The Sully District also boasts some outstanding people. For example, Robert F. Horan Jr. of Clifton is the county's commonwealth's attorney and Ray Morrogh of Centreville is the deputy commonwealth's attorney. Loren Epton, chief of traffic engineering for the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Northern Virginia District, lives in Virginia Run.
Ho Chang of Union Mill is the county's director of transportation and Ronaldo "Nick" Nicholson of Chantilly is VDOT's project manager for the Wilson Bridge.
MARK MCCONN of Bull Run Estates is head of the Sully District Council of Citizens Associations, and Jeff Parnes of Chantilly Highlands leads that group's Land-Use and Transportation Committee. Bull Run Estates' Judy Heisinger and Fairfax National Estates' Jeff Flading are Sully District's representatives on the Battlefield Bypass Citizens Advisory Committee. Richard Smith of Pleasant Hill chairs the West Fairfax County Citizens Association (WFCCA), and Jim Katcham of Centre Ridge Regent, serves as WFCCA Land-Use Committee chairman.
Other standouts include: Supervisor Michael R. Frey (R-Sully) of London Commons; Virginia Run's Sam Clay, head of Fairfax County's library system; Centreville's Ron Koch, Sully District Planning Commissioner; Greenbriar's Hal Strickland, Sully District representative on the county Park Authority; Dorothy Fonow of Oak Hill, executive director of the Western Fairfax Christian Ministries; and Virginia Run's Jim Hart, member of the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals.
Still more top-notch citizens include Little Rocky Run residents David Ralston, a board member of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, and Bob Dively, assistant attorney general for Northern Virginia; Poplar Tree Estates' Kathy Smith, Sully District School Board representative; Crystal Springs' Elaine Wilson, co-founder of The Alliance Theatre; and Centre Ridge's Kathleen Hill, Sully's representative on the county's Airports Advisory Committee.
THANKS TO excellent teaching and administrative staffs, plus dedicated community support and concern, our local schools regularly produce students who win county, regional, state and national honors, both academically and athletically. And this year all three high schools — Centreville, Chantilly and Westfield — won Cappie awards reflective of their outstanding theater programs.
Liberty Middle School already has its first year under its belt and, in September, the new Colin Powell Elementary will open its doors on Leland Road in Centreville. Under the guidance of Principal Brian Hull, it's sure to join the rest of our local schools in accomplishing great things and producing stellar students.