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Springfield insideinside Franconia ❖ Kingstowne ❖ Newington Behind quarterback Bryn Renner, West Springfield runs — and passes — its way to a 50-27 victory over Robinson. 9-11 Families Visit Memorial News, Page 3 Cleanup Classified, Page 23 Classified, ❖ Pricetag $500,000 News, Page 4 Camps & Schools, Page 17 Camps & Schools, ❖ Faith, Page 19 ❖ Sports, Page 20 Requested in home 9-19-08 /The Connection Time sensitive material. Attention Postmaster: U.S. Postage PRSRT STD PERMIT #322 Easton, MD PAID Robbie Hammer BigBig 55 -- 00 Sports,Sports, PagePage 33 Photo by Photo www.connectionnewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.comSeptember 18-24, 2008 Volume XXII, Number 38 Springfield Connection ❖ September 18-24, 2008 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Springfield Connection ❖ September 18-24, 2008 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Springfield Connection Editor Michael O’Connell News 703-917-6440 or [email protected] Photos by Photos Robbie Hammer /The Connection “Sitting on the bench made me feel like I was Thousands of guests and dignitaries attend the dedication ceremony for the Sept. 11 sitting on her lap Memorial at the Pentagon in Arlington. The Pentagon memorial is the first official Sept. 11 memorial to be dedicated in the country. again.” — Marie Mickley, 12, Springfield In Her Mother’s Lap Joseph Mickley and his daughter, Marie, of Springfield, attend the Pentagon Memorial dedication ceremony on Memorial at site of plane crash honors lives of those Sept. 11 in Arlington. Mickleys’ first wife, Patricia Mickley, was killed in the attack on the Pentagon. killed at Pentagon in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. By David Schultz old enough to gather a few vivid memories Memorial last week was a way to reflect on tation-only event honoring the victims of The Connection of her mother. She loved Disney movies like the way his life once was. For Marie Mickley, the 2001 attacks. President George W. Bush, “The Lion King,” Marie recalled, and her visiting the memorial was a chance to re- along with Secretary of Defense Robert or Springfield resident Marie favorite foods were strawberries and connect with a past that she can barely re- Gates and former Secretary of Defense Mickley, coming to the Pentagon ketchup. member. Donald Rumsfeld, spoke at the event about F Memorial on Thursday, Sept 11 But now Marie’s life is very different. Her “Sitting on the bench made me feel like I the need to remember the events of that was a chance to reconnect with father, Joseph, remarried several years ago was sitting on her lap again,” she said. “It day seven years ago. her mother, Patricia. and this year she began attending Lake was like she was really there.” The Pentagon Memorial not only honors Patricia Mickley worked in the Pentagon Braddock Secondary School along with her those whose lives were lost on Sept. 11, as a civilian and was killed on Sept. 11 when two stepsiblings. THE PENTAGON MEMORIAL, created Bush said, but also serves as a reminder of Marie was 5. “Our lives have become enriched,” said in remembrance of those who lost their lives the first responders to the incident as well “I know when she went off to work it was Joseph Mickley, Marie’s father. “I feel in the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, was as the many Pentagon employees who saved just a normal day,” said Marie, now 12. “I blessed with a wonderful family and a new dedicated last week on the seventh anni- their colleagues’ lives. thought everything was going O.K. It just wife and two wonderful stepchildren. I’m versary of the attack. “As we walk along these benches, we re seemed normal until the crash.” happy.” The dedication ceremony drew over When the attack occurred, Marie was just For Joseph Mickley, visiting the Pentagon 10,000 people to the Pentagon for an invi- See Dedication, Page 19 2011 Deadline Leading Army’s Decision? Supervisor concerned that BRAC deadline the Engineering Proving Grounds (EPG), a mile and a half northwest of the base, had “From the Army’s primary factor in Army’s decision process. room for the 6,400 BRAC-related jobs with the Washington Headquarters Service on perspective, the timeline site, but concerns over traffic compelled is a matter of law.” By Derek B. Johnson one goal in mind: get these people in by them to seek alternative sites. The Connection Sept 2011,” said McKay. “All other factors “The issue that everybody saw, Army plan- — Don Carr, Public Affairs Officer for like cost-efficiency, moral, traffic, local gov- ners, [the Virginia Department of Transpor- Fort Belvoir upervisor Jeff McKay (D-Lee) thinks ernment, all those things are secondary to tation], right away everybody realized the Sthe General Services Administration the number one issue which is timeliness.” traffic network serving the EPG was not narrowed down to three sites: the GSA (GSA) Warehouse site on 6808 The Defense Base Closure and Realign- going to support 18,000 people,” said Carr, Warehouse, the Victory Center at 5001 Loisdale Road is the best possible site for ment Commission (BRAC) is a Congression- adding that the Army later agreed to cap Eisenhower Ave. and the Mark Center on BRAC Nomination 133. He just doesn’t ally mandated consolidation and relocation the number of employees station at the EPG Seminary Road, both located in nearby Al- think it will be selected. of approximately 19,000 Army personnel to 8,500. The National Security Agency is exandria. While the GSA Warehouse is the “In my meetings with the Army, it seems to the Springfield-Alexandria area. Estab- already building offices at the EPG. only site that is currently owned by the gov- to me like the Victory Center site [in Alex- lished in 2005, most of the jobs will be ab- The issue of timeliness is key. The nomi- ernment, the warehouses themselves must andria] is the front runner. The reason I say sorbed into Fort Belvoir. According to Don nation, which would bring upwards of See Decision, Page 7 that is from the army’s standpoint there’s Carr, public affairs officer for Fort Belvoir, 6,000 military jobs to the area, has been www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Springfield Connection ❖ September 18-24, 2008 ❖ 3 Week in Springfield News A Billboard Is a Billboard Honk if you are a “rolling billboard.” Even if you are not rolling at the time. Lee District Supervisor Jeffrey McKay wants to know who you are and where you are. During Monday’s Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting, McKay introduced a Board Matter calling for staff to review the county code on measures that can be adopted to regulate advertising signs painted on the side of trucks that “appear to be serving as both rolling and stationary by Photo billboards” throughout the county. “Our zoning ordinance is quite comprehensive in speci- fying the type, size, and permit requirements for signs that Derek B. Johnson Derek can be installed in Fairfax County. However, I have heard from a number of constituents who are concerned with trucks that appear to be functioning as both rolling and stationary billboards,” McKay stated. “These trucks are not carrying cargo or performing busi- ness activities — they are simply functioning as signs — and rather large ones at that. They seem particularly preva- /The Connection lent in our revitalization areas — where we can least toler- ate this type of loophole violation of the ordinance,” he said. “It seems that our ordinance falls short of regulating this new form of visual blight,” McKay told his fellow supervi- sors. Therefore, he wants staff to “review the county code and report back to the Board on measures that can be The marina of Lake Accotink Park was deluged with driftwood, trees and other debris adopted to regulate such billboards.” in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna. Woman Abducted at Mall A 61-year-old Alexandria woman died this week after Accotink in Disrepair being abducted at the Springfield Mall by two teenagers Saturday afternoon. The body of Barbara “Bobbi” Bosworth, works crews to perform mid-storm repairs and ad- who lived in the 3800 block of White Post Court in Alexan- Springfield park suffers justments. Shenefiel said that was not the case at Lake dria, was later found in her four-door Saturn, which had Accotink. crashed near an intersection Woodbridge. an estimated $500,000 “I don’t think we really have a lot of erosion dam- “We don’t really know what happened at the mall,” said age per say. There’s lots of washout in places, but First Sgt. Kim Chinn, a spokeswoman for the Prince Will- in damages. that’s not really erosion,” she said. iam County Police Department. “At this point, we are still To address the most immediate, fixable problems, putting together a timeline.” By Derek B. Johnson like cleaning the parking lot and getting the picnic Chinn said that the woman and the two teenagers were The Connection areas back up and running, Lake Accotink Park staff seen at a PDQ Mart in Woodbridge that afternoon, where sent e-mails out to civic organizations and news out- a man became suspicious when he noticed how closely they ake Accotink was hit hard by flood rains lets about a volunteer cleanup on Sept 13 and 14. were following her through the store. The man hugged Saturday, Sept. 6 as a result of Tropical her, pretending to know her in an effort to find out if she Storm Hanna, dumping as much as 7 DEN LEADER Larry Bailey and Cub Master Karl was in danger. She whispered in his ear that she needed L inches of rain in certain areas throughout Gerdes of the Falls Church-based Cub Scout Pack 1229 help, so the man called police with a description of the car the park.