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IT'S LIFE CHANGING Finally! A local Doctor is helping cancer survivors live lives free from the constant pain and suffering associated with Peripheral Neuropathy!

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The Paxton Trust Marks 100th Anniversary When Rachel Paxton died in 1922, she left her property in perpetuity to the care and keeping of children in need. Paige Buscema, owner of Eyetopia and one of three trustees for what is now called the Paxton Trust, noted the organization’s centenary saying, “At the time many people thought her generosity foolish, but it’s clear that she wanted her beautiful estate to bring joy to children that are suffering. It’s a wonderful legacy.”

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Immigrant Women Businesswomen Circle Celebrates International Women’s Day International Women’s Day is a big deal outside the U.S., so on March 8 a group of women called the “Immigrant Businesswomen Circle” gathered at Gvino Enoteca, a boutique wine shop located in Leesburg Market Station. Giacomo, the store owner and native Italian sommelier, and Chef Daniela Williams from Cucinamore, organized an international wine tasting and food pairing. Interested in joining? Contact founder and president Beatriz McNelly at ibwcircle@gmail.com.

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Alix Ballard is a 15-year-old member of ION International Training Center’s 16U Select Girls Hockey Team. She stands – fully suited, skates and all – in the bench area of a recent practice, loudly applauding and cheering on the efforts of her teammates at practice. She’s not playing because in her last house game as a defender on the ice, she stopped a puck with her helmet and is out for concussion protocol. After a hiatus of several years, she returned to the game in June of last year and says, “that is the best choice I ever made.” She loves the environment, the camaraderie of other female athletes and the fact that everyone is so accepting of each other, no matter their

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skill level. “I also just love the ice. You go out and get a good full workout and then when you come out of the locker room, it’s refreshing, you know? The cold relaxes me.” You might not expect her mom, Greta Ballentine, to be so relaxed in the wake of an injury, but she laughs noting that her other daughter – a cheerleader – got a concussion from having a human fall on her head. “This was just a puck!” More seriously she said, “They have a concussion clinic and do a wonderful job here. It’s been heartbreaking for [Alix] not to be able to be out there because she loves it so much. She’s turning 16 and starting to look at colleges and says she’d like to go to one where she can play hockey.” Greta also offered insight on Alix’s earlier break with the game. When she played at the Ashburn Ice House a few years ago, she was the only girl on her team and one of just three girls in the entire Ashburn house league. “She liked it and the boys were great with her, but she began to notice that they were all very protective of her,” which she clearly began to resent a bit. “She loved playing, and it was a good experience, but it was really hard for her to feel like a member of the team when they were all running interference.” During her time off the ice, Alex rode horseback and tried other things, but missed the team environment. “Then we heard there was this new place that actually had an entire girls team, and that sealed it for us,” Greta says. In fact, ION had multiple girls’ teams last year: a travel team in the 8U division called the Killer Queens (a name they chose themselves), and the inaugural year for 16U Select, plus a couple of house teams. There won’t be enough Killer Queens to continue the younger girl’s travel team, which is unfortunate because they won most of their tournaments, but the confidence they gained from competing and the experience of winning as a team will help to build momentum as the girls program grows. Still to come lies the prospect of another 16U team, says their coach Andrew Kucinich, who also coaches the George Mason Women’s Hockey Club team. The appeal of coaching girls is “how hard they work and how positive their attitude is,” he said. “The only thing I ask them is, are they willing to work hard, and are they willing to not quit?”

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He sees huge potential for growth in female teams, particularly since the facility is expanding to two more ice sheets, which will accommodate more practice times. One indication of the sport’s growing popularity among girls is that ION’s current Learn to Play hockey group already has seven of 11 female members. ION even offers Try Hockey for Free days to encourage interest. After Learn to Play comes “Castles,” the house-level teams which are co-ed, then the Loudoun Knights travel hockey program including 16U teams and younger coed teams. And, finally, players can aim for the Washington Little Caps AAA team. Andrew also manages the team store and has gone the extra mile in bringing in good used gear that is less expensive, plus 50 pairs of skates that are available for players, to make the sport more accessible. Once all the players are selected, the Select team will play in Northern Virginia and Maryland in a region stretching from Frederick and Leesburg in the West to Annapolis in the East. Tryouts are the week of April 25 for a season that runs from August

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to the following March. (Anyone interested can reach out to Andrew at AKucinich@ionitc.com). It will help to have a great goalie — Alyssa Arsenault has been playing just under six months and nearly took a roster slot on the 16U Spring Boys Select team. It was a close call, as she clearly enjoys playing with other girls; Andrew says her experience as a soccer and lacrosse goalie will stand her in good stead as her “ice IQ” grows. Both Alyssa and Alix’s brush with co-ed teams and appreciation for being part of girl’s hockey led us to ask her mom Greta if she’d ever heard of Title IX, the equality in sports law celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The law opened massive opportunities for collegiate women athletes because it was interpreted to mandate equality in spending on men’s and women’s team sports in schools receiving federal funding. Greta said she vaguely recalled a movie she watched in her teens about a woman who tried out for a men’s professional football team, but that’s where her familiarity with the ruling ends. “And I doubt Alix has ever heard of it,” she said. And, just maybe, that’s the way it should be.

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Tina Johnson has successfully created and run several businesses and now she’s giving back with her Women’s CEO Business School, helping a new generation of women entrepreneurs do the same. She says, “I wanted to create a community that would support other women business owners during the struggles of building a business that would have a ripple effect not only for them but for their families and the communities where they live work and play. By focusing on women CEOs, we are able to provide a safe space to be both vulnerable and ask questions without fear of judgment. Our programs are designed to build a community of support that will last for years to come.” Her CEO Consulting Group helps “serious women” in structured classes, group sessions, 1:1 coaching and more, working

to help them overcome obstacles, develop strategies, prioritize decision making, identify tools and resources that can help them and cope with growth. One of her signature themes is about being intentional because, “By understanding the foundation of your business, you’re defining its core values and using them as a compass day in and day out.” In her own life, she says, “Being intentional means living the life that is best for me, instead of living someone else’s dream or trying to live up to expectations. Focusing on being intentional, will help provide clarity when I am feeling lost. Sometimes I get so caught up in my life’s busyness that I forget why I am doing what I am doing. I want the time that I am spending this year to have meaning, not only in my life but in the lives of others that I touch.” She touched so many lives in the past year to the good that the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce awarded her both Small Business and Executive Leadership awards at its Community Leadership gala. Each award came with $1000 that

the winner could donate to her favorite cause. Tina’s first gift went to the Breeze Makenzie Foundation, a foundation she created to honor her brother who passed away suddenly seven years ago. It provides support for homeless teens and teens aging out of foster care. “We were both in the foster care system for several years,” she explains. Her other gift went to the Loudoun First Responders Foundation in honor of her son who is a firefighter/EMT. About giving, she says, “Giving back to the community is all about empowering and elevating the world we live in. If we have everything but do not give, we are missing out on the most important part of being human; giving. I live daily by this quote by Mother Theresa: ‘I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.’” In honor of our own women’s issue, we thought you’d like to meet some of these “serious” women business owners and get a peek at how they’re applying what they’ve learned about how to give back in their personal and professional lives to our community.

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OLI V I A DOM I N IC livevondesigns.com “Let’s start your collection!” proclaims Olivia “Liv” Dominic’s artisan jewelry website, and she’s right. One pair of these stunning earrings or necklaces is not enough. Oh, that’s been said before, but Liv has a “hook” (pardon the pun.) Her pieces are all “skin conscious” and made to make a bold, colorful statement without the added weight of so many hand-crafted pieces. They are, we personally attest, so lightweight you can barely feel them, no matter the size. Her “day job” as a public health epidemiologist at the Food and Drug Administration makes her professionally attuned to the best materials for sensitive skin. And, “I’ve just always loved earrings

since I got my ears pierced at a really young age.” Her style? “My design language is bright and bold. Life is all about energy and that translates to me as color.” We can’t prove it, but are convinced: wearing her designs makes you happy. She has the same reaction to her interactions with Tina’s business school. Running an online business can be isolating so the interpersonal relationships with other women in business offer her invaluable support and perspectives she couldn’t gain elsewhere. Black designers like Kendra Scott inspire her as well, so don’t be surprised if Liv Dominic sparkles with the same recognition, sooner rather than later.

SHERY L HI N E Quail Creek Promotions

quailcreekpromotions.com After being in business for 14 years, you would think Sheryl Hine knows everything there is to know about being in business, but she said, “I feel you can always learn and I like the concept of working with other women.” There are twice-monthly calls with her classmates; “Just listening to their struggles or their wins – it just kind of makes you feel like you’re not alone.” It’s not that men aren’t also supportive, but being in the company of women in business has helped her “drop my defenses and be more vulnerable” about her own challenges. The program’s built-in accountability also is helping her get her time management issues under control and be more focused on growing her business. That’s crucial to her success

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because, in providing promotional products to other businesses, she helps her clients save time and focus on the messaging they’re trying to share with their promotional products. Who are they, and how do they communicate that? “I love working with customers one-on-one and helping them figure that out.” In addition to pens, stress-relievers and other leave-behinds, Quail Creek produces branded apparel like hoodies, T-shirts, and polo shirts for company employees to wear. Though many of her clients have been with her for years, she particularly likes working with new businesses because “they get excited to get their logo on something they’re proud to wear.... It really is a fun job and really rewarding.”

CHR ISTI N E L A NGLEY STREST, LLC strestllc.com

Christine Langley considers herself a psycho spiritual leader, spiritual awakening expert, strategist, educator, facilitator and intuitive guide. “My main premise is to help people heal. I address stress, do loss and trauma reduction services, provide energy healing with Reiki and other integrated energy therapy.” Her company is called STREST because stress seems at the heart of so many of our modern maladies. Though she has a Master’s degree in counseling from George Mason University, her approach is to work without diagnoses or labels which she believes holds people back from self-healing. “I want people to understand that people have power. I empower my clients from the start.... Situational depression, anxiety,

grief – these are all normal things.” All that’s needed is a change of perspective, especially coming out of the collective trauma of COVID. “My mottos are, we repeat what we don’t repair,” and “what we fear we cover.” Her process essentially helps people feel their feelings – the stress, the loss, the trauma – by identifying, acknowledging and accepting them and, in effect, “unlearn” patterns that detract from authenticity. She’s working to diagram her process as a healing and balancing device that is complex and hard to describe. But, put simply, she says that, “For those people that want to do better, I show them how to do better so that they can have more fulfillment, because I believe that we’re all meant for joy.”

PATR ICI A K ELLER GA LL A R DO Compass Realtor

compass.com/agents/patricia-gallardo-dc Patricia Keller Gallardo works as a realtor with Compass from her home in Broadlands and moderates a networking group for more than 300 moms who own their own businesses on Facebook as “Moms Who Mean Business.” In integrating the demands of a busy life, she finds she can gain wisdom from both The Women’s CEO Business School, and members of her group who have quarterly, in-person events. Her specialties include relocation for home buyers, particularly those who may be working with Veterans Administration loans. A former business development director

with AOL who negotiated very large deals, she also has a passion for raising the bar for Realtors generally when it comes to professionalism in negotiating and closing home sales. “Homes are the most important investment most people will ever have, so it’s critical to get everything right,” she explains; “Too many things can go wrong with a transaction if they’re not managed properly.” She’s keen to pass along all she’s learning from her fellow CEOs to moms in her group who have carried the brunt of COVID upheaval. One of her favorite of the group’s recent topics: “Pay Yourself First!”

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DR . K AJA L ROY Niyan Medspa

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LUCIA TIRONDOLA Manor Works

manorworks.com Lucia Tirondola and her husband Victor bought the painting company he worked for five years ago specifically so they could have more freedom to donate to their favorite charity, Passion for Community, in Fairfax. The organization’s local church chapter newlife.church/passion-for-community/ and

Dr. Kajal Roy, MD, the medical director of Niyan Medspa in Ashburn, takes a holistic medicine and preventative approach to cosmetic procedures designed to make clients feel better about how they look. She says, “My goal is not to change the way somebody looks. It’s to change the way that they feel about themselves to enhance the beauty that they already have.” To accentuate this point, it might help to know that each student in the Women’s CEO Business Academy chooses a word to help focus her growth for the year. Kajal’s word, appropriately, is “Responsibility.” In part, that’s because the name of her clinic is a blend of her two children’s names, and she works with all the commitment to integrity and farsightedness that that implies. Like many moms, in other words, her work is intended to build something that secures their futures. But it also means that

she is committed to longer-term solutions to her patients’ issues, not just a quick fix. One of her more break-through treatments in this context involves hormone therapy. Drawing on her medical degree as an internist, she now does Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, which she calls, “Truly life-changing. It’s helping patients age happier and healthier.” Beginning with blood tests to establish a baseline, the process develops a pellet that is injected into the body to slow-release the individualized mix of hormones that will treat symptoms like a decrease energy or libido, and brain fog. It boosts mental clarity and, in women, it can help decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes and increase bone density. Obviously, as we age, those needs change, but that’s okay too, Kajal says. Like the family for which her name stands, “we’re about long-term relationships.”

national organization passion4community. org helps provide homes for families coming out of shelters and in special circumstances like housing Afghan refugees. Though it was a bit overwhelming at first taking on a small business that had then operated for 15 years as owners, they realized, “Now we can give back the way we want to. That’s exactly what we did!” They sponsor the annual golf tournament for the group in April. Lucia also serves as an ambassador for the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce so she can welcome small business owners to our community. As a family business, there are other perks to Lucia’s painting and carpentry company. Her husband, a third-generation painter, works directly with clients, making sure they have an estimate in hand the same day he assesses the project. Originally a graphic designer, Lucia manages the work teams made up of 20 employees and their schedules, hiring when necessary and handling any weather-related schedule changes, all while helping to renovate a horse farm in Aldie and raising two boys aged 9 and 12. Together they,

and her mother-in-law Suzanne the office manager, specialize in taking care of the interior and exterior of clients’ homes and keeping neighborhoods beautiful. “We’re like a dream team at managing all the work flow of the business,” Lucia said. “When you’re with family when one is kind of overwhelmed, the other person can help balance each other out and bring all of our gifts and talents together to make it work.” Recently they expanded their business year-round to include holiday lighting for home-owners. The lighting and other decorations are custom fitted to each home and priced by the size of the home. “It really took off during COVID because people needed a little joy in their lives,” Lucia said. “I wasn’t a believer until I did it’s my own house. Every time I pulled down the street, I felt like I was in a movie. You really do shine brighter than your neighbor.” Her word for the year is “Thrive.” She explains, “I love learning how to tackle different obstacles and how to have a really solid foundation. It’s a fast, deep dive on business and has been really rewarding.”

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Gearing up for that charity golf tourney? If so, thank your lucky stars that Function-N-Fitness trainer Shannon Curvey took up golf last year. An extraordinarily gifted medical exercise therapist and licensed massage therapist, she is now also a certified Golf Fitness Specialist and Corrective Exercise Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Shannon founded Function-N-Fitness in Leesburg to bridge the gap between health care and fitness for all active adults, but now has a special place in her heart for golfers, and wants to make sure their love of the sport doesn’t take a toll in pain that kills their pleasure. Put plainly, if you’re a golfer and don’t think you’d benefit from some golf fitness training – you’re probably spending all your time in the cart or the clubhouse. More diplomatically, Shannon says, “Golf is like any other sport, where you have to prepare your body for it. Golf has its own very unique movements and if you’re not properly preparing your body to make those movements, you’re going to injure yourself.”

To help with the process, she developed a six-week fitness program for golfers of all levels. Each session is an hour long and conducted one-on-one because every golfer’s issues are different. Overall, the program helps golfers improve flexibility and range of motion and helps them recover from injuries or weakness. As a way of demonstrating the immeasurable value of conditioning for the sport, we enlisted her own golf teacher Robyn James (robyn@roundswithrobyn. com), an LPGA Class A Professional who leads women’s golf clinics with Raspberry Golf Academy (see thebirdiebeliefproject.com), to demonstrate some conditioning basics. It begins with rotation, says Shannon. “During the course of your day, when do you rotate? How often do you rotate your trunk? We live in a very linear, one-directional world right now, so rotation is not something we do regularly, yet, we want to go on a golf course and play 18 holes where we’re rotating 100 times. It’s not surprising if afterwards your back hurts.” Core stabilization is equally crucial to guard against excessive movement. CONTINUED > MAY 2 0 2 2 | C I TYL I FE STYL E . C OM / L E E S BUR G

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Summer on our deck Brings red berries and wild mint, Grill smoke and grass stains. – Haiku by Alison, Cana Hospitality Manager, on the label of Cana’s 2019 Le Marriage Jamestown, Virginia’s inhospitable climate and swampy environs nearly defeated America’s early colonists. Virginia’s contrary piedmont limestone, undulating elevation, varied soils and climate are divided into no less than eight distinct American Viticultural Areas. You might think that all these challenges – not to mention Prohibition – would have long ago stomped out the Commonwealth’s unwavering commitment to viniculture. But with difficulty rises determination. Or, as Virginiawine. org, organizers of the annual Virginia Governor’s Cup Wine Competition so lyrically put it, “Unpredictability is a gift. Virginia’s diverse landscape and varied conditions demand an attention to detail that has made our winemakers fluent in the language of their land.” Put plainly, “The dirt speaks. We listen.” The very diversity which has denied Virginia the dominance of a single, soul-less “corporate” label, has given rise to hundreds of family-owned farms, and with them a generosity of spirit and collaboration without parallel in other industries. Modern winemaking took root in Virginia in the late 1970’s and they’ve been holding a “best of” competition for the Commonwealth for four decades. It was easy in the early days. By 1995, Virginia boasted 46 wineries. By 2005, there were 107. Today there are nearly 300, 100 of which sent 615 wines to be judged under the aegis of the 2022 Governor’s Cup in January. Some 127 of these earned gold medals, and all of the winemakers were invited to share them with a few hundred wine-lovers in the spacious, glass-walled Main Street Station in Richmond in late March. Imagine, if you will, a “wine festival” where every pour is better than the last, and it’s all accompanied with some of the finest local fare from a half dozen local chefs. But wait, there’s more. From these 6-score gold medal winners, the dozen, top-scoring reds and whites are selected to comprise the Governor’s Cup Case and the single top scoring wine, along with its winemaker, earns the coveted Virginia Governor’s Cup. This year, for the first time in its 40-year history, that Cup was awarded to a woman winemaker. And, yes, Virginia, that is a history-making, very big deal. This year’s winner is Melanie Natoli, winemaker and vineyard manager of Cana Vineyards & Winery of Middleburg (canavineyards.com), and her top wine is the 2019 Unité Reserve, a signature estate red blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that generated just 30 cases. This year marked Melanie’s first gold medal and she had two bottles, both selected for the Governor’s Case! LEFT: Picnic at Cana Vineyards & Winery TOP RIGHT: Melanie Flanked by Women Winemakers Maggie Malik and Rachel Stinson Vrooman BOTTOM RIGHT: Melanie Accepts the Governor’s Cup

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In bending down to pass her the cup, Governor Youngkin heaped praise on the tradition that has preserved Virginia’s farmland with ingenuity and perseverance, resulting in some of the best wines in the world. In reaching up to accept it, Melanie told a joke. She said, “Someone sent me a picture of the celebration a couple of years ago and two things caught my attention. All of them were men and most of them were wearing blue suits so I thought I’d wear mine.” Delighted laughter was magnified when the governor good-naturedly shot the cuffs beneath his own blue suit. Melanie went on to say, “I will take this home not just for myself but for all the amazing women winemakers in Virginia. We may be fewer in number but we are mightier with every day that is passing.” Basking in the reflected glow of her remarks were Maggie Malick of Maggie Malick’s Wine Caves in Hillsboro, 2021’s Loudoun County Winemaker of the Year, whose 2020 Albariño made the case, and Rachel Stinson Vrooman, who contributed Stinson Vineyards’ 2017 Meritage. Just some of the other beaming women in the crowd: Jennifer Breaux, “just up the road from Maggie,” there to pour Breaux Vineyards’ perennially great 2019 Nebbiolo and 2020 Sauvignon Blanc, and Cana Vineyard co-owner Lisa Petty who bought the vineyard with her husband Bryce in October of 2018 and was savvy enough to

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consider Melanie one of the deal’s best features. For her part, Melanie says, “I’m proud to work for a woman-owned business. I am grateful for Lisa’s confidence in my abilities and allowing me to make my wine for her label. Creative freedom for an artist is priceless.” Melanie’s journey as a winemaker began as an intern in 2009 while she split her time between winemaking and her first career as a physical therapist. In 2011, she leaped at the chance to become the assistant winemaker at Fabbioli Cellars, working for Doug Fabbioli, whom many in Northern Virginia view as both master of winemaking and dean of Loudoun’s wine consultants. “Doug was my first mentor in the industry. I was set to move across the country and go back to school for an enology degree after another winemaker told me I wouldn’t get anywhere without one. Doug suggested this wasn’t the case and advised that I should start by interning for someone. He called one day and invited me out to the vineyard to LEFT: Maggie Malik at her Namesake Wine Caves With her Albariño MIDDLE TOP: Melanie Natoli, Winemaker, and Lisa Petty, Owner of Cana Vineyards & Winery MIDDLE BOTTOM: Melanie and Her Mentor, Doug Fabbiolo RIGHT: Cana’s Cupola, A Great Place to Enjoy Rosé in Late April And Beyond

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assist with picking and processing his estate Merlot. After a long day, over a beer, he asked if I still really want to do this. I responded, ‘Absolutely, even more.’ He offered me an intern spot, and my journey of learning how to grow grapes and make wine began.” Standing by to congratulate Melanie on her medals Doug said, “I teach everybody, but I learned from women winemakers in California, so I have a bit of understanding of how to do it a little differently.” Women winemakers don’t just “push” the wine as hard as they can, “they embrace the artistry along with the craftsmanship,” of winemaking, he added. “It was great to be able to learn winemaking that way, and then to turn around and teach it... I surround myself with strong, smart women; that’s my method for success!” Back to Melanie’s journey, while she was learning the ropes, the Belle family was laying in Cana Vineyards’ first plantings in 2012. In 2015, Melanie joined Cana as both winemaker and vineyard manager, producing several award-winning wines. In 2017, she was the first Virginia winemaker to be named Woman Winemaker of the Year at the Women’s International Wine Competition, notable for its use of all female judges. The two words often used to describe her style are “elegance” and “finesse.” Why would anyone trade physical therapy for winemaking? Melanie told us, “I’m a winemaker because that is what is in me.

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My interest in wine started just as I was beginning my career in physical therapy. I thought it was just that, an interest, a hobby. As the years passed, I knew it was more than an interest as it continued to tug at my heart. Physical therapy is a great career that I enjoyed; I just loved wine more. We spend so much of our lives at work, why wouldn’t you do something you love?” She allows that making the career leap “was a risky and challenging move,” but she never second guessed it. “I am here because I dreamed big, worked hard, and dedicated myself to my craft.” She’s optimistic about the future for women winemakers in Virginia but doesn’t sugarcoat it. “Our industry here in Virginia is pretty welcoming in general, but we still have room to grow. There are several incidents I can recall in which myself or a colleague has been overlooked, treated as lesser, or completely disrespected because we are women. I hope my winning the Governor’s Cup makes a firm statement about the abilities of women winemakers and helps command the respect that should be freely given.” Of the winning wines, Melanie explains, “Both wines in the case are red blends from a great vintage. I’m proud to say that both wines are crafted from 100% Loudoun County fruit. The Le Mariage is the flagship blend from Cana and has traditionally been a blend of mostly two grapes. In 2019, I was able to source all five

Bordeaux varieties – Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Malbec, Merlot, Cabernet Franc – from my partner growers in the county. I knew I had a rare opportunity to craft a blend from all five, so I seized the chance!” Tasting notes say that there’s black cherry blueberry and plum on the nose. The fruit has notes of cocoa powder, vanilla and a hint of tarragon. On the palate, the same fruit profile is accompanied by cocoa and nutmeg and wrapped in silky, supple tannins. She adds, “The Unité Reserve holds a very special place in my heart, because it is my estate blend. I am also the vineyard manager at Cana and spend most of the season out tending the vines. This wine is in my hands from the first bud break in the vineyard until the final blend is bottled.” Interestingly, her true passion is rosé. “Rosé is a wine that brings joy. From the rainbow of pink hues, to the lively aromatics, to the layers of flavors and bright acid – how could you not smile when you meet it? It is a wine that is seemingly simple, often

LEFT: Doug with Devotees Jon and Cori Phillips, Owners of The Wine Reserve at Waterford With a Bottle of Steel Magnolias MIDDLE: Jennifer Breaux and Maggie Malik TOP RIGHT: Barren Ridge Winemaker Jessica Gatewood BOTTOM RIGHT: Breaux Gold

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Beacon Hill

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Beauregard Heights

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5.5

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$947,990

$1,007,500

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$1,800,000

113%

5.5

Estates @ Shenstone Farm

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$1,400,000

104%

5.5 4.5

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109%

Goose Creek Bend

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$2,500,000

98%

5.5

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$1,072,500

107%

3.5

Heather Knolls Kincaid Forest

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100%

3.5

Kings Crossing

$1,599,990

$1,650,000

103%

4.5 4.5

Lansdowne on Potomac TH

$849,900

$880,000

104%

Lansdowne on Potomac Det

$1,695,000

$1,755,000

104%

5.5

Meadow Brook Farm

$1,027,886

100%

4.5

Potomac Station Red Cedar Red Cedar Middle Village

$939,900

$975,000

101%

4.5

$1,295,000

$1,330,000

103%

4.5

$849,900

$925,000

109%

3.5

River Creek TH

$1,675,000

$1,612,500

96%

4.5

River Creek Detached

$1,150,000

$1,350,000

117%

3.5

River Pointe

$1,300,000

$1,400,000

108%

4.5

Saddlebrook

$1,250,000

$1,300,000

104%

4.5

Shenstone

$1,345,000

$1,315,000

98%

7.5

Turner-Wilson

$1,199,000

$1,303,699

109%

4.5

Village at Leesburg

$949,000

$950,000

100%

4.5

Waterford Downs

$1,350,000

100%

4.5

Woodland

$1,375,000

$1,501,786

109%

6.5

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In the first eight months of this fiscal year, Loudoun’s Abused Women’s Shelter’s (LAWS) provision of emergency shelter beds more than tripled over the same period in 2021. That covered 152 victims of domestic violence, a 114% increase, so, clearly, victims needed housing longer until they could find a safe place to live, or were able to return home. But not even those dire statistics tell the whole story. In those same 8 months, LAWS’ hotline was answered 5,760 times, and fully two-thirds of the victims who had to leave emergency shelter to make room for others actually had no safe, stable place to go. “Our community needs accessible and affordable housing, especially for survivors of domestic abuse,” said Samantha (“Sam”) Clarke, COO and interim CEO of LAWS Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services. “This barrier is one of the leading causes of survivor vulnerability and re-victimization we encounter.” It helps to understand what Sam means when she refers to “survivors” of domestic [violence]. That’s because in a six-month period, 114 “high danger” intakes were reported that could have been fatal to the victims. She adds, “LAWS is where victims receive safety, hope, empowerment, healing, and resources. There is a real and increasing demand for services. We need an increased financial investment from our community. LAWS is not just a ‘core service,’ we are a critical service.” Ideally, communities that know how to deal with trauma can help reduce violence and help people heal, but today’s

circumstances –the rise in economic vulnerability, housing vulnerability, job insecurity – all compound stress on people and their relationships. Add to that isolation, which is where violence thrives, and you have the makings of an epidemic of violence, Sam explains. LAWS is the designated domestic violence and sexual assault provider for Loudoun County, so it is tasked to address this crisis but it’s also a non-profit, so donations are necessary to do its job. It provides services around domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking for children, youth and adults. It staffs the 24-hour crisis hotline. It provides counseling for how to deal with difficulties and trauma therapy for people who have suffered violent attacks, as well as shelter for people fleeing imminent danger. It has court and community advocates to help survivors get protective orders or otherwise navigate the court system and make sure their voices are heard, and advocates that visit hospitals to provide support as well as information and resources to victims and survivors. It takes 33 people, 22 of them full time to provide those services, of which the vast majority are women. Because it takes a toll on people to deal with such crises day in and day out, Sam says, “It’s important that we’re connecting and communicating with one another as a team.... This team is wonderful at checking in with one another: How were you? How was that? Are you okay? Can I help you? What do you need? Is there anything I can do for you?”

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