Mike Lambert

Tried a couple Great Raft drafts in downtown Shreveport and they were so good, we had to track down the mother ship and have a nightcap...so glad we did. A phenomenal selection of drafts available at this location, in a really cool and comfortable taproom. Visiting Great Raft is a must, whether you're a regular or a local!

Nice, little U.M. church on one of the main drags in southeastern Fairfax County. Welcoming congregation.

This was an awesome school when my children attended K-6 back in the 2000s. Back then, the total school population was between 500-600, a manageable number...school population is considerably higher now. That said, the school staff and teachers are a caring bunch...this remains a decent "neighborhood school."

I'm reviewing this, not as a USCG employee, but as A) a neighbor...since my property backs to the USCG property, and B) as a user of the exercise path that girds the USCG property. The "Coasties" are the consummate neighbors, always polite, always prepped with a wave-hello when they go by in one of their golf-cart patrols, and I have to say, it's COMFORTING to know that they patrol their property (and by extension, mine to an extent) as often as they do. With regard to the perimeter/exercise path...it's one of the finest in the Northern Virginia suburbs...shady, beautiful, and a quiet respite from the surrounding, traffic-bound madness of Telegraph Road and Route 1. You *DO* need a DoD CAC card (or similar federal ID) to enter the property...but if you wish to have access to a beautiful, unencumbered 4.2 mile path in this part of Virginia...THIS is your best bet.

I've mixed feelings about this institution. I was part of the "boundary battles" back in the mid 2000s, when a large chunk of Hayfield Secondary's school population was "carved away" to attend the newly opened South County Secondary. (In fact, just go check Hayfield Secondary's school boundary on the FCPS website...one of the most laughably GERRYMANDERED school boundaries in the ENTIRE district.) I was part of the "hiring committee" that brought on board the late/great Dave Tremaine (one of our most accomplished leaders) as head principal until his untimely death in 2014, and I've served in various Hayfield Secondary PTSA capacities over the past decade (including 1st VP and President), until my youngest child graduated from HSS in 2015. Perhaps even more than the ugly, divisive school boundary battle in the mid-2000s (when FCPS did little to support Hayfield Secondary), the arguably WORST injustice was changing the school's assignment in its VHSL athletic conference to the Liberty Conference, where we have LITTLE to NO chance of winning, or even tying, any sort of sports competition with the other powerhouse high schools assigned to the conference. Thank you so much, FCPS and VHSL, for marginalizing an already struggling school in terms of identity and sports competition. I'm ashamed to admit it now...but if my kids were attending Hayfield Secondary today, I'd seriously consider moving to another part of FCPS...or out of the district altogether.