will be gone for a while during the summer, plan the garden accordingly. Pots of succulents often never need more than an initial watering at planting time. They are beautiful and carefree. Sedums and lantanas are just a few of the colorful flowering plants that can be used in containers that are tough as nails in hot dry weather. Pots amended with water-retaining gels will stay moist much longer. Some folks even add a diaper to the bottom of the pot to serve as a reservoir

Don’t forget your plants while on vacation

Hot, hot, hot? Try these peppers in the garden

The past few years have seen the ornamental pepper’s rise as a decorative bedding plant. From a position of relative obscurity, these plants have stormed the market with their good looks and nonstop performance through the toughest summer weather we can throw at them.

They have even been garner-ing awards of late. The Sangria and Purple Flash peppers have been selected by the popular Proven Winners team. Poinsettia and NuMex were winners in Texas A&M trials.

Black Pearl was elected an All America Selection in 2006. Chilly chili won the Louisiana State University Landscape Horticulture Field Day People’s Choice Award, and Uchu won the American

Garden Award. All for good reason. Although

flowering plants are colorful as long as the flowers keep appearing, ornamental peppers are decorative because of their colorful fruit. Fruit lasts a lot longer than flowers do, and so right off the bat we have bet-ter performance.

Adding to that, peppers usu-ally change color as they mature. Starting off green, they may go to purple, then red or yellow to orange. As different fruits mature on the plant at different times, there is always a variety of color featured on every plant.

One pepper we are particularly fond of at Wake Forest University’s Reynolda Gardens, where I am the greenhouse manager, is called Prairie Fire. This pepper plant has

a beautiful spreading habit that is wider than tall and eventually forms large, flat-topped mounds. Branching is dense and full. Prairie Fire bears fruit that begins char-treuse green and changes through cream, yellow, orange and red.

These compact plants perform throughout the hottest summer months, require little or no atten-tion once established and are con-tinuously dotted with 1-inch-tall fruit. They are great for the front of the border.

An equally attractive low grower is Purple Flash, a pepper with a similar low-growing habit, but this one is valued for its attractive purple foliage.

As the summer progresses, Purple Flash develops white var-iegation over the ends of the deep black-purple leaves. This plant, too, develops features as the season progresses. As the foliage begins to develop the white variegation, the purple can vary from creamy laven-der to almost black. The tiny flowers

mimic the purple in the leaves, and the round fruit is smaller than a pea and presented on short stems above the foliage. It, too, is a deep, glossy, purple-black.

Then there is Sangria, a cayenne-shaped pepper that is held upright on the plant, like the horns of a bull. The bright lavender peppers change through orange to red. A foot or so tall, the plant presents its 2- to 3-inch-long fruit against solid green leaves.

One of the oldest ornamental pepper varieties around is Black Pearl. It is fully deserving of its awarded status and popularity. As ornamental peppers go, Black Pearl is a fairly tall plant, at almost 2 feet. It is an upright grower with leaves so deeply purple that they appear black. In the heat of summer it begins to bear deep-black glossy fruit in clusters at the tops of the branches. The beautiful fruit gradu-ally turns bright red.

Black Pearl and Purple Flash benefit from being planted adja-

cent to brightly colored flowers that enhance the contrast of their dark foliage and fruit. Otherwise, these almost black plants tend to disap-pear into the landscape. Try using bright zinnias or lantanas as com-panions.

There are many other varieties of ornamental peppers to try in the flower border. They all share the characteristics of heat tolerance, stunning performance and low maintenance.

Give them full sun and plenty of water to get started and then step back and let them do their thing.

I often am asked if these peppers are edible, and my answer is yes, if you are brave or stupid. They are extraordinarily hot.

If you have a gardening question or story idea, write to David Bare in care of Features, Winston-Salem Journal, P.O. Box 3159, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-3159 or send an email to his attention to [email protected].

By David Bare

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To which Sweeney asks a series of questions about the purpose of the purchase, how many people they’re feeding and how they want to cook the meat.

Unless their pockets are deep, chances are they’re not looking at filet mignon if they’re hosting a family reunion, he said. He might steer them toward a top sir-loin, which, at $20 or so for a hearty piece of meat weigh-ing a couple of pounds, is a good alternative to individ-ual rib-eyes or strip steaks that retail for upward of $17 each.

And nowadays, price is

usually the first thing con-sumers consider. Many families continue to strug-gle in this economy, and they’re looking for ways to

stretch their food dollars. But that doesn’t mean

giving up red meat entirely. Some red meat options are more economical than typi-cally less-expensive meats like chicken breasts.

An example: roast beef made with a 3-pound eye round that can serve as din-ner one night and make deli-cious sandwiches for lunch the next day…and the day after that.

It’s one of Jessica and Joshua Applestone’s favorite suggestions for those look-ing to stay within a budget.

The Applestones are owners of Fleisher’s Grass-Fed & Organic Meats, a butcher shop in Kingston, N.Y. They’re also co-authors of “The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat: How to Buy, Cut and Cook Great Beef, Lamb, Pork, Poultry and More.” It’s an all-encompassing guidebook

that provides everything from recipes and meal ideas to instructions for cutting up an entire animal in your kitchen.

It’s ironic that two people with foodie backgrounds like theirs — Jessica was a vegetarian while Joshua was a vegan — now own a butcher shop. But Jessica Applestone said when she decided to eat meat again it was important to her to buy from places that raised their animals ethically.

And she needed to be taught how to properly cook meat.

“I think people have a terrible fear of meat because it’s so expensive,” Jessica Applestone said. “If you screw it up, you’ve ruined something that cost you $40.”

For that reason, she esti-mates she spends an aver-age of 15 minutes with each customer going over cuts of meat and how to properly cook them.

For example, a rule of thumb: Any part of an ani-

mal that touches the ground, or is attached to a part that’s close to the ground, should be braised, Jessica Applestone said. These are cuts such as shoulder, briskets and shanks. She suggests cooking them slowly over low heat and in a small amount of liquid to tenderize them.

On the other hand, cuts that come from the middle of the animal — the “money meat,” she calls it — are won-derful grilled or seared and roasted in the oven. These are cuts such as strips and ten-derloins.

But there are other parts that are less well-known but relatively cheap and flavor-ful, like bottom round steaks, which she uses for roast beef.

The Applestones empha-size portion control as anoth-er way to cut down on meat costs.

Having lived in Asia, where meat is not the centerpiece of the meal, Jessica Applestone

suggests cooking more veg-etables and other foods and eating less — but higher-qual-ity — meat.

“Your protein really should be a small part of the meal,” she said.

Dwight Wood, assistant team leader for the meat department at Whole Foods in Glen Allen, said some less-expensive cuts are just flat-out underrated. Yet with the right cooking technique, they’ll produce flavorful meals.

Like the skirt steak. Cut in long, lean pieces, it’s

best when cooked over high heat for a short time, Wood said, or the “two-and-two” rule. Two minutes on each side is going to give it a good medium-plus temperature, he said, which is about as well done as you should cook it.

Moneywise, it’s a whole lot more economical than indi-vidual grilling steaks, Wood said. Skirt steaks also are easy to prepare and go a long way

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For those who still want a meaty grilling steak, consider the chuck eye, Wood said, which is often cheaper than a rib-eye.

Regardless of what you buy, said Jessica Applestone, the best way to honor the animals we eat is to cook their meat prop-erly so that it’s enjoyed and not wasted.

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Funded by Prevention Connections, the event publi-cized the national Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program, which aims to increase physical activity among schoolchildren.

“We hope this will inspire other communities to par-ticipate in the Safe Routes to School program. The number of children who walk and bike to school has decreased by 73 percent over the last 40 years. Realizing that in our rural area, biking and walking to school are difficult to do, we wanted to stress ways our youth can be safe biking and walking at home and in their communities,” says Ruth Wallace, 4-H Agent with Virginia Cooperative Extension in Buckingham County.

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I don’t recall selling secrets to the Russians, but something caused my third-grade citizenship marks to plummet.

The trip down memory lane began with a visit to the basement to determine where the water was coming from and how much it was going to cost to make the water go away. While moving boxes out of reach of the expanding puddle, I spied one dusty container I was cer-tain held a stash of eight-track tapes.

Suddenly, finding Dave Dudley’s “Truck Drivin’ Son-of-a-Gun” was much more important than protecting the foundation of my home.

I popped the latches, lifted the lid and found not a treasure trove of eight-tracks but tons of papers and clippings and black-and-white photos from the pre-digital era. It was

kind of a hard drive from the days when a hard drive was a solid double to left field.

I poked through the contents and found that at some point in my life I believed it was important to keep a plastic sandwich bag fea-turing an artist’s rendering of former pitching great Jim “Catfish” Hunter.

Near the bottom, though, was the real prize: My third-grade report card from 1973-74, faded with age but still as legible as the day I held it in my chubby fingers and said, “Here, Momma. You got to sign this or teacher said I can’t play on the monkey bars no more.”

Perhaps here were the clues to how it all went horribly off track. Maybe there’s a note inside saying, “Has potential to achieve big things someday but if this young man keeps sniffing Magic Markers the best we can hope for is journalism.”

I scanned the grades. Reading held steady across the four report periods. Language actually improved in the latter half of the year, maybe because the teacher grew more accustomed to backwoods dialect. Arithmetic, known to fancy-pants kids today as “math,”

fell in the final two grading periods, probably because, unlike Jethro Bodine, I had trouble with my gazintas - two gazinta four two times, etc.

Then, there was citizenship, something not seen on report cards today. Was this conduct? Maybe, but many conduct-related issues were covered under another section called “assets,” which revealed I had a slight slip in coopera-tion and self-control in periods three and four but was both highly dependable and industri-ous throughout the entire year.

“The boy is not much on his gazintas, but you can depend on him to be industrious. Just look at him go to town on those Magic Markers.”

I was a model citizen in period one but slipped a letter grade when report card time rolled around again.

What happened? Had I let the flag touch the ground while in a marker-induced haze? Was I tugging at some freckle-faced girl’s pig tails during the Pledge of Allegiance? Had I finally been influenced by the cultural upheaval of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s?

“Children, take out your history books. Today, we are studying presidents.”

“President Nixon is a square.” “Scott, have your parents been letting you

watch ‘Laugh-In’ again?” “Power to the people, man.” “What would Jim ‘Catfish’ Hunter, fea-

tured so prominently on your sandwich bag, think of your disturbing lack of citizenship at this moment, young man?”

“I don’t care. I’m going to achieve big things someday. You can mark me down on citizen-ship if you want, but I will take the report card and hide it where no one will ever find it, not even some small-town newspaper jerk check-ing on a water leak in his basement. You wait and see.”

Did I later rendezvous with a Russian kid at the monkey bars? My testimony remains, “I cannot recall.”

Scott Hollifield is editor/GM of The McDowell News in Marion, NC and a columnist for the Media General News Service. Contact him at PO Box 610, Marion, NC 28752 or e-mail [email protected].

In 3rd grade my citizenship took a dive

By Mary Shedden There is little that kids and their parents

don’t love about summertime. The end of school offers a nearly endless

opportunity to play, be it on the playground, at day camp or at the beach.

But it’s also prime time for accidental injuries.

From falls to burns to near drownings, playtime can quickly turn tragic. An esti-mated 9.2 million children a year head to American hospitals for non-fatal, uninten-tional injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Falls account for about 2.8 million pedi-atric visits to the hospital emergency room every year, the CDC says.

Each year, more than 12,000 children in the United States, ages 0 to 19, die of acci-dental injuries. In Florida, drownings are only second to vehicle crashes as a cause of accidental death. The Florida Department of Health Vital Statistics reported in 2007 that 77 children drowned, 14 in the Tampa Bay area.

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Water safety

Always supervise young children around bathtubs, swimming pools, lakes, rivers and the beach. Have a designated adult “water

watcher.” Make sure backyard swimming pools have

self-closing, self-latching gates. Wear life jackets in and around natural

bodies of water. Enroll children in swim classes that teach

how to tread water, float and stay by the shore.

Explain differences between open water and pools; watch out for uneven surfac-es, currents, ocean undertow and changing weather.

Falls

Always supervise young children at play-grounds or near stairs.

Check out playground equipment; make sure it’s age-appropriate, maintained and has a soft landing surface below.

Use safety devices such as guard rails and gates around windows and stairs.

Wear safety gear — helmet, wrist guards, and knee and elbow pads — when playing active sports, in-line skating or skateboard-ing.

Remove hood and neck drawstrings from all clothes to avoid strangulation hazards.

Remove bike helmets before using play-ground equipment.

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Kids at All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg

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