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Former Reston Planner Glenn William Saunders Jr., 93, Dies - Reston, VA - Saunders, a civil engineer and former town manager of the Town of Fairfax, was the second employee hired by Reston founder Robert E. Simon.
Skip to main content My friend Jay. He went from class president to drug dealer, then dead at 16. My desperate, personal search for answers. NJ Advance Media for NJ.com I was in the water. That’s one part I’ll always remember. It was the morning of Sunday, June 13, 1999. I was 17 and cooling off during my break as a lifeguard at a neighborhood pool down the street from my parents’ house in Reston, Virginia. I still recall that familiar rush of freedom, the heedless plunge into ice-cold water on a not-yet-hot day, that I would feel at the start of every summer.
Anyone taking a walk on the plaza at Lake Anne Village Center is drawn to it, unsure at first what it is. Behind the bronze statue of Robert E. Simon installed on a plaza bench with his back to the lake, and alongside a Christmas tree, someone placed a wishing net. It is strung between simple plastic piping wrapped in evergreen garland. The whole thing is topped off with a big, sparkly, red bow, and it is alive with movement. The netting is filled with hundreds of attached hangtags rapidly fluttering in the lake breeze like white hummingbird wings, moving forward and back, pivoting in figure-...