Generals win at Front Royal
Story by Chris Graham
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Cody Hudson had three hits and two RBI, and Daniel Bradshaw pitched into the eighth inning as Waynesboro rolled past Front Royal 9-6 Thursday night.
WaynesboroGenerals.com has the story.
Jim Bishop: Cheesy jokes-It’s as gouda as it gets
Column by Jim Bishop
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“Cheese it, the cops!”
Now, where did that phrase originate? Did a bunch of dudes get caught while breaking into the refrigerated section of a super market?
Fortunately – I guess – a quick Google search provides this cheesy explanation:
“Cheese it!” was a popular expression in the 19th century, usually a warning from one person to another to stop their current activity because a policeman was approaching. The expression was used in English slang by at least the 1810s and quickly came to America” – Barry Popik, The Big Apple (www.barrypopik.com).
At any rate, fromage to you, my first (and likely last) attempt to sit right down and write myself a Cheddar on the subject of cheese. Herman Muenster would be proud . . . Read more
Chris DeWald: Skin cancer
Column by Chris DeWald
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It has been a while since I have written or submitted a post. I shall touch on a serious matter that might affect us all and more with those with light skin. In the past, I have had skin cancerous cells removed, and just had a recent visit again. Since it now seems the sun has been strong in the Staunton area lately, it was time to move my fingers again in type.
With the help of www.skincancer.org/Skin-Cancer-Facts, I found some good information. Some need-to-know issues are as follows:
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. More than 3.5 million cases in 2 million people are diagnosed annually.
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon. Read more
Jenny Hypes: When I grow up …
Column by Jenny Hypes
jenny.hypes@emu.edu
In early elementary school, I was dead set on becoming a doctor, until I found out math and science were priorities. After giving up on my lifelong dream, I decided being a Spice Girl was the next best thing. Although they were not particularly good singers, they had great accents and were in a fantastic movie, “Spice World.” Truth be told I still have not completely given up on that dream especially after their, to me, brilliant reunion tour.
It was around fourth grade that I came back to reality and decided that I needed to become something that I would really enjoy and that was practical. I knew I loved music and dancing, so obviously my best option would be to become Cuban. Read more
Drilling in the Valley
Millions of gallons of water are used to literally fracture the earth to get at the natural gas below. And below is the operative word – hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, as it’s commonly called, aims at natural-gas reserves anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 feet beneath the earth’s surface.
The good news is that natural gas is potentially a steady source of bridge fuel as our nation moves away from oil and toward renewable energies. The bad news is, well, if we don’t do it right, we could turn our own backyard into a wasteland en route.
“In the current climate, with the lack of any kind of adequate state or federal regulation, it would be absolutely not responsible now to do it. Whether or not someday in the future technology will be developed and safeguards will be in place, and best-management practices will be developed so that we can extract natural gas in a safe, responsible manner, I don’t know. I hope that we will, because it could be an important domestic source of energy. But at this point, I can say with certainty that the regulations are not in place to make it a responsible thing to do,” said Kate Wofford, the executive director of the Shenandoah Valley Network, a Luray-based community group that has been working to raise awareness of facts relative to hydrofracking. Read more
Generals give back
Trio share book, experiences with students at Berkeley Glenn
Story by Jenny Hypes
jenny.hypes@emu.edu
Never give up when things get rough. That was the moral of the story in the book Wilma Unlimited, read by three members of the Waynesboro Generals baseball team to a group of fourth- and fifth-grade students at Berkeley Glenn Elementary School.
WaynesboroGenerals.com has the story.
Kratz gets The Call
Story by James De Boer
EMU sports: www.emu.edu
Eight years after graduating from Eastern Mennonite University, Erik Kratz finally got the call he wanted – the call to the big leagues.
Kratz, who played for the Waynesboro Generals in 2000, has patiently worked his way through baseball’s minor leagues before getting his big call during Wednesday’s Triple-A All-Star game in Allentown, Pa., just 45 minutes from his hometown in Telford, Pa. He is now a full-fledged member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, becoming part of a select crew of former Royals to play at the top level of their professional sport.
WaynesboroGenerals.com has the story.
Webb: ‘Clarity’ needed on Afghanistan strategy
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said this week during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that, in its congressionally-mandated December report, Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, the Obama administration “must provide us some clarity, not only as to specific programs, but as to what their policies are expected to accomplish in a larger sense.”
“The argument that we are in Afghanistan because of 9/11 is true only in the sense that the presence of international terrorists inside Afghanistan at that time illuminated the overall threat,” Webb said. “International terrorism is by its very nature mobile, with the capability to operate in many areas, as we know well. Read more
Cuccinelli joins group backing Arizona immigration law
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has joined a coalition of nine states filing an amicus brief in federal court supporting Arizona’s new immigration reform law.
“In creating immigration laws over the years, Congress created a joint federal-state cooperative immigration enforcement program,” Cuccinelli said in a statement released on Wednesday. “States merely report the immigration status of persons they have lawfully detained to the federal government. They do not make determinations regarding deportation, as that is a federal matter. While much of border enforcement is left to the federal government, federal law expressly allows states to arrest people who are not legally present in the United States. Arizona’s law doesn’t change any of this. That’s why we are stunned that the government has sued Arizona.” Read more
In line at the new Chick-fil-A
Story by Jenny Hypes
Photo Slideshow by Chris Graham
It’s Wednesday morning, 5:30 a.m., and there are 255 people outside the new Chick-fil-A in Waynesboro.
One hundred of them won a raffle to hang around for the next 24 hours for the chance at 52 sandwich meals, a Chick-fil-A meal a week for the next year.
The scene at the Waynesboro Town Center was organized chaos. Upon arriving at the site you are greeted with tents filling both sides of the parking lot, a dunk tank and foursquare. Some of those on hand were trying to stay cool by sitting in their tents playing cards, others were riding scooters.
Not only were there locals braving the heat, but there were also people from different parts of the state and country. Liz Cady was there with some of her friends and family from Fairfax to enjoy their first Chick-fil-A opening. Heidi Jenkins, a former Waynesboro resident now living in Northern Virgina, is here with her brother celebrating their third store opening together. Read more
McAuliffe: ‘I want to keep all of my options open’
Is Terry McAuliffe running for something? Well, not technically, but he is traveling with the former executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, Levar Stoney, who now works for him in a sort of nebulous role that doesn’t have Stoney as a political aide, per se, but …
And McAuliffe didn’t begin his talk at a meeting of the Staunton Democratic Committee Tuesday night with politics, but rather what he’s doing in the business world, which is trying to build electric cars.
And McAuliffe, being McAuliffe, who once wrestled an alligator for a political contribution for a candidate that he was working for, is as gung-ho about the electric-car thing as he is anything political.
But he is still Terry McAuliffe.
“I want to keep all of my options open,” said McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chair and 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate, who you’d have to think is on the short list of top contenders for the next Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination after the beatdown that was handed to the state ticket in ’09 left a short bench for the party heading into the ’13 election cycle. Read more
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The World According To ChrisGraham.com: Gotta Change moments
Posted on July 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
First, the May election thing. Gotta Change. I know the arguments in favor of May. The people who vote in May are at least paying attention. A November election can lose the local races in the shuffle.
I call BS. The tradeoff is that we have 2,500 people in a city of 22,000 calling the shots.
Link to column on TheWorldAccordingToChrisGraham.com.
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