time for jazz & pizzazz
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Get ready for Jazz & Pizzazz. ChantillyHigh’s 23rd annual musical extrava-ganza is set for Wednesday, May 20,through Saturday, May 23, at 7 p.m.
each night, in the school auditorium.Tickets are $10 at www.chantillychoral.org and
click on the box-office icon; at the door, if avail-able; and during school lunches in the cafeteria.For more information, call Laura Thomas at 703-930-4282.
Performing will be the Touch of Class ShowChoir, directed by Glenn Cockrell; the ChantillyJazz Band, directed by Keith Taylor; and theChantilly Combo, directed by Michael Fuchs. Cho-reographer is Sarah Pramstaller, a Chantillyalumni who’s sung and danced on Broadway.
Photo by Bonnie Hobbs/Centre View
Performers during last year’s Jazz & Pizzazz really wowed the audience.
Time for Jazz & PizzazzChantilly High Schoolpresents its annualmusical extravaganza.
By Bonnie Hobbs
Centre View
Shortly after the Virginia Techtragedy — still reeling fromthe shock, but wanting to do
something positive — WestfieldHigh theater students held a me-morial cabaret in honor of one oftheir own, Reema Samaha. Now,past and current students are do-ing it again, next Friday, May 22,at 7 p.m. in Westfield’s auditorium.
Hosting this RemembranceCabaret are her parents, Joe andMona Samaha, with support fromthe school’s Theater Boosters.Reema inspired them and, becauseof her love of dance and theater,
her parents wanted to pay tributeto her memory in song and dance.The show will feature currentWestfield students and alumniwho’ll sing, dance, recite poetryand show visual art projects cre-ated in her honor.
“What has struck me most aboutorganizing this cabaret is the num-ber of Westfield students andgraduates who called and/or e-mailed me, asking to perform,”said LuAnn McNabb. “All of themeither knew or loved Reema orknew of her and admired her, andthey used their artistic talents toreflect their grief and pain.”
Admission is free, but donationsare requested to the Reema J.
Samaha Memorial ScholarshipFund, which provides scholarshipsto Westfield and Herndon Highseniors, and/or to the Angel Fund.The latter was created to addressissues that contributed to the Vir-ginia Tech tragedy: privacy lawsand information sharing, campussafety and security, mental healthand gun laws.
Scholarships go to graduatingseniors best exemplifying Reema’sattributes, including academic ex-cellence, exceptional character,openness of mind and respect fordiversity. Past recipients wereHerndon High’s Jaime Hughes, in2008; Westfield’s Chelsea Stenger
Angel Fund Cabaret for Reema Samaha
Original painting
by Patrick McNabb
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By Bonnie Hobbs
Centre View
Neither the judge impos-ing the sentence, northe victim on whose be-
half he did so, were particularlypleased that Charles Lamonte Pol-lard received just 15 years inprison for rape, robbery and ab-duction with intent to defile.
“I received a letter from the vic-tim which indicates that she reluc-tantly accepts the plea agree-ment,” said Fairfax County CircuitCourt Judge David Schell. Doingso closed a horrific chapter in herlife and kept her from having torelive her ordeal during a trial.
Actually, Pollard’s punishmentwas a long time in coming becausethe crimes happened in Fair Lakesin 1992. Because of substance-abuse issues at that time, he “hasno recollection of these events,”said his attorney, Robert Frank.But the victim will never forget.
On Nov. 3, 1992, a 36-year-oldFair Lakes woman attended an
adult-educa-tion, Spanishclass in FallsChurch anddrove home.She parkedher car insidea garage onHunt ClubCircle andbegan walk-ing towardher apartment complex.
Then, said DeputyCommonwealth’s Attorney IanRodway, “An individual came upbehind her, put his hand over hermouth and something in her neckand directed her back to the ga-rage.”
The assailant demanded moneyand she gave him $30 from herpurse, but that wasn’t enough forhim. “He walked her behind a carand raped her,” said Rodway. “An-other car came in and passed by,so he pulled her down, out ofsight.”
But when he began to rape heragain, said the prosecutor, shescreamed and he ran away. Later,
15 Years in PrisonFor Fair Lakes RapeJudge, victim,reluctantly acceptagreement.
Pollard
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The Chantilly Regional Li-brary dedicated a stained-glass memorial, Saturday,
May 9, to Susan Woodcock, whodied in 2005 but was a belovedchildren’s librarian in FairfaxCounty for 18 years. The dedica-tion was followed by the third an-nual Susan Woodcock MemorialStorytime and featured folkloristand storyteller Donna Washington.
“Susan was a lover of books andtook much joy in bringing childrentogether with quality literature,particularly through storytellingand storytimes,” said Daria Parnes,the library’s manager.
After customers, friends and col-leagues began making donationsin Woodcock’s memory, the ideabegan to create a memorialstorytime. Then, after a donationby the Chantilly Regional LibraryFriends group, came the commis-sioning of the stained glass to en-hance the children’s area of the li-brary. It consists of two, 2-foot-by-3-foot, stained-glass panels — onewith nursery rhymes and the otherwith children’s book and fairytalecharacters by stained-glass artistJeanie Dunivin.
“Susan was the light for our fam-ily. We are very grateful that theFriends and the Chantilly Libraryhave made it possible for hermemory to bring light to others atthese storytimes,” said familymembers Ted Woodcock, RebeccaMcLain and Elizabeth Woodcock.“We are also most grateful for thespecial dedication of a stainedglass window at the library inSusan’s honor. Thank you for keep-ing Susan’s memory alive in theworld of books and stories.”
Photos by Robbie Hammer/ Centre View
The Susan Woodcock Memorial consists of two stained-glass panels with a variety ofher favorite children’s book characters. The memorial was designed by local artistJeanie Dunivin.
Chantilly Library Dedicates Memorial
Frances Reiher and Debbie King, from the right, admire anewly installed stained-glass memorial at the ChantillyRegional Library on May 9. The memorial was designedfor former librarian, Susan Woodcock who died in 2005and worked as a children’s librarian in the county systemfor 18 years. “She was such a wonderful person,” saidReiher who had worked with Woodcok as a librarian. Theglass panels were designed by local artist, Jeanie Dunivinand were paid for by the Chantilly Regional LibraryFriends Group.
Ted Woodcock, the husband of Susan Woodcock, andtheir two daughters, Elizabeth Woodcock and RebeccaMcLain, cut the ribbon for the dedication of a newstained-glass memorial for their memory of SusanWoodcock.
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News
Robbery, Mob Assault ChargedFairfax County police have charged a Chantilly man with rob-
bery and assault by mob. He is Ross Aristotle Newsome, 19,of14064 Eagle Chase Circle. In an April 29 affidavit for a warrantto search his cell phone, robbery Det. Eric Deane of the CriminalInvestigations Bureau, explained the case against him.
He wrote that, on March 28 around 10:20 p.m., a male waswalking to his home, through an apartment-complex parking lotat Route 50 and Majestic Lane in Greenbriar, when the incidentoccurred. According to the affidavit, “A group of several youngmales approached him, beat him and stole his personal belong-ings.”
Deane stated that the subsequent police investigation led toNewsome’s development as a suspect. He was arrested April 23and released May 5, on $20,000 bond, into the supervised-re-lease program. Police wanted to examine the cell phone found inhis possession when he was arrested. Deane noted that criminals“routinely use cell phones to communicate their plans and coor-dinate their acts with accomplices.” Newsome has a June 8 courtdate.
One Man Sentenced;Second Pleads Guilty
Justice is moving swiftly for the two Chantilly men who bur-glarized a doughnut store in January. One has already been sen-tenced and the other has just pleaded guilty. They are RamiroGarcia-Gomez, 22, of 14502 Trans World Ave. in the Meadows ofChantilly community, and Anibal Lopez, 34, of 4054 ChantillyRoad.
The incident occurred some time between Friday, Jan. 30, at11:30 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 31, at 12:55 p.m. at the ChantillyDonuts store at 4394-E Henninger Court. Taken were computers,cash and checks; but afterward, the burglars didn’t go far — FairfaxCounty police arrested them after they tried to cash a stolen checkat a nearby check-cashing store.
Police also discovered the stolen property inside a car parkedoutside. They seized the vehicle and charged each man withcharged with burglary and grand larceny. On March 10 in Gen-eral District Court, their burglary charges were dropped, but thegrand jury indicted them each on grand larceny.
After pleading guilty March 23 in Circuit Court, Lopez returnedfor sentencing May 1 before Judge Bruce White. He was given ayear in jail, all suspended, and placed on two years active proba-tion. Garcia-Gomez pleaded guilty Monday, May 11, before Cir-cuit Court Judge Robert Smith and is scheduled for sentencingJune 26.
Man Breaks In, Touches TeenFairfax County police are looking for the man who broke into a
Centreville home, last weekend, touched a teen-age girl and fled.Police say the girl, 16, woke up Sunday, May 10, around 3:36a.m., to find him standing in her room. He then touched her in-appropriately and fled when she screamed.
She lives near the intersection of Old Centreville andFlamborough roads in the Crofton Commons community. An in-vestigation determined that the suspect entered through an un-locked door. He’s described as about 6 feet 5 inches and 200pounds. He wore sweatpants, a T-shirt and a ball cap.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime solvers at1-866-411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org ortext “TIP187” plus a message to CRIMES/274637 or call police at703-691-2131.
Free Carseat InspectionsCertified technicians from the Sully District Police Station will
perform free, child safety carseat inspections, Thursday, May 14and 21, from 5-8:30 p.m., at the station, 4900 Stonecroft Blvd. inChantilly. No appointment is necessary. But residents should in-stall the child safety seats themselves so technicians may prop
Roundups
By Bonnie Hobbs
Centre View
Gracious homes, shopping, art-work and an auction are in storeThursday, May 21, for attendeesof the 37th annual Clifton Com-
munity Woman’s Club (CCWC) CharityHomes Tour and Marketplace.
From 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., five Clifton-areahomes will open their doors to the public,and a marketplace in the Clifton Town Meet-ing Hall and in Clifton Presbyterian Churchwill run from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. The town hallwill host a boutique and silent auction, andthe church will house an art show featuring paint-ings and framed photographs by local, women art-ists.
“We have five, very diverse homes — a nice cross-section — and every one of them has a story to tell,”said event Chairman Linda Beckman. “There’s a farm-house, one of the oldest buildings in Clifton, a CivilWar-era home, one owned by a POW and one filledwith beautiful antiques. Some of them started as oneroom and were added onto, several times, and it’sfun to see the evolution over 150-200 years. The tourgives people an intimate look at these homes inClifton and Fairfax Station, and docents give guidedtours of each.”
Advance tickets are $20; on tour day, $25; single-home admission, $10. Admission to non-tour activi-ties is free. To order tickets by mail, send checks to:CCWC, P.O. Box 229, Clifton, VA 20124. Pick up or-dered tickets at Will Call in the Town Hall on tourday.
Advance tickets are also available at The CliftonStore, Adler’s Art and Frame in the Colonnade at
Union Mill, and Banner’s Hallmark in CentrewoodPlaza in Centreville. For more information, seewww.CliftonCWC.org or call Beckman at 703-266-0213.
“This is the CCWC’s major fund-raiser; all the netproceeds go to our Charitable Trust Fund for schol-arships for GMU and NOVA,” said Beckman. “Thisyear, we’ll also be giving a scholarship to a senior atFairfax High. So not only will people have a fun andentertaining day, but they’ll also give back to char-ity.”
Nine vendors at the boutique will offer items in-cluding home décor, food, clothing and jewelry. Andthe CCWC’s cookbook, “May I Have that Recipe?”will be available at the town hall and at one of thehomes. The silent auction will feature an array ofsome 70 items, ranging from restaurant gift certifi-cates to four Washington Redskins club-seat tickets,plus parking — a $1,000 value. Winners need not bepresent to win.
Shumaker Home Jennings-Prillaman Home
Graine-Evans Home
Glover Home Hermsmeyer Home
See Clifton Hosts Home Tour, Page 11
Boutique, silent auctionand art show, too
Clifton Hosts Home Tour
See roundups, Page 11
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From Page 1
Angel Fund Cabaret for Reema Samahaand Sarah Pike, in 2007; and Westfield’s
Sarah Cowdery and Lindsay Thomas in2008.
“We love reading the applications of se-niors who apply for Reema’s scholarships,”said Joe Samaha. “These young people areso talented and can offer so much. It makesus feel good knowing Reema’s memory liveson in them.”
The Cabaret will begin with Del. ChuckCaputo (D-67th) presenting a MemorialResolution to the Samaha family. The audi-ence will then be treated to dance, song andpoetry, with lighting by Westfield juniorTaylor Aucott. The acts will include:
❖ Mayzsoul, 2005 Westfield graduateMichelle Murgia’s dance troupe, perform-ing “God Only Knows.”
❖ The trio of Michelle, Monica (2006Westfield graduate) and Meredith(Westfield graduating senior) Murgia, danc-ing to a string quartet version of “I MissYou.”
❖ Meredith Murgia’s dance troupe,Dancensations Dance Center, dancing to“True Colors.”
❖ 2004 Westfield graduate Jon Lawlorand his group, “The B-Film Extras,” includ-ing Clint Herring, John Holt and CCGreenlee, performing a song they wrote,“Signs of Waking Up.”
❖ Jade and Dan Trio (2008 Westfieldgraduates Jade Jones and Dan Hrebenak),singing “Reema’s Song,” written by Jade.
❖ Westfield theater teacher Scott.Pafumiand his band, Charlie Makes Rockets, in-cluding Pafumi, lead vocals and guitar; The-ater Boosters President Charlie Manship,piano and vocals; Mark Murgia, drums andvocals; and Pat Mitchell, bass guitar.ºCharlieMakes Rockets’s playlist includes “Twist andShout,” “Brown-Eyed Girl,” “Mustang Sally,”and “La Bamba.”
❖ 2004 Westfield graduate KevinKnickerbocker and his brother Trevor(Westfield sophomore), 2001 Westfieldgraduate Pat Mitchell, Jon Lawlor andWestfield senior Jeremy Rommel perform-ing a song, possibly about the gathering ofthe community after the tragedy, accompa-nied by a slideshow.
❖ 2005 Westfield graduate Megan Mead-ows and a group including Reema’s siblings,2004 Westfield graduate Randa and 2002Westfield graduate Omar, and MonicaMurgia in a comedy sketch.
❖ 2007 Westfield graduate AdrienneGinter and members of the ContemporaryDance Ensemble of Virginia Tech, VanessaBush, Melissa Dozier, Lee Gibaldi, RachelWunderlich and Leah Zacherl, performingto the song, “Slow Me Down.”
❖ 2004 Westfield graduate Chelsea Coo-per and members of her dance group,“Kickrocks Crew,” Nathalie Blanco, Chris-tina Nontanovan, Jasmine Artis, ChristineMalabanan, Emily Winters, Kim Arteche,Josh Gillmore, Edward Curtis, Chris Law,Gary Beauford and Justin Cortez, perform-
ing a medley called “Principal’s Office.”❖ 2008 Westfield graduate Sarah
Cowdery singing a Leslie Feist song, “LaMeme Histoire,” in French and English.
❖ Westfield senior Claire Manship per-forming “The Call” by Regina Spektor.
❖ 2006 Westfield graduate Brian Moonperforming songs he’s written, including“The Lighthouse.”
❖ Jones Catcher, comprised of Westfieldseniors Jeremy Rommel, Jordan Wilson andChris McNabb, plus 2008 Westfield gradu-ate, Cody Jones, performing songs they’vewritten, including one dedicated to Reemawith a closing slide show of the art dedi-cated to her.
Michelle Murgia gathered all the perform-ers. “I’m lucky to have lots of talentedfriends,” she said. “When I called them,every single one wanted to do it. They’renot getting paid; they’re donating their timeand are happy to do it. They want it to be agreat show, and it’s nice that we get to cel-ebrate together something Reema enjoyedso much.”
She said it’s also a non-political forum “forpeople to learn about the Angel Fund andwhat it does — hopefully establish tightergun laws so this doesn’t happen again toanyone else’s friend or sister. It’s not rightwhat they or the community went throughbecause of the lax laws. But it’s not a som-ber show — it’s about what we can do inthe future to help someone else, withReema’s influence.”
Meanwhile, Reema’s parents express theirgratitude to everyone. “As we remember thesecond anniversary of the tragedy, we arereminded how fortunate we are to have hadthe tremendous support of this community,and people from this country and all overthe world,” said Joe Samaha. “The notes,letters and phone calls we continue to re-ceive have helped us enormously to getthrough each and every day.”
“We lost Reema, but we didn’t lose herlove,” added Mona Samaha. “It is that lovethat brought the community strongly to-gether, giving us comfort and care, and wethank them for becoming part of our fam-ily. This cabaret is an expression of lovethrough music, dance, art and creativity.Words cannot express enough our sincereappreciation to all those involved.”
For more information, seewww.reemasamaha.org/funds/funds1.htmand www.angelfundva.org. Those unable toattend the cabaret, but wanting to contrib-ute, may do so online or send checks pay-able to either The Reema J. Samaha Me-morial Scholarship Fund or Angel Fund to5205 Glen Meadow Road, Centreville, VA20120.
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Man Sentenced after 17 Yearspolice collected her clothing and
the forensic evidence obtainedfrom her person.
However, the state forensic labwasn’t as technologically ad-vanced then, as it is today, so noarrest was made for almost 16years.
But in August 2004, Det. MarkPfeiffer resubmitted this evidenceto Virginia’s Division of ForensicSciences.
When it was entered into theVirginia DNA Databank, itmatched that of Pollard, of nofixed address. His DNA had previ-ously been entered into thedatabank after he was convictedof an unrelated felony. And, saidRodway, “The forensics lab cameup with Mr. Pollard as the con-tributor of the DNA found on thevictim’s clothing, etc., to the ex-clusion of better than the popula-tion of the world.”
On April 18, 2008, police ar-rested Pollard and charged himwith rape, abduction and robberywith intent to defile. And last Fri-day, May 8, in Circuit Court, hewas sentenced according to an
agreement reached earlier byRodway and Frank.
Pollard received 20 years inprison, with 15 years suspended,for each charge. Each of these sen-tences will run consecutively toeach other, for 15 years total, andconcurrently to the prison sen-tence Pollard is presently servingin Maryland. And if he’s releasedfrom prison there within the next15 years, he’ll return to Virginiato serve the balance of his sentencehere.
CONVICTED OF FIRST-DE-GREE rape in Frederick County,Md., Pollard was sentenced to lifeimprisonment on May 11, 1994.Rodway said he’ll have to serve 30years there before the governorwill even consider releasing him,and that’s not likely to happen.Pollard’s been incarcerated sincehis arrest in February 1993, so 30years will have passed in 2023.
Before sentencing Pollard, JudgeSchell said it was clear to him thatthe victim wanted this case re-solved and him to accept the pleaagreement. “In her letter to me,the victim said, ‘This settlementdoes not establish justice on my
behalf, nor on behalf of other vic-tims, and I want you to accept itwith profound regrets,’” readSchell. “’I want nothing more todo with this and I want to get onwith my life.’”
He then imposed the sentence,plus five years active probationupon Pollard’s release from prison.“There are serious concerns by thevictim as to the terms of the pleaagreement,” said the judge. “Butthe court will accept it, in light ofthe totality of her letter.”
Pollard then stood and said heused to be an alcoholic and druguser. “But I’m 50, I’ve turned mylife around now, I’m a Christianand I’m a different person than Iwas then,” he said. “There are alot of things I don’t remember andI express my remorse and sympa-thy for the victim.”
Schell, though, had the lastword. “I’m happy you’ve turnedyour life around,” he said. “But Iwant you to recognize that thisvictim has had her life turnedaround and it can’t be undone. Theinjury to her can’t go away becauseyou’ve turned your life around.She’ll feel the impact of this, therest of her life.”
Mary Ann NovakMary Ann Novak, age 74, of Chantilly,
died on March 14, 2009 at INOVA FairOaks Hospital. She was born on April 15,1934 in Dawson, Neb. to the late Frankand Cora Ellen Bernhardt. Mary Anngraduated as Salutatorian from DawsonHigh School in 1952. Mary Ann marriedCharles Novak on June 6, 1952 in Dawson,Neb. After living in several places aroundthe country they finally settled in Chantillyin 1970, where Mary Ann lived until her death. She worked forFairfax County’s Facilities Management Division for 26 yearsbefore she retired in 1998 as Office Service Manager III. MaryAnn kept busy during her retirement years gardening, readingand raising dogs. She also loved old movies, mainly westernsand musicals. Mary Ann and her husband often traveled back“home” to Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado to visit family, friendsand attend alumni reunions. They also enjoyed the beaches atOcean City, Md. and Nags Head, N.C., often with their daugh-ters and grandchildren.
Mary Ann was the beloved wife of Charles E. Novak, lovingand devoted mother of Susan Camille Rieder, Judith Marie Soltowand Leigh Anne Stephens, grandmother of Thomas AlexanderClark, Elizabeth Anne Novak and Lauren Marie Soltow, sister ofHazel Hanny, Aunt of Frank Hanny, her beloved Bichon dog Louie,who checks under her bedroom door daily, hoping that she willappear. She is deeply missed.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, May 15, at 10:30a.m. at Adams-Green Funeral Home, 721 Elden Street, Herndon(www.adamsgreen.com). Private graveside services will imme-diately follow at Emmanuel Church Cemetery, Middleburg, Va.
Obituary
“These young peopleare so talented and
can offer so much. Itmakes us feel good
knowing Reema’smemory lives on in
them.”— Joe Samaha
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By Bonnie Hobbs
Centre View
Laughter, tears, music,prayers, times of joy andoccasions of sorrow — all
the events great and small thatcomprise the fabric of a congrega-tion are woven into the history ofCentreville’s Mount Olive BaptistChurch. A large portion of it hap-pened in the sanctuary on OldCentreville Road; but Sunday, May3, the congregation bid farewell toits longtime home and prepared toworship at a local school whileconstructing a new building.
“It’s an emotional time becausewe feel the history of this build-ing and, for a lot of folks, it’s theonly place they’ve ever wor-
Mount OliveBegins NewChapter
“The God thatblessed you herewill bless youthere.”
— The Rev. Eugene Johnson,Mount Olive Baptist Church
shiped,” said Rubin Cuffee, chair-man of Mount Olive’s TrusteeBoard. “But there’s also tremen-dous joy, knowing we’re buildingsomething bigger and better.”
THE CHURCH BEGAN in 1898on Mount Olive Road. A new struc-ture was built in 1925, but mostlydestroyed by fire. The currentbuilding was dedicated in 1980and added onto in 1992. When theRev. Eugene Johnson took over thepulpit that November, Mount Ol-ive had about 250 members. Butnow, with some of its programs forits nearly 2,000 congregants spill-ing over into trailers, it needs alarger home.
Plans have been in the workssince 1999, and the church cer-emonially broke ground for a newhouse of worship in October 2005.Now, almost four years later, con-struction will soon begin. Phaseone includes a 51,916-square footsanctuary with 1,100 seats initiallyand another 400 later. There’ll alsobe a child-care area, SundaySchool classrooms, chapel, fellow-ship hall and administrative wing.
For the next 18 months or so,services will be held at LibertyMiddle School. The old structurewill be demolished and a new one
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Opinion
Would-be big donors to presiden-tial candidates over the lastelection cycle know that on thefederal level, there are strict
limits to how much one donor can give to acandidate: $2,400 per election to a Federal can-didate or the candidate’s campaign commit-tee. The limit applies separately to eachelection, so including the primary andgeneral election, one person could give$4,800 to one candidate.
Not so in Virginia. You can give as much asyou want to any candidate for office in Vir-ginia. So can businesses, political action com-mittees and advocacy groups.
Just five states, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon,Utah and Virginia, place no limits on contribu-tions at all, according to the National Confer-ence of State Legislators. The only requirementin Virginia is that all contributions of $100 ormore must be disclosed.
Individuals and businesses have contributedin remarkable fashion to the four candidates
vying to be Virginia’s next governor, the pre-sumed Republican nominee, former AttorneyGeneral Robert McDonnell (R), and threeDemocrats who will face off in a June 9 pri-mary, former Alexandria Del. Brian Moran (D),Central Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D)and former head of the Democratic NationalCommittee Terry McAuliffe of McLean.
According to the Virginia Public AccessProject, McAuliffe had raised a total of $5.16million for his campaign as of March 31. Moranhad collected $2.95 million and Deeds hadgarnered $2.15 million for their respectivecampaigns by the same deadline.
McDonnell had raised $5.14 millionby the end of March, though he hasspent less than the other campaignsbecause the Republican does not face
a primary opponent.Three of the four candidates for governor in
Virginia could have, in their time in the Gen-eral Assembly, worked for sensible campaignfinance reform. Is it meaningful now for thesecandidates to complain about the fourthcandidate’s ability to raise huge amounts ofmoney from many sources?
Virginia ranks among the best states in dis-closure, but disclosure itself is not enough. Thenext governor should propose sensible limitson political contributions.
There are no limits ondonations in Virginia;time for change.
More Than $15 MillionBy the end of March, candidates for governor in
Virginia had raised more than $15 million betweenthem. The three Democrats face off in a June 9primary; the winner of the Democratic primary willface Republic Robert McDonnell on Nov. 3.
❖ Terry McAuliffe (D) $5.16 million❖ Robert McDonnell (R) $5.14 million❖ Brian Moran (D) $2.95 million❖ Creigh Deeds (D) $2.15 million
Make Use of DisclosureVirginia ranks among the best states for disclo-
sure, but is one of only five states with no limits onthe amount of political donations one donor canmake. See for yourself:
http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/Campaign_Finance_Disclosure/Index.html
http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/Campaign_Finance_Disclosure/View_Disclosure_Reports/CF_Reports_Cidate.asp?optSearch=Candidate
http://www.vpap.org/Good reading on requirements for Federal
contributions at the Federal Election CommissionWeb site: http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml.
Money, Money, Money
Meanwhile, voters should recognize the im-portance of the June 9 primary, and the No-vember general election.
— Mary Kimm,
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Much StillTo Be DoneTo the Editor:
We would like to thank every-one who has been so generous thelast couple of years with their time,good wishes and contributions. OnFriday, May 22, we are having aRemembrance Cabaret in the au-ditorium at Westfield High Schoolat 7 p.m. Friends of Reema will beperforming music, dance andreading poetry. We are not sellingtickets. We are asking those who
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attend and wish to do so to do-nate what they would like to ei-ther The Reema J. Samaha Memo-rial Scholarships or the AngelFund. More importantly, we wantto celebrate the essence of Reema.
As we remember the second an-niversary of the Virginia Tech trag-edy, we are reminded of how for-tunate we are to have had the tre-mendous support of this commu-nity, and people from this countryand all over the world. The notes,letters and phone calls we con-tinue to receive have helped usenormously to get through each
and every day.We love reading the applications
of seniors who apply for Reema’sscholarships that we award atWestfield and Herndon HighSchools every year. These youngpeople are so talented and can of-fer so much. It makes us feel goodknowing that Reema’s memorylives on in them.
Our mission with the Angel Fundhas also brought us much satisfac-tion. Since April 16, 2007, we havehad the following successes: (1)we have organized and moderateda number of panel discussions; (2)
we have met with George MasonUniversity staff, our School Boardand Board of Supervisors to discussthe installation of hotlines; and (3)we have testified in Richmond andmet with many legislators. Our ef-forts, along with those of the otherVirginia Tech families and mem-bers of the Virginia Tech panel,helped to bring about manychanges, including Executive Or-ders issued by Governor Kaine,administrative responses and thepassage of new laws.
Last, we are very proud that Joe,who spoke at a number of confer-ences throughout the UnitedStates, received the “Angel Award”from the non-profit, “Fight Crime:Invest in Kids” in September of2008 for his extraordinary resil-ience, passion and determinationto raise awareness and prevent fu-ture tragedies by using hope,commonsense and practical solu-tions.
There is still more work to bedone and we look to you, ourfriends, neighbors and community,to help support us in our efforts toeffect change.
We invite you to visit our Websites, www.reemasamaha.org andwww.angelfundva.org. As always,we would love to hear from youand thank you for all that you havedone for us and for our family.
Joe and Mona SamahaCentreville
Author’s TeaThe Assistance League of NorthernVirginia hosted an Author’s Teafeaturing Valerie Tripp, author ofmore than 30 American Girl books,on April 19 in Reston. Funds raisedby the Tea will support the Assis-tance League’s local OperationSchool Bell programs. OperationSchool Bell aims to improve literacyskills for local, underachievingelementary students through volun-teer services in Northern Virginia.Pictured with author Valerie Trippare Author’s Tea guests with theirAmerican Girl dolls (from the left):Lauren Ciccone, Holly Wikiera,Grace Cutsinger, Valerie Tripp,Rebecca Cutsinger, Caroline Cicconeand Amy Wikiera.
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Gathered for the cornerstone removals are, from left, state Sen. KenCuccinelli, Sam Snow of Gregory Construction, Supervisor Mike Frey,Rev. Eugene Johnson and his wife June, Deaconess Mary Watkins,and ministers Jackie and Vickie Watkins.
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Church Members Say Goodbye to Home
will arise on thesame site. But first,members packed theold church, May 3,for a final servicethere and todeconsecrate thebuilding. And al-though change isnever easy, Johnsonassured his membersthey needn’t worry.
“No matter whereyou go, the God thatblessed you here willbless you there,” hesaid. “If he fed youin your hunger andsaw you throughyour hard times, thesame God thatbrought you therewill bring you fur-ther.”
“We planted theseeds 10 years ago,but we’re reapingthe harvest now, thanks to the goodness and great-ness of God,” said Johnson. “And today, as we cometo the pinnacle of this celebration, we are receivingGod’s blessing. We’re not building a monument toyou or me – we’re building a tabernacle unto God.”
A 20-YEAR member of Mount Olive, Cuffee said thechurch has “always maintained a small-church feel,even though we’ve grown. We’ve always been a pillarin Centreville, and this is about building God’s houseand a legacy for our children and their children.”
Currently, he said, “We’ve been cramming every-thing — youth and children’s church, adult SundaySchool, Bible studies — and we have limitations onthe services and parking. Our two Sunday serviceswere almost two, different cultures; but at Liberty,we’ll bring them together in one service at 10 a.m.”
Cuffee said they see themselves as a community-focused church, welcoming daycare and county ac-tivities. “We also think about it becoming amulticultural center, and we’re excited about thepossibilities,” he said. “And we anticipate we’ll growphenomenally because we’ll have more space andbecause of folks’ dedication to this church.”
Al Schenck, a member since 1972, heads a teamof more than 40 people leading the transition to themiddle school, and he called last Sunday a wonder-ful day. “I’ve had the chance to see the church evolveover the past, almost 40 years, and I see this as anopportunity to grow,” he said. “The people of thiscommunity and the surrounding communities are thelifeblood of this church, so they’ll still continue toembrace us.”
Despite the change, member Buddy Foutz says thechurch’s camaraderie will still remain. “It’s as if thewhole membership are relatives of yours,” he said.“It’s family, and you get to know everyone. You haveups and downs but, through it all, it’s a good ar-rangement of people. And we’ll show new peoplethe route we took to get here, and then they’ll pickup the pieces and continue on.”
Dianne Wimbish, on the Trustee Board, said shefelt “lots of emotions rolled into one — not like we’releaving, but a continuation, moving on to anotherphase.” However, as one of the 16 liturgical dancers,
she said they’d gather Friday nights and worship atthe altar before and during practice. It’ll be a longtime until they can do that again but, said Wimbish,“It’s not about the building. We can praise and wor-ship anywhere we go — we just have to take ourspirit with us.”
Church spokesman B. Denise Hawkins calledSunday’s event “a celebration of our ancestors, froma historical and religious perspective. I’m happy thechurch has come this far by faith, and I’m lookingforward to being a part of the new Mount Olive.”
A MEMBER since 1981, Walter H. Pope is vice chair-man of the Trustee Board. He can hardly believeconstruction is about to begin because “we’ve beenwaiting so long. The beauty of it is that it’s on thesame ground. So when all is said and done, it’ll belike we never left — and that’s a great feeling.”
State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R-37th) and SupervisorMichael R. Frey (R-Sully) also attended the serviceand addressed the congregation. Both spoke ofMount Olive’s importance to the community and thechallenges it faced going through Fairfax County’sbuilding-approval process.
Then, after a special, deconsecration litany, declas-sifying the old facility as a sacred place, Johnsondirected the members to remove the church bannersfrom the walls and carry them out, along with theBible from the pulpit. And as everyone left the sanc-tuary together as one, the chorus sang, “Ain’t nostoppin’ us now … the best is yet to come.”
They then gathered outside and watched while thechurch’s original and current trustees removed thebuilding’s two cornerstones to be saved and placedinto the new structure.
“It’s a bittersweet day,” said Johnson. “When weconsider this building as we go out of it, we remem-ber the people whose lives were affected throughexperiences here. We recall the family celebrations,the celebrations of the lives of loved ones who’vepassed on and the deliverance of everyone and theirchallenges. But the celebration is about leaving be-cause God is doing a greater work through us —bringing a new anointing — and it’s like a new sea-son for Mount Olive Baptist Church.”
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Craft Vendors are needed forCentreville United Methodist Women’sBazaar scheduled for Saturday, Nov.14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church,6400 Old Centreville Road; [email protected].
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Dinner. 6 p.m. at Vespucci’s ItalianSeafood Grill, 10579 Lee Highway.New Providence Republican Women’sClub. $35/person. 703-591-7368 forreservations.
FRIDAY/MAY 15 Dancing. 8:30-midnight at Dulles Hilton
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SATURDAY/MAY 16 Yard Sale. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at Weaver
House. Browse a variety of items,proceeds benefit the Clifton TownPark. Free. 703-815-0992.
Active Girlz Expo. Girls 8-18 can enjoymusic, fashion shows, speakers, andmore. $10/for both days. Visitwww.activegirlzexpo.com or 703-328-4531.
Music Performance. 7:30 p.m. at St.John Neumann Church, 11900Lawyers Road, Reston. Hear the VoceChamber Singers. $20/adult; $15/senior; $10/student. Visitwww.voce.org or 703-277-7772.
Community Yard Sale. 8 a.m.-2 p.m.Virginia Run is holding its Spring sale.Pick up map of locations of sales atcorner of Wetherburn Drive andPleasant Valley on the day. Call 703-216-6730 or 703-402-3134.
Cupcakes Actually grand opening.From noon to 4 p.m. Old-fashionedblock party, face painting, jugglers,balloon artists, cupcake eating. InFairfax Corner: 11944 GrandCommons Ave., Fairfax. Call 703-312-1073; www.cupcakesactually.com.
SUNDAY/MAY 17 Active Girlz Expo. Girls 8-18 can enjoy
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Ward will speak about “How to be aStrong Girl in a Tough World” at 4:45p.m. $10/for both days. Visitwww.activegirlzexpo.com or 703-328-4531.
Music Performance. 7:30 p.m. at St.Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 432 VanBuren St., Herndon. Hear the VoceChamber Singers. $20/adult; $15/senior; $10/student. Visitwww.voce.org or 703-277-7772.
MONDAY/MAY 18 Sully Book Club. 10 a.m. at Centreville
Library, 14200 St. Germain Drive.Discuss “The Worst Hard Time” byTimothy Egan. Free. 703-830-2223.
Discussion. 7:30-8:30 p.m. TheRepublican Women of Clifton arehosting Dr. Larry Lindsey, who willspeak on “Staying Ahead in aRecession” at Clifton Elementary.
TUESDAY/MAY 19Meeting. 11:30 a.m. at Expectations,
5009 Westone Plaza, Chantilly. RotaryClub of Centreville meets. $12/lunch.703-966-8168.
MAY 20-23The 23rd Annual Jazz and Pizzazz. 7
p.m. Wednesday through Saturday,May 20-23 at Chantilly High School’sauditorium. Tickets are $10/person.
THURSDAY/MAY 21 Homes Tour and Marketplace. 9:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m. for homes tour; 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. for marketplace at CliftonPresbyterian Church. Tour five Cliftonarea homes. $20/advance; $25/day of.Visit www.cliftoncwc.org or 703-266-0213.
Historical Book Club. 7:30 p.m. atCentreville Library, 14200 St. GermainDrive. Discuss “Big History: From theBig Bang to the Present” by CynthiaStokes Brown. Free. 703-830-2223.
Meeting. 10 a.m. at Centreville Library,14200 St. Germaine Drive. La LecheLeague of Centreville/Chantilly willdiscuss “The Advantages ofBreastfeeding.” Free. 703-471-7762.
Meeting. 6:30 p.m. at Sully DistrictStation, 4900 Stonecroft Blvd. Meetingof the Western Fairfax RepublicanWomen’s Club. Free. Visitwww.wfrwc.org for more.
FRIDAY/MAY 22 Swing Dancing. 8:30-midnight at
Dulles Hilton Swing Dance. $15/person. Dance to live music. Visitwww.gottaswing.com for more.
Remembrance Cabaret for ReemaSamaha. 7 p.m. at Westfield HighSchool auditorium. Friends willremember Reema Samaha who waskilled at Virginia Tech on April 16,2007, with song, dance and poetry.Donations are welcome to either theReema J. Samaha MemorialScholarship
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TUESDAY/MAY 26 A Novel Society. 7 p.m. at Centreville
Library, 14200 St. Germain Drive.Adults discuss “The Master andMargarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov. Free.703-830-2223.
Meeting. 11:30 a.m. at Expectations,5009 Westone Plaza, Chantilly. RotaryClub of Centreville meets. $12/lunch.703-966-8168.
WEDNESDAY/MAY 27 Toddlin’ Twos. 10:30 a.m. or 11:30
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Stories to Go to Bed By. 7:30 p.m. atCentreville Library, 14200 St. GermainDrive. Children 2-5 come dressed inpajamas for stories and more. Free.Registration required, 703-830-2223.
FRIDAY/MAY 29 Swing Dancing. 8:30-midnight at
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Small Wonders. 11 a.m. at CentrevilleLibrary, 14200 St. Germain Drive.Children 13-23 months enjoy storiesand more. Free. Registration required,703-830-2223.
How’s the Weather. 1:30 p.m. atCentreville Library, 14200 St. GermainDrive. Children 2-5 enjoy stories,activities and a craft. Free. Registrationrequired, 703-830-2223.
SUNDAY/MAY 31 History. Noon-4 p.m. at Sully Historic
Site. See costumed interpreters, learnabout military life and more. $6/adult;$4/child. 703-437-1794.
Classical Youth Benefit Concert. 2p.m. At the Gainesville UnitedMethodist Church, 13710 MilestoneCt., in Gainesville. Young classicalplayers from the Washington, D.C.,area will join their talents in presentingthe Classical Youth Benefit Concert toraise funds for Possibilities Unlimited,a Christian humanitarian organizationbuilding a residential training centerfor special-needs youth in CentralEurasia. Anne Rupert, musical directorof the Youth Orchestras of PrinceWilliam, resides in Clifton.
SATURDAY/JUNE 6Sully Station Community Yard Sale. 8
a.m. to noon. Sponsored by the SullyStation Community Association. Mapsand a list of the addresses are available atthe community center, located at 5101Sequoia Farms Drive, Centreville. CallMary Patch Johnson at 703-222-2329.
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By Julia O’Donoghue
Centre View
The Fairfax CountySchool Board votedMay 7 to shift from asix-point to a 10-
point grading scale after monthsof pressure from parents.
Advocates for changing the scale
said Fairfax County Public Schools’steeper and less common gradingcurve was putting its graduates ata disadvantage in earning collegeadmission and academic scholar-ships.
“This grading scale is more eas-ily understood by colleges,” saidDranesville School Board memberJane Strauss about the 10-point
system.The new Fairfax grading scale
will go into effect during the 2009-2010 school year. Earlier this year,the school system increased theweights on the grade point aver-age (GPA) scale for InternationalBaccalaureate and Advance Place-ment classes from 0.5 to 1.0 be-cause of similar concerns.
When the new scale is imple-mented, a student receiving a 90percent to 92 percent score on atest would receive an A- lettergrade. Under the current system,a student receiving a 90 percentto 93 percent score on a test re-ceives a B+ letter grade.
The bottom end of the scale hasnot been adjusted. According tothe FAIRGRADE — a local advo-cacy group that formed to changeFairfax grading policies — stu-dents have to drop below 60 per-cent to fail under many 10-pointscale variations. In Fairfax County,the test score a student needs topass, 64 percent, remains the sameas it was under the six-point scale.
One School Board member, JimRaney (At-large), was troubledthat the range of points for all let-
ter grades was the not the same.In other words, students have
four opportunity points to earn aB letter grade (83-86) or a C let-ter grade (73-76) but only threeopportunity points to earn a D let-ter grade (64-66) and eight oppor-tunity points to earn an A lettergrade (93-100.) He also wanted toadd an A+ letter grade to thescale.
But Raney’s motion to changethe grading system to a nine-pointscale, which potentially no otherschool system would use, failed togain support from any otherSchool Board member. He was alsothe only School Board member notto vote to adopt the new10-pointgrading scale.
“The point is not to create an-other grading scale that no oneelse uses,” said Strauss.
By the end of July, the SchoolBoard intends to vote on a newGPA weighting system for honorscourses. Honors courses currentlyreceive no extra weight. Under thenew system, students would get anextra 0.5 point on the 4.0 GPAscale for taking an honors course.
The school system has said they
need extra time to figure outwhether there are any courses —such as special courses taken bystudents at the Thomas JeffersonSchool for Science and Technology— that deserve the extra weightbut are not technically labeled“honors.”
But parents and students arealso concerned the School Boardwill not make the additionalweight for honors courses retro-active for all high school students.
“We are collateral damage. Thefutures of the classes of 2010,2011 and 2012 are at stake,” saidRobert Downs, a Langley HighSchool sophomore pleading to forthe School Board to make theweights for honors classes retro-active.
Superintendent Jack Dale saidthe school system intends to havethe new weighting for honorscourses in place by next fall andthat the weighting is likely to beretroactive. But the school systemmight be limited as to how far backthey could go to change theweighting by the current softwarewhich stores student grades, hesaid.
School Board Approves New Grading Scale
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Time for Jazz & Pizzazz Show“It’s a huge tradition in the Chantilly community,”
said Cockrell. “And the fact that it’s lasted for 23years is a testament to both the quality of the pro-gram and the tremendous interest and support ourcommunity has for the performing arts. This is agreat opportunity to see teen-agers in action doingsomething positive at a very high skill level, and it’sa unique, professional-level, performance experiencefor these kids.”
The students add to their repertoire, from Sep-tember through May, and practice both during andafter school. The show offers a variety of musicalstyles and selections, and the performance is a col-laboration between the choirs and bands, with the-ater students handling the lighting and sound.
“We live in a culture that’s grabbed onto the ‘SoYou Think You Can Dance,’ ‘American Idol,’ ‘Glee,’‘High School Musical’ genre of entertainment,” saidCockrell. “So if people like watching those shows,then they have to come see this one because they’llsee it live and in real life. It’s the real deal.”
THE PROGRAM includes Broadway show tunesand production numbers, jazz, country, rock andballads. From the musical, “Hair,” will be “Age ofAquarius” and “Let the Sunshine In,” and from“Wicked” will be “One Short Day.” There’s also amedley from “The Jersey Boys,” plus a USO swingmedley featuring “G.I. Jive” and “Hep, Hep, theJumping Jive.”
Songs from Bruce Springsteen, James Brown andJohn Cougar Mellencamp comprise a rock medley,and the show will also include an Elvis Presley num-ber, a Brooks and Dunn country tune, a HerbieHancock rock song, “Chameleon,” and more.
The Chantilly Jazz Band will perform funk, swing,
rock and ballads, as well as music by Duke Ellington,Harry Connick Jr., Maynard Ferguson and Centrevillecomposer Alan Baylock, who wrote a New Orleanszydeco tune called “Hullabaloo.”
“We’ll be featuring one of our own, band instructorDrew Ross, on trumpet in ‘Rockin’ in Rhythm’ by DukeEllington,” said Taylor. “He’s Chantilly’s version ofMaynard Ferguson.
The band will perform “I Stayed Too Long at theFair,” made famous by Barbra Streisand, plus aConnick tune, “It Had to be You,” from the movie,“When Harry Met Sally,” and a progressive-jazz song,“There’s the Rub,” by Gordon Goodwin.
SOLOISTS are students Sam Brady on alto sax, JoshLisko, piano and Don Staggs, bass trombone. AndGlorianne Picini and Mike Barlow will duel on theelectric bass.
“It’s a great group of kids and they’re excited aboutthe show — it should be wonderful,” said Taylor.“There’s going to be a lot of energy and a lot of great,music talent on display, and Jazz and Pizzazz willshowcase all this talent.”
“People are always surprised with the quality ofentertainment in this show,” added Cockrell. “It’s easyto forget they’re high-school kids.”
He also praised all the families involved in bring-ing this large undertaking to fruition. “Parents takeresponsibility for uniforms, building the set, sellingconcessions or helping with the video program,” hesaid. “It really takes the whole, Chantilly community.”
Cockrell wants the shows to be standing-room-only.“It’s exciting for the kids, and there’s nothing like thatelectricity when every seat is filled,” he said. “Several ofour kids have later performed on Broadway, becomemusic teachers or performed in military bands. In somany ways, these are the future leaders and stars.”
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“There’ll be a bake sale on the front porch of thetown hall, so we hope people will have lunch at arestaurant in town and stop by here for dessert,” saidBeckman. “We’re also serving lemonade and cookies
Clifton Hosts Home Tourin the garden of the Jennings-Prillaman home.”
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On Sunday, May 17, from 10a.m.-3 p.m., Fairfax County resi-dents may recycle televisions,computers and peripheral elec-tronic devices — including key-boards, speakers, printers and ex-ternal drives — at the I-66 Trans-fer Station at 4618 West Ox Roadin Fairfax. Devices from businesseswill not be accepted. Residentsshould not bring small or largekitchen appliances, CDs, DVDs,video cassettes or stereo equip-ment. Items need not be in work-ing order. For more information,see www.fairfaxcounty.gov/recy-cling or call 703-324-5250.
Frey Speaks toImmigrationForum, May 21
Supervisor Michael R. Frey (R-Sully) will meet with theCentreville Immigration Forum onThursday, May 21, at 7 p.m., atCentreville Baptist Church, 15100Lee Highway in Centreville. Freywill answer questions about theeffects of Fairfax County’s budgetcuts on low-income residents, in-cluding services available to recentimmigrants.
The Forum is a group ofCentreville-area churches, socialservice agencies and citizens whoparticipate in a variety of outreachprograms for low-income, immi-grant communities. The public iswelcome to attend.
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Chantilly Fills Void, Claims Concorde
Chantilly Chargers take second straight boys’ lacrossetitle on Brendan Waters’ double-overtime goal.
Photo by Robbie Hammer/Centre View
With three seconds left in the second overtimeperiod, Brendan Waters scored, liftingChantilly’s boys’ lacrosse team to a 5-4 winover Westfield and its second straightConcorde District title.
Photo by Robbie Hammer/Centre View
After losing 16 seniors from last year’s team, goal-keeper Derek Kegerreis took it upon himself to con-tinue Chantilly’s winning ways. ‘Being a senior, it’sawesome to keep the tradition going,’ he said.
Photo by Robbie Hammer/Centre View
During last Friday’s 5-4 double-overtimewin against Westfield, Chantilly seniorRobbie Bowers had two goals in the firstperiod — both off of assists from DevonWesterman.
Photo by Robbie Hammer/Centre View
Liz Dunwoody and her Chantilly teammates had littleroom to work last Friday. With a 9-8 loss, Chantilly fellto Robinson in the Concorde District title game for thesecond straight year.
By Jason Mackey
Centre View
Sixteen seniors graduated from last year’sversion of the Chantilly boys’ lacrosseteam, which went 20-0 and claimed its
first-ever Virginia AAA state championship.Starting this spring, little was expected fromthe Chargers — or at least so it was perceived.
“At the beginning of the season everyonecounted us out,” said junior attackmanBrendan Waters. “Everyone said we lost 16seniors and that we had no chance to comeout here and win it.”
What Chantilly (12-1) won was its secondstraight Concorde District title last Friday byedging Westfield, 5-4, in double overtime, andWaters’ out-of-nowhere play was emblematicof the work that he and his fellow underclass-men have put in this season, filling the voidleft by those departed seniors.
With less than 10 seconds to play againstthe Bulldogs, Chantilly’s Joe Marson fired ashot on Westfield goalkeeper Alex Kawchak.The rebound, meanwhile, came bouncing outtoward Waters, who scooped it up and beatKawchak high from six yards out for the win-ner with only three seconds left.
Despite all the losses, players such as RobbieBowers (team-high 22 goals as of Tuesdayafternoon) and Devon Westerman (team-best
15 assists) have also assumed starring roles.Meanwhile, Steve Gombos leads the Charg-ers with 34 ground balls and has caused ateam-best 21 turnovers.
“Our guys are stepping up and starting tocome around,” Chantilly coach KevinBroderick said.
As a team, the Chargers came around againduring first-round regional action on Tuesdaynight, thwarting Jefferson with a 10-6 win.In the quarterfinal round, the Chargers willnow play host to Annandale on Thursdaynight.
IT’S REALLY a slap-your-forehead sort ofassessment, but senior goalkeeper DerekKegerreis — the lone holdover from last year’ssquad — is the last line of defense forChantilly. If a ball gets past him, no less than100 percent of the time does it end up as agoal.
So facing overtime, Kegerreis, who hasmade 145 saves this season and has a goalsagainst average of 3.67, becomes even moreof an asset to his team.
“He rises to the occasion,” Broderick said.“If a goal goes in, you feel like you let the
team down,” said Kegerreis, who finished with18 saves against the Bulldogs and has beentabbed as a first team All-Northern Regionpick for the season consecutive season. “I was
just trying to do ev-erything I could tomake that last save.”
As the lone teamcaptain, Kegerreiswas primarily re-sponsible for mak-ing sure the Chargers didn’t falter at the be-ginning of the year, which wasn’t exactly aneasy task as Chantilly faced early-season dateswith Patriot District champion West Spring-field and Robinson. And with a win over rivalWestfield and yet another dominant seasonunderway, Kegerreis, a Lynchburg recruit, hasmanaged to bridge the gap.
“I’m the one who’s supposed to get my teamup when they’re down and keep motivatingthem, especially with all the talent we lostlast year,” Kegerreis said. “It’s awesome tokeep that tradition going.”
FOLLOWING HER team’s 13-6 win over T.C.Williams on Wednesday, April 29, Chantillygirls’ lacrosse coach Michele Gates had asimple message.
“As soon as the regular season ended, I said,‘Enjoy your 14-0 season, ladies, because to-morrow at practice, we start again at 0-0,’”Gates remembered of that talk. “I told themthat it didn’t matter what happened duringthe regular season. We had to be prepared
because the postseason is another season.”That other season was not all that kind to
the Chargers early on. With the chance toavenge a last-second loss to Robinson in the2008 district final, Chantilly allowed the Ramsto score three answered goals in the final 5:30and eventually lost, 9-8, last Friday in thisyear’s title game.
“We gave Robinson a chance to win thegame and Robinson took advantage of it,”Gates said.
The fifth-year coach drew a parallel to theOakton team from last year. Though bouncedearly from last year’s Concorde District tour-nament, the Cougars rebounded to captureboth the Northern Region and Virginia AAAstate titles.
“Oakton was a perfect example of going outearly in the district tournament and then com-ing back and winning the state and regiontitles,” said Gates, whose team responded witha 18-8 win over Langley Tuesday and will faceAnnandale in the region quarterfinals Thurs-day. “Hopefully that motivates us.”
Centre View Sports Editor Jason Mackey
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Week in Sports
On theWater
At this pastSaturday’s VirginiaScholastic RowingAssociation’s cham-pionship regatta,all three of theWestfield crewteam’s men’s boatsmade the finals,with the top varsityboat placing sixthand the second andthird boats eachwinning bronzemedals. As a team,Westfield wasfourth. The topwomen’s varsityboat had thefourth-fastest timeof the day whilealso winning thepetite finals withthe women’s thirdboat, finishing fifthin its final. CraigTrumbull, PaulLorenzi, Justin Aid,Stephen Patten,Grant Bowden, Perry Cox, Peter Malm, PeterSchlatter and coxswain Ellie Goodman maneu-vered the men’s eight; Amy Gregory, Darby Nelson,Lindsey Toma, Carrie Capps, Rachel Johnson, Vir-ginia Ratcliff, Stasia Schlatter, Lauren Baker andcoxswain Erin Friedlander commanded thewomen’s eight. Bronze-medal winners in the sec-ond varsity boat were Dan Gayer, Jack Kelly, KirkDennis, Chip Mathieson, Chris Thomas, AlexFagan, Ryan Hilker, Andrew Gilbride and coxswainAriel Raguso. The team now awaits news of whatboats will be heading to Princeton, N.J. to competein the Scholastic Rowing Association of America’snational regatta on May 22-23.
Football FinalsChanged
This fall’s Virginia AAA state football finals forDivisions 5 and 6 will be played at the Universityof Virginia’s Scott Stadium, according to a press re-lease issued by the Virginia High School League onThursday, May 7.
The VHSL Executive Committee voted 24-0 infavor of the measure, which carries a two-yearcommitment. Last year’s top-level title games wereheld at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium, while the2007 finals, which featured wins by Stone Bridgeand Westfield, were held at Scott Stadium.
“We want our student-athletes to play in a big-time atmosphere and have an outstandingchampionship experience,” said VHSL executivedirector Ken Tilley. “We know that playing at ScottStadium will provide that experience, not only forthe players and coaches but for all fans attending
Photo courtesy of Lori Dennis
The Westfield men’s crew team’s third eight boat leavesthe medal platform after receiving its bronze medals.Pictured are (from left): Kyle Smith, Andrew Johnson,Timothy Ostlund, Alex Harris, Jake Edmonds, DaltonDillon, Robbi Cecil, Austin Cheung and coxswain MeghanLeach.
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Final 4 AppearanceThe Chantilly Youth Association Firecats, U-14
girls’ soccer team, won their third-round match ofthe state championship tournament with a 1-0 vic-tory over the Richmond Strikers this past weekendat Poplar Tree Park. The win puts them among thefinal four teams remaining. The goal, scored byHaley Roberson, came at the 39-second mark andwas made possible by a run down the left side byKyndall Finch, who cut back to the inside and madea crossing pass past the onrushing goalie. Next upfor the Wildcats (12-2-2) is the semifinal round,which will be held in Williamsburg at the end ofMay.
Storm Seeks PlayersThe Southwestern Youth Association Storm’s U-
10 girls’ soccer teams are seeking additional playersfor the fall 2009 U-11 season. The Storm teams arelooking for motivated, impact players who want acompetitive environment with premium trainingand a positive team approach, as teams are profes-sionally coached and trained within the SYAAcademy Training program. In addition to a newly-forming fourth team, the existing three teams willeach be adding two to four players with birthdatesno earlier than Aug. 1, 1998. Tryouts are scheduledfor May 26-27 and June 1, with a rainout dayscheduled for June 2 at SYA Field of Dreams. Con-tact Kurt Gordon to register at 703-606-9896 [email protected].
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Members of the Xi Zeta Lambda chapter of Beta Sigma Phi recentlyvolunteered at the Multiple Sclerosis Walk in Reston on April 26. Theyare, from left to right, Laurie McDougall, Round Hill; Debbie Sammler,Chantilly; Rita Bozek, Annandale; Debbie Miller, The Plains; MarcyStennes, Burke; Ginny Mullinex, Sterling; Emily Costa, Bristow;MaryBeth Carroll, Springfield; Ginny Winczowski, South Riding andJackie MacCannell, Bristow. Beta Sigma Phi is a non-profit Interna-tional Women’s Organization whose goal is to reach out into the com-munity through service. The chapter will be having a fundraiser at theBaja Fresh in Chantilly on Tuesday, May 26, in support of the RonaldMcDonald House. Go to www.betasigmaphi.org
Volunteering for Good Causes
The Fair Lakes Rotary club, con-tinuing its long established pro-gram of offering need-based schol-arships for local students attend-ing Chantilly High School or par-ticipating in programs at theChantilly Academy, announced therecipients of three scholarshipsthis past week.
❖ Quyah Nguyen, a senior atChantilly High School, was therecipient of the $2,500 InteractClub scholarship. This scholarshipis presented each year to aChantilly High student that partici-pates in the school’s Interact Club.Interact is Rotary International’sservice club for young people ages14 to 18.
❖ Coleen Chase andRozhan Saadula have each wona $1,000 Chantilly Academy schol-
Fair Lakes Rotary Club Announces Scholarship Winners
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(From left):RozhanSaadula, AdamSmith, Scholar-ship ChairmanFLRC, andColeen Chase.Not Pictured:Quyah Nguyen.
Technology, Health and Human Ser-vices, and Trade & Industry.
The Fair Lakes Rotary club wasestablished in 1986 and has todate provided over $400,000 inscholarships to local high schoolstudents. The Club meets everyMonday at 7:30 a.m. at the HyattFair Lakes. All guests are welcome.
Three Cub Scouts from Pack 146 in Chantilly have swept the Sully DistrictPinewood Races for the second time in three years. Austin Wilson, BrendanHenry and Nicholas Saied nabbed the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place honors, respec-tively, and were awarded trophies in a special ceremony on March 25th. Thesethree Scouts took home the same prizes at the Sully District races in 2007.Austin and Brendan are in the fifth-grade at St. Veronica and St. Timothyschools and Nicholas is in the fourth grade at St. Timothy’s. A computer glitchprevented the boys from receiving the trophies on race day but the boys werehonored at a special ceremony that included a huge cake. Brendan and Aus-tin crossed over into Boy Scout Troop 146 together.
Cub Scouts Sweep Pinewood Races