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Rayner Wins Purcellville Seat BY NORMAN K. STYER nstyer@loudounnow.com
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Glenn Youngkin addresses a crowd of supporters at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds on Monday night, the day before recording a narrow victory in the governor’s race.
Purcellville voters on Tuesday elected Erin K. Rayner to fill the vacant Town Council seat. Rayner defeated town newcomer Sean MacDonald with 53% of the vote. She will fill the unexpired term of Councilman Ted Greenly, who resigned May 31 and will serve until Dec. 31, 2022, and the seat will be on the ballot next November. Rayner, the executive director of former Congresswoman Barbara Comstock’s Program for Women in Leadership at George Washington University and Mountain View Elementary School PTA president, is a five-year town resident. She ran for the council in last year’s election, finishing fourth with three seats available.
Local Dems Survive Virginia’s Red Shift LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT
On Tuesday night for the first time since 2009, Virginia voters showed strong shades of red. Republican candidate for governor, Glenn Youngkin, edged out former governor and Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe. With relatively few votes still to be counted, major news outlets called the contest for Youngkin after midnight. During a speech at his victory party in Chantilly, Youngkin called his election a defining moment, and reiterated his list of campaign promises, ranging from opening 20 charter schools, to adding 400,000
jobs in Virginia, to saving Virginians more than $1,000 each on taxes. “My fellow Virginians, this is our moment. It’s our moment for parents, for grandparents, for aunts, for uncles, for neighbors to change the future of Virginia’s children’s lives, to change their Virginia journey,” Youngkin said. “It’s our time to turn that vision into a reality. It’s a vision where Virginia’s power, the power that has historically resided in the marbled halls of Richmond, is spread out, spread out to the kitchen tables that are held together with the bond of spirit, of liberty and freedom.” His agenda will be tested in Rich-
mond—while Republicans took control the governor’s mansion and the House of Delegates, Democrats retain control of the state Senate. “Together, we can build a new day, a new day for Virginians where, yes, we soar and we never settle,” Youngkin said. “A new day where all Virginians, all of us, can deserve to look forward to grabbing, to aspiring, to dreaming and then achieving that great Virginia promise.” The GOP’s other statewide candidates also celebrated victories. Winsome Sears was elected lieutenant governor with 51% RED SHIFT continues on page 38
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Gregory, Campbell Pitch Graydon Manor Land for Leesburg Mobile Home Park BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ krodriguez@loudounnow.com
A solution for Leesburg Mobile Home Park’s dozens of potentially displaced residents could be just a little more than two miles away. David Gregory, owner of the former Graydon Manor property just west of the Leesburg town limits, has teamed up with former Town Council member Ron Campbell to offer up land to the current mobile park tenants. Since August when a pending $11 million sale of the 7.2-acre mobile home park community was announced, mobile home park tenants have been a frequent presence at Leesburg Town Council meetings, pleading for their elected officials to find a solution for them to avoid losing their homes altogether, or being forced to move from a home with no equally affordable option nearby.
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Former Leesburg Town Council member Ron Campbell is working with developer David Gregory to offer land along Dry Mill Road as an option to accommodate displaced mobile home park residents.
The Town Council members as recently as last week have emphasized that there
was little they could do to stop the sale, and perhaps the residents’ displacement.
Gregory and Campbell, whose office is also on Graydon Manor land, are hoping to provide an option. “I think it is clearly economically and socially the right thing to do,” Gregory said. “In a nutshell, I understand the complex nature of the property rights issue versus tenancy and somebody that wants to buy property and improve it. We’re developers; we understand that.” What he and Campbell are trying to do, he said, is “create an alternative” that protects both buyer and property rights, and doesn’t allow gentrification in Leesburg to continue at the expense of the mostly minority tenants of the Leesburg Mobile Park. Gregory recently brought on Campbell, who served on the Town Council from 2017 to 2020, to keep him current about social needs that are being unmet. GRAYDON MANOR continues on page 37
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Need for Blood Donors Spikes BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ krodriguez@loudounnow.com
Monday night of last week, Inova Blood Donor Services posted its latest plea on Facebook. A mother was expected to deliver her baby the next day at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Because of pregnancy complications, she would likely need a blood transfusion to survive. With blood and platelets in short supply, the healthcare system is hoping that real-life stories like these stir a sense of urgency in would-be donors. “I’ve never seen a need this great and an inventory this low, and the response of our call to actions is tepid,” said Heather Wade, who has been employed with Inova Blood Donor Services for seven years, and has served as donor recruitment manager for the past four. Just in the last week the need region-wide has been significant. Wade recalled that during a recent five-day period Inova had enacted six massive transfusion protocols in response to a variety of patient needs. MTPs cover everything from vehicle accidents and
acts of violence to ongoing medical issues that require a significant amount of blood for a patient. Wade said 200 donors are needed each day to sustain the blood supply on hospital’s shelves. With three donor sites open—in Sterling, Centreville and Annandale—and two blood drives around the region daily, Wade said right now they are getting between 130 to 150 donors “on a good day.” Of that 200, 30 platelet donors are needed. Platelets are an especially critical resource for patients experiencing a traumatic injury, going through chemotherapy, and Wade emphasized that no donation, blood or platelets, goes to waste. Platelet donations take about 90 minutes, and donors can donate every 14 days. The shelf life of platelets is five days. “There are never enough platelets,” she said glumly. Wade said when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and most elective surgeries were deferred, turnout at blood donor centers was “great.” But since March of this year, she suspects in part because of
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Inova Blood Donor Services has three donor sites throughout the Northern Virginia region, and blood drives daily. Yet, despite the accessibility, blood donors are scarcer than ever.
the COVID fatigue, donations have been harder to come by, and Northern Virginia is in line with the nation in having an extremely low blood supply. Inova Blood Donor Services supplies not only supply Inova Health System’s hospitals, but other hospitals in the region, some with as little as less than half their desired inventory to some where it supports 100% of what they need for their patient care, Wade said. “We’re one trauma away from having
a depleted supply across the area,” she said. Wade said Inova Blood Donor Services has worked to make it as convenient as possible to donate, between the different locations of centers and blood drives and morning, afternoon and evening hours. “What we want [donors] to know is that 60 minutes can save three lives. BLOOD DONORS continues on page 39
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Reconciliation Work Could Fall to Douglass School Committee BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com
The proposal for a committee to establish and reconcile the impact of Loudoun’s history of racially segregated schools could land on the desk of one that already exists, the Douglass High School Commemorative Committee. The committee was established earlier this year to come up with ideas for historic displays at Douglass Community Center, which is under renovation, and was the high school for Loudoun’s Black students form 1941 until Loudoun schools finally integrated in 1968. The committee includes members from groups including the Loudoun NAACP, the Black History Committee of the Friends of Thomas Balch Library; the Edwin Washington Project, the Loudoun County Heritage Commission, and the Loudoun Douglass Alumni Association, among others. And that could mean the committee is well suited to the task proposed by Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) “to study the harm caused by Loudoun County’s discrimination of Black students and seek out ways to rectify disparities.” Part of that work, suggested by County Chair Phyllis J. Randall, (D-At Large) is specific to the Douglass School, where the Black community came together to buy the land. The local School Board refused to build on land its didn’t own, forcing the parents to sell property they’d bought for $4,000, to the school district for $1 in
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Renovation work is underway at the Douglass Community Center.
1940. The money they’d paid for the land is equivalent to almost $78,000 today. The 10 acres the school stands on today, near the intersection of Plaza Street and Market Street near downtown Leesburg, could easily fetch a much higher price if put on the market. During a meeting of the Joint School Board-Board of Supervisors committee on Monday night, Loudoun County Public Schools Chief Operations Officer Kevin Lewis suggested the existing committee may be willing to take on that additional work.
“That committee, as I said, has been working really, really hard, and I don’t know how the board would like to ask them to continue that, but I think at least they would be open to the conversation,” Lewis said. Joint committee members directed school staff members to convey that request to the commemorative committee at its next meeting. “That opportunity is there, and I think the alignment is very good, it really is. It sounds like the organization we have today has elements of all three organi-
zations that we believe would be primary sources to enable us to move forward with that research,” said School Board Member Jeff Morse (Dulles), referring to the inclusion of the Loudoun NAACP, the Douglass Alumni Association, and the Edwin Washington Project. The only concern was whether it would be too much additional workload for the committee, which was established on an ad-hoc basis. “I’m a little bit concerned because that committee sounds very narrow, and their work is very important, and so I don’t know that I personally would want to have them have to have another very large task,” Briskman said. Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg) also worried that the group at the center of that issue—the Douglass Alumni—is now elderly, and may not be around for a broadly-worded, protracted process. “I think the larger the scope of this effort, the longer it will take and the less likely that the alumni of the Douglass High School still living in the county— may not still be here to see the results of this,” Umstattd said. “My preference, if the committee agrees to take on an extra task, would be the make it a more limited task to try to see what they would recommend to right the wrong that was done back in the late ‘30s, early ‘40s.” The Douglass High School Commemorative Committee is next scheduled to meet on Monday, Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. at Frederick Douglass Elementary School. n
Fire-Rescue to Present Latest Service Updates after Thomas Drowning LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT
The Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System this week presented the Board of Supervisors an update on changes to the system’s 911 responses prompted by the drowning of Fitz Thomas. On June 4, 2020, the 16-year-old son of Loudoun NAACP President Michelle Thomas drowned in the waters at the mouth of the Goose Creek at Confluence Park in the River Creek neighborhood. First responders took more than half an hour to respond to the scene, and 911 call recordings revealed dispatchers passing the calls back and forth between
Loudoun and Montgomery County, MD, waving off help from the Loudoun side of the Potomac River, and seeming not to know Loudoun landmarks and geography. After an internal investigation and report, fire-rescue leaders said many of the problems began when cell phone calls were routed to Montgomery County dispatchers across the river. Loudoun dispatchers did not find out about the incident until 17 minutes after the first call. But even after they did—and being told by frustrated callers that they were on the Loudoun side of the river—Loudoun dispatchers repeatedly transferred callers back to Montgomery County. The
river is considered inside Maryland’s jurisdiction, although Thomas was not in the Potomac. That has led to calls for 911 reform, as well as a protracted dispute between the county government and the Thomas family, which is seeking millions of dollars in compensation. During a review of what the county fire-rescue system began calling the Perdido Bay Terrace incident, after the closest road, the department listed 42 changes to its procedures, training and technology to improve its response times, especially along the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. “We’ve made tremendous progress
in a relatively short amount of time,” stated system Chief Keith Johnson in a statement prior to the Nov. 3 Board of Supervisors briefing. “While our review showed that staff in Montgomery County and Loudoun County properly followed existing policies and procedures during the June 4 incident, we remain committed to doing anything we can to improve our emergency communications system and incident responses.” According to the fire-rescue department, it has completed or nearly completed 37 of those 42 items, with the rest at least half done. Those range inSERVICE UPDATES continues on page 22
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After quietly opening in late July, The Branch bowling alley will celebrate its grand opening this week. The former Village Lanes building was sold to Local Wood owners Scott Carpenter and Charlie Beach last summer, and the duo undertook an extensive renovation of the property. Now, The Branch boasts not just a modern bowling experience, with 16 lanes, four of which are reserved for VIPtype reservations, but a more upscale dining experience. Ben Carpenter, son of Scott and project manager with Carpen-
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Janice Beplay and Madison Johnson prepare drinks in the dining room and bar at The Branch bowling alley in Leesburg.
ter Beach, said one thing the business is working on is marketing itself as a dining destination, even for those who have no plans to bowl. Executive Chef Manuel Alvarez comes to The Branch following 15 years at the Middleburg Tennis Club. He has helped to create a menu that Carpenter describes as “upscale American fare,” with everything from your traditional bowling alley fare like hamburgers and chicken fingers, to flatbread pizzas, chicken piccata and even steak. During the warmer months they have been able to use quite a bit of local produce from Beach’s own large THE BRANCH continues on page 7
Leesburg Council Authorizes Wirt Street Building Purchase BY KARA C. RODRIGUEZ krodriguez@loudounnow.com
An expansion of Town Hall may be a bit easier, with the Town Council signing off Tuesday on the purchase of an adjacent building on Wirt Street. As part of its consent agenda, the council unanimously approved the purchase of 16 Wirt St. SW, for the price of $375,000. The money will be appropriated from the town’s Unassigned Fund Balance to the capital projects budget to fund the purchase, according to a staff report. The acquisition is in the nature of
“land banking” in anticipation of a future expansion of the town government headquarters. The structure is not currently in use, nor is it occupied, the staff report noted. There are no current plans by the town to either demolish or use the building. Public records indicate the Wirt Street property is owned by attorney Richard Riemenschneider. The 1,500-squarefoot building is on a 2,100-square-foot lot. The property has an assess value of $279,000, according to county tax records. A previous Town Council in 2017 considered purchasing the property, but ultimately dropped the idea. n
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Leesburg’s Town Hall campus will expand with the planned purchase of this former home/ office behind the town offices on Wirt Street.
The George C. Marshall International Center will hold the annual Veterans Day Commemoration starting at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 11 on the grounds of Dodona Manor. The program will feature a keynote address by Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford, U.S. Army (Ret.) along with remarks by County Chair Phyllis J. Randall and Mayor Kelly Burke. Before and after the program, guests are invited to visit with two of Loudoun’s veteran-focused nonprofits: Veterans Moving Forward and Loudoun Therapeutic Riding. Both organizations offer programs provided at no cost to veterans. Vintage military vehicles also will be on display. This free event is open to the public and will move forward rain or shine. More information is available at georgecmarshall.org/events.
Sundays Scrapped for Sidewalk Dining Downtown Leesburg’s popular outdoor dining program continues through Dec. 4, but will no longer include a King Street closure on Sundays. Town Manager Kaj Dentler announced the change last week, noting the original intent of the street closure program was to support the downtown dining establishments during the pandemic when they were not able to provide indoor dining at 100% capacity and when social distancing was required. Since indoor capacity has been restored and the Sunday closures draw a much smaller crowd, the closure is no longer needed, he said. In July 2020, the town started the temporary program to help downtown restaurants that were impacted by the indoor dining restrictions set forth by Gov. Ralph Northam’s executive order following the COVID-19 outbreak. Because of the program’s popularity, the program will continue on Fridays and Saturdays from 4 to 10 p.m. through Dec. 4. The program will resume in March on Friday and Saturday evenings. n
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Three local icons will be memorialized in new murals on Leesburg’s Town Hall parking garage. One of those icons will be the namesake of the alley parallel to the parking garage, Lassiter Way. Nelson “Mutt” Lassiter was one of the first Black people to own and run a business in Leesburg, as the longtime owner of Robinson’s Barber Shop on nearby Loudoun Street. The barber shop was also one of the first businesses to integrate during the civil rights era. Lassiter, who died in 2020 at the age of 86, was a longtime community steward, serving in the military, and an active participant in his church, Boys Scouts, and local youth sports leagues. Also featured in one of the niche murals will be Vinton Liddell Pickens, the founder of the Loudoun Sketch Club and an internationally acclaimed artist. Pickens also was the chairwoman of the Loudoun County Planning Commission upon its formation in 1941 and was instrumental in preventing billboards from flooding the county’s natural landscape. She served on the Planning Commission
The Branch continued from page 6 garden in Waterford. Ten beers are on tap, including four local brews, Carpenter added. The restaurant can accommodate 60 diners, while the 80-foot-long bar can seat another 30. Heading up operations is Sarah Heinz, previously the events director at Loudoun Golf & Country Club. She said business has been steadily picking up since doors opened in July, and she is looking to bring more awareness to The Branch, including hosting events.
until 1964. Marie Medley-Howard will also be featured in a mural. A Leesburg native, she is credited as the first Black woman to own a business in the town. According to a town staff report, Medley-Howard ran a successful beauty shop near her childhood home on Edwards Ferry Road, the current site of the Barrister building. Medley-Howard also was an advocate for education equality, and was part of the force that led to the creation of the Douglass School, Loudoun’s first and only secondary school for Black people until the end of segregation. Her advocacy work convinced prominent attorney Charles Houston to encourage her to start a local NAACP chapter, for which she served as its first president. Today’s Loudoun NAACP office is housed in the Barrister building, the site of Medley-Howard’s former beauty shop. The murals will be created by artist Kim P. Kim. Each mural will be painted on DiBond panels, and then installed on the garage façade. It is expected the artwork will take around eight weeks to complete, and can be installed immediately afterwards, the staff report said. The project is being funded by Friends of Leesburg Public Arts. n The 17,000-square-foot building includes Local Wood’s showroom, with the rest dedicated to the bowling alley and a 1,000-square-foot arcade area offers games for the young and old. Carpenter said he is looking forward to drumming up more business at The Branch as temperatures dip and indoor activities become more attractive. He also is looking ahead to next spring, when he said plans are to open an outdoor bar at the facility. The Branch is located at 49 Catoctin Circle SE in Leesburg. For more information go to bowlthebranch.com. n
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After a raucous School Board meeting on June 22 resulted in one man being dragged out in handcuffs by deputies and Loudoun making national headlines, the Sheriff’s Office refused to provide additional security at subsequent School Board meetings, emails show. During the public comment portion of that meeting, as the board fielded comments on teachings about racism and then-proposed protections for transgender students, Chairwoman Brenda Sheridan (Sterling) repeatedly advised the audience of over 200 people to maintain order. The boardroom was ultimately cleared by deputies, and two parents were detained. But as school administrators stepped up security measures and limited public access for its next meeting on Aug. 10, the Sheriff’s Office did not have a presence in the building. Emails show that Superintendent Scott Ziegler had requested the same security footprint that had been provided for the June 22 meeting. In a letter to the admin-
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Superintendent Scott Ziegler asked that the Sheriff’s Office provide a security package for the Aug. 10 School Board meeting, but the request was denied.
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Schools Launch Loyalty Program to Assuage Substitute Shortage BY HAYLEY BOUR
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To abate the limited availability of substitute teachers, Loudoun County Public Schools will implement a loyalty program and offer 50% pay bumps on high-volume days. During the Oct. 28 School Board meeting, Chief Human Resources Officer Lisa Boland said that an increased number of teacher absences this year has strained the substitute teacher program. And, according to Superintendent Scott Ziegler, while there are about 4,000 substitutes on the district’s roster, only about 500 are actively taking jobs. The district conducted a survey among substitutes to determine why more weren’t participating.
“It isn’t the number of subs we have on record or available, it’s the number of jobs they’re picking up,” Boland said. “Unfortunately, the rate of pay is not the highest concern, there were a number of concerns and there isn’t any rhyme or reason to help identify. So, this is our first attempt to try to get our subs to pick up more jobs.” The enhanced pay rate for high-volume days, which are days identified by the human resources department to likely experience a large amount of teacher absences, will be $169.12 per day for regular substitutes and $231 for longterm substitutes. The typical rate for regular substitutes is $112.75 per day and SUBSTITUTE SHORTAGE continues on page 10
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Email request continued from page 8 istration, the Sheriff’s Office defended the decision to pull protection, saying that the district “unilaterally” decided to limit public comment and implement security measures such as a metal detector, without consulting the Sheriff’s Office. In a letter to Ziegler dated Aug. 6, the school division’s Chief Operations Officer Kevin Lewis said that Sheriff Mike Chapman and his department received national criticism for the handling of the event, and that the public should have been allowed to speak. “School Board is firing people up and calling LCSO to clean it up. The plan for the Aug. 10/11 meeting puts LCSO in the same position and I won’t be put in that position again. School Board is being dismissive of people they don’t agree with,” Lewis said in recounting Chapman’s remarks. The Sheriff’s Office leaders told the administration the agency would not provide uniformed officers for the meeting, but that deputies would be “in the area” for a quick response. Earlier correspondence between the administration and the Sheriff’s Office shows that Ziegler and his team had requested a “robust protection plan”: three deputies inside the administration building, a canine explosive sweep, a five-person quick reaction force on site, undercover deputies in the public assembly area at the administration building, and a civil defense unit and a special operations team on standby. Chapman’s office described the request as “extraordinary.” Two meetings took place between the administration and the Sheriff’s Office on July 29 and Aug. 5 to discuss security plans. In a response to the Sheriff’s Office’s letter, Ziegler emailed Chapman on Aug. 6, saying that intelligence shared during both planning meetings indicated potential security threats for the Aug. 10 School Board meeting, including that hotel rooms were booked by “those wishing to demonstrate at the meeting on August 10.” He also detailed robocalls that had been made to community members calling for demonstrations at the meeting, and that board members had received threatening messages. “Reviewing the news footage from the June 22 meeting, it is clear that law enforcement is needed in the board room and on campus at the administration building. I am disappointed in your decision not to station deputies inside,”
LOUDOUNNOW.COM Ziegler wrote. “Since early 2021, LCSO [sic, likely LCPS] and LCSO deputies have worked together to provide security in the board room—I am unclear as to why this is now unacceptable. If there is a need to clarify the roles of LCSO, LCPS Safety, and Security, and private security, please let me know. Again, given our organizations’ history of collaboration, I am unsure why this joint effort is a problem.” Several School Board members said that given threats received prior to the Aug. 10 meeting, the lack of on-site assistance from the Sheriff’s Office was disconcerting.
Former School Board member Beth Barts (Leesburg), who recently resigned, received an onslaught of threats and hateful messages since becoming the subject of a removal effort because of her involvement in a private Facebook group, called the Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County, where critics charge board members violated closed-door meeting laws for elected officials. Barts attended the Aug. 10 meeting remotely—citing personal safety concerns—and stated she was not attending the meeting from her home. Barts said she had grown accustomed to the Sheriff’s Office’s presence
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Superintendent Scott Ziegler called for a change to Title IX protocol during last week’s School Board meeting, a change he said may have prevented a high-profile sexual assault from occurring in the division three weeks ago. During a discussion about the Title IX violation reporting process, Ziegler said that he would like to see school divisions be given the authority to remove a student from the student body if they present an immediate threat to others. “Local school divisions should have flexibility to provide greater protection measures including removing students completely from the student body when initial circumstance warrants it,” Ziegler told the School Board as it reviewed its 2022 legislative agenda, which it will submit to the delegation to the state house. The School Board and administration came under fire when news surfaced that a student who had sexually assaulted a classmate in a Stone Bridge High School bathroom assaulted a second student six months later after being transferred to Broad Run High School. Ziegler informed the board on May 28, the day of the first incident, that the Sheriff’s Office was handling the investigation. However, when it was reported that the same student was transferred to a different school this school year, School Board members said they were unaware of the initial incident. Ziegler said the school division would not conduct its own investigation until
Substitute shortage continued from page 8 for long-term substitutes is $154. Regular substitutes take jobs day by day, whereas long-term subs take multiday assignments, such as covering a class while a teacher is on maternity leave. Boland said that high volume days typically fall before or after a staff or student holiday. She said Human Resources and Talent Development staff uses historical data to determine the days when subs will be in the highest demand. The loyalty program rate, an 18% pay
the Sheriff’s Office had concluded its. He said that Title IX protocols had been followed in response to the situation, but the protocols were insufficient to prevent the second tragedy. Changes to Title IX made in 2020 require schools to provide an education to an accused student through the conclusion of an investigation. However, the division could have removed the student on an emergency basis if it conducted an individualized safety and risk analysis and determined there was an immediate threat to students. But, Division Title IX Coordinator Mark Smith said with criminal allegations the division defers to law enforcement. “At times it’s hard for us to do a full risk assessment because we don’t have a full understanding of the information. … Sometimes, if it’s a sexual assault, it’s immediately turned over to law enforcement and we may not have the full details to make that assessment,” Smith told the board. Aside from scenarios that pose an immediate risk to students, schools may modify student schedules or shift students to virtual learning to separate students involved in a complaint. But, both the defendant and the complainant must agree to those changes, Smith said. Changes to Title IX must be made at the federal level. Vice Chairwoman Atoosa Reaser (Algonkian) said that the school district’s lobbyists will need to work with members of Congress for those changes to be implemented. The Biden administration is reviewing Title IX, a process that is set to conclude next May. n increase at $133.37 per day, kicks in when a substitute teacher takes his or her 26th subbing job of the 2021-2022 school year. The loyalty program is available to any subbing position in any school. The program begins Nov. 1 but will be implemented retroactively to count substitute jobs performed earlier during the current school year. Boland said that neither the new high-volume rate nor the loyalty program will impact the district’s budget; the current substitute budget will cover the costs, based on HRTD’s analysis. The first high-volume day will be Nov. 19. n
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Public Safety Robber Hits 2 Sterling 7-Eleven Stores The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the early morning robberies of two 7-Eleven stores in Sterling. According to the report, deputies were called to the 7-Eleven on West Church Road around 4 a.m. Monday where a man entered the store and demanded cash. He removed cash from the registers before fleeing. As deputies responded to the store and established a perimeter, a second robbery was reported around 4:12 a.m. at the 7-Eleven on South Cottage Road. In that case, the man threatened the cashier before taking money from the registers. The subject in both cases is described as a Hispanic male, between 5-feet, 8-inches to 6-feet, 6-inches tall, with dark facial hair. He was wearing a blue hooded-style jacket, a dark shirt, and dark pants.
Anyone with information about the cases is asked to contact Detective S. McCormack at 703-777-1021. You may also submit a tip through the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office app.
Sheriff Investigates Middle School ‘Touching’ Report The Sheriff’s Office announced Oct. 28 that it was investigating incidents that occurred at Harmony Middle School last week involving a male student touching schoolmates “inappropriately over their clothing.” According to the report, the school resource office learned from school staff Wednesday afternoon that earlier that day a male student was inappropriately touched over his clothing by another male student in a hallway. Detectives determined there were additional male students who were inappropriately touched by the same juvenile. Those incidents had not been previously reported to school officials or law enforcement. Investigators are conducting follow-up interviews with school officials, witnesses, and parents, according to the statement.n
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Loudoun County’s nonprofit grant application process for community nonprofit organizations will open on Nov. 8 at loudoun.gov/nonprofitgrants. Nonprofits certified as 501(c)3 organizations that provide human services to Loudoun County residents in the four areas of need identified by the Board of Supervisors for Fiscal Year 2023 are eligible to apply for funding. The first area of need, prevention and self-sufficiency, includes services focused on helping individuals and families in becoming or remaining independent and stable, and providing tools, skills, strategies, and resources. The second, crisis intervention and diversion, includes services provided to individuals and families in crisis to overcome immediate problems and reduce or prevent the need for more restrictive and expensive higher-level services. The third, long-term support, covers services that focus on assisting individuals who have continuing, long-term support needs to remain healthy, safe and independent in the community. And the fourth area of need, improved quality of human services, includes services and opportunities provided to individuals, organizations and communities that enhance the quality, accessibility, accountability and coor-
dination of other services provided by community organizations. The county offers two types of applications, for smaller and larger grants. The standard nonprofit grant application process will apply for organizations seeking awards of $5,001 to $113,000; organizations will be awarded proportional funding. A simplified mini-grants process will be offered for organizations seeking grants of $5,000 or less; if awarded, organizations will be given the full award. The county will hold a pre-application webinar on Nov. 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. Information on how to access the webinar, as well as a recording of the webinar afterward, is online at loudoun.gov/nonprofitgrants. The online grant application and related documents are scheduled to be posted by 3 p.m. on Nov. 8 at loudoun. gov/nonprofitgrants. Applications must be submitted by 4 p.m. on Dec. 21. For more information, go to loudoun.gov/nonprofitgrants or send an email to nonprofits@loudoun.gov. The amount of funding for FY 2023 has not yet been determined; in FY 2022, the budget for human service nonprofit grant funding was $1.8 million. This year’s budget will be decided during the county board’s annual budget deliberations. n
Community Foundation Announces New Racial Equity Fund LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT
The Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties has launched a new fund dedicated to racial equity grantmaking. In its first round of grants, the Racial Equity Fund will be dedicated to emerging nonprofits in the area led by Black leaders. It has been seeded by gifts from the Community Foundation’s Endowment for the Community, the Paul and Joanne Siker’s Siker Family Foundation, and the Don and Amy Owen Charitable Fund. Foundation President and CEO Amy Owen first announced the creation of the fund at the Community Foundation’s annual Philanthropy Summit on Oct. 14.
She encouraged attendees to make a donation of any amount. “The Community Foundation is committed to a healthy, thriving community through a shared humanity,” Owen said at the summit. “Your presence here today helps keep our eyes on the prize.” More than 90 people attended the summit, which focused on building awareness and discussing proactive approaches on issues of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in the areas of education, housing, and the workplace. To make a donation to the Racial Equity Fund or learn more about the 2021 Philanthropy Summit: REDI for Change, go to communityfoundationlf.org. n
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GIVING Back Toys for Tots Seeks Monetary Donations The Loudoun County Toys for Tots collection is underway. After talks with the county Health Department, organizers have decided to continue with COVID-19 precautions again this year. That means monetary donations are critical. Because of the continued high level of transmission of the virus in the community, the organization will not be bringing groups of volunteers to collect, sort and distribute toys as in years past. Instead, they will partner with four local charities—Help for Others, LINK, Mobile Hope and The Salvation Army. Families may register to participate by going to the “Apply for Toys” section of the organization’s website, loudoun-va.toysfortots.org. Toys for Tots leaders will take the requests and work with area stores to purchase the toys and deliver them to the partner organizations for distribution. Coordinator Frank Holtz said that monetary donations are key to making this year’s campaign successful, provid-
ing toys to children who otherwise might not receive any at Christmas. To have enough time to complete distribution, organizers plan to complete shopping by mid-November. Donations may be made the Loudoun County Toys for Tots website or mailed to Toys for Tots, c/o Marine Corps League, PO Box 162, Purcellville, VA 20132. Organizations and businesses seeking to make corporate donations should email loudoun.va@toysfortots.org to be provided with tax forms.
Salvation Army to Kick Off Red Kettle Campaign The Salvation Army of Loudoun County’s Red Kettle fundraising effort will launch Friday, Nov. 5, with a 4 p.m. ceremony at Market Station in Leesburg. Mayor Kelly Burk will help kick off the festivities, along with members of the Brass Ensemble of the National Capital Area Band of DC, which will be perform-
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ing Christmas songs. “Our Social Services department has been busy working with people facing eviction, utility disconnection, providing clothing vouchers, providing emergency food assistance and so much more,” said Sergeant John McKee. “The Red Kettle campaign is vital to our ability to provide our financial support and keep our doors open. Please know what a huge difference your help will provide to someone that probably never expected to be knocking on our door.” The Red Kettle bell ringing will begin Friday, Nov. 26, and end on Christmas Eve. Kettles will be located at Giant, Safeway, and Walmart throughout Loudoun. The organization is signing up volunteers to help with the effort. “Ringing the bell with friends, family or co-workers is so much fun. Wear festive clothing. Sing songs. Be jolly. You will love hearing that jingle in the kettle,” McKee said. “All the money that is raised in the Red Kettle program stays right here in our community.” Last year, the Salvation Army of Loudoun helped about 1,600 people with rental and utility assistance and clothing and distributed emergency food supplies and a hot meal to 24,814 people.
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The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce celebrated the community’s top businesses and entrepreneur leaders during the 27th annual awards ceremony held Friday night at the National Conference Center. Loudoun Cares took top honors, named the Small Business of the Year and Nonprofit Organization of the Year. Dawn Crawley, founder of House Cleaning Heroes, was named the Entrepreneur of the Year. Loudoun Cares was founded in 2003 to help coordinate the response among the county’s nonprofits and faith-based organizations. It operates an information and referral ConnectLine to link residents in need with available services and its Volunteer Center helps residents find the best places to put their energy to work to help others. Executive Director Valerie Pisiera said that during the pandemic Loudoun Cares
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She urged members of the audience to get involved with Loudoun’s charitable community. BUSINESS AWARDS continues on page 17
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Crowded sidewalks on South King Street in Leesburg have become commonplace since a highly-anticipated bagel shop opened its doors Oct. 28. As a sign of how many local residents had been clamoring for their bagel fix, the new bkd Bagels shop closed just two and a half hours after it opened last Thursday, due to selling out of bagels. While the early-morning lines are still there, employees have been able to better keep up with command as the days wore on and have almost made it to their 2 p.m. closing time in recent days. The concept is the brainchild of owners Tony and Brittany Davis, and local restaurateurs Nils Schnibbe and Sam Athanas. For the Davises, making bagels started out as a hobby, and quickly gained a local following. Along with using high-quality ingredients, the cooking process is just as vital to making the bagels a culinary experience. After making the dough, bkd does a slow, cold rise, so all the dough is refrigerated for at least 12 hours. “All the stuff I’ve studied when making bagels, cold ferment affects the taste. It just takes a little more time. Then all the bagels are hand rolled,” Tony Davis said in a previous interview. bkd’s owners have already announced a second location for the popular bagel shop, this one in the Purcellville Gateway shopping center in a vacant former restaurant space. Opening there is eyed for early next year. According to Schnibbe, plans for the Purcellville restaurant began two months ago when the building became available. bkd is located at 105 S. King St. in downtown Leesburg. The shop will be open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. For more information, check out bkd on Facebook or Instagram, or go to bkdbagels.com. n
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Andretti Helps Celebrate Virginia Tire Opening The grand opening celebration for the newest Virginia Tire & Auto location in Leesburg got a boost from racing legend Mario Andretti. The McLean-based, woman-owned automotive maintenance, repair and tire services company was founded in 1976 and the Leesburg store is the company’s 18th location in Northern Virginia. Andretti, a Formula One and IndyCar champion, is a brand ambassador for Firestone. During his Oct. 15 Leesburg visit, he met with Virginia Tire’s owners and managers, Mayor Kelly Burk, County Chair Phyllis Randall as well as area fans. Virginia Tire & Auto is located at 105 Robinson Mill Plaza. Learn more at vatire.com.
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Business awards continued from page 14 “Go out. Find your nonprofit. Find your passion. Do what you can; you don’t have to do it all. I guarantee you there are nonprofits out there that need amazing board members like you. They need you so go find them,” Pisiera said. Dawn Crawley describes herself as a serial entrepreneur. She and her husband, Geoff, have started four businesses together. She credited supporters in the chamber for contributing to the success of House Cleaning Heroes, which she opened in 2017. “It was many of you who gave me the courage to start again when I thought all was lost, when we lost our previous business. When women come together as mentors, friends, sisters, and mothers we can accomplish anything,” Crawley said. “It is our turn. We don’t fight any more for a seat at the table anymore. We build our own table.” The People’s Choice Award, given to the finalist that received the most votes from the public, was presented to Lost Rhino Brewing Company. “What most people don’t realize is that Loudoun County is a pioneer in craft brewing with Old Dominion Brewing. It was such a big deal in the whole country,” Hagerman said, of the brewery that opened in Ashburn in 1988. Hagerman honed his brewing skills there before it was sold and closed in 2007. He then purchased much of Old Dominion’s equipment to launch Lost Rhino 10 years ago, reigniting Loudoun’s brewery industry. “It was definitely on the forefront of what we’re doing today, and we just want to continue that legacy with all the new and exciting things that are going on here,” he said. n
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Scouts Help Restore Black Cemetery BY NORMAN K. STYER nstyer@loudounnow.com
Early Saturday morning two dozen Boy Scouts from Troop 1159 and volunteers converged on the Union of Churches Cemetery in Waterford to continue efforts to restore a once ignored burial place for the village’s Black residents. Dating back to 1820, the cemetery near the Waterford Old School was strictly segregated, with white and Black residents buried in separate sections. While both areas have marble monuments, many graves of Black residents were marked by flat field stones or wooden markers that weathered away. Linda Landreth, the president of the cemetery trustees, said the scouts’ work was a continuation of the decades-long effort to restore the cemetery, which had been long-ignored and completely overgrown. In 2018, cemetery trustees brought in a company to use ground penetrating radar to locate unmarked burial plots, finding 50 in the Black section and four in the white section. Each gravesite was marked with a wooden stake and then a metal bolt hammered into place. Saturday’s project involved the scouts finding the bolts and replacing them with marker stones.
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Eagle Scout candidate Evan White tamps down soil around a newly placed marker at an unmarked grave in Waterford’s Union of Churches Cemetery on Saturday morning.
White said the work is more meaningful that many options he considered for his eagle scout project. “I was asking around to different places. I asked the hospital. I asked nursing homes. I was just asking for some sort of projects they needed me to do,” he said. Then his father, who volunteers at a nearby farm, passed along some connections in
the village. They had some ideas for road paving or fence work. “Then they came to me with this, and it really caught my eye because it was a unique and, I feel, it was meaningful in a lot of ways,” White said. He noted that the Quaker community in the 19th century was ahead of its time compared with other Virginia communities in that the residents were not slave holders; however, segregation was evident in the cemeteries. “What we’ve been doing is using a metal detector and finding the bolts and then digging holes, putting down a little gavel and then some cobblestones to mark the grave,” he said. Loudoun Milling in Hamilton donated two tons of gravel for the project. White purchased the marker stones. By the end of the day, the scouts located and marked 46 gravesites and found a buried headstone that was put back in place. They also completed a general cleanup of the grounds, raking up lots of leaves and walnuts. White’s project was the latest by scouts at the cemetery. In 2003, Boy Scout Adam Anderson led an effort to help document and map the legible headstones. In 2020, Joshua DiStefano organized the construction of a new fence around the cemetery. Landreth said there is still more work to do, with priority on removing large trees that have grown up in the cemetery. n
Middleburg Mayor Highlights Achievements, Challenges in State of Town Address BY NORMAN K. STYER nstyer@loudounnow.com
Mayor Bridge Littleton presented his annual State of the Town address Oct. 27, highlighting the government’s solid financial standing and outlining challenges ahead. In front of a crowd of Town Council members, advisory group volunteers and business leaders gathered in the Middleburg Community Center—and streaming live to an online audience— Littleton said the town navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic well. That’s no small feat for a municipal government that relies on a visitor-based economy, drawing nearly
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Mayor Bridge Littleton presents his State of the Town address Oct. 27 at the Middleburg Community Center.
two-thirds of its revenue from tourism and meals taxes. While helping residents and businesses work through the pandemic, the council also has advanced its effort to build a new Town Hall—a project 15 years in the making—to the construction stage. A contractor is expected to be on board by year’s end and a December 2022 move-in date has been penciled in. Among the top concerns in the months ahead, Littleton highlighted the council’s focus on providing more attainable housing opportunities and preSTATE OF MIDDLEBURG continues on page 21
LOVETTSVILLE Cemetery Preservation Effort Advances The Lovettsville Historical Society effort to draw attention to the abandoned Mount Sinai Cemetery on Mountain Road is paying off. This week, the Board of Supervisors was scheduled to discuss a proposal to have the county government purchase the land or take an active role in its preservation and protection. County Chair Phyllis Randall (D-At Large) and Supervisor Caleb Kershner (R-Catoctin) requested the review. According to a staff report, the Mount Sinai Free Will Baptist Church was dedicated in 1887 and burials continued through 1955. The church served the Black community of Little Britain through the 1920s. The church building was destroyed by fire in 1980. The property is in private ownership unaffiliated with the former congregation and the cemetery has not been maintained. A group called the Family & Friends of Mount Sinai Cemetery is working with the Society and has located 12 grave markers, and documented 29 burial plots. They want to work with the county archeologist to survey the property using ground penetrating radar to discover others buried at the cemetery.
PURCELLVILLE Council Backs 2-District Preservation Effort The Town Council last week agreed to move forward with the establishment of a Historic Preservation Overlay District that will be separate from its current Historic Corridor Overlay District. Town Attorney Sally Hankins sought the confirmation as the Planning Commission works to finalize its plan to impose new regulations aimed at restricting the demolition of building deemed to have historic significance in the town. While both overlays are intended AROUND TOWNS continues on page 21
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State of Middleburg continued from page 20 venting the loss of existing homes that are affordable to moderate-income residents from being swallowed up by redevelopment. It’s a concern of town businesses and for the future sustainability of Middelburg, he said. “The average household income in the Town of Middleburg is about $55,000 to $56,000 a year, but the average home price is now approaching $500,000. We do not have a town staff member or police officer who actually lives in the town they work in, and we need to address that,”
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to protect structures listed or eligible for listing on the national or state historic registers, Hankins raised concerns that in the years ahead as changes are made to town regulations the protection requirements in the two districts could evolve differently, potentially creating equal protection concerns among similarly situated properties. The existing corridor overlay district covers properties along Main, Berlin Turnpike and 21st, 23rd, 32nd Streets and about one-third of the qualifying historic properties. Over the past several months, the commission has been working to place restrictions on the remaining two-thirds. Hankins said a single historic district would ensure equal treatment of the historic properties over the long term. A majority of council members backed the commission’s approach. Commission Chairman Nedlm Ogelman strongly backed the two-district approach, noting that the panel had promised a “soft touch” for the property owners being put into the new district. For example, the new district’s restrictions would not apply to accessory buildings as the corridor overlay does.
Mekarski Seeks Long-term Town Staffing Plan On a night when the Town Council said farewell to its longtime Wastewater Treatment Plant superintendent, Town Manager David A. Mekarski warned that other senior staff retirements could follow—lots of them. Scott House retired after serving more than 28 years with the town. Merkarski said that during the next 5 years, 28 of the town’s 85 employees will be eligible to
Littleton said. The council is pursuing ordinance changes that could limit house sizes in some neighborhoods, as one tool in that effort. Other challenges are coming from outside the town’s boundaries. The westward expansion of residential and commercial development under the control of the Loudoun County government is a worry, he said. “I know it is a huge concern for me. I know it is a huge concern for council and everybody in our community. We don’t want to lose the nature and character of rural Loudoun,” he said. “We’re working as hard as we can to bring those issues to retire. This year alone, six employees— including five department heads—are on the eligibility list. While the town manager said those figures are “shocking” and “should be a concern for us all,” Town Council members said the concern likely was overblown as such retirement forecast seldom play out. Merkarski also laid out concerns about the town’s slim staff and new challenges recruiting to fill vacancies. The council agreed to pursue a comprehensive staffing study and to update the town’s compensation policy, including bringing in outside help as needed.
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“There is a lot of business interest focused on development. How do we balance that with not killing the golden goose of what the special nature of western Loudoun is?
— Bridge Middleton Middleburg Mayor
the forefront and to make sure they’re on everybody’s mind.” “There is a lot of business interest focused on development. How do we balance that with not killing the golden goose of what the special nature of western Loudoun is?” he said. Town leaders have been active in working with the Board of Supervisors and county Planning Commission as well as community organizations to promote desirable growth policies. Also, Littleton is representing the Coalition of Loudoun Towns, which has also been active in the development debate, on the county committee that is rewriting the Loudoun Zon-
ing Ordinance. He encouraged town residents to get involved as well. “Let them hear your voice and if you want to volunteer, volunteer because that’s the only way we’re going to win this battle.” He said the town is closely watching the redistricting effort to establish new county election districts and is advocating to maintain two western Loudoun representatives on the county board. Littleton also noted the long history of volunteerism in the town and the important role residents play in the community. “What makes Middleburg unique and special? It’s not the buildings. It’s not the restaurants. It’s not the hotels. It’s the people. That is why people come to Middleburg. All of those other things are very important. You get an environment from those things, but you get a feeling from the people and the community here,” Littleton said. When he talks with weekend visitors, he hears they are attracted by the “positive, enjoyable feeling” in town. “It would not be that without every one of you. From the council and from myself, we thank everybody for what they do to make Middleburg truly special.” View the entire address through the town’s Facebook page. n
ROUND HILL Zoning Change Approved for Public Facilities Following a joint public hearing with the town Planning Commission on Oct. 27, the Town Council approved a Zoning Ordinance amendment to permit public facilities as by-right uses in the R-1A low density residential district. The measure is part of the plan to bring the Sheriff’s Office substation and planned fire-recue station site on West Loudoun Street into the town limits. The changes set out parameters for such facilities—ranging from architectural design to the number of required parking spaces for government-owned buildings designated for public use. Those include fire-rescue and police stations, libraries, community centers, schools, and post offices. Currently, the only land zoned R-1A in town is along Hayman Lane and Yatton Road, however town polices envision that any land planned for public use be zoned to that district if annexed. n
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Service updates continued from page 4 clude immediately responding to having Loudoun units respond to any calls on the river rather than waiting on Maryland, developing an interactive atlas of the Potomac River for 911 dispatchers and first responders, increasing 911 call center staffing, and adding 240 missing commonplace names to the county’s Computer Aided Dispatch system.
Save Lucketts continued from page 5 Piedmont Environmental Council. And Susan Lee, senior warden at Christ Church in Lucketts, warned about the impacts of widening the road in downtown Lucketts, while flags outside depicted how wide the road would be if made a four-lane median-divided road in the village, tracing a path directly through the building. Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure Assistant Director John Thomas said the county still has no
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The county has denied culpability in Thomas’s death, saying a timeline that saw him underwater for at least five minutes before his friends noticed he was missing. The county also says he had been underwater for more than 25 minutes by the time friends and bystanders found him and pulled him to shore—first responders had still yet to arrive. Reports indicate that mud and water were coming from his nose as they administered CPR, guided by the Montgomery County 911 center.
“The changes and improvements to our policies and procedures that we’ve made over the past year and are working to complete now make us better, but sadly, they would not have saved young Mr. Thomas because he was under water far too long,” Johnson stated. “We recognize how difficult this unfortunate accident has been for those who knew and loved Fitz Thomas and I pray one day those who mourn him will feel some comfort knowing that their loss has inspired and will
continue to inspire meaningful change across our community.” The county also said through its press release that its procedural changes are hampered by the family’s decision against allowing a third-party medical investigator and sharing HIPPA-protected information from the incident. The county’s report on safety improvements and the progress on each of those tasks is online at loudoun.gov/incidentreview. n
concrete plans for the area. “There is nothing on the table that talks about impacts to buildings at this point, because there’s no design of this spot where we’re standing here right now. If and when there’s actually a line and a study of that line that sets forth that design, then we’ll go back again and minimize those impacts,” Thomas said. “The last thing that any design manager wants to do is touch a building, touch a church, touch a mobile home park, so the path of least resistance is what the design manager will look at.” Although the county has gathered public input and hosted public meetings
on the project, those meetings have done little to sway the course of the plans. Opponents point out that widening the road only moves the bottleneck further north— and that Rt. 15 can only be widened so far before hitting the two-lane Point of Rocks Bridge, which is Maryland’s jurisdiction. Lucketts-area residents also commissioned an alternative plan by the same traffic engineer who designed the Rt. 50 and Rt. 9 traffic calming projects, which would put roundabouts through Lucketts, but have been unable to get county staff members or supervisors to consider that option. They also commissioned their own
traffic study, which argues widening the road would attract more drivers to take Rt. 15, canceling out any congestion relief. They are also not the only skeptics. The county has sought and failed to obtain funding for the project from the Virginia Department of Transportation’s SmartScale program. The county also has not pursued a suggested plan developed with VDOT’s Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment. Supervisor Caleb Kershner (R-Catoctin) attended the tour. More information on the county’s work is at loudoun.gov/route15CPAM. n
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Obituaries Dwight Ink A great public servant, Dwight Ink, 99, passed away on October 17 from congestive heart failure. He was a 20-year resident of Lansdowne but lived his final days at the Johnson Center in Sterling. Dwight devoted more than 40 years to public service and worked in top level policy positions under seven U.S. presidents, from President Eisenhower to President Reagan. Born September 9, 1922 to parents Dwight P. and Edna (Craun) Ink, Dwight Albert Ink grew up in rural Madison County, Iowa during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and droughts which destroyed his family’s orchard. He left college in 1942 to join the U.S. Army and attained the rank of captain before returning to Iowa State University. After graduating with ISU’s first degree in Government, Dwight went on earn an MPA at the University of Minnesota. After his first job in city management in Fargo, ND, Dwight went to work for the Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, TN and then Washington, DC where he rose to the position of Assistant General Manager. During his time at the AEC, he worked with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson on nuclear disarmament issues, led efforts to rebuild Alaska after its devasting 9.2 earthquake in 1964, and helped create the Department of Housing and Urban Development. During the Nixon and Ford years, Dwight served as director of management for OMB, and later as deputy administrator and administrator of the General Services Admin. He retired from the federal government in 1975. But he kept being called back to government service. President Carter asked him to lead the task force to reform the federal
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personnel system, resulting in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. President Reagan appointed him to several positions including Administrator of the Community Services Administration and Assistant Secretary for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dwight retired from federal service for the last time in 1988 to become president of the Institute of Public Administration in NYC. Dwight was a prolific author, wrote dozens of professional articles and four books, including a college textbook when he was 96. He served as president of the American Society for Public Administration and was a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration for more than 50 years. One of his most valued honors was in 2019 when he, along with 19 others, was inducted into the first class of the Government Hall of Fame, with Teddy Roosevelt, the Apollo 11 Astronauts, Elliot Richardson, Colin Powell, and Anthony Fauci. Dwight Ink’s marriage to Margaret (Child) Ink ended in divorce, but left him with five wonderful children: Stephen, Bruce, Lawrence, Barbara, and Lauri, all of whom survive him, along with stepson David Wolf; and 7 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. His marriage to Dona Wolf and their 45-year partnership was the highlight of his life, as he would tell everyone. American government lost a true public servant and one of its greatest supporters in Dwight Ink, and his family lost their loving patriarch. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, December 4 at 2 p.m. at the Loudoun Funeral Chapel in Leesburg, 158 Catoctin Circle, S.E. Leesburg, VA. Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Dwight Ink Endowment Fund, Iowa State University Foundation, 2505 University Blvd, Ames, Iowa 500102230.
Lives are like rivers: Eventually they go where they must, not where we want them to.
Heather Ann (Mallory) Simmons Heather Ann (Mallory) Simmons, 51, of Leesburg, VA passed away on October 26, 2021. An open memorial service will be held at 11:00 am on November 1, 2021 at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Ashburn, Virginia with a future internment at Arlington National Cemetery. Heather was born March 9, 1970 in Titusville, PA to David and Joyce (Turk) Mallory of Leesburg, VA. Heather graduated from Ramstein High School (Ramstein Germany) in 1988. She attended College at the Pennsylvania State University. She graduated from Penn State in 1992 with a Business Management Degree. Heather was a new but proud member of the Booz Allen consulting firm. Before that she was a Senior Pricing Analyst for British Telecom. From 2018 to 2020 she and her husband lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where they both worked for the U.S. Embassy. Heather served on the staff of the US Ambassador to Yemen. Heather was an avid runner, swimmer, skier and loved to
read. In high school she was a member of a 400-meter backstroke relay team that set a Defense League record in the Olympic Pool in Munich, Germany. Heather was an active champion for women’s rights and volunteered at a local women’s shelter. She loved to spend time with her two and four-legged family. Her beloved dogs, Gabi and Gus, were never far from her side. The lights of her life were her husband and two boys. She cherished family gatherings with her immediate and extended families. Often, she was the one most responsible for getting everyone together. Heather and Jeremy were active members of the River Creek Community in Leesburg. Heather is survived by her husband Jeremy, sons Colton Egan, age 24, of Nashville, TN where he works for NTT and Carson Egan, age 21, a student at Virginia Commonwealth University; her parents Dave and Joyce Mallory; brother Aaron and his significant other, Amy Kollar and her children Tyler and Bella; and brother Ryan and his spouse, Jacqueline, nephew Griffin, and cherished niece Madeline. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Loudoun Abused Women Shelter (LAWS).
Danaura (Dannie) Smith Danaura (Dannie) Smith passed away on October 21, 2021. She was 83 years old. Danaura was the daughter of the late Carl W. and Winnie Jo Stockstill. She was born on September 19, 1938, in Picayune, MS. She was a dedicated Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist throughout her professional life, she studied at Tulane University and Touro Infirmary, both in New Orleans, LA. She was instrumental in setting up the anesthesia department at Loudoun Memorial Hospital in Leesburg, VA, and continued to work there until retirement in the late 1990s. She was also very active in the Loudoun County Volunteer Rescue Squad, and was honored to be a life member. Dannie was a LCVRS training officer for several years and was the first person in Loudoun County to start an IV in the field, saving the life of a man who had been
trapped after a serious vehicle accident in Lucketts, VA. Dannie was the wife of Ronald D. Smith, who predeceased her in 2018. She is survived by her loving daughter Donna Luttrell and son in law Scott Luttrell, of Bluemont, VA; cherished cousins Sandra (John) Houston, Sonya McKnight, Bill (Deb) Brumfield, Jennifer (Bruce) McDonald, Lauren McDonald, and Tracy (Jim) Smith; beloved friends Harry and Marie Householder, Charles and Brenda Lewis. Funeral services will be held by McDonald Funeral Home and Crematory in Picayune, MS. Interment will follow in New Palestine Cemetery where she will be laid to rest beside the love of her life, her late husband Ron. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Loudoun County Volunteer Rescue Squad. Please share condolences with the family at www.LoudounFuneralChapel.com.
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THINGS to do
LOCO LIVE
Hyper-Local and Ready for Shoppers The Catoctin Holiday Art Tour is Back
BY JAN MERCKER
Friday, Nov. 5, 5:30 p.m. Flying Ace Distillery and Brewery, 40950 Flying Ace Lane, Lovettsville Details: flyingacefarm.com Join local favorite Jim Steele for an afternoon of fun covers and originals.
Live Music: Ken Wenzel
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Potter Bryan Mattraw is Loudounraised and locally focused in creating the gorgeous mugs, bowls and other pieces that draw shoppers to his studio every spring and fall. “It’s basically local dirt, ash from my woodstove and chicken eggs. … It’s hyper-local,” Mattraw said. Mattraw, who owns Taylorstown Pottery near Lovettsville is one of 18 artists participating in the annual Catoctin Holiday Art Tour, which spotlights studios in and around the town of Lovettsville, with ceramics, painting, jewelry, fiber art, glassblowing and other media. 2021 marks the tour’s 10th anniversary and a return to welcoming shoppers after a break last year because of COVID. For Mattraw and his fellow local artists, this is the perfect year to shop local. Supply chain problems have changed the holiday shopping picture and many consumers have actively worked to support local artists and businesses throughout the pandemic. And Loudoun’s artists are ready and waiting. “A lot of [artists] did OK last year in spite of all of the disruptions,” he said. “But thinking forward through [the tour], we were like, ‘Let’s lean in. Let’s do this and let’s try to make sure we’re prepped and we’re professional and ready to go— and make it comfortable for people as well.” Mattraw runs his studio on his rural property near the village of Taylorstown east of Lovettsville, with a large woodfired kiln he built from scratch. The tour offers a glimpse of both rural studios in picturesque locations on western Loudoun’s back roads and stops in downtown Lovettsville, including the home studio of noted ceramicist and longtime tour participant Kristen Swanson and a new stop at the town’s Blikken Hut event space featuring several artists new to the tour. Mattraw, who grew up in Leesburg, was a painter when he went to Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, to study art education. He says he wasn’t
Live Music: Jim Steele
Friday, Nov. 5, 5:30 p.m. Lost Barrel Brewing, 36138 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg Details: lostbarrel.com Wenzel brings his signature roots-rock, country-jazz take on love, learning and life in America to Lost Barrel.
Live Music: Doin’ Time
Friday, Nov. 5, 6-9 p.m. Loudoun Brewing Company, 310 E. Market St., Leesburg Details: loudounbrewing.com Doin’ TIme brings favorites from Hank Williams Sr. and Jr., Johnny Cash, George Jones, Willie, Waylon and more.
Live Music: Side Effects
Friday, Nov. 5, 6:30 p.m. Black Walnut Brewery, 212 S. King St., Leesburg Details: facebook.com/blackwalnutbrewery Celebrate First Friday with classic rock from NOVA’s own Side Effects.
Live Music: Sophie B. Hawkins
Friday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m. Tally Ho Theater, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg Details: tallyhotheater.com The legendary ’90s singer songwriter, whose hit song “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” made her an international star, is back on tour and stopping in Leesburg. Tickets are $35
Live Music: Chris Mangione and Madeline Miller
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Ceramicist Bryan Mattraw both helps organize the Catoctin Holiday Art Tour and showcases his work, which he fires in an ancient style of kiln, the Japanese “anagama” or climbing kiln.
initially enthusiastic about the required ceramics class that would change his life. “I had to take a ceramics course—I was not looking forward to it,” he said. “I touched clay, and it was like, ‘I love this!’ I did as much as I could.” Mattraw taught for three years right after college, but found that he missed having time to focus on his own art. He moved to Boston and took a job at the well-known ceramics studio and bookstore, The Potter’s Shop, immersing himself in ceramics and reading through the shop’s book collection. That was when Mattraw found his ongoing passion for wood firing and salt glazing. He started looking for an apprenticeship to learn wood firing techniques and found a post with the noted potter Robert Compton in
Vermont where he learned technique and gained inspiration for his own studio. “My kiln is based on the kiln that I cut my teeth on at his studio,” Mattraw said. Mattraw eventually missed teaching—and missed home. He moved back to Loudoun and worked as an art teacher before transitioning into his current role as a librarian with Loudoun County Public Schools. When Mattraw and his family were looking for a home in Loudoun, space for a kiln and outdoor workspace was high on the checklist. They found the perfect spot near Taylorstown nine years ago and immediately started building the kiln, based on Asian-inspired wood-firing techniques that go back centuries. ART TOUR continues on page 26
Friday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m. Tarbender’s Lounge, 10 S. King St., Leesburg Details: tarbenderslounge.com It’s a jazzy evening at Leesburg’s downtown speakeasy with tunes from Chris Mangione and Madeline Miller.
Live Music: Hard Swimmin’ Fish
Friday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. Monk’s BBQ, 251 N. 21st St., Purcellville Details: monksq.com Hard Swimmin’ Fish returns to Monk’s with a versatile blues sound covering everything from Mississippi country blues to the urban Chicago sound and beyond.
Crooked Run’s Battle of the Bands
Friday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m.-midnight Crooked Run Fermentation, 22455 Davis Drive #120, Sterling Details: crookedrunbrewing.com This month-long competition features four bands every Friday. The audience favorite will advance from three first-round contests and face off in the finals Friday, Nov. 26.
Live Music: Jason Masi
Saturday, Nov. 6, 1 p.m. Breaux Vineyards, 36888 Breaux Vineyards Lane, Hillsboro
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Details: breauxvineyards.com Masi returns to Breaux for a mellow afternoon of acoustic soul and R&B.
Live Music: Richard Walton
Saturday, Nov. 6, 1-4 p.m. The Barns At Hamilton Station, 16804 Hamilton Station Road, Hamilton Details: thebarnsathamiltonstation.com Award-winning Maryland-based singer/songwriter Richard Walton makes his Barns debut.
Live Music: Rule G
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m. Harpers Ferry Brewing, 37412 Adventure Center Lane, Loudoun Hieghts Details: facebook.com/harpersferrybrewing Rule G brings favorite covers and a bluesy groove to HFB.
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS Friday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m. (doors) Tally Ho Theater tallyhotheater.com
BADLANDS Saturday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. MacDowell’s macsbeach.com
CARL PARMER’S ELP LEGACY Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021 Tally Ho Theater tallyhotheater.com
Live Music: Steve George
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m. Flying Ace Distillery and Brewery, 40950 Flying Ace Lane, Lovettsville Details: flyingacefarm.com Enjoy rock, country, blues and beyond from a local favorite.
Live Music: SideTracked
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m. Harvest Gap Brewery, 15485 Purcellville Road, Hillsboro Details: harvestgap.com Celebrate Saturday with guitar-driven rock ‘n’ roll featuring hits and B-sides from the 60s through the 90s.
Live Music: Zoso The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience
Saturday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. Tally Ho Theater, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg Details: tallyhotheater.com Zoso returns for a fun evening of Zeppelin favorites. Tickets are $20.
Live Music: Andy Falco
Saturday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m. B Chord Brewing, 34266 Williams Gap Road, Round Hill Details: bchordbrewing.com
17th Annual
Veterans Day Commemoration Thursday, November 11 • 10:30 a.m.
FREE, OUTDOORS & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The George C. Marshall International Center, the Town of Leesburg and the County of Loudoun invite you to join us in honoring the selfless service and courage of our veterans.
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Singer/songwriter and guitarist Andy Falco, known as one-fifth of the Grammy-winning bluegrass group the Infamous Stringdusters, launches his new album “The Will of the Way.” Tickets are $25.
Live Music: Rowdy Ace Sunday, Nov. 7, 1-4 p.m. The Barns At Hamilton Station, 16804 Hamilton Station Road, Hamilton Details: thebarnsathamiltonstation.com Kick back with country music that rocks from a local favorite.
Live Music: Scott Kurt Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 p.m. Breaux Vineyards, 36888 Breaux Vineyards Lane, Hillsboro Details: breauxvineyards.com Southern by way of the Rust Belt, Scott Kurt’s brand of country blends old-school outlaw grit with elements of guitar-driven rock.
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Live Music: Ginada Pinata
Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 p.m. Harpers Ferry Brewing, 37412 Adventure Center Lane, Loudoun Heights Details: facebook.com/harpersferrybrewing Shepherdstown-based Ginada Pinata taps the influences of jazz, funk, rock, fusion, trance and drum and bass and blends them to create an organic vibe.
Live Music: Chasing Autumn
Sunday. Nov. 7, 3 p.m. Flying Ace Distillery and Brewery, 40950 Flying Ace Lane, Lovettsville Details: flyingacefarm.com DMV favorites Dan Gallagher and Josh Earls serve up originals and covers.
LOCO CULTURE ‘The Sound of Music’
Thursday, Nov. 4-Saturday, Nov. 6 and Thursday, Nov. 11-Saturday, Nov. 13 Capital Community Church, 20430 Ashburn Village Boulevard, Ashburn Details: thepickwickplayers.com Pickwick players presents the classic musical based on the story of the Von Trapp family singer with plenty of fan favorite songs. Tickets are $21 for adults, $15 for children and seniors.
Art tour continued from page 24 When Mattraw moved to Taylorstown, he quickly discovered the vibrant western Loudoun arts community. “There’s a lot of great people and a great diversity. … Just having this number of people in Lovettsville is amazing, and everybody’s really great at supporting each other,” he said. Mattraw does two large firings of around 400 pieces each year in the spring and fall, using old school wood firing and salt glazing techniques in a large two-chamber kiln built on a hillside. Firing is a two-day affair that takes constant stoking as the chambers gradually build to temperature of 2400 degrees. Last weekend was fall firing day at Taylorstown pottery, with Mattraw at the kiln all weekend, taking shifts with a friend to get a little rest and finding the zen he finds every year at firing time. “It’s this window where my job for two days is basically to sit here and stoke the kiln, watch and listen,” he said. “That’s always a good reset.” Mattraw’s fans are drawn to the effects of wood firing and salt glazing on color and texture. His pieces have gorgeous natural color differences based on where the piece sat in relation to the fire. The second chamber of his kiln is dedicated to salt
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Cascades Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday, Nov. 6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Senior Center at Cascades, 21060 Whitfield Place, Cascades Details: mycascadescenter.org Get a jump on holiday shopping with locally created arts and crafts and live entertainment.
‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ Saturday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 p.m. StageCoach Theatre Company, 20937 Ashburn Road, Suites 115 and 120, Ashburn Details: stagecoachtc.com It’s your last chance to catch the StageCoach production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl’s play about a solitary woman whose life changes when she answers a dead man’s cell phone in a cafe. Tickets are $25.
COMING UP Waterford Concert Series: WindSync Sunday, Nov. 14, 4 p.m. Waterford Old School, 40222 Fairfax Street, Waterford Details: waterfordconcertseries.org This dynamic Houston-based wind quintet is known for intimate, joyful and thoughtful performances. Tickets are $35 for adults and $15 for students. Children 12 and under are free but must reserve a spot online. Visit the website for COVID protocols.
glazing—a technique that involves adding salt to the kiln during high-heat firing. The salt etches and melts the clay and affects the glaze, giving pieces an “orange peel” texture. “The salt is a little bit more dramatic in a way but it can create subtlety, if that makes sense. The salt creates textural changes, some more subtle and others more dramatic,” Mattraw said. His pots are made from local clay, and he makes his own glazes made from ash from his kiln and woodstove and eggshells from local chickens. Mattraw said he and his fellow artists are excited for the milestone anniversary of the tour and reopening their studios and safely interacting with shoppers. After a challenging two years, it’s a chance to refocus as artists and rebuild a sense of community. “It still kind of feels like we’re all in a little bit of a COVID hangover,” Mattraw said. “To do this and have this to look forward to, it’s great. It’s like, ‘Here’s a purpose. Here’s something to move toward.’” n The Catoctin Holiday Art Tour takes place Saturday, Nov. 13 and Sunday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with 18 artists at eight studios in and around Lovettsville. For more information and a tour map, go to catoctinart.com.
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Legal Notices Notice of Joint Public Hearing
Lovettsville Town Council and Planning Commission Lovettsville Town Hall Council Chambers 6 E. Pennsylvania Avenue November 18, 2021 6:30 p.m. Proposed Annexation
The Lovettsville Town Council and Planning Commission will take public comment on the following applications: LVAN 2020-0001, LVCU 2021-0001, and LVCU 2021-0003, One Family Brewing To consider a request by One Family Brewing LLC for annexation into the Town of Lovettsville. To also consider LVCU 2021-0001, a request to increase the building setback from a public street beyond the maximum 40-foot setback permitted in the CRA-1, Commercial Residential Annexation zoning district pursuant to Section 42-233 (d)(3), and LVCU 2021-0003, a request to permit up to six rental cabins in the CRA-1 zoning district pursuant to Sections 42-233 (c) and 42-297.
Annexation zoning district to the C-2, Mixed Use Business zoning district, and the following conditional use permit applications: LVCU 2021-0004, for used automobile sales, LVCU 2021-0005, for a convenience store with fuel sales, and LVCU 2021-0006, for light vehicle and automobile repair without outdoor storage or displays, pursuant to Section 42- 259(c). The applications are intended to permit the continued operation of existing businesses. The parcel of land that is the subject of this request is Parcel identification Number 371495463 and is 1.5 acres in area. The property is located at 12842 Berlin Turnpike and identified as Property Identification Number 371495463.
The parcel of land that is the subject of this request is Parcel Identification Numbers 371394189 and is 27.07 acres in area. The property is located at 12851 Lutheran Church Road.
LVAN 2019-0001, LVRZ 2021-0001, LVCU 2021-0004, LVCU 2021-0005, West End Motors To consider a request from Wheeler and Wheeler Inc. for annexation into the Town of Lovettsville. To also consider LVRZ 2021-0001, a request to rezone the property from CRA-1, Commercial Residential
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ON PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS BY THE TOWN OF LEESBURG, VIRGINIA NOVEMBER 9, 2021 AT 7:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Town Council of the Town of Leesburg, Virginia (the “Town”) will hold a public hearing in accordance with Section 15.2-2606 of the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, on the proposed issuance of one or more series of general obligation bonds in an estimated maximum principal amount of $4,450,000. The Town proposes to issue the bonds and use the bond proceeds to finance the costs of various capital improvement projects in the Town’s Capital Improvements Program and other approved capital projects and the costs of issuing the bonds. The proposed uses of the bond proceeds for which the Town expects that more than ten percent of the total bond proceeds will be used are: to finance various projects at the Leesburg Executive Airport. The public hearing, which may be continued or adjourned, will be held at 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, before the Town Council in the Council Chambers, Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, in Leesburg, Virginia. A resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds will be considered by the Town Council at its meeting on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, following the public hearing on the issuance of the bonds. The resolution also authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds of the Town to refinance outstanding interim financing on a long-term basis. A copy of the proposed resolution is available from the Town Clerk, located in Town Hall. Additional information regarding the bond financing is available in the Department of Finance, located on the first floor of the Leesburg Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). At this hearing, all persons desiring to express their views concerning these matters will be heard. Persons requiring special accommodations should contact Eileen Boeing, the Clerk of Council, at 703-7712733, no later than three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711. 10/28 & 11/04/21
Application materials are available for review online at www.lovettsvilleva.gov or at the Town Office between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30 pm during weekdays or by special appointment, holidays excepted. Call (540) 822-5788 for more information or contact John Merrithew, Planning Director and Zoning Administrator at jmerrithew@lovettsvilleva.gov. In the event the meeting is postponed, the Town will advertise the date of the rescheduled public hearing. 11/04 & 11/11/21
TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
LEESBURG TOWN CODE AMENDMENTS: CHAPTER 2 (ADMINISTRATION); ARTICLE V (BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS); DIVISION 2 (SPECIFIC BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS); SECTION 2-232 (LEESBURG STANDING RESIDENTIAL TRAFFIC COMMITTEE) In accordance with Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, Sections 15.2-1411 and 15.2-1427, the Leesburg Town Council will hold a public hearing on: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers of Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, VA at which time the public shall have the right to present oral and written testimony on proposed amendment to Town Code Section 2-232 (Leesburg Standing Residential Traffic Committee). The amendment will convert the Leesburg Standing Residential Traffic Committee to an advisory commission, with council-appointed members receiving the same standard compensation as council-appointed members of other boards and commissions. A copy of the proposed ordinance is available from the Town Clerk, located in Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.); or by calling Eileen Boeing, Town Clerk, at 703-771-2733. At this hearing, all persons desiring to express their views concerning these matters will be heard. Persons requiring special accommodations should contact the Clerk of Council at 703-771-2733, three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711. 10/28 & 11/04/21
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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, November 10, 2021 in order to consider:
PROPOSED CONVEYANCE OF COUNTY PROPERTY Conveyance of County Easement to Dominion Electric and Power Company Pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-1800 et seq., the Board of Supervisors shall consider conveying and exchanging 6.85+/- acres of County easement over PIN 041-19-4573, commonly known as 21391 Pacific Boulevard, to Virginia Electric and Power Company, d/b/a/ Dominion Energy Virginia, in exchange for the conveyance of 10.1829+/- acres over PIN 041-40-7819, commonly known as 45335 Century Boulevard, less and except up to 0.95+/- acres of powerline easement retained by Dominion Energy Virginia pursuant to an agreement negotiated by the parties. The County easements are located on the west side of Sully Road (Route 28) near the intersection of Sully Road with Gloucester Parkway (Route 2150) in the Broad Run Election District. The Dominion Energy Virginia property is located on the east side of Sully Road, near the intersection of Century Boulevard (Route 3431) with Atlantic Boulevard (Route 1902) and to the south of Vestals Gap Overlook Park, in the Sterling Election District. Copies of exhibits showing the location(s) of the above-listed conveyance(s) and associated documents are 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 CONVEYANCE OF COUNTY PROPERTY Grant of Easement to Town of Leesburg 41975 Loudoun Center Place Pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-1800 et seq., the Board of Supervisors shall consider granting a 40-foot wide sanitary sewer easement to The Town of Leesburg through and across a portion of County property known as the Government Support Center Campus and Phillip A. Bolen Memorial Park for the purpose of installing, constructing, operating, maintaining, adding to or altering and replacing sewer mains and other appurtenant facilities that will service the planned mixed-use development known as Tuscarora Crossing. The subject property is located on the east side of Sycolin Road (Route 625) and north of Cochran Mill Road (Route 653) near the intersection of Kincaid Boulevard and Cross Trail Boulevard at 41975 Loudoun Center Place, Leesburg, Virginia, in the Catoctin Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as PIN: 191-16-9866. Copies of the plat(s) showing the location(s) of the above-listed conveyance(s) and associated documents are 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”).
AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1092.18 OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF LOUDOUN COUNTY
• Durable plastic bags, with handles, that are specifically designed and manufactured for multiple reuse and that are at least four mils thick;
DEFE
• Plastic bags that are solely used to wrap, contain, or package ice cream, meat, fish, poultry, produce, unwrapped bulk food items, or perishable food items in order to avoid damage for contamination;
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• Plastic bags used to carry dry cleaning or prescription drugs; or
• Multiple plastic bags sold in packages and intended for use as garbage, pet waste, or leaf removal bags. The proposed tax will not be effective before January 1, 2022.
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A complete copy of the full text of the above-referenced proposed ordinance is on file and available for public inspection 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 may also 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”).
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS’ REQUESTS FOR PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION BY DESIGNATION
Pursuant to Virginia Code §§15.2-1427 and 58.1-3651, the Board of Supervisors gives notice of its intention to propose for passage an Ordinance designating certain real and/or personal property owned by the following nonprofit organizations as exempt from local real and/or personal property taxes:
DULLES LITTLE LEAGUE, INC.
The 2021 assessed value of the real property owned by Dulles Little League, Inc., for which an exemption is requested is $374,920, resulting in an actual total 2021 levy assessed against such property of $3,674.22. The 2021 assessed value of the tangible personal property owned by Dulles Little League, Inc., for which an exemption is requested is $12,206.70, resulting in an actual total 2021 tax levy assessed against such property of $512.70.
DULLES SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD CLOSET, INC.
The 2021 assessed value of the tangible personal property owned by Dulles South Neighborhood Closet, Inc., for which an exemption is requested is $1,746.53, resulting in an actual total 2021 tax levy assessed against such property of $73.38.
LOUDOUN SERNEITY HOUSE
The 2021 assessed value of the tangible personal property owned by Loudoun Serenity House, for which an exemption is requested is $13,800, resulting in an actual total 2021 tax levy assessed against such property of $579.60.
STATION STITCHERS
Parks and Recreation Areas – Alcoholic Beverages
The 2021 assessed value of the tangible personal property owned by Station Stitchers, for which an exemption is requested is $7,591.45, resulting in an actual total 2021 tax levy assessed against such property of $318.86.
Pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-1427, the Board of Supervisors hereby gives notice of proposed amendments to the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County (“Codified Ordinances”) in order to authorize beer and wine to be served at “the Lodge” and “Championship Plaza” within Hal & Berni Hanson Regional Park, which is located along Evergreen Mills Road (Route 621), approximately 0.57 mile south of the intersection of Evergreen Mills Road with Sleeping Woods Court (Route 616), on the parcel identified by PIN 201-37-3570. The amendments propose revisions to Section 1092.18, Parks and Recreation Areas – Alcoholic Beverages, including, without limitation, the following:
A complete copy of the full text of the above-referenced proposed Ordinance(s), as well as copies of the above organization’s applications and supporting documentation, is on file in the Office of the County Administrator and are 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”).
• Establishment of new regulations in order to authorize beer and wine to be served at “the Lodge” and “Championship Plaza” within Hal & Berni Hanson Regional Park. • Establishment of new definitions for “the Lodge” and “Championship Plaza” for purposes of the ordinance. A complete copy of the full text of the above-referenced amendment is on file and available for public inspection at 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 may also 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”).
ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A NEW CHAPTER OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF LOUDOUN COUNTY Disposable Plastic Bag Tax
DEFER
RED
Pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-1427 the Board of Supervisors gives notice of its intention to propose for passage an ordinance to establish a new Chapter, Disposable Plastic Bag Tax, of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County. The proposed new Chapter would impose a tax of five cents ($0.05) on each disposable plastic bag provided by a grocery store, convenience store, or drugstore to the customer at the point of purchase to transport items purchased and not intended for reuse. In accordance with Code of Virginia §58.11745, the proposed tax will not apply to the following:
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW CHAPTER OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF LOUDOUN COUNTY New Chapter 259 Labor Relations Pursuant to Virginia Code §§15.2-1427 and 40.1-57.2, the Board of Supervisors gives notice of its intention to propose for passage an ordinance establishing a new chapter of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County to be titled “Labor Relations.” The proposed ordinance will be known as the Loudoun County Collective Bargaining Ordinance and authorizes collective bargaining for eligible County of Loudoun employees. The provisions of the ordinance include: • Defining which County employees are eligible to collectively bargain and identifying the bargaining units; • Providing for certain rights to be enjoyed by employees, the County and its Board of Supervisors, and employee organizations; • Providing for a labor relations administrator to administer the ordinance and perform certain duties; • Providing for a process to certify and decertify exclusive bargaining representatives and the process for interested employee organizations to intervene in elections;
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INTERIM ADDITIONS INTERIM ADDITIONS TO AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTAL DISTRICTS Applications have been received by the Loudoun County Department of Planning and Zoning and referred to the Agricultural District Advisory Committee (ADAC) and the Planning Commission pursuant to Chapter 43, Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia to amend the ordinances for the following Agricultural and Forestal Districts to add the following parcels: PIN
TAX MAP NUMBER
ACRES ENROLLED
NEW HILLSBORO
449-20-7833
/26////////10A
7.84
NEW HUGHESVILLE
456-19-2924
/45///9/////B/
21.2
NEW MOUNTVILLE
498-17-7351
/73///2/////1/
11.52
DISTRICT
NEW MOUNTVILLE
498-17-8304
/73////////28C
17.57
NEW BLUEMONT
609-17-4561
/33///8////19/
5.3
NEW BLUEMONT
609-26-8304
/33////////32A
17.17
NEW BLUEMONT
609-27-9560
/33////////32/
5.5
NEW BLUEMONT
609-27-9780
/33///4/////B/
5.12
NEW EBENEZER
617-27-9962
/54///2////11/
14.19
NEW EBENEZER
617-28-4974
/54////////39/
5.03
NEW BLUEMONT
629-30-9125
/33//10////14B
26.88
Any owner of additional qualifying land may join the applications with consent of the Board of Supervisors (Board), at any time before the public hearing that the Board must hold on the applications. Additional qualifying lands may be added to an already created District at any time upon separate application pursuant to Chapter 43, Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia. Any owner who joined in the application may withdraw their land, in whole or in part, by written notice filed with the Board, at any time before the Board acts pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-4309. The conditions and periods of the foregoing Agricultural and Forestal Districts to which parcels are being considered for addition are as follows: DISTRICT
PERIOD
SUBDIVISION MINIMUM LOT SIZE
PERIOD START DATE
NEW HILLSBORO
10 Years
20 Acres
April 11, 2012
NEW HUGHESVILLE
10 Years
25 Acres
December 7, 2011
NEW MOUNTVILLE
4 Years
50 Acres
January 3, 2021
NEW BLUEMONT
4 Years
20 Acres
June 2, 2020
NEW EBENEZER
4 Years
50 Acres
June 2, 2020
Each of these Districts will be reviewed prior to its expiration date pursuant to Chapter 1226 of the Codified Ordinances of Loudoun County. Received applications were referred to the ADAC for review and recommendation. The ADAC held a public meeting on August 10, 2021, to consider the applications. The report and recommendations of the ADAC will be considered by the Planning Commission at its public hearing on September 28, 2021. The reports and recommendations of the ADAC and the Planning Commission 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 applications 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 4:30 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 (8-10-2021 ADAC 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-2020-0011, CMPT-2020-0008, SPMI-2020-0011 & ZMOD-2021-0045 LOCKRIDGE SUBSTATION (aka WEST DULLES STATION – LOCKRIDGE SUBSTATION)
(Zoning Concept Plan Amendment, Commission Permit, Minor Special Exception & Zoning Modification) Dominion Energy Virginia of Glen Allen, Virginia, has submitted applications for the following: 1) amend the existing proffers and concept development plan (CDP) approved with ZCPA-2017-0005 and ZRTD-
2016-0002 in order a) to add an additional entrance to the property from Lockridge Road, b) delete the requirement to establish and maintain a Property Owners Association, and c) revise Proffer V Transportation to update transportation commitments related to construction and development of the road frontage improvements for Lockridge Road; and 2) for Commission approval to permit development of one Utility Substations (distribution) in the PD-IP (Planned Development – Industrial Park) zoning district. These applications are subject to the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance and require a Commission Permit in accordance with Section 6-1101. The modification of the Additional Regulations applicable to the proposed Utility Substations is authorized by Minor Special Exception under Section 5-600, Additional Regulations for Specific Uses, pursuant to which the Applicant requests the following Zoning Ordinance modifications: ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION
PROPOSED MODIFICATION
§5-616(D), Additional Regulations for Specific Uses, Utility Substations.
Eliminate required Type ‘C’ Buffer planting on the north, east and south substation frontages.
§5-616(D), Additional Regulations for Specific Uses, Utility Substations.
Reduce required Type ‘C’ Buffer width from 25’ to 15’ for northern buffer substation frontage.
The applicant also requests the following Zoning Ordinance modification(s): ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION §5-1408(C)(3), Landscaping, Buffer Yards, Screening, and Landscape Plans; General Landscape Provisions; Use of Buffer Yards and Road Corridor Buffers.
PROPOSED MODIFICATION Revise the limitations of service drive buffer encroachments identified to allow a service drive to traverse the Eastern buffer in a parallel manner.
The subject property is located within the Route 28 Taxing District and within the Route 28 CB (Corridor Business Overlay District). The property is located fully within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, within the Ldn 65 or higher, between the Ldn 60-65 aircraft noise contours. The subject property is approximately 28.42 acres in size and is located north of the Dulles Greenway (Route 267), on the east side of Lockridge Road (Route 789) in the Broad Run Election District. The subject property for the Zoning Concept Plan Amendment is more particularly described as PIN: 063-49-6156. The application plats identify the limits of the Commission Permit and Minor Special Exception as portions of PIN: 063-49-6156. The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Urban Policy Area (Urban Employment Place Type)), which supports a broad array of Employment uses at a recommended minimum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.0 and building heights of 3 to 8 stories.
SPMI-2021-0003 POLAND ROAD SUBSTATION EXPANSION (Minor Special Exception)
Dominion Energy of Glen Allen, Virginia, has submitted an application for a Minor Special Exception to modify Section 5-616(D) of the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance, regarding Type C Buffer Yard requirements in order to reduce the required buffer width for a Utility Substation in the CLI (Commercial Light Industry) zoning district. This application is subject to the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance, and the proposed use is listed as a Permitted use under Section 3-903. The modification of the Additional Regulations applicable to the proposed use is authorized by Minor Special Exception under Section 5-600, Additional Regulations for Specific Uses, pursuant to which the Applicant requests the following modification: ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION
PROPOSED MODIFICATION
§5-616(D), Type C Buffer Yard requirements
Reduce the southern Type C buffer from 25 feet to a minimum of 15 feet
The subject property is located within Airport Impact (AI) Overlay District between the Ldn 60-65 and Quarry Notification (QN) Overlay District – Chantilly Crush Stone Note Area. The subject property is approximately 5.02 acres in size and is located on the south side of John Mosby Highway (Route 50) and west of Tall Cedars Parkway (Route 2200) at 43695 and 43743 John Mosby Highway in the Dulles Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as PIN: 097-35-8669 and PIN: 09736-1753 (0.45-acre portion). The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Commercial Place Type)), which designate this area for a broad array of employment uses within an environment that provides gathering spaces and opportunities for synergies among businesses.
SPMI-2020-0003 WATERFORD PEARL (Minor Special Exception)
Khuram and Amna Rashid of Paeonian Springs, Virginia have submitted an application for a Minor Special Exception to permit a Bed and Breakfast Inn use in the CR-1 (Countryside Residential-1) zoning district. This application is subject to the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance, and the proposed use is listed as a Minor Special Exception use under Section 2-504(A). The subject property is located within the Paeonian Springs Village Conservation Overlay District and partially within the Flood Plain Overlay District (FOD). The subject property is approximately 5.74 acres in size and is located on the North Side of Charles Town Pike (Route 9) and on the east side of Clarkes Gap Road (Route 662) at
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ZCPA-2020-0014 WATERSIDE NORTH
(Zoning Concept Plan Amendment) Waterside I, LLC of Columbia, Maryland, has submitted an application to amend the existing proffers and concept development plan (“CDP”) approved with ZMAP-2018-0011, Waterside North, in order to amend transportation commitments and decrease the maximum square footage from 1,975,881 square feet (SF) to 1,030,000 SF with a decrease in density from 0.6 Floor Area Ratio (FAR) to 0.32 FAR. This application is subject to the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance. The subject property is located within the Route 28 Taxing District, the (QN) Quarry Notification Overlay District, and located partially within the Route 28 Corridor Business Optional Overlay District, and the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, outside of but within the one (1) mile of the Ldn 60 aircraft noise contour. The subject property is approximately 73.9 acres in size and is located on the north side of Old Ox Road (Route 606), east of Shaw Road (Route 636) at 22900 Platform Plaza, Sterling, Virginia in the Broad Run Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as PIN: 034-38-5918. The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area), in the Suburban Employment Place Type which designate this area for Non-Residential uses at a minimum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.0.
ZCPA-2020-0010 UNIVERSITY COMMERCE CENTER (Zoning Concept Plan Amendment)
Clarke-Hook Corporation of Chantilly, Virginia, has submitted an application to amend the existing proffers and concept development plan (“CDP”) approved with ZCPA-2006-0005 in order to amend the types of retail uses permitted which count towards the maximum retail square footage on any one parcel with no resulting change in density in the PD-RDP (Planned Development – Research and Development Park) zoning district. The application is subject to the 1972 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance. The subject property is located within the Route 28 Taxing District and within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, outside of but within one mile of the Ldn 60 aircraft noise contour. The subject property is approximately 11.83 acres in size and is located north of Harry Bird Highway (Route 7), on the south side of George Washington Boulevard (Route 1050) and east of Loudoun County Parkway (Route 607), in the Algonkian Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as: PIN
ADDRESS
039-35-8157
44915 George Washington Boulevard, Ashburn, Virginia
039-36-0846
44927 George Washington Boulevard, Ashburn, Virginia
039-36-4529
44933 George Washington Boulevard, Ashburn, Virginia
The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Mixed Use Place Type)), which designate this area for a range of compact, pedestrian-oriented environments with opportunities for a mix of residential, commercial, entertainment, cultural, and recreational uses at a recommended Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of up to 1.0.
ZMAP-2019-0015, ZMOD-2019-0002, SPEX-2019-0031 & SPEX-2019-0032 JK TECHNOLOGY PARK #2 (Zoning Map Amendment Petition, Zoning Modification & Special Exception)
JK Land Holdings of Sterling, Virginia, has submitted applications for the following: 1) To rezone approximately 19.95 acres from CR-1 (Countryside Residential–1) and RC (Rural Commercial) zoning districts under the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance to the PD-IP (Planned Development – Industrial Park) zoning district under the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance in order to
Loudoun County Office of Housing Seeks Proposals from Rental Property Owners for Project-Based Vouchers The Loudoun County Office of Housing is accepting proposals from November 12, 2021, through December 13, 2021, from the owners of rental property to contract with the County for Project-Based Vouchers (PBV). The Office of Housing is responsible for determining the amount of budget authority that is available for a project and ensuring that the amount of assistance that is attached to units is within the amounts available under the Annual Contributions Contract (ACC) [24 CFR 983.6]. The Office of Housing will award no more than 10 units per contract and no more than 20 percent of its budget authority, to rental property-owners for project-based assistance. PBV assistance will be attached to newly constructed and/or rehabilitated rental housing [24 CFR 983.52]. PBV will be awarded to the owners of affordable rental housing which provide special housing needs such as fully accessible, 504 compliant housing units and/or studio and one-bedroom units and based on owner experience and capability to manage, build or rehabilitate housing as identified in the proposal. The Office of Housing reserves the right to not award PBV. Proposals will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information about the proposal review process and application procedures, visit www.loudoun.gov/pbv or contact Tandi Butler at (703) 771-5204 or tandi.butler@loudoun.gov. 10/28, 11/04 & 11/11/21
permit the development of all principal and accessory uses permitted in the PD-IP zoning district under the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance at a maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.60 (up to 1.0 by Special Exception); 2) A Special Exception to permit an increase to the maximum FAR from 0.60 to 1.0; and 3) A Special Exception to permit an increase to the maximum lot coverage from 0.45 to 0.60. These applications are subject to the Revised 1993 Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance, and the proposed uses are listed as Special Exception uses under Section 4-506(A) and (C). The Applicant also requests the following Zoning Ordinance modifications: ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION
PROPOSED MODIFICATION
§4-502, PD-IP Planned Development – Industrial Park, Size and Location.
To allow a PD-IP district of 19.94 acres in size rather than 20 acres.
The subject property is located within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, within the Ldn 65 or higher and between the Ldn 60-65, aircraft noise contours. The subject property is approximately 19.95 acres in size and is located east of Racefield Lane (Route 877) and north of Stone Springs Boulevard (Route 2625) in the Blue Ridge Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as PIN#: 203-39-0320. The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Employment)), which supports primarily Office, Production, Flex space, and Warehousing uses as well as startups and established businesses with limited Retail uses at a floor area ratio (FAR) of up to 1.0. 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 703-777-0246 (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). 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 and Verizon FiOS Channel 40, and are livestreamed at loudoun.gov/meetings. 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 29, 2021, and no later than 12:00 p.m. on November 10, 2021. 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. 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. BY ORDER OF:
PHYLLIS RANDALL, CHAIR LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 10/28 & 11/04/21
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF HAMILTON, VIRGINIA The Hamilton Town Council will hold a public hearing in the Town Office, 53 E. Colonial Highway, Hamilton, Virginia beginning, at 7:00 p.m., on November 8, 2021, to receive comments and consider the adoption of Town Code amendments that will implement the Loudoun County/Town cooperative real and personal property tax and motor vehicle license fee billing and collection program. The program will consolidate Town and County property tax and motor vehicle license fee billing and collection into a single invoice to benefit Town residents and reduce administrative costs. Proposed Town Code amendments to Chapter 22, Article II will change the payment due dates; pro-rate personal property tax; expand personal property tax rate reductions and fee exemptions for fire, rescue and law enforcement personnel; impose late filing/payment penalties; exempt small amount bills; establish a process for tax refunds; and assign the administration of the elderly/disabled exemption program to the County Treasurer. The purpose of the proposed ordinance amendments is to conform Town ordinances to the Loudoun County property tax billing and collection ordinances and business procedures. Copies of the cooperative agreement, the proposed amendments and related documents are available at the Town Office for inspection and copying Monday through Friday 8 am to 4 pm, and on the Town website at hamiltonva.gov. All members of the public are invited to present their views on this matter at the public hearing either in person or virtually, by following the instructions on the Town website. The Hamilton Town Council meeting will begin immediately after the public hearing. David Simpson, Mayor Hamilton Town Council
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TOWN OF ROUND HILL, VIRGINIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Round Hill Town Council will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. at the Round Hill Town Office, 23 Main Street, Round Hill, Virginia, to receive comments and discuss details, alternatives considered, environmental impact, project costs, and associated user charge impact for the proposed Round Hill Water System South Tank project.
Loudoun County Public Schools Elementary School Attendance Zone Change Process Elaine E. Thompson Elementary School (ES-23) is scheduled to open in fall 2022, with the start of the 2022-2023 academic year. The school is located within the Arcola Center development at 24200 Pissarro Drive in Sterling. In establishing an attendance zone for Elaine E. Thompson Elementary School, the current attendance boundaries for Arcola, Creighton’s Corner, Goshen Post, Legacy, Madison’s Trust, Rosa Lee Carter and Sycolin Creek Elementary Schools will be reviewed. The Loudoun County School Board has scheduled a series of meetings to facilitate the necessary elementary school attendance zone changes. Date
Time
Elementary School Attendance Zone Meetings
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7:00 p.m.
School Board Attendance Zone Overview
Monday, October 18, 2021
7:00 p.m.
Staff Briefing & School Board Attendance Zone Public Hearing
Thursday, October 21, 2021
7:00 p.m.
School Board Attendance Zone Work Session
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
7:00 p.m.
Staff Briefing & School Board Attendance Zone Public Hearing
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
7:00 p.m.
School Board Attendance Zone Work Session
Tuesday, November 30, 2021*
6:30 p.m.
School Board Review of Elementary School Attendance Zone Recommendations
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
7:00 p.m.
Staff Briefing & School Board Attendance Zone Public Hearing
Tuesday, December 14, 2021*
6:30 p.m.
School Board Adoption of Elementary School Attendance Zones
*Regular School Board Business Meeting All attendance zone meetings will be held at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administration Building (21000 Education Court, Ashburn). The meetings will also be broadcast live on Comcast channel 18 and Verizon FIOS channel 43, as well as viewable via simultaneous webcast on the Loudoun County Public Schools website (www.lcps.org). In-person and virtual comment will be accepted at the three designated public hearings. Detail on how to sign up to speak at an attendance zone public hearing is posted on the LCPS webpage (https://www.lcps.org/Page/226240). Individuals may sign up to speak, in advance, by emailing Public.Comment@lcps.org or calling 571-252-1030; walk-up speaker registration will also be accepted at the LCPS Administration Building beginning at 6:30p.m., until five minutes before the start of the meeting, on the day of each attendance zone public hearing. Those who need translation/interpretation assistance or a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, in order to participate meaningfully in School Board meetings or public hearings, should contact the Superintendent’s Office at 571-252-1030 at least three days prior to the meeting. Beverly I. Tate, Director Loudoun County Public Schools Division of Planning Services 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, Virginia 20148 Telephone: 571-252-1050 Email: LCPSPlan@lcps.org
The project consists of the construction of a new 500,000-gallon elevated water storage tank located on a Town-owned 1-acre site near Yatton Road adjacent to the “Bluffs at Sleeter Lake” Subdivision and will connect to an existing water main at Ridgewood Place. This project will be funded by the Virginia Department of Health through their Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund (DWSRF). The project’s Environmental Assessment document is available for public review at the Town Office and on the Town website, roundhillva.org. Any person interested in providing comments may attend the public hearing, submit written comments at the Town Office to Melissa Hynes, Town Administrator, or participate remotely by following the instructions on roundhillva.org. Comments received by 3:00 p.m., December 15, 2021, will be distributed prior to the public hearing. Special Needs Notice: Individuals requiring special assistance to participate in the public hearing should contact Melissa Hynes, Town Administrator, at (540) 3387878. In the event that the December 15, 2021, public hearing does not occur, the public hearing will take place on January 5, 2022. 11/04 & 11/11/21
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Fiscal Year 2023 – 2028 Capital Improvement Program Fiscal Year 2023 – 2028 Capital Asset Preservation Program The Loudoun County School Board has scheduled a series of meetings for the Fiscal Year 2023–2028 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and Capital Asset Preservation Program (CAPP) budgets. Date
Time
School Board Meeting Topic
Tuesday, November 9, 2021*
6:30 p.m.
Superintendent’s Recommended FY2023-FY2028 CIP & CAPP Budgets Presented to School Board
Monday, November 15, 2021
7:00 p.m.
School Board FY2023-FY2028 CIP & CAPP Public Hearing/Work Session
Monday, November 29, 2021
7:00 p.m.
School Board FY2023-FY2028 CIP & CAPP Public Hearing/Work Session
Tuesday, December 14, 2021*
6:30 p.m.
School Board Adoption of FY2023-FY2028 CIP & CAPP Budgets
*Regular School Board Business Meeting All meetings will be held at the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Administration Building located at 21000 Education Court in Ashburn. The meetings will also be broadcast live on Comcast Channel 18 and Verizon Fios Channel 43, as well as viewable via simultaneous webcast on the LCPS website (www.lcps.org). In-person comment will be accepted at the identified public hearings. Detail on how to sign up to speak at the hearings is posted on the LCPS webpage (https://www.lcps.org/Page/226240). Speakers may sign up in advance by contacting the Superintendent’s Office at 571-252-1020. Speaker registration will also be accepted at the LCPS Administration Building beginning 30 minutes prior to the meeting, until five (5) minutes before the start of the meeting. Those who need translation/interpretation assistance, or a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, in order to participate meaningfully in School Board meetings or public hearings should contact the Superintendent’s Office at 571-252-1020 at least three (3) days prior to the meeting.
11/04/21 10/07/21
NOTICE OF IMPOUNDMENT OF ABANDONED VEHICLES
Kevin L. Lewis, Chief Operations Officer Loudoun County Public Schools, Department of Support Services 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, Virginia 20148 Telephone: 571-252-1385 Email: lcpsplan@lcps.org 11/04, 11/11, 1/18, 11/25, 12/02 & 12/09/21
This notice is to inform the owner and any person having a security interest in their right to reclaim the motor vehicle herein described within 15 days after the date of storage charges resulting from placing the vehicle in custody, and the failure of the owner or persons having security interests to exercise their right to reclaim the vehicle within the time provided shall be deemed a waiver by the owner, and all persons having security interests of all right, title and interest in the vehicle, and consent to the sale of the abandoned motor vehicle at a public auction. This notice shall also advise the owner of record of his or her right to contest the determination by the Sheriff that the motor vehicle was “abandoned”, as provided in Chapter 630.08 of the Loudoun County Ordinance, by requesting a hearing before the County Administrator in writing. Such written request for a hearing must be made within 15 days of the notice. YR.
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Legal Notices PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE HAMILTON, VIRGINIA PLANNING COMMISSION The Hamilton Planning Commission will hold a public hearing in the Town Office at 53 E. Colonial Highway, Hamilton, Virginia on Wednesday November 17, 2021, beginning at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving comment and considering a recommendation to the Town Council regarding CPAM 2021-01, an application to amend the Town of Hamilton Comprehensive Plan to change the land use designation of the 16,270 square-foot parcel located at 43 S. Rogers Street, PIN: 418-29-8032, from Industrial to Commercial and to include the parcel within the designated “Central Business Area”, and ZMAP 2021-01, a rezoning application to change the zoning category for the same property from ML-Light Industrial to C-2 Retail Sales and Service Commercial. These amendments are authorized by Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, §§ 15.2-2223, -2285, and -2286 and -2204. Information regarding the proposed Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map amendment applications is available for review at the Town Office, 53 E. Colonial Highway, Hamilton, Virginia from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, holidays excepted and on the Town website at hamiltonva.gov. All members of the public are invited to present their views on this matter at the public hearing either in person or remotely, by following the instructions on the Town website Meeting Calendar/Livestream Meetings. The Hamilton Planning Commission meeting will begin immediately after the public hearing. If you require any type of reasonable accommodation because of a physical, sensory or mental disability to participate in this meeting, contact Sherri Jackson, Town Treasurer at 540-338-2811. Please provide three days’ notice. Robert McCann, Chairman Hamilton Planning Commission
11/04 & 11/11/21
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The LOUDOUN COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS will hold a public hearing in the BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ROOM, County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, Virginia, on Thursday, November 18, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following:
SPEX-2021-0002 GUILFORD STATION SOUTH (Special Exception)
Guilford Station LLC of Bethesda, Maryland, has submitted an application for a Special Exception to permit a fast food restaurant with accessory drive through service use in the C-1 (Commercial) zoning district. This application is subject to the 1972 Zoning Ordinance, and the proposed use is listed as a Special Exception use under Article 4, Schedule of District Regulations for the C-1 zoning district. The subject property is located within the Route 28 Taxing District and Route 28 CO (Corridor Overlay District) and within the AI (Airport Impact) Overlay District, outside of but within one (1) mile of the Ldn 60 aircraft noise contours. The subject property is approximately 5.37 acres in size and is located on the north side of West Church Road (Route 625) and on the west side of Atlantic Boulevard (Route 1902) in the Sterling Election District. The subject property is more particularly described as follows: PIN
TAX MAP NUMBER
PROPERTY ADDRESS
044-40-8919
/80/R/1CM///4
22060 Railcar Drive, Sterling, Virginia
044-40-8989
/80/R/1CM///3
22074 Railcar Drive, Sterling, Virginia
044-40-7361
/80/R/1CM///5/
22000 Railcar Drive, Sterling, Virginia
The area is governed by the policies of the Loudoun County 2019 General Plan (Suburban Policy Area (Suburban Mixed Use Place Type)), which anticipates a vertical mix of residential, commercial, entertainment, cultural, and recreational uses at a recommended maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.0. Full and complete copies of the above-referenced application(s) and related documents may be examined in the Loudoun County Department of Planning and Zoning, County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., 3rd Floor, Leesburg, Virginia, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or call (703) 777-0246. All members of the public will be heard as to their views pertinent to these matters. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, members of the public are encouraged to view and/or participate in the public hearing electronically. 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. If you wish to sign up in advance of the hearing, please call the Department of Planning and Zoning at 703-777-0246 prior to 12:00 PM on the day of the public hearing. Speakers may also sign up at the hearing. Written comments are welcomed at any time and may be sent to the Loudoun County Board of Zoning Appeals, 1 Harrison Street, S.E., 3rd Floor, MSC #62, Leesburg, Virginia 20175, or by e-mail to stephanie.capps@loudoun.gov. If any member of the public requires a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability in order to participate in a public meeting, please contact the Office of the County Administrator at 703-777-0200/TTY-711. At least one business day of advance notice is requested; some accommodations may require more than one day of notice. Nan M. Joseph Forbes, Chairman
11/04 & 11/11/21
NOTICE OF A VIRTUAL PUBLIC HEARING ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEEDS Thursday, November 18, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. Loudoun County Family Services Advisory Board Via WebEx Details on how to view the meeting and sign up to speak can be found at www.loudoun.gov/remoteparticipation. Pursuant to Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 42 United States Code §5301, et seq., and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations at 24 Code of Federal Regulations Subtitle A §91.105(e)(1), the Loudoun County Family Services Advisory Board will hold a VIRTUAL PUBLIC HEARING on November 18, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. via WebEx to obtain citizens’ views and to respond to proposals and questions for the purpose of addressing housing and community development needs, including priority housing and non-housing community development needs, fair housing issues, development of proposed activities, proposed strategies and actions for affirmatively furthering fair housing, and review of program performance, and to also obtain citizens’ views and to respond to proposals and questions related to activities to help families and individuals prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. Comments received at the Public Hearing will be considered in preparing Loudoun County’s 2022-2023 Annual Action Plan that will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors for approval and subsequently submitted to HUD in May 2022. All citizens and organizations are invited to present their views and comments. Anyone who requires a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability or needs language assistance in order to participate in these activities should contact the Office of Housing at 703-737-8323 (V/TTY). 10/28 & 11/04/21
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Legal Notices TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISISON PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO ZONING ORDINANCE ARTICLE 5 RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS; ARTICLE 9 USE REGULATIONS; ARTICLE 12 TREE PRESERVATION, LANDSCAPING, SCREENING, OPEN SPACE AND OUTDOOR LIGHTING; AND, ARTICLE 18 DEFINITIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDING NATURAL SPRING WATER EXTRACTION AND BOTTLING PLANT IN THE R-E SINGLEFAMILY RESIDENTIAL ESTATE ZONING DISTRICT Pursuant to Sections 15.2-1427, 15.2-2204, 15.2-2205 and 15.2-2285 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the LEESBURG PLANNING COMMISSION will hold a public hearing on THURSDAY, November 4, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, 20176 to consider Zoning Ordinance Amendment TLOA-2020-0006 revising the following Sections of the Zoning Ordinance: 1.
Sec. 5.1.2 Use Regulations adding Natural Spring Water Extraction and Bottling Plant to the R-E Single Family Residential Estate Zoning District
2.
Sec. 5.1.3 Density Intensity and Dimensional Standards establishing minimum setback requirements for a Natural Spring Water Extraction and Bottling Plant use
3.
Sec. 9.3.15.1 Use Standards establishing minimum use standards for a Natural Spring Water Extraction and Bottling Plant
4.
Sec. 12.8.4.C Land Use Category establishing the land use category for buffer yard and screening requirements applicable to a Natural Spring Water Extraction and Bottling Plant
5.
TOWN OF LEESBURG NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO ZONING ORDINANCE ARTICLES 3, 9, 10, 15 AND 18 Pursuant to Sections 15.2-1427, 15.2-2204, 15.2-2205 and 15.2-2285 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the LEESBURG PLANNING COMMISSION will hold a public hearing on THURSDAY, November 18, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers, 25 W. Market Street, Leesburg VA 20176 to consider the following amendments to the Zoning Ordinance: 1.
Section 3.4.16 Termination of Use, to extend validity periods of special exceptions from three (3) years to five (5) years.
2.
Sections 3.7.3 Application Submittal and Section 11.12.1 Floor Plans, to consolidate zoning permit application requirements in one section.
3.
Section 9.4.1 Accessory Uses creating Section 9.4.1.1 Accessory Kitchen, establishing use standards for accessory kitchens.
4.
Section 9.4.7 Family Day Home, to conform the Town of Leesburg Zoning Ordinance requirements to those in the Code of Virginia regarding the permissible number of children allowed by-right, and establishing an appeal process when an application is denied.
5.
Various subsections of Section 10.4.5.C Extensions into Required Yards:
6.
Sec. 18.1.163 Definitions redefining the term Farming
Copies and additional information regarding these proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments are available at the Department of Planning and Zoning located on the second floor of the Leesburg Town Hall, 25 West Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20176 during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.), or by calling 703-737-7009 and asking for Christopher Murphy, Senior Planning Project Manager. This zoning ordinance amendment application is identified as case number TLOA-2020-0006. At this hearing all persons desiring to express their views concerning these matters will be heard. Persons requiring special accommodations should contact the Clerk of the Commission at (703) 771-2434 three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711. 11/04 & 11/11/2021
TOWN OF LOVETTSVILLE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCE TO CONSIDER PARTCIPATION IN THE VACO/VML VIRGINIA INVESTMENT POOL TRUST FUND Pursuant to § 2.2-4501 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, the LOVETTSVILLE TOWN COUNCIL will hold a Public Hearing on THURSDAY, November 18, 2021, at 6:30 p.m., at the Town Hall Council Chambers, 6 E. Pennsylvania, Lovettsville, VA 20180, to receive public comment concerning the adoption of an ordinance that would authorize participation and investment by the Town of Lovettsville in the VACO/VML Virginia Investment Pool Trust Fund All persons desiring to speak will be given an opportunity to do so at this meeting. The ordinance being considered is available for review at the Town Hall between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm weekdays or by special appointment, holidays excepted. Call 540-822-5788 for more information or visit www.lovettsvilleva.gov. In the event the meeting is cancelled, the public hearing will be convened at the next regular scheduled meeting at the same time and place. 11/04 & 11/11/21
LOUDOUN COUNTY WILL BE ACCEPTING SEALED COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR: DULLES SOUTH RECREATION CENTER PHASE 5 POOL FILTER UPGRADES, IFB No. 443782 until prior to 4:00 p.m., local “Atomic Time”, December 14, 2021. JANITORIAL SERVICES AT THE SHENANDOAH OFFICE BUILDING & LOUDOUN WORKFORCE RESOURCE CENTER, IFB No. 455783 until prior to 4:00 p.m., local “Atomic Time”, December 1, 2021. A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on November 15, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. in the Lansdowne Conference Room, Shenandoah Building (Second Floor), 102 Heritage Way, Leesburg, Virginia 20175 for clarification of any questions on the specifications and inspection of the site. 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. 11/04/21
7.
a.
Sec. 10.4.5.C.1.a, to reduce the separation of an accessory structure to the principal structure from 10 feet (10’) to five feet (5’).
b.
Sec. 10.4.5.C.5.a and Sec 10.4.5.C.5.b, to clarify enclosed decks cannot encroach into a required yard.
c.
Sec. 10.4.5.C.5, to add allowable encroachments for portable sheds.
Various subsections of Article 15 Sign Regulations: a. Sec. 15.3 Definitions, to add a definition for ATM Sign. b. Sec. 15.8.10, to add a subsection for Bank Signs, clarifying maximum number, type, and size due to the addition of ATM sign. Various subsections of 18.1 Terms Defined: a. Add a definition for ATM Sign b. Add a definition for Enclosed Deck c. Add a definition for Porch d. Revised the definition for Accessory Kitchen e. Add a definition for Portable Shed
Copies and additional information regarding each of these proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments are available at the Department of Planning & Zoning located on the 2nd floor of Leesburg Town Hall, 25 W. Market Street, Leesburg VA 20176 during normal business hours (Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.), or by contacting Michael Watkins, Zoning Administrator, via email at mwatkins@leesburgva.gov, or via telephone at 703-737-7920. This zoning ordinance amendment application is identified as case number TLOA-2021-0001. At this hearing all persons desiring to express their views concerning these matters will be heard. Persons requiring special accommodations should contact the Clerk of the Commission at (703) 771-2434, three days in advance of the meeting. For TTY/TDD service, use the Virginia Relay Center by dialing 711. 11/04 & 11/11/21
TOWN OF LOVETTSVILLE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO THE LOVETTSVILLE TOWN CHARTER Pursuant to Sections 15.2-200, et seq., 15.2-1400, et seq., 15.2-1423, 15.2-1500, 15.2-1501, and 15.21541 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, the LOVETTSVILLE TOWN COUNCIL will hold a Public Hearing on THURSDAY, November 18, 2021, at 6:30 p.m., at the Town Hall Council Chambers, 6 E. Pennsylvania, Lovettsville, VA 20180, to consider advancing a request to amend the Lovettsville’s Town Charter to the Virginia General Assembly. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public comment to consider advancing a request to amend the Town’s Charter to the Virginia General Assembly. The amendments will replace the Town Charter’s language from “Councilman” to “Councilmember”; modify cross-references to the Code of Virginia for participation to the greatest extent permitted by law by persons appointed to fill vacancies in the office of councilmember or mayor; and to update sections 3.2, 3.3, and 4.2 which amend the charter to the standards of local elections as set out by State Code, and clarify the authority of the Mayor, Council and Town Manager for Appointed and Non-Appointed Officers. All persons desiring to speak will be given an opportunity to do so at this meeting. The charter amendments being considered are available for review at the Town Hall between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm weekdays or by special appointment, holidays excepted. Call 540-822-5788 for more information or visit www.lovettsvilleva.gov. In the event the meeting is cancelled, the public hearing will be convened at the next regular scheduled meeting at the same time and place. 11/04 & 11/11/21
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA VA CODE §§ 1-211.1, 8.01-316, -317, 20-104 Case No. CL21-5417 Loudoun County Circuit Court 18 East Market St., Leesburg, VA 20176 Commonwealth of Virginia in re: Estate Of Madeleine Glockner The object of this suit is to Appoint Administer of Estate. It is ORDERED that Parties Unknown appear at the above-named court and protect their interests on or before December 17, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. 10/28 & 11/04/21
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A Sweet Daughter LLC, trading as A Sweet Daughter LLC, 19 E Broad Way, Lovettsville, Loudoun, VA 20180-8609 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Wine & Beer On Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Note: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200. 10/28 & 11/04/21
10/28 & 11/04/21 V I R G I N I A: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LOUDOUN COUNTY IN RE: ESTATE OF EVELYN L. FLING
It appearing that a report of the account of W. Franklin Pugh, Administrator for the Estate of Evelyn L. Fling, and a report of the debts and demands against the Estate have been filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Loudoun County, and that more than 6 months have elapsed since the qualification of the Administrator before this Court, on the petition of the Administrator indicating that the Estate is insolvent, It is ORDERED that the creditors of, and all others interested in, the Estate of Evelyn L. Fling, deceased, do show cause, if any they can, on the Friday, November 19, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., before this Court at its courtroom in Leesburg, Virginia, against payment and delivery of said Estate to Elizabeth Fling, Evelyn L. Fling’s sole heir at law, after payment of remaining administrative expenses; and It is further ORDERED that the foregoing portion of this Order be published once a week for 4 successive weeks in Loudoun Now, a newspaper of general circulation in Loudoun County, Virginia. 10/28 & 11/04/21
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Opinion Turning Tide After more than a decade of Democratic dominance, voters in the Old Dominion sent the pundits a stark reminder that the votes of independents and moderates are not to be taken for granted. Welcome back to purple. Virginia has a long history—going back to the 1970s—of flipping from the party of the president following national elections, with only Terry McAuliffe able to buck that trend following Barack Obama’s second-term 2012 win. But more than election tradition was in play Tuesday. Sagging confidence in the Democrats who control the national stage was a contributing factor, but it was the GOP strategy for the suburbs that paid dividends. Republicans have been out-of-step with those voters for years, focusing campaigns on fear of crime, fear of immigrants and a focus on divisive social issues that failed to gain traction among swing voters. For a while, it appeared that this year’s gubernatorial campaign would build its foundation on Gov. Gilmore’s “no car tax” ploy that won the governor’s mansion in 1997, but ultimately did not erase that important local revenue source. However, Glenn Youngkin’s pledge to eliminate sales tax collections on groceries quickly was buried by an even better strategy—finding something that does scare suburban voters: bad schools. While the failed-schools themes pushed in the Virginia races are gaining a foothold in communities across the country, missteps by our local school leaders provided a never-ending source of material to fuel that narrative. The question voters will have for Virginia Republicans now is: Can they govern in a way that keeps—or builds on—the coalition of voters that formed a razor-thin majority, or will they return to champion the divisive policies the left them in exile for the past decade? n
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LETTERS to the Editor Disturbing Editor: I attended the Leesburg Halloween parade yesterday and was very disappointed by the political tone of the parade. It was particularly disturbing to see Terry McAuliffe marching in the parade and campaigning. There has been too much mudslinging and negativity from both the Republican and Democratic sides during this entire election. It has been painful to watch on TV and read in the news and I’ve just been waiting for it all to end. The Halloween parade should be a lighthearted positive celebration, not a political forum. It was very disappointing and a little bit scary. Opinions on both sides have been strong, and when some negative chanting began, I was so uncomfortable that I moved away from the parade route. — Susan Greer, Ashburn
The Toilet Paper Problem Editor: I am writing to raise the issue of toilet paper. This summer, I was traveling to Karachi, Pakistan, and we took a stop at Doha Airport located in Qatar and there I
found hand-held bidets in the bathrooms. I was thrown off a bit by the device, but when I used it I found that the bidet had saved a great deal of toilet paper usage in the bathroom because water is already proven to clean more efficiently than toilet paper, hence the water and soap we use after the toilet. When I arrived back in the United States, I began doing research on bidets and toilet paper and found that bidets are the norm in Europe and some Asian countries, which explained the fact that the 10 most environmentally friendly countries in the world are all in Europe, according to Forbes. On the other hand, toilet paper is making the climate crisis worse. The environmental impact of toilet paper is significant. Three hundred and eighty-four trees are used to make one person’s lifetime amount of toilet paper, which is terrible because trees are one of our ways to combat climate change and not to mention the rapid rate of deforestation disrupting the wildlife residing in the forests and the reduction of rainfall in certain areas which contributes to more global warming according to WorldAtlas. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR continues on page 37
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And not only are trees being wasted, but so is water. According to Scientific American, toilet paper requires approximately 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to be produced for Americans, which breaks down into 37 gallons of water for one roll of toilet paper. These numbers are alarming not only because of the environmental harm but the insufficiency of toilet paper does not justify the numbers. I started my journey to combat climate change from my 10th-grade year when I founded the Climate Change Club at my high school with a group of friends. When COVID-19 occurred, toilet paper was in high demand and becoming rapidly insufficient; however, the water from our sinks, showers, and toilets never runs out. Water has many benefits whether it is being the universal solvent to being a necessary natural resource, we can consider the possibilities of using bidets or mini showers in the bathroom. Taking toilet paper out of your bathroom means you joining the climate fight and saving 384 trees and 37 gallons of water. — Eman Ahmed, Sterling Loudoun Now welcomes readers’ comments on issues affecting our community. Letters may be emailed to letters@loudounnow.com or mailed to the newspaper office. Letters should be no more than 500 words and must include the writer’s name, address and contact information for confirmation purposes.
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In addition to his time on the council, Campbell is an active presence in the community, founding the Citizens for a Better Leesburg group and with leadership roles in both the Loudoun NAACP and the Loudoun Freedom Center. Gregory said both his attorney David Culbert and Campbell advised him to look into finding a solution for the mobile home park residents as they were following local media coverage of the fallout over the pending property sale. Gregory is offering a 7.1-acre piece of his property along Dry Mill Road bordered by the W&OD Trail and the Leesburg Bypass—land crossed by the Leesburg/Loudoun County boundary. “We are offering this proposal to the members of the Leesburg Mobile Home Park community as a compassionate gesture not a business venture. We will also offer that no rents for lot space would be assessed for five years, giving the community members time to recover from the devastation and economic impact of displacement,” Campbell said in a statement. The parcel they have in mind is mostly outside town limits, although a sliver of it is in town. In his statement, Campbell calls on elected officials in both the town and the county to amend their zoning ordinances to allow for manufactured homes. According to Campbell, that use is not listed in either ordinance as a permitted use or a use allowed through special exception. Gregory prefers not to dwell much on the zoning requests, and said the project should be viewed not as an economic request, but as a “social requirement.” “I want this to be a social movement, not a zoning request. This is not a busi-
ness deal. This is about investing in families that need financial help,” he said. “I don’t want to be the issue. These families are the issue.” While both Gregory and Campbell acknowledged that they expect some resistance from both the Board of Supervisors and Town Council, at least one elected official has offered her support. Councilwoman Suzanne Fox said she had recent conversations with Gregory about his proposal, and believes it is an opportunity worth exploring. “It’s an opportunity for free enterprise to help with an alternative to a government solution,” she said. Fox said the former Town Council of 2013, the year before she was elected, erred in its adoption of the Crescent Design District which did not take into account the future of the mobile home park, and inevitably made its land much more valuable. “I don’t think they took the residents into consideration,” she said. “It probably wasn’t blatant. It was probably an oversight. [In creating the Crescent Design District] they made that land very valuable, and it’s land residents don’t own.” Fox in the past has been criticized by her colleagues on the council for her support of Gregory’s development plans for the Graydon Manor land, which included a request to extend town utilities to the property, and some of those same council members have pointed to Gregory’s past contributions to Fox’s State Senate campaign. But Fox said one thing doesn’t have anything to do with the other. “This has nothing to do with Graydon Manor,” she said. “This has something to do with somebody has a solution.” Gregory has also reached out to INMED, a nonprofit with its U.S. headquarters in Sterling that offers a slew of
humanitarian programs, about possibly setting up another office on the property to provide assistance to the mobile home park residents, should they relocate to the Graydon Manor property. “The overall idea is so exciting and so fantastic,” said Jennifer Lassiter Smith, INMED’s director of U.S. programs. Lassiter Smith said should the plan move forward, INMED would work with each family to respond to its individual situation. “It’s just not a one-size-fits-all solution,” she said. In the current mobile home community, “some people rent, some own, some live with their parents. On a case by case basis we will help people with the transition and where the gaps are.” That could include things like helping with transportation solutions, as a move further outside of the downtown area could impact some residents’ access to work, school or other activities, particularly for those who do not have a vehicle. Lassiter Smith said she has already begun talking with leadership at New Virginia Majority, which has taken an active role in advocating for mobile home park residents and affordable housing solutions across Loudoun County, about some of the possible ways the nonprofit could help residents. “It’s really important there’s not this sense of false hope,” she said. “I just want to talk about the feasibility before we start talking about specifics with families.” Still, she can’t help but to express her own excitement for how this could play out for the displaced families. “We’ve seen so many people say they wish they can help. This is a real thing. We don’t have to wish anymore. Can we do it? I’m really trying hard not to be overly optimistic, but how often do you get this opportunity. I have big hope,” she said. n
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Red shift continued from page 1 of the vote and Jason Miyares defeated two-term Attorney General Mark Herring in the night’s tightest race, with just under 49,000 votes separating them. McAuliffe, Herring and Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Hala Ayala won in Loudoun, but with significantly less voter support across the county than Democrat Joe Biden secured in last year’s presidential race and Ralph Northam got four years ago. For example, in the Algonkian precinct, McAuliffe got 482 votes and Youngkin 406. Four years ago, Democrat Ralph Northam won that precinct by nearly 150 votes. In the Farmwell Station precinct in the Broad Run District, McAuliffe got 830 votes to Youngkin’s 596. That 58% total compares to Northam’s 66% margin in 2017. In 2017, Northam won Loudoun by 20 percentage points. Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race by 25% points over Donald Trump in Loudoun. Four years earlier Hillary Clinton outpaced Trump by 17%. Seven of the past 10 governor’s races have been decided with the winner getting only 55% or less of the total vote. Youngkin’s 51% margin wasn’t the smallest during that period; that distinction goes to McAuliffe, who won in 2013 with only 48% of the vote in a three-way race. In addition to the statewide offices, Republicans on Tuesday flipped the House of Delegates, picking up at least six seats—enough to end Democrats’ 55-45 majority in the lower chamber. But while statewide Republicans posted big gains, Loudoun—the epicenter of some of the most hotly contested fights of the election—held off the red wave. One target for Republicans was the 10th District, but Del. Wendy Gooditis (D-10) appears to have held onto her seat—just barely. With all votes counted except for absentee ballots that have not yet arrived, Gooditis led her challenger Nick Clemente 20,878 to 20,542, a difference of just 336 votes. If that holds, none of Loudoun’s House of Delegates seats will change parties. Democratic incumbents Gooditis, David Reid, Kathleen Murphy, Karrie Delaney and Suhas Subramanyam bested their challengers. Democratic newcomer Irene Shin in the 86th District, who beat out incumbent Ibrahim Samirah in the summer’s Democratic primary, beat
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Del. Suhas Subramanyam (D-87) celebrates his reelection with Loudoun Democrats in Leesburg Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Republican Julie Perry. Republican incumbent David LaRock, one of the few remaining House Republicans in Northern Virginia, held off a challenge from Democrat Paul Siker. As of Tuesday night, the only votes outstanding in Loudoun were mailed absentee ballots that have until noon Friday to arrive as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.
Schools Battle Echoes Across State Loudoun became the frontline in the battle for Virginia. And ironically, while Democrats did not lose any seats in Loudoun, the controversies in Loudoun County School Board meetings may have helped Republicans make gains across the state. The Youngkin campaign’s message changed over time, beginning with talking about business and the economy. By the end of the campaign, Youngkin had capped his run with a Monday night rally at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds hammering education issues. Parents in attendance said Youngkin’s proposed education policies were a large deciding factor for their vote. For many parents, a vote for Youngkin represents a repudiation of the embattled county School Board, on which four members are facing a removal effort. “I believe parents should have a choice in what happens to their kids in schools,” said one father. “Parents’ voices aren’t being heard.” Loudoun was ground zero for battles
both on protecting rights of transgender students, and on teaching about race and racism. “We swept all the delegate seats in eastern Loudoun County, and kept Wendy Gooditis’s seat, so that shows me that it’s an issue that stuck and resonated in a way that turned out the Republican base moreso than I think flipping a lot of voters to Republican,” said Del. Suhas Subramanyam (D-87). “Republicans tried several issues, and in the past several years they tried other issues, like safety and gang violence, and it’s never stuck,” Subramanyam said. “This time it stuck, and I think the reason was there wasn’t a swift and concise response to demonstrate what wash actually happening, and we didn’t have Donald Trump in the White House as a crutch to fall back on either.” Gooditis said she didn’t see the same kinds of headlines about school boards elsewhere in the state, although school boards across the state were adopting similar policies and curriculum. She doubted the Loudoun education battles were decisive elsewhere in the state. “I have to think that they thought they were going to take Loudoun County down with that. They failed,” Gooditis said. “But I don’t think that’s what happened in the rest of the state.” The 10th Congressional District GOP held its election night party behind closed doors at Trump National Golf Club. While volunteers and several candidates are awaited election results inside, reporters were turned away. Meanwhile Loudoun
Democrats gathered at Döner Bistro in Leesburg. “I thought better of Virginia, and even the district that I represent,” Gooditis said in an emotional speech during the election night party as results rolled in. “I thought that people could tell the difference between sincerity and power-grabbing lies. … I thought people knew the difference between someone who has helped them and wants to help them and someone who—and people who want to be important, want to tear down and are willing to lie about anything.” Both Gooditis and Subramanyam are headed back to a Richmond that has changed from the single-party control of the past two years. “I’m going to use my mic a lot more than I have in the past in the House,” Gooditis said. “… If you come after the rights and the justice that we have created for Virginians who have been unheard, I’m going to be using my microphone.” “I’m not going to change anything I was planning on doing. The only difference is, the bills that I was going to introduce on behalf of Loudoun and to help Loudoun families are much more likely to be killed in a Republican General Assembly because of my party affiliation,” Subramanyam said. “That’s how they operated in the past, and that’s how I expect the Republican General Assembly to operate the future.”
Randall to Dems: ‘Chin Up, Shoulders Back’ With Loudoun Democrats watching disappointing returns and the Republican ticket leading statewide, County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) said she has been here before. “I lost two elections before I ever won,” Randall told gathered Democrats Tuesday night. “I lost in 2003 and 2007. Losing is not fun, and we’re having a hard time tonight.” And while she said the results are still up in the air, she told Democrats: “Chin up, shoulders back.” She pointed to victories by most of the county’s Democratic house candidates. “We’re not going to win every election, guys, this is America. This is how it goes. It’s wins here and there. But we did our job, Loudoun County,” Randall said. “We can’t control the economy. We can only take care of our county.” n
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Voters Approve Bond Questions LOUDOUN NOW STAFF REPORT
Voters on Tuesday were asked to authorize the county government to borrow more than $210 million to finance upcoming construction projects. As in year’s past, the bond questions were approved by wide margins, but concerns over the embattled school division were evident in the results.
Raynor wins continued from page 1 She campaigned largely on an economic development platform that calls for the revitalization of the town’s commercial areas to help bring businesses to empty storefronts and focusing on the town’s infrastructure needs. MacDonald, a counterterrorism intelligence specialist with the Department of Homeland Security, moved to Purcellville from Leesburg in March. In his campaign, MacDonald aligned himself closely with Mayor Kwasi Fraser, adopting his themes of slow growth, low taxes, infrastructure investments and innovation solutions. “I am honored and proud to serve the
The $135 million school bond— needed to finance construction of a new elementary school, renovations, replace a fleet service center and create more bus parking—was approved by 65% of voters. That was the smallest margin among the three bond questions on the ballot. The $7.1 million public safety bond, to support construction of a fire and people of Purcellville. I will work very hard to make sure them proud that of the person they voted for,” she said following the election. She said a key difference in this year’s election was the ability to go door to door to meet residents and business owners— something not possible during last year’s COVID-19 restrictions. Taking a seat on the dais, Rayner said she hopes first to bring civility back to the council and to treat fellow member and the town staff with respect and kindness. She also plans to be an independent voice. “I will listen to the facts and vote on the fact,” she said. She refuted claims that her win represents a change in the balance of power on the council, calling the notion “unset-
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rescue basic training center and a new fire and rescue station in southern Leesburg, was supported by 80% of voters on Tuesday. The $68.2 million transportation bond, including funding for improvements to Evergreen Mills Road and Farmwell Road intersections, construction of the Rt.9/Rt.287 roundabout, improvements to Shellhorn Road and the Waxpool Road/Loudoun County Parkway intersection, won support from just over 74% of the voters. n tling.” “We are a small town. We should be working together for this town and not for power,” she said. In the other municipal races on Tuesday’s ballot, incumbents were unchallenged. In Middleburg, Mayor Bridge Littleton and council members Cindy C. Pearson, Peter A. Leonard-Morgan, C. Darlene Kirk, and Morris “Bud” Jacobs were reelected. About 350 votes were cast in the town election. In Round Hill where 347 ballots were cast, Mayor Scott T. Ramsey and council members Paula G. James and Jesse P. Howe re-elected. The third available council seat was to be decided by the 80 write-in votes cast. n
Blood donors continued from page 3 There is another family looking to create the same memories and experiences that you’re having; they just need a little help from a volunteer blood donor with 60 minutes of time,” she said. Wade noted that more individuals than ever are eligible to donate, because the FDA has lifted some permanent or longrange deferrals right before the pandemic began. She encouraged anyone interested in donating, either for the first time or the first time in a long time, to go to inovablood.org or call 866-256-6372 for more information or to make an appointment. “It’s safe, it’s easy, it’s convenient, and it does so much good,” she said. “It takes a community to heal a community.” StoneSprings Hospital Center in Aldie, which is currently not reporting an acute blood shortage, is working directly with the American Red Cross to help increase the blood and platelet supply. The two host a bimonthly blood drive at the Arcola Volunteer Fire Department annex, with the next drive set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 8. More information on Red Cross blood drives can be found at redcrossblood.org. n
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