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Claire Grumbly,pictured with BrightView Vibrant Livingdirector Josh Graf,enters Great FallsLibrary to vote onSuper Tuesday.

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NewsGreat Falls Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic

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Voting on Super Tuesday in Great Falls, McLean

TUESDAY/MARCH 8Protecting Neighborhood Trees. 7:30-9:30

p.m. Great Falls Grange, 9818 GeorgetownPike, Great Falls. The event will be forum co-sponsored by Supervisor John Foust, theFairfax County Tree Commission, and theGreat Falls Citizens Association. Speakerswill focus on tree preservation during thereal estate development process, and whatcitizens can do to help protect the existingtree canopy. [email protected]. 703-759-3280.

NARFE Meeting. 1 p.m. American Legion Post180, 330 North Center St., Vienna. Lia VelizHutson, director of Operations at Liberty TaxService will be the guest speaker. Free. 703-938-9757.

FRIDAY/MARCH 11Mind in the Making-Taking on

Challenges. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Dunn LoringCenter for Parent Services, 2334 GallowsRoad, Entrance 1, Room 100, Dunn Loring.At this workshop you will learn the researchbehind why taking on challenges is one ofthe Seven Essential Life Skills Every ChildNeeds. Learn strategies for improving thisskill, the importance of it in children’s livesand activities to promote the skill at home.Bring your own lunch and learn. Register athttp://www.fcps.edu/dss/osp/prc/index.shtml.

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Art Kingdom,precinct cap-tain withFairfax Demo-crats mans thepolling stationat Great FallsLibrary.

Claire Grum-bly, picturedwith BrightView VibrantLiving directorJosh Graf,enters GreatFalls Library tovote on SuperTuesday.

More thanthree dozenvoters getready to voteat Great FallsLibrary at10:24 a.m. onSuper Tuesday.

DanielleSaunders votesTuesday morn-ing at GreatFalls Elemen-tary School.She raisedconcerns aboutthe fact thatcandidateswho havedropped outstill appearedon the ballot,especially onthe Republicanside.

Depending onperspective,two dozenvoters took aright-turn orleft turn to-wards thevoting boothsat CooperMiddle Schoolin McLean at11 a.m. onSuper Tuesday.

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By Kristin Clark Taylor

Undefeated.

As a writer, this is thesingular word that Robert F.Dorr remembers most vividly;

the word his doctor used last fall, on theday of his diagnosis, to describe the type oftumor they had just discovered in his brain.

“That particular word sounded strange atthe time, especially coming from a trainedphysician,” Dorr remembers, “but that wasclearly the word he intended to use. It wasprecise and carefully chosen. It told thewhole story.”

Dorr’s “story,” as it plays itself out witheach passing day, doesn’t have a neatly-packaged, happily-ever-after ending. Butthis much is clear: Dorr, a prolific author,popular speaker and well-regarded author-ity on military aviation history, is deter-mined to write his own ending, live out hisown life and embrace each day with char-acteristic spunk, vigor and, yes, courage.

This type of brain tumor, he explainsmatter-of-factly and without an ounce ofpity or sadness in his voice, is one of themost common — and here, he pauses be-fore adding his own descriptor:

“And it is always fatal.”Dorr, a former senior diplomat, retired

Foreign Service officer and U.S. Air Forceveteran, speaks with quiet confidence; thetype of confidence that comes from havingwritten eighty books and thousands ofmagazine articles and newspaper columns.

His newest book, a crime thriller titled“Crime Scene: Fairfax County,” was releasedin January. While writing it, typing became

difficult, at times impossible, yet he com-pleted the project. Dorr seems to see eachword he writes (and speaks) as a preciouspearl — and the determined writer contin-ues to string them together, slowly, carefully,one after another, to create a single, shin-ing strand; a thing of pure beauty.

Dorr has two adult children. A lovely, lov-ing wife.

And six to twelve months left to live.Still, he finds the words to write. The

wisdom to share. The lessons to dispense –

not just about the art of writing, but the artof living.

This is why the 76-year old author hasaccepted the invitation to speak to the GreatFalls Writer’s Group (GFWG) on Thursday,March 10, at 11 a.m., at the Great Falls Li-brary.

Says Dorr of his upcoming visit: “Thismeeting will give each of us a chance tolearn from the other because every authorhas a different approach. You don’t have tobe the next literary sensation – or even a

writer at all –to find surprises as we takeyou inside the secrets of putting words ontopaper.”

Because the life lessons Dorr is expectedto share at this meeting will expand far be-yond the writer’s lair – his messages areuniversal in scope, and expansive in reach— GFWG has decided to open the meetingto the general public as well.

Dorr is excited: “This is going to be funand educational for writers and non-writ-ers alike,” he says. “I just hope that my sixtyyears’ experience as a writer will encour-age and inspire those who’ll follow me.”

Brian Trompeter, a journalist who hascovered Dorr in the past, offers praise andrespect for his subject. “He always knowshis material thoroughly and gives forthrightquotes,” says Trompeter, plus, he adds withwarm respect, he “generally is a hoot tointerview.”

Several of Dorr’s books will be availablefor purchase after the event. The author willalso stay behind, briefly, to sign books.

Daniela Dixon, manager of the Great FallsLibrary, is enthusiastic about Dorr’s upcom-ing visit: “Mr. Dorr is well-known to our li-braries,” she says. “He is passionate abouthis subjects and inspires people with hisstories.”

To underscore his desire to leave behindwords of wisdom, strength and courage,Dorr has already written a piece for theannual anthology that GFWG will publishin the spring. And though his presence atthe unveiling in May is uncertain, his son,Robert P. Dorr, will be on hand to acceptthe first copy off the presses on behalf ofhis father. GFWG has also decided to dedi-cate their anthology to Mr. Dorr.

By Ken Moore

The Connection

Great Falls awaits the PlanningCommission’s decision on the po-tential rezoning of Brooks Farm off

Springvale Road.Dranesville Planning Commissioner John

Ulfelder said the commission is scheduledto make its decision only recommendationto the Board of Supervisors this Wednesday,March 2.

“The applicant has submitted a set of re-vised proffers and a number of changes,”said Ulfelder.

“Planning staff has been analyzing thesechanges. They are preparing an addendumto the original staff report. That should becoming out tomorrow or Monday,” he said

at last Thursday’s Planning Commissionmeeting.

More than 1,400 people in Great Fallssigned a petition opposing Basheer-Edgemoor Brooks application to rezone51.97 acres of farmland off Springvale Roadand around Walker Lake to allow building20 homes.

Many testified before the county’s Plan-ning Commission in a four hour hearing thatstarted Thursday, Jan. 21 and lasted past 2a.m. on Friday, Jan. 22.

“We are the voice for Great Falls. We findthat consensus and take it to the county tomake sure our voice is heard,” said GreatFalls Citizens Association president EricKnudsen. “You’ve heard multiple times to-night how the community feels.”

Great Falls was part of a downzoning

more than 30 years ago designed to pro-tect drinking water and the Potomac River,with much of the area zoned for one housefor five acres.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION listenedto more than four hours of testimony fromcommission staff and from citizens, mostlyin opposition but some in support of theplan to rezone 51.97 acres of property offSpringvale Road.

“It is very clear this is a special piece ofproperty to people in the community,” saidGregory Riegle, representing the potentialdevelopers. “We went to great pains to en-sure that we have complete answers to ques-tions.”

Basheer/Edgemoore-Brooks spent morethan a year revising its application in at-

tempt to meet concern of residents, espe-cially regarding density, septic, stormwater,environmental, well, water, preservation oftrees, and other features of the propertyaround Walker Lake.

The proposal to rezone the property topermit Basheer/Edgemoore-Brooks to de-velop 20 single family homes in a clustersubdivision, meaning houses would be onsmaller lots with open space around.

The developers convinced some, includ-ing neighbors Elyse and Bob Turkeltaub.

“Initially we did not favor it, but overtime, as we met with them, we think it is isa good and reasonable idea,” BobTurkeltaub said.

Members of the Planning Commission saidthat the 36nsections of proffers in the ap-plication should include arduous guidelinesfor attending to the environment long-term.

“If those HOAs don’t have good guidelinesand understanding of the responsibility todo this, it will go away,” said Knudsen. “Weneed to do more.”

Planning Commission scheduled to make recommendation toBoard of Supervisors at this Thursday’s hearing.

Awaiting Brooks Farm Decision

Robert F. Dorr to speak to the Great Falls Writer’s Group (GFWG) onThursday, March 10, at the Great Falls Library.

Author Faces Death but Chooses LifeWhen and WhereWhen: Thursday, March 10, 11 a.m.Where: The Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown

Pike, Great FallsSeating: Because a fairly large crowd is expected,

an early arrival is recommended (10:30 a.m.)Seating is open. The event is free. Noreservations required.

Robert F. Dorrstands before ashelf filled withhis publishedbooks. He holdsa copy of hisrecent novel,“Crime Scene:Fairfax County.”

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Dr. Samuel Burton Rentsch, Jr.passed on Feb. 24 at age 87 of con-gestive heart failure. Born inDerby, Conn. in 1928, he was theson of Dr. Samuel Burton Rentsch,Sr. and Minnie Hazel HollowayRentsch. He was predeceased byhis sister Emily Christine. Samuelwas married twice. With JuanitaGood Brown Rentsch Millerick, hehad five children: Christi, Sammy,Bonnie, Shelley and Rusty. WithRobin Ould Sabin Rentsch, hegained another daughter, Brooke.He also was loved by six grand-children and three great-grand-children.

Sam attended Hopkins Gram-mar School in New Haven, Conn.Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. wherehe graduated with a degree in engineering and Medi-cal College of Virginia with a degree in medicine. Heplayed football and other sports in high school andcollege. During his three years of military service,he was the doctor for two submarines in Groton,Conn. Later, he set up his medical practice inGlastonbury, Conn. where he worked until he retiredand moved with Robin to Great Falls, and more re-cently to Ashby Ponds, Ashburn.

Sam Rentsch made a name for himself with hisModel A that he worked on tirelessly and his subma-rine, called the Benthic Explorer. He bought theModel A when he was a teenager and continued toride around in it right up until his last year of life.

His Model A was part of theCherry Blossom Parade in Wash-ington D.C. The Benthic Explorer,on the other hand, was built in hisbackyard. He did intensive re-search and inaugurated the sub in1978 by submerging it into theConnecticut River. Later, his inven-tion was used for oceanographyresearch at the University ofRhode Island and now it is part ofthe Children’s Museum of South-eastern Connecticut in Niantic.Sam made a half-dozen other in-ventions, notably the CardiacPress. He was an adjunct profes-sor of oceanography at U.R.I. As adoctor, Sam was very dedicated tohis patients. He took a year hia-

tus to be Director of the Peace Corp in Chad, Africafrom 1966-1967. Sam and Robin went on excitingscuba diving trips in Australia, the Caribbean andthe Red Sea.

The family will be receiving friends at the AdamsGreen Funeral Home in Herndon on March 5 at 11a.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to oneof the causes that Sam was so interested in: DoctorsWithout Borders (donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/) or Jacques Cousteau Society (http://www.cousteau.org/support-2/). Mark Tribute to Dr.Samuel Rentsch and notify [email protected] is also possible to donate by phone. Thank you forthinking positively about this quiet, courageous andinteresting man.

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All over the country, people are raising theirhair in the air to help increase awarenessof the roughly 108,000 children in fostercare who are currently available for adop-

tion./This month, some local dogs joined in to showtheir support.

If you are interested in learning more about fostercare adoption, go to the Adoption ExchangeAssociation’s website adoptea.org or call 410-636-

7030. To learn about specific children waiting andhoping for adoptive families visit adoptuskids.org orcall 888 200-4005.

If you would like to join the awareness effort, takeyour own “hair in air” pic and post it on Facebook,Instagram and Twitter with #hairinair. Learn moreabout the effort on Facebook, “Hair in Air.”

This project is the brainchild of Great Falls resi-dent and photographer Joan Brady.

Local dogs raising their ears in the air to help increaseawareness of foster care adoption.

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Opinion

By Kenneth R. “Ken” Plum

State Delegate (D-36)

If past history provides any in-dication, the 2016 session ofthe General Assembly willhave considered nearly 3,000

bills and resolutions before its 60-day session adjourns in early March.While the figure is impressive, it canbe deceiving without a breakdownof the total number. For example, in2014 which was also a 60-day “long” session,the 100 members of the House of Delegatesintroduced 1,950 bills and resolutions, and the40 members of the Senate introduced 938 billsand resolutions. Of the 2,888 total bills andresolutions, resolutions accounted for 942.Most resolutions are memorial in that they rec-ognize someone noteworthy in a delegate’s dis-trict who had died the previous year or theycommend in offering praise to a person, sportsteam, organization, or entity for a noteworthyaccomplishment or event. It is seldom that me-morial or commending resolutions do not pass.

Other resolutions may propose to ex-press the sense of the General As-sembly on an issue or provide guid-ance to another branch or level ofgovernment. Some of these resolu-tions can be very controversial es-pecially when members propose tosend a message to the big bad fed-eral government. No resolution car-ries the force of law.

In 2014, 1,946 bills that proposenew laws were introduced by the

House and Senate members. By the end of thesession that year 825 bills or 42 percent passedthe House and Senate with only 10 of thesenot being signed by the governor. If more than800 new laws seems like a big number, a fur-ther analysis will put it in perspective. Manybills are double-counted in that they have beenintroduced in both houses and passed by bothhouses. About two-thirds of the legislationpassed are duplicates of other bills. Some billsare local in that they apply to only a singlejurisdiction. As a Dillon Rule state—meaningthat local governments have only the power

granted to them by the state—local govern-ments must come to the state for enabling leg-islation to take on a new power or activity if itis not granted by the locality’s existing charteror general law. These bills are generally notcontroversial unless the locality is asking forpower not ever given to another local govern-ment. Agency bills are introduced by memberson behalf of the governor and state agenciesrelated to the functions of state government.Housekeeping bills are introduced to corrector clarify legislation that has been introducedin the past. A high percentage of bills relate tocrime and punishment and civil actions.

When these clarifications distill down thetotal number, you get to the couple of dozenbills about which you read in the newspapersand by which you might be directly impacted.They are the bills that are controversial andsometimes partisan. Little legislation willthreaten the stability of the Commonwealth.When change is needed, however, we need tobe willing to make that change. I will addressthe most significant pieces of legislation fromthis session in future columns.

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Letters to the Editor

About two years ago I attendedan event in Washington, D.C.where the First Lady of Afghani-stan, Ms. Ashraf Ghani, spoke onbehalf of the Aschiana Foundation.She passionately voiced the impor-tance of educating Afghani chil-dren displaced from their homesdue to war. She said that it isthrough education that these chil-dren will earn a better life. Thatevening I personally made a prom-ise to Ms. Ghani that I would sharewith the students of CooperMiddle School what I had learnedabout the Aschiana Foundation.

This year I challenged the stu-dents of Cooper to collect paper,pencils and other supplies for the

Aschiana School.They even created fillable

storybooks for the students ofAschiana to express their interestsmathematically through words,equations, tables and graphs—“Rule of 4!” These same studentscreated their own “Rule of 4”storybooks. They are aware of theimportance of pencil and paper forall students to learn globally. Wehope the students of Aschiana en-joy composing their ownstorybooks as much as the stu-dents of Cooper.

Mary JacobsSeventh grade Math teacher

Cooper Middle School

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OverzealousSpendersTo the Editor:

In your editorial (“Limiting Lo-cal Authority,” The Connection,February 10-16, 2016) you writethat the Virginia General Assem-bly is “rushing to restrict prof-fers...” For decades the incessantgrab for increasing revenues bylocal jurisdictions has been evi-denced by larger and larger, morecreative grabs by localities, someeven illegal. There is no rush, sim-ply a patient, prudent reply tothose overzealous spenders ofother people’s money.

Steve BartoVienna

To the Editor:Childfree restaurants need to ex-

ist in today’s society. Why? Becauseit appears that parents have forgotto be – well, parents! I do not blamethe child for crying and screaming. Iblame the parents for taking theirchild to a nice restaurant in the firstplace. I understand that babiesscream or a child throws a tempertantrum, but the parent should rec-tify the situation and inconveniencethemselves by having to go outsideto calm the child down. I should nothave to make a sacrifice so you cango out to eat with your kid. Underno circumstances will I ever beempathetic in that situation. Anotherissue? When parents allow their chil-dren to run wild in a restaurant.

Doing this at Chuck E. Cheese is onething, but in a “real” restaurant it isabsolutely unacceptable! Youshouldn’t have had a kid if youweren’t ready to make sacrifices.

I was searching for childfree res-taurants in the NoVA area theother day and could not find one.There needs to be some restau-rants with a strict rule of not al-lowing kids into their establish-ment. Until parents learn that theworld does not rotate around theirkid and not everyone thinks theirkid is cute, there will always be aneed for childfree restaurants inthis local area.

Reena DesaiHerndon

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Great Falls PublicMeeting: ProtectingNeighborhood Trees

In response to residents’ con-cerns about loss of tree canopy inGreat Falls neighborhoods, com-munity organizations have teamedup to present a public Tree Forumat 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8at the Grange, 9818 GeorgetownPike.

The speakers will discuss pre-serving trees during the residen-tial development process, particu-larly on infill lots, and how countyofficials, local residents, and de-velopers can best work together,They can also address other treerelated concerns, such as best careand planting of trees, tree trim-ming and removal along roads andutility lines, and the environmen-tal benefits of trees.

This program is open to the pub-lic and is sponsored by SupervisorJohn Foust, Fairfax County TreeCommission, Great Falls CitizensAssociation (GFCA), FairfaxCounty Urban Forest ManagementDivision (UFMD), and VirginiaCooperative Extension. The North-ern Virginia Building Industry As-sociation (NVBIA) will also be rep-resented.

Great Falls TeenFinalist in ScienceTalent Search

Kunal Shroff, a Great Falls na-tive and student at ThomasJefferson High School for Scienceand Technology, is a finalist for thenation’s most prestigious scienceresearch competition, the IntelScience Talent Search (Intel STS).Seventeen hundred high schoolseniors from around the countryapplied to Intel STS 2016. He isone of 40 finalists chosen to com-pete on the national stage, inWashington D.C. this March. Stu-dents will compete for more than$1.2 million in awards.

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By Marilyn Campbell

The Connection

It was around 2 a.m. on a frigid winternight when Janet Russell was awak-ened from her sleep by the sound ofwoman calling for help. The cries were

coming from the front lawn of her Arling-ton home. She ventured out into the cold tofind her 84-year-old neighbor lying on theground, believing that dozens of bugs werecrawling on her skin.

“She was having bad hallucinations, andit turns out that she’d taken the wrong com-bination of medicines,” said Russell. “Shewas on about 11 different medications, somefor her blood pressure, and she was admin-istering them to herself.”

MEDICATION ERRORS are not uncom-mon, according to a recent survey by HomeInstead Senior Care. Their survey showedthat 20 percent of seniors who take morethan five medications had problems takingthem as prescribed. Unintentional medica-tion misuse, such as forgetting to take a dose

or taking more or less than the requireddose, can have devastating results. HomeInstead is encouraging families to talk withtheir loved ones about medication manage-ment and are offering suggestions on howto approach such conversations.

“If you notice a change in personality orthinking, or if they’re they having a mobil-ity issue or if they seem sluggish, those aresigns of medication mismanagement,” saidIan Lovejoy, director of operations of HomeInstead Senior Care in Fairfax County.

Home Instead has created a programcalled “Let’s Talk about RxSM” (prescriptionself medication). This program is designedto inform seniors’ families about the dan-gers of medication mismanagement as wellas offer tips for minimizing the risks andsuggestions for starting a dialogue about tak-ing medication as prescribed.

“Our goal is to keep seniors at home andsafe,” said Lovejoy. “We want the daughterand the son not have to focus on the pillbottle.”

Discovering that an elderly patient is tak-ing more than five medications could be a

warning sign that they may lose track or getconfused about the timing and dosage foreach prescription.

“If an adult child sees that their parent ison many medications, I would suggest whatI call brown bagging: putting all of the medi-cations in a brown paper bag and takingthem with you to the next doctor visit,” saidOmobola Oyeleye, an assistant professor ofnursing at Northern Virginia CommunityCollege who teaches a class in drug dosagecalculations.

“They can go through each medicationwith the doctor and find out what it’s for.Sometimes, for example, someone might betaking a medication that was prescribed sixmonths ago for a condition that has already

cleared up.”Oyeleye suggests a conducting what she

calls a medication reconciliation in order todetermine whether someone is taking mul-tiple medications for the same condition.“What you might find is that one medica-tion exacerbates or even negates the other,”she said.

Trisha Brechling Miller, 57 of McLean, hasmanaged the medications for both her 85-year old husband, Larry, and her 84-year oldmother. After Larry fell, broke his hip andbecame immobile, Muller began using a cal-

endar to keep his medication schedule in order. “Ihave a calendar that helps keep me organized as towhat he needs to take and when, “ she said. “If itchanges, I update it.” Miller, a Home Instead SeniorCare client, is also assisting her mother in creating amedications calendar.

CONVERSATION ABOUT MEDICATION can befraught with tension. A perceived loss of freedom isone factor that can make getting involved in manag-ing family members’ medication complicated, saysLovejoy.

“It’s just one more thing that they’re losing control

“Let’s Talk about RxSM” helps seniors avoidprescription drug mishaps.

Managing Medication Can Be ChallengingWellbeing

Photo courtesy of Home Instead Senior Care

A new study shows that that 20 percent of seniors who take more thanfive medications had problems taking their prescription drugs as di-rected by their doctor.

over,” he said. “Along with the car and their mobility,their medication is something that people generallylike to have control over.

Clear lines of communication are necessary, as fami-lies often play a critical role in intervening and pre-venting a possible negative outcomes.

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By Marilyn Campbell

The Connection

A local college student is spend-ing much of her senior yearscouring the last wills and testa-ments of residents of Northern

Virginia. While many of the documents con-tain antebellum treasures like silverserveware, rifles and horses, Georgia Brownis looking for more haunting line items:slaves.

“Nobody had ever combed through all120 years of will books line by line before,so we had no idea what I would find,” saidBrown, a George Mason University student.“It is pretty exciting seeing GeorgeWashington’s and George Mason’s wills andinventories as it gives me a peek into theirhouseholds… It is fascinating to see whatpeople considered important enough to passon to a specific person once they were gone.Some people were very worried about theirriding horses or slaves, while others caredmore about their…silver spoons with theirmonogram.”

BROWN, who is a veteran of the UnitedStates Navy and a senior majoring in his-tory at George Mason University, began aninternship at the Fairfax County CircuitCourt Historic Records Center as part of herdegree program.

After expressing an interest in the CivilWar and slavery, Brown was asked to combthrough the probate records index. The in-dex includes wills, inventories, and estateaccounts from 1742, the year Fairfax Countywas founded, to 1865, when the Civil Warended. Each time a slave was mentioned inan estate, she recorded the slave’s name,age, the owner’s name and other details.

“We didn’t know if the slaves would belisted with names, first or last, if there wouldbe family groups, or if they would be men-tioned in wills, just like livestock,” saidBrown.

Brown was surprised to find not only thenames of slaves, but birthdates, emancipa-tions, descriptions of character, sales andbequeathments showing trails of ownership.“After constantly showing my exciting find-ings to the archivists and [Maddy McCoy]a historian who specializes in African Ameri-can genealogy, we started working on ideasfor a way to capture this information in adatabase that would make the data search-able to the public,” said Brown. “I wouldsay that after reading the first few docu-ments mentioning slaves we knew wewould need to capture all the information Iwas finding in the will books.”

Heather Bollinger, assistant archivist at

Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Cen-ter, supervises Brown and other interns andhelped formulate the idea of a slavery da-tabase. “To determine which of the peopleown slaves – we realized an abundance ofinformation that needed to be captured,”she said.

An index card is created for each slaveand owner, creating a slavery database thatis searchable by the names of both the slaveand owner.

While the slavery index is still in its in-fancy, Brown hopes that, when complete, itwill provide answers for those who havequestions about their ancestry, answers that,for the descendents of slaves, are often hardto find.

“Our database currently is a 3x5” cardcatalog so it is very low tech,” said Brown.“This project is a bit of a trial run.”

When the project is complete, “it will behelpful to people living not only in FairfaxCounty, but Arlington and Alexandria, tooin tracing ancestral family lines and under-standing slave economy as it functioned inFairfax county,” said Bollinger.

Brown adds, “It will also be useful to his-torians doing research in African Americanhistory or history on early Virginia.”

ONE SUCH HISTORIAN is Maddy McCoywho had been researching slavery in FairfaxCounty for the last decade. “Once the in-dex is complete, I will utilize that data tointerpret slavery in this county in a way thathas never been able to be done before,” saidMcCoy who is serving as a consultant onthe Fairfax County Slavery Index project“This is an amazing project and they aredoing a great job.”

Originally from Oregon, Brown says shewas surprised that some of her beliefs aboutslavery and the south were unfounded.“From the limited education I have on sla-very, I predicted that most of the slave own-ers would treat their slaves as chattel, orworse,” she said.

By combing through documents, Brownconcluded that the relationships betweenslaves and masters were more complicatedthan she originally imagined. “It seems thatbecause Fairfax County was made of smallerfarms, the relationships between slaves andtheir masters, for better or for worse, weremore intimate,” said Brown. “It was actu-ally quite rare to see a will where the slaveowner was indifferent or wanted his slavessold. Unless a sale was absolutely necessaryto provide for their families, most ownerswould do anything to keep their slaves.”

THE MOST FASCINATING wills, saysBrown, were those that included emanci-pations. “Every time I saw ‘to be freed’ myheart would skip a little,” she said. “Someemancipations were straight to the point,while others were almost a love letter totheir former slaves. I will admit that someof the words of respect made me tear up alittle.”

Brown hopes that her project will serveas a model for counties in other parts ofthe south. “A project such as this is verydoable,” she said. “The process can be gru-eling, but it is definitely a labor of love whenwe see all the people who are no longerlost in the archives.”

Bollinger and others in the research groupsay they haven’t had anyone find an ances-tor from the database complied so far, andthey estimate that it will be more than oneyear before the project is complete. Any-one interested in searching the recordsshould contact the Fairfax Circuit CourtHistoric Records Center at 703-246-4168 [email protected].

Uncovering the Roots of SlaveryLocal student createsslave index to helpdescendants tracefamily history.

Photos courtesy of Georgia Brown

This is one of the documents that contained data for the Fairfax CourtSlavery Index.

George Mason University studentGeorgia Brown organizes theFairfax Court Slavery Index bysearching more than 10,000 refer-ences to slaves in the FairfaxCircuit Court Historic RecordsCenter will and deed books thatdate from 1742 to 1870.

For More InformationAnyone interested in searching the Fairfax

Court Slavery Index should contact the FairfaxCircuit Court Historic Records Center at 703-246-4168 or [email protected]

”We didn’t know if theslaves would be listedwith names…or if theywould be mentioned inwills, just like livestock.”

— Georgia Brown

Do you want to know what really goes on withteens on Saturday nights? The Unified Preven-tion Coalition of Fairfax County (UPC) will hosttwo “Saturday Night in the Suburbs” programsin March: at Woodson High School on Tuesday,March 15, and at Westfield High School onThursday, March 17. The program is open toadults in the community and begins at 7 p.m. ateach school.

The program features a panel of high schoolseniors who talk openly about alcohol and druguse, teen parties, social media, parent supervi-sion and enabling, and communication withparents. Middle school and high school parents

are encouraged to attend.“Parents find this to be somewhat eye-open-

ing,” said UPC’s Jennifer Lewis-Cooper, who willfacilitate the events. “We will not ask the panelspecific names, dates, places of events or putthem on the spot — their job is not to ‘snitch’ onothers but to educate parents to understandwhat teens are dealing with and help parents toset better limits.”

Only adults will be admitted to the presenta-tions.

For more information, visitwww.unifiedpreventioncoalition.org orwww.facebook.com/unifiedpreventioncoalition.

“Saturday Night in the Suburbs” for Parents


By Kathleen Murphy

President/

Great Falls Historical Society

Many residents of Great Fallshave asked on many occa-sions how to research thehistory of the Fairfax

County home they are living in. SusanHellman, Architectural Historian, is theauthor of the research guidelines for re-searching historic buildings in FairfaxCounty (http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/historic/ihs/research.htm), andshared her guidance with on Wednesday,Feb. 10 at the Great Falls Library. Whetherresearching on the Department of Plan-ning and Zoning website, at the localcourthouses, using the land tax books,analyzing physical structures, referring topersonal property tax records, consultinghistoric maps or gathering newspaper ar-ticles, Hellman mapped out all the stepsto take to gather all the possible clues touncover the truth about your house. (Youmay visit at www.gfhs.org to find a linkto Hellman’s presentation.)

She gave very important tips: If yourhouse was built before 1940, do not trustthe date it may be listed because if thecounty had no idea of the date, they wouldjust list the property as 1900. Structural

features and research of family membersprovide better clues. When working withthe Land Tax books, properties will be listedin alphabetical order, however the proper-ties will not be in order within a letter –(For example, within A, Abbott and Abramsmay be listed under A, however Abramsmay come before Abbott – you need to ex-amine the entire category.) Hellman warnsthat Oral Histories should only be consid-ered as a starting point, as people’s memo-ries are not factual — rather they report

impressions and memories that may not beaccurate or precise.

Hellman used to be the Historian at theVirginia Room prior to conducting manyhistorical research studies at the FairfaxCounty Department of Planning and Zon-ing.

Currently, she is the Historic Site Man-ager for the Carlyle House Historic Site inAlexandria. The Carlyle House is featuredprominently in the new PBS mini-series“Mercy Street.” Hellman is a past Acting

Director of the Woodlawn and Pope-LeigheyHouse. A graduate of Duke University, shehas a master of Art degree in ArchitecturalHistory from the University of Virginia.

The Great Falls Historical Society’s MarchProgram, Living on the Land (Part 2):“Equestrian” Great Falls will take place onWednesday, March 9 at the Great Falls Li-brary at 7 p.m. The spacious pastoral set-ting, uniquely characteristic of Great Falls,provides a vital setting for a wide range ofequestrian activities. Hear the stories of howlocal horse people experience the land. Hearhow equestrian families, local barns andriding schools experience oneness with theland as they care for their animals and en-joy their sport. Presenters include GeorgiaBay of Lift Me Up!, Sharon Molster of BlackHill Stables, Karen Washburn, equestrianhomestead, Weslie Karber, Normandy Farm,and Pam Mc Dormen, Southdown andhomestead.

The Great Falls Historical Society wasorganized in 1977 to promote communityspirit by bringing the past into the present.The March program uncovers residents’many experiences of a pastoral setting ofGreat Falls at a time when the communitywrestles with such land preservation issuesas Brooks Farm and Marmota Farm, someof the last vestiges of an agrarian past.

Great Falls Historical Society hosts presentation onresearching the history of your Fairfax County house.

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Sports

Piper Williams of Vienna,Nina Sebastien ofMcLean, Elaine Zhang

of Vienna, and Taylor Olson ofFalls Church represented ourarea at the 2016 U.S. Synchro-nized Skating Championshipsin Kalamazoo, Mich. last week.They are four of the 22 mem-bers of the DC EDGE Juvenileteam, now ranked seventh inthe nation after their perfor-mance at the national champi-onship event. The team, whichpractices at Kettler CapitalsIceplex, Cabin John Ice Rink,and Wheaton Ice Arena, hasbeen training since May 2015in hopes of qualifying for Na-tionals. They secured their spotby winning the silver medal atthe Eastern Sectional Champi-onship in Richmond, Va. on Jan.28, 2016.

DC EDGE sent four teams toNationals with two cominghome National Champions:Adult and Masters. Their Juve-nile team placed seventh andNovice placed 11th. OtherFairfax County skaters include:Ashley Morris of Vienna and

Nicole Berry of McLean on theNovice team.

Synchronized skating is anup-and-coming disciplinewhich brings teams of skaterstogether to perform a synchro-nized program on ice. Formore information about “syn-chro” or the DC EDGE Syn-chronized Skating Teams, visitdcedgesynchro.org.

By Jon Roetman

The Connection

The Langley girls’ basketball team hasreached a level of success where the Sax-ons viewed a three-point loss to unde-feated Oakton in the region semifinals as

a disappointment.Despite the tough loss, Langley enters the state

tournament as a confident group after pushing theCougars to the limit and beating Herndon in the third-place game.

Langley, the No. 3 seed from 6A North, will travel toface Landstown, the 6A South runner-up, in the statequarterfinals at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 5 at OldDominion University in Norfolk.

The Saxons enter states with a 24-5 record, havingwon seven of their last eight contests, including a 42-38 victory over Fairfax in the Conference 6 champion-ship game on Feb. 20. Langley will face a Landstownteam with a 23-3 record, according to maxpreps.com.The Eagles won the Conference 1 championship andlost to Woodside 39-28 in the 6A South region final.

Langley and Landstown have faced two commonopponents: Lake Taylor and Centreville. The Saxonslost to Lake Taylor 45-38 on Dec. 28 during a holidaytournament in Hampton. The Eagles beat Lake Taylor52-48 on Jan. 7. Langley defeated Centreville 43-34on Feb. 23 in the opening round of the regionaltournament. Landstown beat Centreville 31-25 on Dec.28 during the Bulldog Bash holiday tournament atWestfield High School.

“I think we’re excited,” Langley senior and Co-Con-ference 6 Player of the Year Paige Galiani said. “Wehave really good position going into [states] and I thinkwe definitely have a chance of going far — winning itall, hopefully.”

Fifth-year Langley head coach Amanda Baker hasturned the Saxons into one of the top teams in theregion. After three straight losing seasons, Baker ledLangley to a 21-5 record during the 2014-15 campaign,during which the Saxons reached the conferencechampionship game and the region quarterfinals.

This year, Baker said the Saxons hoped to give them-selves a chance to contend for multiple championships.After beating Fairfax to win the program’s firstconference/district title since 1988, Langley’s hopes for

a region championship ended with a 44-41 loss toundefeated Oakton on Feb. 27 at Lake BraddockSecondary School. The Cougars went on to beat Fairfaxin the region final.

Langley junior Ariana Aulisi scored a team-high 12points against Oakton. Senior guard Lizzy Shamloofinished with 10 points and sophomore guard JordynCallaghan added seven.

“It’s disappointing to lose,” Baker said. “We reallythought the expectation was to win. We didn’t go inhoping to keep it close, but it was an admirable effort.I was really proud of the way the kids executed thegame plan. We were right where we wanted to be atthe end we just got the wrong outcome.”

Oakton’s 44 points tied a season low. The three-pointmargin of victory also tied a season-low for the Cougars.

The following night, Langley defeated Herndon 48-43 in the third-place game at Robinson SecondarySchool. Galiani led the Saxons with 16 points. Shamloofinished with 10 points, Callaghan had eight and Aulisiscored seven.

“[It was] definitely a heart-breaking loss [againstOakton],” Galiani said, “but we definitely came out hardas a team and we were excited to come into [the third-place game] because [we] proved we’re a great teamlast night.”

Shamloo was selected to the 6A North region all-tournament team.

The winner of Langley and Landstown will take onthe winner of Oakton and Woodbridge in the statesemifinals at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8 at VCU inRichmond. The state championship game is sched-uled for 7:15 p.m. on March 9 at VCU.

Vienna, McLean skaters partici-pate in 2016 U.S. SynchronizedSkating Championships.

Area Skaters Go National

Saxons beat Herndon inregion third-place game.

Langley to Face Landstown in StateQuarterfinals

Sophomore guard Jordyn Callaghan andthe Langley girls’ basketball team defeatedHerndon 48-43 in the 6A North regionthird-place game on Feb. 27 at RobinsonSecondary School.

Langley seniorPaige Galianiscored 16points againstHerndon in the6A Northregion third-place game onFeb. 27.

Ariana Aulisiand the Lan-gley girls’basketballteam will faceLandstown inthe statequarterfinalson Friday,March 4 at OldDominionUniversity.

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Juvenile Skaters, from left: Piper Williams of Vienna,Nina Sebastien of McLean, Elaine Zhang, of Viennaand Taylor Olson of Falls Church.

DC EDGE Juvenile team performs a pyramid forma-tion at the 2016 U.S. Synchronized Skating Champi-onships on February 25

Vienna residents, PiperWilliams (front left) andElaine Zhang (centerfront), skate in a blockformation at the 2016U.S. Synchronized Skat-ing Championships onFebruary 25

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The Intel STS 2016 winners will beannounced on March 15. Visit thehttps://student.societyforscience.org/intel-sts for more information.

Week in Great Falls

A new art studio has openedfor children at the St. FrancisCreche Episcopal Preschool andthe school has also added ayoga class to its after-schoolcurriculum. “We are excited tohave these offerings that en-hance our active learning,” saysCreche director Jane RuppeKeihn.

The Creche repurposed exist-ing space at the church to housea new ”process art” studio thatstudents go to at least once aweek. Housing the art studio ina separate, intentional spaceallows more freedom for ongo-ing projects and gives the stu-dents a sense of creative space.The art classes focus on the in-dividual creative process as op-posed to the final product.

In one recent class, studentsdrew with markers taped to toycars. Creche teacher JessicaMaxson, a graduate student inart therapy, says, “This is a non-directive activity that incorpo-rates lots of movement and pro-motes social skills by sharingand discussing what marks ap-pear on the paper.” Other recentprojects have included paintingwith rubber bands and makingpaper sculptures. “Young chil-

dren learn best through sensorymeans and through movement,and process art uses thesemodes to their best advantage,”Maxson explains, adding, “ Italso stimulates development inmany areas, including fine andgross motor skills, social andemotional skills, and cognitiveskills such as planning, problemsolving and creativity.”

Creche students have alsobeen trying on yoga, as regularCreche fitness instructor CoachGeoff Wright has been offeringan after-school yoga class andchildren have been stretchinginto imaginative animal poses.Coach Wright’s fitness classesare a regular part of the CrechePreschool weekly curriculumand include basic motor skills,strength and stretching exer-cises, games, nature hikes, run-ning and balance work.

The Creche will host a pre-school art show in the spring,in conjunction with a plannedsinging performance.

For more information, con-tact Creche Director JaneRuppe Keihn at 703-759-2522or visit http://www.stfrancisgreatfalls.org/index.php/creche.

Great Falls Preschool LaunchesInnovative New Art Studio,Yoga ClassesChelsea Becomes

a ‘New Dog’We bought an English setter puppy

from an excellent breeder. She wasour third English Setter but she wasso different from the others. Wenamed her Chelsea thinking shewould live up to her cultured Britishname. But we suffered through herfirst year, tearfully discussingwhether we would take her back tothe breeder. It was like having a ra-bid raccoon loose in our house andshe terrorized the other two setters(one was elderly and was an abusedrescue dog). She contentedly slept inher crate, but the rest of time wecalled her “the terrorist dog.” Themorning after we decided to take herback to the breeder, we woke up to a“new” dog. She was still intense andhad lots of energy but had a newcalmer personality. We say that she’sso smart she heard what we decidedand straightened up and behaved.Happy ending!

—Susan and Bob Newhall,

Great Falls

Northern Virginia Senior SoftballLeague Seeks Players

The Northern Virginia Senior Softball League (NVSS) is looking forsoftball players for the 2016 spring/summer and fall seasons startingApril 5 and ending in late October.

Women age 40 and up and men age 50 and up are eligible to play.Games are played on Tuesday and Thursday mornings starting at 9:30a.m. at various playing fields in Fairfax County. The league has over500 members and fields teams at three separate competitive levels ofplay so there is a place for players regardless of skill level, of age, whenyou last played, or if you never played. If you played baseball in thepast, you can play softball. The League holds skill assessments to de-termine competitive level placement.

The league has many players in their 70s and 80s so do not let agestop you from joining. So come join us, get great exercise, have fun,and make many new friends. You can join anytime and play only oneday a week if you cannot play both days. See https://www.facebook.com/NorthernVirginiaSeniorSoftball and http://www.nvss.org for more information and application form.

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In one recent class, Creche students drew with mark-ers taped to toy cars.

Creche students have also been trying yoga.

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Community

On Feb. 10, Great Falls Friends and Neigh-bors presented a check to Jolie Smith, therepresentative from Shelter House, the par-ent company of Artemis House as a resultof the fundraising with the the White HouseOrnament Sales. Great Falls Friends andNeighbors were able to raise $5,000. The

Club wants to thank everyone — the clubmembers, the community, and the retailerswho were generous and worked diligentlyin support of this cause. The emergencyhotline number for victims of domestic vio-lence and human trafficking to call: 703-360-7273 TTY: 703-435-1235.

Great Falls Friends and Neighbors Present aCheck to Shelter House

Jessica Lewis, of Great Falls, along withMarshall High School classmates EthanEpstein, Sam Hassett, Thea Prevalsky andQuiana Dang took top honors in the VirginiaLifeSmarts competition, held in Richmond.

The team competed in individual and col-laborative tests and quiz bowl-type roundsagainst other teams in preliminary contests,ultimately defeating the former state cham-pions in the final round. Two of the teammembers placed first in the state in theirindividual categories: Prevalsky in the envi-ronmental category, and Lewis in the con-sumer rights and responsibilities category.

LifeSmarts is an educational program ofthe National Consumers League for studentsin grades 6-12 that prepares them to enterthe real world as smart adult consumers.Participants focus on five areas: consumerrights and responsibilities, the environment,health and safety, personal finance, andtechnology. Content is revised to keep upwith current developments in these areasand complements the curriculum in middleand high schools.

The Marshall team advances to the LifeSmarts National competition in Denver inApril, where it will represent Virginia.

Marshall High School Students Win VirginiaLifeSmarts Competition

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Marshall High School team takes top honors in Virginia LifeSmartscompetition.

ONGOINGScholarship. Deadline April 1. The Bull Run

Civil War Round Table in Centreville isoffering a $1,500 scholarship to a highschool senior who resides in Fairfax or PrinceWilliam counties and will attend college orcommunity college in fall 2016. Informationand application instructions can be found athttp://bullruncwrt.org.

Pigments of My Imagination. Jan. 4-March31. Great Falls Library, 9830 GeorgetownPike, Great Falls. Long time Great Fallsresident Donna Barnako, has created over adozen colorful and whimsical small works.Her subjects are varied, from pigs to puppiesand cowboy boots.

Weekly Storytime. Wednesday and Saturday.11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 7851 L TysonsCorner Center, McLean. Themes and Titlesvary. Free admission.

Gentle Yoga. Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. EmmausUnited Church of Christ, 900 E Maple Ave. E,Vienna. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. UnitarianUniversalist Congregation of Fairfax, 2709Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. Gentle KundaliniYoga, one free introductory session, seniordiscounts. Increase your flexibility, improveyour breathing and health, reduce yourstress. Ravi Kaur has 15 years experienceteaching yoga. $15 per session.www.edimprovement.org. 571-213-3192.

Tai Chi Beginners’ Practice. Saturdays, 8-9a.m. St. Luke’s Catholic School Gymnasium,7005 Georgetown Pike, McLean. Weekly TaiChi practice. Group has met for over 20years. Free. FreeTaiChi.org. 703-759-9141.

Goldstein Artist Showcase. March 1-23.Broadway Gallery, 1025-J Seneca Road,Great Falls. Great Falls Gallery will featurethe pastels and mixed media paintings oflocal artist, Lynn Goldstein.www.broadwaygallery.net. 703-450-8005.

WEDNESDAY/MARCH 2Imagine Dragons in Concert:

Smoke+Mirrors. 7:30 p.m. Tyson’s Corner16, 7850 Tysons Corner Center, McLean.Watch the concert as it is broadcast live onthe big screen. http://www.fathomevents.com/event/imagine-dragons-in-concert.

THURSDAY/MARCH 3Game Night: King of Tokyo. 7 p.m. Barnes

and Noble Tysons, 7851 L. Tysons CornerCenter, McLean. Bring friends, grab a snackfrom the Cafe and get ready for some boardgame fun. Free. 703-506-6756. http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2238.

FRIDAY/MARCH 4St. Paddy’s Day Party. 7-9 p.m. The Old

Firehouse, 1440 Chain Bridge Road, McLean.This 5th and 6th-grader party will includemusic, dancing, games, snacks, videos andmore. $35/$25. Advance registration isrequired; walk-ins will not be admitted.mcleancenter.org.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY/MARCH 4-5Scrapbooking. Friday, 6 p.m.-midnight.

Saturday, 9 a.m-7 p.m. Vienna Volunteer FireDepartment, 400 Center St., South, Vienna.

Proceeds benefit fire department. $50/$60.Dinner available for purchase. Contact LisaEmerson at [email protected] or703-981-4504.

SATURDAY/MARCH 5“Wishes and Dreams” Reception. 4-6 p.m.

Vienna Art Center, 115 Pleasant St., NW,Vienna. Free. viennaartssociety.org. 703-319-3971.

Robert E. Simon, Jr. Children’s CenterBook Fair. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Barnes andNoble Tysons, 7851 L. Tysons Corner Center,McLean. The students, parents and staff fromRobert E. Simon, Jr. Children’s Center willhost a variety of activities to entertainchildren including an 11 a.m. Storytime,bookmark making and face painting. Free.703-506-6756. http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2238.

Author Reading and Signing. 1 p.m. Barnesand Noble Tysons, 7851 L. Tysons CornerCenter, McLean. Local children’s authorAlison Grace Johansen will read and signcopies of her picture book “HumFree the BeeHas a Food Allergy.” 703-506-6756. http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2238.

Author Reading and Signing. 4 p.m. Barnesand Noble Tysons, 7851 L. Tysons CornerCenter, McLean. David Priess will tell storiesfrom 50 years of Presidential intelligence atthe highest level and sign copies of his newrelease, “The President’s Book of Secrets.”703-506-6756. http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2238.

Making Justice Work. 2-4 p.m. UnitedChristian Parish, 11508 North Shore Drive,Reston. Second of two forums on CriminalJustice in the U.S. Subtitled “PolicePractices” and will have local orientation.Free. Open to all. ucpreston.org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY/MARCH 5-6, MARCH 12-13,“Sideways Stories from Wayside School.”

3 p.m. McLean Community Center, 1234Ingleside Ave., McLean. Delightfullydemented comedy about the strangest schoolever built, where the students battlesupernatural teachers and endure madcaplessons. Performed by youths. Ages 7 and up.$15/$10. mcleancenter.org. 703-790-0123.

TUESDAY/MARCH 8Protecting Neighborhood Trees. 7:30-9:30

p.m. Great Falls Grange, 9818 GeorgetownPike, Great Falls. The event will be forum co-sponsored by Supervisor John Foust, theFairfax County Tree Commission, and theGreat Falls Citizens Association. Speakerswill focus on tree preservation during thereal estate development process, and whatcitizens can do to help protect the existingtree canopy. [email protected]. 703-759-3280.

NARFE Meeting. 1 p.m. American Legion Post180, 330 North Center St., Vienna. Lia VelizHutson, director of Operations at Liberty TaxService will be the guest speaker. Free. 703-938-9757.

Send announcements to [email protected]. Deadlineis Friday for the following week’s paper. Photos/artwork encouraged.

LynnGoldstein,Apresl’Crozon, 12"x 16", Pastel,on display atBroadwayGallery inGreat Fallsfrom March1-23.

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THURSDAY/MARCH 10Vienna Art Society Meeting. 10:30

a.m.-12:30 p.m. Speaker will be DaviD’Agostino who will discuss anddemonstration her paintings in oilsand acrylics and how she planssubject matter. Free.viennaartssociety.org. 703-319-3971.

Game Night: Sheriff ofNottingham. 7 p.m. Barnes andNoble Tysons, 7851 L. Tysons CornerCenter, McLean. Bring friends, grab asnack from the Cafe and get ready forsome board game fun. Free. 703-506-6756. http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2238.

SATURDAY/MARCH 12Model Trains and Thomas at Open

House. 1-5 p.m. Historic ViennaTrain Station, 231 Dominion RoadNE, Vienna. See and hear modeltrolleys and steam and diesel trainsplus Thomas and some of his friends.The layout reflects the mountainousterrain and towns of Western NorthCarolina with award winningstructures. Free. Donations accepted.

www.nvmr.org. 703-938-5157.Churchill Road Elementary School

Book Fair. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Barnesand Noble Tysons, 7851 L. TysonsCorner Center, McLean. Students,parents, staff will host activities toentertain children. Bookmarkmaking, face painting andperformances. 703-506-6756. http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2238.

Look to the Rainbow. 6-10 p.m.Charles Wesley United MethodistChurch, 6817 Dean Drive, McLean.Come celebrate with the WorldChildren’s Choir with songs, dance,drumming and activities. Songs witha Celtic spirit in honor of St. Patrick’sDay. $10-$30.worldchildrenschoir.org. 571-344-2206.

TUESDAY/MARCH 15Perennial Personalities. 10 a.m.

Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124Park St., Vienna. Karen Rexrod, plantexpert and former owner of WindyHill nursery, will present her favoriteperennial personalities. Karen’sexpertise and knowledge of perennialplants and their habits. [email protected].

Cocktails and Conversation. 5-6:30p.m. Capital Grille, 1861International Drive, McLean. TheCommunity Foundation for NorthernVirginia invites you to a private eventfor substantial supporters and friendsof the Community Foundation.Reserve at www.cfnova.org/cocktailsor call Tara Nadel at 703-879-7637.

WEDNESDAY/MARCH 16McLean Newcomers and

Neighbors Monthly Luncheon.11:30 a.m. Peking Gourmet Inn,6029 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church.Cabi clothing stylist, AllisonBateman, will speak, providing uswith all the latest spring trends for2016. $24. RSVP by March 11 toSusie Osser at [email protected].

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Trompeter to AddressGreat Falls Writer’s Group

It began with a camera and a Christmas tree.A Kodak Handle instant camera and a family Christ-

mas tree, to be precise.This was the gift that Brian Trompeter received

from his parents on Christmas Day almost four de-cades ago, when he was just twelve years old. Thiswas the camera – the cool, cutting-edge camera thatwas probably, back then, the envy of every kid onthe block – that launched his journey into journal-ism. This was the gift that sparked that first flame,ignited that first fuse, and left this passionate pre-teen from Midland, Michigan hopelessly, helplesslyhooked.

That very next year, Trompeter bought his owncamera — this time, a 35 mm — and shortly there-after, at the tender age of 14, his very first photo-graphs were published in the “Midland Daily News.”

Trompeter’s early career path took a few interest-ing twists and turns, as most paths do, but through-out it all, his interest in journalism never reallywaned. (He once backpacked through Europe for fourmonths, worked a brief stint as a U.S. Census Bu-reau enumerator, and worked in the retail and res-taurant industries.)

In 1995, Trompeter was hired by The Connection

Newspapers to cover the areas of Vienna and Oakton,where he worked as a writer and editor for five years.From there, he was hired by the Sun-Gazette News-papers, to cover McLean, Vienna, Oakton, Great Fallsand Tysons Corner — all fast-growing, highly-diversegeographic areas that provide good, solid materialfor good, solid journalists such as Trompeter.

This is why the Great Falls Writer’s Group (GFWG)has invited Trompeter to speak on Thursday, March24 at the Great Falls Library (11 a.m.), where he willspend time reflecting on his own career in journal-ism, on the changing face of journalism itself, as anindustry, and on the dynamic, fast-changing worldof photojournalism as well.

His four-year-old nephew Michael shot the photothat appears in this article.

—Kristin Clark Taylor

Photo by Michael O’Connor

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LEGAL NOTICEEdward Koch, M.D., a gynecologist, announces the closure of his clinical practice located at 6707 Old Dominion Drive in McLean Virginia as of April 30, 2016. Dr. Koch can be reached at703-288-0794 or by email at [email protected]. Infor-mation about medication refills and medical records can be ob-tained using the telephone number or the email noted above. Dr. Koch will remain in McLean as a medical consultant.

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Inge’s Properties Inc. (the "Corporation"), a Virginian corpora-tion organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virgin-ia, has dissolved in the Commonwealth of Virginia as of Febru-ary 10, 2016. Pursuant to the filing of the certificate of dissolu-tion, the Corporation hereby gives notice to all persons having a claim against the Corporation, other than a claim against the Corporation in a pending action, suit or proceeding towhich the Corporation is a party, to present their claims against the Corporation in the manner prescribed below:

1. All claims must be presented to the Corporation in writing and must contain sufficient information reasonably to inform the Corporation or successor entity of the identity of the claim-ant and the substance of the claim.

2. The mailing address to which such a claim must be sent is: Inge’s Properties Inc. c/o Robert B. Nealon, Esq., 119 N. Henry Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.

3. The date by which such a claim must be received by the Corporation or its successor entity is May 1, 2016.

4. Any claim that is not received by May 1, 2016 will not be evaluated for payment at this time.

5. The Corporation may make distributions to other claimants or persons interested without further notice to the claimant.

6. Further, any claim will be barred unless a proceeding to en-force such claim is commenced by the earlier of the expiration of the statue of limitations, or three years after the date of publication of this notice.

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ABC LICENSE Basic Burger, LLC trading as Basic Burger, 2024 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA

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ABC LICENSE P&M Group, LLC trading as Red Galanga, 144 Church St, NW, Vienna, VA 22180. The above establishment is apply-ing to the VIRGINIA DEPART-MENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEV-ERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Wine and Beer On Prem-ises; Mixed Beverage Restau-rant license to sell or manufac-ture alcoholic beverages. Perawat Pradawong, memberNOTE: Objections to the issu-ance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 dates from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Ob-jections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200

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OBITUARY NOTICEThomas (Tom) B. Bonner, 84, of Bristow, Virginiaand formerly long time resident of Vienna, Virginiapassed away peacefully on February 27, 2016.

Tom was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the onlyson of the late Thomas A. and Jessie A. (Miller)Bonner, and was raised in Arlington, Virginia. Tommarried his wife, Marie, in 1953, and they madetheir home in Vienna, Virginia, where they residedhappily for 58 years, raising their family of four chil-dren. Tom was employed as an illustrator for theU.S. Department of Defense for 37 years until heretired in 1988.

Tom loved living in the town of Vienna, Virginia andwas active in the community for most of his life,with a passion for service in the Vienna VolunteerFire Department. Tom joined the department in1961 as a volunteer fireman, and throughout therest of his life he proudly contributed in many dif-ferent capacities there, with his most recent effortsfocused on the fire department’s historical preser-vation. In 2012, after 50 years of volunteer service,he was recognized as a Life Member of the VVFDand also the VVFD Auxiliary. Tom loved baseballand enjoyed coaching in the Vienna Little Leaguefor many years, where he was inducted as a mem-ber of the Vienna Little League Honor Roll in 1985.He was also a member of the Vienna AmericanLegion Post and was actively involved in theKnights of Columbus organization.

Tom is survived by his beloved wife, Marie, of 62years, his four children Thomas, Jr. (Lyndee) ofCentreville, VA, Terry Maddox of Warrenton, VA,John (Anne) of Centreville, VA, and Donald (Lale’)of Cornelius, NC. He leaves behind nine grandchil-dren, Justin, Matt, Nicolle, Michelle, Jennifer, Mike,Chris, Danny, and Ben, and great grandson, Gavin.He was preceded in death by his son-in-law KenMaddox. Tom was a loving husband, father, andgrandfather and will be deeply missed by all hisfamily and friends.

Visitation will occur from 6:00 to 8:00 pm onTuesday, March 1, 2016 at Pierce Funeral Home inManassas, VA. The funeral mass will be held onWednesday, March 2, 2016 at Holy Trinity CatholicChurch, in Bristow, VA, at 10:30 a.m. with intermentto follow at Fairfax Memorial Park Cemetery, inFairfax, VA. Donations in his name can be made tothe Vienna Volunteer Fire Department.www.vvfd.org

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That as I sit and attempt to write nextweek’s column, I am doing so on the exactdate, February 27th, seven years ago when Imet the oncologist who delivered to me, mywife, Dina and my brother, Richard (a.k.a.“Team Lourie”) the devastating news thatwould change my life/life expectancy forever. Aphone call from my internal medicine doctorthe previous week had confirmed that thebiopsy indicated a malignancy in my lungs andan appointment with an oncologist to discussthe details was recommended. A week later,“Team Lourie” met the oncologist who advisedus that the tumors were in fact non-small celllung cancer (NSCLC), stage IV; “inoperable,incurable,” and with a “13-month to two-year”prognosis. After reviewing the recent medicalhistory that led up to this appointment, andthen discussing with the doctor the variousalternatives/treatment protocols – and likelyoutcomes, we all agreed that I should beginevery-three-week chemotherapy as soon aspossible. And so, six days later, on the followingWednesday, it began. The rest, as you regularreaders know, is history, and “history” whichI’m proud to say is still being made.

However, as much as this date is about me– and as a cancer patient, you’re often told:“it’s all about you” – I can’t appreciate my life(and amazing good fortune) without expressingmy condolences generally to all the newfoundfriends, acquaintances, a few relatives and themiscellaneous names; some famous and note-worthy, many not, whom I have heard aboutand read about, who have succumbed to thisterrible disease. A disease which, at least whenI was originally diagnosed, offered patients verylittle hope of surviving even beyond two years;I’m living into my eighth year now. My oncolo-gist refers to me as his “third miracle,” a moni-ker I am happy to embrace and incredibly for-tunate to have earned with a disproportionateamount of luck, perseverance and a positive,self-effacing, find-humor/make-humor, take-the-good-with-bad and the-bad-with-the-goodapproach that if I believe any of what I’ve beentold by numerous medical professionals, haslikely contributed to my overall good health.And though there are no guarantees offered orgiven in oncology, I am at least one example ofa grim tale that turned out not to be a fairytale.

Let me be clear: I am not in remission. I amstill under the regular and recurring care of myoncologist. I still receive chemotherapy infu-sions every four weeks. I still go for diagnosticscans every three months, and a follow-upappointment with my oncologist a week or solater for evaluation and assessment. I still liveevery day knowing there remains no cure forwhat ails me. And as written about in lastweek’s column, “A Further Explanation,” theexperience has changed me forever, no doubtreflecting the ongoing demands of being diag-nosed with a terminal form of cancer, a diagno-sis which is all it’s cracked up to be.

But dwelling on this reality serves no pur-pose. And living as if today is my last day does-n’t resonate with me either. I prefer to live mylife as much as possible, anyway, as how Iwould otherwise live it: no bucket lists to fill ormust-haves or must-dos. Instead, I’d rather dowhat I must and live as I have: consistent withwho I am and who I’ve become: a seven-plusyear cancer survivor amazed to still be aliveand appreciative of all the help and encourage-ment I’ve received along the way.

One might think being diagnosed with can-cer/living with cancer is a solitary pursuit, andin many ways, I suppose it is; but in my shar-ing, I’ve found caring, and I believe there’sstrength in those numbers. Happy Anniversaryto me and to all my fellow cancer patients whoclaim this date as a significant milestone; be itone day, one week, one month, one year ormultiple years. Congratulations to us all. Wedeserve it!

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