WARES CROSSROADS There is no black-tie requirement at the Lake Anna Yacht Club, no minimum income and no pretense. Neither is there a clubhouse, pool or restaurant, although there are plans for each. There is, however, a 42-slip, covered pier with lifts and storage and a yacht club commodore. “We have about 12 or 13 members and we’re working on getting some more social functions going,“ said club commodore Joan Reutter of Manassas. “Most of what we do as a yacht club is keep the docks in good shape and figure out what we want to do in the future.“

A pilot whose homemade airplane crashed in Lake Anna on Sunday died from blunt-force trauma to the neck and chest, the state medical examiner’s office said. Edward B. Toth, 46, a veteran pilot from Nokesville in Prince William County, apparently died on impact from what is being listed as an accidental death. State police said yesterday that Toth was in the process of taking off from the lake when the two-seat, single-engine Maxair Drifter lost power, hit the water, and cartwheeled nose first. The partially submerged plane, which has no doors, was upside down with Toth strapped into his seat.

A pilot whose homemade airplane crashed in Lake Anna yesterday died from blunt force trauma to the neck and chest, the state medical examiner’s office says. Edward B. Toth, 46, a veteran pilot from Nokesville in Prince William County, apparently died on impact from what is being listed as an accidental death. Toth was flying with his 17-year-old daughter in a two-seat, single-engine Maxair Drifter when the plane went down near the southern shore of Lake Anna yesterday in Louisa County about 1 p.m. The Federal Aviation Administration and Virginia State Police are investigating the crash.

A homemade, two-seat aircraft crashed into Lake Anna yesterday, killing the pilot and injuring the man’s 17-year-old daughter. Virginia State Police said Edward E. Toth, 46, died when the single-engine Maxair Drifter apparently lost power about 1 p.m. and crashed about 100 yards offshore into Lake Anna in Louisa County. Sgt. Thomas J. Molnar this morning said the craft had been recovered from the lake. The investigation into the crash was continuing, Molnar said.

The pilot of an ultralight plane that crashed into Lake Anna this afternoon died and a 17-year-old passenger was hospitalized with serious injuries. 

Clean, safe, and reliable nuclear energy has been the workhorse of electric power generation in the United States for more than 30 years and is once again poised for growth to meet the new electrical demands of the future. About 20 percent of the nation’s electri cal requirements are being met today by 104 operating nuclear units. About 15 percent of the world’s electrical needs are being met by 436 commercial nuclear units.

The recent ruling of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond was short and to the point: “Virginia law requires regulation of Dominion’s thermal pollution discharge because the exception for waste treatment simply doesn’t apply here.“ With this ruling, a decades-old viola tion of the law was ended. The impact of the decision could benefit the many thousands of people who use Lake Anna annually.

Dominion Resources Inc. will raise the level of Lake Anna by 3 inches to mitigate the loss of water flowing to the North Anna and Pamunkey rivers if a third nuclear reactor is built in Louisa County. Dominion officials said yesterday that the plan to add the equivalent of about 1 billion gallons of water to the lake would be used to maintain a better lake level and water flow to the rivers.