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AUGUST 11-17, 2016
VDOT Embarks on 2nd Round of Mowing Effort Comes as Fairfax Supervisors Press for More Attention to Medians, Roadsides Across N.Va. Area BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
Northern Virginia motorists should get ready for the smell of newly mown grass and less-obstructed views of roadways. Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) work crews have begun the
second pass of their thrice-yearly operations to mow medians and roadsides of the region’s streets and highways. In Northern Virginia, VDOT maintains roads and state rights-of-way in Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties. Arlington County controls many of its roads, but VDOT maintains the county’s
interstates and primary roads, said Jennifer McCord, spokesman for the agency’s Northern Virginia division. VDOT has 18 area headquarters in these counties, with hundreds of employees devoted to maintenance work that includes mowing, she said. VDOT maintains 457 centerline miles
of primary roads in Northern Virginia, including 181 miles in Fairfax County and 31 miles in Arlington. The agency also oversees 4,907 centerline miles of secondary roads in Northern Virginia, including 2,621 miles in Fairfax County alone. Continued on Page 25
Local Youth Get Hands-On at ‘Primitive Teachings’Camp BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer
Talking about bows, arrows, dugout canoes, blowguns and darts is one thing, but an exciting and tactile experience to craft them using basic tools and materials. Self-described mountain man Michael Sottosanti is spending several weeks giving children ages 8 through 12 those skills and more in “Primitive Teachings,” a popular series of weeklong camps at Riverbend Park in Great Falls. “It’s totally up to them what they do this week,” he said, joking that the camp lends itself to children with attention-deficit, hyperactivity disorder. Sottosanti looks very much the frontiersman, wearing a deerskin shirt and pants that he scraped, tanned and sewed himself. It looks hotter than blazes on a stifling summer day, but he said the outfit actually is quite comfortable, given that he scraped off the waterproof, heat-retaining epider-
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Above, Jake Geoghegan (watched by friend Lukas Shao) uses a shaving horse and draw knife to make a wooden tool Aug. 8 at “Primitive Teachings” camp at Riverbend Park. Left, Vienna-area resident Noah Hess loads a dart into a blowgun made from river cane. PHOTOS BY BRIAN TROMPETER
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mal layer from the hides using a tool crafted from a deer’s leg bone. The camp is barebones, with no fancy gadgetry apart from Sottosan-