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PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID ❖ Martinsburg, WV Oak Hill Herndon PERMIT #86 Attention Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Requested in home 01-15-09 Alum Returns Singing News, Page 2 Sports, Page 10 ❖ Nate Tao of Herndon High School’s Class of ’07 returns to the school Faith, Page 7 to perform as a member ❖ of Ithacappella, Ithaca College’s male a cappella group. Classifieds, Page 13 Classifieds, ❖ Calendar, Page 11 ❖ Opinion, Page 6 Clearview Word Master News, Page 3 More Ways to Have Fun Entertainment, Page 8 Photo by Mike DiCicco/The Connection Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comJanuary 14-20, 2009 ❖ Volume XXIII, Number 2 Read us online at connectionnewspapers.comHerndon Connection ❖ January 14-20, 2009 ❖ 1 Obituary THIS IS “PERCY” A Rex rabbit, neutered male. Percy is the softest rabbit you will Dillard Thomas, 90, Dies ever feel. He likes to illard Thomas, father of neering. He married Aline explore and hop Reston resident Kittie Rosenthal in 1941, and in 1948, around. With some D Thomas, died at the age their only child, Kittie, was born. love and patience of 90 this past October in his Dillard is survived by his wife of he will make a hometown of Houston, TX. Dillard 67 years, Aline Thomas; his wonderful pet. was born in Cleburne, Texas along daughter, Kittie Rothschild of with seven brothers and sisters. Herndon; his granddaughter, Jodi HUMANE SOCIETY When Dillard was 7, his mother Rothschild of Reston; his grand- OF FAIRFAX COUNTY died, and a year later, he lost his son, David Rothschild of Falls Hours: Monday-Friday 10-4 and Saturday 10-3. father. Dillard and his siblings Church; his great granddaughter, 4057 Chain Bridge Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030 • 703-385-7387 were placed in the Masonic Home Deja Rothschild-Payne of Reston; orphanage outside of Ft. Worth, his sister (the oldest of all the Tho- Texas, where they were raised and mas children and who just cel- schooled until they graduated high ebrated her 101st birthday), school. Dillard went on to gradu- Celeste Etter of Cleburne, Texas; ate from Rice University as the nieces Patsy Kelly and Linda valedictorian of his class, receiv- Pearson of Austin, Texas; and ing a degree in mechanical engi- nephew Mike Thomas of Austin. Dillard Thomas People Notes Send information to David T. Lewis, son of Samuel R. the summer of 2008. Day graduated from [email protected] or Lewis of Oak Hill, graduated from the Oakton High School in 2003 and the Uni- call 703-917-6437. Deadline is Thursday. Army ROTC Leader Development versity of Tennessee in May. Photos/artwork welcome. and Assessment Course, also known as “Operation Warrior Forge,” at Fort Annah J. Gbee, student at George Officer Damien Austin and K9 Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. The primary focus Mason University, has graduated from Smokey of the Town of Herndon Police of the course is to develop and evaluate the Army ROTC Leader’s Training Department will graduate from K9 School each cadet’s officer potential as a leader Course at Fort Knox, Ky. The four-week Friday, Jan. 16, 10 a.m. at the Fairfax by exercising the cadet’s intelligence, com- course is a leadership internship for cadets County Police Canine Training Facility, mon sense, ingenuity and physical that can lead to the ultimate goal of be- 3721 Stonecroft Blvd., Chantilly. The 14- stamina. coming an Army officer. College students week basic training course includes experience and examine the Army with- sessions on patrol Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) announced the out incurring an obligation to serve in the techniques and narcotics detection and addition of Patrick Day of Herndon to Army or ROTC, and are eligible to receive the teams are trained in tracking and lo- his Senate staff in Washington, D.C. two-year college scholarship offers and cating criminal suspects, as well as Patrick will serve as a staff assistant in the attend the Advanced ROTC Course at endangered missing persons. Senator’s office where he was an intern in their college. 2009 9:00 am - F.U.N (ages 7-11) 10:00 am - S.N.A.P (age 12-15) Jan 17 - Feb 21, 2009 April 25 - June 6 July 25 - August 29 October 17- November 21 FEE: $60 for 6-week program TO REGISTER: Call 703-391-3783 2 ❖ Herndon Connection ❖ January 14-20, 2009 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Herndon Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-917-6428 or [email protected] Clearview Word Master Rust Goes Fourth-grader gets rare perfect score in To national language arts Richmond competition. el. Tom Rust (R-86) heads to ric Malani of Clearview Elemen DRichmond this week for the tary was one of just 75 fourth- 2009 General Assembly ses- Egraders in the country to achieve sion. The following are two of the bills a perfect score in the Gold Divi- he plans to introduce as the represen- sion the latest WordMasters Challenge. tative from the Herndon and Sterling About 44,000 fourth-graders entered the area. language arts competition, with 7,350 com- ❖ Rust has introduced a bill that peting in the Gold Division, said would allow businesses to expand WordMasters National Director Nancy group life-insurance benefits to the McGrath, meaning that only about one in partners, same sex or otherwise, of 1,000 Gold Division competitors received a employees. The Virginia General As- perfect score. sembly passed a similar law with re- In the weeks before the test, McGrath gards to health insurance three years said, entrants receive a list of 25 difficult ago and Rust vocabulary words to study. The test then said he expects consists of 20 analogies, each using one or the business more of the words and requiring students community to to understand not only their definitions but back the pro- also their nuances in different contexts and posal. Photo by Photo different forms of the words. Rust’s engi- Eric said he studied for the challenge for neering firm is at least a half-hour a day for about a week located in mul- leading up to the test. “I studied, like, the Mike DiCicco tiple states, in- synonyms, the antonyms. I studied the defi- cluding Virginia, nitions, and my teacher was a really good and the delegate coach. She gave us a packet to study,” he said. said it is unfair “I tried as hard as I could. I thought I got to his own em- Del. Tom Rust them all right, and I did.” /The Connection ployees that he Two more meets will be held this school can offer some benefits to his people year. in other states, but not in Virginia. Other Clearview students who achieved “It puts [Virginia] businesses at a high scores in the challenge were fourth- disadvantage in terms of recruiting graders Jacob Ajit, Marcus Bengzon, Sofia and hiring,” he said. Caballero and Tiernan O’Rourke, as well as ❖ The delegate has also proposed a sixth-graders Antonio Rodriguez and Clearview Elementary fourth-grader Eric Malani studied at least a half- bill that would allow local authorities Charlie Shen. hour a day to achieve a perfect score in the national WordMasters Chal- to impound the vehicle of someone — Mike DiCicco lenge. caught driving without a driver’s li- cense for a second time. The new law would not apply to people who are under 18 years old or Drunk Driver Kills Drunk Driver who are driving on an old license that has expired within the last year. In- defendant’s selfish actions to drive when he rant to authorize the blood test, Brightly stead, the bill is primarily aimed at Jury recommends was dangerously intoxicated,” Assistant told officers, “Do what you have to do. I people who have never acquired a three-year sentence in Commonwealth’s Attorney Faraji A. am [screwed] anyways.” driver’s license — possibly because Rosenthall told the jury during opening ar- Hours after the fatal accident, Brightly’s they are an illegal immigrant and are death of Reston man. guments of the three-day trial last month. blood alcohol content was tested to be .16, not eligible for one — or people who About 20 minutes past midnight on March twice the legal limit to drive, said have had their driver’s license re- By Ken Moore 15, 2007, Anton Stefan Sjostrom, 27 of Rosenthall. voked, which frequently happens to The Connection Reston, was standing outside his 2004 Brightly’s defense attorneys, public de- people convicted of drunk driving. Toyota Camry on the right through lane of fenders Vernida Chaney and Robert Frank, At local road checkpoints, Fairfax Fairfax Circuit Court jury convicted westbound Route 7 near the intersection of argued that the two cars in the earlier crash County police are far more likely to Aa drunk driver for killing another Georgetown Pike in Great Falls. were in the travel lane and Brightly had catch someone driving without a li- drunk driver who caused a differ- Sjostrom had rear-ended another vehicle little opportunity to avoid the collision. cense than a person driving under the ent accident on Route 7 moments before. and was inspecting the damage and wait- Sjostrom’s blood alcohol content was .28, influence. From October 2007 through Gordon E. Brightly Jr., 50 of Leesburg, is ing for police to arrive when Brightly, driv- more than three times the legal limit for September 2008, Fairfax officers scheduled to be sentenced in late March in ing a white Dodge pickup truck in the right driving, said Chaney. wrote approximately 5,500 tickets to Fairfax County Circuit Court. The jury, lane, hit Sjostrom and Sjostrom’s vehicle.