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the doorknob, rings the doorbell and then steps back beyond six feet to chat. And during the pandemic, it turns out, people are home and looking for someone to talk with. “People have been very generous about coming out and talking,” Burk said. “I’ve been very surprised by that. There’s a lot of people who are very interested and
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority was humming along at the beginning of the year. MWAA President and CEO Jack Potter said operations at Dulles and Reagan National airports were trending over 2019’s strong year and beating the budget forecasts. Then COVID-19 hit. Flights to and from China stopped in January. In March, European flights were grounded. By April, daily air traffic at Dulles was down 95%. Concessionaires had shuttered their stores in the empty terminals. For a period, most flights were simply carrying U.S. citizens being repatriated from lockdowns overseas. Operations have rebounded a bit over the ensuing months, but industry experts are projecting it will take at least three years to return to 2019 levels. “We took an economic dive and we’re going to have to climb our way up one step at a time,” Potter told members of the Committee for Dulles last week. By July, traffic grew to 20% of the daily average, but he characterized
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Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk knocks doors as she campaigns to be re-elected. Door knocking, a traditional campaign staple, comes with new precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Changes Local Campaigns BY RENSS GREENE
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Door-to-door canvassing, fundraising dinners, crowded rooms of phone banks, shaking hands and kissing babies—all hallmarks of running a local campaign that present new dangers in the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the strategies on which candidates for office have relied to get out their message and meet potential voters have
had to change to avoid passing along a virus with that message. That has politicians and their campaign staff rethinking how to reach voters. “The biggest thing is not being able to have events to meet people one-on-one,” said Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk, is who is running for re-election in November. “That’s tough.” She is still going door-to-door to speak to potential voters, but with new precautions—she wears gloves, hangs flyers on
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Loudoun Water’s Trap Rock facility near Leesburg. County Planning Commissioners are debating allowing central water service into the county’s Rural Policy Area.
Rural Central Water Proposal Worries Planning Commissioners BY RENSS GREENE
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A proposed amendment to Loudoun’s comprehensive plan that would allow central water and sewer to serve publicly owned property in the Rural Policy Area has raised concerns among planning commissioners who worry it may open the gates to development in the west. Currently, except for in towns and villages, Loudoun County does not allow central water and sewer connections in the rural western areas covered by its Rural Policy Area. It is seen as one way to discourage rural development. Those connections are allowed in the Transition Policy Area, which divides and buffers the county’s rural west and suburban east. A proposal from county supervisors in front of the Planning Commission would allow central water and sewer connections to publicly owned properties in the Rural Policy Area that directly adjoin the Transition Policy Area. It is targeted at a specif-
ic site along Evergreen Mills Road, where the county has 173 acres under contract to purchase for a new middle school. It is meant as a cost saving and permit-expediting measure for that property, but planning commissioners and some residents worry it clears one more barrier to development in the west. “This seems to break an historic policy the county’s tried to maintain over the years, which has unfortunately been weakened over the years,” said Planning Commissioner John Merrithew (Sterling), who retired last year as the county’s deputy director of Planning and Zoning. “Infrastructure is the predicate to development,” said Commissioner Forest Hayes (At Large). “So, we all know that once the water is there—today it’s for the schools, but once it’s there, once the infrastructure’s in place—we could do other things with it in the out years.” County staff members told the Planning Commission they have not evaluated the costs and feasibility of serving the site
with a well and septic system. “I would think that in light of the potential precedent we’re setting here by extending utilities into the Rural Policy Area, and the sort of slippery slope that we’re travelling down, that it would be incumbent on the county to actually study that comparative cost while it’s in the study period,” said Chairman Eric Combs (Ashburn). He also pointed out the county hasn’t yet finalized the purchase of the property. “We’re being asked to initiate a [comprehensive plan amendment] which is going to set a precent for all sorts of other potential opportunities to encroach into the Rural Polices Area, and I’m wondering if that might appear premature to folks who have considered it in light of the fact that the contact hasn’t actually gone hard yet, and the county doesn’t own the property yet,” Combs said. WATER WORRIES continues on page 39
Loudoun’s average number of new COVID-19 cases has dropped to a five-month low. According to the latest Department of Health data, the seven-day average of new cases fell below 22 this week. That is the lowest level since April 25, when the average was 21.6 daily cases. The peak of the outbreak was May 31, when the daily average reached 107.7. Since July, Loudoun, in general, has seen about 30 new cases a day. The drop in daily cases also tracks with a decline in coronavirus-related hospitalizations. According to the most recent tracking, the average number of hepatizations in Loudoun fell below six last week, down from a peak of 42 in late May. Regionally, the daily average number of hospitalized patents is 121, down from a high of 656 on May 13. Testing continues to remain steady at about 550 PCR tests conducted per day. The county’s COVID-19 death rate also has slowed. As of Sept. 29, 124 Loudoun deaths have been blamed on the coronavirus. Loudoun crossed the 100-death threshold on July 15. The 75th death was recorded on June 16. The 50th death was on May 31. Statewide, that average number of new cases has been declining since the end of August when a record average of 1,045 new daily cases was recorded. This week, that figure was trending below 600. Two of those new cases were Gov. Ralph Northam and his wife, Pamela. They announced Friday they received positive test results after a member of the residence staff developed symptoms of the virus earlier in the week. While his wife reported mild symptoms, the governor was asymptomatic so far. The couple planned to isolate at home for 10 days. n
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Loudoun Board Advances Historic Site Resident Curator Program BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com
Loudoun supervisors have voted unanimously to start wheels turning on a program that could let people live in and maintain county-owned historic properties, like the Aldie Tavern. “The county owns numerous historic sites throughout the county, and we have an approved heritage plan with about 9 policies that say we care about preserving and maintaining those sites,” said Supervisor Tony R. Buffington (R-Blue Ridge), who has led the push on the Board of Supervisors to create a Resident Curator Program. “And so my thought in working with the Heritage Commission on bringing this forward is, let’s have a program that can actually help us do this, and allow the public—many of whom have stated that they have in interest in helping us do this—have a way to do that.” The program doesn’t require an actual resident, although it is a possibility. Supervisors approved a three-step plan to create the program, which would allow a
qualified person, organization or business to step up and serve as the caretaker of a county-owned historic property through a lease agreement. That curator would also have to have a plan for allowing reasonable public access to the property, as required by state law, as well as to maintain the property. The first step is to adopt a county ordinance governing the plan, possibly modeled off of a similar ordinance already in place in Fairfax County. After that, county staff members would work out which sites are likely candidates for the program and establish an application process. County staff members already have some possible sites in mind, such as the Aldie Tavern, which was at the center of a long controversy when the county Fire and Rescue Combined System proposed building a new fire station on the property, demolishing some outbuildings in the process. Ultimately, people in the village convinced the county to give up those plans and find another site near Gilbert’s Corner at the intersection of Rt. 15 and Rt. 50. n
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ON THE agenda Supervisors Re-Adopt Emergency Governing Rules Although they have largely returned to in-person meetings in a revamped county boardroom, county supervisors unanimously re-adopted an emergency governing ordinance Sept. 15. The boardroom shows the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic—the dais has been extended to either side to let supervisors sit farther apart, with transparent barriers between each seat to further isolate them. Meanwhile, to maintain social distancing most of the county staff members who support the meetings call into the meetings over video, often from other offices in the same building, rather than risk crowding the boardroom. Supervisors first adopted the emergency ordinance on March 25, relaxing many deadlines and rules on the county government such as how quickly it must respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, or that a quorum of members must be physically present to conduct board business. Loudoun Now has not so far seen any actual slowing of responses to FOIA requests, although early in the pandemic supervisors skirted the rules for emergency meetings, using those emergency meeting to conduct routine business such as passing ceremonial resolutions. At the same time, County Administrator Tim Hemstreet began encouraging many county staff members to work from home, a practice that continues. Many other county advisory commissions and boards continue to meet remotely, however, particularly those with larger membership. The ordinance will be in effect for 60 days unless rescinded sooner. After 60 days supervisors must decide whether to adopt it for a third time.
Parks and Rec to Host Drive-In Concerts The Loudoun County Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services will host “Live From the Lot” drive-in concerts on Friday, Oct. 2 and Saturday, Oct. 3, featuring local teen artists on Friday and ’80s tribute band favorites The Reagan Years on Saturday. ON THE AGENDA continues on page 7
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Firehouse Plans Spark Community Objections BY RENSS GREENE
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Plans to build a new $21.6 million fire station on the former horse show grounds in Philomont have sparked protests from the people who love the open space and the old firehouse and who are opposing the November bond referendum for the project. On the November ballot ,voters will see a bond referendum that, among other things, authorizes the county issue $21.6 million in public debt to build the new fire station on land that until last year hosted the Philomont Horse Show, a Philomont Volunteer Fire Department fundraiser since 1957. But after 2019, the volunteer fire department, which owns the land, retired the show. “For the last 5 or so years, the show ran mainly for the tradition,” reads the department’s winter 2020 newsletter, announcing the end of the show. “The dwindling rider attendance, likely due to the many other events and activities that fill the weekends nowadays, resulted in low turnouts and unfortunately, insufficient financial return.” The department has also seen dwindling attendance to its annual barbecue, and the Philomont Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary that once supported the station has been retired. The station is now staffed fully by career firefighters—few volunteers remain, and none are currently firefighters. With training requirements for firefighters, paramedics and EMTs becoming more rigorous, the community-minded Philomont volunteers now largely serve administrative roles and on the Board of Directors. The volunteer fire department formally requested that the county plan to take over the community’s fire-rescue needs in 2015. But plans to abandon the current fire station and build a new station on the 7-acre horse show grounds have drawn resistance from its neighbors. Several people from the village went to the county Board of Supervisors meeting on Sept. 15 to express their opposition to those plans. One of those was Madeline Skinner, who owned the Philomont General Store next to the fire station at the intersection of Jeb Stuart Road and Snickersville Turnpike for 16 years, served on the former Philomont Ladies’ Auxiliary for 20 years of which she was president for most of 15, and formerly served on the volunteer fire station’s Board of Directors. In an interview, she said she was also part of fighting off another proposal to build on the horse show grounds—at that time, a training center, with a helipad and other facilities. She also helped lead a push to bring some new equine events to the grounds
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Signs protesting plans to replace the Philomont Volunteer Fire Department’s station with a new one on the former horse show grounds have popped up around Philomont.
to keep it in use, work that was somewhat derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But even without a new horse show, she said, the space should be left open, preserving the rural character of the village—as designated in the county’s 2019 comprehensive plan, and suggested by the Village Conservation Overlay District that covers the area in county zoning ordinances. “We love our horse show grounds,” Skinner said. “We would like that to be a green space for us, a park, and we feel at this point that we want some answers. We want some justifications that they can back up.” Today, most of the buildings on the grounds have been taken down, the grass has been allowed to grow high, and the property is closed off with gates and chains. “We’re just not used to the ‘No Trespassing’ signs on a community asset,” Skinner said. Opponents of the fire station like Skinner say there is another option that avoids taking on $21.6 million in debt, years of construction, obtaining a zoning exception and destroying open space: the current fire station. The winter newsletter also details some of the ways to current firehouse has grown over the years—from a two-bay firehouse on donated land, built for $17,000 in 1956, to a station with six bays, separate male and female bunk rooms, a self-contained breathing apparatus repair room. The station has also seen recent renovations with HVAC improvements and a renovated kitchen, bathroom and showers. And, Skinner said, there is unused space in the fire station now that could be adapt-
ed to other needs like modern decontamination, plus unused space on the 2.3-acre fire station property where more could be built if needed. She pointed to other historic volunteer fire stations that have renovated to serve the modern department’s needs, such as in Ashburn and Middleburg, which were celebrated when they opened. “Is it going to be the Taj Mahal, like everyplace else? No,” Skinner said. “Will it be efficient, and will it fit the rural historic village standards? Yes.” Nonetheless the station’s leadership say it cannot support 24/7 operations. “For reasons too numerous to list, our facility cannot be reconfigured to meet the latest County standards,” wrote Board of Directors Chairman Doug Frost in the winter newsletter. “Thus, in about five or six years, we will see the construction of a new LCFR facility to meet the anticipated future needs of our ever-growing community. We anticipate the new facility will include space for a Philomont-based ambulance service that will benefit all of us. This addition of an ambulance stationed in Philomont remains at the discretion of LCFR.” Even as the fire department works abandon the current fire house, the county is still putting money into it—it is among the rural public sites that the county is working to bring broadband connectivity. Questions about the project have not been met with answers. County Fire-Rescue Chief Keith Johnson has declined repeated requests for interviews and comments, saying the public will have to wait until county officials are done with a presentation planned Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, the Philomont fire chief and Board of Directors chairman, while expressing a willingness and eagerness to talk publicly, have said they wish to clear information through the fire department’s Public Information Officer before speaking. A community meeting is planned at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30 at Woodgrove High School. That will be the community’s first chance to get some answers from the county staff managing the project. The Sept. 30 meeting, which comes only weeks before the bond referendum to finance the station goes in front of voters, has been a longtime request of the people who want to protect the village. “We have been nonstop since last July of 2019 contacting various offices, whether it be [district Supervisor] Tony Buffington (R-Blue Ridge), Chair [Phyllis] Randall (D-At Large) or Chief Johnson, asking for community input, asking for a voice, and we have been ignored completely until now,” Skinner said. Area residents may submit questions in advance with an email to LCFRPIO@ loudoun.gov. n
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Friday’s concert will feature The Knuckleheads, Skomucon (formerly KAGE), Okulus, Joanna Kim, King Street, Jintamiko, Nuclear Deathcount, Sela Campbell and Antigravity. The concerts will be held in the parking lot of Segra Field, 42095 Loudoun United Drive, at Philip A. Bolen Memorial Park outside Leesburg. Audio will be delivered to concertgoers’ cars by FM radio. Guests are not allowed to bring food or drinks other than water. Food trucks will offer a variety of concessions both nights. Oversize vehicles such as RVs are not permitted. Families may rent Family Picnic Plots near the front of the stage, for $30 for Friday and $60 for Saturday, plus processing fees. Tickets and more details are at www. loudoun.gov/livefromthelot. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
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transmitting COVID-19. Many Halloween traditions are considered high risk during the pandemic and are not recommended. Those include things like door-to-door trick-or-treating; trunkor-treating, where treats are handed out from the trunks of cars lined up in large parking lots; any large social gathering such as crowded, indoor costume parties; and indoor haunted houses where people may be crowded together and screaming The Health Department considers haunted houses to be particularly risky for spreading COVID-19 because they typically involve people screaming, which is known to increase the production of respiratory droplets. Haunted houses that choose to operate must strictly follow Phase 3 Guidelines for Entertainment and Public Amusement settings. Health officials also urged people who want to take part in Halloween fun to stay home and away from others when sick, maintain at least six feet of distance from others, wash their hands or use hand sanitizer before and after trick-or-treating, and wearing a cloth face covering under Halloween masks, which may not protect wearers from inhaling respiratory droplets from other people. For more information, go to loudoun. gov/safehalloween.
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West Market Street between Ayr Street and Moven Park Road reopened to traffic on Monday.
West Market Street Reopens BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ krodriguez@loudounnow.com
A major artery into and out of downtown Leesburg reopened to traffic this week. Following a four-month closure, West Market Street between Ayr Street and Morven Park Road reopened Monday, Sept. 28. The road had been closed to replace the sidewalk as part of a $1.7 million capital project. The 1,100-foot sidewalk project is intended to resolve dozens of deficiencies in the section, including 31 barriers to accessibility based on ADA standards. These
included trip hazards, missing sidewalk and stairs, according to a staff report. The project removes the stairs at the intersection of West Market and Ayr streets, and also completes a missing link of accessible sidewalk that will connect the sidewalk network west of Morven Park Road with the downtown. The concrete and brick sidewalk on the north side of West Market Street will be replaced with a new, ADA-compliant, brick sidewalk. The project began in April with the replacement of the water main within the right-of-way. Originally, expectations were to have the full road closure end in late August, but it was extended at the request of contractor Madigan Construction, and with
the blessing of nearby residents, to allow the road to fully reopen sooner. Now, onelane closures will only be needed intermittently. According to Project Manager Anne Geiger, another three to four weeks of work remains, which was the expectation. That work includes wall construction on the west end of the project, followed by the construction of a new sidewalk cradle adjacent to the new wall and the installation of brick. Landscaping installation and adding the stone facings on the wall will take place in November, Geiger said. Total completion is expected by Nov. 30, weather permitting. n
Town Business Grant Applications to Remain Open BY KARA RODRIGUEZ
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Although the Town of Leesburg initially set a Sept. 23 deadline to apply for a business infusion grant through its share of CARES funding, that deadline has been extended by several weeks. The online application will now remain open through Friday, Oct. 16. The town staff will begin processing the applications received through the original deadline and expect to have those funds distributed to qualified town businesses within the next two to three weeks, Deputy Town Manager Keith Markel said. As of last Wednesday, 187 town businesses had applied for
grants. The first round of business grant funding only netted around $665,000 in grants to 176 town businesses. For the second round of funding, the town is hoping the remaining balance of the $3 million available for business grants is scooped up. The council had also set aside an additional almost $3 million for businesses in its second round of CARES funding received through Loudoun County. The council hoped that adding additional funding tiers, lowering the threshold for demonstrated loss, and opening up the grants to lower- and higher-grossing businesses might help the rest of the money be spent. Among the stipulations for receiving CARES funding is that
grants cannot be used to make up for lost revenue, and all monies must be spent by Dec. 30. Another ongoing grant process is open to local nonprofits that address the medical and financial impacts of COVID-19. The first round of town funding to nonprofits distributed a little more than $800,000 to 26 area nonprofits. The council set aside an additional $1 million in funding for its second round of grants. The application period for nonprofits to apply for a grant of up to $50,000 is 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2. More information on business and nonprofit grants can be found at leesburgva.gov/businesses/business-services/ cares-act-grants. n
There will now be three chances a week to enjoy outdoor dining in downtown Leesburg. The town staff announced Friday that the outdoor dining program, which began July 31, will now take place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The promotion has also been extended through Nov. 8. Previously the program was offered only on Fridays and Saturdays. South King Street, between Market and Loudoun streets, will be closed each evening to allow downtown restaurants to create temporary outdoor dining areas. Participating restaurants this weekend include Black Hoof Brewing Company, Echelon Wine Bar, King Street Oyster Bar, and The Wine Kitchen. Outdoor dining hours will be Friday and Saturday from 4-10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. The street will shut down 30 minutes prior to the event. Customers are not be allowed to congregate in the street and must maintain social distancing at all times. There will be no live performances or other outdoor entertainment; however, customers are encouraged to visit downtown shops while waiting to dine.
Halloween Parade to Visit Individual Neighborhoods While the COVID-19 pandemic has led the Town of Leesburg to scrap many of its popular annual events this year, the Kiwanis Club’s Halloween parade will not be one of them. But this year’s event will look a whole lot different. According to Leesburg Kiwanis Club Secretary Bob Wright, the organizers determined after consulting with Loudoun Health Department Director Dr. David Goodfriend that hosting the parade as usual with throngs of people lining King Street could create a COVID-19 super spreader environment. Club leaders then worked with town staff and the Leesburg Police Department to find an alternative. So TOWN NOTES continues on page 9
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this year the event will be similar to what the town did as a substitute for its Fourth of July parade. On Saturday, Oct. 31, a condensed parade will wind through town neighborhoods at two different times during the day, much like the July 4th holiday’s “Wave Parade,” which featured Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty atop a fire truck weaving through neighborhoods. The condensed Halloween parade, however, will be a bit longer than the July 4 rendition and offer some familiar favorites. “The parade will retain its character with a color guard, the police, fire and rescue, the giant pumpkin from Nalls Farm in Berryville, and a few themed floats. We encourage organizations that put floats in the parade to apply for one of the slots in the parade,” Wright said in an email. Notably absent from the parade, however, will be the usual cavalry of candidates running for office on the upcoming Election Day and their swarms of campaign supporters and volunteers. “We are asking political party representatives and candidates for elected office not to apply,” Wright said. “Including them
would swell the parade to beyond the total of seven to eight vehicles planned.” Parade details and an application to apply to be one of the floats in the parade can be found at leesburgkiwanis.org. Leah Kosin, assistant public information officer for the Town of Leesburg, said more details on the parade, including times, should be available in the next week or so.
Free Doc Shredding Offered Oct. 10 The Public Works & Capital Projects Department will host its next free community document shredding event on 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at Tuscarora High School, 801 N. King St. If all shredding vehicles are full before 1 p.m., the event will close early. The event will be held rain or shine. During the shredding event, the town is partnering with Loudoun Hunger Relief to collect donations of canned soup and boxes of cereal. For a list of items acceptable for shredding, tips on identity theft protection, COVID-19 guidelines, and details on the Loudoun Hunger Relief food drive, go to leesburgva.gov/shredevents.
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Talks between the town and Loudoun County over a boundary line adjustment that would bring the Compass Creek development into town limits are progressing. The Town Council started those talks in late 2018 with its decision to pursue incorporation of land that falls within the Joint Land Management Area, where the town and county traditionally have cooperated on planning policies. The area identified is one with considerable commercial expansion opportunities, particularly with the announcement in 2019 that Microsoft had purchased a significant portion of the Compass Creek land to open a data center campus. Thus far, properties that include land owned by developer Peterson Companies and the ION International Training Center have completed the BLA process and are now entirely within town limits. The future AtHome store, the Walmart SuperCenter and the Microsoft campus are still in the process. All along, some on the council have pressed for the negotiations between the
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SCHOOL Notebook School Leaders Issue Apology for Segregationist Past As promised as part of its division-wide anti-racism campaign, Loudoun County Public Schools on Friday issued a formal apology to the county’s Black community for its past operation of segregated schools and the lasting hardships resulting from the denial of equal rights. “We, the Loudoun County School Board, the Administration of Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors sincerely apologize for the operation of segregated schools in Loudoun County and for the negative impact, damage and disadvantages to Black students and families that were caused by decisions made by the Loudoun County School Board, LCPS Administration, and the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. More specifically, the additional effort required and resources provided by the Black community to obtain an equal education created hardships to which other community
members were not subjected. Black people were denied rights and equal treatment,” reads the statement posted on the school division’s website. The posting includes a 15-minute video that looks back on Loudoun’s resistance to integrating schools, even years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Falling Enrollment Could Impact Budget Loudoun won’t be one of the fastest growing school systems this year. In fact, it looks like enrollment will decline for the first time in decades. According to preliminary tallies presented to the School Board last week, only 81,660 students had enrolled as of Sept. 21. That’s nearly 5% below the projections of 85,755. More significantly, that is 2,515 fewer students than were enrolled last September. The lower figure is an indication of the
number of families opting out of the division’s period of distance learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. That was an unofficial number. On Wednesday, the enrollment counts. The Sept. 30 student counts—the average daily membership—is used in the calculation of state funding this year. Typically, more students result in more financial support. The School Board is taking steps to ensure that the opposite isn’t true in this unprecedented year. Assistant Superintendent of Business and Financial Services Sharon Willoughby said the declines appear to be a statewide trend this fall. “Ultimately, we’re looking at a potentially significant revenue shortfall,” she said, adding that some states have already enacted hold-harmless policies, but others have turned to layoffs. “This is a significant impact to our finances this year. We are hearing that there is discussion occurring in Richmond and we want to support that along with the other divi-
sions in the state.” Superintendent Eric Williams said that even with less state funding, layoffs would not be expected in Loudoun. The board requested that the state use 2019-20 enrollment figures if they are larger than the 2020-21 tallies.
School Board Seeks Option for Staggered Terms Following an election that saw seven of its nine seats filled by new members, the School Board is requesting permission from the General Assembly to switch to a system of staggard membership. John Beatty (Catoctin) made the motion to add the issue to the School Board’s legislative priority list. He said it was important to provide for more continuity on the board, but also allow a more rapid turnaround—with elections every two years—if voters seek a different direction SCHOOL NOTEBOOK continues on page 11
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for the division leadership. Vice Chairwoman Atoosa Reaser (Algonkian), who chairs the board’s Legislative and Policy Committee, noted that 50 school boards in the commonwealth already operate with staggered terms. However, the enabling legislation that allowed that conversion has expired. She suggested the board support bills that provide localities the option to switch. The earliest a change could be made in Loudoun is 2024, after the term of current members expire. Only Denise Corbo (At Large) opposed the request.
Distance Learning Prompts Grading Policy Change Students may face fewer tests and major projects this fall, following a School Board vote last week. The temporary change to the school division’s assessment and grading policy gives teachers flexibility to give students fewer “summative assessments”—such as mid-terms and final projects designed to evaluate knowledge at the end of an instructional unit—during the first semester. The policy requires each summative assessment to be between 10-20% of a quarter grade, leading to a minimum of five summative assessments each quarter. The School Board backed a staff recommendation to allow schools more flexibility during this period of distance learning, potentially reducing the required number of summative assessments his fall. The policy change also would apply as hybrid learning, with two days of in-person classes, is phased in later this year.
Another side of the Town Shop on Liberty Street in downtown Leesburg is about to get a makeover. Last week, the Town Council approved a new mural for the west-facing wall of the building. The currently whitewashed facade will soon display a floral mural by artist Sung Hee Kim of Sagetopia. The company also was behind the current mural, Discover Leesburg, that is on the Town Shop wall directly facing the parking lot. The mural will cover the entire 37-by-9-foot wall and will also feature the word “Flourish” among the brightly colored flowers. The mural is expected to take a month to complete and will be funded with help from the Friends of Leesburg Public Arts and the sale of Discover the Charm posters by the artist. No direct town funding is needed. The motion to approve the mural passed by a 4-1-1 vote, with council members Tom Dunn opposed and Suzanne Fox abstaining. n
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Month-Long Murder Trial Delayed Past October
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The man charged with two counts of first-degree murder will wait at least another month before being put on trial for the homicides of an Aldie mother and her adult son. On Monday, Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons signed an 11th order extending his original Declaration of Judicial Emergency, which he issued on March 16. That declaration requires all civil, traffic and criminal matters, including jury trials, to be delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest extension delays all jury trials in Virginia—aside from those in approved circuit courts—until at least Nov. 1. That means the planned 24-day jury trial of 40-year-old Brian Welsh, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the January
2018 shooting deaths of Mala Manwani and her adult son, Rishi Manwani, at their Tomey Court home in Aldie, won’t happen as originally anticipated starting Monday, Oct. 5. Welsh Neither will the three-day—Oct. 27-29—jury trial of Brian Foley, who is charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter stemming from an early-morning Ashburn car crash in November 2019 that killed a 31-year-old Maryland woman. While the Foley trial this week was still listed on the docket for the end of October, the Welsh trial has officially been continued, according to the Virginia Courts Case Information system. It is expected that Lemons will sign another extension order that will likely delay
jury trials until at least the beginning of December. However, the Loudoun County Circuit Court is looking to start up sooner, as it has already submitted a plan to the Virginia Supreme Court outlining how it intends to resume jury trials while adhering to all sorts of social distancing and other public health mandates. It’s still awaiting approval. Meanwhile, the state Supreme Court has approved plans for 10 of the commonwealth’s 122 circuit courts—for the Alexandria, Alleghany, Charlottesville, Fairfax, Henrico, Norfolk, Prince William, Richmond, Stafford and Virginia Beach Circuit Courts. Ultimately, when the Virginia Supreme Court does approve the Loudoun Circuit Court’s plan for a jury trial return, there will likely be a few weeks of retrofitting to perform in the courtrooms, such as installing plexiglass to separate jurors in the jury box. n
Six misdemeanors charges against an Ashburn man who allegedly exposed himself to two women were dropped last week, but he is expected to plead guilty to a felony. In July, Jerson Montoya-Mendoza was charged with six counts of simulated masturbation and one count of displaying an obscene image while inside a ve- Montoya-Mendoza hicle. In General District Court on Sept 23, prosecutors said they would not pursue those charges. Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney John Boneta said a plea deal was in place and that many of those misdemeanor charges will be brought back in CirSAFETY NOTES continues on page 13
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cuit Court. Boneta said Montoya-Mendoza also is set to plead guilty to a felony in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. According to the Sheriff ’s Office, Montoya-Mendoza, 24, on July 14 pulled up in his vehicle next to two women who were walking in the area of Ashburn Village Boulevard and Pavilion Parkway. He allegedly exposed himself and was performing a sexual act while watching pornographic material on his cell phone before he drove off. Deputies located Montoya-Mendoza the next day. Detectives connected him to a series of six indecent exposures. The first occurred on Nov. 8, 2019, with additional cases reported in April, May and June this year. Three of the cases involved juveniles, the Sheriff ’s Office reported.
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battery. Mets was charged in December 2019 with two counts of sexual battery, a Class 1 misdemeanor, following a sexual assault he committed against a colleague in Mets August 2019. According to Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System Public Information Officer Laura Rinehart, Mets was operationally suspended from the county’s fire-rescue system after its leaders were made aware of the complaint. Last week, the case went to trial and Welsh found Mets guilty of one count of sexual battery, and not guilty of the other. She imposed a $250 fine and 180 days of jail time, with all of that time suspended. Under Virginia law, a Class 1 misdemeanor conviction can be punished by up to a year in jail and/or up to a $2,500 fine. Rinehart said the fire-rescue system’s Office of Professional Standards would work with the Leesburg Volunteer Fire Company to proceed accordingly. “This is not behavior that is in line with our core values and we take these incidents very seriously,” she said.
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Aspiring artists had plenty of bowling balls to choose from, all donated from the new owners of Village Lanes who are renovating the bowling alley.
Balls for a Cause Ampersand Project Fundraiser Reimagines Bowling Balls BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ krodriguez@loudounnow.com
A fundraiser to support the Ampersand Pantry Project is casting bowling balls in an artistic light. The Ampersand Pantry Project, to date, has donated more than 46,000 meals to families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with cars lining Market Street during lunch hour for free meals, diapers, and other donated items. All along, it’s been donations from the public that have sustained the mission, started by local attorney and the property’s landowner Peter Burnett. Now, a unique fundraiser presents an opportunity for the public to take home a conversation piece while supporting the pantry. Burnett recalled a recent phone call from Local Wood owners Scott Carpenter and Charlie Beach. The duo recently closed on the purchase of Village Lanes, and renovations there are underway (See Story, X). Carpenter told Burnett they had a contribution they wanted to make to support the pantry. “He said ‘We’ve got 200 bowling balls for you’,” Burnett said. “I said, ‘huh, how’s that going to make me money?’ I thought, he has to know these things are worthless.” Turns out, there is a phenomenon called bowling ball art, and a quick Google search showed Burnett the possibilities. The idea was born. Burnett put together a
brochure, came up with some prize money, and invited the community to come pick up a bowling ball at the food pantry’s East Market Street site and get creative. All decorated balls are due back to the pantry by this weekend, and a fundraising sale to the public is planned for Saturday, Oct. 17. “We think that people would get a kick out of it,” Burnett said. It’s a project that’s had his own creative juices flowing, as Burnett has decorated several balls himself. One, he adorned with mirrors to transform into a classic disco ball. For another piece, he is creating a lamp out of a bowling ball in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Local artist Stilson Greene has done several himself, including one with the likeness of the late John Lennon. Artists who contribute balls to the auction will be eligible for one of several cash prizes, including the top prize of $1,000. Burnett said they will use a web-based auction service to show off the balls ahead of the Oct. 17 sale. Remote bidding will be done via the app, which can be found at 32auctions.com/ampersand2020. During the Oct. 17 sale, the balls will be displayed on long tables in the parking space behind the Burnett & Williams office on Loudoun Street. More than 100 balls are expected to be up for bidding. More details are expected to be posted on the 32 Auctions’ site in the coming days. n
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Veterans’ Coalition Establishes Endowed Scholarship In recognition of the service of its outgoing board chairman, the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes established an endowed scholarship in the name of Chief Master Sergeant Stephen B. Page at McPherson College. The scholarship was established to provide opportunities for aspiring students in the automotive restoration academic degree program. McPherson was selected because of Page’s interest in antique automobiles and the college is renowned for its automotive restoration program. The scholarship will be awarded to a combat-wounded, post-911 veteran of the U.S. Armed Services, honorably discharged, serving in the War on Terror. “Words can’t express how much Steph has meant to the Coalition during his time serving on our board, and especially during his term as chairman,” said David W. Walker, president and CEO of the Leesburg-based nonprofit. “Under his leadership and guidance, the Coalition has expanded our services to combat-wounded Veterans, streamlined our administrative operations, maintained our signature Emergency Financial Aid program and sig-
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led by their smallest member Gnomeo, the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International 2020 Equine of the Year, will premier. Gnomeo sports a winner’s garland of Black-eyed Susan flowers just as will the winner of the Preakness Stakes. Tickets to attend are free and can be obtained by clicking on the Preakness Party link on LTR’s website at ltrf.org.
Middleburg Humane Sponsors Loudoun Therapeutic Riding’s 10th annual Preakness Party will go virtual this Community Cat Clinic year, but will still feature its popular Paddle Up for the Ponies auction to support the care of the herd of therapy horses. This fundraiser, usually held in May, was rescheduled because COVID-19 postponed the Preakness Stakes. “The Preakness Party is our largest event of the year and we count on it to raise the dollars to support the care of our therapy horses,” stated Executive Director/CEO Susan Koehler. “Our average cost per horse for feed, farriers, and veterinary care runs about $5,000. Last year, Paddle Up for the Ponies raised $70,000 and we are hoping to do the same this year.” As a special treat, a new video featuring the herd parading into the winner’s circle
Last Sunday, the Middleburg Humane Foundation’s state-of-the-art clinic at its new shelter in Marshall sponsored a special clinic during which 159 community cats from 10 area animal rescue organizations were spayed or neutered. MHF plans to offer clinics for regional rescue organizations every quarter. The program is intended to help prevent unwanted kittens from being born outside while allowing community cats to live outdoors in an environment where they are fed and monitored. The clinic was made possible through a new partnership with Caring Hands Animal Support & Education and the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. MHF staff and
volunteers, including 40 veterinarians and vet techs, worked together to check cats in, prep them for spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, microchipping, and recovery. To support future clinics, donate at middleburghumane.org.
Dulles South Food Pantry Readies for Golf Tourney After rescheduling from May, the third annual Dulles South Food Pantry Charity Golf Tournament will take place on Friday, Oct. 16 at the South Riding Golf Club. Shotgun start is 9 a.m. and breakfast and lunch will be provided. Safety measures will be in place for the tournament, including use of social distancing protocols, masks and hand sanitizing stations. “The Charity Golf Tournament is our only DSFP-sponsored fundraiser each year. We rely on the event to raise much needed funds for operating costs,” said Executive Director Meg Phillips. “Our guest counts are up 75%; the need in this community is real. Thank you for being a part of Neighbors Feeding Neighbors.” For more information or to register to play, go to dsfp.org/golf-tournaments.
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JK Moving Invests Profits into Employees’ 401Ks
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A partnership among several area businesses looks to make it easier to get locally sourced food to local residents. LoudounGo will make its debut inside ChefScape’s Village at Leesburg space this week. What it brings to the Loudoun marketplace is a food distribution hub, located in the commercial kitchen space, that will provide a physical and an online market for Loudoun-based and other food venKara C. Rodriguez/Loudoun Now dors. Ginny Grivas, COO of ChefScape in Leesburg, left, stands with Luke and Ardelle Baldwin, founders of Founder Luke Baldwin also started LoudounGo. The two companies are working together to create a local food distribution hub within sister company LoudounStay, which pulls ChefScape’s Village at Leesburg location. together a network of Loudoun-based bed founder Dan Hine and Courtney West, food incubation environment,” ChefScape and breakfast establishments. But when owner of Chariots for Hire, to bring the COO Ginny Grivas said. “A lot of farmthe COVID-19 pandemic hit stateside, idea to life. The group found an ideal loca- ers market vendors that Dan manages are Baldwin shifted his focus to LoudounGo, tion in a distribution center with ChefS- members of ChefScape. A lot of consumwhich has been in operation since May. cape, which had the needed infrastructure ers Luke can deliver to or provide a plat“We’re not going to be having people already in place. Many relationships with form for are our members. There’s a very staying in our places now,” Baldwin re- area food producers, chefs and caterers natural partnership between the three of alized upon COVID’s stateside landfall. were already forged, thanks to Hines’ role us.” “Let’s support and if we can help people in the partnership as well as those who ChefScape also is providing space for move their product to people’s homes so were already located within ChefScape. assembling and distributing for the orders they can keep their business and the mar“ChefScape is the infrastructure for a ketplace going.” FOOD HUB lot of these food and beverage businesses Baldwin teamed up with EatLoco that need a location to operate out of, in a continues on page 18
Despite the economic downturn, JK Moving Services this month made a significant investment in the long-term future of its employees, distributing nearly $2 million into eligible employees’ 401K accounts as part of its profit-sharing program. This was the second-highest annual amount contributed to the program in the company’s history. Over the lifetime of the program, the company has disbursed more than $25 million into eligible employees’ accounts. “I saw how hard it was for my parents to save for retirement. When I started JK, I wanted to help my employees have an opportunity to build wealth and afford to retire,” stated founder and CEO Chuck Kuhn. “This year, it took longer to become profitable, but with sacrifices and hard work across the enterprise, we are again thriving.” JK’s annual investment represents 5.5% of annual salary for eligible employees. That breakdowns to 3% into the safe harbor 401K program and another 2.5% from the profit-sharing component. JK was able to continue this commitment by taking measures early on during the pandemic to cut costs and manage expenses, including members of the executive team taking pay cuts. JK, along with its sister company CapRelo, employs nearly 1,100 people and expects to expand its workforce next year to handle demand and in anticipation of opening a Prince William County location.
Glam Set Go Hits the Road
Extensive Renovation Planned for Village Lanes BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ
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Leesburg-area bowlers can expect a dramatic transformation of a favorite destination. Village Lanes, located off the intersection of Catoctin Circle and Harrison Street, is in the midst of extensive renovations following the August sale of the property to Local Wood owners Scott Carpenter and Charlie Beach. The property had been on the company’s radar screen before, and when an unrelated property sale falling through, Carpenter and Beach took another look at Village Lanes. “The idea is to turn it into more of a family entertainment venue,” said Ben Carpenter, son of Scott and project man-
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Village Lanes, a destination for the local bowling community for decades, will soon be reimagined into a family entertainment center, with VIP lanes, upgraded food and beverage offerings, a large bar, and an arcade area.
ager with Carpenter Beach Construction. “Traditional league bowling [alleys] with
basic food and beverage options and no entertainment offerings have been on a steady decline the last 20 years. A lot of those types of centers are changing to family entertainment venues. That was our original goal—to rejuvenate a town treasure to a lot of people, and also redevelop the business where it will be profitable for many years to come, and get a nice facelift.” The bowling alley’s lanes are being reduced from 24 to 16, and four lanes will be reserved as rentable, VIP-type lanes, perfect for corporate events or parties. The food and beverage menu also is being upgraded to include a wider fare, Carpenter said, and a large, four-sided bar will acVILLAGE LANES continues on page 18
The Glam Set Go on-the-go hair and makeup service rolled out its mobile GlamTruck this month throughout Loudoun County. The service offers salon services at homes and other venues. “Glam Set Go was inspired by the busy woman on-the-go who does not want to compromise on beauty,” stated Co-Founder Sonali Chaturvedi. “As a bustling entrepreneur myself, I often see women searching for self-care solutions without the complication. At Glam Set Go, we give women a convenient and luxurious opportunity to feel beautiful in their own unique way, no matter the circumstances.” The business specializes in weddings, engagement parties, special events and offers hair and makeup services for men and women in the Mercedes Sprinter outfitted with Italian leather chairs and WiFi. To celebrate the launch, all bridal services booked by Oct. 15 will be discounted by 25%. Learn more at glamsetgo.me.
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Town of Leesburg Employment Opportunities Please visit www.leesburgva.gov/jobs for more information and to apply online. Resumes may be submitted as supplemental only. EOE/ADA. Regular Full-Time Positions Position
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To review Ida Lee (Parks & Recreation) flexible part-time positions, please visit www.leesburgva.gov/jobs. Most positions will be filled at or near the minimum of the range. Dependent on qualifications. All Town vacancies may be viewed on Comcast Cable Channel 67 and Verizon FiOS Channel 35.
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that LoudounGo receives for customers within a 100-mile radius, Grivas said. It will also have a marketplace area dedicated to LoudounGo products near the building’s entrance. Also in that partnership is Chariots for Hire, which has had to shift its own transportation business, with proms and weddings mostly canceled or postponed because of COVID. Baldwin had planned to work with West on his LoudounStay business, providing a transportation option for those visiting Loudoun. When he called West with his idea to use Chariots for Hire to deliver the food products to consumers, he said West was all in. Having the familiarity with Loudoun’s road network, including its winding country roads, makes the company an ideal partner, Baldwin said. “COVID has had a significant impact on our business and has left much of our fleet sitting in our parking lot and our drivers sitting at home. Our partnership with LoudounGo has been great because not only does it provide work for our drivers but it’s also a fantastic service for our community,” West said. Grivas pointed out how many food vendors now have to depend on delivery for a significant source of their business income. The service offered by Chariots for Hire, at a lower cost than some of its food-delivery competitors she pointed out, cannot be understated. In addition to offering food delivery to local residents, LoudounGo also boasts itself as the only ecommerce site that can broker online sales of wineries, breweries and distilleries straight from the source to someone’s house, Baldwin said. LoudounGo also is working with JK Community Farms to encourage farmers to donate any products or prepared meals
Village Lanes continued from page 16 commodate up to 40 patrons. The owners are also adding in an arcade space, with a range of game offerings for adults and kids alike. Vaughn Gatling, who was the general manager of the Middleburg Tennis Club for 18 years, has been tapped to head up the operations. The building will also house the relocated Local Wood showroom, which will move across the street from the Virginia Village shopping center.
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left over from farmers markets to local food pantries. A pickup spot for these donations will be housed at ChefScape, along with donation centers in Purcellville and Round Hill, Baldwin said. Another special piece of the partnership puzzle is ChefScape’s relationship with Chef Erik Fox-Nettnin, who recently left Magolias at the Mill restaurant in Purcellville. Fox-Nettnin is set to join ChefScape as a member soon, Grivas said, and he will offer guidance to chefs on how they can pivot their businesses during the pandemic. Fox will also offer services as a mobile chef, where he can be hired to cater private meals, and even will provide Thanksgiving pick-up meals through his Polished Foxx catering company. Baldwin is hopeful that the success of both LoudounGo and LoudounStay will be tied together, and will draw attention to the county as a special food and tourism destination. “What my personal goal is for this is really helping people in the Washington metro area find a great experience in Loudoun County, find those nooks and crannies and special places in Loudoun County. Those that want to sell through us will have the platform. Additionally, it’s also educating folks that you can really buy local and don’t have to go to 30 different places. The more we can get people to commit to local, when they feel comfortable enough to come out, they’re going to come out and visit,” he said. Grivas called the new company, “an incredible thing for our local economy.” “LoudounGo is providing additional lines of revenue where there weren’t before,” she said. “Food trucks, farmers market [vendors] are displaced seasonally, some don’t know how to do online, or how to change and pivot their channel. With LoudounGo you can do this year round. We’re giving you a way to operate 12 months a year. Even before COVID a lot of these businesses didn’t have that.” n Carpenter said future plans for the property are to have an outdoor patio area, and pickleball courts. Pickleball is a paddleball sport that has grown in popularity in recent years; however, pickleball courts are still hard to find in the area. With 4.4 acres available, Carpenter said there’s space for two to four pickleball courts. Carpenter said hopes are to have the renovated Village Lanes open by late this year, or early 2021. The outdoor amenities would not debut until next summer. “Things are progressing well,” he said. “We’ve gotten a lot of work done already.”n
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21 Months After Neighbor’s Death, Morrisonville Residents Still Pushing for Road Safety BY PATRICK SZABO
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It was 21 months ago that Lauren McDarby was killed while jogging along Morrisonville Road. Since then, all legal proceedings for the driver who struck her have completed, but residents have yet to see many of the road improvements they say are needed to prevent a future tragedy. In January 2019, Zachary Frye sped 60 mph down the narrow Morrisonville Road before striking and killing McDarby while she was out on her routine morning jog. Since then, residents have been on the lookout for crashes waiting to happen on the road’s sharp curves, for construction vehicles that use the road as a short cut to get from Rt. 287 to Mountain Road, and for speeders. As the Morrisonville Community Alliance, the residents have met on multiple occasions with county supervisors, county Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure staff, VDOT and the Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office. But, they said, they haven’t been granted all of the road safety improvements they feel will slow and thin traffic, and generally make drivers more aware of the road’s dangerous nature. Those include a push for VDOT to reduce speed limits, remove roadside vegetation for better line of sight around three 90-degree bends, convert the Morrisonville/Purcellville Road intersection into a three-way stop and prohibit trucks from using the road as a cut through. They’ve
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The Purcellville Town Council is poised to vote in two weeks to create a citizen-led committee that will advise the council on how residents feel the police force should operate. Following a discussion last Tuesday night, the vote likely will be unanimous. The proposed Community Policing Advisory Committee would provide the council with recommendations on town police policies and practices. At the end of a nearly two-hour discussion last week,
Town Council Begins Livestreaming Meetings The Town of Hamilton is livestreaming its Town Council meetings on its website—hamiltonva.gov/ livestream-meetings. The town is using the Swagit platform, which the Towns of Middleburg and Purcellville both use. Hamilton’s first livestreamed Town Council meeting was Sept. 14. Its next will be 7 p.m. on Oct. 19. For more information on how to access the meetings, call the town at 540-338-2811.
LOVETTSVILLE Oktoberfest Committee Reports Loss in FY20; Works to Rebound
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A sign advising drivers to slow down while traveling along Morrisonville Road has been posted at the Purcellville Road intersection, an area where residents say speeding is a problem.
also asked the Sheriff ’s Office to periodically step up speed enforcement. Resident Paul Belvin said speeders have been registered as traveling as much as 60 mph in 35 mph zones and 45 mph in 25 mph zones. He said pets have been run over and signs asking drivers to slow down have been knocked over—“repeatedly.” Belvin said that while there aren’t many places for deputies to pull over speeders on the road, which measures less than 18 feet wide in some locations, about 30 residents have agreed to allow deputies to use their
driveways for that purpose. According to Sheriff ’s Office Public Information Officer Kraig Troxell, the Sheriff ’s Office has conducted traffic enforcement and placed a portable speed trailer unit along the road, in addition to reviewing potential traffic calming measures alongside county Board members and county staff. According to Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure Communications Manager Shawn Taylor Zelman, ROAD SAFETY continues on page 21
Purcellville Council Vote Set for Police Advisory Committee BY PATRICK SZABO
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Mayor Kwasi Fraser conducted a straw poll to gauge whether council members would be comfortable voting on the committee’s creation at the Oct. 13 Town Council meeting. All six council members said they would vote “yes” to create the committee at that meeting, based on the modifications and additions they made to the committee’s proposed ordinance last week. “It looks positive,” Fraser said. The proposal to create the policing advisory committee followed a June 7 Black Lives Matter march in town, which prompted former councilman Nedim
Ogelman and longtime town resident Molly Magoffin to suggest the group’s formation. To hear residents’ opinions on the formation of the group, the Town Council held a Sept. 8 public hearing, during which five residents were either opposed or concerned about the group’s formation while three spoke in support of it.
Reason for Formation; Mission According to the proposed ordinance ADVISORY COMMITTEE continues on page 20
The Lovettsville Oktoberfest Committee is looking into the reasoning behind why the fund for the town’s annual German-themed event operated at a loss this past fiscal year. According to Mayor Nate Fontaine, part of the loss is attributable to approved purchases the committee made for the 2019 event based on projections—$15,000 for a trailer and $1,265 to purchase a used Kubota, which was split between the Oktoberfest and Mayfest funds. This is the first time the event has operated at a loss since before 2012. One reason for dropping into the red centers on the notion that the town may need to attract more than 15,000 visitors to the event. Still, the Oktoberfest Committee operates with a reserve fund for situations like this. That fund is made up of revenue made from events in previous years and is not funded with taxpayer money. The committee is looking at its operations to identify improvements, Fontaine wrote in his Sept. 18 email newsletter.
Water Tower Work to Complete by February Work on the Town of Lovettsville’s water tower is expected to be completed within the next five months, according to Mayor Nate Fontaine. Town leaders expected crews to TOWN NOTES continues on page 21
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Advisory committee continued from page 19 to create the committee, the group will be formed to enhance communication and community engagement between the Town Council, the town police and residents regarding matters of police-community relations, police training, and police protocols; to promote the equal and fair treatment of all citizens by town police officers; to promote respect for town police by recognizing their extensive training and good work; to raise awareness about racial injustice in policing and become informed on ways the town seeks to promote racial equality in its policing; and to improve the public trust of the town police through increased communication and education. The proposed mission of the committee is to engage in dialogue with Purcellville’s residents, businesses, police and visitors about policing; to identify public safety issues in town and recommend to the Town Council solutions to those issues—solutions committee members will craft in collaboration with community leaders, community organizations and stakeholders, including the town police; and to identify examples of excellent policing in the town to publicly recognize officers. While all council members seem supportive of creating the committee, their reasoning differed. Fraser and Vice Mayor Mary Jane Williams during the Sept. 8 council meeting said the town’s Black community doesn’t trust the police. “There is a perception of mistrust for the police,” Fraser said at that meeting. Councilman Stanley Milan has said the committee would be a preventative measure to keep the town’s police force in check, even if there might not be problems in its ranks right now. Meanwhile, Councilman Tip Stinnette has said the group would unite and create partnerships, not divide the community.
Committee Powers The committee is proposed to have the power to compile, and present to the council and police, information on community recommendations concerning the procedures, programs, policies, training, use of technology and effectiveness of the police force; to provide residents with information on the Police Department; to make recommendations on how officer complaints are handled and how bias complaints and deadly force cases are investigated; and to make recommendations on town policies that would “prevent police bias and use of unnecessary deadly force,” among other powers.
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Purcellville Police officers could get some resident input on how to operate in the coming months, as the Town Council moves closer to the establishment of a Community Policing Advisory Committee.
Members would have the duty to “present all information without regard to personal beliefs or concern for personal, professional or political consequences.” The committee is also proposed to have the power to “review significant community policing issues in Purcellville”—a power some residents have said is unnecessary, since they feel the town’s police force has no issues. To bolster that idea, Police Chief Cynthia McAlister on Sept. 8 told council members that only 21 resident complaints have been filed against her officers since June 2015. Given the town’s close to 10,200-resident population, that comes out to be about one complaint for every 485 residents spread out over the past five years. McAlister noted that none of those complaints resulted in the termination of an officer. But Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church Pastor Dave Milam last Tuesday pointed to a town police shooting of a teenager that happened more than six years ago—when an officer responded to a suicide call and ended up fatally shooting 17-year-old Christian Alberto Sierra. Milam thanked Williams for her comments at the Sept. 8 meeting, in which she spoke about her son who “at times [has] been harassed in our community, whether at school or sometimes by the police.” “This is a challenging situation,” he said. “There’s an opportunity for us to address an issue that has been a long part of our nation and is a part of our community in many ways. … it’s part of our Police Department.”
Committee Membership The committee is proposed to consist of nine voting members, all of whom would be appointed by the Town Council, which will be required to appoint members “in a manner that achieves a diversity of viewpoint, race, ethnicity, and experience with
law enforcement.” Two seats would be reserved for people who own or manage an in-town business; one seat would be reserved for a Loudoun Valley High School student and another for a Woodgrove High School student; two more seats would be reserved for “persons who identify as persons of color;” one seat would be filled by a person with five or more years of experience in the field of criminal justice; one seat would be filled by a person with five or more years of experience in the field of social work or mental health; and another seat would be filled “without regard to particularized experience.” All members would need to be 16 years of age or older. Councilman Joel Grewe said he has heard concern from residents that nine members might be too many and could slow the committee down in its ability to conduct business efficiently. Town Attorney Sally Hankins said nine members might be a good number, since there would be a better chance for a quorum to be established if a few members were unable to attend a meeting.
A Unique Committee or One and the Same? A debate of whether the committee would have different responsibilities than the town’s eight other committees, commissions and boards ensued during last week’s meeting. Charlene Lane, a 1970 graduate of the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy, argued the committee would be entirely different than others, since hesitating in a potentially deadly situation to decide if some actions would be justified in today’s day and age could present police officers with fatal consequences. “This committee will take someone’s livelihood into consideration,” she said.
“This is a whole different kind of committee that you are proposing.” Magoffin said there was no need to “dramatize” the committee’s formation. She said the committee would be just like the town’s other committees—all of which, she said, affect peoples’ livelihoods. She said that the committee is needed because taxpayers pay for the public safety the town’s Police Department provides. Ogelman, too, said the committee would act just like the town’s eight other committees, commissions and boards—as an advisory body. But Hankins emphasized that the committee would, in fact, be different than other town committees because of the moderate to high risk of legal liability it would pose. She gave an example of a resident reporting a falling tree to a member of the Tree and Environment Sustainability Committee, which could be resolved by simply taking the tree down before it fell into a public street or sidewalk. Conversely, if a resident reported to a policing advisory committee member that a police officer did something unlawful and that committee member did not inform Hankins or Town Manager David Mekarski of the complaint, the resident could then claim that they reported the officer’s actions to the town and claim that nothing was done. “There has to be a process by which information, when it is collected from people about our employees, that it makes its way to the very people who can do something about it,” Hankins said. “That would be a very expensive problem for the town have legally, I promise.” “Once knowledge is obtained by any person with a town logo on anything, we are all charged with knowing it. I just can’t emphasize that enough. We are all charged with knowing it,” she said. Hankins stressed that complaints against police officers are administrative, personnel matters that need to be taken straight to her and Mekarski, and are not legislative matters to be taken up by the Town Council. “Employment law is probably this town’s largest risk area,” she said. In recent years, the town has experienced troubles in the area of employment law. A 2017 investigation, later found to be unsubstantiated, into the police chief led to the placing of multiple town staffers on administrative leave while multiple other investigations were performed. That led to several lawsuits from some of those staffers, who claimed that they were unjustifiably placed on leave and that their reputations were tarnished. Read the full proposed ordinance to create the Purcellville Community Policing Advisory Committee here. n
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Life in Loudoun County changed dramatically in mid-March when COVID-19 containment efforts shut down gathering places and encouraged folks to hunker down at home. The growing nightlife experience reverted to empty sidewalks. Loudoun’s remarkable roster of dining establishments pivoted to carry-out and delivery-only service. The music scene went quiet. Schools and churches moved online. Wineries and breweries closed. Over the past seven months, gathering spots have begun to reopen, largely in outdoor spaces. But things are far from returning to normal. As families and friends increasingly seek safe places to meet up, we asked some county leaders for their recommendations.
My go-to is Dirt Farm Brewery. There, I can see the whole district. I know the owners, and it’s just my place—I feel at home there, and I just love the view and can’t get enough. — Tony Buffington Blue Ridge District Supervisor, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
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The Board of Supervisors The Loudoun Board of Supervisors has nine members, representing eight election districts and a chairman elected by voters countywide. Supervisors serve four-year terms and all run for office in the same year. The election districts are adjusted each decade to maintain approximately equal populations; currently, there are two large western districts covering the county’s rural west and the transition area, and six smaller districts covering Leesburg and the county’s populous east. Supervisors face an election every four years, and 2019 was that year. It saw Democrats take control of the board, reversing the previous 6-3 Republican majority. It is also another term with a lot of new faces. Supervisors Caleb A. Kershner (R-Catoctin), Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian), Michael R. Turner (D-Ashburn), and Sylvia R. Glass (D-Broad Run) all began their first term in January. Returning supervisors include County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (DAt Large), Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling), Tony R. Buffington (R-Blue Ridge), Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg), and Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles)—now the longest-serving supervisor in his third term. This year, for the first time, Randall has her choice of titles—until this year, the state code named the at-large position “County Chairman.” After a change in state law, the first Black woman to chair a county Board of Supervisors in Virginia— and any of her colleagues around the state—may now also be known as Chairwoman, Chairperson, or simply “Chair,” which has been Randall’s title of choice since she was first sworn in four years ago. It is a historically diverse board for Loudoun. In its 2015 election, Loudoun elected its second female chairman-at-large and its first two Black supervisors, Randall and Saines. In 2019, voters brought in another Black supervisor, Glass. Women now hold four of the nine seats. This board is also the most highly paid in Loudoun’s history, as far as the public coffers go. In the previous
term, supervisors narrowly voted to increase the salaries of the next board by 62%. Supervisors are now paid $66,826 annually; the vice chairman is paid $73,363; and the chair is paid $81,100. They will also receive 2% pay increases for each year of their four-year term. Supervisors hire two county staff members themselves: the County Administrator, currently Tim Hemstreet, and the County Attorney, currently Leo Rogers. The county’s staff members and legal team are hired by and serve under them. The board meets at 5 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of the month, and holds a public hearing on the Wednesday of the week following the first meeting of the month. That is schedule is adjusted around some holidays. Meetings of the Board of Supervisors are held in the boardroom at the government center at 1 Harrison St. in downtown Leesburg and are open to the public. The county also televises board meetings on Comcast government channel 23, Verizon FiOS channel 40, and open band channel 40, and webcasts meetings at Loudoun.gov/webcasts. The board has three standing committees. Board members serve as appointed by the chairwoman on the Finance/Government Operations and Economic Development Committee, the Transportation and Land Use Committee, and the Joint Board/ School Board Committee.
serving as president of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments and member of the COG Board of Directors and on COG’s Human Services and Public Safety Policy Committee and the COG Regional Forward Coalition, and as a member of the National Association of Counties Health and Human Resources Committee. She and her husband T.W. have two sons and live in Lansdowne.
County Chair Phyllis J. Randall, At Large Phyllis.Randall@loudoun.gov
Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines, Sterling Koran.Saines@loudoun.gov
Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) began public service with volunteer work in Loudoun County Public Schools. She worked for more than 15 years as a mental health therapist working with substance abusing offenders in an adult detention center. Randall serves on all three board committees, as well as chairing the Virginia Association of Counties Health and Human Resources sub-committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority,
Vice Chairman Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling), in his second term, was selected to serve as vice chairman of the board. He serves on the board’s Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee and represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Climate Energy and Environment Policy Committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Au-
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Loudoun’s Continuing Evolution Loudoun County was little more than a Native American crossroads when England’s King Charles II doled out the 5-million-acre Northern Neck of Virginia Proprietary to seven noblemen in 1649. The land stretched from the Potomac to the Rappahannock and, by 1730, was carved into Westmoreland, Stafford and Prince William counties. In 1742, Fairfax County was established. Fifteen years later, the Virginia House of Burgesses split Fairfax and named the western portion in honor of John Campbell, the fourth earl of Loudoun, a Scottish nobleman who served as commander-in-chief for the British armed forces in North America and as titular governor of Virginia from 1756 to 1759. He never actually set foot in Loudoun County, however.
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The Divide Northern and western Loudoun was settled in the 18th century by Scots-Irish, German and Quaker farming families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. Eastern and southern Loudoun were settled by residents with English roots who established tobacco plantations. Thus began the contrasting divide that continues to characterize the county. Loudoun has developed as a suburban community in the east, while retaining a rural atmosphere in the west. In the east, work is winding up to extend Metrorail’s Silver Line to Ashburn (five decades after train service last operated in the county); in the west, some 300 miles of roadways remain unpaved (and for the most part residents want them to stay that way). In the east, data centers carrying 70 percent of the world’s internet traffic have emerged from former cornfields; in the west, wineries and farm breweries stand where dairy farms and orchards once dominated. Development Loudoun’s population remained stable even into the 20th century with about 20,000 residents. That changed with an act of Congress—the decision to build Dulles Airport on the county’s eastern border. That action brought public sewer service to the county and spurred the first wave of suburban development, when Marvin T. Broyhill, Sr. spent $2 million to buy 1,762 acres and built Sterling Park. Development moved west to the Ashburn area in the 1980s and by the ’90s, Loudoun annually ranked among the fastest growing counties in the nation as more communities were built east of Rt. 15 and in the county’s seven incorporated towns. While the pace of growth has slowed to more manageable levels, debate over the location and scale of new development continues to be a highly debated public issue. Following a years-long effort to create a new General Plan to guide growth, the county government is now re-writing the Zoning Ordinance that will implement the new community development vision.
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[ T H E C OU N T Y ] continued from page 10 thority Planning Coordination Advisory Committee, and the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission. In 2019 he was appointed to the General Government Steering Committee of the Virginia Association of Counties by the organization’s president. He works in human resources at Washington Gas. He has previously served as an election officer, including as chief election officer in 2014. Saines was born in Fairfax and attended Broad Run High School in Ashburn. He and his son live in Chatham Green. He is engaged to be married.
His final assignment was on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon in support of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he worked in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate. Since retiring from the Air Force in 1997 he has worked mainly in nonprofit development and as a military commentator on cable news, radio and in Newsweek. He chairs the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and serves on the Fiscal Impact Committee. He lives in Lansdowne.
Supervisor Juli E. Briskman, Algonkian Juli.Briskman@loudoun.gov A former journalist and current communications professional, Supervisor Juli E. Briskman serves on the Board of Supervisors’ Finance/Government Operations and Economic DevelBriskman opment Committee and the Joint Board and School Board Committee. She also represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors, the Potomac Watershed Roundtable, and is one of the Board’s representatives on the Loudoun County Family Services Board and the Dulles Town Center Community Development Authority. She has also worked in education and as an instructor at local gyms and yoga studios, and volunteered in organizations including Loudoun County Public Schools, the Algonkian Running Club, the River Crest Riptide Swim Team, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of the USA and Galilee United Methodist Church. She has two children.
Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr., Blue Ridge Tony.Buffington@loudoun.gov Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr. (R-Blue Ridge) works for the Capitol Police in Washington, DC. He serves on Transportation and Land Use Committee and is Buffington Loudoun’s representative on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission and the board’s representative on the Coalition of Loudoun Towns. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, Buffington grew up in Berryville and lives in Purcellville. He has two sons and is engaged to be married.
Supervisor Michael R. Turner, Ashburn Michael.Turner@loudoun.gov Former U.S. Air Force pilot Supervisor Michael R. Turner graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1973 and served on U.S. Central Command during Operation Desert Storm. Turner
Supervisor Sylvia R. Glass, Broad Run Sylvia.Glass@loudoun.gov Special education teacher Supervisor Sylvia R. Glass works at Leesburg Elementary School, having worked previously as a teaching assistant and cafeteria monitor with Loudoun Glass County Public Schools. She has also worked with the U.S. Defense Contract Audit Agency and later earned her real estate license and worked with ReMax. She serves on the Board of Supervisors’ Joint Board and School Board Committee and the Transportation and Land Use Committee, and is the Board’s representative on the Loudoun County Disability
Services Board. She represents Loudoun on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Air Quality Committee and the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission. She is a member of the NAACP Education Committee, and is active with the Loudoun County Public Schools’ Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee, the Loudoun Education Association, and the Loudoun chapter of Moms Demand Action. She and her husband live in Ashburn Village where they raised their four sons. Supervisor Caleb A. Kershner, Catoctin Caleb.Kershner@loudoun.gov Simms Showers LLP partner and attorney Supervisor Caleb E. Kershner is a native of Frederick, MD, and moved to Loudoun in 1995, working as director of federal relations Kershner at the Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville. He serves on the board’s Finance/ Government Operations and Economic Development Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Loudoun County Agricultural District Advisory Committee, the Coalition of Loudoun Towns and the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee. He also serves as an officer on the board of directors for the Loudoun County Fair and Associates, a nonprofit organization which hosts the Loudoun County Fair. He lives in Hamilton with his wife and their four children. Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau, Dulles Matt.Letourneau@loudoun.gov Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles), now Loudoun’s longest-serving current supervisor, is his third term and continues to chair the board’s Finance, Government SerLetourneau vices and Operations Committee and Economic Development
Committee. He also represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) Board of Directors, representing Virginia as a Principal Director, and serves on the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors, and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. Prior to joining the Chamber, he was the Republican communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and press secretary to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. A native of Shrewsbury, MA, he works as managing director of Communications and Media for the Global Energy Institute at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and lives with his wife and four children in Little River Commons. Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd, Leesburg Kristen.Umstattd@loudoun.gov Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd cochairs the board’s Joint Board and School Board Committee and serves on the Board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee. She Umstattd is also one of the board’s representatives on the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee and the Family Services Board, and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Chesapeake Bay and Water Resources Policy Committee. She previously served on the Leesburg Town Council from 1992 to 2016, and as Leesburg mayor from 2002 to 2016. A native of Philadelphia, PA, she has served in the U.S. Naval Reserve and the CIA. She and her husband live in Leesburg where they practice law.
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Brenda Sheridan, Chairwoman Sterling District Residence: Sterling Phone: 571-233-0307 E-mail: Brenda.Sheridan@lcps.org Brenda Sheridan is serving her third term on the board, and her first year as chairwoman after serving the past four years as vice chair. A native of upstate New York, Sheridan is a 22-year resident of Sterling. She was a substitute teacher from 2004 to 2011, when she was appointed to finish the term of a previous board member, before being elected the following year. She works for Perspecta as a security analyst. She and her husband, Keith, have two children, graduates of Park View High School. Sheridan is chairwoman of the board’s Discipline Committee and Equity Committee, and is a member of the Legislative & Policy Committee.
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Atoosa Reaser, Vice Chairwoman Algonkian District Residence: Cascades Phone: 571-291-5325 E-mail: Atoosa.Reaser@lcps.org Atoosa Reaser is serving her first term on the board and was elected by the board to serve as vice chairwoman. A Loudoun resident for nearly 20 years, Reaser is both a licensed teacher and a practicing attorney. She has served as an executive board member for the school division’s Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee, a classroom volunteer, PTA leader, and substitute teacher. She serves a chairwoman of the board’s Legislative & Policy Committee and as a member of the Discipline Committee and the Joint Committee with the Board of Supervisors.
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[ S C HO O L S ] continued from page 14 on the board. She was born into a family of educators and raised on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley. She earned a degree in library science from Shepherd University. She and her husband, Bobby, have lived in Leesburg for 23 years and have two children. She has served as an educator, PTA volunteer and Girl Scout troop leader. Barts chairs the board’s Communication & Outreach Committee and serves on the Charter School Committee, Human Resources and Talent Development
Committee and Student Support & Services Committee. John Beatty Catoctin District Residence: Lovettsville Phone: 571-440-1410 E-mail: John.Beatty@lcps.org John Beatty is serving his first term on the board.
He was born in Portsmouth and grew up in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in computer science and has worked at a several startups in Northern Virginia, focusing on iOS, Android, and Ruby on Rails software development. He works as the IT director at a private school where he also teaches Python and Java to high school students. He lives on a farm between Lovettsville and Waterford with his wife, Katie, and their five children. Beatty serves on the Curriculum & Instruction Committee.
PAGE 15 Denise Corbo At Large Residence: The Preserve at Goose Creek Phone: 571-246-3766 E-mail: Denise.Corbo@lcps.org Denise Corbo is serving her first term on the board. Growing up in a military family, she has lived in Loudoun County for the past 33 years. After receiving a degree in business psychology and a master’s in education from Marymount University, she taught kindergarten and continues on page 16
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was elected as the Leesburg District representative to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. She served on the county board from 2008 to 2011. She re-joined the Town Council following an April 2012 special election, and was re-elected to a new four-year term in 2014. She was elected to her first mayoral term in November 2016, and is running for re-election to a third term this November. Burk represents the town on the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Advisory Committee, and Virginia Municipal League’s Executive Committee and Legislative Committee. A Leesburg resident since 1979, Burk was a special education teacher with Loudoun County Public Schools until her retirement in 2014. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from George Washington University and a master’s degree in middle school curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech. She is a past president of the Loudoun Education Association and served on the board of directors of the Virginia Education Association from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, the Loudoun Commission on Women honored her as the Woman of the Year for Education and Training. She and her husband, Larry, have two adult sons and two grandchildren.
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re-elected to his fifth four-year term last November. He was appointed to a twoyear term as vice mayor by his council peers last year, and previously served in the same post from July 2004 to June 2006. He is currently the longest-serving member of the council. Martinez represents the council on VML’s General Laws Committee and the Loudoun County Transit Advisory Board. Before his election to council, he served on the Loudoun County Parks and Recreation Commission, as well as the Loudoun County Community Services Advisory Board. Originally from California, Martinez is a U.S. Air Force (Vietnam era) veteran. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in economics and computer science from Portland State University. Martinez has worked as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration. He founded Heritage High School Project Grad, and helped to co-found the Boys and Girls Club of Loudoun County and La Voz, a Hispanic advocacy group. He has served as the vice chairman on the board of directors for the Paxton Campus, which is a full-service organization for children with special needs. He has also been appointed by the governor to serve on the Aerospace Advisory Council. He
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has lived in Leesburg with his wife, Doris, and children since 1993. Martinez has five children and six grandchildren with another on the way.
Ronald Campbell Email: rcampbell@leesburgva.gov Ron Campbell was elected to the Town Council in November 2016. He is running for mayor in November’s election. Prior to his election to council, he served on the Technology and Communications Commission and the Environmental Commission. In 1992 he served on two Virginia state task forces on sexual violence, one dealing with institutions of higher education and one with K-12 schools, led by then Lt. Governor Don Beyer. Campbell represents the council on VML’s Community and Economic Development Committee. He is also a member of the Loudoun County NAACP and Leesburg Daybreak Rotary, and formerly served on the Loudoun County Criminal Justice Board. Campbell has a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Heidelberg University, and a master’s degree in counseling, human services and guidance from
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Montclair State University. In addition, he has completed doctoral coursework in human sexuality from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a certified planning commissioner. Campbell is also currently enrolled in the Harvard University Kennedy School for the Public Leadership Credential. Campbell started his career with a Wall Street firm, and was a licensed SEC representative, providing wealth management strategies and selling mutual funds. He went on to work in higher education administration for over 27 years, including as the associate vice president for Student
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Development and Athletics at the University of Minnesota where he was responsible for a budget of over $100 million. In 2000, he established his own business development consulting company, College Business Concepts, LLC. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the CEO for the National Association of College and University Auxiliary Services in Charlottesville. He currently serves as the executive director of the Loudoun Freedom Center, which is dedicated to the preservation of African American history in Loudoun County. In May, Campbell was elected to serve on the board of directors for the Waterford Foundation Inc. Campbell is a member of Holy & Whole Life Changing Ministries International Church in Lansdowne. He and his wife Barbara have been Leesburg residents since 2001, and have four adult children and seven grandchildren.
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four-year term. He recently announced he will not seek re-election this November after serving 12 years on the council. He has represented the town on various VML committees. Also, he has represented the town on the Government Center Joint Task Force, the School Naming Committee, and the Law Enforcement Committee. He also served as a liaison to the Board of Architectural Review, the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Thomas Balch Library Commission, the Infrastructure subcommittee and the Tourism Historic Preservation subcommittee. Dunn also served a four-year term on the Loudoun County Planning Commission as the Leesburg District representative from 2011-2015. Prior to being elected to the council, Dunn served on the Leesburg Planning Commission and the Leesburg Economic Development Commission for a combined nine years. Dunn holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Mary Washington College. He is a Certified Public Planner and has 16 years’ experience in mortgage banking. He is currently the president of VCR Inc., a marketing company he founded. He is also a certified in-home care provider. He served eight years as an Officer of Combat Engineers with the U.S. Army. Dunn has been and continues to be an active community volunteer, having held various volunteer positions with the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Loudoun School of Ballet, Little League, Youth Football, Church and Ball’s Bluff PTO. He directed youth summer camps at Morven Park, Oatlands and the Loudoun Museum and has volunteered as a tour guide at Balls Bluff Battlefield. Dunn has been a Leesburg resident in Potomac Crossing since 1998, and has three children who all attended public school in Leesburg.
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Suzanne Fox Email: sfox@leesburgva.gov Suzanne Fox was first elected to the Town Council in November 2014, and served as vice mayor from 2016 to 2018. She is the council’s representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s Planning Coordination Advisory Committee. Fox is the owner of Legacy Weddings, a wedding planning/coordinating business, and has performed thousands of local wedding ceremonies as a Civil Celebrant for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Brigham Young University. Fox and her family moved to Leesburg in 2003.
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ical science and theatre. Steinberg and his wife, KD Kidder, moved to Loudoun County in 1975, and began their business, Photoworks, a photography, imaging services, and framing business, in 1979. They have operated it ever since at the same location on the corner of Loudoun and King Streets in downtown Leesburg. Photoworks and the Potomac Gallery were the founders of the down-
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town’s First Friday Gallery Walk, now the very successful event known as First Friday. Steinberg has studied martial arts since the early 1980’s and holds black belts in three disciplines, including a Master level (5th degree) in taekwondo. He has been an instructor for Grand Master Eunggil Choi at United States Taekwondo Martial Arts Academy(in Leesburg for more than
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20 years. Over the years he has been involved in a variety of downtown business organizations, serving as president for what was the Leesburg Downtown Business Association. He is currently a member of the local branch of the NAACP. Steinberg and his wife moved to Leesburg in 2008, where they live with KD’s mother, Doris Kidder, and their two cats.
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The Town of Hamilton is the first of Loudoun’s six rural towns visitors will come across when headed west past Leesburg. There, you won’t see much about the town in the headlines, but business is being conducted by the Town Council and small town staff as usually as any other town. In recent years, they’ve worked to revamp the Hamilton Community Park and install more sidewalk along Colonial Highway. The Hamilton Town Council has also been home to some of the longest-serving council members in Loudoun history. Earlier this year, Councilman John Unger stepped down from his post after 36 years of service—making him the longestserving council member in Loudoun. Last year, Michael Snyder resigned after 29 years—making him the county’s thirdlongest serving council member.
The Town of Hillsboro, as the “gateway to western Loudoun,” is a major cutthrough for thousands of commuters daily and will soon be home to an improved, safer road network. The town’s $14.3 million traffic calming and pedestrian safety project has been underway since March and is expected to wrap up by early April 2021. That project is installing roundabouts and additional sidewalks and is burying utility lines. The town this year also saw work on its water project complete, which removed the town’s 25-year-old boil-water notice and now provides residents with an additional 15 gallons of water each minute.
The Town of Lovettsville, also known as The German Settlement and Virginia’s northernmost town, is famous for its German roots dating back to the early 1730s. Although its 2020 Oktoberfest was canceled amid the pandemic, the town continues to look ahead. The town government is even poised to dedicate a new town office by the end of October—a project that overcrowded town staffers have been anticipating for more than a decade.
The Town of Middleburg is Loudoun’s southernmost town and is situated in the middle of wine and horse country. There, visitors will find dozens of shopping and dining options. They’ll also come across lodging amenities, like the Red Fox Inn and Salamander Resort & Spa, which recently announced that it would expand the town’s population by offering 49, $2 million homes in the coming years. The ever-popular Christmas in Middleburg event this year has been canceled, but town leaders are still planning multiple smaller-scale events.
Population: 169
Median Age: 32
Households: 59
Approximate Size: 0.88 square miles
Population: 629 Households: 219 Median Age: 41 Approximate Size: 0.25 square miles
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Council Meetings: 7 p.m. second or third Monday of each month at the Town Office, 53 E. Colonial Hwy. Stipend: Mayor, $15,000 per annum, Councilmembers, $1,200 each per annum Town Manager: None Find more information at hamiltonva.gov.
Households: 802
Approximate Size: 0.27 square miles
Council Meetings: 7 p.m. third Tuesday of each month at the Old Stone School, 37098 Charles Town Pike Vance
Stipend: None Town Manager: None Find more information at hillsborova.gov.
Households: 411 Median Age: 54 Approximate Size: 1.04 square miles Mayor: Bridge Littleton
Council: Vice Mayor David Steadman, David Earl, Renee Edmonston, Chris Hornbaker, Joy Pritz, Buchanan Smith
Mayor: Roger Vance Council: Vice Mayor Amy Marasco, Claudia Forbes, Bill Johnston, Stephen Moskal, Laney Oxman
Population: 834
Mayor: Nate Fontaine
Median Age: 41
Mayor: David Simpson Council: Vice Mayor Kenneth Wine, Elizabeth Gaucher, Craig Green, Rebecca Jones, Cathy Salter, Greg Wilmoth
Population: 2,198
Council Meetings: 7:30 p.m. second and third/fourth Thursdays of the month at the Town Office, 6 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Fontaine
Stipend: Mayor, $2,000 per quarter; Councilmembers, $500 per quarter Town Manager: Rob Ritter Find more information at lovettsvilleva.gov.
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Council: Vice Mayor Philip Miller, Chris Bernard, Kevin Daly, Bud Jacobs, Darlene Kirk, Peter Leonard-Morgan, Cindy Pearson
Council Meetings: 6 p.m. second and fourth Thursdays of each month at the Town Office, 10 W. Marshall St. Stipend: Mayor, $500 per month; Councilmembers $200 each per month Town Manager: Danny Davis Find more information at middleburgva.gov.
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Population: 10,178
Population: 656
Households: 2,953
Households: 268
Median Age: 36
Median Age: 39
Approximate Size: 3.42 square miles
Approximate Size: 0.21 square miles
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The Town of Purcellville is western Loudoun’s largest town and home to a diverse culture of residents and businesses. For years, the town has remained virtually the same size around its borders, but within, business has been booming— fulfilling Purcellville’s unofficial title as “the hub of western Loudoun.” Although the pandemic has canceled most town events, residents have remained engaged with their local government by keeping up with Town Council meetings and even proposing new town committees, like the Community Policing Advisory Committee, which the council is expected to establish on Oct. 13.
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Round Hill The Town of Round Hill, Loudoun’s westernmost town, is centered on outdoor recreation and healthy living. Those mottos are exemplified in the town’s formation of the Round Hill Outdoors Committee in 2017, its opening of Sleeter Lake Park in August 2018 and its hosting of the United States Croquet Association’s 2019 Southeast Regional 9-Wicket Tournament. The town is now focused on two projects totaling $7 million that will connect Franklin Park with the town via a network of sidewalks and trails.
Council Meetings: 7:30 p.m. third Wednesday of each month (work sessions on the first Wednesday of each month) at the Town Office, 23 Main St. Ramsey
Stipend: None Town Administrator: Melissa Hynes Find more information at roundhillva.org.
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Road safety continued from page 19 the county staff in March inventoried the signs along the road and worked to identify the optimal locations for pole-mounted speed displays, which would show drivers their speeds and encourage them to slow down if they’re speeding. He said that study is ongoing. According to the county’s July 2020 Morrisonville Road Safety Study, the proposed locations for the speed displays are about three-tenths of a mile west of Rt. 287 and on the western side of Morrisonville road just past a westbound sweeping right-hander. Stacy Carey, the chief of staff for Supervisor Caleb A. Kershner (R-Catoctin)— whose district ends along the northern edge of Morrisonville Road—said Kershner’s office would be seeking broader community support for the installation of those displays before requesting the county staff install them. “We’re hoping to have a good conversation with the residents in the community,” Carey said.
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remove equipment from the tower this week and work to begin on the tower’s foundation by next week. Crews are then expected to initiate tower modifications the week of Nov. 16 and wrap those up by Dec. 18. From Jan. 4-22, sandblasting and painting will be performed. In February, AT&T, Sprint/T-Mobile and Verizon are scheduled to remove their equipment from the temporary tower and install it back on the water tower. The schedule could be delayed as a result of winter weather.
MIDDLEBURG 13 Firms Interested in Town Office Design The Town of Middleburg has received proposals from 13 firms interested in the architectural/engineering aspect of the $6.5 million new town office project. It also received 11 proposals from firms interested in handling the construction management component. The town staff is looking to make a recommendation to the Town Council on which firms to select as early as next month. The new town office will be built on land next to the 56-year-old existing office, which will be demolished. The town intends to complete the project in 24 to
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As for the request for a three-way stop at Purcellville Road, Belvin said VDOT informed the residents there wasn’t a high enough volume of traffic to make that happen. To get to that determination, VDOT analyzed not only the intersection’s traffic volumes, but also traffic approach speeds and crash history. VDOT Loudoun Assistant Transportation and Land Use Director Sunil Taori said the determination was made using federal guidelines. Jean Reimers said that’s unfortunate because it seems as though VDOT is waiting for an accident to happen before acquiescing the residents’ request. “That one death [of McDarby] … it did seem to motivate some action, but you don’t want to have to wait for another tragedy to get the attention again,” she said. “Do we really have to check the box of personal injuries?” VDOT has already installed two chevron signs to denote a bend in the road, along with signs warning drivers of the Purcellville Road intersection. But, Belvin said, “those two don’t do anything as far as helping the intersection.”
Reimers, whose driveway is situated in the middle of one of the road’s 90-degree curves, said multiple drivers have run into those signs because they’ve carried too much speed into the corners. To help further, VDOT also cleared some vegetation on the road’s sharp turns, but not enough, residents said. “[The turns are] still totally blind,” Belvin said. Carey said that although VDOT is restricted to trimming the vegetation that grows in its right of way, residents can trim back the growth on their properties. “There’s nothing from preventing them from doing that,” she said. On the issue of through trucks, Belvin said residents suggested two alternative routes that trucks could use to get from Rt. 287 to Mountain Road in their quest to get VDOT to install “no through truck” signs— Nixon Road to Purcellville Road to Legard Farm Road; or Bolington Road to Picnic Woods Road to Britain Road. Residents also said trucks could simply not use Morrisonville Road as a cutthrough route at all and instead travel the entire length of Mountain Road from Rt.
9 to Irish Corner Road, which, they said, doesn’t take much longer to do. But Zelman said that following a county review of a potential through-truck restriction in March, “there is no viable alternative route at/near the affected area.” Overall, the residents are faced with a tough choice when it comes to getting the safety improvements they desire while still wanting to maintain the rural character of the village. Belvin said residents have rejected the idea for VDOT to widen the road to allow for more room and safer travel, fearing doing so would essentially set the village up for future development to some degree. It would also inevitably invite more cutthrough traffic and higher speeds. “We just want to recognize there’s safety issues,” Belvin said. Moving closer to the two-year anniversary of the death of their neighbor, Morrisonville residents said they’re unsure about which actions to take next. Belvin said it’s unfortunate they need to flex a “political muscle” to get something done. “I don’t know where we go from here,” he said. “We aren’t going to give up.” n
30 months, with site development and construction estimated to take 15 to 18 months. Learn more about the project at middleburgva.gov/townhall.
The Town of Purcellville is accepting applications from nonprofits looking to be awarded up to $15,000 grants through Oct. 12. The town has dedicated $215,000 from its CARES Act funding to ensure the efforts of local nonprofit and faith-based organizations continue to provide assistance to residents in need. Nonprofits looking to apply must provide documentation of Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, documentation that their organization is authorized to receive grants from localities under applicable Virginia law, a certificate of Good Standing with the Virginia State Corporation Commission, a description of how their organization’s services have been impacted, interrupted, or expanded as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a description of the services their organization provides residents. To apply, go to purcellvilleva.gov/959/ Purcellville-Non-Profit-Business-Interruption. Submissions can be made online or dropped off at the town hall. For more information, email nonprofitgrants@purcellvilleva.gov or call 540751-2312.
Resources last week announced the approval of 15 new historical highway markers across the commonwealth, including one in Waterford that will be placed in front of the mill on Main Street. The marker will inform visitors on the village’s Quaker origins by including information on the lives of Amos and Mary Janney, Quakers from Bucks County, PA, who settled in Waterford around 1733. Their immigration to the village opened the door for others to follow. The community soon became an important manufacturing and commercial center that served the surrounding farmland. By the mid-1700s, the village was known as Janney’s Mill, but was renamed to Waterford around 1780. By 1830, formerly enslaved Black Americans headed a quarter of the village’s households. Since the 1930s, property owners, along with help from the Waterford Foundation, have worked to preserve the village. Their efforts paid off in 1970, when the National Park Service designated it as a National Historic Landmark. The Waterford Citizens’ Association was the sponsor of the historic marker. In 2010, the department approved a roadside marker in Waterford to commemorate the Independent Loudoun Rangers, the only organized Union cavalry unit in Confederate Virginia. Under the command of local miller Samuel C. Means, the unit mustered two companies from area Quakers, the German settlement in Lovettsville and other Unionists beginning June 1862.
Clergy Members to Bless Animals Sunday A rabbi, a Catholic priest, a Baptist pastor, an Episcopal pastor and a Methodist pastor will be at the National Sporting Library & Museum at 2 p.m. this Sunday, Oct. 4 to bless animals. The 20-year-old tradition will continue this year with drive-up blessings. The clerics will bless the animals as they remain in their owners’ cars. Large animals, like horses and cattle, will be directed to another section of the parking area. Volunteers will also hand out treats for the animals. Clerics on hand will be Emmanuel Episcopal Church Rev. Eugene LeCouteur, Rabbi Rose Lyn Jacob, Mt. Zion-Willisville Chapel Cooperative Parish Pastor Tracey Lyons, Shiloh Baptist Church Pastor Herman Nelson and St. Stephen the Martyr Roman Catholic Church Father Christopher Murphy. For more information on the blessing, call 540-687-6297 or go to facebook.com/ nslm.102.
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Live Music: Gary Jay Hoffmann Friday, Oct. 2, 4-7 p.m. Dirt Farm Brewing, 18701 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont Details: dirtfarmbrewing.com TGIF with awesome Americana from singer/ songwriter Gary Jay Hoffmann.
Live Music: Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience Friday, Oct. 2 and Saturday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m. Tally Ho Theater, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg Details: tallyhotheater.com The Tally Ho presents two nights of Zeppelin favorites as Zoso returns for a seated show. Admission is $20-$30 in advance.
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sector. “We’ve got great people learning how to code. We need to make sure we’ve got good people learning the land and how to work the land,” Fabbioli said. Fabbioli and other rural leaders launched the New Ag School in 2017 to give Loudouners of all ages a chance to get hands-on training in ag careers. Now,
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October is a spectacular time to visit a Loudoun winery. It’s Virginia Wine Month, new vintages are coming online and the views of the changing leaves are especially stunning. But one winery, Stone Tower, south of Leesburg, is going the extra mile—quite literally. Last month, it introduced a Self-Guided Vineyard Tour—a 1.25-mile beginner’s level hike through vines, hills and rugged terrain on which you take a tote bag containing a map, two glasses and a wine tasting kit. “You get to enjoy the fall colors and a
selection of our estate wines as you walk,” said Stone Tower Winery Hospitality and Catering Specialist Sam Miller. At various points during the 45-minute hike, visitors scan a QR Code on the map with their cell and an audio narration on the estate’s grape varietals and wines begins. As for the tasting kit, it contains four miniature bottles—two whites and two reds—the reds being their popular Bordeaux-style Hogback Mountain and Windswept Hills blends. “The property is fairly windy,” Miller said, “so you should try our Windswept Hills blend while standing on one of our
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windswept hills.” Coinciding with Virginia Wine Month, Oct. 1 also sees the sixth annual Loudoun Wine Awards showcasing the best wines in the county. The event will be livestreamed on the Loudoun Wineries Association’s Facebook page. Loudoun is not only about wine in the fall, of course. Multiple events celebrating the harvest take place throughout the county. Oct. 10 will be the final fall 2020 Edition of Dance King Studio’s Sweetheart HARVEST TO HORRORS continues on page 24
Saturday, Oct. 3, 1-4 p.m. The Barns at Hamilton Station, 16804 Hamilton Station Road, Hamilton Details: thebarnsathamiltonstation.com Kick back with soft rock favorites from Eric Stanley and Doug Wall.
Live Music: Melissa Quinn Fox Saturday, Oct. 3, 2 p.m. Breaux Vineyards, 36888 Breaux Vineyards Lane, Hillsboro Details: breauxvineyards.com Fox blends the brazen spirit of American rock with the unabashed candor of country music.
Live Music: Bourbon Moon Saturday, Oct. 3, 2 p.m. Bozzo Family Vineyards, 35226 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro Details: bozwines.com Enjoy an afternoon of roots, Irish, rock and bluegrass tunes from Bourbon Moon.
Live Music: Ron Hamrick Saturday, Oct. 3, 2 p.m. Maggie Malick Wine Caves, 12138 Harpers Ferry Road, Neersville Details: maggiemalickwinecaves.com Hamrick is a Billboard Top 10 songwriter known for a feel-good vibe, catchy melodies and well-crafted lyrics that hone in on life’s journey.
Live Music: Dave Mininberg Saturday, Oct. 3, 2-5 p.m. Lost Rhino Brewing Company 21730 Red Rum Drive, Ashburn
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Details: lostrhino.com Well known for his work with the band 7th Son of WV, Mininberg brings a unique blend of originals, classic rock, blues and country.
Live Music: Jill Fulton Band Saturday, Oct. 3, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Harpers Ferry Brewing, 37412 Adventure Center Lane, Loudoun Heights Details: facebook.com/harpersferrybrewing Powerhouse blues, country, soul and oldies from Jill Fulton and company.
Live Music: Shane Hines Saturday, Oct. 3, 6 p.m. Social House Kitchen and Tap, 42841 Creek View Plaza, Ashburn Details: socialhouseashburn.com Hines returns to Social House with his unique brand of indie pop.
Live Music: Sweet Leda Saturday, Oct. 3, 6-9:30 p.m. MacDowell Brew Kitchen, 202 South St. SE, Leesburg Details: macsbeach.com Blending new school funk, psychedelic rock, soul and pop, Sweet Leda’s heartfelt original music has been described as a female-fronted, soul-based Zeppelin meets Chili Peppers.
Live From the Lot: The Reagan Years Saturday, Oct. 3, 7-10 p.m. Segra Field, 42095 Loudoun United Drive, Leesburg Details: loudoun.gov Loudoun County PRCS presents a drive-in concert from one of the region’s favorite 80s bands. Audio will be delivered via speakers and FM radio. Tickets are $50 per vehicle. Advance purchase is required. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Check out the county’s website for details and restrictions.
Live Music: Troll Tribe Saturday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m. Crooked Run Brewing, 22455 Davis Drive #120, Sterling Details: crookedrunbrewing.com Get your groove on with a mixed-genre sound combining elements from reggae, rock, folk and alternative.
Live Music: Dan Cronin Sunday, Oct. 4, 2 p.m. Maggie Malick Wine Caves, 12138 Harpers Ferry Road, Neersville Details: maggiemalickwinecaves.com Ragtime and country blues on guitar and harmonica with Dan Cronin.
LIBATIONS House 6 Brewing Co. Oktoberfest Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4 House 6 Brewing Co., 44427 Atwater Drive, Ashburn Details: house6brewing.com Celebrate with music, Unser Haus Festbier and a market on Sunday. The event is free, but reservations are required for seating.
Rocket Frog Frogtoberfest Saturday, Oct. 3, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Rocket Frog Brewing Company, 22560 Glenn Drive, Sterling # 103 Details: facebook.com/rocketfrogbrewing Rocket Frog offers three Oktoberfest sessions by reservation with a choice of indoor or outdoor seating. Tickets are $10, which will be applied to each visitor’s tab.
Sonoma Beckons Wine Tasting Sunday, Oct. 4, 1-2:30 p.m. Lost Creek Winery, 43285 Spinks Ferry Road, Leesburg Details: lostcreekwinery.com The latest in Lost Creek’s For the Love of Wine series features California’s Sonoma wine regions including Russian River Valley, Alexander Valley, Moon Mountain and Dry Creek Valley. Tickets are $60 per person.
LOCO CULTURE Waterford Fair Online Friday, Oct. 2-Sunday, Oct. 4 Details: waterfordfairva.org Visit your favorite Waterford Fair artisans and tour historic homes online at this year’s virtual fair. Basic tickets are $10, and special packages are available including workshops and locally sourced food and drink.
‘Barefoot In the Park’
Sunday, Oct. 4, 1-5 p.m. Breaux Vineyards, 36888 Breaux Vineyards Lane, Hillsboro Details: breauxvineyards.com Longtime singer/songwriter Jason Teach is known for his pure voice and honest, heartfelt songwriting.
Sunday, Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m. Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville Details: franklinparkartscenter.org Build It They Will Come Players present a reader’s theater version of “Barefoot in the Park.” Capacity for the live performance is 20 people. Tickets are $8 in advance for in-person seats. The performance will also be livestreamed by donation.
Live Music: Pete Lapp
The Story of Fannie Lou Hamer
Live Music: Jason Teach
Sunday, Oct. 4, 1-4 p.m. The Barns at Hamilton Station, 16804 Hamilton Station Road, Hamilton Details: thebarnsathamiltonstation.com Lapp is back with acoustic interpretations of classic and alternative rock songs from Bon Jovi to Mumford and Sons.
Thursday, Oct. 8, 5 p.m. Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville Details: franklinparkartscenter.org Virginia Commission for the Arts performer Sheila Arnold brings to life the American voting rights activist and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. Tickets are $5 in advance. Limited socially distanced seating is available.
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Angela Maria Taylor Age 69, of Sterling, Virginia
Entered into eternal rest on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital. Angela Maria Taylor, affectionately known as “Angie,” was born at Freedmen’s Hospital in Washington, DC on January 3, 1951, to Viola Page and Ricardo Taylor. Angie was raised and educated in Washington, DC, where she lived most of her life raising her children and working as a pharmacy technician. Angie accepted Christ as her Savior in 1981 and spent the majority of her life sharing God’s love and faithfulness in spite of a myriad of health issues she endured. She began a legacy and inheritance of faith in God for her children and their children whom she loved dearly and spent as much time with as she could. Angie leaves to cherish her memories, four sisters, Mildred Webb, Patsy Taylor, Evelyn Jackson-Smith, and Elise Jackson; four brothers, Roland Taylor, John Francis Taylor, Herman Jackson, and Rodney Taylor; two children and their spous-
es – Pastor Michael & Trena Taylor and LaTonya & Kenny Coard; five grandchildren, Tonya Caver, Gerald Caver, Joseph Taylor, Jessica Taylor, and Josiah Taylor; five great grandchildren, and a host of extended family members and very close friends from Washington, DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia where she lived out the latter part of her life at Cascade Village and in fellowship at Community Church in Ashburn, VA. The family takes great comfort in knowing that for Angie, absent from the body means present with the Lord. A funeral service was held on Saturday, September 26, 2020, visitation from 10:00 am until time of service 11:00 am at the Community Church, 19790 Ashburn Road, Ashburn, VA 20147. Interment will be private. Arrangements by Lyles Funeral Service, serving Northern Virginia and surrounding areas, Eric S. Lyles, Director, Lic. VA,MD,DC 800-388-1913
Cleva Mae Simpson Cleva Mae Simpson, 85 of Front Royal, Virginia passed on Monday, September 14, 2020. Cleva was born Wednesday, February 20, 1935 in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was the daughter of the late Escar Moaten Phillips and the late Annie Simpkins Phillips. She was also predeceased by her former husband Verner Lee Simpson, a son Larry, grandson Michael, brothers, Alfred Lee, William, James A., Alvin J. Clemon C, Bennie M., Eugene D. Phillips and sister Cleo Geneva Phillips. She was a native of Loudoun County and
served as a Certified Nursing Assistant for nearly 50 years for Loudoun Hospital. Surviving are sons, Glenn Simpson, Allen Simpson, Daniel Simpson, Ray Simpson, Mark Simpson and sister, Evelyn McClellan; 15 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, and 2 great great grandchildren. A Funeral service will be at 11:00 AM on Wednesday at Loudoun Funeral Chapel located at 158 Catoctin Circle, SE Leesburg, Virginia 20175 with Elder Mark Sweeny officiating. Pallbearers, Kevin Simpson, Ben Cooper, Aaron Simpson, Brian Ducharme, Jamie Embrey and Alex Embrey. Interment will be in Union Cemetery, Leesburg, VA. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.loudounfuneralchapel.com.
Elaine D. Walker Celebration of Life
Saturday, October 10, 2020, 1pm The Walker Pavilion
11 Spring Farm Drive, Lovettsville, VA 20180 Please wear a mask and bring a chair. Please join the family of Elaine Walker for a memorial service and celebration of her remarkable life. Please wear a mask and bring a chair. There will be a tent in case of inclement weather.
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The Johnson Mountain Boys returned to the Lucketts Community Center stage last month for a very special reunion. It was a stage the bluegrass band helped make famous by recording its farewell concert, released as the Grammy-nominated double album “At The Old Schoolhouse,” there in 1988 as band members stepped away from a grueling 250-concerts-a-year touring schedule. This week, they’ll be inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame along with the New Grass Revival and J.T. Gray, the long-time owner of Nashville’s iconic bluegrass stage The
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Station Inn. The induction ceremony, along with IBMA’s annual industry awards ceremony, will be a virtual event this year. And when
asked where they wanted to record their acceptance presentation, the band members opted to return to the Lucketts Community Center, which has hosted a Saturday night bluegrass showcase since 1974. During comments recorded for the ceremony, lead singer Dudley Connell stressed the band was a true ensemble, with each member contributing to its distinctive sound. “There’s never been a star of the show. All these guys are just as important as any other player in the band. And we’ve always approached the music that way,” he said. You can watch the induction ceremony, as well as other programs during the IBMA’s World of Bluegrass conference for free by registering on eventbrite. The awards program begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1. n
Loudoun’s Longest-Running Community Fair Goes Virtual BY NORMAN K. STYER nstyer@loudounnow.com
For three quarters of a century, the Waterford Fair has served as a celebration of community pride, a history lesson and a fundraiser that has helped preserve buildings and land surrounding the National Historic Landmark village. There have been some years the event has been canceled by passing hurricanes, leaving the sponsoring Waterford Foundation in a financial pinch. With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down most community events—and traditional community fundraisers—organizers have been working hard to create a vibrant online event that allows virtual visitors to experience many of the fair’s hallmarks and also provide an opportunity to recoup some of
the income the fair provides. The result of those efforts is a new collection of well-produced videos that provide tours of many of the village’s historic buildings as well as artisan demonstrations— both staples of the traditional fair. Also, there are opportunities to purchase goods from the fair’s roster of juried crafters, apple butter from the Catoctin Presbyterian Church, baking workshops, and virtual wine tastings. The 76th annual fair runs from Friday, Oct. 2 to Sunday, Oct. 4. A $10 ticket provides access to the building tours, living history interviews and artisan demonstrations. There are nearly two dozen other packages that provide access to workshops and special programs. From the village’s mill, organizers will livestream a series of QVC-style sales of craft items
Harvest to horrors continued from page 22 Sunset Date dance series at Oatlands Historic House & Gardens. Brainchild of Leesburg Dance King instructors Adam King and April Rodriguez, up to 24 couples swing dance and foxtrot in the cascading gardens of the estate, at a safe social distance, and get one-on-one instruction as the sun goes down. “With the leaves turning it will be more beautiful than ever,” Rodriguez said. On Oct. 11, leading Virginia chefs and farmers come together on the lawns of Celebrations Farm in Bluemont for Pickled & Roasted: An Autumn Open Air Culinary Experience, part of the Root to Table series created by Taste of Blue Ridge founder and
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Leading Virginia chefs and farmers will come together Oct. 11 on the lawns of Celebrations Farm in Bluemont for the latest Root to Table event: Pickled & Roasted: An Autumn Open Air Culinary Experience.
owner Nancy Craun. No harvest season is complete without pumpkin picking and Halloween haunts. Temple Hall Farm near Lucketts will host a pick-your-own pumpkin patch this
throughout the weekend. Foundation Executive Director Stephanie Thompson said that although many of the fair’s traditional vendors aren’t set up for online sales or virtual demonstrations, they’ve been appreciative of the opportunity to connect with the fair’s large, dedicated audience. “Obviously, it is a tough year for us not to have it in person on top of everything else. Even if we get wildly popular, we’re not going to make any amount like we would usually make,” Thompson said. “Our biggest hope is to really keep everyone engaged and to continue to connect them to our artisans so that when we are able to get back to a more normal fair, we haven’t lost all of our artists or fairgoers.” For an overview of the fair plans and tickets, go to waterfordfairva.org. n year while the Loudoun Museum will offer its Hauntings Tour Oct. 16 and 17, taking visitors to historic homes and businesses where storytellers share the ghostly tales of the town. Then there is The Arc of Loudoun’s Shocktober, which features one of the scariest haunted houses in the country. This year, take a terror-filled, two-hour tour of the house virtually or attend online classes on creating creepy home décor and haunt makeup. For more ideas, go to visitloudoun.org Happy harvest! n
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Ag school continued from page 22 screen, get outside and learn the nuts and bolts of an agricultural operation. The program, which starts Monday, Oct. 19, takes participants through modules including equipment, horticulture, sanitation, leadership and the hospitality components of agritourism. For Fabbioli, it’s a chance for students to make connections, find mentors and set the path in motion for meaningful summer and part-time jobs. He’s recruiting mentors in equine, farming, landscaping and other sectors. “You’re going to be learning from somebody that’s passionate about what they’re doing,” Fabbioli said. Fabbiloi’s ongoing Saturday classes have been open to Loudouners of all ages. But he has been especially interested in guiding the region’s young people to career opportunities as wineries and farms look to build a workforce. “They’re all looking,” Fabbioli said. “They all want some of these kids to come up. We’re just trying to get these seeds to catch.” In the past year, Fabbioli has been building a program with several Loudoun
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schools and was getting ready to roll out the high school program last spring when COVID hit. When Loudoun County Public Schools announced that Mondays would be designated for asynchronous work, Fabbioli saw an opportunity to get kids outside. “Monday seems like a day where they don’t have to be in front of a computer all day, so I said hey let’s give them a chance to get outside.” Fabbioli said. “What I’m hoping they get out of this on a bigger level is an appreciation for the outdoors and to recognize that there are jobs that they can do where they don’t have to sit behind a computer screen all day long.” Participants will spend six Monday mornings on the farm, starting by getting their hands dirty with a module on cleaning and sanitation. Fabbioli has made building connections with Park View High School in Sterling, one of Loudoun’s diverse and densely populated suburban communities, and getting eastern Loudoun kids to the agricultural west a priority. Park View junior James Rodriguez and sophomore Osiel Alfaro have been training with Fabbioli this summer and will be joining the Monday classes as teaching assistants and participants. This summer and fall, the two students have been learn-
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ing the ropes during harvest time: picking grapes, weeding, learning vineyard management techniques. On a recent Saturday, James was working with Fabbioli’s right hand man Arturo Perez cleaning tanks as the winemaking crew moves wine from tanks to barrels. Osiel was punching down red grape skins into juice as part of the early fermentation process. For both teens, the opportunity to work outside and learn new skills is worth the trip from Sterling. They’re making it happen with support from their parents and Fabbioli who regularly drives them home after a day’s work. “It’s a good environment,” Osiel said. And for Fabbioli, it’s a chance for smart, hard working teens to learn new skills and apply old skills differently. “We get caught up in learning from a teacher, from a parent. But then you’ve to got look at learning from coworkers” The apprenticeship/mentoring model gives kids hands-on opportunities to build skills. “The key thing with this is you want a
safe environment to learn,” Fabbioli said. “We get in the mindset where when you go to work, you know what you’re doing and you do it. We know you don’t know what you’re doing, and you’ve got to be open and willing to learn.” For Fabbioli, who started his first agricultural job as a teen and wound up in a decades-long career in winemaking, restoring value to careers in trades is also a big part of the program. “We’ve gotten to the point here where a lot of the vocational jobs aren’t valued. We’re always looking to sit more and expect somebody else to do the work. ... I’ve been in the business for 40 years and I still get out and pick grapes because I want to make sure that we’re doing it right.” The New Ag School’s six-week Think Outside Program for high school students runs Mondays from 9 a.m. to noon starting Oct. 19. Tuition is $250 and scholarships are available for low-income students. Interested students can apply online at newagschool.org. n
Legal Notices Gaver Mill Road and Stony Point Road Trails Town of Hillsboro
Willingness to Hold a Public Hearing Find out about two planned trail projects related to the Town of Hillsboro’s Route 9 Traffic Calming and Pedestrian Improvements project. Gaver Mill Road Trail includes sidewalk and shared-use path on the west side of Gaver Mill Road (Route 812) from the end of the Route 9 Traffic Calming and Pedestrian Improvements project to just north of the Catoctin Creek bridge. Stony Point Road Trail includes sidewalk on the east side of Stony Point Road (Route 719) from Route 9 (Charles Town Pike) to just south of Highwater Road. The trail projects also include curb ramps, crosswalks and retaining walls. Review the project information and environmental document in the form of a Programmatic Categorical Exclusion (PCE) at the Town of Hillsboro Office at 37098 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro, VA 20132. Please call ahead at 540-486-8001 or TTY/TDD 711 to make an appointment with appropriate personnel. If your concerns cannot be satisfied, the Town of Hillsboro is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Mayor Roger Vance, Project Manager, 37098 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro, VA 20132 on or prior to October 19, 2020. If upon receiving public comments it is deemed necessary to hold a public hearing, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted. In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning potential impacts to properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is also included with the environmental documentation. The Town of Hillsboro ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Virginia Department of Transportation’s Civil Rights Division at 1-800-367-7623 or TTY/TDD 711. State Projects: EN18-236-002, P101, R201, C501 EN18-236-201, P101, R201, C501 UPCs: 113635, 113606 Federal: TAP-5A01 (969), TAP-5A01 (968) 9/17, 10/1 & 10/8/20
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Legal Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION This proceeding is for the nonjudicial sale of real property located in Loudoun County, Virginia, for payment of delinquent taxes under the provisions of Virginia Code §58.1-3975. Pursuant to Virginia Code §58.1-3975, the Treasurer of Loudoun County, H. Roger Zurn, Jr., (the “Treasurer”) will offer the real property described below for sale at public auction to the highest bidder on the steps of the Historic Courthouse of Loudoun County, in Leesburg, Virginia on:
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1. This is a nonjudicial sale of tax delinquent real property being sold pursuant to the provisions of Virginia Code §58.1-3975. The real properties, described below, satisfy the conditions for a nonjudicial sale as set forth in subsection A of Virginia Code §58.1-3975. 2. The Treasurer reserves the right to withdraw any property from sale and to reject any bid by declaring “NO SALE” after the last bid received on a property. 3. Any person who wishes to bid on any property during the auction must register with County staff before the start of bidding. As part of the registration process, potential bidders must: (i) have sufficient funds on hand to pay the Minimum Deposit required for each parcel on which they want to bid; and (ii) sign a form certifying that they do not own any property in Loudoun County for which any delinquent taxes are due, or for which there are zoning or other violations. 4. The Minimum Deposit required for each parcel is specified below, as part of the property description. The full amount of the Minimum Deposit must be paid by cashier’s or certified check made payable to the County of Loudoun at the time the auctioneer declares the sale. 5. In lieu of attending the auction, bidders may submit written bids to Steven F. Jackson, Esq. at the address listed below. All written bids must be accompanied by the applicable Minimum Deposit, which shall be paid by cashier’s or certified check made payable to the County of Loudoun. Written bids must also be accompanied by a certification that the bidder is not the owner of any property in Loudoun County for which delinquent taxes are due, or for which there are zoning or other violations. A written bid form, which includes the required certification, can be obtained from the Treasurer or the Treasurer’s website. 6. Written bids (with the required deposit and certification) will be received by the Treasurer at any time prior to the date of auction and held under seal until the date of the auction. If a written bid exceeds the highest live bid received from the audience during the auction, the audience will have an opportunity to bid against the written bid. If a higher bid is not received from the audience, the Treasurer may declare the sale to the proponent of the highest written bid or may reject all bids by declaring “NO SALE.” 7. The entire balance of the purchase price must be paid in full by cashier’s or certified check payable to the County of Loudoun within 30 days after the date of the auction. 8. The final winning written bid or live bid accepted during the auction cannot be withdrawn. Any bidder who attempts to withdraw his/her bid after it has been accepted by the Treasurer may be required to forfeit his/her deposit. 9. Properties are offered “as is”, with all faults and without warranties or guarantees either expressed or implied. Prospective bidders should investigate the title on properties prior to bidding. The sale of the properties is not subject to the successful bidders’ ability to obtain title insurance. 10. All recording costs (including but not limited to any grantor’s tax/fee) will be at the expense of the purchaser. All property will be conveyed by a special warranty deed from the Treasurer, pursuant to Virginia Code §58.1-3975(H). 11. Announcements made the day of sale take precedence over any prior verbal or written terms of sale.
The Treasurer represents that information regarding the properties to be offered for sale, including acreage, type of improvements, etc., is taken from tax and/or land records, and is not guaranteed for either accuracy or completeness. Bidders are encouraged to make their own investigation to determine the title, condition, accessibility, and occupancy status of each property and to bid accordingly. The sale will be made subject to matters visible upon inspection, and to restrictions, conditions, rights-of -way and easements, if any, contained in the instruments constituting the chain of title. Any costs incurred by a bidder to inspect or investigate any real property are the bidder’s responsibility and are not reimbursable. The owners of the properties listed below may redeem it at any time prior to the date of the auction by paying all accumulated taxes, penalties, interest, costs, including the costs of publishing this advertisement and reasonable attorney fees, incurred through the date before the auction. Below is a brief description of the properties to be offered for nonjudicial sale at the auction. More detailed information may be obtained by contacting Steven F. Jackson, Senior Assistant County Attorney, (703) 777-0307 or Tracy Stanley, Deputy Treasurer for Collections at (703) 771-5656.
*************************** Record Owner: Owner Unknown LOUDOUN COUNTY TAX MAP NO. /25////////98/ Loudoun County PIN 481-16-3278-000 Treasurer of Loudoun County, H. Roger Zurn, Jr., Minimum Deposit Required: $501.00 Parcel of unimproved land, approximately 0.28 of an acre, in the Blue Ridge District with no situs address, located on Short Hill Mountain, identified in the Loudoun County Mapping System by Parcel Identification No. (“PIN”) 481-16-3278-000 (the “Property”). The Property is bordered to the north by parcel identified by PIN 481-16-4697-000, and to the south, east and west by parcel identified by PIN 482-45-5549-000. For illustration purposes only, the Property is depicted on the plat recorded as Instrument Number 20130516-0040609 among the land records of the Loudoun County Circuit Court as owned by “Tribby”, although a title examiner hired in 2016 by the Loudoun County Commissioner of the Revenue concluded that a search of the land records of Loudoun County since 1878 show no instruments of record (i.e. deeds or wills) directly vesting title to the referenced parcel in “Tribby”, nor any deed conveying out from “Tribby” a parcel matching the description of the Property
*************************** Record Owner: Heirs & Successors in Interest of Isaac Waters LOUDOUN COUNTY TAX MAP NO. /25////////99/ Loudoun County PIN 481-16-4697-000 Treasurer of Loudoun County, H. Roger Zurn, Jr., Minimum Deposit Required: $1,424.00 Parcel of unimproved land, approximately 1.83 acres, in the Blue Ridge District with no situs address, located on Short Hill Mountain, identified in the Loudoun County Mapping System by Parcel Identification No. (“PIN”) 481-16-4697-000 (the “Property”). The Property is bordered to the south by parcel identified by PIN 481-16-3278-000 and 482-45-5549-000, to the west and north by PIN 481-15-8838-000, and to the east by PIN 481-19-2695-000. For illustration purposes only, the Property is depicted on the plat recorded as Instrument Number 20130516-0040609 among the land records of the Loudoun County Circuit Court as now or formerly owned by “Isaac Waters”. A title examiner hired in 2016 by the Loudoun County Commissioner of the Revenue concluded that a search of the land records of Loudoun County since 1877 show no instruments of record (i.e. deeds or wills) conveying this parcel out of Isaac Waters or his heirs. Steven F. Jackson, Senior Assistant County Attorney Office of County Attorney 1 Harrison Street, S.E. P.O. Box 7000 Leesburg, Virginia 20177-7000 (703) 777-0307
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DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES, RFP No. 237782 until prior to 4:00 p.m., local “Atomic Time”, November 12, 2020. REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL AND REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION SERVICES, RFP No. 214782 until prior to 4:00 p.m., local “Atomic Time”, October 27, 2020. Solicitation forms may be obtained 24 hours a day by visiting our web site at www.loudoun.gov/ procurement. If you do not have access to the Internet, call (703) 777-0403, M - F, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. WHEN CALLING, PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU NEED ANY REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION FOR ANY TYPE OF DISABILITY IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCUREMENT. 10/01/20
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Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Isaac William McClure Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v. Edwin Ernesto Ortiz, father The object of this suit is to hold a foster care review hearing and review of foster care plan pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 16.1-282 and 16.1-281 for Isaac William McClure. It is ORDERED that the defendant Edwin Ernesto Ortiz, father appear at the above named Court and protect his interests on or before October 13, 2020 at 2:00 pm. 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, & 10/01/20
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10/01 & 10/08/20
Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Karley Bryner-Kerr Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v. Michael Smith, putative father and Unknown Father
Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v. Damon Smith, putative father and Unknown Father The object of this suit is to hold a 6th permanency planning hearing and review of foster care plan with goal of adoption, pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 16.1-282.1 and 16.1-281 for Malek Conner and Petition for Termination of Parental Rights of Damon Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father, pursuant to Virginia Code §16.1-283 for Malek Conner. Damon Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father are hereby notified that failure to appear on the hereinafter noticed date and time may result in the entry of an Order approving a permanency goal of adoption as well as the termination of their residual parental rights with respect to Malek Conner. Damon Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father are hereby further notified that if their residual parental rights are terminated, they will no longer have any legal rights with respect to said minor child, including, but not limited to, the right to visit Malek Conner; any authority with respect to the care and supervision of Malek Conner; or the right to make health related decisions or determine the religious affiliation of Malek Conner. Further, Damon Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father will have no legal and/ or financial obligations with respect to Malek Conner, and the Department of Family Services of Loudoun County, Virginia may be granted the authority to place Malek Conner for adoption and consent to the adoption of Malek Conner. It is ORDERED that the defendants Damon Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court to protect their interests on or before October 23, 2020 at 10:00 am.
It is ORDERED that the defendants Michael Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father appear at the above-named Court to protect their interests on or before December 10, 2020 at 10:00 am.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA. CODE § 8.01-316
ORDER OF PUBLICATION COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA. CODE § 8.01-316
JJ042687-05-00 JJ042688-05-00
The object of this suit is to hold a hearing on Petitions for Termination of Parental Rights of Michael Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father, pursuant to Virginia Code § 16.1283 for Karley Bryner-Kerr. Michael Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father are hereby notified that failure to appear on the hereinafter noticed date and time may result in the entry of an Order terminating their residual parental rights with respect to Karley Bryner-Kerr. Michael Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father are hereby further notified that if their residual parental rights are terminated, they will no longer have any legal rights with respect to said minor child, including, but not limited to, the right to visit Karley BrynerKerr; any authority with respect to the care and supervision of Karley Bryner-Kerr; or the right to make health related decisions or determine the religious affiliation of Karley Bryner-Kerr. Further, Michael Smith, putative father, and Unknown Father will have no legal and/or financial obligations with respect to Karley Bryner-Kerr, and the Department of Family Services of Loudoun County, Virginia may be granted the authority to place Karley BrynerKerr for adoption and consent to the adoption of Karley Bryner-Kerr.
10/01, 10/08, 10/15, & 10/22/20
10/01, 10/08, 10/15, & 10/22/20
Case No.:
JJ039889-08-00; 09-00,
Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Malek Conner
Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
ABC LICENSE
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA. CODE § 8.01-316
Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
CHARTER BUS SERVICES - SUPPLEMENTAL, IFB No. 218782 until prior to 4:00 p.m., local “Atomic Time”, October 14, 2020.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA. CODE § 8.01-316
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Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Jaxon Ezekiel Jenkins and Ashton Leon Jenkins Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v. Samuel Lee Jenkins III, putative father The object of this suit is to hold a permanency planning hearing and review of Foster Care Plan pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 16.1-282.1 and 16.1-281 for Jaxon Ezekiel Jenkins and Ashton Leon Jenkins. It is Ordered that the defendant Samuel Lee Jenkins III, putative father appear at the above-named Court and protect his interests on or before October 13, 2020 at 3:00 pm. 9/17, 9/24, 10/01 & 10/08
JJ038628-13-00 ,
Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Sanay Elliyoun-Yousefabad Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v. Shahnaz Zabihi Khodapasand, mother The object of this suit is to hold a 6th permanency planning hearing and review of Foster Care Plan pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 16.1-282.1 and 16.1-281 for Sanay Elliyoun-Yousefabad. It is ORDERED that the defendant Shahnaz Zabihi Khodapasand, mother appear at the above named Court and protect her interests on or before October 13, 2020 at 3:00 pm. 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, & 10/01/20
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Legal Notices PUBLIC HEARING The LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS will hold a public hearing in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room, County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, at 6:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, October 14, 2020 in order to consider:
PROPOSED ORDINANCE TO SUSPEND CERTAIN DEADLINES AND TO MODIFY PUBLIC MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES TO ADDRESS CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC DISASTER In accordance with Virginia Code § 15.2-1427(F), the Board of Supervisors gives notice of its intention to readopt an ordinance pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-1413 to address continuity of government operations during the COVID-19 emergency/disaster by modifying public meeting and public hearing requirements for, and suspending deadlines applicable to County government, the Board of Supervisors, the School Board, and other public bodies and entities created by the Board of Supervisors or to which the Board of Supervisors appoints members (“Public Entities”). In particular, the ordinance would allow Public Entities to conduct public meetings and public hearings without a quorum being physically present in one location, during the COVID-19 emergency/disaster. Upon adoption, this ordinance will supersede and replace the Readopted Emergency Continuity Ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors on September 15, 2020, and will remain in effect for six months unless otherwise rescinded, extended or readopted by the Board. A complete copy of the full text of the above-referenced proposed ordinance is on file and available for review and may be examined at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or call (703) 777-0200. Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).
PROPOSED 2021 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Each year, the Board of Supervisors adopts a Legislative Program, indicating its priority issues and initiatives for the upcoming session of the Virginia General Assembly. As part of this Legislative Program, the Board requests the Senators and Delegates representing Loudoun County to introduce specific legislation of importance to the County. The Board is seeking input from the public on the 2021 Draft Legislative Program. All members of the public are welcome to speak before the Board and provide feedback on the proposed 2021 Legislative Program. A complete copy of the above-referenced proposed legislative program is on file and available for review and may be examined at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or call (703) 777-0200. Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www. loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).
REVIEW AND RENEWAL, MODIFICATION OR TERMINATION OF THE NEW LOVETTSVILLE AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTAL DISTRICT The current period of the New Lovettsville Agricultural and Forestal District will expire on January 2, 2021. The District has a four-year period and a subdivision minimum lot size of 20 acres. Pursuant to Chapter 1226 of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County, the Board of Supervisors (Board) has directed staff, the Agricultural District Advisory Committee (ADAC), and the Planning Commission to conduct a review in order to determine whether to continue, modify, or terminate the District. Parcels currently enrolled in the District are located within an area generally bounded by Harpers Ferry Road (Route 671) to the west, Morrisonville Road (Route 693) to the south, Berlin Turnpike (Route 287) and Milltown Road (Route 673/681) to the east, and the Potomac River to the north, in the Catoctin Election District. During this review, land less than 5 acres, or 20 acres or greater, in size that is currently enrolled in the District will be automatically renewed. However, any parcel containing at least 5 acres but less than 20 acres will be ineligible for renewal and inclusion within the District unless the owner submits an application on forms provided by the Department of Planning and Zoning and one or more of the following criteria is met: 1. 2.
Management Plan that specifically states that the property owner(s) are accumulating the required 5-year production records in order to qualify for agricultural, to include horticulture, land use tax deferral. Animal Husbandry including Equine uses (commercial or non-commercial) with a Management Plan that relates the pasture carrying capacity to limit the number of animals allowed.
3.
Forests and woodlands with a management plan that specifies the actions required to maintain and enhance the stands.
4.
Wetlands, flood plains, streams and/or rivers that have Management Plans that set forth the terms for their maintenance and enhancement.
During this review, land within the District may be withdrawn, in whole or in part, at the owner’s discretion by filing a written notice with the Board of Supervisors at any time before the Board acts to continue, modify, or terminate the District. Landowners of the following parcels, currently enrolled in the New Lovettsville Agricultural and Forestal District, were notified by certified mail of the District’s review.
Parcel Listings: PIN
Tax Map Number
Acres Enrolled
PIN
Tax Map Number
Acres Enrolled
332-45-6758
//9////////92/
2.12
408-17-3189
/16//49/////1/
7.15
332-47-0153
//9///9/////1A
6.9
408-35-7146
/16///1/////2/
10
334-15-3609
//9//11/////2/
10
408-35-8282
/16///1/////1/
10
335-15-6108
//9////////72D
10
409-47-4462
/16////////95A
10.59
335-15-9934
//9////////72E
10
437-15-7050
//2/////////4A
14.02
335-25-0663
//9////////69/
2.27
437-18-6110
//2///////109/
4.06
335-25-3278
//9////////70A
3.17
437-25-2747
//2/////////4B
14.02 25.97
335-25-6496
//9////////70/
3
438-15-4243
//2////////92/
335-36-3975
//9////////71/
34.97
438-17-0237
//2////////94A
4.6
335-46-4474
//9////////65B
10.23
438-17-4252
//2////////94/
3.07
336-45-2262
/17//24/////G/
10
438-20-9261
//2//14/////3/
6.43
367-17-2567
//3///6/////6B
10.2
438-27-3301
//2////////95/
3
367-17-9949
//3///3/////3/
10
438-40-2019
//2///3/////2A
3.66
367-18-7208
//3///3/////1A
2
439-10-5210
//8//24/////5/
10.23 10.3
367-26-4625
//3///6/////6/
19.07
439-10-6966
//8//24/////1/
367-27-6067
//3///3/////4/
25
439-15-4818
//8///////155/
9.2
367-35-4219
//3//11////11/
10.22
439-15-7959
//8////////14/
17.64
367-35-9790
//3/////////8/
57.25
439-15-8491
//8////////11A
18.2
367-45-4695
//3/////////9B
10.65
439-19-4182
//8//24/////3/
10
367-49-5702
//3////////18/
35.19
439-25-9194
//8/////////6/
25.91
368-40-8141
//9////////99/
4.95
439-27-6405
//8///////121/
72.01
368-48-6786
//3///3/////2B
2
439-29-3368
//8//17/////2/
3 23.68
370-15-8588
//9////////35/
71.11
439-35-8423
//8///////147/
370-36-1745
//9//13/////7/
15.1
439-37-2366
//8///////127/
0.5
370-37-2253
//9//13/////9/
13.82
439-37-8236
//8///////121A
1.07
371-27-2763
//9////////54/
20.57
439-47-1866
//2////////96A
18.49
371-29-6476
//9///2/////2A
4.83
439-47-8210
//2///////101D
10
371-47-9326
//9////////47/
30.78
439-48-5151
//2///9////PT/
47.56
372-19-2882
/17//25/////4/
15.75
440-10-6645
//8///////140/
12.34
372-29-2298
/17//26/////E/
5.02
441-19-6273
//8////////88/
162.5 12.18
372-29-2461
/17//25/////3/
10.11
441-26-5866
//8////////97/
402-20-7603
//3/////////3/
70.42
443-30-8447
/16//25/////2/
13.51
403-20-4175
//3//11////14/
10.4
472-29-8903
//2////////11/
71.42
403-27-2792
//3///9////20/
10.6
472-30-2654
//2/////////5/
19.38
403-28-8065
//3///9////17/
20.14
474-10-3827
//8////////20C
5.75
403-29-3411
//3//13////27/
10.62
474-19-6261
//7///2/////8/
22.13
403-29-4096
//3///9////16/
10.42
474-28-8300
//7////////98B
24.94
403-29-9088
//3//11////15/
10.4
474-29-4442
//7///2/////9/
18.22
403-30-4696
//3//11/////8/
10.05
474-30-3888
//8///////146/
13
403-40-5043
//3//11/////7/
10.24
474-39-2526
//7////////95A
24
404-15-1994
//8//23/////1/
3.41
474-39-9015
//8///////156/
5.63
404-15-2036
//8//24/////6/
10.3
474-40-7528
//8/////////4/
21.26
404-30-4836
//9/////////1A
48.43
475-40-4084
//8////////20A
11.5
405-28-1327
//8///////138/
6
479-48-9241
/15////////98/
6.47
405-36-7116
//8//21/////8/
10.04
*331-15-3424
//3////////29/
38.35
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//8///3/////4/
10.24
*370-16-5393
//9////////35A
35
426-17-9754
/75A2/1////64/
15.2
500-30-5992
/74/B/1/////3R
18.42
406-38-8529
//8//22/////2/
15
**216-19-6995
/11///6/////B/
10
427-10-6142
/75A2/1////16/
10.83
500-47-9968
/73//17/////1/
168.48
406-46-7192
//8///5/////7/
15.89
**335-25-3704
//9////////72C
11.99
427-17-0166
/74///8/////2/
19.9
501-27-3719
/87////////53/
321.42
407-20-8723
//9//41/////1/
21.16
**335-25-8023
//9////////72B
13.01
427-20-0840
/75A2/1////30/
13.79
501-38-8451
/87////////56/
41.18
407-30-5782
//9////////49/
82.35
**335-45-9837
//9//11/////4/
10
427-27-1326
/74////////39B
26
501-46-8702
/87////////55/
256.91
408-17-2553
/16//49/////2/
3.64
**371-20-7738
//9////////68B
5.02
428-38-5924
/74////////42/
355.44
532-10-7739
/73////////17A
16.69
462-10-2124
/74///2/////1/
15.64
533-27-9786
/73///3////13B
27.06
463-40-0861
/74///2/////2/
24.3
534-19-3347
/73//21/////1/
225.27
465-15-4311
/88/////////3B
3
535-46-9524
/73////////42/
145.85
498-16-7892
/73///2/////5/
11.96
536-46-5841
/87/////////8A
55.29
498-26-8239
/73///2/////6/
10
*391-25-8504
/75A1/1////27/
11.23
498-26-9874
/73///2/////7/
12.5
*498-16-7049
/73///2/////4/
12.21
498-27-7302
/73///2/////2/
12.5
**498-17-7351
/73///2/////1/
11.52
498-27-9840
/73///2/////3/
10
**533-38-3813
/73//10/////B/
12.66
499-25-1613
/73//21/////2/
100
* Indicates a parcel whose owner is withdrawing it from the District. ** Indicates a parcel containing at least 5 acres but less than 20 acres whose owner did not properly apply for renewal. The ADAC held a public meeting on August 24, 2020, to review and make recommendations concerning whether to continue, modify, or terminate the New Lovettsville Agricultural and Forestal District, and to review renewal applications and requests for withdrawal of land from the District. The report and recommendations of the ADAC will be considered by the Planning Commission, along with any proposed modifications, at its public hearing on September 22, 2020. The reports and recommendations of the ADAC and the Planning Commission, along with any proposed modifications, will be considered by the Board of Supervisors at its public hearing. In accordance with Section 15.2-4307 of the Code of Virginia, the application(s) may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or by calling 703-7770246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies or electronically at: https://www.loudoun.gov/adac (8-24-2020 ACAC Meeting under Agendas and Bylaws). Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).
REVIEW AND RENEWAL, MODIFICATION OR TERMINATION OF THE NEW MOUNTVILLE AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTAL DISTRICT The current period of the New Mountville Agricultural and Forestal District will expire on January 2, 2021. The District has a four-year period and a subdivision minimum lot size of 50 acres. Pursuant to Chapter 1226 of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County, the Board of Supervisors (Board) has directed staff, the Agricultural District Advisory Committee (ADAC), and the Planning Commission to conduct a review in order to determine whether to continue, modify, or terminate the District. Parcels currently enrolled in the District are located within an area generally south of the Goose Creek and Beaverdam Creek, west of Oatlands Road (Route 650), east of Foxcroft Road (Route 626), Mountville Road (Route 745), Leith Lane (Route 733), and Beaverdam Bridge Road (Route 733/746), and north of John Mosby Highway (Route 50), in the Blue Ridge Election District. During this review, land less than 5 acres, or 20 acres or greater, in size that is currently enrolled in the District will be automatically renewed. However, any parcel containing at least 5 acres but less than 20 acres will be ineligible for renewal and inclusion within the District unless the owner submits an application on forms provided by the Department of Planning and Zoning and one or more of the following criteria is met: 1.
Management Plan that specifically states that the property owner(s) are accumulating the required 5-year production records in order to qualify for agricultural, to include horticulture, land use tax deferral.
2.
Animal Husbandry including Equine uses (commercial or non-commercial) with a Management Plan that relates the pasture carrying capacity to limit the number of animals allowed.
3.
Forests and woodlands with a management plan that specifies the actions required to maintain and enhance the stands.
4.
Wetlands, flood plains, streams and/or rivers that have Management Plans that set forth the terms for their maintenance and enhancement.
During this review, land within the District may be withdrawn, in whole or in part, at the owner’s discretion by filing a written notice with the Board at any time before the Board acts to continue, modify, or terminate the District.
* Indicates a parcel whose owner is withdrawing it from the District. ** Indicates a parcel containing at least 5 acres but less than 20 acres whose owner did not properly apply for renewal. The ADAC held a public meeting on August 24, 2020, to review and make recommendations concerning whether to continue, modify, or terminate the New Mountville Agricultural and Forestal District, and to review renewal applications and requests for withdrawal of land from the District. The report and recommendations of the ADAC will be considered by the Planning Commission, along with any proposed modifications, at its public hearing September 22, 2020. The reports and recommendations of the ADAC and the Planning Commission, along with any proposed modifications, will be considered by the Board of Supervisors at its public hearing. In accordance with Section 15.2-4307 of the Code of Virginia, the application(s) may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or by calling 703-7770246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies or electronically at: https://www.loudoun.gov/adac (8-24-2020 ACAC Meeting under Agendas and Bylaws). Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”).
ZCPA-2018-0012 BRAMBLETON LAND BAYS 1A, 1B, & 5 (Zoning Concept Plan Amendment)
Brambleton Group L.L.C., of Brambleton, Virginia, has submitted an application to amend the existing proffers and concept development plan (“CDP”) approved with ZMAP-2012-0013 and ZCPA-2012-0009, Brambleton Land Bays 1, 3, & 5 in order to amend the timing of construction of Ryan Road improvements and the construction and design of a pool and bathhouse in Land Bay 5. The subject property is located within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, between the Ldn 60-65, and outside of but within one (1) mile of the Ldn 60, aircraft noise contours, and located partially within the FOD (Floodplain Overlay District). This application is subject to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance. The subject property is approximately 472 acres in size and is located on the north side of Creighton Road (Route 774), the east side of Evergreen Mills Road (Route 621) and the west side of Northstar Boulevard (Route 3171) in the Blue Ridge Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as follows: PIN
Property Address
200-37-2327
22928 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2123
22932 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2019
22936 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
Landowners of the following parcels, currently enrolled in the New Mountville Agricultural and Forestal District, were notified by certified mail of the District’s review.
200-37-0996
42015 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2192
42027 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
Parcel Listings:
200-27-1547
42182 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-4105
22775 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-3292
22787 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148 22803 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148 22815 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
PIN
Tax Map Number
Acres Enrolled
PIN
Tax Map Number
Acres Enrolled
391-25-5852
/75A1/1////26/
10.45
499-36-5927
/73//17/////2/
50
200-47-2374
391-26-6668
/75A1/1////24/
10.35
499-46-8984
/73////////35/
2.33
200-47-1859
391-27-2834
/75A1/1////22/
11.41
500-10-8875
/74///1/////1/
3
391-37-4204
/75A1/1////21/
11.51
500-10-9206
/88//21/////1/
6.77
393-18-4162
/75///8/////2/
31.16
500-29-9671
/74////////13A
96.03
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22819 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-1928
N/A
200-47-1849
22823 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-0781
N/A
200-47-1944
22827 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3850
N/A
200-47-2038
22831 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-6186
N/A
200-47-2133
22835 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-27-4649
42020 Ryan Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-4582
22790 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-16-3034
N/A
199-17-4378
22794 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-45-5740
N/A
200-47-3869
22802 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
243-40-6613
N/A
200-47-3558
22814 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-35-4550
N/A
200-37-4400
22982 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-35-5717
N/A
200-37-3985
22998 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-9515
N/A
200-27-2163
23018 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
159-36-1337
N/A
199-17-4116
42045 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-7241
N/A
199-17-3214
42037 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-1149
N/A
199-17-2910
42033 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-48-8746
42245 Ryan Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-2606
42029 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-4421
42049 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-2301
42025 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-4601
22863 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-2197
42021 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-5100
22867 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-1688
42013 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-5600
22871 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-1284
42009 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-6002
22875 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0974
22800 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3491
42034 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0869
22804 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3989
42038 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0764
22808 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-4488
42042 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0659
22812 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-4986
42046 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0654
22816 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-5587
42050 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0648
22820 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-6087
42054 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0643
22824 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-4619
22862 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0738
22828 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-5119
22866 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-0833
22832 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-5619
22870 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-1028
22836 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-6117
22874 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3664
22808 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4771
42047 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3453
22820 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5269
42051 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3447
22826 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5768
42055 Darlene Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3542
22830 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5258
22931 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4395
22986 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5856
22930 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-3675
23006 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3177
22880 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-3571
23010 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3272
22884 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-2863
23014 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3368
22888 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-1568
23015 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3464
22892 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-1375
23011 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3359
22896 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-1981
23007 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3254
22900 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-1395
42019 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3050
22904 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-1794
42023 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2946
22908 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2890
42035 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2842
22912 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-0485
22970 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2739
22916 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-0182
22974 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2535
22920 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-36-9879
22978 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2431
22924 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-0263
42162 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4450
22939 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-0460
42166 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4346
22943 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-0757
42170 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4242
22947 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-1053
42174 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4138
22951 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-1250
42178 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-1993
42017 Spruce Point Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2686
N/A
200-47-1922
N/A
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Legal Notices family detached housing at a recommended residential density of 4 dwelling units per acre and the Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Neighborhood Place Type)) which designate this area for residential neighborhoods at a recommended residential density of 4 dwelling units per acre with retail and service uses to serve routine needs of the immediate area at a recommended Floor Area Ratio (FAR) up to 1.0.
200-37-3935
22955 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3831
22959 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3523
22967 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3419
22971 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3315
22975 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5328
22958 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
(Zoning Concept Plan Amendment & Zoning Ordinance Modification)
200-37-1411
42014 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-26-9576
22982 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-26-9273
22986 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3727
22963 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-1809
42018 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2108
42022 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
Washington-Virginia Traditional Land Development Sites Inc., of Leesburg, Virginia, has submitted an application to amend the existing proffers and Concept Development Plan (CDP) approved with ZMAP1995-0004 and ZCPA-2003-0002, Elysian Heights in order to eliminate a portion of the required Village Conservancy Subdistrict Buffer located along Saint Clair Lane between Sylvan Bluff Drive and Elysian Drive and extend the southern boundary of the Village Center to Saint Clair Lane and remove the conservancy lot designation for the subject property with no resulting change in density. These applications are subject to the Revised 1993 Zoning Ordinance. The Applicant also requests the following Zoning Ordinance modification(s):
200-37-2507
42026 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2906
42030 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3304
42034 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-2491
42031 Guardfish Way, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-9966
42158 Creighton Road, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-3700
22779 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-3596
22783 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-3088
22791 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-2783
22795 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-2579
22799 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2169
22807 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-1964
22811 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-5502
22774 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
199-17-5694
22778 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-4073
22798 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3011
22851 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-3405
22855 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-4002
22859 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2522
22843 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
ZCPA-2019-0013 & ZMOD-2019-0047 ELYSIAN HEIGHTS RURAL VILLAGE
ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION
PROPOSED MODIFICATION
§4-1206(A), PD-RV Planned DevelopmentRural Village, Size and Location of Subdistricts, Village Conservancy Subdistrict.
Eliminate the requirement that the Village Center Subdistrict be ringed by the Village Conservancy Subdistrict.
§4-1206(A)(4), PD-RV Planned Development-Rural Village, Size and Location of Subdistricts, Village Conservancy Subdistrict.
Reduce the required buffer of land from 800 feet in width to 300 feet in width and to allow a portion of the buffer along Saint Clair Lane to be located between Sylvian Bluff Drive and Elysian Drive.
§4-1216(B)(1), PD-RV Planned Development-Rural Village, Land Use Arrangement, Spatial Relationship of Village Subdistricts and Areas.
Eliminate the requirement that the Village Conservancy Subdistrict surround the Village Center Subdistrict.
The subject property is approximately 12.84 acres in size and is located on the north side of Saint Clair Lane (Route 658), east of James Monroe Highway (Route 15) in the Catoctin Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as PIN: 102-36-5157. The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Rural Policy Area (Rural North Place Type)) which designates this area for Rural Economy uses and limited Residential development. Unless otherwise noted in the above notices, copies of the above-referenced amendments, applications, ordinances, and/or plans and related documents may be examined by request at the Loudoun County Government Center, Information Desk, 1st Floor, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or call 703-7770246 (option 5) to request hard copies or electronic copies, or electronically at www.loudoun.gov/lola. This link also provides an additional opportunity for public input on active applications. Documents also may be viewed and downloaded electronically 72 hours in advance of the public hearing at: www.loudoun.gov/bosdocuments (for Public Hearing documents, follow the link for “Board of Supervisors Business Meetings, Public Hearings and Special Meetings”). In addition, for detailed instructions on how to access documents using LOLA, to request that documents be emailed to you, to receive physical copies of documents, or to arrange a time to view the file at the Loudoun County Government Center, please email DPZ@loudoun.gov or call 703-777-0246 (option 5).
200-47-2816
22847 Trailing Rose Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-1417
22844 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-1808
22852 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2004
22856 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2299
22860 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2495
22864 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-2590
22868 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5223
22962 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-5018
22966 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4914
22970 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4709
22974 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4604
22978 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-47-1613
22848 Bubbling Brook Drive, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-4190
22990 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-37-3880
23002 Shooting Star Place, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-3742
23037 Canyon Oak Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-4251
23029 Canyon Oak Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-4527
23040 Canyon Oak Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-3338
23041 Canyon Oak Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
200-27-3946
23033 Canyon Oak Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
Hearing assistance is available for meetings in the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room. If you require any type of reasonable accommodation as a result of a physical, sensory or mental disability to participate in this meeting, please contact the Office of the County Administrator at 703-777-0200. At least one business day of advance notice is requested; some accommodations may require more than one day of notice. FM Assistive Listening System is available at the meetings.
200-27-4952
23025 Canyon Oak Court, Ashburn, VA 20148
BY ORDER OF:
The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Transition Policy Area (Transition Large Lot Neighborhood and Transition Small Lot Neighborhood Place Types) which designate this area for single family detached homes and open space in low-density neighborhoods and single
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic this public hearing may be conducted as an electronic meeting. Members of the public are encouraged to view the public hearing electronically; however, the Board Room will be open for any members of the public who wish to attend in person with appropriate physical distancing. Board of Supervisors public hearings are available for live viewing on television on Comcast Government Channel 23, Open Band Channel 40 and Verizon FiOS Channel 40, and are livestreamed at loudoun.gov/ webcast. All members of the public who desire to speak will be heard as to their views pertinent to these matters. Citizens are encouraged to call in advance to sign up to speak at the public hearing. Instructions for remote participation will be forwarded to all individuals who sign-up in advance and who would like to provide their comments remotely. For this public hearing, advanced sign-up will be taken after 8:30 a.m. on October 2, 2020, and no later than 12:00 p.m. on October 14, 2020. If you wish to sign-up in advance, call the Office of the County Administrator at (703) 777-0200. Citizens will also have the option to sign-up during the public hearing. Citizens may also submit written comments by email sent to bos@loudoun. gov. Any written comments received prior to the public hearing will be distributed to Board members and made part of the minutes for the public hearing.
PHYLLIS RANDALL, CHAIR LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 9/24 & 10/01/20
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Legal Notices PUBLIC AUCTION This proceeding is for the judicial sale of real properties located in Loudoun County, Virginia, for payment of delinquent taxes pursuant to the provisions of Virginia Code Section 58.1-3965, et seq. Pursuant to Orders entered by the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia, the undersigned Steven F. Jackson and Zaida C. Thompson, Special Commissioners of Sale of said Court, will offer the real properties described below for sale at public auction to the highest bidder on the steps of the Historic Courthouse of Loudoun County, in Leesburg, Virginia on:
TERMS OF SALE:
October 20, 2020 12:00 p.m. RAIN OR SHINE Registration Starts at 11:30 a.m.
1. The sale of any real property is subject to the approval and confirmation by the Circuit Court of Loudoun County. 2. The Special Commissioners of Sale reserve the right to withdraw from sale any property listed and to reject any bid by declaring “NO SALE” after the last bid received on a property. 3. Any person who wishes to bid on any property during the auction must register with County staff before the start of bidding. As part of the registration process, potential bidders must: (i) have sufficient funds on hand to pay the Minimum Deposit required for each parcel on which they want to bid; and (ii) sign a form certifying that they do not own any property in Loudoun County for which any delinquent taxes are due, or for which there are zoning or other violations. 4. The Minimum Deposit required for each parcel is specified below, as part of the property description. The full amount of the Minimum Deposit must be paid by cashier’s or certified check made payable to Gary Clemens, Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court, at the time the auctioneer declares the sale. 5. In lieu of attending the auction, bidders may submit written bids to Steven F. Jackson or Zaida C. Thompson, Special Commissioners of Sale, at the address listed below. All written bids must be accompanied by the applicable Minimum Deposit, which shall be paid by cashier’s or certified check made payable to Gary Clemens Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court. Written bids must also be accompanied by a certification that the bidder is not the owner of any property in Loudoun County for which delinquent taxes are due, or for which there are zoning or other violations. A written bid form, which includes the required certification, can be obtained from the Special Commissioners of Sale or the Treasurer’s website. 6. Written bids (with the required deposit and certification) will be received by the Special Commissioners of Sale at any time prior to the date of auction and held under seal until the date of the auction. If a written bid exceeds the highest live bid received from the audience during the auction, the audience will have an opportunity to bid against the written bid. If a higher bid is not received from the audience, the Special Commissioners of Sale may declare the sale to the proponent of the highest written bid or may reject all bids by declaring “NO SALE.” 7. If either a written bid or a live auction bid is approved by the Loudoun County Circuit Court, the balance of the purchase price must be paid in full within 30 days after court approval. 8. Once a submitted written bid or a live bid has been accepted during the auction, it cannot be withdrawn except by leave of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County. Any bidder who attempts to withdraw his/her bid after it has been accepted by the Special Commissioners of Sale may be required to forfeit his/her deposit. 9. Properties are offered “as is”, with all faults and without warranties or guarantees either expressed or implied. Prospective bidders should investigate the title on properties prior to bidding. The sale of the properties is not subject to the successful bidders’ ability to obtain title insurance. The sale of the properties is made free and clear only of liens of defendant(s) named in the respective judicial proceeding, and of those liens recorded after the County filed a lis pendens with the Circuit Court of Loudoun County. 10. All recording costs (including but not limited to any grantor’s tax/fee) will be at the expense of the purchaser. All property will be conveyed by Special Warranty Deed from the Special Commissioners of Sale. 11. Announcements made on the day of sale take precedence over any prior verbal or written terms of sale. The Special Commissioners of Sale represent that information regarding the property to be offered for sale, including acreage, type of improvements, etc., is taken from tax and/or land records, and is not guaranteed for either accuracy or completeness. Bidders are encouraged to make their own investigation to determine the title, condition of improvements, accessibility, and occupancy status of each property and to bid accordingly. The sale will be made subject to matters visible upon inspection, and to restrictions, conditions, rights-of-way and easements, if any, contained in the instruments constituting the chain of title. Any costs incurred by a bidder to inspect or investigate any property are the bidder’s responsibility and are not reimbursable. The owner of any property listed below may redeem it at any time before the date of the auction by paying all taxes, penalties, interest, costs (including the pro rata costs of publishing this advertisement and attorney’s fees) incurred through the date before the auction. Below is a brief description of each property to be offered for sale at the auction. More detailed information may be obtained by examining the files in the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, or by contacting the Special Commissioners of Sale at (703) 777-0307; or Tracy Stanley, Deputy Treasurer for Collections at (703) 771-5656.
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THE COUNTY OF LOUDOUN v. ROBERT L. PISCIOTTA, et al. CIVIL ACTION NO. CL 19-725 LOUDOUN COUNTY TAX MAP NO. /48///215/327/ PIN 188-28-2869-013 Zaida C. Thompson, Special Commissioner of Sale Minimum Deposit Required: $19,398.00 Residential condominium located at 92 Hancock Place, NE, Leesburg, Virginia, and described of record, among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia as: UNIT 327 PHASE FIFTEEN, BLOCK 1, HERITAGE SQUARE, A CONDOMINIUM, TOGETHER WITH the undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements which attach to said Unit, as described in that certain Declaration with the attached plats designating the relative location and identification of each Unit and General and Limited Common Elements located in the Town of Leesburg, Virginia, and recorded in Deed Book 642, at Page 183, and as amended among the Land Records. AND BEING part of the property conveyed to Robert L. Pisciotta, from Catherine Bastiani (f/n/a/ Catherine B. Pisciotta) by Quitclaim Deed dated March 18, 2014 and recorded as Instrument No. 20140319-0013364 among the Land Records. ***************************
THE COUNTY OF LOUDOUN v. OXANA DROUGOV, et al. CIVIL ACTION NO. CL 20-2487 LOUDOUN COUNTY TAX MAP NO. /62//17////17/ PIN 085-46-1787-000 Steven F. Jackson, Special Commissioner of Sale Minimum Deposit Required: $43,640.00 Single-family residential parcel containing .05 of an acre, more or less, with improvements in the Ashburn District located at 43682 Balmoral Terrace, Ashburn, Virginia, 20147 and described of record, among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia as: Lot 17, Section 2, Block 2, The Ridges at Ashburn, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted and recorded among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia in Deed Book 1660 at page 22 and resubdivided in Deed Book 1730 at page 805. AND BEING the same property conveyed to Alexander Drougov by deed dated July 29, 2002 recorded at Deed Book 2225 Page 2049. Alexander Drougov died intestate on July 3, 2011 and a List of Heirs recorded as Instrument Number 20110812-0048924 identifies Oxana Drougov, his wife, as his sole heir at law. ***************************
THE COUNTY OF LOUDOUN v. BRIAN D. HARDY and ANNE M. HARDY, et al. CIVIL ACTION NO. CL 20-2404 LOUDOUN COUNTY TAX MAP NO. /28/A/1/H//10/ PIN 304-46-3641-000 Steven F. Jackson, Special Commissioner of Sale Minimum Deposit Required: $49,495.00 Single-family residential parcel containing .05 of an acre, more or less, with improvements in the Catoctin District located at 15668 Factory Street, Waterford, Virginia 20197 and described of record, among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia as:
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THE COUNTY OF LOUDOUN v. HEIRS AT LAW & SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ERNEST A. RICHIE A/K/A ERNEST A. RITCHIE, et al. CIVIL ACTION NO. CL 20-2596 LOUDOUN COUNTY TAX MAP NO. /15///////102/ PIN 479-49-0158-000 Steven F. Jackson, Special Commissioner of Sale Minimum Deposit Required: $4,765.00
All of that certain lot or parcel of land, with a dwelling house and other improvements thereon, situated in the Town of Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia, lying on the North side of Factory Street, and separated from the property of Divine, Shawn, and others, by three twelve foot alleys, and being the same property conveyed to John D. Spinks by deed of record in said County Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 7-U, Page 274, from Elizabeth H. White and others, September 24, 1901, and therein described and designated as Lots No. 25 and 31. Said parcel of land also being described according to a plat of survey prepared by J. Horace Jarrett, C.L.S., dated January 7, 1985, recorded with Deed in Deed Book 857, page 480, as follows: Beginning at a pipe on the Northeast side of Factory Street, a corner of Kenneth M. and Eleanor B. Gonseth and the East side of a 12’ alley, thence departing from Factory Street and running with said alley N. 25 degrees 00’00” E. 184.36’ to a pipe on the South side of a 12’ alley, thence running with said alley S. 65 degrees 00’00” E. 105.50’ to a pipe on the West side of a 12’ alley, thence running with said alley S. 25 degrees 00’00” W. 231.51’ to a pipe in the North side of Factory Street, thence running with Factory Street N. 40 degrees 55’30” W. 115.55’ to the beginning, containing 21,937 square feet more or less.
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Parcel of unimproved land containing 15 acres, more or less, in the Catoctin District with no situs address and described of record, among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia as:
AND BEING the same property conveyed to Brian D. Hardy and Anne M.B. Hardy by deed dated October 31, 1991 recorded at Deed Book 1141 Page 1716 among the land records of Loudoun County.
That certain tract of land (wood lot) situated in the County aforesaid in the Lovettsville Magisterial District on the east side of Short Hill Mountain, adjoining the lands of H.W. Cole, Vickers, George & Conner containing fifteen acres of land more or less. AND BEING a portion of the same property, conveyed to Ernest A. Richie from Henry C. Peacock and Anna Peacock by deed dated March 14, 1913 recorded at Deed Book 8S Page 196 among the land records of Loudoun County, Virginia. ***************************
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Steven F. Jackson Zaida C. Thompson Special Commissioners of Sale Office of County Attorney 1 Harrison Street, S.E. P.O. Box 7000 Leesburg, Virginia 20177-7000 (703) 777-0307
9/24, 10/1, 10/8, & 10/15/20
VIRGINIA
NOTICE OF ABANDONED BICYCLES Notice is hereby given that the bicycles described below were found and delivered to the Office of the Sheriff of Loudoun County; if the owners of the listed bicycles are not identified within sixty (60) days following the final publication of this notice, the individuals who found said bicycles shall be entitled to them if he/she desires. All unclaimed bicycles will be handled according to Chapter 228.04 of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County.
Description
Case Number
Recovery Date
Recovery Location
Phone Number
Pink Diamondback bike
SO200014614
09/10/2020
20649 Southwind Terrace, Ashburn
703-777-0610
Blue/silver One Next power climber mountain bike
SO200014727
09/11/2020
16909 Evening Star Dr. Round Hill
703-777-0610
Black/pink Mongoose mountain bike
SO200015022
09/16/2020
46620 E Frederick Dr. Sterling
703-777-0610
Maroon Free Spirit cruiser bike
SO200015022
09/16/2020
46620 E Frederick Dr. Sterling
703-777-0610
Black/red/white Mongoose bike
SO200015022
09/16/2020
46620 E Frederick Dr. Sterling
703-777-0610 10/01 & 10/08/20
ORDER OF PUBLICATION COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA. CODE § 8.01-316 Case No.:
JJ044463-01-00
Loudoun Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re Giszelle Perez Loudoun County Department of Family Services /v. Unknown Father The object of this suit is to hold an adjudicatory hearing in child in need of services’ matter pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 16.1-228 and 16.1-241 for Giszelle Perez. It is ORDERED that the defendant, Unknown Father, appear at the above-named Court and protect his interests on or before October 28, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. 10/01, 10/08, 10/15, & 10/22/20
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF HAMILTON LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA Pursuant to Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, § 15.2-1800, the Hamilton Town Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, October 19, 2020 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Hamilton Town Office, 53 East Colonial Highway, Hamilton, Virginia for the purpose of receiving comments on the proposed lease of Town owned property located at 41 East Colonial Highway, Hamilton, Virginia. All those interested should appear by phone and provide comments. Information to call in for the meeting can be found at our website on the meeting calendar page: https://www.hamiltonva.gov/meeting-calendar. Written comments may be sent to the Town Office via email to treasurer@hamiltonva.gov. David Simpson, Mayor Hamilton Town Council
10/01/2020
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF LOUDOUN
APRIL CHRISTINE MELSON, Plaintiff v. ROGER CLARK MELSON JR., Defendant
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, In Case No. CL 20-5464
ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this case is for the Plaintiff to obtain an Order of Divorce from the Defendant on the grounds of the parties having lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation and without interruption, for a period of more than one year before this case was filed. An Affidavit having been made and filed that the Defendant is not able to be located within the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the last known name of the Defendant is Roger Clark Melson Jr., and the last known address of the Defendant is 2968 Shore Drive #217, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451. UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, this Order of Publication is granted, it is therefore, hereby ORDERED, in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, that the Defendant appear in this suit on the 6th day of November, 2020 at 2:00 PM, and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit, and that this Order be also published for four consecutive weeks in Loudoun Now, and posted, and mailed to the Defendant according to law. ENTERED this 17th day of September, 2020. I ASK FOR THIS:
NOTICE TOWN OF LEESBURG TOWN COUNCIL MEETING Remote Public Participation Available Members of the public who wish to speak during the petitioners’ section and/or public hearing of the September 22, 2020, Leesburg Town Council Meeting can do so remotely. Information on how to participate remotely can be found on the Town of Leesburg’s website www.leesburgva.gov/agendas or on the agenda that will be posted outside of the Clerk’s Office and in the lobby of Town Hall (25 West Market Street) by close of business on September 16, 2020. If you need more information, contact the Clerk of Council at eboeing@leesburgva.gov or 703-771-2733. 9/17/2020
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Opinion Weakening The Tools The county Planning Commission is correct to proceed cautiously when evaluating the Board of Supervisors’ request to allow the extension of central water and sewer service to a proposed school site in the Rural Policy Area, where such service would be denied to another developer. It would set a dangerous precedent with the potential to pave the way for others to follow, not just on the eastern edge of the rural area, but also around each town and village with utility lines and a bit of extra capacity in their treatment systems. The long-standing prohibition on the extension of central water has served as Loudoun’s primary tool to limit the westward march of suburbanization for more than six decades. However, even a remedy suggested by some commissioners could weaken those development limits. Allowing a piecemeal transfer of land from the Rural Policy Area to the Transition Policy Area, where central utilities are permitted, also sets a path for others to follow. The best time to draw those boundaries would have been as part of the creation of a new comprehensive
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plan, a years-long process that wrapped up last year. In fact, the previous Board of Supervisors looked at this very property to consider whether it should be absorbed into the transition zone that borders it on three sides. It agreed the land should remain rural. That conclusion was reached less than a year ago. If this county board decides to reverse that decision now, a reduction in the Rural Policy Area would be made outside the comprehensive planning process. At that point, there will be no reason another landowner, perhaps one trying to make room for just one more data center, couldn’t also apply to push the development line just a little bit more. When pursuing its construction projects, the Board of Supervisors, or any local government, shouldn’t do anything a private developer wouldn’t be allowed to do. The government should set the rules and enforce them consistently—and follow them.
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Step Up Editor: The decision by LCPS Administration and the School Board to go all in on 100% distance learning is a slap in the face of every single parent and child who are supposed to be supported by this school system. Parents were given the choice before schools opened as to whether or not they wanted to participate in the hybrid or distance learning models. Then, after many parents and students chose the hybrid model, LCPS admin and the School Board made the decision to completely disregard the fact that parents and students chose this model and basically said, “well we are in charge and screw your choice, so take what you get or leave.” The blatant disregard from the LCPS Administration and the School Board for the constituents is disgusting. Fact is, LCPS admin and the School Board never really planned to have a hybrid model in place. They had since March to start thinking about this and to try and plan for how to reopen schools. Their failure to plan shows that they planned to fail their constituents from the very first moment. This is not a partisan issue. This is a leadership issue or rather a lack of leadership. Dr. Williams has no plan. In fact, he has told us that they are planning to plan the plan. Does that even make sense?
Dr. Williams works for the School Board. If he is failing at his job it is the responsibility of the board to replace him. We all know that won’t happen because School Board members do not care about the parents or the children. School Board members openly mock parents and children who dare to speak up or speak out about these issues. They even go as far as to say they “cannot be recalled.” So again they are telling us “take what you get or leave.” Those who can afford private schools have pulled their kids from the LCPS system, others have gone the route of home schooling, and others are paying tutors to provide additional instruction at home. For a school system that is so focused on equity and equality, they sure don’t seem to care about all the kids in low and middle income families who cannot afford private schools, tutors or home schooling because both parents have to work. I suppose the struggles of the everyday real people do not reach the privileged lives of the high and mighty LCPS admin or the School Board. The LCPS administration and the School Board members need to step up and lead. We have really smart people in this community who are eager to help you figure this out. Instead of mocking parents and students or telling us that you are in charge and we have to abide by all your LETTERS continues on page 37
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is both troubling and harming their children. What happened to School Board priorities?
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Editor: As a parent of three children, all of whom graduated from LCPS, and an 8-year former School Board member, I am appalled by the apparent lack of awareness by this School Board to the obvious failure of its current online-only policy and the continued refusal to insist that parental input continued from page 36
Editor: When I learned about the passing of actor Chadwick Boseman, known for playing rolls as the Black Panther, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, I had just flown back from Wisconsin for a funeral for my sister, Anita Ruth Nelson. She was the youngest in our family. She had diabetes and I was, in my way, mourning her. So, when I heard about Boseman, all I could say was, “Oh no. Not again.” Then, about a day later, I learned about Georgetown University’s legendary basketball coach John Thompson Jr. who had just died. On top of that, I was still preoccupied with the deaths of two civil rights icons I had the honor to meet and with whom I worked—U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Rev. C.T. Vivian. A friend commented, “It’s got to end. 2020 has got to end. It’s got to be over. This has not been a good year.” I knew exactly what he meant. Clearly, death is not the end of all things. Regardless of your belief, the lives of all who have perished—their stories— are with us and will be so for a long, long time. Family members, friends, loved ones and a world of admirers and fans have been touched and benefited by the individuals mentioned here. When I gave my sister’s eulogy, I told everyone attending that death is not the end,
count toward LCPS staff performance reviews. How is a parent of an elementary school student who must work and perhaps has no ability to assist their student with studies supposed to influence the School Board regarding how absurd its policies are? Former Superintendent Dr. Hatrick reminded our School Board of the importance of both believing and practicing the belief that it is all about the children. This seems to be lost in the current LCPS administration. Who will be accountable if these students don’t receive the quality of education Loudoun has long been proud of yet still spend $1.4 billion of taxpayer funding? I am saddened by all the stories I am hearing from mostly diverse parents who don’t know how to fix this situation, which continued from page 37
it marks a beginning. What we do now with our lives is what is important. This is the greatest thing we can ever do to show our appreciation for those who mean so much to us. The deaths of Boseman, Thompson, Lewis, and Vivian shine a spotlight on a
truth, not only for our country, but for our world. They also answer a question. These Black men mattered. Their lives mattered. Their Black lives mattered. So, yes, Black lives matter. Floyd Nelson, Aldie
PPE DONATIONS FOR ALL HAMILTON HOUSEHOLDS! The Town of Hamilton is providing PPE to all properties that reside in the Hamilton 20158 zip code. The Mayor, Vice-Mayor and Town Council members will be at 38997 E Colonial Hwy on Saturday, Oct. 10th from 1pm-4pm and Oct. 17th from 9am-12-pm to hand out the supplies. Every household within the Hamilton zip code will receive 1 box of disposable masks (50 count), 1 large bottle of hand sanitizer (1000ml) and 2 packages of cleaning wipes (50 counts each) There will be officers present from the Loudoun County Sheriff ’s office to assist with traffic procedures. PPE will be distributed by a drive-thru system, so please follow police directions. Please also bring a photo ID that shows a Hamilton 20158 address. For questions, please visit our website at https://www.hamilton.gov You can also contact the Hamilton Town Office at (540) 338-2811.
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Trusting is Believing BY STEVE ROBIN
I belong to a small discussion group. The topics vary a lot. Deep sometimes; pretty shallow other times. Two weeks ago, the talk got around to trust and how important that is to how we get along with each other. After agreeing that trust is central to cooperation, the discussion got around to trust in our political entities. Numbers were thrown around about the percentages of Americans who had a high degree of trust in Congress, the president and his administration, and the court system. Everyone agreed that the numbers were lower than we would hope to see and that they seemed on average to be going down over the years, not up. The theory was posed that if trust in our basic institutions is low, that lack
of trust would tend to show up society as a whole. Pretty heady stuff. I didn’t think about it again until two days later when my dentist said that she had had a talk about her son’s grades with the school principal and doubted she was getting a straight story. “Why would you not get a straight story?” I asked. “Aren’t grades just numbers? What can be not straight about a number?” Well, it turns out that the principal had just transferred to the Loudoun school system from a rural area in the Midwest, and my dentist was pretty sure that the principal did not take kindly to the kids living in a “purple state.” I put that in my “think it over” basket. The next day, my neighbor and I were talking about bank loans. He had been checking into mortgage loans and had talked to several lenders. Turns out
he was quite sure that his activist activities in local politics had caused two of the lenders to turn him down. I pointed out that those two loan officers had each been operating without incident in the county for over 15 years. But that bit of information carried no weight with my neighbor, who pointed out that his politics and theirs were poles apart, and said they probably had it in for him. Beginning to look like my discussion group might be on to something. Two days later we’re at dinner with friends. The man had been in a bad car accident a year earlier, and the young woman who had caused the accident had recently been criminally prosecuted in the local courts for reckless driving. The judge had heard the testimony and had dropped the charge to improper driving with a fine of only $100. Our friend, who
Slow recovery continued from page 1 that as a soft rebound fueled by leisure travelers who won’t be active again until Thanksgiving, as long as a second wave of the virus doesn’t drive another downturn. The return of business and international travelers continues to lag in the region because much of the federal government remains closed down or closed to visitors, as are many of the region’s attractions such as the Smithsonian Museum. And Washington, DC’s mandatory traveler quarantine requirement doesn’t help, Potter said. However, all things considered, he offered an optimistic outlook. That was fueled by a commitment among his staff, concessionaires and airlines to make the airport experience as safe as possible— from the rental car offices to the airplane seats. “Without them we wouldn’t even be open,” he said. “It begins and ends with people.” Throughout the airport, public health measures and systems are well established, he said, and the focus now is bringing in business groups and travelers for tours to build confidence. So far, 24 of Dulles’ 56 international destinations are up and running, with another 24 expected to resume flights before year’s end. Of the 89 domestic destina-
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MWAA President and CEO Jack Potter says Dulles Airport is ready to offer travelers a safe environment when they’re ready to take a flight.
tions, 68 have active flights, with another 18 preparing to return. “We’re open. We’re ready. We’re ready to do business,” Potter said. While the airport appears to be well positioned to weather the economic collapse, airlines face more uncertainty. This week, on Oct. 1, the $25 billion Payroll Support Program that helped airlines retain their employees is set to
expire. Despite weeks of negotiations, Congress has been unable to agree on additional relief. This week, the industry was warning of layoffs that could exceed 100,000 workers. Both of the region’s largest carriers, American and United airlines, have alerted employees from baggage handlers to pilots about the prospects of furloughs starting this week.
had sustained significant physical damage, was livid. He wanted to know who appointed that judge. Must have been some kind of political quid pro quo was his view, and that remained his view the rest of the evening. I duly reported these stories to the most recent meeting of my discussion group. We all agreed they were interesting, although they were after all only a small sample, just anecdotal. But then, two days later, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away … and now we’re off to the races, big time. n Steve Robin is a retired attorney, a resident of Loudoun for over 45 years and an observer of life for considerably longer than that.
United CEO Scott Kirby, in a letter to Congress and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, warned that airlines could have to lay off up to 16,000 workers starting Thursday. American announced plans for 19,000 involuntary furloughs. “They are going to have to lay off people because much of that [earlier] money was intended to keep their employees on board. Without that relief they’re going to have to tighten their belts … they’ll have to double down their efforts,” Potter said. “I think it is their intent to survive. The length of time it takes to get through this is critical and the sooner we get beyond COVID the better. We’re cheering for them to get whatever they can get.” Another hard-hit industry during the pandemic is hotels and conference centers. The Committee for Dulles event was held at the Washington Dulles Marriot. It featured more than 50 members spread out in one of the hotel’s conference rooms and dozens more watching via a live stream. General Manager Keith McNeil said it was only the fourth meeting since March at the hotel, which typically an active center for business and community meetings. “I hope this starts a trend,” he said. n
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COVID campaigns continued from page 1 want to talk.” Meanwhile, Aliscia Andrews, this November’s Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Jennifer T. Wexton (D-VA-10), said the pandemic has brought out her adaptability. “As a Marine, I was taught constantly, time and time again, to be able to adapt, and that’s pretty much what we’ve one,” Andrews said. “[We] adapted and kept moving.” She, too, is knocking doors, but she is also keeping her distance from the people who answer them. “I think that people appreciate when you’re very respectful of their space, and we’re coming to people from a place of respect,” Andrews said. “Even when we’re door knocking, it’s from a place of respect. People have been very receptive at the door.” Wexton said her campaign has had to go virtual with almost everything. “For us, safety is our top priority, so we want to keep our volunteers and voters safe,” Wexton said. “But we still want to inform them about what’s going on and what the stakes are in this election, and also what their options are to vote early, or in-person, or to develop their own plans to vote.” That means instead of hundreds of volunteers going out into the streets, volunteers are calling and texting for the campaign from their homes. “We all miss that human contact and that face-to-face contact, but I think there’s a lot of acknowledgement out there as well that these are the times we live in,” Wexton said. The pandemic also puts a particular focus on the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming debate—it will be one of the few chances to see the two can-
Water worries continued from page 3 However, others—including residents nearby the property—have argued the area simply should be added to the Transition Policy Area. County planners and the previous Planning Commission had proposed adding that area, which is surrounded on three sides by the Transition Policy Area, to the transition zone during the county’s work on the new comprehensive plan. Supervisors elected not to do that amid consternation from some quarters about pushing the county’s development boundaries west. But because the area is already surrounded on three sides, William Steedly
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bring in donations before the filing deadline for the last campaign finance reports before the election, and, of course, before the election itself. Between the July quarterly report and the end of the 2018 general election, Wexton more than doubled her fundraising, bringing in another $4.14 million.
Where before a candidate might have had an in-person event or dinner to rally supporters and raise money for the campaign, Burk said, now she might have an online meeting. Recently, she held a fundraiser over video conferencing with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Loudoun resident. “I was very hesitant, just thinking, are people going to really come, are they going to contribute, are they going to want to do it?” Burk said. “I had a large number of people come, probably more than what would have come if it had been at a location. And so it’s just trying to do something differently, but it’s still doing the same thing.” Andrews said she, too, has had to adapt to meeting people over Zoom instead of in-person. Meeting online, she said, lacks the same sense of human interaction for someone who, like her, thrives on face-to-
face interaction. “That’s the worst part about COVID, is you lose that human element,” Andrews said. “That’s part of why our community, especially in the 10th District, is so amazing. We bring so many people from so many different places here—the interactions and being able to work together.” Campaign fundraising is still happening, albeit at a reduced rate. So far this election cycle, Burk has reported $12,982 raised, according to campaign finance reports. At this point in her 2018 re-election bid, she had raised more than three times that, $40,868. Wexton’s July quarterly federal campaign finance report, the most recent available, reports $2.87 million raised in this campaign cycle to date. The same report from 2018 reported $3.6 million raised at that point in that year’s hotly contested Congressional race. Andrews, for her part, reported just under $296,000 raised in the July report. But there is no easy way to tell how much of the difference between 2018 and 2020 is attributable to the pandemic—in 2018, for example, Burk faced two challengers, Town Council members Tom Dunn and Ron Campbell. This year, Campbell remains on the ballot but has said he would not actively campaign after failing to win the Loudoun County Democratic Committee endorsement. Likewise, Wexton’s campaign in 2018 was seen as critical to the national Democratic Party to seize control of the House of Representatives, which it did. And this year, there is a presidential campaign that grabs most of the election headlines. “A lot of people are hurting, and people who would have been able to spare $100 or $200 for a political donation, now are concerned about their economic future, and those kinds of discretionary expenses are not being made anymore,” Wexton said. Candidates also are rushing now to
said at the commission’s Sept. 22 public hearing, “I do not believe extending central utilities into this hole will create the threat of growth of further central utilities out into the Rural Policy Area.” Rather, Steedly argued, there are two reasonable possibilities—either move the entire area into the Transition Policy Area, or don’t put lighted sports fields and schools in the middle of it. The property has also been eyed as a possible site for more schools after the planned middle school. Some commissioners agreed with that view. “This is really what happens when the previous Board of Supervisors decided that they wanted to revise and review the entire comprehensive plan, and then removed
two thirds of the entire county from that and say ‘you can’t do anything with that,’” said Commissioner Jeff Salmon (Dulles), who both served on the previous Planning Commission and chaired the stakeholders group that worked on the first draft of the new comprehensive plan that passed last year. “’Don’t touch the Rural Policy Area, don’t touch the Transition Policy Area, only look at this one third.’ But it’s comprehensive, and this is what you get.” He suggested the comprehensive plan amendment should instead be to move that long-debated area into the Transition Policy Area. “If the board wants to see that part of the county be in the Transition Policy Area, then they should do that, bring that motion, but not kind of do it in a de facto way
through this,” Hayes said. However, some also said they felt obligated to vote in favor of the amendment because supervisors proposed it. Commissioners ultimately voted unanimously to send the comprehensive plan amendment to another meeting for more work. “We do need to step back and take a look at this and say, is it being done the right way, and, so far, I don’t think it is,” said Commissioner Mark Miller (Catoctin). In fact, there may be another way the amendment could open up central water and sewer for homes in the Rural Policy Area—supervisors have discussed allowing homes on publicly owned parcels to help tackle Loudoun’s housing cost problem. n
didates in the same place. No audience will be in the room, but the whole world will be able to watch the debate on the Chamber’s Facebook page. “There’s literally 20 people that will be present in a room that has been there for galas that have had a thousand people,” said Loudoun Chamber President and CEO Tony Howard. That’s because unlike other debates that have been held over video conferencing, the Chamber’s debate is socially distant but in-person at the National Conference Center. The two candidates, some of their campaign staff members, Howard as moderator and a small panel of business leaders will meet for the debate. “We will actually have them be able to engage with the questioners in the presence of each other in a live format, even though it’s broadcast,” Howard said. “… I hope it makes it more relatable and personal to the audience than your regular Zoom meeting.”
Fundraising: Not so Fun
The New Face of Campaigning In much the same way that many businesses now plan to keep COVID-era teleworking going indefinitely, campaigners for office are also learning some lessons from pandemic precautions. Burk said some other campaigns aren’t knocking doors at all, but leaning more heavily on phone calls, texting and mailers—and she expects that to continue. “I think you’ll find that mailing is going to become an even bigger thing in the future, and that’s just making sure that people are comfortable, and doing things to make sure that you’re not making anyone feel uncomfortable for interacting with you,” Burk said. Some are also eager to get back to some parts of the way campaigns were before. “One of the things that makes a campaign so exciting and fun is all being in it together, all working these long hours and in close quarters, and the camaraderie of a tough campaign,” Wexton said. “Truthfully, I think having a better sense of humor and patience is probably the best thing anybody can really get out of this,” Andrews said. “Understand that we probably all need to be a little bit more patient with each other.” “And,” said Andrews, a mother of three young children, “to wash our hands.” Wexton and Andrews will meet for the Loudoun Chamber’s debate on Oct. 15 at 8:30 a.m. Register to watch the debate at LoudounChamber.org/events. n
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