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 Break-Ins Raise Awareness
Recent break-ins at Burke community centers shed light on the issue of homelessness in Fairfax County.
COMMONS AND LANDINGS COMMUNITY CENTERS, have not resulted in any injuries or arrests, but due to liability and safety concerns, have Burke Centre leaders and elected officials searching for a solution. "In the 12 years that I've lived in this community, I don't recall incidents like this occurring," said Burke Centre Conservancy Board of Trustees President Kala Quintana. "We don't want to demonize these people, but we just can't have this happen." Read more...
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Star Comes Home
West Springfield graduate Jeri Sager returns to Wolf Trap for a ‘homecoming’ show this Saturday.
 JERI SAGER'S FAMILY didn’t know she could sing until she was in high school. "We were sitting around the dinner table one night and Jeri said she was going to be doing a solo during church the next Sunday," said her sister, Jo Gilley, who now lives in Chicago. The puzzled faces turned to slack-jawed astonishment when Sager, then in her early teens, belted out a song Barbara Streisand sang in the movie "Funny Girl." Read more...
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Change the World
Burke resident Dex Curi creates film company New Thought Pictures.
 BURKE RESIDENT AND George Mason University senior Dex Curi believes that art should do more than produce chip laughs of third-rate thrills, and he is willing to back up his words with action. With the help of his brother Julian and friend James Wright, Curi created New Thought Pictures, a film company whose mission may seem lofty but to its creators, is wholly attainable. Simply put, they want their movies to change the world. Read more...
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