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MAILBAG Running on empty On Saturday, August 12, hundreds of white supremacists descended on Charlottesville like a biblical plague. Mostly male, exclusively white, they came armed with rifles, sidearms and a palpable anger. Ostensibly these people were protesting the removal of the statue of General Lee from Emancipation Park, but the purpose of their visitation was baser and their presence viler then that. They came to intimidate, to assert their twisted worldview of supremacy, to cause violence and to wreak havoc in our community. These men did not represent a worldview our community shares. In time, they left. Behind remains a town defiled and dirtied by their presence. After a day of sirens, helicopters and bloodiness, Charlottesville was exhausted—physically and emotionally. Now, it is as though we need to perform a collective exorcism to rid our streets of the stench of their evil. I awoke the next day still saddened and in need of a sense of center. I have long used running as an act of meditation, so I ran. It took me several miles to begin to let go of any portion of my dark feelings. At the university, I crossed Beta Bridge. There I encountered a group of students repainting the bridge: Love Not Hate. We spoke briefly; me to thank them, them to wish me well. I passed an African-American gentleman. We wished each other a better day than yesterday. I passed Emancipation Park, still cordoned off and with a significant police presence. The ground was littered with trash; there were no smiles. The mood was somber and poignant. There was no one to speak to. How do we to begin to heal? How do we dissipate this pall of sadness? By the time I’d reached the end of my run I knew one thing with certainty: General Lee’s statue must go—the sooner, the better. We cannot let our city give sanctuary to any monument that is a touchstone for contemporary hatred, to any monument that is so clearly stained by the agony of slavery. Until this symbol is gone, we won’t begin to fully heal. Do we sell the statue? Perhaps donate it to a museum? Maybe, but I have a better idea: Let’s melt the damn thing into a puddle of bronze and pour it away. Now!

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Don’t shy away from tough subjects

• Avoid glossing over or giving excessive details. Attempt to find a balance that is honest without cataloging chaos or violence, especially with young children. Reinforce their safety. Use feeling words in place of action descriptions. Do not lie. • Allow the dialogue to be ongoing. Often, we tell young people something and assume that’s sufficient, but children need time to internalize what they learn. Be gracious with questions that come later. Ask your own. Know that our emotions and concerns may change over time. • Model vulnerability with your emotions. The most profound moments of connection I’ve experienced with students required humility, honesty and real talk. Deep bonds of trust are built when my kids see that I am not omniscient; that I’m willing to learn and be wrong; and that I am emotionally affected by the happenings of the world and interactions with other humans. • Foster dialogues with others. Teachers are your ally, and you should be theirs. Learn the names of citizens in service roles for you and your family. Attend community conversations. Support organizations of progress. As you buy local, own local history, and talk about our past and future. • Encourage healing and growth through action. Young people want to feel involved and meaningful; that they are agents of change. Creating or attending age-appropriate events, activities, performances, talks, vigils and more allows children to actively participate in opportunities to foster peace. • Let children see you struggle to understand the historical foundation of racism, and ensure they see you dismantling it. Let children hear you strictly admonish hateful nationalist rhetoric and decry white supremacy. Let children see you stand in constant opposition to any and all that limit, impede or resist our positive growth. We must believe that our community can learn and heal, and we must commit unequivocally to this work, which means we simply must invest in those who are growing within our community. Peace begins with us. Ensure that children see you be an instrument of harmony and of action. Let us unite in the effort by taking a single step in the direction of collective righteousness. This community and nation are depending upon you to be braver than the moment and act despite your fears.

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It is, without question, difficult to discern where to begin and what to say to young people when speaking about the intangible cruelties within our society. Uncertain and anxious about saying the wrong thing, and eager to shelter children from violence and hate, waiting seems reasonable. It is natural that, as we grapple with the tragic, avoidable terrorist attacks on our city, we struggle to ht sumADVENTURE AWAITS e thrills (and you thoug hikes, bikes and ziplin find the words that adequately describe our Fall family mer fun was over!) emotions and world. A desire to maintain and invoke innocence and a discomfort with challenging conversations beget this crisis; it cannot be solved with silence. • Educate and empower yourself. Do the work to seek and analyze resources that clarify your own thinking, reveal your biases, enlighten your misunderstandings and allow yourself to be an informed speaker.

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Charlottesville civics 101 City Council

Marching season First, Dreamers set foot from UVA to Richmond August 25 to fight for protection from deportation, and to stand up against the repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Three days later, a group of about 100 people, including several clergy members, began their March to Confront White Supremacy from Emancipation Park to D.C.

Sisters sue white supremacists

The popular music television network’s Video Music Awards turned political August 27 when Susan Bro took the stage to present the award for Best Fight Against the System and to announce the creation of a nonprofit for her daughter. The Heather Heyer Foundation will provide scholarships for students interested in social justice. Pastor Robert Lee IV, a direct descendant of General Robert E. Lee, introduced Bro.

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The First Amendment protects speech, even if it’s a hateful affront to the values of this city. The city’s attempt to move the rally to McIntire Park was blocked by a federal judge as unconstitutional. Mayor Mike Signer has called for the Constitution to be amended to address “intentional mayhem,” such as the violence planned by alt-right attendees.

Kathy Galvin

Wes Bellamy has the power to hire and fire city manager; acts like a board of trustees; addresses citizen concerns.

Bob Fenwick

City manager:

Why is the statue of General Robert E. Lee still here months after City Council voted to remove it, while other states took down statues immediately after August 12?

is the top administrator and runs city operations; prepares annual budget. Reports to City Council.

Virginia is a Dillon Rule state. That means that unless the General Assembly says it’s okay to do something, city and county governments can’t do it. And in fact, state law specifically prohibits the removal of war memorials, which to many includes the Lee and Jackson statues. Odds of the General Assembly changing that law to allow localities to do with monuments as they see fit: murky. A lawsuit has been filed against Charlottesville for City Council’s vote to dispatch the Lee statue. The issue could be decided in court, but it seems unlikely it will happen at the local circuit court level, where a hearing is scheduled September 1.

Maurice Jones

Police chief: runs the day-to-day operations of the police department. Reports to city manager.

Al Thomas

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In a lawsuit seeking $3 million in damages, Tradint and Micah Washington say they were physically and emotionally injured when James Alex Fields Jr. plowed into their Toyota Camry during the August 12 rally, in an act that killed one person and injured many. They have named 28 alt-right defendants, including Jason Kessler and David Duke, in their suit.

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Richard Wilson Preston, 52, was arrested August 26 for allegedly firing a gun on West Market Street during the August 12 Unite the Right rally and is being held in Towson, Maryland. Daniel Patrick Borden, 18, was arrested August 25 for malicious wounding related to a beating in the Market Street Parking Garage of Deandre Harris, and he’s in custody in Cincinnati. Alex Michael Ramos, 33, has been charged with malicious wounding for the same assault. Police are still looking for Ramos.

City Council:

AMY JACKSON

Retroactive retribution

In Virginia, it’s pretty much the General Assembly, which grants limited power to localities.

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Richard Wilson Preston

Who’s in charge?

Five elected members choose a mayor and vice-mayor. The mayor is one among equals who represents the city at ribbon cuttings and who sets the agenda for City Council meetings. Council-manager form of government: City Council hires a city manager to be CEO and run the city, and almost all of city staff, including the police chief, report to him. Council acts like a board of trustees, setting policy, passing a budget prepared by the city manager, and addressing citizen concerns. City Council can fire the city manager; a single councilor or the mayor cannot.

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my job and that of the police chief because of our concerns about allowing him to be part of the command center,” he wrote. “He said, ‘You work for me’ and I replied that ‘I worked for the City Council.’” “Typically during emergencies, it’s the city manager and police chief who have the lead roles,” says Norris. In the past, “the mayor and councilors didn’t try to micromanage.” Because Charlottesville uses a councilmanager type of government, the mayor does not have the CEO job like the mayor of Houston does, says Norris. “In a crisis, the mayor and City Council need to be in the loop, but we have professionals and they don’t need a part-time politician to be in the room.” The councilors who responded to C-VILLE Weekly were not pleased with the leakage. “I didn’t like it,” says Fenwick. “I didn’t do it. And it’s not moving us forward.” Fenwick declined to say who he thought leaked the memo, but he says the memo itself appears to blame Jones and Thomas for the violent encounters August 12 that left Heather Heyer dead and dozens injured. And he notes that Signer was on vacation the same time he was accusing Jones of being on holiday. Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy declined to comment on the leakage, and Councilor Kathy Galvin did not respond to an email. Councilor Kristin Szakos calls the breach “appalling,” and says it “erodes trust and makes it difficult to work together.”

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After Signer took Jones to the woodshed in the memo that was later leaked to media, Jones fired back with his own memo August 26.

Mayor Mike Signer’s August 23 memo blames Police Chief Al Thomas and City Manager Maurice Jones, who both attended the August 27 Community Recovery Town Hall, for the violence that occurred August 12.

OPINION Darnell Lamont Walker

My black mother, a fairly consistent church-goer and wedding and funeral attendee, raised a black and happy heathen in Charlottesville through the ’80s and ’90s, not realizing how political that was or she is. On August 12, just before the terrorist drove his car through the wall of people, murdering Heather Heyer and injuring many, a white girl wrote on Facebook, “My father is a Charlottesville resident, and what those racists are doing in that town is not what Charlottesville is about. It’s a beautiful place, full of diversity and love.”

I imagine her face while she typed those half-lies, her lips curling up at the ends, waiting on “Likes” like she spoke the most obvious truths. I imagine her hands moving swiftly across the keyboard as to not lose much more time because there was a brunch to which she was already three minutes late. I told her, “My black father is a Charlottesville resident, too, and has fallen victim to almost every part of Charlottesville’s racist system, including education and justice, and now the city has developed plans to oust him and thousands of others CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

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ing. Protesters mounted the dais holding a sign that said, “Blood on your hands.” City councilors faced demands that they resign. Signer declared the meeting canceled, and left for about 10 minutes. In an August 24 Facebook post, Signer explained his absence: “I needed to talk and meet with and reassure my very worried wife, which I felt I had no option but to do.” Walker doesn’t buy that explanation. “He had become upset because he couldn’t handle [the meeting],” she says. “He thought the rest would follow him. That’s not what happened. That was just his excuse for not being able to handle the criticism.” “I don’t think that was a shining moment on the City Council, when the mayor abandoned ship and left four councilors,” says Norris. “I’ve got to commend [Vice-Mayor] Wes Bellamy for stepping up and throwing the rules out the window, and running it as a town hall.” Norris declined to say who he thinks spilled the memo, but offers this: “Anytime there is a leak of information, there’s a strategic reason for it being leaked. These don’t happen accidentally. Clearly someone had a motivation for releasing that memo that tries to put the city staff and police in a bad light and put council and the mayor in a good one.”

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Szakos says the memo was a compilation of councilors’ concerns, but did not reflect the concerns of City Council as a whole. “It was not something we had gotten together on,” she says. In the memo with its 17 issues that ask Jones to “please provide an explanation,” two are from other councilors: Szakos with an email asking where the police were during accounts of violence, and one from Galvin conveying concerns about the vulnerability of Friendship Court residents. Jones’ public response to the Signer memo was justified, says Szakos, because the memo was “one-sided” and did not include answers he had given to councilors in the August 24 closed-door meeting. And some of the memo points, she says, “turned out to not be factual.” “I think it was Mike Signer,” says independent council candidate Nikuyah Walker. “I haven’t talked to anyone who doesn’t think he did this.” Signer did not respond to a call from C-VILLE about the perception by many that he’s the leaker. Signer was a fixture in the national spotlight the week after the rally, and was called a “hero” by the Jewish newspaper Forward. But at the August 21 council meeting, Charlottesville again made national news for the chaos and the mayor’s total loss of control over the meet-

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n fewer than 48 hours after City Council unanimously passed a resolution to cover statues of generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, the black tarps went up over the monuments Wednesday, August 16, to commemorate the city’s mourning over the deaths following a hate-filled rally August 12. The draping occurred without public notice from the city, with the bucket trucks in Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park, signaling the swaddling of the Confederate monuments. Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy, who in the same park a year and a half ago called for the removal of the statues, initially was silent as Lee was covered. “I’ve learned it’s best,” he says, when pressed for comment. After the city turned the lights out on Stonewall Jackson in Justice Park, Bellamy told reporters that shrouding the statues isn’t an end all, be all, but a step in the right direction of eventually removing them and placing them in a museum with historical context. “What’s going to change?” asked Roshi Hill, who filmed the Lee shrouding with her black cell phone. “It’s a statue. It’s been here forever and to take it down changes nothing.” Instead, she suggests City Council stop granting permits for the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups to assemble in the town’s parks. She also supports renaming Emancipation Park after Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old activist who died during the August 12 Unite the Right rally. “She lost her life over this statue,” Hill says.

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Before alt-right and neo-Nazi groups dubbed Charlottesville their battleground, the African-American woman says she knew she could smile at anyone she crossed paths with and they’d smile back. Now, she says minorities have to stop and think before interacting with white people. “I don’t like having to feel uneasy,” Hill says. “Do they still love us?” Others were dismayed by the draping. Brian Lambert was walking by when he saw the cherry pickers. “It’s disappointing,” he says. “It’s just disappointing.” He nodded toward Bellamy. “To see that man gloating,” he says, “it’s sickening.” Lambert said he thought the shrouds would be removed before Friday, August 18. “This will not stand,” he says. “This tarp will be taken down. It’s illegal.” He was a little off in his estimate: John Miska was caught red-handed with a pair of scissors trying to cut the tarp off the Lee statue no more than a few hours after it went up. Miska said he would comply with police orders to stop cutting the shroud, but proceeded to hand out copies of Virginia code stating it’s illegal to deface statues. And over the weekend, NBC29 reported someone pulled the covering off the Lee statue early Sunday morning. A new one was in place Monday morning. A lawsuit filed against the city for ordering the removal of the statues will be heard again in court September 1. Local attorney Lewis Martin says he believes, according to Virginia code, covering the statues could also be illegal. “It shall be unlawful to disturb or interfere with any monuments or memorials,” the code says. Adds Martin, “Clearly, if you cover it up so people can’t see it, it’s interfering.”

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eo-Nazis and affordable housing may not seem directly connected, but in the wake of the white supremacist rally on August 12, a new coalition of grassroots activists and nonprofit groups is linking the two in a push for more homes for poorer Charlottesville residents. The Charlottesville Coalition for LowIncome Housing, formed earlier this year, has gathered significant momentum since the alt-right rally, as key members tie the city’s lack of affordable housing to racism and local white supremacist policies. “Opposing racism means real action, such as acknowledging that the rapid demographic change in Charlottesville is linked to high rents, inadequate affordable housing stock and limited economic and educational opportunity for low-income communities,” says Mary Bauer, the executive director of the Legal Aid Justice Center in an August 22 letter to City Manager Maurice Jones, Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas and members of City Council. Bauer wrote the five-page letter on behalf of the Public Housing Association of Residents, which Legal Aid Justice Center represents, and she demanded answers from the city about why it failed to protect its low-income housing residents, citing a group of armed alt-righters who marched near Friendship Court August 12 and left residents shaken. The new coalition consists of PHAR, Legal Aid Justice Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice and Together C’Ville. Attorney Jeff Fogel, former planning commission chair William Harris and former NAACP chapter president Rick Turner have also attended meetings. The group is focusing efforts on educating the public about form-based code, a different type of zoning the city is in the process of adopting within the Strategic Investment Area, a large section of land

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lice at 5:46pm while hiding in the bathroom after a group of people allegedly attempted to break into their apartment with weapons. A female resident of the apartment later picked Matthew Short, or “Crazy Matt,” as she called him, out of a lineup during a follow-up investigation. She said he had gotten into an argument with her about drugs on November 7, and threatened her with an ax and said he’d “be back.” The woman told police she had heard a noise outside her door November 9 and she could see a group of people waiting. She saw Matthew charge at the door and say, “We’re coming in by the hair of my chinny chin chin. I told you we’re coming back,” while holding a yellow and black ax and some rope. She told police she was familiar with Matthew, because he’d been in her apartment before, and they called him Crazy Matt because he “talked about killing people, talked to the lord, could see the devil and would go into a corner of a room, look up and say, ‘Do y’all see that?’ when nothing was there,” according to the statement of facts. “He always carries weapons around—big hunting knives, axes and hatchets and stuff,” Short told police during the investigation, before Matthew died. “That scares the hell out of me too. I’m always afraid to go near him unless he’s in a real quiet, calm mood. ...I worry about him when he starts to act out like that. I got to watch out what he’s got in his back pocket, so to speak, so that’s why I keep the gun in my pocket just in case.” He also discussed how Matthew’s mental illness and constant violence affected him. “It’s terrible because you love somebody, but you dislike the person they’ve become and you’re afraid of him at the same time.” Short’s sentencing is scheduled for December 5.

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hen then 84-year-old Donald Short shot his mentally ill son to death last November, he said he was defending himself and his family. The former University of Virginia cop entered an Alford plea to involuntary manslaughter in Albemarle Circuit Court on August 25, which is not an admission of guilt, but means he believed the prosecution had a strong enough case against him to convict him of the crime. “I don’t feel like I’m guilty,” Short told Judge Cheryl Higgins when she asked if he was pleading guilty because he was actually guilty. A row of seven family members and friends sat behind him in the courtroom. On November 9, 2016, the elder Short shot his 47-year-old son, Matthew, in the leg and abdomen after Matthew started a violent fight with his other son, Edward. Short told a detective that Matthew, a drug addict, had been acting strange lately, so the former cop had started carrying a handgun with him to protect himself. Matthew had also tried to kill his brother before, Short said, so when the two were fighting and Edward was struggling to wrestle Matthew to the ground, he shot Matthew to immobilize him. Matthew died three days later, and a medical examiner determined the gunshot wound to the abdomen was the culprit. “All I was thinking of was that state senator,” Short told police during the interrogation, according to a statement of facts produced by the commonwealth’s attorney’s office. “He tried to get his son a bed in the hospital and there were no beds available over in Augusta or Highland and as soon as he got home, [the son] went and got a rifle out and killed himself.” Short refers to Bath County state Senator Creigh Deeds, who was stabbed in the face several times by his mentally ill son, Gus, before Gus shot himself to death in 2013. Short also told police he felt “destroyed and shattered” after shooting Matthew. He declined to comment after his hearing. Entries in Matthew’s diary from 2015 and 2016 included phrases such as “my brother, I will kill him,” “I long for the taste of combat and blood,” “breaking things, extreme anger, verbal outbursts, constant thoughts of homicide” and “continued loops of murder rage through my mind,” according to the statement of facts. Police were called to the Short residence three other times because Matthew was being violent, according to the statement, and a fourth time they were called to a health care provider’s office on Route 29 because Matthew had threatened staff and made suicidal statements. The day of the shooting, residents of an apartment on Burgoyne Road called for po-

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to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson counties. The group, which includes a variety of stakeholders in the health care field, meets monthly. In 2014, 2,638 babies were born in the Thomas Jefferson Health District: 2,003 white, 360 black and 275 other races. The department of health calculates five-year rolling averages for infant mortality, and says the total number of infant deaths is small each year (Charlottesville, for example, experienced no black infant deaths in 2013 and 2014). Nevertheless, a disparity among the races is evident, Zaslow says. The infant death rate in Charlottesville (per 1,000 births) from 2009-2013 was 12.7 for black babies and 4.8 for white babies. In Albemarle, it was 5.9 for black babies and 3.0 for white babies. There are many layers to the root cause of this disparity, Zaslow says, but a key component is that this difference exists across class lines. An African-American woman who eats healthy and sees the best doctors still has a much higher chance of dying in childbirth than a white woman, which points to racism and oppression as the underlying causes, she says. When Zaslow asked local members of the African-American community about their birth experiences, she heard the same phrases over and over again: “We don’t get treated fairly in Charlottesville. We don’t get taken seriously.” “Especially when you’re pregnant, it’s a very vulnerable time and if your doctor says your baby is going to die unless you do this, there’s a lot of room for medical power,” Zaslow says. “And in the medical profession, if you don’t think your patient is going to understand what you say, it’s easier to just give a blanket statement…instead of explaining ‘here are the benefits and here are the risks’ and now you have a choice.” In an attempt to make the process less traumatic, a Sisters Keeper doula will meet with the parents a couple of times before the birth to discuss what to expect, talk about what choices the couple has and help train the mom to ask her health care team questions to better understand her options—and know she is allowed to say no. “Trauma is intergenerational,” Zaslow says. “If a mom has a negative birth experience and feels shame or hurt or not listened to, that impacts how she mothers; it impacts her ability to bond with her baby; it impacts her ability to make medical choices for the baby. That leads to all kind of ripple effects, in the child and the community’s life.”

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tem itself,” Zaslow says. “For women to have trusted community-based birth partners who look like them, who can understand their experiences firsthand and who believe them and trust them [is key].” Sisters Keeper Collective, which falls under the umbrella organization of Mother Health International, held its first training of 15 African-American and Latina doulas in April 2015, after Zaslow got the word out and visited different community spaces. But they quickly discovered one of the barriers to reaching their intended community was the word “doula,” which was unfamiliar to most people of color. They decided to call themselves birth sisters, to evoke the idea of a family member. Doulas not only provide information to families but act as emotional support, including helping to coordinate child care for siblings while the mother goes into labor, guiding her through breathing and visualization exercises during the birth and making sure she has the right resources after the baby is born, such as breastfeeding information. Another barrier was the cost of the service, not just for clients but for the birth sisters themselves, who had to be on call and take time off work or find child care for their own kids when mothers went into labor. A five-year $500,000 grant, the organization’s largest, has come from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. The money

pays the birth sisters a stipend for each birth they attend, and the doula services are free for African-American women who are Medicaid eligible. Other community foundation grants cover all women of color, and the collective also allows women to pay on a sliding scale. Elizabeth Moore trained as a doula when she was 22. She’d always loved the sacredness of birth and supporting women through the process. When the Charlottesville native moved back to town in 2013, she started gathering a list of doulas who might be interested in offering their services pro bono to members of the refugee community (Moore works with the International Rescue Committee’s New Roots gardening program). Moore coordinated the volunteer doulas, informally called the Charlottesville Volunteer Doula Network. A couple of years ago she and Zaslow began talking about ways to combine forces. When Moore receives a referral from area organizations such as Jefferson Area CHIP, IRC and UVA, she’ll either send them to Sisters Keeper or connect a mother-to-be with a doula within her network; sometimes a doula from each group is assigned so they can both be on call. Moore says they help with about 10 births a year, and that many of the refugee moms are having their first babies, which CONTINUED ON PAGE 27

“My vision for Sisters Keeper Collective is that when a black person in Charlottesville gets pregnant, the first thing they think and know is that they have a birth sister.” RACHEL ZASLOW

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When Zaslow, who is a trained midwife as well as doula, started talking with other doulas and midwives in Charlottesville, she noticed a trend: Everyone was white. The people she talked to expressed frustration with wanting to help women of color, but didn’t know how to reach them. “I started looking at these issues of trust that are apparent within the health care sys-

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rystal Johnson chose to have her youngest child, Olivia, at home. Johnson lost a baby between the births of her fourth and fifth children, and she says her doctor at UVA kept telling her not to worry about her high blood pressure during the pregnancy. When she was at a doctor’s visit while pregnant with her fifth child, Elias, the doctor asked lots of questions, trying to figure out why she had lost the baby, whom she named Sadie. The staff kept asking Johnson if she was sure it had been her husband’s child. As Johnson and her husband, Roger Richardson, left the room, Johnson heard the doctor say, “It probably wasn’t his baby.” Because her pregnancy with Elias was considered high risk and she had to get an ultrasound every other week, Johnson asked if her insurance would cover them. The doctor said she was certain Medicaid would cover the tests—Johnson says the doctor assumed that because she was black, and had multiple children, she was on Medicaid. But Olivia’s birth was a completely different experience for Johnson. Rachel Zaslow and Debbie Wong served as her midwives, and Johnson called them at 3am last December 17 to let them know she was in labor. Olivia, her sixth child, came into the world at 7:21am. The midwives cleaned everything up while the rest of the kids got ready for school. “I feel like women—especially black women in the community—have poor birth experiences over and over again,” says Johnson, who now serves as the doula coordinator for Sisters Keeper Collective, an organization of about 45 African-American and Latina doulas who serve as advocates for women of color before, during and after the birthing process. “And they don’t know what they have to do to get a better experience.” Zaslow runs Mother Health International, a nonprofit that is dedicated to improving neonatal mortality rates in areas of the world where they are the highest. The organization has a birth center in Uganda where it trains midwives (health professionals who can deliver babies at birthing centers, homes or hospitals), and they have done work in countries such as Senegal and Haiti. Zaslow spends up to six months of the year outside of the U.S. working with the group. Zaslow, who moved to Charlottesville from New York a couple of years ago with her family, says high neonatal mortality rates and high mortality rates for mothers during childbirth aren’t exclusive to other countries. She points to New York City, where black women are 10 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. According to the Midwives Alliance of North America, more than 16 percent of African-American babies born in 2013 were born preterm (less than 37 weeks), compared with 10 percent of white babies. MANA says that AfricanAmerican women are four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. The Greater Charlottesville Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Workgroup, run by the Thomas Jefferson Health District, works

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Diane Sampson, a prenatal education coordinator with UVA’s Women’s Health Services and member of the Improving Pregnancy Outcomes group, refers patients who come to her clinics to the collective if she thinks they can benefit from their services. “I think all women need to be emotionally supported in labor, but particularly with hospitals, labor and delivery can be a really scary place,” she says, “even if you feel empowered and connected. It’s really nice to have someone there who loves birth, who understands what women are going through and who acts like a sister or an aunt

or grandmother through it. And I think there’s a particular need for women of color.” Sampson says nurses and physicians love working with doulas, because it strengthens the whole health care team for a patient. UVA added a midwifery primary care center in October 2015. “Both models—the home visiting that CHIP does and the work the doulas do supporting families—both of these models have good evidence that they work and lead to healthier births and better relationships, better parenting in the long run,” says Jefferson Area CHIP Executive Director Jon Nafziger. White says she hopes the collective continues to train as many doulas and that it attracts midwives who are part of marginalized communities. And Moore says although doulas have become more common in the last 10 years, there’s still work to be done, with “a huge desire to make that accessible to everyone, not just the wealthier middle class.” On a larger scale, Zaslow says she hopes that a sense of trust and feeling safe within the African-American community will emerge over time and that needed resources, such as black moms meet-ups and pregnancy support groups, will help AfricanAmerican women throughout their entire journeys as mothers. “My vision for Sisters Keeper Collective is that when a black person in Charlottesville gets pregnant, the first thing they think and know is that they have a birth sister,” Zaslow says.

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“Do you want to see a photo of him?” Doreen Bonnet asks. She holds up her phone and scrolls through a couple of photos of a newborn baby—her first as a doula-in-training. Bonnet is sitting in the living room of Eunice Waituika’s home, where she’s been visiting with the family and softly rocking 2-month-old Haniel. Haniel, which means “God’s grace,” is a good baby who hardly ever cries, according to his mother. Bonnet, who works as a business analyst for a company that makes clay tennis courts, never thought she’d be doing this kind of work (each doula is partnered with another doula/midwife for three births before she can do one on her own), and she says her first birth experience was amazing. She met with Waituika (who immigrated from Kenya with her husband and young daughter in 2016) three times before the birth, for which birth sister/midwife Wong was also present. In these sessions they got to know one another, and Waituika talked about how nervous she was to give birth in an unfamiliar country. And Waituika’s first birth had not been a great experience—she was alone in a Kenyan hospital. Waituika called her birth sisters at about 9am on May 19, and Haniel was born at 9:01 that evening. During labor, Waituika and Bonnet walked up and down the hospital hallway together, talking about Waituika’s home country and how she met her husband.

“That’s something beautiful, to witness the transition of a mother,” Bonnet says. “To see her that morning and see what a mother goes through, that transition that happens to give birth is amazing. I had to fight tears the whole time…people say it’s a miracle and it really is.” Waituika says she couldn’t have done it without her birth sisters, because her husband had to leave for Air Force training two weeks before she gave birth. “I just kept saying thank you to them because I don’t know that I would have made it without them. They really helped me—I was almost giving up,” Waituika says. “They were breathing with me and it made it easy. I wouldn’t feel as much alone in this when we would breathe in together. They carried the pain that I had. It was really nice.”

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means heightened anxiety. A lot of the time a doula will do a pre-birth hospital tour for the women, so they can see the rooms and ask questions about paperwork for birth certificates, for instance. Often, because the family is new to the country and doesn’t have a support system and the father must care for other children, the doula role becomes even more important. “Every birth is so, so special,” Moore says. “I remember the last one I was at was with one of the Sisters Keeper doulas, so we were both there and the father was with the kids. Afterward, he was very emotional and said, ‘Because you two were here, [it was like] her mother and sister and aunt and everyone was here to support her.’” Latoria White was part of the initial birth sister training for the Sisters Keeper Collective two years ago. She had informally served as a doula during the birth of her niece and nephew, and realized how important that advocate role was as she helped her sister voice her decision to deliver vaginally even though she’d had an emergency cesarean section with her first baby. “Recently I had asked my mom about her experience birthing me. My father was an absent father and she said she was in the birthing room alone,” says White. “So that was kind of full circle for me, now wanting to be there because no one should have to go through that experience alone.” One of the biggest obstacles for White, who has a master’s in psychology and worked as a rural services adult outreach advocate at Sexual Assault Resource Agency and was a casework counselor at Shelter for Help in Emergency, has been helping families from historically marginalized populations learn more about their rights. She wants to help women take charge and make choices for themselves. “I want moms to feel comfortable asking questions and let them know this is a reciprocal relationship,” White says. “I want them to know I’m learning from them as much as they’re learning from me. Each birthing experience I learn something about women, birth work and also something about myself.” White loves the relationships and rapport she builds with the families she assists (she’s been a part of seven to eight births total), and she recently helped guide Mustafa and Salma Subhan, who are from Afghanistan, in navigating the American birthing process. In Afghanistan, fathers are not allowed in the rooms when a baby is born, and Mustafa says being present for the birth of his daughter, Kawsar, was such a special moment. He says he is grateful for the outstanding health care services he and his family received at UVA, as well as the care and respect from hospital staff for his wife and daughter. And Latoria is “more than a doula,” Mustafa says. She not only helped the couple with advice before the birth and with birthing techniques, but she stayed with Salma at the hospital while Mustafa cared for their other children. She has also met with the family several times since the birth. “Latoria is now a very close friend,” Mustafa says. “I respect her very much and am thankful for what she did for my family.”

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Ken Farmer will be appraising several pieces he has chosen from submissions by area residents. If you are interested in submitting an item to be considered for appraisal, you must purchase a ticket to either of the above events. Please send along a picture of your item, with size/ dimensions, a description and provenance, and contact information to info@waynetheatre.org. You will be notified prior to the event if your item has been chosen to be appraised on stage by Ken Farmer. The submission deadline is September 1, 2017.

Live Auction items • Kennedy cottage in Murrells Inlet, S.C. • Egyptian dinner for 8 with Lillian Boutros • Road to the Top Shelf Bourbon Tasting for 8 with Ed Clark • Jewelry donated by Fink’s • And more!

Upper and Lower Hall Galleries Central Virginia Watercolor Guild’s 26th Annual Exhibition McGuffey Art Center 201 Second Street, NW Charlottesville, VA 22902 phone: 434.295.7973 mcguffeyartcenter.com tues-sat 10-6, sun 1-5 OPEN STUDIOS • CLASSES • TOURS • GIFT SHOP • MORE

ARTS THIS WEEK Wednesday 8/30 music Bill Sanderson. Jam to some live tunes. Free, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278. Jazz Collective #9. Enjoy bop, swing, Latin, funky soul, jazz and a chill vibe. Free, 6:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Open Mic Night. Josh Mayo hosts an open mic night where collaboration is encouraged. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Deli and Pub, 1221 E. Market St. 282-2713. Tequila Mockingbird. A rock band whose unpredictable live shows are the perfect dance party. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Uncle Billy on the Patio. A fun, local artist who puts his spin on countless favorites. Free, 6pm. Three Notch’ d Brewing Company, 946 Grady Ave. 293-0610. Vincent Vermillion Band. Swing to live music. Free, 5pm. The Shebeen Pub & Braai, 247 Ridge McIntire Rd. 296-3185.

dance Bachata Fusion. The Charlottesville Salsa Club presents an introductory bachata lesson by

Edwin Roa, followed by hours of music from DJ Butchata. $5-8, 8pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

stage Macbeth. From the first words of the play until the title character loses his head, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is also his most unrelenting examination of the dark side of humanity. $21-44, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

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funk, fusion and Latin. Free, 6pm. Stinson Vineyards, 4744 Sugar Hollow Rd. 823-7300.

Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Mellow Miguelo’s Unity Festival. Featuring V. Bady, Shagwüf and Equally Opposite with DJ Double U. 18-plus. $5-10, 7:30pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561.

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Nick and Stephen Pollock. Nick Pollock and his dad, Stephen, are two cool dudes playing tunes together. Free, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Scott Ward. Scott Ward starts a party on the patio. Free, 5pm. Tavern on the James, 280 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-3500.

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The Michael Elswick Gathering. Epic jazz ensemble with melodies that range from hard bop to New Orleans-style jazz. Free, 7pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

C’ville Jazz Congregation. An experienced group of musicians led by Brandon Walsh and Greg Weaver, performing classic jazz,

The Weedeaters. This local string band plays a wide range of music including blues, bluegrass, old-time and swing. Free, 6:30pm. The

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The Taming of the Shrew. This production includes Shakespeare’s Induction as a play within the play to blend romantic comedy and outlandish farce. $21-44, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

etc. Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope: Exhibition Opening and Book Launch Celebration. Celebrate the opening of “The University of Virginia in 100 Objects,” as well as the launch of the book on which the exhibition is based, Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope: The History of the University of Virginia in 100 Objects. Free, 5pm. Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, 160 McCormick Rd. 924-3021.

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Brand New Abyss (S/R) On its cover of “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” The Blow makes me wistful for the Eagles, an emotion I thought impossible. It’s the first song on Brand New Abyss, though it feels weird calling it a song, because Melissa Dyne’s singing is stoutly amelodic—and she only tries slightly harder on the other ill-advised cover, “The Greatest Love of All.” But the backing tracks of spacey bubble synths are likable enough, as is Dyne’s vibe, and thankfully her classic Sprechstimme

Cage Tropical (Slumberland) Truth in packaging: The ’80s-looking palm tree/sunset album cover sets the musical tone, as Frankie Rose continues to edge out the guitars in favor of layered “Miami Vice”-ish synths and mechanical drum tracks. And Cage gets the mood; Rose’s vocals are smudged and detached throughout, and the phrases that emerge are mostly doleful. The band gets a motorik jam up and running on “Trouble,” but most of Cage Tropical pensively jogs along the boardwalk, shimmering alluringly, but tough to see as it reflects the sun. And I really didn’t mean to do this, but Rose is at DC9 on September 12.

Swale There’s No One Here (S/R) Husband-and-wife duo Eric Olsen and Amanda Gustafson front Burlington, Vermont’s Swale, singing lead and writing

Jack Cooper Sandgrown (Trouble in Mind) One of my favorite records of 2016 was Dusk by Ultimate Painting, the London duo of James Hoare and Jack Cooper. Earlier this year, Hoare released a solid album with his other band, Proper Ornaments; now Cooper (also late of Mazes) has released his first solo record, and, lo and behold, it’s great. Sandgrown is an atmosphere album evoking comfort and contentment under overcast skies. It’s also a guitar album, Cooper’s clean, patient, chiming arpeggiations punctuated with efficiently glorious solos and an occasional, strangely apt nod to Jerry Garcia. Cooper’s relaxed, affable voice and easy melodies seal the deal—Sandgrown could be the sleeper of the year.—Nick Rubin

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“A Wall,” the opening track on Cost of Living, winds up like it could be a punk Springsteen cover—then vocalist Victoria Ruiz bursts through with the righteous, insistent bellow of Dog Faced Hermans’ Marion Coutts or holy Poly Styrene. Downtown Boys calls itself a “serious band from Providence,” and it’s no joke—Ruiz scorches the earth and brings the radical noise on every track, backed by no-frills, howling, sax-abetted punk. (Boys guitarist Joey DeFrancesco also plays with raucous brass band What Cheer? Brigade, which played Charlottesville in June.) Downtown Boys will be at DC9 on September 4.

returns on “Dark Cold Magic” and for much of Brand New Abyss. On a bed of minimal, gently floating textures, Dyne manages to sound nonchalant as hell while she spills her guts—it’s smart and interesting, and if there’s nothing in it that touches “Hey Boy” (2007), well, not much does. Coming to DC9 on November 8.

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Friday 9/1 Bob Bennetta. Jazz piano from a professional pianist. Free, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Bobby Midnight Band. A submersion in roots, soul and rhythm and blues. Free, 6pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

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Delta Junction. Acoustic trio from the Crozet area breathes new life into the old Delta blues style. Free, 6pm. Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. 823-4878.

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Faster Than Walking. Tunes from an old-time string band. Free, 9pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

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Full Moon Saloon. A Jimmy Buffett tribute band. Free, 6pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzers Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8020. Fusion. A band designed with a full dance floor in mind, featuring four distinct vocalists and music from all genres. Free, 5:30pm. Sprint Pavilion, 700 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4910. Kendall Street Company Album Release Show. With the release of its first full-length album, Earth Turns, the six-piece rock band evokes an ever-changing kaleidoscope of sound. Free, 9pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Kick the Aquarium. A mix of pop and alternative covers and original pieces. Free, 8pm. Wild Wing Café, 820 W. Main St. 979-9464.

Pickin’ & Grinnin’: Open Music Jam. Have fun playing your instrument, singing along and listening to music from a local talent. Free, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. Renée Ruth Duo. A singer-songwriter taking Virginia by storm. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088. The Chickenhead Blues Band. Boogie-woogie, upbeat, rhythm and blues dance band. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

dance Wild Thoughts Dance Party. Cool off with Anand playing the hottest hits and classics from Future to Bruno Mars. 18-plus. Free, 10pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Sense and Sensibility. After their father dies, the Dashwood women must learn to embrace a new life, for better or for worse. $29-54, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

The Convolution of Pip and Twig. Created and performed by PEP members Kara McLane Burke and Siân Richards, this play tells the story of twin sisters whose safe and routine world is blown open when one twin follows her heart into the unknown. $10-15, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177. CONTINUED ON PAGE 40

pletely changes. The string supported by the ring of metal pipe has a sitar-like sound, like something off The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows.” And Mullany hasn’t stopped at the wall dulcimer. There are wooden boxes with nails and springs that make horror movie noises via a contact microphone adhered to the inside of the box; there’s a digital synthesizer that has been manipulated into making weirdo sounds (and sometimes picking up a radio signal) when a nail or a screw is pushed into the socket of an electrical outlet mounted to the top of its film can case. There are multiple wind chimes made from wire, washers and railroad spikes, and coaxed into noise by the air or drumsticks, whatever you choose. These instruments and the music they make is left partly up to chance: Mullany learns as he goes—he’s not a carpenter, luthier or electrician by trade. “Tradition and culture are the boundaries” of sound, he says. “The only thing keeping people from making different music is genre and our long-standing reliance on the tools that have been the default for hundreds and hundreds of years.”

As for his workspace, Mullany knows what it looks like—he says he has a little bit of hoarder in him. The instruments in The Bridge installation are open for everyone to play, but oftentimes, Mullany says homemade instruments pile up around him unplayed. Before he moves to Richmond this fall, he wants to play all the instruments on a record, a sort of hoarder’s redemption, where he finally puts all that trash to use. “Domestic Alchemy” officially opens at The Bridge on September 1, and visitors can see, hear and play what Mullany’s made. “It’s pretty immersive,” he says of the installation. Visitors should keep in mind that sound produced by these instruments is “secondary” to the form—his experimental instrument-making is all about how the instrument is played. “With a physical object, you’re limited in a way that’s very freeing,” Mullany says. “When you have infinite choice [like with a highly programmed synthesizer or a guitar with a bunch of effects pedals] you’re paralyzed from fear that you’re not going to make the right choice. But then when all you have around you is garbage,” imagination and creativity are inevitable.

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Spherus. Find out what happens when an engineer falls in love with the circus. $15, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

For his Bridge PAI residency, Will Mullany gives second life to discarded items in “Domestic Alchemy” by turning them into musical instruments.

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small metal bucket. Segments of rough-hewn PVC and metal pipe. A coffee tin. A red British post box coin bank. A spool of piano wire. A tiny, wooden drawer. Light switches, control boards, dials, film cans, electrical sockets. Pliers. Wire cutters. Rings of tubing, spoons, forks, nails, springs. Motors, yarn, string. A matte silver Christmas tree cake pan, film cans. Speakers, a license plate. A nest of wires. To most, these things would be trash, but to musician and artist Will Mullany, one of three artists in residence at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative this summer, it’s treasure—items found in dumpsters, in friends’ attics and under art studio tables are precious components for instruments that challenge how music is made. There’s something satisfying about doing something with your body and having it come back into your ear, says Mullany, who wanted to create instruments that people can play without any formal training. You don’t have to finger a chord on a fretboard or bow a string to make music, to make pleasing and interesting sound, Mullany says. When he first got into The Bridge studio, he looked around and thought: “What can I do with this space that I can’t do anywhere else? What’s the most transverse thing you can do with a wall in an art gallery?” Turn it into a musical instrument made from trash, that’s what. One of the walls in the studio is essentially a soundboard and thus the perfect foundation for some kind of large-scale instrument. Inspired in part by a spool of piano wire, and using zither pins (tuning pegs) to anchor the strings and the bucket, coin bank, coffee tin and various sections of pipe as bridge elements, Mullany built a dulcimer straight onto the wall. Strike one of the wall dulcimer’s strings with a piano hammer, and that string’s bridge element will transmit via a hidden contact mic, amplifying the vibrations of the soundboard. It’s the kind of thing found in a children’s museum—the pieces of pipe, the coffee tin, etc. are all movable—and their placement between the piano wire strings and the wall affects the sound that comes out. Move the bucket up a few inches and the sound com-

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Flavoured Water with Rikroshi and Susan Grochmal. Chill beats and pretty melodies, moody ambient music and songs about beaches and boys. $7, 9pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, 414 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9947.

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Friday 9/1 etc. Grease Sing-Along. You know the words, and in case you forget a few, they’ll all be right up there on the screen. $13, 7:15pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Charlottesville, 375 Merchant Walk Sq., 5th Street Station. 326-5056.

Saturday 9/2 music All White Labor Day Bash. Featuring music from DJ Frank. 21-plus. $10, 10pm. The Ante Room, 219 Water St. 284-8561. Eli Cook. Record release party for Eli Cook, a blues guitarist who may or may not have traded his soul to the devil for musical talent. $10-12, 7pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590. Freefall with Black Masala. A unique mix of punk rock, Balkan brass, Indian bhangra and New Orleans funk. Free, 5pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. 970-3260.

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Jim Waive. Charlottesville’s favorite country gentleman warms up our corner of the county. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

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John D’earth. An American jazz trumpeter featured on recordings by Dave Matthews and Bruce Hornsby. $5, 10pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Keith Morris and the Crooked Numbers. Combining achingly honest songwriting with grit and swagger to create music that gets at the heart of how it feels to be alive. Free, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

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Rattlebag. Veteran musicians from central Virginia with music that ranges from rock to blues to alternative country. Free, 7pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

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Sue Harlow. Live tunes by the fire pit. Free, 5pm. Knight’s Gambit Vineyard, 2228 Lake Albemarle Rd. 326-2374. The George Taylor Group. Stories told through an Americana soundtrack laced with a bluesy guitar and harmonica. 21plus. Free, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549. The Seven Bends. A true rock ‘n’ roll band, blending improvised jams that take the song to a cosmic level and beyond. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. West African Drum Circle. Bring your own drum or use one provided. Free, 11am. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

stage Macbeth. See listing for Wednesday, August 30. $21-44, 2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. The Convolution of Pip and Twig. See listing for Friday, September 1. $10-15, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177. The Taming of the Shrew. See listing for Thursday, August 31. $29-54, 7:30pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588.

Sunday 9/3 music Bill Adams. Unique fingerstyle guitar arrangements of blues and old-time music. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326. Graham Stone. Live music on the lawn. Free, 2:30pm. Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzers Shop Rd., Afton. (540) 456-8020. Matthew McAllister. Local singer-songwriter and guitarist. Free, 3:30pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094. CONTINUED ON PAGE 45

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9. Choir teaches the importance of careful preparation in reaching goals. 10. Choir develops a sense of culture and sophistication. 11. Choir provides the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment in music. 12. Choir trains participants to be future supporters of the arts. 13. Choir provides a healthy cultural and creatively artistic balance in these days of heavily data-based education.

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dult identical twins Pip and Twig live an insular, codependent existence. Wearing identical pajamas, they wake in their shared bed at the same time every morning and eat identical breakfasts before going about their daily childlike, tandem routine, clothed in identical dress-and-sweater outfits. So begins The Convolution of Pip and Twig, a play created from scratch by PEP theater troupe members Kara McLane Burke and Siân Richards, and brought to life by a slew of area artists, including local theater mainstays Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell, who wrote the text, and Martha Mendenhall, who directs Burke (Pip) and Richards (Twig) in the play. As Pip and Twig go about their routine in the first act, they’re entirely aware of the audience before them. Pip, the more dominant twin, loves to sing and dance and gets a total rise performing for a crowd. But Twig tires of the twin act. Fed up, she absconds out the window of the twins’ apartment to discover the world. Pip, unwilling to let go of the life she’s orchestrated, nevermind allowing Twig to experience the world without her, follows. It’s a play about the complexity of human relationships, about how to be with other people while also finding your own identity. It’s a play about “listening to the little twinklings in your heart,” says Richards. Last summer, Burke, Richards and a small crew from Charlottesville that included sound designer Jim Waive and set designer Zap McConnell, took the play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where they performed it more than 20 times over the course of a few weeks. But they weren’t done: The Convolution of Pip and Twig had evolved.

Charlottesville theater-goers have seen The Convolution of Pip and Twig before; Burke and Richards have performed it a few times in town, most recently last July before heading to Edinburgh. And while the play itself hasn’t changed—the text, the characters, the narrative, the sequence of events and the costumes all remain—Burke and Richards decided to change the set, all in the name of finding new things to explore in the play. In previous performances, when Twig hops out the window and embarks on her adventure, she sails the sea in a tiny boat. While Burke and Richards loved the image, after performing the play so many times in sequence at Edinburgh Fringe, they discovered that that particular choice limited Richards’ performance of Twig, a character who is, at long last, captain of her own ship. The pair are tight-lipped about the new set, which they created from scratch with the help of Waive and McConnell, but they’ll offer a little bait: The new set is smaller and more contained, so it’s harder for the twins to get around one another, adding to the sense of claustrophobia Twig feels at the hands of the well-intentioned but domineering Pip. At the same time, though, Burke says the set is “like Twig’s fantasy come true.” After putting years of effort—creative, emotional, physical, financial—into something, you want to keep working on it until you feel like, “okay, that’s what the thing can do,” Richards says. “You want to hone it until it feels like it can’t be honed any more” because it’s in its final form. It’s not likely that the ship has sailed on The Convolution of Pip & Twig, but for now, its course, charted for more than a dozen performances at Live Arts’ Gibson Theater in September, is clear.

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Sunday 9/3 Morgan Maddox. Local singer-songwriter plays country and Southern rock. Free, 2pm. Wild Wolf Brewery, 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy., Nellysford. 361-0088.

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The Mutton Busters. Bring a blanket to this mountain music concert. Free, 2pm. Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 5.8, Blue Ridge Pkwy, Lyndhurst. (540) 943-4716. The Wayward Bills. The harmony-rich music of Virginia’s Piedmont, featuring a blast of Americana. Free, 3pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837. Travis Elliott. Local singer and guitarist takes on songwriting subjects from love to spaceships, both badly in need of repair. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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stage Drag Brunch. Host Miss Bunny Gloria Blake Nicole presents the best holiday show ever. Free, noon. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279. Sense and Sensibility. See listing for Friday, September 1. $25-49,2pm. American Shakespeare Center, 10 S. Market St., Staunton. (540) 885-5588. The Convolution of Pip and Twig. See listing for Friday, September 1. $10-15, 2pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

music ATM Unit featuring Jonah Kane-West. Organ wizard meets bass warrior for an epic musical adventure. 21-plus. Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Bluegrass Jam. Join in the jam. Free, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Tuesday 9/5 music Blues Jam. Participate in a weekly jam. Free, 7pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Karaoke with Jen Dville. Calling all future pop stars. 21-plus. Free, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526. Traditional Irish Session. Lots of musicians and great Irish music. Free, 8:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

etc. Animal House. The brothers of Delta Tau Chi face off against the vengeful, confounded Dean Wormer while freshmen pledges fumble their way through mishaps and raucous partying at Faber College. $10, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 377 Merchant Walk Sq. 326-5056.

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he impact of An Inconvenient Truth, the award-winning film released in 2006, was almost unprecedented for a documentary. There had already been a conversation around climate change, but many advocates and people generally in favor of promoting the notion that it was human-supported often lacked cohesion. One could always cite scientific consensus, but before director Davis Guggenheim and former vice president Al Gore teamed up for that film, the information had not been popularized or made into a single reference point complete with real-world predictions and examples. Conversely, those who deny the human impact on climate now had a much easier target in Gore—his personal failings were the failings of the entire movement, his investment portfolio somehow proves that all of climate change advocacy is a racket, and it’s all just an attempt at relevance following his defeat in the 2000 election. The legacy of An Inconvenient Truth is no small part of its successor, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk follow Gore as he continues his efforts to educate the public, inspire and train further advocates and promote renewable energy policy. Gore is seen giving his ever-changing slideshow presentation, including one in Miami, which he gives moments after walking through the streets following a massive flood. He sees

the melting glaciers of Greenland, meets with heads of state and their surrogates and scrambles to cut deals to make the installation of solar energy more affordable. Much of the film’s focus is on the effort to pass the 2015 Paris climate accord—the same one President Trump is pulling us out from. India is the big holdout in the talks, presenting an argument against the agreement that is more compelling than the denial from the right wing: Adopting these systems places an unequal burden on developing nations that do not have the credit of the industrialized world. Gore scrambles to make a deal between India and solar company SolarCity, and this helps to end the stalemate. Any effort to win the climate debate is to be admired, and for this reason An Inconvenient Sequel cannot be wholly dismissed. Gore’s predictions of rising tides and worsening storms have come true, and his personal reflections on hopelessness and despair are fully relatable for those who cannot grasp why anyone would knowingly endanger our planet and our future for the sake of political posturing. That said, the focus on Gore’s personal crusade is partially what makes the final result so murky. As a man, he is determined to focus on the issues rather than himself, using his high profile to do good in the world. But the film personalizes that which Gore himself is attempting to depersonalize; these things make Gore frustrated, that’s why they are bad. Gore likes these things, that’s why they’re good. SolarCity as a company—and

Gore’s relationship to it—ought to be more fully described if we are to believe it is part of the solution. In other words, we are expected to already agree and support both Gore and SolarCity from the beginning. As this film was already in full production in 2015, it is clear Trump was not on the filmmaker’s minds. The supposed “truth to power” comes as Gore goes to meet with the president-elect in Trump Tower. Trump had to figure in somehow, but for all the time spent on pursuing truth no matter the opposition, it is clear that this film is incom-

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plete. He spoke truth to some power with the Indian delegation, which had legitimate issues. Left unaddressed is how to speak truth to power that is as reactionary and self-destructive as the current administration. A film like An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power needs to exist, and everyone involved ought to be commended for trying. But with the thesis suggested by its title left dangling and its hasty, premature resolution, all we are left with is a reminder of how good the first movie was. The stakes are too high for half-measures; we need to do better than preaching to the choir, inconvenient though it may be.

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Bud’s Collective. Sunset concert in conjunction with The Front Porch featuring a powerful group of pickers from the hills of West Virginia. $8-25, 6pm. James Monroe’s Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. 293-8000.

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First Fridays September 1 Annie Gould Gallery 121 S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of work from 12-plus regional and out-of-state artists. FF The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. “Domestic Alchemy,” in which artists Amanda Wagstaff, Chicho Lorenzo and Will Mullany find creative potential in familiar household objects. 5:30-7:30pm. FF Chroma Projects 418 E. Main St. “Landmarks,” an exploration of early vocabulary that described nature. 5:30-7:30pm. City Clay 700 Harris St. Ste. 104. New work by the Terra Floyd potters. Opens September 8, 5:30-7pm. FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. A photo exhibit honoring the military members on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. 5:30-7:30pm.

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FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “The Sun, Moon and Stars,” featuring the glass art and jewelry of Diana Branscome. 6-8pm. Graves International Art 306 E. Jefferson St. “Roy Lichtenstein & Company: Postwar and Contemporary Art,” featuring handmade, limited-edition prints and exhibition posters by artists such as Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers and others.

FF Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Russ Warren: Paintings and Sculpture,” a mixed-media exhibition inspired by Picasso. 1-5pm.

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McIntire School of Commerce 125 Ruppel Dr. “Touchstones of Charlottesville,” paintings by John Trippel. Opens September 7, 4:30-7pm. FF Mudhouse Coffee 213 W. Main St. Valerie Sargent’s abstract paintings derived from studies in the Akashic field.

FF Neal Guma Fine Art 105 Third St. NE. An exhibition featuring Elger Esser, Chris McCaw, Sally Mann and William Wylie. 5-7pm.

Piedmont Virginia Community College V. Earl Dickinson Building 501 College Dr. In the North Gallery, “Fish Out of Water,” paintings by Lisa Parker Hyatt. In the South Gallery, “Metadata,” a mixed-media exhibition by James Yates. Opens Friday, September 22, 5-7pm. FF Senior Center 1180 Pepsi Place. “Tuscany Treasures,” gouache and oil landscape paintings by Randy Baskerville. 1-4:30pm.

Theresa Shepherd at McGuffey Art Center Shenandoah Valley Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “Germination,” a mixedmedia exhibition honoring the school’s 25th anniversary. Opens September 2, 6-8pm. FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Nearest and Dearest,” oil on canvas by John Hetzel. 6-8pm. FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Festy Love,” a mixed-media exhibit by photographers Milo Farineau and Jody Carbone

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showcasing The Festy lifestyle and performances. 5-7pm. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church 717 Rugby Rd. “Up Close and Personal,” featuring paintings of humans and nature by Sarah Jones. Opens September 3, noon. FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. A mixed-media exhibition by the “Community Collective,” featuring Thomas Kovach, Mike Hugy, Ben Arnold, Emma O’Brien, Kate Brown,

Carmen Smith, Katie Jackson, Moriah McCollum, Christina Dean, Kellianne Shaver, Benjamin Davis and Rachel Oliff. 5:30pm-7:30pm. FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Selves and Selfies,” prints and paintings by Sara Ho and Eileen French. 5-7:30pm. FF First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions.

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FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Flora, Fauna, Flesh and Blood,” in which Lauren Doran explores the all-encompassing task of raising children. In the Upper and Lower Hall galleries, the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild presents its 26th annual exhibition. 5:30-7:30pm.

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thing from squirrels to black bear, go hang gliding, rock climbing, hiking or camping, or just sit in a park wearing fancy boots and taking selfies. L.L. Bean’s history began with mail-order sales of the nearly indestructible boots, which are still handmade in Maine. “We don’t chase trends,” says McKeever. “They have this interesting way of finding us. With the Bean boots they are now really popular with college students. They’ve always been popular with hunters and loggers and people who work outside because they keep your feet warm and dry and they’re tougher than a tire. But they’ve realized this huge crossover appeal lately with college students and people in the fashion world.”

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tions and clinics, some paid and some for free to teach people how to do it.” Planned classes include fly-tying, paddleboarding 101 and setting up hiking boots for maximum comfort. “So on Meetup, we’ll say, ‘Meet us at this trailhead at this time and this date and we’ll take you on a hike,’” says McKeever. “One of the reasons we chose this area is that people here not only have a great affinity for the outdoors, but there’s lots and lots of stuff to do in the outdoors. Tons of hiking, tons of biking trails.” He is right about that. In and within an hour of Charlottesville, locals can fish for catfish, bass or eels, go flatwater and whitewater canoeing and kayaking, hunt every-

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.L. Bean opened in Charlottesville a few weeks ago, which may be as much of a cultural milestone as the arrival of a Trader Joe’s. The new store at the Shops at Stonefield arrives at a time when the outdoor business is in a state of upheaval on the north end of Charlottesville. Woodbrook Sports & Pro Shop, a family-owned gun and hunting store, recently closed due to rising rent and what seemed like increasing competition from Dick’s Sporting Goods and Gander Mountain. Then Dick’s Sporting Goods announced its intention to close its 29 North location (a Dick’s remains at 5th Street Station on the south end of town). And Gander Mountain declared bankruptcy only a few years after opening its massive outdoor equipment and apparel store. Thus, a vacuum on the north end was created, with Great Outdoor Provision Co. (known for highquality hiking, camping and climbing gear) holding court a little further south in Barracks Road Shopping Center. While L.L. Bean still has a whiff of the original hunting and fishing supplier that began in 1912 in Freeport, Maine, it isn’t going to scratch the outdoor itch for everyone. Its hunting and fishing supplies are only available online and are not offered in the new Charlottesville store. But it is still a place where you can pick up a decent sleeping bag or day pack if you don’t need a wide selection, or a pair of boots. “One thing that we will never lose sight of, and is part of our DNA, is the outdoors,” says Mac McKeever, spokesman for L.L. Bean. “We started as an outdoor company. We started as a hunting and fishing com-

pany with the iconic Maine hunting boot. ...That is our soul and we will never lose sight of that.” At the store’s grand opening, McKeever’s point was illustrated by an enormous motorized L.L. Bean boot that was parked out front for the occasion. Imagine the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, only less roomy inside and with nothing to eat. Also, it’s a boot. The massively popular boots are available in the store, as is a lot of other apparel. But rather than outfitting serious wilderness expeditions, this store primarily sells clothing and accessories for people who may want to give off an outdoorsy vibe on their way to class. You can’t find a fishing rod or an ice axe, but there are non-breakable plastic wine glasses, exactly four propane canisters and a few stand-up paddle boards. There’s even trail rations, including Backpacker’s Pantry dehydrated pad Thai. For those who would like to move beyond outdoor style and toward adventure, the new Bean store still has something to offer. “We have expanded our outdoor programming through outdoor discovery schools,” McKeever says. “One thing that differentiates this store from other stores is that we sell the outdoor apparel but we also do demonstra-

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ifth Street Station is serving up another helping of restaurants, which includes a second location for a Corner favorite, and a Manassas-based traditional Thai restaurant.

Jersey Mike’s Subs: Grab a submarine sandwich from the New Jersey-bred chain at one of the newest additions to its 1,500-store résumé. The approachable menu assigns numbers to each sandwich, and they all come “Mike’s Way,” with onions, tomatoes, lettuce, spices, red wine vinegar and olive oil. Customizable toppings are available too. Open now. Red Mango: The frozen yogurt franchise that began filling cups with all-natural creamy treats in 2007 has expanded into Charlottesville. A menu full of refreshing options includes the signature sweet and tart frozen yogurt, smoothies, parfaits, sorbettos and fresh juices. Open now. Krispy Kreme: The international donut chain with the iconic Hot Now red neon sign that lets passersby know when the offerings are fresh, has found a home at 5th Street Station. With a visual donut menu in the form of a glass display case, choose one (or two, or three, or four...) from rows of traditional flavors such as chocolate glazed, or more eclectic ones like Reese’s peanut butter. Opening in October. Basil Mediterranean Bistro & Wine Bar: The Corner restaurant that serves Mediterranean fare from Greece, Lebanon, Italy, Spain, France and Turkey is opening a second location on the south end of town. Its extensive menu includes a variety of region-specific dishes. Try one of the laffa options: a Lebanese-style pita roll-up with meats, produce and sauces inside. Opening in December. Extreme Pizza: Pizza isn’t limited to average flavors at Extreme Pizza. International ingredients like Portuguese linguica, a smokeOutback Steakhouse Bloomin’ onions and giant steaks. Bar’s open late. A link in the Australianthemed steakery chain. 1101 Seminole Trail. 9754329. $$. Public Fish & Oyster Simply prepared, responsibly sourced seafood. Shucked oysters, raw bar and a full bar. 513 W. Main St., 995-5542; 1015 Heathercroft Cir., Crozet, 812-2909. $/$$. Red Lobster Seafood with daily specials. 1648 E. Rio Rd. 973-0315. $$. Rhett’s River Grill and Raw Bar She-crab soup, half-shell delicacies and steaks. Located north of Rio Road on 29N. 2335 Seminole Trail, Suite 100. 974-7818. $$. Rocksalt Seafood-centric chain with an outdoor bar and patio. The Shops at Stonefield. 326-5665. $$. Shadwell’s Seafood, steaks, burgers, pasta and salads made out of fresh, local ingredients. Upscale dining with a casual atmosphere. 1791 Richmond Rd. 202-2568. $$.

Upscale Casual Bistro 1834 Located beside the Old Mill Room Restaurant, the menu has a variety of lighter fare. The Boar’s Head, 200 Ednam Dr. 972-2230. $$$. Bizou Upscale down-home cookin’ with fresh fish, pork and beef dishes. Try the grilled banana bread à la mode. 119 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 977-1818. $$. Brasserie Saison Downtown Mall brewery with Franco-Belgian cuisine. 111 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-7027. $$. Burton’s Grill Contemporary American menu with stylish ambience. Don’t skip out on the cocktails. The Shops at Stonefield. 977-1111. $$. Clifton Inn Historic inn with a redone kitchen, dining room and bar. Sit at the chef’s table and watch the action. 1296 Clifton Inn Dr. 971-1800. $$.

Zabb Thai Restaurant: The Manassas-based restaurant will open a second location in The Yard food hall, where it will offer up its authentic Thai fare, including noodle and rice dishes alongside signature entrées. Opening early 2018.

Fresh face If you’ve visited Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards recently, you might have seen someone new. Ian Rynecki has taken over as executive chef from Bill Scatena (no word yet on what’s next for Scatena), and Rynecki says he’s looking forward to taking advantage of a lush garden and local produce and meat to create new dishes to pair with the vineyard’s vino. With no culinary school training, Rynecki honed his chops while working in catering in several cities across the United States, including Philadelphia, Big Sky, Montana, San Francisco and New York City. Virginia, however, is the land of new opportunity for Rynecki. “The dairy and the meats that I can get here are some of the best in the country,” he says. “And the good thing is that I can visit all of these farms.” Rynecki is working on a few new additions to the menu, with the help of Pippin Hill’s horticulturist, Diane Burns. His favorite is a duck dish using local meat, and an Andalusian-style gazpacho made from the tomatoes grown in the vineyard’s garden. The tomato dish is on the menu now; look for the duck option and a full-of-fallflavor toffee carrot cake in September. Rynecki will add new dishes to the menu every month. “We’re a winery that has to have really good food,” he says.

Commonwealth Restaurant & Skybar Swanky Downtown restaurant with inventive entrées, a late-night menu and a rooftop bar. 422 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-7728. $$$. Court Square Tavern English tavern with 130plus varieties of bottled beer. Hearty pub food: bratwurst, Reubens, shepherd’s pie. 500 Court Square. 296-6111. $$. Duner’s Artful entrées and fine desserts on a rotating menu. Conservative decor with a small, carefully crafted menu. 250W in Ivy. 293-8352. $$$. Escafé Friendly spot with a seasonal menu. Great crab cakes. Eclectic ambiance includes the bumping dance floor at night. 215 W. Water St. 2958668. $$. Fig Bistro & Bar Mediterranean and New Orleans-inspired dishes with house-made ingredients like sausage and pork kielbasa. 1331 W. Main St. 995-5047. $. Hamiltons’ at First & Main Imaginative American cuisine, award-winning wine list and superb vegetarian. 101 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-6649. $$$. Ivy Inn Daily menu of modern American cuisine in an 18th century tollhouse. Perfect for a romantic date. Reservations highly recommended. 2244 Old Ivy Rd. 977-1222. $$$. Maya Upscale Southern cuisine. Pleasant patio seating outside, sleek mod inside. Reservations encouraged. 633 W. Main St. 979-6292. $$. Michael’s Bistro Mucho microbrews and an artful menu. Excellent drinking atmosphere. View the Rotunda from the balcony. Second floor of 1427 University Ave. 977-3697. $$. Oakhart Social Seasonal Atlantic coast food for sharing. 511 W. Main St. 995-5449. $$. Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards The Farm Table & Wine Bar at this North Garden vineyard is as

big a draw as its beautiful setting. 5022 Plank Rd., North Garden. 202-8063. $$. Red Pump Kitchen Tuscan-inspired restaurant with chic, rustic décor. 401 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-6040. $$. Restoration Indoor and outdoor dining at this new spot at Old Trail Golf Course. Comfort food, craft brews and mountain views. 5494 Golf Dr., Crozet. 823-1841. $$. Southern Crescent Cajun and Creole fare in Belmont. 814 Hinton Ave. 284-5101. $$. Tastings Combo wine shop and eatery has woodgrilled entrées and the biggest wine list in town. 502 E. Market St. 293-3663. $$. Tavern & Grocery Inspired tavern fare from chicken sandwiches to banh mi. 333 W. Main St. 2937403. $. The Alley Light Intimate small-plate spot above Revolutionary Soup. Look for the, ahem, alley light. 108 Second St. SW. 296-5003. $$. The Fitzroy Restaurant and bar in a swanky setting. 120 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-1223. $$. The Local Belmont neighborhood spot with unusual twists on local, organic ingredients. 824 Hinton Ave. 984-9749. $$. The Melting Pot It’s a fon-do! This melted-cheese franchise features warmers built into the tables and a huge wine selection. 501 E. Water St. 2443463. $$$. Water Street French fusion and progressive American small plates. 117 Fifth St. SE. 244-0217. $$. Zocalo Flavorful high-end, Latin-inspired cuisine with a full bar. 201 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 977-4944. $$.

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Aberdeen Barn More beef than you can shake a T-bone at, since 1965. Candlelit atmosphere and piano bar. 2018 Holiday Dr. 296-4630. $$$. Bonefish Grill Sister to mega-popular Outback Steakhouse featuring seafood, grilled non-fish specialties and a full bar. Hollymead Town Center. 975-3474. $$. Devils Grill Restaurant & Lounge Above Devils Knob Golf Course with 50-mile views. Dinner reservations required. Wintergreen Resort. 3258100. $$$. Downtown Grille Upscale steak and seafood with white-linen service and a chummy bar scene. 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 817-7080. $$$.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t hoot with the owls at night if you want to crow with the rooster in the morning,” advised Miss Georgia during the Miss Teen USA Pageant. Although that’s usually good counsel, it may not apply to you in the coming weeks. Why? Because your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as will your ability to be energized rather than drained by your revelry. It seems you have a special temporary superpower that enables you to both have maximum fun and get a lot of work done.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During this phase of your astrological cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you’re already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’ That is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash—//—after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4. Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A modern Israeli woman named Shoshana Hadad got into trouble because of an event that occurred long before she was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin. Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events. But now that I have forewarned you, I expect you will act wisely, not rashly. You will pass a tricky test and resolve the old matter for good.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Want to live to be 100? Then be as boring as possible. That’s the conclusion of longevity researchers, as reported by the Weekly World News. To ensure a maximum lifespan, you should do nothing that excites you. You should cultivate a neutral, blah personality, and never travel far from home. Just kidding! I lied. The Weekly World News is in fact a famous purveyor of fake news. The truth, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is that you should be less boring in the next seven weeks than you have ever been in your life. To do so will be superb for your health, your wealth and your future.

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guised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries. The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are—cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that? I think so. Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Close your eyes and imagine this: You and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure and find your way back to civilization just before dark. Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution. Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sun-lit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more! Here’s a keynote to inspire you: sacred fun.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): On its album Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, “In a Crisis.” On its album Deep Space/Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, “Dark Ages.” Have I received a share of the record sales? Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I’m glad the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I’m gratified that a world-famous, multi-platinum band chose to record them. I’m pleased my musical creations are appreciated. Now here’s my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed”? Have

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Cancer (June 21-July 22): Author Roger von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks. “The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” says von Oech. “So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think gasoline carburetor.” Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): When famous socialite Nan Kempner was young, her mother took her shopping at Yves Saint Laurent’s salon. Nan got fixated on a certain white satin suit, but her mean old mother refused to buy it for her. “You’ve already spent too much of your monthly allowance,” mom said. But the resourceful girl came up with a successful gambit. She broke into sobs, and continued to cry nonstop until the store’s clerks lowered the price to an amount she could afford. You know me, Leo: I don’t usually recommend resorting to such extreme measures to get what you want. But now is one time when I am giving you a go-ahead to do just that. Expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes: RealAstrology.com, 1-877-873-4888.

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Central Virginia’s No. 1 home magazine has never looked finer. ABODE has given readers an inside look at the region’s most interesting homes for over a decade. Look for ABODE at over 100 locations across Charlottesville, Albemarle, Orange, Lovingston, Crozet, Staunton, Waynesboro and Fishersville at major grocery stores, gyms, restaurants and retail locations and online at c-ville.com.

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Dream makers wanted Can travel change people’s lives? You bet! At WorldStrides, we’re dream makers. We take students around the globe, to connect with new worlds and bring home big new ideas. Relevant and rewarding work? Check. Relaxed yet ambitious company culture? Absolutely. Want to be a dream maker yourself? Let’s talk. worldstrides.com/careers

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HELP WANTED! Blue Mountain Brewery is hiring Line & Prep Cooks, Pizza Makers and Dishwashers.

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Are you passionate about applying your skills to ensure the greatest quality of life possible for fellow community members in need? If so The Arc urges you to consider opportunities with us. Our mission is to ensure full community inclusion and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the provision of high quality services and advocacy. Our In-Home Services Program provides staff to work one-on-one to implement individualized service plan goals. Staff work with the individuals in their own homes as well as engaging them in community activities. We have the following In-Home Direct Support Staff vacancies available: Crozet: Part-time, 20 hours a week (M-F 5-7:30 p.m. and 6-8 hrs on a weekend day.) Charlottesville: Part-time, 15 hours per week (M-F 3:30 - 6:30.) We also have Direct Support Professional openings in our Residential Programs To see a full listing of all of our positions, and to learn more about what The Arc is doing to support our community, please visit our web site at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/

We encourage you to apply on-line at http://thearcofthepiedmont.org/job-vacancies/. You are also welcome to visit our offices at 509 Park Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 to apply in person, or fax them to 434-977-7864. The Arc of the Piedmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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In addition to offering a challenging and rewarding experience The Arc also offers competitive compensation, paid training, and for full time staff an attractive benefits package which includes health, dental and vision insurance, as well as life and long-term disability insurance, among other offerings.

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CLASSIFIEDS c-ville.com City of Charlottesville Accepting applications for full-time and temporary positions Featured Opportunities: Endpoint Security Engineer Firefighter Gardener Gas Pressure Regulator Technician Maintenance Worker III - Public Utilities Operations Supervisor Pupil Transportation Lead Operator Recreation Leader - Therapeutics Relief Transit Operator - School Bus Seasonal Maintenance Worker - Streets and Sidewalks Senior Planner - Preservation and Design Transportation Construction Project Manager Closing dates and additional openings are listed on our employment website. To view current job openings and to apply, please visit

www.Charlottesville.org/Jobs HR Office: 434-970-3490

Equal Opportunity Employer Reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. The City conducts pre -employment drug testing for all positions. Final applicants required to register with Selective Service must show proof of registration. You will be asked to provide personal identity and eligibility for work in the U.S. in accordance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

You’re invited!

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J O B FA I R at the Center for Acute Hospice Care, Third Floor, UVA Transitional Care Hospital, Northridge Medical Park, Ivy Thursday, September 7, 8-10 a.m. Come tour the Center for Acute Hospice Care and meet the Manager of the Center, who will be conducting interviews on the spot. HOP is currently hiring for 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. RN positions at the Center, as well as other positions.

View our full list of job openings at www.hopva.org/hop-job-openings

VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE TINA W. ROEBUCK, Plaintiff V. JEAN ALEXANDER, et al, Defendants AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the above styled suite is to obtain partition of real property located in the County of Albemarle, Virginia. The property that is the subject to this action was conveyed to Annie Thompkins by Deed from P.M. Jones and Sallie M. Jones dates April 19, 1900 in the Clerk’s Office of this court in the Deed Book 136, page 231. The property that is the subject to this action is described as all that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the County of Albemarle, Virginia, situated on State Route 712 (Plank Road) containing 5.637 acres, more or less, as shown on a survey of S.L. Key Incorporated Land Surveyors & Planners, dated May 18, 2007, attached to the Motion for Judgment as Exhibit A (hereinafter the “Property”). And, it appearing by affidavit filed according to law that the following Defendants are not residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Jean Alexander, 212 Dean Park Road, Jackson, GA 30233; Zebedee Whindleton, Jr., 3106 Bradley Circle, Marina CA 93933-3303; Nolan Saylor, 1006 Maple Avenue, Rockville, MD 20851; James L. Saylor, Jr., 4815 Somerville Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1039; M. Harriet Saylor c/o James L. Saylor, Jr., 4815 Somerville Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-1039; Lucille Saylor, 105 Barbourville Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32301; Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132; Brenda Lee Robinson Gibbons, c/o Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132; Anna Marlene Robinson-Withersty, c/o Lois Ann Robinson Brown, 1006 Jenny Lind Street, Mckeesport, PA 15132. And it further appearing from the affidavit filed according to law that the Plaintiff has used due diligence to ascertain all of the owners of the property but has been unable to do so and that there are or may be persons unknown who claim an interest in property, namely the heirs, devisees, successors and/or assigns in and to the title and interest of Annie Thompkins it is therefore ORDERED that the above non-residents and any persons claiming an interest in the property which is the subject to this action appear on or before the 5th day of October , 2017, at 9 A.M., in the Clerk’s Office of this Court and do what is necessary to protect their interests. ENTERED THIS 10 DAY OF August, 2017 Jennifer Shifflett Deputy CLERK OF COURT I ask for this: William M. Marshall P.O. Box 1068 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 VSB #17726 Phone: 434-295-7113 FAX: 434-977-2874

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Compensation for a completed egg donation cycle is $4,500.

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Anonymous Egg Donors Needed The Reproductive Medicine & Surgery Center

provides mental health, intellectual disability, crisis, and substance abuse services for adults and children living in the City of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Greene, Fluvanna, Louisa, and Nelson.

of Virginia is looking for young women interested in helping couples who are unable to conceive using their own eggs. To be an anonymous egg donor, we need applicants who are: • Between 21 years - 31 years old

Region Ten is one of the largest employers in the Charlottesville area with over 600 employees. With our array of services, opportunities exist for direct care staff, social workers, nurses, clinicians, counselors, teachers, administrative staff, and others looking to make a valuable contribution to their community and work in the human services field.

• In good general health • Within normal weight range • Non-smoker For more information and an application, please con-tact Stephanie Barrix, R.N., IVF/Egg Donor Coordinator @ stephanie.barrix@rmscva.com or call 434.654.8537.Also, visit our website www.rmscva.com

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or contact Susan Good at 434-972-1898 for details.

is seeking an experienced part-time (25 hr week/afternoons & evenings) BBBSOCBR has a mission to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. BBBSOCBR believes that a positive association with an adult volunteer mentor is most influential in helping a child become a happy, responsible adult. The staff stands ready at all times to assist in strengthening the friendship between the Big and the Little so the child is successful in school and in life.

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Assist in recruiting volunteers and handle all aspects of enrollment and making matches Conduct Parent and Child Orientations Provide match support (regularly scheduled case management contact) for volunteers, parents/guardians and children to ensure child safety, to develop and maintain constructive relationships that lead to positive impacts for children. Utilize online database to accurately record all child and volunteer match details. Collaborate with other staff members to achieve our mission. Assist in planning and facilitating match group activities.

Our service area includes the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna and Nelson. If you believe that you can apply your skills to develop the best youth through one-on-one mentoring, we encourage you to apply. Please submit your cover letter and resume via e-mail to: Director of Programs, at info@blueridgebigs.org or by mail 1102 Carlton Ave Charlottesville, VA 22902 or Fax 434-244-0885. Open until filled. NO PHONE CALLS. Big Brothers Big Sisters is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Bachelor’s Degree and 1-3 years of experience in human/social services or related field A proven track record in supporting children and families in a case management role Experience in interviewing and assessment of children and adults Experience in checking references & conducting background checks Experience in making presentations and providing training Demonstrated professional customer service, relationship development, and problem solving skills Ability to relate to parents, volunteers, staff and children from various backgrounds Knowledge of child development and family dynamics Knowledge of social service resources available in the region Demonstrated knowledge of schools and education system Ability to present information concisely and efficiently Excellent oral and written communications skills Ability to work occasional nights and weekends Valid US driver’s license, legally insured vehicle and ability and willingness to travel Proficiency in Microsoft Office – Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point Fluency in Spanish is preferred but not required

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NOW HIRING Bank here? Why not work here? Based in Charlottesville, VA., UVA Community Credit Union is one of the area’s largest member-owned financial institution and employs over 200 people in 14 full-service branches, 4 student-run branches, and 4 administrative locations. Once again awarded Favorite Financial Institution honors by local residents – for the eleventh consecutive year – our community involvement, member service, outstanding staff, and generous and competitive benefits and compensation are just a few reasons to consider a career with us.

Call Center Phone Representative Accountant UVA Credit the Union seeking a friendly, In this Community position, you will maintain Credit is Union’s accounting records and reports, ensuring they are inand compliance with generally accounting and qualified, talented, motivated salesaccepted and service financial practices. oriented individual to join its Call Center team. In this position, you will handle incoming calls to the Credit Call Center Phonemembers Representative Union and assist with questions and We have an opening and motivated sales and transactions onforalla friendly, Creditqualified, Uniontalented, products and services.

Join the Centra Team! Consider Centra for your next career move. Based in Lynchburg, Centra serves communities throughout central and southside Virginia.

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As a nationally recognized health care system, which includes a Level II Trauma center, four hospitals, health and rehab centers an extensive network of medical and specialty offices and more, Centra has multiple opportunities for RNs and LPNs. Featured Jobs Centra Lynchburg General Hospital has opportunities available in the Emergency Department and Operating Room for experienced RNs. A variety of shift options are available. Centra LGH OR is offering up to a $30,000 sign-on bonus and premium pay. Centra LGH ED is offering up to a $15,000 sign-on bonus. Both areas provide up to $5,000 in relocation assistance, education assistance, weekend/holiday differentials and clinical advancement opportunities. For more information about the ED and OR featured jobs, premium pay short-term assignments, premium pay resource team openings, and/or other nursing career opportunities at all Centra locations, visit BeACentraNurse.com or email our recruiters at NurseRecruitment@CentraHealth.com. JOIN A TEAM THAT VALUES ITS NURSES…JOIN CENTRA.

service oriented individual to join the Call Center team to handle incoming calls to the Credit Union and assist members with questions and transactions on all PVCC Student Branch Credit Union products and services.Openings

Member Service Representatives: UVA Community financial institutions based is and seeking outgoing This positioninis Central responsibleVirginia, for developing maintaining the credit and union’s corporate websites as well as variety of other duties related to digital marketing sales-oriented PVCC students to help your fellow channels. classmates manage their money, build their credit, and establish good financial habits that last a lifetime. To be eligible for this part-time position, you must be a IScurrent Systems/Network Administrator or incoming Fall 2017 PVCC student (full-time Asor Systems you will on the network and help implement, part Administrator time student) infocus good standing. CreditMarketing Union, one of the largest Digital Specialist

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Tellers – Charlottesville & Fluvanna IT Help Desk Technician Tellers provide exceptional member service by accurately We have an immediate need for an ITTeller Help Desk Technician to help implement, and efficiently performing related transactions in maintain, and support its technology infrastructure and pc-based applications. accordance with Credit Union policies and procedures. To support branch operations, this position requires Loan Officer – Consumer Lending working alternating Saturdays. UVA Community Credit Union needs an experienced Consumer Loan Officer to evaluate, underwrite, and process loan applications based on established VP of Human company guidelines.Resources – Charlottesville

Reporting to the COO, the Vice President of Human Resources will lead a team of HR professionals in Marketing Analyst delivering exceptional service to alland stakeholders. In As Marketing Analyst, you will provide information insights regarding current and potential personal/business membership, markets/marketplace, financial this position, you will oversee employee relations, services industry trends, competitors, and campaign effectiveness to measure benefits, compensation, training, performance performance (ROI) and support business decisions. management, payroll, communication and presentation of the company handbook, recruiting and retention, Member Services Specialist – Orange and compliance with company policies and applicable In this role, you will provide an exceptional member experience by handling every federal state employment, pay, and benefits laws. client needand from sales to service. Teller – Nelson – Charlottesville VP of Lending As a member of the Creditmember Union’s senior management As Teller, you will provide exceptional service by accurately and efficientlythe performing Tellerisrelated transactionsfor in accordance with Credit Union team, position responsible all activities related policies and procedures. to conceptualizing and implementing lending products and directing all consumer Float Teller - Orange Branchand mortgage loan production activities. As a Float Teller, you will split your Teller schedule between the Orange, Louisa,

Zion, and Fluvanna Branches. Tosupport branch operations, this position requires working all but one Saturday per month.

To learn more about our benefits, these and other opportunities, and how to apply, please visit the Careers section at www.uvacreditunion.org.

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Employment Opportunities in Charlottesville and Nelson County with Established, Growing Business-to-Business Consulting Company másLabor provides consulting and agency services to employers participating in the federal H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (nonagricultural) non-immigrant work visa programs. We are the leading for-profit H2 service provider in the U.S. More than 1,000 businesses in 40 states rely on our professional expertise. If you have the qualifications and are interested in joining us in our important work on behalf of small seasonal employers, we can provide training and significant continuing career opportunity. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals for the following positions at our Lovingston headquarters and our new C’ville satellite office. Client Services Associate (emphasis on communications and computer skills) Members of our Client Services team interface confidently and professionally with our diverse business owner and manager clientele. Responsibilities include: internal database entry, preparation and submission of intricate government filings, understanding of and adherence to regulatory deadlines and requirements, and client support. Qualified applicants must be able to: learn and apply complex laws, regulations, and policies related to nonimmigrant work visa programs and related aspects of employment and immigration law. Operations Associate (emphasis on computer skills) Members of our Operations team provide technical and logistical support to our Client Services team. This diverse, computer-intensive role offers significant cross-training potential for production and detail oriented problem solvers. Qualified applicants must be able to: effectively utilize Microsoft Access and SQL databases; manage document design and production; perform input and quality control of data; and effectively communicate about technical and logistical issues with government officials and other external parties.

If qualified and interested in becoming part of our success story, please respond with a brief statement of interest and resume to employment@maslabor.com. Please include Client Services Associate, Operations Associate, or Regulatory Compliance Analyst and either Lovingston or Charlottesville in the subject line of your e-mail.

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Qualifications and Competencies • Minimum four (4) years of relevant experience (any combination of professional experience and/or collegiate academic experience) • Excellent computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) • Detail oriented with strong organizational abilities • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills • Ability to balance competing priorities • Ability to work independently and multi-task with little supervision • A positive, team and success oriented attitude.

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Regulatory Compliance Analyst (emphasis on writing and analytical skills) Members of our Regulatory Compliance team provide regulatory analysis and support to our clients and staff. Qualified applicants must be able to: learn and apply complex laws, regulations, and policies related to non-immigrant work visa programs and related aspects of employment and immigration law; assist with responses to government inquiries; provide client-facing support as needed and perform quality control functions for the Client Services team.

Q&A Our 2017 Best of C-VILLE magazine is on stands this week. Finish this sentence: Charlottesville is best at ________.

Running red lights.

Having a large amount of people who cry about a harmless Lee and Jackson statue.

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Complaining. APLE JANNOTTA/FACEBOOK

Food. WILL ROSE

Hate, racist City Council, riots, liberals.

Being a small town with a big city appeal.

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Delusion and bagels. HOPE FITZGERALD/FACEBOOK

Charlottesville is best at rolling with the punches and coming back strong. DEWEY CORNELL/FACEBOOK

Bagels and packline defense.

Charlottesville is best at being a place people choose to live. So many people I know have lived here before and chosen to come back. @KTOWNSENDART/INSTAGRAM

Not arresting Nazis for assault in a timely matter.

God lives here and it’s a small “haven.“ I mean heaven, lol. @ROBERT74288771/TWITTER

Making Oedipal references in City Council meetings. JEFF ROBERTS/FACEBOOK

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Charlottesville is best at cognitive distortion. SKIP DEGAN/FACEBOOK

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Having very little petty crime, but the odd huge, terrible crime that gets international coverage. CAROLINE LACO/FACEBOOK

Restaurants.

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