Cascades Countryside ❖ Potomac Falls ❖ Lowes Island ❖ Sterling Native Lessons News, page 3 Claude Moore Park hosted the Appalachian Cherokee Nation Pow Wow last weekend. Classifieds, page 9 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, page 8 ❖ Rust, Miller To Debate News, page 3 Calendar, page 6 PFHS Cross Country Team Shows Progress /The Connection Regulating Sports, page 8 Home Businesses 10-8-09 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time News, page 3 Postmaster: Attention PERMIT #86 PERMIT Fewer Foreclosures WV Martinsburg, PAID News, page 3 Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Casey DeStefano www.ConnectionNewspapers.comOctober 7-20, 2009 ❖ Volume VI, Number 21 online atLoudoun/Cascades www.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ October 7-13, 2009 ❖ 1 News ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Programs Safer Than Before By Martin Casey But today, Dep. James Spurlock, who or- of us [in uniform]. If you see some- Spurlock told Lowes Island resi- The Connection ganizes neighborhood watches in commu- thing unusual or different or out dents that they could start a nities east of Route 28, says, “I don’t want of place and it worries you, call watch program if just two or n the original Neighborhood Watch any of you out on the street, possibly put- us right away. Let us come three residents stepped forward programs, volunteer residents took ting yourselves in harm’s way. I want you check things out.” and volunteered to be a commu- Iturns cruising the neighborhood in in your homes, but keenly alert to any sus- The focus of modern nications conduit between his of- their cars, or even on foot, carrying a picious activities.” neighborhood watch fice and residents in the community. two-way radio connected to the Sheriff’s At a neighborhood watch organizational programs is on informa- Office so they could report any suspicious meeting at Lowes Island Elementary School tion among residents, and SPURLOCK OFFERS volunteers a se- activities. Volunteers literally stood watch recently, Spurlock told his audience, “You calls to the Sheriff’s Office to lection of 22 educational program topics to help keep their neighbors safe. know your neighborhood better than any check out suspicious activities. 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We showcase all of our listings on these websites. 2 ❖ Loudoun/Cascades Connection ❖ October 7-13, 2009 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Loudoun Connection Editor Steven Mauren News 703-778-9415 or [email protected] Regulating Ready to Home Debate Businesses League hosts CountrySide Rust, Miller. HOA working el. Tom Rust, a senior on final draft. by Photos Republican in the Vir- Dginia House of Del- egates and a former By Martin Casey mayor of Herndon, faces Loudoun The Connection Casey DeStefano County Dulles District Supervisor Stevens Miller, Rust’s Democratic he CountrySide Propri- opponent in the Nov. 3 election, T etary homeowners asso- in a debate set for Tuesday, Oct. ciation is preparing to 13, sponsored by regulate home-based businesses, the League of and residential business owners /The Connection Women Voters. More are fighting back. The debate be- See candidate The action began when board gins at 7 p.m. in profiles on members were confronted two the Park View page 11. years ago by a potential home High School au- buyer who said that she would not ditorium in Sterling Park. The high buy the home in CountrySide un- school is located at the end of Lau- less the board agreed in advance Native Americans rel Avenue west from Sterling Bou- to allow her to host a childcare prepare to perform at levard. center in her new home, accord- the Appalachian Chero- The 86th District includes ing to HOA president Dave Barrie. kee Nation Pow Wow. Herndon, where Rust is chairman The controversy comes just as CountrySide is gearing up for its See Rust, Page 9 annual election of members to its Learning Board of Directors and residents of home-based businesses may be increasingly interested in those About Native Greason elections. CountrySide was founded about Challenges 1970 as a purely residential devel- Americans opment. Its covenants specifically prohibit home-based businesses, he Appalachian Chero- Poisson although they do allow for a room Tkee Nation Pow Wow in the home to be used as a “pro- offered Native Ameri- fessional office.” When the pro- can music, singers, dancing and Economy and spective purchaser was denied her drumming at Claude Moore transportation request, she researched county Park last weekend. Traditional Inkari Cushcagua, 4 years old, and Olga Lema work in records and found at least one reg- native American food, books, one of the craft booths during the Appalachian Chero- are top issues in istered child care business operat- arts and crafts were for sale. kee Nation Pow Wow. nd ing in each of CountrySide’s seven 32 district. neighborhoods. CountrySide’s vice president, Don Brock, explained at recent By Martin Casey “Town Hall” meetings with con- Real Estate Market Looking Up The Conection cerned residents that as long as the board didn’t get complaints from in 2006. n the up-coming Nov. 3 elec- neighbors about home-based busi- Number of foreclosures This year, 970 foreclosures have been filed through tion, Loudoun County Repub- ness operations, the association in fewer than last year. August, and the anticipated drop from the recent two Ilicans have targeted Demo- the past has seen no reason to years has Realtors looking forward with hope that crat David Poisson, who was first strictly enforce the prohibition. the local market may be bottoming out and likely to elected in 2005 and re-elected in But he and Barrie admitted that By Martin Casey start showing significant improvement relatively 2007 to the Virginia House of Del- over the past 30 years, “things The Connection soon. egates from the 32nd District, as have changed,” and that the Talk around Sterling Park is that “all” the avail- among those in Northern Virginia proprietary’s legal counsel has told n February of last year, a month in which 145 able homes have now been sold — indicating that who may be vulnerable. the board that it has no choice but Iforeclosures were filed at the Loudoun County the “buyers market” of recent years, with few actual Poisson’s district includes Cas- to address the issue of home-based Courthouse, Brian Moran, then running to be buyers, may be turning into a “sellers market” again.