Serving Fairfax Areas of Burke Taking a bite out of crime, McGruff, the crime-fighting bloodhound, makes an appearance at Classified, Page 16 Classified, Middleridge’s ❖ annual National Nigh Out event with Officer J.T. Frey, who coordinates the community- police partnership Sports, Page 14 events in the West ❖ Springfield Police District. FightingFighting CrimeCrime Community,Community, PagePage 66 Entrtainment, Page 10 WellbeingWellbeing PagePage 1212 Requested in home 8-5-11 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time RememberingRemembering Postmaster: Attention JoanJoan CrossCross News, Page 3 News, Page 3 #322 PERMIT Easton, MD Easton, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Victoria Ross/The Connection Ross/The by Victoria Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comAugust 4-9, 2011 online at www.connectionnewspapers.comFairfax Connection ❖ August 4-10, 2011 ❖ 1 BARBER SHOP $200 OFF All Haircuts! Offer expires 9/15/11 703-968-3369 Old Centreville Crossing Barber Same Shopping Center as IHOP Restaurant/ Glory Days, Next door to Papa John’s Pizza Located in Old Centreville Crossing Shopping Ctr. 13826-G Braddock Road, Centreville, VA 20121 Follow us on Mary Kimm, Publisher @marykimm Michael O’Connell, Managing Editor @ffxconnection Julia O’Donoghue, Reporter @Followfairfax Michael Lee Pope, Reporter @MichaelLeePope Alex McVeigh, Reporter @AMcVeighConnect Jon Roetman, Sports Reporter @jonroetman 2 ❖ Fairfax Connection ❖ August 4-10, 2011 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Fairfax Connection Editor Michael O’Connell News 703-778-9416 or [email protected] City of Fairfax Celebrates a Life Hundreds attend public memorial to honor Joan Cross. “She was a wise By Victoria Ross woman and a The Connection gentle soul.” n the end, it was the little things re- — Patrice Winter, membered — a fierce love of former Fairfax City IScrabble, the way Joan Cross gently councilmember put her hand on your arm, her fond- ness for pranks — that moved many to tears. “I don’t think any of us Cross boys real- ized that my mother was a greater person and touched more people than we thought,” said John Clarke, during the Celebration of Photo by Photo Life memorial service for his mother, Joan W. Cross, at The Stacy C. Sherwood Center on Thursday morning, July 28. Cross, 68, a five-term member of the Ross Victoria Fairfax City Council, died Thursday, July 21, at her home from complications of cancer. “The song we danced to at my wedding in 2006 captured the essence of our rela- tionship, ‘Because you loved me,’ by Celine /The Connection Dion,” Clarke said, tearing up at the memory. “I really just have eight words to say about my mom: I was blessed because my mother loved me.” Clarke, who lives in Plainfield, Ill., at- tended the public service with his brothers, The Sherwood Center was adorned with dozens of flower arrangements and tables included collages of See Ceremony, Page 16 photos and newspaper articles about Joan Cross, a Fairfax councilmember who died on July 21. Local Dentist Finds Way To Give Back By Victoria Ross not high on the list of priorities.” “But I understand why we The Connection Rayek was just 15 when his family Photo by Photo are so passionate about our fled Afghanistan in 1987. This came personal rights, and the op- r. Riaz Rayek and Dr. Tara Zier’s after the Soviet invasion in 1979, portunity this country holds is dental office, Smiles at Fairfax Cor- which turned Kabul into the Red still inspiring,” he said. D Ross Victoria ner, is modern, sleek and state-of- Army’s command center during the Although Rayek first the art, with an HDTV and the latest in den- 10-year conflict between the Soviet- wanted to be a medical re- tal technology. allied government and the searcher, he decided that den- But his office stands in stark contrast to Mujahedeen rebels. The American tistry was his passion. He re- one of the dental hospitals he visits in his Embassy in Kabul closed in 1989. ceived his undergraduate de- /The Connection native Afghanistan. Rayek said the one dental hospi- gree from George Mason Uni- Devastated by 30 years of war and pov- tal treats about 500 patients a day versity and then went on to erty, Afghanistan has roughly one dentist and has a quarterly budget of $318. receive a master’s degree in per 200,000 patients. It’s a nation that rarely “What’s really sad is how unsanitary physiology and biophysics possesses the basic infrastructure most everything is. There are dental in- from Georgetown University. countries take for granted — clean water, struments just laying out every- In 2001, he graduated from refrigeration, telecommunications, sanita- where or thrown into big trays,” he the College of Dental Surgery tion and medical care. Access to any medi- said. According to the non-profit Dr. Riaz Rayek shows Dr. Grace Lee images from in Baltimore, Md. He has been cal care, especially dental care, is limited. Global Dental Relief Project, oral his last trip to Kabul in 2009 where he donated his practicing family and general The glaring disparity bothers Rayek, and septicemia is one of the leading dental services. dentistry in Fairfax, Reston for the past decade, he has made trips back causes of death in Afghanistan. and Burke for more than 10 to the capital city of Kabul to provide edu- Rayek last visited Kabul in 2009, secur- “Even though I’ve spent most of my life years. cation, advice and supplies to the one den- ing the donation for the dental clinic’s first here, it’s still difficult sometimes to integrate He has been married to his “college sweet- tal hospital that serves a population of 3.9 panoramic x-ray machine, which he paid to the past into this new life. I grew up under heart,” Hoda, for 11 years. They live in million. have shipped. He hasn’t been back because suppressive conditions during the Russian Chantilly with their daughter and two sons. “It’s amazing what we take for granted,” the security for Americans has disinte- invasion. There were no personal liberties, “I really enjoy making patients look and he said. “In Afghanistan, people are focused grated, and several medical professionals so it’s not a big deal for me to get patted on surviving day to day, so dental care is have been killed in the past few years. down at the airport,” Rayek said, laughing. See Dental, Page 9 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Fairfax Connection ❖ August 4-10, 2011 ❖ 3 Week in Fairfax News Police Charge Fairfax Woman in Fatal Crash Serial Slasher Strikes Again A Fairfax woman involved in a vehicle crash Fairfax County Police give ping when she felt a pinch on her buttocks. She turned that killed a Clifton man has been charged with around and, when she saw a man picking up pieces of cloth- failing to yield right of way. She is Tiffany safety tips to women. ing, police say she initially figured she’d been cut by one of Segreti, 27, of 3500 block of Chain Bridge the hangers. Road. By Bonnie Hobbs But when she returned home, she discovered cuts in her According to Fairfax County Police, on June The Connection clothing. She did not require medical treatment. The sus- 28, around 5:50 p.m., Segreti was driving a pect was described as Hispanic and wearing long pants 2011 Chevrolet Impala on Mattie Moore Court airfax County Police believe the man cutting young and a short-sleeved shirt. and trying to turn left onto Shirley Gate Road women in shopping centers has struck again. They All the victims have been teenage girls or women or in in Fairfax. Freceived a report Monday, Aug. 1, from a 21-year- their early 20s. In each case, they’ve said their attacker is Police say she entered the intersection and old woman who, they say, may well be the sixth Hispanic, in his late 20s, around 5 feet 6 inches tall and struck a 2009 GMC Sierra pickup truck driven victim of a serial slasher. heavyset, and often carrying a small, yellow bag. by Charles R. Blevins, 64, of Clifton Road. The The victim said she was cut, June 8, while shopping at Anyone with information about the suspect or any of impact was so forceful that it pushed the pickup the T.J. Maxx store in the Fairfax Towne Center. As in the these incidents is asked to contact Crime solvers at 1-866- off the road and sent it airborne. The truck other cases, police say the assailant distracted her and cut 411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or slammed into a street light and Blevins was her buttocks with a weapon such as a razor, box cutter or text “TIP187” plus a message to CRIMES/274637 or call severely injured severely. knife. police at 703-691-2131. He was rushed to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Of the six reported assaults, five have been in the Fair Caldwell said other possible victims of this assailant might life-threatening condition and died July 1. Oaks/Chantilly area. Three were in Fair Oaks Mall. The have been embarrassed to tell authorities that someone Segreti wasn’t injured. Police say neither speed first attack, Feb. 14, happened near the front door of did this to them or, simply, didn’t consider it to be a crime. nor alcohol appeared to be contributing fac- Champps restaurant; another occurred May 16 in the Ann But, she said, “We do look at it as a form of assault. And tors to the crash. Taylor clothing store; and yet another, July 25, in the For- the public plays a key role in helping us make apprehen- Anyone with information is asked to contact ever XXI store.