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Wastewater Great Falls Woes News, Page 3 Burglar Hits the Area News, Page 4 Vivian Watts of Great Falls is a past raffle winner of the queen-size quilt made by the St. Francis quilters. Classifieds, Page 13 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, Page 16 ❖ Calendar, Page 10 St.St. FrancisFrancis ❖ Opinion 8 ToTo HostHost ancis CountryCountry FairFair News,News, PagePage 1717 Requested in home 9-23-10 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Attention Postmaster: Attention ECR WSS ECR Postal Customer Postal PERMIT #322 PERMIT Easton, MD Easton, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo courtesy of St. Fr Photo online at www.connectionnewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.comSeptember 22-28, 2010 ❖ Volume XXIV, Number 38 Great Falls Connection ❖ September 22-28, 2010 ❖ 1 Colorful Fall Sale! 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Seneca Square (Next to Calico Corners) Dranesville Pkwy Rt. 7 Fairfax Co. 703-759-9200 1025-N Seneca Road RestonPkwy Monday through Saturday 10-6 • Sunday 12-4 • VISA • Master Card • Discover • AMEX Herndon Reston Tysons Corner 2 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ September 22-28, 2010 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Great Falls Little League Major Pirates Photo by Photo and Morton’s The Steakhouse – Tysons Corner host Homeruns for Heroes, an evening McVeigh Alex of food, wines and auction to benefit wounded service men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. /The Connection Contributed by Mike Donlon Honoring Heroes This septic field setup, located behind the Great Falls Center Shopping Center, is one of several that were examined by Fairfax County, in an effort to assess the Great Falls Little Leaguers Homeruns for Heroes condition of sewage facilities near the Great Falls Great Falls Little League and Morton’s The Steakhouse Village Centre. and Morton’s Steakhouse honor wounded service men and women at a reception, four- course dinner and silent auction at Morton’s The Steakhouse host benefit dinner for – Tysons Corner on Monday, Sept. 27. Courses are paired with wines from Stags Leap Winery in California. wounded warriors Honored guest speaker is Col. Roger H.C. Donlon, the first Wastewater Woes recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for Valor in Vietnam. Sports-themed silent auction to benefit the Aleethia Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit that supports life-enhanc- Great Falls Village Centre to By Donna Manz ing programs for wounded soldiers and their families in the The Connection metro area. Morton’s The Steakhouse – Tysons Corner is located at 8075 examine future of wastewater Leesburg Pike, Vienna. ike Donlon is a Great Falls parent Homeruns for Heroes: Monday, Sept. 27; Reception begins at management system. whose son plays Great Falls Little 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30 p.m. League [GFLL]. His uncle, Col. Roger Cost of dinner, wine and reception is $250 per guest; includes M tax, gratuity and valet parking. By Alex McVeigh H.C. Donlon, was the first recipient R.S.V.P. to Kathy Boone at 703-883-0800 or years old, and 18 of them are of the Congressional Medal of Honor for Valor in Viet- [email protected]. The Connection more than 25 years old. Two of nam. Donlon is also the regional director for the properties have systems Morton’s The Steakhouse. Mike Donlon connected “Our downtown Morton’s have a relationship with airfax County recently that currently have failed sys- these seemingly unrelated circumstances into a phil- the Aleethia Foundation,” said Donlon, who ap- Fconducted a study of the tems, requiring manual pump anthropic event at Morton’s The Steakhouse on Sept. proached Pirates head coach Ryan Novak, himself a sewage disposal system and haul of the fields. 27, Homeruns for Heroes. graduate of the Air Force Academy, with his idea to surrounding 22 properties in “Onsite sewage management Wounded service men and women are guests at bring the Little Leaguers into the relationship. “Why and around the Great Falls Vil- is an effective system. The wa- the fundraiser to benefit the Aleethia Foundation not do something with wounded vets,” Donlon said lage Centre. ter is treated and sent back into whose mission it is to support newly injured troops he asked Novak. The coach was all for the idea. The study found that a ma- the aquifer, but these systems with short-term therapeutic recreation outside the What Donlon and Novak hope to bring to the Great jority of the septic fields sur- do have a lifetime, they won’t confines of the hospital setting. Falls Little Leaguers was an appreciation of the sac- rounding the Village Centre are last forever,” said Martin Th- Several months ago, Donlon and his wife tried their rifice that service men and women make for their more than 25 years old, and ompson, an environmental hands at fundraising on behalf of their son’s travel- country and for freedom. many are experiencing or could health supervisor with the ing baseball team. That effort inspired Donlon to “You have to learn to appreciate sacrifices and this soon experience problems. The county. “We can’t predict how partner with his son’s Great Falls Little League Ma- event is an opportunity to honor our heroes, essen- study consisted of system func- long these systems will last, but jors team, the Pirates, in a joint fundraiser on behalf tially our armed forces ladies and gentlemen who tionality surveys in September we can tell you how they’re of the Aleethia Foundation. put their lives on the line so we can live in a free 2004, July 2005 and August of functioning.” society and do things like play baseball,” said Novak, this year. THE RESULT of this collaboration is Homeruns for whose father served in Vietnam. The majority of Great Falls IN 1972, the Fairfax County Heroes, a reception, a four-course dinner paired with “This dinner will be a great experience for the sol- uses septic fields for sewage Code began to require that all wines from Stags Leap Winery in California, and diers and their spouses,” said Donlon. “It’s an op- treatment, and the Village Cen- lots should have at least a 50 sports-theme silent auction to be hosted by Morton’s portunity for them to relax, have a fine meal. tre is one of the only such com- percent replacement area, The Steakhouse – Tysons Corner on Monday, Sept. “For these wounded vets, it will be a great thrill to mercial centers in the county meaning area set aside for re- 27. Approximately 15 wounded veterans and their that uses septic as opposed to placement of all or part of a spouses are invited as guests of Morton’s. See Little Leaguers, Page 9 the sewer system. system should it fail. “Because Great Falls wanted According to the county’s to stay small, Great Falls was study, only 19 percent of the philosophically opposed to sites have a 50 percent reserve On July 30, 2010, [sewer] facilities that would area. Of the ten “mass” Morton’s The lead to higher density,” said drainfields (where water ab- Steakhouse on Con- Glen Sjoblom, co-chair of the sorption exceeds 1,200 gallons necticut Avenue hosted Long Range Planning Commit- per day per acre), none have a fundraiser on behalf tee of the Great Falls Citizens more than 50 percent reserve. of the Aleethia Founda- Association. “The Great Falls Septic systems must be main- tion. Wounded service Village Centre was built with a tained regularly to extend their men and women from septic system to keep it at the lifetime, including periodic military hospitals were scale people wanted.” pumping. If more water than guests of honor. There are 26 absorption ar- the system is designed for is put eas in the 22 properties sur- File photo/ veyed. All 26 are more than 10 See GFCA, Page 7 the Aleethia Foundation www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 22-28, 2010 ❖ 3 News Burglar Hits the Area String of burglaries and How To Help larcenies hits McLean, Anyone with information about these in- cidents or the suspect is asked to contact Fairfax County Crime Solvers by phone at Great Falls area. 866-411-TIPS (8477), online at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org, or text TIP187 and a message to CRIMES (274637) A By Alex McVeigh $1,000 cash reward will be paid for informa- The Connection tion that leads to an arrest. Tipsters do not have to give their names or appear in court. he Fairfax County Police Depart ment is investigating a series of but were unable to find anyone. Tburglaries and larcenies Fifteen burglaries have been reported in throughout the county. There McLean in the past two weeks, including have been 44 reported incidents that po- three Sept. 15, said Capt. Steve Thompson, lice have linked to the same suspect. commander of the McLean District Police Of the 44, 24 were burglaries, 13 were Station. larcenies from vehicles and two were un- Residents in the McLean neighborhoods lawful entries. Police believe the first such of Summerwood, McLean Hundred and incident was Aug. 24 in Clifton. Timberly among others, have reported a The suspect is attempting to enter homes man riding a bicycle through the neighbor- through unlocked doors or windows, tak- hood, looking into car and home windows.