Prince William Times 07/03/19

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DOGGEDLY GOOD: Four Hylton Bulldogs made the all-state boys soccer team. Page 7

July 3, 2019 | Vol. 18, No. 27 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | 50¢ Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.

Supervisors approve $396M bond referendum after tense debate By Jill Palermo

Times Staff Writer

After a sometimes heated debate, the Prince William Board of Supervisors approved a pared-down bond referendum package that will ask voters to approve $396 million in new borrowing for five transportation projects and five parks projects without making any commitment to rid the school division of more than 200 classroom trailers. During a sparsely attended, threehour meeting on Tuesday, June 25, supervisors exchanged sharp words and struggled to find common ground on some of the projects as well as the overall issue of whether the bond package is ready for prime time. The board split the referendum

issue into three votes – only two of which were successful. Supervisors Frank Principi, D-Woodbridge, and Pete Candland, R-Gainesville, voted against all three. Principi said he could not agree with any package that did not include a pledge to fund the borrowing needed to build the two elementary schools and middle school additions planners say are needed to eliminate more than 200 classroom trailers at a cost of about $174 million. Candland decried Board Chairman Corey Stewart’s tactics to reach a consensus on the bond vote, saying it was overly political and not focused on the county’s needs. See REFERENDUM, page 4

TIMES STAFF PHOTO/JILL PALERMO

Tense debate: Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, center, discusses a list of parks and road projects that will be put to voters on the Nov. 5 ballot. From left are Supervisor Pete Candland and Supervisor Maureen Caddigan. Supervisor Marty Nohe is on the right.

Nonprofit combats child hunger with meals on wheels

PHOTO BY DELIA ENGSTROM

CHOW van: The nonprofit Prince William Community Foundation is leasing this refrigerated van to deliver free breakfasts and lunches for kids ages 18 and under to three sites in eastern Prince William County: the Dale City Boys and Girls Club, the fire and rescue station on Graham Park Road in Dumfries and Competitive Edge, 14849 Persistence Drive in Woodbridge. INSIDE Calendar.............................................10 Classified............................................13 Lifestyle................................................9

New ‘CHOW’ van delivering to 3 local sites By Jill Palermo

Times Staff Writer

Prince William County schools are serving kids free breakfast and lunch every weekday this summer, as they have for at least 25 years. But this year, they’re getting some extra help distributing the meals thanks to new program launched by the nonprofit Prince William Community Foundation. The program is called CHOW – or combating hunger on wheels. Its mission is to overcome the primary barrier that keeps families from accessing free summer meals: transportation. Both the new foundation and CHOW were founded by Vanessa Gattis, a mother of two and a retired U.S. Army colonel. With the help of grants from No Kid Hungry Virginia and Walmart, the foundation is leasing a $50,000 refrigerated van to pick up meals from GarField High School and is distributing them to three locations in eastern Prince William County thought to be more easily accessible to low-income families. See CHOW, page 2

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