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When lawmen were alerted to the possibility of an active shooter at Eastern View High School on Monday, all on-duty Culpeper police officers responded.
Once it was established there was no active threat, police officers and detectives diverted to all public and private schools in town to ensure the safety of students. Officers stayed at those schools until the lockdowns were lifted and students released.
Tuesday morning, the Police Department received a thank-you note and breakfast for officers from Yowell Elementary School Principal Fiscus. The note was shared with staff, and placed in the roll-call room. ‘#GratefulToBeAHelper,’ Culpeper police posted.
Arthur Wholey is the REC’s new director of operational and construction services.
Small craft beverage makers from Warrenton to Culpeper to Madison to Fredericksburg to Mineral will gather on Short Street in downtown Orange noon-6 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 24 to kick off the autumn season.
OrangetoberFest, the brainchild of brewery owners Steve and Zach Speelman, is an inaugural event designed to showcase the many styles of small craft beverages being manufactured in Central Virginia.
As owners of Iron Pipe Alewerks in Orange, the father-son team has worked in the craft beer market and brewery scene for nearly a decade, and their relationship with other brewers and cider makers in Virginia’s Piedmont inspired them to create this event to celebrate their craft, according to a release.
Participating in the event sponsored by Orange Downtown Alliance will be: Altered Suds Beer Company (Warrenton), Death Ridge Brewery (Jeffersonton), Old Trade Brewery and Cidery (Brandy Station), Beer Hound (Culpeper), Far Gohn (Culpeper), Old House Brewery (Culpeper County), 6 Bears and a Goat (Stafford), Maltese Brewing (Fredericksburg), 1781 Brewing (Spotsylvania County), Shotwell Run (Etlan), Bald Top Brewing (Madison), WAR Craft Brewing (Culpeper County), Son of a Bear Cider (Rapidan), Unionville Brewing (Orange County), Patch Brewing (Gordonsville), Castle Hill Cider (Keswick) and Southern Revere (Mineral). Each brewery and cidery will offer two styles of beverage.
Live music will be by vocalist/guitarist James Tamelcoff followed by AP Project and Hazel River Bridge Band playing folk, rock, bluegrass and everything in between.
Food will be available from Spoon & Spindle (Orange), Provisions Market Table (Orange), Barbara’s Soul Food on Wheels (Orange) and Cap’n Corbin’s (Orange/Culpeper). In addition, a new Orange restaurant will debut its fare – The Main Street Tavern.
Senior dinners hosted by Morrison Healthcare are back at UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center on Sunset Lane.
Meals are in-person or grab-and-go from 4-6 p.m. every Thursday for age 55 and older. Enter through the main entrance and check in with guest services. For information or to make a reservation, contact 540/827-7546.
Designer Leslie Geer will help attendees welcome the season and all things harvest-y at the Succulent Pumpkin Workshop at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Botanical Dwellings, 404 S. Main St. in Culpeper. Adorable baby pumpkins topped with living succulents, dried flowers, preserved moss and other botanical bits. Long lasting and easy to care for, they will bring cheer to every holiday occasion.
Registration instruction, one 5 inch pumpkin, up to 5 succulent cuttings, a selection of dried flowers and botanical bits, and moss.
The George Washington Carver Regional High School Alumni Association is bringing back the 2nd Annual Black Business Expo.
Interested businesses and community groups are invited to sign up. The 2nd Annual networking community festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Carver Center, 9432 James Madison Highway .
Contact blkexpoinfo@gmail.com for registration form and information.
Powell Wellness Center will host a wellness fair 4-7 p.m. Sept. 29 on site at 1005 Golf Dr. in Culpeper. The event is free and open to the public.
Flu shots & COVID bivalent boosters will be offered by Remington Drug Company. Blood pressure screenings will be offered by the Germanna Community College nursing program. Representatives from Aging Together, Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services, UVA Health and Wagner Hearing Aid of Culpeper will share information on wellness services, with a focus on supporting the needs of adults 50 & older.
Community members are invited to drop in; no registration needed.
Questions? wpropps@culpeperwellness.org or 540/445-5388.
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative has promoted Arthur Wholey to Director of Operational and Construction Services.
He will oversee system operations, including coordinating mutual aid during major outages, managing dispatch of field crews during restoration efforts, and transmission outage planning. He oversees communications between all substations and the centralized system operations center, load management efforts, crew radio communications, aerial line patrols, pole and facility inspections, line extensions, and the drone program, according to a company release.
Wholey began his REC career in the metering department as a meter tester in 2017 and later that year became a distribution dispatcher, working with field crews to safely and efficiently dispatch crews during outages.
In February 2021, Wholey was promoted to System Operations Supervisor.
“Mr. Wholey has been a critical team member at REC as he’s worked his way up the System Operations Department,” said John Crawford, Managing Director, Safety, Physical Security & Operational Support Services. “His knowledge of REC’s system will continue to support the Cooperative and its members in his new role.”
Wholey holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Liberty University. He is a member of the Bowling Green Volunteer Fire Dept. since 2009 and is currently fire chief. Wholey resides in the Town of Bowling Green with his wife, Meghan, an ER nurse.
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When lawmen were alerted to the possibility of an active shooter at Eastern View High School on Monday, all on-duty Culpeper police officers responded.
Once it was established there was no active threat, police officers and detectives diverted to all public and private schools in town to ensure the safety of students. Officers stayed at those schools until the lockdowns were lifted and students released.
Tuesday morning, the Police Department received a thank-you note and breakfast for officers from Yowell Elementary School Principal Fiscus. The note was shared with staff, and placed in the roll-call room. ‘#GratefulToBeAHelper,’ Culpeper police posted.
Arthur Wholey is the REC’s new director of operational and construction services.
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