The decade-old program's services also include instruction on money management, how to avoid getting cheated when buying or renting a home and how to care for a house or apartment.
Lake Braddock Teacher Is Tops in Va.
A 44-year veteran of Fairfax County Public Schools has been named Virginia's Teacher of the Year.
Joseph Hills, 69, a social studies teacher at Lake Braddock Secondary School, was honored Friday at a banquet in Richmond. He will represent Virginia in the National Teacher of the Year competition. Hills started his career with Fairfax schools in 1960 as a teacher at Fairfax High School. He taught at Marshall High School and Langley High School before moving to Lake Braddock in 1973.
Haymarket Man Dies in ATV Accident
A Haymarket man died Saturday after he lost control of his all-terrain vehicle and slammed into a tree, police said.
About 5 p.m., Tobby Jonathan Taylor, 21, of the 6200 block of Edwards Drive, was driving the Kodiak four-wheeler about 25 mph when it skidded and hit a tree, pinning him between it and his ATV. He was flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, said Detective Dennis Mangan, a Prince William County police spokesman.
Tourism Revenue Up 5% From 2003
The economic benefit of tourism is growing in Virginia, according to the office of Gov. Mark R. Warner (D).
Tourism generated $15.2 billion for the state in 2003, the governor's office said, a jump of more than 5 percent from the previous year. Warner's office said that travel and tourism in Virginia account for almost 281,000 jobs.
MARYLAND
Montgomery Names Security Coordinator
Montgomery County Fire Administrator Gordon Aoyagi will head the county's new Department of Homeland Security, County Executive Douglas M. Duncan (D) announced yesterday.
The department will coordinate emergency management, disaster and public health preparedness and other matters of security.
Aoyagi, a county employee for 20 years, has been Montgomery's first and only fire administrator, a position created in 1998 to coordinate volunteer and career fire services. He will begin the job Jan. 1, pending confirmation by the County Council.
Targeted Strip Club Tries New Pitch
The owners of the Goddess nightclub, a Baltimore strip club, say that their building has a claim to fame that makes it worth sparing from the wrecking ball: Baseball legend Babe Ruth bought the bar for his father in 1915 and worked there in the off-season during the early years of his career.
Owners George and Foula Kritikos have hired a Frederick preservation firm to investigate the building's historical significance.
Baltimore's economic development agency say apartments would be more appropriate and would help revitalize the west side.
Quote of the Day
"It's got to get better. If the river that runs through the nation's capital continues to be as polluted as it is, it's a tragedy."
-- William C. Baker, head of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which
released its "State of the Anacostia River" report yesterday. -- Page B1
Compiled from reports by staff writers Karlyn Barker, Spencer S. Hsu, Jacqueline L. Salmon, Maria Glod and Ian Shapira and the Associated Press.
