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McLeanMcLean Teens Set Example For Rotary News, Page 3 Rotarian Michael DeRose presents one of McLean Classifieds, Page 17p Classifieds, ❖ Rotary Club’s Youth Service awards to Madeira senior Madeline Parks. Sports, Page 22 ❖ Calendar, Page 12 ❖ Giving a Gift of Life People, Page 6 Opinion, Page 8 Requested in home 3-18-10 home in Requested McLean Budget material. sensitive Time Talk Centers Postmaster: Attention PERMIT #322 PERMIT Easton, MD Easton, On Schools PAID U.S. Postage U.S. News, Page 5 STD PRSRT Photo by Mike DiCicco/The Connection Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comMarch 17-23, 2010 ❖ Volume XXIV, Number 11 online at McLeanwww.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ March 17-23, 2010 ❖ 1 Experience You Can Trust FALCON RIDGE NEW LISTING NEW LISTING 10010 High Hill Place, Great Falls $4,499,000 1221 Towlston Grange Road, Great Falls $2,650,000 938 Leigh Mill Road, Great Falls $2,645,000 CT CT UNDER CONTRA UNDER CONTRA NEW PRICE 8651 Old Dominion Road, McLean $2,475,000 9106 Mine Run Drive, Great Falls $2,250,000 1143 Daleview Drive, McLean $1,599,000 SOLD NEW LISTING NEW PRICE 10519 Dunn Meadow Road, Vienna $1,090,000 650 Seneca Road, Great Falls $1,000,000 1256 Spring Hill Road, McLean $895,000 SOLD SOLD NEW LISTING 513 Springvale Road, Great Falls $895,000 6911 Bright Avenue, McLean $798,000 2810 Laura Gae Circle, Vienna $579,000 The Huckaby•Briscoe Group LIZZY CONROY BILL DETTY TANIA HOSMER MARLENE MOONSHINE- A. 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Mike DiCicco Saxon Stage Presents Spring Production Photo by Photo Michael DeRose, left, and McLean Rotary Club President Paul Frank, right, pose with he audience is invited Grace Worm, Paul Goldberg, this year’s Youth service award winners, Madeline Parks, Jan Gundersen, Thomas Dee, Tto step back in time Erik Pike, Wes Brandt, Emily Young Joon Cho and Abigail Dean. and visit the wild, Wild Mannon, Janie Yurechko, Tarun West in Langley High School’s Sharma, Michael Richardson, spring production, “Deadwood Kelly Hubbell, Alex Teens Set Example for Rotary Dick,” or “The Game of Gold,” Lichtenstein, Jordan Moeller, by Tom Taggart, based on the Kate DaRocha, Tess Higgins, dime novels of Edward L. Nicole Kang, David Parker, lected donations of money, soccer balls, jerseys and Wheeler. Becca Allen, Gretchen Burke, Rotary Club honors other items, she said. Upon his arrival, he visited with Under the direction of Phyliss Caroline Callahan, Jenna Dean, McLean, Great Falls local students and got the camp started. “These were Jaffe, Deadwood Dick is a Lauren Fernandez, Taylor kids that were vulnerable kids, orphaned kids, and rootin’, tootin’, western melo- Goodson, Sarah Mendelsohn, students for embodying he worked with them,” Murphy said. drama, about a Robin Hood of Charline Parisot, Danielle She quoted Gundersen as having written that soc- the Black Hills, with heroes, vil- D’Arcee, Ashley Irvin, Ashley, ‘service above self.’ cer had allowed him to forget his worries and rein- lains, ladies in distress, saloon Johnson, Shannon Keene, Mor- vigorate himself ever since he was young. He had girls, cow hands and miners. gan Ladd, Nick Calandra, Jus- brought that passion, she said, along with his “kind, The story takes place in the Old tin Cecil, Bryan Fernandez, By Mike DiCicco caring manner” to children who needed it. “I know West of the 1880s and follows Takuma Koide, Kevin Nejad, The Connection that in the future, he’s going to be able to make a the adventures of the conniving Brian Patterson, Chris Paul, difference out there.” villain, Back‘n Red, and stalwart Ryan Poyner, Arthur cLean Rotarian Michael DeRose said Gundersen said the principal of the school in heroes, Ned Harris and Wild Bill Richardson, Jack Sullivan, Chris he wanted to begin the club’s Youth Eldoret had selected hardworking students to par- Hickock. Calamity Jane’s Man- Tabassi and Tu-An Troung. MService Awards ceremony by recog ticipate in his camp, creating an incentive for aca- trap Saloon is filled with good Performances are Thursday nizing Langley High School senior demic achievement. He said he had also enlisted the old-fashioned western accoutre- through Saturday, March 18-20, Jan Gundersen because the single achievement the aid of a child psychologist to teach the children about ments — saloon girls, grizzled at 7:30 p.m. at Langley High student was credited with in the event’s program “in preventing sexually transmitted diseases, an impor- cowboys and outlaws. Comedy, School, 6520 Georgetown Pike no way does justice to what he accomplished.” tant topic in an area with a high rate of HIV and drama and mayhem ensue, with in McLean. Gundersen was one of five high school seniors — AIDS infection. lively piano honky-tonk accom- Tickets can be purchased, in two from Langley High School, Langley career center specialist paniment, bar room brawls and advance, at saxonstage.com. two from McLean High School and Betty Schneider said Thomas Dee the obligatory surprise ending. Tickets also available at the one from the Madeira School — “He doesn’t do it for had been selected to receive the The Saxon Stage actors are: door for $10. whom the McLean Rotary Club Youth Service award not because honored at its annual ceremony any kind of he had volunteered with Habitat Tuesday afternoon, March 9. Each for Humanity in Honduras or be- winner not only received a certifi- recognition. It’s just cause he personally raised more cate but also got a $400 check, part of who he is.” than $2,000 in last year’s Relay for said DeRose, the club’s vocational Life or because he had claimed director. — Jill Divine, McLean High that the experiences had changed “It’s time to feel terribly inad- School counselor his life. “What impressed me so equate about everything you’ve much is that he truly did change done in your life after you hear all that these kids his life,” Schneider said, noting that Dee was subse- who are 17-years old have already done,” he said, to quently working to found the first-ever high school club members as they finished their lunches that af- chapter of Students Helping Honduras and had set a ternoon. fund-raising goal of $5,000 for this year’s Relay for Gundersen was being recognized for his work on Life. He also works at Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore a soccer camp for 75 children in the impoverished in Alexandria. village of Eldoret, Kenya. What made his accomplish- “He’s following a passion through his actions and ment so impressive, said his guidance counselor, his deeds,” she said, noting that, as a high-perform- Susan Murphy, was that Gundersen conceived, de- ing student and an athlete, Dee was not exactly vol Black n’ Red Calamity Jane and Ned Harris include veloped and executed the project all on his own. Wes Brandt, Grace Worm and Paul Goldberg. 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Legislation that McDonnell vetoes would then require two- thirds of the votes in both branches of the General Assembly in a one-day session held April 21 in order to become law. /The Connection More information about each bill can be found on the General Assembly’s Web site at http://leg1.state.va.us. Concealed Guns Allowed In Bars Mike DiCicco The Virginia General Assembly has voted in favor of allowing people to carry a concealed gun into a bar or restaurant as long they have an appropriate permit and do not consume alcohol. Current Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has indicated he will sign the Photos by Photos bill into law. From left, county revenue coordinator Marcia Wilds, budget analyst Katie Horstman, Sen. Chap Petersen (D-35) and Del. Mark Keam (D-34), who Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Sharon Bulova (D-At-large), School Board member represent Vienna and Oakton, as well as Del.