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Stephens City • Middletown • Kernstown
April 6 – 12, 2011Volume III, Issue 14
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By Amanda IaconeVirginia Statehouse NewsFOR LEE – Gov. Bob McDon-nell on Tursday gave his OK to3 bills aimed at making Virginiaa more military-riendly state.He signed the legislation intolaw beore o a crowd o activeduty service members, veteransand supporters at Fort Lee, alogistics and training center orthe U.S. Army, just south o Rich-mond.McDonnell, who served inthe U.S. Army and in the Army Reserves, said it was his goal toentice the thousands o soldiersand sailors working in Virginia tostay here and to make Virginia themost military-compatible state inthe country.Te military also deserved asmuch support as the state andcommunity could muster tothank them or their sacriicesand to ensure that uture gen-erations would want to join theArmy or other service branches,he said.“I we don’t take care o menand women in uniorm today, itwill be harder to recruit the bestand brightest in the uture to trainand serve in the military and ghtin the wars o tomorrow,” Mc-Donnell said. “I think it’s pretty obvious rom what we’ve seen inIraq, Aghanistan and Libya, andany number o hot spots aroundthe world, the need or the mili-tary to be engaged and protectour national interests and standup or the cause o reedom willendure or a very, very long time.So what we do today is impor-tant.”Virginia is home to about37,000 military members andtheir amilies — among the high-est in the nation — and it is hometo about 83,000 veterans, ac-cording to the governor’s oce.More than a third o all Army members will go through Fort Leein the coming years, McDonnellsaid.Te state is also home to thePentagon, a large Navy base inNorolk and the Quantico Marinebase.“We want you to stay in Vir-ginia when you leave service,” saidDelegate Kirk Cox, R-ColonialHeights.He said the state needs the tal-ent and skills that retired military sta oer.Bills signed include makingmilitary members eligible orin-state college tuition. Te De-partment o Veterans Servicesmust now maintain one agent toevery 6,000 veterans living in thestate to help ensure a ast benetsapplication process.Military members also are eli-gible or one ree copy o a vitalrecord, such as a birth certicate,which is oten needed whenapplying or veterans’ benets.And several bills allow boards o health, medicine and nursing toconsider military experience orcertain licenses and certicates.Delegate Rich Anderson, R-Prince William, sponsored sev-eral o the bills, including onewaiving the one-year residency requirement so that the Marines,soldiers and sailors could pay in-state tuition.He said his district is home tomany military amilies, and hemade it his goal to better servethem when he took oce.And, he said he believes Mc-Donnell’s campaign goal may have been met.“Tis is the most veteran riend-ly state,” said Anderson, who livedin a dozen dierent states duringhis own 30-year military career.“(McDonnell’s) taken it beyondthat.”
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Split Outdoor PipeDisables Spigot
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I’m not sure how, but whenchecking the outdoor spig-ots this spring I noticed that thesteel pipe behind one of them hadswelled and split. I had turned off water to this pipe last fall so I’mnot sure how this happened, andI don’t see any water damage inthe basement. Why did this occur?What’s the cheapest fix so I can usethis spigot again soon?
— Frank T.,Dover, N.H.
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I’m not sure exactly why ithappened either. Perhaps if the tap wasn’t fully drained after youturned off water at the nearest shut-off valve, perhaps some water pooledjust behind the spigot and, when ahard freeze occurred, the water froze,expanded and split the pipe.I’m also not sure there’s a trulycheap fix for this. Duct tape will keepwater from spraying all over the placebut won’t stop a leak and will quicklybreak down. You need to keep thewater turned off and the pipe drained,and contact a plumber as soon aspossible. The pipe will need to bereplaced, perhaps all the way back tothe shutoff valve.Get a written estimate — two or more if you’re not sure how much thejob should cost — and decide fromthere when and how you’ll have thepipe replaced. Because it sounds likeyou’ve got galvanized steel pipe, theplumber will recommend a differentmaterial (galvanized steel isn’t usedanymore — period) and he or shemay recommend replacing all thesteel pipes, though probably not allat once.Meantime, it would be a good ideato check all of the other pipes leadingoutside for similar damage. Hope-fully, that’s the only one you have todeal with right now. Also, since theNortheast is still at risk in April of more hard freezes occurring, keep theoutside spigots turned off and drainedfor a few more weeks. Homes withnewer plumbing don’t have to worryas much about outside pipes freezingand splitting in early spring, but older pipe systems need to be more closelywatched.
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Citizens decry gerrymandering in redistricting
By racy Kennedy Capital News ServiceRICHMOND – Community leaders and concerned citizensturned out en masse Monday toprotest proposed redistrictingmaps at the General Assembly’snal public hearing.“Because o elections this year,unlike in most state, the redistrict-ing timetable here is short,” Sen.Janet Howell, D-Reston, explainedas she led the Senate Committeeon Privileges and Elections’ publicorum. “It’s only been one monthsince Virginia received correctedcensus numbers.”Howell; Sen. John Watkins, R-Midlothian; Delegate Chris Jones,R-Suolk; and Delegate Jim Mor-rissey, D-Highland Springs, all planon submitting their redistrictingmaps or consideration by theHouse and Senate over the next ew weeks.Citizens rom Hanover County accused Howell’s map o beingpartisan and aulted her or split-ting the county into thirds.“We have a speciic commu-nity in Hanover, and or the littlecountry town o Ashland to bepaired with the urban centers o Richmond and Varina doesn’t seemright to anyone that I’ve talked to,”said Angela Kelly-Wiecek, head o the Hanover Republican Commit-tee.“I believe this is an egregiousmiscarriage o representation inevery sense. I urge you to go back tothe go back to the drawing board.”“o me, [gerrymandering] is romanother age,” said odd Vander Pol,a businessman rom Hanover. “Ireally didn’t expect to see it, butwhen I look at Northern Virginia,the idewater and Central Virginia,it seems silly and outrageous.”Residents rom Virginia Beachalso voiced concerns, saying they would lose a Senate seat and mi-nority representation would bediluted.“I want to remind you that thecommonwealth o Virginia standsor the commonwealth o all o itscitizens,” Venus Marshall, a VirginiaBeach resident, said as she appealedto the committee to ensure thatminorities would receive repre-sentation. “ake that commitmentto honor the people that entrustedyou to make these decisions.”“You want a yardstick or gerry-mandering?” Carl Wright, anotherVirginia Beach resident asked thecommittee. “Come to our city! It’sbeen gerrymandered, gerryman-dered, re-gerrymandered, andgerrymandered again ...“I’m asking you all today, whenyou look at the city o VirginiaBeach, please consider all o thecitizens with a air and true repre-sentation. Tat’s all I ask.”he hearing was held by theHouse and Senate elections com-mittees as the General Assembly convened or a special sessionon redistricting. Every 10 years,legislators must redraw politicalboundaries to account or popu-lation changes relected in new census numbers.Minorities rom various partso Virginia spoke at the hearing,appealing to the committee to con-sider their growing numbers in thestate.“I’m here to talk about the Latinocommunity in Virginia. We haveyet to elect a Latino to this distin-guished body,” said Andrew Rivera,an attorney rom Alexandria andpresident o the Democratic LatinoOrganization o Virginia. “I urgethat we concentrate and not dilutethe Latino community in your dis-tricts.”“Tey don’t eel like there’s repre-sentation there,” said Alex Vargas,another redistricting critic. “Tey don’t eel like there’s a reason tovote because they’re not seeingchanges in their communities.”hree students rom GeorgeMason University showed thecommittee their map, which wonthe Virginia Redistricting Competi-tion. Morrissey plans to introducethat map in the House. NicholasO’Boyle, one o the map’s designers,said the students’ map reduced thesplits o counties to 161 rom morethan 300 in Howell’s map.As the meeting wound to aclose, members o the VirginiaRedistricting Coalition, sportingwhite -shirts emblazoned witha hissing cobra, lined up to voicetheir concerns. Among their rankswas James Ukrop, ormer chairmano First Market Bank and ormerchairman o the Ukrop’s grocery chain.“I think this a real opportunity totake the leadership position in ournation,” Ukrop said. “Wouldn’t it bea wonderul thing or the nation toread about the Virginia legislaturestepping orward and going theright thing? You are the leaders inour state, and I hope you do theright thing.”
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