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Great Falls Honors Veterans Holiday Entertainment & Gift Guide GreatGreat FallsFalls Page 17 Great Falls Classifieds, Page 18 Classifieds, ❖ Honors Veterans News, Page 3 Entertainment, Page 10 ❖ Maj. Gen. Julie Bentz greets kindergart- ners from the Village Green Day School who were sitting in the second row Opinion, Page 8 before the Veterans Day ceremony at the Freedom Memorial in Great Falls began. Comstock Wins Holidays Are 10th District Race for Giving News, Page 4 Opinion, Page 8 Photo by Fallon Forbush/The Connection www.ConnectionNewspapers.comNovember 16-22, 2016 onlineGreat at Falls www.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ November 16-22, 2016 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ November 16-22, 2016 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Photos by Fallon Forbush/The Connection by Fallon Photos The ceremony included a Marine Corps Color Guard, a four-member The Langley High School Madrigals, a choir of sophomores, juniors and formation consisting of a Marine carrying the American flag, a Marine seniors, sang the “Star-Spangled Banner,” “America the Beautiful” and carrying the Marine Corps flag and two rifle bearers. “God Bless America” during the ceremony. Great Falls Remembers Its Veterans By Fallon Forbush he was a combat parachutist with the The Connection Army’s 101st Airborne Division decades ago if his story wasn’t told. orld War II Veteran Howard Jester, 90, was the guest of On a Mission: Whonor during a ceremony at the Freedom Memorial in Great Falls on Veterans Day. Military Appreciation “It’s easy to recognize active duty mili- tary, but most veterans blend into our com- Monday munities,” said Maj. Gen. Julie Bentz, vice For the last eight years, Bob Nelson, a director of the Joint Improvised-Threat De- realtor with Keller Williams Realty in Great feat Agency, who was the keynote speaker Falls, has been organizing Military Appre- at the ceremony. ciation Monday. The monthly fundraisers “They are our friends, families and neigh- benefit military support organizations and bors,” she said. groups. She recalled memories of the people she Our Military Kids, Inc., a nonprofit orga- knew in her life who inspired her to join nization based in McLean that provides the military: her uncle, a World War II vet- grants to children of service members, holds eran; her best friend’s father, a Korean War a “very special place in [his] heart,” Nelson veteran; and a childhood neighbor from People in the crowd surrounded says. where she grew up in Oregon, a Vietnam World War II Veteran Howard Kindergartners from the Village The children of parents who were War veteran. Jester, 90, of Great Falls to shake Green Day School in Great Falls wounded or killed while serving in any “People like them answered the nation’s his hand and personally thank him lead the ceremony’s Pledge of branch of the military and children who call and blended back into the fabric of the for his military service. Allegiance. have parents who are deployed National USA,” she said. “Let us remember all who Guardsman or reservists in the Army Re- have served, for they are all heroes.” serve are eligible for the grants, which fund The call to remember veterans and their activities that help children cope with the stories was a theme echoed by speakers The Freedom Memorial associated stress and anxiety. from the Friends of the Great Falls Freedom The Freedom Memorial behind the Great Falls Library was inspired by a “If you can’t take care of the kids of ser- Memorial. They encouraged the crowd— candlelight vigil that was held on Sept. 11, 2002. Six cherry trees located at the vice members, you’ve got a country in including Virginia Delegate Kathleen gateway to the plaza serve to honor the memory of the Great Falls residents who trouble,” Nelson says. Murphy, D-31, and Sharon Bulova, chair- perished in the 9/11 attacks in 2001 when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed Our Military has dropped its grants from woman of the Fairfax County Board of Su- into the Pentagon: $500 per child to $250 per child. This is pervisors, who were sitting in the first row— 1st Lt. Richard Gabriel because there has been a 35 percent in- to obtain their military relatives’ service Ann Judge crease in applicants, and donations have not records so they could pass on their stories Barbara Olson caught up to the influx, says Linda to younger generations. Lisa Raines Davidson, the founder and executive direc- Sandy Pidgeon encouraged the crowd to Diane Simmons tor of the nonprofit. take flyers that contained information on George Simmons Her decision to decrease the grants was how to request military personnel records The memorial was dedicated on Nov. 13, 2004, and has been the location of to make sure the nonprofit could provide from the National Archives. memorial services on Memorial Day, Sept. 11 and Veterans Day ever since. some funding to all of the kids who are ap- When the ceremony finished, those who The centerpiece of the memorial is a rock that symbolizes the “ageless beauty plying. gathered at the memorial surrounded Jester, of Great Falls and serves as remembrance of all those who have given themselves “Word is getting out in the military com a Great Falls resident, to personally thank in the cause of liberty and freedom,” a plaque reads. him. They may not have ever known that See Veterans, Page 7 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ November 16-22, 2016 ❖ 3 News Unofficial Election Comstock Wins 10th District Race Results Source: http://results.elections.virginia.gov/ Hotly contested PRESIDENT Virginia Results seat targeted as a Hillary Clinton (D) 1,968,213 49.63% Donald J. Trump (R) 1,765,599 44.53% Gary Johnson (L) 118,464 2.99% ‘flip’ for Democrats. Evan McMullin (I) 53,877 1.36% Jill Stein (G) 27,572 0.70% By Victoria Ross Fairfax County Results The Connection Hillary Clinton (D) 355,052 64.41% Donald J. Trump (R) 157,820 28.63% Gary Johnson (L) 15,654 2.84% rom the outset, the race for Evan McMullin (I) 10,383 1.88% Virginia’s 10th Congressional seat Jill Stein (G) 4,475 0.83% F attracted national attention as a possible “flip” for Democrats in U.S. CONGRESS their bid to gain the 30 seats they needed Member House of Representatives (08) to win back control of the House. Demo- Donald S. Beyer Jr. (D) 245,480 68.3% Charles A. Hernick (R) 98,211 27.33% crats poured money into the race, which Julio Gracia (I) 14,636 4.07% many pollsters considered a bellwether race in a battleground state. Member House of Representatives (10) Barbara Jean Comstock (R) 210,619 52.69% But in the end, freshman Republican Bar- Photo contributed LuAnn L. Bennett (D) 187,532 46.92% bara Comstock swiftly and handily won her Barbara Comstock spoke to hundreds of supporters in Ashburn Tuesday first reelection bid, defeating Democratic night after her resounding victory over Democratic challenger LuAnn Member House of Representatives (11) G. E. “Gerry” Connolly (D) 247,586 87.89% challenger LuAnn Bennett by seven percent- Bennett. Write-in 34,103 12.11% age points Tuesday night. Unopposed Just as Republican Presidential candidate WITH 99 PERCENT of precincts report- at a victory party in Ashburn Tuesday night Fairfax County Meals Tax Donald Trump defied the predictions of ing by 11 p.m., Comstock had 203,995 votes to a crowd of about 200 supporters. No 291,082 53.84% pollsters and pundits to make Virginia a (53 percent), while Bennett had 181,999 Ed Gillespie, a longtime Comstock sup- Yes 249,604 46.16% narrow victory for Democratic nominee votes (47 percent). porter favored to win the GOP nomination Hillary Clinton, Comstock defied the “swing Bolstered by the Presidential election, for Virginia Governor in 2017, said events and meetings each week. district” predictions and comfortably de- voter turnout greatly exceeded the roughly Comstock won the race because no one Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity (R- feated Democratic challenger LuAnn 223,000 votes cast when Comstock won the could “outwork or outsmart” her. Comstock Springfield), another longtime Comstock Bennett to hold the 10th Congressional Dis- seat in the 2014 midterm elections. is known as an unflagging campaigner, who trict seat. “This win is your win,” Comstock declared typically attends or hosts a dozen district See Comstock, Page 6 4 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ November 16-22, 2016 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ November 16-22, 2016 ❖ 5 News Comstock Wins 10th District Race From Page 4 between the major parties - voting for Clinton for President but for the Republican Comstock for Con- supporter who attended Tuesday’s victory party, gress. said Comstock is committed to her constituents in a “I commend LuAnn Bennett and her team for a truly hands-on way. “They know her, and they know they hard-fought race in Virginia’s 10th Congressional can count on her,” Herrity said. “She shows up. She District,” said Susan Swecker, the chairman of the even attended my town hall forums on heroin abuse Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA), in a statement You are invited to our “Calling for Peace” because she knows it matters to her constituents.” after the race was called for Comstock. event to support the production of a But Democrats also knew that voters in the 10th “LuAnn brought everything to the table: a penchant documentary-drama film “Sacred Connection” Congressional District were, by and large, affluent, for public service, a strong business record, and prag- This will be a sequel to the award winning “Jasmenco”.
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