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oudoun public school supporters made an emphatic statement last week to county supervisors: They want to see education needs funded in the locality’s budget for the next fiscal year.

Some even testified during two public hearings that they’re OK with supervisors raising the real estate tax rate to accomplish this goal.

But are the supervisors listening?

Perhaps. Three of them said Monday night said they are leaning toward supporting a real estate tax rate that could give the School Board the amount of local funding they seek—or, at least, almost that much.

That, however, would mean an increase in most homeowners’ tax bills.

In a work session on the budget for the fiscal year that begins

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Kai Zisko stands with his mother during the Board of Supervisors’ budget public hearing Saturday. He was one of more than 75 speakers, most of whom asked for more funding for the schools. Comments from a few supervisors indicate their pleas were heard.

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the Academies of Loudoun the top priority, then the Dulles North elementary school (ES-31), followed by the Dulles South middle school (MS-7) and, finally, the $44.5 million conversation of the current C.S. Monroe Technology Center into the county’s alternative school, which is now housed at Douglass School in Leesburg. The conversion will take place after the technology center moves to the Academies of Loudoun campus.

The adopted priority list follows the recommendation of Executive Director of Planning Sam Adamo.

If one of the big-ticket projects has to wait, it should be the $58.5 million MS-7, he said.

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The words of School Board member Jennifer Bergel (Catoctin) captured the sentiment of the majority of Loudoun’s nine-member School Board when it was asked to set priorities for the district’s building needs.

The request comes as county and school leaders work through a financial puzzle, for which they hold too many large pieces to fit. Both the county and the school system have more capital funding

requests to fund schools, parks and roads over the next six years than the county’s voluntary annual debt limit allows.

County Administrator Tim Hemstreet, on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, asked school leaders at a meeting Feb. 24 to figure out which projects can wait.

“We believe there should be a combination of school and county projects delayed in order to accelerate ES-31 and MS-7,” Hemstreet said, referring to the two school projects that the School Board wants to fast track to accommodate a swell of enrollment in the Dulles area.

In a unanimous vote of board members present, the School Board asked supervisors to make

rarily adjusted to send students who live north of Rt. 50 to the already-funded Dulles North middle school (MS-9), which opens in fall of 2017, until MS-7 opens in the fall of 2019 or later. That would likely mean the use of classroom trailers at MS-9 and Stone Hill middle school, and would require those two middle schools, and Mercer middle school, to operate 110-120 percent over their building capacities.

Building the elementary school as soon as possible should be the priority, he added. A fouryear delay of ES-31 would mean a deficit of 1,061 seats in the area. The School Board’s adopted Capi-

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tarting Wednesday, March 4, tolls on the Dulles Greenway increased by 10 cents.

The State Corporation Commission last week approved a 2.8 percent increase in tolls. Through 2020, state law requires the SCC to approve annual toll rate increase requests

from the owners of the privately owned highway based upon the Consumer Price Index plus one percent.

For a two-axle vehicle, the increase equates to 10 cents, from $4.20 to $4.30. During peak morning and afternoon weekday periods, the

increase is 10 cents, from $5.10 to $5.20. At the Greenway’s main toll plaza near Rt. 28, an additional $1 is collected as the toll for the Dulles Toll Road, which is operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. n

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aw enforcement agencies will be armed with new tools to help curb the troubling spike in heroin and prescription drug overdoses.

Before ending its six-week session Friday, the General Assembly passed three bills designed to get heroin addicts help before it’s too late.

“All of these together are designed to save lives,” Attorney General Mark R. Herring said in an interview Friday.

Herring, a Leesburg native, started work to craft the legislation package after a series of public safety meetings with 59 localities about a year ago. The goal of his statewide tour, which included a stop in Loudoun County, was to ask public safety leaders what they need to make their communities safer, and what he heard over and over again was the need for help to fight the significant rise in heroin and prescription opioid abuse.

“I knew when I heard that that we had to work together to turn this around,” Herring said.

In Loudoun County alone, there were 17 overdose-related deaths during 2014; 11 of them attributed to likely heroin use, according

ring said.

Last year, Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office worked with the FBI to convict a Leesburg man, 48-year-old George Washington Crane V, for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone under the federal law. Crane was sentenced to 12 years in prison for selling oxycodone pills to Loudoun high school students and recent graduates over a period of years—including a 20-year-old who died from an overdose.

Chapman said he’d wished that final piece of the legislative package had been approved to give his office more leeway to put away those who are illegally supplying heroin and prescription drugs.

“If you provide drugs to somebody that ultimately kills them you should be held accountable for that death,” he said.

The sheriff also noted that the fight against drug abuse needs to not just be one that’s reactive but proactive, with an education component that informs the public of the dangers of heroin and opioid drugs.

The sheriff’s office also is working with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) to create a heroin task force. They met Tuesday to begin talks on the task force’s focus.

“This is an important step to address this problem locally,” Chapman added. n

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“This is a serious problem here and around the state,” Chapman said in an interview Tuesday. “The combination of these bills is a comprehensive effort to try to at least put some sort of a stop to this problem.”

The “Safe Reporting” bill is designed to encourage individuals to call for help if they see a person overdosing. It establishes an affirmative defense so the person who reports the overdose will not face charges for minor possession or intoxication crimes.

Another bill will give probation officers access to Virginia’s Prescription Monitoring Program to ensure their probationers are not getting prescriptions they are not authorized to have. Legislation also passed that will give any Virginia law enforcement agency permission to use naloxone, a prescription drug that counteracts the effects of heroin and prescription opioid overdoses.

A fourth bill that would have given prosecutors a tool to hold drug dealers accountable when their drugs lead to an overdose death did not win enough votes in the General Assembly, however. Right now, drug dealers involved with fatal overdoses can only be prosecuted under a federal statute.

“That makes it much more difficult to hold dealers and traffickers accountable,” Her-

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he setting was the same, and so were most of the characters. But the story?

The story came out a lot differently.

So say Loudoun County lawmakers, who last week finished a General Assembly session that they described as an entirely different scene from last year, when partisan bickering over Medicaid expansion threatened to leave Virginia without a state budget.

No, this year, they said, the atmosphere in Richmond was one of working together.

And they came back to Loudoun with several legislative wins, especially with regard to education.

For example, a bill by Del. Thomas Ashburn Today/File Photo A. “Tag” Greason (R-32), who chairs the Fourth-grade teacher Jennifer Reed quizzes her students in a math lesson at Lincoln Elementary House Education Reform Subcommittee, School. Many of the bills passed in the General Assembly will impact public school classrooms. would require that career and technical education courses meet the standards for state or House of Delegates and needs only Gov. Terry to implement the A-F system two years ago, national certification for the skills involved.

McAuliffe’s signature to become law. and that former Gov. Bob McDonnell invited It would allow students who complete The House and Senate also approved him to the Executive Mansion to lobby for his those classes to more easily obtain the certi- legislation by Greason and state Sen. Richard support. fication they need to get jobs in their chosen H. Black (R-13) that would repeal the A-F But he said the letter grades could “stigfields, according to the Ashburn legislator. grading system used to evaluate schools. matize” those schools and those associated The bill passed both the state Senate and Black said that his was the deciding vote Continued on Page 35

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he man charged with five counts of capital murder and other crimes in connection with the 2009 killing of William Bennett and the beating of his wife Cynthia returned to Loudoun County Circuit Court Feb. 26.

Judge Thomas D. Horne heard a series of motions by Anthony Roberts’ court-appointed defense team. Horne agreed to add Matthew Engle, a Charlottesville attorney with expertise in defending death penalty cases as co-counsel.

He also authorized the defense team to hire an independent criminal investigator to review and collect evidence in the case.

Two issues were left undecided following the hearing.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman asked Horne to schedule Roberts’ trial to begin in early July. Plowman said he wants to make sure the case proceeds in compliance with the defendant’s right to a speedy trial. Defense attorneys said it was premature to set a trial date.

Horne scheduled a March 12 hearing to put the case on the trial docket.

The other unresolved question was where Roberts will be held pending trial. Defense attorneys requested Roberts be transferred to jail in Alexandria or Arlington, allowing him to be more assessable for consultation with his attorneys who are based in Arlington. Plowman and Horne questioned why Roberts should not return to Red Onion, the state’s maximumsecurity prison in Wise County where he is serving time for burglaries that occurred in the days before and after the attack on the Bennetts.

Horne set an April 20 hearing to decide on the custody issue.

Six years after the attack, Roberts was indicted Feb. 9 on five counts of capital murder, two counts of robbery, one count of aggravated malicious wounding, object sexual penetration, abduction with intent to defile, and rape.

Two other men already have been convicted for their roles in the attack. Jaime Ayala was sentenced to life plus 40 years in August 2011 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the case. Darwin G. Bowman was sentenced to serve 43 years and five months for his role in the attack.

The sentence for Ayala, who agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, was later reduced at the request of the commonwe a lt h to match Anthony Roberts B o w m a n’s sentence.

The attack on the Bennetts occurred around 5:30 a.m. March 22, 2009, as the couple was walking along Riverside Parkway in Lansdowne. According to court testimony in the related cases, Ayala, who was 17 at the time, was driving the van on the road. When Roberts, a passenger, noticed the Bennetts on their morning outing, he ordered the teen to turn around.

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choice for the General District Court judgeship that opened in 2013, for which Judge Deborah C. Welsh was ultimately chosen.

“He has a great reputation of being an ethical and integrity-conscious lawyer,” Del. J. Randall Minchew (R-10) said. “He’s one of these guys who everyone in the Bar—liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans—think highly of.”

Fleming is expected to take the seat July 1.

The county’s delegation in the General Assembly learned last week that the state budget would include funding for a fourth Loudoun Circuit Court judge.

Loudoun County is also served by three resident General District Court judges, and two resident Juvenile and Domestic judges. n

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Loudoun deputies were called to the 27600 block of Gum Spring Road around 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 25 for a traffic altercation in which the driver of a minivan intentionally backed into a truck.

According to the sheriff’s office report, the van driver, 53-year-old Carlos A. CardoniaGarcia, of no fixed address, was charged with crossing a double yellow line, reckless driving and aggressive driving (road rage).

He was held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center on a $2,500 bond.

their own accord.

They have no ties to the immediate area and both are in need of medication for health issues.

Christopher is described as a black male, approximately 5-foot-6-inches tall and weighs 202 Stephan N. Seaver pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Stephan is described as a white male, approximately 5-foot-8-inches tall and weighs 162 pounds. He has bleach blonde hair and blue eyes.

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“It is an honor to be asked to serve,” Fleming said in an interview last week.

Fleming has practiced general civil and criminal law in Loudoun County for more than 30 years. He earned his law degree at the College of William and Mary in 1982 and served as an attorney and a partner for Hanes, Sevila, Saunders & McCahill until 1996, when he started his own practice. He also served as a substitute District Court judge from 1992 to 2011, and as president of the Loudoun Bar Association in 1993.

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• Brandishing a Firearm, 46800 block of Burning Branch Terrace, Sterling: A man came to the home saying he was there to repossess a vehicle. During a confrontation the man reportedly became angry and displayed a firearm he was carrying. The man left after confirming the vehicle he was looking for was not there. The resident filed a complaint. The case is pending.

Thursday, Feb. 26 • Suspicious Event, 45300 block of Persimmon Lane, Sterling. Between 2:30 and 3 p.m. a woman reported she was walking her dog in the area when a male made inappropriate comments toward her. The suspect was described as a heavyset Hispanic male, 6’1” tall with curly hair. He had been inside a red, yellow and green van parked in the area.

Friday, Feb. 27 • Burglary, 25300 block of McIntyre Square, South Riding. Between 8 and 11 a.m. someone entered the home and took two laptops and personal documents.

Saturday, Feb 28 • Larceny, 41500 block of Yarrow Court, Aldie.

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The bicycles will be used by the agency’s bicycle patrol unit. Currently, more than 50 members of the agency, including Patrol Deputies, School Resource Officers and Community Resource Officers, are equipped with bicycles.

“These bicycles will help further enhance our relationship with the community by allowing deputies to get out of their patrol cars and reach out to residents in their neighborhoods,” Sheriff Mike Chapman said.

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The Dulles community Outreach Project is underway and the excitement is building! The Loudoun County Department of Planning and Zoning is asking stakeholders of the Dulles Community (Brambleton, Loudoun Valley Estates, South Riding, Stone Ridge, and more) to complete the resident and business surveys available on our website at www.loudoun/gov/dullescommunityoutreach.

Survey Topics Include: • Transportation • Quality of Life • Bicycle/Pedestrian Mobility • Housing • Public Safety • Business Climate • Growth and Development • Amenitites and Facilities The surveys are a vital part of the outreach process, as they will help establish community-wide priorities that will be the starting pint for a more detailed discussion at the community work sessions in the spring of 2015.

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he new director of Loudoun County’s Department of General Services is Ernest Brown, County Administrator Tim Hemstreet announced last week.

Brown was selected after a nationwide search to replace Richard Pezzullo, who retired in December. He comes to Loudoun after 10 years in Brevard County, FL, where he most recently was director of Natural Resources Management.

“We had a strong and competitive group of applicants for this position, and Ernie stood out as an exceptional leader and manager,” Hemstreet said in a statement. “He brings a wide range of experience in the areas of responsibility that fall under the Department of General Services.”

Brown has more than 26 years of public service experience, including active and reserve military service with the U.S. Coast Guard. As director of the Natural Resources Management Department in Brevard County, his responsibilities included implementation of the county’s stormwater quality program.

He also was responsible for maintaining multiple government facilities and a large fleet of vehicles that included heavy equipment, helicopters and watercraft. In addition, Brown’s background includes service with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, as well as the Maryland Department of the

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In Loudoun, Brown will oversee an agency that is part of the county’s emergency response and recovery operations. General Services also implements the stormwater management program and provides various public works functions. The department operates and manages county facilities, provides internal support and manages the fleet of county vehicles. The department also administers the county’s solid waste and recycling regulations and operates and maintains the Loudoun County landfill.

Brown, a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard Reserves, earned a bachelor’s degree from Towson University and completed graduate studies at Regent University.

For more information about the Department of General Services, see loudoun. gov/generalservices.

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Loudoun is launching a fraud, waste and abuse reporting telephone line and website, County Administrator Tim Hemstreet announced Monday.

County residents and employees should report concerns if they believe standards of integrity, honesty and ethical behavior are not being met in the conduct of official business.

According to the government, the new service is confidential, anonymous and secure.

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4. Proposed Total Budget Increase: Based on the proposed real property effective tax rate and changes in other revenues, the total budget of the Town of Leesburg will exceed last year’s by 15.4 percent.

A public hearing on the proposed real property effective tax rate will be held by the Leesburg Town Council on Monday, April 13, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Council Chamber, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, VA, at which time any resident of the town shall have the right to provide written and oral comments on the proposed real property effective tax rate.

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Most charitable organizations are not automatically exempt from local taxes in Virginia, even those that may be exempt from federal income taxes.

The filing of an application with Wertz is the first step to obtaining local tax exemption. Completed applications should be returned to Wertz’s office with a postmark of no later than April 1 for consideration this year. Any exemption, if granted, would be effective Jan. 1, 2016. Applications are available at loudoun.gov/cor.

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Loudoun Commissioner of the Revenue Robert S. Wertz Jr. has scheduled free information sessions this month to familiarize residents with the eligibility criteria for the county’s real estate tax relief program.

The program is for Loudoun homeowners who are either aged 65 or older or who have disabilities.

Qualified applicants for real estate tax relief must have a gross combined income of less than $72,000, and a net worth of less than $440,000. Up to $10,000 in income of a spouse or relative living in the applicant’s home is excluded from the income calcula-

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Program participants saved more than $8 million in real estate taxes in tax year 2014.

No appointment is required to attend the free sessions. They will be Thursday at the Cascades Library, Friday at the Rust Library, March 16 at the Gum Spring Library and March 27 at the Purcellville Library. All of the meetings begin at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, see loudoun. gov/taxrelief, or call 703-737-8557.

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Callers to the toll-free phone number, 844-845-0151, or users of the website will have the ability to submit their concerns in English, Chinese, Farsi, French, Korean and Spanish. Submissions then will be routed to the appropriate staff for review and investigation.

“Loudoun County is deeply committed to providing exceptional services to residents and conducting county business in an ethical and legal manner,” Hemstreet said in a prepared statement. “Our goal is to address these matters in a timely fashion and to take appropriate corrective action when necessary.”

Implementation of the fraud, waste and abuse reporting process was a recommendation of the Board of Supervisors-appointed Government Reform Commission. The county contracted with Ethical Advocate to provide the resource for reporting concerns.

For more information, including links to the incident reporting website and telephone number, see loudoun.gov/ethics.

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Del. Thomas Rust (R-86) announced his retirement on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates Feb. 25.

“At some point in everyone’s life, one chapter ends and another begins. I am at that point in my life,” Rust said from the floor. “It’s been a true honor to serve with you, members of this body, and I wish you the best as you continue to serve the commonwealth of Virginia and the citizens of Virginia.”

“There is no reception for me,” he added, before House members rose to offer a standing ovation.

Rust, 73, has Del. Thomas Rust (R-86) represented the 86th District since 2002. He was first elected to the Herndon Town Council in 1971, and served as Herndon’s mayor for 19 years, from 1976 to 1984 and again from 1990 to 2001.

He’s considered a political moderate, occasionally casting the sole Republican vote on Democrat-led legislation.

He made headlines last year after he was the only House Republican to support Medicaidexpansion legislation backed by Gov. McAuliffe.

With the hopes of winning the support of his Republican colleagues, he drafted a compromise proposal to extend coverage under the federal health-insurance program to as many as 400,000 uninsured Virginians. The bill was shot down

by House Republicans in a special session last September.

Rust, as a member of the Transportation Committee, also led the effort to get the landmark transportation bill passed in the General Assembly in 2013. It will provide $6 billion to maintain and improve the commonwealth’s infrastructure, including $300 million for Metro’s Silver Line.

Rust has served as chairman of the House Transportation Committee this term, and also is a member of the Commerce and Labor, Education, and Science and Technology committees.

After easily retaining his House seat for several years, Rust just narrowly won his 2013 re-election bid against Democratic challenger Jennifer Boysko. Following a recount, Rust retained the seat with a 32-vote lead.

Boysko, who is campaigning for the seat again this year, issued a statement thanking Rust for his service in the House of Delegates and as Herndon’s mayor.

“It is always difficult to run against someone you personally respect,” Boysko’s statement read.

“I challenged him because I have been troubled by the Republicans in Richmond who have made it more difficult to govern in a moderate, commonsense manner, as Tom Rust so capably did as our mayor.”

Members of Northern Virginia’s legislative delegation also lauded Rust.

Del. Marcus Simon (D-53rd) said Rust and his moderate, pragmatic leadership will be sorely missed in the House of Delegates.

“Tom is one of the last of a dying breed on his side of aisle,” Simon said in an e-mail. “I have really enjoyed getting to know him and working with him in Richmond. Anytime I looked at the vote board after speaking on a controversial bill and saw we picked up a Republican vote, the first name I looked for to see who we’d convinced was Tom Rust. He was one that would listen to reason and push back against the radical wing of his party.” n

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Reed said he was considering running for a fifth term, but changed his mind when Knobloch mentioned his plans to run.

“I’ve known him for over a decade, both as the director of research as well as a parent at Loudoun County High School, and I can’t think of someone more highly qualified to fill the role,” Reed said.

Knobloch, of Leesburg, worked 10 years for Loudoun County Public Schools, three of which were as the director of research and data. He left the district in 2012 to take a position as senior vice president of research and advisory services for K12Insight.

He said he would bring a wealth of experience to the board, both as a former teacher and school administrator, as well as from his current role as an executive at one of the industryleading education companies.

“I think in many cases the lack of experience has caused them to not make the best decision on the behalf of students,” he said of members of the current board.

He gave the example of the Foreign Language in Elementary program that was initially scaled back and later scrapped all together. “I think that was a disservice to our students and there was no looking at the program’s worth or value. It was a decision made by the board for financial reasons.”

He understands that Loudoun has financial restraints, he added, but they shouldn’t be the only focus. His campaign platform will center on the county public schools’ need to innovate, educate and evaluate.

“We need to innovate for our students, we need to give kids an opportunity to reach their potential through a variety of educational programs and we need to evaluate what’s effective,” Knobloch said. “That’s where we’ve fallen short.

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He later added, “I plan to do a lot more listening to what the constituents are looking for in a public school system versus the preconceived notion of what a school system should be.”

Knobloch, 54, and his wife Karen have two children, Catherine, 18, and Michael, 22, both who graduated from Loudoun County High School.

Knobloch is so far the third candidate to announce a run for the School Board; Anthony Fasolo, a substitute teacher, and former School Board member Tom Marshall are vying for the Leesburg District seat. Bill Fox, who currently represents the Leesburg District, has not announced whether he will seek re-election. All nine seats are up for election in November. n

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week has made a lot of difference in the race for the Loudoun County chairman’s spot.

Last week was raucous, with the news that Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Shawn M. Williams (R-Broad Run) was getting out of the contest for the GOP nomination for chairman.

That left a potential November ballot of Republican Charles King against Democrat Phyllis Randall.

This week, though, the campaign trail has been quieter.

There has been talk of someone mounting an independent campaign for chairman, for

example, but the candidate many would want to fit that bill, current Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large), seemed unlikely to do so when interviewed Monday night.

“I’ve had a lot of phone calls,” the four-term incumbent said, but he didn’t appear inclined to reverse course from January, when he announced he would not seek re-election.

King, a Leesburg lawyer, said Monday that he heard rumors of an independent candidacy, but he didn’t think the comments were serious.

He also dismissed the notion that unrest between him and Williams would put off Republican voters in November, saying he expects that a “unified party” will emerge.

King said he’s been focused on recent county budget negotiations and soon will come out with his own take on how Loudoun should proceed

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And Randall, a therapist who has served on state boards, said that she’s not worried about potential opponents.

First, she was preparing to run against York, she said. Then it was York and King on the GOP side. Then just King. Then King and Williams.

And now just King again.

The faces change, she said, but her reason for running doesn’t.

“For me,” Randall said, “it’s always been the issues.”

For example, she said that lately she’s come to really appreciate the downside of rezoning commercial land for homes.

“That is unwise,” she said.

Randall said she’s always talked about the need for expanding the commercial tax base so that homeowners’ taxes don’t have to generate so much of the county’s total revenue.

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here are free and low-cost services available for Loudoun taxpayers who still need to file ahead of the April 15 deadline, and this may be the year to take advantage of that extra help.

For the first time, taxpayers must show proof of health insurance when they file their 2014 tax returns, a requirement under the federal Affordable Care Act. It’s an easy check of a box for those who have insurance through their employer or a government program such as Medicare or Medicaid. But for those who purchased insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace or did not have insurance for the full year, it’s not so simple.

Those taxpayers must report when each member of their families had, or didn’t have, insurance each month of 2014. Those who did not maintain coverage for more than three consecutive months may incur a tax penalty. But then again, there is a long list of exemptions for which they may qualify.

“This can get complicated,” said Chris Colsey, a Leesburg resident and owner of Integrity Tax Services. “The average person, if they do not have insurance year-round, is facing a very complicated form, and it’s going to the IRS so you want it to be right.”

Colsey is also a volunteer with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which provides free tax preparation at Loudoun Workforce in Leesburg for families that make less than $54,000 a year.

He suggests that those who qualify take advantage of the free service. The team of 32 volunteer IRS-certified tax preparers offers oneon-one help three days a week. (See times and

location below.)

That new requirement under the federal health care law has resulted in a surge of requests for help from taxpayers at Loudoun Workforce.

“We’ve never been so busy,” said Karen Velez, who coordinates Loudoun’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.

The first day the service was offered this tax season in January, 39 people were already lined up for help, Velez said. “They said the Affordable Care Act wouldn’t affect us, but it has. It has added time onto every return.”

Both Velez and Colsey offered a few warnings regarding the new tax filing requirements under the health care law. Some franchise and big box tax preparers are seeing the new requirements as a chance to make more money and charge $200 to fill out Affordable Care Act paperwork.

“It’s less than an hour’s worth of work, and the computer does most of the work,” Colsey said.

He also urges taxpayers who qualify for the Earned Income Credit to use the free services provided throughout Loudoun. For those who don’t, he suggests trying online options such as TaxACT or TurboTax or, for those who prefer hiring a professional to handle their taxes, to at least get estimates from a few tax preparers before choosing one. The EIC provides a return on a sliding scale, depending on a family’s household income and number of dependent children. For example, a married couple that files jointly and made $52,427 last year and has three children would get a credit of about $325.

Some franchise and big box tax preparation companies charge between $400 and $600 to file the EIC paperwork, while independent tax preparers can file it for between $50 and $200. “This credit is really designed to help those folks who are struggling economically, and those are the ones who, in my opinion, are being taken advantage of by some companies,” Colsey said.

Most families don’t think to challenge the price charged by tax preparers because they’re still getting money returned, he added.

But Velez said that the goal of the volunteers at Loudoun Workforce is to make sure taxpayers walk away with all of the money they’re owed. On average, Loudoun Workforce saves $200 in preparation for each person who comes in.

“That’s money that comes back into the economy and helps people pay their rent or their car or work on their house,” Velez said. “It’s a boost to the economy and a big boost for a lot of these people.”

Below are local options for free tax preparation: • The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program provides free one-on-one services 6-8 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays and 10 a.m.-noon Saturdays through April 15 at the Loudoun County Workforce Resource Center, on the first floor of the Shenandoah Building, 102 Heritage Way NE in Leesburg. No appointments are needed.

Additional sites in Northern Virginia are listed at www.nvacash.org.

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“My promise is to stay focused on encouraging job creation and rebuilding our economy, improving transportation, reforming our education system and fostering affordable health care options,” the Republican said in a statement. “I’m running to help the citizens of Clarke, Frederick, and Loudoun County with positive answers to the challenges we face. We still have work to do to keep Virginia and the 33rd District on the road to economic recovery.”

The delegate’s legislative work has emphasized transportation-spending reform, holding down taxes and improving education through expanded schooling choices, his announcement said.

“The past two years have been challenging for Virginia,” LaRock said. “We had a budget crisis, but we came out of it without raising taxes on our citizens or businesses.”

LaRock said he is eager to continue to work on issues that matter to his constituents and Virginians in general.

“We have a lot of unfinished business,” he said. “Many of our neighbors are still looking for good jobs. A lot of people are wasting hours in traffic every day, and many parents contacted me this year to tell me how their special needs children aren’t getting the services they need in our schools. These problems aren’t going away overnight, and I’m eager to keep working to improve the quality of life of the people of our district.”

LaRock and his wife, Joanne, have lived in Loudoun for 28 years, building a family-owned general contracting business. The LaRocks make their home near Hamilton with Laura, Abby and John, the youngest of their seven children.

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Incumbent Dick Black is so far unopposed in his bid for the nomination in the 13th District.

Democrat Jennifer Wexton holds the 33rd District seat. Initially, two Republicans signed up to challenge her. However, Ron Meyer has since dropped out to pursue the Dulles District seat on the Loudoun Board of Supervisors, leaving Stephen Hollingshead the sole announced candidate for the GOP nomination.

The party set a Thursday, March 5 deadline for other candidates to file. If there are not two or more candidates for a district nomination, the canvass will be cancelled.

Voting in the 13th District canvass will be at two locations between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Saturday, April 25. In Loudoun, voting will be at Trailside Middle School in Ashburn. There also will be a poll open at Bull Run Middle School in Gainesville.

Voting in the 33th District will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 25 at Harper Park Middle School near Leesburg.

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he sounds of hammers and handsaws carried through the otherwise-quiet wooded property of Freedom Center on a recent afternoon.

Inside a small cabin on the far western end of the property, three teenagers and two instructors worked together to tear out rotted insulation and measure, cut and place new insulation board.

“Looks good,” Alan Peck, PHILLIPS Building Futures program manager, told one of the boys who carefully secured the insulation between studs.

Formerly known as Glaydin School and Camp, Freedom Center, with its rustic cabins, fishing pond, hiking and biking trails on 100 acres just north of Leesburg, is their classroom. The peaceful property is a vast contrast from the large middle and high schools the teens enrolled in PHILLIPS Building Futures came from, and just the change most of them need.

The program offers intensive career training for students considered academically at risk. Operating under the umbrella of the Annandale-based PHILLIPS School, the Building Futures school opened in Loudoun four years ago with the goal of giving students another option to reach graduation.

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group of teachers, parents and students from Middleburg Community Charter School made their support for the firstyear school known to the Loudoun’s School Board last week.

During the public comment portion of the Feb. 24 board meeting, 17 speakers from the school community took turns at the

microphone to describe an environment of creative learning at the charter school.

“I cannot describe the significant difference I have seen in my daughter in just four months. My kid has skyrocketed,” Chris Manthos said.

He drives his daughter a total of 10 hours a week from his home in Leesburg to and from the western Loudoun school, but he says it’s worth it. “Parents and taxpayers deserve a choice. They deserve a rock-solid choice. This is one of them.”

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The competition is open to all high school students in the district, which includes all of Loudoun County. The winner of the competition will have his or her work played

The show of support for the small school came a week after the Loudoun Education Association, an employee advocate organization, stated that all of the school’s teachers are planning to leave at the end of the year.

Three of the charter school’s teachers, a teacher’s assistant and two administrative assistants, all wearing yellow T-shirts with the school’s logo, huddled around the microphone to refute those reports.

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“I am looking forward to seeing what interesting and innovative art the students create,” Comstock said in a prepared statement. “I want to wish all of the students good luck in what will be a great competition.”

Students should drop-off their completed artwork between 1 and 6 p.m. March 25 at Enterprise Hall on the George Washington University’s Virginia Science & Technology Campus, 20101 Academic Way in Ashburn.

student, read a prepared statement on behalf of the group.

“The MCCS board along with (Principal) Dr. (Barbara) Smith has created a supportive, safe and clean environment where our students are happy and thriving,” she said.

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when we say we are proud to be part of this caring, creative and truly unique school,” McGroddy said.

One parent who spoke, Beth Barts, had negative things to say about the school, however. She recently pulled her kindergartner out of Middleburg Community Charter because of what she called a lack of organization and communication, as well as accountability for the school’s administration. She also accused the school of not meeting the needs of students whose first language isn’t English.

A few other parents who spoke acknowledged that the first year came with some growing pains but said that is to be expected.

“Were there bumps in the beginning?

Yes, I think there are bumps with any startup,” Barbara Reed, a parent of a MCCS student, said.

The School Board placed MCCS on probation in December, pending Principal Barbara Smith acquiring her Virginia license to teach and serve as an administrator. The board is expected to vote to lift the school’s probation status at its March 10 meeting, following the recommendation of the charter committee.

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PHILLIPS is a private, nonprofit organization that acts as an extension to the school system. It can take up to 10 students, and most of those are referred from Loudoun County Public Schools or another neighboring school district.

Through a partnership with the Freedom Center, a retreat center and camp run by a nondenominational church group, PHILLIPS uses the facility free of charge and, in exchange, its students renovate the buildings on the property as part of class projects.

In the past four years, the students, under the direction of Peck, a certified teacher and licensed contractor, have renovated 10 buildings, including a large lodge that has been used as a warming shelter for Loudoun’s homeless.

“It’s a wonderful partnership,” Peck said.

But the construction projects are, in his words, just a means to the end.

“We want them to learn to work as a team, follow directions and build life skills,” Peck said. “We take the kids other people are giving up on and give them another chance.”

For the first half of each day, instructor Stefanie Kniezewski teaches the students two blocks of core subjects: English, math, history and science. With the help of Peck and a teacher’s assistant, she customizes

lessons for each student. In the same class, she may have an 18-year-old who reads on a third-grade level and a 14-year-old who’s years ahead of his peers in math.

“It runs the gambit,” Kniezewski said, sitting at her desk inside the classroom the students helped build. “We have so much more flexibility here, so we can meet each of them where they’re at and go at their pace.”

Having a maximum of 10 students with three adults in the classroom means the students cannot get lost in a crowd, she added.

“We get to know the students on a personal basis here, and they care more when they know you care.”

If a student is frustrated or overwhelmed during a lesson, they’re allowed to step outside and take a walk through the forested property until they feel they’re ready to get back to work.

“It’s different here,” sophomore Travon Bush said. “It’s better.”

The 15-year-old left his high school in Herndon after he got in frequent fights with other students. Since enrolling at PHILLIPS, he said he’s changed. “You get more one-onone contact with teachers, and it’s fun to get out of the classroom and build stuff.”

His classmate Kyle Robinson said the program gave him the tools he needed to graduate and pursue a career in either the military or as a car mechanic.

“It’s a lot calmer and more slow-paced here,” Kyle said. He left Loudoun County High School in November after medical issues made it difficult for him to regularly attend school. “I’m glad I made the switch.”

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n less than four months, 30,000 people from 70 countries are expected to make their way to the area for the largest single event ever to be hosted in Northern Virginia.

The 2015 World Police & Fire Games, with 61 Olympic-style competitions held June 26-July 5, will pump between $60 million and $80 million into the local economy, and business leaders are invited to join the action.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase Loudoun County,” Michael “Miguel” Salinas, assistant director of Loudoun Economic Development, told a room packed with local business leaders at the Loudoun School Administration Building.

The County Chamber of Commerce, Visit Loudoun and the Loudoun County government put on a presentation with World Police & Fire Games representatives to illustrate how local companies can take part through sponsorAshburn Today/Danielle Nadler ship and volunteer opportunities.

2015 World Police & Fire Games CEO Bill Knight addresses a room of business leaders Monday “This event is enormous,” Bill Knight, morning about how they can be a part of what is expected to be the largest single event ever to CEO of this year’s event, said. “The whole

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Loudoun County venues will host eight of the 61 athletic events, including the one expected to draw the most athletes, the outdoor soccer competitions, which will be held at Morven Park near Leesburg. Other events in Loudoun include indoor soccer at Dulles Sports Plex, paintball at Pev’s Paintball near Aldie, hockey at Ashburn Ice House, golf at the Golf Club at Lansdowne, badminton at Northern Virginia Badminton Club in Sterling, bowling at Bowl America in Sterling and a cycling hill climb near Mt. Weather.

While the 12,000 public safety athletes and their friends and families are in town they’ll do more than participate and watch the events.

They’ll stay in Loudoun hotels, shop in Loudoun stores, eat in Loudoun restaurants and drink at Loudoun wineries and breweries.

“For many of these athletes and their families this as a vacation,” Bruce Blechl, vice president of the games’ operations, said. “So they’ll make it a two-week stay, and they’re going to want to stay and eat and shop while they’re here.”

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elebrity chef Bryan Voltaggio and business partner Hilda Staples opened their third Family Meal restaurant—and the first in Virginia—in Ashburn last week.

The restaurant offers reinvented classic American diner fare like fried chicken with buttermilk biscuits, pickles and hot sauce, hoecakes with pimento cheese, and maple bacon jam and pickle relish, as well as regionally influenced dishes.

“I am thrilled to bring the Family Concept to a

third community in the Mid-Atlantic,” Voltaggio said in a press release. “This restaurant is personal to me and my family and I look forward to sharing it with the families in Ashburn. Our menu offers something that will please adults and children alike by highlighting unique approaches to classic dishes.”

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Business In Brief • The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce will hear from a top regional expert on coping with fast-paced residential growth and an economy transitioning away from dependency on federal government spending. J. Hamilton Lambert, executive director of the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation and former Fairfax County executive, will be the featured speaker at the March 13 Leadership Luncheon. Lambert will share his thoughts on these issues and the lessons he’s learned from his 30-plus-year career navigating the worlds of government, business and philanthropy in Northern Virginia. The program will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Washington-Dulles, 45425 Holiday Drive in Sterling. Cost is $50 for members and $75 for non-members. Details at www.loudounchamber.org.

• Loudoun farmers are invited to apply for the

2015 Spring Farm Tour. The annual showcase of Loudoun’s rural entrepreneurship is scheduled for the weekend of May 16-17. Those interested in participating in the self-guided tour should complete the online application found at biz.loudoun. gov/farmtourapp by Wednesday, March 18. The farm tours are a significant boost to Loudoun’s rural economy, according to Agricultural Development Officer Kellie Boles. Brochures with a map and directions to all sites will be available at all public library branches and community centers in the county and at Visit Loudoun at Market Station in Leesburg. The information also may be found at www.LoudounFarms.org.

• The next High-Heeled Happy Hour will be held Tuesday, March 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the ALLY Center on Paxton Campus in Leesburg.

The networking event will be hosted by Paxton Executive Director Jennifer Lassiter and will raise money for The ARC of Loudoun. Savoir Fare Catering is providing food, Chantel’s Cakes and Pastries is providing dessert and Willowcroft

Farm Vineyards is supplying wine. Tickets are $10 with half going directly to Paxton.

Tickets are available online at highheeledhappyhour.com.

• The Loudoun Small Business Development Center will feature a program on the benefits of using LinkedIn on Thursday, March 19 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at The George Washington University Virginia Science and Technology Campus, 20101 Academic Way, Ashburn. Jen Dalton, CEO and founder of BrandMatters, will help attendees to develop strategies and tactics for LinkedIn personal and company profiles—profiles that present brand, drive action, build prospect lists and create a leadership agenda for the social networking site.

Attendees must have at least a personal LinkedIn profile prior to the workshop. Also, they should bring a laptop if they want to work through items in real-time during the event. The seminar fee is $25 for online registration at LoudounSBDC. eventbrite.com or $30 at the door.

• The Vineyards & Winery at Lost Creek has

expanded its offering of barrel-aged red wines with a 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon made 100 percent from Virginia grapes. Created by Lost Creek owners Aimee and Todd Henkle and winemaking consultant Sebastien Marquet, the Cabernet Sauvignon was barrel aged for 26 months in French oak resulting in a full-bodied red with bold structure, texture and longevity. “Our Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of grapes from our Lost Creek Estate Vineyard and from the Monticello Appellation, which is just outside of Charlottesville, VA. We hand-picked the grapes to ensure that only the highest quality fruit made it into this wine,” Aimee Henkle state.

• The Purcellville Business Association will hold its annual Officers and Directors Installation and Awards Banquet March 11 at the Loudoun Golf & Country Club in Purcellville.

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• Loudoun farmers, landowners and rural business owners are invited to register for the 11th annual Forum for Rural Innovation, scheduled for Friday, March 13 at the Best Western LeeJackson Motor Inn & Conference Center in Winchester. The 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. program will showcase projects and programs that enhance rural business profitability. It also will feature exhibits by agricultural suppliers, supporting agencies and area businesses. This year’s topics include how to raise venture capital; how to prevent legal liabilities;

growing special grains; malting; use of aquaponics; how to start a farm brewery, distillery or cidery; and how to gross $1 per square foot on one acre of land. The 14 presenters are experts in their fields and include farm business owners who will give practical advice based on their experiences. Loudoun Economic Development Director Buddy Rizer said during the 10 years the department has sponsored the forum it has seen a real impact on farmers’ growth and success. “The cutting-edge ideas presented at this forum can help business owners produce their products more effectively and efficiently,” he stated. Area farmers and rural businesses are encouraged to participate with exhibits and displays. To reserve a space, call 703-777-0426

by March 6. A registration form and details may be found at www.loudounBiz@loudoun.gov. The forum is a cooperative effort by the Offices of Agricultural Economic Development and Cooperative Extension in Clarke, Fauquier and Loudoun counties in Virginia; Jefferson and Berkeley counties, WV; and the town of Berryville. n

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Astri Wee explained sponsorship opportunities for retail stores, restaurants and wineries and breweries through the games’ Merchant Incentive Program, which she oversees. The higher of two sponsorship levels is for large restaurant groups and shopping centers that want to contribute between $5,000 and $10,000. The lower level is for smaller businesses that can contribute $150.

“We ask that they offer a small discount or promotion for athletes and volunteers that we can advertise on a map on our website,” Wee said.

“This map will be the go-to tool for all of the athletes, volunteers and their friends and family while they’re here.”

Companies also can help the games run smoothly with in-kind donations, by providing

items such as apparel, sports equipment, tents and tables, as well as IT and office materials to help on the organization end of things.

Another way almost anyone can help make the games a success is by volunteering. The event, which is only second in size to the Summer Olympics, will require close to 4,000 volunteers, which means anyone willing to lend a hand will probably be put to work, Knight added. “We need everything from greeters at the airport to officials on the field and people handing out water during the half marathon.”

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Ashburn resident Emily Fox got such an invitation, but it was to take care of a bit of business, not pleasure.

The 16-year-old Stone Bridge High School sophomore travelled to Chula Vista, a suburb of San Diego, Feb. 1-8 to participate in a training session for the United States Under-18 National soccer team and made the most of her opportunity.

Fox was one of 24 players invited to initially develop the pool of players the U.S. will look to send to the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in 2018. The site for the competition has not been determined by the international governing body for the sport, but it’s never too early to start looking for talent.

“It was a great experience, I loved it,” Fox said. “Meeting all the players from all over the country—who are so good—and to be in that atmosphere was amazing. We got a lot of perspectives from coaches on drills and things I normally don’t do, which is good because I learn things. I also got a lot of input on things I need to work on, a lot of specific things, which I like as it gives me insight on what I need to do in the future to get better.”

Loudoun soccer fans know Fox is one of the top players in this area. As a freshman midfielder last spring who earned first-team all-state honors, Fox led Stone Bridge with 16 goals and ranked second with six assists as the Bulldogs advanced to the Group 5A state finals.

In the championship game against neighborhood rival Briar Woods, Fox scored early for Stone Bridge before the Falcons rallied for a 2-1 victory and the state title.

Despite that success, Fox made a tough decision to not play at Stone Bridge this season

and concentrate on competing with her club team. FC Virginia ’97, led by head coach Terry Foley, plays in the prestigious Elite Clubs National League (ECNL), which allows Fox and her teammates to compete against teams from across the county and in national showcase tournaments.

“I decided I needed to really focus on training,” Fox said of her decision to not play high school soccer this spring. “I have to focus on getting better and getting to the next level. It was hard because I really like the team and the coaches, but I think even without me, they have a ton of great players and could win states this year. But I believe the decision I made was the right one for me.”

The decision is a tough one to argue with.

Fox began playing soccer when she was 3 or 4 years old and was a member of the Ashburn Crush through sixth grade. She then competed with the Ashburn Freedom for two years before joining FC Virginia. Her coaches for the two youth travel teams—Royce Brodie with the Crush and Gus Donolo with the Freedom—are now coaches in the FC Virginia system.

Playing with FC Virginia ’97 the past three years has helped Fox gain national exposure.

The ECNL consists of clubs from Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas in addition to local teams from McLean, Richmond and Bethesda, MD, and FC Virginia ’97 annually travels to some of the top tournaments in the nation.

“Playing in the ECNL allows us to go to showcase tournaments and play games against other top clubs,” Fox said. “If you do well in those league games, it really helps you for the tournaments. North Carolina saw me play in Phoenix [at a showcase] and that was how I got a relationship with them. For me, club helped me a lot in getting seen.”

University of North Carolina head coach Anson Dorrance saw Fox play in that Arizona tournament and decided she was a player he wanted to have join his storied program when she graduates in 2017. The Tar Heels are the elite of women’s college soccer as they have won 21 of the 33 NCAA Division I national champi-

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Sophomore Emily Fox decided not to play this spring for Stone Bridge’s girls soccer team and will instead compete with her club team.

onships since 1982, including 12 of the first 13.

North Carolina has also produced some of the top women’s soccer players in U.S. National Team history, including the legendary Mia Hamm. Another Tar Heel and national team alum is current U.S. Soccer Federation Development Director April Heinrichs, who coordinated the training session Fox attended in Chula Vista.

“Growing up, you hear about how amaz-

ing North Carolina is,” Fox said, who verbally committed to the Tar Heels last fall over offers from Virginia and Boston College. “I’ve always kind of wanted to go there. They have great academics and when I went on a visit there, I really liked all of the girls and coaches. I could really see myself there.

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The Virginia Xtreme 16s volleyball team won the gold at the 9th Annual Capitol Hill Volleyball Classic at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center Feb. 14-16. There were 32 teams in the competition. Team members are: Bottom row from left: Neelie Rosson (BWHS), Kaitlyn Nguyen (LCHS), Jenna Fortier (RRHS), Hannah Sauer (LCHS) and Kirby Howerter (LCHS). Top row: head coach Eric Ryba, Chloe Adam (LCHS), Hannah Hickman (LCHS), Bella Merletti (BWHS), Hannah Aycock (LCHS) and Sela Carrington (LCHS).

• The Middleburg Academy boys basketball team won the VISAA state championship with a 65-61 win over Christ Chapel Academy in Petersburg. Under the leadership of firstyear coach Joseph Haggler, the Dragons won the state title after going 3-19 last season.

• Rock Ridge High School’s new crew team is looking for a coach with rowing experience.

The team has started condition training and will get on the water this spring. If interested, send an email to rockridgecrew@gmail.com.

• Loudoun County High School quarterback Tae Crews-Naylor has signed a letter of intent to continue his football career at Fairmont State. Crews-Naylor threw for 3,689 yards and 27 touchdowns for the Raiders, completing more than 64 percent of his passes. The dual-threat weapon also rushed for 12 touchdowns in his career. He was named County’s co-offensive player of the year both his junior and senior seasons. Crews-Naylor

served as captain for both the football and basketball teams his senior year.

• The Aldie Senators are looking for interns for the upcoming 2015 summer baseball season. Interns will be involved in all aspects of the preparation and operations of the team.

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decision] was the soccer,” Fox added. “UNC was the place I really wanted to go to because of their legacy and all the things they do to help their players get better and reach your potential. The way they play and the way they train, training 100 percent and doing different things every day, is great and I really liked the competitive atmosphere.”

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Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Emmanuel Acho made a surprise visit to Woodgrove High School Feb. 20 to tell Delmonte, one of his biggest fans, he would go to prom with her.

In January, Delmonte reportedly contacted Acho through Instagram and asked if he would go to prom with her if she got 2,000 retweets to a post on Twitter. Acho agreed to the proposal, but only if Delmonte reached 10,000 retweets of their conversation.

She surpassed 10,000 retweets in hours and Acho, who Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia reports has never been to prom before, stuck to his word and accepted. View video of Acho’s surprise visit at Delmonte’s Twitter page: twitter.com/hdelmonte32.

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egotiating the terrain of the teen and ‘tween years can be tough for any young person, but is particularly difficult for those with labels that make it hard for them to fit in. Twenty young people with a range of challenges are inspiring middle and high school audiences across the county with a theatrical production focused on a message of inclusion and empathy.

The show, “Behind the Label,” is the latest production of the Same Sky Project, which provides a platform for young people to share their challenges and experiences through a series of monologues and original songs. The cast wraps up its season with a free public show Friday, March 6 at Loudoun County High School in Leesburg.

The cast of young people, mostly teens and young adults, with challenges ranging from cerebral palsy and traumatic brain injury to anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, come from around Loudoun and are participants in the Middleburg-based A Place to Be music therapy program, directed by music therapists Kim Tapper and Tom Sweitzer.

Same Sky is the brainchild of 20-yearold Amy Stone, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. With help from Sweitzer and Tapper, Stone launched the program five years ago, telling her own story in the project’s first show “How Far I’ve Come” in 2010.

“I was sitting with Tom in one of the music therapy sessions and I said why don’t we have a project that teaches inclusion and empathy and why don’t we attempt to bring it into schools. And I say ‘attempt’ because it was only in my wildest dreams,” Stone said.

“It was the biggest leap I’ve made in my life.

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Ian Carlson, 14, got laughs during the production of “Behind the Label” at Trailside Middle School as he played the annoying label that cast members sought to shake off.

behaved sixth-graders engaged and entertained as cast members gave moving and often humorous accounts of their struggles and triumphs with unflinching honesty.

One of the highlights of the current show is a performance from Forrest Allen, 22, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a snowboarding accident. The program included original songs focusing on Allen’s struggles to regain the ability to communicate and on the importance of his beloved service dog Toliver, who also appeared on stage to the delight of the audience.

One of the focuses of the Same Sky project is the idea of mentorship, allowing experienced participants like Stone to use their own experiences to help others. Mentors Nathan Chuba, 19, and Kyle Boardman, 18, are musicians/songwriters who have experienced their own challenges and work with other cast members to help them achieve their goals. Boardman’s moving sketch with 16-year-old John Kavanaugh, who has cerebral palsy and speaks through an iPad, was another highlight of the current show.

“John has shown me what it is to go through many challenges and still be happy,” Boardman told the audience.

“Mentorship is one of our absolute core principles Ashburn Today/Jan Mercker at A Place To Be,” Tapper Cast members of Same Sky Project’s “Behind the Label” share their challenges and experiences through a series of said. “The concept that all of monologues and original songs.

ent ways.”

The Broad Run High School graduate, who is able to enjoy dancing and skiing, attends Northern Virginia Community College where she’s working on a degree in social work with plans to continue at George Mason University. Her goal is to build a career as a social worker and/or inspirational speaker.

Stone is heavily involved in “Behind the Label” and appears onstage in the current production, but has left center stage to some of her fellow cast members this year. A recent performance at Trailside Middle School in Ashburn had an auditorium full of well-

us have something to give and all of us have something to receive and finding what that is inside yourself has proven to be one of the most powerful components of self worth that I think every young person needs to find and I think adults are still searching for.”

And while the message and mentorship are key components, the show also is, like any theatrical production, a showcase for a group of highly talented performers, whose skills in singing, public speaking and comedy wowed audience members.

“It’s an amazing platform for their talents,” Tapper said. “It’s a huge way for us to spread the message of advocacy and awareness and visibility and they end up being the voice for other people who choose not to perform or can’t perform yet. Performing gives you a therapy goal and gives you that beginning, middle and end of a process.”

The show clearly hits home with students who may have labels of their own. At Trailside, audience members openly shared their own experiences with labels and diagnoses. And one of the highlights of every show is a post-performance question and answer period, which has students sharing their own labels and flocking to the stage to talk with cast members.

“We always wish we had more time for that question and answer period,” Tapper said. “The kids come up and flood the stage afterward. … That’s even more important in some ways because they’re interacting with the material.”

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7:30 p.m. doors open, 8:30 p.m. music begins.

Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg. Contact: tallyholeesburg.com Expect a great show from this highly respected interpreter of blues, roots and Americana, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Kaukonen is also a Grammy nominee and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tickets are $40 in advance, $45 day of show.

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10 a.m., Thomas Balch Library, 208 W. Market St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-737-7195 Lori Kimball, a member of the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library and co-researcher of the Enslaved Community of President James Monroe, will help participants learn how to conduct historical or genealogical research using the resources available at Thomas Balch Library and Loudoun County Courthouse.

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boro. Contact: 540-668-6192 Musical duo Pete and Maura Kennedy bring their popular folk/rock show to the Old Stone School. Tickets are $25. Drinks and dinner will

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Live Music: The Jason Masi Band

7:30 p.m. doors open, 8:30 p.m. music begins, Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg. Contact: www. tallyholeesburg.com The DC-based singer/songwriter is a favorite on Loudoun’s winery circuit. Faraway Songs opens. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

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Show also runs March 13-15.

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11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 604 S. King St. #6, Leesburg.

Contact: 703-779-1717 The Pilates studio celebrates its first anniversary with an open house featuring one-on-one assessments from instructors and a series of mini-classes. Advance registration is recommended.

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6 p.m. doors open, 7 p.m. music begins, Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, Leesburg. Contact: www.luckettsbluegrass.com This beloved quartet has been a favorite for 40 years for its mix of front porch standards, modern ballads and traditional fare. Tickets are $15.

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Live Music: Julia Kasdorf

4-6 p.m., Twin Oaks Tavern Winery, 18035 Raven Rocks Road, Bluemont. Contact: www. twinoakstavernwinery.com Acoustic Americana from one of Loudoun’s top female voices.

Master Singers of Virginia: “Winter Delights”

7 p.m., Our Savior’s Way Lutheran Church, 43115 Waxpool Road, Ashburn. Contact: www. msva.org MSVA presents a program featuring Britten’s “A Hymn to St. Cecilia,” Orbán’s “Cor Mundum,” and works from great modern composers including Maurice Duruflé, Samuel Barber, Moses Hogan and more. Advance tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors, $5 more at the door.

Live Music: Hard Swimmin’ Fish 7 p.m., Lost Rhino Brewing Company, 21730 Red Rum Drive #142, Ashburn. Contact: www. lostrhino.com Old-time and jump blues from a local favorite.

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he Junior Woman’s Club of Loudoun is gearing up for its 13th annual Prom Wishes event Saturday, March 14 at Rust Library in Leesburg. The organization is collecting prom dresses and accessories, which are made available to area high school girls at a one-day boutique.

Dresses may be dropped off at the following locations through March 9: Ashburn Sports Pavilion and Studio PinkFit in Ashburn; Rust Library, Maggie’s Closet and Salon

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For Bridget Beichler, principal at Trailside, which opened in September, the program fits in perfectly with the Timberwolves’ IMPACK (Inclusion, Motivation, Perseverance, Altruism, Compassion, Kinship) program designed to promote empathy among students. The school also has a chapter of the Bright Life Buddies program that pairs special needs students with students in the general education population.

“A big part of [IMPACK] is being inclusive and being part of a pack and that we all work together,” Beichler said. “Also with this is an awareness of our differences and similarities and that extends to both our special education students to students from different cultures,

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health issues, family issues. This is a place of trying to be comfortable with being different, which is not always easy in a middle school setting.”

For organizers, the idea is to keep the conversation going for young people on both sides of the labels.

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with them. It would “undermine” graduates, the senator said, and make it hard for the schools to attract good teachers.

“It just is something that left me very uneasy,” Black said.

His legislation calls for the state Board of Education, in consultation with the year-old Standards of Learning Innovation Committee, to redesign the School Performance Report Card so that it would still communicate a given institution’s progress but not be as “in-yourface” in doing so, he said.

Black also was able to gain House and Senate approval for a bill that would prohibit the Board of Education from replacing the Standards of Learning with the Common Core State Standards in place in Washington, DC, and in 43 states.

The senator said that Common Core, a program backed and bankrolled by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is rapidly losing support nationwide and being challenged by a broadbased group that includes conservatives and teachers’ unions.

Criticism has been leveled particularly at the standards used to teach mathematics and history, Black said, the notion being that the math standards are too theoretical in nature and that historical documents are portrayed in a negative light.

“It’s an educational movement in free fall,” he said.

It’s unclear whether McAuliffe will sign Black’s bill, but the senator said that Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton told him that there are no plans to implement Common Core in the state.

Del. Dave A. LaRock (R-33), of western Loudoun, also submitted similar Common Core legislation, but he was perhaps even more excited about a bill that ended up being defeated in the state Senate.

That measure, HB 2238, would have given special-education students and foster and military children money that could have been used toward private school tuition or homeschooling costs. It passed the House, but failed in the state Senate when Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, broke an 18-18 tie by voting no.

“We put a lot into that,” LaRock said of the bill, which was endorsed by a diverse coalition that included the Virginia NAACP and the conservative organization Americans for Prosperity.

In addition, education legislation from two other members of Loudoun’s delegation easily passed both chambers of the General Assembly.

The identical bills, by Del. David I. Ramadan (R-87) and state Sen. Jennifer T. Wexton

(D-33), direct the Board of Education to award a diploma seal for bi-literacy to students who demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language.

School matters didn’t take up all of local lawmakers’ time in Richmond this year, though.

They also shepherded legislation on a variety of other issues.

The House and Senate, for instance, approved a bill by Greason that directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue license plates that say “Cure Childhood Cancer” and bear the gold ribbon indicating awareness of the issue.

It was inspired by 13-year-old Mathias Giordano, who died in December. Greason said that McAuliffe told him that he plans to come to Loudoun for a ceremonial signing of this bill in memory of Mathias, who became well-known in and around Leesburg after being diagnosed with bone cancer in July 2012.

Both chambers of the General Assembly also approved legislation by Greason that expands the number of children who could be eligible for insurance coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.

The lawmaker in 2011 was able to get a bill through the legislature that mandated that insurance providers provide such coverage for children ages 2 to 6. This year’s legislation would expand that group to youngsters as old as 10.

In addition, Ramadan and Wexton saw the approval of legislation to create a supplement to the state police’s sex offender registry. That would be a list of people who committed violent sexual offenses in Virginia before the state required such offenders to register.

It would not require those listed to register their whereabouts, just centralize conviction records that are publicly available anyway.

On another subject, the House and Senate approved legislation by Wexton that expands breastfeeding rights in Virginia. The senator was spurred by a woman who was asked to move behind closed doors when she was nursing her child in an Ashburn gym.

And, not to be outdone, Del. J. Randall Minchew (R-10) helped lead a two-year effort to secure a fourth Circuit Court judge for Loudoun. The Leesburg lawmaker, a member of the House’s Courts of Justice Committee, and his colleagues unanimously recommended lawyer Douglas L. Fleming Jr. to fill that post.

Overall, reflecting on this year’s accomplishments, Greason noted that this was his sixth session in Richmond, and that he thought legislators worked more closely together than he had ever seen before.

“It really was a good session for the commonwealth,” he said.

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July 1, County Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large) indicated that he could vote for a spending plan with a tax rate of $1.15 per $100 of assessed value, and Supervisor Kenneth D. Reid (R-Leesburg) agreed with this notion in a Facebook posting after the meeting. Supervisor Janet S. Clarke (R-Blue Ridge) also said she thought it was “justifiably appropriate” to keep the rate at its current $1.155.

“That’s where I am,” she said.

Because property values have risen in Loudoun, maintaining the current $1.155 real estate tax rate, or even lowering it to $1.15, would mean an increase in most tax bills. To keep bills flat on average, the supervisors would have to lower the rate to $1.135 per $100 of valuation when they approve the FY16 budget, an action scheduled for early next month.

The comments of York, Reid and Clarke provide a window into those individuals’ thinking, but the Board of Supervisors didn’t take any

votes Monday night as they talked over budgetary matters with the Loudoun School Board.

York, Reid and Clarke are not seeking reelection this fall, but approving a raise in the real estate rate would be somewhat of a surprise from the nine-member, all-Republican Board of Supervisors.

So why might supervisors approve a rate that would raise tax bills? With a levy of $1.15 or higher and the move of another pot of money in the budget, they could come close to covering a nearly $25 million gap between the amount of local funding County Administrator Tim Hemstreet has proposed for education and what the School Board requested when it adopted a $982.1 million spending plan in late January.

That presumably would please parent Lorraine Hightower. When she suggested at a public hearing last week that the tax rate should be increased by a penny, some in the crowd at the county administration building held aloft large images of pennies in agreement.

Hightower said that school funding in Lou-

doun has been lacking in the past, asking rhetorically, “Does this sound like excellence in education to you?”

The speaker, president of Mountain View Elementary School’s PTA, was one of more than 75 people who voiced opinions at the hearings, which were dominated by education advocates.

Only a handful of those gathered spoke about something other than school matters.

The recent debate about education funding has been described as less heated than in previous years, but those who seek an increase in school spending seem as dedicated as ever.

Several of them wore matching blue T-shirts, and some of them came to the meetings bearing political-campaign-style signs that said, “Fully fund our schools.”

Their ranks included at least five Democratic candidates for the Board of Supervisors as well as Mitch Cunningham, an electrician for the school system with a ready-for-radio voice.

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endorsed their position to rise, which meant that nearly the entire audience did a lot of standing during the meetings, held Saturday and Feb. 25.

One issue, though, is the meaning of “fully funding” schools. Some speakers asked supervisors to allocate enough revenue to cover the local share of the spending plan the School Board adopted last month. Others said that Superintendent Eric Williams’ $980.1 million proposal should be the one “fully” funded.

When Hemstreet proposed his budget for FY16, he said that fully covering the School Board’s local funding request would require a real estate tax rate of $1.165 per $100 of assessed value, which is presumably where those penny signs come in: The $1.165 rate is 1 cent more than the current $1.155 levy.

Regardless of the eventual figures, the most impassioned speech at the public hearings went way beyond numbers. It came from Pamela Lewis, who lives in Leesburg. She said she was a friend of the late Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.

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She implored them to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay their respects to those she said died so that they could sit at the county dais, and she said they shouldn’t act like the Koch brothers, national conservative icons whom she said want to torpedo public education.

Several speakers threatened to ensure that county supervisors are voted out of office come November if they do not agree to raise taxes to provide more money for the schools.

“If you ignore your constituents, you will find yourself with a lot of free time next year,” Eileen Currin said. “No more Board of Supervisors meetings for you.”

Chad Greene was one of three Saturday who asked supervisors not to raise their taxes, even if it means less money for schools. Calling the school system’s budget bloated, he said his children’s private school spends half of what the county does per pupil.

“They do it as cost-effective as they can because they have to,” he said, adding that he’s one of many in Loudoun whose pay has not kept up with the area’s rising cost of living. “I’m not asking you to spend someone else’s money on me other than the basics of fire, safety and roads.”

Kai Zisko was one of a few who addressed supervisors about something other than the schools. The 11-year-old stood on a stepstool to reach the mic to ask the board to provide adequate funding for the county’s public libraries.

“The library is more than just a place for me to check out books,” he said. “It is a place for me to have fun and learn with other kids my age, doing science, math, reading and learning about Loudoun County wildlife.”

Then there was Jonathan Radow. He reminded the supervisors that Loudoun taxpayers foot the bill for their compensation.

“You work for us,” said Radow, a teacher at Farmwell Station Middle School.

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“I’ve been here 17 years, and from the day I arrived I heard about this project, and I think it’s long overdue,” Adamo said.

Bill Fox (Leesburg), among other board members, voiced his support for the academies, calling it “not just a nice-to-have project but a priority of this board and of the community.”

Fox suggested adopting a temporary multi-track, year-round schedule for the Dulles area schools to get through the overcrowding bubble. “It really is a legitimate solution for dealing with overcrowding and could be done in a way that does not impact educational outcomes.”

The idea didn’t gain much support from board members, however, and was not brought to a vote.

Three board members—Jeff Morse (Dulles), Kevin Kuesters (Broad Run) and Thomas Reed (At Large)—said the elementary and middle school should be the priority, even if it means waiting on the academies.

“The impact of delaying either one of those schools is huge. It effects thousands of children,” Morse said. “It’s more than shifting kids around. It affects security, special education. It affects everything.”

Kuesters said the county needs all three of the schools, but it more desperately needs the elementary and middle schools. “The Academies of Loudoun are going to take us to the next level, but we’re at this level now. We’ve got to get seats for these kids. It’s a serious issue.”

Supervisors have expressed a willingness to shift construction projects on the county’s side. Those under consideration to be delayed are the $13.2 million animal shelter, the $52.1 million Hal and Berni Hanson Regional Park, the $39.4 million Ashburn Recreation and Community Center and the $39 million Crosstrail Boulevard extension.

The supervisors discussed with School Board members Monday night which of these projects they might delay, but they didn’t come to any decisions. They’re slated to talk over the issue again next week.

The good news for School Board members, though, is that the supervisors said they’re confident they can figure out a way to expedite ES-31 and MS-7.

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TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2015 - JUNE 30, 2016 In accordance with the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, §§ 15.2-2506 and 15.2-107, the Leesburg Town Council will hold a public hearing on:

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$285,891 $136,553 $1,118,792 $762,030 $129,237 $4,018,291 $13,727,554 $11,520,511 $7,799,322 $447,795 $1,509,571 $1,368,247 $765,636 $699,108 $0 ($50,000) $137,000 $4,762,733

$260,711 $145,038 $1,408,383 $624,655 $141,867 $4,358,111 $13,891,129 $12,487,068 $7,742,025 $464,139 $1,598,935 $1,419,061 $777,729 $771,660 $0 ($50,000) $152,000 $5,617,192

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FY 2016 PROPOSED $12,227,000 $214,982 $2,020,000 $15,363,214 $1,330,035 $599,497 $1,482,052 $5,183,077 $4,240,163 $10,516,179

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CAPITAL ASSET REPLACEMENT FUND NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSIT AUTHORITY FUND Total All Funds2 1 Total General Fund Revenues do not match published FY 2015 Adopted Budget Plan.

2 Fund Balance and/or Bond Proceeds are being utilized for capital expenditures and projects in the Utilities, Capital Asset Replacement and Capital Projects funds in order to balance the respective FY 2016 proposed fund budgets.

This budget is prepared for informative and fiscal planning purposes only. Such preparation, publication, and approval shall not be deemed to be an appropriation. No money shall be paid out or become available to be paid out for any contemplated expenditure unless and until there has first been made an annual, semiannual, quarterly, or monthly appropriation for such contemplated expenditure.

Copies of the proposed budget are available on the Town website, on computer disk and for inspection at Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, and at the Thomas Balch Library, 208 West Market Street. Questions should be directed to Clark G. Case, Director, Department of Finance and Administrative Services, at 703-771-2720. Persons requiring special accommodations should contact the Clerk of Council at 703-771-2733, three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711.

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Pursuant to the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, Section 15.2-1411, the LEESBURG TOWN COUNCIL will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at 7:30 p.m., Council Chambers at Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, 20176, to consider the following amendment to the Town Code: Sec. 2-233. – Leesburg Diversity Commission

At this hearing, all persons desiring to express their views concerning these matters will be heard. Persons requiring special accommodations should contact the Clerk of Council at 703-771-2733, three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711.

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You can also review the project information at VDOT’s Leesburg Residency Office located at 41 Lawson Road Southeast in Leesburg, 703-737-2000.

Property impact information, relocation assistance policies and tentative construction schedules are also available for your review at the above addresses and will be available at the public hearing.

Give your written or oral comments at the hearing or submit them by April 6, 2015, to Mr. Brian Morrison, Project Manager, Virginia Department of Transportation, 4975 Alliance Drive Fairfax, VA 22030. You may also e-mail your comments to meeting_comments@VDOT.virginia.gov. Please reference “Route 727 PH Comment� in the subject line.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact VDOT’s Civil Rights Division at 800-3677623 or TTY/TDD 711.

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Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a Programmatic Categorical Exclusion was prepared. In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the potential effects of the proposed improvements on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is included with the NEPA documentation.

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Joel Ernest Peterson of Annapolis, Maryland, passed away on Friday, February 20, 2015. He was 62 years old. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the son of Edward Herbert Peterson and Enid Marguerite White Peterson. He will be remembered fondly. A private family service will be held at a later date. Please leave condolences at www.colonialfuneralhome.com.

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DAVID J. RILEY David J. Riley, 83, of Broadlands, VA, went peacefully into the arms of the Lord on Monday, February 23, 2015 at Loudoun Hospital surrounded by his wife and children. Born on December 9, 1931 in Clarence, New York he was the son of the late Charles Riley and the late Ida Sandholm Riley. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Timmy, Tommy, Chuck and Romelle.

A fifth generation of Loudoun County, Tony spent his weekends and summers as a young boy there with his first cousin Frederick (Fritz) Lyttleton Hutchison. He was a dedicated outdoorsman with interests in equestrian sports, which was nurtured early on by his parents who bred thoroughbreds and showed bench pointers.

Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher were two of his favorite ponies; with them he won many championships throughout Loudoun, Fauquier and Fairfax Counties, often showing with his Dave served as Private First Class in the Army life long friends Robbie Palmer and Elliwood for two years and fought in the Korean War. He

BARBARA ANN PATTON Barbara Ann Patton, 72 of Berryville, VA, formerly of Leesburg passed away on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, at Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, Virginia.

Barbara was born on Friday, January 1, 1943 in Freeland, Pennsylvania, She was a daughter of the late John Joseph Banyas and the late Katherine Kushmeider Banyas. Barbara retired from Bell Atlantic Telephone Company in Leesburg, VA. Barbara will be remembered as a woman of faith, devoted mother and loving Nana. She en-

Michael Ray Gentzler

Michael Ray Gentzler of South Riding, Virginia, passed away on Monday, February 23, 2015.

Michael was 61 years old. Born in 1953, he was the son of Norman D. Gentzler and Beverly Guthart Gentzler (deceased). Along with his father, Norman, he is survived by his brothers David Gentzler and Stephen Gentzler; and sisters Claudia Endelman, Cynthia Alonso, and Sandra Runyon. In honoring his wishes, all services are private. Please leave condolences at www.colonialfuneralhome.com.

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Among many life long interests for Tony was his passion for photography, which enabled his association with the The National Geographic.

A safari with his family to East Africa in 1967 resulted in the inclusion of many of his photographs in the Geographicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, The Animals of East Africa. His photograph of a cheetah hung for years in Explorersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hall. His macro photography of spiders, snakes and birds became his trademark.

Tony and his family divided their time between Washington, D.C and Aldie, Virginia where they permanently moved in 1973 to Glenstone, near Aldie, his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farm which was settled in the 1700â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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A memorial service will be held in the spring www.LoudounFuneralChapel.com. in his beloved gardens at Glenstone. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the National Audubon Society.

A Funeral Mass began at 1:30 PM on Friday, February 27, 2105 at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church Leesburg, Virginia 20176.

Interment followed in St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic Church Cemetery, Leesburg, VA.

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A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at Leesburg United Methodist Church with Rev. Jim Wishmyer officiating. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loveâ&#x20AC;? reception will follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Cure Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fund, 34 Washington Street #200, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481.

She leaves her family to cherish her memory including her two sons, Donald J. and daughter in law Lori McKinley of Berryville, VA and Joseph and Krista McKinley of Fredericksburg, her brother, John (Jack) Banyas of Studio City, CA, her sister, Catherine Donati of Whitehall, PA; two nieces, one nephew and 8 grandchildren.

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As a Captain in the U.S. Amy, he was stationed at Fort Meade near Washington, D.C. during World War II and he received his graduate degree in medicine from The George Washington University in 1944. He continued his army service at Walter Reed Army Military Hospital under Colonel James Claude Kimbrough, until 1948 when he began his residency in urology at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing the program at the Elmer Hess Clinic in Erie, Pennsylvania he returned to Washington, D.C. to join his father Dr. Frederick Reuter, in his urology practice, in 1951. They practiced at George Washington University Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. and Loudoun Memorial Hospital in Leesburg, Virginia where they had established a clinic in the 1940â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s which was to become its urology department.

Tony is survived by his wife of 67 years, Nancy Rogerson Brown Reuter, and his three children; Frederick Turner Reuter, Jr., Diana Reuter Twining, and John (Jock) Adams Reuter, his three grandchildren, Matilda Reuter Engle, Hannah Pascoe Reuter, and Frederick (Fritz) Turner Reuter III, and by his daughter in law Dana Casey Reuter, son in law Edmund S. Twining III and grand son in law Jonathan Aaron Engle.

Barbara was predeceased by her son Greg McKinley in 1988 and her husband Edward M. Patton in 2004. She was a member of St. John the Apostle Catholic Church.

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Known to his family and friends affectionately as Tony, he graduated in 1939 from Landon School for Boys in Bethesda, Maryland and completed his pre med degree from the University of Virginia.

joyed gardening, baking and Suduko, but most of all she loved her family.

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Frederick Turner Reuter, MD died February 28 at the age of 95. Dr. Reuter was born on March 25, 1920 in Washington, D.C. to Frederick August Reuter, MD and Martha Rousseau Turner.

Keith. Rufus Humphrey and Joe Rogers were received his undergraduate degree in music at Youngstown University and earned his Masters among those close friends of a bygone era. of Music Education from Florida State UniverTony oversaw the master planning of Glen- sity. He was a Professor of music at Ithaca Colstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horticulture which his parents began in lege for twenty seven years. He was a highly the 1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the bones of the formal gardens regarded educator, vocal jazz specialist, guest were grafted from cuttings from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;mother conductor and freelance choral composer / arboxâ&#x20AC;?. He and his wife Nancy began their own ranger. His direction brought the Ithaca College perennial gardens within these bones in the ear- Vocal Jazz ensemble international acclaim, and ly 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The topiaries of Foster hollies, cuttings his teaching provided training for many jazz edof which were grown in his greenhouse, frame ucators and performers including Emmy award the entrance to the garden and are a testament winning artists, The New York Voices. After to his acumen as a skilled horticulturalist. One retiring from Ithaca College, Dave rejoiced in of Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many lasting legacies will be his rho- playing the piano, singing, traveling with his dodendron and azalea gardens on the eastern wife, golfing as much as possible, spending time slope of the Bull Run Mountain. with his children and celebrating the joy of life with friends. David Riley will be greatly missed In the 1940â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s he and his father established a by a host of friends and his family. pure breed herd of angus cattle at Bull Run Farm, adjacent to Glenstone, which was main- He is survived by his loving wife of 23 years, tained for fifty years. The annual joint auction Nancy Tittelbaugh-Riley; children, Pamela with John Rucker of Hill Crest Farm, Delaplane, Stone and her husband, the late Robert Stone Virginia became an institution which provided or Dryden, NY, Camille Riley-Wigsten and an opportunity for farms to add foundation her husband, Matthew of Spencer, NY, Colleen cattle to their herds.

Barber and her husband, Rick of Grapevine, TX, David Riley Baker and his wife, Carey of He was a member of the American Medical Manlius, NY and Rita DeFilippos and her husAssociation, The American College of Sur- band, Mike of Broadlands, VA; grandchildren, geons, The American Urological Association, Heather, Jennifer, Kyle, Spenser, Colton, John, The Cosmos Club, The Third Monday Group, Shane, Owen, William, Finn, Chloe, Sophie; and The Catoctin Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Club. great-grandchildren, Alyssa, Omar and Sophia.

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n last year’s Purcellville Town Council election, a new slate was swept into office after campaigning to put an end to perceived back-room deals and promote transparency in the workings of municipal government.

After nine months in office, some of those same open government proponents are coming under fire from their colleagues for conducting too much of their business outside the public eye. At the heart of the complaint is the widespread use of email to hash out positions.

It is disappointing to hear arguments that using email to direct the course of the public’s business somehow promotes trust in government.

It is not against Virginia’s open government laws for elected leaders to communicate with one another by email. Virginia courts have held that even a string of emails among a group of members of an elected body does not violate the commonwealth’s open meeting laws under most circumstances.

It also is true, as at least one council member argued, that use of email creates a better public record of the talks than would result from a phone call or a meeting at a coffee house, also legal venues for a conversation between two elected representatives. It is important to note, however, that those email “records” typically are available only to those individuals who file formal FOIA requests and, often, pay a fee for their production. Sometimes these records, generated outside the walls of government, even disappear; this week a presidential candidate came under fire for failing to comply with regulations aimed at ensuring her records were preserved.

It is a concern in no way limited to Purcellville. Representatives on HOA boards, members of the county Board of Supervisors or even those on Capitol Hill should be mindful of the issue.

Where should the line be drawn? On this topic, Virginia’s Freedom of Information Advisory Council stresses that the underlying principle of the open meeting provisions of FOIA is that public has the right to witness the operations of government.

When email exchanges begin to resemble real-time talks, “then you may be better served by saving that communication for a public meeting.”

It may be inconvenient or messy—maybe even old fashioned—to sit around the table in a public place at an advertised time to discuss government business and let voters hear the entire debate. But it also is good government, with unquestioned transparency.

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s a Leesburg resident for the past 15 years, I firmly support the establishment of the Leesburg Diversity Commission. For 10 years (20032013), I was founder, board member, volunteer, and executive director of La Voz of Loudoun (The Voice of Loudoun), a 501(c)3 communitybased organization working toward immigrant integration.

In my work, I encountered thousands of diverse Leesburg and Loudoun residents, the majority of whom were Spanish-speaking.

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languages and cultures of people who emigrated from a variety of countries in Latin America, West Africa, North Africa/Middle East, Western/Eastern Europe and Asia. The latest census reported that the Asian population quadrupled and the Hispanic population tripled from 2000-2010, which is a trend that mirrors the growth in the region, Virginia and the United States.

Since moving here in 2000, I have witnessed those dramatic demographic shifts and have observed the trials that newcomers (and established immigrants) face. As a first generation Latina of Central American parents, I met similar challenges after my arrival in Leesburg, experiencing reverse culture shock as a native Californian having been raised bi-culturally/bi-lingually and having had come directly from working overseas.

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I was extremely pleased by your story announcing the election of Doug Fleming Jr. to the Circuit Court Bench by our Loudoun delegation and the Virginia Legislature. What a great choice by the Bar and the General Assembly and I congratulate them one and all on this non-partisan decision.

I have known Doug Jr. all his life and his father Doug Fleming Sr., an associate at American Airlines, has been a close friend for more than 60 years, first at National Airport and later at Dulles.

When Doug Jr. was a youngster in 1971 shortly after the family moved from Alexandria to Herndon, he and his brother Gene worked at the Herndon polls in my first campaign passing out brochures and litter bags. He later worked with his dad in running Sen. Charles L. Waddell (D-33) and Doug Fleming Jr. on the Senate a couple of my fundraising golf tournaments floor in the 1990s. in Northern Virginia.

When Doug was vice president of his who likewise were elected and served with senior class at Herndon High School in 1975, distinction before their retirement. Finally, I he extended an invitation for me to give the placed the first woman on the Loudoun Juvecommencement address that year to the largest nile and Domestic Relations Court with the graduating class in Herndon High School hisnomination and election of Jean Clements. I tory, which I readily accepted. later had the honor to nominate and help elect

Doug’s mother Barbara later worked in the late Julie Taylor Cannon to the General my Sterling office as my assistant for a couple District Court and there were others. of years.

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I have watched Doug’s career blossom judiciary in the Commonwealth of Virginia and surge ever since he graduated from Wiland with this decision by our Loudoun delegaliam and Mary Law School and began his law tion to place Doug Fleming Jr. on the 20th practice in Leesburg. He became one of the Judicial Circuit Court Bench, that tradition most respected lawyers in town, first serving as will be carried forward in spades. a partner in the firm of Hanes, Sevilla, Saun Congratulations to Doug Fleming and to ders and McCahill before venturing out on his those who recognized his brilliant legal mind own. and judicial temperament and advanced his

Doug served as a substitute judge in the name.

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On several occasions Doug would come down to Richmond to visit me during the latter part of my 26-year career in the Senate of Virginia.

I had the honor during my long service in Richmond to nominate many judges including the late and beloved Carlton Penn. I later nominated Jim Chamblin and Tom Horne,

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fter each of us has provided three weekly installments apiece on the 2015 General Assembly Session, we thought that it would be fitting if our final report in this series were written by us jointly.

This past session was one marked by a considerable degree of bipartisan and bicameral cooperation and, other than an interesting bit of drama (discussed below) involving the Omnibus Ethics Bill conference committee report on the last day, there was very little rancor or disharmony. For the first time in 15 years, the General Del. J. Randall Minchew (R-10) Assembly actually adjourned before its scheduled adjournment day with all of its work done.

One prime example of this cooperation is evidenced by the final version of the annual Budget Bill (HB 1400) that passed the House 95-5 and passed the Senate 38-1. This Budget Bill, while not perfect, is structurally balanced, contains no tax increases, provides pay raises to K-12 public school teachers and state police, and spends $1 billion less in general funds than last year’s originally-adopted budget. On the higher education front, the Budget Bill also includes new funding for additional in-state tuition slots, financial aid and transfer-student grants.

Another key initiative we worked on was to increase accountability in our transportation system, working to protect taxpayer dollars. This year we changed the formula used to decide how transportation dollars are spent, sending more money to local governments for key road improvements. We decentralized the decision-making process concerning major transportation projects allowing for many regional decisions to be made at the district level rather than in Richmond by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

On a local level, we worked together to secure a much-needed fourth Circuit Court judge for Loudoun County. Improving revenues allowed for our commonwealth to fund four additional judgeships and we were able to convince the House Appropriations and Senate Finance committees to allocate one of these funding slots to Loudoun. As our county has grown over the past decade, our judiciary has not kept pace. We have both served as president of the Loudoun County Bar Association and worked together to advocate this allocation. From the moment we were able to secure funding for this new judgeship, however, we were given only 72 hours to submit a name for judicial confirmation. Our bicameral, bipartisan Loudoun delegation met and we tapped a great lawyer, Douglas L. Fleming Jr. of Leesburg, for this new circuit court judgeship. Special thanks also goes to Delegate Thomas A. “Tag” Greason of Ashburn, who, as a budget conferee, made securing this judgeship a top priority.

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Another bill (SB1393), known colloquially among General Assembly members as the “Execution Secrecy Bill,” passed the Senate and was defeated in the House of Delegates on bipartisan votes. Virginia, like other states where the death penalty is legal and execution by lethal injection is the preferred method of carrying out a death sentence, is experiencing problems as the European companies that produce the drugs have begun to object to the death penalty and are no longer willing to sell their products to state departments of corrections. The less controversial provision of this bill would have allowed the Virginia Department of Corrections to contract with compounding pharmacies to produce the drugs required to carry out execution by lethal injection. However, the bill ran into trouble with many who might have otherwise have supported it by exempting the identity of the companies who produce the drugs and the entire production and administration process, including the substances used, from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. This bill passed the Senate 23-14, however, it failed in the House of Delegates, 56-42, as many who support the death penalty could not support the unprecedented Sen. Jennifer Wexton secrecy aspect of the bill. The day after SB1393 was filed, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an Oklahoma case involving the same drug combination that Virginia is hoping to use, so this will surely be a continuing issue that we will address in the next session of the General Assembly.

In light of the horrible death of Hannah Graham, we also dedicated ourselves to crafting legislation to aid victims and protect students from sexual assault on campus. In light of the interplay between our criminal statutes and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act and our need to respect the privacy rights of victims, the drafting of this bill was complex and took considerable work. Our two goals were to protect victims of assault on campus and prevent future victims. Our adopted bills (HB 1930 and SB 712) do both. They ensure that schools provide victims of sexual assault support from an unaffiliated service and that they inform a victim of sexual assault of all of her options. They also establish the procedure requiring that every charge of felony sexual assault on campus either be released immediately to the police or sent for review to the Commonwealth’s Attorney. Together, these policies will protect victims of sexual assault and will make college campuses safer for students.

Lastly, we strengthened our ethics and disclosure laws and adopted meaningful reforms through our two Omnibus Ethics Bills (HB 2070 and SB 1424) that were the last legislative enactments of the 2015 Session.

Both bills passed both houses late last Friday night without a dissenting vote. There was a bit of controversy in the conference committee charged with reconciling the Senate and the House versions of these ethics bills, but after a bit of last day shuttle diplomacy, we were able to forge consensus on important reforms.

Thank you for the opportunity to report to you from Richmond. We now adjourn this series sine die.

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“The Greenway owners may be legally allowed to request toll rate increases each year, but the toll rate is NOT reasonable for drivers who do not drive the entire length of the toll road. The SCC keeps ignoring that fact.”

[Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a weekly series of alternating reports by Del. J. Randall Minchew (R-10) and Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D-33) to the readers of Leesburg Today concerning the 2015 Session of the Virginia General Assembly. Together, Minchew and Wexton hope to provide a bipartisan and bicameral perspective and provide both news and analysis.]

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some strides. However, at times, I still have that feeling of isolation, and see discrimination, ignorance and outright racism that exists in our community, which saddens me. A recent example is when I visited a Leesburg grocery store a few months ago. While in the restroom, to my shock and dismay, I noticed a “KKK” inscription on the door. I immediately addressed my concern with the store manager (also a Latino), who told me that this had occurred multiple times, but reassured me that the Leesburg Police was handling it. Fortunately, when I returned to the store, it had been painted over.

That particular incident left me feeling unwelcome, and even a bit fearful, as I live close by. I flashbacked to 2004 when I discovered KKK fliers on the lawn in Ashburn, which I quickly discarded after having conducted a home visit for a client in the same neighborhood. At present, it resembles a distant nightmare to me.

I am now left wondering: have we made progress or taken ten steps back? In honor of Black History Month, here are the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

I urge Mayor Umstattd and the Town Council to approve the Leesburg Diversity Commission, so that together we can create a more welcoming, safe environment in Leesburg and Loudoun County, and to begin our march forward once again. It is the right thing to do, and it is essential to adequately meet the needs of our neighbors.

Yvette Castro-Green, Leesburg

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warm for my middle school and high school kids. However, my elementary school kids are kidcicles until we get to the school.

I would love to invite Mr. Homes to Stone Bridge High School at 6:30 a.m. or earlier to watch us pre-trip our buses and cover runs for each other on a dark, cold, stormy morning.

However, our insurance company will not allow untrained personnel on the buses.

Maybe you can drive in from West Virginia or Maryland with our teachers, school staff or bus drivers on a bad weather day. They are not wimps.

Robert Morris, Ashburn

Not High Enough?

Dear Editor:

Did you know that Loudoun’s tax rate is one of the highest in the region? Neither did I. But to hear many of the speakers at a recent Board of Supervisors hearing, our taxes aren’t nearly high enough.

Here are the facts: Loudoun’s tax rate per $100 of assessed value is $1.155. Prince William County’s is $1.14. Fairfax County’s is $1.09.

Arlington County’s is only $0.996. And the District of Columbia’s tax rate is a measly $0.850.

Wondering about your big tax bill on your house?

This is the reason why.

Shocking, isn’t it? Now, before anyone gets mad at our current Republican Board of Supervisors, it’s also a fact that all nine Republican supervisors have worked very hard to keep our taxes even as home values have increased, and also lower our taxes. At the same time, our Republican Board of Supervisors has increased funding for our schools, and has ensured that Loudoun County remains one of the best places to call home in our nation.

Let’s thank our Board of Supervisors for working to rein in spending. Let’s thank them for

not giving in to the voices calling for more taxes and spending. Let’s encourage them to do all they can to lower our taxes this coming budget season.

And as Democrat candidates start running for Board of Supervisors, make sure to ask them if they’re planning to increase our taxes.

Will Estrada, Leesburg

Too Close

Dear Editor:

I would like to be sure that my comments at the Purcellville Town Council meeting held on Feb. 10 were clear. I was not opposing the request for Valley Energy to expand its operations; quite the opposite.

My comments of concern refer to adding the usage of storage and distribution of propane to the entire CM-1 District, of which some of these districts are adjacent to residential properties and even across the street from one of our high schools. Propane storage and distribution belongs in an industrial area, right where Valley Energy is located. The use should not be added to the entire CM-1 District, simply because Valley Energy would like to expand.

I feel that there should be consideration given to Valley Energy as an existing business to allow for it to expand its current operations, but this should not be added back into the district’s usage unilaterally, as it was previously removed, and for good reason.

I agree that there are few incidents that occur at propane storage facilities; however, when they do occur, they are tragic. Having said that, the locations of other CM-1 Districts in Purcellville are too close to residents and students.

The Town of Purcellville should begin and complete the Comprehensive Plan review immediately and put a moratorium on any zone use changes, annexations, boundary line adjustments, etc. until the review is done.

Lydia Clark, Purcellville

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tion” pointed out to me that he needed a history lesson. Let us go back in time.

It was a dark and stormy morning on Jan. 6, 2015. This was the first real weather problem for our new superintendent, Dr. Williams, and our new director of transportation, Mr. Lonnie Reavis. The weather folks said the snow should end in the early morning. So the call was made to start on time. Unfortunately, the weather folks guessed wrong.

As good as an eight-foot-wide, 37-footlong bus that weighs 37,000 pounds was in the snow and having well-trained drivers could not overcome all of the problems on that day. I think Dr. Williams and Mr. Reavis are being more conservative now calling off for snow days.

As a school bus driver, our problem was not the snow. It was all of the parents who tried to take their kids to school before going to work in their non-all-wheel drive cars. They abandoned their cars in front of my middle school or on the side of the road. Some folks here in Northern Virginia are not very good drivers when the weather is perfect. The snow makes some of those drivers crazy.

So your answer is easy. To all of the drivers who do not have all-wheel drive, please stay home until we can get the kids to school.

Also, understand that many of our teachers, school staff and bus drivers cannot afford to live in Loudoun County and drive from West Virginia and Maryland to school and to the buses.

They are late or do not make it to school or to the buses, which can be a problem.

Next subject is bitter cold days. Our buses have engine block heaters; however, we do not have a place to plug them in. A diesel engine does not do as well on very, very cold days and they do not like to start. The doors are frozen shut and we are late to our stops.

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