Archive for January, 2010

Tim Jon here for the Blue Ridge Leader. Let’s get to it.
“What a dump (-ing)!”
Well, if the fact that it snowed yesterday comes as news to you, it’s probably too late to give you the details, but: personal observances can attest to anywhere from six to eight inches of very powdery covering out… »

Each year, Purcellville Baptist Church (PBC) opens its doors to high school students to spend the weekend learning about discipleship and participate in various community service projects. However, this year on February 5 -7, PBC will be merging with Hamilton Baptist Church and Blue Ridge Bible Church for the event, Disciple Now, or… »

January 25, the Board of Supervisor’s Transportation/Land Use Committee, at the suggestion of Supervisors Kurtz and York, recommended lighting the ball fields at Franklin Park, west of Purcellville, using, in part, the money currently allocated for ball field lighting at Scott Jenkins Memorial Park.
Some committee members expressed concern about whether the lights at Jenkins Park… »

*As spoken at the American Geophysical Union 2009 Fall Meeting 14–18 December, San Francisco, California. These remarks reflect the personal opinions of B.D. Santer. They do not represent the official views of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or the U.S. Department of Energy.
We live in extraordinary scientific and political times.
Over the course of less than a… »

We have to be quick about this. Seriously, he’s just around the corner and I don’t want him to hear us talking about him. Why, February of course! You know how conceited he is. So full of himself with pride for being the shortest month of the year. The truth… »

The Loudoun County Republican Committee is sponsoring the Ronald Regan Lecture Series. The first lecture will take place February 3, 2010 and will feature Bill Kristol. “The Case For Limiting Government As Specified In the Constitution” will begin at 7:30 in Sterling. The address is AVCom Visual Arts, 45965 Nokes Boulevard, Steling,… »

Who doesn’t enjoy seeing the mechanisms of a watch — those miniature wheels creasing through one other in the intricate dance of a perfect tick-tock-tick? Taking in a professional production of Shear Madness — like the one that’s been playing at the Kennedy Center’s Theater Lab for over 20 years — is to see inside… »

News for Sunday morning, January 24, 2010
Good Morning! Tim Jon here for the Blue Ridge Leader.
Dollar Signs and Decimal Points
Seven hundred sixty-four million: $764,000,000; however you look at it, that’s a lotta money. That’s how much the local schools are asking for in the next budget cycle, after the School Board adopted their latest fiscal… »

As people enter the gates of Loudoun Valley High School’s track they hand over a pair of used shoes and begin to walk around the track—barefoot—along with others similarly shoeless. This is the sight that Valley’s International Service Club hopes to witness on May 15 for their project, The Barefoot Mile.
The International Service Club board,… »

Two Grammy Award-winning performers, David Hardy and Lambert Orkis, will present a classical music program at the Third Annual Candlelight Concert in Upperville on Sunday, February 21 at 4:00 p.m. Both Hardy and Orkis are members of the National Symphony Orchestra and have been performing together since 1983. The concert will feature music from Beethoven,… »

Not Just Shakespeare, Inc. will perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, on Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6, at 8:00 p.m. A matinee performance will be held on Sunday, February 7, at 2:00 p.m., at the Franklin Park Performing and Visual Arts Center in Purcellville. The show, directed by David Sturdevant, will… »

“During the industrial period (1850–2000) solar forcing became less important and only the CO2 concentrations show a significant correlation with the temperature record.” [Eichler, 2009]
“If the role of internal variability in the climate system is as large as this analysis would seem to suggest, warming over the 21st century may well be larger than that… »

In August and December of 2009 the Town of Purcellville, without county participation, annexed four properties that, by their own admission, were outside of the Phase I annexation area outlined in PUGAMP (Purcellville Urban Growth Area Management Plan). The county objected to those annexations as being in violation of PUGAMP and the Annexation Agreement… »

As my junior year progresses, the pressure to get accepted to college is stronger than ever. With the college application process in the near future, my fellow students and I are striving to hold ourselves to certain standards that most colleges look for. The vast majority of colleges look not only for… »

Yesterday being Martin Luther King Jr. Day I wanted to do something with the kids to help them connect with some of the ideas of King. I can talk endlessly, but at a certain point they tune me out. Sometimes there’s no substitute for going out and doing. I attended Leesburg’s 18th… »