Fairfax County Police A man walking near the entrance of Hidden Creek County Club was attacked and robbed in broad daylight Thursday.

The victim was approached from behind at North Shore and Wainwright drives by two teen boys at about 5:45 p.m., Fairfax County Police said. One of the teens punched the man and stole property from him. The victim did not suffer serious injuries, police said.

In other crime news from Reston District Station through Monday, Oct. 6:

INDECENT EXPOSURE: A woman was walking on the sidewalk of the 2500 block of Cornelia Road on Sept. 30 when a man exposed himself. The suspect is in his 20s and stands about 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-7.

BURGLARIES

  • 1100 block of Round Pebble Lane, Oct. 4. Someone entered a home and took cash from a vehicle in a garage
  • 2400 block of Founders Way, Sept. 22. Someone entered and stole from a home.

LARCENIES

  • 2800 block of Rolling Fork Circle, cash stolen from a home
  • 11400 block of Orchard Lane, property stolen from a home
  • 10500 block of Wynfield Woods Drive, property stolen from a home
  • 900 block of Locust Street, purse stolen from a vehicle, near the American Chinese School in Herndon
  • 13200 block of Coppermill Drive, purse stolen from a vehicle
  • 11700 block of Newbridge Court, license plate stolen from a vehicle
  • 11900 block of Market Street, property stolen from a business in Reston Town Center Plaza
  • 2300 block of Hunters Woods Plaza, merchandise stolen from a business in Hunters Woods Plaza
  • 11700 block of Sunrise Valley Drive, cash stolen from a business
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The Fairfax County Police Department has released two new videos on how to prevent human trafficking.

Det. Bill Woolf of the FCPD’s Human Trafficking Unit advises parents to monitor their teenagers’ online activity to protect them from predators.

“If parents aren’t engaged, if they’re not monitoring their kids’ activities and behaviors, it’s very possible that they could be being scouted and manipulated into teen sex trafficking,” Woolf said.

Police promoted the videos on Tuesday for the one-year anniversary of the “Just Ask” Prevention Project, for which the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force received a $1 million federal grant.

More than 250 human trafficking victims were identified in Northern Virginia in the past year, Woolf told The Centreville Independent. Help was offered to victims after police received 141 tips from locals, Woolf said.

A Reston man was charged with sex trafficking in May after he manipulated a mentally incapacitated woman into prostitution, police said.

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"I voted" sticker. (Photo via Flickr/vox efx)The partial voting records of Reston Association members were released by the group last week in response to a public records request by a member.

The RA says it released information on whether or not each of its 25,700 member households voted in the 2014 Board of Directors election. It also released members’ addresses, but omitted the substance of members’ votes and any other personal information.

The voter records were provided to RA member Irwin Flashman, a six-year resident, on Sept. 29. The RA says it was obligated to release the information under its bylaws and Virginia law.

Flashman said Monday that he wanted the records so he could analyze and try to boost the number of locals who cast their ballots.

“I want to increase voter turnout,” he said. “Something has to be done, and I think before you start doing anything, you need to know what happened.”

Fewer than 15 percent of Reston households cast votes in the March election in which three directors were chosen.

RA President Ken Knueven said the Association’s bylaws and Virginia law on property owners’ associations required the disclosure of the information.

“Under our bylaws and Virginia law, anything on record has to be provided,” Knueven said, adding that he wants Reston residents to know what was released and be comfortable with it.

“I believe voter records are confidential and should remain such,” he said. “We released only information we felt was not confidential.”

Flashman, who received a paper copy of the data, additionally requested an electronic version. The RA is reviewing that request and will discuss it at its full Board meeting Nov. 20.

Reston residents should want to know more about who votes, Flashman said.

“In a democracy, things are done out in the open,” he said. “The fact of voting should be an honor, not something you hide.”

Karen Goff contributed reporting.

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Tuesday Morning Rundown

Aerial photo of Reston (Photo by Alejo Pesce, courtesy of Modern Reston)Aerial Photos of Reston — Local photographer Alejo Pesce snaps startling photos of the area using remote-controlled drones. ModernReston.com rounded up his landscape shots plus images of the violins and other objects to which he attaches cameras. [Modern Reston]

Teach Your Kids About Fire Safety — All Fairfax County Fire and Rescue stations will hold fire prevention demonstrations this Saturday. Firefighters will discuss and run activities about fires, smoke detectors and CPR from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. [Fairfax County]

New to Reston? — The Reston Association will hold a Newcomers’ Night on Thursday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the RA office. New residents can find out how to get involved in Reston and what programs and services are available. [Reston Association]

Give Acting a Try — The Reston Community Players are seeking actors for their production of the musical “Sunset Boulevard.” Auditions will be held Nov. 10, 12 and 16. “Please prepare 32 bars of a song, preferably in the style of the show.” [Reston Community Players]

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Food trucks on Business Center Drive in RestonFood trucks could soon be able to park in more locations across the county.

The public will have the opportunity to weigh in Tuesday afternoon on a proposal authorized by the county Board of Supervisors that would allow food trucks to operate at commercial and industrial properties, and lower the cost of permits for vendors.

The rules changes would let food trucks operate at shopping centers, office buildings and construction sites with permission from property owners plus a $100 permit, a $35 solicitor’s license and a $40 food establishment permit.

The current rules categorize food trucks as free-standing fast food restaurants and require them to pay a fee of more than $16,000, plus appear at two public hearings.

The Board is considering the proposal in light of the “increasing popularity of food trucks,” county documents show.

The section of the public hearing on food trucks is expected to occur about 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Fairfax County Government Center, at 12000 Government Center Parkway in Fairfax. The meetings can be viewed online live or after the session.

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Yvonne Landis and Melodie Mayo was married by Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax. (Photo via Facebook/UUCF)Same-sex couples were married in Fairfax County Monday afternoon after the Supreme Court denied appeals from five states — including Virginia — seeking to ban the unions.

LGBT rights supporters in Northern Virginia celebrated the decision online and at Fairfax Circuit Court as the first same-sex couple began applying for a marriage license at about 1 p.m.

The 4110 Chain Bridge Rd. courthouse set up ropes as they expected a flood of couples to apply for marriage licenses, according to The Washington Post.

Information on marriage licenses and how to register wedding officiators had been updated on the courthouse’s website as of Monday afternoon. The court’s Twitter account gave tips on what forms to use and a reminder that cameras cannot be used inside.

Yvonne Landis and Melodie Mayo of Falls Church were the first couple to marry at Fairfax Circuit Court, the Post reported.

“I’m just really excited,” Landis said. “We always said we are waiting for Virginia. We wanted it to be legal here.”

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A hands-on swimming school where children won’t get too cold is coming to Reston. Goldfish Swim School will open on Nov. 1 with a 25-yard pool filled with 90 degree water, co-owner Gina Bewersdorf said Monday morning.

“The kids never get chilly,” she said. “It’s like nice bathwater.”

With a space about half the length of an Olympic-size pool being dug now at 12340 Pinecrest Rd., Goldfish will serve kids from 4 months old to 12 years old. Supervision will consist of instructors, lifeguards and deck supervisors. Whereas many swim lessons include as many as eight children per class, Goldfish’s classes will have just four kids.

“That’s a really big deal,” said Bewersdorf, a radiologist who will run the business with her husband, lawyer Ryan Bewersdorf.

In addition to focusing on students’ safety and comfort, the curriculum aims to teach kids at their own pace.

“Here, you don’t move [to the next class] because the class has ended, you move up because you’re ready,” Bewersdorf said.

The Reston school will be the first Virginia location of Goldfish, which opened in the Detroit area in 2006 and has 15 outposts nationally.

Swimming classes are open for registration online and by calling (703) 348-3261. A drop-in lesson costs $23.75. One lesson per week in a group of four children costs $95 per month, and private lessons cost $220 per month.

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Heather Robertson’s obstetrician couldn’t find a single pair of medical gloves in the capital of Liberia.

An international development professional and Reston resident, Robertson worked in Monrovia for more than three years and received prenatal care from Dr. Rick Sacra, the Massachusetts doctor who contracted ebola this summer and tested negative, his doctor said Sunday.

When Robertson heard that Sacra raced from shop to shop in search of gloves this summer, she felt hopeless — and then figured out how she could help.

Robertson, 39, is collecting thousands of gloves in Reston and sending them to hospitals in Liberia grappling with the deadly ebola virus. Just three weeks after launching a Facebook page called Gloves for Love Liberia, Robertson has received more than 42,000 gloves donated from as far away as Australia and France.

“It’s exceeded all my expectations,” she said, noting her family is using their guest room to store the stacks of cardboard boxes.

Boxes of gloves starting at $12 each and Tyvek suits that cost $13 each are part of an Amazon Wish List created by Robertson, who has worked on infrastructure and workforce development projects in Africa for 13 years.

“The Wish List is like a wedding registry,” she said, and allowed her to control the quality of the gloves according to what medical professionals in Monrovia told her they needed.

While what Liberia needs most to handle ebola is volunteer medical staff, Robertson said, glove donations let people without that expertise help, too.

“Donating gloves seemed more personal than giving money,” she said. “There’s something about the tangibleness of it.”

More than 14,000 of the gloves were sent earlier this month to an Episcopal church in Monrovia, which donated the supplies to nine clinics, Robertson said. And on Thursday, she and volunteers packed 22,000 of the gloves onto a truck headed toward a ship that will ferry the supplies to a Catholic church in Liberia’s capital. With the help of a nun Robertson knows, the gloves will go to 14 clinics. Church-run clinics often don’t receive government money, she said.

Robertson said she talks every day to Monrovia residents who survived the country’s 14-year civil war and are now grappling with the outbreak.

“People are scared,” she said. “They’re doing the minimum amount of interaction possible. Maybe they go to a store and the bank and then they go home. They’re going back into a protection and self-preservation mode.”

Reston made global headlines in 1990 when a strain of the virus was first identified at a lab in the locality and a monkey infected with it escaped.

Gloves for Love Liberia is now trying to collect a total of 50,000 through the end of this week.

“I’m going to keep going until people [in Liberia] tell me they no longer want to hear from me,” Robertson said.

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Monday Morning Rundown

Lake AudubonScience High School Accepting Applications — Eighth graders can now apply to attend Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Submissions can be made through Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. [Fairfax County Public Schools]

English Channel Swimmers Include Reston Natives — Two Reston natives swam the English Channel this month. South Lakes High School graduate Tom Bell made the more than 21-mile journey in less than 16 hours, and Bill Shipp, a graduate of Herndon High School, made it in a little more than 12 hours. [Fairfax Times]

Southgate Community Center, Rally for a Cause Highlighted — The Reston Association’s monthly video, released Saturday, features the community center’s programs and the tennis tournament. [YouTube/Reston Association]

New Reston Community Center Website — The RCC’s new website will launch Tuesday, with an aim to be easier to navigate. [Reston Community Center]

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