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proposal to close Loudoun’s four smallest schools was pulled from the budget chopping block with an 11th hour, 6-3 vote Tuesday night. The vote came three weeks after Loudoun County School Board members agreed to formally consider closing the schools, and take the first legal steps to do so, in an effort to save $2 million a year and help bridge a $37.7 million funding gap in next fiscal year’s operating budget. But at least two board members who said they were on the fence about the issue ultimately agreed to keep Hillsboro, Lincoln, Aldie and Hamilton elementary schools open for one more year, pushing the vote in favor of the schools. Both Jeff Morse (Dulles) and Debbie Rose (Algonkian) said, somewhat reluctantly, they would give the small schools another year, but requested that the board’s committees conduct a thorough analysis of the cost to maintain and operate the four
schools because the data kept changing during the hurried reconciliation process. Morse sounded ready to vote for closing the schools, but finally said, “The bottom line is we didn’t do the process right.” His constituents would rather the board allocate money to reduce class sizes, “so I’m supporting the small schools at the risk of my community having to go through another year at crowded schools. I don’t do that lightly… But we need to do a thorough assessment so we can put this to bed so every year western Loudoun doesn’t have to come in in a panic and try to save their schools.” Just more than 24 hours earlier, School Board members walked through a standing room only crowd of parents and students shouting “save our schools” and waving signs that read the same, to get to their seats at the dais for a heated public hearing on the matter. The hearing kicked off the week, and the last leg of budget reconciliation talks, and close to 400
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as writer and TV personality Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge. The famous duo will give a presentation on a special stage the Leesburg Today parking lot at 19 N. King St. The two will share the story of how they rose to fame from farming roots, along the way creating a horticultural and lifestyle empire from the products of their Beekman farm in upstate New York. Their three books are on sale at Ida Lee Recreation Center and also will be available after their talk. And, if visitors get tired of walking the festival, they can always head for the various food vendors, or sink onto a comfortable chair in one of the town eateries. They also can check out the wares at
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and ask gardening questions of the experts who created the miniature gardens or take a break and listen to live music on the courthouse lawn. Their kids may be left in the care of Leesburg Parks and Rec staffers who will keep a watchful eye out as youngsters in the Children’s Stage area get some hands-on craft time, and plant seeds and watch the roster of entertainment drawn up for them, including Irish step dancers, comics, musicians, wildlife naturalists and fun exercise routines by gymnasts. An entertainment highlight will be the appearance at 2 p.m. on the Sunday of the festival of The Fabulous Beekman Boys, otherwise known
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he Republicans of the 10th Congressional District face a hefty task this weekend. For the first time in 34 years, they’ll be asked to select the best-equipped candidate to defend a seat that has been a Republican stronghold thanks to Rep. Frank Wolf. Wolf has held the seat for 17 terms, beating out challengers since Ronald Reagan was in the White House. In December, 75-year-old Wolf announced he would not seek re-election, and within weeks a cast of Republicans had lined up to challenge for his seat. As John Whitbeck, chairman of the 10th Congressional District Republican Committee, put it, “This is the first time in 34 years the 10th District chairman has to worry about holding the 10th District seat…The key is to not take anything for granted.” Republicans will select their nominee from among six candidates through a party canvass Saturday, April 26. The party canvass, also known as a firehouse primary, is open to all registered voters in the 10th District, but voters must sign a statement of intent, vowing to support the Republican nominee in November. There will be 10 voting locations throughout the district, which stretches along Virginia’s northern border from Fairfax County to Frederick County in the Shenandoah Valley.
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line along the W&OD Trail to the Fairfax County line as a part of a $30 million deal with the City of Fairfax. The reservoir is a popular recreation spot in Loudoun, with fishermen, kayakers, hikers and row teams enjoying the 635-acre body of water and the trails that surround it. The renovation project will upgrade the facilities to meet the Virginia dam safety design and regulatory criteria as well as address safety and land use management
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The third option presented is another three-story building, but this one splits the General District Court and clerk operations between two levels. The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney, civil process, community corrections, probation and parole would still be located in the building. There would be an 85-foot setback along Edwards Ferry Road and a 20-foot setback from Church Street. Erika Jacobson Moore
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According to county documents, by 2025 the court system will need seven additional courtrooms between the three courts—Circuit, General District, and Juvenile and Domestic Relations. The Circuit Court would need one new courtroom by 2020 and The fourth and final option also is three stories, and envisions the General District Court and clerk colloanother in 2025. The first new court- cated on the first level, with the Office of the Commonwealth Attorney, civil process, community corrections, rooms for the other two courts would probation and parole on the other two levels.There would be public space along Edwards Ferry Road, where be needed by 2015. a 13- to 66-foot setback is anticipated. There also would be a 23-foot setback from Church Street. The design parameters for the expansion project included: one design over another, supervisors were con- burg) said the massing and the parking garage • provide functional courtroom and court- cerned that the style of the new building would are going to be the top concerns for community, related operations space to support the court be in keeping with its location in historic not necessarily the façade. “They have archisystem’s continued growth; downtown Leesburg. The renderings, supervi- tectural guidelines,” he noted of the Town of • have new construction to house the Gen- sors noted, showed a seemingly modern office Leesburg. eral District Court and other court support building style. Indeed, Director of Transportation and agencies; “I hope, before we pay for all that to be Capital Infrastructure Joe Kroboth said that the • collocate on-site all court support agencies done, we get a sense from the community of neighborhood and surrounding facilities would that are currently housed in off-site locations, what they want to see,” County Chairman Scott serve as guides for the architecture and the including leased space; K. York (R-At Large) said, adding as a directive renderings were created only to show size and • plan effectively for continued growth beyond to county staff and the consultants, “Be very specs. Phase III; and sensitive. I hope you get a read from the Town Full information on the courts complex • appropriately fit into the context of downtown Council and the citizens of what they would like expansion can be viewed at www.loudoun.gov/ Leesburg. to see architecturally in this building.” courts-expansion. n While not expressing any preference for However, Supervisor Ken Reid (R-Lees-
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Wednesday supervisors elected to stay with a system chief, but Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large) came up with an alternative to attempt to assuage the volunteers’ concerns. On a motion by York, supervisors unanimously created a new position for the department: assistant chief for support services and volunteer administration. The assistant chief would have a primary responsibility to act as a liaison with the volunteer companies and “support the volunteers and growth of the volunteer system.” Unallocated budget funds of $255,000 will be used to pay for the position this year. A national search will be conducted for the candidate. “I take very seriously the concerns that were expressed by our volunteers,” York said of his reasoning for supporting the new position. Vice Chairman Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run) said the position sends a strong positive message to the volunteers, who he noted are important to keep working in the county because of the high-value service they bring. As volunteer numbers fall off, the county must pay for career firefighters and EMTs to replace them, and Williams said ensuring that does not happen must be the main goal of the new assistant chief. “If we continue to lose volunteers, I don’t know if that role has been successful,” he added. Supervisor Matt Letourneau (R-Dulles) offered one concern: that the new assistant chief must not go too far into advocacy of the volunteer system that it “hurts the ability to actually manage.” He said the new position
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INTEREST RATES: Mortgage interest rates are generally on the rise, but with continuing volatility from week to week. The 4.40% rate for 30-year fixed mortgages at the end of March is considerably higher than the 3.57% rate at the end of March 2013 – and is also slightly higher than the 4.37% rate at the end of February 2014. It is reasonable to expect that rates will continue gradually to rise as the year progresses, and no one should be surprised if rates end the year above 5%.
DIRECTION OF THE MARKET: The harsh weather in the first three months of the year has significantly impacted new contract activity, and it has also kept the number of new listings coming on the market artificially low. However, the slowdown isn’t solely attributable to the weather since the slowing of contract activity actually began in October of 2013. Rising interest rates have reduced buying power by 10% compared to a year ago, and that prices some first-time buyers out of the market and reduces the price point for others. Properties are taking a little longer to sell and absorption rates are a bit lower across all property types and all price ranges. However, home prices are higher because of the still-tight overall supply, and there is still significant demand – just not quite as much as this time last year. As we noted last month, the market has cooled off a bit, and that’s good for the long haul. We continue to believe the market is normalizing, headed to a more balanced supply and home price appreciation closer to historic norms of 4% - 6%. Unless otherwise noted, data derived from Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. (MRIS®).
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INVENTORY: The number of homes on the market at the end of March was up 22.2% from the end of March 2013. The jump in inventory is particularly significant for attached homes – up 63% from this time last year. There was a 17.6% increase in the number of new listings coming on the market compared to last March. Despite the modest increase in the number of new contracts, the increase in inventory pushed supply to 2.3 months, up from 1.9 months this time last year. While that is the largest supply number in the region, it is still indicative of a seller’s market.
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AFFORDABILITY: The payment on a no-money-down, 30-year fixed mortgage for a median-priced home is 26.8% lower today than it was in March 2007, but it is also 9% higher than it was this time last year. The mortgage payment for a median priced home ($2,028 in March) is slightly lower than the median rented price ($2,100 in March). We’re keeping the arrow pointed down because both mortgage rates and home prices are headed higher.
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CONTRACTS: Contract activity in March 2014 was up 1.3% from March of last year, and Loudoun was the only area jurisdiction we track with an increase. Year-to-date, however, new contract activity is down 6.6%. Of those properties going under contract in March, 66% were on the market for 30 days or less. For some perspective, 91% of homes going under contract March 2004 were on the market for 30 days or less; in 2008, it was just 32%.
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Tuesday, April 15 • Telephone Complaint: 25400 block of Dabner Dr., South Riding; just before 11 a.m. a resident received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS. The resident challenged the caller and he threatened her. The incident is believed to be part of a scam.
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• Telephone Complaint: 15500 block of Limestone School Road, Leesburg; around 11:20 a.m. resident received a phone call from someone claiming to be with the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. The caller said the resident missed her court date and there would be a warrant filed unless she paid the fees. The resident refused to provide any further information.
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• Suspicious Event: 120 block of Hamilton Road, Sterling; around 11:20 a.m. a resident received a call from someone claiming to be from the IRS. No direct contact was made and no personal information was provided to caller.
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• Fraud: 42600 block of Kellamugh Terrace, South Riding; around 9:15 p.m. a resident received a call from someone claiming to be a Lt. Mike Stevens from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. The caller said a bench warrant had been issued for the victim’s husband after he failed to pay a fine for running a yellow light. The caller asked the victim to obtain money to pay the associated fees by obtaining Green-Dot cards. The victim complied and provided the information to the caller.
crossed over the double yellow lines and left the roadway. The vehicle re-entered the roadway and struck a mailbox on the shoulder. The driver, a 17-year-old girl from Leesburg, overcorrected and struck two trees. The driver and front seat passenger, a 16-year-old from Leesburg, were taken to the Cornwall Campus of Inova Loudoun Hospital. The rear passenger, a 12-year-old boy, was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital for treatment of injuries described as serious, but non-life-threatening. Both the driver and front seat passenger were released from the hospital. The crash remains under investigation.
• Discharge of a Firearm: 44200 block of Litchfield Terrace, Ashburn Village; around 2 a.m. a resident found a bullet that traveled through the wall of a bedroom and through a bed. The resident heard a commotion during the early morning hours. He reported his findings to the sheriff’s office around 5:30 p.m. Deputies began an investigation and around 10:45 p.m. deputies responded to a residence where it was discovered a man had discharged two rounds from a firearm around the time the bullet was discovered. One of the rounds had traveled into a shared wall, and the second traveled outside the back of the home. Juan M. Ramos-Marroquin, 33, of Chantilly, was charged with unlawful discharge in an occupied residence. The incident remains under investigation.
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• Exposure: Ashburn Farm Parkway/Windmill Drive, Ashburn Farm; around 1:40 p.m. a woman reported that a man exposed himself while she was near the tennis courts. The suspect was described as a black or Hispanic man who was wearing a grey hooded shirt and pants, sunglasses and a baseball hat at the time of the incident.
• Destruction of Property: Ft. Evans Road/Battlefield Parkway, Leesburg; sometime between midnight and 7:30 a.m. church property was vandalized.
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backpack and money from his wallet by two acquaintances. A 15-year-old boy was apprehended in the area and taken to the Loudoun County Juvenile Detention Center. A second juvenile has been identified, but had not been located as of press time. The case appeared to be drug-related.
Friday, April 18 • Exposure: W&OD Trail/Church Road, Sterling Park; after 7 p.m. two 16-year-old girls were riding their bicycles in the area when an adult man allegedly exposed himself. He was described as a middle-aged white man with black hair, 5-foot-8-inches tall and approximately 175 pounds. He was wearing a red T-shirt, a black sweatshirt and black pants at the time of the incident.
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director of project management, who said the company works to honor all veterans from the past and present. “We want to make sure that everyone who served and has given whatever they have given to our nation, that they have the chance to be represented and remembered,” he said. Ricardo Daniels applied a sulfate-based cleaning agent to the stones for five minutes before scrubbing them down with a brush and “a little bit of elbow grease,” he said. He used a simple water pump to wash off the residue. “It’s a great honor to do this and it makes you realize that people really do remember,” Daniels, an Army vet, said. Members of the sesquicentennial committee and the Mount Zion Community Cemetery Board of Directors also came out to witness the restoration. Lee Phillips, senior project manager for the town’s Department of Plan Review and member of the sesquicentennial committee, also was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. “The [Civil War Trails] sign dedication is recognized by many as a long overdue tribute for Loudoun County’s African-American veterans of the Civil War, whose role in the war became a forgotten part of history,” he said. A fundraiser is in the works to help purchase bronze Union Veteran flag holders to be placed at each headstone. The Thomas Balch Black History Committee also is providing funds for the Civil War Trails sign. A dedication and memorial service is planned Sept. 6. There are 12 known gravesites of black Civil War veterans in Loudoun County, many of whom listed Leesburg as their place of birth, Grigsby said Thursday. “You can find so much history in these local cemeteries and things that just didn’t get recorded. Many of these people have no records of their birth just because of the time period that they lived in.” n
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four, includes trees, planting beds, seating, a gazebo, drinking fountains, outdoor dining tables and a children’s garden on the western portion of the park site. Option 2 is a large-scale version of Option 1, but covers both the western and eastern portions of the property. Option 3 features an interactive water feature, video screen, mini storage, event space, public restrooms and a terrace that sits over a pass-through to the garage. Option 4 includes development of 2,000 square feet of retail space, a second floor pavilion, open terrace for dining and performance events, access to the second level of the parking garage and a visitors center. PM The costs for each design have not yet 1:53:01
been estimated. Bill Ferrence, the town’s parks and public space planner who drew the sketches, said that original plans for the space were to do some minor improvements, as represented in Option 1. But after naming the park in honor of Jackson, expectations grew and the Town Council wanted to go beyond a simple landscaping job. “I had thought about some of these things before and I talked it over with council and it took about three weeks to draw them up,” he said adding that residents
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opportunity to do other things that are important to the county...We’re literally at a point, if you look at the pit, we need to blow the pit out bigger if we’re going to continue quarrying.” Snow noted that the quarry operations have been ongoing on the property for 55 years and could continue for another 50 years, but the owners need to know what the county envisions for the property so they can make a decision about the future now, “rather than someone knocking on the door in 20 years and saying we can’t get to the Rt. 28 metro station easily, that bridge over Dulles Toll Road, we can’t get to it.” As proposed, Waterside would include up to 354 townhouses, 2,100 multi-family units, 3.97 million square feet of non-residential uses, a lake created by filling the existing quarry pit, a 10-acre site for a fire-rescue station and a 42-acre public use site that could be used for schools. The property is located north of Innovation Avenue along Rt. 28, is bisected by Old Ox Road and borders several existing developments, Fairfax County and the Town of Herndon to the east. Fairfax County and Town of Herndon representatives expressed only concerns that the development could put a strain on their resources—like fire-rescue and public parks—because of the proximity. County staff members’ biggest objection Continued on Page 26
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Loudoun residents are invited to participate in the next Household Hazardous Waste collection event which will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Harmony Park and Ride, located at 39464 E. Colonial Hwy. near Hamilton. The event allows residents to dispose of items that cannot be thrown out in their home trash. Household Hazardous Waste includes, but is not limited to, fluorescent bulbs, household batteries, oil-based paints/stains/varnishes, paint thinners, metal polishes, rust removers, wood preservatives, furniture polish, waxes, pesticides/ insecticides/herbicides, pool chemicals, and old fuels including gas/oil mixes. Latex or water-based paints can be disposed of in the trash after thickening by mixing in mulch or kitty litter. Latex paint also may be thrown away at the Loudoun County Solid Waste Management Facility, located at 21101 Evergreen Mills Road south of Leesburg, on all normal operating days for a fee. Used motor oil, antifreeze, automobile batteries, lead-acid batteries and propane tanks will not be accepted at Saturday’s event, but they are accepted at the Loudoun County Solid Waste Management Facility. For more information, go to www.loudoun.gov/landfill. Electronics are also not accepted at HHW collection events, but there are electronics recycling options in the county. For more information, go to www.loudoun.gov/electronics. For a list of other scheduled events at different locations in the county, go to www.loudoun. gov/hhw or call the Department of General Services at 703-771-5552. n
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$100,00 that had been planned for a project in another part of the Redskins market was not needed, and where she thought it should be used. “Traditionally Loudoun County would not be a community that they would consider for this grant because in the minds of other people it is not a community with a lot of needs,” she said. “But we are very familiar with Park View High School and we understood the needs there…and we also realize that in the eastern end of the county there was a need for a synthetic turf field.” Supervisors also lambasted criticism of the marketing partnership from community blogs and media reports that question the value the county gets from the partnership when there is a debate over school funding and the summer training camp moved from Ashburn to Richmond, and took the opportunity to get their responses “on the record.” Most importantly, supervisors said, is that
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“We’re looking at how do we maximize the footprint at Redskins Park,” Shepherd told supervisors, highlighting plans that include a sports medicine center and the long-awaited Redskins Hall of Fame. And supervisors joked they would be happy to collect the additional taxes a Redskins expansion would bring. Another soon-to-come bricks-and-mortar investment is the establishment of a Washington Redskins Bar & Grill, just up Loudoun County Parkway from Redskins Park. “We are pleased to announce we closed on a lease at One Loudoun,” Shepherd said. “We are looking forward to that location…and that is a piece of having the headquarters right here.” There are many intangibles to the deal as well, according to Rizer and the Redskins. Between the branding of Loudoun County on Redskins promotion materials, press releases, at games, in videos and on media backdrops at Redskins Park, among others, Rizer estimated it would cost the county $1.4 million to buy such a marketing package. “If you give me that investment every year, I’ll take that all day,” Vice Chairman Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run) said. Williams and others also noted that the Redskins have partnered with the county to host potential leaders of companies considering locating in Loudoun County, and Loudoun’s connection to the NFL team has brought some investment from the league to a community it might not normally consider to have needs it cannot meet. That came to fruition this week with the donation of $100,000 each from the NFL and the Redskins to pay for installation of a turf field at Park View High School—a large portion of a project the taxpayers won’t have to pick up. Jane Rodgers, executive director of the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, said, told supervisors she got a call saying
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“I can’t approve this today as pretty as it is, I can’t approve this today or any time soon.” J. Kevin Ruedisueli, Planning Commission, At Large
The generation of school children from additional residential development also remains a sticking point for county planners and commissioners, even with the offer of land for public use. Some questioned whether the site could actually be used for schools, or if it would be adequate to mitigate the impacts. Commissioner Robert Klancher (Ashburn) asked for a fiscal impact analysis from the county and the applicant that clearly shows the cost of serving new residents and development compared with the tax revenue that would be generated by Waterside. It appeared commissioners, while wanting to explore further the options for the property, were similarly concerned about how far the proposal strays from the Rt. 28 plan, and many encouraged Chantilly Crushed Stone to work up a plan that came closer to the county’s vision. “I can’t approve this today. As pretty as it is, I can’t approve this today or any time soon,” Commission J. Kevin Ruedisueli (At Large) said. However, there appeared to be some interest in potentially allowing a smaller amount of residential development for the property. “I am not saying we have to go with townhouses, but we want to build all this office space and these commercial buildings, and the people in these offices need places to live,” Commissioner Kathy Blackburn (Algonkian) said. “If we’re going to have them working here, it would be nice to have them living here.” And it appears concerns about conflict with the plan have already reached the Board of Supervisors as well. Monday, Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large) and Vice Chairman Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run), who both represent the area where Waterside is proposed, sent a letter to Chantilly Crushed Stone president Ed Hoy requesting a meeting sgnitsil bon oj fthe o sdapplication erdnuh hgbefore uorhtit reaches the Board of Supervisors. The meeting would be to “discuss the substantive comprehensive plan issues with this development proposal.” The Planning Commission will continue its review of the Waterside application in a work session. No date for the session has been set. n
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and a four-lane highway parallel to Loudoun County Parkway; and six lanes on Rt. 50 and eight lanes for the Loudoun County Parkway between Rt. 50 and the Rt. 606 interchange. But last summer, some members of Loudoun’s board pushed back on those options, saying they wanted to see something that followed more closely the Countywide Transportation Plan and melded with development in the area. They asked VDOT to return with another alternative. As proposed the new option route would make Rt. 50 limited access, with six lanes for general traffic and two median lanes—one eastbound and one westbound—reserved for vehicles going to and from Dulles Airport. In addition, access to the airport lanes would be provided at the Rt. 50/Rt. 606 interchange and at the Rt. 50 interchanges planned at Northstar Boulevard, Gum Springs Road and Loudoun
County Parkway. The plan also includes the widening of Old Ox Road between Rt. 50 and Loudoun County Parkway to six lanes. At $244.6 million, it is the least expensive of the options that follow existing and planned roadways. Last week, VDOT formally recommended that alternative route for the Dulles connector road, and set a public input session for Tuesday, April 22, at Liberty Elementary School in South Riding. Shortly after VDOT’s announcement, Supervisor Matt Letourneau (R-Dulles) emailed a statement to his constituents saying he and Del. David Ramadan (R-87), who also represents the Dulles South area, have “reached the same conclusion” that the recommended route is not the best for the Rt. 50 corridor. The statement called the option to build a new four-lane highway from Northstar Boulevard south of
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Brambleton “our preferred alternative.” In Letourneau’s statement he raised several concerns with the option to add through traffic on Rt. 50, including impact on existing commuters who have long been dealing with construction and traffic delays caused by ongoing Rt. 50 widening efforts and that it could negatively impact local roads, particularly Tall Cedars. “With much of the existing local access eliminated, Tall Cedars would become the primary route to access homes and businesses in South Riding and Stone Ridge,” Letourneau’s statement reads. He also notes that it is “hard to believe” the road would “pay dividends” in supporting Dulles Airport, the future Metro stations and employment centers, with just one lane each direction and no opportunity to expand. The statement also raises concerns about the impacts on Rt. 50 businesses and the new HCA hospital, which is under construction, with a limited access road and the potential to take land and “even existing buildings” to make room for a larger Rt. 50. In comparison, Leoturneau and Ramadan say a newly built road south of Brambleton would be better for the overall community. It is not, they stated, a cargo route, but instead will look like Loudoun County Parkway and it will be a quarter-mile south of any proposed residential development in Brambleton. “[The new road] would essentially replace Evergreen Mills Road with a newer, expanded road that would help alleviate the congestion we currently experience,” the statement reads, adding, “[It] would provide access from the unbuilt section of Northstar Boulevard directly to Route 606. It would help alleviate existing logjams.” The new road also remains the cheapest option at an estimated $239.7 million. A few days after that statement to constituents went out, Supervisor Janet Clarke (R-Blue Ridge), who also represents part of the Rt. 50 corridor and Brambleton, characterized the email blast as generating “unnecessary concern.” “They are focusing on future more construction on Route 50, without telling people nothing would occur until the northern road network is complete and the current Route 50 improvements are complete,” she said in an email. “…All of the missing northern road network is in the Blue Ridge District and is moving along on a track where even the Gum Springs Road realigned to the new Stone Springs Blvd. is looking at being complete by the end of next year (2015). This new road will provide two lanes each way from Evergreen Mills Road and eliminate the bottleneck we have on the current Gum Spring Road.” Clarke also noted that Rt. 50 has been planned as a limited access road with interchanges on the county’s transportation plans for years, so residents and businesses along Rt. 50 are aware of the coming changes. “As we have seen on Route 7, the improvements for flow of traffic with these overpasses provide a tremendous relief to commuters,” she wrote. “Also, we have seen how the Dulles access road that runs down the middle of the 267 toll road from the airport to the beltway provides another tremendous benefit of easy access to and from the airport for commuters. That type of an access road is what we are talking about accomplishing with [the recommended route].” She also noted that the right of way for the recommended route already exists since expansion of Rt. 50 to a limited access highway has been long planned, and that the impact to residents in that corridor will not be as high as the released maps might make it appear, because
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model that we use in most of our other schools,” he said, and added that he does not believe that population growth in the western end of the county will not pick up. “I’m not willing to make the gamble for $2 million that we may in fact need to build a new $30 million school down the road.” Kevin Kuesters (Broad Run), who voted to close the schools, called the decision the toughest vote he’ll have to make through the budget reconciliation process. He said the community he represents made it clear their focus is smaller class sizes, not the schools in the rural end of the county. “I want to keep the option open, but my community’s priority is class size.” Hornberger and Sheridan also expressed disappointment following their vote. “It’s about choices, and we don’t have the flexibility to fund everything,” Sheridan said. Jennifer Bergel (Catoctin) praised the hundreds who spent their Monday night at the fivehour long public hearing for their dedication. “They did what needed to be done. The four schools worked together and showed their com-
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people, almost all dressed in red, showed up in the board room to make their case for why the county’s smallest and oldest schools are an asset to Loudoun: “Our school is a true town school in the best sense of the word,” Hamilton Town Council member John Unger told board members; “Things should be closed down only if it doesn’t work. Small schools work,” elementary student John Santmyer said; “The schools that are on trial tonight are the anchors of their communities,” South Morison, a longtime Aldie resident, said; “At my school everyone knows my name, and I feel like I matter,” Hamilton Elementary Schools student Maxwell Olechna told the board; and Harriett Wegmeyer said of Lincoln, “This school provides the anchor for one of Virginia’s smallest and most historic towns.” As Blue Ridge Middle School student Tanner Michon put it to the board at about speaker 100, “So if you were wondering—no, we won’t go down easy.” Many parents told stories of their children who were struggling with reading or math in larger schools, but found success at one of the four small schools. Dozens said they chose to move to Loudoun County because of its community schools, and several others said their children are third- and fourth-generation students at the schools that were under consideration for closure, which are some of the county’s oldest schools. Several parents called the annual school closure threat a “political football” and accused board members of getting the public up in arms as retribution to the county Board of Supervisors for not fully funding their budget. Kim Strassel, whose children attend Hillsboro Elementary, acknowledged that the Board of Supervisors’ funding allocation to the school system is about 8.5 percent more than the current fiscal year, while enrollment is expected to grow about 3.3 percent. “What’s happened here is you guys wanted a 13 percent increase and when you didn’t get it you came up with the worst possible cuts,” she said. A handful of parents brought threats of their own, urging board members not to get too comfortable at the dais. Ian Serotkin, an Aldie Elementary parent, said at the mic that he couldn’t believe the board was considering closing some of the best schools in the county and warned them of consequences: “I will do everything in my power to get anyone who votes to close these schools voted out of office... because none of you deserve to be in office.” Several speakers questioned the operating costs for the four small schools provided by the Financial Services Department to the School Board, and others expressed concerns that shuttering the schools would create overcrowding at neighboring elementary schools and that it would ultimately result in a need to build new schools as the county continues to grow. “You have a budget problem, but saving $2 million to later pay $34 million is irrational,” Tonya Matthews, of Purcellville, said. Before they took a vote late Tuesday, several School Board members, including Morse, called some of the speakers’ comments offensive and ugly. “We like to say the east-versus-west friction isn’t there, but it really is there,” Morse said. Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn), who voted to close the schools along with Brenda Sheridan (Sterling) and Kevin Kuesters (Broad Run), responded to comments that closing those schools will only result in the need for a new school down the road. He said he spent the past few weeks digging through the county’s student enrollment history and projections, as well as the expected maintenance that the aging buildings will require over the next five years. Even as every one of the
approved and pending housing developments comes on line, there is plenty of space in the western Loudoun elementary schools, he said. “Even if we remove the four small schools [the remaining western Loudoun schools] would still be at 84 percent capacity, which is a far better capacity level than any of the other planning areas that we have,” he said. Responding to a question from the board, Executive Director of Planning and Legislative Services Sam Adamo confirmed the more than 2,000 pending housing units in western Loudoun are expected to generate 610 elementary students, which the remaining schools would have space to take on. Vice Chairman Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge), a vocal proponent of the small schools, pointed out that even if the schools were closed, the county would still have to maintain the buildings. Bill Fox (Leesburg) said his vote to keep the schools operating was a philosophical one. He campaigned on providing more school choice in Loudoun, and “those small schools represent an excellent alternative to the one-size-fits-all
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olls for the 10th Congressional District Republican Primary will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 26, and voters will be required to show a governmentissued photo ID. There are 10 polling places throughout the district, three in Loudoun County. Voters registered in the following precincts will vote at Harmony Middle School, 38174 W. Colonial Hwy. near Hamilton: • Blue Ridge District (precincts 301-Purcellville, 302-Round Hill, 303-Hillsboro, 305-Philomont, 308-St. Louis, 310-Mountain View, 311Round Hill Elementary and 315-Firehouse); • Catoctin District (precincts 401-West Lovettsville, 402-Waterford, 403-Lucketts, 407-Harper Park, 408-Evergreen, 409-Clarkes Gap, 411-East Lovettsville, 413-Tuscarora, 414-Red Rock, 416-Hamilton, 417-Between the Hills and 419-J. L. Simpson); and • Leesburg District (precincts 501-West Leesburg, 502-East Leesburg, 503-Dry Mill, 504-Smarts Mill, 505-Cool Spring, 506-Brandon Park, 507-Greenway, 508-Balls Bluff, 509-Tolbert and 510-Heritage). Voters registered in the following precincts will vote at Stone Bridge High School, 43100 Hay Road in Ashburn: • Algonkian District (precincts 207-River Bend, 208-Algonkian, 209-Potomac Falls, 210-Cascades, 213-Countryside, 214-Sugarland North, 215-Sugarland South, 216-Lowes Island, 217-South Bank, 218-University Center and 219-Galilee Church); • Ashburn District (precincts 808-Stone Bridge, 810-Cedar Lane, 813-Seldens Landing, 814-Newton-Lee, 815-Belmont Ridge, 817-Sanders Corner, 818-Broad Run, 819-Heritage Church, 820-Belmont Station and 821-Lansdowne); • Broad Run District (precincts 615-Hillside, 616-Eagle Ridge, 618-Mill Run, 620-Russell Branch, 621-Dominion Trail, 622-Farmwell Station and 623-Weller); and • Sterling District (precincts 701-Sully, 702-Park View, 703-Rolling Ridge, 705-Forest Grove, 707-Claude Moore Park, 708-Seneca, 709-Mirror Ridge and 710-Sterling). Voters registered in the following precincts will vote at Freedom High School, 25450 Riding Center Drive in South Riding: • Blue Ridge District (precincts 307-Middleburg, 309-Aldie, 312-Briar Woods, 313-Pinebrook, 314-Legacy and 316-Creighton’s Corner); • Broad Run District (precincts 617-Oak Grove, 619-Ridgetop and 624-Moorefield Station); and • Dulles District (precincts 107-Little River, 108-Mercer, 112-Freedom, 114-Dulles South, 117-Carter, 118-Moorefield, 119-Arcola, 120-Lunsford, 121-Town Hall and 122-Hutchison Farm.) Go to http://vagop10.org or http://loudoun.gov/vote for more information. n
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conservative leaders such as Mark Levin and Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity, and dozens of other elected and grassroots leaders, precinct captains, and business leaders throughout the 10th District. They all know I am the only candidate in this race who has proven I can unify the party and win by bringing people together around the issues that unite us and move this country forward for a stronger and more prosperous America.”
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tephen Hollingshead is a Leesburg resident and former senior advisor in President George W. Bush’s administration. He grew up a son of an entrepreneur who built a small machine shop into a manufacturing company that sells products worldwide. In many ways he followed in the footsteps of his father, who owned and operated companies in the manufacturing, food distribution and management consulting fields. He also served as the senior advisor to the HUD secretary and as the HUD deputy assistant secretary for enforcement under the leadership of President Bush. Hollingshead and his wife Jan have six daughters and seven sons. “I believe I have a lot more in common with the average voter than the Democrat, John Foust, an attorney and career politician. As a small business owner and board member of a financial services company, I understand how we can get the economy moving again, which is the main issue driving our fiscal woes in Washington. I am uniquely qualified to change what is happening in Washington because I am a businessman who has created jobs and met payrolls; because I have actually reformed government as a member of the Bush Administration where I helped save $2 billion a year in welfare fraud; and because I am the only candidate who has actually taught the constitution.”
owie Lind retired from the U.S. Navy as a commander and was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003 to help lead reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, first in the Department of Defense, then the U.S. State Department and finally the Department of the Army. A tea party activist since 2009, Lind has served as chairman of Virginia’s 10th District GOP Committee and the Republican Party of Virginia’s State Central Committee. He entered the U.S. Senate race against Sen. Mark Warner (D), but dropped out in January after concluding he could not beat former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie for the GOP nomination. Lind is a longtime McLean resident, raised in the area from the age of 6. “If I’m honored to have the nomination on April 26, I will not be a different candidate saying different things on April 27. I will espouse and promote the very values that I believe the majority of the citizens of the 10th Congressional District believe in: freedom, personal responsibility, integrity. There is no question in my mind that the citizens of this district will vote for an honest, straight-talking leader, even if they may not agree with them on everything. On the major issues of our day—the disastrous cycle of ever-expanding debt thanks to socialist programs like Obamacare, the lack of governmental accountability on issues like Benghazi, and the lack of guts in our leadership—of both parties—to tackle the hard problems of America’s long-term future, they will respond in a positive fashion to my declaration of taking a stand on their behalf in Congress.”
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Rob Wasinger for the past two decades has helped conservative legislators advance their causes on Capitol Hill, and left his post as chief of staff to Michigan Rep. Kerry Bentivolio to enter the race. Wasinger grew up in Kansas and, from an early age, felt drawn toward public service. He served as chief of staff for former Kansas Republican U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, who is now the state’s governor. In his chief of staff role, Wasinger says he was instrumental in securing legislation to preserve freedom and support limited government. Wasinger and his wife Meg have 11 children and reside in Fairfax Station. “There’s an old saying that old generals are always fighting the last war. In the race to be the next Republican nominee in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, I believe the same sentiment applies. The pundits have anointed two frontrunners: an 11-term state representative intent on continuing the battles from 25 years ago and a career lobbyist coroneted by the Washington elite because of her willingness to follow their lead. Neither will unite our party because they don’t represent the future of conservatism. Conservative solutions unite Republicans, and I’m the one in this race offering new ideas to fix today’s problems.” n
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Towns Committee and chairman of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee, as well as on the General Assembly’s Joint Stem-Cell Study Committee. He has run for U.S. Senate twice, in 2008 for the seat being vacated by Republican John Warner and again in 2012 for the seat being vacated by Democrat Jim Webb. In both races he lost in the Republican primary. Marshall and his wife of 37 years, Catherine Fonseca, have five children and live in Prince William County. “In my 23 years of service in the Virginia House of Delegates, I have demonstrated a broad appeal to voters due to my straightforward, consistent and transparent approach to lawmaking. For example, I have consistently won re-election in a House of Delegates district that went for Barack Obama in the last election by 11 percent. I have a history of coalition building in the House of Delegates. The bills that I have introduced transcend politics. My legislative initiatives have been supported by many organizations ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the John Birch Society and those in between. Even those on the other side of the aisle say that I am one of the hardest working and best parliamentarians in the Virginia House. One issue in particular that united voters of almost all political stripes was HB1160, the anticitizens detention bill, which I introduced. This legislation had tremendous grassroots support from citizens throughout Virginia, and passed both houses overwhelmingly, despite an oppos-
ing vote from Del. Barbara Comstock. This new law, the first of its kind in the nation, prevents Virginia agencies from co-operating with federal officials in the unconstitutional detention of American citizens without trial, legal counsel, specific charges, habeas corpus, or the right to face an accuser in a bill authorized under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act and signed by President Obama. The fact that I have won 12 general elections to the House of Delegates in an area that has been redistricted twice shows that voters are pleased with my performance. I have represented, at one time or another, about one-third of the current boundaries of the 10th Congressional District. On my website and in my literature, I always include my cell phone number. Citizens are free to call me at any time, and many do, to discuss issues and concerns in the District.”
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stock’s campaign manager, said in an emailed statement. Probably the most surprising news from the campaign finance reports filed last week was how far behind Del. Bob Marshall’s (R-13) fundraising figures came in. He raised $55,240, only out-fundraising Marc Savitt, and ended the quarter with $40,862 cash on hand. Savitt, Frederick County real estate mortgage broker, brought in $13,763 in the first quarter and has $4,768 cash on hand. At first glance, it appears Howie Lind came in second in fundraising in the six-way primary race, but $120,000 of that came in as a personal loan. Lind, a retired U.S. Navy commander and past 10th Congressional District Republican chairman, ended the quarter with $38,313 on hand. Leesburg resident and former Bush Administration advisor Stephen Hollingshead came in third, raising $122,178 since January, $63,000 of which was from a personal loan. Rob Wasinger, former chief of staff to Michigan Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, brought in $82,742 and ended the quarter with $9,301 cash on hand. Tenth District Republicans will select their candidate in a party canvass, more commonly known as a firehouse primary, Saturday. Read more about the candidates and the primary election on Page 34. n
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he Festival of the Arts, sponsored by the Purcellville’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, will have its debut from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Fireman’s Field. The inaugural event of what Purcellville Parks and Rec Chairman Chris Bledsoe hopes will be the first of many is an evolution of the former Rock the Field festival that has celebrated mostly local rock bands over the past four years. While popular in its own right, that event is expanding to take in the visual arts. The idea of seeking town support for all the arts in town and surrounding areas came from artist Mary Thornton, who has established her nonprofit Loudoun Valley Arts. The artist approached the town last year and shared her ideas with Councilman James ‘Doc’ Wiley, who was enthusiastic and referred her to the Parks and Recreation board. Those ideas spurred both the expansion of the Rock the Field event into the Festival of the Arts and the new Committee of the Arts. After meeting with Wiley and town Special Events Coordinator Melanie Scoggins, Thornton has taken on responsibility for organizing the arts component of the festival. Her ideas also helped to bring about the formation of the Committee of the Arts. “This all started with Mary’s initiative last summer,” Wiley said. According to Wiley, who has both served on and been the council liaison to the parks committee for many years, “The town needs to have something [like this] and it’s the beginning of town support of the arts in general.” After talking with Thornton, Town Manager Robert W. Lohr Jr., and Bledsoe over the winter, “I suggested we form an ad hoc committee under Parks and Rec with the aim of supporting any nonprofits, or private industry, in expanding and encouraging all areas of arts in the town.” Scoggins will serve as staff liaison to the committee. Funding could come through state matching grant money, up to $10,000, that is available in support of specific programs, Wiley noted. Thornton’s art nonprofit, for example, or groups like it, could propose a program and the town could put in an application to the state for funding. The town already has begun looking into possible locations for a potential art center, where classes could be taught, if that idea proved feasible. “We’d support and help them in any way we could,” Wiley said.
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The fledgling committee already has been working to secure sponsorships for the festival, of which “we have lots,” Scoggins said. Bledsoe also praised Thornton for her contributions. The four-year Parks and Rec chairman said the pairing of music, wine and art should establish a firm base from which to grow the event. While the past focus has always been on youth bands, some local, some outside, the inaugural festival will focus on local talent. Of the many bands selected to play this year, one is from Berryville and one is from Leesburg, and most of the rest are in western Loudoun. “I am amazed at the talent in our area, there’s so much here,” Bledsoe said. Already the music roster is almost full, and Scoggins says she still gets calls from “people who want to apply, asking ‘can my band play?’” There will be three stages—main, side and community, all of which will be located in The Dillon Woods area of the Fireman’s Field complex, behind the Bush Tabernacle. And there will be plenty of activities for kids, Bledsoe noted. The Purcellville Library will conduct readings and host various activities. There also will be karaoke for teens. There will be a number of vendors, among them art vendors offering hand made jewelry, wood sculptures, oil-scented candles, and hand-made coolers and planters, to name a few, along with the display of art. Beer, wine and food vendors Contributed Photo also will be on site. They are headed by Monk’s BBQ, which Singer-Songwriter Andrew McKnight will be a popular draw at the May recently found a permanent Purcellville home in the space 17 Festival of the Arts at Fireman’s Field in Purcellville. on North 21st Street formerly occupied by Boodacades BBQ, “Great rock bands, blues, country—it’s a great eclectic mix,” but Scoggins said she still has a number of food vendors Bledsoe said. “It’s a lot of things for a lot of different people.” spots open. Asked what’s up next for Parks and Rec, Bledsoe laughed as Bands so far signed up include singer-songwriter Andrew McKnight; The Darby Brothers; Julia & The Ready Boys; The he said, “Let us get beyond May.” Lauding his group of volunteers, Red, White, and Blues; Jake and the Burtones; Chords and Keys; Bledsoe said, “we’re one of the hardest working committees in Willie White; The Immortals: Loudoun Valley Jazz Band; and St. town.” Scoggins agreed. “I’m really impressed with them,” she said. n Francis Choir.
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he annual Hamilton Day celebration of the joys of small town life will be held Saturday as residents of the town and surrounding areas converge on Colonial Highway for the parade and a host of varied activities at the elementary school. Saturday begins with a run for kids—slyly called the “Hamilton Point to Point,” departing at 8 a.m. from the Hamilton Elementary School. Children from kindergarten through eighth grade are invited to register for the races—a half-mile distance beginning at 8 a.m. for those in kindergarten through third grade and at 8:15 a.m. for fourth- and fifth-graders. Middle schoolers get to run two miles, departing at 8:30 a.m. Registration forms are available at www.town.hamilton.va.us. The big event of the day—the parade— Contributed Photo The Hamilton Day parade features a wonderful mix of floats, people and animals. Carly Campbell starts at 11 a.m. from the Hamilton Safety and her fainting goat stride along with Lee Phillips of the Natural Mercantile Store during last year’s Center and winds its way through town, the event. sidewalks lined with people, to end at the
corner of Reid Street. Organizer Carri Michon welcomes anyone who wants to walk in the parade—with decorated bikes, costumed children, youth groups, ball teams, local businesses and antique car owners. For more information, contact Cheryl Campbell at cbikowski@burkinc.com. When the parade is over, the celebration continues at the elementary school, where food will be available for purchase from the Hamilton Ruritans and through the bake sale by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Hamilton Safety Center. Kids can make a beeline for the glitter tattoo vendor, or the 4H display area and other vendors. A highlight will be the on-field flag ceremony at noon announcing players from Hamilton sports teams as well as the winners of the Hamilton Point to Point race. The event winds up with two ball games, starting at 2 p.m. on the baseball fields at the elementary school. “Plan to come join the fun as we celebrate Hamilton,” Michon urges. For more information, email her at clmichon@aol.com. n
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• A sign of spring is the stream monitoring and trail clean up along the south fork of Catoctin Creek in Purcellville planned for Sunday, April 27. The 1-4 p.m. inspection will be guided by environmental nonprofit The Nature Generation, to help clean up the Chapman DeMary Trail and join area experts in counting creek creatures and run tests to determine the health of the stream. The trail runs through what is considered the last stand of old forest growth in Purcellville behind the Inova Loudoun Medical Building at 205 E.
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• Town residents are advised that construction by Stuart M. Perry is expected to be ongoing from this week for milling and paving of Hatcher Purcellville Avenue and thence to 32nd and 21st streets, also a portion of 20th Street near the town limits. Delays in those areas are likely until the work is expected to be completed around May 2, weather permitting.
• Two big sales are coming up in the village. The annual Waterford Citizens Association yard sale will be held 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 3. Residents will be scouring their attics Waterford and basements for no longer needed items. To view some of what’s available, go to www. waterfordconnection.com/yardsale. For more information, contact Edith Crockett at edith@ waterfordconnection.com or 540-882-3801. The Catoctin Presbyterian Church will hold its annual rummage sale at the same time, featuring donations from church members, neighbors and friends. Rain date is May 4. The church will donate all proceeds to “This Old Church Fund” to support the preservation and maintenance of the historic sanctuary and education buildings. The parish is celebrating its 250th anniversary and will hold some special events to mark the occasion. First established as Kittocktin Presbyterian Church, the original congregation met on a site two miles south of the community. Only grave markers bearing the date 1776 still stand. The existing church land was conveyed in 1814 and a church was built that stood until it was destroyed by fire in 1878. The current church was built in 1882, using much of the earlier structure’s bricks. For information, call 540-882-3058. n
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• Also coming up in town is Sunday’s Volunteer Fest, scheduled for 2-4 p.m. at the Lovettsville Game Club. Especially for those new to town, or those who want to get involved in the community but are not quite sure where to start, the event is a great way to find out how to participate in all that’s going on in town. To find out where your interests and skills might fit well, turn up at the Game Club Saturday afternoon.
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• Registration is open for the Round Hill Hometown Festival 5K, scheduled to kick off at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 24. A main Round Hill feature of the town’s annual Hometown Festival, the race follows a course that starts at the Round Hill Elementary School on Evening Star Drive and winds through town before finishing up back at the school. Registration prior to May 2 is $20 for adults and $15 for ages under 18, and includes a festival T-shirt. Runners participating in groups of 25 or more can pre-register together for $15 per runner. Kids can join for their own half-mile Fun Run, which is held immediately after the 5K—normally around 8:45 a.m. There is no registration or fee required for the kids’ run. To register and for more information, check the Round Hill Hometown Festival on Facebook, go to www. hometownfestival.org or call the Town Office at 540-338-7878.
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• The town’s celebration of Arbor Day occurs this Saturday, with a special event 9-10 a.m. at the Middleburg Library. Mayor Betsy David will accept the Middleburg town’s 13th Tree City USA award, presented by the Virginia Department of Forestry on behalf of the Arbor Day Foundation. Michael Calley and the Middleburg Beautification and Preservation Association have donated a tree to be planted at the library in memory of Harold “Bud” Morency, a longtime library supporter. Poster Contest award winners from Middleburg Creative Pre-School, Middleburg Elementary School and The Hill School also will be announced. The Arbor Day celebration is sponsored by the Town of Middleburg, the Middleburg Streetscape Committee and the Middleburg Beautification and Preservation Association. The library is located at 101 Reed St. in Middleburg. For more information, call the Town Office at 540-687-5152.
Hirst Road. Community helpers are advised to dress for the weather—wear sturdy boots and bring work gloves. The stream monitoring and cleanup are a continuation of the 15-month The Trail to Water Quality project—funded through a NatGen grant received from the Environmental Protection Agency—that provided three Loudoun Valley High School environmental studies students with hands-on experience testing water quality, writing a water quality management plan and educating others about ways to improve it. The LVHS students (now graduates) were: Kelsey Bledsoe, Laura Jew and Johnathan Conner. A copy of their quality management plan may be downloaded from www.NatGen.org. Nat Gen President and CEO Amy Marasco Newton cited the three graduates as the next generation of environmental stewardship in recognizing their work to improve water quality.
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burg, she said she felt like no time had past at all. “It felt almost like I was a student again, like I had gone back in time,” said Ketcham, an artist who now lives in Connecticut. “There’s a lot of new improvements to the campus, but it still has the same feeling it always has.” Foxcroft is steeped in tradition, which will be highlighted as part of the celebration. Students are still divided into two teams, Foxes and Hounds, a tradition that brings a sense of fun rivalry among the girls and is aimed at getting every student involved in
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exhibits, classes and presentations, riding demonstrations, athletic events, and panel discussions representing “Foxcroft: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” Leading up to the weekend’s celebration, alumnae have returned to the school for special events to commemorate Foxcroft’s 100 years. Sallie Ketcham, class of 1973, visited in March and said the theme, “Foxcroft: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” is fitting. As she wound her way through the dirt roads to the campus just outside of Middle-
school activities. The Celebration Weekend will wrap up with the school’s oldest and most beloved tradition as students on both Fox and Hound teams march in for what is called a “SingSing,” before the Alumnae Field Hockey Game. The traditions say a lot about what the school has provided teenage girls for 100 years, Ketcham said. She remembers something comfortable and routine about gathering each evening for dinner with her classmates, just like she would have with her family if she were home. “It’s so small that you are a family, in your own weird way. I think that creates the connection between every student and that’s how the traditions stay alive because everyone is included in those.” And, she added, after visiting the school for the first time in five years, she feels like Foxcroft’s future is brighter than ever. “I was impressed. They’re on good footing, and it’s still a great school in so many ways, and I think Mary Louise has had a lot to do with that.” Mary Louise Leipheimer will retire in June after 25 years at the helm of the school. Catherine Smylie McGehee has been named as the new head of school and will begin July 1. McGehee will be introduced at the “When Pigs Fly” barbecue Friday evening, the official kick off for the Celebration Weekend. Also on the agenda for the celebration from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday is an exhibit, “Foxcroft through the Decades,” that will showcase snapshots of student life and of memorable faculty members through the years; an Alumnae Art Show, where Ketcham’s and others’ work will be on display in the Foxcroft Art Studio; musical performances by students; equestrian rider panels and demonstration lessons in the indoor arena. To register for the “When Pigs Fly” barbecue Friday evening and a hunt breakfast on Sunday, go to www.foxcroft.org. All events Saturday are free and open to the public. n
oudoun supervisors followed through on plans to make the approval of new public school sites in the county more efficient and less costly, while continuing work on similar changes to the governance surrounding private schools. During its April 16 meeting, a split board voted to make public schools a by-right use in some of the county’s zoning districts. The board voted on Zoning Ordinance amendments that would delete the requirement for special exception review for new schools in Joint Land Management Areas around the towns and areas zoned for transitional development. Public schools are already permitted uses in the Agriculture Residential, or A-3, districts throughout the county, residential zoned districts primarily in the eastern part of the county, and the Countryside Residential districts in the west. In addition, the changes would make
schools a minor special exception use—meaning construction applications would skip Planning Commission review—in several non-residential districts, including Rural Commercial, Commercial Center, Office Park, Research and Development Park, Industrial Park, Town Center, Countryside Village, Transit-Related Center, Rural Village, and the Mixed Use Business District. Before these changes, schools were required to go through the full special exception process—with public hearings and review by both the commission and Board of Supervisors—in all areas where they were allowed. Special exception permits still are required in the rural AR-1 and AR-2 zoning districts and areas zoned for general industry and transitrelated employment. Schools are not permitted in areas zoned solely for agriculture uses, heavy industry, commercial light industrial and general business uses. As she did during committee review of the plan, Supervisor Janet Clarke (R-Blue Ridge) Continued on Page 42
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Many residents, both for and against the project, took full advantage of the public input process leading up to the eventual approval of Riverside High School, which is under construction in Lansdowne and slated to open in September 2015.
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the permit. Then the Board of Supervisors can either ratify or overturn the commission’s decision. And the opportunity to clear the path for schools to be built in a more expedited way was too important for the board majority to ignore. “…we’re trying to help the schools so they can build schools and make them less expensive and build them faster,” Supervisor Suzanne Volpe (R-Algonkian) said. To keep up with growing enrollment growth, Loudoun County has built and opened dozens of schools in the past two decades, and seven more schools are approved to be built over the next six years. Only two days after the board’s vote on the Zoning Ordinance changes, the board’s Transportation/Land Use Committee, which Volpe chairs, took up the issue of whether to allow private schools by-right, as well. The one hesitation expressed by county planners was transportation impacts. While supervisors could require a traffic impact analysis to be done for any private school that is considered a by-right use, the ability for the county to require any offsite transportation improvements—like the installation of traffic lights—from a private landowner and applicant would be limited. The county staff does not have authority to place conditions at the site plan review level as the board does during special exception review. With the public schools, county School Board is the “developer” and the ability to negotiate for needed improvements is much higher, project manager Larr Kelly noted. “If you have a private entity, their interests are not going to align with the public interest necessarily,” he said. One option discussed was to require all private schools to undergo minor special exception review. The committee voted to direct County Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large) to work with county staff on some options for private schools in each zoning district and report back to the committee during its May meeting. n
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prepare parents to be proactive, persistent and patient to promote positive and purposeful character in their students.” The fair’s panelists included Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Virginia Tech Bevlee Watfrod; Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Sharon Ackerman, STEM Education Coordinator at Northern Virginia Community College Tosin Adetoro, C.S. Monroe Technology Center Assistant Principal Ayodele Okeowo, Tuscarora High School Principal Pamela Paul-Jacobs, Potomac Falls High School teacher Roberta Anne Rehm, Virginia Tech sophomore Amanda Welch, College of William and Mary Freshman Kristian Welch and Douglass School senior Evan Wainright. This is the second year MSAAC has put on an Academic Achievement Fair, and the committee’s chair Kenya Savage expects it will become an annual event. n
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who took up a similar position with Visit Buffalo Niagara, representing Erie County, NY, at the end of last year. Beth Erickson, then Visit Loudoun board chairwoman, was tapped to serve as interim president and CEO. Gosses stepped up from the vice chairman’s post to lead the board and took responsibility for running the search for a new leader. Although the search process has taken longer than anticipated, Gosses said it is proceeding well, and SearchWide has reported considerable interest in the position and a
number of good candidates applying for the job. “We hope to have the long list by the end of the month to look at,” Gosses said. Then the search committee will narrow the list of candidates to be asked for phone interviews. That will be whittled down to the final short list, of “three or four very strong candidates with whom we will want to have face-to-face interviews,” she said. The search firm had suggested it present a pared down list, but Gosses said, “We wanted to look at everyone.” Noting the fairly specific
criteria developed for the search should result in a fairly select group, she said she did not think that would be too onerous for the committee. During the past four months, Erickson has worked to keep Visit Loudoun on course, promoting the county’s many tourism venues, including historic house sites, small towns and villages, wineries, breweries and farms, until the new CEO is selected. Planning is well underway for this year’s Epicurience, the county’s celebration of its food, wine and beer industry, that is slated for Labor Day weekend. n
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The National Conference Center in Lansdowne will be rolling out a new welcome mat and undergoing a sprucing up as a new ownership group takes over.
center operation from Aramark Services Inc. effective May 16. However, the transition team said most of the operation’s current employees are expected to stay on with the new operation. The facility was built by Xerox Corporation and opened in 1974 as the Xerox Training Center, serving the company’s global workforce. As Xerox divested its Loudoun real estate holdings, which included all of today’s Lansdowne, the facility was sold and operated at the National Conference Center. There have been several expansions, including a just recently completed parking structure, and the facility now has 250,000 square feet of meeting space and 546 guest rooms. Two years ago, the owners sold a portion of the conference center property for $20 million to the Loudoun County government for the construction of a new high school. n
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Nonprofit Initiative: Strategic Plan April 29th & 30th 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. - At GW Virginia Science & Technology Center
LeadShare Luncheon April 30th - 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - At Captain Mas Seafood Restaurant
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Business Showcase Breakfast May 9th - 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. - At Belmont Country Club
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Green & Healthy Business Series Event: Farm-toTable
After-Hours Mixer & New Member Reception May 15th - 5:30-7:00 p.m. - At Projet Aviation
Loudoun Chamber Golf Tour May 20th - 4-7:30 p.m. - At Goose Creek Golf Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce Phone: 571.209.9026 PO Box 1298 Leesburg, VA 20177 www.loudounchamber.org
alamander Resort will serve as the scenic backdrop for the breakfast event May 14th at 9:00am celebrating the 100thAnniversary of Community Foundations and Philanthropy. Hosted by Jane Rodgers of The Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, the Chamber’s Nonprofit Initiative seeks to build a strong relationship between business and nonprofit stakeholders to promote a world-class quality of life in Northern Virginia. This event is open to all and will provide an opportunity for community and business leaders to
establish internal guidelines for sharing limited company resources and the associated Return on Investment that can be achieved as a result of partnering with local Loudoun Nonprofit Organizations. Panelists will be from the Smashing Walnuts Foundation, Amy Owen from the Piedmont Community Foundation, Eileen Ellsworth from the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia, and Katy Moore from the Washington Area Grantmakers. To register please visit www.LoudounChamber.org.
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20+ YEARS La Villa Roma Pizzeria and Restaurant Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative Inova Loudoun Hospital The National Conference Center
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SC (www.Membership180.com) that has been enlisted to bring their experience in recruiting, engaging and retaining new Chamber members. “The Chamber has done an incredible job of lining up volunteers to help us with this process,” said Jay Handler, co-founder of Membership180. “With their leadership, we will easily surpass their goals to create a greater awareness of the important role the Chamber plays here in Loudoun County.” The campaign is scheduled for May 6th & 7th and the Membership180 team has been working with the Chamber staff, the Board of Directors & hundreds of volunteers to prepare them for the hard work ahead. “We’re ready!” said Howard. “This is an exciting time for our community and I know we’re all up to the challenge!” For more information on how you can get involved in the campaign and help support the growth of business in and quality of life for all who call Loudoun home, contact the Loudoun Chamber’s Membership Manager, Grafton deButts, at gdebutts@loudounchamber.org.
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• The National Retail Federation is establishing an information-sharing platform to allow retailers to coordinate with law enforcement agencies and partners in the financial services sector to more efficiently access information on cyber security threats. In the wake of the Target and Neiman Marcus data breaches, Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) called for the creation of an Information Sharing Analysis Center to better protect consumer data. “It is important that we continue to strengthen our efforts to protect consumers from cybercrime by enacting smart, targeted protections,” Warner said during a Richmond event to announce the initiative. Earlier this month, Warner and Kirk introduced the Consumer Debit Card Protection Act of 2014, which will increase consumer protections and reduce liability caps when debit cardholders are hit by fraud. Personal liability for credit cards is capped at $50, but debit cardholders can be on the hook for $500 or more. Warner and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) also have introduced legislation to help alert taxpayers more quickly if they have been victims of identity theft. Additionally, given that cyber-attacks come from all over the world, Sens. Warner and Kirk recently urged the Administration to require more cooperation by Ukraine with our government and law enforcement in fighting cybercrime. Ukraine is a center of cybercrime activity and is believed to be the epicenter of the Target data breach.
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oudoun County, VA – The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce has launched the Unite Loudoun Campaign, a countywide effort by the local business community to strengthen the economy and world-class quality of life here in Loudoun County. All of Loudoun’s businesses are invited to join the Chamber and to add their voice to the Unite Loudoun Campaign. Chamber President Tony Howard said, “The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce is already a strong and committed voice for creating a world-class community for every one of our citizens and businesses. With the Unite Loudoun Campaign, the Chamber is working to strengthen that voice by building the network of businesses that are working together to make certain that Loudoun remains the nation’s finest place to live, work, play and raise a family.” It’s a daunting task, but The Chamber has plenty of help lined up. Along with over 200 volunteers from the Loudoun business community, the Chamber can count on Membership180, a consulting firm from Greenville,
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• Prosthetic Care Facility of Virginia in Lansdowne has received accreditation from the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics. The office is a full-service clinical practice providing prostheses for lower and upper limb amputees of all ages and abilities as well as congenital defects including PFFD, Amelia and phocomelia. The practice provides stateof-the-art technology for customized fittings of body-powered and bionic prostheses, and includes a gait analysis lab to measure patient performance. The ABC’s evaluation included a review of the physical facility and the quality of patient care. The ABC interviewed both staff and patients and conducted a review of organizational documents, including records of patient care.
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ver the past 30 years, Shepherd University football fans could count on two things—the Rams would compete for a conference championship and a national playoff berth, while the defensive unit would be one of the best in both the conference and the nation. Last fall was no exception. Shepherd won its 17th conference championship in the past 32 seasons and made its 12th postseason appearance since 1983. As for the defense, the Rams led NCAA Division II in rushing defense for the third straight year, allowing just 48.3 yards per game, while Shepherd also ranked second in the nation in total defense with 244.8 yards per contest. One of the keys to the recent success for the Rams defense is Park View High School graduate Robert Hayes. Standing 6-foot-2 and weighing 278 pounds, Hayes completed last season as the Defensive Player of the Year in the Mountain East Conference and has placed himself in a position to possibly earn a spot on a NFL team this fall. Hayes admits he has benefited greatly from the publicity gained by another Shepherd standout, senior defensive end Howard Jones. A native of nearby Woodbridge, Jones earned first-team all-America honors in 2011 and pro scouts started paying more attention to the 6-foot-2, 235-pounder. Even before Jones wowed pro personnel directors with his speed, strength and agility at the NFL Combine in late February, his success
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allowed Hayes and fellow Ram senior defensive linemen Mike Franklin (6-3, 310) and Xavier Tyler (6-2, 290) to get noticed. “Howard takes the cake on that,” Hayes said of Jones’ living up to the hype. “We understand he is probably going to get drafted. It doesn’t hurt our feelings because we try to match his athleticism. That’s what has made us such a great defensive line. We feed off each other and it’s a great feeling to know that each of us has a chance to go to the next level.” Hayes played immediately as a freshman at Shepherd— nestled along the Potomac River northwest of Harpers Ferry in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia—and contributed seven tackles as he served as a backup on the defensive line. He broke out as a sophomore to start at defensive tackle (taking a starting spot away from Tyler) and recorded a career-high 37 tackles (25 unassisted), with 16 tackles for loss and six quarterback sacks as he earned all-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference second-team honors. A known quantity as a junior, Hayes was a first-team all-conference pick with 30 tackles—18 solo and nine for loss—and two sacks. Coming into the 2013 season, there was a three-way battle for who were going to be the two starters at the defensive tackle positions between Hayes, Franklin and Tyler. Ramal Faunteroy, a former Ram standout now serving as the team’s defensive line coach, said all three were playing at a very high level and a decision was made a week before the season opened to put the best players on the field. That decision moved Hayes to defensive end to take advan-
Robert Hayes performs drills for NFL scouts during Shepherd University’s Pro Day April 9.
tage of his athleticism. It paid off as Hayes recorded a career-best 11 sacks among his 24 tackles (19 solo) en route to being named the Defensive Player of the Year in Shepherd’s first season in the newly formed Mountain East Conference. “He was excited about the move and ran with it,” Faunteroy said. “I think it was the right decision to have him earn Defensive Player of the Year. He not only pushed himself, he pushed the other guys to work hard and contribute. It was a tight bond with those four and it was nice to see them go out together so strong.” “It was definitely a surprise,” Hayes said of the Player of the Year award. “With Howard and his statistics the last few years, we all felt he would have a great season, but other teams were focused on stopping him. So someone had to step up, and I guess it was me. We all did a good job, but I guess the conference felt I stepped up a little bit more than the others. Beating Howard out for anything, I kind of pat myself on the back. It’s not an ego thing, but an accomplishment as a competitor with him.” An Indianapolis Colts fan growing up in Sterling, Hayes is thrilled to have the possibility of playing at the professional level. He attended the Beyond Sports Network Collegiate Showcase Feb. 26-27 in Chantilly to expose his talents to scouts representing the nine Canadian Football League teams. And seven NFL teams—the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints and New York Giants—watched Hayes, Franklin, Tyler and other Rams work out April 9 as Shepherd hosted its first-ever “Pro Day.” “It would mean everything to me,” Hayes said of a pro career. “My mother didn’t let me play football as a kid, but I’ve been dreaming of it ever since I started playing. Coming to high school, it wasn’t really a logical dream, but through the transition of the last few years, it now is a logical dream. I love the game and it’s what I’m good at, so I may as well try to stay in it for as long as possible and see what I can do with it.” Despite the excitement, Hayes has learned not to expect what might not be possible. Hayes became Shepherd’s first football first-team Academic All-American as he has maintained a grade point average over 3.0 in his major of recreation and leisure studies, so he is smart enough to realize he may have to utilize an internship with a physical therapy group in Michigan
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he has set up to complete his degree. “I’m not going to put all of my eggs in one basket,” Hayes said. “If I did and it doesn’t play out, I’d be heartbroken. I’m just going to keep putting in my hard work and if the call comes, I’ll be ready. Things are looking good right now and there is talk of a position change, so I’m ready for anything.” Hayes said some pro scouts have suggested a possible move for him to linebacker or even to play at fullback on the offensive side of the ball. Although he played as an interior defensive lineman much of his career, Hayes’ athleticism lead Faunteroy and Shepherd head coach Monte Cater to believe he will not have much problem making an adjustment. “We had a really good defense and he was able to contribute in more than one position,” Cater said of Hayes. “He’s got some flexibility in that it might be easier for him to play at another position. He probably won’t have his hand on the ground, but he and the others deserve to get the recognition they have earned. We’re excited he has a chance to continue to play after college.” “Robert is a very special player,” Faunteroy said. “When the coaches get together and talk about if we were to build a prototype of a football player, it would be Robert Hayes. Rarely do you have a guy that fits the mold in all categories. He’s a student of the game and can play all of the positions. “I just hope he gets an opportunity to get to camp,” Faunteroy added. “If he gets his foot in the door, he’s going to be able to prove some people wrong. He’s a kind of a wild card guy like Lorenzo Alexander [a former Washington Redskin, now with the Arizona Cardinals] who played everywhere—defensive end, tackle, middle linebacker, outside linebacker—and I think Hayes is in that mode. I think he can play any linebacker position in the 3-4 set, he could be a fullback or H-back on offense, and he could contribute on special teams. He knows how to use his body, use his hands, and I don’t see him getting completely dominated in any position.” In the end, Hayes is pleased with his choice to attend Shepherd. “It has definitely paid off,” Hayes said. “If I had gone to a Division I school, I probably wouldn’t have played as a freshman and maybe not the next year. That gave me a leg up on my competition to be able to exhibit my athleticism as a freshman and beyond. It has gotten me this far today and hopefully the next level is calling. “I feel truly blessed,” he added. “If I do go to the League, it would be nice to come back and have a hometown welcome. That would be a lot of fun.” n
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he Woodshedders are going places— in every sense of the phrase. The Loudoun/West Virginiabased band, a fixture on the local Americana scene for a decade, is taking things to the next level with an evolving sound, a well-received 2013 album and an expanding tour schedule. The quintet takes the stage at Waterford’s Old School on Saturday, May 3, the latest in the Waterford Foundation’s Old Schoolhouse concert series, which brings contemporary music in a range of genres to the venue well known for its classical concerts. The Woodshedders features Harpers Ferrybased Dwayne Brooke on guitar and lead vocals, Loudoun native and popular Leesburg dentist Ryan Mayo on upright bass and piano, Richmond’s Jared Pool on guitar and mandolin, Jesse Shultzaberger of Shepherdstown, WV, on drums, and Bluemont’s David Van Deventer on fiddle. The band got its start 10 years ago at a regular Thursday evening gypsy jazz jam at the historic Hilltop House in Harpers Ferry, which closed in 2008 because of structural problems. The group’s focus was initially on playing jazz influenced by the great Belgian-French guitarist Django Reinhardt, whom lead singer Brooke describes as “a guiding light in our sound.” The group took its name from the concept of woodshedding, a jazz vernacular term for working hard to improve technique (i.e. practicing in the woodshed) before one’s music is fit for public consumption. “You have to do a lot of work to get proficient [in jazz],” Brooke said. “We’re always trying to hone our craft so it seemed fitting.” The Woodshedders’ first record “Catch That Yardbird” was released in 2009, followed by “O Dig” in 2011. Since its gypsy jazz beginnings, the band has since gone through a few personnel changes—original members Chance McCoy and Stuart Orser have moved on, with McCoy now based in Nashville and performing internationally with the Old Crow Medicine Show—and has let its members’ diverse musical influences take it to new places. The resulting changes have created a sound that band members call Indie Roots Americana, giving the music an alt-rock edge while maintaining traditional elements. Moving from an
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The Woodshedders bring their fresh take on Americana to Waterford’s Old School on Saturday, May 3.
“We’re outside the box. All of us are into so many different types of music. We decided we weren’t going to pigeonhole ourselves.” Dwayne Brooke Lead Vocals for the Woodshedders
acoustic vibe to a more “plugged in” sound and bringing in a drummer in recent years has given the Woodshedders a danceable vibe that has created a solid fan base in the tri-state area and beyond. “They’ve evolved from a swing-oriented group to a new sound,” said Roy Chaudet, a member of the Waterford Foundation’s board of directors and one of the Old Schoolhouse concert series’ organizers. “It’s original and it’s fresh.” “We did a traditional repertoire for a while and we started adding originals and people really responded,” Brooke said. The band’s most recent album “Wildfire,” released last year to critical acclaim, is a breakthrough of sorts for the band. A Washington Post review, a major coup for the band, had high praise for Brooke’s vocals and his band mates’ musicianship and referred to the group as “Americana shape-shifters.” “It’s getting out in the world pretty well,” Brooke said of the album. “We’re all pretty proud of it.” Brooke does most of the songwriting, but all band members work on arrangements and collaborate on songs. Songwriting is an organic process for Brooke: “[The songs are] already out there, you just have to catch them…just keep your mind open,” he said. “Sometimes you sit down and try to write and that never works. It’s mostly about being present in the world.” The group’s bonds of friendship and collaboration are still going strong after 10 years. “We’re all friends first, really,” Brooke said. “It makes for good music.”
The band has a devoted following among the arts and university communities in Shepherdstown and has a solid following in Loudoun, thanks in part to Mayo’s and Van Deventer’s longtime musical history here. The band has been selling music across the country and internationally and has garnered radio time in the UK (where traditional Americana is in high demand) via the BBC. The band has not yet put together a UK tour, Brooke said, in part because the band doesn’t fit the usual bill for straight up traditional music. “We’re outside the box. All of us are into so many different types of music,” Brooke said. “We decided we weren’t going to pigeonhole ourselves.” However, the Woodshedders’ eclectic style is in demand for festivals up and down the East Coast. The band recently played a string of shows in Georgia, and Brooke recently spoke to Leesburg Today from the road before hitting the stage at Big Pappa’s Spring Ball festival in Bentonville. The group is scheduled to play the Boogie on The Banks festival in Shannondale, WV, April 26 and will be heading to New York for gigs at Hill Country Barbecue in Manhattan and Brooklyn later this spring. Fiddle player Van Deventer is an organizer of the annual Watermelon Park Festival, a mecca for fans of traditional music and Americana, where the Woodshedders are the host band every fall. The band will also play the inaugural River and Roots Festival, also organized by Van Deventer and his collaborators, this June. For Van Deventer, who is also a member of the traditional
quartet Furnace Mountain, the Woodshedders is a chance to let his playing loosen up. “It makes me a little more creative,” he said, adding that the Woodshedders’ freewheeling style is also a favorite with his 6-year old daughter, Ava. The Waterford Old School is a comfortable space for most of the band’s members who have played the venue at weddings and benefit concerts over the years. The Old Schoolhouse concert series launched in 2012 with a performance by Austin-based blues musician James McMurtry, and has featured a number of other popular local acts since then. Chaudet and fellow members of the Waterford Foundation are looking to expand the series, initially focusing on local musicians, but also looking to bring in national acts down the road. Organizers are planning a CD release concert with local mandolinist Danny Knicely this fall and have a number of other projects in the works. “It’s a great venue and there’s great music we can bring in,” Chaudet said. n
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8 p.m., Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg. Contact: www.tallyholeesburg.com This Richmond-based band is dedicated to the recreation of British pop and rock hits from the ’60s and ’70s. Tickets are $15 in advance.
7-10 p.m., Shoe’s Cup and Cork, 17 N. King St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-771-7463, www.shoescupandcork.com Acoustic excitement from this award-winning Northern Virginia based duo.
Blood Pressure Screenings
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Book Signing: Michael Judd
8 p.m., Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg. Contact: www.tallyholeesburg.com Bradley’s soulful sound and English charm adds a distinct flavor to the world of country music. Tickets are $10.
Friday, April 25 “Willy Wonka”
8 p.m., Franklin Park Performing Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville. Contact: www.franklinparkartscenter.org Main Street Theater Productions puts a new spin on the timeless classic based on Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
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he Farm Hands, one of the top bluegrass gospel bands in the nation, will perform in Round Hill May 25. Based in Nashville, the band received 14 Bluegrass Music Award nominations this year, including Entertainer of the Year. The band’s latest album, “In A Country Town” was the 2013 Bluegrass Album
on the Year. The concert will be at 7 p.m. Friday, May 25 at the Round Hill Baptist Church, 7 W. Loudoun Street. Admission is free for the concert but seating is limited. For more information about the contact, please contact Round Hill Baptist Church at 540-338-6306.
Anime Movie Night
6:30-9 p.m., Sterling Community Center, 120 Enterprise St., Sterling. Contact: 703-430-9480. Movies will be shown on a giant inflatable screen, and movie kits will feature items crucial to the movie-going experience, including concessions. Costumes are welcome. Admission is free; movie kits are $5.
Lucketts Bluegrass: Patuxent Partners and Patent Pending
Doors open at 6 p.m., music begins at 7 p.m., Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, Lucketts. Contact: 703-771-5281 or www. luckettsbluegrass.org Lucketts Bluegrass closes out its 40th season with two well-known local bands. The Patuxent Partners perform a traditional style of bluegrass that embodies the high lonesome sound of the founders of the music such as Bill Monroe, Buzz Busby and The Stanley Brothers. Patent Pending’s sound is traditional, with room for innovation that bridges the gap to other styles. Tickets are $15.
Bluegrass Concert: Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie
6:30 p.m. doors open, 7:30 p.m. music begins, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1090 Sterling Road, Herndon. Contact: 703-435-8377 Emerson, a founding member of the Country Gentlemen, has created another top-notch group, known for vocal harmonies and hard driving instrumentals. Tickets are $15. Children 12 and under are free.
Community Cruise In
4 p.m.-dark, 203 Hirst Road, Purcellville. Contact: wruckman@purbap.org Check out classic cars at this fundraiser for Tree of Life Ministries. Door prizes and refreshments will be available.
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5-7 p.m., Goodstone Inn and Restaurant, 36205 Snake Hill Road, Middleburg. Contact: www. hallowed-ground.org Judd will discuss and sign copies of his new book “Edible Landscaping With A Permaculture Twist.” Sponsored by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground, the event features complementary canapés and a cash bar. Cost is $10 and advance registration is required.
Live Music: David Bradley
5-8 p.m., Middleburg Community Center, 300 W. Washington St., Middleburg. Contact: 540687-6375 Bring your unwanted items and turn them into someone else’s treasure. Call to donate items, or come to shop. Proceeds will benefit Middleburg Community Center’s activities and scholarship fund. Admission is free.
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10 a.m.-noon. Carver Center, 200 Willie Palmer Way, Purcellville. Contact: 571-308-5794 or www.inova.org/mobilehealth Free screenings provided by Inova Loudoun Hospital Mobile Health Services.
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by the Virginia Department of Forestry, and a tree, donated by the Middleburg Beautification and Preservation Association, will be planted at Middleburg Library. Event is free and open to the public.
Leesburg Flower and Garden Show
10 a.m.-6 p.m., downtown Leesburg. Contact: www.flowerandgarden.org Event features landscape design competition, craft and garden exhibits, children’s activities, wine and beer garden and entertainment. Admission is $3 per person; children under 6 are free.
Birding The Blue Ridge Center
8 a.m., 11661 Harpers Ferry Road, Neersville. Contact: 540-554-2542 or jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org
international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. Round Hill Elementary School is located at 17115 Evening Star Drive in Round Hill. For more information, email thenson@stophungernow.org or go to http:// events.stophungernow.org/roundhill2014.
On the fourth Saturday of each month (except December), Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy leads a bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, a beautiful 900acre preserve in northwestern Loudoun County. Meet at the Education Center; bring binoculars.
Tally Ho Acoustic Night
7 p.m., Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg. Contact: www.tallyholeesburg.com Show features Sterling-based Woven Green, Bob Sima and Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers. Tickets are $20.
Oatlands Spring Gala
7 p.m.-midnight, Oatlands, 20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg. Contact: www.oatlands.org This black tie event features cocktails, dinner and dancing, a raffle and auction. Tickets are $225 per person or $2,000 for a table for ten.
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10 a.m.-noon, Philomont Community Center, 36592 Jeb Stuart Road, Philomont. Contact: 540-338-5882 Bring your dog and hunt for treat-filled eggs. Dogs must be leashed. Event includes photos, refreshments, prizes and vendors. Cost is $5 per dog. Advance registration is recommended.
White Fly Outfitters Grand Opening
10a.m.-5 p.m, 4332 William L Wilson Fwy., Harpers Ferry. Contact: www.whiteflyoutfitters. com Join Angler’s Inn owners as they celebrate the opening of their new venture with food, fun and door prizes.
Live Music: Aberdeen Green
7-10 p.m., Shoe’s Cup and Cork, 17 N. King St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-771-7463, www.shoescupandcork.com Gorgeous harmonies from this Shenandoah Valley-based duo. No cover.
NVCC Dog Vaccination Event
10 a.m.-3 p.m., Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus, Animal Science Building, 21200 Campus Drive, Sterling. Contact: 703-450-2520 Pet owners can get dogs bathed and vaccinated for rabies. Fee for washing is $15, $20 and $25 based on the size of the dog. Rabies vaccinations are $15. The Loudoun County Animal Shelter will also provide free microchipping from 10 a.m. to noon.
American Chestnut Tree Program
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Patrick Henry College Youth Music Academy Spring Concert
Sunday, April 27
3:30 p.m., Patrick Henry College, Barbara Hodel Center, Purcellville. Contact: www.phc.edu Choral and orchestral music performed by the high school ensembles of PHC’s Youth Music Academy. Concert is free to the public.
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Hamilton Ruritan Club
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6:30-7:30 p.m., Lightfoot Restaurant, 11 N. King St. Leesburg. Contact: www.leesburgkiwanis.org The service club meets every first Thursday.
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7 p.m., Broadlands Community Center, 43008 Waxpool Road, Ashburn. Contact: 703-795-2887 or www.gfwc. org Club is open to all women living or working in the Ashburn area. Group meets every first Thursday.
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7:15-9 p.m., National Conference Center, 18980 Upper Belmont Place, Lansdowne. Contact: Toastmaster, 703727-2845, info@loudoun.freetoasthost.org Practice public speaking skills with others. The club meets on the first and third Thursday of each month.
7-9 p.m., Hamilton-area location. Contact: Jim Christian, 540-338-4543; Bill Harrison, 703-777-4586; or Blake Netherwood, 571-436-4445 The Hamilton Ruritan Club holds a dinner meeting and informational session for potential new members. Call to register and for specific meeting location. Meetings will continue on the first Thursday of each month.
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St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-737-7195 or balchlib@leesburgva.gov Brent Tarter of the Library of Virginia discusses obstacles to democratic change throughout Virginia’s history in his program “The Grandees of Government.” Program is free but advance registration is recommended.
Used as a place of worship from 1851-1980, Mt. Zion and its cemetery witnessed fighting during the Civil War and also served as a hospital. Guided tours will be offered every fourth Sunday through July 27.
White Fly Outfitters Grand Opening
Philosophy Talk
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Thomas Balch Lecture: The Grandees of Government Bu s in e s s
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2-6 p.m., Shoe’s Cup and Cork, 17 N. King St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-771-7463, www.shoescupandcork.com Saxophone and vocals from a local favorite. No cover.
Mt. Zion Old Baptist Church Guided Tour
1-5 p.m., 40309 John Mosby Highway, Aldie. Contact: 703-327-9777
Monday, April 28 8:15 p.m., Patrick Henry College, 10 Patrick Henry Circle, Purcellville. Ph.D. candidate Luke Johnson continues his discussion of Kierkegaard and Faith, with a reflection on happiness and ideal Christian love. Event is free and open to the public.
Meet The Author: Matt de la Peña
7 p.m., Sterling Library, 120 Enterprise St., Sterling. Contact: 703-430-9500 Matt de la Peña, author of five critically-acclaimed young adult novels including “Ball
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7-9 p.m., Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn. Contact: 350loudoun.org The documentary focuses on the looming global water crisis, ranging from contamination by chemicals to droughts.
Blood Pressure Screenings
9:30-10:30 a.m., Potomac River Running, Village at Leesburg, 1601 Village Market Blvd. SE, Leesburg. Contact: 571-308-5794 or www. inova.org/mobilehealth Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Health Services will provide free blood pressure screenings.
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9:30-11 a.m., Village at Leesburg, Village Market Blvd., Leesburg. Contact: 571-308-5794 or www.inova.org/mobilehealth Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Health Services will provide free blood pressure screenings. Therapy dog Beamer and an Inova Loudoun Hospital doctor will visit with kids.
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older, $8 for ages 7 to 13 and children younger than si6x are free. The event is sponsored by Rotary Club of Dulles International Airport and all proceeds are used for scholarships for area students who otherwise won’t be able to go to college; to Cops For Kids, bringing Christmas to children in Loudoun County; and to other club-supported charities. The club is looking for sponsors to support the event. More than 1,000 people usually attend the event and the website generate more than 7,000 visits. Sponsorships are available from Skyline at $5,000 down through Log Cabin at $500. All levels include outdoor display of your business, business card ad in the program and a supply of posters and handbills that promote your participation, Higher levels include tickets, Stage time before the main acts, the display of logos and Web site addresses on all internet marketing and a full page ad in the program. Rotary is a 501(c)(3) and all sponsorship donations are tax deductible and proceeds go to the Rotary scholarship fund. For details, contact Peter Eisert at: 703318-8191, 571-340-1087 or pete@eisertinsurance. com.
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Organizers of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Loudoun County encourage everyone to help “Paint the County Purple” from Wednesday, April 23, through Monday, May 12, to help raise awareness for the fight against cancer. The purple push supports Relay For Life of Loudoun County, an overnight event that brings the community together to raise money for cancer research and improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The walk will be held May 31-June 1 at Heritage High School in Leesburg.
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ASHBURN ABC STORE CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS
The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control store in Ashburn’s Broadlands Village Center will close at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 26, for remodeling. The store plans to reopen Saturday, May 2.
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If you think The Masters is “a tradition like no other,” try the Philomont Horse Show, now in its 57th year. The event will be held Saturday, April 26, and benefits the Philomont Volunteer Fire Department. Gates open at 7:30 a.m. at the show grounds, located at 37180 Snickersville Turnpike. Admission is free. The Ladies’ Auxiliary will offer refreshments for sale. The event features pony and horse rings. Each class requires a $10 online entry before 5 p.m. April 24 or $12 on the day of show.
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v. CL. NO. 85760 KENNETH RAYMOND MAXWELL, Defendant.
ENTERED this 1st day of April, 2014.
AND IT FURTHER APPEARING that
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The Town reserves the right to perform all, part, or none of the work. Bid Documents are available for download from the Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bid Board at and may be obtained beginning Monday, April 28, 2014. Contact Cindy Steyer at 703-737-2302 or csteyer@leesburgva. gov with questions. All addenda issued for this project will only be posted on the Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bid Board. RenĂŠe LaFollette, P.E., Director Office of Capital Projects Ad # 136269 & 136270
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This Notice is to provide an opportunity for public comment from parents, teachers, residents and other interested parties and to obtain information to assist the Loudoun County School Board in its decision to adjust the current elementary school attendance zone for Banneker Elementary School. Public comment on the attendance zone change will be taken on May 1, May 5 and on May 13 at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administrative office, located at 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, VA, 20148. On March 25, 2014, the Loudoun County School Board took action to close Middleburg Elementary School as part of an agreed upon process to initiate the Middleburg Community Charter School. The former Middleburg Elementary School attendance zone will be merged, in its entirety, into the Banneker Elementary School attendance zone at the start of the 2014-15 academic year. The Loudoun County School Board, in accordance with Section 22.1-79 of the Code of Virginia, hereby gives public notice that an attendance zone process for Banneker and Middleburg Elementary Schools will begin on May 1, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. The attendance zone calendar below highlights the meeting dates, times, location and purpose. All meetings are open to the public and will be held at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administration Building at 21000 Education Court in Ashburn, VA 20148 and will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. School Board Meeting
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TOWN OF LEESBURG ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID LOWENBACH SUBDIVISION ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS PHASE V BLUE RIDGE AVENUE, QUEEN STREET AND WASHINGTON STREET IFB No. 05303-FY14-03 SEALED BIDS to construct the above project WILL BE RECEIVED by Ms. RenĂŠe LaFollette, Director, Office of Capital Projects for the Town of Leesburg, either by mail or hand delivered to 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, VA 20176, UNTIL BUT NO LATER THAN 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Bids shall be marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sealed Bid for the Lowenbach Subdivision Roadway Improvements Phase V â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Blue Ridge Avenue, Queen Street and Washington Street Bid Date â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tuesday, May 13, 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3:30 P.M. â&#x20AC;? Bids will be opened and read aloud at 25 West Market Street, Lower Level Conference Room 2, at that date and time. All questions regarding this bid must be received in writing by email at CapitalBidQuestions@leesburgva.gov or by fax at 703-737-7065 until but no later than 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The project includes storm drainage, watermain, sanitary sewer, brick and concrete sidewalk, curb, gutter, paving, miscellaneous site work, and all incidentals related thereto.
Attendance Zone Overview/ Public Hearing/Work Session
Thursday, May 1, 2014, School Board Meeting Room, 6:30 p.m.
The Town reserves the right to perform all, part, or none of the work.
Attendance Zone Public Hearing/ Work Session
Thursday, May 5, 2014, School Board Meeting Room, 6:30 p.m.
Attendance Zone Adoption
Tuesday, May 13, 2014, School Board Meeting Room, 6:30 p.m.
Bid Documents are available for download from the Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bid Board at and may be obtained beginning Thursday, April 24, 2014. Contact Cindy Steyer at 703-737-2302 or csteyer@leesburgva. gov with questions. All addenda issued for this project will only be posted on the Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bid Board.
The pending attendance zone process and related documents are available on the LCPS website (www.lcps.org). Advance speaker sign up is encouraged for the public hearings by calling LCPS administration at 571-252-1050 by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the public hearing. In the event of inclement weather, please check the LCPS website for the current status of the meeting. If, due to a disability, assistance is needed to enable you to participate meaningfully in these meetings, please contact the below referenced office at least FIVE WORKING DAYS prior to the specific meeting dates. Dr. Sam Adamo Executive Director, Planning & Legislative Services Loudoun County Public Schools 21000 Education Court Ashburn, VA 20148 Phone: 571-252-1050 Ad# 136218
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RenĂŠe LaFollette, P.E., Director Office of Capital Projects Ad # 136267 & 136268
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SEALED BIDS to construct the above project WILL BE RECEIVED by Ms. RenĂŠe LaFollette, Director, Office of Capital Projects for the Town of Leesburg, either by mail or hand delivered to 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, VA 20176, UNTIL BUT NO LATER THAN 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Bids shall be marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sealed Bid for the Potomac Crossing Park Bid Date â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wednesday, May 14, 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3:30 P.M. â&#x20AC;? Bids will be opened and read aloud at 25 West Market Street, Lower Level Conference Room 2, at that date and time.
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TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS MANUAL (DCSM) ARTICLE 5 (STORM DRAINAGE)
Pursuant to Sections 15.2-2204, 15.2-2240 and 62.1-44.15:27 through 62.1-44.15:35 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the LEESBURG PLANNING COMMISION will hold a public hearing on THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers in Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, 20176 to consider the following amendments to the Design and Construction Standards Manual: DCSM Article 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stormwater Revisions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to revise the DCSM as necessary to comply with State-mandated minimum requirements for stormwater management. In addition to the changes listed below, many unedited sections have been re-labeled to address deleted or new sections. Section 5-100 General Information: â&#x20AC;˘ Language is added or modified to explain when the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations will apply. â&#x20AC;˘ Clarifies definitions of minor and major storm systems. â&#x20AC;˘ Removes references to equations. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Section 5-110 Intent: â&#x20AC;˘ Language is clarified to relate to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. Section 5-120 Remarks: â&#x20AC;˘ Title is revised from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remarksâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Referencesâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;˘ All references have been updated. Section 5-210 General: â&#x20AC;˘ Language regarding allowable post-development release rates has been removed. â&#x20AC;˘ Pro-Rata share has been removed from this section and added in new section 5-333. â&#x20AC;˘ Town Code and DCSM section references have been updated to reflect the current revised sections. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-220 Easements: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely re-formatted and moved to section 5-700. Added a new Section 5-220 Hydraulic Design for Stormwater Conveyance (previously section 5-230): New Section 5-221Rational Method (previously section 5-231): â&#x20AC;˘ Design storm events re-defined to meet the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. New Section 5-222 USDA-SCS (NRCS) Methodology (previously section 5-232): â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. New Section 5-232 Design Criteria (previously section 5-242): â&#x20AC;˘ Revised Mannings â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nâ&#x20AC;? value in chart for CMP pipe. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. New Section 5-233 Design Criteria (previously section 5-243): â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. New Section 5-239 Energy and Hydraulic Gradients (previously section 5-249): â&#x20AC;˘ Language is clarified to state where hydraulic gradient is shown on the plans and profiles. New Section 5-242 Man Made Stormwater Conveyance Channels (previously section 5-252): â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes to remove the 100 year storm design requirement for open channels. New Section 5-244 Lot Drainage Swales (previously section 5-254): â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. New Section 5-247 Water Surface Profile Computations (previously section 5-257): â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Section 5-310 General: â&#x20AC;˘ Language revised to require Stormwater Management (SWM) and Best Management Practice (BMP) to meet the new minimum Federal, State and Local criteria. â&#x20AC;˘ New design references provided. â&#x20AC;˘ Clarification on required permits provided. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Section 5-311 Stormwater Management Requirements: â&#x20AC;˘ Revised Title to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Applicabilityâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;˘ Town Code references have been added regarding regulated land disturbing activities. â&#x20AC;˘ Town Code references have been added regarding exemptions to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ State Code references have been added regarding the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations for water quantity and quality as well as for VSMP permit requirements. â&#x20AC;˘ Requirements for water quality and quantity have been added for land disturbing activities less than one acre. â&#x20AC;˘ Town and State Code references have been added regarding grandfathering clauses. â&#x20AC;˘ Specific design components regarding adequate outfall, adequate channel, flow leaving the site and other related criteria have been removed from this section and relocated to new section 5-332, and revised to meet components of the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Water quantity design requirements been removed from this section and relocated to new section 5-330, and revised to meet components the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-312 Hydrologic Design for Stormwater Management: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted. New Section 5-312 Design Storms and Hydrologic Methods (previously section 5-313) Rational Method): â&#x20AC;˘ Revised Title to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Design Storms and Hydrologic Methodsâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;˘ This section reformatted to include text revisions and revising paragraph 1 from old section 5-314 and adding it in this section. â&#x20AC;˘ Text changes to modify and/or remove outdated references and design criteria. â&#x20AC;˘ Removed paragraph 2 regarding required storage volume. Old Section 5-314 USDA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NRCS Methodology: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted except that paragraph 1 has been revised and moved it to the new section 5-312. â&#x20AC;˘ Eliminated the rest of this section. Old Section 5-320 General Design Criteria: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been renamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stormwater Management Facilitiesâ&#x20AC;? and moved to section 5-340. New Section 5-320 Water Quality (previously section 5-620 Water Quality Design Criteria): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-620 and the title revised to remove â&#x20AC;&#x153;Design Criteriaâ&#x20AC;? from the section title. â&#x20AC;˘ Added a third paragraph stating when water quality criteria must be applied to construction plans. Old Section 5-321 Design of Stormwater Management Facilities: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been renamed to add â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within Tuscarora Water Shedâ&#x20AC;? at the end of the title and moved to section 5-341. New Section 5-321 Environmental Site Design (previously section 5-620.1: Use of Low Impact Development (LID) for Water Quality): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-620.4 and the title revised to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Environmental Site Designâ&#x20AC;? to replace â&#x20AC;&#x153;Low Impact Developmentâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ Language revised to require a written assessment for the potential use of Environmental Site Design with each land disturbing activity. â&#x20AC;˘ Language added to clarify only BMP Clearinghouse approved facilities shall be used in Environmental Site Design.
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www.leesburgtoday.com Old Section 5-322 General Criteria: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been revised to delete â&#x20AC;&#x153;Criteriaâ&#x20AC;? from the end of the title and moved to section 5-342. New Section 5-322 Hot Spots (previously section 5-640): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-640. â&#x20AC;˘ Adds text to explain total maximum daily load (TMDL) and Waste Load Allocation (WLA) to better define water quality requirements within designated hot spot areas. â&#x20AC;˘ Requires hot spot projects to assume pre-development greenfield conditions. â&#x20AC;˘ Relocates minimum requirements for plans dealing with petroleum or hazardous waste materials and adds specific requirements for gas stations and other petroleum dispensing operations to the end of the section. â&#x20AC;˘ Language added as to when a SWPPP is required. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-323 Detention Ponds â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted. New Section 5-323 Stream Delineation and Buffer Criteria (previously section 5-650): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-650. â&#x20AC;˘ Language added to clarify requirements and acceptable methods of identifying perennial and intermittent streams. â&#x20AC;˘ Clarifies required buffer requirements to be consistent with the zoning ordinance. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-324 Embankment Ponds: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been moved to section 5-521. Old Section 5-325 Excavated Ponds: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been moved to section 5-343. Old Section 5-326 Wet Ponds: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted. Old Section 5-327 Visual Resource Design â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wet and Dry Ponds: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted. Old Section 5-328 Stormwater Management Pond Plans: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been moved to section 5-345. Old Section 5-330 Rooftop Detention: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been moved to section 5-346. New Section 5-330 Water Quantity: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new title with text added here from old section 5-311. â&#x20AC;˘ Adds text to state design requirements and criteria for all types of construction projects. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-331 Design Criteria: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been incorporated into new section 5-346 Rooftop Detention. New Section 5-331 Detention Measures: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new title with new text to explain why on-site detention may be desirable. â&#x20AC;˘ Provides text providing the Director the authority to modify detention requirements in the Tuscarora drainage shed. Old Section 5-332 Plan Preparation: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been incorporated into new section 5-346 Rooftop Detention. New Section 5-332 Adequate Outfall: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new title with text added here from old section 5-311. â&#x20AC;˘ The old text has been revised to adhere to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations, reformatted and minor text changes made for consistency and clarification. New Section 5-333 Pro Rata Share Program: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new title with text added here from old section 5-210. â&#x20AC;˘ The old text has been revised to adhere to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations reformatted and minor text changes made for consistency and clarification. â&#x20AC;˘ Time limitations for reimbursement has been eliminated. Old Section 5-340 Underground Detention: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been moved to section 5-347. New Section 5-340 Stormwater Management Facilities (previously section 5-320): â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been renamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stormwater Management Facilitiesâ&#x20AC;? and moved from section 5-320. Old Section 5-341 General: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been incorporated into new section 5-347 Underground Detention. New Section 5-341 Design of Stormwater Management Facilities Within Tuscarora Water Shed (previously section 5-321): â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been renamed to add â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within Tuscarora Water Shedâ&#x20AC;? at the end of the title and moved from section 5-321. â&#x20AC;˘ Delete and modify text to state only the Tuscarora Watershed applies to this section. Delete references to Cattail Branch, Big Springs and Sycolin Creek Watersheds. â&#x20AC;˘ The old text has been revised to adhere to the new more stringent stormwater regulations for the one and two year storms related to detention as well as for erosion control criteria. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-342 Design Criteria: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been incorporated into new section 5-347 Underground Detention. New Section 5-342 General (previously section 5-322): â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been revised to delete â&#x20AC;&#x153;Criteriaâ&#x20AC;? from the end of the title and moved from section 5-322. â&#x20AC;˘ Revise language to match that in the State Code to allow Director to modify stormwater management requirements to match the Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stormwater Master Plan. â&#x20AC;˘ Add and modify text previously found in section 5-620 regarding required inspections of stormwater management facilities. â&#x20AC;˘ Move maintenance responsibility chart to section 5-370. â&#x20AC;˘ Embankment design requirements are now referenced in this section. â&#x20AC;˘ The old text has been revised to adhere to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations reformatted with minor text changes made for consistency and clarification. Old Section 5-343 Plan Preparation: â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been incorporated into new section 5-347 Underground Detention. 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TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO THE SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (SLDR) DIVISION 3 (DEVELOPMENT) Pursuant to Sections 15.2-2204, 15.2-2240 and 62.1-44.15:27 through 62.1-44.15:35 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the LEESBURG PLANNING COMMISION will hold a public hearing on THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers in Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, 20176 to consider the following amendments to the Subdivision and Land Development Regulations:
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Loudoun County, Virginia Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:00 p.m. Discovery Elementary School 44020 Grace Bridge Drive Ashburn, VA 20147 (571-252-2370) The Loudoun County Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure (DTCI) is holding a Public Location and Design Hearing to review and obtain comments on the design of the Route 625-Waxpool Road Improvement Project; a Loudoun County Locally Administered Project (LAP). The proposed design includes re-configuring existing turn lanes, providing additional turn lanes on Pacific Blvd along the northbound and southbound approach to Waxpool Rd, and additional turn lanes on Broderick Dr. to improve vehicle turning movement to Waxpool Rd. The design also includes an additional lane on westbound Waxpool Road and extending existing pedestrian facility along Pacific Blvd to provide pedestrian access across the Waxpool Rd intersection.
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Continued New Section 5-360 Waivers and Exemptions (previously section 5-370): â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been renamed to add â&#x20AC;&#x153;and exemptionsâ&#x20AC;? to the end of the title, text revised and moved in its entirety from section 5-370. â&#x20AC;˘ The old text has been revised to adhere to the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations reformatted and minor text changes made for consistency and clarification. â&#x20AC;˘ Text has been added to require all waivers and exemptions to follow the process established in the Town Code. â&#x20AC;˘ Some previous examples and guidelines for waivers have been removed from this section. New Section 5-370 Inspection and Maintenance Provisions (previously section 5-380): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-360. â&#x20AC;˘ Adds requirement that a maintenance agreement shall be approved and recorded prior to all types of construction plan approvals. â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text changes and deletion of paragraph 1 for consistency and clarification. â&#x20AC;˘ Adds all maintenance responsibility charts from old section 5-322. Sections 5-410, 5-431, 5-511 and 5-520: â&#x20AC;˘ Minor text change to delete the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;manualâ&#x20AC;? and replace it with â&#x20AC;&#x153;DCSMâ&#x20AC;?. New Section 5-521 Embankment Ponds (previously section 5-324): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-324. â&#x20AC;˘ The information regarding the regulating authority for large ponds has been clarified. Old Section 5-600 Stormwater Runoff Quality Control Criteria: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted. Old Section 5-610 General: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Portions of this section have been incorporated into new sections 5-300, 5-310 and other revised sections of this article. Old Section 5-620 Water Quality Design: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Portions of this section have been incorporated into new sections 5-300, 5-310, 5-320, 5-321, 5-523, 5-341 and other revised sections of this article. Old Section 5-630 Exemptions to Water Quality Requirements: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Portions of this section have been incorporated into new sections 5-311. Old Section 5-640 Hot Spots: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Portions of this section have been incorporated into new sections 5-322. Old Section 5-650 Stream Delineation and Buffer Criteria: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Portions of this section have been incorporated into new sections 5-323. Old Section 5-660 Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans: â&#x20AC;˘ This section has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. â&#x20AC;˘ Portions of this section have been incorporated into sections 5-311 and 5-322. Old Table 5-630-1 BMP Efficiencies and Considerations: â&#x20AC;˘ This table has been completely deleted due to nonconformance with the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new minimum stormwater regulations. New Section 5-600 Inspection and Acceptance (previously section 5-700): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-700. New Section 5-610 Inspection (previously section 5-710): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-710. New Section 5-620 Acceptance (previously section 5-720): â&#x20AC;˘ This entire section has been added here from section 5-720. â&#x20AC;˘ Adds requirement that a maintenance agreement shall be executed and a maintenance bond be in place prior to acceptance of a stormwater facility. â&#x20AC;˘ Text changes to clarify new inspection and acceptance process. New Section 5-700 Easements: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new section with a new title. New Section 5-701 General: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new section with a new title and new language including some text from old section 5-370. New Section 5-702 Easement Applicability and Width: â&#x20AC;˘ This is a new section that includes a new consolidated easement chart based upon text from old sections 5-220, 5-323, 5-347 and 5-370. â&#x20AC;˘ All old easement text references from those sections are deleted.
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RECEPTIONIST Concert Technologies, (Dulles, VA), is searching for an energetic, focused and detail oriented individual for a full-time Receptionist position. The position requires proficiency in MS Office and good communications skills. Please send resume to: hr@concerttech.com
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Do you have an appetite for hospitality? A hunger for work-life balance? Let us tempt you with a great career at Ashby Ponds! Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s featured job specialties include: â&#x20AC;˘ Restaurant Managers â&#x20AC;˘ Cooks â&#x20AC;˘ Chef â&#x20AC;˘ Bartenders â&#x20AC;˘ Banquet Servers
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Ashby Ponds, a Continuing Care Retirement Community in Ashburn, VA, needs service-minded professionals to serve our rapidly growing clientele. If you love the hospitality industry, but not the typical restaurant hours, and have a drive to deliver exceptional guest experiences, Ashby Ponds may be right for you! We offer a tremendous work environment, competitive pay and benefits, growth opportunities, and the chance to work with an industry leader. To find out why life is sweet at Ashby Ponds and apply online, visit us at: jobs.ericksonliving.com/ashburn-jobs
In search of experienced Digital Printing and Binding Specialists who possess experience in: â&#x20AC;˘ Binding/Finishing: Lamination, paper cutting and book binding. â&#x20AC;˘ Digital Printing: high volume black and white production printers; high quality color production printers. â&#x20AC;˘ Electronic File Handling: knowledge of PDF files and printing work flows. Apply in person: Mon-Fri, 9am - 3PM at 22883 Quicksilver Dr., Sterling, VA 20166 Fax: 703-996-1010
RAIL INSTALLERS Loudoun Stairs of Purcellville, VA, is seeking subcontractors with experience in interior rail installation on new & existing homes. Must be experienced with installation of wood (unfin & prefin) rails and metal balusters. Experience with installation of stainless steel rails will earn top $$. Travel throughout the DC Metro area. This job is a non-employee position. Earnings will be issued on a 1099-MISC at year end for tax reporting purposes as Non-Employee Compensation. Fax Resume to: 540-338-2644 or Email: ghope@loudounstairs.com
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville VA is seeking a PT Administrative Assistant to be available 5hrs/day, 4 days/ week with some flexibility with scheduled hours. Use of Quicken books & bookkeeping knowledge helpful. Requirements: Proficiency with computer, office equipment, Microsoft Office software. Strong written & verbal communication skills. Good interpersonal skills. Send resume, references & a daytime phone number to: njlcpastor@loudounwireless.com
Groundskeeper Seasonal position includes gardening, landscaping and athletic field maintenance at 1,000-acre Morven Park. Exp. with landscape machinery reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Hiddencroft Vineyards currently has one opening for a part-time tasting room associate, to be paid a competitive hourly wage. POSITION REQUIREMENTS: â&#x20AC;˘Part-Time, regularly scheduled to work on Saturdays and Sundays and occasional weekdays. â&#x20AC;˘Must be 21 or older. â&#x20AC;˘Must be able to lift 40 lbs. (a case of wine) â&#x20AC;˘Excellent customer service skills. â&#x20AC;˘Retail sales or Winery Tasting Room experience a plus but not essential â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we will train you. â&#x20AC;˘Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment For more information, phone 540-5366. To apply, send resumes to: winery@hiddencroftvineyards.com
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George MacLaughlin Newton, 71, of Waterford, VA, died Thursday, April 17, 2014. He was born to the late James and Jesse Newton, February 19, 1943, in Port Washington, NY. George graduated from Paul Schreiber High School in 1961 and received an Associates Degree from State University of New York at Farmingdale in 1963. He married Jeanette G. (Uhl) Newton in 1972, and they lived together in Enfield, CT., before relocating to Virginia in 1992. George was retired from GL Cornell Co. in Gaithersburg, MD. George was an active member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Leesburg, VA. George is survived by his wife of 41 years, Jeanette G. Newton of Waterford, VA and by three children: Jane Murray and husband Allan Murray, of Enfield, CT; Kelly Frye and husband Michael Frye, of Lovettsville, VA; and Kristy Reynolds and husband William Reynolds, of Purcellville, VA. He also is survived by two grandchildren Michael Gray and Porter Reynolds; two siblings James T.
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As we mourn her passing on this earth, Jesus Christ and the Angels rejoice at her arrival in Heaven. Mary Ann was a star for her time on this earth and is now a star in Heaven for eternity. She was a guiding light to all who Gary Wayne Newton know her and, like the death of a star in the Gary Wayne Newton, 60, lifelong Leesburg night, that guiding light does not end with resident, passed away on April 19, 2014 peace- her passing. fully at home surrounded by family, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Dedicated to his A memorial service in celebration of her life family, he is survived by his loving wife of 42 will be held at the Worship Center Assembly years, Lill; daughters Sandi Newton-Wright of of God church on Gleedsville Road, Leesburg, Purcellville, VA and Ronda Newton of Flag- VA on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 12 noon. The staff, AZ; grandchildren Conor Wright, Wyatt family will receive guests prior to the service Swain, and Gaia and Caleb Newton; father from 11 to 12. (who predeceased him) Harry â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddyâ&#x20AC;? Newton and mother Dorothy Parker Newton and Please send condolences to the family her companion Ronald McGhee of Leesburg. www.LoudounFuneralChapel.com Also surviving is best friend Thomas England of Leesburg. Family will receive friends 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at Colonial Funeral Home, 201 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA 20176 where a service will
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She is survived by her daughter, Amy Lourenco and her husband, Tony; grandson and light of her life, Andrew; sister, Felice Weinstein and her husband, Stephen; niece, Jodi Barrish and her husband, Rob; dear friends, Marlene and Jack Ripka and many other friends and She is survived by her loving husband, Joseph family members. W. James; four children, Bruce James, Terrie A celebration of Robertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will be held from Carmell and husband Tim, Randy James and 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM on Sunday, April 27, wife Debbie, Kathy Fields and husband Ray; 2014 at Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation, twelve grandchildren, Kristina Maddox and 21740 Beaumeade Circle Unit #100 Ashburn, husband Chris, Brian James, Stephanie James, VA 20147. In lieu of flowers, memorial dona- Daniel Hensley and wife Shelby, Joseph Hanstions may be made to kiva.org or the charity ley, Grace Fields, Faith Fields, Conor James, Sean James, Dillon James, Aidan James, and of your choice. Kevin James; and three great-grandchildren, Please share condolences with the family at Anna Maddox, Kaleb Hensley, and Levi Hensley; four siblings, Luthene Jasper and mgrhr@yahoo.com. husband Elmer, Thomas Peevey and wife Sharon, Ike Peevey and wife Peggy, and Ellen Clay and husband Jim; and a host of nieces and nephews. Mary Ann held a special bond with her family, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren that will long survive her passing. Mary Ann provided inspiration and spiritual guidance to her family and all others she came in contact with.
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The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Mary Ann Peevey James, loving and devoted Wednesday, April 23 at Nash & Slaw Funeral Home, Colonial Beach. wife of Joseph W. James for sixty plus years, went to be with her Lord and Savior on April A private graveside service will be held at 21, 2014 surrounded by her loving family. Mary Sterling Cemetery, Loudoun County. Ann was born on July 24, 1936 in Houston, TX of Isaac Elisha and Bessie Logan Peevey. She In lieu of flowers, Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family requests that was past president of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ministry expressions of sympathy take the form of doand former Sunday school teacher at The nations to Colonial Beach United Methodist Worship Center Assembly of God church in Church or Colonial Beach Fire Department Leesburg, and volunteered at the Long Term or Rescue Squad. Care of Loudoun Hospital. She was a noted doll artist and former member of the doll Please sign the online guestbook at artisanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guild. nashandslawfh.com
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Philip N. Adams, 68, of Round Hill, VA has passed away. Family and friends are invited to the Colonial Funeral Home, 201 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA 20176 on Sunday, April 27, 2014 between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm where a service will immediately follow starting at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to the Wakefield School, 4439 Old Tavern Rd, The Plains, VA 20198. Please leave condolences at www.colonialfuneralhome.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of the late Irving Helman and Florence Sauer. Roberta graduated from SUNY-Old Westbury in 1992 with a degree in Marketing and went onto be a serial entrepreneur. In 2001 she moved to Northern Virginia to be close to her daughter after being a lifelong New Yorker. While in Virginia, she was very active in many groups, including the Reston Newcomers Club.
Jack was preceded in death by his parents Carl D. and Clara Lorine Niswander, brother Carl and sister Doris Spates Helz.
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He was a charter member of the Herndon Lions Club and owned Northern Virginia Tractor Sales and Service. Jack was an avid wood worker and enjoyed playing cards and board games with friends and family.
Newton of Ronkonkoma, NY and Sally Newton of Deland, FL and many wonderful nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made out to the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Memorial Fund, 605 W. Market St., Leesburg, VA 20175. A visitation with the family will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 605 W. Market St., Leesburg on Friday, April 25, 2014 at 10:00 AM with the funeral service following at 11:00 AM. Please leave condolences at www.colonialfuneralhome.com.
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immediately follow starting at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers the family is requesting donations in Jack Niswander his honor to www.appalachiantrail.org or www. bouldercrestretreat.org. Please leave condo- Jack Niswander, 80, of Colonial Beach, joined his Heavenly family on Good Friday, April 18, lences at www.colonialfuneralhome.com. 2014 at home with his wife by his side.
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of such action would be far greater than the up to $2 million in expected savings touted by closure advo-
cates. However, it is clear that the issue isn’t dead and the work to reinforce the case for maintaining the small schools in the menu of choices available to Loudoun families should continue with urgency in advance universal agreement on the merits of Loudoun County’s four-year, $2
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million marketing package with the Washington Redskins. Funneling local tourism promotion dollars into the coffers of one the nation’s most valuable sports franchises is a hard pill to swallow. But then there are weeks like this one where the proximity to—and the partnership to facility upgrades at one of the county’s oldest high schools. It is
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these early design stages. For neighbors, town and county leaders and planning. Once the bulldozers and cranes are at work it will be too late. … The decision by the Leesburg Town Council to delay until June any action on proposed changes to the municipal noise ordinance may
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appear as just another example of the body’s tradition of indecisiveness. their residential neighbors ample time to reflect on how the proposed switch to noise limits measured in decibels, rather than a subjective
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read with incredulity the raft of letters attacking the Board of Supervisors new budget that “only” increased school funding by 8.5 percent. One school teacher writer even charged that the supervisors did not “listen to the supermajority of constituents…” before casting their vote. Really? Perhaps a lesson in arithmetic is in order. The real “super majority” in this county are the 75 percent of taxpayers who do not have children in the school system, but are called on to subsidize the education of those children. Without those subsidies there would be no Loudoun County Public Schools. No taxpaying parent comes even close to paying for one child, much less
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two or more attending our school system. Another writer issues a call for action on forthcoming Board of Supervisors elections due November 3, 2015. I say, “bring it on.” We had elections in 2011 and the voters overwhelming chose leaders who believe in responsible, cost effective government. I look forward to continuing that battle. Everyone in this county wants a good school system; we just do not want a jewel-encrusted, goldplated one. Fortunately, with the retirement of Edgar Hatrick as superintendent we can begin a new era of responsible leadership—a new superintendent who we hope will be able to honestly balance the needs of the school system with those who pay for it. I, for one, look for a new era of sanity. David Mowbray, Ashburn Continued on Next Page
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Dear Editor, Leesburg Today has printed several articles recently about Governor McAuliffe’s full court press to expand Medicaid and his willingness to hold the entirety of the commonwealth’s budget hostage until he gets his campaign promise. His behavior is both infantile and dangerous. His behavior is infantile because this political temper tantrum does nothing other than expose the governor’s naiveté in actually enacting policy and his apparent lack of understanding when it comes to the budget process. And it is dangerous because it puts at risk the budgets of countless municipalities that need to complete their own budgeting process and allocate funds for schools, fire departments, and police forces this year, while threatening future budgets with unsustainable obligations. Medicaid expansion is a large, complex issue that should not be treated like a budget line item and inserted without understanding the full ramifications of the effects. Thankfully, the House of Delegates is full of statesmen who fully understand the implications and are preventing Virginia from being damaged by a massive selfinflicted wound.
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Dear Editor: Freedom is one of the founding principles of our nation and something I think most of us can agree is valuable. I am thankful that our county has given families the freedom to make choices about the type of school they want for their children. I am hopeful that our school board will see the wisdom of continuing to provide these choices to the families of Loudoun and not close the small schools serving the western part of our county. My three children attend Aldie Elementary. We are not zoned for Aldie, but attend based on the special permission program set up by the county. I cannot begin to express how grateful I am for this program. It provides me the opportunity to send my children to a school that meets my family’s needs. This program is open to all parents in Loudoun County. That being said, doing a special permission is not always easy. The commitment to provide transportation to and from school can be expensive and time consuming, but as a parent I am thankful to have the freedom to choose the school environment I want for my children. I hope that the school board will realize that one size does not fit all. One of the biggest strengths of Loudoun is that historically in this county it hasn’t made it that way. Please don’t take away our choices and give families options
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Dear Editor: Several questions about the proposed school closings need factual answers, not judgments or opinions. The first of these questions is: are the cuts in the budget to meet the appropriation solely within the purview of the School Board? Given that this is so, could the $2 million cut that will cause the four schools to be closed instead be apportioned among the other cuts thus avoiding the school closures? Since the $2 million is only about 5 percent of the shortfall it would seem that this could be done, avoiding the uproar over the proposed school closings. The next question is: since the school closings would be very disruptive to the children affected as well as their parents and the cost of new schools will be a further burden for the taxpayers what is the real justification for the closings? The School Board should be able to provide a detailed justification for the closures that makes the decision clear for everyone. Howard Bliss, Purcellville
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Dear Editor: I recently read that the School Board, put in a position of having to make drastic cuts, might be replacing three middle school deans with one middle school assistant principal at every middle school. This would be akin to replacing the town managers of Lovettsville, Round Hill, and Hamilton with an additional county executive. To replace three deans with one AP doesn’t even begin to account for the relationship-building, discipline-handling, student-mediating, parentcontacting, reward-planning, teacher-handling things that each dean does every day. One outstanding AP couldn’t possibly fill that void. If you have a middle school kid (or, you know someone who teaches in a middle school), ask them: If they got rid of the deans, would middle school be better or worse? Jeff Hood, Lovettsville
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t is crucial that we understand how we reached this point in the Loudoun County Public Schools FY15 budget so we can prevent it from ever happening again. The county boards squandered a unique opportunity in LCPS history rather than taking advantage of its unique circumstances and walking away, along with everyone else in Loudoun County, with a much more responsible and positive outcome. It began with the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors announcing, at the beginning of the meeting in which the School Board first presented its LCPS budget, that the supervisors fully intended to adopt the localized tax rate of $1.155/$100 of assessed value rather than the advertised tax rate of $1.215, and, most significantly, that the proceedings before them would have no impact on that decision. With the imminent retirement of Dr. Hatrick, the 22-year Superintendent of Schools, the supervisors felt free to pursue this course knowing that any fallout could be blamed on Dr. Hatrick and the School Board. The supervisors believed they could dismiss whatever was said publicly by attributing it to the evil-union interests of the Loudoun Education Association and were therefore not truly representative of their constituency. Following the BOS’ adoption of the equalized tax rate, which left a $37 million gap in the school system’s proposed budget, School Board members found themselves caught with their pants down. They assumed they could take the reins from Dr. Hatrick and energize teachers, parents and other taxpayers to counter resistance to whatever decisions they would believe necessary to cover the consequential decisions they had to make to close that gap. Now we, as parents, teachers, and others who understand, value, and support the crucial role that well-executed public education serves in our society, are left with an unapologetic Board of Supervisors and a School Board saddled with filling the budget gap by making and committing to decisions within a matter of just a few weeks. As Chairman York observed during his closing remarks at the board’s adoption of the county budget (and the equalized tax rate), the supervisors have no obligation to listen to anyone in making their decisions, and that the only effective voice anyone has—whether they voted them into office or not—is to cast their votes in the next local election. The School Board, for its part, announced potential cuts that they knew would incite special interests to a feverish pitch. They got the attention of every LCPS teacher by sending out so-called “pre-RIF” notices, an action whose timing they attributed to a questionable interpretation of a single sentence in the Code of Virginia. They got the attention of middleschool parents by threatening to dismantle an innovative administrative structure particularly well-suited to the needs of those students—that other school systems have used as a model. They drew out some of the most clever and articulate parents by threatening to do away with county-provided bus transportation for just a few hundred of LCPS’ 70,000 students, knowing that would hit them where they could not reach. They got the attention of every parent with a daughter (or son) by threatening to emasculate an effective and demonstrably important Family Life Education program. The School Board set the stage for changes that would impact the core educational mission of the Loudoun County Public Schools system by threatening to de-staff libraries in many schools. And they raised attention to
a national level by threatening to close four small schools—something that Dr. Hatrick had apparently advocated several times in past years—evidently without accounting for all of the costs that doing so would incur. There is no excuse for this situation, because it could have been handled much more intelligently and effectively by both the Board of Supervisors and the School Board. The supervisors could have foreseen that adopting the equalized rate would put the School Board members into a position of having to manage public reaction over making the honest reforms that would be necessary to continue operating in the fiscal environment that the BOS was trying to achieve. The supervisors instead could have adopted a compromise tax rate—perhaps between the equalized and advertised rates— that would not fully fund the school system’s requested budget but also might have avoided triggering such a desperate political response. In exchange for this compromise, the supervisors could have put the School Board on notice that such tough cuts would be unavoidable during the next budget cycle, and that they should use the intervening time to engineer practical cost-saving reforms that remain consistent with school system mandates and mission. The School Board, in turn, could have closed a more manageable funding gap in FY15 without resorting to incendiary cuts of muscle and bone. They could have pledged to work with the incoming superintendent, taking advantage of his enthusiasm and perspective to help Loudoun County Public Schools adapt and thrive in this environment. But neither side did that. The BOS fired its “death ray,” and the School Board nursed its wounds without making overtures indicating any shift in their strategy. On the parents’ and teachers’ parts, with the exception of relatively small but dedicated and vocal contingents, few paid any real attention to this process until they felt personally threatened. Where were all the T.J. parents and the parents of students at the four small schools when most of this transpired? This is not to dismiss the very real and genuine concerns of these people, but usurping the lion’s share of opportunities to speak publicly to the School Board sends the unfortunate but clear message that special interests are indeed more important than the overall ability of LCPS to educate our children. What now? Having lost this opportunity to do what is best for Loudoun County in a narrow-minded political battle powered by ideology rather than leadership, both boards need to come forward, cut the rhetoric, accept responsibility for this situation, and pledge to do their best to emerge with the least long-term damage and a commitment to address as much of the short-term damage as possible during the remaining vestiges of the current budget cycle and the next one. Yes, this may require yet another year of compromise in rectifying the inequitable state of the broken teacher pay scale, but that should come with a firm commitment to completely repair the damage during the next budget cycle—with absolutely no compromise. Everyone involved—and that includes parents, teachers, and school administrators, in addition to elected officials and their staff— needs to question orthodoxy and strive for the necessary perspective to take full advantage of the enthusiastic, presumably capable, incoming superintendent, not only to make the best of this situation but to set LCPS on an intelligent, sustainable, outcome-based course that prevents this from ever happening again in Loudoun County— and firmly seals our commitment, as a whole community, to the un-compromised education of our future citizens. n
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Dear Editor, Sometimes it’s necessary to think outside the box, and this is one of those times. Leaving emotion aside and dealing only with cold, hard facts, I’d like to make a couple of suggestions that might be helpful to the School Board 1. Closing two schools (Aldie and Lincoln) where the per-pupil cost appears to be less than the county average seems to me to be financially unwise. Why would the School Board close two cost-effective schools to send those particular students to schools where they will cost more to educate? Suggestion: Instead of closing these two schools, the School Board should be studying them to see what they are doing right—why they are costing less but producing excellent results— and then applying the lessons learned from them to the other schools. 2. It is clear from looking at the maps and attendance figures that Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary should never have been built. There simply aren’t currently enough students in that portion of the county to warrant having schools at Hamilton and Hillsboro, plus Mountain View and Culbert. Suggestions: 1. Close Culbert and redraw the catchment areas for the remaining schools. As it is now, for example, children from Creamer Lane and that area (the south side of Rt. 9 northwest of Hillsboro) are passing right by Hillsboro Elementary
Lost Faith Dear Editor, I write because I was denied the right to speak. On April 21, the Loudoun County School Board held a public hearing on the closure of four elementary schools in western Loudoun County. I intended to speak in opposition to the closure of the Hamilton Elementary School. I have lived in Hamilton since 1979 and have been a member of the town council of Hamilton for more than 25 years. Both my children, now grown, attended Hamilton Elementary School and the school has been an integral part of the town and surrounding community for generations. In any event I arrived at the hearing at 6:25 p.m. and was told that it was too late to sign up to speak even though the hearing was publically advertised to begin at 6:30 p.m. Nowhere was there information that 6:25 p.m. was the cut off for speakers. I appealed to the clerk in charge of signing up speakers to no avail. (One of the school board members who apparently overheard my appeal vigorously shook her head indicating that I should not be allowed to speak even though I was a duly elected representative of the Town of Hamilton.) I was not surprised because my experience with the Loudoun County school system is that is an organization that exalts form over substance. Now the fact that school board did not hear my remarks is of small or no consequence, I am sure that the scores who did speak were far more eloquent than I. The real question is: Will the school board listen? I fear they will not. Experience suggests that Loudoun County does not consider the citizens of Hamilton when they implement policy. Hamilton drilled the well that provides water to Harmony Middle School. When the town subsequently agreed to provide water and sewer to Culbert Elementary School, the town was assured that the Hamilton Elementary would not
be closed. There were some who said the school board spoke with forked tongue, but the Town Council decided to provide water to the new elementary school in reliance upon this promise and because it was in the best interests of all the children and not just those who attended Hamilton Elementary. The decision was a triumph of hope over experience. Cooperation with the county or the School Board is a course of action fraught with peril. You cannot trust what they say. When people lose faith in the government, the government loses legitimacy. One need only look to Syria and the Ukraine for examples of what ensues. I am a Quaker and do not advocate violence, but I commend the history of this great commonwealth to the school board. Two hundred and thirty-eight years ago a group of Virginian planters, who had everything to lose, severed their ties with a government that would not listen. I implore the school board do not close the small elementary schools in western Loudoun County which serve those communities so well. In the words of a great song of my youth “We won’t be fooled again.” Michael Snyder, Hamilton
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and going five miles further to Mountain View. This makes sense only if you’re trying to justify building a new building (which is exactly what past School Boards did). Send these children back to Hillsboro; make other adjustments in the Mountain View and former Culbert attendance boundaries to send the children now attending Culbert to Hamilton, Hillsboro, Lincoln, or Mountain View, thus more realistically reflecting where the children actually live. 2. Repurpose Culbert. The county wants to create its own version of Fairfax’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. It’s a good idea, and it can be done immediately, saving the well over $2 million each year in tuition that Loudoun pays to Fairfax. Certain changes would have to be made to Culbert. For example, child-size toilets and sinks would have to be replaced and adult-size furniture would be required for the teenage students, but these costs possibly could come from the capital budget, not the operating budget and be relatively minimal. While it may be desirable for Loudoun’s “TJ” to be in a more central location, repurposing Culbert would permit getting the school up and operational immediately while a permanent site was selected and a new school built. (At least the children would have a reverse commute instead of the long trek to Fairfax in rush hour traffic.) Once the new school is built, convert Culbert to the Arts and Theater academy, which some parents have recently suggested the county needs. That would eventually give the county three specialty high schools: Arts and Music in Western Loudoun, C.S. Monroe Technology Center in Leesburg, and Loudoun’s new “TJ” at the new site. Once school leaders stop thinking within the box and focusing on closing small schools, I think they will agree that this entire affair presents an excellent opportunity to move forward with something really exciting—an opportunity to, in essence, have our educational cake and eat it, too. Lina Burton, Aldie
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