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loud, arguably obnoxious, message has been targeted at Loudouners in the past six weeks through television ads, glossy mailers, radio spots and door knocks: Your vote matters.

With Democrats and Republicans fighting over control of the U.S. Senate, one of the nation’s most competitive House of Representative races taking place in our backyard, a contentious battle for Leesburg Town Council seats and a bond question that could decide the future of advanced education in Loudoun, voters will have plenty of reason to go to the polls Tuesday.

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Election ballots with the anticipation that as much as 75 percent of registered voters would turn out on Election Day this year.

She erred on the safe side not only because there is much to be decided this election cycle but also because one name will not appear on the General Election ballot for the first time in 40 years—Republican Rep. Frank Wolf. The last time he ran in a midterm election just 39 percent of registered voters in Loudoun cast ballots, in large part because Wolf became a practical shoo-in for the seat over the past decade.

“With Wolf stepping down, I think more people will come out. Because when he’s on the ballot he always wins,” Brown said. “This election will be different.”

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ounty leaders always have their oversized scissors handy in Loudoun, the stage of countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies each year. But few such events may have as great an impact on the locality’s education landscape and residents’ pocketbooks as one held Monday.

A new partnership between George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College was formally christened with the slicing of a green ribbon—green being a school color for both institutions—and is being heralded as a union that will give more Loudoun students access to affordable, university-level education.

George Mason University has moved its Mason in Loudoun Instructional Site to NVCC’s Loudoun Campus, at 21335 Signal Hill Plaza in Sterling. The university’s School of Business, College of Education and Human Development, and Volgenau School of Engineering are offering graduate and undergraduate programming at the new Loudoun site in subjects including ethics and leadership, statistics, interdisciplinary studies, database fundamentals, information security, and leadership theory and practice.

In an interview with Leesburg Today shortly after classes started at the site in August, Una Murphy, director of outreach for Mason’s regional campuses, said collocating with the community college is not only efficient—Mason and NVCC share classroom space, services and some faculty training—but also gives more students opportunities to work toward bachelor’s degrees in Loudoun County.

“The real winners are the students. We want it to be as seamless as possible for them,” Murphy said. “It’s about efficiencies, accessibility and coprogramming to create pathways for these students.”

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ike a movie director deciding to take the lead actor’s role, a former campaign manager is turning candidate in a bid for the Loudoun Board of Supervisors.

Andrew D. Resnick, who worked on General Assembly campaigns in the county for former Del. David Poisson and Attorney General Mark Herring, seeks the Democratic nomination for the Algonkian District seat held by Republican Supervisor Suzanne Volpe. It’s his first run for office.

“I just can’t sit by and watch these folks get

That caused unnecessary cuts to education especially, Resnick said, and there’s “no excuse” for those.

It’s good to have low taxes, he said, but not at the expense of services.

“We’re growing too quickly,” said the husband and father of two sons, ages 5 and 4.

Resnick is one of the first candidates to announce for the supervisors’ election, which won’t occur until next year. Democrat Tony Barney has announced plans to run against Republican Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio in the Sterling District.

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He said Volpe’s vote against bringing Metrorail’s Silver Line extension to Loudoun was confounding to him as a commuter. He travels to Washington for his job in public affairs for the Corn Refiners Association trade group.

“In my mind, that’s just failed leadership,” the 34-year-old said of the rail vote.

Last year’s county budget negotiations also soured Resnick on the incumbent supervisors.

He said board members seemed to have a real estate tax rate in mind that they wanted to meet and then made cuts until they hit their target.

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The VIP lawsuit also charges that “over the past several months” One Loudoun representatives made contact with VIP’s current and proposed lenders, shareholders, the Atlantic League Baseball League, the Loudoun County government, prospective subleases and others and “did not act in good faith but instead disparaged VIP and made unfounded claims” that VIP was unable to move forward with the project.

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baseball—the developers declared the investment group to be in default of the lease terms and set a July 25 deadline to terminate the deal. In addition to seeking a court order terminating the lease agreement, the lawsuit seeks $500,000 in damages. The lawsuit states the developers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete last year’s fast-track rezoning that was designed to win Board of Supervisors’ approval of the stadium.

VIP’s response to that lawsuit, filed Oct. 10, includes a countersuit charging that One Loudoun denied the sports investment group possession of the stadium property, made unreasonable demands as part of lease negotiations and interfered with the partnership’s financing plan. The countersuit seeks to collect more than $30 million in damages attributed to the alleged breach of contract as well as attorney’s fees and litigation costs.

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Loudoun Circuit Court judge will decide the divorce-like proceedings between the developers of One Loudoun and the investment group planning to build a sports stadium in the Ashburn development.

Both sides Thursday filed notice requesting a bench trial, rather than a jury trial, for their cross claims alleging breach of contract.

In August, One Loudoun Holdings LLC filed a civil lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that Virginia Investment Partnership defaulted on the requirements of its lease for 11 acres of the 358-acre mixed-use development. That land, at the corner of Rt. 7 and Loudoun County Parkway, was the site of a celebratory groundbreaking for a minor league baseball and soccer stadium in June 2013, but little work followed.

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The case against a Maryland man charged with fire-bombing the office of his probation officer in Leesburg is heading to a Loudoun grand jury.

Following an Oct. 23 preliminary hearing, District Court Judge Deborah C. Welsh ruled there was probable cause to try Jonathan Ernesto Godoy on one charge of arson and two counts of creating or using an explosive device. The class 5

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Leesburg police identified a suspect in last month’s holdup at the Fieldstone Drive 7-Eleven store, but the former Round Hill man was killed Sunday morning in Pennsylvania.

Town investigators used surveillance video to identify Tyray D. Evans, 22, as the man who entered the convenience store at 4:33 a.m. Sept.

19, threatened the clerk with a firearm and fled with an undetermined amount of cash.

Sunday, Evans was shot twice and killed inside his Stowe Township home near Pittsburgh, PA. He moved to Pennsylvania in January, according to published reports. A 20-year-old man is charged with homicide and weapons violations in that case.

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The ruling was made Friday by Circuit Court Judge Burke F. McCahill based on the findings of psychologists from the Central State Hospital and the Loudoun Department of Mental Health that Dae Ja Hwang, 59, met the legal criteria for insanity at the time she killed her husband.

Hwang will return to Central State Hospital for additional psychological examinations and treatment. A dispositional hearing is scheduled for Jan. 5.

The case began in the early morning of March 2, 2013, when Leesburg police received a 911 call from Hwang, who told dispatchers that she killed her husband with a knife. Responding officers found the man, Kyung Hwang, dead in an upstairs bedroom and recovered a bloody knife from under the bed.

In August 2013, Dae Ja Hwang was determined to be incompetent to stand trial on a second-degree murder charge and was sent to Central State Hospital for treatment. On June 27, she was deemed restored to competency, allowing the murder case to continue.

Investigators found she had a history of mental illness, including a suicide attempt and in-patient hospitalization in July 2012. She also had a history of delusions, believing that her husband was spying on her and that he had fathered a child with another woman. Investigators could

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In court last week, prosecutors played two recorded phone calls Godoy made after those charges were filed. He rang an acquaintance in an attempt to get contact information for someone identified as “Mr. Florida” and “DJ”—an apparent co-conspirator whose car was seen near the fire scene and whom Godoy feared was providing investigators with information about the arson case.

Godoy urged his friend to tell “DJ” to recant any statements he made to investigators.

“All they got is a car, and they don’t have no other evidence,” Godoy is heard saying.

“He spilled,” Godoy’s friend said. “You need to start working on a backup plan.”

If the grand jury issues indictments, Godoy is expected to appear next in Circuit Court on Nov. 12.

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The incident happened Nov. 14, 2012. Fire crews were dispatched to the Loudoun County Community Corrections office on Loudoun Street just after 6 a.m. for a report of a structure fire. The blaze, largely limited to a first-floor office, caused $200,000 in damage.

Godoy was charged following a 21-month investigation by the county Fire Marshal’s Office with the support of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In court last Thursday, prosecutors dropped a fourth felony charge—conspiracy to commit a felony—but said it could be reinstated through a direct indictment by the grand jury.

In testimony during the preliminary hearing, probation officer Diane Harrington said Godoy was on probation for a possession-of-methadone conviction but was not complying with the conditions of his release. On the day before the fire, Godoy reported for a required meeting and failed a drug test for a second time in four months—getting yet another warning that he would likely go back to court and then to jail.

The next morning, Harrington arrived at her office at 6:10 a.m. to find smoke throughout the building.

After the fire was extinguished, investigators found a broken Perrier bottle, evidence of an accelerant and a piece of cloth—the makings of a Molotov cocktail—on the floor of the office. There also was a hole in a window through which the bottle had been thrown. Outside, investigators discovered evidence of a second bottle that bounced off the building.

In the ensuing months, investigators said they worked through up to a dozen suspects before serving Godoy with warrants in July at the Loudoun Adult Detention Center, where he was

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Loudoun County Circuit Court judge Thursday was scheduled to decide whether to follow a jury recommendation to send Ryan Williams to prison for the rest of his life for the 2012 murder of 30-year-old Jovaughn Johnson—or whether to set him free.

Johnson was found dead from a gunshot wound in his vehicle parked on the street near the intersection of Great Trail Terrace and Trail Run Terrace in Sterling Dec. 27, 2012. It was the only homicide in Loudoun during 2012.

Ryan Williams, 32, was found guilty of firstdegree murder and a firearms charge in June, following a weeklong trial that included testimony from dozens of witnesses—many of them convicted felons.

One of those was Venus Chand, who shared a cell with Williams at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and testified as a prosecution witness during Williams’ trial. Using his testimony recounting their jailhouse conversations, prosecutors told jurors Williams had information that only the killer could know.

Last week, Williams’ defense attorneys filed a motion stating Chand had recanted his testimony, claiming that Loudoun prosecutors intentionally planted Chand in Williams’ cell with the promise of reduced prison time if he could help their case. The motion also attacks Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Detective Colette Cunningham, accusing her of feeding Chand information and destroying evidence in the case.

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Allison thinks many patrons will gravitate toward the pastrami and cheese sandwich, but the corned beef and capicola should be favorites, as well. On top of the Pittsburghstyle sandwiches, he has several food items that should appeal to an even wider range of customers including: crab cakes, lobster rolls, Buffalo Ashburn Today/Mike Stancik wings and specialty Pittsburgh Rick’s, a sandwich restaurant themed after the unique creations of the salads. There’s also Pennsylvania city, is now open in downtown Leesburg. an extensive dessert menu that features six varieties of milkshakes, bread burgh style, with fresh-cut french fries and cole- pudding cupcakes, homemade ice cream sandslaw on top of the sandwiches. As the creator wiches and bananas foster bread pudding.

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aced with a proposal to greatly expand the county’s tick management efforts, a Board of Supervisors committee is recommending that the county government instead refocus its Lyme disease fighting efforts on public education.

Under the recommendation of the board’s finance committee, the county would curtail its controversial insecticide spraying effort to reduce the population of Lymecarrying deer ticks at county parks.

Supervisors took that stand after hearing a report from the county Lyme Disease Commission outlining a proposal to launch a formal integrated pest management plan that could expand the county’s tick control effort to include spraying additional properties, targeting tick species in addition to blacklegged ticks and increasing efforts to control the population of deer, and potentially small rodents.

“We’re at a crossroads of where to go with this,” Commission Chairman Dr. Samuel Shor said. The commission’s report pointed out that farmers have used integrated pest management systems for centuries and that Fairfax County operates an IPM for its properties.

Commission members noted that— although tick drags and other surveillance

efforts at selected county parks showed a relatively low population of deer ticks—other commonly found ticks also transmit diseases, including ehrlichisois, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and tick paralysis. The report compared the results of surveillance at six county parks in 2013 and 2014. This year’s study found more ticks at the parks but fewer blacklegged ticks. The Lone Star ticks were the most common (72 percent), followed by American Dog tick (27 percent).

However, supervisors—who initiated the anti-Lyme disease campaign in March 2012—are leaning toward scaling back the program rather than pumping more county funds into the effort.

The finance committee voted 3-1-1 to recommend that the full board only continue to pursue public outreach efforts to raise awareness of Lyme disease and tick safety.

Committee Chairman Ralph Buona (R-Ashburn) noted that expanding tick control efforts could be very expensive while providing only a marginal increase to public safety. A better approach, he said, was getting tick safety information into the home of every resident. “That’s where we’re going to get our best bang for the buck.”

Supervisors Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run) and Matt Letourneau (R-Dulles) agreed that continuing the spray program or expanding the tick control efforts to other properties would be unlikely to have a significant impact.

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The meetings are Thursday, Oct. 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Stone Hill Middle School, 23415 Evergreen Ridge Dr. in Ashburn and Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Discovery Elementary School, 44020 Grace Bridge Drive in Ashburn.

Members of the public attending the sessions will be given the opportunity to vote on their preferred names for the stations, which are to be built at Rt. 606 and Rt. 772.

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The board started the process of amending the Zoning Ordinance to permit telecommunication towers and monopoles to be built on land zoned for suburban housing densities, subject to special exception review.

Milestone Communications, the county’s wireless communications contractor that is working to develop a network on governmentowned properties, proposed the measure after finding that such towers couldn’t be built under current rules.

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agreed and urged the committee to maintain a commitment to tick surveillance and spraying, and at least determine the cost of implementing IPM procedures in high-traffic areas of county parks before ruling out an expansion of current efforts.

While Reid argued that informational fliers mailed to residents would end up in the trash, Buona maintained that doing more would waste money. “It’s an eye drop in an ocean,” he said of the impact spraying in pockets of county parks would have.

The issue will be discussed by the full Board of Supervisors next week.

case review by the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. The zoning amendments will be subject to commission and board public hearings before they can be adopted by supervisors.

In the rural areas where broadband service is spotty, supervisors are considering options to allow monopoles to be built by right under some circumstances in an effort to encourage providers to expand into the area.

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“Ours is an increasingly small and connected world that requires us to look out for one another, and Arlingtonians are eager to do their part in helping,” Arlington Board of Supervisors Chairman Jay Fisette stated.

Prince William Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart expressed similar sentiments, noting Iraqi and Syrian refugees have endured a great deal of pain and suffering because of the conflict and turmoil in their countries. “This is a little thing our community can do to help with their struggle but will go a long way in improving their overall well-being,” he said. “It is great that elected leaders from across Northern Virginia were able to work together to make this happen.” n

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“Last year’s effort was phenomenal with a huge outpouring of support from residents and businesses across the region and literally across the country. We were blessed with the pro bono services of both Paxton Van Lines and [Turkish shipping company] Maersk, who collected and shipped the blankets for free,” NVRC Executive Director G. Mark Gibb stated. Both firms have committed to help again this year, he said, adding the operation in Turkey would be coordinated by local NGOs that last year helped distribute the blankets to refugees both in the camps and in the community.

In prepared statements, several leaders commented on the scale of the need and how Northern Virginians could help the refugees.

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said. “I know our community will be there once again to help our neighbors who are in such desperate need.”

York witnessed the refugees’ plight firsthand during a visit to the region last year and was struck by the “enormity” of the need. “It does one good to know that a child, a mom and family have something to keep themselves warm during the winter months,” he said.

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Bedford, an avid horsewoman and former Broadway casting assistant, attended Foxcroft in Middleburg for her high school years from 1928 to 1932.

Most of Bedford’s gift will be used to sustain and more than double the school’s endowment. A portion of the money will be set aside to establish a scholarship in Bedford’s name, and some will be earmarked to commemorate her love of theater. Bedford worked behind-the-scenes on Broadway for four years, moving up the ranks from casting assistant to assistant stage manager and later worked as assistant to the director on several productions, including the Tony Award-winning play “Happy Birthday.”

The school does not yet have specifics on how the money will be used to bolster the school’s theater program, whether to refurbish the performing arts center or in some other way, said Luise Z. Moskowitz of SteegeThomson Communications, speaking on behalf of Foxcroft. “But we know they’ll use it for something that honors her love of theater.”

Foxcroft Head of School Cathy McGehee called Bedford’s gift “a ringing endorsement of girls’ education, and a challenge to other women to support the schools which have helped to shape them…”

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expand the experiential learning that has always been a hallmark of a Foxcroft education, refresh our physical plant and strengthen our scholarship offerings,” McGehee said in a statement.

Bedford was the last surviving grandchild of Edward T. Bedford, a director of Standard Oil and founder of the Corn Products Refining Company. She grew up on her family’s 17-acre estate in Westport, CT, where she spent much of her time with the family’s horses, becoming an accomplished rider.

Bedford attended Foxcroft when it was a relatively new school, just 14 years after Charlotte Haxall Noland founded it. As a student at Foxcroft, she continued to ride horses, sing in the choir, take part in a variety of school events and play occasional pranks. “All good fun, nothing that you could get kicked out for,” she once recalled, according to Bedford’s biography released by Foxcroft.

Much of her life after high school reflected Foxcroft’s values of giving back by devoting much of her time to service. She worked with the Red Cross in Europe during World War II, and went on to serve as a volunteer at the Norwalk Hospital for more than 50 years. She also continued riding and working with horses.

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Although he wasn’t planning on running the race, it’s definitely something Vestal would do again.

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A total of 424 runners competed in the event, with many sporting their Halloween costume. Chase Vestal, 16, posted the fastest time, completing the course in 18:56, and 12-year-old Ellie Pesmond was first for the females, clocking a time of 20:41. Both are from Ashburn.

Vestal, who’s a cross country runner at Briar Woods high school, had come to volunteer but decided to run at the last minute.

“It wasn’t as fast as I usually go—I’d like to be around 18 minutes flat—but I thought it was a good run to stretch out,” Vestal said. “The costumes made it very interesting. I laughed as I ran by some of them and it sort of got me to go faster.”

Second place for the females went to 26-year-old Victoria Marcos, of Arlington, with a time of 22:34, and second place for the males was captured by Michael Vega, a 36-year-old from Ashburn, with a time of 19:33.

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Her grandmother, mother, father, two aunts and Nanette herself have suffered from a form of the disease.

“It’s so heavily in my life and personal that I had to do something,” Parsons said.

Originally developing the idea from the Bra-ha-ha event in Chesapeake, Parsons Ashburn Today/Mike Stancik Ashburn Today/Mike Stancik wanted to host a creative event 25 bras were entered in the well-attended event held at Market Station, and Tori Harvey’s “Under The Sea” theme for her bra won third place at Best Rack Around’s that would celebrate the sto- each were sold in a silent auction. inaugural bra art show, which benefited the Loudoun Breast Health Network in Leesburg. ries, survivors and the spirit of those working to promote cancer. rience breast health. Market Station “I knew that they actually deal with all endless. “The Cups Of Many Colors” by Stacey developed the “Take A Bite Out Of Cancer” was packed with supporters Friday night for the of the women in Loudoun who have breast Bassett received second place honors and was bra that depicted sharks, and Paige Ulvi’s “The inaugural Bras Raise Awareness Art Show.

Puurfect Companion,” which provided a playful Each bra art display—there ended up cancer,” Parsons said. “If someone is diagnosed, a blanket design in honor of her mother. Tori take on the loyal cats that are relied on to help a being 21 intricate designs in all—included a and they can’t afford a prosthesis or a bra, they Harvey’s “Under The Sea” bra won third place patient through treatment. title, a paragraph about the design and whether step in to help, and all the money from tonight and was covered in pearls while depicting the Ulvi, a pet portrait artist who owns three it was made in memory or honor of someone. goes right there. It goes straight to women in trouble-free beauty of the ocean. cats, saw the event as personal to her and all of The most creative bra award went to the The bra exhibits, which ranged from a Wash- our backyard with breast cancer.” the people who struggle with the disease. “I have There were awards given for the most cre- Malsam family for “The Power C Thru Bra” ington Redskins design to an Under The Sea a friend who is currently struggling with breast theme, were each sold in a silent auction and ative, most inspirational, most humor and overall in memory of Gregory Malsam, who loved to cancer, ” Ulvi said.

“She just finished her last treatproceeds from the event were donated to the top three bras. First place went to a bra entry titled collect glass insulators. The most inspirational ment last month, and she’s the reason I entered Loudoun Breast Health Network, a nonprofit “Timeless” by Cheryl Lacy and included a bra bra award went to Bassett’s “The Cups Of the competition.

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When they met for one final debate Sunday at the McLean Community Center’s Alden Theatre, the thin veil of civility separating their supporters vanished. Comstock focused on her legislative accomplishments and policy positions, but Foust, whom some political observers see as trailing in the race, repeatedly charged that his opponent was a “hyper-partisan” ideologue.

Sponsored by the McLean and Great Falls citizens associations, the debate was moderated by those groups’ respective presidents, Sally Horn and Eric Knudsen.

Organizers urged the audience to show up early because of limited seating. Those who did still had to queue up in a football-field-long line outside. Moderators warned the crowd against bringing signs into the facility or holding them up outside. But afterward, some Foust supporters held signs and chanted outside the front doorway.

Candidates initially were given three minutes to answer questions, plus one minute of rebuttal time if desired. But at the end, moderators eliminated rebuttals and asked some pointed questions.

One concerned women’s rights and abortion. Comstock answered first, saying she supported over-the-counter sales of birth-control measures. “There are good people on both sides” of the issue, she said. “I don’t demonize people who disagree with me.”

Foust then pounded at Comstock’s positions and votes, saying she favored measures that restricted women’s reproductive freedom. When moderators did not let Comstock respond, some in the audience booed. When Foust again went after Comstock in his closing remarks, someone shouted “Shut up!”

Horn admonished the crowd to settle down and ushers quelled disputes in their sections. Some crowd members took cell-phone pictures of opposing camp members. The candidates differed sharply on a host of issues.

Foust, who represents Dranesville District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, said most scientists think human-caused climate change is real and added the issue required

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“We will fly again as soon as we can safely do it with confidence,” Culbertson said.

The mission was scheduled to begin Monday night, but was scrubbed after the flight team was unable to move a boat from a restricted safety zone in the Atlantic Ocean before the launch window closed. Tuesday, the mission received the “all systems go” clearance and the rockets fired on time at 6:22 p.m. Residents along the East Coast had been encouraged to keep an eye on the eastern horizon to see the rocket, but it never rose high enough to provide that view.

The crash does not jeopardize the space station’s astronauts or its mission. Current supplies would last until at least March, officials said, but there are other flights planned to the ISS, one this week and another by the second NASA ISS supply contractor SpaceX Dec. 9.

decisive action. Comstock, first elected to the House of Delegates’ 34th District seat in 2009, stressed the futility of U.S. action if countries with major pollution problems, such as China, did not follow suit.

Regarding gun control, Foust called Comstock’s stance “dangerous” and said she had voted to allow firearms in bars and to repeal the state’s one-handgun-per-month rule, which was designed to keep those weapons from being purchased en masse and sold to criminals elsewhere.

Comstock cited her support of database legislation to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and people with mental illnesses.

She also voted to increase money for schoolresource officers, who she said guard not only against school shootings, but bullying and human trafficking as well.

Both agreed the federal Affordable Care Act was imperfect. Foust said the law had brought about many positive changes, but still needed its kinks worked out.

“Don’t buy the argument that they’re concerned about your health care,” he said of opponents.

Comstock, citing premium increases and other problems, favored replacing the legislation with portable health plans that retained “Obamacare” advantages, such as prohibiting insurance companies from canceling policies of people with pre-existing conditions.

Foust hammered away at Comstock, saying she had pursued the “politics of personal destruction” throughout her career. He criticized Comstock’s vote last year against a major transportation-funding bill, saying she did so to stave off criticism from the Tea Party and honor the Grover Norquist no-tax pledge she had signed. Comstock responded that the bill also had been opposed by some Democrats, including members of Northern Virginia’s delegation.

Both candidates pledged to support federal employees, press for job creation and work with members of both parties to achieve results.

They also agreed the U.S. tax code needs a comprehensive review.

Comstock and Foust also concurred that U.S. officials should take steps to contain the threat posed by the Ebola virus. Foust favored 21-day quarantines of people who may have been exposed to the virus, while Comstock supported travel bans between the United States and African nations affected by Ebola.

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he Town Council wants to complete its 2015 legislative agenda prior to a Nov. 24 dinner with Leesburg’s General Assembly delegation members. The council held a lengthy discussion work session Monday night to weigh specific additions and revisions to its priority list.

Among the highlights is a new position in which the council supports legislation allowing municipalities to regulate of the use of private drones. Also proposed is a requirement that county governments provide the same level of services to town residents as it does to those living in unincorporated areas.

Council members have heard the concerns before and Vice Mayor Dave Butler said he’s spoken with two residents who have encountered drones—a hot new market item— on their property, and there’s nothing they can do to stop it under the current law.

Acting Town Attorney Barbara Notar noted that the law of trespassing is only applicable to people, not objects, so a drone could conceivably fly around a private yard without consequence.

“History is really being written as we speak; all of this is new,” Deputy Town Manager Keith Markel said regarding drone use.

Drones are becoming more widely used outside the military. Councilman Marty Martinez noted many businesses, such as Amazon, are seeking to regulate delivery systems to customers via the remote-controlled aircraft.

Council members noted that while the FAA has control over airspace 500 feet and higher, there’s nothing in place for the gap from that height to the ground.

“You shouldn’t be able to get away with trespassing just because you’re not a human being on a property,” Mayor Kristen Umstattd said.

Councilman Kevin Wright is concerned about the privacy issues, but said the council needs more clarification, information and research on the topic before asking the General Assembly to step in. “We need more detail about what we’re after,” Wright said.

Requiring county governments to provide equal services to town residents generated much more debate. A few members, including Butler, said the town should be receiving the same amount of county services as other towns in Loudoun.

“If we’re paying the same taxes as other residents, we should be provided with the same services as those other towns,” Butler said. “I don’t even know why this is a debate, there’s no justification for it.”

One example cited was having the county Sheriff’s Office provide more support, even though the town, like Middleburg and Purcellville, operates its own police department.

Councilman Tom Dunn cited a statistic showing the sheriff’s office made 300 calls to Purcellville and 200 to Leesburg in the same timeframe, even though Leesburg has five times as many residents. He said the council should be diligent in getting more money and services from the county. “We are paying for county services and county taxes, and the town over the years has taken on more and more services. We need to be more aggressive in getting more money.”

However, Umstattd brought up a concern raised by former town manager John Wells that Leesburg gets more support for transportation funds than the other towns.

“He was concerned if we pushed for more help over here in terms of services, they may say ‘sure, but we’ll take away the money from transportation,’” Umstattd said. “They have helped us with a lot of transportation projects that they didn’t have to, so I think we have to make sure we keep that healthy relationship with the county.”

Martinez agreed. He said Leesburg residents “don’t see a bill for so many services already” and the council needs to concentrate on the “full picture.”

In terms of recommendations for removal from its legislative priority list, the council wants to drop its opposition to legislation that would mandate distance-based tolls on the Dulles Greenway.

The council is scheduled to adopt its legislative agenda at its Nov. 10 council meeting.

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ith less than two weeks until Leesburg’s municipal elections, the Loudoun County League of Women’s Voters held a candidates forum Thursday night to showcase the vision and core principles of each incumbent and challenger.

About 40 residents came to Rust Library to hear the differences between each candidate through a question and answer session.

Mayoral candidate Tom Dunn and council challengers Jeff Phillips, Suzanne Fox and Dwight Dopilka featured themes of revitalizing the town by adding businesses, while the incumbents—Mayor Kristen Umstattd and council members Kevin Wright, Kelly Burk and Marty Martinez—highlighted successes they’ve achieved during their time on the council.

“We accomplish so much through the community, there is a great dedication to preserving what’s best in Leesburg,” Umstattd, who’s seeking her seventh term as mayor, said in her opening remarks. “It’s given me such joy serving as mayor because of that. Multiple sites list Leesburg as one of the best to places in the U.S., to raise families and do business, and we hope to build on that.”

Dunn, who is serving his second term on the council and mounting his second challenge to Umstattd after running unsuccessfully in 2010, said those previous national accolades don’t reflect the work of the current council and that he would lead the way to bring new businesses into town.

“Right now we have vacancy numbers that are the highest-ever for Leesburg,” Dunn said.

“We can’t talk about articles from 2010 talking about data from 2009. We have to get it turned around today, not wait until tomorrow.”

Many of the incumbent candidates’ comments were focused on fixing the transportation problem in town, including creating a final solution for the Rt. 15 Bypass and Battlefield Parkway. The challengers are seeking to have a more transparent government, citing closed sessions such as those dealing with the controversial Oaklawn rezoning to allow the expansion of Leesburg-based K2M, and say they’ll push to create a more business friendly downtown.

Each candidate also was able to showcase his or her priorities through several questions: one about their vision for the town; another about what actions they’ve taken to improve the town or prepare for public office; a question on what the town’s economic engine should be; and another on their opinion on seeking city status for the town.

Kevin Wright, seeking his third term, mentioned that being a councilmember “isn’t about partisanship, it’s about doing the best thing for the town,” and he also stressed efforts to responsibly balance the budget, building roads and reviewing development plans while preserving Leesburg’s quality of life.

Kelly Burk, seeking her third term, said she has seen extreme growth in the town since she moved here when there were fewer than 8,000 residents—there are nearly 50,000 today—and she said the addition of 185 new jobs created in 2014 demonstrates the town has a vibrant economy. Marty Martinez, eyeing a fourth term, noted that there are 20 percent fewer town staff members than when he started as a councilmember in 2002. He said he wants to complete some of the town’s small and big projects, particularly those that improve transportation, to make Leesburg a better place to live.

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ferences in their styles. Suzanne Fox runs a wedding planning business and said she would give small businesses a voice in the council.

While Leesburg elected officials are not elected on party affiliations, there is still a sense of partisanship on the council and Fox wants to mitigate that.

Jeff Phillips, a 35-year army veteran, called for a greater focus on public safety, including getting more police officers out of their cars and on the street, and he said he hopes to create a

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Dwight Dopilka said the council “needs fresh approaches and out-of-the-box solutions” and introduced a five-point plan: produce solutions that help people, lower taxation between Leesburg and Loudoun County, restore transparency, reduce cost of town services and standardize the hiring process of town government.

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he Purcellville Police Department is organizing a Nov. 13 discussion to provide area families with information about resources available to help young people going though tough

times.

Entitled “Saving Our Children in Loudoun,” the program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Purcellville Town Hall on Nursery Avenue. The evening presentation and question and answer session will include representatives from county law enforcement, schools, churches, juvenile courts and the mental health profession.

The program is the brainchild of Purcellville Police Chief Darryl C. Smith. In an interview this week, Smith, who is attending the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Orlando, FL, said, “We’ll have a lot of providers so families and young people can come out and hear about the resources that are available to their communities.” He noted the sheriff’s office is helping with the program. Trying to bring everyone to the table to talk together and share knowledge about avenues of help for those in trouble is the aim of the community discussion, which began following the fatal police shooting of a suicidal teen in May. Smith, a strong advocate of community policing, spoke with passion about the plight of young people in Loudoun who may not know where to turn for help when they have difficult issues to resolve. “We want to show them there are options open to them.”

It is not just the young people suffering from emotional problems for whom resources are available. There also is help for their friends

“who see them, and who also don’t know who to turn to get help,” Smith said.

In the richest county in the nation, “we shouldn’t be having all those issues with young people—from age 12 to 21,” Smith said, noting there are problems with overdoses, heavy drug use, kids threatening to harm themselves, or fighting with their families and those who think they have no options.

“I’m hoping we can alert people to what’s happening,” Smith said, adding he is sure there are many people out there who can and will help.

So far, he said, everyone he has contacted has been enthusiastic about joining the discussion.

“We want people to come,” Smith said, recalling hopes for big turnouts at previous community meetings, including some to alert parents to illegal drug trends, had been met with sparse attendance. “We can’t be too busy not to focus on our youth. We’ve got to do something; it’s getting out of hand,” he said.

“It’s our job, our responsibility—to put the people with questions together with those with answers,” the police chief said. “If we don’t, it breaks your heart to see kids suffering and getting hurt.”

Youth Pastor Kevin Cole from the Purcellville Baptist Church will moderate the Nov. 13 discussions. Speakers include LeeAnne Johnson, Loudoun Valley High School counseling director; Geri Fiore, Woodgrove High School counseling director; the Rev. Jessica McClure Archer, youth pastor/counselor at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church; Donna Fortier, executive director of Mobile Hope; and Dr. Terry Tinsley, of Joe Gibb’s Youth for Tomorrow.

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While the college is working to make education more seamless for those seeking bachelor’s and master’s degrees, it also is extending its reach to those on the other end of the spectrum: helping students earn college credit while still in high school.

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lots have been cast so far, Brown has reason to be optimistic about participation in this year’s election.

Loudoun County is considered by many to be the key decider in the 10th Congressional District contest to replace Wolf, one of the most watched races in the country between frontrunners Republican Barbara Comstock and Democrat John Foust.

And voters have been told over and over of their important role in the race—and which of the candidates they should support—thanks to the millions of dollars pumped into the district by the candidates’ supporters and outside groups.

“Voters in the 10th District have been seeing advertisements on television, Facebook, Pandora—on everything—for the better part of two months now for a seat that’s become very competitive for the first time in three decades,” said Charlie Jackson, chairman of the 10th District Democratic Committee. “I think both campaigns and supporters have done a good job of getting their message out and hopefully that will equate to people turning out.”

John Whitbeck, chairman of the 10th District Republican Committee, expects the district will enjoy a much higher voter turnout Tuesday than most other locations around the country. While polls show Comstock leading Foust—some by a narrow margin, and others by as many as 12 points—Whitbeck said the Republican and former Wolf staffer won’t slide into the seat if voters don’t show their support at the polls.

“It’s not a sure thing,” he said. “We don’t take anything for granted.”

Because Democrats have a decent chance to win the seat for the first time since the Reagan era, more politically left-leaning voters also may make it to the polls. Plus, the popularity of Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, who’s eyeing a second term if he can ward off chal-

Kristen Umstattd seeks her seventh term as mayor and is being challenged by Councilman Tom Dunn. Six candidates—three incumbents and three challengers—also are competing for three council seats up for election in the town.

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lengers Republican Ed Gillespie and Libertarian Robert Sarvis, can be only a good thing for Foust, the other Democrat on the ballot.

“I think having Mark Warner at the top of the ticket is a tremendous benefit for us,” Jackson said. “Warner’s focus is working together to get solutions. You see that in John Foust, too, and I think that’s what voters want: that willingness to compromise.”

Voters will be asked to do more than select their next leaders in Congress on Tuesday. Virginia residents will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment that would exempt from real estate taxes the spouses of military service members killed in action (see story, Page 29), and Loudoun County voters will be to asked to OK the county government’s issuance of $208.5 million worth of general obligation bonds. (See story, Page 29).

The project that voters likely will recognize most among the bond questions is the Advanced Technology Academy, recently renamed the Academies of Loudoun. Some version of the facility has been talked about by county leaders since the early 1990s, but an ever-evolving vision and a more pressing need for new schools has kept it on the back burner until recently.

The facility has been described as a stateof-the-art hub for STEM education, online courses, research and project-based learning, as well as an incubator for new course development, teacher professional development and innovative teaching methods. It will combine an expanded Academy of Science, an expanded C.S. Monroe Technology Center and the newly proposed Academy of Engineering and Technology on a 119-acre site the school system owns along Sycolin Road southeast of Leesburg.

“This has been years—many years—in the making,” Director of Career and Technical Education Shirley L. Bazdar said when she unveiled the vision for The Academies of Loudoun earlier this year.

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undraising to build a playground at Discovery Elementary began just weeks after the school opened in September 2013. The PTO organized skate nights and fun runs, held bake sales and sold engraved bricks with the goal of raising $152,500 for an adaptive playground that allows children of all physical abilities to play together.

One year later, as the PTO’s coffers reached $50,000, its fundrais-

Panda Power, elected officials and hundreds of students huddled together on the basketball court behind the elementary school to unveil the shiny new playground.

“Today we’re celebrating inclusion,” Principal James Dallas said. “Everybody will have the opportunity to experience friendships and social opportunities here on this playground.”

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Discovery Elementary Principal James Dallas, center, joins County Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large), Bill Pentak of Panda Power Funds,York’s aide Robin Bartok and, far right, School Board member Thomas Reed (At Large) and students at the playground’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.

ing efforts were helped in a big way when Panda Power Funds offered to donate the remaining funds to make the playground possible.

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spin a wheel to play music and a ramp that allows a wheelchair to go to the top of the structure.

And it will be open to more than the students at Discovery, Dallas and Vice Principal Lisa Paquette stressed. They have invited students

living with physical limitations from other Loudoun schools to use the playground during school hours, and, during non-school hours, the playground will be open to the community as a whole.

“We want this playground to be open to all,” Paquette said.

Dallas told those at Friday’s ceremony that he became a teacher and later a principal with the hope of changing children’s lives. “This playground is going to change the lives of so many children,” he said.

“I can’t tell you the warm feeling that I have inside because that vision is now a reality.”

Loudoun County Chairman Scott K. York (R-At Large) told the students how Panda Power’s donation came to be. After he learned that Discovery did not have a playground, he approached Bill Pentak, a vice president with Panda Power Funds, and asked if the company would put $10,000 toward the project. The Texas-based company is building a gas-powered electricity plant south of Leesburg.

“I thought that might get us $5,000,” York said. “A few months later I received a phone call, and I’m

glad I was sitting down. They said, ‘We will not give $10,000. We are going to do the whole project.’”

Pentak passed the praise on to the parents and teachers who first wanted to provide students with an adaptive playground and put in the hard work to raise the first $50,000.

“The accolades belong to those who held the dream for this playground,” he said. “You wanted a place where children from all backgrounds and all walks of life could come and play together.”

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The school’s seventh- and eighthgrade students took in an interactive show put on by National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” featuring five musicians from around the country and the talents of five River Bend students.

“From the Top” is a radio program that features interviews and performances by young musicians. The series’ event at River Bend was part of its outreach efforts to encourage young people to embrace the arts. Loudoun-based Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a sponsor of “From the Top” and asked the producers to make a stop at one of the county’s schools.

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by New York City percussionist Marcelina Suchocka. After playing a quick-paced tune on the vibraphone, she invited two students to the stage to play the instrument with her. One played the harmony and the other, with the help of Suchocka, played the melody.

“I just love playing with other people,” she said. “It just makes me happy.”

After 8-year-old pianist Oscar Paz-Suaznabar of Alexandria performed a complicated piece called “Gargoyles” by Lowell Liebermann, he raised eyebrows when he told the audience he’s been playing the piano for just three years.

Taking questions from “From the Top” host Mike Dahlberg, Oscar said he preferred piano to instruments such as the trombone or the flute.

“It’s just cooler,” he said.

Other “From the Top” musicians featured during the performance were 16-year-old flutist

Taiga Ultan from New York City and 15-year-old violinist Kiarra Saito-Beckman from Bend, OR, as well as “From the Top” alumnus and pianist Clifton Williams. River Bend students who got to share the stage with them were guitarists Carlos Olivares, Amaya Johnson, John Le and Alexandra Batchvarova, and pianist Hana Wang.

After the guitar quartet performed, Dahlberg asked the audience how they think the young musicians stay in sync. Do they use the force? Do they just hope it works out?

“You count like crazy in your heads,” one student from the audience correctly answered.

River Bend Principal Dave Shaffer said the program’s visit gave the students a window into the world outside of Loudoun and showed them that hard work today can lead to big stages later in life. He gave the example of Williams, who grew up in Washington, DC, and went on to graduate from the Berklee College of Music

in Boston and is now producing music in Los Angeles.

“It’s good for kids to see that they can go places and do things with the performing arts,” he said.

Michael Pierson, who oversees all Loudoun public schools’ music programs, said studies show a strong correlation between students who play music and those who are successful in class.

“If music is good for kids, we want to give them an opportunity to seize it,” he said. “Programs like this help us do that.”

The River Bend show was filmed and will be archived on the program’s website, fromthetop.org. n [Cilla Rottensteiner, a 17-year-old from Vienna, Austria, spent the week at Leesburg Today as part of the George C. Marshall International Center’s Student Partnership Exchange Program.]

School Notebook Woodgrove: eat Pie For a good CauSe Woodgrove High School is again hosting its holiday pie fundraiser.

The school’s Parent Teacher Student Organization is selling more than a dozen flavors of pies from Mom’s Apple Pie. Pies can be ordered by Nov. 15 at http://lcps.org/ Page/120358, and can be picked up at the school cafeteria Nov. 24.

The PTSO also is accepting donations of any amount to help buy pies for local families in need.

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Satin Hands is a three-step conditioning treatment that includes a hand scrub, skin softener and lotion. The kits sell for $36.75 and are available in unscented peach and honeydew fragrances.

For every kit sold, Mary Kay will donate $10 to the Loudoun Breast Health Network, which supports women who have been impacted by breast cancer. To purchase a kit, contact a Future Nurses Club member or contact Linda Krone at linda.krone@lcps.org or 540-751-2407.

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The seminar will be held Friday, Nov. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Word of Life International Church, 21641 Beaumeade Circle in Ashburn. Cost is $325.

Presenter Virginia Deal Largent said through the findings that will be discussed during the program “children’s diagnoses are being reversed, meds are being reduced and eliminated under a doctor’s care, their grades are going to honor roll instead of Ds and Fs and more.”

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The fair is meant to inspire young people and their families to lend a hand in their community to make it a better place.

The event will provide information about local nonprofit organizations and volunteer opportunities. It also will feature a demonstration by the Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Department, a flu-shot clinic, a wellness clinic and information on after-school programs and sports clubs.

The fair will take place at Stone Hill Middle School, 23415 Evergreen Ridge Drive in Ashburn. For more information, go to sites.google.com/site/communityfair2014.

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ome Depot Reston Department Supervisor Rodger Shackleton often drives by the Boulder Crest Retreat on his way to work. One day, he chose to stop at the 37-acre property—a place for previously active military veterans and their families to rejuvenate—and asked if they needed any help.

That encounter has led to a harmonious relationship between the two organizations, and the home appliance store is in the process of putting some of the final touches on improvements at the Bluemont retreat. Fifteen volunteers from Home Depot were on hand last Thursday to continue that process, and the company has donated more than $80,000 dollars worth of resources to the project so far.

“It’s great to give back to soldiers. They give so much to us that people don’t realize, which I’ve personally experienced,” Shackleton, a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Gulf War, said. “I just like to give back to those people that continue giving to us. It’s a place for people to spend time with their families, get away, de-stress and enjoy. Anything we can do to make that experience better is great.”

According to Executive Director Jennifer Marino, Boulder Crest is the first rural wellness retreat that’s entirely dedicated to the military and veteran community. The mission is to provide a free, first-class rural wellness

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Volunteers from Home Depot are helping transform the Boulder Crest Retreat into an even more beautiful location for military veterans and their families who have been affected by combat.

retreat—for up to a week—to soldiers and families that have been affected by combat.

There are four cabins, a fishing pond, an archery range, a small horse pasture, fire pits, a playground and breathtaking views of the mountains of western Loudoun. Families can also use the retreat as a home base to hike on the Appalachian Trail, kayak on the Shenan-

doah River or take a day trip to Harper’s Ferry.

The retreat is located at 18370 Bluemont Village Lane.

Home Depot volunteers have worked to put in mulch, sidewalks and landscaping on their big project which totals around $100,000 when completed—on an English walled garden complete with a fountain.

“Without the support that we’ve had from individuals and groups within the community, there’s no way we would be this far along,” said Marino, who retired from the U.S. Marine Corps a year ago after being stationed at Quantico. “Home Depot gave us a huge gift of construction materials for our garden and Continued on Next Page

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hile celebrating its second anniversary with a party at its Ashburn campus last Thursday night, RagingWire announced plans to begin construction on a 140,000-square-foot data center on the site.

The two-story building, known as VA2, will almost double the size of the Ashburn campus. The first customer installations are planned for the end of 2015.

Raging Wire More than 400 customers, A rendering of the planned VA2 data center to be built on RagingWire’s Ashburn partners and supporters attended campus. the anniversary celebration, includ-

Business In Brief • A panel of industry experts will discuss the current and future impacts that federal health care reform will have on workers and businesses during the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 “State of Healthcare Reform” breakfast Friday, Nov. 14 at Belmont Country Club in Ashburn. The speakers will be C. Burke King, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Sean T. Connaughton, president of the Virginia Hospital and Health-

care Association and Jeff Lungren, chief health care lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The program runs from 8 to 10 a.m. For details and registration, go to www.loudounchamber.org or call (703)-777-2176.

• Jim Bowman, a senior vice president and commercial lender with John Marshall Bank, again is serving as Purcellville Business Association’s president, agreeing to step in temporarily until a new president is elected to replace Daniel Abramson, who resigned April 1. “I’ve seen PBA grow right along with the

ing representatives from Dominion Virginia Power, Dulles Chamber of Commerce, Loudoun Board of Supervisors, Loudoun Chamber of Commerce, Loudoun Department of Economic Development, Loudoun Water and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.

“These are exciting times at RagingWire, and our sales pipeline is growing extraordinarily fast,” Doug Adams, senior vice president and chief revenue officer, said. “We are expanding our capacity in both Virginia and California by bringing on new data centers, as well as planning to enter new markets in the United

town,” Bowman said. “PBA started as a sleepy business network and over the years has developed into an effective pro-business voice in Purcellville.” Under Bowman’s previous stint as president, PBA made great strides increasing communications within the business community. He expects to continue developing community relations during this latest leadership role.

• William M. Sonak, the owner of Sonak Family Chiropractic in Sterling, was named Chiropractor of the Year by Virginia Chiro-

States to ensure that we have the supply to meet customer demand.”

RagingWire opened its first Ashburn data center in July 2012 and later purchased 78 acres from the county government with designs to build more than 2 million square feet of data center space. VA2 will be fully integrated with VA1 and networked with RagingWire’s 680,000-squarefoot data center campus in Sacramento, CA, the largest commercial multi-tenant data center in the state.

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practic Association. Sonak opened his Sterling practice 12 years ago and recently opened a satellite office, Western Loudoun Chiropractic, in Purcellville. Sonak was also named Provider of the Year by the Loudoun Free Clinic and was recently given an award by Del. David Ramadan (R-87) for his service. For more information, go to www.DrWill.net or call 703-406-0200.

• Reggie Cooper is the new general manager of Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg.

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“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought sweeping reform to the US healthcare system and many business owners are still struggling to understand the ACA and its impact on them and their workers. The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce created this program to help businesses and workers understand the impact of this groundbreaking law and to learn about new and delayed provisions that will kick in on January 1st,” said the Chamber’s Government Affairs Manager Brian Fauls.

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Loudoun County Chamber Announces 35 Finalists for 20th Anniversary Small Business Awards

he Loudoun County Chamber today announced the names of the 35 finalists selected to compete in seven industry categories, plus the Entrepreneur and the overall Small Business of the Year honors, in the 20th Annual Loudoun County Small Business Awards.

“Just to be chosen as a finalist for Loudoun County’s premier business award is a tremendous honor. The competition for the Small Business Awards is incredibly fierce, with many of the most dynamic, innovative and successful companies in Loudoun striving to earn the most prestigious recognition for business excellence in Loudoun County,” said Chamber President Tony Howard.

The finalists for this year’s Small Business Awards categories are: • Finalists for Entrepreneur: Chris Little, Duct Doctor USA; Justin Dobson, Comfenergy; Megan Cartier, Flow Yoga; Susan McCormick, Wellness Connection • Small Business of the Year Finalists: Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter /LAWS; Modern Mechanical; Transition Triathlon ; The winners in the other categories will be named as finalists at the 2014 Small Business Awards.

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Consignment Shoppe; The Fun Shop, Inc.; The Tack Box, Inc. • Finalists for Non-Profit: Loudoun Interfaith Relief, Inc.; Loudoun Therapeutic Riding, Inc.; Loudoun Youth Soccer Association; Windy Hill Foundation • Finalists for Service: Comfenergy; Duct Doctor USA; Flow Yoga; Primrose School of Ashburn • Finalists for Rural: Fields of Athenry; Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese, LLC; Serene Acres, LLC; The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm • Finalists for Tourism & Entertainment: Fabbioli Cellars; KING PINZ; MacDowell Brew Kitchen • Finalists for Technology: Innovative Solutions Consortium; ListenPort; Mesh Omnimedia; MoverJunction • Finalists for HBB: A New Leaf Weddings & Events; BrandMirror; Glowing Oasis Pilates, LLC; Quail Creek Promotions Award winners will be announced on November 7th at The National Conference Center in Lansdowne. 2014 Small Business Awards sponsors include Middleburg Bank, Integrus Holdings, and Northern Virginia Community College. Tickets are on sale now. For more information call 703.777.2176 or visit www.LoudounChamber.org.

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The Chamber’s sold out 7th Annual Fall Fashion Show was a huge hit—with more than 200 people at Belmont Country Club to enjoy the show and to support the event’s nonprofit partner, Loudoun Interfaith Relief. A huge thank you to our Chamber member models: Jane Rodgers, Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation; Lorna Campbell Clarke, Christian Service Charities; Debbi Alexander, Summit Community Bank; and Monica Harmison, Fairway Independent Mortgage.

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During his time at Canyon Ranch, he served as chairman of 1Berkshire Strategic Alliance and Foundation, chairman of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau and as Berkshire Chamber of Commerce board member. He moves to Middleburg with his wife Linda, daughter Lucy and son Sam. • Newbridge Spine & Pain Center opened a new pain management medical center in Leesburg Oct. 23. The office is located at 161 Fort Evans Road, NE, Suite 340 and is led by Medical Director Dr. Jay Gonchigar, Chief Operating Officer Debra Turner and physicians Dr. Ghauri and Dr. Sanghvi. The center offers a full spectrum of interventional pain management procedures including facet joint injections, radiofrequency, epidural steroid injections and spinal cord stimulation, and is equipped to offer monitored anesthesia care to patients during procedures. For more information, go to www.NewbridgeSpine. com.

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For volunteers like Jonathan Wilhelm, a Home Depot employee who has been in the Marine Reserves for four and a half years, the project has a special meaning.

“Rodger told me about this as a fellow military person, and I was like, ‘of course I’d be glad to do that.’ Knowing all of this is for my brothers and sisters that need it, it feels like the right thing to do. I’ve been trying to figure out ways to help out even though I can’t help them overseas.”

The Boulder Crest Retreat project is part of Home Depot’s fourth annual Celebration of Service campaign, which encourages its employees to voluntarily offer their talents to retrofit more than 1,000 homes and facilities for veterans across the country. With the nation’s capital so close and conflict still underway in the Middle East, this project has been especially impactful and timely for the Boulder Crest Retreat.

“Anytime you have the opportunity to give back to the community or an organization that takes care of veterans in any way, it’s a tremendous asset for us at Home Depot to feel those feelings about why we’re around,” Leesburg Home Depot Manager Jason Baker said. “We’re not just a company that sells products and things like that—we have a bond and relationship with the community to do some good things. When we see families having a good time and laughing, to know you played a little tiny part of that, it just means the world to us anytime we can do that.” n

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leven months ago, 33-year Republican Rep. Frank Wolf announced U.S. Senate he would not seek re-election for an 18th term, and within 24 hours 10th Congressional District people started lining up for the job.

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Wolf has won most of his re-election bids View the full at by landslides.

Democrats see ballot his retirement, and the growing diversity in the eastern end of Loudoun.gov/vote the district, as a chance to win the seat back—it was last held by a Democrat, Joseph Fisher, from 1975 to 1981—while Republicans are confident they still have the upper hand in an area that reaches some of the state’s more conservative counties, including Clarke and Frederick.

And third-party candidates look at this year as an opportunity to win some recognition for their parties.

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The race’s front-runners each have stressed their political experience and ability to work across party lines as reasons they are voters’ best bet to break the gridlock in Congress.

Comstock’s campaign has emphasized her background as a former senior aide to Wolf and her work with both Republicans and Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates as experience needed in Congress. “I already have relationships.

I’ve worked with the business leaders of the 10th District, and I’ve worked with people in the local governments in both parties,” Comstock said. “I can hit the ground running on day one.”

Foust, a Fairfax supervisor since 2007, has highlighted his efforts to make the tough choices

and work with Republican board members to balance the county’s budget each year.

“It’s usually difficult to tell who are the Democrats and the Republicans” on the board because they work so well together, he said during an early campaign stop in Herndon.

He focused the brunt of his campaign on Comstock’s voting record on social issues in the House. In mailers, in TV commercials and in debates, he described Comstock as holding extreme positions on women’s health issues, asserting that she wants to criminalize all abortions without exception.

“Barbara Comstock has been obsessed with taking away a woman’s right to choose,” he said in a debate in Lansdowne.

But FactCheck.org said his campaign ads were “misrepresenting, distorting and exaggerating” Comstock’s views on abortion. While she supported the 2012 “personhood bill” in the House of Delegates, that legislation would not affect the legality of abortions but would declare “the life of each human being begins at conception.”

Comstock called the message in Foust’s campaign ads “a flat-out lie,” and told Leesburg Today she supports allowing the option of abortion for victims of rape and incest and in cases when the life of a mother is at risk. “That’s what I’ve always supported.”

Since early summer, each of the campaigns has kept an eye on the other for any missteps, and each found plenty of opportunity to turn them into political ammo.

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Foust got in hot water in August after he told supporters at a campaign stop in Leesburg that he didn’t think Comstock had ever “had a real job.” He later said he was describing his efforts to create jobs in the private sector in contrast with Comstock’s work experience, much of which has been in politics.

How Comstock handled transportation issues became both an asset and a stumbling block on the campaign trail. Her efforts to push legislation through the General Assembly that requires competitive bidding for public work projects was touted by her campaign and supporters as a “game-changer” that made the Metro Silver Line extension to Loudoun possible. In his Continued on Next Page

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1980: Wolf topples Fisher In the 1978 race, Fisher defeated attorney and Republican federal staffer Frank Wolf. But two years later, with the presidency of Jimmy Carter in shambles, Wolf turned the tables and defeated Fisher to become a member of a large class of new Republicans swept into office with Ronald Reagan. He has served in Congress ever since, helped by redistricting after 1990 that moved the 10th to the west sending Democratic voters of Arlington and Alexandria to the 8th District.

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1974: Fisher unseats Broyhill The Watergate scandal, combined with changing demographics of the 10th District, helped economist and Democratic Arlington County Board member Joseph Fisher defeat Broyhill in an election that saw Democrats pick up a large number of seats in Congress. Seen as a liberal but not doctrinaire Democrat, Fisher served until another president’s unpopularity helped do him in. He later served as Secretary of Human Resources in the cabinet of Virginia Gov. Chuck Robb, and died in 1992 at age 72.

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1952: Broyhill wins Having been eliminated in 1933, Virginia’s 10th District was resurrected after the 1950 federal census.

In the first race for the new seat, conservative Republican construction executive Joel Broyhill defeated liberal attorney Edmund Campbell by a scant 322 votes, winning office on his 33rd birthday in part by riding the coattails of Dwight Eisenhower and benefiting from the unpopularity of the Truman administration. Broyhill held the seat for 22 years until another unpopular president helped bring about his defeat.

Broyhill remained active in local politics and the business community until his death at age 86 in 2006.

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The 10th District battle chiefly has been between Comstock and Foust, in part because the third-party hopefuls were not invited to most of the debates and forums—a situation those candidates said kept voters from getting to know all of their options in this midterm election.

Redpath, a vice president for financial consulting firm BIA/Kelsey, has more name recognition in Loudoun than the other third-party candidates. This is his fifth run for office in Virginia as a Libertarian Party candidate. The Leesburg resident first ran for the House of Delegates in 1993, then the state Senate in the 1998 special election, governor in 2001, U.S. Senate in 2008 and for the 10th Congressional District in 2010.

But he said his campaign message has remained consistent: “Without economic freedoms, there are no freedoms.”

He considers reforms to entitlement programs as the No. 1 issue facing the country. He supports replacing the Affordable Care Act with a program that would offer more consumer choice, changing Medicare into an insurance premium support program and changing Medicaid to a federal block grant that eventually leaves responsibility for health care for the poor to the states.

“I am the only candidate in this race who will stand foursquare for replacing Obamacare, actually cutting government spending and for advancing personal freedoms,” Redpath said.

Blais, from Fairfax, lists improving the economy and passing a balanced budget based on thoughtful, not across-the-board, cuts as her top priorities.

“We need to transition from a war economy to a peaceful, healthy economy by cutting the military but investing in our infrastructure, health care for all and declaring a war on climate change,” she told Leesburg Today.

She made an unsuccessful run for the House of Delegates 40th District in 2011 against incumbent Republican Tim Hugo.

Eickholt, an Independent from Fairfax, has stressed the need for tax, entitlement and campaign finance reform and said that the two major parties are too partisan to deliver them.

He says that while most Americans do not consider themselves to be near the extreme political right or left, the system is set up to favor either Republicans or Democrats. “This is going to require Independent candidates to step up, face down the two parties and their overwhelming fundraising advantage, and let their district know that they too have had enough,” Eickholt states on his campaign website. “The 10th District is the perfect place for that to begin.”

The 10th District includes all of Loudoun, Clarke and Frederick counties; the cities of Manassas, Manassas Park and Winchester; and portions of Fairfax and Prince William counties.

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endorsement of Comstock, Loudoun Supervisor Ralph Buona (R-Ashburn) stressed that the all-Republican Board of Supervisors would have voted down the rail project had it required contractors to enter into union labor agreements.

“Barbara is the person responsible for making that happen,” he said.

A week later, a Politico story disclosed that, while championing legislation that opposed labor-union interests, she also was accepting thousands of dollars from the anti-union Workforce Fairness Institute, a client for whom she lobbied from 2008 to 2012.

In June 2013, Comstock also accepted a $10,000 campaign donation from Peter Forster, chairman and director of Clark Construction Group, which won the bid for the second phase of the Silver Line project six weeks earlier. While the donation is legal and was correctly disclosed in Comstock’s campaign-finance reports, Foust’s operation pointed to the donation as an example of Comstock representing her donors over constituents.

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Changes At The Polls

.S. Sen. Mark Warner is perhaps the most popular politician in all of Virginia, but that notion hasn’t stopped Republican Ed Gillespie from working hard to unseat the Democratic former governor.

Warner has maintained a lead in most polls leading up to Tuesday’s statewide election. For example, he was up 46 percent to 37 percent among likely voters, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News/YouGov poll.

But Gillespie, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and former Republican National Committee chairman, has tried to make up the difference, at least in part, by linking Warner with President Barack Obama’s policies.

“I believe that much of the problem we’re seeing today is because, under the Obama-Warner policies, the federal government is doing too many things better left to state governments and the private sector, and not doing enough of what they should be at the federal level,” Gillespie said earlier this month in Ashburn.

Warner, meanwhile, has cited his reputation as a consensus-builder in the Senate, pointing out that he seeks GOP co-sponsors when introducing legislation. He also is known for being a key figure in the so-called “Gang of Six,” a bipartisan group of senators examining fiscal

matters.

“The last thing Washington needs is another partisan warrior in either political party,” Warner said at an Oct. 7 debate sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce.

More recently, Gillespie upbraided Warner over a call he made to the son of former Democratic state Sen. Phillip Puckett, whose recent resignation handed control of that chamber of the General Assembly to Republicans. The implication is that Warner talked with Puckett’s son about the possibility of a judgeship for Puckett’s daughter if the senator would remain in office and preserve Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s chances of getting Medicaid expansion approved by the legislature.

Gillespie said in a debate in Richmond on Oct. 13 that he “would never play politics with recommending judicial appointments.”

Warner responded that night that he spoke with the senator’s son, Joseph Puckett, about potential jobs for his sister, Martha Puckett Ketron. However, the senator said he emphasized that he “did not offer her a job nor would I offer her any kind of position.”

Libertarian Robert Sarvis also is on Tuesday’s ballot. He’s not expected to win, but he’s somewhat of a hero to Libertarians because he garnered 6.5 percent of the vote in last year’s Virginia gubernatorial election, quite a showing for a third-party candidate. n

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oters can expect several changes when they arrive at the polls Tuesday.

Chief among them is the requirement that all voters must present a photo ID before receiving a ballot.

According to Loudoun County General Registrar Judy Brown, there are several options for voters. Those choices include: a valid Virginia driver’s license; a DMV-issued photo ID card; a valid U.S. passport; a valid employee photo ID card; other government-issued photo ID card; or a valid Virginia college or university student photo ID card (the issuer must be an institution of higher education located in Virginia).

Whichever form of photo ID is selected, “it cannot be expired for more than 12 months if it has an expiration date on it,” Brown said.

Those who turn up without the required photo ID will be given a provisional ballot and granted until noon the Friday after the election to provide a valid photo ID—by fax, email, mail or in person at the Registrar’s Office, Brown said. Only as a last resource, will Registrar’s Office staff take a photograph of the voter, who will have to sign a form stating they do not possess the valid ID. Without the photo ID, the ballot will not be counted.

As of Monday, 1,187 voters had registered to cast absentee ballots. Most had used their driver’s license as photo ID, with a few military ID cards also being presented.

The registrar’s office, located at 750 Miller Drive SE, Suite C in Leesburg, will be open for absentee voting this week through Friday, Oct. 31 from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Staff members also will be at the Cascades Senior Center and the Dulles Multipurpose Center Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additionally, those two locations will be open through Friday, Oct. 31 4-8 p.m.

Another key change this year is new voting equipment.

According to Brown there have been concerns about the touch-screen voting machines, some of which have been in use since 1997. This year, all voting will be done using a paper-based system, in which voters will shade in their choices in marked squares, then feed the ballot into a scanning device to be recorded.

Only those with disabilities— either having difficulty writing or with their eyesight—still will be permitted to use touch screens. Their vote will be recorded and then printed out and fed through the scanner, Brown said. Those with vision difficulties will have a touch pad and audio instruction to delineate the choices. “Or, they can ask for help,” Brown said.

All voters, she said, should make sure their ballot goes into the scanner to be tabulated.

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he only statewide constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot is intended to show support for the families of service members.

The amendment, if approved, would eliminate real estate taxes on the homes of spouses of any member of the military killed in action.

The spouse could continue to claim the exemption so long as he or she did not remarry and continued to occupy the home. This amendment would not change current law, which provides such tax exemptions to disabled veterans and their surviving spouses.

Del. David Ramadan (R-87), who proposed the constitutional amendment, said a “yes” vote is a “vote in support of our brave men and women who have died on the field of battle, and their surviving spouses.

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Parks, Recreation and Library Projects: Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation capital improvement bonds in the maximum amount of $10,935,000 to finance in whole or in part, the costs to relocate, expand and equip

School Projects: Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation and capital improvement bonds in the maximum amount of $162,900,000 to finance in whole or in part, the costs to design, construct and equip ES-27, Dulles North Elementary School; the costs to design, construct and equip MS-9, Dulles North Middle School; the cost to design, construct and equip the Advanced Technology Academy and other public school facilities throughout the County?

If approved, the borrowed funds would be used for the construction of a Dulles North elementary school, ES-27; Dulles North middle school, MS-9; and the Advanced Technology Academy, renamed the Academies of Loudoun.

ES-27, a $35 million project, is expected to open in the fall of 2016 to provide enrollment relief for Legacy, Creighton’s Corner and Moorefield Station elementary schools. MS-9, a $53.5 million project, has a planned opening of fall 2017 and will open seats in Eagle Ridge and Stone Hill middle schools.

The Academies of Loudoun, planned to be built along Sycolin Road south of Leesburg, would combine expanded versions of the existing Academy of Science and C.S. Monroe Technology Center, as well as a new Academy of Engineering and Technology. The project, with a projected price tag of just more than $114.6 million, is slated to be finished by 2018. n

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Public Safety Projects: Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia, contract a debt and issue its general obligation capital improvement bonds in the maximum amount of $34,690,000 to finance in whole or in part, the cost to design and construct an animal shelter located in the Town of Leesburg or east of Route 15; the cost to acquire fire and rescue apparatus; the cost to acquire land for Sterling Park Rescue Squad and the Sterling Volunteer Fire Departments replacement station and to design, construct and equip that replacement station; and other public safety facilities throughout the County?

This project provides funding for the design and construction of a 25,000-square-foot animal shelter to replace the existing County Animal Services facility near Waterford.

The location of a new Animal Services operation has not been decided, but the preferred spot is the eastern portion of the Leesburg Planning Subarea along Sycolin Road. A study was funded in FY 2014 to evaluate the most strategic location for the new Animal Services facility and to help determine its scope. The intent of the new location is to better provide animal services to the densest concentration of human and pet populations in the county, while remaining readily accessible to western Loudoun residents and allowing animal control officers with responsibility for patrolling eastern Loudoun to operate more efficiently. The Animal Services facility will serve as operational headquarters and provide many of the same services as the current animal shelter, including: pet adoptions; housing of strays, abandoned or relinquished companion animals; dog license sales; volunteer opportunities; dispatch services; educational programs; counseling services; and an operating veterinary clinic for the medical treatment of shelter pets. Construction is planned in FY 2016.

Sterling Library; the costs to renovate and equip Sterling Community Center; and other public park, recreational and library facilities throughout the County?

This referendum provides funding to help implement the Board of Supervisors’ Sterling Public Facilities Master Plan. The project includes the relocation of the Sterling Library to leased storefront space and the renovation of the Sterling Community Center in its current location and expansion into the vacated library space. The new library will include 15,000 square feet for library programs, public computers, meeting space and circulation materials. The current Sterling Library is 5,840 square feet. A new library location has not been selected.

With an 8,000-square-foot expansion the renovated community center will occupy a total of 18,000 square feet of space at its current location. $5.5 million in previously approved community center bonds will be applied to the project.

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t may be the candidates who bring residents to the polls, but while in the booth, voters will be asked to do more than select their next elected leaders.

In Tuesday’s General Election, Loudouners will be asked by their county government to borrow a total of $208,525,000 in general obligation bonds.

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oday there’s a Kindercare at 1946 Isaac Newton Square in Reston.

But in 1989, it was the site of an Ebola nightmare in the making.

Where the day care center now stands was once home to Hazelton Research Products’ quarantine station for imported lab animals. In October 1989, a shipment of 100 monkeys from the Philippines arrived, and began to die.

At the time, Ebola had only been recently discovered, and was thought to be isolated to the rain forests of the African Congo. No one could have imagined what would happen next in the monkey house—or that Northern Virginia would forever be linked by name to one of the most lethal viruses in human history.

“I think to this day, we’re not sure how dangerous this species [of the virus] is,” said Thomas Geisbert, the scientist who discovered what came to be called Ebola Reston. Likewise, he said, health officials still “don’t know much about” the current Ebola strain killing thousands in West Africa.

“We’re at the very beginning,” said Geisbert, now a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston.

HIGHLY LETHAL

The world is experiencing the largest Ebola outbreak since the disease was discovered 38 years ago. More than 10,000 have become infected and more than 4,400 have died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization warns the virus threatens to become pandemic, widespread and out of control. In August, WHO officials declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern.”

Since Ebola was discovered in 1976, the CDC has documented 34 individual outbreaks, with mortality rates ranging from 50 to almost 90 percent, according to the CDC. Ebola enters the body through cuts, scrapes or mucous membranes and is trans-

mitted through body fluids such as blood, vomit and sweat. Once inside the body, it attacks virtually every cell, causing multiple organ system breakdowns, according to the CDC. As the virus progresses, patients bleed under the skin, in the internal organs and from the mouth, eyes, ears and other orifices.

It is what the CDC calls a “Biosafety Level 4” virus—highly infectious and highly lethal.

‘THIS IS EBOLA’

In 1989, at what was known as the “monkey house” in Reston, Ebola never crossed the minds of caretakers and researchers trying to find out why the crab-eating macaques from the Philippines kept getting sick and dying. After all, the monkeys weren’t from the rain forests of Africa, where the only known Ebola outbreaks had occurred.

But something was spreading fast through the Hazelton labs facility, and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, MD, was tasked with figuring it out.

USAMRIID, known as the Institute, was the only Department of Defense facility that could handle research for “Biosafety Level 4” infectious diseases.

Tom Geisbert—a 27-year-old research intern just starting his career—was assigned to study samples from the monkey house under an electron microscope to try and identify what was happening.

Scientists at the Institute felt pretty sure that a common simian virus was wiping out the Reston monkeys.

“Simian hemorrhagic fever is similar to Ebola, but it doesn’t infect humans,” Geisbert said.

He put the samples under his microscope. “And I said, ‘This is Ebola.’”

At first, Geisbert’s boss, then-Army scientist Peter Jahrling, didn’t believe him. But test after test proved the truth.

“We were busy 24-7 running samples,” Geisbert said. But they were also thinking about all the samples they’d handled, which had arrived thawed and dripping blood at the Institute.

“You kind of start calculating in your

mind,” Geisbert said. “When was I last exposed? How many days has it been?”

And, if the strain made the leap from monkey to human hosts, what about all the lab workers at the Reston monkey house? And all of the people they may have exposed?

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Meanwhile in Reston, all of the monkeys in one room at the facility were euthanized to prevent the spread of infection. But soon, monkeys in other rooms began getting sick and dying, though they had had no contact with the Philippine monkeys.

Army officials concluded that the Reston strain may have been airborne, spreading like a common cold or the flu. But Geisbert isn’t so sure.

“The virus is found in feces,” he said. “If you take a high-pressure hose, and blast it at monkey poop, the particles are going to spread.

That’s not technically aerosol [transmission].”

Finally, in late November of 1989, the Institute had formally identified the virus in Reston, and the process of dealing with a potential Ebola outbreak 22 miles from the nation’s capital began.

Grisly scenes from those panicked days at the monkey house are chronicled in Richard Preston’s 1994 book, “The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus.”

Soldiers in biohazard suits, monkeys pinned down with long poles and euthanized via injection from afar, along with television news satellite trucks camped outside. And sick monkeys, dozens of sick monkeys.

“Here and there, in rooms all over the building, some of the animals stared from glazed eyes in masklike faces, and some of them had blood running from their orifices.

It landed on metal trays under their cages— ping, ping, ping,” Preston wrote.

All of the monkeys at the Reston facility, 450 of them, were euthanized.

Officials from the Virginia Department of Health and CDC monitored and tested the workers at Hazelton and the Institute who had been exposed to a new strain of Ebola that had proved so fatal to the monkeys. None of those

exposed, Geisbert and Jahrling included, fell ill with the virus.

Then the building was decontaminated, an 11-day process that involved bleaching, sterilizing and the burning of formaldehyde crystals in electric frying pans, according to a paper entitled “Reston’s Hot Zone – 20 years later,” printed in the Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The new strain was named Ebola Reston, and it returned to the facility, again in monkeys imported from the Philippines, in 1990.

Four lab workers tested positive for Ebola Reston antibodies, but never got sick, Geisbert said.

After the second outbreak, the Hazelton facility was demolished.

CHASING EBOLA

Today, parents drop off their children each day at the Kindercare where the monkey house once stood. Traffic whizzes by, and many of Northern Virginia’s busy commuters have no idea what happened there 25 years ago.

But the near miss of an Ebola epidemic in the nation’s capital set a lifelong path for Geisbert, who was born and raised in western Maryland. His father had been an engineer at the USAMRIID. “I grew up there,” he said.

He’d always been interested in diseases, but his discovery of Ebola Reston led to a career of trying to understand, and stop, the deadly virus.

His lab received a $26 million grant this year to develop vaccines against Ebola, and introduced a drug, VSV Ebola, that is now in clinical trials at Walter Reed Army hospital in Maryland.

Geisbert says he’s fascinated by pathogenesis, the study of how diseases develop and mutate.

But when he’s home at his ranch in Galveston, watching the “west Texas sun go down” and reflecting on a life chasing down a disease bent on death, there’s really only one reason he does what he does.

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wo longtime Loudouners will be honored by the Thomas Balch Library Advisory Commission for their outstanding contributions to preserve the county’s heritage.

The 2014 Loudoun History Award winners are Vernon Peterson and Stephen C. Price. They will be honored during a ceremony Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. at the library at 25 W. Market St. in Leesburg.

The annual program, now in its 22nd year, recognizes those who stand out for their work

to promote the understanding and preservation of Loudoun’s heritage—its buildings and its people and events—recorded through oral, photographic, artistic and written accounts.

Peterson will be honored for his outstanding work in researching, preserving and documenting the role of African Americans in the county’s history, with particular focus on the Rockhill Cemetery near Bluemont. Leesburg attorney Price, who is a member of many Loudoun conservation and historic preservation organizations and to whom he has given pro

bono legal services, is recognized for his many contributions to land conservation, historic preservation and the history of the county.

The commission also will present certificates of special recognition to two former government leaders for their contributions: Charles L. Waddell, who served as a county supervisor, state senator and deputy transportation secretary, and recently retired Leesburg Town Manager John A. Wells. Waddell is cited for his efforts as a legislator to preserve and enhance historic resources in the common-

wealth, while Wells is recognized for his many years of personal support of history and preservation throughout the county, in Leesburg, and, in particular, his support of the Thomas Balch Library.

The awards ceremony will be held in the library’s downstairs meeting room. Space is limited so early arrival is encouraged.

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Budget Earns State Innovations Award Leesburg brought home a 2014 VGFOA Innovations Award from the Virginia Government Finance Officers Association in recognition of its budgeting and financial planning efforts. The award was presented to town staff during association’s fall conference in Rich-

mond Oct. 23.

The town redesigned its annual budget and capital improvements program using a database publishing platform, PatternStream and Adobe Framemaker. The budget revamp was a collaborative effort, led by the management and

budget analysts. Now the town’s financial and budgetary information is completely integrated into the town’s financial system, replacing a compilation of spreadsheets. The automated process has improved efficiencies in preparing and producing the budget, while providing for a

more functional budget document. At the core of the redesign are improved online reading features including cross-linked table of contents, hyperlinks, QR codes and social media links to connect readers quickly and easily to information of interest or importance to them. n

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5A North Region – Conference 14 REC PP Rank Tuscarora 9-0 32.56 1 Stone Bridge 6-2 29.13 3 Briar Woods 7-1 28.50 4 Broad Run 5-3 27.00 6 Potomac Falls 4-4 22.13 14 Freedom 1-8 18.00 22

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hen Tuscarora senior Alexis Coombs began playing volleyball, she had her sights set on being the best at her position.

She has reached that goal as a high school player.

Coombs earned Virginia High School League All-Group 5A honors last season as she set a school record with 300 kills from her outside hitter position.

Now, she is trying to accomplish another goal—leading Tuscarora back to the 5A North Region playoffs.

Reaching that goal will be an uphill battle.

After posting a 19-7 record and reaching the region semifinals last fall, the Huskies lost six seniors and have spent much of this year trying to find their team identity. That has resulted in an 8-13 overall record (through matches of Oct. 27) and leaves Tuscarora 1-7 in the Potomac District (Conference 14) with one match remaining before next week’s district tournament.

Tuscarora competes with some of the top teams in Group 5A in the Potomac District, including 2013 state finalist Stone Bridge and state semifinalist Broad Run. Add Briar Woods, Potomac Falls and Freedom, and the district may be the strongest in the commonwealth. Through matches of Oct. 27, Briar Woods led the district with a 7-0 record, while Stone Bridge was 2-1, Broad Run and Potomac Falls were both 4-3 and Freedom was 2-6.

Coombs and Tuscarora head coach Meghan Puckli—in her fourth season with the program and second as head coach—believe the Huskies have the ability to reach their goal, but it’s going to take some hard work.

“We had high goals last season and we were able to achieve them,” Puckli said. “We still have high goals for this season and even though our record doesn’t show it right now, we know that postseason play is what matters. The players

4A North Region – Conference 21 REC PP Rank Woodgrove 6-2 25.50 8 Dominion 4-4 22.25 12 Loudoun County 3-5 20.38 17 Heritage 2-6 19.13 21 Park View 0-8 14.71 28 3A East Region – Conference 28 REC PP Rank Loudoun Valley 7-1 27.13 2 John Champe 5-3 22.38 9 REC – Overall Record; PP – VHSL Power Points; RANK – Ranking in region (top 16 advance to postseason)

LAST WEEK’S RESULTS Friday, Oct. 24 Broad Run 38, Potomac Falls 13 Tuscarora 41, Freedom 3 Briar Woods 63, Park View 0 Woodgrove 35, Dominion 28 John Champe 23, Loudoun County 20 Loudoun Valley 35, Heritage 7 Stone Bridge 50, South Lakes 7

THIS WEEK’S GAMES Friday, Oct. 31 Loudoun County at Loudoun Valley, 7 Potomac Falls at Briar Woods, 7 Woodgrove at Broad Run, 7 Dominion at Park View, 7 Heritage at John Champe, 7 Fairfax at Stone Bridge, 7:30 OFF – Freedom, Tuscarora

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Tuscarora senior Alexis Coombs set a school record last season with 300 kills. Now she’s hoping to lead the Huskies to 5A North Region playoffs.

Quick Hits • Loudoun Soccer coach Mark Ryan has been awarded the Virginia Youth Soccer Association 2014 Boys Competitive Coach of the Year as well as the US Youth Soccer Region I 2014 Boys Competitive Coach of the Year. Competitive Coach of the Year is awarded for coaching activities, sportsmanship, player de velopment, personal coaching development and citizenship.

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ents the award to honor individuals for their service and accomplishments in soccer in the commonwealth. Ryan has been at Loudoun Soccer for three years. Along with his responsibilities as the travel director, he is the head coach for the Northern District of the Olympic Development Program. This summer, he led the Loudoun 98 Boys Red team to the US Youth Soccer National Championship.

• Loudoun County High School senior AllState pitcher Delany Turner has committed to UVA-Wise where she will 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 AllDistrict and All-Region Pitcher of the Year, and was a member of the All-State 4A Softball team.

In 2013 she was among the area leaders with 207 strikeouts.

• HIGHBAR Athletics in Ashburn is offering a sport weightlifting program for kids, teens and adults. The program is directed and coached by co-owner Dan Scanlan, who recently won his division in the The White Rose Barbell Open in York, PA, and qualified to compete in The American Open. HIGHBAR also offers programs in CrossFit, athletic performance, kids fitness and weightlifting. For more information, go to www. highbarathletics.com.

• Three teams from Loudoun Soccer have reached the semifinals of the Virginia Youth Soccer Association State Cup. Loudoun 99 Boys Red, Loudoun 98 Boys Red and Loudoun 98 Girls Red advanced to the Final Four in each of their respective age groups. Both boys’ teams make a return to the semifinals of the State Cup as the reigning champions of the competition.

Two teams, Loudoun 98 Boys and Girls, par-

ticipated in the US Youth Soccer National Championships during the past summer. Semifinal matches are to be held at the new VYSA Virginia Soccer Training Center in Fredericksburg Nov. 1, with an opportunity to progress to the final’s held Nov. 2. Admission to the matches is free.

Information and directions can be found at www. vysatc.com.

• Valley, Woodgrove Powder Puff Nov. 5 The girls of two cross-town rivals—Loudoun Valley and Woodgrove high schools—will face off in a powder puff game Wednesday, Nov. 5.

The game will take place at Woodgrove High School’s stadium, at 36811 Allder School Road in Purcellville. Tickets are $5, and all proceeds will be donated.

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we lost from last year have been the difference between the two seasons.”

“A lot of the girls last year had played together for a while,” Coombs said. “I knew myself that this team would not have the same level as last year’s team with all the new players and having to get used to each other. But skill wise, I think we have it there.

“I feel like some teams know where our open spots are,” Coombs added. “We need to be a little smarter on our side of the court. It’s energy, too. Sometimes we have the energy, then we lose it, and it’s been like an up-and-down roller coaster. It’s more in executing from the start, not digging down into a hole and having to come back. It’s best out of five [games to win a match], so if you lose the first two, you have to win the third one. So it’s about executing and that’s something we struggle with.”

Individually, the 6-foot Coombs has struggled little this season. The Most Valuable Player of the Raider Rumble Tournament at Fairfax County’s J.E.B. Stuart High School in September, she leads the Huskies with 179 kills and 209 digs, ranks second with 30 service aces and is tied for third with sophomore Vanessa Marinelli with 25 blocks.

“One thing I’ve really noticed that has improved for her is her back row play,” Puckli said. “Her defense and serve receive are much better, and she has been one of our consistently best passers. She’s always been a strong hitter and that’s been a huge step for her.”

“Alexis is one of our co-captains [with fellow senior outside hitter Sydney Garrell] and she is a player all of the other players definitely look up to,” Puckli added. “She is a leader on the court. If Alexis is having a good game, everyone else is having a good game.

Garrell and junior middle hitter Lexxie Faison are doing their best to assist Coombs this season. Faison leads the Huskies with 42 blocks and ranks second with 131 kills, while Garrell is

third on the team with 113 kills, 143 digs and 26 service aces.

“It’s been fun to be the leader and kind of teach everyone to go down the right path,” Coombs said. “This is my first year being captain and I have been trying to take advantage of that.”

Coombs began her career at Tuscarora as a freshman middle hitter. She petitioned the coaching staff to be moved outside and that move paid dividends in her junior campaign last season. Not only did she set the record for most kills in a season, but Coombs ranked second on the Huskies with 78 blocks, was third with 147 digs and 34 service aces and had a .301 hitting percentage.

“I remember having a conversation with her and her dad during her freshman year about her wanting to be an outside hitter in college,” Puckli said. “As a middle, at 6-foot, she wasn’t quite tall enough to be a middle at a good Division I school. We had that conversation and she came out her junior year and proved she needed to be an outside hitter.”

That change, in addition to her play with the Virginia Elite Volleyball Club, got her noticed by college recruiters. Puckli said she got 31 emails the first day colleges could contact Coombs last fall.

“There were a ton of e-mails of different big schools looking at her,” Puckli said. “It was a very exciting time for her and our program.”

After sifting through the offers, Coombs verbally committed to Southern Mississippi University, a member of Conference USA located in Hattiesburg, MS. “I’ve been on seven college visits and when I went there, I fell in love with it,” Coombs said.

“It was exactly what I wanted. I loved the coach, the players, the gym was nice and the program was nice. They had my major [nursing] and it’s out of state, which is what I wanted. It was perfect.”

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orry ladies—dishy “Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch will not be in Loudoun for the East Coast premiere of his new movie “The Imitation Game” at this weekend’s Middleburg Film Festival. But his adorable co-star, Irish actor Allen Leech (best known for his role as chauffeur Tom Branson in “Downton Abbey”) and director Morten Tyldum will be on hand Saturday night to discuss the film.

“The Imitation Game,” the story of World War II code breaker Alan Turing, is the festival’s centerpiece film this year. Unfortunately for history buffs and Cumberbatch fans, tickets for Saturday’s screening and reception and a second screening Sunday are sold out. But don’t worry—the movie is slated to hit theaters next month. And the festival, which runs Oct. 30-Nov. 2, offers plenty of other options for great movie watching—and stargazing—for locals and visitors alike.

Another big name, director Richard LaGravenese, opens the festival Thursday night with a Q&A session following a screening of his new musical “The Last Five Years.” The film— starring Oscar-nominated actress Anna Kendrick, known for her roles in “Twilight” and “Up in the Air,” and “Smash” star Jeremy Jordan—is based on Jason Robert Brown’s off-Broadway musical chronicling the relationship between an up-and- coming novelist and an aspiring actress in New York. As of press time, tickets were still available for Thursday’s opening night screening ($25 each). The film also runs Nov. 1. Tickets are also still available for most of the other movies in the festival lineup, a selection of international and Indie gems. A number of films will be introduced by their directors or by other VIPs, including Swedish and Italian ambassadors. General admission ticket price for most movies is $15.

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Actor Allen Leech, right, a star of “The Imitation Game,” will join director Morten Tyldum to discuss the film after Saturday night’s Centerpiece Screening at the Middleburg Film Festival.

Film Festival, which has been described as a mini-Cannes, is the brainchild of Middleburgbased entrepreneur Sheila Johnson. Johnson’s Salamander Resort & Spa will be the festival’s hub, but screenings will also take place at other locations in and around the western Loudoun town, including the Hill School, the National

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The stunning Marion Cotillard, who won a best actress Oscar in 2007 for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose” stars as a Belgian factory worker who has two days to convince her fellow employees to give up their bonuses so she can keep her job.

The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, is Belgium’s submission for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film.

(Oct. 31 at Salamander Resort and Nov. 2 at Buchanan Hall)

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A thriller by director Paolo Virzi, set in Italy’s

Sporting Library and Museum and Upperville’s Buchanan Hall.

“Middleburg is unique and spectacular.

We’ve used the appeal of the foliage, the local culture of horses and vineyards to lure filmmakers, producers, actors and distributors to attend the festival with their films,” said MFF program-

ming director Connie White, who is also owner of Massachusetts-based Balcony Booking and artistic director for the Provincetown Film Festival. “We expect that it won’t be long before word is out in the whole of the filmmaking industry about this lovely part of the country.”

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here are lots of great things about living in Loudoun, but access to international films isn’t one of them. Most international films released in the U.S. don’t make it to the suburban multiplex, leaving film lovers to make the trek into D.C. or Arlington or hold out until something interesting shows up on Netflix.

This weekend’s Middleburg Film Festival is a golden opportunity for foreign movie enthusiasts, with numerous Oscar contenders on the program, most of which won’t come anywhere near Loudoun when they’re released. Here’s a glimpse of this film lover’s wish list for this weekend:

wealthy Lombardy region, explores the relationship between two families of different social classes whose fates are connected by a car accident. “Human Capital” is Italy’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero will introduce Friday’s screening. (Oct. 31 at Buchanan Hall, Nov. 2 at the Hill School).

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The latest from brilliant French director Olivier Assayas, who made his name with the 1996 cult classic “Irma Vep” and won a Golden Globe for his miniseries biopic of Carlos the Jackal. In “Clouds,” French super-

star Juliette Binoche plays an aging actress who retreats to the Swiss Alps to confront her insecurities, with her assistant played by Kristen Stewart. (Oct. 31 at the Hill School, Nov. 1 at Buchanan Hall)

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Franco-British director Yann Demange tells the story of a British soldier separated from his unit during a riot in Belfast in 1971. The film’s star, English actor Jack O’Connell, who also appears in Angelina Jolie’s upcoming movie “Unbroken,” appears to be on his way to becoming a household name. (Nov. 1 at Buchanan Hall, Nov. 2 at Salamander Resort)

FORCE MAJEURE

Sweden’s entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar and a big winner at Cannes, this dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a man’s decision to save himself and leave his wife and children to fend for themselves during an avalanche while skiing with his family in the French Alps. Swedish Ambassador Bjorn Lyrvall introduces Sunday’s screening. (Nov. 1 at Buchanan Hall, Nov. 2 at Salamander Resort).

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8 p.m., Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville. Contact: mainstreettheaterproductions.org Main Street Theater presents the popular musical based on Dickens’ classic tale. Tickets are $23 for adults, $20 for students and seniors.

Saturday, Nov. 1 Appalachian Stomp

9 a.m.-5 p.m. (workshop), 7-9 p.m., dance, Carver Center, Purcellville. Contact: www. appalachianstomp.com Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers presents a daylong workshop featuring top local instructors.

Classes for all levels will be taught in three

10 a.m.-5 p.m., Great Country Farms, 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont. Contact: www. greatcountryfarms.com Bring your old pumpkins to create pumpkin fireworks at daily 40-foot pumpkin drops and enjoy the farm’s many other fall activities.

Pumpkin Drop zone takes place Saturday and Sunday at noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Admission is $8 for children and $10 for adults. Military ID holders are free. Pumpkin Chunkin’ runs through Nov. 4.

4-7 p.m., The Dairy Barn Gallery, 22868 Sunny Bank Lane, Middleburg. Contact: www.facebook.com/dairybarngallery The collaborative show features a number of local artists, including Winslow McCagg and Julie Miles, in a range of media.

Country Ham and Turkey Dinner

5-7 p.m., Mount Pleasant Methodist Church, Taylorstown. Contact: 540-622-3932 Family style dinner includes country ham, turkey, sides and dessert. Open to the public.

Free will offering.

Loudoun Library Foundation Book Collection

10 a.m.-noon, Rust Library and Village at Leesburg, 1609 Village Market Blvd. #110, Leesburg. Contact: llfvolunteers@gmail.com The library foundation is collecting books, CDs and DVDs for its giant 2015 sale at two Leesburg-area locations.

6 p.m., doors open, 7 p.m., music begins. Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, Leesburg. Contact: www.luckettsbluegrass.com Veteran DC-area musicians perform harddriving, traditional style bluegrass. Tickets are $15 at the door.

“Monsters Undercover”

6:30 p.m., doors open, 7 p.m., show begins, Carradoc Hall, 1500 E. Market St., Leesburg.

Contact: stagecoachtc.com This original production follows Dracula, the Mummy and other old school monster stars as they work out a plan to deal with zombies stealing their fans. $55 ticket price includes a buffet dinner from Silk Restaurant. Alcoholic beverages will be sold separately. Show is considered PG-13 and may not be appropriate for younger children. Advance reservations are required.

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Haunted Turnpike Tour

Willowcroft Lasagna Lunch

12, 2 and 4 p.m., Willowcroft Farm Vineyard, 38906 Mt. Gilead Road, Leesburg. Contact: willowcroftwine.com Enjoy a lasagna lunch and Caesar salads from Food4Thought catering. Cost is $10 for lunch.

Add a glass of wine for $5. Advance reservations are required.

Lucketts Bluegrass: Jay Armsworthy and Eastern Tradition

Hillsboro Classical Concert

6 p.m., dinner, 7 p.m., concert begins, Hills-

7:30 p.m., Aldie Mill, 39401 John Mosby Highway, Aldie. Contact: www.mosbyheritagearea. org As part of its Cavaliers, Coffee and Courage series, the Gray Ghost Interpretive Group presents a series of unnerving sketches of the unexplainable and downright haunted events from Civil War Aldie. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students.

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10 a.m., Thomas Balch Library, 208 W. Market St., Leesburg. Contact: 703-737-7195 Errol S. Somay, director of the Library of Virginia’s Virginia Newspaper Project, a program to locate, describe, inventory and preserve print newspapers in the commonwealth, discusses the programs and how the public can use it as a resource. Program is free but advance registration is recommended.

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Noon-4 p.m., Trinity Episcopal, 9108 John Mosby Highway, Upperville. Contact: www. trinityupperville.org Event features live music, tours of the chapel and grounds, children’s activities and more.

Cost is $20 per person or $50 per family and includes pork and side dishes.

boro Old Stone School, 37098 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro. Contact: www.oldstoneschool. org “Winter Songs for Flute” features flutist Kimberly Eloshway and Neil Weston.

Concert tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students. Children 12 and under are free. Dinner from Karen Fuog and wines from Hillsborough Vineyards will be sold separately. The concert series benefits restoration efforts at the Old Stone School.

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9:15 a.m., Oatlands Carriage House, 20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg. Contact: www. oatlands.org Bring your dog for a guided tour of Oatlands grounds. Cost is $20 per dog, and registration is limited to 15 dogs. Advance registration is required.

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Contact: dtsumuki@aol.com Join veteran yoga teachers for contemplative yoga in Oatlands’ gardens. Cost is $20. Bring a yoga mat and water.

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11 a.m. The Church of Our Saviour, 20318 James Monroe Hwy. The groundbreaking ceremony will follow the 9:30 a.m. service at the historic church building. The congregation has purchased 24 acres for the new church.

Nature Walk at Morven Park

1-3 p.m., Morven Park, Leesburg. Contact: www.loudounwildlife.org Join the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for a visit to woods and wetlands and a discussion of the park’s flora and fauna. Event is free, but advance registration is required.

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2 p.m., Great Country Farms, 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont. Contact: www.greatcountryfarms.com This fun event benefits the Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors. The ducks will be placed in a pool for a giant pumpkin drop and will land in different prize spots. Buy your duck for $5 before 2 p.m. for a chance to win prizes, including a stay at Massanutten Resort, gift certificates for local businesses and more.

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2 p.m., Thomas Balch Library, 208 W. Market St. Leesburg. Contact: 703-737-7195 Billy Wayson discusses his new book on the relationship and correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and his daughter Martha.

Event is free, but advance registration is recommended.

Praise Concert

6 p.m., Hillsboro UMC, 37216 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro. Contact: 540-668-6347 Free event features lots of local talent and refreshments.

Willowcroft Lasagna Lunch See Nov. 1 listing.

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11 a.m.-noon, Leesburg Senior Center, 102 North St. NW, Leesburg. Contact: 703-7378039 Music will be provided by Heritage High School. Cost is $2 for members, $4 for nonmembers and free for veterans.

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Loudoun Road Runners holds its third annual 10K trail run Sunday, Nov. 9 to raise funds for Boulder Crest Retreat, a Bluemontbased nonprofit providing wounded warriors and their families with a place to relax, recuperate and reconnect.

This year’s race will take place at Camp Highroad, a 600-acre retreat near Middleburg. Registration is $45 with a race shirt and $35 without a shirt. The course is quiet, scenic and challenging with hills and possibly mud (as trail runs often do). A course map, photos and more details are available on the website. The race begins at 9 a.m. For information and registration, go to www.trailrun.loudounroadrunners.org.

Meanwhile, the second annual Lace Up for Learning 5K is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 15 at Brambleton Town Center. The event will benefit all participating Brambleton schools while promoting healthy living and encouraging school spirit.

Each runner or walker designates a beneficiary school when registering. In addition to the 5K run/walk, the event also features the Mascot Mini-Mile, a one-half mile fun run. The event is held rain or shine and begins with a pep rally at 8:10 a.m. Participants are encouraged to wear school colors.

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Halloween Events in Loudoun

Purcellville Halloween Block Party 5-9 p.m., North 21st St., Purcellville. Contact: www.purcellvillehalloween.com This fun evening organized by 21st St. merchants and the Purcellville Business Association includes entertainment, food, games and costume contests. No registration is required, and admission is free.

6-7:30 p.m., Lovettsville Community Center, 57 E. Broad Way, Lovettsville. Contact: 540-822-5284 Visit decorated trunks and the “Not So Scary Candy Trail.” The Lovettsville Lions will provide free glow sticks and will be accepting donations of canned goods.

LEESBURG HALLOWEEN PARADE

6 p.m., King Street, Leesburg. Contact: leesburgkiwanis.org The parade starts at Ida Lee Park and follows a 1-mile route along King Street to Safeway. Spectators are encouraged to avoid crowds by watching the parade south

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7-11 p.m., The Community Church, 19790 Ashburn Road, Ashburn. Contact: www. thefrightnight.com The Community Church puts on a frightening walk in the woods to benefit community programs and a school/orphanage in Honduras.

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6:30-8 p.m., Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, Leesburg. Contact: 703-771-5281 Trunk or treat, then enjoy a bonfire and spooky snacks. Cost is $7 per family.

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For music lovers, one of the highlights of the festival is the Saturday afternoon concert featuring the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra performing the music of prolific film composer Marco Beltrami. Beltrami will discuss his work following the concert, scheduled for 4 p.m. at Salamander Resort. Tickets are $30.

A master class on film music with awardwinning composer George S. Clinton, who wrote the score for “Austin Powers,” takes place Saturday, Nov. 1 at noon at the National Sporting Library. For those looking to get an insider’s view on the nitty-gritty of film production, a panel discussion on film distribution and financing features a number of top level producers and the CEO of DC-based Snag Films, a website offering streaming of independent films. The class takes place Saturday, Nov. 1 at 9:30 a.m. at Salamander Resort.

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One of the highlights is Vanity Fair Correspondent Maureen Orth’s conversation with accomplished producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (producers of the new film “Low Down,” set in the jazz scene of 1970s Los Angeles and screening at the festival). This discussion takes place Saturday, Nov. 1 at 12:45 p.m. at Middleburg’s Boxwood Winery and Tasting Room. Tickets are $30.

The highlight of the festival’s closing day is a keynote address from former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America on “Why Films Matter.”

Librarian of Congress James Billington joins Dodd for the talk, which takes place Sunday, Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. at Salamander Resort. Tickets are $15.

There will certainly be an added air of glamour in the already swanky little town this weekend. For locals, it’s a great chance catch a

movie that might not make it to a theater near them, and maybe run into a celebrity or two. But remember, it’s Middleburg, so you may want to wear your pearls and leave your sweatpants at home.

Salamander Resort and Spa is located at 500 N. Pendleton St. in Middleburg.

The National Sporting Library and Museum is located at 102 The Plains Road in Middleburg.

The Hill School is located at 130 S. Madison St. in Middleburg.

Buchanan Hall is located at 8549 John S. Mosby Highway, Upperville.

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f you’re not tied down by trick or treating, why not bring some high-end glamour or bargain retro fun to your Halloween night?

The organizers of the Middleburg Film Festival have some great treats planned for Oct. 31, from charity screenings of Halloween classics to a Venetian-style masquerade ball at Salamander Resort.

Organizers have scheduled two special Halloween-themed screenings to benefit UNICEF Friday afternoon and evening.

Tickets for each film are only $1. The afternoon starts with Tim Burton’s 1990 classic

“Edward Scissorhands,” the story of an unfinished creation (played by Johnny Depp) who falls in love with a suburban teenager. The screening takes place at 4 p.m. at Buchanan Hall in Upperville.

Later that evening, the festival will show Wes Craven’s 1997 horror classic “Scream” starring Courtney Cox and David Arquette.

The film features a score by one of this year’s MFF honorees, composer Marco Beltrami.

The screening takes place at 8:30 p.m. at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg.

If you’re looking for something a little swankier, consider the festival’s Halloween-

night tribute to “Edward Scissorhands” costume designer Colleen Atwood. A film tribute and conversation with Atwood take place Friday evening at 8 p.m. at Salamander Resort, followed by a Venetian-style masquerade ball in her honor at 9 p.m. Tickets to the tribute are $15, and tickets to the ball are $125. Costumes are encouraged, but don’t worry if you can’t pull something together: masks will be provided to the undisguised.

The Halloween Movie Treats package is still available. For details and tickets, go to middleburgfilm.org

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PERMANENT STORM DRAINAGE EASEMENT AND TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION AND GRADING EASEMENT ON AND ACROSS REAL PROPERTY, PIN 273-17-5133-000, TAX MAP # /47///////21/

A copy of the proposed Resolution and additional information is available from the Town Clerk, Leesburg Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.), or by calling Lee Ann Green, Clerk, at 703-7312733.

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Judge Benjamin KenThe object of this suit drick The project includes repairs to concrete curb and gutter, concrete sideis to have Petitioner walk, concrete driveway aprons, ramps for the mobility impaired, brick Christopher Joseph I ASK FOR THIS: sidewalk on concrete cradle, and CG-2 header curb in various locations Cannon adopt Robab within the town.

Newbury, a minor LOCKE & LYDEN, child not his by birth; P.L.L.C. This is a renewable contract for up to four additional one-year periods. and The initial one-year contract will begin November 25, 2014.

William J. Lyden, VSB IT APPEARING from No. 39024 The Town reserves the right to perform all, part, or none of the work.

Plaintiff’s Affidavit Mark C. Locke, VSB that diligence has No. 42959 Bid Documents are available for download from the Town's Bid Board been used without ef- Counsel for Petitioner at http://www.leesburgva.gov/bidboard and may be obtained beginning fect to ascertain the 10615 Judicial Drive, Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Contact Cindy Steyer at 703-737-2302 or whereabouts of Jo- Suite 502 csteyer@leesburgva.gov with questions about obtaining these bid docuseph Alan Newbury Fairfax, Virginia ments. All addenda issued for this project will only be posted on the Town's Bid Board. and that his last know 703-359-8020 address is 306 Apart- 703-359-8028 (fax) RenÊe M. LaFollette, P.E. ment Heights Drive, bill@lawyer-help.com Office of Capital Projects Apt. J-2, Blacksburg, VA 24060; it is there10/23 & 10/30/14 Ad #145041 10/9, Ad #145453 fore 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/14 ADJUDGED, ORDERED AND DECREED that notice of the instant proceedings shall be published for four consecutive weeks with 5PXO 0Gà DFT XJMM CF DMPTFE PO 5IVSTEBZ /PWFNCFS UI BOE The Leesburg Today 'SJEBZ /PWFNCFS UI GPS UIF 5IBOLTHJWJOH )PMJEBZ beginning October 9, 2014, posted at

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Real Estate for Rent Inwood area. Close to 81 w/ country living. 3-4 BR,oversized 2-car gar,brick rancher,approx.

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Leesburg Fox Chapel: 2BR ground floor apartment by the pool & bike path. $1320/month. mpr@mrust.com 540-454-0954.

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Purcellville basement apartment rental. Private entrance. Beautiful neighborhood. Close to Rt. Free Fill Dirt delivered to you! 100+ dump 7. Utilities included. pets considered. $990.00/ truck loads at single site. IF YOU’VE TRIED m o. Call: 540.514.0197.

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Little kittens, free to good homes. Shorthair For Rent or Sale: Elegant 1st floor condominium gray and white, male and female. 7 weeks in Leisure World. 55 & over community. 2BRs, old. (571) 243-0277. Lovettsville.

2B, den, LR, DR, ample closet areas. Spacious sunporch with walk-out to fenced yard. Kitchen w/hardward floors & granite counters. ClubInstruction house. Available now. $410,000. Call 703-7291017 for more information & appointment.

Winchester, VA Guitar, Piano, voice, Bring the Horses we’ve got the Barn and 7 acres.

Band instruments & More Only $249,000

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Private Piano Lessons

Contact Beth Paisley @540-327-2813 MLS #FV8404552

Rooms/Roommates Taylorstown/Lovettsville: Large room in historic lakeside house. Private entrance , bath and deck. Full use of LR/DR/Study/Kitchen/ Laundry. 115 acres private nature preserve.

Pet OK. Single M/F. $600.00/mo plus utilities.

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Experienced piano teacher is accepting new students for 2014/15 Academic Year.

Located in Lansdowne area.

To schedule an interview, call 757-358-2964 or email: lena.a@cox.net

Beautiful ranch style home off Rt 50 East side of Winchester near Rt 340. 3BR, 1 and ½ bath, finished basement. New floors, paint, roof and more. Partially fenced for animals and the rest is wooded. Let’s not forget the gorgeous in ground pool.

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Salary commensurate with experience.

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If so, you should know that Volt has been selected by FedEx Ground to provide temporary non-CDL delivery drivers throughout the United States!

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QUALIFICATIONS: • At least 21 years of age • Motor Vehicle record check • Drug screen, background checks, and physical required • Customer service skills • No equipment necessary • Minimum of six months driving a vehicle for business related purposes within the last three years required and/or five years’ experience within the last 10 years will also be considered You will be provided with all of the training and equipment you need to complete deliveries in a safe and punctual manner. A new adventure awaits. Hit the open road with Volt. $13.75 per hour DON’T WAIT – APPLY TODAY! To apply, visit volt.com/drivers.

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CALENDAR COORDINATOR (Part-time) Northern Virginia Media Services seeks a Part-time Calendar Coordinator to gather information for and prepare event listings for our group of weekly and monthly newspapers, magazines and websites.

Previous journalism or editorial experience is preferred but not required.

The ideal candidate will be well-organized, able to work quickly and accurately, and have at least a basic understanding of online and digital media.

The position can be based in any of our offices (Leesburg, Manassas, McLean or Reston), with telecommuting an option.

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Leesburg is the seat of one of the fastest growing counties in the nation with a current population of 47,000+. The Town of Leesburg offers an excellent benefits package to all full-time regular employees including employer paid pension program, medical insurance including vision and dental. Life insurance, long-term disability insurance, long-term care insurance, flexible spending account, vacation and sick leave, 12½ paid holidays per year, recreation benefits, credit union membership and deferred compensation program.

REGULAR FULL-TIME POSITIONS

Accounting Manager—Finance and Admin. Services....................................................................................$69,478-$116,614 DOQ........................................................................................Closing Date: Open until Filled REQUIRED: BA/BS Degree in Accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience; min. of two years of professional accounting experience; exp. in computerized accounting systems, database systems and third party reporting tools PREFERRED: Municipal government exp.; CPA; exp. with Munis governmental accounting system; exp. with grants accounting; bilingual in English/Spanish

Maintenance Worker I—Public Works/Streets Division................................................................................$36,262-$60,865 DOQ......................................................................................Closing Date: November 20, 2014 REQUIRED: HS/GED; minimum of one year of experience performing a variety of skilled trades and/or maintenance work; possess a valid driver’s license and a safe driving record; CDL—Class B or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire; CPR/AED and First Aid Certifications or ability to obtain within six months of hire; snow removal operations; must be available for on-call emergencies; manual labor for extended periods of time PREFERRED: Road construction and/or landscaping; snow removal; familiar with MUTCD and small commercial mowers and tractors; bilingual in English/Spanish

Parking Enforcement Officer—Finance and Admin. Services.......................................................................$17.12 - $28.74/hr. DOQ..................................................................................Closing Date: November 20, 2014 This position is located in the Finance and Admin. Services Dept. in Town Hall and performs routine enforcement of parking regulations both on the Town streets and in the municipal garage.

REQUIRED: HS/GED; minimum of one year of customer service experience; possess strong oral communication skills; exp. in operating basic office equipment; process customer payments for parking in Town garage Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-2:00pm; during busy periods, additional hours may be required PREFERRED: General knowledge of municipal ordinances and regulations pertaining to parking enforcement; knowledge of Leesburg; bilingual in English/Spanish

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Certified Police Officer (Virginia only)—Police............................................................................................53,233-$96,835 DOQ.........................................................................................Closing Date: Open until Filled REQUIRED: HS/GED; must be 21 years of age at time of appointment with US Citizenship; possess a valid driver’s license and a safe driving record; successful completion of basic law enforcement officers training program prescribed by the Commonwealth of Virginia; must currently hold a Virginia LEO Certification PREFERRED: Criminal Justice Degree; bilingual in English/Spanish

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Library Associate – Thomas Balch Library....................................................................................................$16.10 - $27.02/hr.................................................................................................Closing Date: Open until Filled REQUIRED: B.A. and M.A. in a related area (history, library science, genealogy, archives); min. of 2 years of library and reference experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience NOTE: Weekend and evening hours required for 2 positions: 1) Tuesday evening: 4:00pm-8:00pm and Friday, 10:00am-5:00pm 2) Friday, 10:00am-5:00pm and Alternate Saturdays, 11:00am-4:00pm; both positions may have additional hours as needed PREFERRED: M.A. Degree in Library Science or Archival Administration; min. of five years of library and reference experience with 2 in special collections; bilingual in English/Spanish CONTRACTUAL POSITION

Part-Time Recreation Programs Ida Lee (Parks & Recreation) American Heart Association CPR and First Aid Instructor(Aquatic Instructor); must be American Heart Association certified to teach, min. of 17 yrs. old and the ability to develop and execute lesson plans for the course; Flexible schedule, nights and weekends..........................................................................................................................................................................$16.48-$36.05/hr Child Care Attendant–Minimum of 16 years of age; First Aid/CPR Certified or ability to obtain within 3 months of employment; prior childcare experience; mornings, evenings, and weekends. This is not a seasonal position...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$10.30-$12.36/hr Fitness Attendant—Min. age of 16 (high school student or graduate or equivalent; various days/times; This is not a seasonal position...............................................................................................................$9.79-13.39/hr Fitness Instructor—Body Pump, Group Fitness Instructor Certified Body Pump Instructor and CPR/AED certified; Group Exercise Instructor—Certified ACE, AFAA, AFPA or equiv. various days and times........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................$25.75-$39.14/hr Gymnastics Instructor---Knowledge, skills and experience instructing techniques of gymnastics; various days/times......................................................................................................................................$12.88-$30.90/hr NFL Flag Football Referee—For 6-18 year olds; minimum of 16 yrs. of age; high school student or graduate; refereeing experience and knowledge of NFL Flag Football rules preferred; Friday nights, Saturdays & Sundays September-November and March-June.........................................................................................................................................................................$12.88-$30.90/hr Volleyball Instructor—knowledge, skills, and experience instructing techniques of volleyball; Saturday mornings year-round.......................................................................................................................$12.88-$30.90/hr *Most positions will be filled at or near the minimum of the range. *Dependent on Qualifications.

TO APPLY: A Town of Leesburg application for employment is required for each position. Please go to www.leesburgva.gov/jobs to apply online. Applications must be received by 5:00 pm on the closing date, unless otherwise noted. Resumes may be submitted as supplemental only.

The Town of Leesburg is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age and disability in employment or the provision of services.

The Town of Leesburg also supports the Americans with Disabilities Act by making reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, so that they may participate in job interviewing, services or employment offered by the Town. Please call (703) 777-2420 or Virginia Relay Center (TDD 1-800-828-1120/Voice 1-800-828-1140).

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Sunday Worship 10 am

Children’s & Youth Ministry

19619 Evergreen Mills Rd, Leesburg Visitors warmly welcomed

St. Augustine

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Anglican Church

Sunday, Nov 16 10:30 am

Former Washington Redskins wide receiver James Thrash will speak. All are invited.

For more info, please contact the church office or visit our website

Sunday Service Times: Sunday School 9:30 am Dynamic Worship 10:30 am Hispanic Worship 2:00 pm

Leesburg Church of the Nazarene

17667 Roxbury Hall Road, Leesburg VA 703-777-6850 ~ www.leesburgnazarene.com

Biblical Truth Traditional Worship Loving Fellowship Sundays: 8am and 10am 712 Dry Mill Road, Leesburg VA LoudounAnglican.org

Houses of Worship Verse by Verse, Expository Preaching

47907 Mt. Hope Rd Ashburn, VA 20148

Sundays: Sunday School: 9:45am Worship: 11am

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Come with the Spirit of Expectancy.

Brent Small, Pastor-Teacher Sunday Worship Service - 10:00 am

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Currently meeting at: 21060 Whitfield Place, Sterling, VA 703-672-2434 info@cascadesbiblechurch.com CascadesBibleChurch.com

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Rev. Michelle C. Thomas, Sr. Pastor

Location: Holy & Whole LCMI, Lansdowne, VA

Sat., Nov. 22nd ~ Prayer Breakfast - Pastor Jesse Radford-Upper Room Christian Cathedral, Manassas

Location: Lansdowne Resort, 44050 Woodridge Pkwy, Lansdowne, VA 20176 Sun., Nov. 23rd ~ Anniversary Service

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She was predeceased by her brother James Anderson in 1965, and her beloved husband of 55 years, Arthur Emil Brendel in 2010.

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He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1986 and was a ninth grade Reading specialist and Honors English teacher at PaulInE lakE dEMory Pauline Lake Demory, 94, passed away on Briar Woods High School in Leesburg, VA October 21, 2014, surrounded by her family, His sweet soul and generous loving heart at Amerisist in Stephens City, Born Decem- will be missed by so many. ber 1, 1919, in Loudoun County, VA, to the late Thomas & Helen McArtor, she attended There will be a funeral service on Sunday school and lived most of her life in Loudoun Nov. 2 at the Goose Creek Friends Meeting County. Pauline worked in retail for several House, 18204 Lincoln Road, Lincoln VA, years in Frederick, MD. She loved being with 20132 at 230 pm. her family and enjoyed gardening. On June 28, 1936, she married Carroll Foley Demory In lieu of flowers the family requests that doin Gaithersburg, MD. In 2002 she moved to nations be made in Walters name to the Goose Throughout her life, Sheila gave back to the Stephens City to be closer to her son and Creek friends summer camp program. community. In her earlier years she joined daughter-in-law. a service organization for Scottish descendants, and eventually was elected to the high- She is survived by her son Robert Demory est position in the organization and became and his wife, Dixie, of Stephens City, VA; the Grand Chief of the Daughters of Scotia daughter, Peggy Lunsford of Lucketts, VA; in 1982. For over sixty years she served in two granddaughters, Vickie McKimmey of Ethan M. alcorn the organization, often traveling all over the Thurmont, MD; Patricia Williams and her Ethan M. Alcorn, 33, formerly of Indian Harcountry to conduct business on behalf of the husband, Jeff, and great-grandson, Joshua bour Beach, Florida and currently of Sterling, Daughters of Scotia.

Williams, all of Lucketts VA; brother, Welby Virginia passed away on Tuesday, October 21, McArtor, of Florida; sister Doris Hobbs, of 2014. A celebration of life will be held in Florida At the age of 50, Sheila found a new way to Maryland; and many nieces and nephews. at a later date. Please share condolences with the give back to the community and developed family at www.LoudounFuneralChapel.com a passion for Fire and Rescue work. She be- Pauline was preceded in death by three sisgan as an Emergency Medical Technician ters, Anna Boise, Mary Thacker, Louise MusIrEnE ErIcksEn and later became a Shock Trauma Techni- selman, and two brothers, Thomas (Gene) Irene Ericksen went home to be with her Lord cian, taught EMT classes, and was Chief of McArtor and Walter (Mac) McArtor, and October 22, 2014. Born in Arendal, Norway; emigrating to America in 1948 with her husLovettsville Fire Rescue for many years. In Foley, her husband of 62 years. band, Einar Ericksen (who predeceased her). what spare time she had, she also served as a day crew member of Sterling Rescue for A funeral service was held at 11:00 a.m., Survived by children Nils, George and Susan, several years. In recognition of her outstand- October 24, 2014 at the Loudoun Funeral 12 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and ing service to EMS within the county, in Chapel, 158 Catoctin Circle, SE, Leesburg, 1 great,great grandchild. Viewing Sunday, Oc1991 Sheila Brendel was awarded the Clark VA. Interment was at Lovettsville Union tober 26th, 3:00 – 5:00 pm at Colonial Funeral Home. Funeral services Monday, October 27th, J. Deener Award, the highest recognition Cemetery.

11:00 am, The Worship Center Assembly of God of a provider by the Loudoun County EMS Church, 19227 Gleedsville Rd, Leesburg, VA Council and the EMS community. In 2013, In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions 20175. www.colonialfuneralhome.com. recognizing her decades of service and her may be sent to Stephens City Fire & Rescue many contributions and achievements to Co., Inc., P.O. Box 253, Stephens City, VA ElaInE M. kItchEn furthering the advancement of the Fire and 22655 and Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Elaine M. Kitchen, 87, of Columbia, MD, EMS System in Loudoun County, Sheila was Street, Suite 405, Winchester, VA 22601. died on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at Sunrise Assisted Living, Columbia, MD. She is surinducted into the Loudoun County Fire and EMS Hall of Fame.

Please share condolences with the family vived by her children Gary Kitchen and Amy Korman (Lee); sister, Ellen Abel; and grandwww.LoudounFuneralChapel.com daughter, Sara Kitchen. She was preceded in She leaves her sons Robert Arthur Brendel death by her husband, Samuel L. Kitchen.

(Nancy) of Bluemont, VA, and Kerry James Memorial donations may be made to GilBrendel of Bluemont, VA; 3 grandchildren, christ Hospice Care, 5537 Twin Knolls Road, James Brendel of Eglin AF Base, FL, Joshua Suite 434 Columbia, MD 21045. Please share Brendel of Lovettsville, VA, and Caitlin Marcondolences with the family at www.Loudtin (Oliver) of Hamilton, VA. ounFuneralChapel.com.

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Also on the ballot will be the first opportunity for residents to formally weigh in on the Academies of Loudoun, a project that has been under discussion for more than a decade. After years of passing over the project because of its capital cost, county leaders believe now is the time to step up the investment into STEM education and 21st century job training at a state-of-the-art learning campus. At the polls Tuesday, we’ll find out whether the community supports that investment.

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The Good Shepherd has been providing emergency housing, food, clothing, transportation, children’s programs, job referral assistance and mental health counseling for the homeless of Loudoun County since 1983. Last year, we registered 327 men, women and children in our shelters.

We have put the six computer workstations received from Rep. Wolf’s office to good use. The units are currently supporting our family and men’s shelters and our administrative and volunteer offices.

We have been monitoring the results of approximately 200 letters Rep. Wolf personally mailed to Loudoun businesses and churches in Loudoun County. Although the response from the community was not as robust as we expected, the effort to distribute the letters was strong and his endorsement gave us that much more credibility.

Recently, the problem of hunger in our community has taken a sharp turn for the worse. The economic disruptions of the past year, coupled with the slow recovery of the job market in recent months have contributed to a significant

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I have been residing in Round Hill since 1995, and have been commuting as a U.S. Customs Officer to Springfield every day. Sure, it’s a long drive, we (my wife works for Customs, too), leave around 6:15 every morning. We have gone through ice storms, rain, snow and sleet over the years, and have put Continued on Next Page

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Dear Editor: I watched my father get taken by a variety of fraudsters—some even came to our house to take his money under false pretense. Scotch whiskey investment scams, oil and gas lease scams, business start-ups that never really started up, etc. each taking a piece of his meager savings and a big chunk of his confidence. My reason to write this is not to relive history, but to warn fellow Loudouners of a very current scam that I was shocked to recently watch play out.

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Dear Editor: Old Ox Road and its importance to the Loudoun County transportation structure cannot be overemphasized. Rt. 606 provides a direct route from Loudoun’s neighboring Herndon/ Fairfax County area to another of Loudoun’s Rt. 50 growing industrial/residential complexes.

Also, let’s not forget its importance to Dulles Airport and the future Metro Silver Line. It’s all tied into development envisioned by Loudoun’s Comprehensive Plan.

In light of the above, we want to address only approximately one mile of Rt. 606, from the eastern boundary of Rock Hill Road (town of Herndon/Fairfax County line) to Shaw Road near the Rt. 28 interchange. This is an unimproved road with no emergency shoulders, no streetlights and no sidewalks. It’s certainly not favorable for bicycle use, and three-quarters of the eastbound residential housing and commercial businesses have no county water service.

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up with many accidents on Rt. 7 resulting in an hour or so in delays.

Monday morning was totally ridiculous.

First, the State Police and Sheriffs Office should be totally ashamed of their performance to clear the accident and direct traffic. It took me five hours, yes, five hours to get to work this morning as all the roads were blocked with traffic.

With the construction going on, you would think precautions would be taken, like having a tow truck on standby, or state police off to the side of the road to react to such a scenario.

I am sitting here at work, disappointed with my fellow law enforcement officers and their lack of experience, and ability to handle an accident that resulted in the largest traffic snarl I have ever witnessed in Loudoun County. What an embarrassment to their professions, and for the people who cause the accident, as I am sure it was speed and lack of attention, as all I see up and down Rt. 7 are people texting and on cell phones in the morning. They do everything but pay attention to the road, and the local police, State Police, and Sherriff’s Office are nowhere to be found.

It’s only going to get worse… sad, very sad indeed.

A. Collin MacDonald, Round Hill

Recently, Long and Foster real estate advertised the sale of 9.5 acres of property for industrial development along Rt. 606. The daily traffic count was advertised at more than 45,000 cars daily. The intersection of Rock Hill Road and Rt. 606 was cited as the foremost major intersection. Then Rt. 606’s intersections with Oak Grove Road and Douglas Court were not far behind. The most popular and frequently patronized businesses currently along Rt. 606 depend upon Rock Hill Road, Oak Grove Road, Douglas Court and Shaw Road for their major customer ingress and egress routes of travel. Rt. 606 intersections along these routes are at or near a grade “F” capacity level of service. In fact, those businesses depending upon Shaw Road could face a much critical ingress and egress situation in the future. Shaw Road, along with Rt. 28, is the major entry point to Rt. 606 from the north. A substantial problem already exists when traffic is disrupted on Rt. 28 and a major backup occurs. The major direct feeder routes are Nokes Boulevard, Atlantic Boulevard, West Church Road, Davis Drive and Sterling Boulevard, which all feed into the Shaw Road and Rt. 606 intersection near the Rt. 28 interchange. Businesses near this intersection already face ingress and egress disruption with Shaw Road backup, in that a stop sign, not a signal light, controls the traffic.

It is contended that the Board of Supervisors needs to call a timeout on further development on Rt. 606 until a comprehensive traffic analysis is completed. This all should be accomplished in conjunction with the initiative of the supervisors relative to Oak Grove Road traffic concerns and the planned study thereof.

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issuing a bench warrant for my arrest unless I paid overdue taxes from a prior year. They left this message on my legal office line quite audaciously as that didn’t intimidate them from still trying to execute a scam. When I called them back, they answered their line as the “U.S. Treasury” claiming that they had given up expecting my tax demand response and it was too late to avoid the arrest. I keep my returns close and the year they said I owed money was a year I actually got a refund, so I knew something was wrong.

When I asked for the supervisor I was introduced to someone who used a different name but had the very same heavy accent using the same threat. He knew how I filed my taxes and my wife’s name as well. I took this more seriously than normal since my oldest son has exactly the same name but does not even have a credit score, so I thought maybe there was a legitimate mix up. They insisted that if I hang up the police will be on their way, so the only way to avoid an arrest was to go to CVS with hundreds in cash and get further instructions. While I stayed on the phone I told them to please call the police and I looked forward to visiting with them.

I share this because many might not know this is an issue. Go to this webpage and you can read about it directly from the IRS: www. treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report.shtml I contacted the Inspector General and alerted them to the place and phone number that called me, so perhaps a bit less of this will happen. But be advised, there are people out there who have no morals. The IRS must provide notice to any citizen of their issue and they don’t make phone calls. If you move, as we just did, it might put you on the scammer hit list. If someone tries to scam you, please file with whatever agency they are saying they are from and tell them whatever information you know.

These are vicious criminals in my book as they steal both precious resources and your

confidence in the systems we all depend on in a civilized society.

I recently had my book published on Amazon “How to Spot Investment Risk” so I am especially sensitive to anything that smacks of deception and very willing to take action to attack it back.

Bob Ohneiser, Ashburn

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Dear Editor: As an eight-year resident of Loudoun County and a retired military officer, I was unhappy to read of your highly partisan attacks on Barbara Comstock’s ethics.

I have had the opportunity to meet Delegate Comstock twice in the recent past, once when she came to a Brambleton community emergency meeting concerning threats to our Hindu community and once at a Veteran’s Roundtable she hosted to hear our opinions and concerns about national security and veterans’ issues.

In the first meeting, Barbara did not show up to be the center of attention; in fact, quite the opposite. While other political figures took the spotlight, she listened carefully and spoke privately with me and my Indian neighbors, who were concerned about hateful graffiti in our area.

Her obvious concern, without grandstanding, was greatly appreciated by all.

At the Veterans event Barbara invited 10th District veterans to her campaign headquarters in Haymarket. There, a full roundtable of vets met with both Barbara and Virginia Congressman Rob Wittman, the Subcommittee Chairman on Readiness of the House Armed Services Committee. There was a great exchange of views between the vets and our two elected representatives, both of whom were eager to listen and provided insight into a variety of national security and veterans issues, including how we can reverse the sequester cuts and help our veterans Continued on Next Page

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On or before December 5, 2014, any interested person may file written comments on the Application with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with written comments. Interested persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so on or before December 5, 2014, by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website, http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

All comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2014-00086.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing, on or before, December 5, 2014, a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and the respondent simultaneously shall serve a copy of the notice of participation on counsel to the Company, Charlotte P. McAfee, Esquire, Dominion Resources Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, and Kristian M. Dahl, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, One James Center, 901 East Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5 20 80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2014-00086.

On or before December 5, 2014, any interested person may file a written request for a hearing. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the hearing request shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and the interested person shall simultaneously serve a copy of the hearing request on counsel to the Company at the address set forth above. All requests for a hearing shall refer to Case No. PUE-2014-00086.

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According to a July 2012 Gallup Poll almost 90 percent of Americans are very concerned about corruption in Congress. What our organization has acknowledged is that Congress is no longer capable of honestly addressing this issue.

We do not believe that they are bad people, only that they are stuck in a system that functions almost entirely on funding.

What can we as citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia do? We can call and write our state representatives and ask them to support Wolf PAC’s call for a convention of the states to address the issue of corporate financing of our elections. Because of the Jan. 21, 2010 Supreme Court decision for Citizens United, corporations can contribute to political campaigns without restriction. The result of this decision is that our representatives no longer represent us, the people, but rather the corporations that financed their campaigns. The only way to correct this and bring the power back to the people is through an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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Dear Editor: While sparing Leesburg Today readers my full response to Supervisor Geary Higgins’ wide-ranging rebuttal of my recent letter to the editor, I feel compelled at least to address here his comments with regard to the recent arrival of unaccompanied immigrant children into Loudoun. He and I both erred in the numbers; I wrote 210 and Higgins wrote 270, but it’s actually 227, or 0.4 percent of the roughly 54,000 unaccompanied children who arrived in the U.S. this year.

Last week the Board of Supervisors heard from Loudoun’s public school officials, who reported that the resulting enrollment increase is well within the normal range of mid-year additions and is entirely manageable, given that the children are spread throughout the county and many of them are living with relatives.

Supervisor Higgins still insists in his response to my letter, as he did from the dais, that the imposition of these children on local governments represented a “complete breakdown of the federal government.” Perhaps he is unaware of the federal Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program, funded this year at $868 million, which is what ensured that all the children arriving in Loudoun underwent immunizations and thorough health screening.

Federal UAC program officials also determined which ones could safely return home, and which required shelter here from violence and deprivation in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

(Mexican children are routinely sent back across the border.)

I still believe that compassionate conservatism is the right response to crises like these. Our public school system, happily, appears to agree.

Malcolm Baldwin, Lovettsvill

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Col. Kenneth Carlson, USA Ret., Ashburn

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, FOR APPROVAL AND CERTIFICATION OF ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION FACILITIES FOR THE BRAMBLETON-MOSBY 500 KV TRANSMISSION LINE #546 CASE NO. PUE-2014-00086 On August 22, 2014, Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion Virginia Power (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) an application and supporting documents (“Application”) for approval and certification of electric transmission facilities pursuant to §§ 56-46.1 and 56-265.1 et seq. of the Code of Virginia to build, entirely within existing rights of way, a second 500 kilovolt (“kV”) Brambleton-Mosby Transmission Line #546 in Loudoun County, and to perform associated work at existing Mosby Switching Station and Brambleton Substation (the “Project”).

According to the Company, the proposed approximately 5.2-mile transmission line utilizes an existing 250-foot wide transmission rightof-way which is currently occupied by three transmission lines: 500 kV Line #558, approved for rebuild in Case No. PUE-2013-00110; 230 kV Line #2045; and 230 kV Line #2094. In connection with the Project, the Company will relocate the existing 230 kV Line #2094 to the Project’s proposed structures as an underbuild.

The Company states that the Project will be built on new galvanized steel towers identical to those approved by the Commission in PUE-2013-00110.

The Company states that the in-service date for the proposed Rebuild Project is June 1, 2018. According to Dominion Virginia Power, the estimated cost for the proposed Rebuild Project is approximately $27.3 million, of which approximately $17.4 million would be spent on transmission line construction and approximately $9.9 million would be spent on station work.

A detailed description of the proposed routing is printed below: The Project will follow existing right-of-way for its entirety, originating at existing Mosby Station in Loudoun County. Upon leaving the station, the existing right-of-way follows a north/northeasterly direction for approximately 3.3 miles before crossing the John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50). The existing right-of-way continues approximately 1.4 miles to the Brambleton Station.

All distances and directions are approximate. A sketch map of the proposed route accompanies this notice. A more detailed map of the proposed route may be viewed on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/pue/elec/transline.aspx.

The Commission may consider a route not significantly different from the route described in this notice without additional notice to the public.

The Company’s Application and supporting materials, Commission orders, and all documents filed in Case No. PUE-2014-00086 may be inspected in the Commission’s Document Control Center, Office of the Clerk of the Commission, First Floor, Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, during Commission business hours. The Application and supporting materials, the unofficial text of the Commission’s orders, and other documents may be viewed at the Commission’s website, http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

Copies of the Application and other supporting materials also may be inspected during regular business hours at the following locations: Dominion Virginia Power Dominion Virginia Power Loudoun County OJRP 12th Floor Lincoln Park II Planning Department 701 East Cary Street 3072 Centreville Road 1 Harrison Street, S.E. Richmond, Virginia 23219 Herndon, Virginia 20171 Leesburg, Virginia 20175 Attn: Stefan Brooks Attn: Tim Sargeant Attn: Julie Pastor

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5 PIECE DINING SET Includes table Final Price & 4 side chairs,

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$1995 Final Price

9 PIECE DINING ROOM Includes table, 4 side chairs, china hutch & buffet, plus BONUS: 2 FREE ARM CHAIRS!

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“A big reason I love fall is all the changes in the air. New colors, fabulous textures and comfortable furnishings make being at home so rewarding.”

GIULIANA & BILL RANCIC

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Months 0% Interest

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on purchases of $1999 or more with your Ashley Furniture HomeStore Credit Card made between 10/20/2014- 11/2/2014. Equal monthly payments required for 36 months. See reverse for details.*

We are Growing!

Brand New Leesburg Location Opening Soon Now Hiring All Positions

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$1495 Leather Sofa Final Price

Ashley Furniture HomeStore the #1 furniture retailer in the US is seeking full-time sales consultants for our beautiful brand-new show room in Leesburg Virginia. Ideal candidates will have strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude. Training offered.

Earning potential 40K-100k. Attractive bonus plan and benefits.

Please contact Yvonne Quigley at yquigley@ashleynva.com

ALL PRICES ARE FINAL. CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER DISCOUNTS. ONLY VALID AT LOCATIONS BELOW. Some restrictions may apply. See store for complete details. LIMITED TIME OFFER!