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Burke AtAt thethe FinishFinish News,News, PagePage 33 Luke Holman is the first toto crosscross thethe finishfinish lineline Saturday morning, Sept. 18, with a time of 29:33 at the ROCKS 5-mile run. Classified, Page 17 Classified, ❖ Calendar, Page 9 ❖ Sports, Page 13 County May Buy Incinerator News, Page 3 Requested in home 9-24-10 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Weighing School Postmaster: Attention PERMIT #86 PERMIT Punishment WV Martinsburg, Education, Page 4 PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Gina Uricoli/The Connection www.ConnectionNewspapers.comSeptember 23-29, 2010 ❖ Volume XXIV, Number 38 online at www.connectionnewspapers.comBurke Connection ❖ September 23-29, 2010 ❖ 1 Where Your Dental Needs Come First! 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The ROCKS mission is to assist in the mentoring of future military officers. In past Gina Uricoli years, the event has drawn around 100 par- ticipants with 30-40 people registering on site the morning of the event. All proceeds go to the Roscoe C. Cartwright Scholarship /The Connection Fund to be awarded the following spring at the 37th Annual Spring Gala to eligible col- lege ROTC cadets, high school JROTC ca- dets, and high school students. Though ROCKS has not yet calculated how much money the event generated this year, the fund-raiser usually draws in around $3,000. Alfred Schenck gathers runners by the starting line to deliver important safety information prior to the “I think the event is great,” said Sharene start of the 19th annual ROCKS 5-mile run. The run took place on Saturday morning, Sept 18 at Burke Lake Cook, ROCKS day-to-day manager since Park. 2006. “The race gets better and better each year. It’s held at a beautiful park, and we the years.” bers representing their colleges as well as in teams of three. This year, Howard Uni get more and more participants each year. the members of the public. The men enter The 5-mile race is open to the selected See ROCKS, Page 16 We’ve improved at getting the word out over male and female ROTC cadet team mem- the event as teams of five and the women County May Purchase Trash Incinerator Some supervisors also consider the incin- Roger Diedrich, a Fairfax resident with the Fairfax County’s contract with private erator more environmentally friendly than local chapter of the Sierra Club. operator ends in 2016. a landfill. The burning trash also creates “Fairfax’s recycling rate is just under 40 energy, which Dominion Power buys back percent. Falls Church is 60 percent. San By Julia O’Donoghue for renewal since it was signed in 1987. from Fairfax County in the form of a credit Francisco is at 80 percent with a really ag- The Connection Under the agreement, the county has the toward the facility’s power bill, said gressive program. Those kinds of things are option of purchasing the facility rather than Doughty. possible but, with he Fairfax County Board of Super- renegotiating a new rate for Covanta’s ser- “The facility oper- “On some level, it an incinerator, Tvisors may consider purchasing the vices, said Doughty. ates similar to power there is no reason privately-owned Energy Resource “Just about all of the county’s waste, resi- plants. The steam is to aim for recycling Recovery Center, more commonly known as dential and commercial, goes to the incin- used to generate removes the incentive to 80 percent of your the Lorton incinerator, when the current erator. Prince William County and D.C. also electricity and that is work on these recycling waste,” he said. contract expires in 2016. use it,” said Joyce Doughty, director of sold to Dominion Diedrich said it “We want to look at all of our options and Fairfax County’s waste disposal and re- Power,” Doughty. programs,” could be beneficial do what is best for Fairfax County,” said source recovery. Still, some envi- for the environ- Fairfax County Chairwoman Sharon Bulova Supervisors would not disclose how much ronmental groups — Roger Diedrich, Sierra Club ment, over the long (D-At-large). the purchase price for the incinerator might never warmed up to run, for the county The supervisors, who have discussed the be, but the facility cost about $195 million the incinerator. to purchase the incinerator. The Fairfax su- matter in closed session, expect to have a to build 20 years ago. It also underwent a The county’s arrangement with Domin- pervisors might be willing to consider mov- recommendation from staff about buying significant equipment upgrade in the early ion Power and Covanta requires that the ing away from burning trash, even if it is a the facility by February, said Supervisor part of this decade to ensure it was more facility receive a certain amount of trash. profit maker, and moving to more sustain- Gerry Hyland (D-Mount Vernon). environmentally friendly, said Doughty. Environmental advocates worry that county able waste management plans if they come “Staff is looking at the options, looking Fairfax originally turned to burning trash officials may shy away from more aggres- under enough political pressure, he said. at the pros and cons. In the next month and out of concern about the shrinking amount sive recycling and conservation policies if The business community, however, is half, we will have more information,” he of space in local landfills. those options would potentially divert wary of any plan to move the incinerator said. “We had to stop land-filling. This is a bet- money-making trash from the incinerator. away from its private operator. This is the first time Fairfax’s contract with ter way of disposing of our waste,” said “On some level, it removes the incentive See Trash, Page 15 the private operator, Covanta, has come up Hyland. to work on these recycling programs,” said www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Burke Connection ❖ September 23-29, 2010 ❖ 3 Education More at www.ConnectionNewspapers.com One Strike, They’re Out Consequences: Marijuana verses Alcohol Some call the school The consequences for Fairfax County Public Schools’ stu- dents caught with alcohol are not as severe as those related system’s polices on to marijuana in many cases. According to the Fairfax County Public Schools website, students who are caught: marijuana punitive ❖ in possession of alcohol and nonalcoholic beer, must serve a minimum suspension of five days and a maximum suspension of 10 days; prohibited from and ineffective. participating in student activities, including sports, clubs and the performing arts, for 30 days; must participate in a substance abuse prevention program. By Julia O’Donoghue ❖ in possession of alcohol and nonalcoholic beer for the second time in 12 months, serve a suspension of The Connection 10 days and prohibited from participating in student activities, including sports, clubs and the performing arts, for one year. nder different circumstances, ❖ distributing or manufacturing alcohol, serve a Josh Anderson would have suspension of at least 10 days and automatically Photo by Photo been headed to college this fall, recommended for expulsion from the school system. U ❖ under the influence of marijuana but not in likely joining a college football possession of the drug, serve a minimum suspension team. of five days and a maximum suspension of 10 days; His parents, Tim and Sue Anderson, had Gillian Anders prohibited from participating in student activities, including sports, clubs and the performing arts, for 30 been looking forward to this time in their days; must participate in a substance abuse prevention lives. Josh was the youngest of their four program. children, leaving Tim and Sue Anderson as ❖ under the influence of marijuana (without possession) for the second time in 12 months, empty nesters. serve a 10-day suspension and removal from student Instead of planning trips to watch Josh on activities for one year. They are also automatically play his first season of college football, the /Contributed recommended for expulsion from the school system. ❖ in possession of marijuana or imitation Andersons are left with sadness and despair. marijuana, serve a 10-day suspension and an automatic One morning in March 2009, Sue Ander- recommendation for expulsion. son went to rouse her son from bed and ❖ distributing marijuana or imitation marijuana, serve a 10-day suspension and recommended for expulsion found him dead in their Vienna home. Josh, from the school system. then a junior at South Lakes High School, died of suicide the day before he was to face South Lakes Junior Josh Anderson died of suicide the night expulsion from the Fairfax County school before he faced expulsion from the school system in 2009. What Happens? system at a disciplinary hearing. SOURCE: Fairfax County Public Schools website. ❖ If school administrators catch a child engag- Earlier that month, Josh and his friend Josh may have used marijuana, but he mended for expulsion are not kicked out of ing in behavior that warrants a disciplinary smoked marijuana on a car ride back to was not accused of trying to sell or distrib- the school system entirely, though those hearing, they contact Superintendent Jack Dale’s school from lunch at Taco Bell.