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Community Input Session

<bt>The Loudoun County Planning Commission is seeking input from the community on a proposed amendment to the Revised Comprehensive Plan for the Upper Broad Run and Upper Foley subareas of the Transition Policy Area. The amendment is known as Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPAM) 2005-0003.

The proposed Comprehensive Plan amendment concerns the Upper Broad Run and Upper Foley subareas of the Transition Policy Area. A map of the subareas can be found on the county government Web site at www.loudoun.gov/compplan/transition.htm.

The Planning Commission will host a community input session

Wednesday, March 30, at 7 p.m., at Mercer Middle School, 42149 Greenstone Drive in Aldie, to receive public input on the proposed amendment. This community input session is the first session to be hosted by the Planning Commission on the amendment.

<sh>Woman Attacked for Purse

<bt>Investigators are seeking information in a Friday night robbery where the two assailants used pepper spray to

overcome the victim, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.

Shortly before 9 p.m., March 25, the 53-year-old Ashburn woman was locking the doors of the Furniture Unlimited store on Columbia Place in Ashburn when two masked men wearing hooded sweatshirts approached her and allegedly took her purse. The purse contained a large amount of cash.

During the struggle for the purse the woman was knocked to the ground and one of the men sprayed the woman with pepper spray.

The men fled the area and were observed leaving the scene in a light blue sedan.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Investigator K. Fognano of the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division at 703-777-0475.

<sh>Injuries Prove Fatal

<bt>The Fairfax Medical Examiners Office has determined the death of a Fauquier man found unresponsive in his home Wednesday, March 23, was the result of injuries he sustained in a car accident in Loudoun earlier in the day, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.

Fred Marion Lege, III, 87, was discovered at his home by a neighbor who checked on him twice after the accident. When the neighbor checked on Lege around 10 p.m. Wednesday night the man was discovered to be sitting in a chair and non-responsive.

Lege was in an accident shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday on Route 7 at the intersection Belmont Ridge Road. The vehicle Lege was a passenger in allegedly did not completely stop for a car stopped for traffic causing minor contact between the two cars. A third car then struck the rear of the vehicle

Lege was riding in.

He was taken to the Lansdowne Campus of Loudoun Hospital Center where he was treated and released.

After Lege was discovered in his home several hours later he would later be transported to the Cornwall Campus of Loudoun Hospital where he would be pronounced dead.

This is the third fatality on Loudoun's roadways so far this year.

<sh>Fatal Accident

<bt>A Leesburg man who may have suffered a medical emergency before being involved in an accident on Route 7

Thursday, March 24, was determined by the Fairfax Medical Examiners Office to have succumbed to injuries he sustained in the accident, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.

Rubin Shulick, 69, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident after his 2002 Toyota Camry allegedly rear-ended another car in the eastbound lanes of Route 7 at the intersection of Ashburn Village Boulevard.

Shulick was traveling eastbound on Route 7 shortly after 7 a.m. when according to witnesses his car never slowed and struck the rear of a 2002 BMW M3 that was stopped at a red light in front of him. Shulick was not wearing a seat belt.

The driver of the BMW, Joseph Frank Franlin, 61, of Pennsylvania, was initially taken to Loudoun Hospital but later airlifted to Inova Fairfax Hospital where he is considered to be in stable condition.

This is the fourth fatality on Loudoun's roadways so far this year. At this time last year there had been a total of eight traffic-related fatalities.

Any witnesses who have yet to come forward are asked to contact DFC M. Cenate, of the Traffic Safety Unit Crash Team, at 703-771-5798.