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Lorton Valley Star Newspaper
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www.LortonValleyStar.com

Covering the greater Lorton, VA area from Fairfax /Franconia Parkway to Prince William Parkway.

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Floyd Harrison,
Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Lorton Valley Star Communications, LLC

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Lorton Valley Star
P.O. Box 1436
Lorton Valley, VA 22199

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571-274-7389

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Lorton Valley Star Comm.
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Mother's Grieving Heart

On November 10, 2000 Maria's daughter Crystal was killed in a terrible accident. Maria went through what no mother in the world wants or expects to go through.

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To moms who have suffered the loss of a child:

When Maria was faced with the death of her child, all the books she read provided the same answer. This answer was not good enough. She began to write poetry. Her poetry was a way for her to find the answers to the terrible crisis that she could not find in any book. Through writing her poetry, Maria became closer to God and she found during her journey, that God's mercy is a sufficient answer to any crisis or devastating situation.

Those poems are now available in the book, "Crystal, A Mother's Grieving Heart" published by Lorton Valley Star. It is available in Occoquan at the Coffee House of Occoquan and at Attic Treasures. It is also available online from Maria's web site.

Buy the book now…

Copyright © 2003 Maria Carneiro, of Montclair, Prince William County, Virginia, USA

All international rights reserved.

94 Pages
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1994 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.



Catalog Data:

Carneiro, Maria A.
Crystal, A Mother’s Grieving Heart
Original Publication:
A.D. 2005
ISBN 0-9764770-0-9

Grief, Poetry

Library of Congress Number TXu1-189-869

Cover Art:
Michelle Carneiro
Graphics and Layout:
Floyd Harrison




Publisher:
Lorton Valley Star Communications
P.O. Box 1436
Lorton, VA 22199
USA

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Local Merchants Support Community, Provide Savings

Pets may be a reason you need extra dry cleaning services but they need care and attention. Sometimes, your life isn’t compatible with the needs the extra furry companions but you want them to be comfortable and well cared for. Life is Good 4 Pets when you get professional pet services to fill in when you have time conflicts. This month you get a free consultation when you try Life is Good 4 Pets pet sitting and dog walking service. Ask for references.

And speaking of dry cleaning needs, no other cleaners makes life so easy as TOWN CLEANERS. You can actually get free pick-up and delivery if you gather up $35. worth of cleaning. That’s maybe a coat and a couple of suit outfits. Order by phone, e-mail or text; How modern is that?

Or while the pet is in good care, combine errands and bring in $50 or more in dry cleaning and alteration services and save up to 20% using the TOWN CLEANERS 10off coupon.

Please patronize these community minded merchants who have helped bring you Lorton Valley Star. They are so new that they don't even have web buttons yet but they are delivering the paper.

Hosting a New Cartoon Artist, Crystal

Lorton Valley Star is pleased to introduce to you, the work of Crystal Wormack, cartoon artist. Her work is light, fresh and naturally humorous

Crystal’s work stands on its own, however it’s a bit more amazing when you learn that the little lady doing it is twelve years of age. Crystal is not a wanna-be kid; she is a prolific producer.

Over the years, many wanna-be writers and artists, propose working for Lorton Valley Star, who don’t come forward with tangible works. It’s not that turning out work or being incorporated makes you great, though all of that describes her. She’s certainly serious about her craft but there’s a bigger point.

Crystal, is empowered. It’s about positive attitude. She wants to do it. She says she can, thinks she is and does it. This is an inspiration and good example for all of us. She powers through the dreams of the idle dreamers and actually becomes the dream.

A tree is known by its fruit; in other words it is called by what result is produced. Crystal produces finished cartoons; Therefore she is a cartoonist. You see it’s not just a philosophy, but a challenge. We have to distinguish between idle dreams and empowering dreams.

Most other people are just sitting around going “ohm-m-m-m” which doesn’t get past disengaged dream. Success is not only imagining the desired result but acting in belief and maybe breaking a sweat to get there. The Bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb.11 KJ) Think about that and there is a problem with tense; It makes faith its own result. So, if you believe so surely that you act on it, the result is already there?

I can serve my community and I can leave a positive legacy so that the World is a slightly better place because of my productive example and creative influence. It is already done! Tyrants don’t get it. Hoodlums don’t get it. Yogis don’t get it. Yuppies don’t get it. Talkers and signafiers don't get it.

Crystal embodies this empowerment. I feel priviledged to be able to host Crystal Wormack’s work in Lorton Valley Star. Your thoughts are welcome on our feedback link.

Floyd Harrison, Publisher

Publisher Events Recommendations

This is a busy time of the year with weekend events in the parks and all of the performing arts venues beginning their new seasons. Latest additions to the event calendar offer significant conflicts. To help with our reader's entertainment choices, the Events page highlights the publisher's recommendations favoring the traditional, largest and most broad appeal events. Too bad the good food events conflict; there just aren't enough weekends for Lorton. Dates and Titles of recommendations are highlighted in red.

Floyd Harrison, Publisher

Building the Lorton Travel Page

See our punchlist of VDOT problems and contribute hazards or missing signs that you find in Lorton. Click on photo.

Fairfax Connector Begins Operating Saturday Service
 
Effective Wednesday, September 24th, Fairfax Connector bus service in south Fairfax County will begin operating a full Saturday schedule with the exception of routes 161 and 162.  The Saturday schedule, which begins earlier in the day and ends later at night, is an improvement over the Limited Sunday schedule which has been operated since Monday, September 15.
 
Saturday service will be operated on the following south county bus routes on Wednesday:   101, 109, 151, 152, 171, 310, 321, 322 and 401.
 
Bus service will not operate on the following south county bus routes:  161, 162, 231, 232, 301, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 331, 332, 380 and VRE EZ-Bus North and South.
 
Passengers are advised to check the Fairfax Connector Web site at www.fairfaxconnector.com for updates, or call the Fairfax Connector telephone information center at 703-339-7200, TTY 703-339-1608, or visit the Connector Store.  The Connector Store in south county is located in the Franconia-Springfield Metrorail Station.      
 
Passengers affected by these service changes may wish to consider other alternatives such as Metrobus, Metrorail, VRE service or carpooling. For ridesharing assistance, call the Fairfax County RideSources office at 703-324-1111, TTY 703-324-1102, or try a temporary carpool program called NuRide online at www.nuride.com.  For Metro information call 202-637-7000, TTY 202-638-3780.  For VRE service, dial 1-800-RIDE-VRE.

Video Clips Coming to this site

Lorton Valley Star has tested an easy method to ad video clips to our web site. We expect to be adding clips from arts venues and video news. Music.mov VIDEO CLIP Animal.mov VIDEO CLIP

Refurbished Web Site

Lorton Valley Star Newspaper web site has been rebuilt in Adobe Dreamweaver to make it neater, more interactive, and easier to maintain. The Home page NEWS ticker is running the most timely news leads. Some of this stuff is so new that the stories haven’t even been edited yet.

Lorton Valley Star is a community service and hopes to be the bookmark for all of the greater Lorton Area. If you know of interesting, useful websites pertaining to the Rt.1 & Ox Road corridors, and Mason Neck, please point us to them.

Beyond being the greater Lorton, Mason Neck, Occoquan newspaper, we try to envolve the residents by providing information about how they can participate with their neighbors for the betterment of the cmmunity.

Our mission is to provide a family friendly alternative to smutty publications so that you won’t be afraid to leave it around for your children to read. We do not participate in the normalization of violence, tobacco, obscenity, profanity, or distortion of Christian holidays. This affects or advertisements and our art reviews.

Forms are being added to assist in the input of calendar Events, press releases, Feedback to the publisher, and advertising applications.The first group of links on the left navigation column are available by the next section button in a looped sequence. The Tour is also a loop. All pages as well as the second group in the navigation column are accessible directly from any other page.

The Lorton VA site is also to be refurbished and appended and will be a reference for more or less fixed information about greater Lorton home of American Liberty.

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School Bags

Without basic supplies, children cannot start the school year off right, but for many American Indian families other priorities like food need to come first.

Running Strong and Christian Relief Services Charities help American Indian children with their back to school needs by providing them backpacks filled with pens, paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, erasers, glue, sharpeners and notebooks, just in time for school.

Running Strong provided 3,100 children with backpacks filled with school supplies in:
• Montana
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New Mexico
• South Dakota  

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