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t was a big month of May for the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties….On May 1, more than 30 golfers gathered at Creighton Farms Golf Club in Aldie for a short-game clinic that featured highly-regarded instructor Chris Tidland and PGA playing professional E.J. Pfister and benefitted the Community Foundation. Players participated in either a morning or afternoon session, and Middleburg’s John Mascatello, who represents many of the PGA Tour’s top players, led a lively lunch-time panel discussion featuring Tidland and Pfister as well as longtime Washington Post sportswriter and editor (and Middleburg Life feature writer) Leonard Shapiro. On May 5, Give/Choose, also hosted by the community foundation, raised more than $136,000 for 48 local charities through the generosity of 936 donors—twice the yield over last year’s inaugural program. The 24-hour Give/ Choose event was part of national “crowdfunding” program hosted by community foundations across the country. The top performer in the event was Loudoun Interfaith Relief, raising $34,000 in the day-long event. Middleburg-based A Place To Be raised the second highest yield during the 24 hours, with an unexpected $15,000 windfall. “We had a $5,000 challenge gift going into the
campaign,” said Angelle Cook, of A Place To Be’s staff, “but to triple that was fantastic.” “This is about more than raising funds,” according to Amy Owen, executive director of the Community Foundation. “It’s about empowering our local charities to keep up with fundraising tactics. Online crowd funding is a fast growing and efficient means for charities to raise funds. We built the Give/Choose platform, gathered together prize pool incentives, and provided training.” Give/Choose sponsors included Backflow Technology, Middleburg Bank, Toth Financial Advisory, the Hillsdale Fund, the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce, Mitchell & Company, McCandlish Lillard and Alpha Graphics Loudoun. Proud grandparents Sid and Peggy Silver of Brook Hill Farm report that their identical twin granddaughters and former high school basketball players, Marissa Silver Cannon and Madison Silver Cannon, both were members of the Lehigh University Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team which recently competed in the sixth annual Division III national college championships. The tournament included the top 16 women’s teams nationally from colleges with less than 7,500 students in Rockford, Illinois. Lehigh finished ninth in an event won by Rice University.
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akwood, over in Warrenton, was the home of Robert Eden Scott (1808-62), a prominent Northern Virginia Whig and one of Fauquier’s two delegates to the Virginia Secession convention before the Civil War. Scott was a Commonwealth’s Attorney and a delegate to the General Assembly in Richmond. He also served as the region’s first Congressman in the Confederate States House of Representatives at Richmond. He was a Congressman when he was killed while confronting a duo of looting, raping Wisconsin stragglers at Meadowland, south of Salem (now Marshall) on May 3, 1862. The murder of Scott was electrifying news one year into the Civil War, and has been long remembered in Fauquier. He is buried at Oakwood. The Mosby Heritage Area Association, the Atoka-based preservation and education group, has planned a celebration on June 20 at 11:30 a.m. at Oakwood with a French and champagne buffet luncheon. Middleburg author Marc Leepson will speak about his new book, Lafayette: Idealist General and His Life and Times. After the talk on Lafayette, there will be a house tour, which will include the boudoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) who visited the home often, and an enormous bookcase owned by President Abraham Lincoln. For details, call 540-687-6681.
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The Greenhill polo team: Debbie Nash, Aaron Pagel, David Greenhill, Konstantin Langenberg, Scott Gray, Peter Arundel, Darrel Gaebel, Hannah Sue, Douglas Barnes, Julie Banner, Darrin Mollett, Nicole Stetson, Whitney Ross, John Gobin, Marguerite Lang
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reenhill Winery & Vineyards, in partnership with Great Meadow Polo Club, Tri-County Feeds & Fashions, Salamander Resort & Spa, Middleburg Photo, DJ Snowhite and Antebellum Antiques recently celebrated the polo season with the first annual Red and White Polo Party. Photos by Middleburg Photo. Rachel Harshman, Julie Giuliani, Rebekah Pizana, Nate Chambers, Julie Banner, Andrea Ross and Prem Devadas
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Brandy Greenwell & Katie Brachas Wilson
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Thaisa Erwin, Liz Billings, Kristiane Kristensen, Elizabeth Mandros, Lynn Vendinello and Andrea Ross
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