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fter a second tally of the votes in the House of Delegates’ 28th District, Republican Bob Thomas has held onto a narrow win over Democrat Josh Cole — yet the legal maneuvering in the tremendously consequential race is far from over. Cole requested a recount in the race after Thomas originally appeared to win by just 82 votes. Election officials found on Dec. 21 that Cole gained a total of nine votes on Thomas in another count of the district’s precincts in both Stafford County and Fredericksburg, yet the Republican appeared to maintain a slim victory by a 73-vote margin. A three-judge panel subsequently certified that tally. “The recount confirmed what we have known since November, and we are excited to have Bob join us on the floor of the House when we convene in January,” House Republican Leader Kirk Cox wrote in a statement. “The recount process worked, ensuring every lawful vote was counted. Virginia’s election law lays out clear steps to resolve any other questions, and we hope that our Democratic colleagues will put to rest any unnecessary litigation. Recounts within the parameters of the law are one thing, but fruitless litigation or contests only serve to delay us from our work and weaken this historic institution.” The most heated tangling over the race results are likely still to come. Several Fredericksburg voters, backed by House Democrats, are asking a federal judge to

The Rockhill Volunteer Fire Department played host to Santa with a breakfast for area families and children at the firehouse on Garrisonville Road on Dec. 23. Visitors could have scrambled eggs and pancakes as the youngsters wrote letters to Santa and waited to be photographed in his sleigh. More photos are on page 7. ALEKS DOLZENKO | INSIDENOVA

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s a veteran of several political campaigns, Nate Salzman is used to attracting a little negativity on social media. On the other hand, winding up on the receiving end of the constant derision of neo-Nazis and white nationalists is a bit of a different experience. For the past eight months or so, Salzman has worked as the campaign manager for Prince William County School Board Chairman Ryan Sawyers’ Democratic bid for Congress. Yet it wasn’t until early December that Salzman found dozens of anti-Semitic replies to a few of his tweets, including death threats and Holocaust references, many from ac-

counts with Nazi imagery. “It was to the point where my phone was getting blown up all the time,” said Salzman, who is Jewish. “I knew these people are out there, and I’d heard some of this growing up, but it’s still jarring to see it in public...It just made me feel pissed off. My first response was, ‘How can I get back at these guys?’” Salzman says he reported some of the more extreme posts to Twitter, which removed some tweets and suspended the users responsible for them, but the site’s administrators declined to act on plenty of others. Though he says the flow of antiSemitic tweets has slowed over the last few days, he still regularly finds a stray reply from users with swasti-

kas or concentration camps featured prominently on their profiles. “This is about intimidation,” Salzman said. “But it doesn’t make me want to stop. In fact, I got up earlier to go to work the day after I first saw this, that’s the mentality I’m taking.” Sawyers, who is one of five Democrats vying for the chance to challenge Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st District, in 2018, said he’s even been included in some of the tweets directed at Salzman, including a series of creatively phrased death threats sent his way as well. Yet neither the candidate nor his campaign manager are exactly sure why they’ve become targets for this derision on social media. BATTLE

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As best Sawyers and Salzman can tell, the caustic tweets started soon after Sawyers appeared as a guest on “Watters’ World,” a show on the Fox News cable channel, on Dec. 2 to defend some of his tweets insisting that Prince William County students would be allowed to sit during the pledge of allegiance each morning, if they decide to do so. Soon afterward, Sawyers says he began receiving plenty of critical tweets from a user known as “@ResistCM14.” The user’s profile describes them as a “Christian nationalist,” and a “pro-white, pro-American” contributor at the website ResistanceMedia.org. The site, staffed by anonymous contributors, boasts a header proclaiming itself as “Virginia’s #1 Anti-Ryan Sawyers Website.” The “@ResistCM14” account previously included a similar header photo, according to a cached version of the profile, but it’s since been changed to an image of a Confederate flag and Confederate soldiers. Sawyers and Salzman noticed the aforementioned account criticizing the candidate and stance on a variety of social issues in tweets, then tagging other users describing themselves as white nationalists, white supremacists or neo-Nazis, and things escalated from there. “It’s clearly meant to intimidate, it’s clearly meant to make people fearful of running for office,” Sawyers said. “That’s what Nazis do, that’s what the Ku Klux Klan does. They try to intimidate you into not standing up to their hatred, and I refuse to do that.” Salzman believes the social media abuse truly hit a fever pitch when he tweeted out a joke referencing his Jewish faith on Dec. Handcrafted 8, promptingbythe anti-Semitic Amish users to the move from targeting Sawyers to Salzman. The tweet’s now received more than 251 replies, with users imploring to him to “go back to Israel” or hurling anti-Semitic slurs his way. Others still tweeted images at him with phrases like “How the Jews

Stole Christmas,” or memes commonly associated the white nationalist movement (including altered images of President Donald Trump). Salzman says he tried to openly confront some of the more “vile” users, retweeting their tweets with the goal of “trying to shame these people back into the hole they came from.” But as users with tens of thousands of followers started to get involved, he started working to report them to Twitter or simply ignore them. “I’m fine going toe-to-toe with some of them, but I also don’t want my phone blowing up all day with this stuff,” Salzman said. While this brush with anti-Semitism has been troubling to Salzman, he says it also hasn’t been terribly surprising. “Going to school in New York and Pennsylvania, I was often one of the only Jewish kids in class, so I’ve had pennies rolled down the hall at me, been told I would burn in hell, had people ask me where my horns are,” Salzman said. “It’s part of what made me want to go into politics in the first place.” The experience has been a bit more revelatory for Sawyers, who remembers growing up as “a white, straight kid in a white, straight world” and never really experienced anything like the hate Salzman has seen directed his way. “Having a Jewish campaign manager certainly has opened my eyes to the ridiculous hatred that’s out there, and it’s astounding,” Sawyers said. “These are the people we need to go defeat and these are the people that we need to run out of our politics.” The way Sawyers sees it, he hopes the issues he’s championing earn his campaign the unusual distinction of “the most hated by Nazis in all of Virginia.” Salzman says that’s fine by him, even if it means checking Twitter is a bit unpleasant for a while. “What they’re doing means Ryan and I are in the right,” Salzman said. “Our message is exactly what we want it to be if Nazis hate us.”

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order a new election after at least 147 people in the 28th District and two adjoining districts received the wrong ballots. A hearing on the matter is set for Jan. 5 in federal district court, just five days before the General Assembly session is set to begin. “This fight is not over until every vote is cast and counted in the proper district,” Cole wrote in a statement. “The only way Culpeper Location 19306 happen Germanna Hwy Stevensburg, VA 22741 that can is *with a new election. 540-399-9001 We look forward to the court’s decision Jan. 5.” The chaos in the 28th District is just one piece of the puzzle, however. Republicans currently hold a 50-49 majority in the House, and there’s no telling what may happen to determine control of the chamber. Not only could the results in the 28th affect the balance of power, but the race in the 94th District could come down to a flip of a coin. A Dec. 19 recount seemed to indicate that Democrat Shelly Simonds had bested Republican Del. David Yancey by one vote, but GOP lawyers managed to

convince a panel of judges to allow one additional ballot to count for Yancey on Dec. 20, forcing a pure tie. State elections officials were originally set to determine the winner of the race on Dec. 27 by randomly drawing a name from a bowl, but Democrats are asking the judges to reconsider the decision to count that last ballot for Yancey, adding another layer of uncertainty to the process. Observers from around the state are closely watching the results of the machinations in both the 28th and the 94th, as each party would need to win both seats to claim a majority. Should the House be tied 50-50, there is no tie-breaking mechanism, and the parties would need to negotiate some sort of power-sharing arrangement for the first time since 1998. Should the result in the 28th hold, Democrats could even “contest” the election on the House floor, forcing a vote on the matter, though House Democratic Leader David Toscano downplayed the prospects of such a measure on a Dec. 19 call with reporters. “It could be really harmful to the institution if we have a big floor fight on the first day as to how to divide power,” Toscano said.

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is a kindly and politically savvy pediatric Charles Dickens’ began his book, “A neurologist from the Eastern Shore of Tale of Two Cities” with probably his Virginia with a tendency to work most famous line, “…it was the across the aisle. And now, thanks best of times, it was the worst of to a staggering Democratic times.” It’s a lovely phrase that sweep in the Virginia House also works well in describing of Delegates, that distance the year that was. between the aisles is a lot But before we review the smaller. Democrats, at this year’s events, here is somewriting, picked up 15 seats and thing that few, save for a few DAVID KERR there are still a couple in quesscientific types, probably don’t tion. Historically, our legislarealize. And that’s just how far our planet traveled during its annual trek ture isn’t given to major shifts, but that precedent has been broken. This was a around the Sun. It’s amazing. Each day, every one of us sweep. The Democrats, once dominated logged 1.6 million miles and during 2017 by a Republican super-majority in the House of Delegates, are now just a vote made a journey of 584 million miles. So away from running the place. the next time your significant other says In Stafford’s 28th District, the race for “We don’t go anywhere,” toss that one out. Or, on second thought, for the good the Virginia House of Delegates between Bob Thomas and Joshua Cole came of your relationship maybe not. Book a down to 72 votes. But, it’s not over yet. vacation instead. On Jan. 5, Democrats, because of admitIt was a strange and sometimes ted voting irregularities (a disturbingly disconcerting year. Twitter, the internetlarge number of voters were given the based service that allows a person to wrong ballots), will be asking a federal tweet short messages to their followers, judge for a new election. If the judge acquired one of its most prominent and grants the request then the entire control prolific users ever: the president of the of the legislature will rest on the outcome United States. Going all the way back to of that special election. when he first became a candidate, he has We lost some nice people this year managed to tweet 36,000 times. It seems too. In Stafford, one of our iconic lohard to believe but that’s what I read in cal figures, Ferris Belman, passed on. the newspapers, and watching him at He served on the Fredericksburg City work this past year I am beginning to think it’s probably true. My only hope for Council, was the Stafford “Tie Breaker” member of the Board of Supervisors and 2018 is that Twitter cancels his account. then Stafford’s at-large supervisor for two The quiet would be refreshing. terms. He was dedicated, thoughtful and Here at home in the commonwealth, did what his conscience told him to do. we had a busy year. Democrats, not so A man like that will always be missed. long ago lost in the wilderness of VirSadly, two of my favorite TV stars ginia, captured all of the top statewide passed on. Mary Tyler Moore, who was offices in the November elections. And on the Dick Van Dyke Show and then in by a wide margin too. The new governor

the 1970s had her own, rather groundbreaking show, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, about a single woman, “trying to make it on her own,” died at 80. Then there was Batman. Many have played the role since, but there is only one Adam West. He was the star of the campy Batman TV series that was so popular in the 1960s. As I recall, I was about 8 years old when the show was popular. I had a Batman utility belt and Batman pajamas. The year had its share of violence. The neo-Nazis and their followers marched on Charlottesville. They used the removal of a Confederate statue as their excuse, and they caused mayhem and death. One young woman, a counter protestor, was killed by one of their number, while at the same time two state patrol officers, monitoring the event from the air, were killed when their helicopter crashed. Hopefully those people will go back to the holes they came from. Or, better yet, change their ways. There is one thing a New Year’s Day offers that no other day can match, and that’s a chance to start off on a new foot and try to do things differently. To that end, New Year’s resolutions aren’t worth much. They’re too hard to keep. But, a commitment to work toward changing our attitudes, a promise to work for more cooperation and to do something to end this polarized environment we’re in is something we can all undertake as a work in progress. That would be a great way to start 2018. David Kerr, a former member of the Stafford County School Board, is an instructor in political science at VCU and can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

Local officials should make list of resolutions specific things they will try to get It seems to me…Every new year done in the new year. Publishwe, as individuals, are encouring in the newspaper puts aged to make New Year’s resothem on record in black and lutions. I think that is a good white. Then, their constituthing to do. It gives your life ents or anyone can cut out the direction. list, hang it on their refrigeraIt could get rid of bad habtor door and check off those that its. It could help you accomplish things you have neglected or con- HARVEY GOLD get done. And, at the end of the year, tinuously put off. Personally, I have a long list this year because I have found folks could send those lists to their electthat as one gets older, each year the list ed officials with a “thank you” or a “how gets longer as one recognizes that there is come you didn’t” letter with, of course, a self-addressed stamped envelope. This less time to get these things done. Sometimes I need help with some of then becomes another item for your list, the items on my list. That’s just fine since but think of how much good it will do, it keeps me in touch with others who not only for you but for the community. To do this right, we need to start with sometimes can give me advice on what our Stafford officials, and there are I’m trying to do. With this thought in mind, I couldn’t a few things I would suggest for their help thinking this would be something lists. Are they going to make the same that all our elected officials should be re- mistakes and/or procrastinate considquired to do each year. What if they had ering new ideas to relieve the traffic on to publish in the newspaper all the very Interstate 95? What about a connector

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to Route 3 West? Will they be able to sit down with Spotsylvania and other officials to work out a plan that doesn’t create bottlenecks? And, what about doing something that would make certain we don’t have another election problem? One could ask about issues dealing with schools, the opioid crisis, guns and the environment. Whatever one is concerned about is fair game. The important thing is that you send them the list. Oh, you might add that you will attend some Board of Supervisors or school board or other meetings of interest to see how all the elected officials are cooperating to do the best for all the folks in Stafford County. While lists for our local officials are important, the officials at the state and national levels really need to publish lists as well. Frankly, the state and national lists probably will be so long it GOLD may create the need for you PAGE 5 to get a bigger refrigerator.

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How about starting with worrying about what’s good for the average Joe and not giving it away to the big-buck folks. Perhaps you might ask those who voted for the tax reform bill if they are going to send each of us some of their salary if we end up with less in the coming years. Or where do they stand on climate change or global warming or whatever you want to call it? What about the country’s infrastructure, immigration policy, position on North Korea and the Middle East, and the issue of sexual misconduct. And have they anything to confess on this last issue? You should send them a note to remind them that when they make their lists they should refrain from wheedle words, babble or fuzzy replies, or you will send them your old refrigerator. Don’t put off making your lists and writing your officials to publish theirs because it looks like postage is going up. By the way, you might add that to your lists as well. Bottom of form. Harvey Gold is a contributing writer and can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

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Stafford widow gets free roof for Christmas A Sterling roofing company recently gifted a new roof to a Stafford widow whose husband was a disabled, U.S. Marine Corps veteran. DryHome Roofing and Siding selected Barbara Bendele to receive the roof through its 15th-annual Free Roof for the Holidays program. Bendele’s leaky roof was replaced with a new one Dec. 22. “Barbara is a gracious person who has worked hard to provide for her family and care for her children,” according to Steve Gotschi, the roofing company’s president. “We hope that the new roof eases her burden and makes her holiday brighter, warmer and safer. In November, the company accepted nominations from customers and the

community to identify a Northern Virginia individual, family or nonprofit in need. The company selected Bendele as the recipient based on her needs, the condition of her roof and heartfelt nominations from the community. Bendele lost her husband nine years ago and was left to raise her three children alone. One of her sons has autism and in the past week, her daughter died of an illness. Bendele has struggled to keep on top of mounting bills and household fixes. Her roof has leaked for years and damaged the family’s carpet, according to Gotschi. According to one nomination: “Neighbors have been helping her with car repairs as she is unable to work full time due to the kids’ medical needs.”

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Scammers pose as Sheriff ’s Office staff The Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office has received several calls regarding scammers posing as law enforcement to steal money and personal information, according to an office spokesperson. The scammer calls potential victims pretending to be an employee of the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office, such as

“Sgt. Jones” or “Sgt. Smith.” The caller claims that the victim has missed jury duty and provides a false tracking number for a warrant. The victim is then instructed to contact a “bondsman” who claims to run the tracking numbers to confirm the victim’s charges and how much money is owed. Typically, the

caller says the victim owes two charges of $250, or $500 per victim. Victims are asked to get MoneyPak cards and then provide the PIN to the bondsman. In many cases, the caller leaves an automated message with a phone number for the Stafford County Courthouse. When the scammer calls the

victim back, the number that appears is the Stafford Sheriff ’s Office’s non-emergency number—540-658-4400. Anyone who has received a suspicious call or believes they may be a victim of a law enforcement impersonation scam should immediately contact the Sheriff ’s Office by calling 540-658-4400.

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The house of Brian Gallagher and family, wife Shannon and kids Brady and Bridget, lights up the neighborhood around Mountain View and Choptank roads during the holiday season. While there is no official count on the number of bulbs in the display, Gallagher starts to assemble the presentation around Thanksgiving. Since the move to LED lights, the hit to the electric bill is about $100. ALEKS DOLZENKO | INSIDENOVA

STAFFORD BRIEFS NURSING GRADUATE SPEAKS AT GERMANNA COMMENCEMENT Germanna Community College nursing graduate Cindy Tyler of Stafford was the student speaker at the school’s fall 2017 nursing pinning and commencement. The event took place Dec. 14 at the CINDY TYLER University of Mary Washington’s Anderson Center. Tyler is a 39-year-old mother of two who had been a stay-at-home mom. New GCC President Janet Gullickson was the keynote speaker at the event.

Streich is a former elementary classroom teacher and served as assistive technology coordinator in Stafford County Public Schools during the early 2000s. She moved on to director of growth and innovation for Spotsylvania County Public Schools and later returned to Stafford. For more, visit staffordschools.net.

STREICH RECEIVES EDUCATION HONOR Jan Streich, executive director of learning and organizational development of Stafford County Public Schools, was recently honored with a “Making IT Happen” jacket for her contribution to the successful inte- JAN STREICH gration of technology in education in k−12 schools. The award is provided by the International Society for Technology in Education, through which the Virginia Society for Technology in Education is an affiliate.

STUDENTS NAMED TO CHAMPLAIN DEAN’S LIST Two local students have been named to the Champlain College dean’s list for achieving a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher in the fall semester. The students include Simone Early and Leah Pope, both of Stafford. For more, visit champlain.edu.

STAFFORD RESIDENT NAMED TO ELMIRA COLLEGE’S DEAN’S LIST Emily Green of Stafford has been named to the Elmira College dean’s list for the fall term. Full-time students who achieve a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher at the end of any term are placed on the dean’s list at the college. Elmira College is located in Elmira, New York. For more information, visit Elmira.edu.

STAFFORD RESIDENT GRADUATES FROM TROY UNIVERSITY Marybeth Rutz of Stafford has graduated from Troy University during term one of the 2017-2018 academic year. Rutz graduated with the master’s degree in public administration. Troy University is baed in Troy, Alabama. For more information, visit Troy.edu.

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A morning with Santa Breakfast with Santa at Rockhill Volunteer Fire Department brought out about 70 people for pancakes and eggs, and a visit with Santa at the firehouse on Dec. 23. Along with getting a photo with Santa in his sleigh, children wrote letters in time for Christmas and got coloring books and junior firefighter hats.

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Last season as a sophomore, Marco Haskins was one of the top scorers for Chowan, a Division II college basketball program in North Carolina. But after the 2016-17 campaign was complete, he decided it was time to transfer. “One of the main reasons was I felt I [had] built up a good enough resume to show to Division I schools I could play at a higher level. That was my first thought,” he said. But he did not get much attention from Division I schools. “That is when I started turning to Division II schools,” said the Colonial Forge High graduate. And more specifically he decided to target some of the top Division II basketball programs on the East Coast. He attracted some interest from Lincoln Memorial in Tennessee and Queen’s in North Carolina. He eventually landed at Wingate, a strong Division II program near Charlotte, North Carolina. “It has gone pretty well so far. We are on a two-game winning streak going into the Christmas break,” he said last week, after returning home to Stafford for the holidays. Haskins started the first 12 games for Wingate and averaged 13.3 points per contest.

That was the second-best mark on the team after Zerig Lolar (13.9), the team’s other 3-point outside threat. Junior guard Haskins made 30 of his first 78 3-point shots while Lolar was 35 of 89, a percentage of 39.3. Wingate was 6-6 overall and 4-1 in the tough South Atlantic Conference in its first 12 games. “It is a lot tougher,” he said of the new conference when compared to Chowan and the CIAA. How is he used on the court? “Kind of like the same role” as last season, he said. “I am little more free to handle the ball.” Wingate is in the same conference as Lincoln Memorial and Queens, ranked nationally in the top four at the Division II level earlier this month. Wingate hosts Mount Olive on Dec. 30 in a non-conference game. Haskins is a key upperclassmen for the Bulldogs. “As an upperclassman I have to take a role and lead by example,” said Haskins, who is majoring in criminal justice. “I try to teach and lead some of the younger guards.”

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Brown steps down as head coach at Colonial Forge

connection for several more years, it appears. Devin Ravenel, a senior wide receiver at North Stafford High, committed to play for the Dukes in the 2018 season. He was an all-region player this fall as a senior and is the brother of Brandon Ravenel, a former all-CAA player at JMU as a wideout. The Dukes will play for a second straight national title on Jan. 6 against North Dakota State in Texas. The roster includes three products of Stafford County high schools, including senior defensive lineman David Ezeagwu. “Devin was very impressive in camp last summer. He has great height and a lot of range. He tracks the bally very well and he comes from a family we know very well. I expect him to be really good for us,” JMU head coach Mike Houston said a statement released by JMU.

Colonial Forge High School graduate Marco Haskins moved from Chowan to Wingate, which has a strong Division II program near Charlotte, North Carolina. SUBMITTED

STAFFORD RESIDENT WITH COPPIN STATE Camille Downs (Colonial Forge) is a freshman guard on the women’s basketball team at Division I Coppin State, a Baltimore school in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). She played in the first game of the season against Baylor but injured her Achil-

les heel and has not played since then. The Eagles lost 113-49 at home Dec. 20 to the University of Maryland, ranked no. 15 in the country at the time. Coppin State begins MEAC play Jan. 3 at Norfolk State. David Driver can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

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Bill Brown informed his players Dec. 20 he is stepping down as Colonial Forge’s head football coach after 11 seasons. Brown, a member of the Virginia High School League Hall of Fame, led the Eagles to a 12-1 record this season spot in the 6A state semifinals, where they lost to Oscar Smith 27-20 in double overtime. He finishes with a 108-36 record at Colonial Forge in 11 seasons. The 66-year-old Brown said the biggest reason for leaving as head coach was his desire to no longer work at Colonial Forge beyond coaching. “I’m not stepping down,” Brown said. “It’s more stepping back.” When Brown took the head coaching job, the principal asked that that person work at the school. Brown understood and served in the security department. “It seems like the absolute right time,” Brown said. “Not being at the school doing security, that’s a huge part of this.” Brown said a number of his assistants, including his son John, are interested in applying for the job. Brown said he wants to stay on an assistant coach. “This extends my career, it doesn’t end it,” Brown said. “When they put a nail in the top of the coffin will be the day I stop coaching.” Brown said Colonial Forge is bringing plenty of talent back, including off a junior

Bill Brown went 108-36 in 11 seasons at Colonial Forge.

varsity squad that went 9-0 and scored over 400 points. “The cupboard won’t be bare,” Brown said. Colonial Forge was Brown’s third school as a head football coach. He started the programs at Potomac and Hylton high schools. He won two Group AAA Division 6 titles at Hylton in 1998 and 1999. Brown, a Gar-Field High School graduate who lives in Stafford, left Hylton following the 2001 season to get into administration to improve his retirement. He was eventually named principal at Forest Park High School. In his 20 seasons coaching at Potomac and Hylton, he posted a combined 173-60-1 record with five total state final appearances (two with Potomac, three with Hylton). David Fawcett is the sports editor at InsideNoVa.com. Reach him at dfawcett@insidenova.com

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Legal Notices TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 51 Arrowhead Drive Stafford, VA 22556 In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $224,490.00, dated April 20, 2012, recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Stafford County on April 23, 2012, as Instrument Number 120007667, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Stafford County, 1300 Courthouse Rd, Stafford, VA on January 5, 2018 at 10:45 AM, the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: ALL THAT certain lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Rock Hill District, Stafford County, Virginia, and designated as Lot 24, Section C, LAKE ARROWHEAD Subdivision, as it appears duly platted and recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Stafford County, Virginia, in Plat Book 2, Page 118. LESS AND EXCEPT 298 square feet lying and being on the aforesaid lot or parcel of land as shown on a plat of survey entitled ‘’Plat of a Proposal Addition to the FeeSimple Right of Way for Streets in Lake Arrowhead Subdivision being a Portion of Lot 24 in Section C, presently owned by John A. and Brenda R. Craddock,’’ made by John B. Vance, Jr., L.S. November 18, 1985, revised August 9, 1989, recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office, in Deed Book 764 at Page 804 - 806. Tax ID: 8B-C-24.

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In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $307,200.00, dated November 21, 2014, recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Stafford County on January 21, 2015, as Instrument Number 150001057, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Stafford County, 1300 Courthouse Rd, Stafford, VA on January 5, 2018 at 10:45 AM, the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: LOT 3, SECTION 1, STAFFORD LANDING, AS THE SAME IS DULY DEDICATED IN INSTRUMENT 130000208, NAD AS SHOWN ON A PLAT AT INSTRUMENT NUMBER 130000001, RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Tax ID: 45V-1-3.

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