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Susan Infeld, a registerednurse, remembers vividlythe night she knew shehad to get involved with

the Northern Virginia TrainingCenter. She was working as a hos-pice nurse at a local hospital whena patient from NVTC came in suf-fering from pneumonia in themiddle of the night.

“We eventually had to put himon a ventilator, but he had a ‘DoNot Resuscitate,’” she said. “This man’s par-ents were elderly and not in the state, andwe couldn’t get a hold of them. So we calledthe center to tell them the situation, andthey said ‘wait.’ Soon a physician, socialworker, nursing assistant and the directorof nursing showed up at the hospital to bewith him as he died,” she said. “We all stoodaround this man, holding hands and pray-ing as he died surrounded by the peoplewho had cared for him over the past dozenyears. In all my years in the medical pro-fession, I’ve never seen that kind of com-passion and concern so far above and be-yond what anyone could expect.”

Located in Fairfax on Braddock Road, theNorthern Virginia Training Center housesresidents with intellectual and other dis-abilities, but is currently in danger of beingshut down.

There are currently 153 residing at NVTC,of which 88 percent have severe/profoundintellectual disabilities, 57 percent haveepilepsy, more than 53 percent require as-sistance with mobility, 90 percent requireassistance to eat, 69 percent have difficultyswallowing and more than 50 percent havesignificant behavior disorders. Residentsrange from age 22 to 91.

In August 2008, the Department of Jus-tice began an investigation of the CentralVirginia Training Center, located in Madi-son Heights, Va. The investigation wasbroadened in April 2010 to examineVirginia’s system of services for individualswith intellectual and developmental dis-abilities, which included all five trainingcenters around the state.

A findings letter submitted in February2011 by the DOJ concluded that the state“fails to provide services to individuals withintellectual and developmental disabilitiesin the most integrated setting appropriateto their needs in violation of the ADA(Americans with Disabilities Act).”

In March 2011, Virginia entered into ne-gotiations with the DOJ to reach a settle-ment and an agreement was made Jan. 26

of this year. The settlement includes theclosing of four of the state’s training cen-ters by 2020, with the Northern VirginiaTraining Center scheduled to close in June2015.

“If these patients are released, we’re go-ing to see them cycling in and out of areahospitals for various afflictions and it’s go-ing to be a huge financial burden on thestate,” Infeld said. “This is the time whenwe all need to come together and defendthose who can’t speak for themselves.”

Jane Anthony, co-president of the North-ern Virginia Training Center Parents andAssociates and mother of a resident of theNVTC, also says closing the centers willimpose a major burden.

“If they do close as planned the commu-nity group home capability will be stretchedand taxed beyond their capabilities. The1,000 residents of Training Centers acrossthe state who still reside there are the mostdifficult to care for and ‘place’ outside theCenters,” she said. “Many like my own sonneed 24/7 medical oversight which is notaffordable or doable in the four persongroup homes that are planned. The infra-structure is not there and it takes time andmoney— Virginia is 47th in the nation inproviding services to those with intellectualdisabilities—to build. The money savingsfor this level of complexity are not there,and the state will only find in the futurethat the costs escalate.”

IN A STATEMENT announcing the settle-ment, Gov. Bob McDonnell spoke in favorof community-based system for caring forpatients, calling the training centers “themost costly and restrictive form of servicesavailable.”

But many families of patients at the NVTCsay closing the centers will have the oppo-site effect.

Anthony’s son, Jason Kinzler, is 36 andhas Angelman Syndrome, a spontaneousmutation genetic disorder which leaves hismind at the 6-month-old to one-year-old

level, has almost no painthreshold, is not toilet trained and tends toput items in his mouth that could becomechoking hazards. Kinzler recently ate 11inches of his quilt, and was found pickingat a sore in his elbow to the point of pullingarm tissue out of the wound.

“Jason’s care at NVTC is exemplary. Mostof his direct-care staff have been with himfor more than 20 years and hence under-stand his condition, can anticipate risks andknow his needs,” Anthony said. “Commu-nity placements, especially group homes arenot designed to prevent Jason from chew-ing on light cords, pulling heavy objectsdown upon himself or choking on smallparts he could bite off...Most locations in agroup home would pose excessive hazards,and for his own protection, he would be-come a virtual prisoner in his own ‘home.’”

Pat Bennett of Vienna knows how impor-tant the Northern Virginia Training Centerhas been for her family. Her daughter Ginnyhas been there since she was 7. Ginny hascerebral palsy and several other intellectualdisabilities.

Her daughter is now 45 and Bennett givescredit to the NVTC for her daughter’s lon-gevity.

“She requires 24 hours a day, seven daysa week, 365 days a year care and the staffare remarkable human beings, and they’vebeen there a long time, which is importantfor stability,” she said. “People have comefrom all over to study the longevity of thepatients, it’s really a phenomenon.”

Bennett and her husband, both in their70s, have discussed what their options willbe if the NVTC closes.

“Bringing her home would be the mostrestrictive thing we can do,” said Bennett.“At the center there are a host of activitiesand programs she can participate in everyday.”

Karen Schupak’s brother also suffers fromcerebral palsy and epilepsy, and has beenin a Virginia Training Center for more than40 years. She knows without a doubt thather brother would not be alive without the

efforts of the centers.“They’ve given my brother so much love

and compassion, so much affection, it’s justoff the charts,” she said. “And he’s never hadso much as a bedsore, never dirty, he’s neversmelled. My daughter, who’s 12, pointed outhow she could tell how much respect thepatients are given.”

Schupak agrees that it would be impos-sible for her brother to find the level of en-gagement he currently has anywhere else.

“They take him on outings, he goes toworkshops, he’s not stuck in his room allday, we can visit him,” she said. “If the cen-ter is closed, there will be nothing for him,he’ll probably just end up in a nursinghome.”

THE CLOSING OF THE CENTERS is notyet a done deal. The judge has not yet ap-proved the settlement that would close thecenter.

The NVTC Parents and Associates havehired legal counsel to represent them. OnThursday, May 10 they hosted a legalfundraiser at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern inHerndon, which raised almost $7,487,bringing their total raised to $14,531.

There was reason to celebrate at thefundraiser, as on Wednesday, May 9, U.S.District Judge John Gibney granted thegroup’s motion to intervene, allowing thefamilies to be a part of the process.

Gibney wrote that “the existing parties inthis litigation do not adequately representthe rights and interests of the Petitioners,”and his decision will allow the families tohave rights as parties to the litigation.

There are currently 13 families of train-ing center residents, though they will be fil-ing a motion for class certification thatwould allow all families in similar situationsto be included. Gibney’s May 9 decision willallow families to participate and presentevidence to the court.

“This decision basically means we’ve wongame one, but we haven’t won the pennantyet,” Anthony said. “But now we are at thetable, which is a very good thing.”

Families Fight For Northern Virginia Training Center

Volunteer Sheree Levitsky sells raffle tickets to raisemoney for the legal fund for the Northern Virginia Train-ing Center Thursday, May 10 at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavernin Herndon.

Christy Winters Scott, South Lakes women’s basketballcoach and Washington Mystics commentator and JimmyCirrito, owner of Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern, auction off apainting to raise money for the legal fund to try and keepthe Northern Virginia Training Center open.

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Opinion

Unless your home is served by wellwater, you are almost certainlyamong the five million people inthe Washington Metropolitan area

who get their drinking water from the PotomacRiver.

This week, the organization American Riv-ers named the Potomac River as the most en-dangered river in the nation. ThePotomac River is far cleaner than itwas 40 years ago when the Clean Wa-ter Act was enacted.

“Before the Clean Water Act was enacted in1972, the Potomac was a cesspool of sewageand industrial pollution,” says American Riv-ers. “Thanks to the Clean Water Act, thePotomac and rivers across the country arecleaner and safer for drinking, boating, andfishing. But … a University of Maryland reportcard has given the river a ‘D’ grade for waterquality for the past two years.”

Now it’s safe for high school crew teams totake to the river by the dozens. Kayakers andpaddle-boarders join them in intimate contactwith the water. Motorboats, marinas and fish-

ermen all show the confidence we now havein the integrity of the Potomac River.

Still, after a rain, stormwater washes agri-cultural waste, suburban and urban runoff car-rying loads of pollution into our area’s smallstreams, into the Potomac River and on intothe Chesapeake Bay. Bacteria in the river afterbig rainstorms, from dog waste in suburbanareas, agricultural runoff in more rural areas,has led to the recommendation by some thatpeople avoid contact with the river for two-to-three days.

Slowing stormwater runoff, limiting theamount of “nutrients” that are swept down theriver into the Chesapeake Bay, and improve-

ments in methods of treating sewageare all critical to the ongoing healthof our water supply.

Fish in the Potomac River also con-tinue to show symptoms of exposure to endo-crine disruptors, with male bass carrying eggsand other signs. Scientists suspect variety ofpharmaceuticals and chemicals are causingthese abnormalities, and it is not knownwhether current water purification systems areremoving those pollutants fully from the drink-ing water.

American Rivers called on Congress to killany legislation that weakens the Clean WaterAct or prevents the Environmental ProtectionAgency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineersfrom restoring protections for small streams

and wetlands under the Act. American Riversalso called on the Obama Administration tofinalize guidance clarifying the scope of theClean Water Act and issue a rule-making toensure that all waters get the protectionsAmericans expect and deserve.

The Potomac River continues to serve asthe scenic backdrop to much of what we dohere. Let’s continue to push for improve-ments.

— Mary Kimm,

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Father’s Day PhotosEvery year at this time, the Connection puts

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Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17, 2012 andonce again the Connection will publish a gal-lery of Father’s Day photos.

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Most Endangered?Potomac River has madegreat strides, has milesto go to save the Bay.

Editorials

Another LookAt ‘Who Benefits’To the Editor:

Your concerns about “who ben-efits and who pays” on fundingthis latest transportation projecthere in Northern Virginia areworth noting and appreciated[Editorial, “On Funding the SilverLine,” Connection, April 11-17,2012]. Previous surveys haveshown the traffic congestion herein Virginia, especially for its citi-zens trying to compute from theirhomes in nearby communities totheir jobs around the area, is oneof the worst in the country. Previ-ous road projects such as the “mix-ing bowl” here in Springfield, andnow the construction of “hotlanes” around the beltway, are at-tempts to reduce travel time sit-ting in our cars in bumper tobumper traffic.

Before we can single out thefunding of the silver metro linebetween Tysons and Dulles, weneed to address the entire fund-ing arrangements made by ourelected officials both here inNorthern Virginia and the State ofVirginia. When our personal prop-erty taxes on our automobileswere reduced by 75 percent years

ago, the State of Virginia contin-ues to reimburse the counties fortheir loss in collecting this tax rev-enue from its residents. Thesefunds come from the State ofVirginia’s transportation trustfund. When states have largepopulation growth centeredaround urban areas like Chicagoin Illinois and St Louis in Missouri,the receipt of tax revenue and thereturn of their tax dollars to its citi-zens are unbalanced. Added to thisfact, national surveys continue tohighlight both Fairfax andLoudoun county residents are en-joying one of the richest per capi-tal income in the United States,plus having the lowest unemploy-ment rate as well. These factsalone help to attract people fromother parts of the country to movehere for jobs and to pursue thequality of life we enjoy. People liv-ing in less populated areas of theState of Virginia continue to haveneeds to be funded and mandatedby passed state legislation.

Being homeless, without a job,and needing health care do nothave a regional boundary. Over theyears, some elected leaders herein the commonwealth have goneon public record lobbying theircase as to why Northern Virginiashouldn’t be a separate funding

entity, and/or should be given tax-ing authority like the state.

This approach only places anuncooperative wedge betweenpolitical organization at the stateand county levels. These feelingscan only lead to a more dysfunc-tional form of government whichis not good for its people.

Most state budgets in the UnitedStates do not even approach thesize of the Fairfax County yearlybudget. Most of our county citi-zens have been sheltered from the

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pressures of what is happening tothe rest of the residents in the statedue to a weak economy. We seemto adopt the feeling we are entitledto be more privileged than others.Maybe the answer as to “who ben-efits and who pays” should begiven a broader view as to who aremore fortunate by having a betterstandard of living and able to paythan those who are less fortunate.

Ronald L. BakerSpringfield

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CASE NO. PUE-2012-00013

On April 12, 2012, Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc. (“Columbia Gas” or the “Company) filed an application (“Application”) withthe State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) requesting authority to extend and amend its natural gas conservation andratemaking efficiency plan (“CARE Plan”) approved by the Commission in Case No. PUE-2009-00051. The Company’s currentCARE Plan consists of six programs and twenty-seven measures designed to promote natural gas conservation by theCompany’s residential and small general service customers. The Company’s CARE Plan is scheduled to expire on December 31,2012.

Columbia Gas’s Application requests authority to extend its CARE Plan for an additional three years, through December 31,2015, and to amend certain provisions of its current CARE Plan. The Company’s Application, among other things, proposes toretain the six original programs approved by the Commission, namely, the: (1) Web-Based Home Audit Program; (2) HomeSavings Program, (3) Business Savings Program; (4) Business Custom Program; (5) Residential Low-Income Program; and (6)Education and Outreach Program. The Application further proposes to implement a new program called the Residential ElderlyAudit Program, which will provide inhome audits and free high-efficiency shower heads, faucet aerators, pipe insulation, andpre-programmed thermostats for qualified residential customers.

The Company’s Application further proposes to amend, combine, and remove several of the measures offered under theCompany’s current CARE Plan. For residential customers who participate in the Company’s Web-Based Home Audit Program,the Company proposes to remove its free water heater pipe insulation measure and continue providing at no cost high-effi-ciency showerheads and faucet aerators to each participant in the Web Based Home Audit Program. The Company further pro-poses to amend its Home Savings Program for residential customers to: (i) reduce the incentive payments for installingENERGY STAR tankless water heaters ($300 to $250) and high-efficiency natural gas furnaces with an average fuel utilizationefficiency (“AFUE”) ≥ 90% and <94% ($300 to $275); (ii) combine its Duct Sealing and Duct Insulation measures and provideone combined incentive payment ($450); (iii) include two new measures, which will provide incentive payments to encouragethe installation of high-efficiency gas furnaces with an AFUE of ≥94% ($350) and the construction of ENERGY STAR qualifiedhomes ($700); and (iv) revise the delivery mechanism for the attic and floor insulation measures from a post-purchase deliverymechanism to a customer instant rebate mechanism where incentives are paid directly to qualified contractors who install insu-lation meeting program requirements.

The Application also proposes several revisions to the measures offered to its small general service customers. Columbia Gasproposes to amend its Business Savings Program and reduce the incentive payments for some of the measures offered underthe Program. The Company proposes, among other things, to reduce the incentive payments for customers electing to install:(i) high-efficiency coin-operated or laundromat washers ($150 to $65); (ii) high-efficiency gas storage water heaters (≤75,000Btu/hr) ($50 to $35); (iii) ENERGY STAR tankless water heaters (<200,000 Btu/hr) ($2.00/kBtu/hr to $1.15/kBtu/hr); (iv)ENERGY STAR gas boilers (<300,000 Btu/hr) ($3.00/kBtu/hr to $2.25/kBtu/hr); (v) high-efficiency gas furnaces with an AFUE ≥92% and < 94% ($300 to $250); and (iv) high-efficiency gas furnaces with an AFUE ≥ 94% ($400 to $300).The Company also proposes to amend its Residential Low Income Program and eliminate the funding for the education andtraining of energy auditors for low-income residential customers. The Company proposes to transition from providing educationand training of auditors to providing outreach, education, and free directinstallation measures for low-income residentialcustomers.

The Company expects to spend approximately $9.7 million over the next three years to implement its amended CARE Plan.These expenses will be recovered from the Company’s residential and small general service customers through the CARE

Program Adjustment (“CPA”) approved by the Commission in Case No. PUE-2009-00051. For 2013, the calculated residentialCPA rate is $.173/Mcf, and the small general service CPA rate is $.016/Mcf. This will cost the average residential customer,using about 70 Mcf, approximately $12 in 2013.

The Company’s Application further proposes to retain the performance-based incentive mechanism and decoupling mecha-nism contained in Columbia Gas’s current CARE Plan. The performance-based incentive mechanism, authorized by § 56-602 Fof the Code of Virginia (“Code”), is designed to allow Columbia Gas to receive up to 15% of the net verified economic benefitscreated by the Company’s conservation and energy efficiency programs. Finally, the Company’s Application proposes to con-tinue its current decoupling mechanism, which is a sales adjustment clause in the form of a revenue normalization adjustment(“RNA”). The RNA adjusts the Company’s actual non gas distribution revenues to its allowed distribution revenues, as definedby § 56-600 of the Code. The RNA will operate in the same manner as in the current CARE Plan, but the Company’s allowed dis-tribution revenues will be updated to reflect the rates and charges approved by the Commission in Columbia Gas’s last ratecase, Case No. PUE-2010-00017.

The details of these and other proposals are set forth in the Company’s Application. Interested persons are encouraged toreview the Company’s Application and supporting testimony and exhibits for the details of these proposals.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Comment that, among other things, directed the Company to provide noticeto the public and provided interested persons an opportunity to comment on the Company’s Application.

A copy of the Company’s Application may be obtained at no charge by requesting a copy of the same from the Company’scounsel, T. Borden Ellis, Senior Counsel, Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc., 1809 Coyote Drive, Chester, Virginia 23836. TheApplication and related documents shall also be available for review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, TylerBuilding, First Floor, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday throughFriday, excluding holidays. Interested persons may also download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website:http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On or before June 8, 2012, interested persons may file written comments on Columbia Gas’s Application with Joel H. Peck,Clerk, State Corporation Commission, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218. Interested persons desiring to submit com-ments electronically may do so, on or before June 8, 2012, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website:http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2012-00013.

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By Marilyn Campbell

The Connection

Law enforcementofficials now have twounlikely weapons in thefight against gang

activity in Virginia: video gamesand college students.

Students in the ComputerGame Design program at GeorgeMason University partnered withVirginia Attorney General KenCuccinelli’s office to create videogames designed to show childrenthe consequences of joining agang. The result of the collabora-tion is a series of interactive andeducational computer games andmobile phone applicationsdesigned to reduce gang recruit-ment. The games were unveiledearlier this month on the GeorgeMason campus in Fairfax.

“Gangs are constantly workingto recruit new kids to replacethose going to jail and gettingkilled. Their recruitment tech-niques are evolving, even to thepoint of using online gaming andother technologies. We have towork even harder to stop them,”said Cuccinelli. “The goal of thispartnership with GMU is a novelapproach in the war againstgangs to beat them at their owngame.”

Students enrolled in theuniversity’s GAME 232 OnlineGaming and Filesharing course

presented game proposals toCuccinelli’s office. The attorneygeneral’s staff selected three:

❖ “A Second Family,” createdby Michael Katz, Romel Ramosand Brandon Miller. The gametells the story of Justin, who istrying to fit in at a new schooland becomes involved with somequestionable people. He is forcedto rely on his friends and mentorsto overcome these negativeinfluences.

❖ “Influenced,” created byAustin Fain, Tiffany Nguyen, ConSon and Lamesha Coley. In thisgame, the player chooses variousscenarios in which he or she caneither help or betray members ofthe local community, and influ-ence the impact gangs have onthe community.

❖ “New Kid on the Block,”created by Stephen Berrigan,Steven Fernandez, Devin Gibson,John Murphy and DanielPaquette. In this game, the player

has just moved to a new townand has to assimilate into a newschool. He or she must make the

right decisions and find atrustworthy group offriends.

THE GAMES ARETARGETED at middle andhigh school students. “Thisis an attempt to reach kidsusing devices that theyalready have in theirhands,” said Arlingtonresident and George Masonadjunct professor Matt

Randon. “The kids are alreadyaddicted to these devices so wehave a better chance of reachingthem with our message.”

During the course, Randon,who also works as an Englishteacher in Manassas, taughtstudents about the history,practice and design of onlinegames and smartphone applica-tions. Throughout the semester,the students developed writtenscripts and storyboards, art andsound design, programming,

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli plays a gamecreated by George Mason Game Design students in Dew-berry Hall at Fairfax Campus. The students created inter-active and educational games aimed at teaching kidsabout the risks of joining gangs.

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coding and musical compositions.“I wanted the game to be fun

for the player while teachingthem about gang violence andhow it can be harmful. Findingthat balance wasn’t easy, but …we were able to create a gamethat’s educational, but also fun toplay,” said Daniel Paquette, whohelped design one of the games.

THE GAMES will be availablefor mobile download free ofcharge by summer 2012. Thegames will also be available onthe attorney general’s website, aswell as the websites for GeorgeMason University, the VirginiaDepartment of Criminal JusticeServices, and Virginia Rules.

“Games have a pretty badreputation in the media. What Ihope this project shows people isthat the greatest asset of games isthat they make learning fun …which is a talent school systemsaround the world should lookinto,” said Stephen Berrigan, leadwriter and narrative designer for“New Kid on the Block.”

“I wanted the game tobe fun for the playerwhile teaching themabout gang violence andhow it can be harmful.”

— Daniel Paquette

Shakespeare at Oak HillSixth graders (32 boys and girls) at Oak Hill Elemen-tary School will present William Shakespeare’s “AMidsummer Night’s Dream” on June 12 and 13 at 7p.m. It’s free admission to this PTA-sponsored play.

Fairfax County Public Schools(FCPS) middle and high schoolstudents won first place awards in 19categories at the 2012 VirginiaTechnology Student Association (TSA)State Leadership Conference, held lastweek in Richmond. The three days ofcompetitive events and displays ofstudent work culminated in FCPSwinning the Lynn P. Barrier Outstand-ing School Division Award for middleschools for the third consecutive year.

Winners will advance to theNational TSA Conference, scheduledfor June 21-25 in Nashville.

At the middle school level, FCPSstudents won 10 first place awards, 12second place awards, and 11 thirdplace awards. At the high school level,FCPS students won nine first placeawards, six second place awards, andseven third place awards.

First place winners at the middleschool level (level I), with theircategory in parentheses, include:

❖ Shawn Jassal of Franklin MiddleSchool (Career Prep).

❖ Navya Kalale and Sahana Ramaniof Carson Middle School (ChallengingTechnology Issues).

❖ Arvind Chava of Carson MiddleSchool (Electrical Applications).

❖ Arvind Chava, SashankThupukari, and Anant Tewari ofCarson Middle School (EnvironmentalFocus).

❖ Pranay Singh, Dhruv Gupta, andRohan Pandit of Carson Middle School(Inventions and Innovations).

❖ Ashan Krishnakumar, Kim Mai,Sruthi Jayaraman, Thuy-Vi Nguyen,Amee Kapadia, Daniel Ruiz, CatherineIm, Ray Liu, Paul Dumitrescu, andSadaf Kolia of Frost Middle School(Medical Technology Issues).

❖ Shawn Jassal of Franklin MiddleSchool (Multimedia Production).

❖ Dhruv Gupta of Carson MiddleSchool (Prepared Speech).

❖ Pavan Reddy and Josh Choe ofFranklin Middle School (StructuralEngineering).

❖ Kevin Geissler, Patrick Hammes,and Ben Spector of Herndon MiddleSchool (Video Game Design).

First place winners at the highschool level (level II), with theircategory in parentheses, include:

❖ Taylor Evans, Jack Polo, AmyRhodes, and Ryan Aitken of WestPotomac High School (ArchitecturalModel).

❖ Sherry Lee of Woodson HighSchool (Career Comparisons).

❖ Angela Roller of Oakton HighSchool (Desktop Publishing).

❖ Jackie Beckwith, Louis Litchford,Alex Hauser, Will Rupp, and EverettLorentzen of West Potomac HighSchool (Engineering Design).

❖ Sherry Lee of Woodson HighSchool (Essays on Technology).

❖ Angela Roller of Oakton HighSchool (Extemporaneous Presenta-tion).

❖ Amy Vandenberghe and BrettBowker of West Springfield HighSchool (Manufacturing Prototype).

❖ Elizabeth Roller of Oakton HighSchool (Photographic Technology).

❖ Andy Artze, Exxus Altimus, andMichael Sherburne of RobinsonSecondary School (System ControlTechnology).

FCPS students and schools also wonthe following awards:

❖ Carson Middle School, first place,Chapter Excellence Level I; secondplace, Community Service Award LevelI; second place, Arvid W. Van DykeOutstanding School Award.

❖ Arvind Chava of Carson MiddleSchool, Most CompetitiveTechnosophere Participant, MiddleSchool Level.

❖ Briana Neuberger of ChantillyHigh School, Virginia Career EducationFoundation Scholarship.

Fairfax County Students WinTechnology Awards

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Fairfax Edges South Lakes Baseball in Final InningKing homers forSeahawks, knocks infour runs.

By Rich Sanders

The Connection

In a hard-fought road contest for theSouth Lakes High baseball team, theSeahawks were defeated last Tuesdaynight, May 8 by the Fairfax Rebels,

who came from behind in the bottom of theseventh inning to win the Liberty Districtgame 8-7.

The Seahawks, playing at Fairfax, openedthe scoring with some power in the secondinning. First baseman Kyle King led off thatframe with a solo home run over the leftfield fence. South Lakes pitcher Bobby RaeAllen (3-for-3 batting on the night) followedwith a double to center and was promptlyplated by first-pitch swinging designatedhitter Austin Gibbons, who sent an offeringto the trees beyond the center field fencefor a home run to put the Seahawks up 3-0.

South Lakes scored another run in the topof the third as King (4 RBI for the game)singled home Ryan Forrest, who had led offthe inning with a walk. That four-run leadwas short-lived, however, as the Rebelsstormed back for three runs of their own inthe bottom of the third. They added twomore in the fifth and one in the sixth totake a 6-4 lead into the final inning.

The Seahawks answered with three runsof their own in the top of the seventh totake a 7-6 lead. JoJo Lear led off with awalk and moved to second when HaydenHall legged out an infield single. Moving tothe top of the order, Forrest executed a sac-rifice to move the runners to second andthird.

A fielder’s choice struck by Jared Abelsonfollowed and resulted in a close call at theplate, but Lear was called out. Senior BillyMcLaughlin was hit by a pitch, movingAbelson to second and Hall to third. Kingthen singled to score both runners.McLaughlin was brought around by Allen’ssubsequent single (his third hit of the con-test), making the score 7-6 Seahawks.

The Rebels, however, rallied for two runsin their final at-bats to win the game.

A WEEK EARLIER the Seahawks droppedtwo games against elite Liberty Districtteams Madison and Stone Bridge.

The highlight from Tuesday’s game (May1) against Madison (13-5) was the first pitchbeing thrown out by Dr. Alli Guleria, ofSeahawk baseball Grand Slam sponsorGuleria Orthodontics.

As for the game, after a nice sliding catchby freshman catcher Jared Abelson on a failedMadison sacrifice bunt in the first inning, theSeahawks defense, with junior pitcher BobbyRae Allen on the mound, struggled with sev-eral errors en route to a 13-0 loss.

Friday’s game against the Stone BridgeBulldogs (13-4) on May 4, saw a muchstronger defensive effort by the Seahawks.But the offense could only muster four hitsin a 6-0 loss. Sophomore Justin Cosing ledthe South Lakes offense with two hits withAbelson and junior Austin Gibbons addingsingles. Senior pitcher Billy McLaughlinpitched a complete game and got some de-fensive help by a diving catch in left fieldby junior Hayden Hall.

South Lakes LosesTough One to Langley

For the second time this season, the SouthLakes Seahawks baseball team battled theLangley Saxons (9-7 record) but came upjust short in a 5-3 loss. The Liberty Districtgame took place April 27 at Langley.

Despite knocking out eight hits, theSeahawks couldn’t get enough timely hitsto pull the game out. It was a gritty effortby Seahawks pitcher Billy McLaughlin, whopitched a complete game. Offensively, SouthLakes was led by Ryan Forrest, who hadthree hits, including a double to lead offthe game. Unfortunately for the Seahawks,they couldn’t move him around as theyended the inning leaving a runner in scor-ing position - the first of six for the night.

After falling behind 3-0 in the first inning,South Lakes broke through with an RBIsingle by McLaughlin in the third inning.The Seahawks’ defense kept the game close

- thanks to a diving catch by Hayden Hallat the wall in left field, and a leaping grabof a line drive by second baseman MattWojciechowski.

After the Saxons tacked on another run inthe fifth to take a 4-1 lead, the Seahawksresponded with two runs in the sixth inning.The inning started with a leadoff double offthe left field wall by Kyle King, who eventu-ally scored on an errant throw by the pitcher.Austin Gibbons’ RBI groundout got SouthLakes back within one run.

After an insurance run by Langley in thebottom of the sixth inning, the Seahawkshad two men reach base in the top of the

Herndon High Lacrosse Wins District HonorsB

oth the Herndon High girls’ andboys’ lacrosse teams were well-represented in recent All-

Concorde District selection recognitionfor the spring season. The All-DistrictTeams were announced during the half-time intermissions of last Friday night’sConcorde District girls’ and boys’ finalsgames at Chantilly High School. TheOakton High girls won their title gamecontest in the double-header champion-ship night’s first game with a victory overCentreville. In the nightcap finals game,

the Oakton boys defeated Westfield.The following Herndon Hornet girls’ play-

ers received All-District honors: RachelDelontagne (First Team Midfield); NikkiRussel (Second Team Midfield); CarolineMann (Second Team Midfield); Gillian Lin-den (Second Team Defense); Sarah Suter(Honorable Mention Attack); KatherineWilson (Honorable mention Attack); AlexisDuke (Honorable Mention Midfield); EllenCranley (Honorable Mention Defense);Hannah Boysko (Honorable Mention De-fense); Kate Morries (Honorable Mention

Defense); Bridget Newell (HonorableMention Goalie).

The following Herndon boys’ playersreceived All-District honors: SamSkillman (First Team Attack); Chris Gla-zier (First Team); Patrick O’Bryan (Sec-ond Team); Ryan McLaughlin (Honor-able Mention Midfield); Austin Miller(Honorable Mention Midfield); SpencerWilson (Honorable Mention Midfield);Paul Hubble (Honorable MentionGoalie).

— Rich Sanders

Prior to South Lakes’ baseball game versus visiting Madison on Tuesday,May 1, Dr. Alli Guleria of Guleria Orthodontics, a grand slam sponsor ofthe Seahawks’ baseball program, threw out the first pitch. (It was acalled strike).

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seventh but stranded them to end the game.But earlier in the week, a King home run

led the Seahawks in a 9-5 district road winover the Thomas Jefferson Colonials onTuesday, April 24. The Seahawks got off toa fast start on a two-run home run by King,his second homer in as many games.

Bobby Rae Allen worked around two firstinning hits by the Colonials (2-11), thanksto a double play started and completed bysenior third baseman Austin Schweppe, anda caught-stealing throw by freshmancatcher Jared Abelson. Allen pitched foursolid innings and helped his own cause bypicking off two runners at first base.

The Seahawks scored in each of the firstsix innings and took a 4-2 lead in the thirdinning on an RBI single by Schweppe thatscored Lear.

South Lakes extended the lead to 6-3 inthe fourth inning thanks to doubles by Aus-tin Gibbons and Ryan Forrest and an RBIby Lear. Allen gave up two earned runs infour innings and was relieved by Lear inthe fifth inning. After the first two Colonialsreached base, catcher Abelson picked off therunner straying too far from second base tohalt the rally.

The Seahawks tacked on two more runsin the fifth inning, thanks to a two-run RBIdouble by Allen. In the seventh inning,South Lakes brought in senior BillyMcLaughlin to preserve the win for Allenand the Seahawks.


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Fine Arts Festival. 5-8 p.m. RestonTown Center, 12001 Market St.,Reston. Contemporary and originalperformances, artist demonstrations,children’s activities and live music.Over 200 master artisans in 18different categories, including oil andacrylic painting, photography,sculpture, ceramics, printmaking,jewelry, metal, leather, wood,furniture, wearable and fiber art willbe featured. Free admission; $10 giftcertificate for participating RestonTown Center restaurants available.www.RestonArts.org orwww.NorthernVirginiaFineArtsFestival.org.

Voce Chamber Singers SpringConcert. 7:30 p.m. St. Timothy’sEpiscopal Church, 432 Van Buren St.,Herndon. “Hard Times Come AgainNo More,” with music by EricWhitacre, Franz Schubert, Simon &Garfunkel, Craig Hella Johnson,Doyle Lawson and more. Directed byDr. Kenneth Nafziger. Adults $23,seniors $18, age 24 and uunder $8.703-277-7772 or [email protected].

Jazz Dessert Concert. 7:30 p.m.Reston Community Center, 2310Colts Neck Road, Reston. With theSouth Lakes High School Jazz Hawksand the Langston Hughes MiddleSchool Jazz Ensemble. $15, $8students, age 5 and under free withadult. www.SouthLakesBand.org.

Herndon Author Ron Culbertson.6-8 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 1851Fountain Drive, Reston. Book signingwith the author of “Do it Well, Makeit Fun: The Key to Success in Life,Death, and Almost Everything inBetween.” 703-437-9490.

“The Wizard of Oz.” 7 p.m. HerndonMiddle School, 901 Locust St.,Herndon. With 38 actors from HMSand local elementary schools and areal ‘Toto.’ Music performed byHerndon High and Herndon Middleorchestra members. $8. 703-904-4976.

SATURDAY/MAY 19Shelter House Hoedown. 7-11 p.m.

Fairfax Hunt Club, 1321 Lake FairfaxDrive, Reston. BBQ, dancing, auctionand more. [email protected].

21st Annual Northern VirginiaFine Arts Festival. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Reston Town Center, 12001 MarketSt., Reston. Contemporary andoriginal performances, artistdemonstrations, children’s activitiesand live music. Over 200 masterartisans in 18 different categories,including oil and acrylic painting,photography, sculpture, ceramics,printmaking, jewelry, metal, leather,wood, furniture, wearable and fiberart will be featured. Free admission;$10 gift certificate for participatingReston Town Center restaurantsavailable. www.RestonArts.org orwww.NorthernVirginiaFineArtsFestival.org.

FISH Fling Gala. 7 p.m. Crowne PlazaDulles Airport Hotel, 2200Centreville Road, Herndon. Music,dancing, games and prizes, auctions,dinner and dessert. Proceeds assistHerndon-Reston residentsexperiencing short-term [email protected].

5K RUN/3Mile and 1 Mile Walks. 8a.m. Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic,13525 Dulles Technology Drive,Herndon. Health and wellness, hulahoop contest, children’s activities,food, zumba, games and more.Proceeds benefit the [email protected].

The Miles Stiebel Band. 8 p.m.Reston Community Center Hunters

The 21st Annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival willtake place at the Reston Town Center, 12001 Market St. inReston on May 18-20, with handcrafted artwork, contem-porary and original performances, artist demonstrations,children’s activities and live music. Over 200 masterartisans in 18 different categories, including oil andacrylic painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics,printmaking, jewelry, metal, leather, wood, furniture,wearable and fiber art will be featured. Free admission;$10 gift certificate for participating Reston Town Centerrestaurants available. www.RestonArts.org orwww.NorthernVirginiaFineArtsFestival.org.

Entertainment

Woods, 2310 Colts Neck Road,Reston. Contemporary jazz. $15-$30.www.milesstiebel.com. 703-476-4500 orwww.restoncommunitycenter.com.

Discover eBooks. 11 a.m. RestonRegional Library, 11925 BowmanTowne Drive, Reston. How to findand download library eBooks. Bringyour eReader. Hands-on assistanceprovided. Adults. 703-689-2700.

Jyoti Meditation and PersonalHappiness. 2 p.m. Reston RegionalLibrary, 11925 Bowman TowneDrive, Reston. Learn how spiritualmeditation can enrich your life.Adults. 703-689-2700.

Master Gardeners Plant Clinic. 10a.m. Oakton Library, 10304Lynnhaven Place, Oakton. Expertsanswer gardening questions. 703-242-4020.

Voce Chamber Singers SpringConcert. 7:30 p.m. St. JohnNeumann Church, 11900 LawyersRoad, Reston. “Hard Times ComeAgain No More,” with music by EricWhitacre, Franz Schubert, Simon &Garfunkel, Craig Hella Johnson,Doyle Lawson and more. Directed byDr. Kenneth Nafziger. Adults $23,seniors $18, age 24 and under $8.703-277-7772 or [email protected].

Seikilos to U2: A Tour ThroughMusic History. 7:30 p.m. UUCF2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. TheVienna Choral Society presents aconcert to support arts education.Pre-concert talk by Creative DirectorJennifer Rodgers Beach, 7 p.m. $15-$20, families $35.www.viennachoralsocieety.org.

2012 FISH Fling Gala andFundraiser. Crowne Plaza DullesAirport Hotel, 2200 Centreville Road,Herndon. Music, dancing, games andprizes, auctions and more. Proceedsassist Herndon-Reston residentsexperiencing short-term [email protected].

City of Fairfax Antique Car Show.10 a.m.-3 p.m. City Hall, 10455Armstrong St, Fairfax. See a Model-TFord reassembled in 15 minutes.Antique cars and live bluegrassmusic. Food available for purchase.Presented by the Northern VirginiaRegional Group of the Early Ford V-08 Club, the City of Fairfax andothers. A portion of the proceedsbenefit the Armed Forces RetirementHome in Washington D.C.www.nvrg.org or [email protected].

“The Wizard of Oz.” 2 p.m. and 7p.m. Herndon Middle School, 901Locust St., Herndon. With 38 actorsfrom HMS and local elementaryschools and a real ‘Toto.’ Musicperformed by Herndon High andHerndon Middle orchestra members.$8. 703-904-4976.

SUNDAY/MAY 20Reston Community Orchestra:

Embracing Youth. 4 p.m. RestonCommunity Center Hunters Woods,2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston.Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue:Classical Meets Jazz featuring theMykle Lyons Trio, Bizet’s Symphonyin C and Mussorgsky’s Suite from“Pictures at an Exhibition.” Free,donations accepted.www.restoncommunityorchestra.org.

21st Annual Northern VirginiaFine Arts Festival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Reston Town Center, 12001 MarketSt., Reston. Contemporary andoriginal performances, artistdemonstrations, children’s activitiesand live music. Over 200 masterartisans in 18 different categories,including oil and acrylic painting,photography, sculpture, ceramics,printmaking, jewelry, metal, leather,wood, furniture, wearable and fiberart will be featured. Free admission;$10 gift certificate for participatingReston Town Center restaurantsavailable. www.RestonArts.org orwww.NorthernVirginiaFineArtsFestival.org.

Mosaic Harmony Choir. 4 p.m.Unitarian Universalist Church ofFairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Road,Oakton. Silent auction beginning at3:30 p.m. $25-$30, under age 12free. www.mosaicharmony.org or703-764-8061.

10th Annual Senior Senior Prom.2-4 p.m. St. Joseph’s Hall, 750Peachtree St., Herndon. For all arearesidents age 50 years and up. Dress:prom attire. Sponsored by The RotaryClubs of Herndon and Reston. Free.Featuring The Loudoun Jazz Ensembleand The 8 Week Wonders SwingDancers. Reserve at 703-904-8528.

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Whatever strategy I have employed in anattempt to manipulate my circumstances, toprevent cancer from getting the best of meemotionally, always suffers a setback after avisit to my oncologist. As much as I’ve tried tomake light of these appointments over the lastthree years, having heart-to-heart, life-and-death conversations with YOUR cancer doc-tor, one who has already told you that he“can’t cure you, that he can only treat you,” isunsettling at best and downright depressingand mind-numbing at worst. Facing one’sown mortality at age 57 conjures two quotesfrom Curly Howard of The Three Stooges, afamous one and a funny one: “I’m a victim ofsoycumstance,” and “I’m too young to die,too handsome; well, too young, anyway.”

Laughing in the face of adversity has beenan ongoing and overriding pursuit of minesince being diagnosed with stage IV lung can-cer in February, 2009. Not that my circum-stances are anything to laugh about but,oddly enough, crying about them or“woeing” is me about them is a bit of a tiredpursuit – for me. Sure I’ve cried and beencurious why a lifelong non-smoker with noimmediate family history of cancer could bediagnosed with a terminal disease at age 54, amere eight weeks after burying my widowedmother. Nevertheless, life goes on, and it has,as I’ve now outlived my original prognosis byyears, causing my oncologist to say to me atthe end of my most recent appointment (andthe one I may be overreacting to in this col-umn): “It’s been a privilege treating you.”Words, as I say, “to live by.”

Where I’m going in this column is a placeI’ve never been: a new phase in my treat-ment, with new medications, new sideeffects, new consequences and new worries;all of which are unknown and unfamiliar tome. Presumably all of the above are simplymore of the same – only different, if youknow what I mean – (things I can handle, justcalling them different things) meaning myconcerns are more in my head than they arein my body. But I really won’t know until I’velived it. For the moment, I can only anticipateit. Knowing what I knew is much preferred tonot knowing what’s new. And what lies aheadis definitely new. I can’t say anymore: “beenthere and done that” – I can only say thatI’m glad – and privileged, to still be doinganything.

Kenny Lourie is an Advertising Representative forThe Potomac Almanac & The Connection Newspapers.

By KENNETH B. LOURIE

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Herndon-Reston FISH (Friendly Sympathetic In-stant Help) will be holding its 7th Annual Fling onSaturday, May 19, at the Crowne Plaza Dulles Air-port Hotel in Herndon. The festivities will begin at 6p.m. with appetizers, games, photo booth and SilentAuction items. This will be followed by a seated din-ner and dance music by the Free Tom band. The liveauction will feature some extra special items andDelegate Tom Rust will serve as the auctioneer thisyear. Reservations are still available at $85 each ($45tax deductible). For reservations contact:[email protected]

Herndon-Reston FISH is a local nonprofit in op-eration since 1969. FISH provides residents ofHerndon & Reston with Friendly Instant SympatheticHelp when they are experiencing difficulties such asthreatened power disconnection or eviction due tofalling behind in their payments. FISH also helps withother emergency needs such as prescriptions, autorepair and transportation to medical appointments.Clients are handled on an individual basis throughthe Assistance program.

As FISH has each year, a number of volunteers willbe honored guests and recognized as Star FISH be-cause of their contributions to FISH. The four indi-viduals being honored this year all have a long his-tory with FISH and have helped in many waysthroughout the years. All have shown dedication andgenerosity to an unusual degree.

Current Treasurer Diane Hardcastle and her hus-band Jim began in 1980 making assistance calls andpicking up furniture. After a few years off Diane be-gan working at the store, The Bargain Loft, as a cash-ier and since 2009 she has been Treasurer on theBoard of Directors. This task became increasingly

complex as FISH experienced considerable growthand record keeping moved fully into the online age.

Chris Griffin has been a long time supporter of FISHand served as a Corporate Member of the Board ofDirectors for several years. The Griffin-Owens Insur-ance offices hosted board meetings on a regular ba-sis until this year. Chris and her husband, Don Owens,have made some of the raffle offerings possible. Theirongoing generosity as FISH sponsors helps fund es-sential assistance work.

Sue Maynard started volunteering at the BargainLoft in 1981 when it first opened. She ran the toyand vintage toy departments for 15 years. Sue alsoserved on the Board of Directors two different times.She scheduled assistance workers for six years. Suetook a break to teach school then retuned in 2003and has been at The Bargain Loft since. Currentlyshe is the historian and the FISH scrapbooks will beavailable for viewing at the Fling.

Helen Sellman began working with FISH in 2004at The Bargain Loft and then began assistance work.She served on the Board of Directors for 3 years dur-ing which time she wrote thank you letters and servedas Assistance Volunteer Coordinator. Helen contin-ues to work at The Bargain Loft and handles assis-tance calls on a regular basis, finding this work ex-tremely rewarding.

This year FISH will be honoring a company thathas provided significant help over the years, includ-ing FISH Fling sponsorship for the last six years. NRTC,the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative,employees have collected food and gifts for HolidayBasket Programs. Each autumn they begin their workand their contributions allow FISH to make the holi-day period a bit brighter for many families

From left: Sue Maynard, Diane Hardcastle, HelenSellman.

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