and Oakton Cooking Up Vienna Independence News, Page 3 Vienna Jewelers Made Memories News, Page 3 Classifieds, Page 15 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, Page 18 ❖ Calendar, Page 10 ❖ The World Opinion, Page 6 Although these young ethnic dancers Comes to from Poland knew little English, they Comes to were delighted to be photographed were delighted to be photographed following their participation in the 40th International Children’s Festival at Wolf Trap. Requested in home 9-23-10 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Wolf Trap Postmaster: Attention A+, Page 14 #86 PERMIT Martinsburg, WV Martinsburg, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Donna Manz/The Connection Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comSeptember 22-28, 2010 ❖ Volume XXIV, Number 38 onlineVienna/Oakton at www.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ September 22-28, 2010 ❖ 1 Bulletin Board To have community events listed in the Connection, send to [email protected]. Deadline is Friday. THURSDAY/SEPT. 23 Open House and Registration for Adventures in Learning. 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. Classes will be Thursdays from Sept. 30-Nov.11, including Socrates’ Cafe, T’ai Chi, bridge, national/world affairs, health series and computer classes. For adults 50 and older. www.scov.org or 703-281-0538. Beulah Road Al-Anon Group. 7:30 p.m. at the Antioch Christian Church, 1860 Beulah Road, Vienna. Practicing the Twelve Steps, welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics, and giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic. [email protected]. Beating the Sugar Blues. 7 p.m. at The Women’s Center, 127 Park Street, N.E., Vienna. Register at www.thewomenscenter.org or 703- 281-2657. CFCC Fall Into Giving. 7-9 a.m. at the Fairfax County Health Department Building, Rowland Conference Center, 10777 Main St., Fairfax. Join the Central Fairfax Chamber of Commerce and Our Daily Bread to learn how your business can help the community. Admission is one $25 grocery gift card, to be donated to Our Daily Bread to assist with their holiday programs. Continental breakfast served. [email protected]. FRIDAY/SEPT. 24 VTRCC Executive Level Leadership Development Program. 7:30 a.m. at The Tower Club, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna. Learn the 6 keys to a winning team, how to get the right people on the bus and get them in the right seats. Discover how to source, select, develop a position agreement, and sell A players on merits of your business. Members $39, non-members $49. Complimentary breakfast buffet. www.vtrcc.org. McLean Art Society Meeting. 10 a.m. at the McLean Community Center,1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. With artist Rachel Collins, a realistic painter of nature’s abstract forms. 703-790-0123. SATURDAY/SEPT. 25 T’ai Chi Beginners’ Practice. 8 a.m. on the outdoor basketball court behind Dolley Madison Public Library at 1244 Oak Ridge Ave., McLean. 703-759-9141 or www.FreeTaiChi.org. Brinker Toastmasters. 9:30 a.m. at Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124 Park St. N.E., Vienna. Meets second and fourth Saturday of the month. brinker.wordpress.com. SUNDAY/SEPT. 26 Electric Sunday TV and Computer Recycling Event. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. I- 66 Transfer Station, 4618 West Ox Road, Fairfax. 703-324-5052. MONDAY/SEPT. 27 Northern Virginia Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Meeting. 7 p.m. at First Christian Church, 6165 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church. 703-256-2908. Pilates Mat Class. 7:45 p.m. McLean Community Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. Learn to engage core abdominal muscles, improve posture and create a longer, leaner, stronger body. First of ten weekly sessions. $230, $170 McLean district residents. 703-790-0123. 2 ❖ Vienna/Oakton Connection ❖ September 22-28, 2010 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Vienna/Oakton Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Photos by Photos Photo by Photo Donna Manz Donna Manz /The Connection /The Connection Geeta Ghose (front, right), Mary Ross (seated left), Karen Rasmussen, Bob Martel and Patrick Knight (seated, back) prepare a meal in their adaptive cooking Ketterman’s staff, Deborah Finleon, Bobby Greene, Bob Martel of McLean had a stroke at age class. Intern Rachel Brumbaugh, a stu- Stanley Greene, Michael Harris, and Ali Malone talk 15. He relearned walking, talking and fine dent at James Madison University, is with customers Torrie Perkins and Roderick Harris. motor skills. Now, he’s mastering cooking fulfilling her speech therapy practicum at at the Stroke Comeback Center. the Stroke Comeback Center in Vienna. Vienna Jewelers Cooking Up Independence Made Memories Adaptive cooking class Ketterman’s Jewelers closing nurtures skills, confidence. after 59 years in town. By Donna Manz The Connection By Donna Manz although he has been living in The Connection Washington, D.C. of late. ob Martel of McLean had a stroke at the “I want to thank everybody age of 15. He has spent most of his life fter a 59-year run in for an amazing 59 years,” said Brelearning basic life skills such as walking A Vienna, Ketterman’s 35-year-old Greene. “It’s been and talking. As a mature man today, Martel Jewelers, one of one heck of a ride.” credits Arlington Hospital for his earliest achieve- Vienna’s oldest businesses, is ments. Yet, Martel pushes himself to master all the closing its doors forever on GREENE GREW UP in the activities of everyday living. To that end, he partici- Sept. 25. Its long-time loyal Ketterman shop. When he took pates in the programs offered by Vienna’s Stroke Stroke Comeback Center Executive Direc- customers were stunned by the over as manager in 1994, it Comeback Center. Beyond the boundaries of speech tor Darlene Williamson (left) and Develop- announcement. was, to him, just a change of therapy groups, computer class or motor skills ment Director Carol Kelly give support to “We love this place,” said title. There’s been a lot of tears groups, Martel has added a new skill, that of adap- cooking class participant Bob Martel. Rosanne Kennedy of Great Falls, shed on both sides of the tive cooking. who first walked into counter the past few days, “We’re all about life participation and indepen- Many stroke victims suffer paralysis on one side of Ketterman’s shortly after mov- Greene said, once the family dence,” said Stroke Comeback Center Executive Di- the body. In the Center’s adaptive cooking classes, ing to the area with her hus- came to its decision to close rector Darlene Williamson, who lives in Oakton. participants work with their non-affected hands while band Skip from New Jersey. “It down permanently. Neysa “They’re learning to follow directions, to organize, also strengthening their impaired sides. The partici- feels like family here, no pres- Ketterman’s health is failing, to use motor skills, to prepare food. pants use specialized equipment . There are cutting sure, and the store has great and the family decided it was “One of the other things this class brings is talking boards with spikes in the center to hold food securely sales staff. It’s a real family en- in the best interests of the busi- in a natural environment, not sitting around a table in-place, a rocker knife which does not require a back- vironment.” ness to consolidate their inven- in a more formal setting.” and-forth sawing action, and gripper mats to pre- Family is what Ketterman’s tory in the Leesburg vent bowl slippage. All the bowls have rubber strip- built its legacy on. Richard and Ketterman’s which opened ap- ON A RECENT THURSDAY, the five-member class ping on the bottom to prevent slippage, as well. Neysa Ketterman founded the proximately 20 years ago. was fixing the makings for a tailgate party. They The aprons participants wear were custom-made, family-owned jewelry store in Richard and Neysa Ketterman worked together chopping and cutting, frying and designed and donated by a local supporter. The 1951, settling first on Church son-in-law Stanley Greene, mixing, to prepare pieces of barbecued chicken and aprons are unique in that they can be pulled on us- Street and moving to the store’s Bobby and Ricky’s father, has a salad of coleslaw with apples in it. Each weekly ing just one hand. current location in 1958. Man- filled in at the store for approxi- class has a theme that the members choose. It’s about gaining confidence, said Williamson. agement of the store has been mately thirty years. Williamson was filling in for Center staffer Suzanne Martel, who grew up in McLean and whose father passed down to the Ketterman’s Sales consultant Deborah Redmond. was a Vienna obstetrician and gynecologist, started children and now, on to their Finleon agrees that it is the fam- “This particular group has different communica- the adaptive cooking classes in mid-summer. He said grandsons, Bobby and Ricky ily environment, among staff tion levels,” said Development Director Carol Kelly he’s learned to make pizza, to use equipment, to or- Greene. Bobby Greene grew up members, and between staff of Oakton. ganize ingredients and preparation materials and to on the Ketterman family horse and public, that inspired cus “They’re relearning cooking skills and taking follow recipe instructions. farm in Middleburg and still charge of food preparation, and talking in the way considers himself a country boy See Jewelers, Page 7 that goes along with the process,” Kelly said. See Lessons, Page 17 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Vienna/Oakton Connection ❖ September 22-28, 2010 ❖ 3 Week in Vienna Halloween Parade Entry Deadline is Sept.