September 10, 2023
Hello everyone. Things are close to being finalized for the Membership Renewal Drive. Also, the Community Directories are in!
1. Membership Drive
2. Community Directories
3. ECHO Collection Drives
4. Looking for a new Vice President for the Civic Association
5. Lee Chapel Rd Meeting
6. Annual Meeting - October 12 at 7:30PM, hopefully in Rolling Valley Elementary School
7. Additional information about the West Springfield Elementary Tennis Courts
8. Calendar
1 – We are finalizing things to make it easier to renew your membership. If you are not sure if you paid for additional years, please ask me. I do not want repeats of last year where two members of a household both renewed at the start of the Membership drive as well as the end of the drive since they both did not remember renewing earlier. I can easily find out and get back to you.
The PayPal links to renew your membership for 1-, 2-, or 3-years works. You can also send a payment to this email address – president@westspringfieldvillage.org . I will install a drop box at my place, 6919 Vancouver Rd, hopefully within the week so you can drop off a payment and save a stamp. Renewal fee is $10 a year, and we are allowing paying up to three years ahead. If you are paying through PayPal, this means you will be saving paying only a $1 transaction fee for multiple years instead of the $1 fee every year.
Checks can be made out to “CAWSV” and mailed to PO Box 2204, Springfield, VA 22152, or you can drop it off at my place to save a stamp.
If your bank offers electronic checks, please let me know if you send a payment that way. These checks do not have any of your information, so I do not know who sent them aside from the issuing bank.
I am working on updating the Membership Application From if you wanted to print it out. I created a Google Form to save you time and paper. I am asking everyone to complete the electronic or paper form so I have current information. If you have renewed for a couple of years, please fill out the form if any information has changed. The Google Form can be found at https://forms.gle/HrPJQdiuRjeE4cYv7 .
Here are the links for renewing on PayPal:
·Renew for 1 year - $11 (FY24)
·Renew for 2 years - $21 (FY24 & FY25)
·Renew for 3 years - $31 (FY24, FY24 & FY26)
We hope to have the website updated soon with all this information. Things might be temporarily disabled until that happens.
2 – The Community Directories are in. It took longer than expected from the printer, but they are her and they look great. I wanted to give all the credit to how wonderful they are to Andrea Lewis. She took my crudely assembled spreadsheet and made it look incredible. She even provided the cover photo! I also wanted to thank Printing Ideas for printing the Directories at no cost to us. They print all sorts of things from documents, signs and banners, and printing on clothes. If you are looking to order any of these, please consider Printing Ideas and let them know you are a CAWSV member. Also, please consider using the advertisers in the Directory that allowed them to be free for us.
Printing Ideas, Inc.
9925 Main Street | Fairfax, VA 22031
t. 703.591.1708 | www.printingideas.com
Volunteers will be collecting copies to distribute soon. We hope to have them all delivered within the next couple of weeks.
I admit that I started the Directory process later than anticipated. I will start a lot sooner this year so they will be distributed at the beginning of the year instead of just beyond the halfway mark. I sincerely apologize for that.
3 – From the latest ECHO newsletter:
ECHO counselors see clients by appointment, and those appointments are filling for days, if not weeks, in advance. Need in our community seems to be growing- especially for food! When we run low on donated food staples, we have to purchase them. Recently, food donations have not met the increased requests, so ECHO is buying more and more. Please help if you are able.
The most urgently needed supplies at this time are: cooking oil, shelf-stable milk, instant coffee, sugar, sardines, canned meat and children’s toothbrushes. ECHO’s Donation Door is open on weekdays from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 7:00 to 9:00. There are also food collection boxes for ECHO (food only, please) in the lobbies of the Braddock District, West Springfield District and Franconia District Government Offices.
To assist ECHO in combatting hunger in our community, the Rolling Valley Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is sponsoring Food Drives on September 16 in these locations: 6942 Sydenstricker Road, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm; Huntsman Giant, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm; Springfield Plaza Giant, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
4 – After many years of service, the current Vice President – Bernie Koehle will be stepping down. I wanted to thank him for his support to both me and the former President John Cooley. If you are interested in taking his place, please let me know and we will have an election at the Annual Meeting in October.
5 – From Supervisor Herrity’s newsletter:
FCDOT and VDOT have evaluated three mid-term options to improve safety on Lee Chapel – removing the principal hill, removing both hills, and building the first leg of the eventual widened Lee Chapel Road. The alternative that appears to be the most prudent from a funding, timeline, and community support standpoint is a project that would eliminate the two hills and include two 11-foot lanes and a 6-foot shoulder on each side of the roadway. Preliminary costs for this project are approximately $9 million. By addressing the hills and bringing the road up to current design and safety standards, we can remove the incentive to “catch air” and improve overall safety on this stretch of roadway.
Sadly, the tragedy on Lee Chapel Road was not the first on this section of road and I as well as others have made efforts in the past to address the ongoing concerns about this roadway. This recent loss of young lives only amplified the need for safety improvements on this segment of Lee Chapel Road between Ox Road and the Fairfax County Parkway. In a coordinated effort with my office, Delegate Tran, Senator Barker, the offices of Supervisor Storck and Chairman McKay, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT), and the Park Authority, there have been a number of immediate safety improvements to the road while mid-term and long-term solutions were examined. As this article was being written, work to repave Lee Chapel Road was wrapping up, which included short-term safety improvements, including the addition of a shoulder wedge and rumble strips.
We will be further discussing this direction forward with the community and soliciting its feedback at a virtual town hall set for September 13th at 7pm. Delegate Tran, Senator Barker, the offices of Supervisor Storck and Chairman McKay, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) will also be participating in the Town Hall. To participate in the town hall, use the login information for the meeting below.
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 214 328 203 374
Passcode: ZFKBoJ
Download Teams | Join on the web
Or call in (audio only)
+1 571-429-5982,,83989641# United States, Arlington
Phone Conference ID: 839 896 41#
Find a local number | Reset PIN
6 – Our Annual Meeting will be Thursday, October 12, at 7:30PM. We should have it at Rolling Valley Elementary School. I took the advice of on of our members to contact the RVES PTA to use their insurance to cover our meeting. They agreed and started things with RVES to reserve a room in the school. Fingers crossed things will work out with securing the reservation. I will let everyone know when it is confirmed.
7 – Here are the posted rules for the new tennis courts at West Springfield Elementary
September 10, 2023
Hello everyone. Things are close to being finalized for the Membership Renewal Drive. Also, the Community Directories are in!
1. Membership Drive
2. Community Directories
3. ECHO Collection Drives
4. Looking for a new Vice President for the Civic Association
5. Lee Chapel Rd Meeting
6. Annual Meeting - October 12 at 7:30PM, hopefully in Rolling Valley Elementary School
7. Additional information about the West Springfield Elementary Tennis Courts
8. Calendar
1 – We are finalizing things to make it easier to renew your membership. If you are not sure if you paid for additional years, please ask me. I do not want repeats of last year where two members of a household both renewed at the start of the Membership drive as well as the end of the drive since they both did not remember renewing earlier. I can easily find out and get back to you.
The PayPal links to renew your membership for 1-, 2-, or 3-years works. You can also send a payment to this email address – president@westspringfieldvillage.org . I will install a drop box at my place, 6919 Vancouver Rd, hopefully within the week so you can drop off a payment and save a stamp. Renewal fee is $10 a year, and we are allowing paying up to three years ahead. If you are paying through PayPal, this means you will be saving paying only a $1 transaction fee for multiple years instead of the $1 fee every year.
Checks can be made out to “CAWSV” and mailed to PO Box 2204, Springfield, VA 22152, or you can drop it off at my place to save a stamp.
If your bank offers electronic checks, please let me know if you send a payment that way. These checks do not have any of your information, so I do not know who sent them aside from the issuing bank.
I am working on updating the Membership Application From if you wanted to print it out. I created a Google Form to save you time and paper. I am asking everyone to complete the electronic or paper form so I have current information. If you have renewed for a couple of years, please fill out the form if any information has changed. The Google Form can be found at https://forms.gle/HrPJQdiuRjeE4cYv7 .
Here are the links for renewing on PayPal:
·Renew for 1 year - $11 (FY24)
·Renew for 2 years - $21 (FY24 & FY25)
·Renew for 3 years - $31 (FY24, FY24 & FY26)
We hope to have the website updated soon with all this information. Things might be temporarily disabled until that happens.
2 – The Community Directories are in. It took longer than expected from the printer, but they are her and they look great. I wanted to give all the credit to how wonderful they are to Andrea Lewis. She took my crudely assembled spreadsheet and made it look incredible. She even provided the cover photo! I also wanted to thank Printing Ideas for printing the Directories at no cost to us. They print all sorts of things from documents, signs and banners, and printing on clothes. If you are looking to order any of these, please consider Printing Ideas and let them know you are a CAWSV member. Also, please consider using the advertisers in the Directory that allowed them to be free for us.
Printing Ideas, Inc.
9925 Main Street | Fairfax, VA 22031
t. 703.591.1708 | www.printingideas.com
Volunteers will be collecting copies to distribute soon. We hope to have them all delivered within the next couple of weeks.
I admit that I started the Directory process later than anticipated. I will start a lot sooner this year so they will be distributed at the beginning of the year instead of just beyond the halfway mark. I sincerely apologize for that.
3 – From the latest ECHO newsletter:
ECHO counselors see clients by appointment, and those appointments are filling for days, if not weeks, in advance. Need in our community seems to be growing- especially for food! When we run low on donated food staples, we have to purchase them. Recently, food donations have not met the increased requests, so ECHO is buying more and more. Please help if you are able.
The most urgently needed supplies at this time are: cooking oil, shelf-stable milk, instant coffee, sugar, sardines, canned meat and children’s toothbrushes. ECHO’s Donation Door is open on weekdays from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 7:00 to 9:00. There are also food collection boxes for ECHO (food only, please) in the lobbies of the Braddock District, West Springfield District and Franconia District Government Offices.
To assist ECHO in combatting hunger in our community, the Rolling Valley Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is sponsoring Food Drives on September 16 in these locations: 6942 Sydenstricker Road, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm; Huntsman Giant, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm; Springfield Plaza Giant, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
4 – After many years of service, the current Vice President – Bernie Koehle will be stepping down. I wanted to thank him for his support to both me and the former President John Cooley. If you are interested in taking his place, please let me know and we will have an election at the Annual Meeting in October.
5 – From Supervisor Herrity’s newsletter:
FCDOT and VDOT have evaluated three mid-term options to improve safety on Lee Chapel – removing the principal hill, removing both hills, and building the first leg of the eventual widened Lee Chapel Road. The alternative that appears to be the most prudent from a funding, timeline, and community support standpoint is a project that would eliminate the two hills and include two 11-foot lanes and a 6-foot shoulder on each side of the roadway. Preliminary costs for this project are approximately $9 million. By addressing the hills and bringing the road up to current design and safety standards, we can remove the incentive to “catch air” and improve overall safety on this stretch of roadway.
Sadly, the tragedy on Lee Chapel Road was not the first on this section of road and I as well as others have made efforts in the past to address the ongoing concerns about this roadway. This recent loss of young lives only amplified the need for safety improvements on this segment of Lee Chapel Road between Ox Road and the Fairfax County Parkway. In a coordinated effort with my office, Delegate Tran, Senator Barker, the offices of Supervisor Storck and Chairman McKay, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT), and the Park Authority, there have been a number of immediate safety improvements to the road while mid-term and long-term solutions were examined. As this article was being written, work to repave Lee Chapel Road was wrapping up, which included short-term safety improvements, including the addition of a shoulder wedge and rumble strips.
We will be further discussing this direction forward with the community and soliciting its feedback at a virtual town hall set for September 13th at 7pm. Delegate Tran, Senator Barker, the offices of Supervisor Storck and Chairman McKay, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) will also be participating in the Town Hall. To participate in the town hall, use the login information for the meeting below.
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 214 328 203 374
Passcode: ZFKBoJ
Download Teams | Join on the web
Or call in (audio only)
+1 571-429-5982,,83989641# United States, Arlington
Phone Conference ID: 839 896 41#
Find a local number | Reset PIN
6 – Our Annual Meeting will be Thursday, October 12, at 7:30PM. We should have it at Rolling Valley Elementary School. I took the advice of on of our members to contact the RVES PTA to use their insurance to cover our meeting. They agreed and started things with RVES to reserve a room in the school. Fingers crossed things will work out with securing the reservation. I will let everyone know when it is confirmed.
7 – Here are the posted rules for the new tennis courts at West Springfield Elementary
September 10, 2023
Hello everyone. Things are close to being finalized for the Membership Renewal Drive. Also, the Community Directories are in!
1. Membership Drive
2. Community Directories
3. ECHO Collection Drives
4. Looking for a new Vice President for the Civic Association
5. Lee Chapel Rd Meeting
6. Annual Meeting - October 12 at 7:30PM, hopefully in Rolling Valley Elementary School
7. Additional information about the West Springfield Elementary Tennis Courts
8. Calendar
1 – We are finalizing things to make it easier to renew your membership. If you are not sure if you paid for additional years, please ask me. I do not want repeats of last year where two members of a household both renewed at the start of the Membership drive as well as the end of the drive since they both did not remember renewing earlier. I can easily find out and get back to you.
The PayPal links to renew your membership for 1-, 2-, or 3-years works. You can also send a payment to this email address – president@westspringfieldvillage.org . I will install a drop box at my place, 6919 Vancouver Rd, hopefully within the week so you can drop off a payment and save a stamp. Renewal fee is $10 a year, and we are allowing paying up to three years ahead. If you are paying through PayPal, this means you will be saving paying only a $1 transaction fee for multiple years instead of the $1 fee every year.
Checks can be made out to “CAWSV” and mailed to PO Box 2204, Springfield, VA 22152, or you can drop it off at my place to save a stamp.
If your bank offers electronic checks, please let me know if you send a payment that way. These checks do not have any of your information, so I do not know who sent them aside from the issuing bank.
I am working on updating the Membership Application From if you wanted to print it out. I created a Google Form to save you time and paper. I am asking everyone to complete the electronic or paper form so I have current information. If you have renewed for a couple of years, please fill out the form if any information has changed. The Google Form can be found at https://forms.gle/HrPJQdiuRjeE4cYv7 .
Here are the links for renewing on PayPal:
·Renew for 1 year - $11 (FY24)
·Renew for 2 years - $21 (FY24 & FY25)
·Renew for 3 years - $31 (FY24, FY24 & FY26)
We hope to have the website updated soon with all this information. Things might be temporarily disabled until that happens.
2 – The Community Directories are in. It took longer than expected from the printer, but they are her and they look great. I wanted to give all the credit to how wonderful they are to Andrea Lewis. She took my crudely assembled spreadsheet and made it look incredible. She even provided the cover photo! I also wanted to thank Printing Ideas for printing the Directories at no cost to us. They print all sorts of things from documents, signs and banners, and printing on clothes. If you are looking to order any of these, please consider Printing Ideas and let them know you are a CAWSV member. Also, please consider using the advertisers in the Directory that allowed them to be free for us.
Printing Ideas, Inc.
9925 Main Street | Fairfax, VA 22031
t. 703.591.1708 | www.printingideas.com
Volunteers will be collecting copies to distribute soon. We hope to have them all delivered within the next couple of weeks.
I admit that I started the Directory process later than anticipated. I will start a lot sooner this year so they will be distributed at the beginning of the year instead of just beyond the halfway mark. I sincerely apologize for that.
3 – From the latest ECHO newsletter:
ECHO counselors see clients by appointment, and those appointments are filling for days, if not weeks, in advance. Need in our community seems to be growing- especially for food! When we run low on donated food staples, we have to purchase them. Recently, food donations have not met the increased requests, so ECHO is buying more and more. Please help if you are able.
The most urgently needed supplies at this time are: cooking oil, shelf-stable milk, instant coffee, sugar, sardines, canned meat and children’s toothbrushes. ECHO’s Donation Door is open on weekdays from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 7:00 to 9:00. There are also food collection boxes for ECHO (food only, please) in the lobbies of the Braddock District, West Springfield District and Franconia District Government Offices.
To assist ECHO in combatting hunger in our community, the Rolling Valley Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is sponsoring Food Drives on September 16 in these locations: 6942 Sydenstricker Road, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm; Huntsman Giant, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm; Springfield Plaza Giant, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
4 – After many years of service, the current Vice President – Bernie Koehle will be stepping down. I wanted to thank him for his support to both me and the former President John Cooley. If you are interested in taking his place, please let me know and we will have an election at the Annual Meeting in October.
5 – From Supervisor Herrity’s newsletter:
FCDOT and VDOT have evaluated three mid-term options to improve safety on Lee Chapel – removing the principal hill, removing both hills, and building the first leg of the eventual widened Lee Chapel Road. The alternative that appears to be the most prudent from a funding, timeline, and community support standpoint is a project that would eliminate the two hills and include two 11-foot lanes and a 6-foot shoulder on each side of the roadway. Preliminary costs for this project are approximately $9 million. By addressing the hills and bringing the road up to current design and safety standards, we can remove the incentive to “catch air” and improve overall safety on this stretch of roadway.
Sadly, the tragedy on Lee Chapel Road was not the first on this section of road and I as well as others have made efforts in the past to address the ongoing concerns about this roadway. This recent loss of young lives only amplified the need for safety improvements on this segment of Lee Chapel Road between Ox Road and the Fairfax County Parkway. In a coordinated effort with my office, Delegate Tran, Senator Barker, the offices of Supervisor Storck and Chairman McKay, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT), and the Park Authority, there have been a number of immediate safety improvements to the road while mid-term and long-term solutions were examined. As this article was being written, work to repave Lee Chapel Road was wrapping up, which included short-term safety improvements, including the addition of a shoulder wedge and rumble strips.
We will be further discussing this direction forward with the community and soliciting its feedback at a virtual town hall set for September 13th at 7pm. Delegate Tran, Senator Barker, the offices of Supervisor Storck and Chairman McKay, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) will also be participating in the Town Hall. To participate in the town hall, use the login information for the meeting below.
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 214 328 203 374
Passcode: ZFKBoJ
Download Teams | Join on the web
Or call in (audio only)
+1 571-429-5982,,83989641# United States, Arlington
Phone Conference ID: 839 896 41#
Find a local number | Reset PIN
6 – Our Annual Meeting will be Thursday, October 12, at 7:30PM. We should have it at Rolling Valley Elementary School. I took the advice of on of our members to contact the RVES PTA to use their insurance to cover our meeting. They agreed and started things with RVES to reserve a room in the school. Fingers crossed things will work out with securing the reservation. I will let everyone know when it is confirmed.
7 – Here are the posted rules for the new tennis courts at West Springfield Elementary School Tennis Courts
Please abide by them if you intend to use the courts.
8 – Calendar
9/10 – CAWSV Membership Renewal Drive starts!
9/11 – Patriot Day
9/13 – Community feedback meeting regarding Lee Chapel Rd
9/16 – ECHO food drives – various locations
10/10 – Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10/12 – 7:30PM - Annual Meeting
Please abide by them if you intend to use the courts.
8 – Calendar
9/10 – CAWSV Membership Renewal Drive starts!
9/11 – Patriot Day
9/13 – Community feedback meeting regarding Lee Chapel Rd
9/16 – ECHO food drives – various locations
10/10 – Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10/12 – 7:30PM - Annual Meeting
Please abide by them if you intend to use the courts.
8 – Calendar
9/10 – CAWSV Membership Renewal Drive starts!
9/11 – Patriot Day
9/13 – Community feedback meeting regarding Lee Chapel Rd
9/16 – ECHO food drives – various locations
10/10 – Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10/12 – 7:30PM - Annual Meeting