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BURK WINS RACE FOR MAYOR Reid, Campbell, Dunn Take Council Seats

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trickle in. They chanted “lock her up,” referring to Clinton, and later screamed “Trump, Trump, Trump,” as the GOP nominee won key states, such as Florida and North Carolina.

Meanwhile, in the banquet room next door, Republican Barbara Comstock gave her victory speech after easily securing her second term in the 10th Congressional District.

As she walked on and off the stage, the speakers played “Another One Bites the Dust,” referring to her challenger. As her daughter, Katie, said of the song, “When you’re the target of millions of dollars of attack ads, you kind of need to have a

Leesburg has elected a new mayor for the first time in almost 15 years.

Town voters selected Kelly Burk as their next mayor. She takes over from David Butler, a Town Council member appointed by his peers to fill the unexpired term of Kristen Umstattd in February. Umstattd was first elected Leesburg’s mayor in 2002 and re-elected seven times, placing her in the top five of the town’s longest-serving mayors. She won election last November to serve as the Leesburg District representative on the Board of Supervisors.

But now voters turn to her next elected predecessor, who herself is no stranger to the Leesburg political scene. Burk, currently the town’s vice mayor, was first elected to the council in 2004 and served three years before being elected to the Board of Supervisors as its Leesburg District representative. Defeated in her re-election bid in 2011, she won a special election to fill the unexpired council term of Ken Reid, who had defeated her for the board seat, in the spring of 2012.

She won re-election two years later.

She was the runaway winner in the mayor’s race Tuesday, tallying 8,295 votes, followed by former Town Council member Kevin Wright at 5,667 votes and Butler with 5,480. There were 1,459 blank votes in the mayor’s race.

Taking in the victory at Palio Ristorante Italiano, her first words to the crowd of supporters gathered was simply – “wow.”

“I can’t tell you how exciting and how humbling this is,” she said.

The longtime Leesburg resident, who first moved to the town in 1979 and now also has a grandson who also calls Leesburg home, said she sees her election to the mayor’s seat as a continuation of being able to serve town residents: first as

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Barbara Comstock celebrates with her husband, Elwyn “Chip” Comstock, and supporters after she announced she had outpaced Democrat LuAnn Bennett to win the 10th Congressional District seat for a second term.

Trump Triumphs and Comstock Holds On, Despite Loudoun

BY RENSS GREENE AND DANIELLE NADLER Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump surged to a surprise victory Tuesday and freshman incumbent Representative Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) won a second term in Congress, despite Loudoun’s vote.

Comstock’s challenger, Democrat LuAnn Bennett, became the first 10th District Democrat to win in Loudoun since 1978, but her 149-vote margin of victory in Loudoun’s unofficial results wasn’t enough to win district-wide. Across the district, Bennett earned 166,263 votes (46.27 percent) to Comstock’s 191,696 votes (53.34 percent).

Loudoun also strongly backed Clin-

ton, awarding her 99,909 votes to Trump’s 69,633. Libertarian Gary Johnson earned 5,611 votes in Loudoun and independent Evan McMullin took 3,378.

There were 1,886 write-in votes and 689 left blank.

This year, 76.18 percent of Loudoun voters showed up to the polls, or 182,459 of Loudoun’s 239,498 registered voters.

The state, too, favored Clinton, though by a narrow margin. But despite Democratic success in federal races in Loudoun, Comstock held on in the 10th District, and Trump forged a path to victory nationwide.

Loudoun Republicans crowded around TVs at Hilton Garden Inn in Ashburn late Tuesday to watch results

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Loudoun School Leaders Say Solving Busing Problems Will Be Costly

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embers of the Loudoun County School Board learned last week that the division’s bus driver shortage is worse than they initially were told, and that it will take creative solutions to fix the overwhelmed transportation system.

Kevin Lewis, assistant superintendent of Support Services, told School Board members that the number of vacant bus driver positions that he previously reported—between 80 and 95—doesn’t tell the full story.

That is how many drivers it would take to fill the routes set this school year. But the number of routes have been scaled back this year because of the severe driver shortage. That’s triggered more than 100 double runs, meaning one bus picks up and drops off kids only to turn around and do a second run before the school day starts.

Taking questions from School Board

member Joy Maloney (Broad Run), Transportation Director Michael Brown said, ideally, buses would be driving 625 routes each day, not 540. So, the school system could use as many as 160 more drivers than the 1,289 that are already on the pay roll.

The School Board members who gathered around the conference table during Wednesday’s Student Support and Services Committee meeting floated a few ideas for how to attract more drivers.

Eric DeKenipp (Catoctin) suggested a bonus for school system employees who recruit bus drivers, an option Lewis said his staff is pursuing.

Debbie Rose (Algonkian), who chairs the committee, said it sounds like competitive compensation and benefits, more hours, and respect from students would get more to stay and others to apply.

In the past two years, 203 bus drivers, BUSING PROBLEMS >> 43

Charging for Bus Service?

The Talks Begin

BY DANIELLE NADLER During one of Loudoun County’s most difficult budget seasons in 2014, the School Board considered halting the bus service provided to students who attend the magnet Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax.

Hundreds of parents and students packed the board room to urge the board not to pull the buses, but to instead let them pay the cost of the service. But state law does not allow public schools to charge theirww students for transportation.

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New Potomac Bridge Back on the Table? about this,” Parsons said. “They don’t think top-down, they don’t think regionally.” He said COG is ruled by parochial interests and unable to form a truly regional transportation plan.

He said that in his surveys residents on both sides of the river overwhelmingly support a new bridge.

“The people who show up at the public hearing are not representative of the public, and a lot of local officials don’t really get that because they’re not very sophisticated in politics,” Parsons NEW BRIDGE >> 35

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Loudoun supervisors are putting plans for a new Potomac River crossing between Leesburg and the American Legion Bridge back on the county’s legislative priority list.

It’s an idea that has waxed and waned over the years, but it’s getting renewed attention in the business community.

The county’s Economic Development Advisory Committee hosted a panel discussion Friday with developer Bob Buchanan, Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance CEO David Birtwistle, and Suburban Maryland

Transportation Alliance Vice Chairman Richard Parsons exploring the topic.

Those panelists had enough sharp criticism of governments in the DC metro area to go around.

“There seems to be a real disconnect between the decision makers in Congress and their care for their employees in the federal agencies around here,” Birtwistle said. He said the region also suffers from a loss in seniority in Congress.

“There needs to be something more than the (Metropolitan Washington) Council of Governments thinking

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Intermediate school: boundaries compromise?

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Students exit a bus at Evergreen Mill Elementary School in Leesburg.

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Supervisors Approve New Uses in Open Spaces

BY RENSS GREENE After a years-long process, Loudoun supervisors have approved 14 new uses in the designated open spaces in the county’s rural areas.

The zoning amendment opens some of the county’s countryside to new types of business and tourism, but it includes less than half of the new uses originally proposed for inclusion. Some others—including eco-tourism, farm-based tourism, farm restaurants, indoor recreation establishments, and Virginia farm wineries—have been sent back to county staff for more work.

The relaxed rules for use of designated open space in the county’s rural and transition area zoning districts have faced some resistance, including from former Plan-

ning Commission chairman Al Van Huyck, and the action comes at a time when proposals for a rural brewery and an event center are under fire from rural residents worried that those businesses would be disruptive to their peace and quiet.

But Supervisor Geary M. Higgins (R-Catoctin) forcefully defended the county’s work. Higgins said the county has put years of study into the zoning changes.

“I’m somewhat—I’ll use the word dismayed—when people come up and use the microphone to say we haven’t thought about this, or thought through this, or this is being done in a hurry,” Higgins said.

Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) said she did not want to hold up other updates to zoning rules for the sake of a few conten-

tious items. The amendment also includes a number of fixes to clean up language and definitions in the zoning ordinance. It also expands the exemptions for historic structures to include buildings listed or eligible for listing in the Virginia Landmarks Register of the National Register of Historic Places.

Previously, historic structures exemptions in the zoning ordinance only applied to buildings existing prior to Jan. 7, 2003 and located in a county Historic Site District or Historic and Cultural Conservation District.

With the new zoning amendment, landowners can now use their land in open spaces for: agricultural cultural centers, agricultural processing, agri-education, arboretums, botanical gardens, OPEN SPACES >> 7

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Loudoun Animal Services Officer Patrick Breslin and Director Nina Stively.

Breslin Named Virginia’s Top Animal Control Officer Officer Patrick Breslin, a three-year member of Loudoun County Animal Services, has received statewide recognition for his work.

Breslin received the Dr. Kent Roberts Animal Control Officer of the Year Award, which is given annually to one officer in Virginia.

A resolution of commendation presented by the Board of Supervisors Nov. w1 points to his successful investigations and convictions in several cases of severe animal cruelty in Loudoun and his events and education planning in the community.

Loudoun Animal Services Director Nina Stively said Loudoun’s animal services department holds itself to a higher standard than other localities, and that Breslin takes that expectation even higher.

“It’s a real honor for me to be working with someone like you,” Stively told Breslin.

“We always remember that our first responders work 24-hour shifts and are there all the time, and we forget that our animal control officers are also first responders,” said Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large).

“They are there all the time too, so when there’s a snowstorm, the animal shelter does not close, there is always somebody there.”

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Members of Jack and Jill of America, an organization of mothers dedicated to developing and nurturing future black leaders, at the Board of Supervisors Nov. 1.

Committee on Committees Recommends Commission on Women and Girls

BY RENSS GREENE The Ad Hoc Committee on Advisory Boards, Commissions and Committees has recommended the county create a Commission on Women and Girls, a suggestion that drew support from the public during a recent Board of Supervisors meeting.

Although the recommendations of the three-member committee on committees were deferred to a future board meeting, several speakers turned up to encourage supervisors to embrace the idea of the new commission.

“In Loudoun, our volunteers see a broader America,” said Jane Lyons, a board member of Loudoun

nonprofit Women Giving Back.

“This county is diverse, with citizens and residents that include women and girls from all over the world. It’s important that our women and girls have the benefit of laws and protection that may not reside in their homes.”

Shelley Tamres of Sterling said that this election year has thrown women’s issues into high relief. She said President Barack Obama’s election brought out latent racism in the country, and that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has now brought out latent misogyny.

“Only by taking action can we hope to address our problems,” Tamres said.

The recommendation also garnered public support at the meeting from Katrina Smith, a Simpson Middle School assistant principal and president of the Loudoun County Alumnae Chapter of the charitable Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; entrepreneur and member of the Loudoun chapter of Jack and Jill of America Fatima Moody; and One Sparrow Foundation founder Solitaire Carroll.

“It is critical, not only to women and girls of Loudoun County, but to the men and boys of our county,” Moody said.

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Loudoun County has received an Innovations in Government Finance Award from the Virginia Government Finance Officers’ Association for a new county publication, the FY 2017 Budget Story. Loudoun was one of only two jurisdictions to receive a VGFOA 2016 Innovations Award, which were announced at the association’s fall conference.

This was the first year that Loudoun County produced the Budget Story document, which serves as a companion piece to the Fiscal Year 2017 Adopted Budget. The Budget Story provides an additional resource for Loudoun residents to learn about the county’s budget.

The 16-page, illustrated document highlights a number of county programs and spotlights some of the ways the county puts tax dollars to work.

The VGFOA created the Innovative Awards program to encourage the development of innovative ideas in government. Members of the organization include government finance professionals in Virginia, including individuals who are directly involved in the custody, control, disbursement, and/or accountability of public funds for any governmental entity in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

To see Loudoun’s full budget document, go to loudoun.gov/budget.

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Loudoun County Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services Director Steve Torpy and Banshee Reeks Manager Ron Circé.

Banshee Reeks Designated as Virginia Treasure easement protects all 725 acres of Banshee Reeks’ habitats, wetlands, waterways, forests, woodlands and savannah grasslands.

The Virginia Treasures initiative is the Commonwealth’s strategy for conserving land and expanding access to public outdoor recreation, implemented by Gov. Terry McAuliffe in 2015.

The initiative aims to preserve, protect and highlight Virginia’s most important ecological, cultural, scenic and recreational assets, as well as its special lands.

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Candace Brinkley, who identified herself as Cherokee, presents Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) with a “protocol gift,” which she gave Randall “to thank her for allowing me to come onto her land and to receive this wonderful proclamation.”

The protocol gift was a beaded necklace and bracelet, which Randall has asked be placed in the display case in the lobby of the government center. Supervisors recognized November as Native American Heritage Month with a proclamation unanimously adopted Nov. 1.

help Loudoun in the long run.

“Let me tell you, if we want to continue attracting data centers to this community, and keep increasing the revenue, we have to be a pro-data center area, and right now public sentiment is turning against data centers,” Meyer said. He also said he isn’t trying to take money from roads and schools: “What I’m trying to do is make it so we can continue to grow the revenue from data centers by keeping us a pro-data center community, by working with data centers to make sure that they look decent.”

Supervisors voted 6-2-1 to direct the staff to look into options for a possible incentive. Buona and Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg) opposed the motion; Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe (R-Algonkian) was absent. rgreene@loudounnow.com

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Meyer Proposes Incentives to Hush Data Centers Supervisor Ron A. Meyer Jr. (R-Broad Run) has a new idea for the problem of data center noise and ugliness: provide financial incentives to data centers that comply with the latest county standards on noise and appearance.

Although the county has recently adopted new noise standards and has standards for façades hiding the air conditioning units on the roofs of data centers, those rules don’t apply to existing data centers. Meyer said this incentive could help promote harmony between Loudouners and troublesome data centers.

“If we were to go forward with it, it would allow businesses to access an incentive fund that would basically come from the huge amount of revenue they’re generating,” Meyer said. He said

his idea is “a business-positive, data center-friendly way to, I think, make our residents feel like data centers are more a part of the community and not sort of a nuisance that we put up with because they create a lot of money.”

Some supervisors voiced skepticism.

Board Vice Chairman Ralph M. Buona (R-Ashburn) pointed out that the Economic Development Authority has the power to dole out incentive funds—if the Board of Supervisors provides them, most likely from the county’s general fund.

“The question becomes, are we willing to create a fund with taxpayer dollars that would instead go to the schools, or roads, or transit, or any of the other things—public safety, I can go down the list—in order to change the façades and so forth on existing data centers?”

Meyer argued the incentive would

<< FROM 4 tion, the commission would “serve as a resource center, facilitator, collaborator and partner for planning and action on issues impacting women and girls.” The commission would do this through public education, coordinating research groups and taskforces on specific issues, and developing recommendations on policies and programs that impact women and girls.

The commission would be sponsored and advised by Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large). The panel would have 15 members, appointed by the Board of Supervisors.

The committee on committees recommended creating the commission 2-1. Randall and Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg) voted in favor; Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe (R-Algonkian) voted against.

The committee on committees was one of the first initiatives by the newly elected board, created to look at trimming down the county’s more than 50 citizen advisory boards, some of which have become defunct. In addition to recommending the Commission on Women and Girls, the committee recommended dissolving three committees, expanding the Art Advisory Committee, and adding a nondiscriminatory statement to committee advertisements and applications. It also recommended county staffers prepare updated statements of direction for individual committees as needed.

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Buffington asked the committee to lead a “collaborative effort” to come up with recommendations defining the types of businesses that should comprise the rural economy and maintaining that balance. He suggested that effort include western Loudoun residents, Visit Loudoun, business owners, and “other groups, organizations, and stakeholders interested in the future of Loudoun County.”

The motion to add the 14 new uses passed 8-0-1, with Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe (R-Algonkian) absent. The motion to send eco-tourism, farmbased tourism, farm restaurants, indoor recreation establishments, and Virginia farm wineries to the staff to bring forward as part of another package of changes passed 7-1-1, Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg) opposed.

Umstattd expressed concerns about the idea of including indoor recreation establishments in the county’s open spaces.

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In the midst of this debate, Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr. (R-Blue Ridge) sent a letter to the Rural Economic Development Committee asking the panel to lead an effort to develop guidelines about what kinds of businesses would fit into Loudoun’s rural economy.

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Those leading the effort to write a new comprehensive plan to guide Loudoun’s future development welcomed a full house as they began a round of “listening sessions” Monday night in Lansdowne.

The meeting room at the National Conference Center was set up to accommodate 150 people and each table was full for the kickoff of an extensive public outreach effort.

Dubbed Envision Loudoun, the effort to update the current General Plan, last revised in 2001, is expected to take 18 months to complete.

“We are happy that you are here at the beginning of this journey,” said C. Gregory Dale, cofounder of the McBride Dale Clarion consulting firm hired to lead the process.

On Monday, that work started with one question: What do we need to do to make Loudoun County an even better community in the future?

To begin answering that question, participating residents tossed around their ideas in discussions that were monitored and documented by a county planner and a member of the Board of Supervisors-appointed stakeholders committee that is spearheading the early work.

The comments were familiar and broad-based. Among them were the need for better planning for schools to make attendance zone boundary lines better; for better planning for bike lanes and community trails; to make it more affordable to stay in Loudoun in retirement; to build more museums and cultural attractions; and to promote redevelopment of older eastern Loudoun communities.

The future of the county’s Transition Policy Area will be a big part of the discussion as the new plan develops, and it was on Monday. The transition zone is an area of south Loudoun that is planned for lower density develop-

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Campaign signs greet voters on Election Day. Leesburg leaders are considering changes to sign regulations that could make temporary signs, like political signs, held to stricter time limits.

Council Continues to Wrestle with Sign Rules

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ore time is needed to scrutinize proposed changes to the town’s sign regulations.

That’s according to Leesburg planning commissioners, who again postponed action on the matter at their Nov. 3 meeting.

The changes are designed to bring the town into compliance with a 2015 Supreme Court decision. Last year’s Reed v. Town of Gilbert, AZ, opinion means localities may no longer regulate signs based on their content.

The suit was brought on by a pastor to the Town of Gilbert, when he argued that stricter regulations were placed on signs that displayed political or ideological messages. In the case of the pastor, temporary signs directing residents to church services were called into question.

In the high court’s majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote

that the town’s sign “code imposes more stringent restrictions on these signs than it does on signs conveying other messages. We hold that these provisions are content-based regulations of speech that cannot survive strict scrutiny.”

The high court’s action has left a Planning and Zoning Department, already dealing with a heavy workload, to add this to its growing list.

The staff has taken much of the last year for its review, in coordination with the Town Attorney’s Office as well as outreach to the Local Government Attorneys Association, which formed a special committee to study how to integrate the ruling into revised sign rules for localities.

A main takeaway from that review has been that, while a sign cannot be regulated based on its content, regulating it based on location is fair game.

Commissioners began review of the changes last month, but have asked the staff to again go back to

the drawing board on some key issues. They want staff to take a closer look at the residential property language under the temporary sign provision, and also whether it is possible to add another section that would exempt temporary signs under certain types of properties, namely churches, schools, nonprofits, etc. Several commissioners have vocalized the desire to ensure that a church noting the location of its services, or a Boy Scout troop noting its meeting location, are not penalized.

Some have even suggested that a full-scale review of the entire sign ordinance is in order, but both town staff and the commission’s council representative, Vice Mayor Kelly Burk, advised the commission to address, for now, solely the changes needed to comply with the Reed ruling, and then move on to a full review down the road. krodriguez@loudounnow.com

Luv 2 Play Opens in Leesburg Eager throngs of moms, dads and caretakers had tots in tow Friday to celebrate a new addition to the Village at Leesburg.

Luv 2 Play celebrated its opening Nov. 4, marking the first U.S. location for the franchise. Owners Tiaan and Nicci Fasen are natives of South Africa, but knew after moving to Leesburg in the spring of 2012 that they wanted to open a business that works with children.

According to Tiaan Fasen, the two did exhaustive research and even considered purchasing their own indoor play equipment to open a business before being approached by a member of the Luv 2 Play corporate

team. Then the search for a location began in earnest and, to the delight of wife Nicci, the space next to Cobb Theatres was available.

Luv 2 Play stands out in a few ways from its competitors. Admission is not timed, meaning kids can stay and play from open until close for no additional fee; equipment is cleaned and disinfected hourly, with deep cleans weekly on Sunday nights; and the location also has an air fryer, to offer healthier food options.

There is a play area available for crawlers; one for walkers to age 4; and the large play structure is open to all, including adults. There is also a creative area in the middle where

kids can play with kinetic sand, plus an interactive video game, arcade, and full-service snack bar.

Several initiatives will begin rolling out soon, including date night drop-ins, shop and drop, and birthday parties. For more information on Luv 2 Play, visit luv2play.com or call 703-779-2128. The Leesburg location is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. krodriguez@loudounnow.com

Evelyn Moten celebrated her 100th birthday on Sunday, with family and friends at First Mount Olive Baptist Church in Leesburg. She was born in Loudoun County to William and Mrs. Mary (Cox) Trammell. She also has one surviving sister, Lucinda Trammell, who is 96 and attended the birthday party.

She was a domestic worker and currently resides at Heritage Hall. As a young child and still today, Moten’s favorite hobbies include knitting, sewing and cooking.

She was baptized at the church in 1950 and serves as a deaconess. In 2006, Pastor Harold Stinger appointed her as Mother of the Church, an honorary role.

Moten’s husband James, daughter Josephine Morten Thornton and granddaughter Burnie have passed. She has three surviving grandchildren, Gloria, Judy and Steven and is a great-grandmother of eight.

Moten’s family roots in Loudoun County are documented as far back as 1852, when her grandfather, Joseph Trammell, received his Freedom Papers from Loudoun County government. Those papers are displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

Legislative Agenda Up for Review The Town Council is set to adopt its annual legislative agenda next week, and there are many familiar items on the town’s General Assembly wish list.

The council is scheduled to meet with members of the county’s assembly delegation on Nov. 17.

One new proposed addition this year is a repeal, or amendments to, the proffer limitation law adopted last session over the strong criticism of the Town Council, Loudoun Board of Supervisors, and other localities. The council is asking for changes to the legislation that would allow localities to continue accepting cash and in-kind proffers from developers. The town staff is also recommending that the council ask for regulations to address land use and taxing authority over Airbnb and other short-term residential rentals; and stronger regulations that restrict or prohibit the parking of motorhomes, boats, trailers, and other kinds of vehicles on public highways.

Two areas likely to at least create some debate on the council dais are staff recommendations to delete a couple of longstanding requests: to lift the moratorium on towns seeking city status and to give localities more power to require new construction projects to dedicate tree save areas.

The draft agenda, along with the proposed 2017 Legislative Positions Statement, can be found on the town website, leesburgva.gov, under Town Council Agendas.

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County Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large)’s teen suicide prevention forum at Inova Loudoun Hospital on Monday night brought together people from across age groups and professions with a single message: “There’s always hope.”

Suzie Bartel, founder and director of the Ryan Bartel Foundation, said after her son’s suicide, she spoke to a great number of his friends.

“What struck us as we tried to figure out what we needed to do about it was, one of the consistent themes in all of these stories was that Ryan had been a pillar for them,” Bartel said. “He

had been the rock for his friends. They turned to him for support when they needed it. What really became the predominant theme was: These kids don’t talk to us, as adults.”

Teenagers, of course, know this.

“A lot of us build this trust with our friends, and it’s supposed to be just between us friends,” said 19-year-old Abby Dahl, an actress in A Place to Be’s show “A Will to Live,” which features the life of Will Robinson, a Loudoun Valley High School student who took his own life in January. “And if one of our friends come to us and says I don’t want to be here … we want to help you, but they’re going to

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[ PUBLIC SAFETY ] Driver in Rt. 7 Fatality Identified as PA Man The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office is continuing to investigate the circumstances of last week’s fatal Rt. 7 crash.

So far, investigators have determined that the victim, Steven Snead, 44, of Pennsylvania, was pulled over on the right shoulder of the road just east of the Rt. 9 interchange. An eastbound Jeep Wrangler struck the parked Jeep Grand Cherokee from behind. Snead was thrown from his vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Wrangler driver was taken to Inova Loudoun Hospital for treatment of injuries described as non-life-threatening.

Members of the Sheriff ’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit will review their findings with the Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office to determine whether charges will be filed in the case.

Gang Member Sentenced for Leesburg Stabbing A member of the MS-13 gang last week was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for a stabbing a year ago in Leesburg.

Josue Jeremias Cruz Gonzalez, 20, pleaded guilty in July Gonzalez to one count of malicious wounding and one count of gang participation. Circuit Court Judge Douglas L. Fleming Jr. imposed the 10-year prison sentence and 10 years of suspended time. Upon his release, Cruz Gonzalez will be placed on five years of supervised probation.

A native of El Salvador, he also being held on a Federal Immigration Detainer, which directs his deportation from the United States upon his release.

In November 2015, Leesburg police and members of the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force responded to northeast Leesburg for a report of a stabbing.

Witnesses reported seeing a young man stumble out of a nearby wooded area before falling to the ground in the common area of the apartment com-

1 Dead, 1 Injured in Ashburn Assault The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office is working with state and regional authorities to investigate a homicide and stabbing that took place in Ashburn on Friday night.

Deputies were called to Whitford Square at the Ashburn Meadows apartment complex just after 6 p.m.

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A 19-year-old Ashburn man was found suffering from stab wounds.

He was taken to an area hospital and was listed in stable condition.

During a search of the area, the body of a 22-year-old man, of no fixed address, was found nearby in the woods. His identity has not been released.

Investigators say the assault appeared to be targeted, possibly with gang connections, and there was no threat to the community at-large.

The Sheriff ’s Office is working with plex. The victim told detectives that he had been standing in the parking lot when two men he knew to be MS13 gang members attacked him. The two gang members, later identified as Cruz Gonzalez and Jose Roel Guevara Machado, drug the victim into the woods where they repeatedly struck him in the head and attempted to stab him in the chest with a machete-style weapon. The victim also lost a finger in the attack and suffered scarring to his face, ear, head, neck and hands.

A third co-defendant, Jose Israel Alvarenga ordered Cruz Gonzalez and Guevara Machado to kill the victim because he refused to join the MS-13 gang, prosecutors said.

Guevara Machado, 21, pleaded guilty to malicious wounding and gang participation on July 25. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 5 and faces up to 30 years in prison.

Alvarenga, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of gang participation, one count of malicious wounding and one count of felony obstruction of justice on Aug. 4. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 10 and faces up to 40 years in prison.

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Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and Virginia State Police investigators on the scene of Friday night’s fatal assault in Ashburn. Right, Investigators found the body in a wooded area near the Ashburn Meadows apartments.

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2 Troopers Join Loudoun Office On Monday, 44 new Virginia State Police troopers reported to their respective division headquarters to begin the final phase of training. Two are assigned to Loudoun.

Recruits in the 27-week training celebrated their graduation Nov. 4 at the state police academy in Chesterfield County. They received instruction in more than 100 different subjects, including crime scene investigation, survival Spanish, judicial procedures, self-defense, cultural diversity, and firearms. Each graduate will spend the next six weeks with a field training officer learning his or her new patrol area and day-to-day duties.

Assigned to Loudoun, Trooper Evan C. Brooke 24, of Floyd County, served more than three years with the Floyd County Sheriff ’s Office. Trooper Jeremy A. Cabrera is a native of Yonkers, NY.

Thieves Find Opportunities With Garage Door Openers The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating a series of weekend

local resources to investigate the case.

Anyone with information regarding the case, is asked to contact Det. M. Bush at 703-777-0475. burglaries in Ashburn where garage door openers left inside vehicles were used to enter homes.

A rash of thefts was reported the area of Lord Fairfax Place, Needmore Court, Saint Germain Court and Norwich Court on Nov. 6. In the cases, someone took garage door openers from unlocked cars and entered homes on Lord Fairfax Place and Norwich Place. Electronics, cash and other items taken from the homes.

Also, a car was stolen. About 5 a.m., a deputy responding to one of the burglary calls saw a vehicle speeding from the neighborhood and running a stop sign. The vehicle, a Honda Pilot, was reported stolen from the area of Needmore Court. The deputy initiated a traffic stop, but the driver fled. On West Poplar Road in Sterling, the driver jumped from the moving vehicle, which struck a parked car. Deputies searched the area with the assistance of the Fairfax County Police Department helicopter but the suspect got away.

There was an additional burglary and auto theft on Ruffsdale Court on Nov. 5 and two burglaries involving garage door openers reported last week in Sterling.

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hate us if we go tell a parent, or we go tell a teacher. We don’t want to lose the friendship, but we also don’t want to lose the friend.”

Katie Lynham, a Woodgrove High School senior, said she’d been in that very situation when her boyfriend texted her late at night saying he wanted to kill himself, and that if she told anyone he would never speak to her again. Lynham ultimately decided to go to the school counselor anyway.

“He wasn’t talking to me for maybe a week, and he finally decided that I was right,” Lynahm said.

Bartel talked about how the foundation partnered with students at Woodgrove High School for the We’re All Human project, letting the networks of support and friendship among teenagers help.

“What was incredible for us was to pretty much just sit back and allow them to take the reins in terms of figuring out what it is that we need to do to change the dialogue around suicide,” Bartel said.

Katie Brantingham is one of those teens. She said her life was changed by a walk in April organized by We’re All Human. http://loudounnow.com/2016/04/06/ students-walk-to-curb-suicide-countywide/ “I would not be here today without Ms. Bartel and this whole group,” Brantingham said. “They completely changed my whole life and my outlook

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on everything about life, and with hearing the other students and how they got through all their issues, I knew I could get through it too, and I wasn’t alone.”

Brantingham said “hope” is one of her favorite words now, and that she’s seen a change in the whole student body since the walk.

“We feel like we’re more connected, and it’s easier to talk about it, even though it’s such a touchy subject,” she said.

“The greatest strength in the world is being able to say you need help,” said Kim Tapper, associate executive director of A Place to Be in Middleburg. “I have seen many students in the audience come up after the show and say, ‘that’s what I needed to hear.’”

The forum was moderated by Neil McNerney, Randall’s appointee to the Community Services Board and an adolescent and family counselor. The panel also included representatives from a wide range of the community and government organizations and resources looking for ways to help. Among them were Michelle Petruzzello, division director for the Loudoun County Department of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Developmental Services; Doug Wall, worship pastor at Leesburg Community Church; John Lody, director of Diagnostic and Prevention Services at Loudoun County Public Schools; and Gina Harrison, clinical director at Inova Loudoun Hospital Children’s Emergency Department. Will Robinson’s mother, Ann-Charlotte Robinson, also attended.

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Countywide Vote Totals Algonkian

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Clinton .............................10,008 Trump .................................6,359

Clinton ...............................8,381 Trump ................................9,837

Bennett ..............................9,094 Comstock ...........................8,259

Bennett ..............................7,517 Comstock ........................11,528

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Clinton ...............................9,608 Trump .................................7,011

Clinton .............................12,336 Trump .................................7,372

Bennett ..............................8,417 Comstock ..........................9,109

Bennett, ...........................10,425 Comstock .........................10,113

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Clinton .............................13,135 Trump ...............................11,682

Clinton ...............................8,821 Trump .................................5,965

Bennett ............................11,696 Comstock ........................14,454

Bennett.............................. 8,133 Comstock ...........................7,586

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Clinton .............................11,084 Trump .................................6,666

Clinton ................................8,498 Trump .................................4,380

Bennett ..............................9,818 Comstock ...........................8,665

Bennett ..............................7,856 Comstock ...........................5,485

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Leesburg Vote Totals Mayor Kelly Burk ..................8,295 Kevin Wright............... 5,667 Dave Butler ................5,480

Town Council Ken Reid ................... 7,404 Ron Campbell ............7,182 Tom Dunn .................. 7,065 Gwen Pangle .............. 7,024 Katie Sheldon Hammler . 6,936 Evan Mcbeth ............... 6,107 John Hilton ................ 4,603

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“I have a big task ahead of me,” she said. “I’m looking forward to helping to make Leesburg even better than it is now.”

It will be a new looking council for the new mayor, but with some familiar faces. Reid was the top vote-getter among seven candidates with 7,404 votes, followed by political newcomer Ron Campbell at 7,182, and incumbent council member Tom Dunn, who bested challenger Gwen Pangle by 43 votes, with a total tally of 7,065 votes.

Twelve-year council member Katie Sheldon Hammler finished fifth with 6,936 votes, followed by challengers Evan Macbeth with 6,107 votes, and John Hilton with 4,603, according to unofficial results from the Loudoun County Registrar’s Office. There were 15,472 blank votes. Sixty-two percent of Leesburg voters turned out to cast their votes at the polls.

It will mark a return trip to the council for Reid, who served as a council member from 2006 to 2011, before beating Burk for election to the Board of Supervisors. He chose not to run for re-election four years later, when Umstattd won. But two years removed from serving Leesburg, he returns to the council dais.

He pointed to his record of serving Leesburg as a key reason for his victory, not to mention a strong door-to-door campaign. Reid said he is hopeful that the new council will be able to work together, and pointed to the division of council members along political party lines. Although the town races are not partisan, Burk and Campbell were endorsed by the Loudoun County Democratic Committee and Reid and Dunn had Republican endorsements. Reid predicted that the special election that will be needed to fill the remaining two years of Burk’s council term, which expires Dec. 31, 2018, will be a “slugfest.”

That special election could have a few of the same names on the ballot as Tuesday’s. Hammler did not hesitate to

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Leesburg Mayor-elect Kelly Burk speaks to a crowd including former Leesburg mayor and current county Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg).

say she is interested in running for that council seat. Pangle also said she plans to give a special election run “some thought.”

Two names you likely won’t see on the ballot are Burk’s opponents. Having been defeated in the mayor’s race, and his re-election bid to the Town Council two years ago, Wright said the results show that it is “time for a fresh face and fresh voice to step up for Leesburg.”

“We ran a good-hearted campaign.

There’s not too much we could’ve done differently,” he said. “I left it all on the field.”

Butler said he is retiring from Leesburg politics when he lays down the mayor’s gavel at the end of the year, but did not rule out other options, like county office. “I will definitely not be a candidate for the special election, and I will not accept an appointment to be interim councilor,” he said.

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Mayor David Butler anxiously checks results as the first three precincts to report spell bad news for his campaign.

Butler said he appreciates the 10 years he’s had to help serve the town. “I feel good about how I was able to help the town move forward.”

Campbell will be one of the council members wrestling with the decision of who to appoint, at least on an interim basis, to fill Burk’s seat. With his election Tuesday, he is the only candidate elected to the council who has not served on the political body previously.

But in celebrating his victory Tuesday night, he said that while he doesn’t have political experience, he does have the professional experience needed to serve the community.

“I thank the people of Leesburg for their support in helping to move Leesburg forward,” he said.

Reporter Renss Greene contributed to this story. krodriguez@loudounnow.com

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Hoping to capture Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, Republican Donald J. Trump dropped into Loudoun very early Sunday morning to address 2,200 supporters at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds near Leesburg.

As many as 9,000 people lined up Saturday night hoping to join the rally that was scheduled to begin at 9:30 p.m., but most could not get inside the large show barn because of the fire marshal’s capacity limit. Trump finally took the stage after midnight as his

five-state, one-day campaign tour ran behind schedule.

“We are going to have one of the great victories of all time,” Trump told the crowd. He said the campaign had been seriously underestimated and that swing state polls showed the campaign performing strongly as Election Day neared.

“We’re going to have such an exciting night,” Trump said. “We are one day away from the change you’ve be waiting for your entire life.”

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he said. He praised her as “one of the first local elected officials to work with the international community to solve problems.”

In her concession, Bennett said she was very proud of the campaign and vision for the district and country she and her team put forward.

“This has been a particularly difficult election for our country—one that has given us two very different visions for the future,” Bennett said.

Sen. Richard H. Black (R-13) told a crowd of Trump supporters that the GOP presidential candidate is the one to put the country back on the right track. “The Republic is in deep trouble if Hillary Clinton wins this election, and she is able to put rubber-stamp, Marxists judges on the Supreme Court.”

And Andrew Bambrick, a 20-yearold Patrick Henry College student, was among those gathered with other Republicans at Comstock’s victory party late Tuesday. He high-fived other supporters as the results rolled in. He said his support for Comstock came easy—“she’s a phenomenal leader”— but his vote for Trump was tougher to come by. He voted for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the primary. “Trump isn’t my ideal candidate, but I think he has the potential to be a good leader,” he said.

“I think his heart is in the right place.

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The 10th Congressional District had been targeted by national Democratic groups as a district that could turn blue for the first time since 1980.

The congresswoman said she would continue working on issues that matter to 10th District residents, such as fighting the heroin epidemic and bolstering the region’s businesses. She thanked her family, campaign workers and her supporters. “This has been a wonderful job to work with every one of you and to continue to be able to lead with this coalition of wonderful people to serve your district,” Comstock said. “This win is your win.”

A few in the crowd shouted, “We love you, Barbara.”

Comstock may have won support from moderate voters when she distanced herself from Trump a month ago after a 2005 recording of the business mogul making crude sexual remarks about women was publicized.

The congresswoman called for him to drop out of the race and said she could not support him or Clinton for president. She later said she would write in her preferred candidate, but would not say who.

Kamal Gill, who lives in Ashburn, said Comstock won his support when he saw her hard work for the 10th District during her first term. “She’s one of the hardest working people around,”

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Most of the parents who attended the Nov. 1 boundary public hearing stood the entire time to show their support for their neighbors.

Paul VI Catholic High School can move forward with building a Loudoun campus on Braddock Road after a stamp of approval by the Board of Supervisors last week.

The Catholic Diocese of Arlington originally secured rezoning approval for the project in 2005, but did not move forward with those plans. The Planning Commission recommended approval of Paul VI’s new application, which includes less than the original application. The 2005 plans also included a middle and high school.

The application faced an 11th-hour challenge in the form of a letter from Venable LLP attorney Nicholas DePalma, delivered the same day as the board’s vote. DePalma told the county that an acre of Paul VI’s land has been maintained

by DePalma’s client and Paul VI’s neighbor Peter R.Q. Knop long enough to establish “adverse possession”—in essence, squatter’s rights. Knop’s fence lines cross the eastern border of the Catholic Diocese’s property.

Board Moves Toward Intermediate School Solution for Dulles South

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he chairman of the county’s School Board unveiled a proposed attendance map Monday night that should put a few hundred families in southern Loudoun at ease.

At the board’s work session, Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) presented his proposal, Plan 2, that would keep students living south of Rt. 50 in schools

south of Rt. 50. The suggestion is in direct response to families who last week voiced their opposition to a staff plan that would send students from the south to schools north of Rt. 50.

“I do believe personally at this point that we don’t need to do a temporary shift for Dulles South students to the north,” he said.

Attendance zone changes at Dulles North and Dulles South secondary schools are inevitable ahead of the

opening of a new middle school along Braddock Road, known as MS-7 in fall of 2018, and to provide much needed relief to overcrowded schools in the Dulles area. As the Loudoun County School Board redraws attendance lines, it is also taking into account a new high school (HS-11) that will open in Brambleton in 2019 and a new DULLES SOUTH >> 18

Student Wins $10K for Depression Diagnoses App

BY LEAH FALLON

Nysmith School for the Gifted

Kaien Yang, 14, talks about his medical app, iDiagnostic, which can help doctors and psychiatrists diagnose depression.

Depression is an illness that many Americans face every day, and early detection can be key to successful treatment.

Fourteen-year-old Kaien Yang has an app for that.

Kaien is an eighth-grader at the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon who’s taking his middle school science project to a new level. His studies have gone on to win him money and recognition.

Earlier this month, Kaien won the Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation, winning $10,000 at the Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars) competition held in Washington, DC. The teen, of Chantilly, was one of 30 top finalists to compete.

Kaien developed the medical

app, iDiagnostic, as part of his seventh-grade science fair project. It’s an app for doctors to use as a diagnostic tool for major depressive disorders.

The program uses information from MRI scans and combines it with a psychometric evaluation. Together, they create a more scientific way to diagnose depression.

“I feel like early and accurate detection can help the depression patients,” Kaien said. The app will provide doctors and psychiatrists with objective evidence when diagnosing depression.

Kaien has always had an interest in neuroscience. In 2011, he met renowned neurosurgeons at the John Hopkins Hospital when his mother had brain surgery and asked questions of the medical staff. Dr. Rafael Tamargo chatted with the enthusiastic MASTERS AWARD >> 19

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Venable LLP attorney Nicholas DePalma with the letter he sent to the Board of Supervisors

Knop’s 5-acre lot is not part of the larger Ticonderoga Farms environmental tourism complex that largely surrounds the high school site. That land is owned by his father Peter J. Knop, who has endorsed the project.

County Attorney Leo Rogers said the letter wasn’t enough to stop the board from approving the application.

“That’s a legal determination of fact in law that has to be proven by substantial evidence,” Rogers said. “There’s absolutely no way we can make a judgment on that based on this last-minute claim.”

Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles) said previous concerns about a traffic management plan have been alleviated, and that the school would help bring relief to Loudoun’s public schools.

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high school (HS-9) scheduled to open just south of Rt. 50 in 2021.

Hornberger’s plan would create an intermediate school, a suggestion from senior staff members that has had support from a few board members.

He said he looked at other options, but the only one that freed up much-needed seats was to open MS-7 as an intermediate school, housing grades eight and nine, while John Champe High School houses grades 10 through 12.

Plan 2 would assign students in planning zones DS 16 and DS 16.2, which sit south and east of Tall Cedars Boulevard, from Mercer Middle School and John Champe High School to Lunsford Middle School and Freedom High School. It would also reassign students in DS 12.4, which borders Lunsford to the south, to that middle school.

It would send students in DS 11, on either side of Stone Springs Boulevard, from Brambleton Middle School to Stone Hill Middle School. Hornberger noted that the one down side with that move is students in DS 11 would be the only Madison’s Trust Elementary students who go on to Stone Hill, instead of Brambleton for middle school.

Most board members agreed that a temporary intermediate school would provide the most viable solution to the enrollment surge in the southern end of the county, including Jeff Morse (Dulles) who said, “I don’t see that it’s possible to not use the intermediate school solution.”

Ahead of the opening of Woodgrove High School in 2010, Harmony Middle School in Hamilton served as an intermediate school for western Loudoun students. Blue Ridge representative on the board Jill Turgeon’s kids attended Harmony when it served sixththrough ninth-graders and had a great experience.

“I never saw it as something I was looking to avoid,” she said. “I hope moving forward the public can see this as a positive solution for our students.”

More than 100 parents and students gathered for a public hearing on the attendance boundaries Nov. 1, and the overwhelming message from speakers was to keep students who live south of Rt. 50 at schools south of Rt. 50. Spe-

cifically, they voiced their objections to one of three options drawn up by the school system’s Planning Department, Option 3, which would move about 500 students out of Mercer Middle School, the county’s most over-enrolled school.

Executive Director of Planning Sam Adamo has recommended that the board go with Option 3 because it would keep enrollment at all of the area’s middle schools below 1,650.

“Our concern was the instructional program, and how to provide continuing education in a reasonable environment,” he said.

But parents and students from those neighborhoods, including Virginia Manor, Lenah Run and Kirkpatrick Farms, said it would mean hour-long bus rides and disconnected communities.

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She called Option 3 dangerous and unworkable.

The board will hold several more work sessions and public hearings ahead of adopting a final boundary plan Dec. 13. The next public hearing is 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14. People can sign up to speak at lcps.org or by calling 571-252-1050. The meetings are held at LCPS School Administration Building, 21000 Education Court in Ashburn. See more details of the proposals at lcps.org/page/104704. dnadler@loudounnow.com

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Lovettsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue marked a half-century of service last week. Here, charter members of the organization pose with some of its first ambulances.

Lovettsville Fire-Rescue Celebrates 50 Years of Service

BY MARGARET MORTON More than 200 people gathered at the Lovettsville Fire and Rescue Hall on Saturday night to celebrate the company’s 50th birthday.

Former Mayor Elaine Walker is a member of the 50th Banquet Committee and said it was a “memorable evening” as members of the company, including Fire Chief Rob Berka and Rescue Chief Andrew O’Connell, mingled with local dignitaries, families, friends and neighbors.

The banquet was prepared and served by the parents of a company member, Dick and Lisa Cope, along with their friends and family with the assistance of the Lovettsville Lions Club. Several local businesses chipped in with flowers and other supplies.

Letters of congratulation were received from Sen. Mark Warner (DVA), Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring—who served for nine years as the L ovettsville’s town attorney—former state Sen. Charles L. Waddell and from Loudoun County Fire-Rescue Services Chief Keith Brower. County Chairwoman Phyllis Randall (D-At Large) and Supervisor Geary Higgins (R-Catoctin) attended the banquet, along with Lovettsville Mayor Bob Zoldos, Vice Mayor Tiffaney Carder, Councilwoman Kimberly Allar and Councilmen Jim McIntyre and Mike Senate.

It’s the rescue squad component of the combined company that is the oldest, formed in August 1966. The fire company was formed in April 1967.

The organization incorporated as the Lovettsville District Fire and Rescue Company, Inc.—still its official name, although the “District” is usually omitted.

Both Walker and her husband, Clifford T. Walker, have a long history in the company. He was an original member of the rescue squad, and she joined the auxiliary when it formed two years later.

Cliff Walker, now 94, ran rescue calls for about 35 years, and was the squad’s treasurer for 30 years. He was also the second recipient of the “Rescue Person of the Year” award, in 1971, an honor that then was given usually for most calls answered. Today, he is the rescue squad’s oldest member.

The former mayor remembered that her husband was a member of the first aid class, taught by Bob Grubb. They still have his “old green instruction book with a red cross on it,” she said, recollecting the squad’s motto of the day—“You call, we haul.”

Elaine Walker’s father, William Painter, was a Lovettsville builder who also owned a sawmill and lumber mill.

It was he who tore down the original feed store on the fire-rescue site just south of the town limits on Rt. 287.

The company’s origins stemmed from a 1965 meeting of 12 men interested in starting a fire and rescue company in the Lovettsville area. Prior to that, Lovettsville had to rely for fire service from neighboring towns, such as Brunswick, MD, Purcellville, or the Loudoun Rescue Squad.

In the 1960s, the county rescue

squad was based in Hamilton, but also had units in Leesburg and Purcellville.

The county squad decided to look into Lovettsville’s request for a unit to be located there as well.

Grubb recalled that he and Dewey Hill were allotted the task of holding the Red Cross Standard and Advanced First Aid Courses that ran from February to May in 1966. But the county rescue squad decided the 12 Lovettsville men who had qualified to become members would have too much voting power in the parent organization, according to Grubb—resulting in the formation of the Lovettsville Rescue Squad.

Assistance came from many, including from Dr. George Hocker, who loaned the company its first ambulance—a 1955 Ford van—and stretcher, which were kept at the Lovettsville Game Club.

When the combined company formed in 1967, its first fire truck was a 1947 Pumper. Member John Lemp recalled some hair-raising fire runs on Lovettsville’s bumpy one-lane back roads. “The equipment, of course, was old and the early drivers only knew how to drive fast. I was trying to hang onto the bar on the rear platform— didn’t think we would ever get there in one piece,” he wrote.

For more information on the Lovettsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue’s history, go to lovettsvillevfr.org and click on the About Us tab. mmorton@loudounnow

Purcellville has been named the third Safest Town in Virginia

by SafeWise, which uses the latest FBI crime statistics, continuing a pattern of many years.

The town also was rated the 21st Safest College Town in the U.S. by LendEDU, again using FBI statistics—resulting in very low violent and property crime rates based on the town’s approximately 9,000 population. That’s a good result for the town’s four-year private Patrick Henry College, which opened in 2000.

Purcellville Police Chief Cynthia McAlister said the commitment of her department’s officers and staff is evident in the rankings and noted the community’s participation in keeping crime rates low.

She also reminded residents of opportunities to serve in advisory groups, including the newly formed Citizens Advisory Committee. An informational meeting on the new committee is scheduled to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at Town Hall.

Special Council Meeting The Purcellville Town Council has called a special meeting for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Town Hall when members will be briefed by the town’s financial consultant, Davenport & Company.

The meeting follows a similar presentation by the town’s utility rate setting consultant, MSFG, several weeks ago.

Town Gears Up for Holiday Activities Applications are available for Purcellville’s Christmas Parade and the popular Christmas Market.

The 13th annual town parade will be held at noon on Saturday, Dec. 10, and businesses, organizations, sports groups, civic clubs, families and individuals are invited to join in the fun by decorating their cars, trucks, floats or even themselves. The application deadline is Dec. 2.

The Christmas Market, which is sponsored by the town’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, has been expanded to two days—to coincide with the popular trolley tours of the town, set for Dec. 9 and 11. More booth space will be available at the market, which will be set up outside the Bush Tabernacle/Purcellville Skating Rink.

The fee to participate is $35. The application deadline is Nov. 30. To download an application for either activity, go to purcellvilleva.gov or contact event coordinator Melanie Scoggins at mscoggins@purcellvilleva.gov; 540-751-2350.

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Lovettsville Council Readies for Town Plan Review plimented the Planning Commission and members of the community who assisted the council in a series of work sessions, for their “masterful job of bringing our Comprehensive Plan up to date and presenting us with a very solid document.”

McIntyre said the focus of the town’s agenda remains “Living Local,” with the main thrust for the future focusing on economic development … attracting the businesses our citizens need for their day to day lives.”

Palko said the discussion focused on a broad outline of the various elements of the plan, not the details.

“They worked on the framework of their vision and the key issues they want identified,” Palko said. Housing received a lot of comment, along with land use, transportation and public facilities. The retreat ended with a discussion on how to address the council’s overall vision, values and goals.

The council has been careful to inform the Planning Commission of its preferences, while respecting the commissioners’ independent role in the town plan revision process, Palko said.

While there is general agreement on key items, overall the council will have to decide “just what is a small town,” Palko said.

“That’s the question of the day— how to stay small versus commercial [growth] and infrastructure,” he said of the problem that affects many towns as leaders strive to achieve balance between sometimes conflicting goals. mmorton@loudounnow

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Lovettsville Wreath-making Workshops Offered Following huge popularity when introduced last year, the Lovettsville Coop will host two fresh wreath-making instruction sessions on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1-3 p.m. at the Lovettsville Volunteer Fire-Rescue Bingo Hall.

Participants are encouraged to bring items including holly berries, pine cones, bittersweet, rose hips and sumac, etc. The co-op will provide fresh evergreens and materials to make a bow.

Preregistration of $25 for non-members or $20 for members is required at Lovettsville-grocery.com/events.

Waterford Foundation Salutes Volunteers

The public is invited to attend a reception at the Corner Store in Waterford from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, when Civil War historian Lee Stone will sign copies of his new book.

“The Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers: The Roster of Virginia’s Only Union Cavalry Unit” is intended for Civil War scholars and enthusiasts, as well as descendants of the men who fought in the troop from the Lovettsville-Waterford region.

The foreword by Lovettsville historian Edward W. Spannaus, and the author’s introduction, gives a full account of the rangers’ formation and its military activity. The roster includes each ranger’s rank, physical description, service record and burial site. The 96page paperback, with black and white photos and appendix, sells for $12.

For more information, contact the Waterford Foundation at 540-8822018 or oldschool@waterfordfoundation.org.

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Friday, November 11 3:00pm – 7:30pm Saturday, November 12 11:00am – 5:30pm BWS has invited several talented local artists into the studio for this event.

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About 70 people, all volunteers at this year’s Waterford Fair, gathered at a reception honoring them at the Old School on Saturday.

“We congratulated all the volunteers,” Waterford Foundation Executive Director Tom Kuehhas said.

Village resident Patricia Shoaf took the prize for the most years as a volunteer—more than half a century.

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The Lovettsville Town Council on Saturday held a comprehensive strategic planning session to begin framing its vision for the community’s development.

The Planning Commission is working through its proposed revised comprehensive plan, which is receiving final touches from the Planning Commission and a public hearing on the work is scheduled for Nov. 16.

The council’s planning session was facilitated by consultant Sam Finz.

“We kept the conversation very focused,” Town Manager Laszlo Palko noted Monday morning of the council’s review of the Town Plan’s major elements.

Several participants were pleased with what was achieved on Saturday.

Vice Mayor Tiffaney Carder praised Zoning Administrator Josh Bateman and the Planning Commission for “a superb job” in preparing the updated town plan.

“It was a pleasure to have the goals of each chapter within the plan so well done and to work with other council members and the mayor to discuss where each of us would like to see the Town of Lovettsville in five years and beyond,” she said.

Carder said the next step for the council will be to fine tune its vision statement and overall goals for the town so they can be included in the plan.

Councilman Jim McIntyre also com-

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Loudoun Now Marks First Anniversary

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ver the past week, as the county and the nation anticipated the outcome of one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent history, Editor Norman K. Styer and the staff of Loudoun Now looked back a year—to the general election held on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

That election resonates with everyone then employed at Leesburg Today, the independent newspaper founded on Nov. 8, 1988, by veteran newsman Brett Phillips. On election day a year ago, the newspaper, then owned by HPR-Hemlock LLC, was sold to the Loudoun Times-Mirror and the staff was informed that night’s newspaper would be the last.

The staff learned that news in the morning and then worked through the night to report on the local and state elections. It wasn’t until the paper was put to bed that thoughts turned to their job prospects.

“As I was cleaning out my office on Wednesday and Thursday, I got calls from folks concerned about losing a community voice and the prospect of having only one source for countywide news,” Styer said. “On Friday, I called some of them back and asked if they wanted to get together as a group.”

About a dozen community and business leaders gathered around a conference table at Sonabank. “There wasn’t a plan to start a new newspaper, but within 90 minutes the group had selected a corporate name, a newspaper name and put checks on the table.”

Then a decision was made to publish the first issue of Loudoun Now the following week—only five days later. Two people got up from the table to get to work. Advertising Director Susan Styer began making calls to businesses to run in the first issue, even though she couldn’t say for sure how many copies would be printed or where they would be mailed. Matt Danielson, of Electronic Ink, a Leesburg-based graphic design and web development studio, began designing the paper’s first edition.

Later that afternoon, Danielle Nadler, who served as Leesburg Today’s deputy editor, learned of the new venture and signed on.

On Sunday night following the sale, a group of reporters, several of whom who had moved onto other jobs after working at Leesburg Today, gathered at Dirt Farm Brewery near Bluemont to decide what stories could be pulled together for the first issue—the paper’s first editorial meeting.

The paper went to press on Wednesday and the newspaper’s website launched the following day.

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The Loudoun Now team at Dirt Farm Brewery. Front row: Publisher and editor-in-chief Norman K. Styer, managing editor Danielle Nadler, senior writer Margaret Morton, reporter Kara Clark Rodriguez, and classifieds manager Lindsay Morgan. Back row: Kevin Vest, distribution; photographer Douglas Graham; advertising manager Susan Styer; contributing writer Samantha Bartram; contributing writer Leah Fallon; reporter Renss Greene; advertising representative Tonya Harding; graphic designer Lauren Fleming; and advertising representative Katie Lewis.

Community Support Among those around the table for what became an organizational meeting were businessman and former state delegate Joe May and his wife Bobby; journalists Daniel S. Morrow and Glenda Cudaback; and Bradley Gable, vice president and director of mortgage banking for Southern Trust Mortgage.

“I was shocked,” Joe May said this week about learning of Leesburg Today’s demise. “This is way too good a newspaper and way too good a staff to let it drift off.”

“The idea of closing a newspaper, especially one that was doing well, was outrageous,” Morrow recalled. “You can’t just take a newspaper out of the community—we can’t let that happen.”

“It’s fantastic that the team that was assembled so quickly has put out a quality product each week for one whole year—and for covering issues that are not always covered in other newspapers,” Gable said.

From that first meeting, the newspaper’s ownership group has grown to more than 80 community and business leaders.

At the end of a year, May said he is excited and hopeful about the project.

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“As a newspaper it looks good, it reads well and the stories are focused and cover the things that need to be covered—it carries on the best of the Leesburg Today tradition,” Morrow said.

“You did the impossible,” Cudaback added about the fast-moving effort.

All Hands on Deck Danielson said that his studio’s role in the rollout of an entirely new print and web product in less than four days is “an accomplishment that our staff will always look back on with pride.”

The venture underscores “the ongoing commitment to professional journalism that is, thankfully, alive and well in Loudoun County,” he said.

Nadler said that “a lot of people would say you’re crazy to start a newspaper, especially at a time when so many newspapers are facing layoffs and bankruptcy.”

She paid tribute to the team of “experienced journalists, photojournalists, designers and sales reps still eager to serve the county,” and noted the tremendous outpouring of support from people who “asked us to at least give it a go.”

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also joined the new venture after working for more than two decades at Leesburg Today.

“The opportunity to continue the work I loved was appealing, driven in no small part by anger at the abrupt demise of a great newspaper, and ensuing hurt to its employees.

“What has been so heart-warming over this year has been the tremendous support from the community and its enthusiastic approval of the new newspaper.”

Three former reporters who had left the Leesburg Today staff years ago to take jobs outside the industry offered their services on a freelance basis.

Kara Clark Rodriguez returned to cover her old beat—the Town of Leesburg.

“It seemed like Kismet that I had just reached out and agreed to freelance for Leesburg Today a week before its sale and then was honored to be included in the group of journalists and staff to bring Loudoun Now to life. It has been a welcome return to covering my adopted hometown of Leesburg,” she said.

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The Wellness Connection founder Susan McCormick built her passion for helping others into this year’s Small Business of the Year in Loudoun.

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Wellness Connection Takes Top Honors at Loudoun Small Business Awards

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he Chamber of Commerce’s biggest event of the year is called the Small Business Awards, but it really is a celebration of the broader Loudoun County community.

That was evident as more than 400 people gathered at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne on Friday night for the 22nd annual awards ceremony. Over the past two months, more than 260 nominations were whittled down to just eight winners. Throughout the evening, honorees shared stories of overcoming personal challenges and serious illnesses, and highlighted their efforts to improve the lives of area residents.

The night’s top prize went to The Wellness Connection, which was named the Small Business of the Year after also winning the Service Business of the Year award. In 2002, founder Susan McCormick lost her husband in a car crash.

Therapy got her through that tragedy and today she is a licensed marriage and family therapist, as well as a wellness coach. Her company provides a multi-disciplinary partnership to help clients optimize their health and wellness.

She also has taken a leadership role in burgeoning community discussion about mental illness. In June, she helped lead a town hall meeting to address the rise in suicide among Loudoun teens.

Four public school students killed themselves last school year, a worrisome increase in a county that typically loses one student to suicide every other year.

Of mental health concerns, McCormick said at the awards ceremony Friday, “I am talking about it from the rooftops.”

This week, the company is celebrating its move to a new space at the Leesburg Junction, at 215 Depot Court, Suite 350.

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Nanette Parsons founded the specialty bra boutique Best Rack Around in Leesburg three years ago. It was named Retail Business of the Year just weeks before moving to a new storefront at Crescent Place.

Other finalists for the Service Business award were People Tactics, B3 Group, Select Construction and Champagne Services.

The Entrepreneur of the Year award was presented to Allen Kabiri, president and director of Select Construction in Ashburn. Finalists were Rusty Foster of Bow Tie Strategies, Kamal Gill of The Zone, and George Crawley of Champagne Cleaning Services.

The winner of the People’s Choice award was Mobile Hope, which provides supplies and resources to homeless and precariously housed youth. There were more than 6,000 online votes cast in that category this year.

The Retail Business of the Year award went to Best Rack Around. Nanette Parsons founded the specialty bra boutique in Leesburg three years ago. This month, the business will move into new retail condo space at Crescent Place. Parsons joked that if the bra shop didn’t work out, she knew there was an option to convert the business into a rib joint. In addition to helping women find the bras with the proper fit, Parsons has several programs that support breast cancer patients.

A week ago, Parsons found out that her skin cancer has returned. But that doesn’t matter, she told the audience.

“What matters is that we are all here today as a community.”

Other finalists in the Retail Business category were Plum Grove Cyclery, Crown Trophy, and CraftyStitches.

Loudoun Youth was named Nonprofit of the Year. In its 11th year, the organization runs a year-round schedule of youth leadership programs. Current President and CEO Jared Melvin was joined by founder Carol Kost in accepting the award.

Jennifer Andos and Paperfish Creative marketing and website firm won the Home-based Business Award. Other finalists were Access Point Public Affairs, Loudoun Clear Marketing, and Bow Tie Strategies.

Total Equine won the award for Tourism and Rural Business of the Year. Veterinarian Jay Joyce, a U.S. Naval Academy grad, said he had a job any boy would want, including driving a big truck and working outside all day. Other finalists were the Leesburg Animal Park, North Gate Vineyards, and the Vineyards and Winery at Lost Creek.

The Evergreen Sportsplex was named the Innovative Business of the Year. The 44-acre complex south of Leesburg includes four artificial turf fields and runs a full slate of youth sports clubs and camps. In accepting the award, Marketing Director Carolyn Dobson and Managing Director Chris Bourassa said the staff is not just focused on sports, but also on instilling leadership values in the athletes they train. Other finalists were Comfenergy (co-owned by Dobson’s husband Justin, marking the first time two family members have competed for the same prize during the awards), Cucinamore, StageCoach Theater Company, Mover Junction, and CycleLuv. nstyer@loudounnow.com

The Loudoun Workforce Resource Center will offer a Retail/ Seasonal Career Fair on Monday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the second floor of the Shenandoah Building, 102 Heritage Way NE, in Leesburg.

Participating employers include Target, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Vera Bradley, Toys ‘R’ Us, Home Goods, Under Armour, AMC Theatres, CDS-Costco, Wolf Furniture and CraftyStitches. These employers are recruiting for entry-level and experienced mid-level positions.

Macy’s, Toys ‘R’ Us, CraftyStitches, Target, AMC Theatres, and Home Goods have positions for 16- and 17-year-old workers.

To learn more about the center’s programs and services, go to loudoun.gov/wrc.

Middleburg Real Estate Celebrates Ashburn Opening Middleburg Real Estate |Atoka Properties celebrated the grand opening of its fourth office in Ashburn on Friday.

The office is located at 21020 Sycolin Road, Suite 100, in the Goose Creek Village center.

“We are excited to be moving into Ashburn, an area that represents the vitality, progress and sophistication that we emulate as a company,” stated Managing Partner and Owner Dan Kaseman.

The brokerage now has four locations in strategic areas across Northern Virginia; the others are in the downtown historic areas of Leesburg, Purcellville, and Middleburg.

Although a growing company, the firm works to maintain core values of volunteer community involvement, top-notch service, and adherence to the highest ethical and professional standards for their clients and colleagues.

Learn more at atokaproperties.com.

Chick-fil-A Opens in Sterling Chick-fil-A continued its DC-area expansion last week with the opening of a new restaurant in Sterling. Fans of the business lined up early to qualify for one of the 100 prizes of a year of free meals.

The restaurant is located at 22015 Dulles Retail Plaza.

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Gaithersburg, MD. With his transfer to the new Chick-fil-A at the Dulles 28 Centre off Waxpool Road, his family has moved to Sterling.

Summers also collected donations of children’s new and used books for The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington.

Harvest Ball Support PHILLIPS Programs PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families, a regional nonprofit helping youth with a variety of challenges and qualities succeed, will hold its second annual The Wine Country Harvest Ball on Nov. 19.

The black-tie optional masquerade ball at Salamander Resort & Spa features dinner, dancing to HRH, and a juried art show/sale by the Loudoun Arts Council.

The event benefits two PHILLIPS programs that serve Loudoun and the region: PHILLIPS Building Futures-Loudoun, an intensive trades and academic program for students, and PHILLIPS Family Partners, a home-based support and counseling program serving families and children with developmental, emotional and behavioral disabilities.

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Giant Reopens at Sterling Town Center Representatives of Giant Food celebrated the reopening of the renovated Sterling Town Plaza store with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday attended by local elected officials and shoppers. Located at 21800 Town Center Plaza, the renovated space provides customers with improved store departments and features that will save them time and money, representatives said.

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The Loudoun Chamber Foundation is accepting applications from Loudounbased nonprofits seeking financial assistance.

All of the chamber’s nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply for a foundation grant. The deadline is Dec. 1.

The foundation has awarded $16,000 in grants the past two years to support Loudoun Hunger Relief, the Children’s Science Center, Every Citizen Has Opportunities (ECHO), Loudoun Habitat for Humanity, Morven Park, Women Giving Back, the Loudoun Education Foundation, and SySTEMic Solutions.

“The Loudoun County Chamber is committed to investing in our community and supporting those organizations that are focused on improving the quality of life of our neighbors. There are so many local nonprofits doing outstanding work to serve Loudoun’s citizens, businesses and workforce, and we are privileged to be in a position to support their work,” stated Chamber President Tony

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Sterling Rotarians Sponsor Flag Tribute on Rt. 7 In advance of Veteran’s Day, motorists on Rt. 7 will see a new flag display this week—thanks to the Rotary Club of Sterling.

The club posted 100 American flags in front of The Bungalow Lakehouse on Saturday morning. The patriotic display doubles as a fundraiser to support the club’s scholarships and other charity activities. Club members and supporters donated $50 each to post a flag in memory of a loved one or personal hero.

Rotarian Marc Engelking, the owner of Fireworks Subs in One Loudoun and Sugarland Crossing, was one of the project organizers. He said the effort came together in just the past few weeks, but there are plans to expand the Flags for Heroes tribute next year, to 300 or maybe 500 flags as the more businesses and area residents get involved.

The club meets Mondays for lunch at the Bungalow Lakehouse. Learn more at sterlingrotary.org.

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The Rotary Club of Sterling is displaying 100 American flags along Rt. 7 as part of a Veteran’s Day salute.

Marshall House Hosts Vets Day Ceremony; Salute to Heroes Planned Several community programs will highlight the sacrifices of America’s military veterans on Friday.

The largest ceremony—co-sponsored by Loudoun County and the Town of Leesburg—will be held at the Leesburg home of Gen. George C. Marshall, beginning at 10:15 a.m.

The keynote speaker will be retired U.S. Army General Gordon R. Sullivan, who served as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as acting Secretary of the Army under President Bill Clinton. Sullivan is credited with leading the Army’s transition from its Cold War posture to today’s fighting force.

The free event also includes refreshments, first-floor tours of the Marshall

House and displays of vintage military vehicles and equipment. The Marshall House is located at 217 Edwards Ferry Road.

Another major event is organized by the Leesburg-based benefit Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes.

The “Salute Our Heroes Night” will be held at West Belmont Place in Lansdowne and will include dinner and inspirational entertainment to raise money for the nonprofit that works to rebuild the lives of severely wounded veterans of the global war on terror.

Among the highlights of the evening will be a dinner hosted by award-winning actor Jack Scalia of All My Children; a speech by SSG Shilo Harris, combat-wounded veteran and author of Steel Will, and Corporal Don-

ny Daughenbaugh, USMC (Ret.); and a comedic performance by U.S. Paralympics Team Bronze medalist and Loudoun Valley High School graduate Rob Jones, USMC (Ret.).

The evening begins with cocktails at 6:30 p.m.

“We invite folks from all across Northern Virginia and the Capitol Region to join us this Veterans Day as we honor all those who have stood on the wall in defense of our freedoms,” stated David Walker, CEO of the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes.

Tickets are $100 each and may be purchased at saluteheroes2016. eventbrite.com.

There also will be a number of smaller community ceremonies.

In Lovettsville, town leaders will

conduct a ceremony from 11 a.m. to noon at the war memorial in the Town Square. There will be speakers, music and the dedication of new memorial pavers.

At Monk’s BBQ in Purcellville, nonprofit The Wounded Walk will hold a fundraiser from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. to support its work to advance post-combat treatment for wounded veterans, as well as improve testing and treatment of traumatic brain injuries. The event includes food, music, mechanical bull riding and live music by The Plate Scrapers. Donations will be taken to ride the bull with the goal to raise $5,000 and have Mayor Kwasi Fraser take a ride. Learn more at thewoundedwalk.com.

Area Runners Hit the Trails for Veterans More than 200 runners took to the trails Sunday for the Loudoun Road Runners 10K Trail Run at Camp Highroad near Middleburg.

The annual race, held since 2012 on the weekend before Veterans Day, is a fundraising event for Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness located in Bluemont.

The Loudoun 10K Trail Race was started in 2012. This year the race brought in more than $51,000, race director and founder Jim Schatz said. “We’re raising money for a great cause, and the people who respond know that.”

Ken Falke, chairman and founder of Boulder Crest, was at the event on Sunday to lend encouragement to the runners. “Since it started, the race has contributed over $100,000 to Boulder Crest,” he said. “Fundraising for us is challenging. And community support from groups like the Road Runners help as we try to build our wellness programs.”

Last years’ winner, Nathan Dawes,

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was the first to cross the finish line with a time of 43:29:0. Rachel Lewis was the first female finisher with a time of 48:31:1. Gary Kipling, 73, was the oldest finisher in the race with a time of 57:21:4 and Luke Johnson, 9, the youngest finisher, managed the course in just under an hour at 58:23:3.

The trails of Camp Highroad in Middleburg challenged over 200 runners on Sunday during the Loudoun 10K Trail run.

Heckler & Koch, a defense manufacturer was the largest contributor to the event and more than 40 community volunteers helped with logistics at the site, Schatz said. Plans are already underway for next year’s race to

be held on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017.

For more information about the Loudoun Road Runners, go to loudounroadrunners.org. For information about Boulder Crest Retreat, go to bouldercrestretreat.org.

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There’s Nothing Old Fashioned about LoCo’s Cocktail Scene

BY JAN MERCKER

Bottoms up, LoCo: Cocktail culture has officially reached the exurbs.

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rom east to west, a cadre of creative mixologists is whipping up original cocktails with a focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients and unique (often locally made) spirits. From a fresh beet cocktail in Purcellville to house-infused rums in Ashburn, the art of the craft cocktail has found a home in Loudoun.

“We end up with a better product using fresh ingredients. We take the same approach to the cocktail that we do with the menu,” said Jason Miller, co-owner of The Wine Kitchen restaurants in Leesburg and Frederick, MD, and Purcellville’s WK Hearth with its downstairs Hugo cocktail lounge.

This fall, Miller’s team is wowing patrons with the rich, dark pink Heart Beet cocktail, made from homemade beet vodka, elderflower tonic syrup, and other fun ingredients. This new creation joins other original lounge favorites, like the “Here Today…Cardamaro,” made with bourbon, the Italian bitter spirit Cardamaro and local absinthe from Middleburg-based Mt. Defiance Cidery and Distillery.

And while great ingredients are key, having a bartender who engages with patrons is a big part of cocktail culture—especially when the drinks go beyond the old standards.

“Anytime that we do something that’s kind of off the wall, people are naturally curious. The cool part about cocktails is you can watch it being made,” Miller said. “You can be an active participant in the making of your cocktail. … That’s what separates a good bartender from somebody making drinks is the ability to engage with guests and walk them through the process.”

That kind of dynamic mixology is the claim to fame of Jeremy Ross (known to fans simply as Ross), manager and bartender at One Loudoun’s Sense of Thai St. and a local celebrity in the community where he works and makes his home. One of the area’s most engaging barmen, Ross is known for his dealer’s choice cocktails—person-

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Sam Scarlett mixes a cocktail at Hugo, a venture launched by the owners of The Wine Kitchen.

ally crafted for patrons—and his interactions with patrons from behind the bar.

“It’s personal. What makes great hospitality is when it’s personal and somebody cares about you and makes it about you instead of just copy and paste for everybody,” he said. “Every palate is different.”

But Ross isn’t just about style—he has a deep interest to the science of the cocktail and is known for his collection of reference books behind the bar. Recently, Ross has been working on using the sous vide cooking technique (in which food is vacuum sealed and heated in a temperature-controlled water bath) with spirits. Applying the technique to spirits allows for much faster infusion of fruits and herbs. On the Sense of Thai St. drinks menu are daiquiris made from sous vide rum infused with raspberry/mint and strawberry/basil. The daiquiris are named for Dave Arnold, author of “Liquid Intelligence,” an award-winning guide to the science of the cocktail and an inspiration for Ross’s experiments.

Like Arnold, many of the brains behind Loudoun’s best cocktail programs have culinary backgrounds. A passion for chemistry and experimentation have been the trademark of Colt Taylor

at Lovettsville’s Market Table Bistro— both in the kitchen and behind the bar.

The young mixologist, who started out in the kitchen with chef Jason Lage, took over the cocktail program last year, and is focused on local sourcing and made-from-scratch ingredients.

“I wanted the bar to match the intensity in the kitchen with a very similar theme,” Taylor said.

Taylor is becoming a master of locally sourced infusions. This summer, he bought bushels of local peaches for a peach-infused bourbon and created one of Market Table’s most popular cocktails—the Peach Sazerac. Another of Taylor’s favorites is a homemade orange/nasturtium gin using Seville oranges and the edible flowers grown in the restaurant’s own garden. The nasturtiums’ tangy, citrusy flavor is a perfect match for the juniper notes of the gin, he said.

And guests often fall back on another Market Table favorite, the New Fashioned, a twist on the classic old fashioned, made with a cardamom/ blood orange shrub (a sweetened vinegar-based syrup) instead of bitters and Taylor’s own orange-vanilla bourbon.

Locally sourced spirits are also big at one of the newest kids on the block in One Loudoun—Copperwood Tavern—which opened its second North-

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Copperwood Tavern’s Smoke N’ Barrel cocktail features gin distilled in Culpeper.

ern Virginia location in Ashburn in September.

Bar manager Jody Hessler spends time behind the bar on weekends, but during the week spends most of his time beating a path to Virginia distilleries, seeking products that are hard to find on retail shelves. The restaurant worked with Purcellville-based Catoctin Creek Distilling Company to create a specially made barrel of rye whiskey.

The Virginia Heritage Cask will be bottled later this month and released in December, Hessler said. And he sources modern-day moonshine from Culpeper’s Belmont Farm Distillery.

Some of Copperwood’s most popular cocktails include the Bacon Rebellion, a play on the old fashioned featuring homemade maple orange syrup and a bacon garnish, and the Commonwealth Mule made with Silver Fox vodka, produced near Norfolk.

For Hessler, who has spent more than two decades behind the bar, the key is in striking a balance—getting creative and original without getting too crazy.

“We kind of walk a fine line where we try to make it approachable for the guests and make a nice, balanced cocktail,” he said. jmercker@loudounnow.com

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Patrick Henry College Presents ‘Macbeth’

Friday, Nov. 11 and Saturday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m.; Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville.

Details: franklinparkartscenter.org

Patrick Henry College’s Eden Troupe will present its rendition of William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth,” with four performances starting Nov. 17.

Main Street Theatre Productions presents the classic story of Millie Dillmount who arrives in New York City in 1922 with the goal of marrying for money.

Enjoy madcap high jinks, fabulous tap numbers and jazzy tunes. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors.

The production marks the directorial debut of the husband-and-wife team of Christian and Lauren Fernandez.

Christian previously co-directed Eden Troupe’s production of “Henry V” and played Antonio in “Much Ado About Nothing.” Lauren previously played Princess Catherine of Valois in “Henry V” and Ruth Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

‘LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL’ Friday, Nov. 11 and Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m.; Sterling Elementary School, 201 W. Holly Ave., Sterling.

Details: sterlingplaymakers.com Sterling Playmakers presents the classic story of the March sisters growing up in Civil War era America. Tickets are $15.

EAT, DRINK AND BE LITERARY: AN EVENING WITH JOHN MUIR Saturday, Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m.; Hillsboro Old Stone School, 37098 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro.

Details: oldstoneschool.org Award-winning actor Lee Stetson who portrayed naturalist, philosopher and poet John Muir in Ken Burns’ documentary “Our National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” brings his acclaimed oneman show to Hillsboro as part of the

“Macbeth” encounters three witches in the Scottish moors who tell him that, one day, he will inherit Scotland’s throne. But he questions whether the prophecy will come true on its own or through his own heinous actions. Wrestling with

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From left, Olivia Cockley, Cory Gibbon and Abigail Olinski play the three witches in Patrick Henry College’s performance of “Macbeth.”

questions of fate, mortality and temptation, Macbeth must choose the lengths to which he will go to seize the throne.

The play will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, Friday, Nov. 18, Saturday, Nov. 19 and Sunday,

Old Stone School’s Eat, Drink and Be Literary series. Tickets are $15, $10 for teachers and veterans, and $5 for students 12 and older. Tickets include light fare. Local wine and beer will be for sale by the glass.

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Saturday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m.; Lucketts Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, Leesburg.

Sunday, Nov. 13, 4 p.m.; Waterford Old School, 40222 Fairfax Street, Waterford.

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Davis is known as one of the most emotive singers in bluegrass today, combining the influences of Bill Monroe with his own unique style and bluesy flavor.

Tickets are $15.

Nov. 20, at Patrick Henry College’s Town Hall, 10 Patrick Henry Circle in Purcellville. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at edentroupe. com.

Follow the Eden Troupe at facebook. com/edentroupe.

The Waterford Concert Series will host world-renowned pianist Alon Goldstein for the final performance of the 2016 series. The program includes works by J.S. Bach, Schubert, Bartok, Courtesy of Alon Debussy and Ginastera.

Goldstein Tickets are $30 for adults or $15 for students; ages 12 and younger are free.

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THE OLATE DOGS Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m.; Tally Ho Theatre, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg.

Details: tallyholeesburg.com Winners of “America’s Got Talent’s” seventh season, Richard and Nicholas Olate bring their fast-paced canine theatrical act to Leesburg. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door for this fully seated event.

RIDERS IN THE SKY: A SALUTE TO ROY ROGERS Thursday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m.; Franklin Park Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, Purcellville. Details: franklinparkartscenter.org Back by popular demand, Riders In The Sky features family-oriented favorites from Rogers’ long career brought to

This primitive blues-influenced Americana duo combines soulful vocals, percussive bass and aggressive, finger picking guitar. No cover.

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Friday, Nov. 11, 8:30 p.m.; Tally Ho Theatre, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg.

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Tuesday, Nov. 15, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Hail & Hog, 20376 Exchange St., Ashburn.

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This tribute band captures the essence of ’90s superstars Sublime and has built its own following. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show.

Enjoy an evening of shopping and mingling through this new networking organization. Admission is free.

LIVE MUSIC: SCOTT KURT AND MEMPHIS 59 Friday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.; Smokehouse Live, 1602 Village Market Blvd., Leesburg. Details: smokehouse-live.com Energized, hard-charging country from this Smokehouse regular. No cover.

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Saturday, Nov. 12, 8:30 p.m.; Tally Ho Theatre, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg.

Details: tallyholeesburg.com With a sound as eclectic as DMB, shifting from Celtic to folk-rock to acoustic funk, Crowded Streets recreates the DMB experience with talent and stage appeal. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 day of show.

LIVE MUSIC: SWAMPCANDY Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m.; Smokehouse Live, 1602 Village Market Blvd., Leesburg.

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10 a.m.-6 p.m.; in and around Lovettsville. Details: catoctinart.com.

This year’s self-guided tour features eight stops, all of which feature both resident and guest artists. The tour includes 21 artists in a range of media including ceramics, jewelry, fiber arts, photography, painting, printmaking, metalwork, basketry, and mixed media.

YOUNG LIFE WESTERN LOUDOUN BARN DANCE Saturday, Nov. 12, 7-11 p.m.; Lincoln Equestrian Center, 18717 Lincoln Road, Purcellville. Contact: 540-2704396

Thursday, Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m.; Tally Ho Theatre, 19 W. Market St., Leesburg.

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Come in your country best and enjoy Virginia reels and square dancing.

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Alt country/Americana from Raleigh, NC. Local favorite Ken Wenzel opens.

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Saturday, Nov. 12, 8-10:30 a.m.; Between The Hills Community Center, 11762 Harpers Ferry Road, Purcellville. Contact: 540-668-6504 The Between the Hills Community Association hosts its fall country breakfast and craft sale. Free-will offering accepted.

PURCELLVILLE TURKEY TROT Sunday, Nov. 13, 8 a.m.; Loudoun Valley Community Center, 320 W School St., Purcellville.

Details: pvilleturkeytrot.shutterfly.com The event is a fundraiser for the community center advisory board, including scholarships and financial aid for its pre-school, after/before school care and day care programs. On-site registration is 4-6 p.m. Saturday at the community center and starting at 6:15 a.m. on race day. Registration is $35.

PHILOMONT VFD HARVEST BRUNCH Sunday, Nov. 13, 8-11:30 a.m.; Philomont Volunteer Fire Department, 36650 Jeb Stuart Road, Philomont.

Contact: 540-338-5792 The Philomont VFD auxiliary hosts a country breakfast fundraiser. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children 5-12, and free for children 4 and younger.

LOVETTSVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY LECTURE: THE GREAT LOVETTSVILLE PLANE CRASH Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m.; Saint James UCC, 10 E. Broad Way, Lovettsville.

Contact: 540-822-9194 Local attorney and journalist John Flannery tells the story of the 1940 plane crash near Lovettsville that still lives on in the memories of long-time residents. Admission is free but donations are welcome.

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tion to journalism when she was inducted as a 2016 Loudoun Laurels honoree.

In September, Nadler was named to the Virginia School Boards Association 2016 Media Honor Roll.

“It has been an amazing year—truly a partnership between a dedicated staff, valued advertisers and community members who contribute their financial support and expertise to promote community journalism in Loudoun,” Norman Styer said.

“Without all three of those elements, our community doesn’t have reporters sitting through school boundary meetings, county supervisors budget sessions and other important events that you’re not likely to see trending in your Twitter feed,” he said.

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is working with the incredibly talented photographer Doug Graham, whose photos make every story pop and add a lush visual element to all our slice-oflife stories.”

Graham, a former Loudoun Times-Mirror photographer who went on to cover national and international news, retired from the Economist Group in Washington, DC, in 2014. He was one of the first to call and offer to help.

“It’s a great gift to do journalism that really matters to readers—and I don’t take that lightly,” Graham said.

He’s particularly appreciative of community journalism, saying he never saw any solid evidence that the work he did in the national sphere had any impact on readers. “Right now, I know I’ve had an impact working for Loudoun Now and it’s only been 12 months and there is a boatload of evidence,” he said, referencing many appreciative letters and emails.

Now executive editor of Parks & Recreation magazine, Samantha Bartram also has pitched on a freelance basis.

“I cut my journalistic teeth at Leesburg Today alongside people who truly understood the importance of providing comprehensive local news coverage,” she said.

Bartram says she “can’t wait to see what the future holds for this scrappy operation and the extraordinary folks with whom I’m honored to work.”

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many fans.

“I get a lot of surprised looks when I tell people we’ve started a new newspaper—and that it’s taking off,” he said.

Greene says the most exciting thing for him is “working with an amazing team with deep roots in the county and a vision of what a good paper should be, and do.” And part of that is to be “an advocate for the community, through the belief that the better informed the public is, the better off the community will be,” he said.

The experience and teamwork has paid off, with continuing compliments from the public and awards. In May, Loudoun Now was named the Best New Business in the Town of Leesburg’s annual Business Awards. In September, Morton was recognized for her dedica-

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“We know Loudoun advertisers value in-the-mail delivery and they trusted us to deliver editorial content that helps get their messages seen by their customers,” she said. “The loyalty of longtime advertisers gave us a great start and we’ve continued to grow. I don’t know what I would do without my Loudoun Now family. We are small but mighty.”

Reporter Renss Greene is the staff ’s lone import, a native of Virginia’s Middle Peninsula who was working in the Northern Neck at the Rappahannock Record before joining Loudoun Now in its second month of operation. His comprehensive coverage of Loudoun’s government and activities has earned him

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Community Honors Loudoun’s Enslaved Families A photo essay by Mike Aron/Loudoun Now Religious leaders gathered at the Belmont Slave Cemetery on Sunday afternoon to remember the men and women who lived in captivity in Loudoun County.

In its second year, Loudoun Freedom Center’s wreath-laying ceremony called attention to the enslaved communities at the former Coton and Belmont plantations nearby. Leaders of area churches spoke and students read the names of some of those buried in the cemetery, tucked in the woods on the southeast corner of the Rt. 7/Belmont Ridge Road intersection.

Members of the Loudoun Freedom Center have said that the construction of the Rt. 7/Belmont Ridge Road interchange has encroached on the sacred site.

County government leaders said they have taken measures to ensure that the cemetery is protected for the duration of the construction project.

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the county saying ‘build that bridge.’”

Floreen pointed out that the official position of the Montgomery County Council has long been that any bridge construction work should be in Point of Rocks, MD—the site of Rt. 15’s bridge. She said the council hasn’t had a discussion on a new crossing in years.

In fact, she said, Maryland might even stand to lose from a new bridge.

“Frankly, from my perspective, it would create a big sucking sound in terms of jobs in Northern Virginia,” Floreen said. “It would get people from that part of Maryland.”

Loudoun Economic Development Advisory Committee Chairwoman Sharon Virts said the committee plans to assemble an ad hoc committee to look at next steps to plan and lead initiatives for a new bridge crossing. But Virginia ends on the Potomac’s southern shore—and so far, so might any hope for a new bridge.

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McAuliffe’s administration—support a new crossing, Maryland leadership isn’t so sure. McAuliffe and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan have debated in the past which state should pay for the bridge, and Hogan and the Maryland Department of Transportation have said they are focusing on improving the existing bridges across the Potomac.

From the Virginia perspective, the most likely spots for a new bridge cross into Montgomery County, MD. Montgomery County Council President Nancy Floreen said the American Legion Bridge that carries I-495 across the river needs to be expanded. However, she doesn’t see the demand for a bridge that some in the business community claim to see.

“I’m one of the few people who believes that we should construct more roads, but at the end of the day, I don’t see a bridge over the Potomac as gathering any political traction,” Floreen said. She said that aside from a few business leaders, “I have not been approached by hordes of people from up

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Panel members said it would take pressure from businesses to make a new bridge happen. Buchanan gave the example of hotel giant Marriott, which won multi-million-dollar incentive packages from Montgomery County and Maryland state governments when it was looking for new headquarters and threatened to leave the state entirely.

“The Marriotts have got to step up and say, ‘the bridge continues to be one of the biggest aggravations we have’…

They moved here because of the workforce, they moved here because of the proximity to the federal government, and they’ve got to start acting like corporate citizens,” Buchanan said.

After the panel, Parsons said any realistic prospect for a bridge also includes a toll to cover the costs.

“There’s so much demand for that crossing that the revenues it would produce from even a modest toll would more than pay for the facility,” Parsons said. “So this isn’t a question of this taking away money from other projects.

It’s actually a potential future funding source.”

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Bobbie Gaskins

On Sunday, November 6, 2016 Bobbie, beloved wife, mother and grandmother passed away in Leesburg, VA from complications of Alzheimer’s disease and leukemia. She is survived by her loving husband, Lt. Col. James Gaston USAF Ret. and loving sons James, Jr. (Anne) and Mark D. (Christy) and four wonderful grandchildren; Kimberly, Sarah, Michael and John Paul.

Bobbie was born in Coleman, Texas on August 31, 1941 and graduated from high school in Graham, Texas. She attended Midwestern University and worked as a fashion model while a student. She met her future husband on a blind date just weeks before his scheduled departure for an assignment to Italy. A whirlwind courtship and marriage proposal followed. Bobbie received her engagement ring and airline ticket in the mail and making her first airline flight joined him in Rome where they were married. Thus began a wonderful loving marriage that has lasted over 54 years. As her sons reached college age Bobbie embarked on a working career that took

her from homemaker to working at the executive level of several large corporations. She became an executive assistant to a vice president of Satellite Business Systems charged with establishing offices at the cape for satellite launches. She went on to become the executive assistant to the founder and CEO of MCI and several of his vice presidents. She culminated her career by becoming the executive assistant to the father of the internet; a very challenging position requiring her to interface with dignitaries world-wide.

Bobbie retired after 17 years in the workforce and she and her husband built their dream home in Leesburg, VA. A visitation is scheduled for Thursday, November 10, 2016 between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm with a Prayer Service starting at 7:30 pm at Colonial Funeral Home, 201 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA 20176. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:30 am at Saint John the Apostle Catholic Church, 55 Oakcrest Manor Drive NE, Leesburg, VA 20176. Interment will be at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed to the family at colonialfuneralhome.com.

Darryl Fontain Moss

At the age of 55 departed this life on Friday, October 28, 2016, at his residence in Herndon, VA. He was born on May 8, 1961 to the late Henry Spurgeon “Jim” Moss, III and Helen Fitzgerald Moss of Reston, VA. Darryl leaves to cherish his memory a loving mother, Helen Moss; three uncles, Major J. Wells (Shirley) of

Oxon Hill, MD; Deacon Donnie C. Fitzgerald (Deac Alisare) of Woodbridge, VA and Alfonza L. Fitzgerald (Saundra) of Reston, VA, a host of cousins, relatives and friends. Viewing was held from on Friday, November 4, 2016 and Saturday, November 5, 2016 at Heritage Fellowship Church, 2501 Fox Mill Road, Reston, VA 20191. Interment was held at the Moss’ Family cemetery, 4245 Lewiston Road, Bumpass, VA 23024. Arrangements by Lyles Funeral service, serving Northern VA, Eric S. Lyles, Director,LIC. VA.

His faith was a very important part of his life and he devoted a lot of his time to Eastside Baptist Church where he was a member. Howard loved to help people and did whatever he could to lend a hand to others.

In addition to his wife and his parents, Howard was preceded in death by two sons, David and Richard “Butch” Lance; and one brother, William George Lance.

Howard is survived by his son, Carl “Buddy” Lance of Harpers Ferry, WV; daughter, Joyce Harlow of Leesburg, VA; brother, Fred (Mandy ) Lantz of Leesbury, VA; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial may be directed to Eastside Baptist Church, 370 Trexler Road, Salisbury, NC 28146.

Howard Richard Lance, 78, of Salisbury, passed away on Sunday, November 6, 2016. He was the loving husband of the late Shirley Walker Lance to whom he was married to for over 50 years.

Howard was born on May 15, 1938 to the late George and Bertha (Selders) Lantz in Preston County, West Virginia.

He worked as a Truck Driver for Hazel Construction in Chantilly, Virginia for most of his life.

Howard proudly served his county in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.

A visitation will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016 from 6-8 pm at Powles Staton Funeral Home in Rockwell. Mr. Lance will lie in state at Eastside Baptist Church in Salisbury on Saturday, November 12, 2016 from 10:30-11 am prior to the service which will be held at 11 am at the church , with Rev. Joe Black, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow the service in the church cemetery. Military Honors will be provided by the Rowan County Veterans Honor Guard and the NC National Guard.

Powles Staton Funeral Home of Rockwell, honored provider of Veterans Funeral Care, is assisting the Lance Family. Online condolences may be made at www.powlesfuneralhome.com.

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The Region’s Divide This week, we’ve been focused on the political divide facing the county. As the dust settles on the election, there appears to be new interest in addressing a long-standing regional divide—one called the Potomac River.

It has been decades since Loudoun’s local government leaders have seriously discussed the merits of building an additional river crossing. It was a hot topic—regionally and locally—in the early ’90s, but eventually it was shelved because of concerns it would spur development. Most recently, state transportation authorities last year conducted an assessment that concluded that regional commuters would be better served by adding more lanes—toll lanes—to the American Legion Bridge.

Transportation planners in the 1960s had more vision. That’s when a river crossing east of Point of Rocks was first penciled in on regional maps. Although other elements of those plans largely came to fruition, the new bridge was forgotten or erased.

The development came—and so did long backups on the roads leading to the existing crossings—on Rt. 15, which is ill-equipped to handle such volumes of interstate traffic, and the rush-hour parking lot called the Capital Beltway.

It is in Loudoun’s and the region’s interest to take a new look at the project. It is not just the potential for economic opportunities and a boost to Dulles Airport that should be a focus of the study, although they are powerful incentives. An additional bridge is needed to allow residents to get from here to there; that’s what transportation planning is supposed to be about.

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[ LETTERS ] Thank You Editor: Another successful Halloween Block Party is now history. We must thank Mother Nature for absolutely perfect weather. Thousands upon thousands ascended on 21st Street in old town Purcellville in costume or to check out the costumes.

We awarded over $2,000 in cash and trophies to the best costumes in six categories. The judges had some tough decisions to make this year. Let us give a big thank you to County Chairwoman Phyllis Randall, Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce President Tony Howard, Purcellville Vice Mayor Karen Jimmerson, Councilman Ryan Cool and Magnolias owner Shawn Malone.

Great job Judges. For the third year now Dave Wright was the emcee who conducted all the festivities and also kicked off this year’s Block Party with a performance by Last Ham Standing; the crowd loved them.

The most important part of this event is the generosity of the sponsors. Without them there would be no Purcellville Halloween Block Party. A big thank you goes to Ken Nichols, for the use of his parking lot where all the action takes place. Our monster sponsors are Matt Bowe Build Design, Purcellville Pediatric Dentistry, Mountain View Medical Associates, House Paws Animal Hospital of Round Hill, Dominion Tea and La Dolce Vita Gelato. Also Nichols Hardware, Catoctin Creek Distillery, Casa Tequila Bar & Grille, Western Loudoun Chiropractic, Bank of Clarke County, Long & Foster Lydia Clark, Nichols, It’s Bazaar on 21st Street, Hunt Country Jewelers, Atoka Properties, John Chapman Family, Town Council Member Doug McCollum, Magnolias at the Mill and Middleburg Bank.

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Block Party for your donations: Dilzer Eye Care, Sarah Huntington Photography, Joy’s Dream Bakery, My Deli and Café, Vice Mayor Karen Jimmerson, Town Council Member Ryan Cool, Town Council Member Kelli Grim, Town Council Member Nedim Ogelman, Town Council Member Chris Bledsoe and Raven’s Revenge.

A special thank you to the Town of Purcellville for the use of the Police and Public Works departments; Melanie Scoggins, manager of Parks and Recreation; and Town Manager Rob Lohr. His staff is awesome. We even saw him out there on the street lending a helping hand. Thank You. Pictures from this year’s event are being posted on Facebook and purcellvillehalloween.com.

See you next year.

— Michael Oaks, Kim Patterson, Hillary Coley Halloween Block Party organizers

Disturbing Editor: The reporting of the passing of Janet Reno has omitted a rather disturbing part of her career, specifically that part of her career that engineered false convictions during the daycare hysteria of the 1980s. In the ’80s, throughout the country overzealous prosecutors were prosecuting innocent parents and daycare workers on the most meager of evidence. One of the more troubling cases involving Janet Reno was that of Bobby Finje; Janet Reno should not be praised.

The media seems to be white-washing that part of her career. Unfortunately, in Loudoun County the same tactics are used. Lessons were learned in the ’80s but evidently not

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Editor: Whereas the county’s Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management now has to beg for funding that will ensure the health and safety of our taxpayers, it is time for Loudoun’s 40,000 plus senior citizens to rain shame on our Board of Supervisors for its lack of foresight and demonstrated willingness to cater to those who some call our elite taxpayers.

It is unconscionable for our Board of Supervisors to even consider “giving” $7.5 million in leftover funds from last fiscal year to the school system when our Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management has a shortfall of more than $2 million which was necessary to fund overtime due to a severe shortage of personnel.

It boggles the mind of this 86-year-old former firefighter that we have a Board of Supervisors that loves to give away our tax dollars to organizations that do little to raise a share of their necessary funding, love to give tax exemptions to companies with the resources to pay their full share of taxes, and even donate our tax dollars to some communities simply because a threat

of rain cancelled their annual fair.

In addition, our current Board of Supervisors is responsible for the new Loudoun County “cash cow” with funds pouring into the “charitable with our tax dollars board” pot from the convoluted ambulance charge program. The funds generated by the new ambulance fees are 100 percent garnered by the men and women of our Loudoun County Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Management and yet our Board of Supervisors kept nearly the entire income for its own use while tossing a few funding crumbs to the Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management.

This old firefighter now calls upon all our 40,000-plus senior citizens of Loudoun County to demand that our Board of Supervisors turn over sufficient funds from last fiscal year’s surplus to allow our Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management to initiate a recruitment program that will ensure the health and safety of all Loudoun County citizens and also amend the current funding program for ambulance fees to fairly share the proceeds with our Loudoun County Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management Department. It is time our Board of Supervisors stops giving away our tax dollars while ignoring the health and safety needs of our citizens.

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We spent about an hour the other day at Leesburg’s Halloween parade, with my 5-month-old daughter in a cute pumpkin outfit, and my 10-yearold son in his grim reaper getup. (The latter is on year two of no longer wanting to be a hero, and preferring to be legitimately scary.)

Where we were standing on King Street, there were two teenage girls behind me. The political floats were mostly towards the end, and the first one I noticed was the Loudoun Democrats/Clinton float. I heard the two young ladies behind me say, “Yay, Clinton.” (Not really out loud, “Yay!! Clinton!!!! WOOHOO!!”

Rather they said it almost to each other, sort of each reassuring the other that’s who they were supporting).

Hard upon hearing that, Phyllis Randall, the chairman of the Board of Supervisors, walked up to hand out candy to the kids in front of me, and we exchanged pleasantries. She said, “Happy Halloween,” and kept moving.

I glanced back at the two young ladies behind me, and they were both looking down at their phones.

Though I resisted saying anything (my wife was eternally thankful), what I wanted to say was: “Why are you cheering Hillary Clinton, while the first African American woman chairman in Loudoun County history, who as far as I know, isn’t under investigation by the FBI, doesn’t get as much as a wave and a thank you?”

The reason I thought better of asking them this, of course, is that it is not their fault. And when I say not their fault, I don’t mean it isn’t their responsibility to know about and engage in their communities. It is indeed, even as teenagers. But my hunch is their parents may not have recognized the county chairman either if they had been standing there.

Many people at the parade probably didn’t.

The same Phyllis Randall who made it her mission to focus on ethics as an almost singular purpose of her first several months as chairman could possibly teach a thing or two to our federal candidates (Note: as of this writing we do not know who won on Nov. 8), but more importantly we could all learn a thing or two about making sure that we, as citizens, are not missing what is happening with us and to us at the state and local level.

After all, most of the law enforcement, public safety, and criminal justice decisions, and virtually all transportation, land use, commercial zoning and planning decisions, in conjunction with utilities and other infrastructure … in other words, to the extent that government is involved, the lion’s share of the actual things that allow the citizens of

Loudoun County to get around, to work, communicate, etc., is mostly made by county and town governments. In a way, the state has a larger role, but the federal role is—or rather it should be—much smaller, on almost every issue other than foreign policy.

This is not an anti-American sentiment. Our Constitution was designed this way. James Madison said it best in Federalist 39, when he spoke of a Federal vs. National (“Consolidated”) Constitution: “... [T]he local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres to the general authority, than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere. In this relation then the proposed Government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.”

Since we are one of only four states with odd-year elections, it shouldn’t be surprising that the turnout is a little lower than the presidential years, but in the case of 2011 and 2015—the last two state Senate elections as well as that of Loudoun County’s boards and constitutional officers—the turnout percentage in Virginia was below 30 percent ... the lowest it’s been since we began actively tracking it in 1976.

As Americans in a federal system, all of us have the responsibility—and our kids will share that responsibility sooner than we think—to engage in our local and state government at least to the same degree, and arguably to a much higher degree, than we do our federal government.

So make sure your kids know that every year is an election year in Virginia, and most of the real work of governing is done at the local and state level, and thus (a few notable Town Councils notwithstanding), most of the real decision-making on who gets to govern us here in Loudoun County will be made next November (and two years hence).

For it is on the odd-numbered years when we decide who to send of our friends and neighbors to Richmond, to 1 Harrison St., and to Education Court in Ashburn, to assert whatever level of “inviolable sovereignty” or autonomy we the people deem fit.

And if you’re completely torn on what to say to your kid about who, why, and what just happened Tuesday, just say, “Next November is more important, do you know who your state and local representatives are?”

Butch Porter is a Leesburg business owner and local commentator.

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substitute drivers, trainers and attendants have left, according to the school system. In that time, 132 have been hired on. While there is a national trend of a need for more school bus drivers, Loudoun County’s shortage is worse than neighboring school districts.

Lewis noted that, while Loudoun offers its drivers a hourly rate higher than its neighbors, it does not provide as many hours or as competitive benefits. Two years ago, Loudoun’s School Board adopted a new policy that employees must work at least 21 hours a week to qualify for health care benefits. How much the employee pays for coverage is now on a sliding scale, based on how many hours an employee works per week. Other nearby jurisdictions provide full benefits for all drivers, according to Lewis.

“We’re analyzing all of this and we’ll come to you with some suggestions and changes to consider,” Lewis told the committee.

Board members also discussed how to improve routes to shorten students’ wait times and bus rides, which have reached 90 minutes one way for some. One suggestion offered by board members was to have central pickup spots throughout rural Loudoun, and fewer pickups and drop-offs at students’ doors.

Lewis said that is worth considering, but noted that if one parent on a route can’t deliver their children to the bus stop, that would likely require a second bus to provide door-to-door service.

Board members brought up several other concerns that they have been hearing from parents, including a lack of communication to families, but Lewis’ answer to almost every one of them was the need for more staff, particularly drivers.

“The driver shortage is our main cause of the transportation problems right now,” he said. “Hopefully, we can get more people in here and start solving some of these problems.”

He told them, as discussions begin on fiscal year 2018’s budget, to expect requests for more money to solve some of the busing issues.

In an interview after the meeting, Rose said she would be in favor of targeting more funds to improve bus service.

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in fees?” he said. “The fees are getting out of hand.”

Maloney said those costs should not be charged to students’ parents but instead be shared by the entire tax base.

Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge) countered that people who do not have children in schools don’t want to be nickel and dimed either. She said she appreciates her colleagues’ perspective, but added, “I am not a fan of having the government micromanage every little thing you do. … This is not a mandate to charge, but it gives us the freedom to do so.”

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The School Board is considering asking state lawmakers to change that rule.

The board is scheduled to adopt its 2016 Legislative Program on Nov. 15, and one of the new requests for Loudoun’s delegation in Richmond is to champion legislation that would allow Virginia’s public schools to charge for bus service “to and from optional educational activities.”

That would include programs outside of a students’ home school, such as Thomas Jefferson or Loudoun’s Academy of Science.

because it could mean that students who cannot afford the bus fare are prohibited from attending Thomas Jefferson or other magnet programs.

Hornberger and Tom Marshall (Leesburg) responded that the school system makes sure students are not excluded from programs because of finances. For example, it waives athletic fees for students from low-income households.

“I’m concerned about future boards,” Sheridan added.

Eric DeKenipp (Catoctin) and Joy Maloney (Broad Run) also opposed the idea. DeKenipp said, as is, parents feel “nickel and dimed” as they’re required to pay fees for their students to park on campus, play sports or take Advanced Placement exams.

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Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn), who supported the proposal, told his colleagues at a Oct. 25 meeting that the intention would be to provide school leaders the flexibility to charge families for bus service, instead of just eliminating it all together.

“This gives us that optional flexibility. … Otherwise, will be in the same situation as we were two years ago and not have any tools with which to work—it’s either all or nothing,” he said.

He noted that Virginia schools are not required to provide bus service at all.

However, if a student lives more than 1.5 miles from his or her home school and is not provided transportation, they are released from compulsory attendance laws.

School Board member Brenda Sheridan (Sterling) said she opposed the idea,

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40850 ROBIN CIR, LEESBURG

Nov. 10 – 16, 2016

PRICED TO SELL! Custom-built stone, brick, & cedar estate on 3.54 acres with features & amenities for lifestyle full of entertaining, leisure, and enjoyment. Features include heated indoor pool, sports pub, reg. racquetball court with hoop, audio/video system with 2 home theaters, rooftop deck, pic. pavilion with gas barbecue, potting shed, 2+ 2-car garages, & caretaker apartment. No HOA APPOINTMENT ONLY. $1,499,000 Scott Buzzelli • (540) 454-1399 Peter Pejacsevich • (540) 270-3835

14774 MILLTOWN RD, WATERFORD

38619 STEVENS RD, LOVETTSVILLE

Fall in love with this private 14 acre historic country home in Waterford VA. This 1813 farmhouse boasts vintage charm with modern additions. The new gourmet kitchen with custom cabinets, great room and morning room is perfect for today’s living. The large 2nd floor game room allows a getaway for separate play. Pool, deck and patio gets you outdoors to enjoy the beautiful surroundings. $1,495,000 Ryan Clegg • (703) 209-9849 Megan Clegg • (703) 209-9429

Originally built in 1829, Oakland was disassembled and completely rebuilt in 2008.

The Federal Colonial architecture boasts large living and dining rooms. Set peacefully at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and backing Harpers Ferry National Park, Oakland pairs historic charm with the durability of a new home. Minutes from MARC train. Adjacent 5.9 acres for sale (combined 12.8 acres). $1,325,000 Ryan Clegg • (703) 209-9849 Megan Clegg • (703) 209-9429

20141 COLCHESTER RD, PURCELLVILLE

15826 OLD WATERFORD RD, PAEONIAN SPRINGS

Antique brick and stone set the stage for this country property on 6.5 beautiful acres with mountain views. 7 fireplaces and solid cherry floors are part of the reason this home is so special. Main house features 5 bedrooms with 3 1/2 baths, large great room with views , separate dining, lovely sunroom. Carriage house wing has two bedrooms/ large living area/kitchen area. By apt only-alarm is set. $1,299,000 Scott Buzzelli • (540) 454-1399 Peter Pejacsevich • (540) 270-3835

Two historic homes moved and rebuilt in 2005! Unique blend of old with all new systems and conveniences! 12 Ft Ceilings, 10 Ft Ceilings, 7 Fireplaces, gourmet kitchen with granite, stainless steel, and grand piano base made into the island, gorgeous dining room with built in corner cabinets, grand living room, music room, chandeliers, lovely wood floors, full finished lower level. Reassembled 2200 sq ft post and beam event barn/garage! $899,000 Joy Thompson • (540) 729-3428 • JoyThompsonHomes.com

36581 LEITH LN, MIDDLEBURG Idyllic 10-ac MIddleburg farm features spring-fed pond, 3 paddocks, small stable, stone spring house, scenic grounds with exquisite landscaping, tree-lined drive. Large bright rooms warmed by generous use of fieldstone, heart pine, other natural materials. Multiple FPs, 4BRs, office with separate entry & parking. 4BR farmhouse c.1815, fully updated. Google “Youtube Kim Hurst Presents” for video. $899,900 Kim Hurst • (703) 932-9651 • YourCountryHome.net

40276 IRON LIEGE CT, LEESBURG

23608 ROUNDUP PL, ALDIE

13722 HIDDENHOLLOW LN, LEESBURG

7000+ square foot stone-front home at end of quiet cul-de-sac in beautiful Beacon Hill. Great location, tucked away & backing to acres of grassy community open space.

Craftmark-built 5BR home features multiple FPs & 2 bright sunrooms to let in daylight & view. Established luxury community; commuter’s dream, just off Greenway. Ken Culbert Elementary School. Google “Youtube Kim Hurst Presents” for video tour. $849,000 Kim Hurst • (703) 932-9651 • YourCountryHome.net

ALMOST 4 ACRES IN ALDIE! Great condition/hardly lived-in home in private Little River Farm community. Recently landscaped with privacy fence, inviting front porch, hardwood floors in excellent condition, gourmet kitchen with granite and stainless steel appliances, formal dining/living, 4 large bedrooms upstairs with 3 full baths. Walk-up basement has spacious rec room, full bath and lots of storage! Large lot! $699,000 Laura Farrell • (540) 395-1680 Ted Zimmerman • (540) 905-5874

Welcome to Walnut Hill! Bucolic retreat less than an hour from DC in the countryside.

Private, 11 wooded and open acres with pond. Almost 3000 sq. ft. of finished space.

New kitchen with eat-in room overlooking pond. Stainless steel appliances, gas cooking, quartz counters, cherry cabinetry. Custom walnut built-in bookcases (harvested from property) in living room. Total restoration/renovation. $629,000 Ryan Clegg • (703) 209-9849 Megan Clegg • (703) 209-9429

703 PIPERS BROOK DR, PURCELLVILLE

314 LOUNSBURY CT NE, LEESBURG

1395 GEORGES MILL RD E, LOVETTSVILLE

Beautifully updated home with flawless front porch! Fresh paint. Large private lot in Village Case with amazing back yard and additional private parking area (property extends to trees behind fence in rear), basement framing, plumbing and electric rough in completed! Come fall in love with Purcellville’s small town charm and make this house your home today. Loaded with upgrades! $499,000 Sam Chapman • (540) 454-7776 Ryan Clegg • (703) 209-9849

Incredible location, walking distance to old town and on .60 acres! Main level living with 3 bedrooms, 2 bath on huge .60 acre lot! Gorgeous kitchen with granite, beautiful wood floors, lovely deck overlooking very private large yard, partially finished basement with walk-out, 2 car garage, at the end of a culdesac! The perfect location! $449,000 Joy Thompson • (540) 729-3428 JoyThompsonHomes.com

Build your waterfront dream home with undeveloped open conservation lands with mountain and national park views. Improved lot has an approved well and 4 bedroom perc site. The 7 acre, spring fed, lake is stocked with a variety of fish. Walk to the Potomac River, enjoy a mountain sunset or a starry country sky. Conveniently located near the MARC train. Welcome home. $299,000 Ryan Clegg • (703) 209-9849 Megan Clegg • (703) 209-9429