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Pimmit Hills Joins cities nationwide National Night Out for “America’s Night Out Against Crime”
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Hileman Road (upper part) in Pimmit Hills
Free Ice Cream . . . . Bike riding in the street! . . .. Music . . . . Chalk Art . . . . Get to know your Neighbors . . . . Cake Walk . . . . See local law enforcement . . . . Meet the PHCA Board
National Night Out is designed to:
- Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness
- Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime efforts
- Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships
- Send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are organized and fighting back
This is a night for America to stand together to promote awareness, safety and neighborhood unity. National Night Out showcases the vital importance of police-community partnerships and citizen involvement in our fight to build a safer nation.
Pimmit Hills National Night Out is coordinated by the PHCA Board. Food provided by Commons Safeway. Music provided by members of the Student Symphonic Orchestra of Fairfax.
For more information call: PHCA President Carol Martz 703-448-5306
The Fairfax County Solid Waste Management Program will host two free recycling events for Fairfax County residents during the weekend of July 24 and 25, 2010:
- Saturday, July 24 – Document Shredding/Recycling:
- This event will be held from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Langley High School (6520 Georgetown Pike, McLean).
- Residents may shred up to 5 medium-sized boxes of personal documents per household at no charge.
- Please remove all paper from binders, binder clips and plastic page covers and binding. Information stored on film or computer disks will not be accepted – paper documents only.
- All documents will be securely shredded on-site by a private contractor and the shredded material will be taken to a local recycling facility for processing.
- Sunday, July 25 – Electric Sunday:
- This event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the I-95 Landfill Complex (9850 Furnace Road, Lorton).
- Residents may recycle old televisions, computers and peripheral electronics such as speakers, printers, scanners, etc.
- Also, residents can recycle unbroken fluorescent tubes and light bulbs.
Complete details for these events and other recycling opportunities planned for 2010 can be found on the Fairfax County Solid Waste Management Program’s web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/recycling, or by calling the Recycling InfoLine at 703-324-5052, TTY 711.
Follow these tips to help beat the heat:
- Drink plenty of fluids: Drink 2-4 glasses of cool fluids each hour.
- Do not drink caffeinated or alcoholic beverages because they dehydrate the body.
- Keep cool indoors: If you can, stay in an air-conditioned area. Resting for just two hours in air conditioning can significantly reduce heat-related illnesses.
- Plan outdoor activities around the heat: If you must go outside, go before noon or at night when it’s cooler. Avoid strenuous physical activities or reschedule them for the coolest part of the day, usually the early morning.
- Give your body a break: Heat is stressful on your body. Limit physical activity until your body adjusts to the heat.
- Eat light meals, avoiding high-protein foods because they increase metabolic heat.
- Don’t take salt tablets unless directed by a doctor.
- Wear light-colored clothing, which helps reflect sunlight.
- Wear sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Sunburn makes it more difficult for your body to cool off.
- Never leave children or pets unattended in a car—not even for a few minutes. Even with the windows slightly open, the temperature in a car on a 93-degree day can soar to 125 degrees in just 20 minutes and approximately 140 degrees in 40 minutes.
People at greatest risk of getting sick from the heat are babies and young children, people 65 and older, people who are overweight, people who are already sick or on certain medicines, and people who overexert themselves by work or exercise.
People can suffer ill health effects when their body temperature control system is on overload. Your body temperature can shoot up when normal sweating can’t cool it quickly enough in extreme heat. Damage to the brain or other vital organs can result from very high body temperatures. Several heat-related health conditions can cause serious health problems. People suffering from heat cramps and heat exhaustion may require medical attention. However, heat stroke is a life-threatening emergency requiring immediate medical attention.
Stay Cool Indoors
During extremely hot days, there’s plenty you can do to stay cool, such as visiting a local library, taking in a movie, strolling through a shopping center, or visiting a community recreation center or senior center that is air-conditioned. Fairfax County has many air-conditioned facilities where you can conduct county business, get educated, be entertained or just find a place of respite to get out from the heat. Here are some examples:
Human Services Emergency Assistance
Residents who need immediate help with utility bills or other urgent human services assistance can call the county’s Coordinated Services Planning staff in the Department of Systems Management for Human Services at 703-222-0880, TTY 703-803-7914. CSP staff can quickly connect residents with a network of services provided by public, private and community based organizations, as well as appropriate county government resources.
Cooling Assistance Program
Low-income Fairfax County residents who need help to keep their homes cool this summer and prevent a health emergency resulting from extreme heat may be able to get assistance from a federally funded program locally administered by the county’s Department of Family Services. The Cooling Assistance program helps eligible low-income households that include at least one person considered especially vulnerable to heat: a child under age six, a disabled individual, or an adult age 60 or older. Cooling assistance can be used to help with:
- Payment of electric bills to operate cooling equipment.
- Payment of security deposits for electricity to operate cooling equipment.
- Repair of a central air conditioning system or heat pump.
- Purchase of a whole-house fan, including ceiling or attic fans.
- Purchase and installation of one window unit air conditioner for households where there is no unit or where the unit must be replaced.
For more information or an application form, visit the Virginia Department of Social Services or call the Fairfax County Department of Family Services at 703-324-7604, TTY 703-222-9452.
Free Fans
The Fairfax County Area Agency on Aging also provides free fans to income-eligible senior adults who need them for health reasons. This program runs until Sept. 30, and seniors can apply for a fan by contacting Kim Karlinchak at 703-324-7694, TTY 703-449-1186.
Helping the Vulnerable Through the Heat
Fairfax County has many vulnerable populations, including the homeless, elderly and others with special medical needs. Their needs are heightened during conditions such as extreme heat. Faith communities, businesses, senior centers, community centers and other place of potential temporary shelter are encouraged to consider being charitable by opening doors for a few hours to help people stay cool and drink water. Resting for just two hours in air conditioning can significantly reduce heat-related illnesses. Also, if individuals need special attention, please take a few minutes to check in on them to ensure their well-being. If residents need immediate, life-saving help, please call 911. For other safety help, call the public safety non-emergency phone number at 703-691-2131, TTY 711.
Pet Safety
“Leave your pets at home.” That is the advice Fairfax County Animal Services officers give pet owners during the summer months. Take the dog to the veterinarian’s office or to the dog park, but do not take it on errands, even when you are “just going to be a minute.”
- Leaving a window down an inch or two is not enough to provide a safe environment for your pet.
- Fifteen minutes in a hot car is enough for animal body temperatures to go from normal to deadly.
- If the temperature is in the 60s or higher, many experts recommend not leaving pets or children in parked cars, even for short periods. If you must keep your pet in the car briefly, choose a shady spot, leave the windows down as far as possible (and the pet restrained) or keep the air conditioning on.
- If you see an animal in a parked car that appears to be in distress or could soon be in distress, call the Department of Public Safety Communications at 703-691-2131, TTY 711. Note the car make and model, license plate number and the location. If the pet owner might be in a nearby store, you can have the store page the owner over a public address system. Animal control officers, police officers and fire and rescue personnel have the authority to break into a car to rescue an animal in distress. Depending on the health of the animal at the time it is rescued, the owners can be charged with animal cruelty.
More Information
From Linda Wheeler:
Just a quick follow up! Thank you to those who have responded! I have 14 families so far that said they will participate! If you want to join us…just put up signs directing to your place! If you are not selling…come on out and shop!!! There will be some great “treasures”! I have several people joining me in my yard at 1823 Pimmit. Lots to look at!
I will post the Pimmit “Community Yard Sale” on Craigslist and have signs at the entry to Pimmit Hills …Thanks! Linda Wheeler
Hello Neighbors!
We will be having our annual Pimmit Community Yard Sale on Saturday, June 19th, from 8am – noon. Please let me know if you plan to participate. I will be publicizing on Craig’s List, so it would be good to report approximately how many families will be participating. We will also put out some signs around the community. Feel free to put your own signs around, too, directing to your area, as well as listing your address on Craig’s List! The more we all publicize, the more traffic we will have!
Some suggestions:
Get several neighbors together – putting all the stuff in one yard – the more there is to look at, the faster people will stop to shop!
If you are on a less traveled street, find a neighbor on a more traveled street and buddy up with them!
I have space in my front yard on Pimmit Drive if anyone wants to join me. There is also a neighbor on Griffith that would welcome others to join her. Let me know!
Have your stuff out by 7:30. There are a lot of shoppers out very early, so take advantage of that!
Have a game plan for where the leftovers will go! Don’t take it back in the house! I have had good luck just putting leftovers out to the curb, sometimes someone in our community can put that item to good use.
Let me know if you have any of these items leftover that you would like to donate. Thanks!
One last thing, could you do me a favor? If you hear about anyone who is interested in buying or selling a home, can you keep me in mind? I would be happy to help them for you!
Linda Wheeler
Weichert, Realtors
6257 Old Dominion Drive
McLean, VA 22101
703-475-5347
www.WheelerTeam.com
Serving Northern Virginia…helping people move into, out of, and around the Metro DC area…by Referral!
“A Referral is…Sending Someone You Care About, to Someone You Respect and Trust”
All four lanes of Route 123 (Chain Bridge Road) under the Beltway in Tysons Corner will be closed from 9:30 p.m. Friday, June 11 until 5 a.m. Monday, June 14 for bridge demolition, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
The following ramps will be closed along with the left lane on I-495 north:
• I-495 North to Route 123 South
• I-495 South to Route 123 North
• Route 123 south to I-495 South
• Route 123 north to I-495 North
Detours:
Traffic leaving the Tysons Corner shopping areas to McLean will be detoured from Route 123 north to I-495 south to Route 7 and back to I-495 north to continue on Route 123 north. Traffic heading to Tysons from McLean will be directed to use I-495 north to Georgetown Pike (Route 193) to I-495 south back to Route 123 south. Motorists should expect delays around the Route 123/I-495 interchange and on Georgetown Pike and Route 7. Police will be onsite to direct traffic. VDOT urges motorists familiar with the area to use alternate routes.
Once the old beltway bridge is demolished crews will begin construction on the new beltway bridges and a new HOT Lanes connection into Tysons Corner at the Westpark Drive bridge. Crews will also start construction of Dulles Metrorail guideway piers over the Capital Beltway. Should inclement weather cancel the closure, it will be rescheduled for June 18-21.
The work is part of the Capital Beltway High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes Project.
About the HOT Lanes Project: Bridge work is underway at 12 of the Capital Beltway’s interchanges inside the HOT Lanes Project work zone between the Springfield Interchange and just north of the Dulles Toll Road throughout the spring, summer and fall. These new bridges and interchange connections are part of the $260 million infrastructure replacement in support of the $1.4 billion Capital Beltway HOT Lanes project. The project is on schedule for completion by early 2013. For updated project information please visit www.VAmegaprojects.com
The Pimmit Hills Citizens Association will have their last meeting of the season on Tuesday, June 1 at 7:30 pm in the Pimmit Hills High School/Senior Center.
The speaker is from the Vienna Health Improvement Center and there will be elections for the PHCA Board. We’ll also discuss the traffic calming effort in Pimmit Hills and biking/walking trails.
DULLES CORRIDOR METRORAIL PROJECT : Drivers who use Magarity Road in the McLean/Falls Church/Tysons area will experience significant delays on or about May 19 through 21 when the road will be closed between Olney Road and Great Falls Streets between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., weather permitting.
The closing is necessary for safety reasons while steel is erected on a new bridge that will carry tracks for the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project in the median of the Dulles Connector Road across Magarity Road.
Magarity Road runs north/south parallel to Route 123 from Great Falls Street to Route 7. All side streets south of the Connector Road along Magarity will be open. Magarity Road from Olney Road south toward Route 7 will not be affected.
However, residents of Pimmit Hills, the Commons and other residential areas along Magarity seeking to travel northbound on Magarity Road toward Great Falls Street in McLean will be detoured to make a left turn on to Anderson Road, to a right on Chain Bridge Road to return to Great Falls Street at the first traffic signal.
Drivers from the McLean area who use Magarity Road to access Route 7, Pimmit Hills and commercial developments off Anderson Road can use Route 123 south to a left turn at Anderson Road to return to Magarity beyond the work zone or use Chain Bridge Road to a left turn on Anderson Road to a right on Magarity. Drivers northbound along Magarity toward McLean will be rerouted to Anderson Road to Chain Bridge Road or Route 123.
Motorists should exercise caution and be alert to signs and detours in these areas. Police will be on site to help ensure safety.
For all work performed during overnight hours, construction crews operate under a Noise Variance from Fairfax County. There may be intermittent periods of construction noise associated with equipment movement and placing and securing the steel girders. For construction-related emergencies including noise, please use the project HOTLINE at 877-585-6789.
For further information about the project, please visit our project website at www.dullesmetro.com or call 703-572-0506.
Hello Neighbors! We will be having our annual Pimmit Community Yard Sale on Saturday, June 19th, from 8:00 am to Noon.
Please let me know if you plan to participate. I will be publicizing on Craig’s List, so it would be good to report approximately how many families will be participating. We will also put out some signs around the community. Feel free to put your own signs around, too, directing to your area, as well as listing your address on Craig’s List! The more we all publicize, the more traffic we will have!
Some suggestions:
- Get several neighbors together – putting all the stuff in one yard – the more there is to look at, the faster people will stop to shop!
- If you are on a less traveled street, find a neighbor on a more traveled street and buddy up with them!
- I have space in my front yard on Pimmit Drive if anyone wants to join me. There is also a neighbor on Griffith that would welcome others to join her. Let me know!
- Have your stuff out by 7:30 am. There are a lot of shoppers out very early, so take advantage of that!
- Have a game plan for where the leftovers will go! Don’t take it back in the house! I have had good luck just putting leftovers out to the curb, sometimes someone in our community can put that item to good use.
Below is a list of items that I am collecting for different causes. Let me know if you have any of these items leftover that you would like to donate. Thanks!
- Old Cell Phones – Helping to end Domestic Violence and Family Homelessness in Northern Virginia
- Coats for Children (for Salvation Army – let’s get a head start on next winter!) Coats of all sizes needed!
- Eye glasses & Hearing Aids (for Lyons Club)
- Beanie Babies donations – for a Fall Trip Linda will be taking to China, visiting children in orphanages.
One last thing, could you do me a favor? If you hear about anyone who is interested in buying or selling a home, can you keep me in mind? I would be happy to help them for you!
Linda Wheeler
Vice President, Pimmit Hills Citizens Association
Weichert Realtors
6257 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, VA 22101
703-475-5347
www.WheelerTeam.com
Serving Northern Virginia…helping people move into, out of, and around the Metro DC area…by Referral!
“A Referral is…Sending Someone You Care About, to Someone You Respect and Trust”
PIMMIT HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD COFFEE
(Past, Present & Future Residents Welcome!)
TIME: 9:00-11:00 am
WHERE: 1823 Pimmit Dr.
DATES:
–Saturday, May 15, 2010 – Community Yard Sale Info/Networking
–Friday, June 11 – Summer Fun Ideas
Come out and join us for a cup of coffee and some sweet treats. Enjoy talking with neighbors you haven’t seen for a while and maybe even meet a few you don’t know! We have a great time sharing information about the community and helping neighbors network (i.e. find a babysitter, teen to cut the grass, where to go for community resources, etc.)
Any questions call 703-475-5347 or email lindawheeler@weichert.com. Hope to see you there! Bring a neighbor with you!
Fire Department Training in Pimmit Hills
Saturday, May 8, 2010
1823 Gilson
8 am to 3 pm
Please be advised that the Fire Department will be conducting a training exercise in your neighborhood soon. The house will not be “fully” involved in fire. Fires will be typically be constructed of a few pallets and a bale of straw. The training officers build a small fire, the recruits extinguish it and repeat this 7 to 10 times.
They will practise search and rescue techniques and practise cutting holes in the roof and interior walls under “real life” conditions of smoke and heat. While you may briefly see a few flames and some smoke, this will not be large amounts of either and each round is only a few minutes long. There will be minimal impact to traffic and neighbors. Nearby hydrants will be used and any driveways or streets crossed will have hose ramps so that vehicles can drive over the hose.
In an average exercise, a pumper is in front or in the driveway and one at each fire hydrant for a total of 3 pumpers and there will be a ladder truck and ambulance. Recruit transportation will be the fire and rescue academy bus and a pick-up with a trailer to transport supplies for training. There will be approximately 35 people involved in the average training, which will usually start approximately at 8:00am and end about 3:00pm.
Last year the budget cuts to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) impacted many aspects of street maintenance in Fairfax County. One direct result was a less frequent mowing schedule for roadside grass. Now, with the arrival of warm weather, our office anticipates increased concerns about the tall grass on the VDOT maintained roadsides of Dranesville.
Last year, across the County numerous private citizens and businesses generously offered to help VDOT with mowing. But with no formal program in place by VDOT we were unable to take them up on their kind offers to help.
Fortunately, VDOT now has developed a program to issue mowing permits to private citizens, businesses and homeowner associations. Your organization, or individuals within your organization, may now become Volunteer Mowers.
To learn about how you can help keep Dranesville’s roadside maintained and beautiful visit http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dranesville/vdot_private_mowers.htm. (Please don’t be intimidated by the number of forms required for this activity. Most of them require only a signature.) If you have any questions please contact Julie Ide in my office at 703-356-0551 or by email at Julie.ide@fairfaxcounty.gov.
John W. Foust, Dranesville District Supervisor
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