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Opinion, Page 6 6 Page Opinion, WalkWalk BreaksBreaks RecordRecord ❖ 1 ❖ October 8-14, 2014 South Lakes High Hosts Reston Connection Back To School Night online at www.connectionnewspapers.com News, Page 4 Touring the Decades News, Page 3 Photo Reena Singh/The Connection Singh/The Reena Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comOctober 8-14, 2014 Reston’s civic and community organizations will be celebrating anniversaries all year. Check out all the fun in store for the community at www.restoncelebrates.org. For information about how to add your organization’s anniversary-themed event, please email [email protected]. JustJust Arrived:Arrived: PansiesPansies andand Mums!Mums! PansiesPansies $1.29$1.29 HostaHosta Special!Special! FreeFree EstimatesEstimates HostaHosta Special!Special! 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Help the Homeless Walk Breaks Record More than 400 people walk to end homelessness in Reston Town Center. By Reena Singh need is around us.” flowers. Today, she still helps to organize ing. In third was Microsoft. The Connection The walk was $25 to join. Wilson said the the annual event. “It’s a good cause, and there was a lot of money raised will mostly go towards the “It’s my passion to help people who don’t promotion within the company to be a part ornerstones CEO Kerrie Wilson nonprofit’s rapid rehousing program. have shelter,” she said. “People should help of the walk,” said Tim Wong, L3 employee. kept tearing up as she looked “The economic recovery is slow in our everyone and be a part of the community. Many of the registered participants re- Cat the crowd around her in community, and this is to bridge the gap Everyone deserves a home and food.” ceived bright umbrellas with a giant flower Reston Town Center. Just min- and get those people back on their feet,” Supervisor John Foust showed his support printed on it, courtesy of May, to raise utes before the third annual Help the Home- she said. before the event. Additionally, Del. Ken awareness about the walk to other people less walk, more than 400 people showed She noted that in the past three months, Plum and Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy in Reston Town Center. up during their lunch break to raise money 25 families and 15 individuals moved into Hudgins spoke to the crowd before the Kerry Oldfield, Fidelity Investments for Cornerstones by walking from Reston a home thanks to the Cornerstones’ rehous- walkers took to the streets. Branch Manager, said the branch has been Town Center to the nearest shelter on Oct. ing program. “We’re going to beat homelessness,” said supporting Cornerstones since they moved 2. “I want to let each and every one of you Plum. to Reston Town Center. “What an opportunity to recognize the know that you are changing a life today,” Wilson said L3 had the most participants “I’m amazed by the number of people in homelessness right here in our community,” she said to the participants. from their company at the event with more poverty that others don’t realize are so close she said. “When you have a shelter half a Three years ago, the idea of the walk than 250 registered employees. Leidos came to the town center,” he said. “I think it is a mile away, many realize just how much came from May Bernhardt, owner of May- in second place with 65 people participat- bigger problem than people let on.” Reston Home Tour Touring the Decades explores homes of all ages. By Reena Singh tour. This year’s tour is Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. She chose Reston and her home because The Connection to 5 p.m. Tickets are $25 if purchased by her roots connect her with bodies of water. the Oct. 11 and $30 after. “I love the outdoor spaces,” she said. “I his year, Reston Home Tour will The oldest home on the tour, a townhouse love being able to walk outside and get on Ttake visitors back through the designed by Charles Goodman in the 1960s, a trail. Everybody is so friendly. It really decades. Six homes, built from is nearly as old as Reston itself. There will feels like a little community.” Photo by Reena Singh/The Connection Photo the 1960s until the current decade, are be a stop at the Avant, a new high rise in Steve and Emily Ward have lived in participating in the Oct. 18 Reston His- Reston Town Center, where culinary stu- Reston since 1973 and have had a home toric Trust and Museum Home Tour the dents from South Lakes High School will on a previous tour. However, they recently year the town celebrates its 50th anni- serve food featuring all the decades Reston downsized to an apartment at The Avant versary. has gone through for guests to sample. and will be featured again. “It’ll tell you a lot about Reston,” said “It will be a fun day,” said Haukness. “We collected a lot of American folk art organizer Bonnie Haukness. “Many ar- “People get design ideas. People who are over the last few years and have somewhat eas in northern Virginia have the same interested in art or interior design go on of a museum,” said Steve. “Reston is such a kind of housing, but per Bob Simon’s the tour.” diverse place where people can do so many vision, you can start off in an apartment different things.” He said that Haukness here then upgrade as you get older.” ALISON KAL OWNS one of the homes on approached the couple about being on the This will be the 13th year the event the tour spotlighting the 1980s. tour again after seeing their new space. will take place. Haukness said the event “I didn’t expect to put my home on the “We talked about it,” he said. “I think we has changed over the years and now has tour,” she said. She bought the home in have an interesting story. We moved to an a VIP Reception for donors and those on 2011 and expected to have plenty of time apartment less than half the size of our last Chuck Veatch and Bonnie the home tour to meet and mingle be- to renovate it to her taste. home. It was a challenge to get rid of half Haukness present this year’s fore the event. This year’s reception was “I had just finished remodeling it and of everything.” For more information about tour homeowners with sketches at Shashi and Margaret Gupta’s home, wasn’t done settling in,” she said. “I now the Reston Museum and Trust’s events, visit of their homes during this year’s which was featured during a past home have deadlines to do things.” www.restonmuseum.org. VIP Reception. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Reston Connection ❖ October 8-14, 2014 ❖ 3 News Photos by Ryan Dunn/The Connection by Ryan Photos Reston South Lakes High School principal Kimberly Retzer welcomed Hunter Mill District Representative on the School Board Pat Hynes everyone to the back to school night event at the school gymnasium. speaks with representatives of the South Lakes high school newspa- Retzer is a 1989 graduate of South Lakes and began her career in Fairfax per Marshall Gordon and Sami Saab during the October back to County Public Schools at South Lakes High School. school night event. South Lakes High Hosts Back To School Night Parents meet SGA Executive teachers at South Council 2014-2015 Jared Abelson Hanna Shukran Lakes High School Nicole Salvatore Megan Greatorex in Reston. Emma Ferguson By Ryan Dunn Student Advisory The Connection Council 2014-2015 epresentatives of community Alison LeMair groups and clubs set up booths Joseph Letteri in the early evening of Oct. 2 at Jenna Kaufman R Sequoia Carrillo Reston South Lakes High Alternate: Sahana Arkalgud School. The school was hosting a back to school night, and several local organizations 10th, 11th, and/or 12th grade year. The wanted to publicize some of their upcom- Reston resident and South Lakes students in that class each year elect from ing events. Groups which set up booths in- high school junior Jacob Hutzler Reston South Lakes high school among their peers who will be on the Ex- cluded NOVA Labs, the school newspaper represented community-based political science and AP govern- ecutive Council.