Photos By : Tommy Stafford : Anita & Tom Weber talk to customers at the last official Farmers Market for 2008
Saturday was the last official Nelson Farmers Market of the 2008 season. But don’t look for all of the tents to come down just yet. We’re told some of the vendors will be having a scaled down version of the market for a couple more weekends in October. But the great weather over the Columbus Day weekend was a perfect ending to a perfect year for the market.
Two week old Adam Stafford and mom, Yvette, even made it to the last market!Pixie Led entertained the crowd for the final 2008 market.Elizabeth Van Deventer of Davis Creek Farm waits on a customer at the market.The 2008 market was one of the most popular ever.Lee Diehl stops by to take a look at Adam.See you at next year's market 2009!
The Nelson Community Market held during the off season at the RVCC will get underway in a few weeks, so be sure to visit there during the winter months. Be looking for more information here on our site about the opening dates and times.
According to information placed on the IBEC website Friday October 10th, Verizon telephone company has completed their physical installation of lines into the Martins Store Substation that will connect BPL customers to the internet. Activation will be forthcoming.
Here’s what the IBEC site says:
Verizon installed the Internet connection at the Martins Store substation and will activate it in the next several days. IBEC is planning to connect the BPL “head-end” servers and routers early next week, providing broadband connectivity for those subscribers where BPL equipment has been installed to their home or business. An IBEC service representative will contact each subscriber to complete the individual set-up process as soon as the BPL signal is available at the customer premises.
The Davis H. Elliott installation crews have returned from their restoration work on the Gulf coast after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike rendered thousands without electric service. The crews are now working full time to extend BPL service along the three electric circuits originating out of the substation, one proceeding north along Route 151, one proceeding south along Route 151 and one proceeding along Route 6 east and points beyond.
To see where you are located in relation to the Martins Store Substation, use the substation finder here. Zoom in on the map to substation number 1 and then locate your position along one of the three circuits served by the Martins Store substation.
Note: If you receive power from a substation other than Martins Store or Colleen, then BPL service is not yet available in your area.
E-mail inquires for updates a week ago to IBEC Headquarters in Huntsville, AL by Nelson County Life Magazine have gone unanswered, and there have been no updates to the IBEC site until today since September 11th. Contractor crews on the ground here in Nelson have been very good about keeping customers informed about what has been taking place, though nothing official has been coming out of IBEC until Friday on their website.
It “sounds” as though service will be coming soon. Anyone that is contacted by IBEC to activate service please post a comment here so others will have some idea as to what’s taking place.
One of the many works by Richard Crozier on display at Spruce Creek Gallery From October 17th till November 16th
Richard Crozier
Albemarle and Nelson: New Landscapes
October 17 – November 16, 2008
Reception
Sunday, October 19
3:00 until 5:00
Spruce Creek Gallery
1368 Rockfish Valley Highway
Nellysford, VA 22958 434-361-1859 www.sprucecreekgallery.net
Richard Crozier, Professor of Art at the University of Virginia will have an exhibition of new paintings at the Spruce Creek Gallery in Nellysford. Mr. Crozier’s oil paintings are well known for capturing the essence of the landscape in and around Charlottesville. Crozier can be seen all over town chronicling the street scenes and alleys, construction sites and dumpsters, and finding extraordinary beauty and a sort of nobility in their commonness. Viewers of Professor Crozier’s work are mesmerized by the details and how the seemingly mundane aspect of the subject is transformed into elegant landscapes. Other painters are mesmerized by his brush work and sophistication of his pallet. This exhibition which will run from October 17th through November 16th will have more “traditional” landscapes as well the “built” landscapes for which Professor Crozier is so well known. The focus will be on Albemarle and Nelson County. In addition to his teaching schedule, Crozier is a prolific painter and is represented by galleries in New, York, Richmond, and Santa Monica CA as well as the Spruce Creek Gallery.
The Spruce Creek Gallery was established in 1997 and now boasts over 70 artists including painters and sculptors as well as high end craft artisans. The gallery is located one mile south of Nellysford on Rt. 151 in Nelson County.
for questions and additional information please contact:
Sue Bernard
Spruce Creek Gallery
1368 Rockfish Valley Highway
Nellysford, VA 22958
434-361-1859
By Anne Marie Jones, Wintergreen Resort : Fall Skies Over Wintergreen, Virginia
The next several days will be some of the best weather we have seen in months! For the Columbus Day Holiday Weekend, look for sunny skies and seasonal pleasant daytime temps in the 70’s and nice cool nights. This will be a great several days to get out and look at the fall colors just beginning to show up in the mountains.
No rain is in the forecast for the next several days, making for a very nice extended weekend!
Walton's Mountain Museum 2007 Annversary Celebration
October 18, 2008 is Walton’s Mountain Museum’s 16th Anniversary Day from 10 AM to 4 PM. Regular admission fees apply to enter museum. Inside, 4 gospel or bluegrass performers & special guest speaker, Paul Saunders. Outside there will be hayrides and crafters.
October 14th in Schuyler
Provided entree and drink, but seniors should bring a dish.
Flu shots will be available. You’ll need to bring your medicaid card or insurance card. If you do not have insurance, the flu shot will be $25.00
The weather is changing for the better over the next 24 hours! We’ll see some morning clouds and sprinkles giving way to peeks of sunshine by afternoon. On Friday skies become mostly sunny carrying the trend right on into the Columbus Day holiday making for a perfect holiday weekend.
