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ROSE HILL HISTORY IN JEOPARDY!
UPDATE ON SILOS
Carl Sell,
President Please e-mail me with your indication of support for the preservation of the silos at sellcarl@aol.com and I will add it to the list that will be provided to the County if needed. |
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Connie Beatty presentation of the Rose Hill Raid painting to Kathryn Alleman (left), Director of the John Marshall Library. Connie is making the presentation in honor of her role as the original owner who has lived in Rose Hill the longest. The painting is on permanent display in the John Marshall Library meeting room. (Photo by Linda Nichols) |
10 Cents per Box Top for Rose Hill Elementary and it doesn't cost you a Dime! Look for the Box Tops for Education logo on items you buy and Rose Hill gets 10 cents on each one. Clip save them in a Ziplock baggie and drop them by the school. The PTA will turn them in for 10 cents each. Items such as Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Kix and Cinamon Toast Crunch cereals have the box tops. Other names you might know with box tops are Bisquick, Scott Towels, Cottonell toilet tissue, Hefty plates and bags, Old El Paso, Ziplock and Hanes Apparel. Go to btfe.com/products for a complete list of participating Box Tops products. And, make sure your Giant, Safeway or Harris Teeter card is registered to support Rose Hill Elementary School. The Rose Hill ID number is 02297 for Giant, 6559459 for Safeway and 6041 for Harris Teeter. Register online for Giant at giantfood.com/aplus, click on designate schools and enter Rose Hill elementary. For Safeway, log on to escrip.com and designated Rose Hill Elementary and log on the Harristeeter.com and designate Rose Hill Elementary. Use the corresponding ID numbers above. Each time you use your card, our neighborhood school is the beneficiary
Next RHCA Meeting Tuesday, May 22, 7 p.m. Agenda: TBD
Carl Sell's New Book After writing two books for the Franconia Museum, Carl Sell has authored a novel about his great grandfather, a Confederate private who survived the Civil War. He was wounded as part of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, also wounded at a later battle, hospitalized twice and captured nine days before the war ended. The book also includes info about his granddaughter's relatives, one of whom who was a private in the Union army who was wounded at Fairfax Station. And, there is a chapter about the relative of one of Carl's cousins who was a Medal of Honor recipient for his gallantry at Cold Harbor before the age of 18. The book is based on fact. It traces Private James Farthing through the war and reports on his tragic death in a railroad accident 23 years later. He fathered one daughter, who in turn had 13 children. One of them was Carl's mother. If you would like a copy, the price is $26.25, including tax. If you live in Rose Hill or nearby, give Carl a call at 703-971-4716 or e-mail him at sellcarl@aol.com and he will deliver a signed copy in exchange for a check or cash. If you wish to order online by credit card, go to franconiamuseum.org and click on items for sale. There is a $5 shipping and handling fee for books purchased online. Go to FranconiaMuseum.org to order on line. |
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We
have been presented
with a PROPOSED
layout for the 4-plus
acres on May
Boulevard that will
Save Our Silos! There
is a long way to go,
but there is positive
movement afoot. Rev.
Claude Wheeler, owner
of the property,
proposes to build six
(6) houses on the
south side of the
property and sell the
existing building for
a combination church
and school operation.
The existing
buildings, including
the silos, would
remain. The swimming
pool would be
removed. At this
point, we have been
presented with NO
plans to modify the
existing buildings
that originally
housed a community
center and
later private schools
and a day care
center. The six
houses can be built
by right because the
land is zoned R-3,
the same density as
the rest of Rose
Hill. Two houses will
front on May
Boulevard and the
others will be
accessed via a cul de
sac making an
intersection at
current Silo Road,
The church will
require a Special
Permit and
the school a Special
Exception to
operate on
residentially zoned
land. Public Hearings
will be required
before the Board of
Zoning Appeals for
the church and the
Planning Commission
and the Board of
Supervisors for the
school. The church
involved is the
Amanuel Ethopian
Evangelical Church,
currently meeting at
St. George Episcopal
Church near the
Clarendon Metro stop
in Arlington. The
school will be called
Rose Hill Academy and
will be operated by
the same folks that
run Messiah Luthern
Academy in the Fort
Hunt area. No
application has been
filed with the County
as yet. When and if
it is, all the
parties will be
invited to an RHCA
meeting to present
their proposal and
answer questions.
They are aware that
traffic, size, hours
of operation and the
preservation of the
silos are the
community's major
concerns. We
will copies of the
proposed layout for
distribution at the
January 24 RHCA
meeting. If the
proposal is finally
approved, it will
take the place of a
preliminary
subdivision plat that
would demolish the
silos.
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