UPCOMING MEETINGS & NOTICES–
• Thursday, September 29, 2022: Town Council, Planning Commission & Historic District Review Board Joint Work Session, 6:30 PM.
• Tuesday, October 4, 2022: Planning Commission Regular Meeting, 6:00 PM.
• Wednesday, October 5, 2022: Town Hall Meeting re: Potential Sale of Utility System, 6:30 PM.
• Thursday, October 6, 2022: Public Forum re: Comprehensive Plan, 6:30 PM.
• Saturday, October 8, 2022: Town Hall Meeting re: Potential Sale of Utility System, 2:00 PM
• Monday, October 10, 2022: Town Offices closed in observance of State holiday for Columbus Day & Yorktown Victory Day
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022: Library Board Meeting, 5:00 PM, at the Cape Charles Memorial Library.
• Tuesday, October 18, 2022: Historic District Review Board Meeting, 5:00 PM.
• Thursday, October 20, 2022: Town Council Public Hearing & Regular Meeting, 6:30 PM.
• Thursday, October 27, 2022: Town Council & Planning Commission Joint Work Session, 6:30 PM
UPCOMING EVENTS IN CAPE CHARLES–
• 09/28/2022: Second Annual Ice Cream Social with Town Council, 6:30 – 8:00 PM, Strawberry Street Plaza
• 10/19/2022: Cape Charles Rotary Club’s Candidates’ Forum, Cape Charles Civic Center
• 10/29/2022: First Annual Halloween Hootenanny, 1:00 – 4:00 PM
• 10/29/2022: Cape Charles Main Street Creepy Crawl, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Beginning Beekeeping Course Nov 5th
Did you ever want to learn the art of beekeeping? Now is your chance. The Beekeepers Guild of the Eastern Shore is holding a two day class is to provide training, and educate anyone who would like to become a beekeeper.
The classes will be held on two Saturdays, November 5th and 12th from 8:30 to 1:30.
The location is Naomi Makemie Presbyterian Church, 89 Market Street, Onancock, Va.
There is a registration fee of $50.
Topics include Bee Colony and its Organization, Bee Hive Equipment, Nucs, Packages and working with a Mentor, Bee Stings, Seasonal Hive Management, Swarm Management, Controlling Honey Bee Pests, and Products from the Hive.
The Slow March of Gentrification
For the last decade, we have watched the slow, methodical gentrification of Cape Charles. Like an anaconda, the muscle of rich, northern money has been used to strangle and suffocate the last remaining bits of the town’s authenticity. The whole historic thing is laughable. Bird is not the word, tourism is. The industrial and rail history is being canceled in favor of tourist-driven eateries and shops. Years ago, this writer was laughed at for coining the term “Cape Maying”, but who’s laughing now? In fact, Cape May is probably jealous of how fast this place sold out.
The ultimate goal of the Cape May effect is homogenization–eliminating as much diversity as possible. This accounts for all this Rosenwald School hoopla and the almost frantic way the white people are frothing at the mouth, throwing money and taxpayer resources at Cape Charles’ most prominent symbol of racism and segregation (all while pricing out a large swath of the African-American community). As if this will somehow cleanse the past. It’s just a way of glorifying segregation without saying you’re glorifying it, all the while whitewashing what you are currently doing, trying to cover up the secret yearning for a town made up of people who look, think, and are from the same class as you. You would think the community would have rallied around the Cape Charles School, which was actually the place that ended racial segregation–many of the same Rosenwald proponents fought tooth and nail to give the old school away for a mere $10. History Note: the selling of the school was just a convenient way of keeping black kids from coming into town to play basketball and eliminating any possibility of bringing back the boys and girls club. We have the receipts.
Then there’s Washington Street. It is one of the last holdouts, a most diverse neighborhood where there are the last few affordable homes left. It’s been a slow train coming, forces diligently chipping away east and west, but even Washington Street is ready to fall.
A few months ago I saw it–one of the houses painted and all beached up, and even renamed Beach Bungalow.
The house was listed on Zillow for $425k. There goes the neighborhood.
It will sell. The inventory is so limited, that the Airbnb crowd will snatch it up, and the last remaining houses and lots will go and soon be fashioned as one of those annoying faux beach cottages.
The anaconda will continue to squeeze and Cape Charles will get a little less diverse. Bit by bit, the last of full-time working class folks will have to make way for the ‘visitors’.
The inmates won’t admit this, but they really want it this way.
The greasy till doesn’t lie.
Harborton House Yard Sale October 8th
HARBORTON HOUSE YARD SALE
28044 Harborton Road, Harborton, VA Saturday, October 8th @ 8:00 am
(rain date October 9th)
Furniture, antiques, lamps, garden items, kitchen stuff, decorative household pieces, original art, hunting/fishing/boating gear, tools, picnic table, pressure washer
803-642-8027
Pet of the Week: Becky still need a furever home
Hi, I’m Becky. I am a one year old Australian Shepherd mix, small in stature, weighing in at only around 30 pounds. I’m full grown so I shouldn’t get much bigger than I am now. I am full of energy (a sign of the Aussie breed I’m mixed with) and love to play with my brother here at the shelter.
I do however seem to want to chase cats, so I have probably never been in a home with one. I have a very striking appearance, right down to my one eye that is half blue and half brown.
I seem to be clean in my kennel so I am holding on to house training rather well.
I have a loving nature, and enjoy a good rub. I should do okay with older children in the home, as I seem to really love people and attention. I am spayed and up to date on my vaccines.
If you’re interested in adoption you can email and request an application at shorespca@gmail.com. You can also print one out via our website www.shorespca.com. You can call the shelter at 757-787-7385 Tuesday-Saturday 10am-3pm.
History Notes this week of Sept 22
1187: The great Saracen general Saladin invests Jerusalem in a bid to break the nearly 100 year reign of Christian kings over the city.
1519: Portuguese explorer and navigator Ferdinand Magellan, on commission Spanish King Carlos I (later Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire), departs on a voyage of circumnavigation in order to confirm a westward connection between Spain and the Spice Islands of the South Pacific. Magellan’s fleet consists of five ships and 270 men.
1598: English playwright and poet Ben Jonson is briefly jailed for manslaughter after killing an actor in a duel. He is released after reciting a Bible verse and getting a tattoo on his thumb. Jonson went on to become one of the most popular men of letters during the Elizabethan era in merrie olde England. He was a peer and theatrical competitor of William Shakespeare.
1641: The British merchant ship Merchant Royal founders at sea and sinks off of the coast of Cornwall, with a cargo of £100,000 of gold, 400 bars of Mexican silver, and 500,000 pieces of eight. It has never been found.
1676: At the climax of three months of agitation by 29 year old planter Nathaniel Bacon, a makeshift “army” of nearly a thousand angry Virginia frontiersmen and farmers, furious that Governor William Berkeley will not stand with them against Indian harassment and raids, storm into the colonial capital at Jamestown and burn the city to the ground. Although Bacon’s Revolt (a.k.a. Bacon’s Rebellion) represented a clear danger to the colonial government, it rapidly fell apart when Bacon himself contracted dysentery and died in late October.
1776: Death of twenty-one year old American patriot Nathan Hale (b.1755), hanged as a spy after being caught scouting around the British encampment of British General William Howe on Long Island. You probably remember his final words as the noose was placed around his neck: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
1780: Arrest of British major John Andre, General Clinton’s primary aide-de-camp, who coordinated Benedict Arnold’s treasonous surrender of West Point. Andre was captured inside American lines while wearing civilian clothes, along with Arnold’s handwritten copy of the defensive plan for the fort tucked into his stockings. Andre was tried and convicted as a spy, and with the bitter memory of Nathan Hale still fresh, was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead instead of being shot like a soldier.
1793: George Washington lays the first cornerstone for the capitol building in the District of Columbia.
1806: Leaders of the 1803 Corps of Discovery, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, arrive in Saint Louis three years after their westward departure, completing their epic exploration and recording of the United States’ new Louisiana Territory.
1845: In New York, the Knickerbockers Baseball Club is formed, becoming the nation’s first professional baseball team.
1850: As part of the Compromise of 1850 Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
1861: Birth of Robert Bosch (d.1942), who came into prominence in the nascent automobile industry with his invention of a dependable magneto for spark plug ignition. He continued to invent and manufacturer a line of the highest quality electrical equipment in his Stuttgart plant. Today, the company that bears his name has added retail electrical tools and equipment to its product line.
1863: The Battle of Chickamauga is fought on the approaches to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The huge clash is a pyrrhic Confederate victory that halts a major Union advance, but at such a cost that the Confederates never really recovered their full fighting capability in the Western theater. The battle carries the distinction of creating the second-highest number of casualties in the entire Civil War, (Union 16,170 (1,670 KIA), Confederate 18,454 (2,312 KIA)), second only to the casualty count at Gettysburg in July.
1881: Death of President James Garfield (b.1831), eighty days (yes) after being shot by a disgruntled federal employee. Garfield’s major accomplishment during his short term as President was initiating a massive civil service reform program, beginning with the post office. You would be correct to recognize the correlation between the reforms with his shooter.
1893: American bicycle maker and inventor Charles Duryea, along with his brother Frank, perform a road test on their first gasoline powered vehicle, a 4 horsepower single-cylinder model. They performed a second test in November, and then decided to go commercial with the idea.
1904: Death of Chief Joseph, last leader of the Nez Perce tribe of the Pacific Northwest (b.1840).
1937: Publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Hobbit. The book has never been out of print
1939: First broadcast by Nazi propagandist Lord Haw Haw, who railed against British combat and diplomatic activities across the European continent.
1939: Death of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (b.1856).
1942: First flight of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a pressurized, high altitude bomber which provided the Army Air Corps with a dramatic increase in range and payload over their B-17s and B-24s.
1952: American silent film icon and long-time left wing political advocate Charlie Chaplin leaves for a trip to England, and is immediately barred from re-entry by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the behest of the House Un-American Activities Committee and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
1962: Civil rights activist James Meredith is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1964: The first flight of the Mach 3 North American XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber. One of the two prototypes was destroyed in a mid-air collision. The Soviets were worried sick* about this thing, with good reason.
1970: Death of guitarist Jimmi Hendrix (b.1942) from a heroin overdose.
1975: Kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst is arrested a year after her inclusion on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
1981: The Senate unanimously confirms Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court.
1984: Retired USAF test pilot Joe Kittenger complete the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
1991: Discovery of 5,300 year old Copper Age mummy, “Otzi the Iceman” by German mountaineers.
Rep. Luria’s Pay Raise for Disabled Veterans and Survivors Passes Senate, Heads to President Biden’s Desk for Fourth Straight Year
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Rep. Elaine Luria’s (D-VA) bipartisan Veterans’ Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) Act of 2022 passed the Senate and will now go to the president’s desk for his signature to become law. With the Senate passage, this is the fourth straight year that Rep. Luria has introduced this bipartisan legislation and it has become law.
In May, Rep. Luria introduced the Veterans’ COLA Act of 2022 with Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) to increase compensation rates for certain Department of Veterans Affairs benefits, including dependency and indemnity benefits paid to survivors and families of service members who died in the line of duty or suffer from a service-related injury or disease.
“I commend my Senate colleagues for passing my bipartisan cost of living adjustment for our disabled veterans and their families. For the fourth straight year, my legislation will become law and provide our veterans with a much-needed cost of living adjustment to combat inflation,” Rep. Luria said. “I will continue to fight for our veterans and deliver for military families in Coastal Virginia and across the country.”
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the Senate companion to Rep. Luria’s Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2021, providing a 5.9 percent increase in compensation for veterans—the largest raise since 1982. Both the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2019 and 2020 passed with overwhelming bipartisan support before becoming law.
Camp Fragile Hearts meets on October 8th
Camp Fragile Hearts is a camp for children and teens that have experienced the loss of a loved one. The grief or loss can be:
Death of a loved one
Incarceration of a parent/ loved one
Foster Placement
Military Deployment of a loved one
Divorce.
This is a free, one day event that will take place on October 8th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Sawmill Park, 24387 Joynes Neck Road, Accomac, Va.
Riverside to Host Free Clinics for Flu and COVID-19 Vaccinations
Onancock, VA – As part of its commitment to building a healthier community, Riverside will administer free flu shots for ages nine and up, and/or free COVID-19 shots for ages 12 and up and up at two walk-in clinic opportunities in October.
No appointments are necessary on Wednesday, October 5 from 9 a.m. until noon at Riverside Eastern Shore Family Medicine at 10085 William F. Bernart Circle in Nassawadox, or on Wednesday, October 12 from 9 a.m. until noon at Riverside Shore Medical Center at Metompkin at 17385 Lankford Highway in Parksley, while supplies last. Other age restrictions may apply. Masking is required.
The flu, short for influenza, is a contagious respiratory illness caused by a virus. It can cause mild to severe illness. Serious complications of flu infection can include hospitalization or death.
COVID-19 is also a highly contagious virus that can cause mild to serious illness and complications that include hospitalization or death.
Vaccines are available for protection against both viruses, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends both vaccinations. In addition, the CDC recommends taking every-day preventative measures to stay healthy including frequent handwashing, social distancing and staying home when sick to prevent exposing others.
For more information about free flu and COVID shots in October, visit riversideonline.com/flu.
Biden depletes Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world, with underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas. Strategic petroleum reserves are emergency crude stockpiles stored to support economic activity in the event of a supply disruption. There has been no actual supply disruption, only extreme high prices resulting from Biden Administration policies.
On March 31, 2022 — in an attempt to fight higher oil and gasoline prices — President Biden announced the release of one million barrels of crude oil a day for six months from the SPR.
At its high point in 2010, the US Strategic Oil Reservev reach 726.6 million barrels. Since December 1984, the level has never been lower than 450 million barrels — until now.
Consider that with the U.S. producing 12 million BPD, an extra one million BPD pushes total U.S. “supply” (which isn’t sustainable, because it relies on depleting the SPR) back up to the all-time pre-Covid high of 13 million BPD.
Ultimately, drawing down the SPR was a political decision. Think about it. An administration that has frequently emphasized the importance of reducing carbon emissions is trying to increase oil supplies to bring down rising oil prices — which will in turn help keep demand (and carbon emissions) high.
But even though the Biden Administration wants to address rising carbon emissions, high gasoline prices cause incumbents to lose elections. So, they try to tame gasoline prices even though it contradicts one of their key objectives of reducing carbon emissions.
The SPR has now been depleted since President Biden took office from 640 million barrels to 450 million barrels. This depletion is consistent with recent history. Historically SPR volumes tended to grow during Republican administrations and to fall during Democratic administrations. That pattern has held true since 1980.
Presidents Clinton and Obama both used the SPR to try to ease high gasoline prices around election time, while Republican presidents (until Donald Trump) added to the SPR. President Trump drew down about 10% of the SPR during his term.
President Biden has announced steps to replenish the SPR, “likely after FY2023”, and in my opinion most likely after the 2024 elections. President Biden’s gamble to deplete the SPR in order to fight high oil prices may not hurt him at all. Of course, if for some reason we had a true supply emergency and found ourselves needing that oil, it would be looked upon as a terrible decision.
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