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Alana Reeves holds her dog,Tater. Tater has been with theReeves family for over nine years.More stories on people and petsin today’s Connection.

Alana Reeves holds her dog,Tater. Tater has been with theReeves family for over nine years.More stories on people and petsin today’s Connection.

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News

By Caroline Burr

The Connection

Akila Prayaga, of Vienna,a rising senior at Lan-gley High School, was

one of five Greater Washingtonstudents recently selected toparticipate in the Bank ofAmerica CharitableFoundation’s 2013 StudentLeaders program. Winners ofthe award received paid eight-week internships at localnonprofits.

Akila has been interning atthe D.C. headquarters of theYMCA of Metropolitan Wash-ington. “I started my internshipon June 24,” Akila said. “I’vebeen working with a lot of num-bers, mostly in finance and it’sdefinitely taught me a lot aboutfinance—which is something Iwant to do. I learned a lot aboutwhat I want to do in the futureand what I don’t want to do.”

With their internships, the 225high school juniors and seniorsselected from around the coun-try were also invited to a five-day Bank of America StudentLeadership Summit in D.C. “Ireally enjoyed the summit pro-gram,” Akila said. “It was oneweek where all the Bank ofAmerica student leaders did a lotof leadership activities, met a lotof people, met a lot of executivesfrom non-profits and met a lotof really influential people.”Thursday, July 11, the summithosted a service day event forall of the student leaders wherethey volunteered at the CapitalArea Food Bank in D.C.

Summit activities included a

By Victoria Ross

The Connection

For most children, summer means the endof homework and tests, and the beginningof cookouts and carefree summer vacations.

For thousands of children from low-in-come families, summer can also mean going hungry.

Free and reduced food programs—which providechildren access to nutritious breakfasts, lunches andsnacks—end along with the school year, leaving manystudents at risk for hunger over the summer months.

“Summer is a very difficult time for parents whoare depending on the school’s free or reducedlunches,” said Lisa Whetzel, executive director of OurDaily Bread, a Fairfax County volunteer-based non-profit. “As a community, it’s important to make surethat children have access to the healthy food theyneed during the summer months.”

To help meet that need, Our Daily Bread launcheda new program this summer to provide healthy mealsand household supplies to 42 families whose chil-dren attend three local elementary schools—MarshallRoad, Cunningham Park and Louise Archer.

According to Fairfax County Public Schools, 47,874students—more than 26 percent of the schoolsystem’s total student population—received free andreduced lunches during the 2012-2013 school year.

Whetzel said the program is an extension of ODB’sFood4Thought program, which began in 2011 inpartnership with concerned parents at Marshall RoadElementary School. Volunteers created packages ofnon-perishable food and drinks to send home eachweekend with 19 children in the school who partici-pated in the federal food subsidy program. Volun-teers collected donations within the school and

supplemented it with food from Our Daily Bread’sVienna Pantry.

“This new partnership with Marshall Road is suc-cessful because there is a champion within theschool,” Whetzel said. “If there is not a willing socialworker and PTA, it cannot work. We applaud JeanWyman and the PTA for seeing the need in theirschool and reaching out to ODB to make this work.”

Our Daily Bread is also working with Daniels RunElementary School in Fairfax City, and hopes to ex-pand Food4Thought and its summer extension pro-gram to more local schools as they gain more fund-ing, community support and resources.

“We welcome working with as many schools asrequest our assistance. We can help them get startedby explaining the process,” she said.

For more information on Our Daily Bread’s pro-grams, go to www.odbfairfax.org. To donate to theVienna food pantry, contact Christina Garris at 703-273-8829.

Our Daily Bread providesmeals for children duringsummer break.

Making Sure ChildrenDon’t Go Hungry

Louise Archer Elementary School in Vienna is one of the schools benefiting from OurDaily Bread’s summer food program, an extension of the nonprofits Food4Thoughtweekend program.

Volunteers and staff of Our Daily Bread, avolunteer-based nonprofit that helps low-income residents in Fairfax County, collectfood at its Vienna pantry.

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Akila Prayaga, rising senior atLangley High, interns with YMCAof Metropolitan Washington.

Vienna Teen AttendsStudent Leaders Program

Akila Prayagawas one ofthe studentsselected toparticipate inthe Bank ofAmericaCharitableFoundation’s2013 StudentLeadersprogram.

variety of interactive workshopsthat focused on financial edu-cation, leadership developmentand Capitol Hill briefings. Thegoal of these sessions was tohave the students understandthe positive effects of how cor-porate, nonprofit and govern-ment organizations can be ben-eficial to communities.

Research shows that only 33percent of D.C. youth can findwhat is deemed as practicalemployment. Teens, overall,have the highest unemploy-ment rate and studies show thatthe teens that are able to findgenerous employment havelower dropout rates and moresuccess with long-term educa-tion. The Bank of America Chari-table Foundation is intended toprovide individuals with expo-sure to valuable employmentopportunities that will promotework and life skills while alsohelping the community.

Akila’s community commit-ments include an organizationthat she manages, Today’sReaders Tomorrow’s Leaders.“We do book drives and collecteducational material and sendthem to shelters and we’ve alsoset up literacy programs outsidethe U.S.” It has been Akila’sdream to continue to give backto the community in the formof “an international school sokids from all around the worldfrom impoverished countriescan come and educate them-selves and have a better future.A lot of children don’t have op-portunities like me and I wantto give them opportunities likeme,” Akila said.

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News

By Donna Manz

The Connection

While feathering your nest may turnyour house into a home, occasionally,de-feathering and shifting directionmay transform your happy nest into

a happy and serene haven for your family. The Intel-ligent Nest founder and child development special-ist Kristen Paral of Vienna helps parents master tech-niques that foster the growth of well-adjusted, con-fident children. Parents show children their value byproviding unconditional love, discipline, opportuni-ties for mental and physical stimulation and safeshelter.

“I have a passion for the science of what goes onin a child’s mind,” said Paral. “I love giving semi-nars, teaching parents about child development.

“My goal is to create a happier ‘nest,’” said Paral,stressing that parenting is a partnership betweenparent and child. “No two children are the same, soparenting techniques should be customized to thechild’s development and interests.”

Paral describes an “intelligent nest” as a reason-ably informed home, led by parents who are expertsin the development of their own child. “No two chil-dren are the same, and no parenting solution is uni-versal,” says Paral. She encourages parents not tobecome experts in child development but experts inthe personality and strengths of their own children.

PARAL MOVED TO VIENNA from southern Cali-fornia about 10 years ago. She and her husband Ja-son are raising two children here, Jack, 5, and Lucy,3. It was her own experience as a young mom thatinspired her to start a business in the fall of 2011,blooming from her background in elementary edu-cation and child development.

Paral advises parents to ask their child, “What do

you think,” before responding with their own opin-ions when a child is looking to a parent for approval.Their children, she said, will gain self-analysis andcritical thinking skills and the parent will learn abouthow their child sees the world. Young children learndifferently than older children and adults, she adds.

When it comes to toys and playrooms, Paral offersunique guidelines. De-clutter your home and play-room by only displaying seven to 12 toys at a time ina given play area. “The toys will be more enticing,receive more play, and you’ll enjoy less mess andchaos at home.”

Rather than dedicating a single space for play, Paralrecommends offering small and simple activity cen-ters in every room a child visits. “An engaged child isa happy child,” says Paral.

If a parent wants her child to really use the play-room, Paral recommends that she fill it full of gross-motor equipment, such as soft play equipment, balls,climbing sets and trampolines, instead of toys.

Paral and her husband love taking hikes, from park-style to urban hikes in Washington. She said they alllike being outdoors and being active. She applies herknowledge and skills to her home life, somethingthat precipitated the birth of The Intelligent Nest. “Ialways wanted to apply my skills and was alwaysorganized at home,” Paral said.

WHILE DRIVING HOME from a Vienna Momsmeeting one day, she asked herself how she couldturn those skills into something “beneficial” to fami-lies. The Intelligent Nest was born.

Paral gives seminars to area schools, preschools,church groups and mothers’ groups, focusing on childdevelopment attributes, as well as practical steps tocreate usable and functional playspaces for children.She specializes on the needs and development ofchildren from birth to 5 years old. For families whofeel they would benefit from a personal consulta-tion, Paral is there to help, whether it’s disciplinesuggestions or de-cluttering advice.

“Parents are experts on their own children and itis their job to research and seek answers that workfor their family,” says Paral.

http://intelligentnest.com/ is a goldmine of advice,from toy rotation to effective discipline. For detailson seminars presented by The Intelligent Nest, go tohttp://intelligentnest.com/seminars-webinars/. Con-tact Kristen Paral at [email protected] orby phone at 202-557-6147.

Sharing Expertise onChild DevelopmentKristen Paral of Viennahelps parents mastertechniques that foster thegrowth of well-adjusted,confident children.

Kristen and JasonParal and theirchildren Jack, 5,and Lucy, 3, makeVienna home.

Photo courtesy of

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People and Pets

Rex Meets MacintoshAtticus Rex, an 8-week-old beagle, looks up to hisnew brother, Macintosh Ross of Vienna. AlthoughMacintosh (named for the apple) is 7 years old, Rexis the clearly “top dog” in the Ross family.

Photos by Henry Ross

Atticus Rex, an 8-week-old Beagle, is not quite surewhat to do with the tennis ball yet. He joins olderbrother Macintosh, a golden retriever, Henry, 12, andEllie, 7, of Vienna.

Magnolia and FidoBarbara and Hannah Rudin with their two mixed-breed, rescued dogs, Magnolia (2 years old), andFido (13 years old). The group is pictured on thefront step of their Vienna home, where the dogsenjoy chasing the abundant wildlife that show up intheir yard. Both dogs were adopted from shelters.

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Lou and I adopted Mister Frodo from HomeAlone Cat Rescue about two years ago. Wehave a soft spot for big orange cats. Frodo

is part Maine coon (large with furry feet) and partAmerican bobtail (large with short tail). A descrip-tion of the American bobtail breed on the internetsays they are “born scared”—which sums upFrodo. He is the proverbial “fraidy cat.” For thefirst few weeks after we adopted him, Frodo re-fused to go into the living room, dining room ormaster bedroom for fear of our ceiling fans, evenwhen they weren’t moving. When he accidentallyescapes the house, he comes scurrying right backwhen birds chirp at him. Despite being timid,Frodo is very playful. He “races us” up and downthe stairs and loves to chase Lou’s laser toy.

Last year I decided Frodo might benefit fromthe company of another cat. When I ran into LeeDistrict School Board Representative TammyDerenak Koufax at the Lee District Bridge Walklast summer, she showed me a photo of three kit-tens she and her children, Matthew and Halle,were fostering as part of a School Project. They

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Once Sam was old enough to come home withus, we introduced Sam and Frodo over a few days,keeping Sam separated in the guest room. It tooka few months for them to work out “dominanceissues,” but now they are chasing each otheraround the house and amusing each other. Samhas a fascination with water. We have to keep herwater bowl upstairs in the tub because she splashesthe water all over the place. When she does this,Frodo looks at her as though she is completelyuncouth. It’s hard to believe Sam was a feral kit-ten. She is very affectionate and loves to have herhead stroked.

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Wrong PrioritiesTo the Editor:

We seem to have money for ev-erything these days—bank bail-outs, congressional investigations,even potential invasions of Syria.Just not our kids. We slash foodstamps and cut early educationand our elected officials justwhistle past the graveyard. Newpolling shows Virginians thinkthese priorities are all wrong, andexpect our leaders to invest in ourkids. We should make those run-ning for office in Virginia this yeartell us where they stand on theseissues.

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By Kenneth R. “Ken” Plum

State Delegate (D-36)

While PresidentObama in his state-ment about theTrayvon Martin

case reminded us, “we are a nationof laws, and a jury has spoken,” hewent on to say that “we should askourselves if we’re doing all we canto stem the tide of gun violence that claimstoo many lives across this country on a dailybasis.” Not only are we not doing enough, butwe are seeing actions on the part of congress-men and senators and state legislators fearfulof the gun lobby that may well result in moregun violence. When handguns used in the com-mission of crimes were traced to Virginia insuch great numbers that the state becameknown as the “gun-running capital of the east,”

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According to a USA Today edito-rial, in 1981 19 states prohibitedpeople from carrying a hiddenweapon in public, “but a powerfulgun lobby has turned that system

upside down.” Four states now allow personsto carry hidden firearms without a permit, andin 35 states, including Virginia, officials mustissue permits to just about anyone who appliesunless they have committed a felony. Hiddenguns are now allowed in restaurants and barsand public places.

Most frightening of all are the changes in statelaw to allow persons to stand their ground anduse deadly force in any location one is legally

allowed to be without first attempting to re-treat. Florida was the first state to adopt such alaw that had been drafted by the National RifleAssociation and promoted by the AmericanLegislative Exchange Council to almost twodozen states. The instructions to the jury in theZimmerman case made it clear that if “he hada right to be where he had a right to be, he hadno duty to retreat.” Efforts to enact a “standyour ground” law have been made in Virginiaand are likely to continue until successful. Notonly is there a proliferation of guns, but lawsare being rewritten to expand the instances inwhich they can be used against another.

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The Alexandria-based band FeelFree has just embarked onan eight-date tour of the East Coast, following an openingslot playing with Virginia Coalition at the 9:30 Club inDecember.

By Amber Healy

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A shared appreciation for theblues has morphed into an in-creasingly successful reggaeband with enough popularity

to literally take their show on the road.FeelFree, a group of five 20-something

men from Alexandria, mostly T.C. Will-iams graduates, last week kicked off theirfirst East Coast tour, which will take themfrom this area up to New York City anddown to North Carolina, with a stop inCharlottesville along the way.

“We’re leaving right after every show,”said Evan Hulehan, who sings and playsguitar and keyboard for the band. “Wehave a U-Haul and Jeep” to move themfrom city to city.

Luckily, the band laughs, they havefriends along the way who will let themstop in and take showers and rest for afew minutes between shows.

The band got their start at TC, whenHulehan teamed up with Andrew Pfeiffer,another guitarist and vocalist who alsoplays trombone, and drummer BryanFrank, but the band didn’t start as areggae group.

“Back then, we were just learning ourinstruments,” Hulehan said. “We startedwith AC/DC covers. Maybe by sophomoreyear, we were into the blues along with

T.C. Williams grads hit the roadfor first tour out of the D.C. area.

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Gordon Lightfoot. 8 p.m., at FileneCenter, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.From Canada, Gordon Lightfoot hasoriginal songs like “Early MorningRain” and “For Loving Me” that havebeen covered by icons like Elvis andJohnny Cash. $25-$42. http://www.wolftrap.org/Filene_Center.aspx.

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1812 Overture and More! 8:15 p.m.,at Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road,Vienna. The National Symphonyorchestra performs a selection offanfare and classical pieces, led byconductor Ankush Kumar Bahl. $22-$55. http://www.wolftrap.org/Filene_Center.aspx.

SATURDAY/JULY 27Everything Under the Sun Exhibit.

10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Vienna ArtSociety Gallery on the Village Green,

Stevie Ray Vaughan, JimiHendrix, more bluesy than hardrock.”

Transitioning to reggae “reju-venated everybody,” he added.

“I heard one slow jam and Ifell in love with that, and I fellin love with reggae,” saidFrank.

Two other members, GarrettClausen on bass and ColinCanfil on trumpet, joined thegroup later, and while they’vegone off to college and theworkforce, they insist the bandwill be their primary focus as ofnext summer, when college isover for all of them, Pfeiffer said.

The band’s been excited fortheir opportunity to hit the road,traveling to Kill Devil Hills andWilmington, N.C. later this weekbefore a show in Charlottesville.Their next show in this area isFriday, Aug. 2, at Jammin’ Javain Vienna.

“We started playing at openmic nights in Old Town, like atO’Shaughnessy’s and the LightHorse,” Hulehan said. Playing Sullivan Hallin Manhattan is quite a change.

The guys recognize there’s a shortage of,well, white guys from North America play-ing reggae, but they embrace their position

and hope it brings them some attention.“There aren’t a lot of white reggae bands

popping up,” he laughed. Their presence hasraised eyebrows, but it’s also won over fans.

The hope is for a similar reaction from the

crowds in cities where theaudience isn’t made up offriends and family, withpeople coming up to theband and talking withthem about how muchthey’ve enjoyed their mu-sic, Pfeiffer said.

It was difficult bookingthe tour, because theband hasn’t played out-side the D.C. region be-fore, but after “callingand re-calling,” the hand-ful of venues in New YorkCity and North Carolinacame through and of-fered them opportunities,he said. And they werefortunate enough that allof their jobs gave themthe 10 days they neededto be on the road.

That’s not to say theband isn’t known outsidethis area.

“There’s a guy in Ven-ezuela who is doing art-work for us,” Pfeiffer said.

Still, going on the road is exciting, saidCanfil. “I’m excited to see people whohaven’t seen us before. When someonesays your show is awesome, that’s a goodfeeling.”

Loy McGaughy's“PaperScape 1,” watercolor/collage will be at the “Every-thing Under the Sun” exhibitat the Vienna Art SocietyGallery on the Village Green.See the exhibit this Satur-day, July 27, between 10a.m. and 4 p.m.

513 Maple Ave. W., Vienna. Award-winning Reston artist Loy McGaughy’scollection of colorful collages are onexhibit through Aug. 24. 703-319-3220 or www.viennaartssociety.org.

Peter and the Wolf. 10:30 a.m., atFilene Center, 1551 Trap Road,Vienna. Pushcart Players present atwist on Sergei Prokofiev’s musicalfairytale about a boy who learns to becourageous and resourceful in theface of danger. $10. http://www.wolftrap.org/Filene_Center.aspx.

America the Beautiful. 8:30 p.m., at1645 Trap Road, Vienna. The NSO,conducted by Emil de Cou, willperform music from the greatestAmerican composers accompanied byworks of photographer Ansel Adamsprojected on screens. $22-$55. http://www.wolftrap.org/Filene_Center.aspx.

SUNDAY/JULY 28Village Jazz Band. 6:30 p.m., at 144

Maple Ave. E., Vienna. The VillageJazz Band plays traditional soul jazz.http://www.viennava.gov.

Callaghan Live. 7:30 p.m., Jammin’Java, 227 Maple Ave E Vienna.Nashville-based singer-songwriterperforms. https://jamminjava.com.

Wicked Divas. 8:15 p.m., at FileneCenter, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.Singers Julia Murney and Stephanie J.Block cover an array of Broadwayhighlights from musicals like Wickedand Spamalot with the NSO, led bySteven Reineke. $22-$55. http://www.wolftrap.org/Filene_Center.aspx.

TUESDAY/JULY 30Timbalooloo. 10:30 a.m., at Filene

Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.Oran Etkin, with Clara the Clarinetand Big Mama Tuba introducechildren to world music and jazzthrough storytelling and songs. $8.http://www.wolftrap.org/Filene_Center.aspx.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. 8:30 p.m., atFilene Center, 1551 Trap Road,Vienna. Aspen Santa Fe Balletcombines ballet and modern danceinto its contemporary style and willperform original works from emergingand internationally renownedchoreographers. $4-$40. http://www.wolftrap.org.

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Twins Team Wins ViennaBabe Ruth ChampionshipT

he Twins baseball teamwon the Vienna BabeRuth Senior LeagueChampionship by

beating the Pirates, 2-1 on apacked night Thursday, June 27,at 8:30 p.m. on Waters Field in theheart of Vienna.

For the Twins, the victorymarked a repeat win and theirthird championship in the last fouryears. As the first seed in the towntournament, the Twins beat the Li-ons to advance to the champion-ship game versus the Pirates. In thechampionship, Jeff Cazenaspitched a complete game, giving upthree hits and one unearned run.Cazenas scored the first run of thegame with a first-inning double,stole third base, and scored on aRBI single by Matt Livingston. ThePirates knotted it up in the secondon a two-out walk, stolen base andan error. The Pirates threatened inthe top of the fourth with runners on first and secondwith one out, but Nick Grisius made a clutch stop ona hard-hit grounder by the third base line, knockingthe ball down, stepping on third base and then throw-ing to Matt at first base to complete a 5-3 double play.

The game remained tied until Harris Kaserman drewa walk to open the bottom of the fifth inning, stolesecond, and scored on Erik Hall’s clutch game-win-ning RBI single. Kalib Ashcraft had a triple and SteveNugent a single to round out the Twins attack.

Back row: John Nothaft, Harris Kaserman, MattLivingston, Jeff Cazenas, Nick Grisius, Kalib Ashcraft,coach Steve Nugent, coach Dan Cazenas; front row:Caroline Harris, Cal Brown, Bradley Cazenas, Erik Hall,Nick Brunori and Steven Nugent; lying down is managerFrank Nothaft. Not pictured are Kevin Lawton andMichael Wascom.

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Langley Club Celebrates Despite Loss

From left—LangleyWildthings seniors JackReilly, Kat Owczarski andChris Paul.

The Langley Wildthings (2-2-1) celebrated this week,despite a 226-194 loss to

the Dunn Loring Dolphins. Theteam set four new club records andhonored their graduating swim-mers, Kat Owczarski, Chris Pauland Jack Riley.

Wildthing double winners were:❖ Luke Watson for Boys 8 & Un-

der 25 M Freestyle and Butterfly,❖ Vincent Watson for Boys 9-10

50 M Freestyle and Breaststroke,❖ Maggie Bellaschi for Girls 11-

12 50 M Freestyle and Butterfly,❖ Jack Reilly for Boys 15-18 50

M Freestyle and Breaststroke,❖ Katie Robinson for Girls 15-

18 50 M Backstroke and Breast-stroke.

Jack Reilly closed out his yearsas a Wildthing by breaking TheLangley Club record for Boys 15-18 Freestyle with a time of 25.25;he set the previous record lastweek, when he bested a recordthat had been on top for 42 years.

Individual race winners were:Audrey Wallach for Girls 9-10 50

M FreestyleJack Hoeymans for Boys 11-12

50 M FreestyleBrady Quinn for Boys 8 & Un-

der 25 M BackstrokeMatthew Buchanan for Boys 9-

10 50 M BackstrokeNate Johnson for Boys 15-18 50

M BackstrokeKelly Crittenberger for Boys 8 &

Under 25 M BreaststrokeMaria Grazia Favro for Girls 8 &

U 25 M BreaststrokeEllie Ryan for Girls 11-12 50 M

BreaststrokeJinwon Bailar for for Boys 13-

14 50 M Butterfly

Kat Owczarski for Girls 15-18 50M Butterfly

Blue ribbon relay races werewon by the teams of:

Boys 8&U 100 M Freestyle: LukeWatson, Collin Troy, Peter Kaldes,Gardiner Tyler

Boys 9-10 100 M Medley: Mat-thew Buchanan, Benjamin Scott,Vincent Watson, Sean Mullery

Girls 11-12 100 M Medley: AdairSand, Ellie Ryan, Maggie Bellaschi,Samantha Feldman

Boys 15-18 200 M Medley:Nathan Johnson, NathanRobinson, Chris Paul, Jack Reilly

Boys 18&U 200 M FreestyleMixed Age: Jack Hoeymans,Vincent Watson, Jinwon Bailar,Jack Reilly

Maggie Bellaschi beat her ownGirls 11-12 50 M Butterfly recordwith a time of 34.14; she set theprevious record of 34.34 earlierthis summer.

Jinwon Bailar broke his ownBoys 13-14 50 M Butterfly record,set five days earlier, with a time of27.33.

Nathan Johnson bested the Boys15-18 50 M Backstroke record,previously set by himself on July1 with a new time of 29.34.

Molly Estes took first place in Freshman Girls cat-egory with a score of 63.95.

Otter Divers PrevailT

he Oakton Otter diversprevailed over RollingHills on Tuesday, July

17, with a score of 38 to 30,bringing their win-loss record toone and three. Four Otter diverstook first place in their respec-tive categories: Molly Estes inFreshman Girls with a score of63.95, Mackenzie Brennan inJunior Girls with a score of114.80, Elena Colbert in Inter-mediate Girls with a score of147.50, and AJ Colbert in Se-nior Girls with a score of190.45. The Otter divers swept

the top three places in Fresh-man Girls with Lexi Pierce plac-ing second and Claire Newberryplacing third. Other Otterdivers who placed were: BlaiseWuest (Freshman Boys, third),Kenna Campfield (Junior Girls,third), Julia Powell (Intermedi-ate Girls, second), BradBurgeson (Intermediate Boys,second), Everi Osofsky (SeniorGirls, second), and Gil Osofsky(Senior Boys, second). The Ot-ters next and last dual meet ison Tuesday, July 23, againstTuckahoe at Oakton at 6 p.m.

Mackenzie Brennan took first place in Junior Girlscategory with a score of 114.80

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There are dozens of animal welfare organi-zations across the country working to secure“forever homes” for dogs and cats of all ages.And while there’s a general camaraderieamongst them, stemming from their commoncause, what’s a little friendly competitionamong peers?

For the past few years, the ASPCA (AmericanSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-mals) has sponsored a nationwide contest tochallenge shelters to see how many more ani-mals they could adopt between June andAugust beyond the total the year before.

The idea was to “spur innovation, increasepublic support, empower staff and, most impor-tantly, save more lives,” said Bert Troughton,ASPCA’s vice president and a leader of what hasbecome the ASPCA/Rachael Ray $100K chal-lenge.

The organizations that adopt the most ani-mals above totals from June to August the yearbefore wins not only in terms of putting catsand dogs in loving, happy homes, but a sizeablechunk of change to save even more.

“We know that the contest can help savemore lives in the long-term too, because all of

By Amber Healy

The Connection

Behind every adoption successfullycompleted by the Arlington-basedLost Dog and Cat Rescue Founda-tion, there’s a volunteer with a

happy heart.There’s a small volunteer army across

Northern Virginia that turns out every week-end to help cats and dogs find homes, butthere’s never a shortage of others lookingfor a safe place to be fed, sheltered andloved. Volunteers are what make the orga-nization run, from walking dogs at adop-tion events to petting cats to making sureadoptable animals have safe transportationfrom rural shelters to this area for medicalcare.

These volunteers are playing, and willcontinue to play, a major role in Lost Dog

and Cat Rescue Foundation’s participationin the ASPCA/Rachael Ray $100,000 chal-lenge, an ongoing competition in which therescue group and others across the countryare trying to surpass the number of animaladoptions recorded between June 1 andAug. 31.

But why do people agree to share theirlimited free time with animals? What bringsthem in, and what makes them stay?

Here are a few of their stories:

CALL HIM THE CAT MAN. Harry Shubinand his wife, Julie, know what it’s like toget sweet-talked into taking on more re-sponsibility.

“Always a cat person,” Shubin, a Fairfaxresident, was introduced to Lost Dogthrough a secretary at work when his fam-ily was looking to adopt a kitten after theloss of a cat he’d had for 16 years. He was

more interested in adoptingan older cat, but his familyhad other ideas. So theywent to an adoption event.Within a little time, he had“managed to convince ev-eryone that we should comehome with an adult cat too.”

It took a while to find theright cats, and Friday nightsbecame the family’s time togo to adoption events, chatwith volunteers and spendtime with the animals. Dur-ing an adoption event aboutsix months after they startedgoing regularly, someoneasked Shubin if he was in-terested in adopting.

“Before I could say no,someone opened up andsaid no, they’re just volun-teers,” he said.

A year later, Shubin, offi-

cially a volunteer with cat adoption eventsat the Tysons Corner PetSmart, was askedto help find a cat volunteer coordinator forthe center in the store, where cats some-times live before they’re adopted.

“We had about 30 volunteers at the time,”and Shubin said he made it clear — at leastto him — that he was not interested in be-ing responsible for keeping track of whichvolunteers had which cats at which time.But something happened and, before heknew it, Shubin was put in charge of thecat volunteers, a team he now counts atabout 400 people.

“I refused twice,” he said with a laugh.He’s not alone in being drafted to help out.His wife and daughter are both cat adop-tion counselors, meeting with prospectivecat owners before paperwork is signed andformalized.

He credits PetSmart for being a great part-ner with Lost Dog, hosting many of theadoption events throughout each weekend.He frequently checks in with the store tomake sure the cats that are there have been

fed and checked in on by volunteers, andthe managers make sure to receive copiesof all adoption paperwork as well.

Other rescue groups might cringe at thethought of allowing an adoption to be madethe same day people meet a cat, but Shubinbelieves that’s the best way to go.

“We’d rather adopt more cats to 85 per-cent perfect people than wait for that 99percent perfect house,” he said. “We canalways take an animal back” if the situa-tion doesn’t work out for some reason. Andthere are always more cats to adopt, look-ing for good homes.

HER DAUGHTER’S DOING. JudyHaynes of Herndon was trying to help herdaughter find a way to complete her vol-unteer requirement for an eighth grade civ-ics class. Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Founda-tion was one of the few groups that wouldallow 14-year-olds to help out with paren-tal supervision, so the mother-daughter

Helping Save Lives, One Pet at a TimeArea residents explain their dedication to theLost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation.

Princess is one of many fosterdogs taken in by MarciaTiersky, president of the LostDog and Cat Rescue Founda-tion, over the past 10 years.

This is Jill, a former “lostdog” who joined theHowell family and in-spired their volunteerwork with Lost Dog.

This kitten, fostered by LostDog and Cat Rescue Founda-tion volunteer Beth Stevens, is“a polydactyl,” meaning shehas extra toes.

Parker, formerly a “lostdog,” was adopted byBeth Stevens before shebecame a Lost Dogvolunteer.

This dog, called Batman,was a foster in Lisa MarieCzop’s home.

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The Challenge: Joining Together to Save Animalsthe added attention and support contestantsearn during the contest can be harnessed forcontinued life-saving,” Troughton said.

ASPCA started the challenge in 2010, and in2012, TV personality and animal lover RachaelRay joined up with the organization, as she didagain this year, allowing the organization tooffer more than $600,000 in prize grants:

A $100,000 grand prize grant will beawarded to the organization that reports thelargest increase in adoptions over the total fromthe year before. Other awards include a$25,000 “community engagement award,” and$25,000 to the first place finisher in each of fivedivisions, as well as $15,000 to the secondplace finishers. Lost Dog is in eighth place over-all and second place in their division as ofMonday, July 22.

“It’s a whole lot of work and a whole lot offun because every single life saved is a victory— regardless of who wins the grant prizes forthe biggest increases,” Troughton said.

This year, 49 organizations in 30 states arecompeting for the grants, he said. To see thechallenge details, visit challenge.aspcapro.org.

— Amber Healy

See Volunteering, Page 13

Barbara Hutcherson and Marcia Tiersky helpdogs out of the transport crates loaded into avan used by the Lost Dog and Cat RescueFoundation to bring them to the 11 adoptionevents the rescue group hosts each weekend.

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Despite his smallstature, Bodi likesto play with the bigdogs. Ingrid Ander-son has owned Bodifor about threeyears and said thatBodi is very adventurous.

“He likes to escape and go intothe woods and chase foxes,” shesaid.

Bodi is a beagle and English bull-dog mix, which Anderson thinksis the source of his boldness.

“I think hunting is in his blood,”she said.

According to Anderson, Bodi hasbecome less active with age.When he was a puppy, Andersonwould walk him for two and a halfhours everyday.

“He’s a little bit older now but ayear ago, I couldn’t even keep upwith him,” Anderson said.

Anderson no longer has to takehim on such long walks, but shedoes try to take Bodi to the ViennaDog Park at least twice a week.

Meet Vienna’s Best FriendsPeople and Pets

school.“I always wanted a dog when I

was younger so I made a deal withmy parents,” he said.

Redman’s mother, Kathy, saidthat Duke has taught Nick aboutthe responsibilities that come withowning a pet. Nick is in charge offeeding, walking and cleaning upafter Duke.

“It’s great to see [Nick] takingcare of something,” Kathy said.“He loves Duke and really looksout for him.”

Tater Loves theBeach

Alana Reeves says she lives in afamily of five: her mother and fa-ther, her sister, and her dog, Tater.Tater has been with the Reevesfamily for over nine years.

Ingrid Anderson’s dog Bodi (right)plays with other dogs at the ViennaDog Park.

A CollegeCompanion

While juggling classes, friendsand extracurriculars in college,Emily Davis always makes time forher dog Goose. Davis is a studentat the University of Virginia andsaid that it can be difficult to takeresponsibility of a pet in college.

“Sometimes, I’ll have a lot ofschool work and can’t give Gooseall of the attention he wants,”Davis said.

She said that her housemateshelp her walk and feed Goosewhen she is too busy.

“Everyone loves Goose,” Davissaid. “Sometimes I’ll see someonewalking him and I didn’t even

Emily Davis plays with herdog, Goose.

Nick Redman and his dogDuke have been together fornearly one year. Duke was areward for getting goodgrades in school.

Alana Reeves holds herdog, Tater. Tater has beenwith the Reeves family forover nine years.

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animal lovers who wanted to save dogs and cats alike from shelters wheretheir futures were non-existent if they weren’t adopted.

McAlwee and Underwood were a few years into running a gourmet take-out pizza deli on Washington Boulevard in the Westover neighborhood ofArlington, when McAlwee went to help a friend find a dog to adopt. Whilevisiting a shelter, she saw six dogs that were about to be put down within afew days. She promptly took all six home that night. She got them spayedor neutered and cleaned up and put a classified ad in a newspaper, and inbetween orders for pepperoni and cheese and vegetarian pizzas, she workedto find good homes for them all. She did this several times, adopting dogsabout to be euthanized and finding homes for them.

That’s how the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation was born, out of thetake-out phone number for what’s now the original location of the Lost DogCafe. McAlwee had worked with other rescue groups before, but she wantedto focus more on finding good homes for the animals instead of waiting fora “perfect” placement. The rescue group started with 25 dogs.

Now there are 150 dogs at a ranch in Sumerduck, Va., owned by Lost Dog,as the rescue organization is known, along with 20 cats and an assortment

of other animals, including a horse. Otherdogs and cats live with fosters — morethan 100 dogs are currently in temporaryhomes until they’re adopted.

“It’s amazing what we accomplish withan all-volunteer base,” said BarbaraHutcherson, Lost Dog’s adoptions coordi-nator.

Lost Dog is the only organization inNorthern Virginia participating in theASPCA challenge. The rescue had toverify its numbers and qualify in order to

participate, proving the volunteer base and “the commitment to really takethis challenge and run with it,” Hutcherson said.

If Lost Dog wins one of the grants provided through the challenge, the win-nings likely will be used for vet bills. “It’s difficult when you’re looking at alist of shelter animals and you have to ask if you can afford the big vet billfor one animal” compared to smaller fees for multiple animals, Hutchersonsaid. “We want to take them all. It’s uncomfortable, but we want to do ev-ery single thing we can.”

Funding for the rescue comes from adoption fees, donations, and fromproceeds from the four Lost Dog Cafe locations across Northern Virginia andthe Stray Cat Cafe, next to the original Lost Dog Cafe in Westover.

— Amber Healy

Pet Connection

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Volunteering Saves Livesteam signed up.

That was four years ago.“We started out holding leashes for the dogs,”

Haynes said. When their own dog passed away, theythought about fostering from the organization.

That led to a “foster failure,” as the family soonadopted a “20 pound terrier who doesn’t toleratedogs bigger than she is. Now we foster a lot of Chi-huahuas,” Haynes said. The family has fostered atleast 20 dogs in four years.

The power of knowing a dog has found the righthome is awesome, Haynes added. She recalled onewoman and little boy who came in to look at dogsduring an event. Through the course of chatting withthem, Haynes learned that the boy was in a fosterhome, and the woman wanted to help him feel morecomfortable and safe.

“They were made for each other,” she said.Staying with Lost Dog now that her two teenagers

have surpassed their eighth grade civics obligationswas an easy decision. “It’s very rewarding to do this,”she said. “The volunteers, Barb and Pam, there areso many great people involved.”

A SECOND JOB, A LABOR OF LOVE. MarciaTiersky was just looking for a way to share her time.

Now the president of the Lost Dog and Cat RescueFoundation board, Tiersky, who started volunteer-ing with the organization in 2002, helps overseequarterly board meetings in addition to interview-

ing potential adopters, an-swering questions fromanywhere and everywhere,fostering dogs and updat-ing the website when newanimals arrive for adop-tion.

The organization hasgrown from three adoptionevents per week, averaging20 adoptions each week, to 11 adoption events eachweek, averaging 50-70 adoptions each weekend. Inher 10 years as president, the number of volunteersalso has expanded, now numbering in the thousands.

“It’s amazing,” she said. “And it’s all because of ourwonderful volunteers. We could not do what we doif we did not have people to hold the dogs, show thecats, conduct interviews, do paperwork, answeradopter questions, respond to emails and calls onthe phone line, and generally spread word of mouthabout the rescue.”

MONEY WON EQUALS LIVES SAVED. All vol-unteers interviewed were asked what Lost Dog andCat Rescue Foundation’s winning the $100,000 chal-lenge would mean to the organization, and the re-sponse was unanimous.

Winning that money would mean more animalscould be saved.

Mason, a Lost Dogcat, strolls on aleash during anadoption event.

How to HelpTo learn more about the

ASPCA/Rachael Ray $100,000challenge, find a new pet, do-nate or volunteer with the LostDog and Cat Rescue Foundation,go to www.lostdogrescue.org.

More at www.connectionnewspapers.com.

Editor’s note: Writer Amber Healy is an occasional cat volun-teer with Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation.


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If this quandary were a line, it wouldn’texactly be a line of demarcation, morelike a line of decapitation (figurativelyspeaking of course). These are lines whichare clearly not defined. You couldn’t findthem on a map even if you were a cartog-rapher with 20 years’ experience makingmaps. These are lines which are blurry atbest and if seen at all, likely seen from asatellite snooping high in the sky that nei-ther the government says exists, or thereason for its existence, exists. This is aline, to invoke a well-known KenBeatrice-ism (Ken hosted a sports talkradio program called “Sports Call” forover 20 years in the Washington, D.C.area) on which you wouldn’t want to live(meaning the difference between talentand circumstances was impossible toquantify).

But this is the line of my life on which Itry to live, balance, navigate, manipulateand delude myself as the various cancer-driven emotions and circumstances arise.It makes the 3.9-inch width of a balancebeam seem more like 39 inches.However, there are striking similaritiesbetween this apparatus and life as a can-cer patient: the falls can sometimes bedevastating, physically, but more often, itis the emotional toll which disrupts themost. When I lose my balance and fall,it’s as if I actually can’t get up.

Most days I can manage this sort of co-dependency. Other days, I can’t. Living inthe past at the same time as you’re tryingto live in the present and plan for thefuture and trying as well to take bothpositives and negatives in the identicalstride are challenges I really didn’t antici-pate having to overcome at such a rela-tively early age: 54 and a half.

Nevertheless, life goes on, for whichI’m extremely grateful. Some days/ cir-cumstances are definitely worse than oth-ers, but at least I’m still in the game. Forhow long, though? (See, I can’t even fin-ish a column without stumbling overmyself.)

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There are many people in the Washington DC Area that still suffer withperipheral neuropathy. In this day and age there are significant improvementsin the treatments available. Past treatment for peripheral neuropathytraditionally revolved around medication, leaving many patients stillsuffering. It doesn’t have to be this way anymore. At Virginia IntegrativeHealth we have several new programs that may help you turn this conditionaround. If you’re struggling with burning pain, tingling, numbness, or even aloss of feeling, call our office today to see if we can help you, like we have formany patients before. When you arrive, our staff will sit with you anddetermine if you are a good candidate. It is a great day to start your new life.

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Medication can be very helpful for a number ofthings. The problem is that medication is notgenerally designed to correct the cause of theproblem.

Common sense will tell you that if your treatmentis not designed to correct the true problem, you’relikely to have disappointing results. In some casesmedication can actually cause new problems todevelop in the body because of the many sideeffects. We know so much about the human bodytoday. It’s time to move beyond treatments thatmask your symptoms.

Our new Peripheral Neuropathy treatments are successful formany patients because we attack the problem at its source. Ourcombination of breakthrough technology along with advancedtreatments provides your body with the things it needs to helpheal damaged nerves. The majority of patients notice animprovement in their symptoms within their first few treatments.Our combination of treatments helps to restore, stabilize, andrebuild the nerves in your extremities. In many cases the resultscan go beyond neuropathy and have also been helpful for patientssuffering from chronic pain, arthritis, and Multiple Sclerosis.

When you’re deciding where you are going to go for treatment, it’simportant to think about one thing. Is the treatment you’re receivinggoing to correct the cause of the problem, or is it designed to coveryour symptoms? This type of treatment is designed to mask yoursymptoms and will generally leave you disappointed in the end.

I am a 44 year old male with neuropathies in my hands and feet, as aresult of chemotherapy. I experience numbness, pins and needles andpain. There has been no relief since this started nearly two years ago,until now. After one treatment the neuropathy pain is better, and myheadaches, neck and back pain are already diminishing. I thought theneuropathies would never get better and now they are! – Kaj

At Virginia Integrative Health we believe that each patient is an individual. Our multi-doctor approach gives us theability to custom fit our treatments to you. Our staff will sit down with you on your first visit to determine the besttesting and treatment options for you. We offer some of the most advanced non-surgical FDA approved treatmentsavailable today. It’s always our goal to focus on the causeof any condition we treat. Our patients expect the best, andwe do everything we can to help them achieve their goals.We want you to have the ability to live your life to thefullest. Don’t let pain take that away from you.

If you have neuropathy you understand how it canmake you feel. Simple things like driving your car ortaking a walk with a loved one can become painfuland difficult tasks.

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