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          <title>Area woman eyes disc golf glory</title>
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Dee Proffitt searches for the right driver to get her off the first tee and within putting distance.


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          <title>Area men building up Four Miler of their own</title>
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On Saturday, at 8:30 a.m., a bunch of guys will gather at the University of Virginia track to prove that what women have done, men can do in a similar, if not more competitive, manner.
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          <title>Hockey moms a splintered voting block</title>
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The Snickers bars are in the bag with the Gatorade and pads, and the skates and sticks are in place, making it time for the newest political lobby to caucus.
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          <title>The most crucial&#8212;and rushed&#8212;meal of the day</title>
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The turgid coffeehouse ad evokes Rockwellian images of rounding out &#8220;the day&#8217;s first moments with a cup of coffee &#8212; expertly blended and roasted, offering flavors that mingle delightfully with your meal.&#8221;
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          <title>Tasty meal puts food on other tables, too</title>
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It&#8217;s a weekend morning and Terri Petrovits offers up a family meal while the Barracks Road Shopping Center fountain bubbles nearby.
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          <title>Powerful gospel kick&#45;starts charity effort</title>
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The harmonious verve of strongly sung gospel surges through the State Farm headquarters hallway leading toward the company cafeteria.
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          <title>Retired, architect never stopped living</title>
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He came because the area was a good place to retire, and he stayed because he loved it.
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          <title>Hanna, Ike, Josephine are unfriendly visitors</title>
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If the weather-heads and their end-of-week predications are correct, Hanna is pouring on your personal, private parade even as you read this.


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          <title>For rapper, creativity comes in many forms</title>
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Sense it in the music, feel it in the video, hear it in the book; Derek Perkins wants the beat of his life, the tone of his philosophy to come through.
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          <title>Area must adapt to straying wildlife</title>
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Seven deer &#8212; impudent impediments ignoring traffic&#8217;s horns &#8212; dined on carefully manicured landscape as the quick red fox sprang across the road, yipped a pup-squeak and disappeared into the brush.
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          <title>An approachable icon: Remembering LeRoi Moore</title>
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The horn lies silent and the reeds are still, but LeRoi Moore&#8217;s music lives in the hearts of others.
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          <title>Epilepsy event born out of gratitude</title>
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If you can expect a seven-fold investment on your giving, the Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia has seen a return of truly biblical proportions.
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          <title>&#8216;Tropic Thunder&#8217; a reminder words do hurt</title>
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They&#8217;ve been segregated, medicated, sedated, institutionalized, sterilized and demonized for nearly as long as people have claimed to be civilized.
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          <title>Donating not a bad addiction to have</title>
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Jim McVay has a problem with giving; he can&#8217;t stop.
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          <title>The Elks Lodge is heavily defended this weekend</title>
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From where Vaughn Wagnon stands &#8212; about five feet deep &#8212; the Germans don&#8217;t have a chance of taking the Elks Lodge.
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          <title>As economy sours, nonprofits hit the airwaves</title>
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When the milk of human kindness is curdled by a sour economy, nonprofits must scramble to get their message out and keep donations coming in.


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          <title>When a city overshadows the county</title>
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Mama must have always liked Charlottesville best: In the continuing sibling rivalry with its sister, Albemarle continues to get second billing.
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          <title>Share a slice of pizza with Andrew Baber</title>
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Back in May, more than 10,500 people walked into the Thomas Jefferson Food Bank in need of something to eat.
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          <title>Wounded veterans get day on the town</title>
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Wash the Volvo, put on your clean jeans and, for crying out loud, comb your hair. We&#8217;re having guests down from the nation&#8217;s capital.
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          <title>A changing county calls for a reinvented fair</title>
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A rural, agrarian-based cultural affair located in a community that&#8217;s becoming ever more urban and urbane must work hard to stay relevant.
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          <title>For bird volunteers, a bond is broken</title>
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&#8216;Violating her trust&#8217;Like a boy with his dog, Andrew Neilson and Cookie the macaw have a bond that even a novice can notice. That bond was officially broken Friday when Cookie, and 30 other macaws temporarily housed at the Central Virginia Parrot Sanctuary, were inspected, documented and returned to their original owners.
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          <title>Can you help out in time of emergency?</title>
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When the fan&#8217;s hit, the trees are down and the power out, society divides into those who can help and those who need it.
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          <title>Air Patrol builds character from ground up</title>
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Local teens in the Civil Air Patrol are trained in ground search and rescue, and appreciate the focus and discipline the organization has taught them.
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Drive beyond the &#8220;dog crossing&#8221; sign, past the concrete cow and yield to the careening golf cart crammed with laughing children as it crosses the driveway, and you will arrive at Bocce Camp.
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          <title>Machine gun fire? No problem. But public speaking?</title>
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Attacked by vicious butterflies, Carl D. Proffitt Jr. cured his anxiety over leading Monticello&#8217;s Fourth of July celebration through the Pledge of Allegiance by shaking hands with President Bush, providing a crisp salute and receiving one in return.
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It was an exciting weekend of patriotic fervor with a presidential appearance, minting of new citizens, protests and other fireworks.
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Monticello&#8217;s Fourth of July presidential event was a success for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, a feel-good opportunity for the president and a lesson in losing friends and influencing your enemies for shouting protesters.
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          <title>If you can&#8217;t kill the flame, at least be cautious</title>
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Hey, you! Touching that flaming butane torch to that battery of bottle rockets is not only unsafe, it&#8217;s illegal.
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          <title>&#8216;Deserving Christian youth&#8217; net a grand for college</title>
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There are many ways to get into college, from hitting a ball or tackling a large man running at full speed to studying hard to reciting poetry while wearing a beret and smoking a fancy French cigarette.
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          <title>Depression led local runner to get help</title>
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A hundred years ago, when human relationships were free of carefully crafted propaganda and peer pressure to purchase proper designer duds, emotions were easier to moderate.
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Olivia Heide&#8217;s Memorial Day lemonade stand started as a lesson in caring and kindness but wound up a primer on gratitude and appreciation.
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I just made a deposit in my spiritual future.
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          <title>A strong connection leads to easy kidney donation</title>
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Ann Hanna is missing a kidney, Tommy Eavers has it and everyone is fine with that, thank you very much.
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The handwriting is shaky around the edges, but clear and to the point.

After 11 years, Wilbert Trusgo Farrar is still grateful for the police officer and rescue squad personnel that saved his life.
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George Garrett wrote like a man.&nbsp;
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It looked like a big, yellow Greene County school bus, but to Brenda and Aubrey Roach it was God&#8217;s own blessing.
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While most of Middle America yanked ivy out of the yard or grilled brats to go with the potato salad, 6-year-old Olivia Heide sold cookies, lemonade and American flag pins outside a gas station.
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Growling like an angry stomach, the bulbous monster hovered, hissed and fell from the sky, coming straight at Cider, who barked warnings until his fight-or-flight instincts ran toward run.
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Rocketing gas prices are keeping tourists home, jacking up food costs and threatening hungry shut-ins with skipped meals.
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No breakers break, the beach is trucked in every few years and any white caps are a sign to vacate the shoreline, but there&#8217;s still something soothing about Chris Greene Lake.
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&#8220;People enjoy it, here. They have fun and that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about,&#8221; says David Dollins, sultan of the Albemarle County Parks and Recreation Department&#8217;s northern district. &#8220;They can bring the kids and hang out in the sun on the beach or go into the shade of the woods.&#8221;
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If the sofa won&#8217;t fit next to the new sheepskin in the Jeep Cherokee, don&#8217;t worry, the Salvation Army is waiting around the corner to take up your burden.
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The old folks are all right.

The upcoming generation of Monticello High School journalists got a chance to meet their grandparents&#8217; generation up close and personal as students photographed and interviewed local seniors for the Leadership Charlottesville-sponsored publication &#8220;Voices Through Time.&#8221;


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Dressed as she is, for business, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that a few short hours ago Linnea Saby was pushing pedals 25 miles across western Albemarle County to the Renaissance School in downtown Charlottesville.
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What to get a shelter for battered women and children as a housewarming gift is not the kind of question you mull every morning, but there are some local folks who hope you&#8217;ll consider it soon.
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Next to the feed store at the corner of Church and Main, right near the Sheriff&#8217;s Office and catty-corner from the DMV, a faux brick walkway meanders through a small park with wrought iron arches sporting iron vines entwined to spell &#8220;Beasley Park.&#8221;
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In front of the Charlottesville Police Department, set in a bed of flowers, a monument dedicated last week testifies to the dedication and sacrifice of the city&#8217;s law enforcement officers who died on duty.

But less than a half-block away, in the alley between the department and the Market Street Parking Garage, an act of heroism committed nearly 25 years ago goes unmarked.
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Tonight, as the tribes gather at their respective high schools for the annual pageantry of prom and the hordes thunder after Foxfield&#8217;s day at the races, think straight and right for you don&#8217;t want to be too wrong.
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Impoverished fiscally, physically or emotionally, women, men and children throughout the world and even in the commonwealth are being exploited, and the Sexual Assault Resource Agency wants to do something about it.


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Some 65 University of Virginia student-athletes will gather at the Mad Bowl on Sunday, but don&#8217;t worry about a potential sudden increase in crime; they&#8217;re just raising money and awareness for cancer research.
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I made time stand still for the young teen behind the counter, shutting down his universe by paying my $3 tab with a bill and a coin that made exact change.
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They&#8217;re painting and hammering, priming and coating, from the sanctuary to the classrooms to basement fellowship hall to better suit their mission.
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The Germans have a saying: Aus Schaden wird man klug.

No one exemplified that proverb, &#8220;sorrow and pain makes one wiser,&#8221; more than Bernhard Leipelt, who went from Hitler Youth and Wehrmacht officer in World War II to a Charlottesville social activist in his retirement.
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This animal, so dangerous that in Denver it would be confiscated and killed upon discovery, sniffs my pant leg.

It&#8217;s a pit bull named Zena, like the warrior princess, but spelled with a Z because she&#8217;s so much cooler. The breed is one of the most popular in Our Fair City with nigh unto as many pits as hounds awaiting adoption at the SPCA to prove it
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It took 100 years, but Lou Pinto left nothing undone.

He grew up hardscrabble and poor in Hell&#8217;s Kitchen, in the long shadow cast by professional baseball&#8217;s famous Bronx Bombers, the New York Yankees of the 1920s. He played a little major league ball himself. He raised a family. He retired. He moved to Charlottesville and re-established his life as a sportsman and a volunteer.

Last week, only three months after reaching his 100th birthday, he moved on again, leaving this life for what comes next.

&#8220;What I&#8217;ll always remember him for is the way he gave of himself. He was always smiling, always positive,&#8221; remembered Liz Courain, volunteer coordinator at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where Mr. Pinto offered his services for nearly a quarter of a century. &#8220;He was just a tremendous bright spot in our lives.&#8221;

Mr. Pinto always looked on the bright side and found positive messages in things others might consider failure.
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At home, in bed, at work, school or church, there is no safety and no one is to be completely trusted. That&#8217;s the price women, men and children often pay as sexual assault victims.
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When a grown man pulls a teenaged boy into the woods and sexually assaults him, it has a profound and long-lasting impact on that boy&#8217;s life. Joe Williamson can attest to that.


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I was just about to get my throttle on when I looked in my mirror and saw a black-and-white pull in behind me.
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The penny: Is there no end to its power?
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Jenny Gardiner sits in Milano Espresso Gelato stirring a foam-covered, latte-like, fancy coffee drink sprinkled with cinnamon, a drink keeping with her fancy new status.
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