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Three police-involved shootings in low-crime Loudoun County in less than one year prompted Ashburn Today to ask about officer training. We spent a day at the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy and a morning at the shooting range to get a firsthand look.

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four-month investigation into the fatal shooting of a Purcellville youth by a town police officer has concluded the officer was justified in his actions. Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman publicly released the report last Thursday, just hours after meeting with the parents of 17-yearold Christian Sierra to explain the findings. The shooting—the second fatal police-involved shooting in Loudoun within a year—happened May 24 when, at 2:14 p.m. the Purcellville Police Department received a call reporting a youth threatening suicide at a Frazer Drive townhouse. As officers responded, they were told the subject was running through the neighborhood, possibly armed with a knife. Officer Timothy Hood was one of three officers to respond to the call. He arrived on the scene to find Sierra holding a knife and struggling with someone on the curb of the street. He got out of his cruiser and ordered the youth to drop the knife. According to witnesses, Sierra disregarded those commands and advanced toward Hood. Hood fired four times, fatally shooting the boy. The incident was over in about 10 seconds, Plowman said. “The Officer’s actions constitute a justifiable homicide as the killing was a reasonable use of lethal force and was undertaken in self-defense,” the report stated. Following the shooting, the State Police were immediately called by Purcellville Police Chief Darryl Smith to lead the investigation in the case. The investigative report released by Plowman included reports from 10 members of the State Police, five Loudoun Sheriff’s Office officers and seven members of the Purcellville PD, as well as interviews with eight civilian witnesses. The report reveals Sierra was a troubled youth with a record of run-ins with town police, a history

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For Ashburn Today n a recent morning at the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy, tucked at the end of a quiet road north of Rt. 7 in Ashburn, a group of about 50 recruits passed

by this reporter and each one said with a smile, “Good morning.” Even that is part of the training at the center, which prepares officers in 17 of the region’s agencies for the field, including departments as large as Loudoun County’s to those as small as Middleburg. “We encourage them to look people in the eye and greet them,” William C. O’Toole, academy

executive director, said as the recruits shuffled past. “Not in a military-type manner, but in a polite I’mhere-to-help way.” A chance to serve his community is what drew Brian Patterson to a career in law enforcement 36 years ago. He worked with Fairfax County Police Department for 27 years and is now the DefenContinued on Page 20

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Construction is expected start in the next month or two for the fourlane road that will carry an expected 12,000 to 30,000 cars per day. Groundbreaking participants noted that most projects of this nature can to take eight to 10 years to complete, but the Gloucester extension will be finished in just over three years. That is possible in part because supervisors voted to invest county funds into the project up front, with the developers of Kincora Village Center on the hook to repay taxpayers as that project comes online. “Ultimately, they will have taken care of this road Ashburn Today/Mike Stancik for the citizens of Loudoun Supervisor Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run) prepares Tuesday to celebrate the County,” York said of the long-awaited groundbreaking for the project that will extend Gloucester Parkway Kincora developers. from its dead-end at Loudoun County Parkway east to Rt. 28. VDOT’s MegaProjects Director Susan Shaw said planning for the extenproject got off the ground. “There “If you look at the area we sion started in the spring of 2013. were a lot of people involved in have here, everybody is taking VDOT then had a scoping meet- making sure that this happened.” Waxpool and sitting in it. This ing in May and issued the Request Supervisor Shawn Williams will take 30 percent of the volume for Proposal for the design-build (R-Broad Run) knows firsthand off of that road. So this is a gameproject at the end of August. just how beneficial the project will changer for the Ashburn commu“That is warp speed,” Shaw be to his district’s residents once nity, it’s huge. We’re not going to said in terms of how quickly the completed. wait, we need this road now.” n

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he nightmarish rushhour conditions on Waxpool Road hopefully could end in 2016, at least that was the hope of county and state leaders celebrating the start of construction for the Gloucester Parkway extension Tuesday morning. The $40 million, half-mile extension will cross the Broad Run floodplain to connect Gloucester with Nokes Boulevard, giving residents a much-needed additional east-west connection between Rt. 28 and Ashburn. With the connection in place, planners estimate that about 15,000 daily trips will be removed from Waxpool to the new road. “The other day I had the opportunity to attend the Trailside Middle School dedication— had this road been constructed I could have just gone right down to the middle school,” County Chairman Scott York (R-At Large) said. “But I had to go all the way up Rt. 28, down Rt. 7 and then cut back down. This linkage is so important to help relieve Waxpool Road and to give another connection to the Ashburn citizens and businesses.”

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s Leesburg Town Manager John Wells looked around the Council Chambers during his final comments at his last town council meeting Sept. 23, the feeling that he was completing his tenure hit him. “My 10 years here has been a dream for me,” Wells said in that moment. This is Wells’ closing week at the position, ending a yearlong transition process that has Deputy Town Manager Kaj Dentler taking over the top spot Oct. 4. He will be leading a town government with new faces in some key positions following a restructur-

ing that merged the departments of Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology into a single entity, with Clark Case hired as the new director of finance and Eileen Nguyen as the town’s controller. New Deputy Town Manager Keith Markel joins the staff Monday. There also will be a new town attorney following Jeanette Irby’s recent General Assembly election to a Circuit Court judgeship. “It’s ironic that Jeanette is going to do what she wanted as a judge and I’m leaving what I wanted to do,” Wells said. “It’s rare to get to do that in your hometown, because in a sense this is my hometown here. Truly, you all are very committed and it’s your commitment to Leesburg that makes it easier

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A Pennsylvania man faces felony charges after a crash on Rt. 15 north of Leesburg Sunday. According to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called around 8 p.m. for a report of an erratic driver. The vehicle was found crashed into an embankment near the Whites Ferry Road intersection. The driver, Sean T. McFarland, 45, of Waynesboro, PA, and his juvenile daughter were found uninjured. McFarland was charged with DUI and felony child endangerment.The child was turned over to a family member.

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Shortly after drawing praise from county equine enthusiasts for their initiative, Loudoun supervisors reversed course and deleted a proposal to add an equestrian facility to the long list of public facilities the government—in many cases with contributions from developers—was expected to provide. The issue was raised by the county’s Fiscal Impact Committee, which began combing through and updating the county’s Capital Facility Standards list in October 2012. The list covers everything from how many schools and libraries should be available as the population grows to the number of parks and park and ride lot spaces that will be needed. While several items, such as the number of fire trucks or health clinics required per capita were deleted from the list, the need for one 160,000-square-foot equestrian center located on up to 100 acres to serve the population countywide was added. Supporters of that action, including Mary Terpak of the Loudoun County Equine Alliance, said such a facility would bring money to Loudoun that now is going to surrounding counties. “Loudoun County is way behind the curve on this,” she told supervisors during the Sept. 17 meeting, adding that many event planners take their programs to facilities available in Fairfax and Prince William counties. The equine center did not survive the final vote, however. Supervisor Ralph Buona

(R-Ashburn), who led the rewrite committee and initially supported the addition, made the motion to delete it from the list. He cited the recent ground breaking at Morven Park to build a large competition complex, as well as the projected $32-$77 million price tag of a public center. He questioned whether the county should pursue the project at a time when it can’t afford to expand schools to accommodate full-day kindergarten. Other supervisors said they may support a public equine facility, but argued that it should not be included in the government facilities planning list. Supervisor Geary Higgins (R-Catoctin) opposed the adoption of the new standards without the complex and Supervisor Janet Clarke (R-Blue Ridge) was absent during that part of the meeting.

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t has been a years-long journey, but the plan to erect a statue in Leesburg’s Courthouse Square to honor America’s first patriots is entering its final stages. Clerk of the Loudoun Circuit Court Gary Clemens, who serves as the head of the fundraising committee for the project, recently announced organizers were just $16,000 away from their goal of approximately $420,000. Clemens credited the committee and Patriot Project board members for their tireless work to raise the funds for the completion of the statue by Warrenton sculptor Jay Hall Carpenter. If all goes to plan, the Patriot Project group will gather on the lawn to the left of the old courthouse building Veterans Day 2015 for the ceremonial unveiling of Carpenter’s striking bronze tribute to Loudouners who went to war and helped win the nation’s independence from Great Britain in 1781. The statue is unusual in that, unlike many similar tributes that grace the grounds of courthouses around the nation, this commemoration does not represent a professional soldier, laden with the equipment of war and posed in a heroic dash for his goal. Carpenter’s bronze statue poignantly evokes the civilian life which those men left to join the militia and take up arms to fight for independence—both the simple circumstances from which most of America’s first soldiers came as well as the impact on the family left to carry on the daily chores and duties. The Warrenton sculptor’s depiction is of an intimate family group—the central figure, a farmer with a determined air about him on his way to war, his grieving but supportive wife leaning into him, one hand against his chest and the

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the war itself, certainly well over 400 were involved, although if you count individuals’ support for the cause, including guns, beef and wagons, the figure rises to more than 900, according to Loudoun historian Don Cooper, a Patriot Project Committee member. Clemens said the group hopes to close out the fundraising well before next year’s dedication. He had hoped to have the statue ready by July 4 but casting delays resulted in a later date. “By Veterans Day, 2015, we’ll be there,” he promised. That the committee is so close to its final target is attributable in no small measure to what Clemens calls “a great summer.” Toth Financial hosted two big and successful events to give the project a big push. As he nears the finish line, Clemens reflects on his own involvement in the project. The vision to raise a statue in honor of those who fought for independence—the only American war still unrecognized on Courthouse Lawn— came from the late Larry Moisson, who told him the Daughters of the American Revolution had been laying wreaths on statues at the courthouse every Memorial Day—but could find no statue representing the Revolutionary War. That was when an aroused Moisson established the Revolutionary War Committee—later to morph into the Patriot Project. “I’ve loved being a part of it,” Clemens said. However, he acknowledged, “the first two times Larry asked, I said no—I was too busy with other things. The third time, he got lucky.” Clemens was then in his second term as clerk of the court. “I just felt it was so important—I had to get involved. I put together a team, broadened the scope. I had to remind businesses and people: ‘We’re prosperous today because of those families and veterans.’” As the fundraising effort expanded, “kindred souls, such as Jim Bowman, Jim Christian—the current chairman—Joe May and Richard Norman, joined the effort,” Clemens recalled. Chuck Birdie was brought on for a year as a nonprofit consultant, tasked with following up contacts after Clemens had arranged the initial meeting. “My job was to connect people, to identify people who could help,” Clemens said. That teamwork paid off. At Toth Financial’s first fundraiser in July, the company announced a $15,000 matching gift. Norman spontaneously stepped up and announced, “I’ll match every dollar they raise up to $15,000,” Clemens said. But that wasn’t all, Clemens said. “Then [Toth] went even further—they raised $17,000—so he matched that.” What attracts people is the power and simplicity of the statue, according to Clemens. “It’s a very powerful idea—a family, militia— you hear so much about George Washington or Patrick Henry. You don’t hear much about the farmers, who left their farms and families,” Clemens said, citing longtime Purcellville resident and John Marshall Bank Senior Vice President for Marketing Jim Bowman, who has become a strong supporter of the effort, joining Clemens in helping make contacts.

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he two leading competitors in the race to replace longtime 10th District Congressman Frank Wolf got their political jabs in before an audience of business leaders at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne Sept. 24. Through panel questions on everything from immigration reform to global warming, it was Republican Barbara Comstock’s voting record in the House of Delegates and Democrat John Foust’s record on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors that resurfaced time and time again at the 10th Congressional District Debate, hosted by the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce. Foust touted his appeal to both Republicans and Democrats, noting he was the first Democrat to be re-elected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in the Dranesville District. He also pointed to his experience as chairman of the Fairfax Economic Advisory Commission where he helped pass a balanced budget every year. “We set priorities and we’ve gotten rid of tens of millions of dollars of wasteful spending,” he said. Comstock used her floor time to rattle off a long list of taxes she said Foust voted to increase during his seven years as a supervisor, including property taxes. “And now he says he will hold the line on taxes,” she said. Foust got his digs in, too, turning Com-

stock’s comments about her experience on Capitol Hill into political ammo. He described her as a Washington operative, who made her name by digging up dirt on the Clintons as the chief counsel to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. “These are not the type of people who will go to Washington and solve our problems,” Foust said. “I will not allow the status quo in Washington.” Foust described Comstock’s votes on transportation funding, education funding and women’s health care as part of her “extreme right record.” In 2012, Comstock voted in favor of controversial legislation that would require transvaginal ultrasounds before an abortion. “We have a delegate who tells them to bring their businesses here but leave your health care choices behind,” he said. Comstock was asked by the debate’s moderator Bruce DePuyt, producer and host of News Channel 8’s “NewsTalk,” to explain why she opposed Virginia’s $6 billion transportation bill, that included $300 million for Metro’s Silver Line. The delegate said she was concerned that Northern Virginia was paying a larger portion of that bill than other jurisdictions. “It was a tough call but that is the call I made,” she said, and added that she has since worked with legislators in both parties to ensure the money is prioritized to relieve the most congestion. Foust called out her comments as “now apparently taking credit for that funding.” “Let me tell you… she showed up to the [Silver Line] ribbon cutting but she did not support

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According to witness accounts included in the report, the events of the day began at 12:45 p.m. with Sierra going to a friend’s house with two other friends to watch a movie. During that time, Sierra told them that he had recently told his parents that he was bisexual and that “his mother and father didn’t take it too well.” He told his friends that he wanted to kill himself so he could be reincarnated, expressing a belief that he could then choose a new life. One friend went upstairs to call a suicide hotline in hopes of getting help, but was put on hold. She then called Sierra’s father to let him know about the situation. Meanwhile, Sierra went into a bathroom where his friends later found him stabbing himself in the throat. They tried to restrain Sierra, but the youth seemed to have “extraordinary strength” and the struggle ultimately included a fall from the backdoor of the townhouse, over a safety railing onto the ground 12 feet below. Sierra then climbed a backyard fence and continued to stab himself in the throat in front of another Frazer Street home as one of his friends continued to try to restrain him. Neighbors reported seeing the two bloody subjects running down the street, with one yelling for someone to call for help. Neighbors saw Hood—who joined the town police department 16 months earlier, after serving four years in the U.S. Marine Corps including two overseas tours—arrive and get out of his cruiser. They reported seeing Sierra “run at the officer with the knife raised” before Hood fired multiple shots in quick succession. Hood, 26, said he arrived when Sierra was struggling with one of his friends along Frazer Street. Sierra broke free and walked toward Hood, staring him in the eyes. “Right away I drew my pistol and pointed it at him and started giving him instructions to drop the knife. I said it several times. I don’t know how many times I said it,” Hood told investigators. “As he got closer to me, he started to increase his speed, his momentum and I was giving the orders and he was not complying that’s when I shot him.” Sierra continued advancing after the first shot, Hood stated, and he fired three more shots. Sierra was five or six feet away from the officer when the shots were fired, he said. “The actions taken by [Sierra] of refusing to drop the knife coupled with his raising the knife with the blade pointed at Officer Hood and advancing at him, presented Officer Hood with an immediate and real threat to his safety,” the 16-page report concludes. “His actions as described by law enforcement as well as civilian witnesses clearly were of such a character as to afford a reasonable ground in the officer’s mind that there was a design to do bodily harm or kill and that was an imminent danger of his carrying such design into immediate action.” Hood was carrying pepper spray but was not equipped with a TASER. However, Plowman said that non-lethal weapons would not have been used in this situation because no other officers were at the scene to provide back up. The two other responding officers were on the other side of the block at the home where the call originated. Hood has been on paid administrative leave since the May 24 shooting, and Chief Smith said he would return to work within the next few weeks.

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The Sierra shooting occurred just days before the one-year anniversary of the fatal police shooting at the Sterling Costco. In that case, a store worker with a history of mental illness started behaving erratically and threatening others with a knife. She was surrounded by deputies in the store, but refused to comply with orders to drop the knife. As she moved toward deputies, a TASER was fired at her but failed. She was then shot and killed. In that case, the investigation was conducted by the sheriff’s office with assistance from the State Police. It also concluded the firing deputy was justified in the fatal shooting. In June, deputies were involved in another shooting that did not result in a fatality. In that case, deputies responding to a disorderly conduct call found a suspect brandishing a sword and threatening family members outside a home. The deputies ordered him to drop the weapon. He refused to comply and pointed the weapon at the deputies before the shooting occurred, according to the report. Among the questions raised by the Purcellville Joins Forces citizen group that formed after the Sierra shooting, is whether the police agencies can fairly investigate such cases. Spokesman and Rev. Jack Stagman is among those advocating legislation that would require an outside agency—other than the State Police—investigate police-involved shootings. “Bottom line, it is still a police department investigating a police department and that does not bode well for anybody,” Stagman said. n

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Many in Purcellville know the town’s 15 officers who are active in their community outreach through programs such as a Homework Club in which officers help youngsters with school assignments over pizza and drinks. An emotional Chief Smith spoke last week of the community policing he and the department emphasize in the 7,700-resident town. “We have a history of community service … we’ve created programs to help kids,” he said. “The most hurtful thing is people saying we want to hurt a child. That’s not what we want to do. We don’t show up to work to hurt anybody. We come to work to serve this community to the best to our ability.”

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Mayor Kwasi Fraser said he wants to do more as a community to connect young people who are struggling with mental health issues with the help they need. “We can’t move forward business as usual as a community,” he said. (See sidebar on Page 31.) Following a formal press conference last Thursday, Fraser approached individual reporters and welcomed more questions, but he was interrupted by Heather Bardot, attorney for the town’s insurance company, who led him away.

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violence against his parents. That timeline starts in March 2009 when officers were called by Sierra’s parents because the then-12-year-old was refusing to go to school. Calls to the home for unruly or violent behavior toward his parents continued in 2010 and 2011. The report indicates Sierra was under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court system for undisclosed reasons by 2011, including probation that required the wearing of an electronic monitoring device, which he removed in November 2011— prompting another call from his parents for police to help. He had twice been assigned for shelter care by the courts. In August 2013, his parents asked to have their son arrested for prior incidents that included pushing his father down the stairs and pushing his mother; the report was referred to Sierra’s probation officer. As part of a Dec. 31, 2013 call—when his parents asked police to help find their son who went missing for three days—they told officers they might send Sierra to live with a relative in Australia because they were “out of options.” The final contact—eight weeks before the fatal shooting—involved Sierra trapping his mother and grandmother in a bedroom after they restricted him from using a Kindle and included Sierra threatening suicide. In that case, Purcellville officers persuaded Sierra to go with his father for an evaluation at the Inova’s mental health center in Leesburg.

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County Leaders Ask: Should Schools Come With Playgrounds? ing about that during a Facilities and Finance Committee meeting. “It is something we are interested in looking into and we’ve asked our counsel about the ability to use bond money as funds for a playground.” “We got an answer,” York yelled from the audience. “We can.” York also is encouraging the School Board to consider installing playgrounds when they build their elementary schools. “I wonder why it is when we build a high school we put money in for a stadium, yet we’re opening elementary schools without playgrounds,” he said. Ironically, he added, the school system has installed playgrounds at some of the high schools for a course students take on preschool education. In an interview last week, Kuesters said the finance committee is going to discuss and consider changing the requirement for school Continued on Next Page

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tudents in the Ashburn neighborhood of Forest Ridge have been reassigned to four elementary schools in 13 years, and with each new school families have chipped in to fundraise for a playground. One parent led the playground campaign at Creightons Corner Elementary. “She raised $40,000—she lived it, she breathed it, she slept it—and then we got rezoned,” said Robyn Resh Davinic, whose children were reassigned to Moorefield Station Elementary along with her neighbor’s. “Then, we started over.” Now Resh Davinic and her neighbors are working to raise money for a playground at the year-old Moorefield Station Elementary School.

of calls and emails from parents asking for help in building playgrounds at their children’s elementary schools. Frederick Douglass in Leesburg, Meadowland in Sterling, Moorefield Station in Ashburn and Cardinal Ridge in South Riding are the other elementary schools that are still working toward purchasing playground equipment. York spoke to the School Board during its meeting last Tuesday to encourage members to use bond money left over from construction of those three schools to purchase playgrounds. “Assuming that money is not tied up in finishing part of the project and paying general contractors, I would say we take $40,000 and give it to Moorefield to use with the $10,000 they’ve raised and purchase the equipment and get it installed.” Kevin Kuesters (Broad Run) chimed in to say that board members had just been talk-

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Loudoun County Public Schools leaves it to parent teacher organizations to raise enough cash—usually close to $50,000—to purchase playground equipment. But School Board members are talking about changing that practice, following a call from Moorefield Station Elementary parents and County Chairman Scott K. York (At Large). The conversation about whether to make the installment of a playground part of Loudoun’s $25 million construction budget for elementary schools started four weeks ago after Panda Power Funds made a hefty donation of almost $100,000 to Discovery Elementary School, which opened last fall along with Moorefield Station. York helped connect the donor with the Ashburn elementary school that was working to raise enough money for an adaptive playground, and he’s since received a slew

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Above, students perform the “Star Spangled Banner” at Trailside Middle School’s dedication ceremony Friday. Left, Sixth-grader Elora Weiss reads her essay.

former School Board members and county supervisors who worked to bring Trailside from a concept to a school to stand to be recognized. “This would not have happened without all of your work.” Superintendent Eric Williams addressed the students in the audience and said it’s now up to them to make the school more than a building, and to establish traditions and an atmosphere based on the quality of their character. “That’s really what’s exciting about creating a school community.” Students also heard from Principal Bridget Beichler, three students who wrote

essays about what it means to be a part of Trailside’s Wolf Pack—Elora Weiss, Garrett Stebbins and Livia Wolfer—and Paul McCray, historian and park supervisor with the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, who told them about the history of the W&OD Trail, which runs next to the school campus and is the school’s namesake. Two other schools will be officially welcomed into the LCPS family within the next two weeks: Cardinal Ridge Elementary’s dedication ceremony is Oct. 9, and Rock Ridge High School’s dedication ceremony is Oct. 10. n

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imothy Martino has resigned as the principal of Frederick Douglass Elementary School in Leesburg. He did not give a reason for his resignation, according to school district spokesman Wayde Byard.

Carol Winters, who retired as principal of Newton-Lee Elementary School in June, is serving as the school’s acting principal. “No timetable for a replacement has been set,” Byard said. Martino opened Frederick Douglass Elementary as its principal two years ago. Prior to

that role, he served as principal at Sully Elementary for five years. He was also the assistant principal at Forest Grove Elementary for four years, taught second and fourth grade at Cedar Lane Elementary and taught fourth grade at Lovettsville Elementary.

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to plan schools that would provide long-term relief for overcrowded Ashburn schools. His youngest is now a student at Trailside. In his comments Friday, he noted the school opened near the building capacity— with about 1,150 students—and the nearby middle schools also have enrollments at or above their building capacities. “In this sense, Trailside could be considered the most needed middle school in Loudoun’s history,” Hornberger said. He asked the parents who wrote emails and made speeches at School Board and Board of Supervisors meetings, plus the educators, current and

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tudents, educators, parents and a slew of county leaders gathered in Ashburn Friday morning to dedicate Loudoun County’s 15th middle school and 87th public school—Trailside Middle School. Trailside is the 27th school the county has built and opened in the last decade, but the focus of the dedication ceremony was on how the middle school stands out among the rest. “Trailside is different. Trailside is unique,” School Board Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) said before a packed auditorium. Building a middle school along Claiborne Parkway, on additional acreage from Newton-Lee Elementary School, was first an idea of residents who envisioned it as one of three schools to accommodate northern Ashburn’s growing population, Hornberger said. The concept, what became known as the “three school solution,” includes Discovery Elementary, which also opened last year, and Riverside High School, which is under construction and will open next fall in Lansdowne. Before he was elected to the board in 2011, Hornberger was one of those citizen activists who encouraged the county and school leaders

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communities to raise the funds for a playground, but expressed some hesitation. “Part of my concern is if we start looking at bond money as a way to fund all of the things we want to have instead of all the things we need to have,” Kuesters said. The school system uses bond money mostly to finance school buildings, but in recent years it has funded $1 million artificial turf fields in new high school stadiums. Kuesters noted that the artificial turf is less expensive to maintain than grass fields. “So funding that is a good business decision. Funding a playground, I don’t know if that’s an instructional need and there’s no cost-savings there. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be a part of the overall package, but we need to consider all of those things.”

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Debbie Rose (Algonkian) noted that the School Board has already proposed a cost-sharing framework with the goal of helping the county’s older high schools afford artificial turf stadiums by supplementing fundraising efforts, and the Board of Supervisors rejected the idea. “That being said, it’s great that folks are highlighting this issue, and I think it’s appropriate that our facilities committee look at this,” she said. “But we have to recognize the long-standing protocol that’s been followed having school communities raise money for playgrounds and make sure that we’re being fair in how we go forward.” Resh Davinic, who serves on Moorefield Station Elementary’s playground committee, said she was encouraged to hear the School Board may help supplement their fundraising efforts. “I want to stress, I’m pleased Discovery received that donation. It’s well deserved,” she added. “We’d just like the community to consider helping Moorefield, too.” n

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lvin Hampton, who has served as director of Loudoun school district’s Transportation Department since 2009, is retiring, according to a district spokesperson. Staff members in the Transportation Department said Hampton was escorted out of his office by school staff several weeks ago. Public Information Officer Wayde Byard said he could not confirm this—the school system does not answer questions regarding personnel matters—only that Hampton is retiring from the school system next month. Hampton has worked for Loudoun County Public Schools since Aug. 1, 2001. Hampton is the second director to leave the Support Services Department this year. In May, Jinny Demastes, who oversaw the Food Services Department, resigned. Becky Bays now heads that department. A new director of transportation has yet to be named.

Golf claSSic raiSeS $70K The annual Loudoun Education Foundation Golf Classic, held Monday, Sept. 22 raised more than $70,000. The LEF is a nonprofit organization that raises private funds to enhance the quality of education in Loudoun County Public Schools. Seventy-three players took part in the 2014 version of the Golf Classic, held at the 1757 Golf Club in Dulles. The winning team of Tom Clater, Todd

Smith, Eddie Qura and Edy Pleytez, representing Diversified Educational Systems, shot a 57 on the par-70 course. The format was best ball. Second place went to the Sigmon Family Investments Team (Dean Sigmon, Peter Fulcer, Rob Fulcer and Preston Burns), which shot a 59. The team of Pat Payne, Brandt Petrie, Jerry Taylor and Ricardo Smith (Boland TRANE Services) finished third with a 62. Mike Ferri (Moseley Architects) won the longest-drive contest for the men with Stephanie Rudy (Dell) winning the women’s competition. Payne won the closest-to-thehole competition for the men with Michelle Kovach (Cigna) winning for the women.

SimpSon receiveS SecuriTy equipmenT GranT J. Lupton Simpson Middle School received a $33,989 grant to purchase school security equipment. The school is one of 372 Virginia schools that received state grants, totaling $6 million. The grants will pay for video monitoring systems, metal detectors, classroom locks, electronic-access controls, visitoridentification systems, direct communications links between schools and law enforcement agencies and other security upgrades. The criteria for making the awards—developed by the Virginia Department of Education and the state Department of Criminal Justice Services—gave priority to schools most in need of modern security equipment, schools with relatively high numbers of offenses and schools with equipment needs identified by a school security audit. n

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sive Tactics instructor at the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy. While he oversees the academy’s training on everything from the use of batons to pepper spray, he first works to engrain a sense of service, in the truest sense of the word, into the officers-in-training. “We teach recruits that every time you meet a citizen, you treat them like they are a king or a queen with the utmost respect and dignity,” Patterson said. “That’s first and foremost. But at the same time, unfortunately, we have to be prepared to use force at any given moment.” he repeated sentiment of those at Northern VirAshburn Today/Zack Wajsgras ginia’s training Officers line up to shoot at Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office firing range during a firearms training class.The class is part of officers’ yearly requirement to refresh their field skills. academy is that firing a weapon is an officer’s the electroshock devices cannot replace firearms terson said, because there isn’t enough time to use imminent threat. Patterson teaches them the acrolast resort. Their duty belt, as well as their trainwhen officers or citizens are in immediate danger. a different method without risking injury to the nym IAMO—Intent, Ability, Means and Opportuing, equips them with several other options to nity—to remind officers when immediate threats In the May 2013 fatal shooting of Mhai Scott at the officer or bystanders. stop threats. Sterling Costco, a Loudoun deputy used a TASER “The use of deadly force has to be a last are present. Intent is shown when a person either The first is to use unarmed combat, which but the device had no effect on her. She continued resort, but sometimes it is an immediate reaction. explicitly says they intend to do harm to someone can be anything from a simple twist of the wrist to approach the deputy with a knife and he fired If someone gets out of a car and is charging at or it is conveyed through body language; ability to throwing an individual on the ground to get five rounds to stop her, according to the investiga- you with an edged weapon, there’s no time to say and means indicate whether they can physically the suspect under control. A higher level of threat ‘police don’t move’ or ‘stop’,” said O’Toole, who’s deliver the threat, and they may have a weapon to tive report. can call for the use of a baton; officers’ aim for Using non-lethal options are never a sure worked 26 years in law enforcement. “If you hesi- do so; and how close the individual is to an officer whichever part of the body will stop the threat the bet to stop a threat, Patterson said. Drug induced tate you and your partner or an innocent person is or a bystander is considered the opportunity. fastest, usually in the legs or arms, Patterson said. “This is the training we never want to use,” aggressors, particularly those on PCP, can resist going to get seriously injured or killed.” Another option is to use a TASER. The Officers receive 56 hours of firearm training Patterson said. even bone crushing blows from batons and people NVCJTA does not train recruits how to use When an officer determines a threat calls for who with previous exposure to pepper spray are at the NVCJA, and many agencies provide addiTASERs because not all agencies in Northern not effected as strongly by it. “The first time you tional training, before they’re sworn in. Every year a firearm, he or she is trained to shoot the person’s Virginia issue them. Loudoun County Sheriff’s get exposed to [pepper spray] it is very intense, but after, officers in Virginia are required to complete upper torso because it has the highest chance of Office has 199 TASERS for its 568 sworn officers, each time afterward you become a little bit more ongoing firearms courses, including one that pre- stopping the person. and Purcellville Police Department has five for its Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman pares them to shoot in low-light situations. relaxed and not as upset by it,” he said. 15 officers. Purcellville Chief Darryl Smith’s goal is Through computerized simulations and live said he often gets questions about why officers do An officer’s options do not necessarily go to have one for every officer within the next year. from least lethal to most lethal. In the worst situ- drills, officers are trained to determine, in a matter not shoot in the arm or the leg to just injure the But the top trainers at NVCJTA said that ations, the first option has to be the firearm, Pat- of seconds, whether a person or situation is an Continued on Next Page

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he investigative report of the police-involved shooting of Purcellville teen Christian Sierra released last week has prompted a community wide conversation about what help is available for those suffering from mental illness and their families. Before he approached an officer with a knife that led to the May 24 shooting, Sierra had exhibited a history of violence toward family members and had threatened suicide. Two months before the shooting, Purcellville Police encouraged Sierra to seek help at a mental health center in Leesburg. According to the police report, he voluntarily went with his father to be evaluated, but it’s not known what services he received or what treatment resulted. For some, the tragedy shone a light on the need for more services to combat mental health or for more information on what is available. Purcellville Mayor Kwasi Fraser said the community cannot move forward simply as business as usual. “I wonder if there are other kids in our community that are going through what Mr. Sierra went through and how can we be pro-active in helping them?” He reached out to several church con-

gregations and plans to encourage the Purcellville Police Department to use the community programs they have in place to connect with young people and families who need help, particularly with mental health services. Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman, whose wife is a family-to-family counselor for the National Alliance on Mental Health, referred to mental illness as an issue the entire community should work together to address. Since he was first elected to oversee the department three years ago, he said he’s been amazed at how mental illness affects almost everyone in some way, whether through a family member or a friend. “It’s so prevalent out there we have to be able to recognize mental illness and do as much as we can on the front side to prevent issues and get people the help they need in advance,” he said. In the past two years, the sheriff’s office has worked more closely with Friends of Loudoun Mental Health, the Loudoun County Community Services Board, judges and magistrates to do what Chapman called “crosssystems mapping,” which brings the organizations together to share information that has helped connect individuals with mental health services available. “We’ve had a very comprehensive group of people working on this issue over the past

“It’s so prevalent out there we have to be able to recognize mental illness and do as much as we can on the front side to prevent issues and get people the help they need in advance.”

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couple years to try to get in front of this rather than just responding to it,” he said. Friends of Loudoun County Mental Health President Randy Ihara said mental health services should be improved not just in Loudoun County but also statewide, and it will take more funding to do that. “The general state of mental health care in Virginia is not that good,” he said. “More resources need to be put into treatment.” Friends of Loudoun County Mental Health (loudounfriends.com or 703-4431380) offers programs for people battling depression, anxiety, mood disorders, selfinjury and substance abuse, among other services. One course called In Our Own Voice brings individuals to share their personal stories of living with mental illnesses and achieving recovery. Other area programs include the

National Alliance On Mental Illness (nami. org or 703-968-4007), which offers a Familyto-Family Education Program for parents of individuals struggling with mental illness. There is an Intensive Outpatient Program for teens at Grafton Integrated Health Network’s Leesburg campus (grafton.org or 703-7773485), and Dominion Hospital (dominionhospital.com or 703-538-2872) launched an Intensive Outpatient Program in Ashburn a year ago when they heard about the need for help geared toward teens. The Inova Health System and others provide programs in Loudoun that focus on substance abuse, and Inova Kellar Center (www.inova.org/healthcare-services/inovakellar-center/services or 703-218-8500) offers an intensive outpatient program for teens in Fairfax County. n

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officers, dispatchers and other first-responders to communicate with people suffering from a mental illness or suffering a crisis. Fourteen percent of Loudoun’s deputies have undergone the training, and Chapman’s goal is to get at least 25 percent through by the end of the year. Loudoun dispatchers, all of whom will have gone through the training by next month, first dispatch CIT-trained officers when time allows, he added. The 40-hour course not only teaches how to best communicate with an individual with mental illness but also helps officers empathize with them. One simulation tries to mimic what it’s like for individuals to hear voices. “And that actually gives us a better idea of what we can do to de-escalate a situation,” Chapman said. The Purcellville officer who shot 17-year-old Christian Sierra had not taken the CIT course. Three of Purcellville’s 15 officers have had the training and Chief Smith said his goal is to have 80 percent of the officers trained in the program by next fall. The training is not required, but O’Toole expects it will become just as important as the other courses recruits take to prepare them for the field. “It’s an extremely valuable aspect of training and I suspect that most chiefs and sheriffs will make that training a requirement,” he said. “It’s not to say that without CIT training an officer can’t use good judgment when a situation involves someone suffering from a mental health crisis, but this gives them a better understanding of what that person may be going through.” He went on to say that officers can receive all the right training but it’s up to them to carry it out in the field. “Are there lazy cops? Sure. Are there cops that dishonor the badge and the profession? Sure. Fortunately, they are few and far between.” n

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person. “There are circumstances that develop so quickly that we have to resort to a force that none of us want to use,” he said. “In those situations we shoot to stop the threat, and shooting a person’s center mass is the way to do that. We don’t train to shoot to kill. It’s going to be up to an authority beyond us to determine whether the person survives or not.” Patterson says he wants his officers-in-training to understand the responsibility that comes with the decision to pull the trigger. When he was on duty as an officer in Fairfax County, he almost shot a young man who was walking through an apartment complex with what looked like a rifle. Patterson drew his weapon and told the man to drop his gun, but the man only gripped it tighter. In the heat of the moment, Patterson did not notice that the young man had Down syndrome or that the gun he carried was a toy replica. His eyes were fixed on the man’s hands and his next move. Just as Patterson was about to pull the trigger, the man threw the gun to the ground. “That’s as close as I ever came to killing somebody,” Patterson said. Several years later, he still keeps the toy gun in his locker as a reminder of what could have happened had he pulled the trigger. “I saw a gun, a man who was refusing to do what I told him, and I was ready to kill him. Would it have been legally and morally justified? Yes, it would have been, but it would have been a tragic death.”

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Broad Run High School senior Brady Reitzel is getting the Spartans off to a strong start.

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y the end of the 2013 season, the Broad Run football team had become one of the best in Virginia’s Group 5A North Region. The Spartans defeated backyard rival Stone Bridge in the second round of the playoffs for their first-ever victory against the Bulldogs. Broad Run nearly did the same a week later, falling to another local foe in Briar Woods as the Falcons held on for a narrow victory in the region semifinals. That late-season success was attributed in large part to the play of quarterback Brady Reitzel. Then a junior, Reitzel scored on a short run in the final minute to lead the upset of Stone Bridge, then he rallied the Spartans again against Briar Woods. Broad Run is off to another excellent start in 2014 with a 4-1 record as it heads into a bye week before meeting Tuscarora on Oct. 10. And once again, Reitzel has been the catalyst for the Spartans as they look to make another deep run into the postseason. Through the first five games this season, the 6-foot, 185-pound senior has completed 53-of-94 passes for 731 yards and eight touchdowns with five interceptions. Reitzel also has rushed for four touchdowns. Broad Run was not challenged in its first three games in 2014, easily defeating Booker T. Washington (53-9), Dominion (30-6) and Heritage (55-6), but Reitzel needed to come up big for the Spartans the past two weeks. He led a potential game-tying drive deep into Stone Bridge territory, but an interception with less than two minutes remaining gave the host Bulldogs a 17-9 victory in the annual “Battle

of the ‘Burn” contest Sept. 19. Reitzel finished the night completing 15-of-22 passes for 194 yards. Last week, Reitzel brought Broad Run back from a 28-17 third-quarter deficit against Liberty. The signal caller completed 9-of-16 passes in the fourth quarter (15-of-27 for 192 yards for the game) as he guided the Spartans to three touchdowns and a 38-35 victory. “This past Friday, when we needed plays made in the fourth quarter, he made plays,” Broad Run head coach Matt Griffis said of Reitzel. “He was putting the ball where it needed to be and made the plays when they needed to be made.” That is nothing new for Reitzel. After spending his freshman year with the Broad Run varsity as the backup to senior star Connor Jessop, Reitzel got an opportunity to show what he could do when Jessop suffered an ankle sprain in the second quarter of the 2011 Group AAA Northwest Region semifinal game against Brooke Point. The young quarterback nearly rallied the Spartans to victory with two second-half touchdown drives and Griffis realized he had something special. “I knew with what he was able to do in that two-and-a-half quarters he was going to be pretty darn good,” Griffis said. “We still had a chance to win at the end with a young quarterback and he wasn’t flustered. Replacing a three-year starter in Jessop and being in a big-time football game against a good opponent didn’t seem to faze him. I knew then he had the ice water running through his veins. “He doesn’t get flustered,” Griffis added. “If he makes a bad play, he owns up to it, but he doesn’t let it get him down. He doesn’t get too high, he doesn’t get too low. He’s what you want out there. He just keeps that demeanor of

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confidence about him.” “With this being my third year starting, I have a lot of confidence in that and my team because I know the plays,” Reitzel said. “If they run the right routes, I’ll get them the ball. I think I’m a pretty cool, calm and collected guy. I don’t really get nervous before or during the game, so that is one thing I pride myself on. If I’m confident, I’m not nervous.” Reitzel became the starter for Broad Run as a sophomore in 2012. He was more of a running quarterback that season as the Spartan offense utilized a single-wing scheme, but he began to emerge as a passer last season as Griffis switched to a zone-read offense. Leading Broad Run to a 9-4 overall record, Reitzel completed 122-of-211 passes for 1,968 yards and 18 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. Reitzel blossomed as Broad Run hosted Tuscarora in mid-October. Trailing 17-6 entering the fourth quarter, the Spartans rallied with two fourth-quarter touchdowns to defeat the visiting Huskies, 21-17, for their fifth victory in six games. Tuscarora limited Broad Run to just 97 total yards through the first three quarters, but the Spartan defense came up with a huge stop on a fourth down and one play at the Broad Run goal line to open the fourth quarter. Reitzel took over from there. On the first play after the change of possession, he lofted a pass down the right sideline and connected with then-senior Travis Fulgham for a 34-yard gain. “Coach [Griffis] called that play and it was the one I wanted to run and it worked out,” Reitzel said last fall. “The [defensive] stop and that play just had a domino effect. I just had a feeling at that point we were going to win this game.” Continued on Next Page

Friday, Sept. 26 Briar Woods 35, Woodgrove 14 Tuscarora 61, Heritage 14 Broad Run 38, Liberty 35 Stone Bridge 28, Madison 17 Potomac Falls 35, Park View 7 Loudoun Valley 56, Freedom 6 John Champe 48, Caroline 7 OFF – Dominion, Loudoun County

THIS WEEK’S GAMES Thursday, Oct. 2 Tuscarora at Loudoun County, 7 p.m. Freedom at Briar Woods, 7 p.m. Westfield at Stone Bridge, 7 p.m. Dominion at John Champe, 7 p.m. Loudoun Valley at Park View, 7 p.m. Woodgrove at Heritage, 7 p.m. OFF – Broad Run, Potomac Falls

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• Loudoun County senior pitcher Delany Turner has committed to UVA-Wise to continue her education and athletic career. Turner has been a starter for the Raiders at shortstop and pitcher since her freshman year. Last year she was named All-District and All-Region Pitcher of the Year and was a member of the AllState 4A Softball team. Last year she was among the area leaders with 207 strikeouts. • WIBA welterweight champion Tori “Sho Nuff” Nelson, of Ashburn, retained her title after a hard-fought 10-round split decision over former titlist Arlene Blencowe Saturday at the ABC Sports Complex in Springfield. Scores were 96-94 twice for Nelson and 97-93 Blencowe. Nelson returns to the ring Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Patriot Center to defend her title against an opponent to be named.

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rambleton resident Steven Levy was honored Thursday night by Courtyard by Marriott in partnership with USA Football as a recipient of the “Inspiring Greatness” program. The national contest honors 28 of the most deserving youth coaches and volunteers in the country. Last year, Levy started the Loudoun Lions, part of The Virginia American Youth Football Alliance. He is the acting commissioner and one of two coaches for the Junior Pee Wee team. Former Redskins Chris Cooley presented Levy with a $1,000 grant to be used for new equipment. Levy also is the co-founder of Commonhealth Chiropractic, which has offices in McLean and Brambleton. n

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Reitzel completed four other passes on the eight-play drive, capping it with an 11-yard toss to Abi Hamal for the touchdown. The Broad Run defense forced a Tuscarora punt and Reitzel completed four more passes on the gamewinning drive. He finished the night completing 11-of-17 passes for 149 yards, with nine of the completions coming in the two scoring drives. The Spartans earned the No. 7 seed in the 5A North Region playoffs. Broad Run defeated Freedom-Woodbridge in the opening round to set up a rematch with Stone Bridge. The Spartans dropped a 33-14 decision at home to the Bulldogs in late September, their seventh consecutive loss to their neighborhood rivals. But Reitzel again rallied Broad Run as he scored two rushing touchdowns, including a 3-yard run with 45 seconds left in the game, for a 23-21 victory. He also completed 8-of-16 passes for 98 yards. “The big jump was last year,” Griffis said in terms of Reitzel’s leadership. “He did a good job with [the zone-read offense] and as the season went on he got more and more confident in what we were asking him and the team to do. As we got in the playoffs, I just told him to take over. I told him to trust himself and go make plays, because he had the play-making ability to do it. I took the reins off him a bit and he took off.” The magic nearly continued the following week as Broad Run traveled the few miles to its other Ashburn rival. Three-time defending state champion Briar Woods took an early 17-0 lead, but the Spartans battled back to tie the game at 24-24 in the third quarter as Reitzel (8 of 15 passing for 179 yards and three touchdowns) connected with Fulgham on a pass over the middle that the speedy wide out turned into an 87-yard touchdown. The game went into double overtime before the Falcons prevailed, 37-34. “I think we got a little farther than we all expected,” Reitzel said of Broad Run’s playoff run last year. “That gave the players who are

still on the team more confidence and me more confidence, knowing we can make it that far and we can go farther than that.” An excellent student, Reitzel is looking to gain admittance to a top-notch university and continue his football career. He has been in touch with many of the Ivy League schools in addition to Georgetown, Amherst and Dickinson, but not many NCAA Division I schools have come calling because of his size. “I think he’s aware that if he was two or three inches taller, his recruitment would be very different,” Griffis said. “But it’s safe in college to go with the numbers, the kid who is 6-3 or 6-4. There’s no risk in that. Well, there are plenty of 6-4 quarterbacks that are not very good. I’d rather have the 6-foot kid who is a winner and that’s what he is. There just has to be somebody out there willing to take the kid who shows he can win. “He’s going to go somewhere and have a very successful career,” Griffis added. “He’s a smart kid and in the big scheme of things, it’s really about his education, not about playing college football. That’s just icing on the cake.” “I want to get a good education,” Reitzel said, noting he has an interest in studying computer engineering. “No big D1 schools are looking because of my size, but I have to make up for that with my smarts. It is a bigger motivation, but if I’m choosing between Harvard and a big DI school, I’m picking Harvard because of the academics. Football only goes four years, then the rest of your life, you have to do something with your education.” In the meantime, Reitzel is comfortable at Broad Run as he hopes to lead the Spartans to another successful postseason. “When asked about it, we all say a state championship is the goal because that’s what you have to say,” Reitzel said. “But you have to do it and not just say it. I think we have a chance. We have the confidence and have to get everybody to buy into the program and all know what we have to do to get there.” n

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hotographers Luke Greer and Michael Barolet just recently met, but in a sense the two men are on similar paths. Both artists are western Loudoun natives who left the area for more exotic locales, only to find themselves drawn back by an urge to document elements of the county’s rural landscape that are fading away. Both will have work on display at Photoworks gallery’s First Friday opening Oct. 3 in Leesburg. The two men, now in their 30s, just missed each other at Purcellville’s Loudoun Valley High School where they graduated four years apart. Both are essentially self-taught photographers, and while their techniques are very different, both are producing work with a clear sense of reverence for the county’s hidden and forgotten places. Greer, 36, grew up in Purcellville and left the area for nearly a decade for South Florida, where he established himself as a wildlife photographer and began working with the VEMA gallery in Fort Myers. But in the late 2000s, Greer found himself drawn back to Loudoun by an urge to document the county’s disappearing landscapes and endangered historic buildings. For the past five years, he has divided his time between Purcellville and South Florida. “I came home and realized how much things have changed due to development,” Greer said. “I’m trying to preserve the history and the culture of the area.” This effort led to a slightly eerie series of shots from the road at the abandoned Selma Continued on Page 32

Above, Michael Barolet’s old-fashioned technique creates a series of intimate portraits.

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Waterford Fair Increasingly A Stop On the Traditional Music Trail

Singer/songwriter Adrienne Young headlines the Waterford Fair’s music lineup Sunday, Oct. 5 at the Old School Stage. Jan Mercker

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hile many visitors come to the Waterford Fair for a chance to find handcrafted treasures and to peek into historic private homes, in recent years, organizers have made a point of bringing in nationally known musical acts to the stage at the village’s Old School, making the fair a big draw

for traditional music lovers. Waterford Foundation board member Roy Chaudet, who organized the music lineup for this year’s fair, said that, increasingly, Waterford is on the radar screen of music enthusiasts who make the trip from all over the East Coast expressly for the musical offerings. And for these folks, the fair’s $16 advance daily ticket price is a bargain. Musical highlights this year include bluegrass favorites Patent Pending and The Seldom Scene, as well as newcomer Adrienne Young. Big

name local groups Tara Linhardt and the Stone Cold Ramblers and Furnace Mountain round out the weekend’s performances. “For the last several years, we’ve been bringing in nationally and internationally known musicians and Grammy-nominated musicians along with some local favorites. The quality of the music has been stepped up significantly,” Chaudet said. “This is the best kept secret that you can come and hear three bands, any one of which you would pay more than the admission fee to the fair.” While there will be plenty of musical offerings on the fair’s first day, Friday, the big days for music are Saturday and Sunday Oct. 4 and 5. Patent Pending plays both days. Saturday features The Seldom Scene and Linhardt, while Young and Furnace Mountain are among Sunday’s highlights. One of the DC area’s top bluegrass bands, Patent Pending, has played in the area for 30 years and is known for its tight harmonies and energetic picking. The Seldom Scene has been a fixture in the area’s bluegrass arena for more than four decades. Renowned for its urban approach to bluegrass and using a Dobro resonator guitar instead of a fiddle, the group does not shy away from rock classics and other unexpected material. This year’s fair debutante is traditional music singer/songwriter Adrienne Young, a rising star in both the folk music world and the sustainable agriculture movement. Young blends bluegrass, country, old time and American folk music and has caught the attention of the

national music press on numerous occasions. Born in Florida, Young attended college in Nashville, where she launched her band Little Sadie and her AddieBelle music label. Now based in Nelson County near Charlottesville, Young is an advocate for locally grown food and sustainable agriculture through her organization Backyard Revolution. Her 2004 release “Plow to the End of the Row” included a package of seeds and was nominated for a Grammy for package design. While the Old School Stage hosts the big name performers, the village will be humming with music at smaller stages throughout the fair. The Schooley Mill Barn Field on the south end of the village will feature Mike Hansen and Friends (traditional American folk music) and Tupelo (combining old time and South American music) both Saturday and Sunday. Popular programming at the John Wesley Church near the Mill includes Dearest Home (Civil War era and folk music) on Saturday and gospel from the Mount Zion UMC Choir Sunday afternoon. “We’ve been on the lookout for new and not-as-known-as-they-should-be talents,” Chaudet said. “We’re getting some phenomenal music coming in.” n Patent Pending takes the stage at the Old School at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4 and at noon Sunday Oct. 5. The Seldom Scene plays at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 4, and Adrienne Young plays at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 5. For a full schedule, go to www.waterfordfoundation.org/ waterford-fair.

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Morven Park Fall Horse Trials

All day, Morven Park Equestrian Center, 41793 Tutt Lane, Leesburg. Contact: www. morvenpark.org This free event features horses and riders completing a three-part test in dressage, show jumping and cross-country. This show traditionally attracts the top riders in the country. Food is available for sale or bring a picnic.

Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit

10 a.m.-5 p.m., Waterford. Contact: www. waterfordfoundation.org/waterford-fair; 540882-3018 The historic village opens its streets to visitors enjoying tours of private homes, juried crafts and demonstrators, great music, food and more. Tickets are $16 for one day in

Mosby Heritage Area Association Civil War Conference 4 p.m., Middleburg Community Center, 300 W. Washington St., Middleburg. Contact: www.mosbyheritagearea.org MHAA’s 17th annual conference features noted historians and authors speaking on the theme “July 1, 1863, Gettysburg-the First Day.” The three-day event kicks off Friday afternoon and runs all day Saturday and Sunday, with a banquet Saturday evening and a tour of Gettysburg Sunday. Tickets are $425 for all three days or $200 for Friday and Saturday’s talks and lunch only.

6-9 p.m., Photoworks, 2A Loudoun St. SW, Leesburg. Contact: www.photowork.net First Friday show features the work of Loudoun-based photographer Luke Greer and a darkroom demo from instructor Michael Barolet. Event features live music from Fast Eddie and wines from Lost Creek Winery.

Live Music: 10,000 Maniacs

7:30 p.m., doors open, 8:30 p.m., music begins. Tally Ho Theatre, Leesburg. Contact: tallyholeesburg.com The critically acclaimed ’80s alt-rockers are back with a new vocalist and lots of familiar tunes along with new material. Tickets are $45 in advance, $49 the day of the show.

Author Reading: Beth Harlow

6-9 p.m., Books and Other Found Things, 13 Loudoun St. SW., Leesburg. Contact: 703-6097504 Harlow discusses her book “The Journal” that follows a daily account as it passes through the

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Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit 10 a.m.-5 p.m., See Oct. 3 listing.

Inova Loudoun Safe Sitter Class

8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Inova Loudoun Hospital, 44045 Riverside Parkway, Leesburg. Contact: 703-858-8818 Sitters ages 11-14 can participate in this pediatrician-designed course to help them babysit safely. Cost is $75, and advance registration is required. Pack a lunch.

Mosby Heritage Area Association Civil War Conference 8 a.m., See Oct. 3 listing.

Fall Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Cannon

9 a.m.-6 p.m., Great Country Farms, 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont. Contact: www.greatcountryfarms.com Celebrate fall with pumpkin picking, pig races and more. New this year are pumpkin cannons firing small pumpkins for a fee of $1 per shot or $5 for 10 shots. Fall activities continue daily through Nov. 4. Admission is $12 for adults/$10 for children. Children 2 and under are free.

European River Cruise Preview and Wine Tasting

6 p.m., Notaviva Vineyards, 13274 Sagle Road, Hillsboro. Contact: www.wineandwaterways.com Expedian Cruise Ship Centers showcases its European river cruises and invites participants to enjoy a vineyard tour and wine tasting.

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Last Ham Standing

8 p.m., Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville. Contact: www. franklinparkartscenter.org Family friendly improv comedy at its finest. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $8 for children.

Harvest Hound Fest

10 a.m.-2 p.m., Lansdowne Town Center. Contact: www.happyhoundco.com The Leesburg-based pet care company hosts its inaugural festival. Event features pet adoptions, games, music, children’s activities, product demos, food and more. Continued on Page 28

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7 p.m., Rust Library, Leesburg. Contact: www. loudouncountymastergardeners.org Garden writer Marianne Willburn presents her humorous perspective on her efforts to launch a community garden and recruit new gardeners to her cause.

1-2 p.m., Senior Center of Leesburg, 102 North St. NW, Leesburg. Contact: www. loudoun.gov/seniors-leesburg Enjoy an afternoon of laughs and friendly competition.

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During an evening of music and history, Hansbarger’s cycle of original songs traces the arc of the Civil War from beginning to end. Part folk opera, part multi-media lecture, the performance follows the trials, hopes, fears and sacrifices of Civil War soldiers. A National Endowment of the Arts Fellow and A PEN Syndicated Fiction Award winner, Hansbarger’s writing has been featured on National Public Radio’s “The Sound of Writing” and in numerous magazines and literary reviews. “Dream of a Good Death” takes place at Franklin Park Arts Center west of Purcellville at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. Tickets are $15. Go to www.franklinparkartscenter.org for more information.

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are $20 in advance, $25 at the door and $10 for non-drinkers. Children 12 and under are free. 3-6 p.m., Claude Moore Park, Sterling. Contact: www.greatamazingrace.com A family-friendly foot race based on the popular television show includes teams of adults and kids racing to benefit the Max Cure Foundation’s efforts to fight pediatric cancer. 4-11 p.m., Blue Ridge Eagles, 120 East O St.,

Lucketts Bluegrass: Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie

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7 p.m., doors open, 8 p.m., music begins. Lovettsville Game Protective Association, 16 S. Berlin Turnpike, Lovettsville. Contact: www. raisetheroofconcert.eventbrite.com, Andrew McKnight and crew reunite to support restoration of the historic Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

Loudoun Men Are Cooking Fundraiser

7-11 p.m., National Conference Center, 18980 Upper Belmont Place, Leesburg. Contact: lmac2014.eventbrite.com Top professional and amateur chefs prepare delicious dishes for a great cause, along with live music and a silent auction. Event is sponsored

by local chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and benefits the Operation Uplift Foundation. Tickets are $50 in advance, $75 at the door.

Loudoun Ballet Company: Evening in White

7 p.m., Broad Run High School, 21670 Ashburn Road, Ashburn. Contact: www.loudounballet.org This collection of original contemporary and classical works includes the company’s premiere of “Giselle: Act II”. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children and seniors.

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Purcellville Rescue Squad Open House

11 a.m.-3 p.m., Purcellville Public Safety Center, 500 N. Maple Ave., Purcellville. Contact: www.purcellvillerescue.org Free event features fire truck rides, ambulance

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Live Music: Panhandle Dan

1-5 p.m., Dry Mill Winery, 18195 Dry Mill Road, Leesburg. Contact: www.drymillwine. com Dan specializes in upbeat acoustic music from blues to bluegrass, roots, rags, folk and old favorites.

Morven Park Fall Horse Trials See Oct. 3 listing.

Reading and Discussion: “Scalawag”

2 p.m., Thomas Balch Library, 208 W. Market St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-737-7195 Edward Peeples, Nancy MacLean and James Hershman discuss their book “Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey Through Segregation to Human Rights Activism,” which focuses on Richmond-born Peeples’ life as a civil rights activist, despite being raised in a culture of

white supremacy. Program is free but advance registration is recommended.

Vine to Wine Harvest Series

11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., Sunset Hills Vineyard, 38295 Fremont Overlook Lane, Purcellville. Contact: www.sunsethillsvineyard.com Learn about the winemaking process, visit the vineyard and taste wines during the fermentation process. Cost is $20 for members, $25 for non-members.

Loudoun Ballet Company: Evening in White 4 p.m., See Oct. 4 listing.

Breast Cancer Survivors Retreat 9:15 a.m.-noon, Inova Loudoun Hospital, 44045 Riverside Parkway, Leesburg. Contact: www.inova.org/events Morning retreat includes an educational session on moving forward in survivorship, followed by an open house from noon-3 p.m. Event is free but advance registration is requested.

Mosby Heritage Area Association Civil War Conference 8 a.m., See Oct. 3 listing.

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Plantation near Leesburg and photos taken at the historic Retreat manor house near Bluemont. Greer also specializes in photographing Civil War battlefields in and around Loudoun. Greerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s black and white photographs are shot with a digital camera printed using high dynamic range conversion on metallic paper or aluminum, allowing Greer to increase the tonal range of the photos and giving his work its haunting quality. Bluemont and New York-based Barolet, 33, uses an entirely different process. A decade ago as an emerging artist, Barolet discovered the work of well-known Virginia photographers like Sally Mann and Emmet Gowin and began working with a large format 8x10 view camera (think oldfashioned accordion style with a blanket over the photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head). The fact that it takes several minutes to shoot a single photograph with this type of equipment creates an intense relationship with the camera

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Loudoun Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular Leesburg Hauntings walking tours, scheduled for Oct. 24 and 25. The 90-minute guided tours visit homes and businesses in Leesburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown, with a focus on the supernatural aspects of their histor y. Tickets are $15 online or $20 by phone or at the door. Advance reser vation is recommended. Go to www.leesburghauntings.org for tickets and information. Shocktober is located at Paxton Campus, 601 Catoctin Circle NE in Leesburg. The Fright Night is located at the Community Church of Ashburn, 19790 Ashburn Road. Leesburg Hauntings tours meet in front of the Leesburg Town Hall at 25 W. Market St.

ization in photography. He studied with a portrait photographer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and moved to New York City. Like Greer, he found himself drawn back to rural western Loudoun and now divides his time between Bluemont and Brooklyn. As part of his old school technique, the dying art of darkroom printing is key. Barolet is Photoworksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; darkroom instructor and will be doing demos at the Oct. 3 opening. The show will feature some of Baroletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, as well as new work by Greer. n Photoworksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; First Friday opening takes place 6-9 p.m. Oct. 3 at Photoworks, 2A Loudoun St. SW in Leesburg, and features wines from Lost Creek Winery and music from local favorite Fast Eddie. For information on the opening, go to www.photowork. net. For information on the featured photographers, go to www.lukegreerphotography.com and http://michaelbaroletphotography.com.

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Richard Stanley Moore of Marshall, VA, formally of Middleburg VA, passed away on Sept. 24, 2014 at his residence. Loving father of Nashka G. Reid and Audrey Moore. Beloved Son of Stanley B. Moore. Beloved Brother of Pamela Thompson, Lisa Thompson, Jimmy Thompson, Steve Moore and Junior Moore. He also leaves to mourn a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends. Viewing will be held on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, 10:00am till 11:00am service at Faith Temple Church, 8618 Phoenix Drive, Manassas, Virginia. 20110. Interment : Quantico National Cemetery Triangle, VA. Arrangements By: Lyles Funeral Service of Purcellville, Virginia.

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Nina Cook Caesar, passed away on Sept. 16, 2014. Funeral Service at 2nd Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Hamilton VA. on Sat., Oct. 4th at 12:00 noon. Interment at the Mt. Morris Baptist Church Cemetery, Hume, VA. Arrangements Lyles Funeral Service of Purcellville, VA.

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JuaniTa Graham

Juanita Graham, 84, Hamilton, VA passed away peacefully on September 23, 2014 surrounded by her family. Survivors:children James, Peter and Caroline; 5 grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren. Predeceased by husband James. Family to receive friends Monday, September 29,2014, 6:00-8:00pm, Harmony United Methodist Church, Hamilton, VA. Services at the church 2:00pm Tuesday, September 30,2014 with burial to follow in Lakeview Cemetery, Hamilton. Memorial Donations to the Harmony UMC Memorial Fund, Harmony United Methodist Church, 380 E. Colonial Highway, Hamilton, Virginia 20158.

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Surviving are her daughters, Tammy Sue Oates and husband, Arley; Stephanie Lynn OrndorffPetitta and husband, Eric, all of Winchester; grandchildren, Matthew Garrett Petitta, Elizabeth Jordan Lynn Petitta, Piper Mari Petitta, Jayme Darcy Petitta; step-granddaughter, Erica Rose Petitta; sisters, Margaret Ann Hicks and husband, Mickey, of Michigan; Sandra Kay English of Winchester; brother, J. Stephen Allamong and wife, Linda, of Winchester, and her ex-husband, Warren Lee Orndorff, Jr. of Paris, Virginia.

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Ms. Orndorff was born in 1952, in Winchester, Virginia, the daughter of the late James H. and Amonda R. Allamong. She was a graduate of James Wood High School, Class of 1970. Ms. Orndorff was employed by Loudoun Memorial Hospital in the cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, later working for the Leesburg Walmart in the accounting office for over 10 years. Ms. Orndorff was a member of St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church in Frederick County. She enjoyed antiquing and shopping with her daughter. Her grandchildren were the loves of her life and she enjoyed every precious moment with them.

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John F. Hogan, Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1931, the eldest of nine children born to Maryann (Steinbrunner) and John F. Hogan. The family moved to Akron, Ohio in 1938 and to Randolph, Ohio in 1943 where after high school graduation he attended Kent State University. In 1952 he married Mary Jo Siebenaler. Together they raised eight children, Christine (Christopher) Morris who passed away in 2007, John F. III, Paula Brown, Gregory, Therese (Guy) McIntosh, Kathleen (Edward) Trexler, Susan and Philip (Denise). John graduated from Akron University with a degree in English. He was employed by Commercial Credit Corp. and transferred to Columbus, Ohio as Loan Manager. He worked for Beneficial Finance and in 1957, returned to Akron where he graduated from Goodyearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Management Squadron training program. In 1972, he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Washington Representative, Government Marketing. He retired from Goodyear in 1987 with 30 years of service. In 1984, with two sons, John and Gregory, founded Hogan & Sons, Inc., a Goodyear tire and auto service store. The company has grown from one location to eight retail stores under the Goodyear banner. John was always active in church activities including Knights of Columbus, assisted in charitable works throughout his career. He was Past Grand Knight of Fr. Diamond council, Knights of Columbus, Past Faithful Navigator, Commador Berry Assembly, Former District Deputy, jurisdiction of Virginia, Past President Washington Rubber Group/Division of the American Chemical Society, Past President Washington Marketing Association, former chairman ACME-American Construction Marketing Association and a member of Saint John the Apostle parish in Leesburg, Virginia. John leaves behind 26 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. The family will receive friends on Friday, September 26, 2014 between the hours of 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm at Colonial Funeral Home, 201 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, Virginia 20176. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place 11:00 am on Saturday, September 27, 2014 at Saint John the Apostle Catholic Church, 55 Oakcrest Manor Drive NE, Leesburg, Virginia 20176. Burial to follow in St John Cemetery. Please leave condolences at www.colonialfuneralhome.com.

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Terrence A. Trepal (Terry),68,died September 22, 2014 in Leesburg, Virginia. Survived by his wife, Joan Trepal, children, Julie West, Tony and Nathan Trepal, seven grandchildren and a host of relatives. Family to receive friends 3:00-5:00pm Sunday, September 28, 2014 Colonial Funeral Home, 201 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA 20176. Mass of Christian Burial scheduled for 10:00am Monday, September 29, 2014, St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, 55 Oakcrest Manor Drive NE, Leesburg, VA 20176. Condolences to www.colonialfuneralhome.com.

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Veronica Sue Allamong Orndorff, 62, of Winchester, Virginia, died Wednesday, September 24, 2014.

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John Edward Davis III passed away on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. He is survived by his wife, Sharon Hulvey Davis and daughter, Margaret Lynne Davis. A memorial service was held on Friday, September 26, 2014 at Leesburg United Methodist Church. Graveside services were held at New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Leesburg United Methodist Church, 107 West Market Street Leesburg VA 20175. Please share condolences with the family at www.LoudounFuneralChapel.com.

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Margaret B. Plunkett of Leesburg, Virginia died Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Born July 16, 1927 in Pulaski, VA, she was the daughter of Harvey Miller Brookman, Sr. and Mae Wheeling Brookman. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles L. Plunkett, Jr., and her brothers Harvey M. Brookman, Jr. and Donald Brookman. She is survived by her sister Elsie Rakes and her husband Dan of Pulaski, VA; a son, Chuck Plunkett and his wife Brenda of Boyce, VA; a daughter Ann Sowers and her husband David of Berryville, VA; five grandchildren, Eric Plunkett and his wife Lori, David Plunkett and his wife Kayde, Michael Sowers and his wife Karen, Patrick Sowers and his wife Lauren, and Amy Starr and her husband Peter; seven great-grandchildren, Kayla Hockenberry, Brittany Conway, Andrew and Danielle Plunkett, Jacob and Liam Starr, and Gabriel Sowers. She is also survived by many dear friends who supported her during her courageous battle with multiple myeloma. A funeral service, officiated by Reverend Steve Melester, was held Monday, September 29, at Colonial Funeral Home of Leesburg. Interment was at Union Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Operation Smile, 3641 Faculty Boulevard, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23453. Condolences may be left at www.colonialfuneralhome.com.

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Breaking Gridlock

uesday’s groundbreaking for the Gloucester Parkway extension signals hope for Ashburnarea residents trapped in daily gridlock, even if relief is still three years away. However, a report delivered to the Leesburg Town Council last week should be cause for continued worry among drivers in the Rt. 15 corridor. For the Gloucester project, the Board of Supervisors took extraordinary steps to accelerate the project, which is the singular available solution to easing Waxpool Road backups (without reducing or eliminating Dulles Greenway tolls). Some may argue that advancing $40 million in local tax funding to build the short, but expensive, section of the road is a huge risk given the sputtering start to the Kincora Village Center. Others may argue it subsidizes that project, providing the developers with a critical asset and a beneficial repayment plan. Both criticisms may be true, but waiting for traditional methods to play out—expecting the developer to build it or for VDOT to pay for it—is not a practical alternative. The area roads can’t handle traffic now and that situation won’t improve over the next five to 10 years when other construction options might get started. From a quality of life standpoint, it is a wise community investment. A little farther west, the solution for Rt. 15 gridlock remains elusive. The report presented to Leesburg council members included no similar magic bullet to address the nightly backups on the east side of the bypass. At best, the alternatives presented would move the choke point a little farther north, but the corridor still lacks capacity to handle today’s traffic flow. Even if town leaders opt for one of the suggested improvements, that construction wouldn’t hit the ground until the end of this decade. By then, there will be even more cars in line and the capacity of the highway wouldn’t have been increased one iota. There appear to be only two viable alternatives: building a new Potomac River crossing or adding lanes to Rt. 15 through rural northern Loudoun. Until town, county and state leaders are willing to deal with that reality, the gridlock will continue.

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Letters to the editor Sad Days

Dear Editor: ast week’s front page headline: “210 Refugee Children Assigned to Loudoun.” Do you want me to be excited about this headline? And, say bravo Loudoun County? What about the students today who are in the Loudoun County public school system where often they are already underserved, our teachers are already overextended and where there is already much time spent on ESL? What about spending more time with my children on science and math? Afraid that’s not possible because our teachers have even more on their plates these days. No wonder our academics are so far behind some other countries. What about the U.S. and local governments trying to find an effec-

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Would a local government effort to lure foreign companies be worth the expense? Yes, we need to expand and diversify the tax base

25.7%

No, it would be waste of resources

38.5%

Only if led by the private sector

26.4%

I’m not sure yet

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tive solution for this horrendous immigration issue rather than flooding these U.S. schools with refugee children—is that a realistic solution? Reads like a Band-Aid. Where’s the full fledge strategic plan for these kids? All kids deserve education, yet where’s the future plan laying out the details of how our U.S. school systems will support the influx of refugees. The article notes how minors are pouring across the U.S./Mexico border so I can only assume these children are illegal immigrants—I know that must not be politically correct these days. But if that’s the case they have entered our country illegally and now going to our schools without any taxes paid except by us—the citizens of Loudoun County. Our country is in a miserable state of affairs today and much to do with lack of leadership with Continued on Page 45

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“The root of the problem: traf fic on Route 15 has increased exponentially. I see it ever y day because I’ve travelled a “reverse commute” between Leesburg and Point of Rocks for 20 years. Until such time as improvements are made to Route 15 and/or an alternate road is built (hint: both will never happen in our lifetimes) the traf fic jams on Route 15 will only worsen. Talk of round-abouts and improving merge lanes are simply wasteful, cosmetic band-aids. Roadway capacity has been exceeded.” — swleesburgva, on Options Aired To Address Leesburg Bypass Back-ups

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“The county with the highest median income in the nation—but no summer school for the element ar y students, less access to libraries and computer labs and principals and teachers chipping in to dish up lunch in the cafeterias. That’s what you get when you vote in Republicans. Your kids are last, the cheapskates are f irst.”

— Cmckeonjr, on Schools Reassess Staf f ing Cuts Made Under Budget Pressure

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“This is great, now maybe we’ll get our baseball st adium. Build it & they will come.”

— wes tLOUDOUNer, on Loudoun In Play With Region’s Olympic Bid

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immigration being a primary example. We’ve asked local law enforcement the question several times: what about doing something about

illegal immigrants in our town? The answer: not their jurisdiction. Sadly, it doesn’t appear to be anyone’s jurisdiction, including federal government. Sad days ahead for America I’m afraid. Denise Dixon, Leesburg

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