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About:
Lorton Valley Star Newspaper
monthly and on the web
www.LortonValleyStar.com
Covering the greater Lorton, VA area from Fairfax /Franconia Parkway to Prince William Parkway.
Contact Information:
Floyd Harrison,
Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Lorton Valley Star Communications, LLC
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Mother's Grieving Heart
On November 10, 2000 Maria's daughter Crystal was killed in a terrible accident. Maria went through what no mother in the world wants or expects to go through.
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To moms who have suffered the loss of a child:
When Maria was faced with the death of her child, all the books she read provided the same answer. This answer was not good enough. She began to write poetry. Her poetry was a way for her to find the answers to the terrible crisis that she could not find in any book. Through writing her poetry, Maria became closer to God and she found during her journey, that God's mercy is a sufficient answer to any crisis or devastating situation.
Those poems are now available in the book, "Crystal, A Mother's Grieving Heart" published by Lorton Valley Star. It is available in Occoquan at the Coffee House of Occoquan and at Attic Treasures. It is also available online from Maria's web site.
Buy the book now…
Copyright © 2003 Maria Carneiro, of Montclair, Prince William County, Virginia, USA
All international rights reserved.
94 Pages
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1994 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
Catalog Data:
Carneiro, Maria A.
Crystal, A Mother’s Grieving Heart
Original Publication:
A.D. 2005
ISBN 0-9764770-0-9
Grief, Poetry
Library of Congress Number TXu1-189-869
Cover Art:
Michelle Carneiro
Graphics and Layout:
Floyd Harrison
Publisher:
Lorton Valley Star Communications
P.O. Box 1436
Lorton, VA 22199
USA
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** January Events Added **
Gunston Partner’s Needs More Tutors
The Gunston Partner’s Program will begin in mid January tutoring to third – sixth grade Gunston Elementary students. The number of students the program can accept is limited to the number of volunteer tutors. Please consider helping our children. You just need to have a desire to make a difference in a child’s life.
All materials will be supplied and the student’s teachers will provide you with a lesson plan for each night of tutoring. No special skills are needed, just a willingness to help.
Tutoring will be held January-May on Tuesday evenings from 7PM – 8PM in the parish hall of Pohick Episcopal Church, 9301 Richmond Hwy (intersection of Route 1 & Old Colchester Road). We don’t meet on school holidays or if school is canceled due to inclement weather. You don’t need to be affiliated with Gunston ES or Pohick Church to be a tutor.
We need both tutors who can commit from January – May as well as substitute tutors to fill in occasionally. Students who would like service hours are more than welcome. For further information or to volunteer please contact: Diana York, 703.339.6278, snowhill@cox.net
Fun & Simple Changes at Meadowood
Families and friends of Simple Changes Therapeutic Riding had a beautiful day to enjoy being outside for their picnic and to see a demonstration of their therapy. The barbeque was from Famous Dave’s and the music was by the New Old-Time String Band. The silent auction had plently of deals on nice stuff; They could have easily accommodated more people.
The annual picnic yields a portion of the funds needed to provide the service but contributions are needed as they keep the fees low for clients.
The heros here are the volunteers. They see the benefits in the lives of the riders every day. The horses, patient and complient, seem to understand that they are doing something important. The motion of the horses back stimulates the brains of the riders and increases their awareness and coordination.
Demonstration Video
Simple Changes is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible. For further information please call 703-402-3613 or go to www.simplechanges.org
Modeling Opportunity
Do you aspire to be a model but have been turned down because of lack of experience and portfolio? …and you cannot afford professional photography? Lorton Valley Star offers aspiring models an opportunity to be exposed and build a portfolio. Write or call for application; leave mailing address or e-mail address.
Local Merchants Support Community, Provide Savings
Pets may be a reason you need extra dry cleaning services but they need care and attention. Sometimes, your life isn’t compatible with the needs the extra furry companions but you want them to be comfortable and well cared for. Life is Good 4 Pets when you get professional pet services to fill in when you have time conflicts. This month you get a free consultation when you try Life is Good 4 Pets pet sitting and dog walking service. Ask for references.
And speaking of dry cleaning needs, no other cleaners makes life so easy as TOWN CLEANERS. You can actually get free pick-up and delivery if you gather up $35. worth of cleaning. That’s maybe a coat and a couple of suit outfits. Order by phone, e-mail or text; How modern is that?
Or while the pet is in good care, save 20% using the TOWN CLEANERS coupon available in the print issue.
Please patronize these community minded merchants who have helped bring you Lorton Valley Star. They are so new that they don't even have web buttons yet but they are delivering the paper.
Hosting a New Cartoon Artist, Crystal
Lorton Valley Star is pleased to introduce to you, the work of Crystal Wormack, cartoon artist. Her work is light, fresh and naturally humorous
Crystal’s work stands on its own, however it’s a bit more amazing when you learn that the little lady doing it is twelve years of age. Crystal is not a wanna-be kid; she is a prolific producer.
Over the years, many wanna-be writers and artists, propose working for Lorton Valley Star, who don’t come forward with tangible works. It’s not that turning out work or being incorporated makes you great, though all of that describes her. She’s certainly serious about her craft but there’s a bigger point.
Crystal, is empowered. It’s about positive attitude. She wants to do it. She says she can, thinks she is and does it. This is an inspiration and good example for all of us. She powers through the dreams of the idle dreamers and actually becomes the dream.
A tree is known by its fruit; in other words it is called by what result is produced. Crystal produces finished cartoons; Therefore she is a cartoonist. You see it’s not just a philosophy, but a challenge. We have to distinguish between idle dreams and empowering dreams.
Most other people are just sitting around going “ohm-m-m-m” which doesn’t get past disengaged dream. Success is not only imagining the desired result but acting in belief and maybe breaking a sweat to get there. The Bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb.11 KJ) Think about that and there is a problem with tense; It makes faith its own result. So, if you believe so surely that you act on it, the result is already there?
I can serve my community and I can leave a positive legacy so that the World is a slightly better place because of my productive example and creative influence. It is already done! Tyrants don’t get it. Hoodlums don’t get it. Yogis don’t get it. Yuppies don’t get it. Talkers and signafiers don't get it.
Crystal embodies this empowerment. I feel priviledged to be able to host Crystal Wormack’s work in Lorton Valley Star. Your thoughts are welcome on our feedback link.
Floyd Harrison, Publisher
Publisher Events Recommendations
This is a busy time of the year with weekend events in the parks and all of the performing arts venues beginning their new seasons. Latest additions to the event calendar offer significant conflicts. To help with our reader's entertainment choices, the Events page highlights the publisher's recommendations favoring the traditional, largest and most broad appeal events. Too bad the good food events conflict; there just aren't enough weekends for Lorton. Dates and Titles of recommendations are highlighted in red.
Floyd Harrison, Publisher
Building the Lorton Travel Page
See our punchlist of VDOT problems and contribute hazards or missing signs that you find in Lorton. Click on photo.
Video Clips Coming to this site
Lorton Valley Star has tested an easy method to ad video clips to our web site. We expect to be adding clips from arts venues and video news. Music.mov VIDEO CLIP Animal.mov VIDEO CLIP
Refurbished Web Site
Lorton Valley Star Newspaper web site has been rebuilt in Adobe Dreamweaver to make it neater, more interactive, and easier to maintain. The Home page NEWS ticker is running the most timely news leads. Some of this stuff is so new that the stories haven’t even been edited yet.
Lorton Valley Star is a community service and hopes to be the bookmark for all of the greater Lorton Area. If you know of interesting, useful websites pertaining to the Rt.1 & Ox Road corridors, and Mason Neck, please point us to them.
Beyond being the greater Lorton, Mason Neck, Occoquan newspaper, we try to envolve the residents by providing information about how they can participate with their neighbors for the betterment of the cmmunity.
Our mission is to provide a family friendly alternative to smutty publications so that you won’t be afraid to leave it around for your children to read. We do not participate in the normalization of violence, tobacco, obscenity, profanity, or distortion of Christian holidays. This affects or advertisements and our art reviews.
Forms are being added to assist in the input of calendar Events, press releases, Feedback to the publisher, and advertising applications.The first group of links on the left navigation column are available by the next section button in a looped sequence. The Tour is also a loop. All pages as well as the second group in the navigation column are accessible directly from any other page.
The Lorton VA site is also to be refurbished and appended and will be a reference for more or less fixed information about greater Lorton home of American Liberty.
Condolences Frank Stecco
Divers located Second Lieutenant Frank Stecco at 12:25 p.m. on Saturday, October 25. He was found in Pohick Bay approximately 100 feet from the point at which he was reportedly last seen. Boats, dogs and divers were actively searching when the discovery was made. The murky waters and the contours and make-up of the bottom of the bay made this a particularly difficult search.
The use of technology aided in searching potential areas where Lt. Stecco may have been. Divers turned to meticulous hand-by-hand searches within a grid pattern. Divers likened this search to dropping a quarter on a football field and attempting to find it by hand.
Colonel David Rohrer, Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department, confirmed the recovery saying, “My heart goes out to Frank’s family; my heart goes out to his police family; and my heart goes out to the community Frank worked in and loved.” Chief Rohrer called Lt. Stecco a highly decorated member of the department. Lt. Stecco was transported with full honors to include a motorcycle escort to the Medical Examiners Office.
Lt. Stecco was a volunteer role player in a police helicopter water rescue exercise at Pohick Bay Regional Park when he disappeared in the bay at 2:47 p.m. on October 21, 2008. Extensive air, ground and water search and rescue efforts began immediately and continued through the recovery today. Federal, state, and regional public safety and military agencies helped sustain the search, contributing sophisticated detection equipment, expertise, boats, helicopters, specially trained dogs and supplies.
Lt. Stecco joined the Fairfax County Police Department in 1989 and served 11 of his 19 years assigned to the Mount Vernon District station. His bold, proactive style of policing earned the respect and admiration of his peers and supervisors and helped distinguish him as a courageous and selfless officer. He was awarded a Silver Medal of Valor in 1994, a Bronze Medal of Valor in 1997, and a Certificate of Valor in 2000 by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce for acts of bravery above and beyond the call of duty.
Fueled by his passion and dedication for serving the children and teenagers of the county, Lt. Stecco opted to leave the Mount Vernon district and join the Department’s Youth Services Division just one month prior to his untimely death.
He leaves behind his wife, their three children, and his mother.
The Fairfax County Police Department announces that a memorial fund has been established at the Fairfax County Federal Credit Union in memory of 2Lt. Frank Stecco, who passed away during a training exercise at Pohick Bay Regional Park. Anyone wishing to donate may do so at any branch of the Fairfax County Federal Credit Union or send to:
Fairfax County Federal Credit Union
Frank J. Stecco Memorial Fund
P.O. Box 1300
Fairfax, VA 22038-1300
Messages of condolence may be sent to FCPD-2252@FairfaxCounty.gov or mailed to: Mount Vernon District Police Station, 2511 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, VA 22306
School Bags
Without basic supplies, children cannot start the school year off right, but for many American Indian families other priorities like food need to come first.
Running Strong and Christian Relief Services Charities help American Indian children with their back to school needs by providing them backpacks filled with pens, paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, erasers, glue, sharpeners and notebooks, just in time for school. Running Strong provided 3,100 children with backpacks filled with school supplies in:
• Montana
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New Mexico
• South Dakota
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