Fairfax County Police report the following crimes in the Reston District in the last week:

BURGLARY, 12700 block of Oak Farms Drive, May 16 at 8:25 p.m. A resident reported that someone broke into their house, but no property was taken.

COMMERCIAL BURGLARY: 11900 block of Freedom Drive, May 16, 2:23 p.m. An employee reported that someone entered the business and took property.

LARCENIES

11900 block of Fieldthorn Court, items from vehicle

2100 block of Ferguson Place, jewelfry from residence

1800 block of Fountain Drive, property from residence

12000 block of Kinsley Place, cash from vehicle

11900 block of Market Street, property from business

12100 block of Sunset Hills Road, wallet from business

13400 block of Burrough Farm Drive, items from vehicle

9800 block of Georgetown Pike, merchandise from business

2400 block of Covered Wagon Court, bicycle and electronics from residence

STOLEN VEHICLES:

1800 block of Discovery Street, 2002 Toyota Corolla

New Name For This Space  — We’re now calling this space “Morning Notes.” “Morning Rundown” confused some people that this was news Reston Now had coming for the day. This space is for quick notes and links to stories and events of interest to Restonians.

Standup Paddleboarding Demonstration — Surf Reston and Red Paddle Company are holding free demonstrations Sunday at Lake Anne Plaza. Come and test drive a paddle board from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reservations required. [Surf Reston]

Give Blood — The Inova Bloodmobile will be back at Reston Town Center on May 24, noon to 7:30 p.m. Consider donating as the summer months traditionally bring a shortage of blood. [Reston Town Center]

Are you riding your bicycle to work this Friday? If so, you won’t be alone.

Thousands of cyclists ( last year’s event drew 17, 500) will commute via pedal power in the annual event sponsored by Commuter Connections and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association.

Bike to work has been happening here for 15 years in an effort to make commuting healthier, cheaper and better for the environment.

“Bike to Work Day has encouraged many of the region’s commuters to make the switch to biking to work,” says Nicholas Ramfos, Director of Commuter Connections. “Since its launch in 2001, Bike to Work Day has continued to grow each year, with additional riders, pit stops, and generous sponsorships.”

Here is what you need to know:

Registration is free and easy to complete online at www.biketoworkmetrodc.org.

All registrants will be entered into a regional bicycle raffle, and the first 15,000 to register will receive a free t- shirt to be picked up at the pit stop location of their choice.

A total of 83 pit stops will celebrate Bike to Work Day across the region, welcoming bicyclists with refreshments, entertainment, and the chance to win prizes

Find pit stops with this online tool. Area put stops include the Herndon Town Hall Green, Reston Station at Wiehle-Reston East, the Vienna Town Green and at Tysons in front of the Capital Grille.

Don’t want to ride alone? Join a commuter convoy or find a ride buddy.

Bike to Work organizers said they are making a special effort to reach out to women and minorities for this year’s ride. The most recent voluntary participant survey, conducted in 2013 by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), revealed a gender participation gap: 34 percent of Bike to Work Day participants are women, 4 percent are African American or Asian,; and just 3 percent are Hispanic.

“I think diversity is important in everything we do,” Kelly Russell, City of Frederick Alderman and member of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, said in a release. “When you put people on a bicycle it’s almost like a common language. You can teach anyone to ride a bike if they’re willing, and you can do activities together on a bicycle that bring people closer together. It’s just a really good way to build community.”

Bike to Work Day will take place rain or shine.

Fairfax County leaders have recommended an independent audit of the county’s fire department after allegations and a civil rights lawsuit were filed last week by a female firefighter alleging sexual harassment and mismanagement.

Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova says a third party will be looking into the working environment.

An outside third party consultant will “assess the working environment within the Fire and Rescue Department, focusing on Equal Employment issues, workforce morale, mental health assistance, and communication issues. County staff will develop a more formal scope of work for this study. Fire and Rescue Chief Richie Bowers fully supports this initiative,” Bulova said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

In the last several weeks, Guy Morgan, who heads the department’s Professional Standards Office, was placed on administrative leave following discovery of inappropriate online posts. Additionally, Bowers launched an investigation into firehouse cyberbullying following the suicide of firefighter/paramedic Nicole Mittendorff, who worked at a station in Burke.

Meanwhile, a group of female firefighters spoke out on Wednesday saying they have had nothing but a positive atmosphere with their male colleagues.

“We’re a family, and like any family we have some black sheep,” firefighter/paramedic Alisha Reakoff told WTOP. “Those black sheep do not represent who we are as a whole. We’re disheartened about how the fire department and the personnel on the fire department are being portrayed publicly. Never once was I treated any differently because of my gender.”

Firefighter Magaly Hernandez, with the department since 2005, filed a civil rights suit on May 6, claiming years of sexual harassment, unnecessary transfers and lack of accountability of supervisors within the department.

Fairfax County says it cannot comment on Hernandez’s case.

A Herndon woman was charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly stabbed a teenager, Herndon Police said.

Herndon Police said the juvenile male victim was in the 1100 block of Elden Street on May 13 about 8:30 p.m. when he reported being stabbed in the shoulder by a person known to him.

The boy received medical treatment at the scene for non-life threatening injuries and was released to a parent.

Jacqueline Deloise Escobar, 51, was arrested and transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, police said. She was served with a warrant for Felony Aggravated Assault and is being held without bond.

The Reston community can get an update on the planned urban-style street grid — and the potential of a special tax to help pay for it — at a community meeting Wednesday.

Join Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins and the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) for another in a series of discussions on the Reston Network Analysis from 7 to 9 p.m. at South Lakes High School.

Residents will be able to learn more about the analysis, which is evaluating the concept of urban-style grids of streets in the areas surrounding the Reston Metrorail Stations, also known as the Reston Transit Station Areas. County staff will give a presentation on the status of the Network Analysis and potential recommendations for the transportation network. Staff will also answer questions.

The Reston Network Analysis Advisory Group has most recently discussed Tier 2 mitigation (see presentation below). The group is looking at ways to reduce congestion and waiting times at traffic lights. The presentation points out some of the worst trouble spots in the Reston area. The goal is adding traffic lights and turning lanes, but patience is needed as the plan covers mitigation over the next several decades. Read More

Cold Now, Hot Later (Soon) — Here’s the summer forecast, which says get ready for a big change. [Capital Weather Gang]

Reston Relay For Life This Weekend — Fun and fundraising at South Lakes High School in the name of beating cancer. [Relay for Life]

Library Wants Your Feedback — The Fairfax County Public Library is seeking citizen feedback in this online survey, which will be open until May 31. [Fairfax County Public Library]

Nearby: GMU Can Name Law School After Antonin Scalia — A Virginia state council gave the school the go-ahead after some protested the renaming of the school after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice. [Washington Business Journal]

Reminder: 2016 Reston Now Reader Survey — RestonNow.com is conducting our first annual reader survey. We would greatly appreciate your time in filling it out. [SurveyMonkey]

Photo: Geese on Lake Anne/Credit: Ken Knueven via Facebook

Brighton Collectibles is closing its Reston Town Center store.

The last day for the store at 11858 Market St. will be Sunday, May 22, store management said.

Brighton, which sells handbags, wallets, costume jewelry and other accessories, opened at Reston Town Center in late 2012.

There are no special sales happening as the store stock is being shipped back to the chain’s national headquarters.

That part of Market Street near Presidents Street will soon undergo redevelopment as Boston Properties plans to construct a 17-story office building there.

The redevelopment was approved last year. A Boston Properties spokesman said the start date for the project has not yet been determined. However, look for Ann Taylor and FedEx Kinko’s to also be affected by the project.

Reston Station is doing some crowdsourcing to decide what family-friendly movies should be shown outdoors on the plaza this summer.

Give Comstock, which owns the mixed-use development adjacent to the Wiehle-Reston East Metro, your suggestion by filling out this form. In return, you will be entered for a chance to win a $100 gift card to AMC movie theaters.

So what do you think? The Lion King? Mary Poppins? Back to the Future? The Wizard of Oz? 

Reston Station plans free “Movies Under the Stars” each Saturday this summer beginning June 4. Movies will start about 8 p.m. There will be food trucks, pop-up shops and children’s activities. Watch for a complete schedule soon.

Several Reston Now readers noticed about nine tour buses with a police escort traveling through Reston and making a slow pass through the Reston Town Center Tuesday at about noon.

Was it a presidential candidate? Visiting dignitary? Rock star and entourage?

None of the above.

The bus brigade was merely the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association’s annual Northern Virginia bus tour, RTC officials said. The police presence was to keep everyone together.

The NAIOP bus tour gathers together hundreds of commercial real estate brokers, developers and other interested parties to check out buildings and markets in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.

Reston Town Center, of course, is a hot spot for Northern Virginia commercial real estate. RTC officials say the center’s office space is 100-percent leased.

Photo: Buses with police escort at RTC/Credit: LoveRunAndPray via Twitter

Reston Association’s Lake House Working Group is still wrapping up its work, but RA is already promoting the former Tetra property as a place for private rentals.

RA is marketing the rehabbed space as “coming soon” and as “an affordable and ideal location with its park-like grounds” as a place for:

• Small to mid-sized weddings and celebrations
• Corporate functions and retreats
• Workshops and conferences
• Private functions

After a contentious member referendum, RA purchased the property from Tetra commercial real estate in July 2015 for $2.6 million.

A working group has been meeting since October on uses for the property, which sits on a little over three acres on the shores of Lake Newport. The 15-member group is expected to make its final presentation to the RA Board at the board’s meeting on May 26, and the board is expected to vote on longterm usage.

But even without the big-picture plan in place, RA is already marketing its new after-school program, which will begin in Fall 2016. After care is expected to bring in more than $100,000 annually to the association, though operating expenses will offset about 40 percent of income.

A $650,000 contribution from developer Comstock has helped fund the exterior renovations that have been taking place the last several months. RA, which borrowed the entire $2.6 million, has said members will not see an impact due to the purchase to annual assessments until at least 2018.

At the renovated building, there are two rooms for public use. According to the marketing materials:

The Lakeside Room offers access to the deck overlooking Lake Newport and can accommodate 50 guests.

The Lake View Room can accommodate 100 guests in a natural light-filled setting with a fireplace.

The entire facility can also be rented for up to 150 guests.

Rates are $100-$275/hour, RA materials say. Reservations are available at [email protected] or by calling  703-435-6530.

A woman featured in a Sunday New York Times piece detailing presidential candidate Donald Trump’s history with women took issue with the story on Monday, saying she never had a bad experience with the billionaire and does not believe he ever mistreated women.

But before Rowanne Brewer Lane made the talk show rounds on Monday, before she was in the front page NYT story Sunday and before she dated Trump in 1990, she was Rowanne Brewer of Reston. She attended Herndon High School, graduating in 1982.

Brewer Lane is a former model who dated Trump for several months starting in late 1990. She said yesterday said her words were twisted in the Times article, which used interviews to show a pattern of troubling personal behavior towards women by the Republican presidential candidate.

The Times story said Trump asked Brewer Lane to change into a bikini shortly after meeting her at a pool party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. According to the article, he then introduced her to the crowd outside, saying, “That is a stunning Trump girl, isn’t it?”

On Monday, Lane told the same story in television interviews but said she had been flattered by his comment.

“They spun it to where it appeared negative,” Lane said on Fox News. “I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump.”

According to a Washington Post story in 1990, Brewer Lane moved from Reston to Maryland after high school. She was a “Star Search” model and was the 1988 Miss Maryland, as part of the Miss U.S.A. contest.

The Post story also reports Brewer once worked as a bartender at Clyde’s and Da Dominico in Tysons Corner and the Dome in Washington.

Photos: Top, Brewer Lane Monday on MSNBC; Middle – with Donald Trump in 1990/People.com; Bottom – at Herndon High, early 1980s – Facebook.

Wiehle-Reston East Parking Back To Usual — The temporary closure of one of the parking garage entrances has been lifted. [Fairfax County]

NextStop Review — DC Metro Theatre Arts says Herndon’s NextStop Theatre Company’s City of Angels is “pitch perfect.” [DCMTA]

Reston-Based Exec Fired After Racial Remarks — The executive director of the Reston-Based National Association for Music Education is out of a job after he reportedly told a diversity forum that blacks and Latinos lack the “keyboard skills” needed for the profession. The association said last week it has parted ways with its executive director and CEO, Michael Butera. Butera says his remarks have been portrayed inaccurately. [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

Photo: Dock Diving Dogs at Lake Anne Plaza/Credit: PetMAC via Sweet Memories Photography 

Reston-area workers and residents were puzzled when they looked to the sky about 3 p.m. on Monday. A skywriting plane had left this: “#Deny NIA.”

The reactions on social media ranged from: Who is Denynia? What is happening? Say what?

Here’s what happened. The message was supposed to be a grand gesture to say “#Deny NAI.”

As Reston Now reported yesterday, it is part of a campaign by the Herndon-based Air Line Pilots Association against allowing Norwegian Airlines (NAI) to operate in the United States.

Here is what the ALPA had to say in a statement later on Monday:

“[Monday’s] skywriting was part of ALPA’s campaign to demonstrate opposition to Norwegian’s request for a foreign air carrier permit. While the first pass was a bit jumbled, like Norwegian’s business plan, it is easily corrected. Norwegian should consider doing the same.”

The ALPA says that on April 15, the Department of Transportation (DOT) tentatively approved Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) request for a foreign air carrier permit to allow it to operate flights to the United States.

“NAI’s business plan is designed to avoid Norwegian labor, tax and regulatory laws,” the ALPA says on its website. “It is inconsistent with the intent of the US-EU Air Transport Agreement and, if allowed to be implemented in the trans-Atlantic market, would put U.S. airlines and aviation workers at a tremendous disadvantage as they compete in the international marketplace — two reasons Congress should tell the administration and DOT to #DenyNAI.”

The association got many calls about the typo in the sky, and at about 5 p.m. the skywriting pilot took another pass with the correct message.

Photo – top, courtesy Modern Reston; Bottom, corrected skywriting, courtesy ALPA