On Tuesday, July 21, the Virginia Department of Transportation will close Route 671 (Millington Road) in western Albemarle County to replace a structurally deficient storm drainage pipe under the roadway.

 
The road will be closed at 9 a.m. approximately 0.3 mile north of Route 614 (Garth Road) and is expected to reopen the afternoon of July 22, weather permitting.
 
Through traffic should use an alternate route during the closure. Northbound motorists will be detoured west on Route 671 to Route 810 (Browns Gap Turnpike), and then right onto Route 674 (Clark Road), which carries traffic back to Route 671. Southbound motorists will reverse the detour.
Road and weather conditions, traffic camera feeds and other real-time travel information are available on the 511 Virginia website, the free VDOT 511 mobile app or by calling 511 from any phone in Virginia. Local updates are also on VDOT's Facebook and Twitter. Call 1-800-FOR-ROAD to report road problems or request information about Virginia’s highways.

Citizen Information Resources
Office of Emergency Management, Albemarle County

September is Emergency Preparedness Month!  Ms. Allison Farole of the Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center will give a presentation on Emergency Preparedness at 7PM on Wednesday September 24th at Mountainside Senior Living in Crozet.  

• Learn about Personal Preparedness
•  Learn about our Local Hazards
•  Discuss Personal safety
•  See how to build an emergency kit
•  Having a family plan
•  Developing a Communication Plan

Additional details on the event flyer, click here to get it.

Community Emergency Alert

Get the PDF flyer of this information by clicking here.

You can register to receive phone messages, text messages and e-mail messages in case of emergency.  The system is TTY/TDD compatible.
Register at https://acuecc.onthealert.com/
  * Weather Warnings (Severe thunderstorm, Tornado, Flooding / Flash flooding, Winter storm)
  * Major Events (Evacuation order, Shelter-in-place order, Gas leak, Boil water advisory, Amber
alert / missing person alert)
  * Other (Community events with road closures, Major traffic disruption)
The Office of Emergency Management can be reached at 971-1263 or 970-1798 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM) if you need help with registration for any reason (e.g., no computer, no e-mail, problems with the registration form, etc.).

Social Media
The Emergency Communications Center has social media tools to help the community be aware of daily interruptions, such as road closure due to accidents.
  * Twitter – Follow #CommEmerg on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/CommEmerg )
  * Facebook – Like the Charlottesville, UVA, Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center page on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/CommEmerg )

Traditional Media
  * Local television (if you have power)
  * Radio stations
  * Print media

979-INFO
The 979-INFO (979-4636) telephone line may be activated to provide the support during emergencies or situations in which there is a heavy call volume from the public.

Websites
  * Community emergency page (www.communityemergency.org)
  * Virginia Department of Emergency Management (www.vdem.state.va.us)
  * Ready Virginia (www.readyvirginia.gov)
  * FEMA’s Ready Website (www.readyvirginia.gov)
  * Red Cross (www.redcross.org)

Mobile Applications
For those with smart phones, there are many emergency applications you can download to get information before, during and after an emergency.
  * Ready Virginia app
  * VDOT 511
  * Red Cross (First Aid, Hurricane, Earthquake, etc.)
  * Various weather apps

November 2013 (From the Albemarle County Office of Emergency Management)

Fardowners Restaurant will host their third Crozet Library Days during the entire month of October 2014! 

Fardowners has been a strong supporter of the library in many ways and the latest event continues that tradition.
Eat at Fardowners any day in October and present this voucher (also available at the Crozet Library) and Fardowners will donate 15% of lunch food orders and 10% of dinner food orders to the Crozet/Western Albemarle Library.

Download a pdf to print: Fardowners BCL donation voucher

Visit Fardowners at 5773 The Square in Crozet.
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 11 AM to 12 AM
Friday & Saturday: 11 AM to 1:30 AM
Sundays: 10 AM to 12 AM

Fardowners Restaurant chefs won the Third Annual Crozet Culinary Competion for Charity (CCCC) at the Lodge at Old Trail on September 18, 2014 for the second time!   So be sure to visit Fardowners Restaurant often in October and see why two years in a row the CCCC judges have rated Fardowners Crozet's best!

Click here to get the PDF file of the Crozet Community Advisory Council's (CCAC) draft minutes from their August 16, 2012 meeting.

Our (CCA) meeting minutes are provided under the "Meeting Minutes" heading.

As reported by Cville Tomorrow the Crozet Community Advisory Council (CCAC) on Thursday night (8/16) heard from our BOS representative, Ann Mallek, about trucks spraying what is likely herbicide along Sugar Hollow Road on Thursday morning.  ,

If you see spraying – please call the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, at 540-222-1022.  Ann said this is  Tom Burke's number at this office. 

For further details about the spraying earlier this week and please read the full article at Cville Tomorrow's website.

Can you help us plan this charitable event?

David Hilliard, owner of the Lodge at Old Trail, in collaboration with Ellen King, of King Family Vineyards are interested in planning an annual event for Crozet charities, with the charities varying each year.   This year, the date will be the third Thursday of September, September 20, 2012.

I'm writing to ask that you join me, David, and Ellen at a meeting to beginning planning this event.  We'd like to get as many Crozet charitable organizations as possible involved in the event as possible.

We are meeting in the pub at the Lodge at Old Trail, Wednesday, July 25 at 7:00 pm.  Please sign in at the front desk.

Contact Tim Tolson via phone or email if you'd like to help with the planning and execution of this event. 

More about this charitable event

The event would be an Iron Chef like cook off, using local restaurant chefs, to be held at The Lodge at Old Trail.  David's already gotten several chefs who are interested in participating.  The idea is to invite several local chefs to square off and sell tickets to the event. The Lodge would provide some appetizers and one drink for the price of the ticket, that costs, maybe $20.The hope is  75% of the ticket price would go to charities and some would go to operations. Maybe that split could be higher. Then we would have a cash bar and certain proceeds of that would also go to the charities.  Their idea is that this year the proceeds would go to both the new Crozet Library fundraising (Build Crozet Library) and the Claudius Crozet Park./p>

The reasons behind the event:

1. To raise money for Crozet charities.
2. To pull Crozet restaurants and chefs  together and let folks know we've got some great restaurants here.
3. To make people realize Crozet can be a destination point
4. To raise awareness of needs of Crozet and the non-profit organizations in the community.

David is willing do a mailing to his lists and also advertise in all papers and TV  Staunton/Waynesboro/Charlottesville/Wintergreen/Fluvanna. Lee Catlin, Albemarle County's Assistant to the County Executive for Community and Business Partnerships is willing to help with advertising as well as Ellen King.

We could set up certain rooms in The Lodge for the Crozet Library displays and also the Crozet Parks displays.  If we had 300 people attend we would be able to raise $4500.00, plus the sales of liquor not to mention the awareness of the people that might attend that you all could look at as potential larger donors.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or email, contact information is below.

Looking forward to our meeting and planning this fun community event.

I hope by now you have your electricity back and are recovering from last Friday night's derecho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho)

Please mark your calendar for a meeting Wednesday, July 11 at 7:30 PM at the CVFD  fire house (around back, through the glass doors).

We'd like to have everyone who was planning on participating in last Saturday's  aborted Crozet Independence Day Parade,
Celebration, and Fireworks come to a meeting next Wednesday, July 11 at 7:30 at the Crozet Fire house.

We need to share what worked well, what needs improvement, what we might add, what we might drop, and anything
else you have to say about this year's (non-)event.

Let's talk about it now, while it's still all fresh in our minds, so we can use what we learned to make next year's event better.

As always, don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks very much,
  Mike, Sandy, and Tim

Update: The fire marshall will not issue fireworks shooting permit, for the safety reasons.  Crozet Park is not yet a safe venue and fire departments are maxed out. 
Disappointing but understandable.   We'll be back next year!  Please spread the word to your neighbors and friends.   Be safe.

One of the park pavilions collapsed, lots of tree damage.  

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