1. CInside this week:
Community C2
Regional Travel C4
Great Escapes C5
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2005
Dr. Michael Watts
ASK DR. WATTS
Bird owners
should follow
precautions
Bird owners, especially poultry
farmers, play an important role in pre-
venting the spread of highly conta-
gious viruses, like avian influenza. In
the United States naturally occurring
strains of avian influenza are unlikely
to affect human health. However,
proper precautions will help minimize
the risk of domestic poultry flocks act-
ing as a reservoir for the genetic mix-
ing of bird and human viruses. These
precautions will also make the domes-
tic poultry industry a more difficult
target for bio-terrorists. The following
information has been supplied by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Veterinary Services office as
part of their “Biosecurity is for the
Birds”initiative.Moreinformationcan
be found through
www.aphis.usda.gov/vs.
Keep Your Distance
• Restrict access to your property
and your birds.
• Consider fencing off
the area where you
keep your birds and
make a barrier area
ifpossible.Allowonly
people who take care
ofyourbirdstocome
into contact with
them.
• If visitors have
birds of their own, do
not let them near your
birds.
• Game birds and
migratory waterfowl
should not have contact
with your flock because
they can carry germs and
diseases.
Keep It Clean
• Wear clean clothes. Scrub
your shoes with disinfectant.
• Wash your hands thoroughly
before entering your bird area.
• Clean cages and change food and
water daily.
• Clean and disinfect equipment
that comes in contact with your birds
ortheirdroppings,includingcagesand
tools.
• Remove manure before disinfect-
ing.
• Properly dispose of dead birds.
Don’t Haul Disease Home
• If you have been near other birds
or bird owners, such as at a feed store,
clean and disinfect car and truck tires,
poultry cages and equipment before
going home.
• Have your birds been to a fair or
exhibition? Keep them separated from
the rest of your flock for at least two
weeks after the event.
• New birds should be kept sepa-
rate from your flock for at least 30
days.
Don’t Borrow Disease
From Your Neighbor
• Do not share lawn and garden
2-4-6-8...
BY COREY A. BYERS
FEATURE WRITER INTERN
While they don’t specialize in making
last-second touchdowns, the varsity cheer-
leading squad at Culpeper County High
School is responsible for uniting the Blue Devils’ fans come game
time.
This year, members of the varsity team of 22 girls and 3 boys are
hoping to have their own moments of glory in a district cheerleading com-
petition on Nov.2.
The school has freshman, junior varsity and varsity teams as well as a
competition team for competitive cheerleading against seven other squads
in the area.
“Last year was the first time for us to move on from districts in the com-
petition,” said Lynda Blume, the squad’s head coach. “That was just a
phenomenal thing.”
Blume said members of this year’s varsity squad have been practic-
ing since early August to perform at games and compete again in
the districts.
Last year’s fourth place win was enough to send the Blue
Devils’ squad to regionals. The squad didn’t place high
enough in regionals to move on to the state competi-
tion, but that little taste of victory has reinvigo-
Blue Devil cheerleaders make halftime great
Staff Photo, Vincent Vala
John Standley, left, is
one of three boys on
the Culpeper County
High School Blue
Devils cheerleading
squad. The squad
also consists of 22
girls. The squad
works to invoke spirit
at games and to be
No. 1 at regional com-
petitions.
MGNS Photos
ABOVE: From left, Michael
Blake, Toni Pierce and
Danial Shapiro dance to
Bruce Springsteen’s tune
“The Big Muddy’’ in the
show “Anytown.’’
RIGHT: Performers domi-
nate the stage during the
show “Anytown.’’ The
show features music by
Bruce Springsteen, Patti
Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell.
By Jennifer Barrs
MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
Don’t call it a “Bruce-ical.” Or
if you do, better plan on tossing
around the titles “Sooziecal” and
“Pattical.”
Choreographer and dancer
Danial Shapiro uses the term,
but he’s joking around — which
he does a lot. Like when he says
the Boss accompanies the
dancers at performances of
“Anytown: Stories of America,”
which features Bruce
Springsteen tunes, as well as
songs by his wife, Patti Scialfa,
and Soozie Tyrell, who has per-
formed with Springsteen on
albums and tours.
“Oh, sure, Bruce performs
live at every gig. We just have a
couple of private jets to book,”
Shapiro deadpans.
No, Springsteen doesn’t take
the stage in this theatrical dance
event, but his music makes plen-
ty of appearances. Nine num-
bers in the “Anytown” score —
recordings all — include tunes
such as “Youngstown” and
“Born in the U.S.A.” Meanwhile,
Scialfa’s lazy vibrato dips and
rolls over tales of life, as in the
song called “City Boys.” And
Tyrell’s violin weeps and war-
bles through “Crazy Talk” and
“Ferdouganal.”
“The violin is so much like a
human voice that, when I
record, I have to be careful of
how I’m accompanying the
vocalist,” Tyrell says from her
home in New York.
Shapiro and his wife and
choreography partner, Joanie
Smith, listened to hours of music
to create “Anytown,” a contem-
porary dance production loosely
set to the three artists’ lyrical
sentiments. When it opens in
Tampa on Thursday (10/13), it
will be only the sixth public per-
formance of the work that has
been at the center of the couple’s
world since 2002.
And on their minds for more
than 20 years.
In the mid-1980s, Tyrell —
who moved to New York after
spending her growing-up years
in Fort Myers — busked in the
Big Apple with her best friend,
Scialfa. They were street musi-
cians — buskers. After a partic-
ularly busy day, they would take
a load off at the home of Tyrell’s
half-sister.
Smith was that sibling, and
Shapiro was her boyfriend.
Often, after dinner, the girls
would pull out their instru-
ments, and Smith and Shapiro
would dance and dance and
dance.
Those roll-up-the-carpet
nights remained vivid in
Dancing in the dark
Dancers of ‘Anytown’ move to the sounds of Springsteen
“Emotional con-
tent can be articu-
lated through the
physical. Through
dance ... people
process informa-
tion they can’t get
to otherwise. This
is a language”
KELLY DRUMMOND CAWTHON
PERFORMER
See 2-4-6-8 C8
See BIRD C3
See DANCING C3
Culpeper Life
Don’t miss:
Your Grape Escape
where you will find out
where wine making
originated.
Page 4 Asst. Managing
Editor/Features,
Ray Finefrock
rfinefrock@orangenews.com
Community Editor,
Tracey Ferguson
tferguson@starexponent.com
540-825-0771 (ext. 108)

2. Oct. 14-25-16-17
Come learn about the
opportunities that 4-H offers
for youth ages 5 through18,
such as clubs, camps, workshops,
competitions, foreign exchange
programs and special events.
Today, 4-H is much more than
raising livestock and canning
foods. A series of “Meet 4-H” ses-
sions will be held at the Culpeper
Extension Office, 101 S. West St.
Please call the extension office
727-3435 To RSVP for any one of
the following sessions Friday, at 7
p.m.; Saturday at 10 a.m., 3 p.m.,
7 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; Monday
at 7 p.m. Don’t miss out on all the
fun!
Oct. 14-Dec. 16
Castleton Community
Volunteer Fire Department
will be having a shooting match,
12-gauge only, no scopes, no
sleeves, starting at 7 p.m. Today
through Dec. 16. $2 dollars a shot
3 for $5.
Oct. 16
Apple Harvest Festival:
Celebrating 36 years, this Apple
Harvest Festival at Graves’
Mountain will take place from 10
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The festivities
allow guests to enjoy a day of fresh
apple picking, arts and crafts,
music, great food and so much
more. Owners Jim and Rachel
Graves look forward to welcoming
everyone back, as they continue
their family tradition of offering
guests “good old-fashioned” hospi-
tality and delicious home-cooked
meals. Reservations are not nec-
essary for meals at the festival
grounds; however reservations are
required for meals held in the
main lodge. Please call 923-4231
for further information and reser-
vations. Beginning each day at 11
a.m., guests can savor the days of
yesteryear, as they watch apple
butter being made the old-fash-
ioned way in a copper pot, and
Brunswick Stew being cooked over
an open fire. Guests are also invit-
ed to take a piece of the mountains
home by visiting some of the area’s
finest artisans and craftsmen at
the Craft Fair, or by simply stop-
ping by the Graves’ Mountain Gift
Shop, open all day. Clogging fans
will enjoy the talents of the
Orange Cloggers, Hi-Horse or
Buck Mountain performing from 3
to 4 p.m. on selected days.
Featured Bluegrass artists will
appear from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Guests include Flatland Bluegrass
Band, Smith Mt. Bluegrass Band,
Heather Berry and Virginia
Carolina and Grassy Ridge
Bluegrass Band. As for the chil-
dren, there’s plenty of room to
explore. Come visit the Graves’
working educational farm, find
your way through the hay maze,
and for the little ones, the farm
train is a must.
Oct. 16
Greater Fredericksburg
area SPCA will be having a Art
Show Auction for all ages from
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Salem Church
Library. Proceeds benefit the
SPCA new Humane Care Center.
Prizes will be awarded for each
division. Calling for entries now.
Creativity is encouraged. You do
not need to be a professional artist
to enter. Subject must be a pet. For
more information and specifica-
tions call Julie Stuart, 785-0005;
Margot Wagner, 373-6512; Kathy
Belcher, 373-2800, or the SPCA
373-9008 x22.
Free Living Trust Seminar:
Alpha Omega Family Services will
sponsor a free seminar on
Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 6 to 7:30
p.m. at the American Legion Post
#330, 14222 Rixeyvlle Road,
Culpeper. Learn how to avoid pro-
bate and keep control of all you
own. Open to the public. For more
information and/or reservations
call 1-800-350-6376.
Ki Theatre Directing
Workshop: Sunday from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. learn the basic principles
of directing in a hands on work-
shop at Ki Theatre. This master
teacher will take the experienced
and completely new through the
elements of directing. Advanced
registration is required. Price is
$50 Students will receive a dis-
count. Call 987-3164 to reserve
your space.
The Women In Military
Service For America
Memorial will mark the eighth
anniversary of its dedication with
a reception and live jazz concert at
2 p.m. The concert, featuring Tara
Hofmann and the Potomac Jazz
Project, an extraordinary jazz
vocalist and quartet, will showcase
contemporary and vintage jazz
favorites. A reception and the cut-
ting of the anniversary cake will
follow the concert. The event is
free and open to the public. Those
interested in attending should call
(703) 533-1155 or (800) 222-2294
to reserve a seat. The Women In
Military Service For America
Memorial is the nation’s only
major memorial honoring all ser-
vicewomen, past, present and
future. Located at the gateway to
Arlington National Cemetery, it is
readily accessible by Metro (Blue
Line). Paid parking is available at
the Arlington Cemetery Visitor
Center.
Oct. 16-23-30
New Seminar: To Walk and
Not Grow Weary (inspirational
study), Has life left you feeling out
of breath, drained? Learn how to
identify human problems and wel-
come God’s solution. Sundays,
from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Spiritual Care
Support Ministry Center, 76 West
Shirley Avenue, Warrenton. Non-
denominational. Free. Chaplain
Liz Danielsen 349-5814.
Oct. 17
The Culpeper County
Library will be hosting a College
Planning Seminar for the Gifted
beginning at 7 p.m. The session
will cover career exploration,
researching colleges, money, and
admissions. Research shows that
it’s never too early to start plan-
ning for your college education.
There are great resources in the
library and on the Web, come and
learn where you can find all of this
information. Registration is
required. Call the library at 825-
8691 and ask to register for the
“College Planning Seminar for the
Gifted.” The next seminar
“College Planning for Everyone”
will be Nov. 3, registration begins
Oct. 20.
The monthly meeting of
The Sons of Confederate
Veterans Camp 1918, will meet
at 7 p.m. The meeting will be at
the Culpeper Minute Man Mini
Mall on Route 3. All members and
interested persons are encouraged
to attend. For more information
please call David M. Williams,
547-9644.
The Culpeper Business &
Professional Women will meet
at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn,
Aberdeen Barn Restaurant,
Culpeper. The group will be join-
ing with BPW/USA to celebrate
National Business Women’s
Week. If you are interested in
meeting to learn more and net-
work with other women in the
local workforce, join us. To reserve
a dinner call Pat Martin at 825-
6359.
Oct. 18
The Culpeper Toastmasters
Club will meet in the Masonic
Hall, 209 E. Davis St., at 7 p.m.
George Washington Carver-
Piedmont Technical
Education Center, 9432 James
Madison Highway, Rapidan, from
8 to 11:30 a.m., Spanish in a
Pinch, 1 to 4:30 p.m. Ingeles En
Un Rato: Spanish In-a-Pinch – we
recognize that communication on
the job site is one of the most
important aspects of success.
That’s why George Washington
Carver and Piedmont Builders
Association are bringing Deby
Jones, Founder/National
Language Facilitator of Two
Language Success to the
Piedmont area to teach the nation-
ally acclaimed program: “Spanish-
In-A-Pinch, Construction
Spanish” by the end of this work-
shop, you will walk away with the
essential vocabulary necessary for
those “in-a-pinch” situations.
How do you learn? In an
energetic and fun presentation,
attendees are taught a
VisualPhonelic System that
allows them to learn and recall key
Spanish words by association with
English terms, pronunciations,
and visual cues.
Who should attend?
Supervisors, Foremen, key person-
nel, and anyone with a interest in
learning language relevant to the
construction industry.
Blue Ridge Chorale is seek-
ing singers: Tenors and Basses
strongly needed. Next rehearsal is
Oct. 17 at St. Luke’s Lutheran
Church of Culpeper from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. No tryouts necessary.
Call Judy for more information,
825-2859.
Boy Scout Troop 198 is now
taking orders for mulch, 2-yard
bags, $2.50. This is a fundraiser
for Culpeper United Methodist
Church. For more information call
948-3015.
White House Ornaments
For Sale: The White House
Historical Association’s Christmas
2005 Ornament honors President
James A. Garfield, a preacher,
educator, soldier, and politician.
The last of the log cabin presi-
dents, he attacked political corrup-
tion and restored a measure of
prestige the presidency had lost
during the Reconstruction period.
The collectible ornament is gold-
plated brass with a round ceramic
stone that features an illustration
inspired by a period engraving of
the South Front of the White
House. Ornaments are available
from members of Madison County
Republican Women. The orna-
ment is priced at $18. To order call
923-4012, 923-4300 or 547-2156.
St. Lukes Lutheran Church
Woman’s Group will be having a
traditional Guatemalan mercado,
on Nov. 12 at the Culpeper United
Methodist Church, 1233 Oaklawn
Drive, Culpeper. Time is from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m. We will be selling
Fair Trade Handicrafts from
MayaWorks, Inc. We will feature
beaded jewelry, hand-woven bags,
ornaments and home accessories.
Visitors can also learn how the
Artisans use their handcraft
income to feed their families, edu-
cate their children, seek necessary
medical care, and improve their
communities. In return, you
receive finely made handcrafts
and the assurance that your pur-
chase contributes to a life of digni-
ty for the producer. We will also
have Lutheran World Relief
“Coffee Product’s”. The LWR
Coffee Project ensures that more
of the money you spend on coffee
reaches the farmers who actually
grow it. Fair-trade coffee is a sim-
ple solution that means the differ-
ence-quite literally-between sur-
viving and not surviving for small-
scale coffee farmer.
The 2005 Community
Christmas Basket program is
starting its planning for this year.
The first meeting will be held on
Wednesday, a 6:30 p.m. at Logan’s
Hair Salon in the Southgate
Shopping Center. Please send a
representive from your business,
church, organization or club to see
how your group can help make
Christmas a special one all
Culpeper families. For further
information call Sue Jenkins at
825-7768.
Oct. 19
Culpeper County Human
Services Board, Social
Services Board and the Head
Start Board will hold their
monthly meeting at 1 p.m. in the
second floor conference room of the
social services building located at
219 East Davis St. The meeting is
being held at a facility believed to
be accessible to persons with dis-
abilities. Any person with ques-
tions on the accessibility should
contact Doris Clatterbuck,
Secretary to DSS Board, at 727-
0372 ext. 360. Persons needing
interpreter services for the hear-
ing impaired and/or vision impair-
ments must notify Ms.
Clatterbuck no later than one
week prior to the meeting. The
public is invited to attend.
The Calfee Garden Club will
meet at 10 a.m. at the hme of
Charlotte Kenefick. Hostesses are
Page Aylor and Pat Bankhead. A
program, “Gardens for a 150 Year
Old Farmhouse,” will be presented
by Peter Stetson. Exhibit:
“Harvest Time”, a traditional line
mass arrangement using the
monochromatic color scheme.
Horticulture: Class I:
Crysanthemum; Class II:
Pumpkins or Gourds.
Oct. 20
Virginia Smiles to hold
charity Golf Tournament:
Virginia Smiles, a nonprofit orga-
nization dedicated to helping chil-
dren born with a cleft lip and cleft
palate, will host a golf tournament
to raise funds for its scholarship
program. The tournament will be
held rain or shine beginning at
noon, at Twin Lakes Golf Course,
located in Clifton. Lunch will be
provided before the tournament
begins, and prizes will be awarded
during desserts afterward. The
cost of the tournament is $85 per
golfer, or $340 per foursome, and
includes green fees, golf cart, prac-
tice balls, prizes and desserts.
Register for the tournament online
at Virginia-Smiles.org by Oct. 10,
2005. All proceeds will benefit the
Virginia Smiles College
Scholarship Program, which
awards a $1,000 college scholar-
ship to a high school senior in
Virginia who was born with a cleft
lip or cleft palate, and who is plan-
ning to attend college in the fall of
2006. For more information about
Virginia Smiles and its programs,
visit www.Virginia-Smiles.org
The Culpeper Host Lions
Club will meet in the cafeteria of
the Culpeper Regional Hospital at
7 p.m.
The Windmore Community
Theater will open the 2005-2006
season with a totally home grown
show, “50 Years of Rock - N - Roll.”
This show idea has been Director
Greg Harpine’s dream for several
years and Windmore Foundation
for the Arts is very pleased to be
the vehicle to make his dream
come true. “50 Years of Rock - N -
Roll” will open on Thursday and
run through Sunday, with a mati-
nee’. The Thursday, Friday and
Saturday shows will all begin at 8
p.m. with the matinee scheduled
for 3 p.m. All performances will be
at Culpeper County High School.
Tickets will be on sale at The
Cameleer, The Corner Shelf,
Another Dimension, The
Frenchman’s Corner, Old
Dominion One-Hour Photo and
Petersen Jeweler’s after October 1.
Adult tickets are $12; Windmore
members with card $10; and
Seniors 65 & older and Students
$6. Since the show will only play
one weekend, get your calendars
out and plug the dates so in so you
won’t miss it.
Alzheimer’s Support Group
to assist families, caregivers,
friends, of persons with
Alzheimer’s Disease and related
dementias will be held at
Amerisist Assisted Living facility,
215 Southbridge Parkway,
Culpeper from 10 a.m. to noon.
Also we meet each third Thursday
of each month. Sponsored by the
Alzheimer’s Associaiton, Central
and Western Virginia Chapter.
Facilitator will be Barbara Berger,
Operation REACH (a rural
Outreach program for Culpeper,
Madison, and Orange Counties.
For more information call 434-
985-4414. This will be a time to
share experiences, obtain informa-
tion and resources and support
each other in this journey of care
giving for persons with dementia.
Learn about respite care grants,
Safe Return, resources in the com-
munity and how to access these
services. Support groups are free
and open to all!
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
MILITARY
Mr. and Mrs. James
Anthony Hunter of
Culpeper are proud to
announce the upcoming
marriage of their daughter
Miss Tiffany Nicole Tibbs to
Mr. Kevin Maurice Diggs,
the grandson of Henreita
Carswell of Washington,
D.C.
The wedding will take
place on October 29, 2005 at
4 p.m. at Antioch Baptist
Church in Culpeper.
ENGAGEMENT
Tibbs - Diggs Culpeper Regional
Hosptial has released their
births for the month of
September, 2005 as the fol-
lowing:
To Tim and Kristy White,
Culpeper, a boy, Ross Allen
White, Sept. 1
To Adam Guinn and
Leann Yoder, Culpeper, a
boy, Logan Seth Guinn,
Sept. 2.
To Nicole Jones and
Anthony Smith, Culpeper, a
girl, Dawn Marie Smith,
Sept. 2.
To Daniel and Jessica
Bradshaw, Culpeper, a boy,
Lucas Daniel Bradshaw,
Sept. 7.
To Scott and Lori
Graham, Greene, a boy,
Harrison Martin Graham,
Sept. 7.
To Bethany Bayne and
Jason Rudd, Orange, a boy,
Ashton James Rudd, Sept. 8.
To Leonia Marie Brown,
Culpeper, a girl, Edyn Faith
Brown, Sept. 11.
To Ian and Jeannie
Babcock, Culpeper, a girl,
Lucy Annabel Babcock,
Sept. 14.
To Bryan and Lisa
Dowell, Madison, a boy,
Bryan Lee Dowell, Sept. 14.
To Ronald and Melissa
Newman, Culpeper, a girl,
Kiara Lanee Newman, Sept.
14.
To Mindy Sue Snow and
Leonard Lee Toombs,
Orange, a girl, Destiny
Nicole Toombs, Sept. 14.
To Heather Dafibaugh
and James Mullins,
Culpeper, a girl, Hannah
Nicole Mullins, Sept. 15.
To Richard A. Clark and
Jessica M. Clark, Culpeper,
a boy, Aiden Richard Clark,
Sept. 19.
To William Lawson, Jr.
and Veronica Tinsley,
Culpeper, a boy, Jase Niccolo
Lawson, Sept. 20.
To Lewis and Christina
Hoffman, Culpeper, a girl,
Amber Lynn Hoffman, Sept.
21.
To Noel Thomas and
Xavier Dabon, Orange, and
Boutte, Louisiana, a girl,
McKayla Soliel Thomas-
Dabon, Sept. 21.
To Heather and Todd
Durica, Culpeper, a girl,
Alana Gail Durica, Sept. 22.
To Wayne and Tonya
Gentry, Culpeper, a girl,
Claudia Rhianna Gentry,
Sept. 26.
To Adam and Maureen
Lieb, Culpeper, a boy,
Joshua Martin Lieb, Sept.
26.
To Sylvia Cole and Victor
Malpica, Culpeper, a boy,
Victor Adalfo Reyes Cole,
Sept. 27.
To Sylvana L. Turner,
Culpeper, a girl, Carmen
Elizabeth Turner, Sept. 27.
To Noah and Jennifer
Zirk, Culpeper, a girl,
Hannah Marie Zirk, Sept.
30.
Antonio Torain of Fredericksburg,
the son of Rick and Carol Lewis, gradu-
ated Marine Corps Recruit Training at
Recruit Depot Parris Island on July 8,
2005. Antonio Torain has enlisted in
the U.S. Marine Corps Infantry
Program.
Antonio has recently graduated from
the School of Infantry at Camp
Lejuene, North Carolina, where he was
trained as an Infantry Rifleman.
Sergeant Christopher Woodward
from the Marine Corps’ Fredericksburg
Recruiting Office located at 4300 Plank
Road Suite 250A, Fredericksburg,
enlisted Antonio Torain. For more
information, call Sergeant Woodward
at 1-888-870-4224.
Editor:
While reflecting about the life of Giles
Miller, since he passed away last
Tuesday, I came across the following, in a
folder I keep of favorite tributes, poems
and other writings that I like a lot. I feel
strongly that it can be said of Mr. Miller,
that his “DASH” was filled by a lifetime of
service to others, filled with hard work,
filled with love, family and friendships.
Knowing him as I did, I’m certain he
would feel that all these things translate
intosuccessofthehighestorder and while
he was too modest to have said so, we are
all keenly (keenly was one of his favorite
words) aware that his “dash” was,
indeed, well spent. Although the author
is unknown to me, I’d like to share the
writing about which I’m speaking, with
your readers. Mr. Miller will be greatly
missed by this community, but we are all
far richer, having known him. Thank
you.
Barbara Taylor
The Dash
I read of a person who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend, He referred to
the appropriate dates, from the begin-
ning to the end.
He noted that first came the date of his
birth and spoke of the date of death with
tears, but he said what mattered most of
all was the dash between those years.
For the dash represents all the time
that he spent alive on earth, and now
only those that loved him know what that
little line is worth.
For it matters not how much we own,
the cars, the house, the cash. What mat-
ters is how we live and love and how we
spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard. Are
there things you’d like to change? For you
never know how much time is left. You
could be at “dash mid-range”.
If we could just slow down enough to
consider what’s true and real, and always
try to understand the way other people
feel.
And be less quick to anger, show our
appreciation more. And love the people in
our lives like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect, and
more often wear a smile. Remembering
that this special dash might only last a lit-
tle while.
So when a tribute is being read with
your life’s actions to rehash. Would you be
proud of the things they say about how
you spent your dash?
‘Author Unknown’
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Shapiro’s memory, and he and
Smith started seriously discussing
a project in 2002. Simultaneously,
two things happened: Shapiro was
diagnosed with prostate cancer,
and he picked up a copy of
Newsweek magazine with a
spread about “Movin’ Out,” the
Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp collabora-
tion that likewise combines con-
temporary moves and popular
melodies.
“Cancer changes everything in
your world completely and forev-
er,” says Shapiro, who is in remis-
sion. “It sharpened an attitude and
a belief that you don’t want to
waste any time. If it isn’t what you
really need to do, then you’re just
damaging yourself.”
The couple put aside their
repertory work with their
Minneapolis dance troupe, Shapiro
& Smith Dance, which they found-
ed in 1987. Over the years, they
had earned a reputation for pieces
of breathtaking physicality and
emotional depth, receiving numer-
ous commissions and awards.
Today, Smith holds an endowed
chair in the dance program at the
University of Minnesota.
More and more, they sensed a
shift in dance aesthetics.
Audiences applauded the theatri-
cal effects — narratives, props,
subtle dialogue — and Shapiro
realized that there were subjects
dance could “talk” about that it
never could before.
And, of course, there was their
friends’ music.
“I’m a baby boomer. This is our
music; these are our Mozarts,”
Shapiro says. “Joanie and I have
always had a fascination with
using music that is very well-
known. We have choreographed
pieces to ‘Bolero’ or Chopin
waltzes.”
Such familiarity, Shapiro adds,
creates a dialogue between the per-
formers and audience, who arrive
at the theater with their own
expectations of how the music
should be used.
“It creates a certain amount of
tension before the dancers even
take the stage. In this show, every
audience is waiting for ‘Born in the
U.S.A.’ Without tension, there is no
theater.”
The tension in “Anytown” does
not rest with a literal interpreta-
tion of tunes such as “Glory Days.”
Instead, the show, which follows
three families whose lives are
intertwined during the years
between world wars I and II, is a
choreographed collage focusing on
human relationships and how they
create community.
Shapiro says he and Smith
looked to the artists’ common roots
for inspiration, singers such as
Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and
Pete Seeger. They also found
themselves drawn to Dust Bowl-
period imagery. Think “Grapes of
Wrath.” Eudora Welty. Photos
taken of Works Progress
Administration projects.
Because of their relationship to
the musicians, Shapiro and Smith
were easily given permission to use
their friends’ work.
“I was so honored,” Scialfa said
in a 2004 interview with the
Minneapolis Star Tribune. “To see
somebody take a piece of your
music and put their emotion into it
is a gift. When I said to Bruce,
‘Joanie and Danny want to use a
couple ” of your pieces, too,’ he said,
‘Oh sure, that’s fine. I’d love that.’
The record companies gave
their approvals, and the music —
24 tunes total — creates the
show’s soundtrack.
Tyrell says the choreographers
made the work “very understand-
able without being too literal. Not
following the lyrics exactly … cre-
ates a great depth of emotion.”
Kelly Drummond Cawthon, an
“Anytown” performer who also is
an assistant professor of theater
and dance at the University of
Florida, says dance is suddenly
back in the forefront of popular
culture. To use popular music is
just logical.
“Emotional content can be
articulated through the physical,”
says Cawthon, who has danced
with the Shapiro & Smith troupe
since 1993. “Through dance ... peo-
ple process information they can’t
get to otherwise. This is a lan-
guage.”
This is Everyman’s language,
Shapiro explains.
“You won’t see people in black
leotards crawling on the floor,” he
says.
“Nope, no swans or princesses
or nonsense. And it won’t be so
abstract that you’re scratching
your head.”
Jennifer Barrs is a staff writer
for The Tampa Tribune
Dancing
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Kelly Drummond Cawthon, a University of Florida dance professor,
appears in “Anytown.”
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C4 CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT Sunday, October 16, 2005
This is a series of articles
following the saga of Thomas
Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery,
a military exploration of the
West, co-led by Capt.
Meriwether Lewis and Capt.
William Clark. The articles
follow the expedition up the
Missouri to its headwaters,
over the Rocky Mountains and
down the treacherous
Columbia River followed by
their return trip in 1806.
T
he Lewis and Clark
expedition was now trav-
eling west down the
Snake River to the Columbia
River. The Corps was well on
its way toward finding the
“easiest” way to the Pacific
Ocean. On descending the
Columbia River, the men
began to encounter some
unfriendly Indian tribes. Much
of the animosity resulted from
the economic threat posed by
the Corps as well as a built-in
distrust of strangers. These
white-skinned devils, the
Indians feared, might lead to a
disruption their established
trade structure.
Dog meat becomes a diet
staple:
The idea of eating dog was
probably first introduced to
the Corps by the Sioux in what
is now North and South
Dakota. Finding dog fairly
tasty, especially when that
was the only red meat avail-
able, the men decided that dog
was preferable to fish. As a
result, dog became a part of
their diet after the Corps left
the Nez Perce, especially when
fish and roots became boring
and dog was available.
From the Journals Week of
October 10, 1805:
October 10, 1805: “…arrived
at the heade of a very bad riffle
at which place we landed near
8 Lodges of Indians…We pur-
chased fish and dogs of those
people, dined and proceeded
on…we met with an
Indian…he Sais [says] he Saw
white people, and expressed an
inclination to accompany us…”
Captain Clark
October 11: “…We set out
early…at 6 miles…took brack-
fast, we purchased all the fish
we could and Seven dogs…at
15 miles halted…to purchase
provisions…Pash-he-quar
[plant from which the Indians
obtained edible roots] roots five
dogs and a few fish dried. After
taking Some dinner of dog &c
[etc.] we proceeded
on…encamped at 2 Indian
Lodges at a great place of fish-
ing…” Captain Clark
October 11: “Most of our peo-
ple having been accustomed to
meat, do not relish the fish, but
prefer dog meat; which when
well cooked, tastes very well.”
Sergeant Gass
October 12: “…we Set out
eairly, and proceeded on as
usul [usual]. Passed a number
of old fishing camps along the
Shores. High plains no timber.
We came 35 miles this day and
Camped on the Stard [star-
board] Side little above a bad
rocky rapid. Our Small pilot
canoe and the Indian canoe
went over the rapids this
evening” Sergeant Ordway
October 13: “rained a lit-
tle…a hard wind from the S
West until 9 0Clock, the rain
Seased [ceased] & wind lulled,
and Capt. Lewis with two
Canoes Set out & passed down
the rapid The others soon fol-
lowed and we passed over this
bad rapid Safe. We should
make more portages if the
Season was not So far
advanced and time precious…”
Captain Clark
October 14: “…came to a
rockey rapid…one of the canoes
under charge of Sergt. Ordway
ran fast on a Solid rock…the
waves dashed over hir bow So
that when we got hir loose from
the rock She filled full of water
and considerable of the bag-
gage and bedding washed
out…camped…put out all wet
baggage to dry…” Private
Whitehouse
October 15: “…we loaded &
Set out, our Powder and
Provisions…not Sufficently
dry…We found some Split tim-
ber, the parts of a house which
the Indians had verry securely
covered with Stone…We have
made it a point at all times not
to take anything belonging to
the Indians, even their wood.
But at this time we are
Compelled to violate that rule
and take a part of the split tim-
ber…for firewood…without
the consent…of the owner…as
no other [firewood] is to be
found in any direction”
Captain Clark
October 16: “…passed the
rapid with all the Canoes
except Sgt. Pryors which run
on a rock near the lower part
of the rapid and Stuck fast, by
the assistance of the three
other Canoes She was unload-
ed and got off the rock without
any further injorey than, the
wetting the greater part of her
loading…I walked around
this rapid…” Captain Clark
Next week: The Corps
encounters many different
Indian tribes, and major falls
on the Columbia River.
Note: The Lewis and Clark
Exploratory Center (LCEC)
in Charlottesville has a 55
foot full-scale keelboat on its
property in Darden Towe
Park adjacent to the Rivanna
River; it has also embarked
on a fundraising campaign to
create a hands-on center for
children of all ages to partic-
ipate in Lewis’s and Clark’s
adventures.
Every Saturday through
October, LCEC will have per-
sonnel at Darden Towe Park
off Route 20 northeast of
Charlottesville (Stony Point
Road) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
to show the keelboat and
answer questions. For more
information visit
www.lewisandclarkeast.org.
Monroe Baisden
Wine making
originated
in Greece
W
inemaking appears to
have begun in Greece
between 2500 and 2100
B.C. and flourished for centuries.
Greece was part of the
Byzantine Empire during the
Middle Ages, and when
Byzantium fell the Ottoman
Turks effectively quashed
Greece’s respected position
among the world’s winemakers
by imposing huge taxes and other
restrictions on wine producers.
The industry remained virtually
undeveloped until the 20th centu-
ry.
The phyloxera
epidemic hit Greece
in the 1890s and
lasted for decades
followed by two
world wars and the
country’s own civil
war. Greece’s wine
industry did not
really start moving
forward until the
mid 1980s when
the emphasis
changed from
locally consumed
inexpensive table
wines to higher
quality wines.
The wine regulations in Greece
follow the Appellation d’Origine
Contrôlée (AOC) laws of France.
There are three categories of
wines and they are not necessari-
ly a hierarchy as quality wines
are in each.
The first is actually two desig-
nations – Appellation of Origin of
Superior Quality and Controlled
Appellation of Origin, or the
Greek acronyms OPAP and OPE
respectively. The other two are
Topikos Oenos (TO) similar to vin
de pays in France and
Epitrapezois Oenos (EO) or vin de
table.
The most well known of the
Greek wines is retsina, the pine
resin-flavored wine that you
either love or detest. About 30per-
cent of Greece’s wine production
is in retsina, and most of it is
made in Attica, the region sur-
rounding Athens.
Retsina may be made from
several different grape varieties,
but the most common is sava-
tiano. Small amounts of resin
from the Aleppo pine are added to
the fermenting juice. Other wines
from Greece are quite exciting
and very good. Most are made
from grape varieties unknown in
this country.
The most notable whites are
assyrtiko, moscofilero, and mus-
cat blanc à petits grains. Reds
include agiorgitiko, also known as
St. George, mavrodaphne and
xynomavro. However, other more
familiar varieties are also grown
such as chardonnay, sauvignon
blanc, cabernet sauvignon, merlot
and Rhone varietals such as
syrah, grenache and mourvedre.
Some excellent wines from
Greece are made by Strofilia. The
white is a zesty, fresh wine with
citrus character and a spicy,
herbaceous finish. The Strofilia
red is a blend of agiorgitiko and
cabernet sauvignon producing a
plush, earthy wine with soft tan-
nins and ripe bramble fruit.
A real find is Amethystos red.
A blend of cabernet, merlot and
Limnio. It is lush with fresh red
fruit with blackberry and goose-
berry and a smooth finish. If you
want to experience retsina for
yourself, try the Kourtaki. It is
one of the best.
Monroe Baisden is the
owner of Chateau du Reaux, a
wine shop on East Davis
Street. E-mail him at
info@culpeperwines.com.
YOUR
GRAPE
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Bill Speiden
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ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE C2
T
he first Nickelodeon brand-
ed resort officially opened
Memorial Day weekend in
Orlando.
The former property, Holiday
Inn Family Suites Lake Buena
Vista, underwent a transforma-
tion to create a Nickelodeon
attraction experience that’s a
sleepover called Nickelodeon
Family Suites by Holiday Inn.
One aspect of this
“Nickelodeon attraction” is Nick
Jr. costumed characters, includ-
ing Dora the Explorer,
SpongeBob SquarePants, Cosmo
and Wanda and others, who
interact with the kids.
In addition to their appear-
ances at the daily character
breakfasts, these favorites may
be seen in the lobby during peak
arrival times and in The Mall,
where restaurants and shops are
located, at schedule times during
the day.
Nickelodeon-style interactive
games lead by the recreation
team take place four to five times
a day at the two nickelodeon-
themed swimming pools, and
vary according to season and
occupancy.
The Lagoon pool courtyard
features a zero-depth entry pool,
enabling little ones to walk in,
just as they walk into the sea.
The four-story interactive water
tower features a number of
slides, climbing nets and water
jets. There is also a slide/wet area
for the smallest kids to get into
the fun.
A mini-golf course and basket-
ball court are available for non-
water activities. Another wet/dry
area for pre-schoolers and a sand
play area round out the offerings
here.
All suites at the property were
completely renovated including
turning the existing Kid Suites
units into two-and-three bedroom
Nickelodeon-themed suites with
each one featuring Nickelodeon
décor with favorites like
SpongeBob, Rugrats and Wanda.
Dinning choices at The Mall
include The Buffet, serving three
meals daily and Nicktoons Café,
the a la carte restaurant is open
at select times.
The “Kids Eat Free” program
is available for kids 12 and under
at certain eateries from the kid’s
menus. Nictoons Café is also
home to the Character Breakfast,
which features a buffet and
cooked-to-order omelets, plus vis-
its by the characters to each
table. The Mall is home to a
number of fast-food establishes,
also.
This sounds like a destination
in itself, and certainly adds to the
fun in this already kid-dominated
town of Orlando.
Melanie Chambers is a travel
consultant for Battlefield Travel
in downtown Culpeper. She can
be reached at 825-1393.
Nickelodeon resort totally kid friendly
Melanie Chambers
Contributed Photo
"Running the Snake" used with permission is a painting by artist R.L.
Rickards.

5. CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT C7Sunday, October 16, 2005
For a weekend, I was a wanted
man, stealing glances over my
shoulder, waiting for the dragnet to
tighten, anticipating the crushing
force of the long arm of the law and
...uh...well, I just ran out of wanted-
man clichés.
But, for a relatively law-abiding
citizen, it was a rough couple of
days.
It started with a phone message
at home from a sheriff’s detective.
He asked me to call his office.
Thinking he wanted to extend a
personal invitation to the Fraternal
Order of Police chicken dinner, I did
just that. I got his answering
machine.
As I waited for his return call,
my imagination - something that’s
both a blessing and a curse - kicked
intooverdrive.Whatiftheypulleda
body from the river with my busi-
ness card clutched in its cold, dead
hand? What if I actually had a busi-
ness card that someone could clutch
in his cold, dead hand? What if at
that very moment a deranged man
held a friend or family member at
knifepoint, demanding to see the
small-town newspaper editor who
declined to publish his 14-page
poem about Jesus, the United
Nations and Dale Earnhardt?
I began to work my sources,
checkonlovedonesandtrytodeter-
minewhatwasgoingon.Ournews-
paper’s crime reporter found out
pretty quickly: I was a suspect in an
outbuilding break-in.
No, really.
Here’s what happened: Someone
noticed a pickup truck at the scene
of a relatively low-rent heist.
Sometime later, that person saw a
similar truck cruising through
town, noted the license tag and
called it in to police.
It seems that I drive the same
hunk-of-junk, 18-year-old pickup
truck preferred by those who spe-
cialize in breaking into outbuild-
ings.
I was to call the detective on
Monday to clear up the misunder-
standing or confess.
At first, I was amused.
Outbuilding break-in? Ha. Ha.
Ha.
Then I was mildly irritated.
Outbuilding break-in? Do people
think that’s all the criminal initia-
tive I have?
I saw myself as more of an inter-
national jewel thief, clad in black,
rappelling from the skylight, dis-
abling the sophisticated alarm sys-
tem, carefully lifting the glass case
and making off with whatever dia-
mond is the world’s most expensive
diamond before sipping champagne
with a curvaceous blonde aboard a
luxurious yacht.
But here I was accused of prying
the lock of an outbuilding and tak-
ing a tiller or garden hose or some
such.
What if they really think I did it?
Whatiftheybelievethat18yearsof
newspaper work was only a cover
for a criminal mastermind who tar-
gets outbuildings across the coun-
try, terrorizing a rural populace
that depends so much on its hand
tools and garden implements?
“Thanks for coming in peaceful-
ly, Scotty, but it’s bad news for you.
We’ve got the goods on you this
time, kid.”
“You got nothing on me, copper.
Nothing.”
“Where were you on the night of
the fifth?”
“I ain’t gotta talk to you. I know
my rights, flat foot.”
“You’ll fry for this, Scotty.”
“You’ll never pin this on me, cop-
per. No one, and I mean no one,
takes down the Outbuilding
Bandit!”
“You just called yourself the
Outbuilding Bandit.”
“Did I say that? I meant
...uh...the Guy With The Perfect
Alibi.”
I worried all weekend. I watched
for unmarked cars tailing me. I
scannedthecrowdatmydaughter’s
soccer game, sure that some par-
ents and even a couple of tiny play-
ers were undercover officers noting
my every move.
Finally, Monday came. I made
the call. I was off the hook. Now I’m
going to sell that truck.
Scott Hollifield is editor of
The McDowell News in Marion,
N.C. E-mail him at:
rhollifield@mcdowellnews.com.
Scott Hollifield
They’ll never
take me
alive!
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ZENDA — Just north of
Harrisonburg is a two-story,
ramshackle building once used
to store hay and as a secret
party spot for local teens.
But to local historians and
preservationists, the place is a
rarity in Shenandoah Valley
history — an artifact that tells
of the lives of freed blacks
becoming American citizens in
the region after the Civil War.
The building is known as
Long’s Chapel, and it was the
educational and religious cen-
ter for a settlement called
Zenda, also known as “Little
Africa.”
South Carolina black-histo-
ry preservationist Al Jenkins
bought the site last year and
wants to raise money to
restore the building and estab-
lish a museum.
“Here were some former
slaves who worked on planta-
tions starting their own com-
munity,” Jenkins said by
phone. “I don’t think the full
story has ever been told, as far
as their contribution to soci-
ety.”
Local historians and stu-
dents are using the building,
the cemetery next to it and
dumping grounds nearby to
learn about the lives of its
three-plus generations of
inhabitants.
Trash and tombstones are
abundant, and the clues
they’re offering are somewhat
surprising, they say.
“I came out here, and I was
amazed at what was here,”
said Nancy Bondurant Jones.
The author of several books on
institutions in the
Harrisonburg area, Jones is
researching the site for a book
about the settlement.
After the Civil War,
Rockingham County reclaimed
the estimated 50-acre property
from a former plantation
owner through litigation. The
county decided to sell the tract
to freedmen, local historians
said.
The United Brethren
Church helped the freedmen
raise money to buy another
half-acre lot for a church and
hired contractor Jacob Long to
build it with the former slaves
helping, Jenkins said.
Completed in 1871, the
chapel was the spiritual and
educational center of the com-
munity, since Rockingham
County originally didn’t pro-
vide education for black stu-
dents, Jenkins said.
The chapel was also the
first teaching assignment for
Lucy F. Simms, a local educa-
tor born a slave and later edu-
cated at what is now Hampton
University alongside Booker T.
Washington, historians said.
Simms returned to the val-
ley after college and taught a
year at the chapel before
spending the next 55 years
teaching in Harrisonburg,
where a community center she
taught at bears her name, his-
torians said.
Eastern Mennonite
University history professor
Mark Sawin assigned 19 of his
students to study Long’s
Chapel and other area sites of
significance to local black his-
tory. Much of the region’s
African-American history has
been lost to migration and
development, Sawin said.
Jonathan Alley, an EMU
junior from Everett, Pa., has
been researching the Zenda
gravesite and local census
records to learn about
Zenda’s inhabitants.
The evidence has turned
up a surprising level of pros-
perity within the community.
It reached as many as 100
residents, with families living
on 1-to-2-acre lots not large
enough to farm commercially.
Many of the family tomb-
stones progress from ordinary
to more lavish slabs as time
passed.
Further, census records
showed an unusually large
number of wives in the com-
munity who listed their occu-
pations as homemakers.
“Back then, if your wife is
not having to be a field hand
or a domestic servant, then
you’d arrived,” Sawin said of
black communities after the
Civil War.
That one of Zenda’s men
listed his employment as a
bell hop for a Harrisonburg
hotel illustrates what people
did to hold jobs around the
turn of the 20th century.
Without cars, bicycles or pub-
lic transportation, he had to
walk 7 miles each way to
work. Simms had to do the
same for her first teaching
job, Jones noted.
Eventually, Zenda’s youth
moved to Harrisonburg or
elsewhere, and the communi-
ty faded in the 1920s as its
remaining older residents
died, historians said.
The Brethren held the site
of Long’s Chapel in trust
afterward, until it eventually
fell into private ownership.
Jenkins had vacationed
with his family to the
Shenandoah Valley for a
decade when he happened
upon the building and its his-
tory last year. It was over-
grown and so obscured by a
thicket of woods that it could
barely be seen from the road
that passes in front of it, he
said.
After a local media report
about the site and its history,
a Harrisonburg excavation
firm cleared the trees and
brush for free. A local archi-
tect is surveying the derelict
building to determine what it
will need to be restored,
Jenkins said.
Jenkins formed the Long’s
Chapel Preservation Society
to raise money for the
restoration, and has applied
for tax-exempt, nonprofit sta-
tus, he said.
For him, Zenda represents
former slaves adopting the
pillars of American life as
they transitioned to freedom:
religion, education, hard
work and property owner-
ship.
“I just look at these people
for whom it had been illegal
to get an education,” Jenkins
said. “They stepped out into
freedom and had to adopt
these four concepts that are
part of the American dream.”
Calvin R. Trice is a staff
writer for the Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Chapel of inspiration
Rockingham building leads historians, preservationists to a freedmen’s community

6. C8 CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT Sunday, October 16, 2005
rated this year’s cheer squad.
When asked what her
favorite part of cheering for
CCHS was, Senior Selena
Jackson, 17, had little hesita-
tion in her answer.
“Winning the districts last
year in 11th grade and placing
fourth since we hadn’t placed in
six years,” she said. “…I just
think we will be a good team
this year and place in the dis-
tricts again.”
At game time and during
competitions, the team is
responsible for learning not only
cheers but also dances and diffi-
cult stunts as well. Blume said
each member of the squad is
required to practice for 20 days
before the start of school in
order to prepare for stunt work.
Assistant coach Kim Bonner
has confidence in the squad’s
ability to handle the physical
stress of the stunts.
“As soon as one gets done,
you’re going right up to another
one,” she said of the fast-paced
climbing, lifting and tumbling.
“It’s really tiring for them but
they are mastering it, they have
a lot of determination.”
While stunt work is not
required at games, it is required
in the district competition—a
requirement that left one stu-
dent in pain for months. Blume
and Bonner said five different
stunts must be worked into a
three-minute routine along with
music, dancing, and cheering.
During last year’s districts
sophomore Kaitlin Nicholson,
15, suffered a serious knee
injury mid-stunt. While Bonner
said she finished the routine
perfectly, Nicholson was in pain
after the competition and could
not compete in the regionals.
“I tore my ACL [ ] and my
meniscus,” Nicholson said.
She subsequently ended up
having knee surgery, but is
back for another year.
“Inside of your knee it takes
a full year to recover but I was
able to get back into cheerlead-
ing within three or four
months,” she said. “Looking for-
ward, I don’t think I’m going to
break anything this time, I’m
planning on doing really well
and I hope we get first.”
Despite injury and the ner-
vous anticipation of the district
competition the squad will con-
tinue to have challenges with
its weekly football games.
“The hardest part is getting
everybody excited about the
game and the stuff we have to
do as a team,” said junior Casey
Miller, 16.
Even when the CCHS foot-
ball or basketball teams are the
underdogs, the squad’s excite-
ment for the games doesn’t suf-
fer.
“We’re excited all the time,”
said senior Shanika Waters, 17.
“We support them no matter
what.”
The six-hour-a-week prac-
tices since the start of football
season haven’t put a dent in
the team’s enthusiasm. Squad
members look forward to
spending time with their fellow
teammates, students, and
friends.
As in any group situation,
working together can be diffi-
cult, but the squad focuses col-
lectively on being successful.
“[One] challenge is being a
good roll model and trying to
lead a team as one,” said junior
Kathy Lenig, 16. “I think the
focus is on making everyone
look as one whole rather than
individuals.”
Through team challenges,
rousing the crowd, and making
it to regionals, the cheerleading
experience always has high
points.
“I’ve been cheering for 14
years…this is my last year so I
am going to make it great,” said
senior Ashley Jeeter, 17.
“…Just being able to be at the
games…being with the girls,
being peppy and loud…we have
a good sense of humor so I like
to laugh and they make me
laugh.”
Staff Photos, Vincent Vala
ABOVE: The CCHS
Blue Devil Cheerleaders
perform a trio of basket
tosses during a recent
football game. The
squad uses strength
along with form to
complete such stunts.
ABOVE RIGHT: Katie
Kuhlman flys high
during a basket toss.
RIGHT: Margaret Close
shows her flexibility
and balance during this
difficult mount.
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