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OCTOBER 2017 HOLLIN HILLS BULLETIN Wendy Kilpatrick COUNTY HELP IS ON THE WAY FOR GOODMAN PARK STREAM he Fairfax County Department of Public Works and There will be a meeting late this fall for residents to speak with Environmental Services, Stormwater Planning Division, has the project team, ask questions, and provide feedback about the Treceived funding to assess and design a stream restoration stream. Project updates can be found on the county’s project project for Goodman Park. In the fall of 2016, a county team web page: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/stormwater/ reviewed the site and determined the stream was eroding and con- projects/project_list.htm. Or contact the project manager, tributing to poor water quality. Meghan Fellows, at [email protected] or Residents may see contractors and county personnel scouring 703-324-5807, TTY 711. the park, taking measurements, and painting strange marks on —Meghan Fellows, Ecological Restoration Specialist the ground and/or on the trees. This early stage of data collec- tion is used to create the models that will help identify what the stream could look like when restored. Residents will also see lots A MESSAGE FROM GUS of flagging tape (each survey crew has their own color, and some Elbow Bending Have you ever seen a fancy foot- use multiple colors), tree tags (small round disks with a number tall beer stein with a flip-top silver lid AND (wait for it...) a music stamped on them), and pin flags. Please don’t remove any of box bottom that plays festively when you pick it up? Well, I have. these markers. As the project moves forward the tape will be It was proudly being used at the Hollin Hills Oktoberfest. How glo- replaced with tape that will guide the team as we get closer to rious can one afternoon be? It was a grand stein and a fabulous the final plan and the tree tags will serve as important survey event. Thank you Susmita Dastidar and hubby, Eric Stromayer, and and reference points. our great volunteers for pulling off a truly wonderful, fun party. Our New Web Address I want to remind everyone that the new website URL is www.hollin-hills.org. If you haven't done it For many years, a mysterious yet, please bookmark it in your browser, then you won't need to witch has turned up in remember it. Hollin Hills every Halloween. Don’t be alarmed if you meet House & Garden Tour One of the things that made my day at her; she might seem frightening the Oktoberfest was that two concerned, smart, energetic, smiling, at first, but she’s really a beautiful Hollin Hills ladies have volunteered to host the 2018 very friendly witch. House and Garden Tour. As I am writing this, we have yet to meet, This photo was taken so the matters of schedules and committee members, etc., are still as she paraded down Paul undecided, but I am thrilled that we seem to have a way forward. I will keep you posted. Spring Road, carrying her broom and waving Friends of Hollin Hills The Friends of Hollin Hills set up shop to passersby. Her identity is right next to the keg at the Oktoberfest, so I must assume these unknown, but she was people mean business. Many FHH etched pint glasses were sold last seen heading into the and brochures distributed. The goal is to raise $20,000 by year’s woods, right across from end, and various improvement projects are being mapped out. Judy Rosen’s house . Please support the FHH in their mission to preserve the Hollin Hills Historic District. Happy Halloween, everyone! —Gus Matson, CAHH President Page 2 • The Hollin Hills BULLETIN • October 2017 CIVIC ASSOCIATION OF QuickTakes HOLLIN HILLS (CAHH) OKTOBERFEST? WUNDERBAR! CAHH OFFICERS President Gus Matson 768-3797 Beer and brats along with the our usual Vice-President Chris McNamara 660-9536 array of succulent side dishes and deserts, Treasurer (Open) glorious weather, a large, friendly crowd, Secretary Frederike Ahrens 571-481-4628 Membership Linda Benson 312-907-1797 kids galore weaving in and out, all accom- DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE panied by the appropriately happy “oom- Pool Laura Kistler 768-4161 pah” music—who could ask for a better MVCCA Kathy Seikel 768-2350 Social Susmita Dastidar 660-5938 Oktoberfest? A huge thanks goes to Parks Bob Kinzer 768-4048 Social Chair Susmita Dastidar, David and CAHH COMMITTEES Jaelith Rivera, and the many volunteers ARCHIVIST Judy Riggin 765-3025 who pitched in to make it such a success. Historian Scott Wilson 765-4471 (Also see Hollin Hills Archives below) DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE (DRC) A NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS Chair Frank Collins 660-6525 WELL AT HOLLIN MEADOWS Members John Burns 660-9763 Jaelith Hall-Rivera John Nolan 231-2229 Ginny Wallace 765-7116 Hollin Meadows Elementary School is back in full swing for the new school year. The Ken Wilson 768-5838 building renovations are humming along, and we are seeing much progress. The PTA CAHH-DRC Liaison Chris McNamara 660-9536 has been busy with our Care & Share program that helps children in need at the HOLLIN HILLS POOL COMMITTEE Chair Barbara Bogue 571-257-9313 school. Care & Share sponsors after-school clubs throughout the year, and organizes PARKS COMMITTEE evening and weekend events including a special Math Game Night, a Veteran's Day Chair Elisabeth Lardner 765-3023 Ceremony, Bingo Night, and more. Here are a couple of very easy ways that you can help Hollin Meadows, our neighborhood school: HOLLIN HILLS BULLETIN • BOX TOPS: Please save Box Tops for Education symbols (sample at right) for Hollin Meadows. They are found on many Published monthly since 1951 by the CAHH. General Mills products. Each Box Top provides 10 cents toward Material in this publication does not necessarily the school and they can really add up—Hollin Meadows earned reflect the opinions of the CAHH Board or the editor. Editor Barbara Shear 660-6543 over $700 in Box Tops last school year. Clip them, collect them, Editorial Assistance Andrew Keegan 660-1004 and then give them to a Hollin Meadows family near you, drop them off at the school Deadline is the 15th of the preceding month. office, or contact Jane Runnels at [email protected] for pick up. Articles generally should not exceed 500 words. • AMAZON SHOPPING: Do your online shopping on Amazon using this link: Send your submission in the body of an email or as an attachment to [email protected]. http://smile.amazon.com. Then select "Hollin Meadows PTA" as your charity. A per- If you cannot produce computerized copy, centage of your purchase amount will automatically be donated to HMES PTA . please find someone to submit it for you. No material will be accepted over the telephone. —Jane Runnels Distribution problems: WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD • If you have not received your digital Bulletin, or to correct/change mail or email address, contact Linda New at 2200 Glasgow Road, but not new to Hollin Hills or the Washington metro Benson at 312-907-1797 or [email protected]. area, Jin Jang and Min Park rented another house in Hollin Hills for nearly a year • To replace a missing paper Bulletin, contact Ellen Rydell at 703-768-3442. while undertaking extensive renovations to their beautiful new home at the corner of Glasgow Road and Popkins Lane. Jin and Min met in Tokyo. Born in Korea, Min grew up in Canada. He received a HOLLIN HILLS ARCHIVES PhD in biochemistry in Japan, and later, a JD from Georgetown University Law School, after which he worked in a patent law firm in Tokyo, and practiced Kendo The Hollin Hills Archives are part of the Special Collections and Archives of George Mason University. martial arts, a very physical form of one-on-one fighting with bamboo bats, imitating To contact the SC&A staff with research questions, the original art of Kendo sword fighting. Jin was born and raised in the south of use the following: • For general description of HH Archives contents, go to Korea. She graduated from Hongik University in Seoul, with a degree in art history http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/hollinhills.html. and art theory. She worked as a translator, did photography, and wrote magazine arti- • For questions about collections, hours, usage, duplications, or directions go to http://sca.gmu.edu/using_sc&a.html. cles. She enjoys going to art museums and has some beautiful art done by friends • Other contacts: phone 703-993-2220, fax inquiries hanging in her home. 703-993-8911, email [email protected]. Jin and Min left Japan so that Min could pursue a better career path as a patent lawyer, combining his technical knowledge with an American law degree. Min works www.hollin-hills.org for Fish and Richardson, a patent law firm in Washington; Jin stays home to care for their two young sons, Aaron, who is four and attends St. Louis pre-school, and Ian, Calendar of community events and information about our parks, the Design Review Committee, who turned one on August 31. the National Historic Registery, and more. The family’s nine-year-old yellow lab, Hirkari, who came along from Japan, has her own interesting history. Hirkari was supposed to become a seeing-eye companion. Jin and Min volunteered to foster her as a puppy. They were sorry when Hirkari failed her final test, but they were thrilled to be able to keep her! (continued on page 3) October 2017 • The Hollin Hills BULLETIN • Page 3 Quick Takes from page 2 The family loves living in Hollin Hills.