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Litter Trap Installed on Little Hunting Creek HomeLifeStyle Page 9 Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Newspaper May 14, 2020 First Physical Gathering Since COVID tors Steve and Zury Bradcovich Washington atop a makeshift stage on a rented flatbed truck. Community The evangelical church held two services on Sunday morning at a Church holds Pear Tree Village office complex Photos by Fairfax County by Fairfax Photos parking lot off Route 1 in Mount two services on Vernon for its first physical gath- ering of members since moving to Mother’s Day. online services due to COVID-19 restrictions. The two services ac- he Washington Community commodated parking and current Church in Mount Vernon social distancing requirements. Theld back to back Mother’s Worshipers listened to the praise Day drive in worship services on music and sermon on a radio fre- Sunday. Live music, gift bags for quency while maintaining six feet Employees from the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental mothers, and a sermon from Pas- of social distance. Services, BrightView, EQR, and StormWater Systems meet to discuss maintenance of the newly installed Bandalong floating litter trap, which will capture floating litter in Little Hunting Creek. Social distancing guidelines were observed. Litter Trap Installed On Little Hunting Creek Pilot program conducted on an Washington Community Church music group leads drive in area creek suffering worship service from makeshift stage atop a flatbed truck. from trash infestation. By Mike Salmon The Connection Steve and Yury ou name it, David Gahart has seen it float Bradcovich, by in Little Hunting Creek in Mount Ver- pastors for non. The creek runs along Gahart’s back- Little Hunting Creek runs right along Washington yard, and throughout the 35 years he’s Y David Gahart’s backyard. Community lived along the creek, the trash floating through Church has amazed him. “Lots of soccer balls,” he said. Creek has a reputation for being trashiest. It flows Along with the soccer balls are water bottles, oil around Richmond Highway and is joined by side drums, shopping carts, and just trash. “You name streams from Huntley Meadows Park. In 2016, a it, I’ve pulled it out,” Gahart said. watershed cleanup event led by the Friends of Lit- 5/15/20 He’s done with wading through the mud though, tle Hunting Creek collected 423 bags of trash, 29 home in Requested and glad to hear about Fairfax County’s latest ex- material tires, and 10 shopping carts. Although the litter Time-sensitive periment with the trash in Little Hunting Creek trap won’t do much good for shopping carts and Postmaster: called the Bandalong Litter Trap.This is a floating discarded tires, surface trash such as water bot- Attention device that collects floating trash and keeps it in tles and other floating debris should go right in #482 Permit screened traps and out of the water. VA Alexandria, the trap. Gahart is a member of the Friends of Lit- PAID According to Fairfax County, Little Hunting Postage U.S. See Helping, Page 5 STD PRSRT McEnearney Associates has always had one motto in mind... not to be the biggest, but the best. This year marks our 40th year in Alexandria, and we are celebrating our investment in helping to build our town into the thriving community it is today. 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Pitt Street | Alexandria, VA 22314 | McEnearney.com 2 v Mount Vernon Gazette v May 14-20, 2020 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com News This Week in Coronavirus in Fairfax County 1500 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases Locally 1399 35000 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases Locally 33,373 30000 1200 25,070 1224 25000 900 20000 MARYLAND Arlington 15000 600 10000 300 Alexandria 5000 VIRGINIA 0 0 3/30 4/6 4/13 4/20 4/27 5/4 5/11 3/30 4/6 4/13 4/20 4/27 5/4 5/11 8000 Graphics by Laurence Foong / Compiled by Ken Moore Foong / Compiled Graphics by Laurence Sources: 6909 Virginia Department of Health http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/ 7000 Maryland: Maryland Department of Health https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/ Alexandria Source: City of Alexandria 6000 Virginia surpasses 25,000 cases and 6200 5000 Phase I being discussed while numbers 4000 Montgomery of cases and deaths continue to rise. County By Ken Moore places and maximum telework must contin- 3000 The Connection ue.” 2000 Tuesday, May 12 Monday, May 11, 2020 Northern Virginia Is Different Fairfax County Cases: 6,200 1000 Fairfax County Fairfax County Chairman Jeff McKay, Ar- Virginia Cases: 25,070 lington County Board chair Libby Garvey United States Cases: 1,300,696 and Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson made Fairfax County Deaths: 243 0 a difference: Northern Virginia numbers are Virginia Deaths: 850 3/30 4/6 4/13 4/20 4/27 5/4 5/11 different during this pandemic. United States Deaths: 78,771 Gov. Ralph Northam issued Executive Or- 15, this does not appear to be the case for be determined based on currently available der Sixty-Two on Tuesday, May 12, allowing Fairfax County Fire and Rescue De- Northern Virginia. The 2.5 million residents data. specific localities in Northern Virginia to de- partment (FCFRD) posts data regarding of the City of Alexandria and the counties lay entering Phase One of the “Forward Vir- COVID-19 impacts to personnel every week. of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince Saturday, May 9, 2020 ginia” plan to ease restrictions. This week, 16 FCFRD personnel have tested William represent nearly a third of the pop- Fairfax County Cases: 5,610 “While the data show Virginia as a whole positive for COVID-19, 10 have tested pos- ulation of Virginia and half of the Common- Virginia Cases: 23,196 is ready to slowly and deliberately ease some itive and recovered, and six are currently wealth’s COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations Fairfax County Deaths: 230 restrictions, it is too soon for Northern Vir- COVID-19 positive. All personnel are close- and deaths. Virginia Deaths: 827 ginia. I support the request from localities in ly monitored by a nurse at Fairfax County’s “We eagerly wish to rebuild our econo- this region to delay implementation of Phase Occupational Health Center. Currently, 18 my and help our residents recover,” wrote Friday, May 8, 2020 One to protect public health,” said Northam. members are currently in quarantine, in ad- Chairman Jeff McKay of Fairfax County, Fairfax County Cases: 5,338 Virginia as a whole may enter Phase One dition to the personnel who tested positive along with others.
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