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The Aldie Harvest Festival and Aldie Duck Race were winners of Visit Loudoun’s 2010 and 2013 Event of the Year!
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Aldie Harvest Festival Celebrating 50 Years! Featuring The Aldie Duck Race
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Thank you to our Feathered Friend Duck Race Sponsors: Stone Spring Emergency Center
Saturday October 18, 2014 in The Village of Aldie 9 am to 5 pm
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Aldie Duck Race at 4 pm (weather permitting) under the stone bridge by the Aldie VFD
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Middleburg Investor Looks To Build West Virginia Film Industry Leonard Shapiro
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r. William Hasselberger, an investment banker and private equity and oil specialist from Middleburg, has been in discussions recently with the West Virginia Film office about the possibility of producing television shows and films, including a TV mini-series on Daniel Boone, in the Mountaineer state. The original script for the Daniel Boone project already has been written by John Milius, one of Hollywood’s most highly regarded screenwriters. He also wrote the scripts for blockbuster films like “Conan The Barbarian” and “Apocalypse Now.” Hasselberger recently invested in Los Angeles-based Sennet Entertainment, an independent film and TV production company headed by Mark Sennet, a longtime Hollywood producer. “What appeals to us in West Virginia is the scenic beauty,” Sennet said in an interview. “It’s really been untapped by American film makers. They need an infrastructure for a tax credit program that’s comparable with other states. We’re trying to make a marriage work between Hollywood and government and keep American dollars in America. In West Virginia, it could be a huge business with money and jobs pouring into the state.” Pamela Haynes, director of the West Virginia film office, recently met with Hasselberger to discuss several projects. Haynes said she would be pleased to work with him and Sennet to come up with an attractive program that would induce them to film in the state. “We hope it happens,” she said. “It’s ultimately up to the investors in the project. Obviously the mission of the film office is to recruit the film industry. We’re encouraged by a major production company interested in doing business in the state. “We have a tax incentive program based on certain criteria. Aside from that, we can provide location support—introducing them to local property owners, expediting the permit process. We can assist them with local business leaders and vendors to open doors for things like hospitality. We can help facilitate many of the things they need and make them welcome wherever they decide to film.”
Hasselberger has spent much of his business career in Europe, working with several central banks, oil companies and private equity investment banks like the Carlyle Group and Riverstone. Sennet is a longtime producer of television programming and features. Actress Bo Derek has also been involved in the talks with both states and is expected to play major roles both in front of and behind the camera in their projects. They previously have been in discussions with high-level Virginia officials, including Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, about using the commonwealth as a future backdrop for a series called Capitol Crimes based on the novels of Washington author Warren Adler. Hasselberger is convinced that both Virginia and West Virginia are ideal venues for creative productions. Together with Sennet Entertainment, he is seeking sites to film another of its projects, a TV series on Formula One auto racing called The Drivers. Hasselberger and Sennet said they now plan to look at a racetrack in West Virginia as well as tracks in South Africa and Portugal that could be suitable for the production. “We were really surprised and excited about the possibility about doing work in West Virginia,” Hasselberger said. “Their incentive program is very attractive. The people seem friendly and interested, the cost factor is terrific and the scenery seems perfect for at least two of our current productions. I also intend to explore with them a sound stage project like what we’re currently looking at in Europe.” Sennet was the executive producer of the revolutionary and critically acclaimed “K Street” television series on HBO, as well as the Stephen King mini-series “Bag of Bones” on A&E. His company has several projects in development, including a feature film, “Reykjavik,” starring Michael Douglas, the story of the 1986 conference between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that helped jumpstart nuclear disarmament. Sennet Entertainment and Pierce Brosnan’s Irish Dreamtime have partnered with Spike Television to produce the six-hour limited series “Crusaders,” written by Academy Award winner David Franzoni and acclaimed writer Mike Finch. n
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Fall Tree Sale!
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Join us for a day of…
Vintage Antique Dealers Craft and Jewelry Vendors Country Cookin’ and Baked Goods Kids Moon Bounce and Face Painting Living Historians and Artisan Demos Tours of the Aldie Mill Shopping, Strolling and Fun! And of Course… the famous Aldie Duck Race!
Prices include Planting! exPires november 15, 2014 large tree special (30’ tall) planted: $700 each. usually $3000! these are the largest trees that can be conventionally moved in the area! 5 trees 10 gal pots = $500 / 5 Pine trees 14’ = $1000 5 norway spruce 6-8’ = $1000 / 5 trees 30 gal pots = $875