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Town Center LightsChristmas TreeNews, Page 3

Families gather aroundthe Christmas tree atReston Town CenterFriday, Nov. 23, justafter it is lit for the

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Reston HostsHoliday ParadeNews, Page 3

Schools UsingDiversity forStudent BenefitsFocus on Immigration, Page 10

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SATURDAY/DEC. 1A Window Into Your Child’s Brain.

9 a.m.-noon, at the Sheraton RestonHotel, 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive,Reston. Four childhood disorderexperts share the latest techniquesfor diagnosing and treating commonmental conditions and addictions; forparents struggling withdistinguishing between “normal” andworrisome behaviors in their child.Register. 703-880-4000 orwww.Reston.amenclinics.com/window or [email protected].

SATURDAY/DEC. 8CASA Volunteering Info Session.

11 a.m.-noon, at the RestonCommunity Center Lake Anne, 1609-A Washington Plaza, Reston. Come tolearn more about advocating forabused and/or neglected children,and to learn about how to become aFairfax Court Appointed SpecialAdvocate (CASA). 703-273-3526 ext.22 or [email protected] orwww.fairfaxcasa.org.

SUNDAY/DEC. 16Cat Adoption. 1-4 p.m. PetSmart,

11860 Spectrum Center, Reston.Every Sunday. Sponsored by LostDog & Cat Rescue Foundation.www.lostdogrescue.org.

SUNDAY/JAN. 27Cat Adoption. 1-4 p.m. PetSmart, 11860

Spectrum Center, Reston. EverySunday. Sponsored by Lost Dog &Cat Rescue Foundation.www.lostdogrescue.org.

ONGOINGToys for Tots. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-

Thursday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. onFriday at 13350 Franklin Farm Road,Suite 350, Herndon, through Dec. 14,drop off a new, unwrapped toy at thelocal Edward Jones office andLindsay Velebar, financial advisor,will deliver it to Toys for Tots. 703-435-1247.

Parks and Recreation Fall Classes/Registration. Various times, StacyC. Sherwood Center, Old LeeHighway, Fairfax. Register online atwww.fairfaxva.gov/ParksRec. 703-385-7858.

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Members of the Reston Chorale perform at the an-nual tree lighting ceremony at Reston Town CenterFriday, Nov. 23.

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Town Center LightsChristmas TreeSanta and Mrs. Claus, RestonChorale appear at annual treelighting.

By Alex McVeigh

The Connection

Having just moved toReston in July, Billand Marie Jones and

their two children weren’taware of the annual festivitiesthat happen at Reston TownCenter every year on the Fridayafter Thanksgiving, just afterdark. They thought they wereheaded to town center for anevening of ice skating and fro-zen yogurt.

“We were just wrapping up askating session when we no-ticed the large crowd gatheredaround the tree and the risersnext to the rink set up,” MarieJones said. “We decided to stickaround and see what was up,and it was a great decision, trulya magical moment.”

The magical moment for theJones, and hundreds of familiesthat knew exactly what theywere in for was the arrival ofSanta and Mrs. Claus to lightthe large Christmas tree in frontof the fountain.

After the sun went down, thecrowd was abuzz waiting forthe duo to arrive. Many childrenwere perched on a parent’sshoulder trying to be the firstone to spot the couple on theircarriage.

“It was nonstop excitementfor about half an hour for my

son while he was on my shoul-ders,” said Dan Harris ofReston, who at six feet, fourinches gave his son Connor oneof the best views in the house.“Almost every flash of light ofmovement at the end of thestreet got his attention, but bythe time they actually camedown the street, I think he waswary of false alarms.”

When the red and white cladcouple showed up, they askedeveryone in attendance to closetheir eyes and wish for the treeto light up, a wish that wasgranted.

After the tree was lit, mem-bers of the Reston Chorale ledthe crowd in a holiday singalong, featuring classics such as“O Christmas Tree,” “WhiteChristmas,” “Joy to the World,”“Jingle Bells” and more.

“For the past few years, we’vemade it a priority along with ourneighbors to make sure we makeit down here for the parade, treelighting and sing along,” saidErin Cheever of Reston. “It’s a funday to spend at the Town Cen-ter, the adults can get some shop-ping in, the kids can wanderaround and ice skate, and thewhole day really helps us all getinto the holiday spirit. So muchso that we’re pretty much com-mitting ourselves to put up thetree Saturday, because the kidsare so fired up.”

Reston founder Robert Simon waves to thecrowd at the annual Reston Holiday Pa-rade Friday, Nov. 23.

Local Cub Scout troops during the annualReston Holiday Parade Friday Nov. 23.

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Reston Hosts Holiday ParadeLocal groups participate inannual Reston TownCenter parade Nov. 23.

By Alex McVeigh

The Connection

Thousands of people spent the early partof their Black Friday spread out alongMarket Street for the annual Reston Holi-day Parade. Organizations from across

the area made their way down .3 miles of the roadcarrying balloons, performing and interacting withthe crowd.

“There are about a thousand reasons I love livingin Reston Town Center, and right at the top of thelist are the big events and festivals,” said EvaSartorious, who has lived in Reston for the past threeyears. “I love being able to walk out my front doorearly morning the Friday after Thanksgiving and getmy spot for the parade, then I can just walk back inand rest, then come back for the tree lighting. It’sfantastic.”

Retired South Lakes Principal Bruce Butler and hiswife served as the grand marshal for the parade, andthey were followed throughout the morning by avariety of different acts. Local cheerleading groups,martial arts students and dance studios were able tostop at a few points along the way for a brief perfor-mance.

“The best part of the parade are the live perfor-mances, it’s a lot of fun to see such a variety of actsin one place,” said Earl Sheridan of Reston. “Themartial arts ones are usually the most radical, butthe dance groups are really cool too.”

Sherman Roy, 6, had a favorite group of perform-ers as well.

“It was awesome when the superheroes came out,”he said, referring to a group that features Batman,Superman, Captain America and Wonder Woman,among others. “The costumes were really good, andthey were really nice to walk up to us and say hello.I got to shake Captain America’s hand.”

Members of the Herndon and South Lakes HighSchool marching bands also performed, as well as

A classic Mustang makes its way downMarket Street in Reston Town Center, part ofthe annual holiday parade Friday, Nov. 23.

The crowd at the annual Reston HolidayParade watches a Bolivian dance troupeFriday, Nov. 23 at Reston Town Center.

members of local schools’ Junior ROTC programs.Local scout troops carried the large, classic Thanks-giving Day parade-style balloons.

“This is a fun event because almost all of the par-ticipants are people involved in local businesses, orattend the same schools our children do,” said Aus-tin Kaspers, whose neighbor is a member of theHerndon Marching Band. “I makes it very easy todevelop a sense of community when you recognizethe performers and see them show off their skills,whether its in a drum line, or part of the JROTC rifleteam.”


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Paying Tribute to ‘Dogs of War’Local author’s new book examines American leadersand their dogs.

Reston resident Kathleen Kinsolving, who teaches Englishat Centreville High School, will release her second book,“Dogs of War” Tuesday, Nov. 20. The book tells the story ofFranklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Gen.George Patton through their relationships with their dogs.

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Kathleen Kinsolvingknows that inspirationcan come from strangeplaces. In 2000, she

was helping a friend move whenshe came upon a trunk full ofbooks, including Carlo D’Este’s bi-ography of Gen. George Patton,“Patton: A Genius for War.”

“I started looking through thebook, and saw a photo of Patton’sbull terrier Willie, laying next tohis foot locker and briefcase afterPatton has passed away, and it wasone of the most moving things Ihad ever seen,” she said. “I thoughtthe story of Patton and Williemight make for an interesting,short book.”

That photo eventually led toKinsolving’s second book, “Dogs ofWar,” which was released Tuesday,Nov. 20. The book tells the storyof three historic figures of the lastcentury, Franklin D. Roosevelt,Dwight Eisenhower and Patton,through the eyes of their dogs.

D’Este even wrote the forwardto “Dogs of War,” calling the bookan example of how “the uncondi-tional love and devotion of thesedogs created an oasis of peacefulenergy for these great leaders,each of whom occupied exception-ally demanding positions.”

THIS IS THE SECOND NOVEL written byKinsolving, who also teaches English at CentrevilleHigh School and lives in Reston. The first was a bi-ography of her father Les, a former pastor who be-came a journalist and a senior member of the WhiteHouse Press Corps.

Being an admirer of Roosevelt and knowing thestories of Fala, his famous Scottish terrier, Kinsolvingfigured that would be a natural pair to the storiesabout Patton and Willie. But when she submitted thework for publication, agents told her it was too short,and to try and add a third pair.

“I wasn’t too sure about Eisenhower, I didn’t knowtoo much and frankly, wasn’t sure that there wouldbe too much to write, but then I called his libraryand they recommended the two memoirs publishedby Kay Summersby,” said Kinsolving, referring toEisenhower’s chauffer and secretary and is rumoredto have had an affair with the president. “In herbooks, there were a lot of stories about how theyraised a Scottie named Telek, and it turned out to bequite a romantic story.”

Kinsolving, who says she has always had a “strongattachment” to dogs, said she enjoyed learning an-ecdotes about how the dogs could provide levity tothe leaders, even as the future of the world oftenrested on their shoulders.

One such anecdote is about Eisenhower, who in1943 was a general staying at the villa of Gen. GeorgeC. Marshall, when Telek briefly escaped from

Eisenhower and Summersby and ran upstairs andurinated on Marshall’s bed.

“There are so many stories like that, that show howthese animals were a part of these men’s lives evenas they were at the heart of these massive events,”Kinsolving said. “They’re stories that will appeal topeople of all ages, I even made sure to censor Gen-eral Patton’s colorful language when needed.”

Ranny Green of the Seattle Kennel Club praised“Dogs of War” for its “kaleidoscope of funny, frus-trating and even fiery accounts of each celebrateddog’s role in its owner’s life.’

THE BOOK also includes a contemporaryafterword, the tale of Cairo, the dog that was withSeal Team Six as they killed Osama bin Laden.

Kinsolving says she is working on several projectsfor the future, including a few screenplays. She saidshe hopes to bring the same type of anecdotes to aproject about her son, who is 8 years old and autis-tic, and her experiences raising him.

“I have a need to look at things and try and findsomething funny, something to laugh at, somethingto lighten people up,” she said. “In my experienceswith my son, I’ve found that a lot of people don’treally know how to react, I’ve seen people wriggle,squirm, patronize, and I’ve thought, ‘maybe that’show I would react if I didn’t know what I know.’”

The book is available online and in stores startingTuesday, Nov. 20.


Commentary

Virginia’s Mixed Holiday BlessingsBy Kenneth R. “Ken” Plum

State Delegate (D-36)

Virginians are livingthrough this holidayseason with mixedblessings. At least that

is the conclusion of the Center forAmerican Progress Action Fund2012 Annual Report “Tracking In-dicators of Poverty and Opportu-nity in Virginia”(americanprogressaction.org).Nationally, the report found thatafter years of getting worse, theU.S. poverty rate remained stablelast year. In Virginia the povertyrate is lower than the national av-erage at 11.5 percent, the seventhbest rate in the country. Virginia’spopulation is the 12th highestamong the states, meaning thatnearly a million people live in pov-erty in the commonwealth. TheAmerican Progress Action Fund’s“Half in Ten” campaign has as agoal of cutting the poverty rate inhalf in a decade.

Virginia fared well on somerankings in the report. Virginia hasthe second best ranking in thecountry on the gender gap.Women in Virginia earn 87 percentfor every dollar earned by a mandoing similar work. While the gapis too wide, it is likely helped by

the technology industry in North-ern Virginia that is much closer toequal pay for equal work. Virginiahas the best ranking nationwidein the foster care system wherethree children per 1,000 childrenunder age 18 were in the system.Virginia’s success in reducing chil-dren in foster care came about inpart from the excellent work offormer First Lady Anne Holton,wife of former Governor and Sena-tor-elect Tim Kaine.

Virginia has some areas wheremore work needs to be done. Thestate ranks 44th in the nation onthe availability of affordable hous-

ing. Only 57 affordable and avail-able housing units exist for every100 tenants at or below 50 percentof the median income. The GeneralAssembly meeting in January needsto restore funding to the VirginiaHousing Trust Fund.

Virginia’s high school gradua-tion rate of 78.4 percent is 20th inthe nation. That leaves too manypeople undereducated and quali-fying for only minimal employ-ment and low wages. A review ofpublic alternative education pro-grams is needed to ensure thatavenues are available for all stu-dents to complete high school.

The number of persons unin-sured in Virginia is 12.5 percentof the population ranking the state21st among the other states. TheGeneral Assembly can take posi-tive action to lower this figure byestablishing a health insuranceexchange to ensure that affordablehealth care is available in the mar-ketplace. It can also expand Med-icaid to cover the more than400,000 people who will other-wise be left out of the system.

To read the “Half in Ten” AnnualReport, go to www.halfinten.org.The holidays give us opportunitiesto count our blessings and to de-velop the resolve that all shouldbenefit in these blessings.

To the Editor: Representative G. Connolly (D-

11) has introduced legislation (noestimate of cost to taxpayers) toimprove the elections process andmake voting faster. SenatorWarner is in on this also.

States which, like schoolboys, dowell here will get bigger grants.

So the voting lines were long,so what, there were several con-stitutional questions and bond is-sues to be digested and voted on.If you are voting for the leader ofthe Western world and represen-tatives to govern the world’s pre-eminent democracy, this shouldnot necessarily, given the fatefulimportance of the outcome, be aseasy as pouring one’s breakfastcornflakes. Meaningful voting is aprivilege denied much of theworld. It is worth a little trouble.I’ll wager that the new-fledged UScitizens did not mind waiting awhile to cast their legitimate vote.

Of course, this is transparentlyjust another Democrat stunt.These are some of the “improve-ments” that Connolly and Warnerpropose:

❖Flexible registration opportu-nities, including same-day regis-

tration (so there’s insufficient timefor adequate verification);

❖Early voting, at least for 9 dayspreceding an election (why not 90days, and we’ll bring the votingmachine to your house for youradded convenience?);

❖Assistance to voters who donot speak English (citizenship re-quirements anyone?);

❖Effective access to voting formembers of the armed services(now that the 2012 elections areover);

❖Formal training of election of-ficials (they already are trained);

❖Reducing waiting times atpolling stations (aha, they’re ontosomething);

❖Contingency plans for votingin the event of a natural disaster(the dog ate my registrationforms).

This is the sort of stuff that givespolitical hacks a bad name! Howabout instead spending the money,which we don’t have, on investi-gating the manifold instances ofalleged voter fraud state- and na-tionwide?

Harry LocockReston

Long Voting Lines: So What?

What to do About More RestonTraffic Congestion

What to do? Is it possible thatReston will suffer from too muchTransit Oriented Development?

The Reston Planning & ZoningCommittee recently heard a pre-sentation on proposed redevelop-ment of the mini-storage facilitylocated in the vicinity of theWiehle Avenue transit station. Thisparticular site is anticipated to fea-ture a mid-rise apartment build-ing with ground floor retail andunderground garage parking forresidents. The developer assertsthat this proposal is wholly withincounty guidelines, and is notwithin the purview of the RestonAssociation.

Furthermore, developer spon-sored traffic studies for this siteshow little or no impact on trafficcongestion. What a surprise. Eachnewly proposed redevelopment

site is considered separately, andthis one does not include trafficgenerated by the Wiehle Stationdevelopment, existing KaiserPermanente and other existing of-fice space. A number of commit-tee members voiced concern thatthe two vehicular access points—one to Wiehle Avenue and one toSunset Hills Road, will be insuffi-cient to handle the traffic gener-ated by the station and proposedresidential, office, hotel and othercommercial development.

What to do? We need more par-ticipation by our Reston Associationand other citizen-oriented groupsin concert with our supervisor toeducate the developers and countyplanners to our concerns.

Bob SteinReston

Letters to the Editor

On the Other Side of the Pond

Independent Progressive

By John Lovaas

Reston Impact Producer/

Host

After the nerve-wrackingU.S. election, webreathed a big sigh of

relief that the country had notfallen into the hands of MittRomney and his Tea Partyhenchmen. Then, we traveledto Ireland for a relaxing dis-count holiday with friends. Wereturned just in time for the an-nual Lovaas family Thanksgiv-ing dinner and the wonderfulReston Holiday Parade in TownCenter on Black Friday.

While in Ireland, the daylighthours were short and the damp,chilly weather left a lot to bedesired. The welcoming Irishfolks we met greeted us withwarmth like long-time friendsand brightened every day. Thecastles and ruins of ancient civi-lizations in County Meath andthe waterfalls and scenery inthe Wicklow Mountains pro-vided fascinating activity andlots of photo ops during theshort days. After a day of

sightseeing, we typically went toa pub in the little town of Enfieldnear our lodging for dinner andconversation with fellow pubbersover a pint of Guinness orSmithwicks next to the welcomeheat of a fireplace.

The folks we met shared oursatisfaction with the re-election ofPresident Obama, but recognizedthat he had difficult times aheadwith the likelihood of a continueddysfunctional legislature. Theywere rightly more concerned withtheir own version of the fiscal cliffas their government prepared toannounce its new budget in earlyDecember, one that will likely im-pose more austerity in the teeth of

an unemployment rate of nearly15 percent. For the first timeever, I saw a few people sleep-ing on the streets in Dublin.

Furthermore, the attention ofthe Irish media and women inparticular—including thousandswe saw marching throughDublin—was riveted on thetragic death of a young Indianwoman who died of complica-tions of a miscarriage when doc-tors refused to perform an abor-tion that could have saved herlife. Their reason, they said, wasthat the Irish law barring abor-tions was unclear as to their li-ability for performing one. Re-productive rights are a growingissue in Ireland.

To relieve the air of gloom,there was a typically Irish storycirculating in the media. It re-ported that former President BillClinton would soon visit Irelandand that he was likely to be com-ing to live in his ancestral coun-try as the new U.S. Ambassadorto Ireland! The basis for the storywas unclear, so we’ll have tocheck with our own secretary ofstate for verification.

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Opinion

Learning in a Global CommunityStudents in Fairfax County speak 160 languages.

This week our ongoing series aboutimmigration in Fairfax Countytakes a look at county schools, andsome of the joys and challenges of

having a diverse student body that speaks asmany as 160 different languages at home.

Find the series compiled online at http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/Immi-gration/.

For the director of language acquisition inFairfax County Public Schools, the 44 percentof students who speak a foreign language athome present an opportunity to create lan-guage immersion classes where half a kinder-garten is learning Spanish or Korean while theother half is learning English.

For principals of some elementary schoolswhere more than half of their students are notproficient in English, the need to have studentsmeet benchmarks in a variety of subjects is arelentless process. In addition to limited En-glish, immigrant students come from variedbackgrounds, some with good basics in their

own languages and some with limited previ-ous education in any language. The parents ofthese students are similarly varied.

Meanwhile, representation of Latino andAfrican American students in Fairfax County’stop instructional centers for gifted students lagsdramatically.

FCPS is conducting two criti-cal sets of public meetings thisweek and next. The call for pub-lic input is not specifically about

growing diversity in the schools, but relatedchallenges make both the possible expansionof centers for the county’s most talented stu-dents and the selection of a new superinten-dent of schools that much more important.

A fast moving proposal to expand the num-ber of centers to provide “advanced academic”services is the topic of meetings this week. Themeetings will run from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday,Nov. 27, in the Westfield High School cafete-ria; Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Lee High Schoolcafeteria; and Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Kilmer

Middle School cafeteria.Fairfax County Public Schools Superinten-

dent Jack Dale will be retiring in June of 2013.The School Board has hired a search firm,Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, whichwill be gathering community input. Many ofthe challenges facing the new superintendentwill revolve around growing diversity, and atrack record of open communication andachievement in this will be key to success.

SUPERINTENDENT SEARCHCOMMUNITY MEETINGS❖ Dec. 3 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, South County HS, 8501

Silverbrook Road, Lorton, VA 22079.❖ Dec. 4 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Langley HS, 6520

Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101.❖ Dec. 5 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Robinson SS, 5035

Sideburn Road, Fairfax, VA 22032.❖ Dec. 6 - 10 a.m. Gatehouse Administration Center,

8115 Gatehouse Road, Falls Church, VA 22042Room 1600.

❖ Dec. 6 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Annandale HS, 4700Medford Drive, Annandale, VA 22003.

❖ Dec. 6 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Groveton ElementarySchool, 6900 Harrison Lane, Alexandria, VA 22306.

❖ Dec. 7 - 1 p.m., Gatehouse Administration Center,8115 Gatehouse Road, Falls Church, VA 22042Room 1600.

Editorial

Immigrants and Today’s Faith ResponseFocus on Immigration

By John Horejsi, Coordinator

Social Action Linking Together (SALT)

The presence of increasing numbers ofimmigrants is a challenge to the FairfaxCounty faith community commit-

ments. The challenge is to be a faith commu-nity with open arms.

Historically the churches in the United Stateshave been immigrant churches. Who amongus cannot trace one’s ancestors back to a coun-try outside the U.S.? The church’s care andconcern for countless European immigrants iswell known. Today, we the faith communityare called to welcome immigrants with simi-lar hospitality.

The situation of immigrants is often desperate.Entering a culturally strange and different land,and struggling financially is as scary today as itever was in the past. Perhaps it is even more sobecause of the quickened pace of American life.

Those who are fortunate to connect withhelpers are settled within a few years. Othersremain in transition the rest of their lives asfamilies struggle with complex adjustments.All face major problems in housing, employ-ment, health care, legal assistance, and a diffi-cult new language.

Immigrants frequently face the additionalobstacle of cruel prejudice and racism. Non-immigrants often want to exclude them fromthe benefits of a free country, yet are eager touse cheap and reliable labor of immigrants.

The immigrants and other refugees keepcoming, not necessarily because they want to,

but as one, fleeing from war and persecution,put it, because of “the persistent advantage oflife over death.”

Presently, many Hispanics from CentralAmerica are located in Northern Virginia. About65 percent are Salvadoran, 15 percent Hondu-ran, and 10 percent each are Guatemalan andNicaraguan. The faith community in NorthernVirginia has not been unaware of the presenceand plight of these immigrant refugees.

Nationally, for more than 65 years, CatholicCharities agencies have responded to the needsof people who come to this country in searchof a better life. Thousands of refugees have

been settled. Over 90 percent of Catholic re-settlement services are provided throughCatholic Charities, which is one of the keys tothe future of migration ministry in the U.S.

In Northern Virginia, one of the responsesof the faith community has been through HogarImmigrant Services, a program of CatholicCharities. Hogar assists immigrants in partici-pating more fully in their everyday lives. In-formation referrals, legal information services,and educational opportunities are just someof the aids. The aim is to help the NorthernVirginia immigrant population become knowl-edgeable, participating individuals in society.

Yet much remains to be done, especially inand by the faith community. What are the el-ements of this challenge?

❖ Recognizing the contributions of the im-migrants to the community;

❖ Providing a greater voice to the immigrantcommunity in decision-making within the com-munity;

❖ Supporting programs designed to improvethe quality of life for newcomers;

❖ Serving as advocates to create a favorablepublic opinion out of which good things canhappen; and

❖ Seeking to raise consciousness for solidar-ity with the poor and the stranger.

Our response must be to acknowledge byword and action that the spirituality of the faithcommunity and the spirituality of the immi-grant communities are interdependent.Through love, kindness, service and advocacyfor each other both stand to gain.

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Paintings by Rosemary Gallick are on ex-hibition at the Reston Association until Nov.30. The solo exhibition includes her por-traits of such musical icons as Elvis, JerryGarcia and Bruce Springsteen. The RestonAssociation is located at 12001 Sunrise Val-ley Drive in Reston.

Gallick lives in Centreville and teaches arthistory at Northern Virginia CommunityCollege’s Woodbridge Campus.

Gallick also has five paintings in the na-tional juried exhibition “Popular Campaignsand Political Culture” at the Prescott Col-lege Art Gallery in Prescott, Ariz. Her pop

portraits include Stephen Colbert, RushLimbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Barack Obamaand Jon Stewart.

More of Gallick’s political paintings aredisplayed in the faculty art exhibition atNOVA’s Woodbridge Campus. This exhibi-tion, which runs until Dec. 7 in the 4th floorgallery, features portraits of Joe Biden, Hi-lary Clinton, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. TheWoodbridge Campus is located at 15200Neabsco Mills Road.

To learn more, contact Gallick [email protected] or 703-878-5797.

Rosemary Gallick’s Artwork on Display inThree Galleries

Artist RosemaryGallick has paint-ings on exhibitionin three locationsthis month. She isshown here withher paintings at theReston Association.Gallick teaches arthistory at NorthernVirginia CommunityCollege.

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The Greater Reston Chamber ofCommerce will celebrate 30 yearsof serving as a cornerstone of busi-ness and community on Saturday,Dec. 1, 7–11 p.m. at the SheratonReston Hotel. The chamber wasfounded in 1982 as the RestonBoard of Commerce with an ini-tial membership of 100 businesses.

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Exploring theEarly Historyof Reston

The Reston Historic Trust andthe Reston Museum are exploringthe early history of Reston. TheReston Museum is producing an-other free program on Nov. 29:“The Early History of Reston—Translating the Dream to Reality.”For more information, call theReston Museum at 703-709-7700,email [email protected],or visit www.restonmuseum.org.

The event will be held on Thurs-day, Nov. 29, from 7 p.m. until 9p.m., at the Jo Ann Rose Galleryat Reston Community Center—Lake Anne Reston CommunityCenter—Lake Anne, 1609 Wash-ington Plaza, Reston.

Peter McCandless and ChuckVeatch, along with a panel of otherearly marketing experts, willpresent a program on the originsof Reston, the nation’s first large-scale planned community thatchanged the face of the suburbanlandscape in America. The presen-tation will cover Robert E. SimonJr.’s vision for Reston, incorporat-ing contemporary architecture anda balanced community with a mixof uses and clustered develop-ment, how the plan became

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On Saturday, Nov. 3,just days after Hur-ricane Sandy hit ourregion, Reston resi-

dents engaged in a dialogue at aforum titled “Is Your Neighbor-hood Ready for the Next BigStorm,” held at Reston CommunityCenter Lake Anne. The event wasorganized by Reston for a Lifetimewith the support of Reston Com-munity Center and Reston CitizensAssociation to help create aware-ness and a dialogue before the firstbig snowstorm hits our region.

According to Reston for a Life-time representative Steve Gurney,“our goal is to encourage neigh-borhoods to have a dialogue andbegin to identify those who mightbe more vulnerable and those whoare eager to help.”

Marcelo Ferreira, community li-aison with the Fairfax County Of-fice of Emergency Management,provided attendees with countlessresources including a variety ofemergency alerts that are availableto all residents, medical needs reg-istries and suggestions for person-ally preparing for storms. Heshared how essential it is for com-munities to work toward creatingneighbors-helping-neighbors net-works to support emergency staffand first responders.

The audience provided excellentexamples of neighbor support sys-tems throughout Reston. Cherie

Lejeune provided a recap of thesupport provided at Lake AnneFellowship House during theDerecho storm. In addition, sev-eral attendees shared how theirclusters have created systems thatmake it easier for neighbors toconnect socially that have proveninvaluable during storms andemergencies.

Reston for a Lifetime is workingon documenting the some of thebest practices of Reston clustersand neighborhoods to encouragebetter neighborhood connectionsthrough case studies and video.Visit www.restonforalifetime.orgfor updates or if you would like toshare a story of how your neigh-borhood has created a system toconnect.

Discussing the Next StormReston residents meet to prepare forthe next storm.

Marcelo Ferreira, commu-nity liaison with the FairfaxCounty Office of EmergencyManagement, discussesresources and solutionswith Reston residents.

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Giving Circle ofHOPE Honors 11Non-profits

The Reston Giving Circle ofHOPE is awarding $55,000 to 11nonprofit partners in Northern Vir-ginia that encourage job creation,help build strong families and as-sist community members in need.

This is the ninth grant cycle forthe Giving Circle of HOPE, an or-ganization of more than 100 mem-bers that was founded in 2004 topromote volunteerism and effec-tive philanthropy. Members seek

to make a difference in the com-munity by contributing their time,talents and money to projectswhich encourage self-sufficiencyand well-being among people inneed in Northern Virginia.

Since its inception, the GivingCircle has given out over $525,000through the Grant program,Empty Bowls and Gifts That GiveHope.

This year’s recipients of $5,000grants are Alternative House,Computer C.O.R.E., Friends ofGuest House, GRACE Ministries,Herndon-Reston FISH, LiteracyCouncil of NoVa, Manassas Mid-wifery, NoVa Therapeutic RidingProgram, OAR, Packaged withCare and Stroke Comeback Cen-ter.

A Celebration to honor Non-profit Partners will be held in early2013.

For information, contact RebeccaBerntsen at 703-665-9334 or visitwww.GivingCircleofHOPE.org.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOLATTENDANCE AREASStudents who speak a language

other than English at home

38,760 FairfaxCounty elementaryschool students (44percent) speak alanguage other thanEnglish at home.

By Donna Manz

The Connection

The schools that feed intoGeorge C. MarshallHigh School are the aca-

demic home to children from allover the world. It’s not surpris-ing, then, that Marshall is an in-ternational community, a TysonsCorner United Nations, so tospeak. Many of the studentscome for the prestigious I.B. (In-ternational Baccalaureate), butmost are in the Marshall district,which embraces students fromTysons to the far-reaches ofVienna. From Italian to Swahili,there is a myriad of languagesnative to Marshall’s students,who represent more than 90nations.

“Marshall has an internationalstudent body from all walks oflife, from the four corners of theworld,” said principal JayPearson. “Our kids cross somany boundaries. We don’t re-fer to it as ‘diversity,’” Pearsonsaid. “For our students, this isthe norm. These kids are veryaccustomed to moving betweengroups of students from every-where, so, there aren’t ‘cliques.’

“We are the face of whatFairfax County is in 2012.”

FIVE INVITED STUDENTSgathered in a roundtable discus-sion at Marshall recently. Whatthey agreed on is that Americanschools are less-intense aca-demically, less-academicallypressuring than schools outsidethe U.S. In other countries, it is

academics-only that define yourfuture, a selected group of studentssaid in the recent discussion withPearson and an interviewer. In theU.S., the students said, you haveextracurricular programs that en-hance the total person. What theU.S. does not have, however, thatinternational schools stress, is anemphasis on foreign language flu-ency.

English is a compulsory curricu-lum in many school systems theworld over. Some students, such asKasthury Paramiswaran, aMarshall senior from Malaysia,speak multiple languages, fluent ineach. Kasthury’s family movedaround the world as part of herfather’s job, and Kasthury masteredfour languages in her journeys. Shesaid she still works very hard in herI.B. subjects, getting “A”s in everyone of her classes. She is applyingto colleges in the United Kingdomand the Netherlands.

Jia Loh, a Malaysian native whohas been in the U.S. for two years,said the transition to schools herewas “hard,” even though the aca-demic environment is less intensethan in Malaysia.

“I had to adjust to different cul-tures. It was hard to find friendswho share my culture.”

Dalila Ferrara’s family movedaround Italy; her father is in themilitary there. In the early 1990s,he was assigned to a U.S. base inTexas and his experience there wasnot a good one. “He warned me notto tell people I’m Italian,” Dalilasaid. “He told me not to be proud

By Alex McVeigh

The Connection

As Fairfax County has ex-perienced massivegrowth in its interna-tional population, its ef-

fects have spread to its educationalinstitutions. Forty-four percent ofthe Fairfax County Public Schoolsstudents come from homes thatspeak a language other than En-glish, which includes 160 differentlanguages.

In 2006, the county came upwith the goal to eventually have allgraduates be able to communicatein two languages. The county cur-rently offers 11 different lan-guages.

“We highly value the diversity ofour population, because it’s advan-tageous for our students to growup here, as global citizens,” saidTeddi Predaris, director of thecounty’s Office of Language Ac-quisition. “We believe it’s a hugeasset for our students in their fu-ture endeavors.”

Approximately 28 percent of thecounty’s current population are for-eign born, with Spanish, Korean,Vietnamese, Arabic, Urdu and Chi-nese/Mandarin being the mostcommon languages spoken in thehomes of elementary school stu-dents.

The county’s kindergarten two-way immersion program is onemethod used by schools to takeadvantage of increasing diversity.The program consists of half En-glish speakers and half who speakthe immersion language.

“In this program, the teachersand students are language modelsfor each other, and they spend halfthe day working at each language,”Predaris said. “Our criteria for add-ing these programs is having alarge enough population of thenon-English speaking group tomake a 50-50 mix possible. This isone of the models we hope to ex-pand in coming years.”

The county has five Spanish kin-dergarten two-way immersion pro-grams, at Bailey’s, Braddock, LakeAnne, London Towne and Rose HillElementary Schools. New this yearis a Korean two-way immersionschool at Colin Powell ElementarySchool in Centreville.

THE PROGRAM AT COLINPOWELL was designed to take ad-vantage of the area’s large Korean

Schools Using Diversity for Student BenefitsImmersion, ESOL programs aim to takeadvantage of area cultures.

“We highly value the diversityof our population, because

it’s advantageous for ourstudents to grow up here, as

global citizens.”— Teddi Predaris, director of the county’s

Office of Language Acquisition

Focus on Immigration

where they have little tono schooling. There’s al-ways a silent period inthe beginning, but peri-ods like lunch and recessallow the Spanish speak-ers to talk among them-selves, which helps openthem up. Children learnmost of their languagefrom each other, so hav-ing native speakers ofboth languages helpsboth groups immensely.Each group of native speakersgets to be the language rolemodel for half a day, with theother students learning from them.It really boosts their confidence.”

COUNTY SCHOOLS also feature

Janet Funk, principal of GunstonElementary School in Lorton,where approximately 300 studentscome from a home where anotherlanguage is spoken, says everydayinteraction with new cultures is animportant part of early education.

“Interesting conversations can beheard in the lunchroom, especiallywhen students from other coun-tries bring their food from home.Children are very interested inbringing their favorite foods, whichnaturally flows to a discussion oftraditions and celebrations,” shesaid. “With these informal discus-sions, the students learn the impor-tance of accepting classmates forwho they are. This supports ourgoal of cultural acceptance an col-laborative interaction among ourschool community.”

But with such diversity comeschallenges, especially when itcomes to Standards of Learningtests.

“Classroom teachers and ESOLteachers work diligently to help thestudents learn the English lan-guage. Many of our students fromother countries are still learningEnglish and are reading belowgrade level expectations,” Funksaid. “These students receive read-

ing instruction in the classroomsetting and the ESOL class-room. They are receiving a‘double’ dose of reading ona regularly scheduled ba-sis. However, when itcomes time to take theSOL tests, they are re-quired to take the test on

grade level in a lan-guage in which they arenot proficient.”In Virginia, SOL tests

must be taken in English,but in Texas, for example,

standardized tests can be taken inSpanish.

CHANGES to the state’s licensurerequirements this year have alsocaused some difficulties. This year,the state required teachers in el-ementary school programs to notonly be licensed in their language,but also for elementary education.

“We’ve struggled this year due tothe new requirement,” Charltonsaid. “We’ve had to use some long-term subs until as recently as twoor three weeks ago before we hadenough full time teachers that metqualifications. Now I think the uni-versities are aware of the change,so it might be better in future years,but it can definitely make it diffi-cult to find people.”

population. The Korean studentswho are in the program all couldspeak a little English

“The program is a niche that fitsvery well in our community. For thenative English speakers, it helpsthem understand more about theculture of the people they sharethe community with everyday. It gives everyone moreunderstanding of thepeople that walkthrough our doorsevery day,” said

Principal LindaClifford. “Walking into aclassroom the other day, I wasamazed at how many non-Koreanstudents were able to understandKorean very well.”

Clifford said she hopes in futureyears that the school can expandthe program beyond kindergarten,eventually to every grade at theschool. The school also offers anafter school program to all studentswho are interested in learning Ko-rean, and they even have a pre-school program to teach immigrantfamilies about school programsand other information they mightnot otherwise be familiar with be-fore their children start school.

Students in the program atBailey’s Elementary take health,math and science in their nativelanguage. As a magnet school, stu-dents from across the county canapply, which the school uses mainlyto fill its English-speaking require-ment.

“The native Spanish speakerscome to Bailey’s with a wide rangeof English skills, depending onwhere they come from,” said As-sistant Principal Rachel Charlton.“Some come from very rural areas

Another area of growth has beenthe county’s English for Speakersof Other Languages program,which started 35 years ago with300 students. Since then it has seena steady increase, with 15,000 infiscal year 2001 and 31,000 thisyear.

immersion programs in Japanese,German and French at elementaryand middle schools.

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Marshall High Is the Face of Fairfax County90-plus countries represented bystudent population.

George C.Marshall

High Schoolhas a student

populationrepresenting

more than 90nations.

“Marshall has aninternationalstudent body fromall walks of life,from the fourcorners of theworld … We arethe face of whatFairfax County isin 2012.”— George C. Marshall High

School Principal JayPearson

Photo by

Donna Manz/

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Viewpoints

What was your biggest concern or fearwhen moving to U.S. schools?

—Donna Manz

KasthuryParamiswaran,senior,Malaysia

“I had a closegroup of friendsthere and I didn’tknow anybodyhere,” on leaving Malaysia whenshe had made friends in hernative high school. “I still workvery hard in my [I.B.] classes.”

Dalila Ferrara,junior, Italy

“Actually, I wasreally happy tomove here. Myonly fear wasthat I wouldn’t beaccepted. Thatdidn’t happen. My biggest dreamis to get an MBA from Harvard.”

Millan Mbise,senior,Tanzania

“The culturalaspect. Forexample, inTanzania there islittle interactionwith teachers. The teachers arestrict, classes are very intense. It’snot like that here. I played varsitysoccer last year and that helpedme a lot with the transition toMarshall.

“I figured out what I wanted todo with my life when I movedhere. I want to be a pharmacist.”

Jia Loh,senior,Malaysia

“Mybiggest fearwas findingfriends. Stillfind it hard

to join cliques. Most of myfriends are internationalstudents. I’m still workingon that part of the transi-tion. My dream is to find ahigh-paying job I like,accounting or law.”

AmberHolder,senior,Panama

“Mybiggest fearwas that Iwouldn’t

have the same friendsthroughout my academiccareer. My dream is toestablish a music educationsystem that would producemore diverse, well-roundedmusicians, not just musi-cians who are skilled in justone instrument.”


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A Chanukah MessageFix the darkness. . . make light.

Community Chanukah Events❖ Family Menorah Workshop

Join us for a fun Chanukah experience at the Home Depot. Make your ownmenorah with tons of different materials. Make your own dreidel. EnjoyChanukah treats and much more. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2:30-4 p.m., at the HomeDepot, 1651 Reston Pkwy., Reston.❖ Outdoor Chanukah Festival

Witness the lighting of a giant ice menorah by a special guest. Enjoy livefamily entertainment, prize drawings, hot chocolate, Chanukah donuts,latkes, chocolate gelt and dreidels, Chanukah family film, and lots of holi-day cheer for the whole family.❖ Chanukah Story Hour and Olive Press Workshop

Join us at Reston Regional Library for Chanukah story time. Have yourkids spellbound as they make their own oil at our famous Olive Oil Work-shop. All little artists can test their skills with a Chanukah craft. EnjoyChanukah treats and much more, Thursday, Dec. 13 from 4:15-5:15 p.m.,at the Reston Regional Library, 11925 Bowman Towne Drive, Reston.

All events are free. Reservations are available at www.chabadrh.org.

By Rabbi Leibel Fajnland

Director of Chabad of

Reston-Herndon

The holiday ofChanukah is set tobegin. The menorahlighting, parties,

dreidel games and gelt-giving willonce more be in full swing. Andthough last year we promised theworld not to treat ourselves to toomany latkes and jelly donuts, thistime around, once again we willhave to start some weight loss pro-gram to shed the extra pounds assoon as the holiday is over.

Although for many of us, thatabove would be an accurate por-trayal of the standard time-testedcelebration of Chanukah, Chabadmysticism teaches us that this year,as in every Chanukah holiday (andever holiday for that matter) ofevery year, there is a newChanukah light, a new never re-vealed before energy that perme-ates all of us, empowering us to

reach yet loftier heights in thespirit of Chanukah, in the triumphof light over darkness.

Have you ever eaten a dough-nut and wondered where the holewent? Ah yes, this riddle hasplagued carb lovers for years. Yetthe answer still evades us.

A similar question, though lesspopular, has been asked by greatthinkers of the past: When onelights a candle in a dark room,where does the darkness go? Theanswer given is that darkness has

no existence of its own. It is a non-entity. It is simply the absence oflight. Once a candle is lit, the dark-ness disappears. It doesn’t go intothe closet, or to the next room. Itsimply disappears.

On Chanukah we light candles.We start with one candle, enoughfor the initial expulsion of dark-ness. Each day we add a candle,going a step further in brighten-ing our lives, until the light reachesits ultimate goal: to completelydispel the darkness.

Every year on Chanukah we cel-ebrate the great triumph of theMacabees, led by the brave Judahthe Macabee, over the mightyGreek army which had invaded theHoly Land of Israel, threatening toprevent the Jews from practicingtheir traditions.

After a courageous fight, theMacabeean army, small and weakas they were, prevailed with thehelp of G-d, over the enemy. Thevictory is a symbol of a small glim-mer of light being triumphant overa great darkness—which at thetime seemed to be in command.With the notion that darkness isbut the lack of light, the victory

was easily attainable.In a world where G-dliness—

and goodness for that matter is,say, not on the top of everyone’sprioritized agenda, one may feelat times that darkness is, in fact,prevailing. It may seem that themundane is sometimes takingmore precedence on our daily livesand directing our everyday activi-ties. To combat the darkness, wemust remember it is but an ab-sence of light. We must light thatsmall candle, bring that little bitof G-dliness, or goodness, backinto our lives and the worldaround us.

Once we begin with the tiny

flame within us, the process of rid-ding the world of darkness willincrease, until we will be able tobask in the ultimate light of good-ness, decency and harmony.

It is my hope and prayer that allour combined efforts to publicizethe message and inspiration ofChanukah—of light over might,decency and freedom over dark-ness and oppression, unites allpeople and brings us one stepcloser to an age where there is onlypeace and respect among of all ofG-d’s children.

Rabbi Leibel Fajnland is the director ofChabad of Reston-Herndon. He can bereached at [email protected].

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By Alex McVeigh

The Connection

For many cast members inthe Herndon High SchoolTheatre Department, themusical “Brigadoon”

wasn’t a familiar title to them. Thestory of two New Yorkers whostumble upon a mystical disap-pearing Scottish village featuresone of the young men, Tommy,who falls in love with one of thetown’s residents, only to be con-fronted by the fact that the townonly appears once every hundredyears.

“It’s sort of a classic that nobodyknows about,” said senior MollyNuss, who plays Fiona, the womanTommy falls in love with.

Nuss says she really enjoyed thereality of her character, who de-spite being trapped in a villagethat only appears once a century,has plenty of depth.

“She shows an entire range ofemotion throughout the play, she’ssassy and fiery, but also very seri-ous. Her character is very relat-able,” she said. “Throughout muchof the play, she seems to wear amask, before coming out as shereally is.”

Senior Paul Morgan, who playsTommy, says he was familiar withthe 1954 film starring Gene Kelly,who is his favorite actor.

“The love songs are really great,they range from confusion, toTommy finding a direction, onlyto lose it again,” he said. “From aperformance standpoint it’s themost demanding role I’ve played,a lot of singing and dancing, butit’s also the best role I’ve played.”

NEW YORKERS Tommy and Jeff,played by senior Chris Hrozencik,

find themselves surrounded by atown full of people trapped in thepast. Hrozencik’s character is asardonic drinker that tries to keepTommy grounded, even as he be-comes more infatuated with Fiona.

“He was definitely a fun charac-ter to play, he’s older and a drunk,but there are scenes, particularlyat the end, where there are comicmoments that also show the truereality of his character,” he said.

Hrozencik isn’t the only actorwho plays a character vastly dif-ferent from himself. Senior AmyFreeman plays Meg Brockie, alovestruck woman who chases Jeff

for much of the play.“She’s so flighty and promiscu-

ous, it was fun to put myself intothe role, that’s what acting is allabout,” she said. “I love the songat the end of the first act, ‘The Loveof My Life,’ where she reflects onhow strange her love life is. Andthe whole time she’s chasing Jeff,he’s so dismissive, but she couldn’tcare less.”

The students stay true to theplay, speaking in thick Scottishaccents throughout the play, andwearing the tartan attire and pet-ticoats that are Scotland’s signa-ture.

Like most of Herndon’s musicals,this one features accompanimentfrom a pit orchestra, also studentsat Herndon High School.

“The orchestra helps add powerand emotion to the scenes, andthat’s something we can draw onas actors,” Nuss said.

Senior Megan Overton, whoplays the role of Jean, said the pro-cess of learning a completely newmusical was very rewarding.

“Once we started doing re-search, seeing the movie andlearning the songs, it was really afun process. Once it all starts com-

ing together, with the great cos-tumes and the set pieces, it justadds a whole new energy,” shesaid. “We’re so lucky to be able tohave the pit orchestra performing,a lot of schools don’t have thatopportunity.”

“BRIGADOON” will be per-formed at the Herndon HighSchool auditorium Friday, Nov. 30and Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.and Sunday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. Tick-ets are $10. For more information,or to purchase tickets, visitwww.herndondrama.org.

Herndon High Performs ‘Brigadoon’Theater department puts on annual fall musical.

“From a performance standpoint it’s themost demanding role I’ve played, a lot ofsinging and dancing, but it’s also the bestrole I’ve played.”

— Senior Paul Morgan

Paul Morgan, in the role of Tommy, is haunted by the lossof Fiona, during the Herndon High School production of“Brigadoon,” opening Nov. 30.

From left, New Yorkers Tommy, played by senior PaulMorgan and Jeff, played by senior Chris Hrozencik, dis-cuss the town of Brigadoon in the Herndon High Schoolproduction of “Brigadoon,” starting Nov. 30.

Fiona (played by Molly Nuss) and Tommy (played by Paul Morgan)struggle with their feelings for each other during a scene in HerndonHigh School’s production of “Brigadoon.”

The townspeople hold a funeral for one of their residents duringHerndon High School’s production of “Brigadoon,” which starts Nov. 30.

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Translating the Dream toReality. 7-9 p.m., at the Jo AnnRose Gallery at the RestonCommunity Center, 1609Washington Plaza, Reston. A panel ofearly Reston-marketing expertspresent a program on the origins ofReston, the nation’s first large-scaleplanned community. 703-709-7700,[email protected] orwww.restonmuseum.org.

FRIDAY/NOV. 30Reston Lions Club Annual Citrus

Sale. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at the club’strailer at Lake Anne Village Center,1609 Washington Plaza N, Reston.Fresh Florida navel oranges, pinkgrapefruit, tangelos and gourmetpeanuts, Vermont cheese and OhioBuckeye Chocolates available;purchase proceeds benefit sight andhearing programs in Reston-Herndonarea (eyeglasses hearing aids alsoaccepted for recycling).www.RestonLions.org.

Artist-led Creativity Challenge. 7-10 p.m., at GRACE, 12001 MarketSt., Suite 103, Reston. Work in teamswith limited materials to designunique, nature-based creationsinspired by artworks in the currentCAIRNS: Works by Pam Rogersexhibit; beverages and light snackincluded. $10 per person formembers and residents of SmallDistrict 5; $20, non-members/non-

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Sale. 8 a.m.-6 p.m., at the club’strailer at Lake Anne Village Center,1609 Washington Plaza N, Reston.Fresh Florida navel oranges, pinkgrapefruit, tangelos and gourmetpeanuts, Vermont cheese and OhioBuckeye Chocolates available;purchase proceeds benefit sight andhearing programs in Reston-Herndon

area (eyeglasses hearing aids alsoaccepted for recycling).www.RestonLions.org.

Holiday Homes Tour of Herndon.10 a.m.-4 p.m., at various homes inReston. Tour Herndon homes in highholiday fashion—tickets available atHerndon Florist, ArtSpace, andHerndon Community Center. $15 inadvance; $20 day of. 703-435-6800ext. 2222 or facebook.com/holidayhomestour.

Winter Open House. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.,at Herndon Fortnightly Library, 768Center Street, Herndon. Glass harpist

Jamey Turner plays while shopperslook for crafts from the Council forthe Arts of Herndon; refreshmentscourtesy of the Fortnightly Club andFriends of the Herndon Library. 703-437-8855 or www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library.

Amadeus Concerts: Gloria. 4 p.m.,at the Reston Community Center,2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston.Sacred and secular holiday seasonalfavorites make a varied, festiveconcert. $30.www.amadeusconcerts.com.

The Reston Chorale: The Wonderof the Season. 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m.,at RCC Hunters Woods, 2310 ColtsNeck Road, Reston. Gloria presentedwith chorus, organ, brass andpercussion—the 90-vocie chorus alsoperforms excerpts of Handel’s JudasMaccabeus and popular holidayfavorites. $25, adults; seniors andyouth ages 16-18, $20; youth under15, free. 7003-436-1111 orwww.restonchorale.org.

Global Campfire 2012. 4-6 p.m., atthe Walker Center Fire Ring onSoapstone Road between Glade andLawyers Roads, Reston. Anawareness event featuring groupsing-along, camp games,marshmallow roasting, a campfire,music from Ashleigh Cevalier andwelcome from Global Camps AfricaFounder Phil Lilienthal; bring chairs,blankets and flashlights for yourgroup. www.GlobalCampsAfrica.org.

Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides. 4-9p.m., at Reston Town Center, 11900Market Street, Reston. Enjoy carriagerides through Reston Town Centerwith pick up location on MarketStreet next to Talbots and allproceeds benefitting local non-profitorganization. $5; children under 5free.

Holiday Tree Lighting and Sing-

Along. 5-6 p.m., at the corner ofLynn and Elden Streets, Herndon.Come for carols, a tree lighting and avisit from Santa. 571-323-5301 orwww.dullesregionalchamber.org.

Greater Reston Chamber ofCommerce 30th AnniversaryCelebration. 7-11 p.m., at TheSheraton Reston Hotel, 11810Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston. The entirecommunity gets down tocommemorate three decades ofservice and leadership in the Dullescorridor with the help of valetservice, South Lakes High School’sstring quartet, dance band DiamondAlley, a silent auction, photo boothand an open bar with Ice Luge;sponsorships available. $135-175.703-707-9045 or http://www.restonchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=947.

Towne Square Singers’ HolidayConcert: Decembers Past. 7:30p.m., at Elden Street Players’Industrial Strength Theatre, 269Sunset Park Drive, Herndon. Encoresof favorite musical numbers fromholiday shows of the past 30 years,sung loud and clear for all to hear.$12. 703-787-7300 or www.herndon-va.gov.

SUNDAY/DEC. 2 Reston Lions Club Annual Citrus

Sale. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at the club’strailer at Lake Anne Village Center,1609 Washington Plaza N, Reston.Fresh Florida navel oranges, pinkgrapefruit, tangelos and gourmetpeanuts, Vermont cheese and OhioBuckeye Chocolates available;purchase proceeds benefit sight andhearing programs in Reston-Herndonarea (eyeglasses hearing aids alsoaccepted for recycling).www.RestonLions.org.

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Pear and Pomegranate, 30x40, by Loretta Scott.

New Exhibit: Saturday Morning ArtistsLoretta Scott, Trish Everhart, Marann Bonorchis and Vivian Leinio are all

quite busy. So they religiously set aside Saturday mornings to paint in Scott’sstudio. This exhibit, open Dec. 2-31 at RCC Hunters Woods, 2310 Colts NeckRoad, showcases the work of the four artists’ many Saturdays working together.A free artists’ reception is on Dec. 16 from 2-4 p.m. 703-476-4500 orwww.restoncommunitycenter.com.


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Contrary to last week’s column, if I dopay for it now (things I can’t afford), thenI’ll be so in debt later that I may end upsaying “bye” anyway – from the stress ofit. And if that were to happen; dying witha smile on my face, so to speak, would Ibe truly better off now anticipating thatlater was not going to be my problem? DoI want to be a modern day version ofGeorge Raft, the American actor from the1930s and 40s best known for his portray-als of mobsters, who said about hisHollywood money: “I must have gonethrough $10 million during my career.Part of the loot went for gambling, part forhorses and part for women. The rest Ispent foolishly.”

My problem is that I don’t want tospend my money foolishly, just in case Icontinue to outlive my original prognosis.There’s plenty of things I can afford to dowithout, but money unfortunately is notone of them. The real question, to me, is:do I want to take responsibility for myown actions (lifestyle choices, purchases,miscellaneous financial commitments) andlive within my means, or do I want tospend selfishly, live my life and let thechips – or rather bills, fall where theymay? After all, eventually (if you knowwhat I mean?), payment may be difficultto collect. And given the fact that as astage IV lung cancer patient, I am consid-ered “terminal,” which means my bestyears may be behind me, don’t I haveenough problems at present whereby Ishouldn’t worry too much about whathappens later (somebody else’s problemby then)? Then again, if I do pay now,surely there would be a sense of satisfac-tion/sense of accomplishment, but wouldpaying for any of it (or all of it) now com-promise my future? Need I be overly con-cerned about later when the ship I’mpresently steering is listing and taking onwater?

Stress hardly provides aid and comfortwhen imposed on a cancer patient andmore so than on an able-bodied, non-ter-minal man or woman. Finding that bal-ance between what I need today to getme to tomorrow, versus what I needtomorrow to get me through today, is theaxis on which that bane of my existenceturns. Do I indulge myself? Do I deprivemyself? Do I live like there are plenty oftomorrows? Or do I live like tomorrowsare in short supply? Do I reach for thebrass ring (on the Merry-go-round of life,metaphorically speaking) or do I saddle areal horse and ride off into the sunset? Istime on my side or is it running downmy leg?

Unfortunately, there’s nothing that Ican do today to guarantee me a tomor-row. I have cancer. However, living reck-lessly, irresponsibly, selfishly may in anawkward way get me through today easierthan if I towed the typical Kenny-type line(I’m funny, but I’m not fun). Nevertheless,I keep coming back to an emotionalinstinct I have: I don’t want to give up onmyself or my future and paying nowassures that I won’t. I do plenty of pre-tending but I’m not going to pretend thatI’m the reincarnation of George Raft(besides, he was also an excellent dancer,which I’m not). He may have known whathe was doing; I’m not really sure I do.

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Garfield ElementarySchool in Spring-field, like all ofFairfax County, has

a population that reflects awide range of backgrounds.With 33 languages spoken, theschool’s ESOL (English forSpeakers of Other Languages)program has had to expand.The school has a first gradeclass of 60 students, 58 ofwhom are ESOL students rang-ing from levels one throughfour.

Jane Cofie-Raczko, who hasbeen a teacher for the past 13years, teaches one of three firstgrade classes in which all 20 of the students haveEnglish as a second language.

The majority of these students are from Hispanicor Middle Eastern backgrounds and common lan-guages include Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Ko-rean, Chinese and Vietnamese. The challengesinvolved with teaching these students depend ontheir proficiency with the English language.

“For students who speak almost no English, itcan be difficult to communicate to the studentsthat you want them to succeed and that you arethere to help them. It can also be difficult to getthe students to ask for help, mostly due to theirlack of confidence in their speaking ability. Forstudents with a better knowledge of the social lan-guage, it can be tough to give them a similarlystrong academic language. Add the already diffi-cult material to learning English for the first timeand it can be very challenging,” said Cofie-Raczko.

“The success of the students with the curricu-lum and their preparedness for middle and highschool depends on the schooling they received intheir home country as well as when they enrolled

Teachers discuss challenges of teaching English asa Second Language.

We Are the World, at Garfield

of being Italian.” Dalila carriedthat warning with her when sheentered Marshall. The dire warn-ing turned out to have no basis ather new school. “When I tellpeople here I’m Italian, they say,‘oh, I love Italy’ and then, I’m sorelieved. Yes, I am proud to say I’mItalian here.”

In Italy, it was always school andstudying through late evening,Dalila said. She had no social lifethere.

“When I came here, it was sucha relief,” she said. “I was so happyI finally had time for myself.”

Millan Mbise, from Tanzania,was pleasantly surprised by thedegree of interaction between stu-dents and teachers. Teachers areless approachable than in the U.S.Millan, whose native language isSwahili, grew up speaking English,

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‘Hidden Curriculum’up their native language.

“Studies show that bilingual stu-dents do better academically.”

Bloom said the school helpsnewly-immigrated students totransition by embracing the fami-lies as they enter the school. Rela-tionship-building is how he refersto the partnership. “When you es-tablish that relationship with newfamilies from other countries, youget rid of a lot of hurdles. Whenyou do that, the families feel val-ued and a part of the Freedom Hillfamily. We have students learningfrom one another simply fromtheir exposure to each other.”

The children of Freedom HillElementary School are so accus-tomed to establishing relation-ships within the classroom, theydon’t recognize barriers, Bloomsaid. “It’s a representation of theworld.”

Bloom refers to the school’s di-at Garfield,” said Rozi Khakpour, an ESOL teacherat Garfield Elementary.

Students who have attended Garfield from thestart get the opportunity to develop oral languageat an early age through programs such as Lunchand Bunch in which kindergartners with Englishas a second language meet twice a week to havelunch and practice this important skill.

The program, along with others, have provento be successful as “students who have been atGarfield since kindergarten often exceed in highschool and earn positions on the honor roll,”Khakpour said.

“Another thing that has proven to be helpful,”said Kirsten Howard, another first grade teacher,“is Garfield’s social curriculum.” This social cur-riculum, which concentrates on teaching studentscooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy,and self-control, has given students a greaterawareness outside themselves and has helpedthem in middle in high school as demonstratedby their willingness to take on leadership posi-tions.

Mariana Del Cid-Quintanilla, Spanish,Parents from El Salvador

Anmul Jan,Pashtu, Bornin Pakistan

Michael Opuni, Akah,Parents from Ghana(Michael born in US)

Yusuf Ouanina,Arabic, Morocco

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“There’s so much value in having aschool where children from all overthe world can come together.”

— Scott Bloom, Freedom Hill principal

as well. English is compulsory inthe schools, and, Millan calls it the“unofficial” language of Tanzania.

Millan is bused from Marshalldaily to Falls Church High Schoolfor a class in “pharmacy technol-ogy.” He learned what he wantedto do with his life while living hereand attending an American school.He wants to be a pharmacist someday.

FREEDOM HILL ELEMEN-TARY SCHOOL feeds into theMarshall pyramid. Like Marshall,Freedom Hill is the world in mi-crocosm. There are more than 42languages spoken in the students’homes and the children of Free-dom Hill represent more than 53countries. Some Freedom Hill stu-dents are from diplomatic families,already bilingual or multilingualwith English exposure. Others arenew to English. The school,through its many ESOL levels,works with these students to helpthem adapt to English.

“Within the realm of school, thekids are held accountable to com-municate in the English language,”said first-year Freedom Hill prin-cipal Scott Bloom. As the kids in-teract with their peers, they pickup English.

“I like to think we also recognizethe importance of kids having thatdual-language skill,” Bloom said.“We want them to learn English,but, we don’t want them to give

versity as a “hidden curriculum.”“There’s so much value in hav-

ing a school where children fromall over the world can come to-gether,” Bloom said. “You set thestage for the children to share theirhistory, backgrounds, culture, andexperiences. “There’s so muchpower in bringing all these differ-ent cultures together that I thinkit’s justified to call it a hidden cur-riculum.

“The kids don’t even knowthey’re learning from this diver-sity.”

Marshall’s roundtable studentseager to discuss their new lives allsaid that school life is more pres-sured in their native countries withlittle opportunities within theschool system to learn nonaca-demic things. Schools do not pro-mote extracurricular activities asthey do here.

“Students are pushed by theirparents to excel academically inMalaysia,” Kasthury said. “Many ofthese kids commit suicide. They’retold, ‘if you’re not the best, you’llnever succeed.’”

Amber Holder has found a mul-titude of extracurricular activitiesto engage in. In Panama, there wasonly a single option. Here, shesaid, she’s involved with themarching band, the literary maga-zine and other programs. “InPanama, you have to find oneplace to fit in. But, here, you canfit in in many places.”


Sports

Marshall’s Haight Competes inRegional Championships

Marshall junior Mackenzie Haight, who earned all-state this year, com-peted at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships South Regional onNov. 24 in Charlotte, N.C. He finished 49th with a time of 15:46 in the seededboys’ race. The top 10 finishers qualified for nationals on Dec. 8 in San Di-ego.

Haight finished 10th at the VHSL state meet with a time of 15:52 on Nov.17 at Great Meadow.

Chantilly senior Sean McGorty won the Foot Locker regional meet withcourse-record time of 14:28.

In the girls’ race, three Northern Virginia harriers qualified for nationals.Lake Braddock senior Sophie Chase won the event with a time of 17:05. WestSpringfield junior Caroline Alcorta placed eight with a time of 17:19 andOakton sophomore Allie Klimkiewicz was ninth with a time of 17:29.

Athletes from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,Virginia and West Virginia competed in the meet.

Herndon Field Hockey Players HonoredHerndon sophomore forward Sofia Palacios earned first-team All-North-

ern Region honors for the 2012 season. Senior defender/midfielder SarahBetti and sophomore midfielder Taylor Stone were named second team all-region.

Betti, Palacios and Stone also received first-team All-Concorde Districthonors for the 2012 season.

Junior midfielder Rachel Delmontagne, senior defender Annie Kelley andjunior goalkeeper Sarah Suter and junior midfielder Katherine Wilson werenamed to the second team.

Herndon Boys’ Basketball Home OpenerThe Herndon boys’ basketball team will face West Potomac in its home

opener at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30.

Langley Boys’ Basketball Season OpenerThe Langley boys’ basketball team will face Centreville for its season

opener at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29 at South Lakes High School. Thefollowing night, Langley will face Oakton at 5:30 p.m. at South Lakes. TheSaxons’ home opener is Dec. 14 against South Lakes.

South Lakes Boys’ Basketball to OpenSeason

The South Lakes boys’ basketball team will open the 2012-13 season witha home game against Oakton at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29. The fol-lowing night, the Seahawks will host Centreville at 7 p.m.

Marshall’s Mackenzie Haight, seen at the VHSL statemeet, competed at the Foot Locker Cross CountryChampionships South Regional on Nov. 24.

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Sports Briefs

Reston Connection Sports Editor Jon Roetman

703-224-3015 or [email protected]

Oakton Football Wins NorthernRegion ChampionshipCougars beat Westfield forfirst region title since 2008.

By Jon Roetman

The Connection

After a 6-0 start, the Oakton football team’s2012 season nearly derailed during a four-game losing streak. Doubt started to creepin after a 49-28 defeat against Centreville

in the regular season finale on Nov. 2. The Cougarsfinished fifth in the six-team Concorde District andwent a month without tasting victory. Oakton man-aged to qualify for the playoffs, but how long wouldthe Cougars last?

“To be honest, we did lose the faith,” Oakton se-nior Andy Boone said. “I think we lost the faith whenwe lost to Centreville, because that was such a heart-wrenching loss. . . . They just ran all over us [and]we couldn’t do anything in the second half on of-fense. It felt like some of the guys were down andwe just didn’t know what to do. Some of the kidswere getting ready to go back to basketball season.”

Oakton would enter regionals as a low seed, mean-ing the Cougars would face a tough opponent in thequarterfinals.

“First, we thought we were going to play Westfieldand all the kids on the team were bummed,” Boone said.“We thought we were going to be out of the playoffs.”

Instead, No. 7 Oakton was matched against No. 2Lake Braddock, the team which knocked the Cou-gars out of the 2011 playoffs. With a chance for re-venge as motivation, Oakton won, 20-13, on Nov. 9—the Cougars’ first win in 35 days. The followingweek, Oakton edged No. 3 Centreville, 14-13, in thesemifinals on Nov. 16.

On Nov. 24, Oakton traveled to face top-seedWestfield with the region title on the line. While theCougars might have been intimidated by the unde-feated Bulldogs at the start of the postseason, a con-fident Oakton team took the field on Saturday andbrought home a banner.

OAKTON DEFEATED WESTFIELD, 23-16, in theDivision 6 Northern Region football final at WestfieldHigh School, continuing a considerable turnaroundfor the Cougars. Oakton rebounded from a four-gamelosing streak to beat the top three seeds en route tothe Cougars’ first region championship since 2008.

“Just looking back on our season,” quarterback KyleDowner said Saturday, “it’s amazing how we got here.”

Downer had another big game for Oakton, carry-ing 18 times for 119 yards and a touchdown, andcompleting four of 10 passes for 53 yards and twoscores. He also intercepted a pass on defense.Downer’s 3-yard touchdown run with 37 secondsremaining in the second quarter gave the Cougars alead they would not relinquish.

Oakton led 13-7 at halftime and, after a scorelessthird quarter, took a two-possession lead on Brian Burns’31-yard field goal with 9:08 remaining in the fourth.Burns missed an extra-point attempt earlier in the game,but head coach Jason Rowley didn’t lose faith in hiskicker, saying the missed PAT was a result of the wind.

“I’ve got all the confidence in the world in Brian,”Rowley said. “He did a great job today.”

Burns’ field goal gave Oakton a 16-7 lead. Westfieldfumbled on its next offensive play and Oakton’s

Daniel Mansfield scooped up the ball and returnedit to the Bulldogs 10-yard line. Four plays later,Downer connected with Boone for a four-yard touch-down on fourth-and-goal, helping give the Cougarsa 23-7 advantage with 6:31 remaining. Westfieldwould score a touchdown and add a late field goal,but it wasn’t enough.

Boone finished with four receptions for 53 yardsand two touchdowns. He also had 22 rushing yardson three carries.

“It feels like a relief,” Boone said of winning theregion title. “I’ve been in probably nine champion-ships in my life and I’ve never won one before, sojust to win a championship feels amazing—just thatweight lifted off your shoulder.”

Westfield defeated Oakton during the regular sea-son, 28-14, on Oct. 19. The Cougars totaled 401 yardsof offense, but had trouble finishing drives. Oaktonran 19 plays after reaching the Westfield 30-yard line,but managed just one touchdown. The Cougars’ otherscore came on a 35-yard run.

ON SATURDAY, Oakton scored four of the five timesit had the ball inside the Westfield 30, including threetouchdowns.

“It was all about finishing drives,” Rowley said. “Itfelt like in the first time we played them that we couldget the ball to the 30 and then we’d get stifled andcouldn’t put the ball in the end zone. Since that game,we’ve really talked about finishing drives on offense.”

After a scoreless first quarter, Oakton took the leadwhen Downer hit Boone with a 21-yard touchdownpass with 7:30 remaining in the second. Trailing 7-0, it didn’t take Westfield long to respond. DevonBurns returned the ensuing kickoff to the Oakton30-yard line and running back Dalaun Richardsoncarried the ball into the end zone on Westfield’s nextplay from scrimmage.

Oakton countered with an 11-play, 80-yard drive,capped by Downer’s 3-yard touchdown run. Westfieldwouldn’t score again until quarterback Chris Mullinscrossed the goal line on a 1-yard sneak with 1:31remaining in the fourth quarter.

Richardson rushed for 117 yards and a touchdownfor Westfield.

With the victory, Oakton advanced to the state play-offs. The Cougars will host L.C. Bird at 4 p.m. onSaturday, Dec. 1 in the semifinals. L.C. Bird, the Cen-tral Region champion, is undefeated.

Oakton quarterback Kyle Downer threwtwo touchdown passes and ran for a scoreagainst Westfield in the Division 6 North-ern Region football final on Nov. 24.

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