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Fairfax Co. Park Authority Alters Field Access PolicyPark Authority lowers number of athletic fieldwalk-ons without permits from 40 to 20.

By Victoria Ross

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By the time school begins, signs out-lining permit requirements at FairfaxCounty’s 800 athletic fields will have

a sticker with the number 20 slapped overthe number 40.

The reason for this is an intense yearlonglobbying effort from Fairfax County athleticgroups, parents, coaches and players whowant their paid permits to guarantee avail-ability of soccer, baseball and football fields.

Their efforts led to a new permit policyadopted by the Fairfax County Park Author-ity (FCPA) that requires any group havingat least 20 participants, down from 40 un-der the former rule, to obtain a permit ifthey want to use a county athletic field.

“It’s important that people know that thenew regulations do not prevent pick-upgames, and we’re not targeting any specificgroups. We’re responding to the reality ofthe situation,” said John Dargle, FCPA di-rector. Along with Fairfax County PublicSchools, the FCPA owns and maintains thecounty’s athletic fields.

According to Dargle, the number 20 is

“It’s important peopleknow that the newregulations do notprevent pick-up games.”

— John Dargle, Director of theFairfax County Park Authority

supported by simple math of a full-size soc-cer or football game requiring 22 playerson the field at a time. “Many people askedus to lower it to 10 or even eliminate thenumber of non-permitted players, but wefelt that 20 is a reasonable number.”

As Fairfax County’s population has grown,so has the number of sports teams vying touse the 800 athletic fields throughout thecounty.

The clashes between permitted sportsteams, who pay a seasonal fee for a guar-anteed time and space to use a certain field,and “walk-on” players, who don’t have apermit — and sometimes don’t want toleave — have been escalating.

The problem was intensified by the factthat Park Authority regulations requiredonly those groups with 40 or more playersto obtain permits. That created difficultiesfor the police and others trying to resolvedisputes between permitted groups and or-ganized groups of walk-ons with fewer than40 players.

“These are unpermitted groups of up to40 people who are using the fields whenothers need or have been given permits. Theunpermitted groups many times refuse to

leave to or ask for more time,” said FedaJamous, a Fairfax mother of four, who toldthe FCPA board she was concerned by thegrowing number of “walk-ons.”

Jamous was one of hundreds of parents,coaches and players who lobbied the FCPAto reduce the number of players using thecounty’s fields with-out permits.

“My 8-year-oldson is part of a lo-cal soccer club thatuses the fields con-sistently through-out the year, includ-ing the winter,” saidShawn Fici in an e-mail to the FCPA. “Itis difficult when ouryoung boys have tocontend for field space and/or contentiousgroups of teenagers or young adults thatdon’t seem to follow the rules.”

MelaJo Kubacki of Alexandria wrote that“these unpermitted groups are using fieldswhen others need them and have beengiven the permits to use them. Many timesthe unpermitted groups refuse to leavewhen asked, which has a direct impact onthe scheduled, permitted users.”

The volume of complaints grew so loudthat the FCPA, in concert with the county’s

Neighborhood and Community Services(NCS), which schedules, monitors and is-sues the permits, and the Northern VirginiaRegional Park Authority (NVRPA), voted attwo separate meetings in the past two weeksto officially amend the policy. Now, anygroup of 20 or more is required to obtain a

permit and pay therequired fee of$5.50 per athleticparticipant, whichis good for the en-tire sport season.

According to PaulGillbert, executivedirector of theNVRPA, the 12-member boardpassed the amend-ment at its July 21

meeting to be consistent with FCPA regula-tions.

“This is much more of an issue withFairfax County facilities, however we sharethe same regulations and they asked us tomake this change for consistency,” Gilbertsaid.

Judy Pedersen, public information officerof the FCPA, said coordination among thevarious athletic groups, park authorities and

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Herndon native Eileen Foley ran the fastest 5-mile women’s time in33:47.

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Runners Brave Heat To Battle Heart DefectsRun honors memoryof Corbin Grabb, 2,who died of heartdefects in 2006.

“I’m no longeroverwhelmingly sad. It’sreally helped me grieve ina positive manner.”

— Terri Grabb

By Jenny Taylor

The Connection

Amid sweltering heat, nearly 400runners gathered at Burke LakePark Saturday morning, July 23,for the fourth annual Corbin’s

Fun Run, a 5-mile race and 1-mile walkcommemorating the life of 2-year-oldCorbin Grabb. The toddler was born with afatal condition known as Hypoplastic LeftHeart Syndrome, a disease in which the leftside of the heart is underdeveloped.

After a nine open-heart surgeries over thecourse of 23 months, Corbin lost his battlewith congenital heart disease (CHD) in June2006. His parents, Terri and Travis Grabbof Clifton created the Fun Run in 2007 as away to honor their son and raise awarenessabout CHD, the number one birth defect inthe nation.

“Our main goal is to increase awareness,”said Terri Grabb. “CHDs are very prevalent,but they’re a hidden death.” The mother of

three healthy boys, she witnessed the ef-fects of CHD even before Corbin was born.While pregnant for the fourth time, she losta set of twins due to heart complications.

Terri Grabb’s story, however, is not unfa-miliar to several of this year’s race partici-pants. Volunteer Jen Owlett lost her 3-year-old son Brandon to a heart defect in 2008and has attended the run every year since.

“I come because it gives you the opportu-nity to help the families,” Owlett said.“When Brandon was sick, I had to focus allmy energy on him. Now that we don’t havethat emotional burden, I can finally helpothers.”

Coincidentally, the Grabbs’ neighborsBeverly and Jim Seymour also witnessed theeffects of CHD when their 18-year-old son

Adam died last August. Adam, who was astandout soccer player at Robinson Second-ary School, collapsed from sudden cardiacarrest during a preseason practice atLynchburg College. He had moved into hisfreshman dorm just a few days earlier. TheGrabbs dedicated last year’s Fun Run toSeymour, a fund-raiser that brought innearly $14,000 for CHD support programs.

In five short years, the Grabbs have man-aged to raise around $100,000 to help off-set the costs of families dealing with heartdefects, a cause that hits close to home forTerri and Travis Grabb. When doctors firstalerted the Grabbs to Corbin’s condition,they eyed nationally renown Mott’sChildren’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., asa potential treatment center for their son.But the Grabbs lived in North Carolina atthe time, which posed several logistical is-sues for the family of five.

“After he was born, Corbin stayed in the

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Pet Connection

Working Dogs in Fairfax CountyCanines team up with public safety personnel.

Scent-trained working dogs help provide a safer county. This nose be-longs to Moose, a new addition to the Fairfax County PoliceDepartment’s Explosive Ordinance Unit. He is a yellow lab that istrained to find explosives that are derived from six families of chemi-cals.

Two trainers work with a 1-year-old dog at the Customs and Customs andBorder Protection Canine Training Center in Front Royal to see if the doghas the “play drive” needed to become a CBP dog.

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Every day in Fairfax County, doz-ens of specially trained dogs areon the job, using their noses andin some cases their teeth to keep

Fairfax County safe.“We’re looking for a dog that works as

hard on his last hour of work as his first,”said Michael Szubinski, course developmentinstructor at the Customs and Customs andBorder Protection Canine Training Centerin Front Royal, on June 22, ashe explains the puppy selectionthat is underway on this day atthe facility. Over the course offive hours, instructors will run6 to 8 one-year-old dogs brought by breed-ers contracted with CBP through a series oftests to see if the dogs have the aptitude tobecome narcotics detection dogs.

The instructors are playing a basic gameof fetch with these dogs — they have sev-eral “toys” of different materials, rubber,wood, aluminum, all about 12” long. First,they bring the leashed dog into a fenced-inarea, talk to it, try and get it excited aboutthe toy, and then they toss the toy into tallgrass. They let the dog see where the toylands, and then release the dog’s leash andlet it seek the toy. Each throw, they makethe game a little more challenging, not let-ting the dog see where it lands, and maybeadding some distractions. What are the in-structors looking for? How does the dogsearch; does the dog use its eyes or its noseto search; does the tall grass or other envi-ronmental factors bother or distract the dog;how long does it take the dog to find thetoy; does the dog maintain interest in thegame; what is the dog’s level of confidence

in this new environment and situation?If the dog passes these initial tests, more

follow. Instructors will throw a toy past abowl of water and then past dog food andsee if the dog stays focused on the toy. Ifthe dog passes these tests, there are envi-ronmental tests they’ll do, conveyor belts,cars with running engines, wet cementfloors — all tests to see if the dog has theinterest in the game despite environmentalchanges — said Szubinski “that translatesinto the dog’s ability to stay focused on thejob.” They’ll crowd the dog and see how he

reacts; they’ll shoot blanks outof a gun and open an umbrellato see how the dog reacts, toweed out aggressive dogs.

If the dog passes all of thepreliminary tests and health review, it ispurchased by the CBP and begins training.

THESE WORKING DOGS TEAMS aretrained in a variety of specialties — narcot-ics detection, explosives detection, acceler-ant detection, tracking, bedbug detection,termite detection, and contraband agricul-ture product detection. The dogs receivedextensive scent training — generally speak-ing, they were exposed to desired scents andtrained to respond certain ways when theysmelled them — a passive response likepointing the nose at the source of the scentor an aggressive response like scratching atthe scent. When dogs successfully find thescent, they are rewarded with praise andeither their toy and a game with their han-dler or some kibble — their food. Whetherthe dogs were play or food rewarded de-pended on their occupations, breeds and,to some degree the choices of the organiza-tions that trained them. The unifying fac-tor among all of these dogs was that they

work with singular focus to get their reward.“You train, train, train, train, 10-hour days

of training every other Monday, 20 hours amonth,” said Officer Damien Austin of theHerndon Police department. His partner isSmokey, a bi-colored German shepherd.They have been on the street since January2009. Austin says he became a police of-ficer so that he could work with a policedog. Austin and Smokey trained with theFairfax County Police Canine Unit, and regu-larly train with Fairfax County K9 teams.

“The calls we go on are usually the worstof the worst — you have to have courage.We go into dark places, we have to trustthe dog,“ said Austin.

KEEGAN is the Fairfax County FireMarshal’s newest accelerant detection dog.He is the fourth such dog the county hashad, in the longest running program of itskind in Virginia.

“My training exercise starts at 4 a.m. andgoes through a 24-hour day,” said Investi-gator Terry Hall, Keegan’s handler. Keegan

is food-rewarded, which means every timehe finds a scent he’s trained on — one of21 ignitable liquids (products that containhydrocarbons) — he gets a food reward. Italso means that Hall must schedule train-ing exercises at least twice a day for 15-20minutes, so that Keegan gets his two cupsof food.

“Through the month. fire debris from ac-cidental fires of all characteristics that arenegative for liquid accelerants is collected.All different articles: clothing, shoes, thingsfrom the Salvation Army that they can’t use,is what I use to train Keegan every day,”Hall said.

He sets out 20 items, burned down to 20percent, and then adds a pin drop of a par-tially evaporated solution of a liquid acceler-ant.

Fire investigators use a number of inves-tigative techniques to determine the causeof fires in Fairfax County. When a structurehas been destroyed, and there are no physi

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Pet Connection

Cody, an American Eskimo, hadbeen dropped at a shelter when hewas 11-months-old. He was Santa’sgift for our daughter three weekslater. Eskies are extremely active,social and vocal dogs. He fitsperfectly into our family. Here heis at 6-1/2-years-old waiting for myhusband Paul to start the truck.Cody is a great companion, playful,friendly, protective, for our daugh-ter Emily, 12. — Clifton TownCouncilwoman, Deborah Dillard

U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11)with Abigail in his office on CapitolHill

Tippers Clark is a rescued bunny ofCharlotte Clark,12, of FairfaxStation. Tippers Clark is 6-months-old.

Tora Clark, 7, sports a uniform forBurke basketball, Patrick Clark’steam. Tora Clark is a rescuedLabrador Retriever of Ian andLucille Clark’s family of FairfaxStation.

Brandy and Cocoa looking out the front door doing NeighborhoodWatch, submitted by Stephen and Heather Novosad of Grinnell Street inFairfax.

Mister Frodo is a shelter cat. He is part MaineCoon and part American Bobtail. When we firstgot him he had a fear of our ceiling fans. Henow runs the house. — Fairfax County ChairSharon Bulova (D-At-large)

This photo was taken atour home in Burke whengranddaughter MackenzieKelly Maisel was 13-months-old. Mackenzie isnow 4. Labrador Re-triever named Gabby isnow 13. Mack and Gabbywere watching me fromthe other side of the‘baby gate.’ I told Gabbyto “sit” and Mackenzieimmediately sat down inthe same pose as Gabby,mouth open and all. Itremains one of my favor-ite photos of them to-gether. — Gail Westin,Onion Patch Drive, Burke

Autumn, left, and Rocket are 10-month-old long-haired Chihuahuas fromBurke. — Teresa Tobat


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hospital in Michigan for five months,” saidTerri Grabb, who decided to homeschool herother children during Corbin’s hospital stay.

“It was expensive, insurance only goes sofar,” she said. “We couldn’t always get aroom at Ronald McDonald House, so youhave to pay for shelter, transportation, andfood on your own.”

Not only does Corbin’s Fun Run help the

Grabbs give back to the CHD community, ithas allowed them to find meaning in theirson’s short life.

“I’m no longer overwhelmingly sad,” TerriGrabb said, smiling. “It’s really helped megrieve in a positive manner.”

Former Chantilly cross country runnerEileen Foley claimed the top women’s timein an impressive 33:47, while AnnandaleHigh School grad Greg Useem took themen’s title in 31:40.

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Corbin Marc Grabb, 2, died in 2006 from complications caused by Hypo-plastic Left Heart Syndrome.

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ObamacareTo BlameTo the Editor:

In this week’s Connection article“Connolly Vows to Protect Medi-care” [July 21-27, 2011], U.S. Rep.Gerry Connolly (D-11) stated “TheUnited States can afford Medicare,but we can’t afford to fi-nance tax cuts on thebacks of our senior citi-zens.” However, it is not“tax cuts” that are theproblem in financing Medicare, itis ObamaCare, the new healthcarelaw strongly supported byConnolly, which takes more than$500 billion from Medicare. Infact, Connolly stated in the past[Connection, March 25-31, 2010]that ObamaCare will guaranteethe solvency of Medicare in spiteof the fact that this huge amountof money is removed from the pro-gram just as the baby boomers arebeing covered under that program.This is surely not a path to sol-vency but rather one to rationing.

To make matters worse,ObamaCare establishes the Inde-pendent Payment Advisory Board(IPAB), a 15-member group ap-pointed by the President to cutMedicare costs once a cap hasbeen reached. This will almostdefinitely result in rationing ofhealthcare services for seniors.

As to “financing tax cuts on thebacks of our senior citizens,” there

are actually big tax increases thatare part of ObamaCare. With theAmerican economy in dire straits,raising taxes is a bad idea.

Also troubling, chief Medicareactuary Richard S. Foster “madeit clear that ObamaCare will actu-ally do great damage to Medicareby driving doctors and hospitals

out of the program.” This in-formation is from an excellentbook entitled “WhyObamaCare is Wrong for

America,” which I highly recom-mend to seniors who want to learnmore about how ObamaCare willimpact their healthcare. It is avail-able on Amazon.com for $8.23 +shipping and handling. The bookincludes an entire chapter on theimpact of the new healthcare lawon seniors.

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Freedom ofInformationTo the Editor:

Information censorship endan-gers lives. We learned this from theincident of SARS, a contagious dis-ease, and the tainted food prod-ucts from China, both of whichBeijing’s state controlled mediadid not disclose on time.

Misinformation by those mediaalso has national security implica-

tions. In 2001, 80 percent of theChinese on-ine chat room userswere found to be “cheering” over911. More recently, 59.9 percentof the Chinese online poll respon-dents felt “saddened” for the fallof an “anti-American fighter,”Osama bin Laden.

For the above reasons I amgrateful to U.S. Rep. GerryConnolly (D-11), for writing toTaiwanese government and help-ing secure continued signal relayof an independent U.S.-based Chi-nese-language New Tang DynastyTelevision (NTD) into mainlandChina, via a Taiwanese satellite.

A PBS style TV, NTD carries in-language news the Chinese regimewants quiet. It also provides a plat-form to foster free flow of infor-mation into and out of China.

Li DingFairfax

Calling for FiscalResponsibilityTo the Editor:

Recently, 11th CongressionalDistrict residents received a fourpage glossy flier sent by U.S. Rep.Gerry Connolly (D-11). At a timewhen our nation is on the vergeof potential default, I find it morethan a bit ironic that Mr. Connollychose to send this political flierthat was “prepared, published and

mailed at taxpayer expense.” Theflier is virtually indistinguishablefrom a mailing during a politicalcampaign, including the obliga-tory union bug, with the exceptionthat taxpayers paid for Mr.Connolly’s blatantly political mes-sage. About the only thing thatwas interesting was that no oneapparently caught the typo of“Medicate” when “Medicare” wasobviously the intended term.

Year after year our elected rep-resentatives, both Republicans andDemocrats, have promised benefitincreases in Social Security andMedicare and many other entitle-ment programs in a ploy to getreelected. In 2010 voters acrossthe nation made it clear that fis-cal responsibility was critical toour nation. While Mr. Connollyheld onto his seat by the most ra-zor thin margin imaginable, I hadhoped that even he would havegotten the message.

Serious reform is necessary andwe need Congressional represen-tatives that will be fiscal stewardsof taxpayer funds. Constituents inthe 11th Congressional Districtdeserve more than politics asusual. Our nation is facing a finan-cial crisis of our own making dueto fiscally irresponsible actions andMr. Connolly either needs to leador get out of the way.

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After 42 years, intercity trainsreturned to Burke on Oct. 1, 2009,when Amtrak’s new LynchburgTrain stopped at Burke Centre VREStation on weekdays, traveling toLynchburg, Philadelphia, NewYork and Boston with connectingservice to 500 stations and accessto places worldwide throughWashington, D.C.’s three airports.

On Jan. 18, 2010, Amtrak beganstopping daily and allowing reser-vations online (www.Amtrak.com)and by phone (1-800-USA-RAIL).From February through May 2011,Burke became the fastest growingAmtrak station in Virginia (127percent to 171 percent) andmoved from 21st to 20th place intotal ridership in Virginia, a mile-stone.

VRE, Amtrak, Fairfax Countryand even Roanoke have nowstarted promoting Virginia’s new-est and least known station. InMay, VRE lowered the Step-Upcharge ($10 to $5) for VRE multi-ride, ticket holders to ride Amtrak,and Fairfax County and Amtrakare planning to erect signs at keyroad locations, notifying car driv-ers of the station and its location.

Then, on July 19, Roanokelaunched its Smart Way Connec-tor Bus, connecting the LynchburgTrain to Bedford (D-Day Memo-rial) and Roanoke (VA Transpor-tation and other museums, andVT’s new medical school) dailyand to Salem, Christiansburg andBlacksburg/VA Tech, Friday-Sun-day. The Roanoke and New RiverValleys educate 40,000 college stu-dents, many of whom live inFairfax County. Now they have agreat alternative to truck-crowdedI-81.

In coming months and years,thousands of Fairfax County resi-dents will discover the safety, con-venience, and value of catchingAmtrak.

Daniel PeacockManassas


Burke Connection Sports Editor Jon Roetman


By Rich Sanders

The Connection

What has been a brilliantpostseason run by the WestSpringfield American All-Star Majors (11-12 year

olds) came to an end on Tuesday night, July27, when the locals lost to SouthwesternYouth Association (SYA) East, 10-4, in aVirginia State Little League tournamentsemifinals baseball game played on SteveReavis Field at Freedom Park in Leesburg.

West Springfield American, which earlierthis postseason captured the District 9 title,won its first four state tournament games,including a 12-10 quarterfinals round vic-tory over Culpeper County on Mondayevening at Freedom Park, to reach the semi-finals meeting versus SYA East, a team madeup of Centreville players.

Springfield American, in Tuesday’s elimi-nation loss, took a 1-0 lead in the bottomof the first inning when shortstop and lead-off hitter Billy Cook sent a home run overthe center field fence off of SYA East pitcherSam Ryan. The lead stood until the top ofthe third inning when SYA East broke out

Majors’ All-Stars Season Ends at State Semifinals

The West Springfield Americans had some highlight moments inTuesday’s semifinals loss to SYA East. Six home runs were hit betweenthe two teams, two coming from the Americans.

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for six runs and hit three home runs to goahead 6-1.

That was still the score until the bottomof the fifth inning when West Springfieldrallied with two outs. Cook and Sam Smithboth singled with two outs before movingup a base on a Ryan wild pitch. The nexthitter, catcher Michael Morgan, then lofteda soaring three-run home run well over the

center field fence to get the Americanswithin 6-4.

At that point, West Springfield was rightback in the game. However, SYA East, aheadby two runs, answered in the top of the sixthwith another big inning — this one account-ing for four runs to make the score 10-4.

SYA East went on to gain the win, earn-ing a spot in the following night’s state fi-

nals where they were scheduled to meet theReston Nationals for the right to move onto the Southeastern Regionals tournamentset to begin Aug. 5.

For West Springfield American, the semi-finals loss to SYA East ended an outstand-ing postseason run.

“The kids played their hearts out,” saidWest Springfield American Manager KenShreves, of his squad. “We had our ace [SamSmith] on the mound, they just hit him. Ithink we were very evenly matched teams.”

Six home runs were hit in the game, fourby SYA East and two by West SpringfieldAmerican (Cook and Morgan).

WEST SPRINGFIELD AMERICAN hit theball well off SYA East starter Sam Ryan, whoallowed four runs and eight hits over 5-2/3innings to notch the win. Morgan, his team’sNo. 3 hitter in the line-up, led West Spring-field American with three hits while Cookhad two.

West Springfield 9-10s Take Bridgwater to the WireBut the Americans fall just short in state titlegame loss.

The West Springfield 9-10 Americans display their District 9 champion-ship banner following their title game win over Fort Hunt.

By Rich Sanders

The Connection

In the end, the West Springfield Ameri-cans’ bid to capture the Virginia State9-10 Little League All-Stars Baseball

Tournament fell just short. The squad, un-der manager Greg McIntyre, reached thefinals before losing a heartbreaker in extrainnings, 5-3, to Bridgewater. The title gametook place last Wednesday, July 20 in Suf-folk. The Bennett’s Creek Little Leaguehosted the tournament.

“It was a very exciting game,” saidMcIntyre, of the finals loss which wentseven innings. “It’s bittersweet. To be staterunner-up is very impressive, something tobe proud of. We had a tremendous tourna-ment.”

West Springfield, which earlier in thepostseason captured the District 9 Tourna-ment championship with a title game winover Fort Hunt, handily won its first threepool bracket games at states to qualify forthe single elimination portion of the tour-nament. The team won its next two games,including a 6-4 semifinals round victoryover Tuckahoe on Tuesday, July 19.

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At the plate in the semifinals win, CalvinPastel had three base hits while BrianBachman and Nathaniel Do both had twosafeties.

Out of action in the Tuckahoe game wasGreg McIntyre, the manager’s son, who wasunder the weather. Teammates displayedtheir camaraderie that game by inkingyoung Greg’s jersey number, “3,” on theirshoulders underneath their game jerseys.

GREG WAS BACK in the line-up for thefinals and helped West Springfield giveBridgewater all it could handle. Cone, theteam’s starting pitcher, allowed just tworuns working into the fifth inning. BobbyLeitzel pitched well in relief.

The game was tied at 3-3 after six regu-lation innings before Bridgewater tallied acouple of runs in the top of the seventh togo ahead 5-3. West Springfield American,in its half of the seventh, got two runnerson base with one out to mount a threat.The next two West Springfield batters hitthe ball hard but Bridgewater was able tomake the plays defensively and hold on for

the win and the title.Cone led the West Springfield offense in

that game with two hits.McIntyre, the Americans’ manager, said

his squad played with determination dur-ing the postseason.

“We were very resilient,” he said. “Our

strength was our pitching and hitting. Theyalways played up to their capabilities.”

Members of the West SpringfieldAmerican’s roster are: Brian Bachman, TylerBell, Jack Cone, Connor Copeland,Nathaniel Do, Sam Freeborne, GrantHolzemer, Bobby Leitzel, Tyler Matheny,

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With less than one month before theAug. 23 primary, campaign signs arepopping up everywhere and so arecomplaints about political shenani-

gans.Jason Flanary, the candidate running against Steve

Hunt in the 37th State Senate District Republicanprimary, showed he had his eye on the general-elec-tion prize.

On Friday, July, 22, Flanary issued a news releasecomplaining that incumbent Sen. Dave Marsden (D-37) was violating Fairfax County zoning laws by post-ing campaign signs too early without a permit.

Marsden and his campaign issued its rebuttal newsrelease Saturday morning, July 23.

“After being notified by Fairfax County ZoningEnforcement Inspector Bruce Miller of the signs,Marsden staff took immediate action to remove thesigns. Our campaign never instructed supporters toplace signs anywhere but in legal locations. Sen.Marsden did not place a single sign. We will take allnecessary actions to right this situation,” according

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GOP candidate calls foulon incumbent’s campaignsigns.

to Marsden’s news release.When contacted about the issue, Keil Brunner,

Marsden’s campaign manager, said “it seems a littlepetty at this point in the race. We went and pickedup the signs.”

In an interview after Marsden issued the newsrelease, he said he was more concerned about theissues than the signs.

“Yard signs are part of campaigns, but I’m morefocused on the issues affecting families and busi-ness in Northern Virginia. I am running for re-elec-tion to build a better future for Fairfax County by

“I think our elected officialsshould lead by example andshould be compliant with stateand local laws.”— State Senate Candidate Jason Flanary (R)

investing in education, improving our transportationinfrastructure and protecting our quality of life,”Marsden said.

Flanary, who said he was out in the 110-degreeheat Saturday, trying to reach his goal of knockingon 7,500 doors by the primary on Aug. 23.

“I think our elected officials should lead by exampleand should be compliant with state and local laws,”Flanary said. “I think it was appropriate for him toremove the signs.”

To have community events listed,send [email protected] orcall 703-778-9416 with questions.Deadline for calendar listings is twoweeks prior to event.

THURSDAY/JULY 28City of Fairfax Concert Band. 8

p.m. Veterans Amphitheater, CityHall, 10455 Armstrong St., Fairfax.A pops-style concert of lightclassical, Broadway, jazz, film, andpatriotic selections. Weatherpermitting. Bring a blanket orlawn chair and a picnic basket.Free. 703-757-0220 orwww.fairfaxband.org.

English Conversation Group. 7p.m. Burke Centre Library, 5935Freds Oak Road, Burke. PracticeEnglish and improve your Englishspeaking skills. Adults. 703-249-1520.

Conversations with theDirector. 7:30 p.m. Kings ParkLibrary, 9000 Burke Lake Road,Burke. Meet Sam Clay, Director ofthe Fairfax County Public Library,and share your view of what thefuture should hold for our librarysystem. Adults. 703-978-5600.

Rubblebucket. 8 p.m. Jammin’Java, 227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna.www.jamminjava.com.

NSO at Wolf Trap: The 5Browns. 8:15 p.m. Wolf TrapFoundation for the PerformingArts, 1624 Trap Road, Vienna.Emil de Cou, Conductor. TheNational Symphony Orchestra isjoined by five Julliard-trainedsiblings from Utah. Tickets $20-$52. www.wolftrap.org.

FRIDAY/JULY 29Movies Under the Stars. 7:30

p.m. Pinn Community Center,10225 Zion Drive, Fairfax.Family-friendly movies shownevery Friday. 703-250-9181, tty711.

The Bigger Lights, Divided ByFriday and Fourth QuarterComeback at 6 p.m., followedby The Bigger Lights, For TheFoxes and Aim For The Weekendat 9 p.m. Jammin’ Java, 227Maple Ave. E., Vienna.www.jamminjava.com.

NSO at Wolf Trap: MarvinHamlisch, Brian StokesMitchell and Stephanie J.Block. 8:15 p.m. Wolf TrapFoundation for the PerformingArts, 1624 Trap Road, Vienna.The National SymphonyOrchestra in an evening ofshowtune classics. Tickets $20-$52. www.wolftrap.org.

SATURDAY/JULY 30Summer Lovin’: A Hot Night of

Cool Stories. 7 p.m. Jammin’Java, 227 Maple Ave. East,Vienna. Better Said Than Done, acommunity of professionalstorytellers, present stories forgrownups about summerromance. $10.www.bettersaidthandone.com,www.jamminjava.com or 703-255-1566.

Fairfax County MasterGardeners Association, Inc.10 a.m. City of Fairfax RegionalLibrary, 10360 North St., Fairfax.

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county agencies was necessary to amend the policy.“We want everyone singing from the same sheet

of music when it’s time for enforcement. There aremany different entities involved, and we feel, hon-estly, that we have been true to bringing everyonetogether. We feel we’ve accomplished what every-one was asking,” Pedersen said.

In April, FCPA co-hosted a public outreach meet-ing with the NCS and other community stakehold-ers. “We had about 40 people in attendance andabout 30 speakers at that meeting,” Pedersen said.“Then we took comments from the public for amonth, and we received several hundred e-mails andletters. About 95 percent encouraged us to go to 20or lower.”

“We share the desire to ensure that families andyoung neighborhood kids out for an afternoon ofenjoyable pickup play are not impacted,” said NCSDirector Chris Leonard, in a Dec. 2, 2010, letter toFCPA Chair William Boule. “As NCS has reported …the number of annual walk-on violations cited bymonitors and officers has ranged from 156 to 235.… The volume of complaints and the stories we haveall heard about walk-on use have demonstrated theproblem is much more prevalent, but because thecurrent policy does not consider most of these inci-dents to be violations, they are not reported as suchand they are not able to be effectively dealt with ….”

While revenue enhancement was not a primary

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motivation for the change, the increased revenue willhelp with field maintenance.

“We’re glad that we’ve moved forward,” Pedersensaid. “We took a lot time to deliberate. The Park Au-thority did not want to set up roadblocks. The ma-jority felt we had to respond to a well-studied andrequested change from the athletic community.”

She added that monitoring the fields is going tobe the most critical component in making the policychange successful.

“It doesn’t end here. NCS has gone ahead and isreorganizing its field monitor program, breaking itup into smaller groups and districts, so players willknow field monitors. We will be looking at this againin another six months, to see if we’ve accomplishedwhat the community wants,” Pedersen said.

The ultimate penalty for not obtaining a permit isa Class IV misdemeanor, which could result in a $250fine. Although that number has been well publicized,Pedersen said she does not ever recall anyone get-ting cited.

“This change is all about safety, security, playabil-ity and providing access to everyone in a healthy,meaningful way We are in no way shape or formtrying to stop people from using parks as they al-ways have,” Pedersen said.

For more information on reserving a field, fieldlocations and obtaining permits, contact NCS at 703-324-4600. For after-hours To contact a field moni-tors after regular business hours to assist permit hold-ers, resolve conflicts and enforce facility use rules,call 703 - 324-5515.

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Horticultural tips, information,techniques and advice to homegardeners. Adults. 703-293-6227.

Neighborhood Plant Clinic. 10a.m. Kings Park Library, 9000Burke Lake Road, Burke. TheFairfax County Master GardenersAssociation answers yourgardening questions. Adults. 703-978-5600.

Feed God Cabbage, DC Flow andFeel Free. 10 p.m. Jammin’ Java,227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna.www.jamminjava.com.

NSO at Wolf Trap: Casablanca.8:30 p.m. Wolf Trap Foundationfor the Performing Arts, 1624 TrapRoad, Vienna. With conductor Emilde Cou and host Ben Mankiewicz.The film will be shown on largescreens both in-house and on thelawn, with the film’s full scoreplayed live by the NationalSymphony Orchestra. Tickets $20-$52. www.wolftrap.org.

SUNDAY/JULY 31Burke Historical Society

Meeting. 4 p.m. Silas BurkeHouse, 9617 Burke Lake Road,Burke. Historian and authorPatrick O’Neill will speak about theBelvoir manor, the seat of Col.William Fairfax’s plantation.Belvoir was effectively abandonedby the family, fell into disrepair,and was further damaged duringthe War of 1812. Its name lives onin the Army base that now includesits [email protected].

“Conquering the Rose” Film

Debut. 8 p.m. Cinema ArtsTheatre, Fair City Mall, 9560-14Main St., Fairfax. A feature filmwritten and produced by GMUalummi Jenna St. John and madewith a local crew. A small collegetown is haunted by a young girl’ssuicide.www.conqueringtherose.com.

Rebecca Loebe, Jenee Halsteadand Sam Friend. 7:30 p.m.Jammin’ Java, 227 Maple Ave. E.,Vienna. www.jamminjava.com.

Dolly Parton: Better Day WorldTour. 8 p.m. Wolf TrapFoundation for the PerformingArts, 1624 Trap Road, Vienna.Country music. $60 in-house, $35lawn. www.wolftrap.org.

MONDAY/AUG. 1Benefit for NOVACO. 7-10 p.m.

Jammin’ Java, 227 Maple Ave. E.,Vienna. Local artists Birds ofMauze, The Improvaliers, BradleyPerrow, West Potomac Improv,Poi, Jamie Fredrickson’s MadHoop Skills, The Fair Sons ofRobin Fax, Alice Boyars, JulianRosen and more. A portion of theproceeds benefits NOVACO,offering affordable housing,education, childcare, counselingand mentoring to survivors ofabuse. $10 in advance, $13 at thedoor. www.novaco.org orwww.jamminjava.com.

TUESDAY/AUG. 2Jolie Holland and Sallie Ford &

the Sound Outside. 8 p.m.Jammin’ Java, 227 Maple Ave. E.,Vienna. www.jamminjava.com.

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In the bottom of the third inning, West SpringfieldAmerican threatened to put together a big inningbut came away with no runs. Tyler Wines, the No. 9hitter, started things off with a line drive single intoleft field. Cook then hit a scorching line drive thatended up being turned into a double play when SYAEast shortstop Ryan Brusick caught the ball and threwto first to double up the runner. Smith then walkedand Morgan grounded a single into left field beforethe final out of the inning was made.

But two innings later, West Springfield Americanclosed within 6-4 on Morgan’s three-run homer.

“We got right back into the game,” said Shreves.“The players and the coaches thought we’d comeback.”

Throughout the postseason, SYA East, the District10 champion, hit 30 home runs over their first ninegames, including the win over West SpringfieldAmerican. Hitting home runs, along with good start-ing pitching, have been staples of the SYA’s playoffsuccess.

“That’s kind of been our mojo right there,” saidSYA East Manager Jamie Brusick, of his team’s keysto winning throughout the postseason All-Stars dis-trict and state tournaments. “We try to stay in thegame with pitching and defense, and eventually ourbats will wake up.”

With its semifinals win over West SpringfieldAmerican, SYA East was one win away from success-fully defending last year’s state crown.

West Springfield American entered the state play-

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offs on a roll after having won the District 9 title,including a 12-0 district finals win over South Countyat Veterans Park in Woodbridge.

AT STATES, the squad won its first three games —victories over Virginia Beach, 11-5, Churchland (Suf-folk), 15-3, and Tuckahoe, 13-12 — to win its pooldivision and advance to the single-eliminationquarterfinals where it defeated Culpeper County inthe high-scoring 12-10 affair on Monday at FreedomPark. In that game, West Springfield jumped out to a6-0 lead and still led 8-6 later in the ball game. ButCulpeper scored three runs in the bottom of the fifthto go ahead 9-8.

West Springfield American, however, stormed backfor four runs in its final at-bats in the top of the sixthinning to surge ahead 12-9. Highlights of the big in-ning included a home run by Morgan, a double byAndy Shreves, and a clutch squeeze bunt RBI downthe first base line by David Leitzel to break a 9-9 tie.

West Springfield reliever Tyler Wines, in the bot-tom of the sixth, came into the game to retire thefinal batter to earn the save and clinch the win forhis team. Morgan hit two home runs in the win andSam Smith hit one out as well.

Ken Shreves, the team’s manager, said his squadnever believed it was out of a game throughout thedistrict and state playoffs.

“They have a never give up attitude,” he said.“These guys believed in themselves and believed thatno matter what the score, they could come back.There are 18 outs in a game and they knew if theygave up a few runs they could still come back.”

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Home SalesIn June 2011, 60 Burke homes sold between $945,000-$162,000.

This week’s list represents those homes sold in the $299,000-$162,000 range.For the complete list, visit www.ConnectionNewspapers.com

Send notes to the Connection [email protected] orcall 703-778-9416. Deadline is Fri-day. Dated announcements should besubmitted at least two weeks prior tothe event.

Westwood Baptist Church,8200 Old Keene Mill Road in Spring-field, will change its Sunday morningschedule for the month of August.Worship will begin at 9 a.m. fol-lowed by a brief fellowship time andthen Sunday School for all ages at10:15 a.m. 703-451-5120.

Barcroft Bible Church, 9401Little River Turnpike in Fairfax, in-vites rising kindergarden-sixthgraders to the “Kickin’ it Old School”Summer Bible Camp with games,music and crafts. 10 a.m.–1 p.m.Lunch provided. $15 per child.www.barcroft.org/kh-bible-camp.

The Fairfax Church of Christ,

3901 Rubgy Road in Fairfax, has facili-tators available to help those who areexperiencing a separation or divorce.703-631-2100 or www.fxcc.org.

Lord of Life Lutheran Church,13421 Twin Lakes Drive in Clifton, of-fers three levels of ESL classes everyTuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. Cost forsemester is $35, including student book.To register, come to the next class.www.lordoflifeva.org or 703-323-9500.Registration is Sept. 8, 7 p.m. ESLclasses are also available at 5114Twinbrook Road, Fairfax.

The Unitarian Universalist Con-gregation of Fairfax, 2709 HunterMill Road in Oakton, offers services onSaturdays at 4:30 p.m., in addition toSunday services at 9:15 a.m. and 11:15a.m. www.uucf.org.

The Parkwood Baptist Church,8726 Braddock Road in Annandale,Bible Study Fellowship will study of the

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Congregation Adat Reyim, anindependent Jewish congregation,offers services Friday at 8 p.m., Sat-urday at 9:30 a.m. and Wednesdayat 7:30 p.m. Hebrew School is Sun-days at 9:30 and Mondays at 5:30p.m. Hebrew High is Sunday at 5:30p.m. Preschool is Monday-Friday at9:30 a.m. Adat Reyim is located at6500 Westbury Oaks Court inSpringfield. For more information,contact us at 703-569-7577 or visitwww.adatreyim.org.

Burke Presbyterian Church,5690 Oak Leather Drive in Burke,worship services are Saturday Cof-feehouse at 5:30 p.m. and Sundaysat 8:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.www.BurkePresChurch.org.


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cal indicators of the nature of the fire left— such as burn patterns — Keegan can findchemical residues under heaps of ash anddebris. He alerts when he finds the odor ofan ignitable liquid.

On the scene, Keegan pinpoints where tocollect the evidence so the lab can identifythe accelerants. The investigators may seeburn patterns that indicate flammable liq-uids but because of the nature of fire, it isvery labor and resource-intensive to collectand process samples from a fire scene tolocate the residual accelerant. Keegan canpinpoint it in moments, reducing the timeit takes to collect evidence. If Keegan doesn’tfind anything, it makes investigators morecomfortable ruling out incendiary liquids asthe cause of the fire.

In 2010, the Fairfax County Police Depart-ment had 13 Patrol K-9 teams on active sta-tus. They were called to service 3,549 times.Of those calls, the dogs were deployed on1,473 calls; 450 of those were “tracks” whenthe dog team was sent to look for someoneor something thing — like a cast off articlerelating to a crime; 246 were searches forpeople; 605 drug searches were conducted;60 were tactical deployments, when K9teams were deployed with SWAT teams allof which resulted in 140 felony chargesbeing placed and 185 misdemeanor chargesbeing placed.

“They provide an added layer of safetybecause dogs can quickly locate a perp andtake away his advantage — they take awaythe ambush advantage,” said LieutenantShawn Martin, a Fairfax County K9 officerand supervisor of the Canine Unit. “A dogis also a force multiplier. A dog will clearand search faster and more effectively. Dogsare more efficient, particularly when clear-ing buildings, tracking individuals and do-ing narcotics searches.”

Martin received a Silver Medal of Valorand Nero received a Meritorious Award in2008 after they subdued an armed and vio-lent man who had stolen and crashed aPrince William County police cruiser. Whatis the best part of being a K9 handler? “Thebiggest reward is finding the bad guy —we have made arrests that never would havehappened without dogs.”

WHAT IS THE HANDLER’S role? “You’vegot to know how to walk and chew gum atthe same time,” joked Officer JenniferJones, of the skills a canine handler musthave. She is a CBP agriculture detection doghandler at Dulles Airport — once known asthe Beagle Brigade. She and her partnerHudson inspect incoming international pas-sengers at Dulles to ensure that fruits, plansand meats do not enter the United States,bringing harmful animal, pests, or plantdiseases.

She watches him work, looks for alerts,making sure he doesn’t eat things off thefloor, watches passengers, and ensures that

he remains safe in the busy airport envi-ronment.

“It is important to understand his view-point. The dogs will work until they falldown, so you have to see whether he’s hot,tired, sleepy. He’s not just a tool. For me, Ihave a job to do. For him, it’s his life,” shesaid.

A handler needs to be empathetic, patient,enthusiastic — “You have to be a partner,”said Jones. And, working with a beagle, youmust have a sense of humor.

Jones and Hudson work during the peaktimes that international passengers arriveat Dulles. He alerts around 20 times a dayand his accuracy is about 90 percent. Everytime he alerts, he gets some kibble. Howdo passengers react when he alerts to theirbags? “You never know what the trigger willbe or who will get upset,” said Jones.

Beagles are ideally suited for this work,Jones said. They are friendly, cute, they havethe drive and the ability to deal with thechaos of the airport, they are perfect of thisjob and there are always an abundance ofthem to be adopted and trained for thework.

This is the first part of a series of photo essaysthat Deb Cobb is doing about working dogs. Sub-sequent articles will explore assistance dogs,medical detection dogs, and search and rescuedogs. If you have a dog in any of these fields, orwork for an organization that trains dogs for thesejobs, send an email to Cobb at:[email protected]

Man and Dog, Working Together

Metropolitan Washington AirportsAuthority Officer Cpl. Jeff Richardsand his dog Rex work through atraining exercise at the MWAACanine Facility at Dulles Airport onJune 7. Rex is an explosives detec-tion dog. Richards points to theareas along the suitcase wherescent is likely to leak, in this case,the zipper, and Rex is trained tofollow with his nose.

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Niko, a City of Fairfax patrol dog partnered with City of Fairfax OfficerVann Sayasithsena, alerts to marijuana in a training wall at the FairfaxCounty Police Department Facility in Chantilly. Said Sayasithsena, “Beinga handler is like watching your kid do sports. Having him do a track andhave good results, or helping an officer find dope makes you proud.”

FairfaxCountyPoliceBlood-houndShnoz justreceived avalormedal fortrackingand find-ing awomanwho hadbeenmissing inthe woodsof MasonNeck StatePark fortwo days.Shnoz iscalled into trackwhen thescent trailmight behour or —in the caseof thewoman inMasonNeck StatePark —days old.


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situated, backing to woods and siding to large opencommunity grassy area, in a quiet neighborhood.Minutes to I495, Burke VRE, shopping, and schools.Call for more info.

Falls Church $139,900Fully Remodeled and AStunning View!Located in Skyline Plaza,this 12th floor condo hasit all. Condo fee includesall utilities, 24 hour secu-rity, pool, exercise room,hair salon, conveniencestore, post office, park-ing, storage and rooftopterrace. Condo has allnew carpet, paint, granitecountertop, remodeledbath, and appliances.Call for more info!

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