Honoring Maestro Bianchi
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Viennaand Oakton Honoring James Madison High School senior Stephanie Chung will perform in Generations of Maestro Music gala at Westwood Country Club on Sunday, April 3, in honor of Bianchi Maestro Carl J. Bianchi. News, Page 8 Classifieds, Page 17 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, Page 16 ❖ Tysons Metrorail: How to Get There? News, Page 5 Entertainment, Page 810 ❖ Volunteers Opinion 6 Package 50,000 Meals For the Hungry News, Page 3 PERMIT #86 PERMIT Martinsburg, WV Martinsburg, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo Contributed Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comMarch 30-April 5, 2011 onlineVienna/Oakton at www.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ March 30 - April 5, 2011 ❖ 1 LiveLive Local,Local, ThinkThink Local,Local, BuyBuy LocalLocal Buy any size gelato or coffee, get a small FREE • Private Rooms Fresh. Natural. Authentic. • Parties Welcome RESTAURANT • Karaoke 175 Maple Ave. East SPORTS PUB Fri. & Sat. Nights Vienna, VA 22180 Your Local Neighborhood Pub (703) 938-8358 23) RT 1 e. 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Photos by Little Swiss girl, Zoe Donna Manz/ Third-grader Daniel Nimmo, is a The Connection Velvel recreated a spec- kindergartener who likes tacle within his colos- Swiss fromage – cheese – seum walls. No animals and Swiss chocolat (no Volunteers Package 50,000 were harmed in the translation necessary). making of the recreation. Zoe’s dad is from French- Meals for the Hungry speaking Switzerland. Vienna Elementary tein, vegetables and a vitamin pack. Each bag made Vienna Presbyterian six nutritionally-complete meals. The bags were Church partners with sealed mechanically to ensure sanitary distribution. Travels around the World “We are trying to inspire a larger degree of dedica- Stop Hunger Now. tion to missions,” said Sue Hamblen, VPC interim lassrooms were filled Students were issued pass- Director of Missions. “More than just funding, but Cwith icons of nations ports, which were stamped as time and talent, too.” from around the they answered questions in By Donna Manz VPC, said Hamblen, outreaches to the community world, students performed in each classroom. A filled-in pass- The Connection in many ways, from financial and material support an international exposition of port entitled the holder to to human support. The church will be notified in music and narrative, and par- sweets and savories, made by pproximately 250 volunteers showed up mid-April where their packaged meals are going to. ents made sure there were VES parents, in the cafeteria. at Vienna Presbyterian Church [VPC] in plenty of treats for the families Displayed on walls throughout Athe morning on March 26 to help pack- VOLUNTEER “Greenmile” Louis Crandell, who attending Vienna Elementary the school were flags and glo- age 50,000 meals for the hungry around lugged huge bags of rice to scooping bins, is a testa- School [VES] International bal artwork created by stu- the world. In partnership with Stop Hunger Now, ment to the outreach support that VPC provides to Night on March 10. dents. Each grade level was church members lined up assembly-line style to the community. A few years ago, Greenmile was liv- “It teaches them about the dedicated to a different topic or scoop, seal and box. Each benchmark of 1,000 meals ing outdoors in the woods surrounding Fairfax Circle world and about their class- perspective, from reproductions drew cheers from the volunteers. when VPC people reached out to him, getting him mates’ cultures,” said VES As- of the Roman coliseum to “When I learned about it, I was like, oh, 50,000 food, clothing and shelter. An untreated medical sistant Principle John games of other lands. meals,” said Oakton High School junior Nicole condition left him blind in one eye but VPC’s sup- Carmichael. Parents and their The VES Jammers, with Afri- Abdullah who served as funnel bag-holder and rice port got Greenmile to medical care to save the other youngsters toured the school- can and Irish accents, peppered scooper. “I thought it was a big thing, an awesome eye. Then-Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair- wide event. the international show. The task. man Gerry Connolly intervened on his behalf to dis drummers have performed at “I’m glad I’m doing it.” many Vienna events. The PTA Into each weight-controlled bag went rice, soy pro- See Partnership, Page 9 Foreign Language & Cultural See International, Page 14 About 250 volunteers showed up on Saturday morning at Vienna Presbyterian Church to package meals on Fourth-grader Gabi behalf of Burgin wears traditional Stop Hunger Russian dress. Her mom Now. is Russian. Gabi, who speaks Russian, says Principal Jeanette Black Russia has good food. and Assistant Principal Flags of the world are John Carmichael at a behind Gabi. display of Roman shields. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Vienna/Oakton Connection ❖ March 30 - April 5, 2011 ❖ 3 News The Kilmer Middle School Team will represent Virginia in the 27th An- nual National Science Olympiad Tournament on May 18-21, 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kilmer Middle Students Win Science Olympiad State Tournament Kilmer Middle School students from Great which will bring 7,000 students, educators Falls, Vienna and McLean won first Place in and parents to Madison and feature some Division B at the Virginia Science Olympiad of the brightest minds in science and engi- State Tournament held on March 26 at neering at the high school and middle Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va. school levels. The team’s members scored an upset over 7th and 8th grade team members: top-seeded public and private schools. The Pranav Balan, Edi Danalache, Jordan program, in only its second year at Kilmer, Ganley, Alexis Gillmore, Jaisohn Kim, Chris required students’ mastery of 23 technol- Liu, Aly Luckett, Alex Nelson, David ogy, engineering and science categories such Noursi, Vikram Sardana, Nathaniel Taylor, as anatomy, ornithology, meteorology, Arthur Tisseront, Sasha Trubetskoy, Nate chemistry and fossils, among others. Vollbrecht, Andrew Zhao and student al- The Kilmer Middle School Team will now ternate Ryan Gottwald. move forward to represent Virginia in the The Kilmer Science Olympiad program is 27th Annual National Science Olympiad headed by the following parents: Gabriela Tournament held on May 18-21, 2011 at Danalache, Samia Noursi and Julie Kim. the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is the largest scholastic competition of sci- For more information about Science ence and technology in North America Olympiad, check out www.Soinc.org. School Notes Send school notes to vienna@ connectionnewspapers.com. Deadline is Fri- John Freeman, son of Mr. and Mrs. day. Robert B. Freeman of Vienna presented “Beowulf: An Epic of Christian Censorship” Taylor Wilk was named to the Fall 2010 at at Virginia Military Institute’s fourth an- Dean’s List at the Darla Moore School of nual Poetry Symposium. Laura Resetar, Business at The University of South Caro- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James G. Resetar lina in Columbia S.C. Taylor is a 2010 of Fairfax Station, presented an original graduate of Langley High School and a resi- poem. dent of Vienna. Michelle LoRusso, a rising senior at Vienna residents Patrick Roddy and Oakton High School has been selected to Joseph Curley have been named to the represent Virginia as a National Youth Cor- fall 2010 dean’s list at the Villanova School respondent to the 2011 Washington Jour- of Business of Villanova, Pa. nalism and Media Conference at George Mason University. LoRusso was chosen Matthew Callahan of Vienna has been based on academic accomplishments and a named to the fall 2010 president’s honor demonstrated interest and excellence in roll at the University of Florida.