Crozet's community blog
As far as I know, this is only for Crozet Elementary, but why not expand it to all schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle?
If you’re in Old Trail, stop by Trailside Coffee on the way to Brownsville, Henley or Western Albemarle. If you’re in Downtown Crozet, stop by the Crozet Mudhouse. Make a good time of it!
From a reader:
Please stop by the Crozet Mudhouse between 2:00 and 4:00 on Saturday, November 21, to meet the artists of Old Crozet School Arts, a nonprofit school for arts instruction located in the old Crozet Elementary School.
We have faculty in dance, drama, art, and music as well as instructors for juggling, beadmaking, knitting, wellness, quilting, pilates, yoga, and French.
Enjoy chatting with the artists over a cup of Mudhouse coffee and watching an ongoing slideshow presentation featuring the school and the work of the artists.
The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band’s Langley Winds woodwind quintet will span more than 250 years of musical tradition when they appear at the Field School for a FREE performance co-sponsored by Old Crozet School Arts and Field School on Monday, November 16th at 7:30 pm. The quintet’s repertoire includes a wide variety of chamber works as well as popular and patriotic pieces.
The quintet’s versatility stems from their diverse educational backgrounds and professional experiences. They hold degrees from music schools all over the country including Indiana University, University of Michigan, West Virginia University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Members have performed with the Waco Symphony, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Wind Symphony, and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra.
Admission is FREE!!No tickets needed!! Co-sponsored by Field School and Old Crozet School ArtsFor more info: www.old
Gingergermani says on Twitter:
Seriously, the light at WAHS is the worst timed light ever.
From a reader:
Have you noticed how screwed up the lights have gotten at WAHS and Henley? Seems they have been reprogrammed to “rest” where it is green for WAHS. Do you have any contacts at the County that we could point this out to? I thought originally that this had to do with Old Trail, but that is not the case as Old Trail’s direction still “rests” red.
This photo is from last Wednesday morning sitting at Old Trail trying to get to Western Albemarle High School –
The traffic in the mornings in front of Western Albemarle High School, Henley Middle and Brownsville Elementary School varies from abominable to irresponsible.
Someone, please, Fix It.
This is an amazing story, and I find it mighty cool that we have these nuns in our presence.
Read the whole story by Lindsey Nair with the Roanoke Times.
By the time Sister Smickel arrives at the barn that morning, Sister DeFeo and Sister Jan McCoy are already bustling about, pasteurizing the 6,200 pounds of fresh, Grade A milk that arrived from a nearby Mennonite farm the day before.
If all goes as planned, this cheese-making day should yield about 310 2-pound rounds of Gouda.
“You start with an ocean of milk and at the end of the day you have all of these little cheeses,” Sister Smickel said. “It is very satisfying.”
For pasteurization, the milk is brought to 145 degrees for a half-hour in a stainless steel tank. It is then chilled to 88 degrees before being moved to the cheese vat, which looks like a huge bathtub.
Sister Kay Kettenhofen adds cultures to the milk, then starts the big mechanized paddles, which slowly stir from one end of the vat to the other, sending the milk rocking dangerously close to the edge.
Thirty minutes later, the paddles are stopped and removed and Sister Kettenhofen adds rennet, a coagulating agent that will make the milk set up and become cheese. This is the moment of truth, Sister Smickel said, when they all hold their breath and pray the cheese will behave.
Because they do not make cheese every week of the year (holidays, feast days and other obligations permit breaks), this is just the 545th batch of Gouda made at the Crozet monastery.
“We have never had a bad batch,” Sister Smickel said. “We are very careful. That is a lot of milk to throw away.”
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As she works, she muses, “I never met a cheese I didn’t like.”
The Crozet community is invited to attend public forums on the five year revision of the Crozet Master Plan.
The next forum will be held:
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Old Crozet School/Field School
The public forum is being held by County staff and the Crozet Community Advisory Council.
This month’s topic is Downtown Crozet, focusing on:
– Promotion of the vitality of small businesses in the central Crozet business district (Downtown)
– Addressing public infrastructure needs (such as sidewalks that connect neighborhoods to downtown and parking)
– Boundaries of Downtown, potential historic district
Participants will have an opportunity to hear a presentation and provide comments and suggestions.
The recession is finding its way further into Crozet.
From Charlottesville Tomorrow:
Boyd expressed concern at the amount of money that the County has invested in the project. He said he was not sure if this was appropriate spending given the County’s ongoing budget issues.
“We have two master plans, and we seem to forget about the other one at Pantops that has absolutely no funding for it,” said Boyd. “At the same time, we’re throwing millions of dollars into Crozet.” Meanwhile, he pointed out that improvements called for in the Pantops Master Plan have not yet been funded.
Benish said many of the Pantops improvements are anticipated to be paid for with proffers from developers such as intersection improvements and at least $1 million in sidewalk improvements. Supervisor David Slutzky (Rio) pointed out that the Crozet Master Plan was adopted five years ago, whereas the Pantops Master Plan was only adopted in March 2008.
From friends at Blue Mountain Brewery:
Today is the release of our tasty Lights Out Holiday Ale. Available on draft & in six-packs here at the brewery. Today is also the first Thursday of the month which means it is Steal the Glass day, all day long. Buy a beer for $5 and you keep the logo glass it comes in, no limit on glass purchases.
Sweet.
A vistor to RealCrozetVA asked the other day:
“what happened to Patterson’s Flower Shop? I noticed a new sign with a new name in front of their shop yesterday”
Luckily, we have the Crozet Gazette … 🙂
But there’s still a flower shop … more at the Crozet Gazette.
Danny and Linda Patterson, whose flower service was hailed and admired far beyond western Albemarle, quietly transferred their shop to Ken Ward and Henry Burrell Nov. 1 and are now retired.
From Albemarle County:
Mark Your Calendar…
The Crozet community is invited to attend public forums on the five year revision of the Crozet Master Plan.
The next forum will be held:
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Old Crozet School/Field School (across from Crozet Elementary School)The public forum is being held by County staff and the Crozet Community Advisory Council.
This month’s topic is Downtown Crozet, focusing on:
– Promotion of the vitality of small businesses in the central Crozet business district (Downtown)
– Addressing public infrastructure needs (such as sidewalks that connect neighborhoods to downtown and parking)
– Boundaries of Downtown, potential historic district
– Participants will have an opportunity to hear a presentation and provide comments and suggestions.Other forums will be held in coming months, also at the Old Crozet School.
Visit the Crozet website or email Rebecca Ragsdale with questions or for more details.