The Daily Progress from Charlottesville, Virginia • 8

A8 rom the ront THE DAILY PROGRESS Charlottesville Va riday August 6 2004 Visit: wwwdailyprogresscom for local weather updates (DATELINE NEWS TlS MEWS YOU NEED THE IWUEYI TRUST SATURDAY Partly cloudy skies and pleasant Chance of preclp: 0 Winds: 5 10 mph Partly cloudy skies and pleasant Chance of precip: 0 Winds: 5 10 mph TODAY Partly cloudy skies and pleasant Chance of preclp: 10 Winds: 5 15 mph CENTRAL TONIGHT IVE DAY ORECAST Mostly sunny skies and warm Chance of preclp: 0 Winds: 5 10 mph MONDAY 86op Partly cloudy skies and warm' Chance of precip: 20 Winds: 5 10 mph TUESDAY Partly sunny skies and warm Chance of precip: 20 Winds: 5 10 mph 1 ft gW I CT I WW1'''' Mm X' WNnolon 8 A "I ffl Crozet 7353 cwitis i 7553 i R1' 7'pZi £'7 1 Xfetl 'X RlefcmoML jH 7853 7555 Xf Jr tt nuiwv Richmond i I Jr 53 7460 ft AIRSKY ORECAST COMORT INDEX 8 am Noon 4 pm The index Is a combination of wind chill and heat index and gtvea an indication of how wind temperature and humidity affect the human body UV INDEX Noontime intensity The higher the number the greater the need for eye and skin protection I 11 extreme 8 10 very high 6 7 high 3 5 moderate 1 2 low Low: Always protect yourself from the sun Moderate: Use UV blocking sunglasses High: Sunbum can happen quickly Very high: Ultraviolet levels are dangerous Extreme: Lighter skin will bum in minutes orecasts graphics and data provided by Weather Central Inc Madison Wis ALMANAC YESTERDAY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE TEMPERATURES High Low Yesterday's Yesterday every four hours Last year Midnight Normal 4 a Record 8 am (1930) (1912) Non 04 extremes 4 pm (6Z28) (111) 66 Three month temperatures Normal ntgns 60 1 1 1 i 1 513 520 527 63 610 617 624 1 78 715 722 729 85 PRECIPITATION Yesterday 061 Record this day trace (2002) Mo to date 104 Record this mo 1168(1955) Yr to data 2532 Norm yr to date 2935 Thlrteen month precipitation in inches Actual 1 Normal gir TV: 65180)3 YESTERDAY IN THE AREA High Low Precip Blacksburg 72 63 154" Daleville 4S8E71M Jf Danville 79 70 001" ort Belvoir T'X 75 70 JX Hotsprings 66 57 000" Lynchburg 76 JSSI 65 3 0 Martinsville 81 70 Norfolk 86 7W 75 XT Richmond 79 69 0 Roanoke 76 66 ghd alternant High 0 8 pv6789 BAROMETER HUMIDITY Low 2974" at 3 am 8 am Noon 4 pm High at 3 pm 87 100 87 Staunton Trees Weeds curvulana eplcoccum Low Moderate Source: Gue Ridge Allergy Asthma Inc POLLEN Last update: August 4 Grasses aan NATIONAL ORECAST summary An upper level trough of low pressure will produce cool temperatures over the Northeast with scattered showers from northwestern Pennsylvania to northern New England High pressure will produce dry and pleasant conditions from the northern Great Lakes to the Mississippi Valley and over the Southeast A cold front will produce thunder storms over much of lorida A frontal boundary will produce scattered thunderstorms over the Plains with afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing over the Southwest 'MONO UM Cutset Noontime weather systems and precipitation Temperature bands are highs Tomorrow HILow 8973A City Albany NY Today Tomorrow HiLow HiLow City 7355pc 7756S Orlando Today Tomorrow HILow HILow City 7053DC 6955sh Detroit Albuquerque SJ8967I ST 9167pcr airbanks Amaiwo 8765A ort Laude Today HiLow 9074A 7952pc 7854pc Philadelphia TX7559pc 1 onrrcA OkzvAnlv iDARRrw win im hii ix 11 1 tint run 1 rww iia 1 vw wv AnchoragelSZ 73fi7pdGreensboro 7755s 80W Pittsburgh 6950toc S3pc Asheville 7751 7653S Hartford 7454C 7656C Portland ME 714fcc 72ffi4hr Atlanta 8659 843 Honolulu 748h 818s Atlantic Citv 7358pc 7759pc Houston 9372pc 9271 Ipc RalelghDurham 7957s 82 AXar 86sKx 7554fc 8MA Rapid City 9562U 8954 Rammora 7654dc 7059DC Inti ails 7752pC 8056sh Reno 8756S 9260s 90W 8152 'Juneau 6249shS Birmingham 8558pc 8662s Kansas City 8260pc 8566pc St Louis 808s 834s Boise 8954822 8153 Vegas 10080pc 10380 Salt Lake Chy 9264c899s Bon 7057pc 751pc Lexington 7453s 7858s San Antonio 9573U WIMpc Buffalo 6653h 6856sti 7 Utile Rock 8562 8765s San Diego 727 7o7s Casper 9058pc 8449s LosAngeles 7534 7663s San rancisco i 875s 57la Charteaton SCI fJ 8544 2XMemph1a 832 ty 865 Savannah 8630 8654 Charlotte 8157S 8059s Miami 9175t 8976A Seattle 6456sh 76578 a fa Cleveland 6953sh 749 New Orleans A 8974pc 8767pc Dallas 9171pc 8972pc New York 7662pc 7765pc Palm Beach 9174A 88754 Daytona Beach 90744 zS 87734 Oklahoma City 2 8866pcX 8967pc 7 Wichita 842c89 66 pc Denver 8862pc 8958pc Omaha 8264pc 8567pc Washington 7657pc 7962pc 6950pc 7154c 7458sh City Amsterdam Today' Tomorrow HiLow HILow Today Tomorrow HiLow HILow City 7654pc 7961po 89754 87764 R1R1nc 8463nc WORLD ORECAST Today Tomorrow HILow HiLow City Baahdad 11075s 10876s Hong Kong 90754 89784 Pans 8773 88ff2cl Jenjselem 67f7Als Z7 8570s Rio de Janeiro 78647pc 79pc Beirut 8769s 864 London 7859pc 8263pc Rome 87674 86684 bX 8362pcr 833pc MadridXXX 938 XT 877 Seoul M744 87724 Bermuda 85724 84744 Manila 88ff64 88744 Stockheim Brussels 8364pc 8544 Mexico City 7764 7857pc Sydney Cairo 9076s 9475s Montreal 682K 6848sh Tokyo 8864 8444 Copenhagen 8563pc 8447pc Weather (W): sunny pc partly cloudy cloudy sh showers thunderstorms rain sn snow sf snow flurries i ice SUN MOON Sun Rise Set Today 8:1 7p: Tomorrow 8:1 6p Moon Today 11 43p 12 42p Tomorrow none 144p Daylight today 1 3hr 55m Last New irst ull Aug 7 Aug 15 Aug 23 Aug 29 EXTREMES Virginia yesterday: HIGH at Chesapeake LOW at Hot Springs Nation yesterday: HIGH at Bullhead City Anz LOW at Truckee Calif Stream Continued from Al safety issues as well as noise and light pollution county originally want ed to hear from residents whose properties abutted the proposed Gallagher said Carrsbrook residents are also concerned about the impact the development would have on a stream that runs through the subdivision The stream flows at the base of two critical slopes on the proposed site and feeds into several ponds in Carrsbrook The original site plan called for the critical slopes to be cleared and graded which according to the concerns would destroy much of this ecological believe a perennial stream locally even if it been declared Mason said The water protec tion ordinance applies to perennial streams which flow continuously throughout the year and are noted as such by the US Geological Survey The stream located on the proposed development is con sidered an intermittent stream and does not fall under the water protection ordinance the stream does have characteristics that indi cates it could be ritz said In his comments to the developers dated June 14 ritz wrote of the stream retains none of the existing resource and will result in irrevocable loss of an aesthetic ritz recommended that the stream valley be preserved in the development process and in the overall which could include crossings over the stream In assessing streams ritz said the county has three des ignations: Streams that are pristine and should remain unimpacted streams that are already impacted and have lit tle to no aesthetic value or fea tures and streams like the one in Carrsbrook that fall some where in the middle streams are some what impacted but should not be ritz said bury them in a Contact Julie Stavitski at (434) 978 7237 or jstavitski dailyprogresscom I j'W'i 'it LSAW KHRmCv Bp The Daily ProgressAndrew Shurtleff Spring Road a private road In the Carrsbrook subdivision In Albemarle County has a stream that might be affected by a development next to the neighborhood Homeowners want the stream to be destroyed Books Continued from Al committee personal opinions and those of library patrons Only novels plays and short stories were considered panel offi cials said the Bible and the Quran are likely the most re read texts in the world The ALA selections all share one quality: they were encountered in youth whether assigned in school read to by a parent or discovered on own But favorite works are revisited for various reasons Christmas is a holiday classic while the summertime setting of makes it an ideal beach read One committee mem ber Joyce Saricks says that the frequent staging of plays inevitably leads to re readings of the texts get a lot of people who tell me that going to see a production of Leaf and they want to read the play And then after they see the production they might re read the play again" says Saricks who recently retired after more than 25 years at the Downers Grove Public Library in suburban Chicago "I get a lot of people who tell me they're going to see a pro duction of 'King Lear' and they want to read the play And then after they see the production they might re read the play again" Joyce Saricks American Library Association committee member or professional writers re reading can be as much for education as for pleasure Susan Minot whose books include the nov els and said she likes to go back to the works of William aulkner and Ernest Hemingway She read the whole book necessarily just enough to remind her of why those writers matter were probably the earliest authors who blew my mindj and so the ones check back with getting reacquainted with the she says Richard ord author of the Pulitzer Prize winning said he likes to re read Walker in a purely sensuous Jeffrey Eugenides author of the Pulitzer Prize winning says he re reads Saul obsessively almost continuously calling it his caf language of that book which is to my mind greatest achievement reminds me of what like to be Eugenides said Revisiting an old favorite can enrich your appreciation of it or destroy it Saricks says she was when she went back to Hemingway Mystery writer Lawrence Block loved reading James arrell as a child but as an adult found the prose Minot had an even more dis appointing reunion with Thomas verbose Go Home read that in high school and it was she said when I looked at it again I thought It hold up I readjust one page and I quickly closed up the book Clark Continued from A1 Scottie Griffin said money we can put into instructional initiatives and put into Clark Under the federal No Child Left Behind act 27 Clark stu dents have taken the option to change schools in the fall Eight students are eligible to switch schools and have not turned in a request and one student who previously asked to move will instead return to Clark Each Clark student who opted to attend another school ranked the five different schools they could attend Robert Thompson director of administrative support servic es said that each Clark stu dent received a ranking based on 'academic standing test scores and economic situation those who were thought to need the most assistance received their first choice The school swapping began after Clark failed to make ade quate yearly progress based on low Standards of Learning test scores The 35 third graders who took the reading test had a combined pass rate of 49 per cent falling short of the federal pass minimum of 61 percent The office on Monday will announce the final number of students who will attend alternate schools Despite the transferring of stu dents Griffin is still pleased with the collaboration of the administration in dealing with the problem have worked very hard to put a plan in Griffin said is a bit disappointing to be in this situation but pleased that some par ents have retracted and real ized that we have a good edu cational program at Contact James ernald at (434) 978 7299 or jfernald dailyprogress com iijb TV Continued from Al Community station WCVL TV (Channel 9) initially antici pated a Sept 1 debut but has pushed the date to November Station promoters Denny King and Bob Sigman local men with Hollywood production ties have been meeting with the University ofVirginia com munity groups schools and others as they line up their ducks Investment packages went out a week and a half ago as the men seek $2 million to buy studio equipment and hire staff for a space in the Market Street parking garage will be final ized with the funding of the company but on target with the Market Street garage the issue of our antenna on Carters Sigman said No reporters have been hired though a few hundred resumes have rolled in and no equipment has been pur chased Both said they want to take care of funding first and then focus on whom to broad cast when Interviews with interested producers have con sumed much of the time since they announced the new station in April greatest fear is that all of this is going to come togeth er in 96 hours" King said King and Sigman said they are encouraged by the commu nity response and are confident they will raise the funds they need Programming for WCVL would come entirely from the local community including Charlottesville home shopping and a 90 minute weekday good morning Charlottesville show King said he has spoken with an engineer from Eure Communications to figure out how to get the morning radio show with Dick Mountjoy and Jane oy broadcast on both the television station and radio station WINA 1070 AM The three stations would compete with WVIR TV (Channel 29) for news and advertising All four have said they believe draw enough support Contact Elizabeth Nelson at (434) 978 7245 or enelsonO I dallyprogresscom (DATELINE NEWS.