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By Amber Healy “One dog The Connection practically Village of Greenspring Courtesy hen Joan MacKenzie moved into Greenspring Village in crawled WSpringfield, she and her dog Sandy were eager to make under a new friends and become involved in their new community. stick, like the MacKenzie ended up going a little further, offering a weekly training session for the limbo, to get residents and their four-legged friends. a treat.” “Greenspring is so much fun,” MacKenzie said of her new home and friends. — Jason Connors After moving to the senior living commu- Joan MacKenzie runs with her dog Sandy. nity in June, MacKenzie started thinking learn how to train her dog using skills that two were discussing MacKenzie getting her learning some basic obedience skills, along about offering her services as a classical have been around since the 1920s or 1930s national certification to become an official with some tricks and some agility exercises, conditioning and obedience trainer, a skill but were only applied to dogs in the past trainer herself. MacKenzie said. The hour-long sessions she obtained shortly after she adopted 20 or so years, Peeler said. Now MacKenzie is using those skills at have been meeting on Thursday mornings Sandy, a Tibetan Spaniel. Sandy is a rescue The kind of training Peeler and MacKenzie Greenspring, much to the delight of the six for a month now, and everyone is progress- dog that came with a few emotional issues, utilize is based more on getting the dog’s residents and dogs with which she is work- ing nicely, she said. MacKenzie said. owner to understand how to best interact ing for her first session of training lessons. “These techniques build confidence for “I enjoyed working with Sandy so much I with their dogs, using humane, positive re- Greenspring already has a dog park where the dogs, and they’re happy if their owner wanted to learn to be a trainer myself,” inforcement techniques. Dogs are eager to owners can let their furry friends run is happy,” she said. MacKenzie said. please their people, Peeler said, and want around off their leashes, and while the dogs MacKenzie also sends out an e-mail after She and Sandy began training with Carole to learn their tricks and how to make their have to stay on leashes at all other times, each session, so her students and their own- Peeler, owner of C&C PALS, a training owners happy. MacKenzie is working with her six students ers can practice their lessons at home. agency based in Falls Church. MacKenzie, MacKenzie “showed intellectual interest” on behaving better on their leashes and This reinforcement is paying off, said Jan who had worked as a lawyer before retir- in becoming a trainer from her first session being good citizens in the community. ing, was a natural, Peeler said, eager to with Peeler, and it wasn’t long before the During her training sessions, dogs are See Training, Page 14 Albo Beats Werkheiser by Larger Margin Than 2005 Race is considered one of most expensive Virginia Candidates can purchase lists of until December, when the last campaign fi- voting histories for the residents in the dis- nance reports covering the 2009 election delegate contests in Virginia history. trict where they are running from the Com- cycle are made public. monwealth. These lists often identify to the But with two weeks left until Election Day, candidates and campaign operatives who Albo had already spent $754,286, about By Julia O’Donoghue Overall, Jeffries estimated that she had is likely to show up at the polls on Election $64.11 for every voter that cast a ballot for The Connection received at least five political phone calls Day. him Nov. 3. With the same number of days per day over the past two weeks, mostly in For people who are flagged as “hardcore to go in the campaign, Werkheiser spent harlietta Jeffries is the type of per- connection with the local delegate race. voters,” this can re- $641,404 — or Cson who always votes, no matter Over the last month, Jeffries also has had sult in a lot of unso- about $71.27 per how small the election, and the five to seven people knock on her licited attention voter. political campaigns know it. townhouse door on behalf of candidates from political staff- “This is the first year I This year’s race “I have received a lot of mail and phone running for office. In one case, she noticed ers, volunteers and haven’t had to fight was Werkheiser’s calls and visitors,” said Jeffries, as she two volunteers who had come to talk spe- the candidates second run at oust- walked out of her polling place at the Lorton cifically to her. When they left one night, themselves. against my statewide ing Albo from the Community Library on Richmond Highway she watched out a side window and noticed As of Oct. 21, the 42nd District. He Nov. 3. they didn’t even bother stopping at anyone 42nd Delegate dis- ticket in my own district.” also ran against the Though people talked about the enthusi- else’s door on her cul de sac. trict had already be- — Del. David Albo (R-42) Republican incum- asm of President Barack Obama’s campaign “I think this year was the worst,” said come the most ex- bent four years ago last year, Jeffries said the 42nd District del- Jeffries, who has lived in Lorton for nine pensive delegate in 2005. egate race between Del. Dave Albo (R) and years. race in the history of Virginia, according to In 2009, the Democratic Party of Virginia Democratic candidate Greg Werkheiser cre- Debbie Hersman, who voted at South information posted on the Virginia Public made the 42nd District race one of their ated more mail, calls and visits than any of County Secondary School, agreed with Access Project, a nonpartisan campaign fi- highest priorities in the commonwealth. the races in 2008. Jeffries about omnipresence of the local del- nance watchdog organization. “The Democrats decided they wanted to Albo, who has represented the 42nd Dis- egate race in her mailbox. Combined, the Albo and Werkheiser cam- take me and (Del.) Tom Rust (R-86) out,” trict since 1994, defeated Werkheiser, re- “Most of the mail was from the delegate paigns spent more than $1.9 million on a said Albo on the day of the election. ceiving 56.6 percent of the vote and 11,765 race. I didn’t receive very much mail from political contest that only attracted 20,765 The Democratic House of Delegates’ cau- votes on Election Day. The challenger gar- the statewide candidates at all,” said voters, according to the Virginia State Board cus contributed at least $235,338 to nered 43.3 percent of the vote and 9,000 Hersman, who tries to vote in every elec- of Elections. The exact amount of money ballots in the contest. tion. spent by each campaign will not be known See Albo, Page 11 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Springfield Connection ❖ November 12-18, 2009 ❖ 3 News Week in Springfield Police Investigate Two Deaths The bodies of a 66-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman A Place for the Families were found Monday, Nov.