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by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi

Alec Faulkner has turned his life-long passion into a career half way around the world from his hometown of White Stone. Faulkner is playing professional soccer in Australia.

The son of Norm and Michele Faulkner of White Stone, he signed a contract in late February to play with Valentine FC in Newcastle, New South Wales. The whole process from tryouts with the Phoenixes to sign-ing a contract with the team’s head coach Darren Sills took less than two months.

Faulkner, 24, in January headed to central east Australia, where he attended four or five tryouts. He was invited to the Phoenix camp at the end of January and a month later was informed he’d made the cut. He signed his contract the third week of February.

Faulkner played soccer at Chesa-peake Academy, then for the Sea-horses at Christchurch School, where he graduated in 2011. He moved on to become a member of the Captains soccer team at Christopher Newport University from 2011 through 2015.

“I played every position in col-lege except goalie and forward,” said Faulkner, who signed as a defender, specifically a right back, for Valentine FC.

Almost as soon as he could walk, Faulkner was kicking a soccer ball.

“Dad coached for the YMCA,” he said. “He coached my brother and my sister, so I was kind of forced into it a little bit. I’ve been playing probably since I was two years old and the joke in the family is that I came out playing soccer.”

After playing almost his entire life, Faulkner just couldn’t give up his pas-sion when he graduated from CNU and decided to pursue playing profes-sionally.

“I heard as I was researching play-ing at the next level the options were better in Australia. A kid I played against in college ended up playing there. So I emailed every coach in Australia with my resume and high-light films. I spent all fall sending emails.”

Faulkner’s responses were positive and so “I picked a couple of tryouts in the central east Australia area.”

Valentine FC’s season started the second week of March and contin-ues through the third week of August with 22 regular season games. All of Valentine FC’s games are streamed on BarTVSports.com.au.

The regular season games are all played within Australia. If Faulkner’s team makes the post season, he’ll travel to New Zealand.

During the offseason he plans to travel around southeast Asia and “take advantage of being on that side of the world,” he said. “But I’ll be back home for the holidays.”

Faulkner pursues professional soccer

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The Blue Devils had runners on second and third with no outs when a storm blew through Kilmarnock, causing a two-hour lightning delay and ending a non-conference game early with the host Red Devils.

Lancaster won the varsity baseball game, 3-1, at Dream Fields in Kilmar-nock after both teams agreed the con-test couldn’t be finished.

The Red Devils were leading 3-2 when the game was called in the top of the seventh. The final score was actually 3-1, which was Lancaster’s lead at the end of six innings, qualify-ing it as a regulation game, according to LHS coach Welby Saunders.

Matthew Kleinfelter got the win for the Red Devils, giving up seven hits, walking two and fanning nine.

Mathews took a one-run lead in the top of the fifth on a single, fielder’s choice and two-out single before Lan-caster put together a three-run inning in the fifth.

Adam Wilmore drew a walk and scored on a Kleinfelter double to the left field fence. Danny Hinson drove in Kleinfelter with a double down the left field line and Hinson stole third on a passed ball before scoring on a deep fly ball by Nick Wohleking.

Wilmore led the LHS offense, bat-ting 1-for-1 and drawing three walks for a run scored. Kleinfelter was 1-for-3 with an RBI double.

Friday’s game capped a three-game week for the Red Devils, who picked up a pair of conference wins over Essex and Colonial Beach.

“It was a great week of baseball,” said Saunders. “Getting three wins in a tight district is very significant. Although we showed our youth and made key mistakes during each game, we never got down and continued to fight.

“Whether it was a sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly or key hit, everyone kept coming through when needed,” he added. “It was a huge game-winning hit for Spencer Crittenden against Colonial Beach and Kleinfelter had a great week of baseball, leading our team in hitting. We will continue to be up and down due to our youth, but it’s a fun team to watch right now.”

Spencer Crittenden hit the game-winning single as Lancaster rallied

LHS Red Devils claim three conference wins

Photo by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi

for two runs in the bottom of the sev-enth to get by Colonial Beach, 6-5, last Wednesday.

The Drifters pushed two runs across in the first and fifth innings to take a 4-0 lead before the Devils batted through the line-up to score four runs in the bottom of the fifth. Jacob Taft and Jayson Gill reached base on balls and Brandon Rosalia’s single scored Taft for the first LHS run. Hunter Koonce’s sacrifice fly to left field drove in Tahlik Redmond, who was pinch running for Gill. Adam Wilmore walked and Klein-felter smacked a two-run double to score Rosalia and Wilmore to tie the game.

Lancaster gave up a run in the sixth and headed into the final frame down by one, 5-4, when Gill drew a lead-off walk. Redmond, running for Gill, stole second and advanced to third on a bunt. With runners on first and third, Wilmore hit a sac-rifice fly to score Redmond. The Drifters intentionally walked Klein-felter and Danny Hinson singled to load the bases for Crittendon’s criti-cal single.

Rosalia led Lancaster at bat, going 1-for-1 with a walk, sacrifice and run scored.

Hinson gave up six hits and retired three in five innings of work but Kleinfelter go the win, striking out five and allowing two hits in two the last two innings.

The Devils opened play last week with an 11-3 win over Essex.

Kleinfelter batted .1000, going 4-for-4 with two doubles and six RBIs to lead the Devils at the plate. Wilmore was 3-for-5 with a triple and double and three runs scored and Gill was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.

Spencer Crittenden got the win, pitching three and two third innings with only one hit allowed. Danny Hinson and Nick Wohleking com-bined to pitched the last three and a third innings in relief.

Lancaster will play Northumber-land tomorrow, April 28, in Claraville and host Rappahannock at Dream Fields Tuesday, May 2. Both games will begin at 7 p.m.

JV Lady Devils post two wins and a lossby Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi

Lancaster picked up a couple of con-ference wins over Essex and Colonial then came up short in a close game against Mathews in JV softball.

The Lady Blue Devils got by Lan-caster, 4-2, in Mathews last Friday after breaking a 2-2 tie with two unearned runs on errors.

“It really was a good game,” said LHS coach Shannon Smith. “We just couldn’t get our bats going after the first inning.”

Lancaster and Mathews both scored

two runs in the first and the Lady Blue Devils pushed two more across the plate in the third.

Madison Giese and Katherine Thomas each had a single and double to lead LHS. Leighten McCranie also had a single.

Thomas had two doubles and a triple to lead Lancaster’s offense in a 12-9 win over Essex last Tuesday.

McCranie also hit a triple and Blair Smith, Amanda Steensma and Abria Jackson had a double each.

Smith went all seven innings on the mound for the win for Lancaster. The

Lady Devils batted through the line-up for a five-run second inning.

Lancaster blew the game open with seven runs in the fifth inning at Colo-nial Beach last Wednesday to win a five-inning game, 16-6, over the Lady Drifters.

Rachel Woolard pitched three innings for the win and Smith got the save.

Vaire Nickens highlighted the Lady Devils’ offense with an RBI line drive up the middle.

Lancaster will travel to Northumber-land tomorrow, April 28, for a 4:30 p.m. game.

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Essex didn’t score a goal against Lancaster in last Wednesday’s varsity soccer game, but still came away with a 2-0 conference win.

Both of the Trojans’ goals were credited to LHS players.

Essex took a 1-0 lead in the first half when Lancaster’s defense was pushing the ball out and it hit Kendall Barn-hardt in the hip and bounced back into the goal.

The Trojans were credited with a second goal after the ball was deflected off of Alex Green and slipped into the LHS goal.

“It was a strange thing to happen twice in one game,” said LHS coach Traci Ford.

Henry Smith’s shot for LHS was heading into the Essex goal when teammate Logan Cook rushed in for a final touch and was called offsides. That shot was called back. Smith’s shot came with about 10 minutes to play in the game and would have tied the con-test.

LHS goalkeeper Nathan Spiers had 11 saves, “includ-ing an awesome flying catch,” said Ford. Sheridan Ford led the Devil defense, while Smith, Evan Steensma and Probesh Bhandari led the offense. Ford also had one shot on goal with a free kick.

Lancaster is still seeking its first conference win at 0-2 and will host Rappahannock at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 3.

Lancaster girls beat Colonial Beach, 4-2Mathews and Essex get the better of Lady Devils




Whitney Barrack retired seven batters as Lancaster picked up its first conference win, 4-2, over Colonial Beach last Wednesday in varsity soft-ball.

The Lady Devils pushed a run across the plate in the bottom of the first for a 1-0 lead before giving up two runs to the visiting Drifters in the top of the third. Lancaster tied the outing at 2-2 then picked up two runs in the bottom of the fifth and held CB scoreless in the top of the sixth and sev-enth.

Maddie Davis and Riley Molineaux had two hits each and Molineaux recorded an RBI to lead Lancaster’s offense. Wilson Throckmor-ton, Randi Reed and Barrack also had an RBI each.

“Our defense finally decided to play,” said LHS coach Doug French. “Rachel Valdrighi con-tinued her strong play behind the plate, getting two put outs and throwing a runner out at third base.”

Valdrighi also threw a runner out at second base in a game with few LHS highlights last Friday against Mathews. The Lady Blue Devils beat the

Lady Red Devils, 12-0, in five innings.

“We continued with our strong defense with only three errors,” said French. “But we’re still making minor errors that are hurting the team.”

Maddie South went five innings for the win for Mathews and allowed only one hit by Throcktmorton.

Ashleigh Sanford made her second appearance on the mound for LHS this season, coming in the top of the fourth.

Lancaster opened play last week at Essex last Tues-day when the Lady Trojans downed the Lady Devils, 10-3.

Although Lancaster couldn’t muster a hit in the first, the Lady Devils took a short-lived 3-0 lead on two walks, a sacri-fice and a dropped third strike.

After the first inning, Essex High’s Arleigh Wood kept the Lady Devils scoreless and gave up only one hit to Bar-rack.

Hathaway led the defense with two put outs and two assists.

Lancaster will play Nor-thumberland in Claraville tomorrow, April 28, and will host Rappahannock Tuesday, May 2. Both games will begin at 7 p.m.

Elswick stars forJV Red Devils

Keith Elswick shut Mathews down in the final two innings and came up with a game-win-ning hit in the seventh inning as the Red Devils edged the Blue Devils, 8-7, in JV base-ball last Friday.

“Keith came up with a huge hit and also shut them down, so he really came through for us. He was the superstar in that one,” said LHS coach Will Barrack.

The Red Devils were trail-ing, 7-6, in their last at bat when eighth grader Damier Smith drew his third walk of the game and Tucker Vander-pool reached base on an error. Smith, who’d moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Chris Cunningham, went to third on the error and Vanderpool stole second to put runners on second and third. Elswick drove them both in for the tying and winning runs with a double.

Vanderpool had started the game on the mound for LHS and got the no decision after going four and a third innings with three hits allowed and four strikeouts. In the fifth, Els-wick came in and went two and two-third innings, striking out three and allowing one hit.

The Red Devils’ big inning came in their first trip to the plate, rallying for four runs on Smith and Cunningham walks, a single by Luke Simpson, a two RBI single by Vanderpool

and an RBI single by Marshall Lee.

Smith drew his second walk in the second inning and scored on a single by Cunningham. Elijah Palmer reached base on balls in the fourth for LHS and Simpson singled to drive him in.

Lancaster was leading 6-4 in the fifth when Mathews took the lead with a four-run rally on two errors, a walk and a hit.

The Red Devils suffered a pair of conference losses last week, losing 10-4 to Essex and 11-1 to Colonial Beach.

Elswick put in four innings on the mound for the loss against the Trojans, allowing five hits and striking out one.

Lancaster scattered its four runs with one in the second, one in the sixth and two in the sev-enth off a Vanderpool double that scored Palmer and Cun-ningham.

Leading LHS at bat with one hit each were Vanderpool, Simpson and JaQuan Veney.

Lancaster’s only run came in the fifth inning against the Drifters last Wednesday when Simpson drew a walk and stole second before scoring off a single by Veney.

Vanderpool pitched four innings with seven hits allowed and six strikeouts. Simpson pitched two innings with three strikeouts.

The JV Devils will travel to Northumberland tomorrow, April 28, for a 4:30 p.m. game against the Indians.

Trojans get lucky

SCOREBOARDLancaster 3, Mathews 1Lancaster 6, Colonial Beach 5 Lancaster 11, Essex 3St. Anne’s Belfield 6, Christchurch 0

Lancaster 8, Mathews 7Essex 10, Lancaster 4Colonial Beach 11, Lancaster 1

Lancaster 4, Colonial Beach 2Mathews 12, Lancaster 0Essex 10, Lancaster 3

Mathews 4, Lancaster 2Lancaster 16, Colonial Beach 6Lancaster 12, Essex 9

Essex 2, Lancaster 0

St. Christopher’s School 20, Christ-church 0Christchurch 13, Highland School 11

St. Christopher’s School 10, Christ-church 2

Cape Henry Collegiate 19, Christ-church 3St. Gertrude’s 16, Christchurch 4

Northumberland 2, Essex 0 King William 2, Northumberland 1Christchurch 2, St.Margaret’s 1

Northumberland 2, Essex 0Northumberland 1, King William 1 (tie)

April 28:Lancaster at Northumberland,

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7 p.m.Christchurch at Collegiate School (baseball only), 4 p.m.May 2:Rappahannock at Lancaster, 7 p.m.Christchurch at Fork Union Military Academy (baseball only), 4 p.m.May 4:Essex at Lancaster, 5 p.m.

April 28:Lancaster at Northumberland, 4:30 p.m.May 2:Rappahannock at Lancaster, 4:30 p.m.May 4:Lancaster at Essex, 5 p.m.

April 29:Lancaster at Real Deal Invita-tionalMay 4:Lancaster at Northumberland, 4 p.m.

(6 p.m.)May 3:Rappahannock at Lancaster

April 28:Millwood School at Christ-church, 4:30 p.m.May 3:Christchurch at Fredericksburg Academy, 4 p.m.

April 29:Blue Ridge School at Christ-church, 1 p.m.May 2:Christchurch at Collegiate School, 4:30 p.m.

April 28:Trinity Episcopal School at Christchurch, 4:30 p.m.May 3:Fredericksburg Academy at Christchurch, 5 p.m.May 4:Christchurch at Powhatan High School, 6 p.m.

April 28:Steward School at Christ-church, 4:30 p.m.May 2:St. Gertrude’s High School at Christchurch, 5 p.m.

April 29:Christchurch at Sailing Fleet Race, Norfolk Yacht and Coun-try Club, 9 a.m.April 30:Christchurch at Women’s Fleet Race Championships

April 30:Christchurch at Eastern Regional Championship, Nor-folk Botanical Gardens

May 1:Christchurch at Cypress Point Golf Course, 3 p.m.May 4:Christchurch vs. St. Anne’s Belfield, Piankatank River Golf Club, 4 p.m.


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Lady Indians kick upstorm, 2-0, over Essex

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The Lady Indians split against Essex and King Wil-liam last week in varsity girls soccer, a winning storm-short-ened game at home over the Lady Trojans, 2-0, last Friday.

Tahi Wiggins scored her eighth goal of the season on a penalty kick after teammate Alice Sisson was fouled in the box. Sisson, who took six shots on goal, also scored in the first half for NHS on an assist from Shannon Baker.

The game was stopped early in the second half because of weather with Northumberland leading, 2-0. The Lady Indians outshot Essex, 11-2, in the first half.

“I feel we left many goals on the table in the first half of play,” said NHS coach Mark Fridenstine. “We were really looking forward to the second half of the game.”

Alex English played a great game at stopper, with Lauren Suchan and Sisson putting lots of pressure on the Essex defense, said Fridenstine.

Sisson took six shots on goal to lead NHS, while Tiffany White and Hannah Loving took two shots each.

Wiggins scored the lone goal for Northumberland in a 2-1 loss to King William last Wednesday.

Wiggins scored on a direct free kick in the final two min-utes of the game after a foul on Suchan.

The Lady Indians took eight shots on goal; King William had seven.

Wiggins led NHS with three shots on goal and Loving took two.

Baker, White and Erin Bur-gess had a shot each.

Annie Newsome and Grace Emminizer led the NHS defense with five take-aways each.

In JV action, Cameron Lewis scored two first-half goals to lead the Lady Indians

over Essex in a 2-0 shutout last Friday.

Lewis scored 16 minutes into the game and again at the 28-minute mark.

Northumberland outshot the visiting Lady Trojans, 12-3.

The Lady Indians were led by Lewis, Bess Blake, Brittney White, Hannah Hamlet and goalkeeper Jean Jett, accord-ing to Fridenstine.

Lewis also scored with less than a minute to go to end last Wednesday’s game against King William in a 1-1 tie.

The Lady Cavaliers’ Mikayla Miller had scored midway through the second half.

Lewis led Northumberland’s offense with six shots on goal. Daisy Ramirez, Trinity Taylor and Chloey O’Bier took two shots each for the Lady Indi-ans.

Jett had seven saves for NHS.

Seahorses sailing team advances toMallory Cup National Championship

The Christchurch School sailing team on April 8 and 9 competed in the Mid Atlantic Scholastic Sailing Association (MASSA) Mallory Qualifier at the US Merchant Marine Acad-

emy in Kings Point, N.Y.The Seahorses raced against

18 other teams in a strong and cold 18-28 knot northerly wind and placed third, qualifying them to represent MASSA in the Mal-

lory Cup National Champion-ship, reported Jennifer Homer.

The championship will be held at MIT in Boston, Mass., May 12. The team is coached by Kieran O’Connell.

Tom Teeples Trail dedicated

16 Derby contenders haveSecretariat in their pedigrees

The Kentucky Derby has been called the most exciting 2 minutes in all of sports. In 1973 Virginia-born Secretariat made it the most exciting 1 minute and 59 and two-fifths seconds.

That record still stands, as do Secretariat’s spectacular times in the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. He remains the only one of the 12 Triple Crown champions in history to break all three track records.

“Now, going on 44 years, those records have endured and so have his bloodlines,” said Leeanne Meadows Ladin, Sec-retariat tourism manager at The Meadow Event Park, the cham-pion’s birthplace in Doswell.

“Once again, Secretariat is well represented in the field of contenders for the Kentucky

Derby. Though his name may be four or five generations back in the pedigrees, Secre-tariat remains at the forefront of Thoroughbred racing through his descendants,” said Ladin.

Sixteen of the 20 horses competing in the “Run for the Roses” on Thursday, May 6, have Secretariat in their pedi-grees. Ladin attributed that to the continuing influence of Sec-retariat grandsons, A.P. Indy, Storm Cat and Gone West. On the current Kentucky Derby leaderboard, those 16 horses are Always Dreaming, Battalion Runner, Classic Empire, Cloud Computing, Fast and Accurate, Girvin, Gormley, Gunnevera, Hence, Irap, J Boys Echo, Mal-agacy, Patch, Practical Joke, State of Honor and Tapwrit.

Ladin also noted the Wednes-day, May 5, Kentucky Oaks, a major race for fillies, is full of Secretariat descendants. Of the top 20 on the leaderboard, 18 have “Big Red” in their lineage.

Ladin, co-author of Secre-tariat’s Meadow – The Land, The Family, The Legend, closely tracks descendants of the Triple Crown champion and discusses them in her narrated tours of his birthplace at The Meadow. The site is listed on national and state historic registers.

SPORTS SHORTS

Northern Neck Anglers Club will meet at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at the Wicomico Parish Church, 5191 Jessie duPont Memorial Highway, Wicomico Church. Represen-tatives of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) will make a presen-tation on the new mandatory recreational reporting regula-tions and permits for trophy striped bass, cobia and tilefish/grouper.

Members are urged to attend, guests are welcome and the public is invited. Member-ship is $30 per year for adults. Membership for youth mem-bers, younger than age 18, is free for children or grandchil-dren of adult members. For a membership application, visit northernneckanglersclub.wordpress.com.

The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Bon Secours Rappahannock Gen-eral Hospital from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 5. The blood drive will take place in front of the Training Center behind the hospital, 101 Harris Road, Kilmarnock.

Donors are encouraged to eat a good meal and drink plenty of water ahead of time. Visit redcross.org, to schedule a donation time.

The annual Fr. John Boddie Memorial Golf Classic will be held May 12 at the Piankatank River Golf Club, Hartfield.

The $80 per person entry fee covers use of the practice range, golf cart rental, greens fee, on-course beverages and dinner in the Steamboat Res-taurant. To register, call 776-0949.

The Tappahannock Rotary’s 14th annual Andrew Reavis Memorial Croaker Tournament in the Rappahannock River will be held May 20.

Lucky anglers will win $4,500 in prize money and have a great day on the river. Boat entry fees are $125 before May 1 and $150 thereafter. For details and registration, visit bigcroaker.com.

Bon Secours Rappahan-nock General Hospital and the Northern Neck Family YMCA will present a diabetes aware-ness class from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 9 at the YMCA, 39 William B. Graham Court, Kilmarnock.

The free session will include complimentary lunch and pre-sentations by diet, fitness and health professionals. Pre-regis-tration is required. Register by Wednesday, May 3, at 435-8662.

Bon Secours Rappahan-nock General Hospital and the Northern Neck Family YMCA will offer free blood pressure screenings from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday, May 1, at the YMCA, 39 William B. Graham Court, Kilmarnock. Screenings are free and open to the public.

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Chesapeake Academy recently announced the coaches for its summer 2017 Middle School Sports Clinics.

“If you want to hone your play-ing skills to prep for an upcoming season, Chesapeake Academy’s Summer Sports Clinics are just the ticket,” said summer camp director Ian York.

“We have an all-star line-up of accomplished coaches, so these clinics are tailor made for the middle school student who wants to practice technique, improve skills and fundamentals, and have fun while getting ready for high school sports,” continued York.

Coaches will include Matt Schaeffer, Shannon Fisher-Bloom, John Dehm and Ian York.

“The Middle School Sports Clinics differ from our general sports camp in a few basic ways,” he said. “The clinics are designed for a slightly older athlete and will each focus on a single sport instead of introducing many dif-ferent sports to the campers.”

Middle School Sports Clinics will be very compact, focused skill building opportunities that will each last two-and-a half-days. The soccer clinic will be held August 2 through 4. Girls

volleyball and coed lacrosse will be offered July 31 through August 2. The fee is $150 per camp.

Schaeffer, the Christchurch School head soccer coach, has been coaching boys and girls soccer for 14 years. There have been many highlights in his coaching career, including a state championship in 2009.

He also was head coach of the Pennsylvania State University Mens’ Club Soccer Team, which won the national championship in 2000. He was coaching assis-tant for the PSU Women’s Varsity Team and coach of a U-14 girls classic travel soccer team.

Fisher-Bloom is director of athletics and co-curricular pro-grams at Christchurch School, where she also serves as the head volleyball coach.

Fisher-Bloom played vol-leyball at the Division I level at Lafayette University. Prior to that she coached volleyball at East Stroudsburg University, as well as club volleyball for Court Authority Volleyball Academy. Fisher-Bloom has a bachelor’s in anthropology and sociology from Lafayette College and her mas-ter’s from East Stroudsburg Uni-

versity in sports management. Dehm is head lacrosse coach

and assistant athletic director at Christchurch School. Coaching since 2014, he knows his way around the athletic field as he was a high school three-sport athlete/captain in football, hockey and lacrosse.

He went on to play lacrosse at St. Mary’s College in St. Mary’s City, Md., where he was captain of his team. He has a bachelor’s from St. Mary’s College of Mary-land.

York is athletic director at Chesapeake Academy. He came from Broadwater Academy where he coached football and taught computer science.

York’s athletic career was primarily focused on lacrosse. He coached college lacrosse at Appalachian State University and was an assistant lacrosse coach at Christchurch School. He played college lacrosse at Rutgers and at Hampden-Sydney College. York has a bachelor’s in history from Hampden-Sydney College.

To register, email direc-tor of admissions Hilary Scott, [email protected], visit chesapeake.org, or call 438-5575.

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CLUB GOLFBOWLING RESULTS

Golden Eagle Golf Club play day winners for April 17 were first, Ed Kazenske; and second (tie) Bob Chambers and Dave Gwaltney. April 19 winners were first (tie) Jon Baer, David Crowther and Gwaltney. April 21 winners were first, Baer; and second (tie) Phil Booth and Steve Craig.

Indian Creek Yacht and Country Club 18-hole ladies first flight winners for April 18 were first, Ruth Thomas; second, Ellie Davis; and third, Beth Kendrick. Second flight winners were first, Kathy Rhodes; second, Rachel Jackson; and third, Pat Gwaltney. Third Flight winners were first, Audrey Saunders; second, Janet Blunt; and third, Donna Swinney.

Men’s group Friday Stableford winners for April 21 were first, Tom Callan; second, (tie) Bob Powell and Bob Smith.

All leagues have started play at Quinton Oaks Golf Course, Callao. The ladies meet at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesdays and the mixed scramble group meets at 12:30 p.m. Thursdays.

Ladies winners for April 19 were first, Carol Davis; second, Jane Herron; and third, Su Schmalz.

Mixed scramble winners for April 20 were foursome, Linda and Frank Dennis, Bob and Janet Price. Threesome winners were Phil Gates, Carol Davis and Ed Pugh.

For the week of April 17, Yeatman’s Forklift won 2 games from Ace Hardware. Mary York posted 124, 133 (high game) with a 366 (high set) for the week. Val Crosbie rolled 102, 102 with a 301 set.

Ace Hardware’s Kara Ever-ett tallied 118, 112 with a 335 set. Mary Newton bowled a 100 game and Cathy Hoskins a 118 game.

R.P. Waller won 2 games from Animal Welfare League. Lowery Becker bowled a 103 and Ann Newsome rolled a 110 game. Marsha Nash posted 112, 129 with a 349 set. RPW earned the high team set of 436 and the highest pin fall 1215.

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Five tables of bridge were in play April 20 at the Woman’s Club of White Stone.

Winners north/south were first, Virginia Adair and Arden Durham; and second, Babs Murphy and Dianne Monroe.

Winners east/west were first, Malena Mcgrath and Jane Bunnell; and second, Shirley Pleasants and Betsy Heller.

The next bridge for this group is 1 p.m. Thursday, May 4.

SPORTS SHORTS

Dockside Health and Rehab Center, 74 Mizpah Road, Locust Hill, will hold a free screen-ing and discussion of the PBS Frontline film “Being Mortal” based on the best-selling book by Atul Gawande, MD.

The screening will be held from 10 a.m. to noon May 17. To register, call 758-5260.

The Jacob’s Ladder Golf Tournament will be held May 15, at the Tides Inn Golden Eagle Course in Irvington. Play format is a four-person team, preferred drive with the two best scores counting as final score. Sign in will start at 10:30 a.m.; optional putting and chipping contests, 11 a.m.; snack lunch and shotgun start, noon. The event will end with a closing celebration at the club-house including awards, food and beverages.

The fee is $150 per player and is payable by check to Jacob’s Ladder at the event or online at the completion of registration. Register at jlad-der.org.

The Lancaster/Northumber-land Relay for Life Event to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. May 6 at the White Stone Church of the Nazarene Family Life Center, 57 Whisk Drive, White Stone.

Activities will include games, a bounce house, ven-dors, bake sale, auction, music and a luminary ceremony.

The Northern Neck Anglers Club will host the Trophy Rockfish tournament May 6 and 7, weather permitting. One fish may be weighed per member per day. The larg-est fish (by weight) during the tournament for each member will be entered for tournament placings and gift certificate awards for the top two entries.

Members are urged to attend, guests are welcome and the public is invited. Member-ship is $30 per year for adults. Membership for youth mem-bers, younger than age 18, is free for children or grandchil-dren of adult members. For a membership application, visit northernneckanglersclub.wordpress.com.

The Rappahannock River Yacht Club 100 Rappahannock Road, Irvington, will host the 2017 Typhoon spring racing season at 5 p.m. Wednesdays through May 31. Racing is under sail on the Rappahannock River near Carter Creek. Observers and competitors welcome.

The 2017 Spring Regatta starting on June 10 will include the Typhoon East Coast Cham-pionships.

Northumberland County Community Center Organiza-tion will sponsor a car, truck and motorcycle show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 20 at the NCCCO, 679 Browns Store Road, Wicomico Church.

Organizers have issued a call for car owners, car clubs, truck owners, truck clubs, motor-cycle owners and motorcycle clubs to participate. Trophies will be awarded. Contact Irvin Nickens at 480-0369, or Sylvia Carter at 724-4114.

The Rappahannock River Yacht Club will host a women’s sailing clinic at 2 p.m. May 14 and 21. The clinic is open to beginner, intermediate and advanced sailors, ages 14 and older, and is designed to increase knowledge and confi-dence.

Women will be paired in teams of two along with a coach and will sail aboard Cape Dory Typhoons. The event is free to RRYC members and $20 for others. Sign up by May 1 at [email protected].

The eighth annual Kekoka Yoga Retreat (KYR) will be held May 19 through 21 at YMCA/APYC Camp Kekoka, 1083 Boys Camp Road, Kilmarnock. The theme will be “Peace...Pass It On.”

The retreat fee is $175 and includes lodging, farm-to-table meals, yoga for all levels, med-itation, speakers, music and water activities. For reserva-tions, visit ymcacampkekoka.org, or contact camp director Cassie Leichty, [email protected], or 435-3616.

Chesapeake Academy teacher Robin Blake and stu-dents will present Seacamp projects at Northern Neck Audubon Society meeting at 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 1, at the Lancaster Community Library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock.

The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.

During the summer of 2016 NNAS awarded Blake a schol-arship to attend the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Teachers on the Bay program. Her lesson plan for Teachers on the Bay was based on “her dream” of helping Windmill Point Beach. Working with the Friends of the Rappahannock, the Master Gar-

deners, Lancaster County offi-cials and her Chesapeake Acad-emy students, she is pleased that this dream is coming to fruition, reported Nancy Garvey.

Blake will talk about how during her “Teacher’s on the Bay” experience, she realized how much her students could do to help the environment. They raise oysters and are in the pro-cess of preserving their nature trail which is a wetlands area, by removing invasive species, as well as working with the county to try to grow more sea grasses to stop erosion and help Wind-mill Point Beach, said Garvey.

Joining her will be three Seacamp teams from Chesa-peake Academy, who will pres-ent their projects.

Blake and studentsto present Seacampprojects to Audubon

The Middlesex Colts foot-ball and cheerleading spring signups will begin the first weekend of May and will con-tinue each Saturday until July.

To sign up, visit middlesex-colts.com, or call Garringer, 577-0738.

Bon Secours Rappahannock General Hospital and the Amer-ican Cancer Society will host the “Look Good…Feel Better” program for females currently in active treatment for cancer.

The session will be held at 4:30 p.m. May 31 in the RGH Outpatient Infusion Center at Bon Secours RGH, 101 Harris Road, Kilmarnock. Pre-regis-tration is required. Call 435-8593 to sign up.

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The seventh annual Special Operations Warrior Founda-tion Chesapeake Bay Charity Golf Event will be held Sep-tember 27 at King Carter Golf Club, 480 Old St. Johns Road, Irvington.

The format will be a four-person captain’s choice. For a brochure with event schedule, sponsorship and registration information, call Tom Quinn, 703-402-6121, or Fred Gilman, 761-1427.

The Middle Peninsula Youth Football Skills Camp for ages 7 to 14 will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. June 19 through 22 at Christchurch School, 49 Seahorse Lane, Christchurch.

The fee is $30 and each camper will receive a t-shirt and water bottle. Instruction will cover both offensive and defensive skills and drills. Reg-ister at christchurchschool.org/Youth-Football-Camp, or call Ed Homer, 832-2578.

Hunters for the Hungry recently announced Virginia hunters donated 283,198 pounds of meat to feeding pro-grams statewide for distribu-tion to people in need. That’s enough venison for 1.1 million quarter-pound servings.

The Northern Neck Food Bank in Warsaw was among the programs receiving the meat.

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The Northern Neck Farm Museum, 12705 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will celebrate opening/planting day on May 6.

The museum shows visitors the story of the Northern Neck farmer and engages them in understanding the many contributions that the lifestyle of agriculture has contributed to the community, the Commonwealth and the nation, reported Wayne Smith.

Burgers, hot dogs and soft drinks will be served on opening day, said Smith.

Among other upcoming events, the museum

on July 8 will feature Threshing Day; July 15, Farm to Fork dinner with barbecue chicken and a disco jockey; September 16, Peddlers at the Barn (with seminars); September 30, Corn Maze opens; October 14, Farm to Fork dinner with seafood; October 28 and 29, Fall Festival.

The farm museum has an extensive farm equip-ment collection and welcomes visitors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays.

There are various educational programs. To schedule a class or group visit, contact the museum at 761-5952, or [email protected].

The Irvington Farmers Market season commences May 6 at the Irvington Commons, 98 King Carter Drive, Irvington.

Though not officially summer, the kick off of the Irvington Farmers Market signals the start of the season, at least to market coordinator Lucy Schneider.

“It’s that celebratory time, when farmers bring us produce, grass fed beef, humanely and sustainably raised pork, chicken, fresh eggs and the Irvington Commons comes alive with shoppers on the look out for arti-sanal items from new vendors as well as some of our favorite local regulars,” said Schneider.

The market will be held from

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. first Saturdays May through November.

Haze and Dacey, acoustic guitarists of Hazyshade Pro-ductions from Richmond, will perform both original songs interspersed with familiar and obscure covers.

The landscape of the Irving-ton Commons has been altered, due to storm damage from the F-1 tornado on April 6, but the Irvington Village Improvement Association team is ready for the big day.

“We lost several of our huge beautiful old shade trees, our brand new picnic tables and our storage shed were all totally destroyed,” said president

Dermot McNulty. “But no one was hurt, thankfully, and we are eagerly looking forward to the start of the 19th season of the Irvington Farmers Market.”

Early spring produce, garden plants, cut flowers, honey, cheeses, breads and baked goods will be offered. There also will be handmade ceramics, folk art, woodwork, jewelry, weavings, paintings, photography, bas-kets, soaps, whimsical garden art, repurposed furniture, oyster gardening kits, hand made chil-dren’s clothes, iron sculptures and alpaca products.

Over 100 vendors are slated to display their wares over the duration of the market season.

The Heathsville Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 20 at Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern, 783 Monu-ment Place, Heathsville. The theme will be “Going to the Dogs!”

All canines in the Northern Neck are invited to bring their well-behaved humans, reported manager Corinne Becker.

As part of this “doggie” related theme, the Northern Neck Kennel Club will hold an expo. Dogs will be put through their paces in a fascinating demon-stration of agility and obedience, said Becker. Other activities will

include “meet the breed,” an obedience demonstration and a “freestyle” demo.

The Northumberland Animal Shelter will bring a variety of dogs available for adoption and “Canines for Independence” will showcase their latest “dog in training.”

Shoppers will find produce, meat and goat cheese, bread and baked goods, flowers and nurs-ery plants, jams and jellies, jew-elry, clothing and other locally-made handcrafts. A number of vendors specializing in doggie treats and paraphernalia also will participate. There are new

vendors every month.The Heritage Arts Center gift

shoppe and Tavern Café also will be open.

“Here’s where you’ll find working artisans in their studios, an expanded gift shop focused on locally-made artisan wares and a cozy sit-down café serving home-made soups, fresh-baked breads and sweet treats,” said Becker.

For “on-the-go” eating, visit the food concession stand in front of the Transportation Museum Building.

The Tavern artisan guilds will participate and the Tavern Café will be open.

Farm museum posts special events

Irvington Farmers Market scheduled onfirst Saturdays May through November

Heathsville Farmers Market is ‘Going to the Dogs!’

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees chapter 1832 will meet at noon Tuesday, May 2, at Lizzy’s Restaurant, 8200 Northum-berland Highway, Heathsville. The speaker will be Charles Belfield.

Wearing his Revolutionary War Light Horse uniform, as was worn by his eighth gen-eration grandfather, Capt. John Belfield, he will give the captain’s personal account of

fighting for the nation’s free-dom in the 1st regiment of the American Continental Army, reported public relations chair-man Nellie Landrum.

Belfield lives in Richmond County, where his family has resided since 1700. He is president of the James Monroe Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and also first vice president of the Rich-ard Henry Lee Chapter, said Landrum. He is a member of

the Northern Neck Historical Society. His goal is to keep history alive and to that end he shares his talents and histori-cal knowledge with school and civic groups.

Attendees may order from the menu. Current, former and retired Federal employees, spouses and survivor annui-tants are invited. Reservations are required. Contact Jim Lan-drum, 529-6415, or [email protected].

NARFE chapter 1823 sets luncheon meeting

CaregiversRiverside Center for Excel-

lence in Aging and Lifelong Health (CEALH) will offer “Caring for You, Caring for Me” program, a weekly semi-nar series to help those engaged in caring for older adults.

Classes will meet from 4 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays May 16 through June 13 at Yorkmin-ster Presbyterian Church, 6218 George Washington Memorial Highway, Yorktown. The fee is $45 and includes refreshments and educational materials. To register, visit https://excellen-ceinaging.org/caringforyou or contact Christy Jensen, Ph.D, at 757-220-4751, or [email protected].

Gas climbsAccording to AAA Tide-

water Virginia, the Common-wealth ranks ninth in least expensive gas prices across the 50 states. The average price in the Commonwealth on April 24 was $2.23 per gallon, 13 cents higher than last month and 27 cents higher than last year. Average prices in the Commonwealth are 19 cents lower than the current national average.

Mariner job fairChesapeake Marine Train-

ing Institute will host a mari-ner job fair and open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 5 at 3566 George Washington Memorial Highway, Hayes. Professional maritime com-panies will meet and inter-view potential job candidates. The companies are seeking deckhands, wheelhouse tug operators, engineers and tankermen.

Mariners of all license and credential levels are urged to attend. Chesapeake Marine Training Institute staff and instructors will work with job candidates on licensing and credentialing needs. To regis-ter, visit chesapeakemarineinst.com, or call 800-642-2684.

Vendors wantedNorthumberland County

Community Center Organiza-tion will sponsor a car, truck and motorcycle show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 20 at the NCCCO, 679 Browns Store Road, Wicomico Church.

Organizers have issued a call for vendors, other than food sales, as well car owners, car clubs, truck owners, truck clubs, motorcycle owners and motorcycle clubs to partici-pate. Trophies will be awarded. Contact Irvin Nickens at 480-0369, or Sylvia Carter at 724-4114.

Vendors neededFairfields United Method-

ist Church will host its 22nd annual Fairfields Fall Festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Septem-ber 30 on the church grounds, 14741 Northumberland High-way, Burgess. The festival features arts, crafts, collect-ibles, free children events, North Carolina-style barbecue, homemade soups and baked goods, music and extensive promotion.

For a vendor application, contact Judy Hall at [email protected]; Fairfields UMC office, 453-3770; or Dottie Longest, 370-0603.

Photography show The People’s Choice Photog-

raphy Show continues through May 21 at the Tappahannock Artists’ Guild (TAG) and Com-munity Art Center 200 Prince Street, Tappahannock.

The exhibit features photo-graphs of the river and tide-water area submitted by pro-fessional and amateur photog-raphers from throughout the region. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sun-days and 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays.

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Folks gathered poolside and on the lawn overlooking Carter Creek to enjoy a Taste of Spring Saturday, April 22, at the Tides Inn in Irvington. The wait was never long for craft beer, wine tastings, seafood and other fare. Vendors scattered throughout the resort’s facilities offered jewelry, clothing, art, fudge, peanuts, salsa and produce.

God Shot Judy brought swing and swagger to the party. Above, Art Martin is featured on sax. The Something Different Duo opened the show. Photos by Robert Mason Jr.

Ronald Taylor pours an El Quapo Agave IPA from O’Connor Brewing Co.

Bryan Byrd of Byrd’s Seafood serves up fried oyster tacos.

A Taste of Spring witha little miston the side

The spring mist and an occassional shower helped keep things cool at the ultimate lawn party, also known as the The Tides Taste of Spring 2017. General manager and party host Gordon Slatford entertained some 650 guests for the event. Everyone appears to be enjoying themselves and that’s what matters, he said. The food is great, the beverages are great, the music is great, it’s all great, he added.

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ACTIVE AGING EXPO FOR WOMEN AGES 55+Friday, April 28, 8:00AM – 12:30PM

Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury (132 Lancaster Dr., Irvington)

Join us for this FREE, Half-Day Expo to hear inspiring speakers, visit informative exhibitors, collect promotional giveaways and enter to win

one of many door prizes! Complimentary continental breakfast and box lunch included.

EXPO AGENDA:

8:00 – 9:00AM Registration, Continental Breakfast and Exhibitor Displays

9:00 – 9:15AM Welcome from Senior Advocate

9:15 – 9:45AM KeyNote Presentation: “What Legacy Are You Leaving Your Loved Ones?” presented by Attorney Donna Wilson, Founder, Wilson Law

9:45– 10:05AM “Wisdom for the Ages” presented by Greg Garrett, Owner and Broker, Greg Garrett Realty

10:05 – 10:25AM “Preparing for Your Future” presented by Stuart Bunting, President and CEO, Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury

10:25 – 11:00AM Break & Exhibitor Displays

11:00 – 11:20AM “Hospice Benefits for the Patient and the Family” presented by Laura Waltrip, RN, Hospice Community Care

11:20 – 11:40AM “The Dynamics of Aging” presented by Jennifer Beck, Director of Community Living Programs, Bay Aging

11:40AM – 12:00PM “The Importance of Life Stories for Those with Dementia” presented by Paula Harder, Regional Director of Resident Programs, Commonwealth Senior Living

12:00 – 12:20PM “Taking Charge of Your Financial Future” presented by Jean Light, Trust and Asset Manager, Chesapeake Wealth Management

12:20 – 12:30PM Closing Remarks, Raffle Drawings and Box Lunches

RSVP at www.SenAdv.com or 757-724-7001EXHIBITORS: At Home with RWC, Bay Aging, Chesapeake Wealth Management, ClearCaptions, Commonwealth Senior Living, Greg Garrett Realty, Hospice Community Care, Rappah-annock Westminster-Canterbury, RiverLand Insurers, Riverside Tappahannock Hospital and Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health, The Orchard, Wilson Law.

Double christeningIt was a rainy day last Saturday when Dixie Deihl christened the Cockrells Creek at a two-boat christening by Omega Protein in Reedville. The boat Windmill Point, in the background, was christened by Gayle Dameron. From left are Deihl, Cockrells Creek Capt. Alan Hinson, vice-president of operations Monty Deihl and master of ceremony Burton Thrift. Over 100 people attended the affair that included a cruise into the Chesapeake Bay. The Cockrells Creek and the Windmill Point are replacing two older vessels, the Tangier Island and the Reedville. The new vessels were converted to menhaden steamers by Omega Shipyard in Moss Point, Miss., and cruised to Virginia in March.

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) on April 19 released the results of the 2017 blue crab winter dredge survey, which shows a 31% increase in adult female crabs and forecasts another year of improved har-vests.

This is the highest level of adult, spawning age females recorded in the 28-year history of the bay-wide crab winter dredge survey.

“The big picture is the stock overall is in pretty good shape,’’ said VMRC Commissioner John M.R. Bull. “This year’s harvest should be substantial and con-sumers should find plenty of tasty crabs for the dinner table. Chal-lenges remain, however and we need to remain vigilant and cau-tious in our management of this ecologically and economically important stock.”

The results of the 2017 winter dredge survey show the total pop-ulation of blue crabs in the Chesa-peake Bay fell a bit, by 18%, due to a decline in the number of juve-nile crabs, but remains at the 11th highest level ever recorded by the winter dredge survey.

This year’s female spawning stock increased by 31%, from 194 million to 254 million crabs, which surpassed the scientifically recommended target of 215 mil-lion spawning female crabs and remains well above the minimum safe threshold of 70 million crabs.

Spawning age female crabs are the cornerstone to maintaining a vibrant crab stock and depend on conservative and cooperative fish-ery management efforts among the bay jurisdictions.

The adult male crab stock fell by 16%, from 91 million to a still-substantial 76 million.

However, the juvenile abun-dance plummeted by 54%, from 271 million to 125 million, which is the fourth lowest level on record.

This was unfortunate but not unprecedented, according to Bull. Optimal spawning conditions do not occur every year.

Successful crab reproduction naturally fluctuates and can be

affected by wind, currents, storms, temperature and cannibalism. In recent years, post-reproduction predation events and environmen-tal factors have caused at times dramatic downturns in crab stock abundance. For example, the level of juveniles fell from 581 million in 2012 to a mere 111 million in 2013.

This reproductive variability highlights the need for fishery managers to continue to enhance resilience of the stock through adaptive management to com-pensate for unusual or extreme environmental conditions and the resulting impacts on reproductive success, he said.

“Just three years ago, the number of adult female crabs was so low that a harvest cut was nec-essary to help rebuild them,’’ said Bull. “We are out of that danger zone, due to adaptive and effec-tive management of this fishery. The spawning stock is in solid shape but more work needs to be done.”

A bay-wide 10% crab harvest reduction was enacted in 2014 by VMRC, Maryland and the Potomac River Fisheries Com-mission to combat low overall crab abundance and to boost a dangerously depleted female spawning stock.

Bay fishery managers have since refined their management regimen to focus on conserving juvenile crabs as well as spawn-ing age female crabs. Each year’s juveniles become the next year’s spawning stock, he said. Adjust-ing catch regulations to conserve more of today’s juveniles from harvest when they reach market size in the fall and emerge in the spring after overwintering in the water bottom increases the likeli-hood they will survive to spawn another generation of abundant crabs in the summer.

“That would be prudent man-agement,” said Rom Lipcius of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). “Overall, I’m optimistic but we should remain cautious and risk-averse. Female

numbers have increased in recent years. We’ve seen good male numbers. And the harvest has been increasing. We seem to be on the right track.”

The bay-wide commercial har-vest increased by 20% last year, from 50 million pounds to 60 million pounds and remains at sustainable levels. Since 2014, the bay-wide commercial crab har-vest has jumped 71% while over-all crab abundance has increased by 53%.

The current low level of juve-nile crabs appears to preclude the reopening of the winter crab dredge fishery, which has remained closed since 2008.

The annual bay-wide Winter Dredge Survey is the primary assessment of the bay’s blue crab population and has been con-ducted annually by the VIMS and Maryland’s Department of Natu-ral Resources since 1990. The survey employs crab dredges to sample blue crabs at 1,500 sites throughout the Chesapeake Bay from December through March. Sampling during winter when blue crabs are usually buried in the mud and stationary, allows scientists to develop, with good precision, estimates of the number of crabs present in the bay.

The Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee, a sub-committee of the Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementa-tion Team, is reviewing the new survey results and will release their full analysis of the results in the 2017 Blue Crab Advisory Report this summer. The annual advisory report is used by man-agers as they review and update fishery regulations.

The bay jurisdictions continue to work together cooperatively to manage the crab stock.

VMRC will begin discussions with its crab management advi-sory committee on options to adjust harvest restrictions while maintaining higher spawning-age female abundance and to improve reproduction so next year’s juve-nile levels improve.

Survey shows promising blue crab stockabundance with boost to adult females

The University of Mary Wash-ington Small Business Develop-ment Center (SBDC) will host Marc Willson for a series of special retail workshops the third week in May.

Willson brings 35 years of experience to helping retail, restaurant and tourism-related small businesses refine and pro-mote their concepts to the public, reported Bonnie Haywood, assis-tant to the director.

In 1975, Willson started his retail career as co-owner of the largest distributor of Earth Shoes in the U.S. Since then he has held executive positions with retailers such as Britches of Georgetowne, Crown Books, Circuit City, The Bicycle Exchange and Store-trax, Inc., said Haywood. Most recently, he traveled to Dallas,

Texas to open the world’s first energy efficiency store for Cur-rent Energy, LLC.

Willson joined the SBDC in 2009 as a retail industry consul-tant and has delivered over 70 seminars and assisted over 300 retailers throughout Virginia.

He will present “Art as a Busi-ness” at a “Females About Busi-ness Women’s Round Table” women entrepreneur’s meeting from 8 to 10 a.m. May 16 at the Enterprise Center, 482 Main Street, Warsaw.

In partnership with the Town of Warsaw, Wilson will present “Competing with the Big Boys: How Independent Retailers Win and Keep the Customer” May 17 at the Warsaw Town Office, 78 Belle Ville Lane, Warsaw.

In partnership with T & J’s

Dairy Barn, Willson will present “Staying Relevant to a Changed Customer” May 18 at the busi-ness, 718 Jessie duPont Memo-rial Highway, Burgess.

In partnership with the Essex Public Library, Willson will pres-ent “Doing Business in a GAFA World” “Google, Apple, Face-book and Amazon” May 19 at the library, 117 North Church Street, Tappahannock.

Willson also will visit area businesses after the workshops on a first-come first-served basis, said Haywood.

All workshops will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. Workshops par-ticipation also will be on a first-come first-served basis. To reg-ister, contact Bonnie Haywood, 333-0286, or [email protected].

Carousel Physical Therapy recently welcomed Julianne McLellan, PTA, to its family of providers.

McLellan graduated from the ECPI School of Health Sci-ences Medical Careers Institute with an associate’s in physical therapy in April 2017. She also was a student at Carousel for her last required clinical rota-tion. Prior to joining Carou-sel, McLellan graduated from Longwood University in May 2015 with a bachelor’s in psy-chology.

She has a love for physical therapy, sports and exercise in general, reported marketing director Cher Friga. She was previously the head middle school basketball coach for St. Gertrude High School, as well as the assistant varsity volley-ball coach. She also volun-teered for the Special Olympics Track and Field in 2016. She is a Certified Personal Trainer through NASM.

Through her experiences attending physical therapy for various sports injuries, McLel-lan considered furthering her education in the physical ther-apy field. During her junior year

Workshop series slated in Maywith retail industry consultant

Julianne McLellan, PTA

Julianne McLellan, PTA, joinsCarousel Physical Therapy staff

of college she participated in an internship at a PT clinic, where she also became a PT tech. This experience helped finalize her decision in achieving her Physi-cal Therapist Assistant degree.

McLellan loves the water and enjoys boating, fishing and riding jetskis, said Friga. She continues to have a healthy appetite for sports, especially basketball and volleyball. McLellan is from Richmond and is currently living at her family home in Deltaville.

Eastern Virginia Bankshares, Inc., the bank holding company of EVB, recently reported results of operations for the three months ending March 31.

According to a performance summary, the results were directly impacted by increases in the average balances of loans, interest-bearing deposits and short-term borrowings.

Loan yields decreased 9 basis points for the three months ended March 31, as compared to the same period in 2016, largely due to intense competition for com-mercial loans in the Richmond and Tidewater markets. Rates paid on interest-bearing deposits increased 9 basis points primar-ily due to a promotional rate offered on money market savings accounts.

In connection with the previ-ously disclosed pending merger of equals with Southern National

Bancorp of Virginia Inc., the company incurred $478,000 in merger and merger related expenses. Also, during the fourth quarter of 2016 the company implemented a hiring freeze. In connection with this hiring freeze, through attrition and other job eliminations, the company reduced the number of its full-time equivalent employees by 27 between December 1, 2016, and March 31, 2017.

The company currently expects this initiative to reduce salaries and employee benefits expense by approximately $1.4 million on an annualized basis.

“I am pleased with our compa-ny’s growth and profitability for the first quarter of 2017,” reported president and chief executive officer Joe A. Shearin. “During the first quarter of 2017, we generated loan growth of 3.7% as compared to 17.9% over the

trailing 12 months, which again outpaced our internal targets. Net income decreased by 20.1% during the first quarter of 2017 as compared to the same period of 2016 and was primarily driven by a lower net interest margin, higher current period expenses, includ-ing those related to our pending merger with Southern National and partially offset by higher net interest income.

“The lower net interest margin was driven by lower yields on loans and higher costs on inter-est-bearing deposits, while the overall increase in net interest income was primarily due to our strong loan growth. Cur-rent period expenses included $478,000 related to our pending merger with Southern National, $165,000 in severance costs asso-ciated with our hiring freeze and job eliminations, and a $194,000 loss on the sale of one other real estate owned property. Excluding these non-recurring expenses, our overall profitability for the first quarter of 2017 improved when compared to the same period of 2016,” he continued.

“We continue to be very excited and focused on our pending merger of equals with Southern National and the com-bination of EVB with Southern National’s wholly owned subsid-iary Sonabank. Both banks are working diligently to incorporate best practices and processes, and making great progress towards creating an outstanding organiza-tional structure and strong bank-ing franchise.

“To date we have received all necessary regulatory approvals to proceed with the merger and ear-lier this month Southern National filed a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC, which included a joint proxy statement and a preliminary prospectus. We are very excited about the future prospects and synergies of our combined organization and look forward to maximizing the poten-tial of this combined franchise.

“I am also pleased to announce that the board of directors declared another cash dividend of $0.03 per share of common stock and Series B Preferred Stock pay-able on May 19, 2017, to share-holders of record as of May 5, 2017,” said Shearin.

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Armed with umbrellas, tents and rain jackets but undaunted by the elements, participating art-ists on April 22 persevered and still had a great time working together and engaging the public at “Plein Air Unleashed” at Allure Art Center, 419 Rappahannock Drive, White Stone.

“Our exhibiting artists worked on the grounds and around the town of White Stone, creating 24 new works during the opening weekend and sev-eral of the pieces have been included in the main exhibition to bring the collection to 45 works on exhibit currently,” said gallery owner Jeff Cherry.

This exhibit and opening event strives to give patrons and visitors a better understanding of the art form and encourage other artists to join in on the adventures of the group, he said.

Opening day featured all five of the plein air artists demonstrating their techniques and work-ing on new pieces, he said. Two of the exhibit-ing artists primarily work with pastels while the other three artists work exclusively in oils.

The exhibit will continue through May 21. To help give some perspective and insight, the front exhibit wall features a brief history of the Plein Air movement, discusses the progression and the current resurgence in interest from artists. Exhib-iting artists are Daphne Benton, Nancy Brittle, Kim Hall, Maria Reardon and Kathleen Willing-ham.

One of our resident artists has formed the Northern Neck Plein Air Painters group which has approximately 20 area artists. Each week they pick a location in the region to meet up, work and collaborate. They invite any artists interested in Plein Air work to join them in their outings, continued Cherry.

Allure Art Center is a multifaceted venue

offering working studios, professional gallery, classrooms, event and performance spaces.

“Our primary mission is to provide a venue for artists and artisans—emerging and established—that allows them to work, collaborate, exhibit and teach their crafts,” he said.

“We believe this vibrant center will not only promote creativity in our area but will also enhance our community,” said Cherry. “We feature artists from all media categories, the performing arts as well as musicians with our Summer Cheers music festivals. We have an open invitation to artists each weekend to come out, work on the grounds, collaborate and social-ize with other area artists.”

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When Jerry Latell of Ullman Sails in Deltaville got the con-tract to make 11,000 square feet of sails (12 sails) for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, he was a little apprehensive.

“We felt a little like the dog who catches a car that he’s been chasing,” said Latell.

He and his crew had built six sails for the Eagle in the winter of 2015-16. And they have made single new sails for this iconic ship as well as repaired its sails.

“We knew what this involved and we were technically capable, but 12 sails is a huge, multi-month project,” said Latell.

He had positioned his busi-ness to accept the challenge. In December 2016, he purchased and then invested nearly $40,000 in upgrading the former fire-house that’s next door to his cur-rent location, in an old bowling alley on General Puller Highway. In August 2016, he purchased a new $18,000 sewing machine, thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Middlesex Economic Devel-opment Authority (EDA).

“The EDA grant helped us get set up in the new building so we now have a building dedicated to repair work and one dedicated to new sail production,” he said.

The extra space gave Latell room and boosted his confi-dence. “I don’t know if we could have done this Eagle job without the new building,” he said. “We built six (Eagle) sails last winter without the new space but 12 sails certainly would have been

From left, Jake Pender and Justin Ailsworth worked five months making 11,000 square feet of sails for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle. Ailsworth will take a 4-day trip up the East Coast aboard the 296-foot-long ship. Photo by Tom Chillemi

Deltaville loft outfits Eagle

The Eagle, 296-foot-long U.S. Coast Guard cutter, is the only active commissioned sailing vessel in American military service. It is used to train Coast Guard Academy cadets and the tall ship’s striking lines help it fill a public relations role.

The ship was built in 1936 as a German training ship. It was outfitted with armament in World War II. The U.S. seized the ship after the war and re-commissioned it in May 1946.

Eagle is a U.S. training vesselby Tom Chillemi

a lot for the old bowling alley to handle.”

Latell got the Eagle job due to his expertise and reputation as a premier sailmaker. “We are one of the few, if not the only, sail loft in the U.S. that can take on a traditional project of this size.”Big picture

Latell had to look at the big picture and more than just build-ing sails, which he’s been doing full time since 2001.

“We know how to build them but I was apprehensive about cash flow and the flow of our other new sail production,” he said. “Such a big project could have been a major disruption to our systems.

“We hope to do more sails for the Eagle and have urged the Coast Guard to spread the orders out a bit so they can be more easily worked into our regular work.” Spread out

Building 11,000 square feet of sails took some unusual turns. Two people worked on the proj-ect full time for the full five months and others jumped in to help at different times.

The Coast Guard has criteria and plan drawings for each sail. These sails were laid out in the traditional manner, which means Latell could do most of the layout at his business but about half of the sails had to be done in gyms at Middlesex Elementary School and Chesapeake Acad-emy.

“Most of the sails we build are designed with a computer, and cut on our automated cutting table,” said Latell. “This pro-cess eliminates the first layout, speeds up the process and makes it much more accurate and repeatable.” The Eagle sails are all handcrafted from start to finish. Experience

Latell, of Irvington, learned the sail making business from experience. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as an employee at the same loft that he now owns. He left for three years to work as a guidance counselor for Lan-caster public schools. In 2001, he started a sail business as a part-time job and in 2005 bought out his former employer to take over this loft.

The 10th annual Deltaville Dealer Days spring sales event will take place at four partici-pating dealerships from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 6 and 7.

At each dealership, new and used boats are made available, both in the water and on land, for visitors to view and board, reported Skip Madden. Boaters can inspect leading brands, talk with knowledgeable brokers, pick up brochures and compare notes with other boaters.

Boat dealers and the man-ufacturers they represent

include Norton Yacht Sales, dealers for Jeanneau Yachts and Cobia; S&J Yachts, deal-ers for Island Packet Yachts, Southerly Yachts, Delphia, Seaward, Alpha Catamarans and Great Harbor Trawlers; Annapolis Yacht Sales, dealers for Beneteau, Lagoon Catama-rans, Edgewater, Monterey and Steiger Craft; and Chesapeake Yacht Sales, representing Cata-lina Yachts.

Local sponsoring busi-ness, as well as many boating/lifestyle-related publications have lent their support again,

helping to attract visitors from near and far, said Madden.

For the first time, Deltaville’s shuttle bus, “The Osprey,” will provide transportation with 17 scheduled stops and additional “flag” stops on a loop from Stingray Point along General Puller Memorial Highway to Deltaville Market and back with side-trips down Timber-neck Road, Fishing Bay Road and Jackson Creek Road.

The shuttle will operate from noon until 10 p.m. Sat-urday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Deltaville Dealer Days offers variety

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Burkes Fine Jewelers last year debuted “The Carnival Bracelet,” designed by repair spe-

cialist Troy Robertson.Recently, Burkes was grateful to be able to

present the Kilmarnock Volunteer Fire Depart-ment a check for $1,000.

“We are so happy that we’re able to give back to our community in this unique way. The car-nival holds a special place in all our hearts here at Burkes Fine Jewelers,” said Karen Burke. “Troy wanted to design a piece that represents one of the Northern Neck’s longest standing

traditions, the KVFD Carnival.” The charm bracelet depicts all the staples

of the Carnival; the ferris wheel (Big Eli), a BINGO card, French fries, a carousel horse and the badge of the KVFD.

The carnival is an event for all generations and for the ones that grew up here and moved away, coming home to take their children is a highlight of their life, said Burke.

The starter bracelet with the Ferris wheel is $85. The complete bracelet is $250. Burkes donates 20% of all proceeds to the KVFD.

The Northumberland County Cham-ber of Commerce recently presented its Business of the Year Award to Mer-thia Haynie, proprietor of the Abilities Abound Physical Therapy and Wellness Center in Callao.

The award began in 2009 and is pre-sented to businesses that have important standing in the county, contribute to the economic vitality and have made signifi-cant contributions to the quality of life in the past, the present and for the future, said president Douglas Lemke.

The Abilities Abound Physical Ther-apy and Wellness Center’s participation in community involvement occupies the pinnacle of that criteria and it is an honor to make this award, said Lemke. He also noted the center’s efforts have played a vital role in the community, particularly in the areas of health, wellness and reha-bilitation. Those efforts have provided a vital service for many of our residents and their families in their time of need.

The CVS Health Foundation in April announced more than $1 million in grants to 33 free and charitable clinics as part of a multi-year grant program with the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC).

The Northern Neck - Mid-dlesex Free Health Clinic (NNMFHC) in Kilmarnock is one of the award recipients. Its $35,000 grant is being used for an additional pharmacy tech-nician to expand access to the NNMFHC Pharmacy and extend its hours, while focusing on prompt pick-up of medications prescribed to manage chronic conditions and improve health.

Over the past four years, the CVS Foundation has donated nearly $5 million to NAFC to increase access to quality care and support the management of chronic disease.

“As a pharmacy innovation company, we are committed to helping people on their path to better health in the communities where we live and work,” said

There was a definite buzz of enthusiasm as a group of shoreline contractors, land-scape professionals and con-servation volunteers joined shoreline experts and officials to learn design and installation essentials for natural solutions to shoreline erosion.

The April 19 workshop at Camp Kekoka provided a full day of instruction on recog-nizing sites for non-structural living shorelines, project design and completion of the permit application.

“It is quite an accomplish-ment to be able to bring a pro-gram like this to the Northern Neck,” said Brian Barnes of Lancaster County.

In addition to presentations by Virginia Institute of Marine

Science (VIIMS) and Virginia Marine Resources Commis-sion (VMRC), attendees also learned about cost share assis-tance and low interest loans available for these specific projects.

Following on-site evaluation of the Camp Kekoka shoreline, contractors divided into small groups to design living shore-line projects and complete a sample Joint Permit Applica-tion. The case study reports to the main group provided a forum for asking questions and receiving technical feedback on the merits of each project.

“The workshop brought together a wide range of exper-tise and funding from the public, private and non-profit community,” said Friends of

the Rappahannock river stew-ard Richard Moncure.

“There is growing momen-tum for living shorelines on the Northern Neck,” said The Wetlands Project executive director Kate Daniel. “Work-shop participants benefitted from this opportunity to net-work and share experiences related to these relatively new projects.”

The 2015 “Living Shore-line Group 1 General Permit for Certain Living Shoreline Treatments” was approved by VMRC as a fast track shoreline erosion solution for property owners.

Projects that meet the spe-cific criteria can be permitted within 21 days and there is no fee to submit the permit.

From left to right are (front row) Whitney Lang, Alison Davis and Sarah Beth Pittman; (next row). Karen Burke, Fred Burke, Justin Burke, Tom Jones of the Kilmarnock Volunteer Fire Department, Troy Robertson, Jameson Crandall and Kati Rose.

Burkes shares proceeds from ‘The Carnival Bracelet’ sales

Free clinic awarded CVS grant to expand pharmacy

From left are pharmacy technician Jenny Martin, pharmacist Britney Dedmond and pharmacy technicians Ginger Houck, pharmacy coordinator Angie Rich and Judy Gariss.

Eileen Howard Boone, president of the CVS Health Foundation. “Our support for the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics has yielded significant results over the past four years that demonstrate how increased access to quality care and inno-vative approaches to chronic disease management can affect the lives of the most vulnerable Americans.”

The 33 CVS Health Founda-tion awards this year ranged from $20,000 to $35,000. Three other clinics and one charitable phar-macy in Virginia were awarded the grants, in Arlington, Falls Church, Lynchburg and Richmond.

“The NAFC is extremely grateful for the support our mem-bers receive from the CVS Health Foundation and their recognition of the life saving work Free and Charitable Clinics provide to the medically underserved through-out this country,” said NAFC chief executive officer Nicole Lamoureux. “Their unwavering commitment and investment over

the years has allowed our Free and Charitable Clinics to expand health care access, coordinate health care efforts and build healthier communities.”

At the NNMFHC, pharmacy technician Jenny Martin began work March 20 to expand the hours of the NNMFHC Phar-macy, which operates on the strength of a skeletal staff and teams of volunteers. The goal is to increase the times for patients to place refill requests, pick up their medicines and consult with a pharmacist or technician to 25 hours a week. During the first month of her employment, phar-macy hours were added to include all five workdays and pick-up times have nearly doubled.

“We are excited to be able to make the pharmacy more acces-sible,” said pharmacist Britney Dedmond. “Patients realize the Clinic runs on volunteer time and donations, and they are grateful that more hours are being made available to pick up their pre-scriptions.”

Chamber presents Business of the Year Award

From left are Douglas Lemke and Dr. Merthia Haynie.

From left, Brian Barnes of Lancaster County and Walter Priest of Wetland Design and Restoration demonstrate installation of oyster shell bags and fiber logs.

Workshop offers pointers on livingshoreline design and installations

Free seminarsPeoples Community Bank

will sponsor a series of free informational seminars Tues-days in May. The seminars will begin at 6 p.m. at Cobham Park Baptist Church, 13829 Histo-ryland Highway, Warsaw.

Topics include May 2, long term care; May 9, life insur-ance; May 16, retirement options; and May 23, first time homebuyers.

Yard saleA Community Yard Sale

will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 20 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1717 Hamp-ton Hall Road, Callao.

Vendors and other sellers are welcome to participate by reserving a space before May 15. Contact Sauve at 724-9731, or [email protected].

Calling musiciansThe State Fair of Virginia

is looking for professional performers of all genres of music, including rock, blue-grass, gospel, country and rap to perform at 2017 State Fair September 29 through October 8 at The Meadow Event Park in Doswell.

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