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Herndon HighPerforms‘Brigadoon’News, Page 4

CelebratingThe Magic ofLift Me Up!News, Page 3

Schools UsingDiversity for

Student BenefitsFocus on Immigration, Page 8

Fiona and Tommy, played by HerndonHigh School seniors Molly Nuss and Paul

Morgan, sing together during theschool’s production of “Brigadoon.”

CelebratingThe Magic ofLift Me Up!News, Page 3

Schools UsingDiversity for

Student BenefitsFocus on Immigration, Page 8

Herndon HighPerforms‘Brigadoon’News, Page 4

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T he Fairfax CountyChamber of Com-merce (Fairfax Cham-ber), in partnershipwith the Fairfax-Falls Church Com-munity Partnership to Prevent andEnd Homelessness, The Connec-tion Newspapers and Apple Fed-eral Credit Union, has announcedthe Second Annual Jeans Day to

Put the ZIP on Homelessness( h t t p : / /jeansday2012.eventbrite.com).

On Jeans Day 2012—Friday,Dec. 14—businesses, county agen-cies, non-profit organizations andcivic and faith-based groups inNorthern Virginia will allow em-ployees or members to wear jeansto work or gatherings in exchange

for a $5 contribution to EndHomelessness. Last year, morethan 100 employers, representing3,000 employees, participated inthe initiative.

Twenty-two organizations, rep-resenting nearly 2,000 employees,have already signed up to partici-pate in Jeans Day 2012, including:

❖ City of Fairfax Regional Li-

brary❖ CPS Professional Services,

LLC❖ Ernst & Young❖ Fairfax County Department of

Housing❖ Fairfax County Department of

Human Resources❖ Fairfax County Department of

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mestic Relations District Court❖ Fairfax County Office of the

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vent and End Homelessness❖ Fairfax County Retirement

Administration Agency❖ Fairfax-Falls Church Commu-

nity Services Board-Chantilly Cen-ter

❖ Helios HR❖ Holland & Knight LLP❖ The ILEX Group❖ Kositzka, Wicks & Company❖ M&T Bank❖ The O’Reilly Law Firm❖ Reston Association❖ Steve Gladis Leadership Part-

ners❖ Tysons Corner Center❖ Virginia Commerce Bank❖ WSP Environment & Energy“We’re proud to partner with the

county, through the Office to Pre-vent & End Homelessness, TheConnection Newspapers andApple Credit Union to provide anopportunity for businesses andtheir employees to participate inthe robust work to endhomelessness going on in our com-munity,” said Fairfax ChamberPresident & CEO Jim Corcoran.“Northern Virginia businesses stepup every day to support our com-munity in many ways, but we’reespecially excited about this op-portunity because it’s a chance foremployees to get involved di-rectly.”

“Now, more than ever, we needyou to get involved as we moveforward with the Fairfax-FallsChurch Community Partnership toPrevent and End Homelessness.Everyone is in need of some typeof help at one point in time or an-other. Now, we need your help,and Jeans Day is a great way foryou and your business to get in-volved to prevent and endhomelessness in our community aswe know it,” said Fairfax CountyBoard of Supervisors ChairmanSharon Bulova.

“In Fairfax County, it’s easy toforget that there are homelessfamilies here, homeless children inthe schools, and that many peoplewho are homeless here are actu-ally working, but don’t makenearly enough money to affordhousing,” said The ConnectionPublisher Mary Kimm. “The Con-nection is committed to raisingawareness of homelessness andthe need to provide permanentshelter, and to recognizing thegood works of individuals and

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Friday, Dec. 16 was an ex-tremely busy day as vol-unteers were sortingfood and clothing and tweetswere going out seeking addi-tional food items. Facebook wasupdated with requests for morevolunteers to help. On Saturdaymorning at 8 a.m. LINK wasready to receive the first of 800-plus families.

When the day ended shortlyafter 4 p.m., LINK and volun-teers had served 801 families(4,300 people comprising2,066 adults and 2,234 chil-dren) food to last five to sevendays, fresh produce and meatfrom Capital Area Food Bank.Volunteers made direct deliv-eries to 11 homebound fami-lies; $21,930 was distributedin grocery card gift cards;1,592 winter coats, 1,748 pairsof gloves and winter hats and1,035 scarves and other win-ter items were distributed to320 grateful families.

Over 500 volunteers helpedin the week long pre-stagingand the event day efforts for allprograms. Caring people wereneeded to collect and pre-stagethe food and clothes at the threearea churches. Volunteers coor-dinated the whole event, con-tacting schools and social work-ers, comparing recipient listswith other agencies, schedulingguest appointments, managing

the ever-changing volunteershifts, staffing the guest regis-tration desk and providingSpanish translators.

Knowledgeable peopleworked with the school listing,and maintained the web siteand the data collection process.Experienced volunteers man-aged the task of getting pack-ers, bags, drivers, addresses,and families all matched to-gether and ensured there wasbreakfast and lunch at the breakrooms. Other volunteershandled the grocery gift cardsor loaded guest vehicles withoverflowing bags of groceries.

LINK will repeat the processon Dec. 15, but will replace thecoats and clothing with newunwrapped toys. As of today,we need about 3,800 new toysfor children newborn through16 years old. It is a huge goal,but one I know we can meetand possibly exceed with assis-tance from our wonderfulLoudoun and Fairfax commu-nity. We also need more food tofill the empty shelves left afterSaturday.

If you would like to help bycoordinating a food or toy drivewithin your community, church,neighborhood or business,please contact LINK [email protected].

—Mark Gunderman

L ift Me Up! therapeutic riding programhosted its annual gala on Saturday, Nov.17, celebrating the organization’s 37thyear of bringing the magic of horsebackriding to individuals living with disabilities. The eventtook place at the BMW of Sterling, courtesy of Tho-mas and Joyce Moorehead, who, for the last sevenyears, have opened their showroom for Lift Me Up!’sprimary fundraiser of the year.

The evening began with guests mingling at a cock-tail reception that included hors d’oeuvres by RSVPCatering and a silent auction, full of donations fromthe community, including the Washington Redskins,Washington Wizards, local jewelers and restaurants,and many more. Throughout the evening, threeyoung riders from the program, Keira Kenny, CamronSaba, and Catalina Smith chatted with guests andraised over $1,500 by selling raffle tickets for a bas-ket organized by Maggie Johnston of the program’sboard of directors.

Dinner entertainment included an elaborate magicshow and an awards presentation where Great Fallsresident Tracy Kenny, and volunteer Gordon Baker,were honored for their service to the organization.

The evening also featured a live auction that in-cluded a Jorge Adeler one-of-a-kind custom designednecklace donated by Adeler Jewelers as well as anopportunity to view Dr. Lucas Collazo and his Car-diac Surgery Team perform live open heart surgery.Following the bidding, Keller Williams of McLeanpresented a check for over $15,000 as the proceedsfrom the third annual McLean-Great Falls Keller Wil-liams Cares charity golf tournament. The eveningended with another gala tradition known as “StandUp for Lift Me Up!” where guests raised an additional$28,000 for this program.

Community support is at the heart of the program’ssuccess. More than 300 volunteers comprising localhigh school students and adults assist the studentriders and PATH- certified riding instructors duringlessons offered seven days a week. Lift Me Up! servesover 100 riders of all ages, including local veteranswounded while serving in the military.

Lift Me Up! is a 501 (c) (3) charity and a PATHPremier Accredited Center. For more information,visit www.liftmeup.org.

Men from Fairfax and Loudoun volunteered togetherand managed the constant traffic of shopping cartsas 50,000 pounds of non-perishable groceries wereloaded into vehicles of families in need from Ster-ling, Ashburn and Herndon. Christ the RedeemerCatholic processed 55 families an hour, totaling 397carts between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Working in parallel,Trinity Presbyterian in Herndon handled 404 grocerycarts. Seventy-three walk-in families were served atthe end of the day.

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Celebrating the Magic of Lift Me Up!Thirty-seventh anniversarygala a spectacular night.

From left—Lauren Carbaugh and DebbieSaba, Lift Me Up! supporters.

Part of the gala’s tradition is a rider testi-monial. This year’s speaker was CatalinaSmith who gave an emotional speechthanking Lift Me Up! for her ability to ridetoday.

From left—Jennifer Lucier,president of the Lift Me Up!board of directors, TracyKenny, 2012 honoree andboard member, and KeiraKenny. Great Falls residentTracy Kenny, and volunteerGordon Baker, were hon-ored for their service to theorganization.

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For many cast members inthe Herndon High SchoolTheatre Department, themusical “Brigadoon”wasn’t a familiar title to them. Thestory of two New Yorkers whostumble upon a mystical disap-pearing Scottish village featuresone of the young men, Tommy,who falls in love with one of thetown’s residents, only to be con-fronted by the fact that the townonly appears once every hundredyears.

“It’s sort of a classic that nobodyknows about,” said senior MollyNuss, who plays Fiona, the womanTommy falls in love with.

Nuss says she really enjoyed thereality of her character, who de-spite being trapped in a villagethat only appears once a century,has plenty of depth.

“She shows an entire range ofemotion throughout the play, she’ssassy and fiery, but also very seri-ous. Her character is very relat-able,” she said. “Throughout muchof the play, she seems to wear amask, before coming out as shereally is.”

Senior Paul Morgan, who playsTommy, says he was familiar withthe 1954 film starring Gene Kelly,who is his favorite actor.

“The love songs are really great,they range from confusion, toTommy finding a direction, onlyto lose it again,” he said. “From aperformance standpoint it’s themost demanding role I’ve played,a lot of singing and dancing, butit’s also the best role I’ve played.”

NEW YORKERS Tommy and Jeff,played by senior Chris Hrozencik,

find themselves surrounded by atown full of people trapped in thepast. Hrozencik’s character is asardonic drinker that tries to keepTommy grounded, even as he be-comes more infatuated with Fiona.

“He was definitely a fun charac-ter to play, he’s older and a drunk,but there are scenes, particularlyat the end, where there are comicmoments that also show the truereality of his character,” he said.

Hrozencik isn’t the only actorwho plays a character vastly dif-ferent from himself. Senior AmyFreeman plays Meg Brockie, alovestruck woman who chases Jeff

for much of the play.“She’s so flighty and promiscu-

ous, it was fun to put myself intothe role, that’s what acting is allabout,” she said. “I love the songat the end of the first act, ‘The Loveof My Life,’ where she reflects onhow strange her love life is. Andthe whole time she’s chasing Jeff,he’s so dismissive, but she couldn’tcare less.”

The students stay true to theplay, speaking in thick Scottishaccents throughout the play, andwearing the tartan attire and pet-ticoats that are Scotland’s signa-ture.

Like most of Herndon’s musicals,this one features accompanimentfrom a pit orchestra, also studentsat Herndon High School.

“The orchestra helps add powerand emotion to the scenes, andthat’s something we can draw onas actors,” Nuss said.

Senior Megan Overton, whoplays the role of Jean, said the pro-cess of learning a completely newmusical was very rewarding.

“Once we started doing re-search, seeing the movie andlearning the songs, it was really afun process. Once it all starts com-

ing together, with the great cos-tumes and the set pieces, it justadds a whole new energy,” shesaid. “We’re so lucky to be able tohave the pit orchestra performing,a lot of schools don’t have thatopportunity.”

“BRIGADOON” will be per-formed at the Herndon HighSchool auditorium Friday, Nov. 30and Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.and Sunday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. Tick-ets are $10. For more information,or to purchase tickets, visitwww.herndondrama.org.

Herndon High Performs ‘Brigadoon’Theater department puts on annual fall musical.

“From a performance standpoint it’s themost demanding role I’ve played, a lot ofsinging and dancing, but it’s also the bestrole I’ve played.”

— Senior Paul Morgan

Paul Morgan, in the role of Tommy, is haunted by the lossof Fiona, during the Herndon High School production of“Brigadoon,” opening Nov. 30.

From left, New Yorkers Tommy, played by senior PaulMorgan and Jeff, played by senior Chris Hrozencik, dis-cuss the town of Brigadoon in the Herndon High Schoolproduction of “Brigadoon,” starting Nov. 30.

Fiona (played by Molly Nuss) and Tommy (played by Paul Morgan)struggle with their feelings for each other during a scene in HerndonHigh School’s production of “Brigadoon.”

The townspeople hold a funeral for one of their residents duringHerndon High School’s production of “Brigadoon,” which starts Nov. 30.

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Fairfax County Crime Solvers is seeking the public’s assistance inidentifying the suspects responsible for damaging numerous vehiclesparked in an apartment complex over the weekend. An investigationdetermined that between 11 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24 and 8 a.m. onSunday, Nov. 25, the suspects slashed the tires of at least 64 vehiclesparked in the Dulles Greene Apartment Complex. The vehicles were allparked on Astoria Circle; one car was parked on Rock Hill Road, justoutside the complex.

Surveillance video shows three males entering the complex on footthat night. One male was heavyset, wearing light-colored clothing. Thesecond male was wearing dark-colored basketball shorts. The thirdmale was wearing dark-colored clothing. Detectives are releasing aphoto of these three males in the hopes someone may have seen themin the area that night or may recognize them.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Solvers by phoneat 1-866-411-TIPS (8477), e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org ortext “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES (274637). A $100 to $1,000cash reward will be paid for information that leads to an arrest. Asalways, callers never have to give their names or appear in court. Findus on Facebook.

Fox Mill Walks Raise $5,400 forReston Interfaith

The seventh annual Fox Mill Elementary School PTA Walk for theHomeless was held Thursday, Oct. 25. A total of 254 walkers raisedmore than $5,400 to help Reston Interfaith in their efforts to endhomelessness in Fairfax County.

After being greatly moved by a report about the high numbers ofhomeless families living in Fairfax County, a past student Kristin Allgaier,with the help of her family, first organized this walk for her school in2005. Although she has now moved on to Rachel Carson, Fox Mill hasbeen committed to hosting a Walk at Fox Mill each fall. Thirty-threepercent of homeless people in Fairfax County are children. Fox Mill’sefforts bring attention to the power of children helping children andprove that young people can make a very large difference in their com-munity.

Due to the fact that the walk was happening right before Halloween,the children were invited to wear masks for the walk in line with thetheme—“unmask homelessness” in your community. Prior to the event,Fox Mill Student Council officers took a tour of Reston Interfaith’s EmbryRucker Community Shelter in Reston, and then shared facts abouthomelessness with the rest of the school. Fox Mill Elementary Princi-pal Mie Devers and Assistant Principal Brian Moose were also therealong with many of the teachers to show their support for the walk.The children also had Fox Mill PTA President Amanda Owens, AbbyKimble from Reston Interfaith and Clare Tock from Fannie Mae cheer-ing them on.

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OpinionLearning in a Global CommunityStudents in Fairfax County speak 160 languages.

This week our ongoing series aboutimmigration in Fairfax Countytakes a look at county schools, andsome of the joys and challenges ofhaving a diverse student body that speaks asmany as 160 different languages at home.

Find the series compiled online at http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/Immi-gration/.

For the director of language acquisition inFairfax County Public Schools, the 44 percentof students who speak a foreign language athome present an opportunity to create lan-guage immersion classes where half a kinder-garten is learning Spanish or Korean while theother half is learning English.

For principals of some elementary schoolswhere more than half of their students are notproficient in English, the need to have studentsmeet benchmarks in a variety of subjects is arelentless process. In addition to limited En-glish, immigrant students come from variedbackgrounds, some with good basics in their

own languages and some with limited previ-ous education in any language. The parents ofthese students are similarly varied.

Meanwhile, representation of Latino andAfrican American students in Fairfax County’stop instructional centers for gifted students lagsdramatically.

FCPS is conducting two criti-cal sets of public meetings thisweek and next. The call for pub-lic input is not specifically about

growing diversity in the schools, but relatedchallenges make both the possible expansionof centers for the county’s most talented stu-dents and the selection of a new superinten-dent of schools that much more important.

A fast moving proposal to expand the num-ber of centers to provide “advanced academic”services is the topic of meetings this week. Themeetings will run from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday,Nov. 27, in the Westfield High School cafete-ria; Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Lee High Schoolcafeteria; and Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Kilmer

Middle School cafeteria.Fairfax County Public Schools Superinten-

dent Jack Dale will be retiring in June of 2013.The School Board has hired a search firm,Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, whichwill be gathering community input. Many ofthe challenges facing the new superintendentwill revolve around growing diversity, and atrack record of open communication andachievement in this will be key to success.

SUPERINTENDENT SEARCHCOMMUNITY MEETINGS❖ Dec. 3 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, South County HS, 8501

Silverbrook Road, Lorton, VA 22079.❖ Dec. 4 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Langley HS, 6520

Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101.❖ Dec. 5 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Robinson SS, 5035

Sideburn Road, Fairfax, VA 22032.❖ Dec. 6 - 10 a.m. Gatehouse Administration Center,

8115 Gatehouse Road, Falls Church, VA 22042Room 1600.

❖ Dec. 6 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Annandale HS, 4700Medford Drive, Annandale, VA 22003.

❖ Dec. 6 - 7 p.m., cafeteria, Groveton ElementarySchool, 6900 Harrison Lane, Alexandria, VA 22306.

❖ Dec. 7 - 1 p.m., Gatehouse Administration Center,8115 Gatehouse Road, Falls Church, VA 22042Room 1600.

Editorial

Immigrants and Today’s Faith ResponseFocus on Immigration

By John Horejsi, CoordinatorSocial Action Linking Together (SALT)

The presence of increasing numbers ofimmigrants is a challenge to the FairfaxCounty faith community commit-ments. The challenge is to be a faith commu-nity with open arms.

Historically the churches in the United Stateshave been immigrant churches. Who amongus cannot trace one’s ancestors back to a coun-try outside the U.S.? The church’s care andconcern for countless European immigrants iswell known. Today, we the faith communityare called to welcome immigrants with simi-lar hospitality.

The situation of immigrants is often desperate.Entering a culturally strange and different land,and struggling financially is as scary today as itever was in the past. Perhaps it is even more sobecause of the quickened pace of American life.

Those who are fortunate to connect withhelpers are settled within a few years. Othersremain in transition the rest of their lives asfamilies struggle with complex adjustments.All face major problems in housing, employ-ment, health care, legal assistance, and a diffi-cult new language.

Immigrants frequently face the additionalobstacle of cruel prejudice and racism. Non-immigrants often want to exclude them fromthe benefits of a free country, yet are eager touse cheap and reliable labor of immigrants.

The immigrants and other refugees keepcoming, not necessarily because they want to,

but as one, fleeing from war and persecution,put it, because of “the persistent advantage oflife over death.”

Presently, many Hispanics from CentralAmerica are located in Northern Virginia. About65 percent are Salvadoran, 15 percent Hondu-ran, and 10 percent each are Guatemalan andNicaraguan. The faith community in NorthernVirginia has not been unaware of the presenceand plight of these immigrant refugees.

Nationally, for more than 65 years, CatholicCharities agencies have responded to the needsof people who come to this country in searchof a better life. Thousands of refugees have

been settled. Over 90 percent of Catholic re-settlement services are provided throughCatholic Charities, which is one of the keys tothe future of migration ministry in the U.S.

In Northern Virginia, one of the responsesof the faith community has been through HogarImmigrant Services, a program of CatholicCharities. Hogar assists immigrants in partici-pating more fully in their everyday lives. In-formation referrals, legal information services,and educational opportunities are just someof the aids. The aim is to help the NorthernVirginia immigrant population become knowl-edgeable, participating individuals in society.

Yet much remains to be done, especially inand by the faith community. What are the el-ements of this challenge?

❖ Recognizing the contributions of the im-migrants to the community;

❖ Providing a greater voice to the immigrantcommunity in decision-making within the com-munity;

❖ Supporting programs designed to improvethe quality of life for newcomers;

❖ Serving as advocates to create a favorablepublic opinion out of which good things canhappen; and

❖ Seeking to raise consciousness for solidar-ity with the poor and the stranger.

Our response must be to acknowledge byword and action that the spirituality of the faithcommunity and the spirituality of the immi-grant communities are interdependent.Through love, kindness, service and advocacyfor each other both stand to gain.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOLATTENDANCE AREASStudents who speak a language

other than English at home

38,760 FairfaxCounty elementaryschool students (44percent) speak alanguage other thanEnglish at home.

By Donna ManzThe Connection

The schools that feed intoGeorge C. MarshallHigh School are the aca-demic home to children from allover the world. It’s not surpris-ing, then, that Marshall is an in-ternational community, a TysonsCorner United Nations, so tospeak. Many of the studentscome for the prestigious I.B. (In-ternational Baccalaureate), butmost are in the Marshall district,which embraces students fromTysons to the far-reaches ofVienna. From Italian to Swahili,there is a myriad of languagesnative to Marshall’s students,who represent more than 90nations.

“Marshall has an internationalstudent body from all walks oflife, from the four corners of theworld,” said principal JayPearson. “Our kids cross somany boundaries. We don’t re-fer to it as ‘diversity,’” Pearsonsaid. “For our students, this isthe norm. These kids are veryaccustomed to moving betweengroups of students from every-where, so, there aren’t ‘cliques.’

“We are the face of whatFairfax County is in 2012.”

FIVE INVITED STUDENTSgathered in a roundtable discus-sion at Marshall recently. Whatthey agreed on is that Americanschools are less-intense aca-demically, less-academicallypressuring than schools outsidethe U.S. In other countries, it is

academics-only that define yourfuture, a selected group of studentssaid in the recent discussion withPearson and an interviewer. In theU.S., the students said, you haveextracurricular programs that en-hance the total person. What theU.S. does not have, however, thatinternational schools stress, is anemphasis on foreign language flu-ency.

English is a compulsory curricu-lum in many school systems theworld over. Some students, such asKasthury Paramiswaran, aMarshall senior from Malaysia,speak multiple languages, fluent ineach. Kasthury’s family movedaround the world as part of herfather’s job, and Kasthury masteredfour languages in her journeys. Shesaid she still works very hard in herI.B. subjects, getting “A”s in everyone of her classes. She is applyingto colleges in the United Kingdomand the Netherlands.

Jia Loh, a Malaysian native whohas been in the U.S. for two years,said the transition to schools herewas “hard,” even though the aca-demic environment is less intensethan in Malaysia.

“I had to adjust to different cul-tures. It was hard to find friendswho share my culture.”

Dalila Ferrara’s family movedaround Italy; her father is in themilitary there. In the early 1990s,he was assigned to a U.S. base inTexas and his experience there wasnot a good one. “He warned me notto tell people I’m Italian,” Dalilasaid. “He told me not to be proud

By Alex McVeighThe Connection

As Fairfax County has ex-perienced massivegrowth in its interna-tional population, its ef-fects have spread to its educationalinstitutions. Forty-four percent ofthe Fairfax County Public Schoolsstudents come from homes thatspeak a language other than En-glish, which includes 160 differentlanguages.

In 2006, the county came upwith the goal to eventually have allgraduates be able to communicatein two languages. The county cur-rently offers 11 different lan-guages.

“We highly value the diversity ofour population, because it’s advan-tageous for our students to growup here, as global citizens,” saidTeddi Predaris, director of thecounty’s Office of Language Ac-quisition. “We believe it’s a hugeasset for our students in their fu-ture endeavors.”

Approximately 28 percent of thecounty’s current population are for-eign born, with Spanish, Korean,Vietnamese, Arabic, Urdu and Chi-nese/Mandarin being the mostcommon languages spoken in thehomes of elementary school stu-dents.

The county’s kindergarten two-way immersion program is onemethod used by schools to takeadvantage of increasing diversity.The program consists of half En-glish speakers and half who speakthe immersion language.

“In this program, the teachersand students are language modelsfor each other, and they spend halfthe day working at each language,”Predaris said. “Our criteria for add-ing these programs is having alarge enough population of thenon-English speaking group tomake a 50-50 mix possible. This isone of the models we hope to ex-pand in coming years.”

The county has five Spanish kin-dergarten two-way immersion pro-grams, at Bailey’s, Braddock, LakeAnne, London Towne and Rose HillElementary Schools. New this yearis a Korean two-way immersionschool at Colin Powell ElementarySchool in Centreville.

THE PROGRAM AT COLINPOWELL was designed to take ad-vantage of the area’s large Korean

Schools Using Diversity for Student BenefitsImmersion, ESOL programs aim to takeadvantage of area cultures.

“We highly value the diversityof our population, because

it’s advantageous for ourstudents to grow up here, as

global citizens.”— Teddi Predaris, director of the county’s

Office of Language Acquisition

Focus on Immigration

where they have little tono schooling. There’s al-ways a silent period inthe beginning, but peri-ods like lunch and recessallow the Spanish speak-ers to talk among them-selves, which helps openthem up. Children learnmost of their languagefrom each other, so hav-ing native speakers ofboth languages helpsboth groups immensely.Each group of native speakersgets to be the language rolemodel for half a day, with theother students learning from them.It really boosts their confidence.”

COUNTY SCHOOLS also feature

Janet Funk, principal of GunstonElementary School in Lorton,where approximately 300 studentscome from a home where anotherlanguage is spoken, says everydayinteraction with new cultures is animportant part of early education.

“Interesting conversations can beheard in the lunchroom, especiallywhen students from other coun-tries bring their food from home.Children are very interested inbringing their favorite foods, whichnaturally flows to a discussion oftraditions and celebrations,” shesaid. “With these informal discus-sions, the students learn the impor-tance of accepting classmates forwho they are. This supports ourgoal of cultural acceptance an col-laborative interaction among ourschool community.”

But with such diversity comeschallenges, especially when itcomes to Standards of Learningtests.

“Classroom teachers and ESOLteachers work diligently to help thestudents learn the English lan-guage. Many of our students fromother countries are still learningEnglish and are reading belowgrade level expectations,” Funksaid. “These students receive read-

ing instruction in the classroomsetting and the ESOL class-room. They are receiving a‘double’ dose of reading ona regularly scheduled ba-sis. However, when itcomes time to take theSOL tests, they are re-quired to take the test on

grade level in a lan-guage in which they arenot proficient.”In Virginia, SOL tests

must be taken in English,but in Texas, for example,

standardized tests can be taken inSpanish.

CHANGES to the state’s licensurerequirements this year have alsocaused some difficulties. This year,the state required teachers in el-ementary school programs to notonly be licensed in their language,but also for elementary education.

“We’ve struggled this year due tothe new requirement,” Charltonsaid. “We’ve had to use some long-term subs until as recently as twoor three weeks ago before we hadenough full time teachers that metqualifications. Now I think the uni-versities are aware of the change,so it might be better in future years,but it can definitely make it diffi-cult to find people.”

population. The Korean studentswho are in the program all couldspeak a little English

“The program is a niche that fitsvery well in our community. For thenative English speakers, it helpsthem understand more about theculture of the people they sharethe community with everyday. It gives everyone moreunderstanding of thepeople that walkthrough our doorsevery day,” said

Principal LindaClifford. “Walking into aclassroom the other day, I wasamazed at how many non-Koreanstudents were able to understandKorean very well.”

Clifford said she hopes in futureyears that the school can expandthe program beyond kindergarten,eventually to every grade at theschool. The school also offers anafter school program to all studentswho are interested in learning Ko-rean, and they even have a pre-school program to teach immigrantfamilies about school programsand other information they mightnot otherwise be familiar with be-fore their children start school.

Students in the program atBailey’s Elementary take health,math and science in their nativelanguage. As a magnet school, stu-dents from across the county canapply, which the school uses mainlyto fill its English-speaking require-ment.

“The native Spanish speakerscome to Bailey’s with a wide rangeof English skills, depending onwhere they come from,” said As-sistant Principal Rachel Charlton.“Some come from very rural areas

Another area of growth has beenthe county’s English for Speakersof Other Languages program,which started 35 years ago with300 students. Since then it has seena steady increase, with 15,000 infiscal year 2001 and 31,000 thisyear.

immersion programs in Japanese,German and French at elementaryand middle schools.

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Marshall High Is the Face of Fairfax County90-plus countries represented bystudent population.

George C.Marshall

High Schoolhas a student

populationrepresenting

more than 90nations.

“Marshall has aninternationalstudent body fromall walks of life,from the fourcorners of theworld … We arethe face of whatFairfax County isin 2012.”— George C. Marshall High

School Principal JayPearson

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The Connection

Viewpoints

What was your biggest concern or fearwhen moving to U.S. schools?

—Donna ManzKasthuryParamiswaran,senior,Malaysia

“I had a closegroup of friendsthere and I didn’tknow anybodyhere,” on leaving Malaysia whenshe had made friends in hernative high school. “I still workvery hard in my [I.B.] classes.”

Dalila Ferrara,junior, Italy

“Actually, I wasreally happy tomove here. Myonly fear wasthat I wouldn’t beaccepted. Thatdidn’t happen. My biggest dreamis to get an MBA from Harvard.”

Millan Mbise,senior,Tanzania

“The culturalaspect. Forexample, inTanzania there islittle interactionwith teachers. The teachers arestrict, classes are very intense. It’snot like that here. I played varsitysoccer last year and that helpedme a lot with the transition toMarshall.

“I figured out what I wanted todo with my life when I movedhere. I want to be a pharmacist.”

Jia Loh,senior,Malaysia

“Mybiggest fearwas findingfriends. Stillfind it hard

to join cliques. Most of myfriends are internationalstudents. I’m still workingon that part of the transi-tion. My dream is to find ahigh-paying job I like,accounting or law.”

AmberHolder,senior,Panama

“Mybiggest fearwas that Iwouldn’t

have the same friendsthroughout my academiccareer. My dream is toestablish a music educationsystem that would producemore diverse, well-roundedmusicians, not just musi-cians who are skilled in justone instrument.”


By Michelle KainThe Connection

Garfield ElementarySchool in Spring-field, like all ofFairfax County, hasa population that reflects awide range of backgrounds.With 33 languages spoken, theschool’s ESOL (English forSpeakers of Other Languages)program has had to expand.The school has a first gradeclass of 60 students, 58 ofwhom are ESOL students rang-ing from levels one throughfour.

Jane Cofie-Raczko, who hasbeen a teacher for the past 13years, teaches one of three firstgrade classes in which all 20 of the students haveEnglish as a second language.

The majority of these students are from Hispanicor Middle Eastern backgrounds and common lan-guages include Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Ko-rean, Chinese and Vietnamese. The challengesinvolved with teaching these students depend ontheir proficiency with the English language.

“For students who speak almost no English, itcan be difficult to communicate to the studentsthat you want them to succeed and that you arethere to help them. It can also be difficult to getthe students to ask for help, mostly due to theirlack of confidence in their speaking ability. Forstudents with a better knowledge of the social lan-guage, it can be tough to give them a similarlystrong academic language. Add the already diffi-cult material to learning English for the first timeand it can be very challenging,” said Cofie-Raczko.

“The success of the students with the curricu-lum and their preparedness for middle and highschool depends on the schooling they received intheir home country as well as when they enrolled

Teachers discuss challenges of teaching English asa Second Language.

We Are the World, at Garfield

of being Italian.” Dalila carriedthat warning with her when sheentered Marshall. The dire warn-ing turned out to have no basis ather new school. “When I tellpeople here I’m Italian, they say,‘oh, I love Italy’ and then, I’m sorelieved. Yes, I am proud to say I’mItalian here.”

In Italy, it was always school andstudying through late evening,Dalila said. She had no social lifethere.

“When I came here, it was sucha relief,” she said. “I was so happyI finally had time for myself.”

Millan Mbise, from Tanzania,was pleasantly surprised by thedegree of interaction between stu-dents and teachers. Teachers areless approachable than in the U.S.Millan, whose native language isSwahili, grew up speaking English,

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‘Hidden Curriculum’up their native language.

“Studies show that bilingual stu-dents do better academically.”

Bloom said the school helpsnewly-immigrated students totransition by embracing the fami-lies as they enter the school. Rela-tionship-building is how he refersto the partnership. “When you es-tablish that relationship with newfamilies from other countries, youget rid of a lot of hurdles. Whenyou do that, the families feel val-ued and a part of the Freedom Hillfamily. We have students learningfrom one another simply fromtheir exposure to each other.”

The children of Freedom HillElementary School are so accus-tomed to establishing relation-ships within the classroom, theydon’t recognize barriers, Bloomsaid. “It’s a representation of theworld.”

Bloom refers to the school’s di-at Garfield,” said Rozi Khakpour, an ESOL teacherat Garfield Elementary.

Students who have attended Garfield from thestart get the opportunity to develop oral languageat an early age through programs such as Lunchand Bunch in which kindergartners with Englishas a second language meet twice a week to havelunch and practice this important skill.

The program, along with others, have provento be successful as “students who have been atGarfield since kindergarten often exceed in highschool and earn positions on the honor roll,”Khakpour said.

“Another thing that has proven to be helpful,”said Kirsten Howard, another first grade teacher,“is Garfield’s social curriculum.” This social cur-riculum, which concentrates on teaching studentscooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy,and self-control, has given students a greaterawareness outside themselves and has helpedthem in middle in high school as demonstratedby their willingness to take on leadership posi-tions.

Mariana Del Cid-Quintanilla, Spanish,Parents from El Salvador

Anmul Jan,Pashtu, Bornin Pakistan

Michael Opuni, Akah,Parents from Ghana(Michael born in US)

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“There’s so much value in having aschool where children from all overthe world can come together.”

— Scott Bloom, Freedom Hill principal

as well. English is compulsory inthe schools, and, Millan calls it the“unofficial” language of Tanzania.

Millan is bused from Marshalldaily to Falls Church High Schoolfor a class in “pharmacy technol-ogy.” He learned what he wantedto do with his life while living hereand attending an American school.He wants to be a pharmacist someday.

FREEDOM HILL ELEMEN-TARY SCHOOL feeds into theMarshall pyramid. Like Marshall,Freedom Hill is the world in mi-crocosm. There are more than 42languages spoken in the students’homes and the children of Free-dom Hill represent more than 53countries. Some Freedom Hill stu-dents are from diplomatic families,already bilingual or multilingualwith English exposure. Others arenew to English. The school,through its many ESOL levels,works with these students to helpthem adapt to English.

“Within the realm of school, thekids are held accountable to com-municate in the English language,”said first-year Freedom Hill prin-cipal Scott Bloom. As the kids in-teract with their peers, they pickup English.

“I like to think we also recognizethe importance of kids having thatdual-language skill,” Bloom said.“We want them to learn English,but, we don’t want them to give

versity as a “hidden curriculum.”“There’s so much value in hav-

ing a school where children fromall over the world can come to-gether,” Bloom said. “You set thestage for the children to share theirhistory, backgrounds, culture, andexperiences. “There’s so muchpower in bringing all these differ-ent cultures together that I thinkit’s justified to call it a hidden cur-riculum.

“The kids don’t even knowthey’re learning from this diver-sity.”

Marshall’s roundtable studentseager to discuss their new lives allsaid that school life is more pres-sured in their native countries withlittle opportunities within theschool system to learn nonaca-demic things. Schools do not pro-mote extracurricular activities asthey do here.

“Students are pushed by theirparents to excel academically inMalaysia,” Kasthury said. “Many ofthese kids commit suicide. They’retold, ‘if you’re not the best, you’llnever succeed.’”

Amber Holder has found a mul-titude of extracurricular activitiesto engage in. In Panama, there wasonly a single option. Here, shesaid, she’s involved with themarching band, the literary maga-zine and other programs. “InPanama, you have to find oneplace to fit in. But, here, you canfit in in many places.”


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THURSDAY/NOV. 29The Early History of Reston—

Translating the Dream toReality. 7-9 p.m., at the Jo AnnRose Gallery at the RestonCommunity Center, 1609Washington Plaza, Reston. A panel ofearly Reston-marketing expertspresent a program on the origins ofReston, the nation’s first large-scaleplanned community. 703-709-7700,[email protected] orwww.restonmuseum.org.

FRIDAY/NOV. 30Reston Lions Club Annual Citrus

Sale. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at the club’strailer at Lake Anne Village Center,1609 Washington Plaza N, Reston.Fresh Florida navel oranges, pinkgrapefruit, tangelos and gourmetpeanuts, Vermont cheese and OhioBuckeye Chocolates available;purchase proceeds benefit sight andhearing programs in Reston-Herndonarea (eyeglasses hearing aids alsoaccepted for recycling).www.RestonLions.org.

Artist-led Creativity Challenge. 7-10 p.m., at GRACE, 12001 MarketSt., Suite 103, Reston. Work in teamswith limited materials to designunique, nature-based creationsinspired by artworks in the currentCAIRNS: Works by Pam Rogersexhibit; beverages and light snackincluded. $10 per person formembers and residents of SmallDistrict 5; $20, non-members/non-residents. www.restonarts.org/AdultPrograms.htm.

Towne Square Singers’ HolidayConcert: Decembers Past. 7:30p.m., at Elden Street Players’Industrial Strength Theatre, 269Sunset Park Drive, Herndon. Encoresof favorite musical numbers fromholiday shows of the past 30 years,sung loud and clear for all to hear.$12. 703-787-7300 or www.herndon-va.gov.

SATURDAY/DEC. 1 Reston Lions Club Annual Citrus


Holiday Homes Tour of Herndon.10 a.m.-4 p.m., at various homes inReston. Tour Herndon homes in highholiday fashion—tickets available atHerndon Florist, ArtSpace, andHerndon Community Center. $15 inadvance; $20 day of. 703-435-6800ext. 2222 or facebook.com/holidayhomestour.

Winter Open House. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.,at Herndon Fortnightly Library, 768Center Street, Herndon. Glass harpistJamey Turner plays while shopperslook for crafts from the Council forthe Arts of Herndon; refreshmentscourtesy of the Fortnightly Club andFriends of the Herndon Library. 703-437-8855 or www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library.

Amadeus Concerts: Gloria. 4 p.m.,at the Reston Community Center,2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston.Sacred and secular holiday seasonalfavorites make a varied, festiveconcert. $30.www.amadeusconcerts.com.

The Reston Chorale: The Wonderof the Season. 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m.,at RCC Hunters Woods, 2310 ColtsNeck Road, Reston. Gloria presentedwith chorus, organ, brass andpercussion—the 90-vocie chorus alsoperforms excerpts of Handel’s JudasMaccabeus and popular holidayfavorites. $25, adults; seniors andyouth ages 16-18, $20; youth under15, free. 7003-436-1111 orwww.restonchorale.org.

Global Campfire 2012. 4-6 p.m., atthe Walker Center Fire Ring onSoapstone Road between Glade andLawyers Roads, Reston. Anawareness event featuring groupsing-along, camp games,marshmallow roasting, a campfire,music from Ashleigh Cevalier andwelcome from Global Camps AfricaFounder Phil Lilienthal; bring chairs,blankets and flashlights for yourgroup. www.GlobalCampsAfrica.org.

Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides. 4-9p.m., at Reston Town Center, 11900Market Street, Reston. Enjoy carriagerides through Reston Town Centerwith pick up location on MarketStreet next to Talbots and allproceeds benefitting local non-profitorganization. $5; children under 5free.

Holiday Tree Lighting and Sing-Along. 5-6 p.m., at the corner ofLynn and Elden Streets, Herndon.Come for carols, a tree lighting and avisit from Santa. 571-323-5301 orwww.dullesregionalchamber.org.

Greater Reston Chamber ofCommerce 30th AnniversaryCelebration. 7-11 p.m., at TheSheraton Reston Hotel, 11810Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston. The entirecommunity gets down tocommemorate three decades ofservice and leadership in the Dullescorridor with the help of valetservice, South Lakes High School’sstring quartet, dance band DiamondAlley, a silent auction, photo boothand an open bar with Ice Luge;sponsorships available. $135-175.703-707-9045 or http://www.restonchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=947.

Towne Square Singers’ HolidayConcert: Decembers Past. 7:30

p.m., at Elden Street Players’Industrial Strength Theatre, 269Sunset Park Drive, Herndon. Encoresof favorite musical numbers fromholiday shows of the past 30 years,sung loud and clear for all to hear.$12. 703-787-7300 or www.herndon-va.gov.

SUNDAY/DEC. 2 Reston Lions Club Annual Citrus


Herndon Holiday Arts and CraftsShow. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at TheHerndon Community Center, 814Ferndale Ave., Herndon. A tableauxof 100-plus arts and crafts, vendors,unique gifts, holiday decorations andhandmade items. 703-787-7300.www.herndonfestival.net.

Towne Square Singers’ HolidayConcert: Decembers Past. 2p.m., at Elden Street Players’Industrial Strength Theatre, 269Sunset Park Drive, Herndon. Encoresof favorite musical numbers fromholiday shows of the past 30 years,sung loud and clear for all to hear.$12. 703-787-7300 or www.herndon-va.gov.

MONDAY/DEC. 3Speaker Series: Stevern Pearlstein

of the Washington Post. 8 p.m.,at the Northern Virginia HebrewCongregation, 1441 Wiehle Ave.,Reston. The economic and businesscolumnist, Pulitzer Prize-winner andRobinson Professor of Public Affairsand International Relations at GMUspeaks on voter and our currenteconomic policy.www.nvhcreston.org.

“The Voter’s Have Spoken: WhatIs Our Economic Policy Now?”talk given by Steven Pearlstein atNVHC. 8 p.m., at Northern VirginiaHebrew Congregation, 1441 WiehleAvenue, Reston. Steven Pearlstein,2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for hisoutstanding economic commentaryand Robinson Professor of PublicAffairs and International Relations atGeorge Mason University, will be thethird speaker of NVHC’s Fall SpeakerSeries. www.nvhcreston.org.

FRIDAY/DEC. 7A Christmas Chaos. 7:30 p.m., at the

Industrial Strength Theater, 269Sunset Park Drive, Herndon. Whenthe Royal Shakespeare Company failsto show up for their performance ofA Christmas Carol, a fearless band ofhapless actors and technicians try topull together their own production ina matter of hours. $15, generaladmission; $10, children 10-and-under. www.eldentstreetplayers.org.

SATURDAY/DEC. 8Holiday Model Train Show. 10 a.m.-

5 p.m., at Herndon Municipal Center,777 Lynn St., Herndon. The W&ODcaboose opens for tours and theHerndon Depot Museum ferriesvisitors around the museum on tours.571-323-5304.

Jingle on Lake Anne. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.,at the Lake Anne Plaza, 1609Washington Plaza, Reston. Rain orshine, the holiday arts and craftsmakret, petting zoo, cookiedecorating station, caroling,children’s crafts and other activitieswill go on in the name of Christmasjoy—Santa also plans to visit at noon.www.lakeannaplaza.com.

Entertainment

Hot Anger Stained Glass, byMary Ellen Mogee

Color: Bold &Vibrant

Andrea Cybyk, Mary Ellen Mogee andM. Jane Johnson, local abstract artistwho make vibrant, energetic abstractworks of art are exhibiting together.Their show opens Tuesday, Dec. 11 andruns through Saturday, Jan. 20. An art-ists reception, on Sunday, Dec. 16 from3-5 p.m. provides a chance to meet theartists at the Post Gallery, ArtSpaceHerndon, 750 Center St., Herndon. 703-956-6590 or www.artspaceherndon.org.

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Sports

Marshall’s Haight Competes inRegional Championships

Marshall junior Mackenzie Haight, who earned all-state this year, com-peted at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships South Regional onNov. 24 in Charlotte, N.C. He finished 49th with a time of 15:46 in the seededboys’ race. The top 10 finishers qualified for nationals on Dec. 8 in San Di-ego.

Haight finished 10th at the VHSL state meet with a time of 15:52 on Nov.17 at Great Meadow.

Chantilly senior Sean McGorty won the Foot Locker regional meet withcourse-record time of 14:28.

In the girls’ race, three Northern Virginia harriers qualified for nationals.Lake Braddock senior Sophie Chase won the event with a time of 17:05. WestSpringfield junior Caroline Alcorta placed eight with a time of 17:19 andOakton sophomore Allie Klimkiewicz was ninth with a time of 17:29.

Athletes from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,Virginia and West Virginia competed in the meet.

Herndon Field Hockey Players HonoredHerndon sophomore forward Sofia Palacios earned first-team All-North-

ern Region honors for the 2012 season. Senior defender/midfielder SarahBetti and sophomore midfielder Taylor Stone were named second team all-region.

Betti, Palacios and Stone also received first-team All-Concorde Districthonors for the 2012 season.

Junior midfielder Rachel Delmontagne, senior defender Annie Kelley andjunior goalkeeper Sarah Suter and junior midfielder Katherine Wilson werenamed to the second team.

Herndon Boys’ Basketball Home OpenerThe Herndon boys’ basketball team will face West Potomac in its home

opener at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30.

Langley Boys’ Basketball Season OpenerThe Langley boys’ basketball team will face Centreville for its season

opener at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29 at South Lakes High School. Thefollowing night, Langley will face Oakton at 5:30 p.m. at South Lakes. TheSaxons’ home opener is Dec. 14 against South Lakes.

South Lakes Boys’ Basketball to OpenSeason

The South Lakes boys’ basketball team will open the 2012-13 season witha home game against Oakton at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29. The fol-lowing night, the Seahawks will host Centreville at 7 p.m.

Marshall’s Mackenzie Haight, seen at the VHSL statemeet, competed at the Foot Locker Cross CountryChampionships South Regional on Nov. 24.

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Herndon Connection Sports Editor Jon Roetman703-224-3015 or [email protected]

Oakton Football Wins NorthernRegion ChampionshipCougars beat Westfield forfirst region title since 2008.

By Jon RoetmanThe Connection

After a 6-0 start, the Oakton football team’s2012 season nearly derailed during a four-game losing streak. Doubt started to creepin after a 49-28 defeat against Centrevillein the regular season finale on Nov. 2. The Cougarsfinished fifth in the six-team Concorde District andwent a month without tasting victory. Oakton man-aged to qualify for the playoffs, but how long wouldthe Cougars last?

“To be honest, we did lose the faith,” Oakton se-nior Andy Boone said. “I think we lost the faith whenwe lost to Centreville, because that was such a heart-wrenching loss. … They just ran all over us [and]we couldn’t do anything in the second half on of-fense. It felt like some of the guys were down andwe just didn’t know what to do. Some of the kidswere getting ready to go back to basketball season.”

Oakton would enter regionals as a low seed, mean-ing the Cougars would face a tough opponent in thequarterfinals.

“First, we thought we were going to play Westfieldand all the kids on the team were bummed,” Boone said.“We thought we were going to be out of the playoffs.”

Instead, No. 7 Oakton was matched against No. 2Lake Braddock, the team which knocked the Cou-gars out of the 2011 playoffs. With a chance for re-venge as motivation, Oakton won, 20-13, on Nov. 9— the Cougars’ first win in 35 days. The followingweek, Oakton edged No. 3 Centreville, 14-13, in thesemifinals on Nov. 16.

On Nov. 24, Oakton traveled to face top-seedWestfield with the region title on the line. While theCougars might have been intimidated by the unde-feated Bulldogs at the start of the postseason, a con-fident Oakton team took the field on Saturday andbrought home a banner.

OAKTON DEFEATED WESTFIELD, 23-16, in theDivision 6 Northern Region football final at WestfieldHigh School, continuing a considerable turnaroundfor the Cougars. Oakton rebounded from a four-gamelosing streak to beat the top three seeds en route tothe Cougars’ first region championship since 2008.

“Just looking back on our season,” quarterback KyleDowner said Saturday, “it’s amazing how we got here.”

Downer had another big game for Oakton, carry-ing 18 times for 119 yards and a touchdown, andcompleting 4 of 10 passes for 53 yards and twoscores. He also intercepted a pass on defense.Downer’s 3-yard touchdown run with 37 secondsremaining in the second quarter gave the Cougars alead they would not relinquish.

Oakton led 13-7 at halftime and, after a scorelessthird quarter, took a two-possession lead on Brian Burns’31-yard field goal with 9:08 remaining in the fourth.Burns missed an extra-point attempt earlier in the game,but head coach Jason Rowley didn’t lose faith in hiskicker, saying the missed PAT was a result of the wind.

“I’ve got all the confidence in the world in Brian,”Rowley said. “He did a great job today.”

Burns’ field goal gave Oakton a 16-7 lead. Westfieldfumbled on its next offensive play and Oakton’s

Daniel Mansfield scooped up the ball and returnedit to the Bulldogs 10-yard line. Four plays later,Downer connected with Boone for a 4-yard touch-down on fourth-and-goal, helping give the Cougarsa 23-7 advantage with 6:31 remaining. Westfieldwould score a touchdown and add a late field goal,but it wasn’t enough.

Boone finished with four receptions for 53 yardsand two touchdowns. He also had 22 rushing yardson three carries.

“It feels like a relief,” Boone said of winning theregion title. “I’ve been in probably nine champion-ships in my life and I’ve never won one before, sojust to win a championship feels amazing — just thatweight lifted off your shoulder.”

Westfield defeated Oakton during the regular sea-son, 28-14, on Oct. 19. The Cougars totaled 401 yardsof offense, but had trouble finishing drives. Oaktonran 19 plays after reaching the Westfield 30-yard line,but managed just one touchdown. The Cougars’ otherscore came on a 35-yard run.

ON SATURDAY, Oakton scored four of the five timesit had the ball inside the Westfield 30, including threetouchdowns.

“It was all about finishing drives,” Rowley said. “Itfelt like in the first time we played them that we couldget the ball to the 30 and then we’d get stifled andcouldn’t put the ball in the end zone. Since that game,we’ve really talked about finishing drives on offense.”

After a scoreless first quarter, Oakton took the leadwhen Downer hit Boone with a 21-yard touchdownpass with 7:30 remaining in the second. Trailing 7-0, it didn’t take Westfield long to respond. DevonBurns returned the ensuing kickoff to the Oakton30-yard line and running back Dalaun Richardsoncarried the ball into the end zone on Westfield’s nextplay from scrimmage.

Oakton countered with an 11-play, 80-yard drive,capped by Downer’s 3-yard touchdown run. Westfieldwouldn’t score again until quarterback Chris Mullinscrossed the goal line on a 1-yard sneak with 1:31remaining in the fourth quarter.

Richardson rushed for 117 yards and a touchdownfor Westfield.

With the victory, Oakton advanced to the state play-offs. The Cougars will host L.C. Bird at 4 p.m. onSaturday, Dec. 1 in the semifinals. L.C. Bird, the Cen-tral Region champion, is undefeated.

Oakton quarterback Kyle Downer threwtwo touchdown passes and ran for a scoreagainst Westfield in the Division 6 North-ern Region football final on Nov. 24.

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By Rabbi Leibel FajnlandDirector of Chabad of

Reston-Herndon

T he holiday ofChanukah is set tobegin. The menorahlighting, parties,dreidel games and gelt-giving willonce more be in full swing. Andthough last year we promised theworld not to treat ourselves to toomany latkes and jelly donuts, thistime around, once again we willhave to start some weight loss pro-gram to shed the extra pounds assoon as the holiday is over.

Although for many of us, thatabove would be an accurate por-trayal of the standard time-testedcelebration of Chanukah, Chabadmysticism teaches us that this year,as in every Chanukah holiday (andever holiday for that matter) ofevery year, there is a newChanukah light, a new never re-vealed before energy that perme-ates all of us, empowering us toreach yet loftier heights in thespirit of Chanukah, in the triumphof light over darkness.

Have you ever eaten a dough-nut and wondered where the holewent? Ah yes, this riddle hasplagued carb lovers for years. Yetthe answer still evades us.

A similar question, though lesspopular, has been asked by greatthinkers of the past: When onelights a candle in a dark room,where does the darkness go? The

answer given is that darkness hasno existence of its own. It is a non-entity. It is simply the absence oflight. Once a candle is lit, the dark-ness disappears. It doesn’t go intothe closet, or to the next room. Itsimply disappears.

On Chanukah we light candles.We start with one candle, enoughfor the initial expulsion of dark-ness. Each day we add a candle,going a step further in brighten-ing our lives, until the light reachesits ultimate goal: to completelydispel the darkness.

Every year on Chanukah we cel-ebrate the great triumph of theMacabees, led by the brave Judahthe Macabee, over the mightyGreek army which had invaded theHoly Land of Israel, threatening toprevent the Jews from practicingtheir traditions.

After a courageous fight, theMacabeean army, small and weak

as they were, prevailed with thehelp of G-d, over the enemy. Thevictory is a symbol of a small glim-mer of light being triumphant overa great darkness—which at thetime seemed to be in command.With the notion that darkness isbut the lack of light, the victorywas easily attainable.

In a world where G-dliness—and goodness for that matter is,say, not on the top of everyone’sprioritized agenda, one may feelat times that darkness is, in fact,prevailing. It may seem that themundane is sometimes takingmore precedence on our daily livesand directing our everyday activi-ties. To combat the darkness, wemust remember it is but an ab-sence of light. We must light thatsmall candle, bring that little bitof G-dliness, or goodness, backinto our lives and the worldaround us.

Once we begin with the tinyflame within us, the process of rid-ding the world of darkness willincrease, until we will be able tobask in the ultimate light of good-ness, decency and harmony.

It is my hope and prayer that allour combined efforts to publicizethe message and inspiration ofChanukah—of light over might,decency and freedom over dark-ness and oppression, unites allpeople and brings us one stepcloser to an age where there is onlypeace and respect among of all ofG-d’s children.

Rabbi Leibel Fajnland is the di-rector of Chabad of Reston-Herndon. He can be reached [email protected].

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Faith Notes are for announcements andevents in the faith community, includingspecial holiday services. Send [email protected] is Thursday.

Vajrayogini Buddhist Center,Brown’s Chapel, 11450 Baron CameronAve., Reston, holds monthly classes forthe general public. Gen Kelsang Varahi,an American Buddhist nun, will teach‘Living Meditation: Meditation for Re-laxation,’ teachings and guidedmeditations that teach students how torelax their body and mind. $12.

www.meditation-dc.org or 202-986-2257.

Trinity Presbyterian Church,651 Dranesville Road in Herndon, hasSunday Worship Service at 8:30 a.m.and 11 a.m. Nursery and childcare areavailable during worship services. Youthand Adult Sunday School is held Sun-days from 9:40-10:45 a.m.703-437-5500 orwww.trinityherndon.org.

Floris United Methodist Church,13600 Frying Pan Road in Herndon, has

worship services at 8 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 11a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sundays, with aLatino service on Saturdays at 7 p.m.703-793-0026 or www.florisumc.org.

St. Anne’s Episcopal Church,1700 Wainwright Drive in Reston, holdsSunday services at 7:45 a.m., 9 a.m.,11:15 a.m. and contemporary service at5 p.m. Nursery, Sunday School andAdult Education available. MorningPrayer on Monday at 9:30, Holy Eucha-rist Wednesday at 8:15 a.m.703-437-6530 or www.stannes-reston.org.

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