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FIRST BABY OF 2018 AT STAFFORD HOSPITAL

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Stafford man kills wife, fires at police in I-95 chase

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he Stafford man accused of killing his wife before opening fire on law enforcement during a brief chase on Interstate 95 died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office.

Gregory Lee, 42, flipped his SUV near mile marker 142, south of the Garrisonville Road and Aquia exits. He died overnight at Fairfax Inova Hospital, according to Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office spokesperson Amanda Vicinanzo.

The shooting victim was identified as Lee’s wife, Melissa Dee Lee, 36. Stafford deputies found her at the couple’s home on Heron Drive in south Stafford around 11:24 a.m. Dec. 28. She suffered three gunshot wounds and died at the scene, Vicinanzo said.

Lee fled in a Ford Explorer that was spotted by a Virginia State Police trooper traveling north on I-95 around 11:30 a.m. The trooper began a pursuit when Lee refused to stop, VSP police spokesperson Corinne Geller said.

“At the 138 mile marker, the Ford Explorer suddenly stopped in the center lane,” she said. “The adult male driver of the Ford leaned out the driver’s side window and fired several rounds at the trooper, with one bullet penetrating the windshield. The trooper escaped injury when he ducked to the side as the bullet lodged in his driver’s seat.”

Lee continued driving north and a Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office deputy joined the chase. Lee again started firing out the window at the police vehicles around the 140 mile marker, Geller said.

While continuing to speed north on I-95, Lee lost control of the Explorer after sideswiping a vehicle. The second driver suffered minor injuries.

The Explorer ran off the right side of the interstate, crashed into the guardrail, overturned and came to rest upside down in the northbound lanes of I-95, Geller said.

A Anna Jane Replogle is the first baby to be born at Stafford Hospital in 2018, arriving at 1:35 a.m. Jan. 1. The daughter of Marine Capt. Adam and Maggie Replogle, of North Stafford, the infant was 21 inches long and weighed 7 pounds and 4 ounces. She is the couple’s only child. While the parents waited 13 hours in the hospital for Anna’s arrival, her maternal grandparents spent 12 hours driving from Missouri to the hospital, and arrived before the baby’s arrival.

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Stafford man who has donated hundreds of toys to needy children over the past four years made his biggest contribution yet: He gifted 373 toys in December.

Matt Dalziel made the donation to a Toys for Tots program over the holiday season after collecting and storing them at his home for the past year.

Dalziel, a government civilian employee for Quantico Marine Corps base’s Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group, started collecting toys to donate to the program in 2014 when he saw a donation box at work.

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The sale closed Jan. 1. Terms were not disclosed.

InsideNoVa.com is Northern Virginia’s leading news web site, with 2 million page views and 500,000 unique visitors a month. The community newspapers included in the sale are InsideNoVa/Prince William and InsideNoVa/North Stafford, which together reach more than 40,000 households a week in those two counties. Rappahannock Media also has assumed the Department of Defense contracts to publish the Belvoir Eagle, a weekly paper serving Fort Belvoir, and the Quantico Sentry, a bi-weekly at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

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Store at Potomac Mills mall “I keep donating to Toys in Woodbridge. for Tots because I continue Friends initially encourto support the Marine Corps aged him to seek the job, and have heard things from knowing what a big Disney the Marines who volunteer fan Dalziel is, said Marine to help Toys for Tots that reCorps Capt. Amanda Aninforce my ideas in the good derson of the cyberspace that the charity does for the group’s office of communicommunity and the chilcations. dren,” he said in an email to The Walt Disney Company InsideNoVa. “I want to help MATT DALZIEL is also a corporate sponsor of them continue their missions Toys for Tots. of good will.”

Dalziel, 32, has worked alongside MaDalziel, who works as a program analyst, also has a part-time job at The Disney rines at the cyberspace operations group

since 2005 and he comes from a Marine Corps family, with his grandfather, mother, father and uncles having served in the corps, and his brother is currently serving in the corps.

After donating toys to the Toys for Tots program in 2014, Dalziel realized he could do even more year round to support the organization, and he began purchasing two Disney toys per paycheck and storing them at his home.

He now purchases items on discount throughout the year to donate to Toys for Tots.

In 2016, Dalziel donated approximately 200 toys to the program and in 2017 he made his largest donation yet.

Dalziel has no children and is not married, he said. He has never met any of the children who receive the toys he donates.

“My contributions end when I put the toys in the various boxes,” he said.

The mission of the Toys for Tots program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year and distribute the toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children within the community.

County Sheriff ’s Office spokeswoman Amanda Vicinanzo said.

That evening, deputies responded to a reported breaking and entering at a residence on Mews Court, off Onville Road in North Stafford. The victim told deputies that he and Sabrina Vaughn, 39, were driving home from a New Year’s party when an argument started and Vaughn began punching him, Vicinanzo said.

The victim got out of the vehicle on Garrisonville Road and walked the rest of the way home.

When Vaughn arrived at the victim’s residence, owned by his mother, she pounded on the door and woke up the family, according to a police report. When the vic-

tim’s mother opened the door, Vaughn pushed past her and entered the residence.

When the victim arrived at the residence and tried to help Vaughn calm down, she grabbed him by the hair and later came back to the door and kicked it in, breaking the door frame, Vicinanzo said.

Vaughn resisted when deputies attempted to take her into custody and was belligerent on the ride to the sheriff ’s office, Vicinanzo reported.

Vaugn was incarcerated at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in lieu of a $2,000 secured bond and is charged with breaking and entering, destruction of property, domestic assault and battery, obstruction of justice and public intoxication.

STAFFORD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE BRIEFS MAN FACES BREAKING AND ENTERING CHARGE Deputies with the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office apprehended two suspects early New Year’s Day in connection two residential burglaries.

At 4:45 a.m., deputies responded to a reported breaking and entering at a home on Landmark Drive in North Stafford. The caller said a man kicked in a glass storm door and a steel door, and then entered the residence, according to Amanda Vicinanzo, spokeswoman for the sheriff ’s office.

The intruder, later identified as Kelvin Cruz, 19, pushed past the homeowner and attempted to walk up the stairs where the resident’s wife and children were sleeping,

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Vicinanzo said.

Cruz was taken into custody and deputies noted an alcohol odor coming from him, she added.

Cruz was incarcerated at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in lieu of a $3,000 secured bond. He is charged with breaking and entering, destruction of property and public intoxication.

WOMAN FACES ASSAULT AND BATTERY, BREAKING AND ENTERING CHARGES A woman was arrested on multiple charges including breaking and entering, and domestic assault and battery Jan. 1 after an altercation in a vehicle, Stafford

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STAFFORD BRIEFS STAFFORD DEMOCRATS TO HOST CAUCUS The Stafford County Democratic Committee will hold a caucus Jan. 6 to elect its membership for the next two years. The caucus will be held in the Stafford County Board of Supervisors’ chambers at the county government center, 1300 Courthouse Road.

Doors to the caucus open at 9:30 a.m. and will close at 10 a.m. Only those who are in line to participate in the caucus at 10 a.m. will be allowed into the caucus room.

All Democrats who sign a party pledge may vote on the new membership. There is no charge to participate.

Immediately after the reorganization caucus, a meeting of the new SDC will be convened. At that meeting, officers for the two-year term will elected by the new members. The offices up for election are: chair, senior vice chair, vice chair (2), secretary, treasurer, parliamentarian and sergeant at arms.

SDC normally meets on the second Saturday of each month; however, because of the governor’s inauguration Jan. 13, the January meeting and reorganization caucus are the first Saturday of January.

LIBRARY DIRECTOR EARNS CHAMBER AWARD Central Rappahannock Regional Library Director Martha Hutzel has been awarded the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce 2017 Laurie A.

Wideman Enterprising Woman’s Award from the chamber’s Network of Enterprising Women.

Hut z e l was named director of the Central Rappahannock Regional MARTHA HUTZEL Library on Jan. 1, 2016, following a nationwide search. An employee of the library system since 1988, Hutzel held multiple management positions, including head of circulation at the Porter branch and branch manager of Snow, Porter and Howell (formerly England Run) branches.

Passionate about libraries and public service, Hutzel has extended her advocacy to the state and national level. She is a past-president of the Virginia Library Association and a member of both the American Library Association and the Public Library Association. As an ALA member, she is actively involved in the organization’s annual National Library Legislative Day, having previously served as NLLD coordinator for Virginia.

Hutzel is a 2017 graduate of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Fredericksburg program, an active chamber board member and a former member of the CNEW steering committee. She currently serves on the University of Mary Washington’s

Leadership Colloquium Advisory Board as well as on the Rappahannock Goodwill Industries’ board of directors.

She is a former member of the North Stafford Rotary Club, having been secretary, president-elect and president during her membership.

Since becoming director, Hutzel has raised CRRL’s profile, establishing new partnerships and actively working to raise awareness that today’s libraries are about more than books.

CHOIR SEEKS SINGERS, INSTRUMENTALISTS The Woodbridge Community Choir is welcoming new singers and instrumentalists, with no auditions necessary.

Early registration has begun for the spring concert season, with concert dates set for June 2- 3. Rehearsals begin Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Covenant, 15008 Cloverdale Road, in Dale City.

Participants can register at the door at 7 p.m. or online at woodbridgecommunitychoir.org.

For more, call 703-680-0198.

VSP RECEIVES GRANT TO FIGHT METH PRODUCTION The Virginia State Police is heading into 2018 with more than $1.1 million in grant funding from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to aid the department’s ongoing efforts to combat the illegal manufacturing and distribution of

methamphetamine within the central and western regions of Virginia.

The VSP is one of only six state law enforcement agencies nationwide to be awarded the COPS grant and received the second largest amount of funding among the six agencies. The VSP also received this grant in 2014 and, during its twoyear funding cycle, doubled its amount and number of meth seizures.

The COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program awarded more than $5 million to six state law enforcement agencies.

The grant money will be used in the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s field offices in Culpeper, Salem, Wytheville and Appomattox, where the state’s greatest methamphetamine availability and seizures are.

In 2016, state police initiated or participated in 776 meth-related investigations through its multi-jurisdictional drug task forces statewide, which resulted in the seizure of 37,744 grams of methamphetamine with an estimated street value in excess of $4.5 million. VSP also dismantled 293 meth labs across Virginia in 2016.

The training and updated surveillance equipment will ultimately benefit 64 state and local law enforcement member agencies of state police multi-jurisdictional narcotics task forces located within the four BCI field offices. Additionally, the grant will allow for overtime funding so state police can pursue and focus on mid- to upper-level methamphetamine distributors and manufacturers.

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This is all the result of the Our national minimum wage, Democratic gains in the fall elecwhich was last set in 2009--yes, tions. The governorship is in it has been a while--is $7.25.

Democratic hands, the Senate That doesn’t seem like a lot, where Democrats hold 19 out and it isn’t. Adjusted for inflaof 40 seats, and the lieutention, it’s less than the miniant governor who votes when mum wage I received as a bus there is a tie, could with a little boy at Hot Shoppes 44 years ago.

DAVID KERR Republican support, pass such a That’s not the direction it should measure. It did in 2014. be going. But some relief, at The House of Delegates, the last time least here in Virginia, may be on the way. it was presented with a bill to increase Democrats, as a rule, tend to be much the minimum wage, voted overwhelmmore supportive of increases to the mining against. But the GOP doesn’t have imum wage than Republicans. But even its super majority anymore. Dependin this hyper-polarized political world, ing on various challenges still pending there are still some Republicans, perhaps after this year’s election, it may not even remembering their own minimum-wage be the majority party anymore. That jobs, who tend to be sympathetic to an would clear the way for a minimum increase in the minimum wage.

The federal government sets the national wage bill.

A lot of opponents to a higher miniminimum wage, which requires a new mum wage like to say that it will squeeze law each time it’s raised, but individual states can also set a minimum wage. Many out jobs at the bottom. That faced with an increased cost for wages, most emstates, like Virginia, set their minimum ployers will simply let current employees wage to line up with the national wage. go. It sounds like a good argument, but But they don’t have to. It can be more, analysis conducted after previous inand, in that case, the state minimum creases in the minimum wage show little wage supersedes the national minimum. or no impact on overall employment.

Maryland has a higher state minimum Here in Virginia we have an unemwage and so do West Virginia and Ohio. ployment rate of 3.6 percent. It doesn’t Nationally, for the moment, it doesn’t get much lower than that. At that point, look like there is much hope for getunemployment is often explained as ting an increase in the minimum wage. frictional, representing those people who But Virginia, for the first time in a long while, may have power to set a minimum are simply in the process of going from wage that’s higher than the national level. one job to another.

There is another misconception about the minimum wage and that’s that it’s just a kid’s wage. That it doesn’t apply to self-supporting individuals or families. But that’s not the case. A vast number of people paid at minimum wage levels are essential earners in their families, often holding down more than one minimum-wage job.

The bill that was proposed in 2014 suggested an increase in the minimum wage to $10.25. That’s still not a lot, but it’s a big improvement. And right now our economy can handle it.

Also, one thing many opponents of a minimum wage increase forget is that many of these workers already receive some kind of assistance. In a sense the taxpayers are subsidizing these low wages. Also, one scary factoid is that a lot of minimum-wage people are technically homeless. Whether $10.25 an hour would fix that is an open question, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.

The minimum wage is nothing new. Its dates back to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and was designed to set a floor on wages. At the time it was 25 cents an hour. Over the years, in fits and starts, it has gone up, but never by all that much.

After all, it is a “minimum” wage.

Usually, a decision to raise the minimum wage is viewed as a good thing.

And now, after so many years since the last time it was raised, it’s time for the commonwealth, with its changed political landscape, to do something for those at the bottom at the pay scale.

David Kerr, a former member of the Stafford County School Board, is an instructor in political science at VCU and can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

Embracing the new year with political reality Policy which recently published It’s been an amazing year for a report indicating the slow the nation and Virginia. economic growth of Virginia Republicans and indepencompared to the nation. dent voters disgusted with During the recent Repubpolitics as usual celebrated lican advance where 400 last year by electing Donald of the conservative faithful Trump as president. licked their wounds after their The celebration this year DANIEL CORTEZ November shellacking, party in Virginia was for another Democratic Party clean sweep during the leaders suggested media bias as a reason for their poor performance at the polls. gubernatorial election.

Let me suggest that a failure to totally Nationally there’s been a booming embrace Trump the businessman was stock market and renewed international another. But what remains inherently focus by Trump to our jihadist terrorist troubling was an out-of-touch commonenemies. We’re winning that battle, for wealth conservative platform regarding a change. outreach and jobs. Only a handful of Little things, like the White House minorities even attended.

Christmas card I received last week with Yes, the non-mainstream reporting of raised gold etching of the presidential recent discoveries regarding the actions seal and sincere holiday greetings from of FBI official Peter Strzok are troubling. the president, first lady and Barron The distraction from Trump’s alleged Trump were more than impressive, exRussia meddling investigation by special uding and expanding the elegance of the counsel Robert Mueller remains full of Kennedy Camelot era. claims and counterclaims. The unauSadly, that flare’s not felt in Virginia thorized access of tens of thousands of as our economy is at best sputtering, transition emails by Mueller is the latest according to the Old Dominion Univerallegation from Trump, only to be resity’s Center for Economic Analysis and

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futed by Mueller’s representatives. High time for put up or shut up by Mueller, if the bureau and the Department of Justice demonstrated bias against Trump as a candidate.

It all muddies the water in Virginia as LtGov Ralph Northam prepares to take over a commonwealth economy in question. Conservatives, who have lost their large majority in the House of Delegates, appear unmotivated to cooperate over issues such as Medicare expansion for the approximately 400,000 people not in the coverage gap in spite of Gov. McAuliffe’s forecast of personal income growing by 3.3 percent in fiscal 2018.

Perhaps there is some hope for nontraditional conservative sensitivity as Del. Kirk Cox slated to be the next house speaker has proposed legislation providing 12 weeks of paid leave for employees after childbirth or adoption. As expected, ultra conservative blogs such as The Bull Elephant question Cox’s conservative bona fides.

It all places greater CORTEZ emphasis on newly elected PAGE 5 delegates such as Stafford’s

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Bob Thomas, the former Marine who’s replacing retiring William J. Howell to represent with compassion. Hopefully Thomas will, seeing how he has eight children.

Howell, like soon to be former 2nd Dist. Del. Mark Dudenhefer, could not have left the General Assembly fast enough. Had they both run for delegate one more time, they would probably been collectively decimated as establishment Republicans like Rich Anderson of Prince William and the controversial Bob

Marshall were, along with 13 others.

Howell goes out with the distinction of losing the entire conservative gubernatorial slate twice in a row along with the substantial Republican majority on his watch. Then there’s the fact that Thomas’s opponent the Reverend Joshua Cole who happens to be black, coming within 73 votes of victory indicates Howell’s continuing problems responsibly representing the 28th district’s growing minority communities. Cole still remains hopeful a judge’s action in January

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All the more opportunity for Northam, Thomas and other newly elected delegates and local supervisors regardless of party to demonstrate genuine bi-partisan support.

Perhaps Northam can demonstrate his outreach along with conservatives tired of defeat and seek the counsel of a proven job creator in former Governor and Senator George Allen. Allen has transitioned successfully in the private

sector and frequently speaks on safe responsible and reliable energy sources in Virginia that creates the jobs both sides of the isle seek.

In light of our new tax bill, bi-partisan support regardless of political ideology, race, creed, or color is a new year’s resolution to shoot for.

Daniel P. Cortez of Stafford is a Northern Virginia political writer and broadcaster. He is active in veteran and minority affairs and may be reached at dpcortez1969@yahoo.com.

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Local missionary finds comfort with borrowed cello Besides her family and cat, her cello is what Lauren Anderson misses the most.

The 20-year-old from Kaysville, Utah, is currently serving an 18-month, self-funded mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Virginia, according to an LDS release.

Like others in her situation, her communication with family and friends is limited to mail and email, so her focus can remain on sharing messages of love and joy. The exception to this rule are two phone calls home each year, one on Mother’s Day and the other at Christmas.

Her recent missionary companion, Gillian Warren, noted that, “Being disconnected from everything back home is one of the hardest things about being in the mission field. Everyone else is moving on with life, while we focus daily on serving others and drawing closer to the Lord.”

Warren and Anderson agreed that they wouldn’t want it any other way.

“I’ve learned a lot about humility,” Anderson said, referring to her time in the mission field. She added that not having her cello has been a difficult transition. “I started playing when I was three. It’s always been a part of my life.”

The decision to serve a mission came when Anderson was 17, a time when many teenagers are making choices about their futures. “A lot of my family was struggling, and I wanted to find out if serving a mission was right for me.” After

much prayer and soul searching, Anderson decided that it was.

When her mission call to Virginia came, Anderson interrupted her studies at the University of Utah where she is pursuing a double major in music performance and art history. Her dream is to play professionally. “I would love to play in a symphony someday.”

Several months ago, Anderson was assigned to serve in the Rock Hill ward of the Stafford Virginia Stake, where she met Karl and Barbara Walbrecht. The Walbrechts agreed to lend Anderson their daughter’s cello so she could perform a musical number for a local congregation.

That performance turned into several performances, delighting local church members. This was the first time Anderson had been able to play since she left on her mission nearly a year ago.

Anderson’s talents on the cello paired with Warren’s singing voice moved many to tears with their rendition of “Come unto Christ,” accompanied by Barbara Walbrecht on piano. In the two weeks following, they performed additional pieces in several congregations.

“Hearing the sister missionaries perform, seeing them sacrifice their time and energies to serve others, is inspiring, especially during the Christmas season,” said Matt Matteson, the bishop of the Garrisonville Ward.

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added, “It is a rare individual at this young age who willingly puts their life’s ambition on hold for the sole purpose of bringing happiness and joy into the lives

of others. Anderson plays the cello how she lives, with her whole heart. I expect to hear great things from her in the coming years.”

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Include your dog in your resolutions day or time, you just log on when January is the month for makit is most convenient for you. ing positive changes in our lives, Remember, consistency, not but let’s not leave Fido out! time and duration, are the January is National Train keys to your dog learning new Your Dog Month, making it things. the perfect time to get your caAnother reason I often hear is, nine companion started on the “I can’t afford training.” Profesright paw too! Just like us, dogs LAURIE sional dog training certainly isn’t can become complacent with C. WILLIAMS free, but consider the costs of not the same routine day in and day out. Plus, the winter doldrums can set in having a well-balanced, well-mannered for them, too, making for a dreary, boring dog.

A destructive dog can cause a lot of few months. Taking a training class can damage to furniture, carpets and other kick start both your and their lives.

I hear a lot of reasons people give for household furnishings and possessions, not training their dogs, such as “I just and the cost of replacing those things don’t have time.” Thing is, training doesn’t can quickly add up. Dogs with destruchave to be time consuming. In fact, it tive chewing can also ingest items that shouldn’t be. Dogs have short attention become lodged in their digestive tract. spans anyway and do much better when Surgery and veterinary bills can be costly.

Even worse, a dog that doesn’t listen, trained in short increments.

One of my favorite tips is my “train is unsocialized and difficult to manage during commercials” technique. Sit down can be dangerous to himself and others. with your dog during your favorite TV Stafford County has been coming down show each night and work on differ- hard on “dangerous dogs” court cases. If ent behaviors each time a commercial your dog were to get out unattended and comes on. And in today’s technologically hurt another person, dog or any companadvanced world, there are even “online ion animal, you could face a conviction dog training” classes. In these classes, resulting in a life sentence distinction of instruction is delivered completely on- owning a “dangerous dog,” and yearly line through videos and webinars. Rather fines and recertification.

When you consider the liability, the than having to attend class on a certain

money you might spend for a few professional dog training classes is a worthy long-term investment in your dog’s future. Your dog is, after all, a part of your family whom you hope to have around at least 12-15 or more years.

And perhaps the most short-sighted reason of all, “My dog is already ‘good’ and doesn’t need training.” The misconception that a dog must be “bad” to benefit from training is still so pervasive and does such a disservice to dogs.

One of the best perks of training your dog is the effect it has on your relationship. We sometimes forget that our domesticated dogs were originally bred to work alongside us. When we train our dogs, we give them a sense of purpose that builds a stronger bond with them, and not to mention, is a whole lot of fun.

Training a dog can be such a mutually beneficial experience, for both you and your dog. And even if your dog has already completed a basic obedience and manners class, there’s so much more he can learn. Dogs are like sponges and can absorb so much, especially when delivered in a positive and fun way.

Consider getting his AKC Canine Good Citizen Certificate, or if he loves people, train him to be a certified therapy dog.

If sports are more his thing, there’s (and

please feel free to Google) dog agility, dog parkour, flyball, barn hunt, tricks, scent work, search and rescue, rally obedience, competitive obedience, conformation, treibball, lure coursing, Fast Cat, tracking, sheep herding, Schutzhund, duck herding, Ring sport, Mondioring, Bikejoring, just to name a few. Oh my! The sky’s the limit.

As I said, Google to find out more information on any of these sports and activities, or feel free to email if you have any questions. I’d be happy to point you in the direction of where and how to get started.

Most importantly, the time you spend training your dog will be quality time that can help build a stronger bond than you ever imagined. New year, new you, new dog!

Stafford business owner Laurie C. Williams is a published author, television and radio personality and nationally-recognized dog trainer and canine behavior consultant. She can be reached at info@ pupniron.com.

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After the snow, temperatures plummet Winter finally hit the area with a vengeance, probably just to make up for the warm temperatures we enjoyed in the early days of December.

While the snow that fell Saturday morning was just a dusting, the temperatures that followed put new meaning to the expression “cold snap.�

Even with the warming rays of the sun, temperatures have been staying in the teens and even dropping to single digits overnight. The change in weather was enough to get InsideNoVa.com readers to send us the view from their part of Northern Virginia.

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Mountain View’s Mitchler, Vasquez overcome adversity » BY HUGH RIST

For InsideNoVa

A year ago at this time, Mountain View wrestler Matt Mitchler had just returned to practice after suffering a broken jaw and a wrist injury in a serious car accident in September.

At the same time, his teammate Chris Vasquez was adjusting to wrestling in a much higher weight class (182 pounds) than he had the previous year (145).

Yet by the post-season, both were “shocking” area wrestling fans by shining brightest during the big moments en route to winning a state title, according to Mountain View coach Frank DeBerry.

What factors made a critical difference?

First, both wrestlers started slowly, which helped them build for later success.

“When they lost in December, they started to get the realization, ‘I can hang with anybody,’ and that certainly helped them,” DeBerry said.

But more than anything, the work ethic both wrestlers possess set them apart and continues to be an example for the rest of a rising team that currently has a strong corps of sophomores that are opening some eyes.

In particular, the emergence of Mitchler came as a surprise to many, including DeBerry.

Mountain View’s Matt Mitchler, top, has the upper hand during a recent match.

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going to wrestle this season.’ But he shocked the doctors and many other people. For him to go from having been in an accident in September to winning a state title, was [an] insane [thought],” DeBerry said.

Mitchler, who moved to 152 this season after wrestling at 145 last season, has adjusted without skipping a beat, DeBerry said.

Meanwhile, Vasquez, who had moderate success during his sophomore year at 145, took on the challenge of the heavier weights with aplomb. DeBerry said that Vasquez’s drive is second to none.

“Chris has the passion, the drive, the mentality to compete with anyone,” DeBerry said.

Perhaps Vasquez’s best trait, though, is focus. DeBerry said Vasquez constantly stayed in the moment throughout the season.

“When practice ended, here’s a kid whose only thought was, ‘What do I need to do to win [at] the next tournament?’ ” DeBerry said. “He always put forth the extra effort without having to be told to do so.”

The impact of Mitchler and Vasquez on this year’s team goes beyond the success they experienced last year, although that’s a big plus as well,” DeBerry said.

“The whole team has benefitted. I mean the younger kids have practice partners now who have won a state title and know what it takes,” DeBerry said.

“Matt and Chris are definitely willing to talk to the other kids about doing the little things it takes to win.

“The other kids watch how Matt and Chris react [to adverse situations] and it’s a lesson to them.”

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Burgess, Lewis bring Stafford ties to Shepherd » BY DAVID DRIVER

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Junior forward Winston Burgess is one of the top scorers and rebounders for the men’s basketball team at Shepherd, a Division II program in West Virginia.

But the Colonial Forge High graduate is not the only Stafford connection to the Rams.

A third-year assistant coach at Shepherd is Bryan Lewis, a former Colonial Forge High assistant boys’ basketball coach.

“He was my assistant in high school,” Burgess said of Lewis. “He does a little bit of everything. It is really cool, we talk nearly every day. It is cool.”

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back-to-back state title appearances, and the Eagles were 54-3 while he was there.

Another player for Colonial Forge at the time was Marco Haskins, now a junior standout at Division II Wingate in North Carolina.

Burgess started all 30 games as a sophomore last season and averaged 8.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game.

As a freshman he played in 28 games with 26 starts and averaged 6.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per contest.

The Rams began this year with five wins in 11 games.

“We kind of started off a little rough,” Burgess said. “We had a lot of new players and were not used to playing with one another.”

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“I feel I could have done better,” added Burgess, who was averaging about nine points and six rebounders per contest. “I try to stay posed and keep my head up. My role is kind of the same – be a motivation guy and play defense.”

Shepherd is in the same conference as Fairmont State, which lost in the Division II national title game last season.

“It was pretty cool to play against them,” Burgess said.

The Rams play Jan. 20 at Fairmont State and host Fairmont State on Feb. 24 in the senior day game in the regular-season finale.

Shepherd hosts Virginia-Wise on Jan. 6.

WASHINGTON WITH IOWA STATE Nia Washington, a former Colonial Forge basketball standout, is now a soph-

omore guard at Division I Iowa State.

She ended her prep career at Riverdale Baptist in Maryland.

As a freshman at Iowa State she averaged 8.0 minutes and 2.0 points per contest.

This season as a sophomore she came off the bench in 10 of the first 11 games and averaged 8.2 minutes and 1.8 points per outing.

VIRGINIA TECH LOSES IN BOWL GAME Redshirt senior linebacker Anthony Shegog of North Stafford High had two tackles on Dec.29 for Virginia Tech in the Camping World Bowl in BURGESS Orlando against OklahoPAGE 13 ma State in a 30-21 loss.

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Stafford resident and senior Joey Slye was the kicker for the Hokies and he kicked off four times but did not have any field goal attempts. He made all three of his extra point tries in the game. He is also a graduate of North Stafford.

The Hokies ended the season 9-4 overall and were ranked No. 22 in the nation going into the contest. Oklahoma State was ranked No. 19.

JMU FOOTBALL AIMS FOR TITLE James Madison University will face North Dakota State on Jan. 6 in Frisco, Texas, for the national title at the Football Championship Subdivision.

The Dukes are the defending national champs under Mike Houston, in his second year as the head coach.

“Obviously it’s an extreme honor to have the opportunity to be back down at

Frisco, Texas, again this year and compete for the opportunity to win another National Championship,” Houston told reporters last week. “It’s something our program has set as its goal, and we’ve worked very, very hard from the first day that we got here to do the things that we need to do to build a program that can compete at this level. The players are very excited returning back from Christmas break on Tuesday, had our first practice yesterday, getting ready to have our second practice today. Everybody is excited and motivated and looking forward to being back down in Frisco, Texas.”

The JMU roster includes Stafford resident David Ezeagwu, a senior defensive lineman.

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found being the Southwest corner of the now or formerly Ambrose property; thence along the Southerly line of the said Ambrose property South 81 degrees 50'17'' East 101.69 feet to a point along the Westerly line or formerly Baker property South 08' degrees 00' West feet to an iron pipe found; thence along the Southerly line of the said now or formerly Baker property South 62 degrees 42' East 163.8 feet to the point of beginning and containing 44,023 square feet or 1.0106 acres of land more or less. Tax ID: 30-129A.

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