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Herndon Making Their Pitch Sports, Page 12 Oak Hill ❖ Herndon Making Their Pitch Sports, Page 12 Classifieds, Page 13 Classifieds, ❖ The Herndon High baseball squad has emerged into one of the Northern Region’s better teams this spring. While the Hornets struggled last week Sports, Page 12 ❖ in their bid to take over sole possession of first place in the Concorde District - as a result of losses to Centreville and Westfield - they were still 10-5 going into this week and determined to make their mark during the upcoming postseason. Look for Alex Clark (pictured) and teammates to give it their best shot. Calendar, Page 8 ❖ ICE Aside, Opinion, Page 6 New Council Shares Most Priorities News, Page 3 /The Connection Herndon Couple Herndon Couple 5-13-10 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Honored for Postmaster: Attention PERMIT #86 PERMIT Foster Parenting WV Martinsburg, News, Page 3 PAID News, Page 3 Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Craig Sterbutzel Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comMay 12-18 2010 ❖ Volume XXIV, Number 19 online at www.connectionnewspapers.comHerndon Connection ❖ May 12-18, 2010 ❖ 1 Week in Herndon to Leonsis at the Greater Washing- growing widget syndication and http://www.nvtc.org/events/ Virginia’s Eighth Congressional NVTC To Honor ton Technology CFO Awards June social media company based in geteventinfo.php?event=CFOAWD7. District on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Ted Leonsis 9 at The Ritz-Carlton in McLean. Tysons Corner. “As an entrepreneur and small During Leonsis’ 14-year career Leonsis is chairman and major- business owner, I believe that any- The Northern Virginia Technol- with AOL, including as vice chair- ity owner of the Washington Capi- Libertarians one who is willing to work hard ogy Council (NVTC) announced man and also as president of sev- tals and Washington Mystics, Nominate can shape their own future,” said Ted Leonsis is the recipient of the eral AOL business units, the com- through Lincoln Holdings LLC, Mosley. “Unfortunately, millions of 2010 Michael G. Devine Hall of pany enjoyed its greatest periods which he founded. In a deal an- Mosley for hard-working Americans are Fame Award. Now in its 14th year, of growth and financial success. nounced in April, Leonsis and Lin- struggling or unemployed today the Hall of Fame award is pre- He now serves as AOL’s vice chair- coln Holdings will soon take over Congress due to government policies that sented to a leader who has made man emeritus. Leonsis is also full ownership of the Washington favor special interests and wealthy a significant contribution to the Matthew Mosley of Oak Hill has chairman of Revolution Money, a Wizards and Verizon Center. received the nomination of the Lib- corporate executives over the av- Greater Washington region’s tech- Web 2.0 payment platform and To learn more or to register for erage working family. I am run nology business community. The ertarian Party of Virginia to be its credit-card service, and the Greater Washington Technol- candidate in the election for the award will be officially presented See Week in Herndon, Page 5 Clearspring Technologies, a fast- ogy CFO Awards Banquet, visit U.S. House of Representatives in 2 ❖ Herndon Connection ❖ May 12-18, 2010 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Herndon Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] ICE Aside, New Council Shares Most Priorities Herndon’s first female-dominated council wants eco- nomic development, planning for Metro and downtown. By Mike DiCicco The Connection ewly elected Herndon Town Council member N Contributed Jasbinder Singh offered this assessment of last week’s election results: “People want to move forward, I think, other than be stuck in the immi- gration issues only.” Norma Gordon and Daniel Fleig of Herndon have “It’s almost like [immigration] Mayor Steve Connie Lisa Merkel been honored as Foster Parents of the Year. has been the only focus our town DeBenedittis Hutchinson has had for the past four years,” agreed Sheila Olem, another of the newly elected council mem- Herndon Couple Honored bers. “I think voters did send a message that they want to get back to town business.” Norma Gordon and Daniel Fleig However, the incumbents, who named Foster Parents of the Year. had worked to put in place an agreement between the town’s police force and Immigration and he Freddie Mac Foun Foster Parents of the Year. Customs Enforcement (ICE), dis- Tdation and the Metro At the ceremony, the Freddie agreed. “I don’t think we focused politan Washington Mac Foundation and COG hon- on immigration,” Mayor Steve Council of Governments (COG) ored foster parents of the year DeBenedittis said, noting that the have launched an advertising from nine jurisdictions in met- council spent a relatively small Sheila Olem Jasbinder Singh Bill Tirrell campaign to attract new foster ropolitan Washington, D.C. amount of time on the subject families. The ads feature the Gordon has been a foster par- while dealing with numerous region’s Foster Parents of the ent for 10 years. When she and other issues. “I think some of the Year as spokespersons, such as Fleig, residents of Herndon, folks in town that complained Final Vote Counts Fairfax County Foster Parents of married in 2005, he too, be- about it seemed to focus on it MAYOR the Year, Norma Gordon and came a foster parent. Gordon more than we did.” Steve DeBenedittis: 1,520 Daniel Fleig. demonstrated her extraordi- “I’m not going to presume any Gary Gepford (write-in): 560 The new effort is designed to nary gifts when she fostered kind of mandate. I’m not going find foster families for many of and then adopted her son. Be- to presume any kind of voter TOWN COUNCIL the area’s teens and children cause she had been so support- shift,” said incumbent Bill Tirrell. Lisa Merkel: 1,323 who need care. Social workers ive of the birth mother, the birth He said the program, commonly Connie Hutchinson: 1,245 report that because of the eco- mother voluntarily terminated known as 287(g) for the section Sheila Olem: 1,228 nomic downturn, some families her parental rights. Gordon Jasbinder Singh: 1,167 of the Immigration and Nation- Grace Wolf: 1,146 are too overwhelmed by stress, keeps the birth mother’s picture ality Act that authorizes it, was Bill Tirrell: 1,140 illness and a lack of income to in her home and continues to a way to keep the town’s neigh- Grace Wolf David Kirby: 1,134 adequately care for their chil- check on her well-being. borhoods safe. “That, to me, is Charlie Waddell: 1,126 dren. As a result, the Freddie Gordon and Fleig serve as Cesar del Aguila: 1,092 what you look to your leadership for.” Daniel Alvarado: 1,052 Mac Foundation is sponsoring ambassadors and new foster Carl Sivertsen: 784 a series of 30-second radio and parent trainers. They often tell WITH TWO council members stepping down and Phillip Jones: 698 television ads that will be recruits to remember that most two more getting voted out last Tuesday, the six-per- broadcast over the next two people have busy lives. They son Town Council that will be sworn in at the end of VOTER TURNOUT: 23 PERCENT weeks. stress that “if we can do it, any- June is dominated by newcomers, and the sharpest “Throughout our region, one can. Sometimes you just difference between the newly elected members and more than 4,500 children are in have to step out and share your the incumbents is that all of the newcomers have newcomer Lisa Merkel, the only council candidate need of foster care, but we have gifts.” They also explain that it expressed some openness to reexamining the 287(g) to garner more votes than Hutchinson, said she fewer than half that number of helps a family’s children to see program, which was a driving force in the town’s had supported the agreement with ICE when the foster parents who have opened their parents lead by example. last two elections. town entered into it and did not necessarily think their hearts and homes to care They have been able to explain At the same time, though, Mayor Steve it should be done away with. She said she wanted for them,” said Margaret to their children that “all people DeBenedittis easily survived a last-minute write- to learn how much the program was costing the Meiers, vice president of the struggle, there is not much that in campaign against him, and longtime council town in terms of staff time and what benefits it Freddie Mac Foundation at an separates us one from the member Connie Hutchinson earned the second- April 29 ceremony honoring the other.” most votes of any candidate for the council. And See Immigration, Page 10 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Herndon Connection ❖ May 12-18, 2010 ❖ 3 The County Line Changes Coming for Schools with Poor Students Many call process for changing students and other minorities. Schools Affected According to a written pro- programs for needy students flawed. posal, extra funding could be Many needy schools currently receive extra funding and support through provided for literacy coaches the Project Excel, Focus and year-round calendar programs. The school board is likely to eliminate all three programs and replace them, in part, with a and instructional coaches and By Julia O’Donoghue system’s new initiative for at- “priority schools” initiative. to enroll all eligible 4-year The Connection risk students were fuzzy be- Those campuses that would receive extra funding as a “priority school” olds in the Head Start pro- cause the schools were not are not the same as those who received funding under Excel, Focus and year- gram.
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