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Chantilly High School

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Chantilly Students Bring Christmas Cheer to Shelter Residents

The students collected over 60 toys for local children in need.

Chantilly High School photography students celebrated the Christmas season by making sure Santa Claus had enough toys to go around at a local family shelter.  The students, who are all in photography classes or the school's club, collected over 60 toys to wrap and distribute at the Katherine Hanley Family Shelter in Fairfax last week. All of the toys were donations from themselves or their families, no outside drives conducted.   Betty Simmons, the students' photography teacher, knew that she wanted to help the students do a service project, and asked Officer Wayne Twombly, of the Fair Oaks Police Station, for ideas of what to do. Twombly suggested the shelter, and the students rose to the occasion by collecting over 60 toys.  "We come …

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Hundreds Commemorate 150th Anniversary of Chantilly Battlefield

Outnumbered Union forces held off attack, secured retreat.

It’s hard to believe that this tiny historic battlefield in Chantilly, wedged between a Safeway supermarket and rows of apartment complexes, was the site of some of the most vicious fighting that occurred in Fairfax County during the Civil War. Hundreds attended events on Saturday that commemorated the sesquicentennial of the battle that occurred on Sept. 1, 1862. Known as the Battle of Ox Hill (the Confederate name) or the Battle of Chantilly (the Union name), the conflict was the largest organized battle of the Civil War fought in the county. Although the fighting took place over a 500-acre area, the 4.5-acre Ox Hill Battlefield Park is the only remaining preserved remnant of the bloodshed. Ox Hill is one of hundreds of identified Civil …

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