County Kudos — Fairfax County has earned a Technical Innovator Award, placing first among counties of its size in the annual Digital Counties Survey. [Fairfax Times]

Report Still Pending In Mansion Fire — The final report on the Annapolis house fire that killed Donald Pyle, COO of Reston’s ScienceLogic, his wife and four of their grandchildren in January has been delayed while Maryland officials wrap up reports on the Baltimore riots. [Reston Patch]

Fairfax Campers Going For Record — More than 1,000 Fairfax County Park Authority Rec-PAC campers, staff and chaperones will attempt to break a Guinness World Record on July 23, 2015 for the most people making heart-shaped
hand gestures. The record-setting attempt will take place at 11 a.m. at the Udvar-Hazy
Center. [Fairfax County]

There is still a lot of summer left.

If you are not a Reston Association member and want to join the RA pools and tennis courts, season passes are now half price.

A pool membership gives you access to all 15 pools. A tennis membership gives you access to RA’s 52 courts, including kid-sized courts at North Shore and 28 lighted courts.

There are a wide variety of prices and memberships. Among them:

• Family Pool & Tennis: $315
• Family ZIP Code Pool & Tennis Pass: $265
• Family ZIP Code Pool Only: $197.50 (Zip code within Reston but not part of Reston Association. Proper documentation and in-person purchase required)
• Family Pool Only: $300
• Family Tennis Only: $180
• Couple Pool & Tennis: $272.50
• Couple Pool Only: $265
• Couple Tennis Only: $157.50
• Individual Pool & Tennis: $227.50
• Individual Pool Only: $185
• Individual Tennis Only: $127.50
• 10 and Under Tennis Pass: $35

Passes are available online or at RA Headquarters, 12001 Sunrise Valley Dr.

Looking for a new home? Start with this selection of open houses. Check out more open houses and comprehensive real estate information on Reston Now’s Real Estate page.

2443 Freetown Drive
5 BR. 3.5 BA SFH
$699,999
Open Sunday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

1394 Concord Point Lane
4 BR, 2.5 BA SFH
$735,000
Open Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

2478 Ridgehampton Court
2 BR, 2 BA TH
$345,000
Open Sunday 1 to 3 p.m.

11907 Blue Spruce Road
5 BR, 3.5 BA SFH
$785,000
Open Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

1659 Parkcrest Circle
1 BR, 1 BA Condo
$217,500
Open Sunday 2 to 4 p.m

1645 Parkcrest Circle
1 BR, 1 BA Condo
$215,000
Open Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

2216 Cocquina Drive
4 BR, 2 BA SFH
$325,000
Open Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

2317 Rosedown Drive
4 BR, 2.5 BA SFH
$550,000
Open Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

Reston Community Center is seeking residents to serve three-year terms on its Board of Governors.

The nine-member Board of Governors helps guide RCC’s programming and budget. Board members also represent RCC at social, recreational, cultural and educational activities in Reston.

Three spots will be open in 2015, and candidates are selected in a Preference Poll

All residents of Small District 5 (Reston) who are 18 or over are eligible to run. Candidates must complete a Candidacy Statement in order to have their names placed on the Preference Poll ballot.

Candidacy Statements will be available at RCC (Hunters Woods or Lake Anne) or online beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1. The deadline for candidacy filing is 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15.

Online and mail-in balloting and walk-in voting will be available from Sept. 11 through Oct. 2. Mail-in ballots must be received by Oct. 1 at 5 p.m.

The Reston-Herndon area’s newest exercise studio opened its doors on Wednesday. Pure Barre Reston, part of a nationwide franchise of barre exercise studios, is now offering classes at 12975 Highland Crossing Dr., in the Woodland Park Shopping Center in Herndon.

Pure Barre is offering a new client special: a month of unlimited classes for $100. Drop-in classes are $25. Other series rates are available on the Pure Barre Reston website. Classes are offered seven days a week. Check out the Reston location’s schedule on the website.

Pure Barre offers classes mainly at a ballet barre, where students use small muscle movement to get a total body workout “that lifts your seat, tones your thighs, and burns fat in record-breaking time,” says the Pure Barre website.

“It is an intelligent exercise and utilizes the ballet barre to perform small isometric movements in order to create long, lean muscle without bulk,” says Pure Barre.

Pure Barre, which already has Fairfax studio, will soon be opening locations in Ashburn and Vienna.

Photos: Pure Barre Reston/Credit: Pure Barre Reston Facebook

Fairfax County Public Schools is collecting school supplies in order to ensure every student is prepared for the upcoming school year.

Collect for Kids is a coordinated school supply drive to benefit needy FCPS students. The drive will provide school supplies for the 2015-16 school year for students who qualify for free and reduced-price meals. Approximately 52,000 FCPS students receive free and reduced-price meals, FCPS says.

The drive, which will concentrate on cash, backpacks and calculators, will run through Sept. 4.

Citizens can support the students in one of three ways:

Cash donations: By partnering with Office Depot, Kitz for Kids, and Walmart, Collect for Kids purchases school supplies in bulk, translating a $1 donation into $3 worth of school supplies. A $10 donation can fill a backpack with FCPS-approved supplies. Donations are accepted online.

Backpack donations: Donations of new backpacks can be brought to any Apple FCU or Northwest FCU branch, or to any affiliated organization. Visit Apple FCU or Northwest FCU for branch locations. There is always a need for additional large backpacks for high school students, says FCPS.

Calculator donations: Calculators, which will help support students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects, can be donated to Apple FCU or any partnered not-for-profit organization. The Collect for Kids website lists partners.

Preferred models are the TI 30Xa Solar School Edition or TI-84 Series calculators, but other models may be donated.

Ahoy — Restonian has some fun with Reston Association’s new boating guide. [Restonian]

Food Truck Chef’s Table — Planning a party? Bacon N Ed’s now offering a four-course al fresco chef’s table package. [Northern Virginia Magazine]

Traffic Woes — The Washington area is second only to New York City in the worst places for drivers. [Wallet Hub]

Kid favorite Rocknoceros will be in concert Saturday at 10 a.m. at Reston Town Square Park.

The 45-minute show is part of Family Fun Entertainment Series presented by Reston Community Center

Rocknoceros is a Fairfax-based trio — Coach Cotton, Williebob and Boogie Woogie Bernie — that has been performing in the area for 10 years. The award-winning band writes its own music, with song favorites such as “I Wish We Used The Metric System,” “Brush Your Teeth,” and “Things Boys Save.”

Town Square Park is at the corner of Market and Explorer Streets. Admission is free.

Rocknoceros/Credit: Rocknoceros

The Fairfax County Planning Commission has recommended for approval a parking lot expansion for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in north Reston.

The church — which had recently looked into building a new facility elsewhere in Reston — seeks to add 39 parking spaces to its existing 23-year-old site at 1515 Poplar Grove Dr. The parking capacity will increase from 121 to 160 spots, planning documents show.

The site is adjacent to residential town houses, Armstrong Elementary School, a public elementary school, a power substation and a park authority-owned property.

Residents of adjacent cluster Birchfield Woods were unhappy with a 2014 proposal that would take up additional space and remove additional trees. The plan has since been amended to its current form.

Church officials told zoning staff they looked into a parking agreement with Armstrong Elementary as a possible alternative to expansion.

The church said it had pursued parking agreements with public schools previously.

“The church is self-insured. Public schools does not accept that form of insurance,” Rinker Design, the firm hired by the church to do the expansion told county staff in a letter. “The church also has concerns about the safety of families crossing Lake Newport Road. It is a busy street. The church does not consider this a feasible option.”

“The church feels that additional parking is needed to meet the needs of their congregation, to be a good neighbor to the adjacent townhouse residents, and to provide parking with a safe access to the church. There will be no changes to the existing building or current use.”

Some of the development conditions:

• The church must submit a tree preservation plan and narrative for the site and the site will include a tree preservation fence.
• Supplemental landscaping is proposed to include shrubs, 51 evergreen trees and nine deciduous trees. Interior parking lot landscaping is proposed to include six additional trees.
• Stormwater quality will be addressed through permeable pavement, Filterra and storm filter structures.
• The county is permitting a waiver of a barrier requirement between the church and the surrounding areas because a 25-foot vegetative barrier already exists.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to give final approval to the expansion on July 28.

Map of Church of Latter-Day Saints location/Credit: Fairfax County

A Reston mom is hoping social media will reunite kids with their stolen bikes.

Wendy Cook is the founder of Reston Bike Shepherd, a Facebook group where residents can post pictures of bikes without apparent owners around Reston. Many of those bikes are stolen and abandoned on the trails.

Cooks says she got the idea last summer, when her son’s bicycle — a birthday present — was stolen off the front porch of their home.

“Shortly after his bike was stolen, we saw two kids walking through the backyards with a bike,” she said. “My son called to them and they dropped it and ran. I ran after them but could not catch up to them. We were able to return that bike to our neighbor’s son.”

Alas, she still has not found her son’s bicycle.

Cook said she is always seeing abandoned and stolen bicycles on Reston’s paths.

“I photographed and posted them. Then I called the police to come retrieve it and file a report,” she said. “People of Reston are finding stolen bikes ALL the time. The are being tossed into dumpsters, streams and woods. These bikes are cherished gifts from grandparents and parents and have great sentimental value to our children.”

Cook says she hopes people will be more aware of the issue and will photograph potentially stolen bikes, share them on Reston Bike Shepherd and also file a police report.

“I also want to let people know that the bikes are not safe in your yard or garage unless locked up,” she said. “Bikes have been stolen from unlocked garages, from backyard sheds and right off front porches in broad daylight. The more locks you have, the better. Also, write down your serial number!”

Cook offers these tips if your bicycle is stolen:

• File a police report as soon as possible, police can connect bike to owner via serial number.
• Contact your insurance company.
• Post a photo of your bike on Reston Bike Shepherd, with description, and location etc.
• Alert your friends on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.
• Make posters and put them up at the Reston pools, Community Center, schools, post office etc.
• Put a STOLEN BIKE notice up on Craigslist.org.

Photo courtesy Reston Bike Shepherd on Facebook.

Fairfax County Police have apprehended two teenagers suspected of being part of a group that robbed and assaulted a man on a trail in south Reston on Tuesday.

Police said the victim was walking near the 11000 block of Winterthur Lane about 5:38 p.m. when he came upon a group of eight teenagers.

The man said the group began assaulting him and took his cell phone and cash. When police were called, they located the group running away and two of the suspects were apprehended.

A 16-year-old from Sterling, and 17-year-old from Reston, were detained pending investigation.

In other police news from FCPD’s Reston District Station:

INDECENT EXPOSURE

Green Range Drive near Cloudcroft Court, July 14, 5:14 a.m. A woman was walking on the sidewalk when a man exposed himself from inside a vehicle.  The suspect was described as a white male in his 20s.

LARCENIES

11900 block of Market Street, phone from residence.

13200 block of Parcher Avenue, property from vehicle.

11400 block of Sunset Hills Road, wheels from vehicle.

11400 block of Washington Plaza, parts from vehicle.

1500 block of Deer Point Way, phone from residence.

2800 block of Reign Street, property from vehicle.

11200 block of Silentwood Lane, cash from vehicle.

1800 block of Cameron Glen Drive, bicycles from residence.

1800 block of Cameron Glen Drive, phone from business.

1800 block of Fountain Drive, merchandise from business.

11700 block of Olde English Drive, property from residence.

STOLEN VEHICLES

11800 block of Barrel Cooper Court, 2003 Honda Civic.

1800 block of Cameron Glen Drive, Honda CBR 1000.

Beware of backups on Wiehle Avenue near the Wiehle-Reston East Metro station through Friday.

Fairfax County officials are reporting a short cycle for the traffic lights at Wiehle and Reston Station Boulevard.

That is affected traffic both trying to leave the station area and access it Thursday morning.

Officials said repairs to the lights are expected on Friday.

School Kudos For Bechtel’s Support — Reston-Based Bechtel has been nominated by Fairfax County Public School to the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA) Business Honor Roll for their support of K-12 education. [FCPS]

Herndon On Stage — Herndon High’s summer theater program is presenting Cole Porter’s Anything Goes July 31 to Aug. 2. Tickets are $10 at the door. The production will be the last for Herndon’s longtime theater teacher and director, Zoe Dillard, who is retiring. [Herndon Drama]

Silver Line Phase 2 Woes — Cracks have been found in girders supporting tracks for the future Silver Line extension. [Washington Post]

The Reston Farm Market & Country Store is now open under new management, which hopes to return the stand at Route 7 and Baron Cameron Avenue to its good, old days.

The market, first opened in 1976, enjoyed a brisk business until a few years ago, particularly in fall, when it offered pumpkins and kids activities.

Managers Lexi and Justin Stalcup have brought in a kid-sized train, a moon bounce and a potbellied pig named Foxy to appeal to shoppers with children.

The market is also selling fresh flowers and plants, locally grown produce and other farm stand items.

The market, located at 10800 Baron Cameron Ave., is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Justin Stalcup said he hopes they will stay open year-round.