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Summer of Love. Love your Summer! SUMMER IS HERE, AND IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, IT IS THE BEST OF THE SEASONS. Long, humid days that seemingly go on forever produce brilliant sunsets and awaken the wildlife around us. The smell of cut grass brings back childhood and fond memories of beach trips with my family, spending weeks at camp or just playing in the backyard. It's a time for love and outdoor activity. It's the month we appreciate our great country's independence, and we want to celebrate with our readers in this issue. Now that we are older and our world has expanded, we call on our favorite loving couple and travel experts who outline their favorite romantic trip to Italy in Road Trip. If you want to stay local, see our feature on Page 16 to learn a little about our nation's history and take a tour of the beautiful mills in the area. We also showcase the travels of Visit Loudoun's Summer of Love Van, which, if you follow on its 50 years of "Virginia is for Lovers" anniversary tour, you'll find great ways to celebrate our area in this season. We highlight doing what you love in our Driver's Notebook, which details how easy it
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20 Mobile Hope: Where Love Lives Kwame Contemplates his Future Sheltered by Mobile Hope
26 Just Another Day Above the Office Inside the Cirrus SR22, a Local Lawyer Commutes to Richmond
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ROAD TRIP
On the Road to Romance ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON | PHOTOGRAPHY MICHELLE LINDSAY Ziza and Denis: Dream Planners 12
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in what became Serbia. They kept in touch
3 nights
across the miles and years, with Denis EVER MET THE “PERFECT COUPLE?”
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relentlessly flirting with Ziza.
We know a couple that not only lights up
In 2011, a road-weary Denis invited her
the room with the way they so obviously
to meet him somewhere for a vacation. The
care for each other but whose job it is to
pair picked Istanbul and enjoyed a week of
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the “bridge between two continents,” an
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Ziza Stojanovic believes, “At the end of
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the day, it’s all about the little things that
their last night together, over a dinner that
1 night
make you happy.” Could that be the soul
lasted into the morning, Denis said he really
of romance? For our own summer of love,
opened his heart, “because it was like a
we asked them to map out a romantic
now or never kind of thing.”
+ Modena, Emilia Romagna and San Marino
adventure designed to make us all fall in
Ziza recalls, “We had a wonderful dinner
love again. They picked Italy, and a full
with the Bosphorus as our breathtaking
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backdrop and he told me everything he felt
Facebook page, but first, we thought you’d
about me and I was like, ‘What?’” Blind to
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like to know in whose capable hands you
the empty restaurant, Denis finally ended
2 nights
were placing your heart.
the conversation with a laughing, “Too much
1 night
born in the former Yugoslavia, which broke
Back home, Ziza missed him immedi-
apart in the 1990s. Travel always has been
ately. “It was like all of the pieces of the
+ Ravenna, Emilia Romagna and San Marino
an integral part of who they are. With
puzzle fell together. Being with him felt
0 nights
Europe in their backyard and passports
right. I am myself when I’m with him, so
allowing them visa-free travel, they’ve
I don’t have to pretend or be something
both ventured to the far corners of the
that I’m not.”
Ziza and Denis Stojanovic both were
to digest?” They parted to contemplate.
world. They met in 1997 while both were in
He proposed at the Eiffel Tower, and they
school, then the same Yugoslav Wars that
married in Virginia. For the better part of a
divided Yugoslavia separated them. Denis
decade, they’ve worked together daily in
moved to the United States, and Ziza lived
the complex, “problem-solving” mode of CONTINUED >
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personalized vacation planning and now watch over a two-year-old named Sophia. You might say the demands are incessant. In that rough and tumble world, what keeps the romance alive? When they speak, they finish each other’s sentences. Denis begins, “I know her weaknesses, and she knows mine.” Ziza says, “Knowing when to back off and give each other space.” Denis says, “It’s the little things. Maybe she brings me something, or I do something for her. If I go out for a quick errand, I have a tendency to buy roses,” he grins. “She loves roses.” Ziza adds, “Or I will say thanks for
“Europe was our backyard, and our passports opened doors for us around the world without a visa.” –DENIS STOJANOVIC
this, or thanks for that...” “I would always pay her a compliment like, “Hey, you look great today,’” Denis says. When it comes to catering to their often very meticulous clients, Denis carries that love of the little things into his role as the operations guru; he handles all the logistics. He provides all the “point to point” answers and makes every step available in a detailed, customized travel advisory package. Ziza considers what celebrations may be in order and infuses details like a romantic restaurant, where to have a night out or where you can get an amazing gelato. Imagine getting both a man’s and a woman’s perspective on literally everything! “I just love working with him,” says Ziza. “At the end of the day, it’s about our clients and how we work together to make them happy.” “When you book with us,” Denis says, “you will always get the right provider for your budget. The people we work with have lived in the places you’re going and they love it.” Their perfect customer is those who have some time to plan (six months to a year is ideal) and who will open their hearts to new friends and experiences and enjoy every minute, knowing every single detail has been handled to perfection. Because, when all the stars align, and all the puzzle pieces finally fit together perfectly, truly amazing things can happen.
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GRIST FOR HISTORY
ARTICLE MEREDITH BEAN MCMATH PHOTOGRAPHY AMIE WARE, AWARE PHOTOGRAPHY
Grist for History LOUDOUN’S MILLS SHARE A HISTORY OF LOVE AND LOSS
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FEW OF LOUDOUN’S GLORIOUS OLD MILLS SURVIVED THE CIVIL WAR, BUT THOSE THAT DID HAVE STORIES TO TELL. The Union Capital was just over the Potomac River, but Loudoun was in the heart of Confederate Virginia. Most joined the Confederate Army, but another group joined the Union Army, and Loudoun soon became a battleground, frequently dividing families.
1. A DIVIDED COMMUNITY An event just two months into the war helped illustrate the schism. Confederates ambushed Union soldiers at the Waterford Baptist Meeting House. The battle lasted all day, and when the Union finally surrendered, one Confederate soldier came at them waving his gun and yelling he had a right to kill his Union prisoner. His commander stopped him, sparing the would-be executioner’s brother. For the next few years, Loudoun’s mills saw many battles and skirmishes. Confederate foragers regularly emptied the pantries of proUnion people, even as the mills continued to grind. In 1864, to cripple the South’s food supply, the Union Army marched through the county burning as many mills and barns as they could—regardless of owners’ loyalties. North of Leesburg, Taylorstown Mill and Waterford Mill survived the raids, as well as Aldie Mill to the South, while PottsNeer Mill of Hillsboro and dozens of others did not. (Charred ruins of Potts-Neer Mill are visible from the corner of Stoney Point and Woodgrove Roads southwest of Hillsboro.)
2. MAKING WOMEN’S HISTORY Three
young
Quaker
women
of
Waterford—Lida and Lizzie Dutton and Sarah Steer—started a newspaper to boost Union Soldiers’ morale, establishing them as Virginia’s first female journalists. Lida’s own powers of persuasion were made clear when she met Union Lieutenant William Hutchinson in disguise as a Confederate while on a scouting mission. He asked Lida for directions, and, being a Quaker, she had to tell the truth. Not wanting to aid a Confederate, she gave him directions only a local could understand. When William asked which side she’d like for him to be on, she blurted that, if he was a Southerner she hated him, but if he were a Northerner, she loved him. After 50 years of marriage, Lida often argued with William whether she promised to love or only like him CONTINUED >
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4. SITES TO VISIT Aldie
Mill,
just
east
of
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historical
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GIVING BACK
Mobile Hope WHERE LOVE LIVES
DONNA FORTIER HAS A FONDNESS FOR TURTLES. To the CEO and founder of Mobile Hope, a non-profit focused on helping 18-to-24-year-old homeless kids build productive lives, they are a symbol of how it must feel to be entirely without resources and on your own. “It carries its home on its back and has a hard shell for all the judgment and B.S. that our kids have to deal with,” she explains. For Mobile Hope’s caseworkers, it takes time and unrelenting care to penetrate that shell and restore the hope of young people whose families are absent or unwilling to house them. To remind them they’re no longer alone, every kid’s journey at Mobile Hope begins with the gift of a turtle bracelet—it may be just a few beads and string, but it's a tangible reminder that someone cares. Then again, a turtle may just be Donna’s own spirit guide. Eight years ago, she was weighing whether to leave her job as Director of Community Affairs and Mobile Health Services for Inova Loudoun Hospital to tend full-time to the needs of homeless youth, for a salary that didn’t exist. Those needs, she discovered to her shock, went far beyond health care. As her decision approached, she asked for a sign.
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Donna and Kwame
“Show me a turtle,” she said. For the next four months, from “Go Turtles” license plates to box turtle road rescues, it was as if turtles were, literally, crawling out of the bush and into her path. “You didn’t have to hit me in the head with a hammer,” she said and took the leap. The “home on your back” analogy is, unfortunately, fitting for Mobile Hope as well. There’s the obvious—its colorfully painted mobile home parked outside its offices near the airport makes eight monthly stops around the county dispensing hot meals, clothes, diapers and other items to the needy. More poignantly, the organization has moved seven times in eight years. It began in Donna’s office at Inova and moved to an empty doctor’s office; an empty room at Cornwall Hospital; a storage locker; the place across from Healthworks, for about a year, and moved back to a storage locker. Then it went to the Village of Leesburg next to Travinia Italian Kitchen, which generously gave them space, and settled in a Sycolin Road location for about a year and a half. It is now in a second-floor office above a school for gymnastics. “This is our longest lease, but it’s not conducive to our needs," says Donna. Like her youth, Donna dreams of a permanent home for a life skills training center for the county’s young adult homeless population. It would have a residential housing component for ages 18-24. "We have looked at so many places, but we are not easy to place," Donna says. “If all the stars aligned and millions of dollars fell out of the sky, [the facility] would be a one-stop shop for these kids so they could not only live there but be trained and certified in skills that would provide them with productive lives and the means to participate fully in a community where they’re now mostly invisible and unacknowledged." Twenty-two hundred—this is the number of homeless kids identified by the Loudoun County School System last year. In the richest county in the country, how can this be? Mobile Hope's biggest gift to Kwame was confidence that he is loved
Where are they?
CONTINUED >
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“They’re expert at hiding,” Donna explains. They sleep on the rooftops of local businesses, in the park or couch-surf with friends’ families. Even the latter can’t provide the life skills training they need to break the dependency on social services that, in many cases, is the only life lesson imparted by their parents. That’s Mobile Hope’s job. “Whatever you’d do for your own kids, that’s what we do for these kids,” says Donna. That includes loving them unconditionally. Take Kwame A., who is confined to a wheelchair (purchased by Mobile Hope), for example. Kwame lived for football. He’d made varsity and was doing well in school. But when his parents kicked him out at age 16 along with his older brother, he fell behind in his classes and was kicked off the team. He then transferred to Douglass, a school for alternative education in Leesburg, got arrested and spent time in the adult detention center. A month after his release, in August 2017, he was shot in the back. In the hospital, he fought for life, paralyzed and on life support, and was told he’d never walk again. Following a subsequent abdominal surgery, a relapse and painful rehab, his physical therapist now thinks with leg braces (also purchased by Mobile Hope) that maybe by the time you’re reading this article, he’ll be using a walker or trying to walk on his own. There are other signs of healing. The 20-year-old is working online using his skills as an artist to learn how to be a graphic designer. He’s working on his resume and trying to find stable housing compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. He’ll be featured in an art show this summer with a local artist that is tutoring him. And, he’s thinking hard about his future. “I don’t know my purpose in life; I’m still trying to figure it out," says Kwame. The one thing that keeps him going? “Donna telling me she loves me," he says. "Because, me, personally, I never really cared about me. That was what was wrong with me for a long time.” One look at the high-wattage smile, and you can tell that, at least, has changed. CONTINUED >
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HOW YOU CAN HELP Most importantly, Donna says, “Don’t
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judge [homeless youth] for who you think they are. Get to know them, ask them their names or ask them what they may need.” Her response is probably loaded with the awareness that, if Mobile Hope sees 40-50 kids a month, there must be hundreds it doesn’t see. As for donations, Donna says, “Our biggest needed item (aside from financial support) is food and gift cards in small denominations.” Produce is fine, because they also teach the kids to cook, but other food like breakfast bars, 100% juice boxes, canned tuna or chicken, hearty soups, PB&J, pasta and rice, canned food, snacks or gift cards can either help feed hungry kids or help out a family that is allowing them to stay with them. New clothing—especially new socks, underwear and t-shirts for boys of all sizes are needed. Duffle bags, tents, personal hygiene items, cleaning items and school supplies this month and next are also gratefully appreciated. Mobile
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kids,
fold
clothes for an hour or just cook a meal are always welcome. You can also get involved with Handcuffs to Hope. “This program actively works to reduce recidivism and help these returning citizens with a new chance," says Donna. Lastly, donate to build a permanent center. "This is a legacy that will live on forever to give these kids a stable place to start and a strong foundation to move on,” says Donna. MobileHopeLoudoun.org
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ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON | PHOTOGRAPHY MICHELLE LINDSAY WHEN ATTORNEY JIM MAGNER HAS A COURT DATE IN RICHMOND, HE HEADS DOWN, NOT I-95, BUT RATHER DOWN SYCOLIN TO RUNWAY 17 AT LEESBURG EXECUTIVE AIRPORT, THE SECOND BUSIEST GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT ON THE EAST COAST. There, he can board a plane and be in court in just under an hour. “Flying to my out-of-town business meetings saves me a ton of time and my clients a ton of money over driving and charging for the travel time,” Jim says. He can leave the office, make a court appearance in Richmond and be back at his desk by mid-afternoon. 26
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A Cirrus SR22 Ready for Take-Off
“Being able to reward a client with a private flight to my alma mater for a football game is great for client retention!” he says. But that’s not why Jim, or any pilots, really fly. He says, “For each of us, there was a moment when we knew that we never wanted to do anything else. Maybe it was the first time we saw the sun rise over the Outer Banks from 5,000 feet, or the first time we saw a child’s face light up, pressed against the window, or the first time someone referred to us as a pilot.” Jim and a few other local plane owners are backing flight instructors. Tim Fisher, a 16 year flight instructor, recently launched his new Aero Elite Flight Training school to share their wings. Tim says that, spurred by an acute pilot shortage, youth as young as 15 are starting training on leading-edge computer simulators. Given their familiarity with the technology, those aged 17 and up can become flight certified over the summer in as little as two months. Students who take advantage of the opportunity may find that training in a Cirrus or Diamond is a bit like learning to drive in a Ferrari. To see if it’s right for you, start by joining the local Smoke House Pilots Club on Facebook, or come the first Wednesday of every month at The V Eatery and Brewhouse in Ashburn. AEFlight.com
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RENOVATE & REFINE
RIVER’S EDGE PROVIDES A HAPPILY EVER “AFTER”
Gardening By Design ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON PHOTOGRAPHY ALEXANDER ERKILETIAN
A BLOCK FROM WEST MARKET AND A SHORT WALK FROM LEESBURG’S DOWNTOWN LIES A MORE THAN 200-FOOTLONG LUSHLY GREEN BACKYARD AND PATIO WITH SUMPTUOUS, SEASONALLY BLOOMING PLANTS AND SHADE TREES. That’s now. When purchased, the backyard’s “water feature” was a 12-by-12-foot square brick fountain, better suited for a hotel lobby, and situated so that, wherever you wanted to go, you had to walk around it. Besides viewing it as more of an eyesore than a centerpiece, the new owners had grandchildren and some safety concerns. Enter River’s Edge Landscapes. The 16 year-old firm founded by Paul LaPointe has its roots deep into local nurseries and boasts a licensed landscape architect in Leslie Solitario, who speaks of “choreographing” pathways, eye-capturing focal points, resonant architectural detail, natural shapes and beautiful lines blended with whimsical detail like the violet-headed allium that line the walkways. She shows how new brick embraces and draws together a much-lengthened patio that now runs as long as the lovely side arbor, in perfect proportion to the house. Paul calls out the precisely patterned flagstones, paving-stones and fieldstone that mesh to form walkways and a wall that accents the yard’s rolling contours. There’s a strong but light, black aluminum perimeter fence installed to give the owners’ dog room to roam. Just below the surface lie the more than 500 bulbs and other native plants positioned to provide seasonal color year-round. RiversEdgeLandscapes.com
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Before: The pond that ate the patio
After: Precisely variegated flagstones open to a lush lawn
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BACK STAGE
CELEBRATING 50 SUMMERS OF LOVE
1970 VW "Summer of Love" Bus
ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON
IF YOU’RE A LONGTIME VIRGINIA RESIDENT, YOU MAY
campaign is recognized as one of the most successful in the last
MEASURE TIME BY HOW MANY CARS YOU’VE OWNED WITH
half-century.
“VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS” BUMPER STICKERS. The iconic
Visit Loudoun marks the 50th anniversary with its own “Summer
ad campaign dates to 1969 when Richmond’s Martin and Woltz
of Love” tour of the county’s hottest summertime events in a 1970
Inc. agency created it for what is now Virginia Tourism Corp. The
VW bus used by Quentin Tarantino in the movie Jackie Brown.
VINTAGE FLEA MARKET
PURCELLVILLE WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL
Location: The Old Lucketts Store
Location: Dillion’s Woods at
When: July 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Fireman’s Field Center When: July 13, 2-8 p.m.
One of Loudoun’s most iconic antique stores is chock full of rustic,
Pair your favorite wines with
hip finds.
the bounty of food trucks and local restaurants.
DC 101 THIRSTDAY ON THE LOCO ALE TRAIL
POLO IN THE PARK – LILLY PULITZER THEMED NIGHT
Location: Ocelot Brewing
Location: Morven Park
Company
When: July 27, 6-11 p.m.
When: July 18, 3-7 p.m. Polo in the Park takes on a Lilly Sample craft brews at DC101’s
Pulitzer theme to fete a rousing
Thirstday live broadcast at Ocelot
match of polo.
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