Seven blunders of the
world that lead to
violence:
wealth without work
pleasure without
conscience
knowledge without
character
commerce without
morality
science without
humanity
worship without
sacrifice
politics without
principle
-
Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)
Do
you
have a
gripe you want
to share with
our community?
Do you
want to know
what bugs
or
bemuses
others?
Got an opinion
about
something
happening in
the world
around you?
Sound off and
send your
opinion to "Floyd
Watchman"
Click
here
"Will our Chamber
of Commerce or
Merchants
Associations
please realize
the need to
preserve and
prevent from
developing-over
the rural
character of Floyd
County is the only
way to encourage
tourism interest
& income to
Floyd?"..
....There's More
>>
"Floyd Watchman"
If You Love
Children, Love
the Ones That
Are Already
Here, Too.
Please Become
Adoptive or
Foster
Parents.
ADOPTIVE
FAMILY
SUPPORT
GROUP: You May contact
DePaul Family
Services,
Christiansburg,
to learn of
their
scheduled
Informational
discussions
about
formation of
new support
groups for
adoptive
families.
It's
To Us!
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Public
Opinion
STOP
ILLEGAL
ATV
USE!!
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Get Fit
without
Joining a Gym
It's
my opinion and
in my
experience,
if you are
seeking to
improve your
fitness level
or lose
weight, so
much of that
can be done
with a much
smaller
investment in
just a few
items to
create your
own home gym
that suits
your specific
physical
needs.
Also consider
daily walking
of ten minutes
or more,
practicing
yoga and stretching
(stretching
properly is
most
important
before and
after
exercising),
get a friend
or your spouse
or
kid involved
to have a
nearby
work-out
buddy, drink
lots of your
own
good Floyd
County water
and stop
stuffing your
face with junk
foods and
just plain get
off your butt
more often.
Use a push
mower
sometimes
instead of
that riding
mower.
Most people do
not utilize
fitness center
memberships
beyond a
limited
degree and end
up wasting
their money.
Do it at home!
Above all and
first of all,
make certain
you are
healthy enough
to
undertake any
new fitness
related
activity.
Check with
your doctor
first!!
- Michelle
Hussong
We don't have
any connection
to or with the
following,
these links
are
offered as
examples of
what you can
find to help
yourself on
the web;
Here are a few
links to help
you Do It At
Home!: Home
Fitness Fitness Home-Workout
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events / music / performances / theatre /
art & galleries / shows
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INFO
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events/theatre/art shows/museum
exhibits
Floyd activities:
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YARD
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YARD
SALES UPDATED EACH FRIDAY
Late Spring
to Early Fall
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Yard Sale
3 Family Barn Yard Sale Memorial Day Weekend
(Thursday 5/24 thru Monday 5/28)
Furniture, clothing, some tools, appliances, and more..
2900 Floyd Highway North..6 miles north of the traffic light on 221.
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Old Time Country Dance with The Whitetop Mountain Band
Saturday, May 19, 7:30 PM
Public welcome. Tickets Necessary.
$8.00 available at the door only.
Floyd Country Store,206 South Locust Street
downtown Floyd,VA
Hotel Floyd Concert Series 2012
May 17, 6-8 pm
Public welcome.Free Admission
Floyd Country Store,206 South Locust Street
downtown Floyd,VA
The Floyd
Contra Dance
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Join
the fun every second
Saturday at the Sun
Music Hall, Dogtown
Roadhouse,
302 S. Locust St.,
Floyd. The dance
starts at 8 p.m. with
a
beginner lesson at
7:35. Come as
you are, wear soft
flexible
shoes for
dancing. Blue
Ridge Country Dancers
contra dances
are held in Floyd on
the second Saturday of
each month, September
through June.
Dance admission is
$8.00. Students
with ID
$6.50.
www.floydcontradance.org
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The Floyd Country Store,home of the Friday Night Jamboree,
has been an important part of
the Floyd community for a
century now.
This historical landmark is a
destination along "The Crooked
Road",Virginia's
Music heritage trail,and
continues to be the meeting
place for traditional
musicians from the area.
The Floyd Country Store,home of
the Friday Night Jamboree,
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Old Church Gallery Quilters
Guild Quilt Show 2012.
September 29 and 30,2012.
Hours are Saturday 9 to 5 and
Sunday 12 to 5.
Held at Floyd Elementary School
531 Oak Hill Dr, Floyd Va.
Admission is $3.00 kids under 12
free.
Pre-registration is required. Date
for pre-registration is
Sept.8,2012.
Please check Guilds website for
registration forms and
information.
website is
http://floydquilts.freeservers.com
or contact Bobbie at 5403206888 or
email barrys@swva.net.
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Meetup
groups are a
growing
trend of people
organizing themselves
into groups with
common
interests with the
mission to revitalize
local community.
They believe
that people can change
their personal world,
or the
whole world, by
organizing themselves
into groups that are
powerful enough to
make a difference.
Recently a new spin on
the idea, called
Meetup 2.0,has begun
with the
focus on digital and
social media. John
Lusher and Patsy
Stewart
started this group in
2008.
Many members (64
via the Linkedln group
and 128 likes on
Facebook) choose to
meet face to face in
Roanoke every Thursday
to
network with one
another as well as
discuss digital and
social
media.
As this idea
continues to gain
ground, a Floyd Meetup
2.0 is set
to begin this month.
Floyd natives are
branching off from the
Roanoke group to start
a
monthly meeting every
third Thursday at
Natasha's Cafe from 5
to 7
p.m.
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The
Floyd Harvest Festival &
County Fair will take place
again each September;This year
on
September 22nd.
"Life
should not be a
journey to the grave
with the intention of
arriving safely in a
pretty
and well preserved
body, but rather to
skid in broadside,
thoroughly
used up, totally worn
out, and loudly
proclaiming, "WOW!
What a ride!"
O.Winston
Link
Museum
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Upcoming events
TBA
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Shop
the Museum Store
www.linkmuseum.org
Find Us on Facebook
O.
Winston Link
Museum
101 Shenandoah Ave
Roanoke, Virginia
24016
540-982-5465
Check out current
and upcoming
music events in our area at
FCIV's MUSIC
EVENTS
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"
Immigration
should
first
and foremost serve the need of the receiving
nation and its existing population. It should never be used by the
sending nation as an excuse to avoid making living conditions inside
its own borders better for its inhabitants. It certainly should not be
used to make living conditions for the citizens of the receiving nation
worse."
-Deena Flinchum
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Whose Land is
Your Land?
Eminent domain can effect any and
all landowners, whether you are
involved in agriculture or it is
simply your residence or business.
There is a proposed state
constitutional amendment by the 2012
General Assembly to prevent eminent
domain abuses as have taken place
across our nation
for too many years.
The proposed amendment would make
stricter the state's definition of
"public use" with regard to eminent
domain.
This propsed amendment would ensure
privately owned land cannot be
taken without just compensation OR
given to another private entity, and
ensure no more property than
necessary is taken
to achieve the stated public use,
and the condemer has to prove the
use is public.
Condeming entities would not be
able to exercise eminent domain if
the primary use is for private gain,
private benefit, private
enterprise, increasing jobs, tax
revenue or for economic development.
Floyd County In View asks all
landowners to support this proposed
amendment by contacting their
legislator and then voting in favor
of it
should it come up on the public
ballot as a state amendment requires
the states' voters to vote it in to
place.
Virginia Farm Bureau is leading the
fight to protect our
privately owned properties and farm
lands and to get this proposed
amendment passed.
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EDITORIAL
What
are we paying for?
If you've received your most recent
personal property tax bill from the
county treasurer, you will notice that
above and beyond the actual tax
we have to pay for our personal property
particularly and specifically
our motor vehicles, that we are also
being charged an additional "License Fee".
What is this $25.00 per vehicle
license fee
for?
Previously, we were being charged $25.00
each per vehicle for the
"decal fee". But as we no longer are
required to place county decal
stickers on our windows, there was no
need to charge the citizenry of
Floyd County a fee for it.
And the decal was to easily identify
those respectable citizens who had
promptly paid their personal property
taxes.
But now that is done electronically. And
if you are a scofflaw, you
will be found out and fined.
So, what and why the "License Fee"?
We buy a vehicle and pay taxes on the
purchase up front.
We pay for licensing and title, also
upfront, and yearly inspections
and then insurance on our vehicle yearly
or bi-yearly.
AND, we pay a tax per vehicle to our
county each year
So what is our county doing for us that
requires it to charge us $25.00
per vehicle every year above and beyond
the taxes it charges and
collects on these self-same vehicles?
We're not buying a license from the
county to drive our vehicle nor to
own our vehicle.
It is time our supervisors, perhaps Mr.
Clinger especially as he has
been on the ball concerning random fees
and allocations of county
money, will look into this aspect of our
county government sticking its
hand again and again into our pockets as
they will and as they wish.
Got a comment or reply, or even an
answer?
Let us hear from you.
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Got Broadband- Or Not ?
Virginia Tech's eCorridors program
has launched a
statewide campaign to engage and
educate the public and raise awareness
about broadband availability in
Virginia. eCorridors has partnered
with
Virginia's Center for Innovative
Technology (CIT) to implement the
Virginia broadband mapping initiative.
eCorridors is responsible for
collecting data about the quality of
end
user Internet connections and is
asking Virginia residents, to
participate in mapping Virginia's
broadband availability by running an
Internet speed test, available at
www.acceleratevirginia.org/speedtest
By running an Internet speed test,
citizens have a
unique opportunity to influence and
inform the Virginia and National
broadband maps.
For those who cannot get broadband
services at their address, the
Federal Communications Commission is
asking that you report your
location information at: (Run cursor over
URL to
highlight it
then hold CTRL&C to copy it):
If you cannot run the speed test for
whatever
reason and want to report your
location or would like more
information
about eCorridors and the Accelerate
Virginia campaign, please contact
Jean Plymale vplymale@vt.edu at (540)
231-2270 or (540) 231-8490.
More informational resources are
available in the Accelerate Your
Community section of this site.
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When the Floyd Board of Supervisors voted (4 to
1) to "scrap" the
current
NOISE ORDINANCE for the county as it was deemed
non enforceable under
current standards and conditions.
Will it be replaced?
No. If Supervisors Ingram and Allen have
anything to say about it.
Their reasoning is it might affect farmers and
their use of machinery
as well as pet owners.
Have these supervisors ever heard of compromise?
Doubtful.
Will they always vote to throw the baby out with
the bathwater every
time?
Not long ago they also voted to scap a long
time, common sense,
ordinance prohibiting hunting or shooting within
100 feet of fence
lines.
Again, they scrapped it as detrimental to
farmers who MIGHT need to
shoot a ground hog scurrying along their fence
line and kill it before
it digs any more holes in their pasture.
Of course, many fence lines border neighbors'
properties and roadways.
Places where someone might walk or stroll
possibly unseen while the
crosshairs are on some scruffy ground hog.
Instead of writing in a reasonable compromise
that would issue permits
to ACTUAL farmers who have to verify their need
for their exemption and
thereby offer the general population a degree of
sane safety when
driving or walking anywhere there's a fence
line, their decision making
abilities limits their sense of duty to Floyd's
general population as
banning the ordinance altogether.
Come hunting season, this means every person
with a high powered rifle
and more ammo than sense can now feel free to
shoot at anything thought
to be game even if the roadway or a walkway or
another private property
is on the immediate otherside of a fenceline.
Why don't they consider writing in exemptions to
ordinances or rules to
be accessible to those in verified need of
exemption leaving the
remaining ordinance intactThis would serve the
common good while
prohibiting the common nuisances and threats to
the quality of life
here that will continue to become problematic as
our population not
only grows but becomes more diversified.
Perhaps a NUISANCE ORDINANCE would be an
alternative to the noise
ordinance?
This could be distinguished in application by
common sense boundaries
of reasonable perception and a sense of what
constitutes something that
can or could be a reasonable assumption of
disturbance or annoyance to
someone with a reasonable cause for complaint.(
How about as a starter;
Do unto to others...?")
When will common sense be applied to our
supervisors' decision making?
Probably not until the voters of this county
elect common sense people
to represent them. And except for Supervisor
Fred Gerald, there's
barely a shred of common sense to be noticed.
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Did you realise if you are driving your insured
and legal vehicle on
any state/county road and have an accident with
someone out having
"fun" driving an ATV or golf cart, etc. that is
not legal for state or
county roads nor is it insured for roadway
travel, YOU and, hopefully,
your insurance company HAVE to cover all costs
and expenses for your
own vehicle as well as any physical damage to
the drivers/riders on the
illegal vehicle?
So these illegal vehicles place every legal
driver in jeopardy.
Of course, you can hire a lawyer and take the
illegal driver to court
and try to sue for recompense..but what will be
left after you pay your
lawyer?
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Save our Dark Skies
Limit dusk to dawn lighting in
the countryside
If you use a dusk to dawn light
or are planning on installing one,
please consider using a deflector on
it so the light only shines on
your home;
Or
install an 'on/off' switch so you can
turn it on when needed and off
when not;
Or
connect it to a motion detector to go
on only when
something passes by it.
Please don't leave these lights on all
night long
and destroy our dark skies over our
countryside
or bother neighbors who don't care for
intrusive all night-bright
light.
Please visit: http://www.darkskies.org/
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Volunteers needed to assist
local seniors with small chores,
like moving boxed items.
Please contact Tiffany at the
New River Valley Agency on Aging
540-980-7720
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Life is too short...
So kiss slowly...
Laugh insanely..
Love truly and forgive quickly
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The U.S. Constitution:
Have you ever actually read it?
Visit FCIV's "Homesteading
101" section for info offering
self-efficient living on the
"rural".
most
recent
entry:
Al Moody's
back yard root cellar
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Regional
Farmers
Markets
Blacksburg
Farmers
Market
When: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 2
p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through
Oct. 31; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 and
10
a.m. to p.m.
Saturday only Jan. 1 through March 1
Where: intersection of Draper Road and
Roanoke Street, Blacksburg
Contact: 239-8290
Floyd
Farmers
Market
When: Farmers market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday; artisan market, 5 to 9
p.m. Friday
Where: Floyd Community Market, Locust
Street, downtown Floyd Contact:
250-0111,
mikeburton745@gmail.com or
sustainfloyd.com
Narrows
Farmers
Market
When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Saturday, or when vendors
are available
Where: Narrows Farmers Market, 135
Monroe St., Narrows
Contact: 726-2423, 726-3020 or
www.townofnarrows.org/
farmersmarketgallery/farmersmarket.html
Pearisburg
Farmers
Market
When: 2 to 6 p.m. Friday
Where: Parking lot off Wenonah Avenue,
Pearisburg -21-0340
Pulaski Farmers Market and Flea Market
5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday through Oct.
2 Where: Maple Shade Park,
downtown Pulaski Contact: 994-4200 or
pulaskitown.org
Radford
Farmers
Market
When: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
through Oct. 31 Where: Norwood Parking
lot,
East Main Street, Radford Contact:
731-3656 or mainstreetradford.org or
Radford Farmers Market on Facebook
Shawswille
Farmers
Market
When: 4 to 7 p.m. first and third
Thursdays of every month through
October
Where: Meadowbrook Community Center,
267 Allegheny Spring
Road, Shawsville
Contact: 357-3642
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RICHMOND
-- Hundreds of new laws
enacted by the General Assembly last
winter that take effect when July
1 arrives.
Among them:
Beginning Friday, more Virginians in
abusive relationships will find
protective court orders easier to get,
the absentee votes of deceased
voters will finally count, and you can
bring your own bottle of wine
with you to a restaurant.
Also, people freed from jail on bail
or those out on probation can be
tracked by GPS devices, the state
starts a fresh budget year, and
people who were sexually abused as
children will have 20 years to sue
their attackers, not just two.
Lawmakers this year made sweeping
expansions of the protective order
law, extending it to people who fear
harm from abusive dating or a
workplace relationship. Previously,
the 74,000 protective orders issued
annually in Virginia applied only to
family members or people being
stalked.
The change came after the beating
death of University of Virginia
women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love.
Her ex-boyfriend, former UVa
men's lacrosse player George Huguely,
was arrested and charged in her
death. Police say there was evidence
of a fight between the two a few
days before her body was found in May
2010.
The legislature, after wrenching and
emotional testimony from victims
of long-ago childhood sexual abuse,
granted a tenfold increase in the
time their abusers have to fear
retribution from financially and
personally ruinous lawsuits.
The statute of limitations, under the
new law, extends either 20 years
from the time of the abuse or from the
moment a victim who has
repressed the unbearable memory -
sometimes for decades - remembers the
attack. It passed despite opposition
from the Roman Catholic Church,
which has been rocked by allegations
of abuse by some of its priests.
Landlords and those who hold real
estate licenses who know a building
contains defective Chinese drywall
must disclose it to a prospective
tenant or buyer. Defective drywall
imported from China has been blamed
for numerous problems, including
corrosion of electrical wiring,
appliances and electronics.
In the state's general district
courts, the monetary cap on awards
plaintiffs may seek in lawsuits
increases from $15,000 to $25,000.
Election laws were finally changed so
that the will of an eligible
voter expressed in an absentee ballot
is not ignored if the voter dies
before election day. Virginia has yet
to embrace early voting, as many
states have, and has only grudgingly
loosened its absentee voting rules.
Wine connoisseurs will be able to
bring a favored or hard-to-find
vintage to a restaurant, but don't
think you'll get out without having
to pay. The new law allows restaurants
to levy a "corkage fee" for
wines patrons bring in with them.
Many towns where people crave a drink
will no longer be bound by the
laws of a dry county. Towns with
populations of 1,000 or more can hold
their own referendums to go "wet" in a
dry county, or to go dry in a
wet county.
For the first time, people sprung from
jail on a secured bond,
probationers or those serving
suspended sentences can be outfitted
with
global positioning system tracking
devices so authorities can track
their whereabouts at any moment.
Gun owners get some new advantages.
One new law expands homestead
exemptions to firearms, allowing
debtors to shield one gun up to $3,000
in value from creditors. And holders
of concealed weapons permits will
be able to obtain a replacement for
permits lost, destroyed or stolen
for a $5 fee.
Utility companies will face new limits
on their ability to cut
electrical service to delinquent
customers with serious medical
conditions. The new law gives the
State Corporation Commission until
Oct. 31 to implement the new
regulations.
Roadside stands or farmers markets
with sales of $1,000 or less in
produce and eggs are exempt from state
sales and use taxes after July
1. And the private homes of beekeepers
who process and prepare honey
from hives they own are exempt from
the state agriculture commissioner.
Virginia closes the books on fiscal
year 2011 and opens fiscal year
2012 with an amended biennial budget
that modestly boosts public school
funding and provides some aid to slow
rapid tuition jumps at
state-supported colleges and
universities. While the budget also
requires state employees to contribute
5 percent toward their pension
plans for the first time in more than
a generation, it fills the gap
with a 5 percent pay increase.
Source: Roanoke.com
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Floyd
County In View is open to the
possibility of providing space
on this site for voluntary
local or
regional personal reviews and
observations, whether about a
music
event, a car show, a parade or
an art exhibit, as long as it
is
interesting. If interested,
please email us at Reviewer
Report with
"arts' reviewer" in the
subject line and tell us about
your interest
and some background about
yourself. The ability to write
clearly and
honestly are the major
prerequisites.
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The
Floyd County Humane Society
Please be
compassionate to
the homeless and helpless pets in
Floyd County. One way, is by supporting the
Floyd County Humane
Society
FCHS
540-745-7207
P.O. Box 862
Floyd, VA 24091
floydhumane09@yahoo.com
Please spay and neuter your pets
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wanting to
participate in keeping your
worthwhile but unwanted items from
ending
up in the landfill, please consider
joining (for free, no strings
attached) the Floyd County
Sharecycle group. This is a Floyd
based
online interactive group through
Yahoo that allows you to post items
you'd like to see reused and
recycled.
You will also be able to see what
others are offering that may be of
use to you or ask for something
specific you would like to find. Sharecycle originated in Floyd
County and those
involved in it are all local
residents.
This group is not connected in any
way with the freecycle organization
that is under fire for numerous acts
of alleged bad karma.
FLOYD COUNTY SHARECYCLE
click on Floyd County Sharecycle
logo
Note:
"Sharecycle" originated
in
Floyd, Virginia
Participate
in Reuse-Recycling
Starting one in your
communityContact us and
we'll add your link here.
Here are some of our
regional Sharecycle Groups:
(click on respective logo to
join there)
New River
Valley Sharecycle
Franklin County
Sharecycle
MONROE COUNTY
WVA. SHARECYCLE
FLOYD COUNTY
SHARECYCLE
SHEBOYGAN
COUNTY (Wisconsin)
SHARECYCLE
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There is also a former
freecycle group in Floyd now
functioning under a
different name offering
online recycling connections
as well.
FCIV does not support this
group as it is a satellite
of a centralize
organization located in
another state.
This is the same way
freecycle began.
And only one of its three
"moderators" lives in Floyd.
FCIV encourages our
neighbors and residents of
Floyd County to honor
and support truly local
growers, artisans,
businesses
and organizations that are
firmly rooted here in our
home county.
If you would like to get
involved within our own
community and "share
the wealth" of worthwhile
but unneeded goods and
items, please look
into Floyd Sharecycle.
This is a free Floyd County
service with other Floyd
County residents.
But even if you decide not
to join any online group,
please recycle
your items that can be used
by others.
Floyd County
In View Asks:
any orchardists, farmers or
would be farmers who are
looking to
relocate or are looking for
new agricultural land to
organically grow fruit,
produce and grains,
please consider Floyd County.
If we
Americans are
distressed at what's happening to
our quality of life by virtue of
America's dependence on foreign
oil, if we don't preserve farms,
farm
lands and farming families, just
wait to see what our life is like
when
America has to depend on foreign
food
Grow Local - Buy Local -
Eat Local:
Foods
Support your area
orchards,
gardeners, growers, farmers,
farm markets and CSA's in your
own
community by asking for and
buying locally grown organic
produce
"Dear
Friend,
Theory Is All Grey
And The Golden Tree
Of Life Is Green." -
Goethe
Be a
Contributor To FCIV Do you know
something really
well that could be useful or of
interest to others?
Or perhaps you have an interest
in something and you could
develop
essays or instructional guides?
From gardening to photography to
ikebana to do-it-yourself
repairs,whatever,
let us know of your interest.
You could also "develop"
additional exposure for your own
website,
business or art or interest by
contributing articles.
The interests of FCIV's readers
are very broad. This allows FCIV
to
publish on a wide range of
topics, so we're always open to
articles
about interesting projects that
are work or pleasure related as
well as
personal experiences, etc.
It doesn't have to be highly
polished -- after all, this is
not the New
York Times.
If you would like to consider
being a one time or a part time
or a
regular contributor
to our community website,
contact one of the FCIV editors
via one of the "contact us"
links
and tell us what you have in
mind.
The possibility of an on going
column might also be made
available to
interested writers.
But please remember, all
involved with FCIV are
volunteers.
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abridgement of freedom of
the people
by gradual and silent
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