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A Penny for Your Thoughts
Intellectual Property Fundamentals
By Supervisor Penny Gross
Business News & Notes The Virginia SBDC is offering a Patent and Trademark Series. The first session is Intellectual Property Fundamentals and will be held on Tuesday, January 31 at 12 noon. In collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, speaker Elizabeth Dougherty will give an overview of intellectual property types and discuss the reasons to protect an IP, and the process to protect your IP from idea to product. The webinar link will be shared upon registration. https://clients.virginiasbdc.org/ workshop.aspx?ekey=900430006
Commuter Connections Employer Recognition Awards For 25 years, the Employer Recognition Awards have honored employers in the Washington, DC metropolitan region who initiate, enhance, or expand outstanding commuter benefits programs that encourage the use of alternative transportation methods. The program is an excellent opportunity to share how your organization improves the work day for your employees, covering commuting and teleworking along with alternative transportation methods, such as vanpools, carpools, clean energy vehicles, bicycling, and walking. Learn more and apply for the 2023 Employer Recognition Awards by visiting Employer Recognition Awards – Commuter Connections (https://www.commuterconnections.org/employer-recognition-awards/) or emailing Douglas Franklin at webmaster@commuterconnections.org.
Nominations for Women in Leadership Virginia Business will feature top women leaders in their July issue. The magazine has issued a call for nominations due by 11:45 pm on Friday, April 14. Nominees must be in C-suite or senior executive level positions or be the owner or co-owner of a business. Nominations may be made at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VBWIL2023.
Share Your Career with Students Meridian High School has scheduled four dates for students to hear from people in all types of careers and professions. These Career Chats are an opportunity to share professional expertise and career path with youth as they contemplate their fields of study and future careers. The sessions run 9:30 – 11:30 am on November 14, February 6, March 20 and May 15. To learn more, contact Regan Davis, Community Outreach Coordinator at davisr@fccps.org. To register, visit https:// docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN26e8tCfSZWygEj3eEge_64ftGX2ltAiXr8wLkoo6iwu 7Wg/viewform
IRS Resources Anika T. Pompey, our Internal Revenue Service Stakeholder Liaison for Area 3, has shared the following resources for businesses in the area: The IRS offers several e-News subscriptions on a variety of tax topics, found here. (https://www. irs.gov/newsroom/e-news-subscriptions) To receive weekly emails on topics of importance to small businesses, payroll professionals and tax professionals, you may subscribe to the e-News for Small Businesses (https://service.govdelivery.com/accounts/USIRS/subscriber/new) To keep your clients, employees, customers, constituents, partners and even families connected to useful, tax-related information and materials for tax topics and issues that affect them, you may subscribe to Outreach Connection here. (https://service.govdelivery.com/accounts/ USIRS/subscriber/new)
Business News & Notes is compiled by Elise Neil Bengtson, Executive Director of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at elise@ fallschurchchamber.org.
News of Greater Falls Church Volunteers are not paid – not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless! Fairfax County has 10 elected members of the Board of Supervisors and a large, experienced, and pro-active staff to provide services to the millionplus residents who call Fairfax County home. Some of those residents also are volunteers, appointed by the Board to serve on various boards, authorities, and commissions (BACs), and provide policy recommendations for consideration by the Board. Terms of the BACs vary from one year to four years, and most BACs meet monthly, either in-person or virtually. Most BACs have no special requirements, other than a desire and commitment to volunteer service. The Mason District “team” has added some new members recently, and I’d like to introduce them to our readers. Daren Shumate is the new Mason District Planning Commissioner, succeeding Julie Strandlie, who had served for eight years. Daren is a long-time resident in the Parklawn area, an engineer and small business owner, who chaired the Lincolnia Plan Task Force, and previously served on the Small Business Commission and Building Code Board of Appeals. His four-year term commenced on January 1, 2023. Sabrina Rose-Smith will represent Mason District on the Commission for Women, succeeding Jane Materna. Sabrina is a financial services attorney, mother of two young sons, and an outdoor enthusiast. Her Commission term is three years. Julianne Mueller, an architect with expertise in historical preservation, will begin service on the History Commission this month. The History Commission is charged with promoting the public interest on all matters bearing on the history of Fairfax County. It is especially important that more recent history be captured by collecting oral histories from longtime residents who still reside here. Likewise, the History Commission may need to
devise a process to collect and highlight the contributions of our diverse community during recent decades. Julian de Phillips is a Mason District native who grew up in Sleepy Hollow Woods and now is raising his young family in the Pinecrest area. Julian will serve on the Advisory Social Services Board (ASSB), which advises the Board about social welfare programs and community needs. ASSB terms are four years, and members are limited to two full consecutive terms per Virginia Code Sec. 63.2-305. Suzanne Holland recently retired from the Fairfax County Park Authority, where she was a guiding presence at Hidden Oaks Nature Center in Annandale. Her long service as a county employee provides just the right perspective for appointment to the A. Heath Onthank Award Selection Committee. The committee is one of the oldest in the county, created in 1965 to grant recognition for outstanding service to merit employees. It is named for Col. A. Heath Onthank, the first chairman of the county’s Civil Service Commission. Terms are one year, and meetings are held annually to select recipients of the award, which includes a small honorarium for each awardee. Service on BACs rotates, and it is not unusual for vacancies to arise throughout the year. If you are a Mason District resident, and would like to be considered for appointment to a volunteer position on a BAC, please contact me at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov. If you live in another magisterial district, contact your local Supervisor. Current vacancies in Mason District include the Airports Advisory Committee (three-year term), Small Business Commission (three-year term), Affordable Housing Advisory Council (two-year term), and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Citizen Advisory Council (two-year term). Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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CR IME R E PO RT Week of January 16- 22, 2023 Trespass, W Broad St, January 18, 7:50 AM, a male, 52, of no fixed address, was issued a summons for trespass. Destruction of Property, S Washington, St, between 6 PM, January 17 and 8 AM, January 18, unknown suspect(s) cracked the front window of a business. Larceny from Vehicle, W Broad St, January 19, between 4:20 PM and 8:20 PM, unknown
suspect(s) broke the passenger side front window of a 2009 Toyota Corolla and took items of value. Larceny from Vehicle, Hillwood Ave, January 19, between 6 PM and 9:30 PM, unknown suspect(s) broke the rear passenger side window of a 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander and took items of value. Driving Under the Influence, W Broad St/S West St, January 22, 1:52 AM, a male, 60, of Falls Church, VA, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.