PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Martinsburg, WV Cascades PERMIT #86 Attention Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Requested in home 06-18-09 Countryside ❖ Potomac Falls ❖ Lowes Island ❖ Sterling Melanie Kangelaris, Emily Kangelaris and Kristina Kangelaris, youth members of the Greek Orthodox Church in Sterling, perform a variety of traditional Greek dancing during the annual Greek Fair and Food Fest this past weekend. Classifieds, page 13 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, page 12 ❖ Calendar, page 8 Embracing Greek Culture News, page 3 Pushing Finals Loss For Baseball Can’t Negate Season News, page 3 Sports, page 12 Photo by Robbie hammer/The Connection www.ConnectionNewspapers.comJune 17-23, 2009 ❖ Volume VI, Number 14 online at www.connectionnewspapers.comLoudoun/Cascades Connection ❖ June 17-23, 2009 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Loudoun/Cascades Connection ❖ June 17-23, 2009 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Loudoun Connection Editor Steven Mauren News 703-917-6431 or [email protected] Pushing For Baseball Backers say a 5,500 seat minor league stadium would offer family-friendly entertainment. By Aaron Stern The Connection he creators of a proposal to bring minor league baseball to Loudoun /The Connection T County as part of a planned mixed use development hope to have their plan “This is the approved this sum- Robbie Hammer mer so that the contradiction team can be in place by the 2011 with the season. Photos by Photos Board of The 424-acre George Kalantzis, Melanie Kincora Mixed-Use Supervisors Kangelaris, Emily Kangelaris, Development was James Kalantzis, Kristina rejected in 2007 by — they Kangelaris and Kristin Broening, the Board of Super- youth members of the Greek visors but is back encourage Orthodox Church in Sterling, again with an perform a variety of traditional amended plan that people to Greek dancing during the annual would include of- Greek Fair and Food Fest spon- fice space, condo- come get sored by the Greek Orthodox miniums, a hotel, beat up.” Parish of Loudoun County this and retail space in past weekend. a pedestrian- — Supervisor friendly community Eugene Delgaudio located at the (R-Sterling) southwest corner of Embracing the intersection of Route 7 and Route 28. Their The newest iteration of the plan See Push, Page 4 Rides, games, Greek food, traditional Greek dancing and other activi- Culture ties were enjoyed by hundreds of area residents during the annual three-day Greek Fair and Food Fest. Gathering To Discuss Gang Violence Del. Tom Rust will host a town hall-style meeting on gang violence on Wednesday, July 1, 7-8:30 p.m. at Park View High School auditorium, 400 West Laurel Avenue. He will be joined by U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, Board of Supervisors Chairman Scott York and Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio to dis- cuss state, local and federal efforts to com- bat gang violence. “After speaking with many residents of Sterling, it is clear that people would like While attending the Greek Fair and more information about what steps have Food Fest with their families on been taken to stop criminal gangs,” stated Saturday in Sterling, Valerie Gruen, Rust in a release. “I hope this will serve as Tabitha Gruen, Emma Mason and an opportunity for the public to find out Austin Duff watch some traditional more about the steps their government is Area residents take tours of the Greek Orthodox Parish in Sterling. Greek dancing. taking to combat gang violence, and to give their representatives feedback. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Loudoun/Cascades Connection ❖ June 17-23, 2009 ❖ 3 News Push for Loudoun Baseball Team Continues From Page 3 would make it accessible by bus would also include a 5,500 seat, and perhaps by train when pro- 75,000-square-foot baseball sta- posed extensions of Metro are dium that would be home to a new built. minor league team affiliated with Delgaudio said that insisting on the independent Atlantic League mass transit accessibility misses of Professional Baseball. The ap- the point of minor league baseball, plication includes over 900,000 which tends to be located in less square feet of office space and dense, semi-rural areas than ma- 74,000 square feet of auxiliary re- jor league baseball, and Horshok tail uses associated with the sta- said that most minor league base- dium in addition to the 4 million by CMSS Architects, PC Image provided ball fans don’t travel beyond a 20- square feet of office space, minute driving radius to attend 500,000 square feet of retail and games. 1,400 condominiums proposed in “It gives diverse opportunities the rest of the Kincora project. for family-affordable fun, first of Proponents say the new plan all. That’s the trademark of minor and the stadium in particular league baseball around the coun- would offer residents a badly try,” Horshok said. needed entertainment venue for a Supervisors at the June 8 meet- county with a booming popula- ing noted that the stadium and the tion. Opponents say that the sta- larger Kincora development will dium poses traffic and environ- be considered separately, and that mental problems and would be approval of the stadium would not better served in a location acces- influence the consideration of the sible by mass transit. rest of Kincora. The Board of Supervisors held a A proposed 5,500 seat stadium could be home to an Atlantic League minor league Beyond the issues with the sta- public hearing on the special ex- baseball team by 2011 if the plan is approved this summer by the Board of Supervi- dium, Gorski said that he isn’t con- ception request for the stadium on sors. Opponents worry about possible environmental and traffic impacts. vinced the Kincora project is a Monday, June 8 and passed the good deal for Loudoun County ei- matter to the board’s Transporta- “This is the contradiction with “You live in the fastest growing gistics of the field are troubling. ther. With the pace of the county’s tion/Land Use Committee for fur- the Board of Supervisors — they county in the United States. How For one, he isn’t sure that proposed growth slowing down and other ther review with a hearing date encourage people to come get beat about giving them something to expansions of some roads would mixed use developments like scheduled for Monday, June 22. up,” Delgaudio said. do?” said John Horshok, chairman be sufficient for the stadium’s busi- Dulles Town Center, One Loudoun, The applicants hope to gain ap- Mixed use developments like of the VIP Baseball Advisory est events like summer concerts and University Center under con- proval for their plan before the Kincora that include residential, Board, the group that is spear- that could attract 10,000-plus struction or slated to come on line board’s August recess so that they commercial, and entertainment heading the stadium initiative. people. But the bigger issue, in the coming years, Gorski won- can stay on schedule to open the facilities within walking distance Gorski said, is that the ballfield ders if the demand for the Kincora stadium for the 2011 season. of each other are essential to the ALL OF THOSE IDEAS are great should be built near mass transit. project would be there by the time county’s growth and the baseball but the location of the proposed The only public transportation it would be built. AFTER THE 2007 DENIAL, stadium would provide a vital stadium is not, said Ed Gorski, the provided under the current plan “The county can not absorb all Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R- community function, Delgaudio Loudoun County land use officer is a shuttle bus that would run of those proposals built out,” Sterling) introduced Atlantic said. Not only would the stadium of the Piedmont Environmental from the Dulles Town Center. Gorski said. “The others are going League representatives to Kincora be home to a minor league team Council. “We have said time and Gorski said the new stadium to sit there and stagnate, so yeah, officials with hopes that the two that would offer affordable, fam- time again we’re not against base- should be placed in a Special Ac- that is an issue.” could team up in a mutually ben- ily-friendly entertainment, but it ball,” Gorski said. “I’m a baseball tivity Area along the Dulles To learn more about the Kincora eficial partnership that would add could also provide large venues for nut. We’re simply opposed to the Greenway that in recent years has development proposal visit baseball to Kincora and increase groups like the Sterling location of this particular stadium been discussed as the possible kincora-va.com or to learn more Kincora’s odds of approval. So far Playmakers, the Loudoun Sym- proposal that’s being looked at.” home of various professional about Atlantic League baseball he has been disappointed with the phony Orchestra, and the Belmont In addition to environmental sports teams from soccer’s D.C. visit atlanticleague.com. reception the new plan has gotten Country Club music series as well concerns — the proposed stadium United to a major league baseball To read more about the Loudoun from his fellow supervisors includ- as offering youth leagues a place site is located on steep slopes near team before the Washington Na- County Board of Supervisors or to ing most recently at a June 8 pub- to play playoff and championship sensitive Broad Run tributaries — tionals found a home in the see the schedules of the board’s lic hearing before the board. games. Gorski said the transportation lo- nation’s capital. Placing it there committees visit loudoun.gov/bos. 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