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Battlefield Elem School 11108 Leavells Rd Fredericksburg, VA, 22407	PK-05
Battlefield Middle School 11120 Leavells Rd Fredericksburg, VA, 22407	06-08
Berkeley Elem School 5979 Partlow Road Spotsylvania, VA, 22553	PK-05
Brock Road Elem School 10207 Brock Rd Spotsylvania, VA, 22553	PK-05
Cedar Forest Elem School 3412 Massaponax Church Road Fredericksburg, VA, 22408	PK-05
Chancellor Elem School 5995 Plank Rd Fredericksburg, VA, 22407	PK-05
Chancellor High School 6300 Harrison Rd Fredericksburg, VA, 22407	09-12
Chancellor Middle School 6320 Harrison Rd Fredericksburg, VA, 22407	06-08
Courthouse Academy Prgm. School 7409 Brock Road Spotsylvania, VA, 22553	UG-UG
Courthouse Rd Elem School 9911 Courthouse Rd Spotsylvania, VA, 22553	PK-05
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For This District	Per Student	Total	% Of Total
Instructional Expenditures	$6,647	$157,321,196	50. 2%
Support Expenditures
Student	$622	$14,721,496	4.7%
Staff	$827	$19,573,436	6.2%
General Administration	$111	$2,627,148	0.8%
School Administration	$676	$15,999,568	5.1%
Operation	$942	$22,295,256	7.1%
Transportation	$802	$18,981,736	6.1%
Other	$164	$3,881,552	1.2%
Total Support	$4,144	$98,080,192	31.3%
Non-instructional Expenditures	$2,456	$58,128,608	18.5%
Total Expenditures	$13,247	$313,529,996	100. 0%

For The State	Per Student	Total	% Of Total
Instructional Expenditures	$7,902	$9,890,635,938	54.2%
Support Expenditures
Student	$671	$840,312,189	4.6%
Staff	$910	$1,138,421,795	6.2%
General Administration	$210	$263,435,469	1.4%
School Administration	$761	$952,411,020	5.2%
Operation	$1,164	$1,456,987,325	8.0%
Transportation	$687	$859,290,947	4.7%
Other	$222	$277,488,103	1.5%
Total Support	$4,625	$5,788,221,803	31. 7%
Non-instructional Expenditures	$2,047	$2,562,527,216	14.0%
Total Expenditures	$14,574	$18,241,285,149	100.0%

For The Nation	Per Student	Total	% Of Total
Instructional Expenditures	$7,549	$372,153,103,143	49.7%
Support Expenditures
Student	$792	$39,020,154,935	5.2%
Staff	$618	$30,487,652,661	4.1%
General Administration	$258	$12,720,931,842	1.7%
School Administration	$730	$35,978,592,512	4.8%
Operation	$1,169	$57,607,988,317	7. 7%
Transportation	$527	$26,002,463,553	3.5%
Other	$459	$22,633,739,814	3.0%
Total Support	$4,553	$224,451,138,461	30.0%
Non-instructional Expenditures	$3,074	$151,519,765,183	20.3%
Total Expenditures	$15,176	$748,124,887,521	100.0%

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Our Mission

At Holy Cross Academy, we are guided by the spirit of Saint Francis de Sales as we dedicate ourselves to:

• Create an atmosphere of prayer and reliance on our heavenly Father;

• Spread the message of Jesus in our families and our community by treating all persons with respect and showing reverence for the gift of God in each one;

• Build up our Spirit-filled faith community within Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Parish;

• Serve the needy in our local community and in the Missions through an awareness of our global responsibility to all humanity;

• Develop the whole child: spiritually, emotionally, academically and physically;

• Promote academic excellence by challenging all our students to recognize their gifts and fulfill their God-given potential.

Holy Cross Academy is a Catholic elementary school in the Diocese of Arlington, which serves the educational needs of children of varying intellectual abilities within the parish of Saint Mary from preschool through the eighth grade. It is under the direction of Dr. Stephen Fry and Fr. Mosimann and is staffed by a faculty of lay teachers who “create for the school community an atmosphere enlivened by the Gospel spirit of freedom and charity” in which each child grows and learns in a climate of mutual respect, charity, gentleness and integrity, according to the spirit of St. Francis de Sales.

Our Students
 

Our school serves the educational needs of children of varying intellectual abilities within the parish of Saint Mary from preschool to eighth grade.

Our Teachers
 

Our team includes 21 classroom teachers, 10 instructional assistants, 7 specials teachers, 3 resource team members, 2 school counselors, 8 administrative staff members, 5 kitchen team members, 3 Aviat Care team members, and 2 school nurses.

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Our parish theme for the 2021-2022 year:

Our Accreditations
 

We are accredited by the Virginia Catholic Education Association, have a state licensed preschool program, are a National Blue Ribbon recipient, and a Virginia Distinguished Purple Star School.

Our Day to Day
 

We look forward to your visit!  Until then, click on our social media links below to see what is happening at HCA!

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DR. FRY’S WELCOME

Dear Friends,

Thank you for visiting Holy Cross Academy’s website.  For many families, connecting with our website is their first step towards joining the HCA family.  You will find that Holy Cross Academy prepares our graduates to be young men and women of character armed with the academic preparation and strong faith formation ready for success in high school and beyond (I am the proud parent of a Holy Cross Academy graduate).  HCA graduates go on to attend a variety of Catholic, public, and private high schools throughout the Fredericksburg area.   I pray that our website urges you to take the next step by visiting our campus to see firsthand what makes Holy Cross Academy such a special environment.

Holy Cross Academy is the parish school for St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in downtown Fredericksburg.  Although our campuses are separated by five miles, we are linked in helping our students to follow in the footsteps of Christ.  Like St. Mary’s you will find HCA to be a vibrant faith community with many events and activities to engage our families. 

I am proud of steady growth of technology use on campus during my time at Holy Cross Academy.   Our teachers have grown more comfortable with their Active Panel in their classroom that they use interactively with their students.  We have purchased additional curricular resources that have online components and allow for home and school access for resources.  We added Go Guardian software to faculty computers that help them teach their students to make good choices with technology.   We also completed our third year of our one-to-one Chromebook program in middle school, which has shown growth each year. 

This year, we are adding Virtues in Practice, developed by the Nashville Dominican Sisters, to our already robust religion program.  Virtues in Practice focuses on one virtue per month that teachers focus on with their students.  Students are taught about saints each month who exemplify the virtue that they are studying.  This focus on virtues reinforces lessons from our daily religion class, lessons from our parish priests, weekly school Mass, and weekly prayer of the Rosary.

The halls of Holy Cross Academy will be ringing again with the sound of music.  Mrs. Maryrosa Ramos-Burgos is relocating to our area from California to lead our performing arts program.  Mrs. Ramos-Burgos has nearly twenty years of experience leading music and drama programs in elementary schools.  We cannot wait to see the influence she has on our school and how she will get our students excited about music and drama.  

Thank you again for visiting our website.  I look forward to meeting you on campus soon.   

In Christo,

Stephen M. Fry

Principal

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FAMILY SERVICE PROGRAM

Each family at HCA with children in grades K-8 is required to contribute a minimum of eight (8) service hours per school year.  Parents, guardians, and other adult family members may contribute to their family’s required service hours by colunteering to support events, activities, and initiatives that strengthen the school community.  The academic year for counting service hours is from July 1st-May 31st.  Family members must be background compliant before completing service hours.  See the office staff, business manager, or school website for information and instructions on compliance. Service hours must be completed by May 31st each year.  Any unserved hours will be billed $20 per unserved hour.  This will be due before the last school day in June and must be paid in full before report cards or transcripts are released.   If your student is in 8th grade, the fees must be paid before Graduation otherwise your student will not be able to participate in Graduation.  Read more about the program here:  Family Service Program

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Fredericksburg officials vote to advance plans to build new school

Fredericksburg is one step closer to building a new middle school.

City Council voted 6–1 Thursday night to enter an interim agreement with First Choice LLC—a partnership between Moseley Architects and English Construction Co.—to build a new middle school in the Idlewild subdivision.

The vote took place during a joint public hearing with the Fredericksburg School Board at James Monroe High School. The School Board voted unanimously to enter into the agreement.

The move will allow the project to advance into the design and development phase and complete 35 percent of the work before a comprehensive agreement is signed.

The anticipated opening of the 160,000 square-foot school is August 2024.

That’s also the date that Walker–Grant Middle School is expected to be ready to open as the city’s third elementary school. Federal funding will aid in the renovation of Walker–Grant.

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“I want to thank the School Board for their work,” said City Councilman Tim Duffy, who is the former principal at James Monroe and remains employed by the school system. “They’ve made a very compelling and reasoned explanation for why it’s best to invest in a middle school at this point and use federal funds to refurbish the existing middle school.”

The budget proposed by City Manager Tim Baroody for 2023 includes a placeholder amount of $57 million for the new school.

Kevin Rotty, managing director of PFM Financial Advisors, told City Council and the School Board that it would be wise to invest in a school now rather than later because interest rates and construction costs are rising.

City officials also noted that the federal funds for the renovation of Walker–Grant expire in September 2024.

Assistant City Manager Mark Whitley said the city and school system will use a combined fund balance of $6.5 million as well as $500,000 in proffers to partially pay for the middle school. The remaining $50.5 million will be paid off through a debt issuance for 25 to 30 years.

“While there’s a significant cost of doing these projects, there’s also a cost of not doing these projects,” Rotty said. “I regularly see all throughout the commonwealth and the U.S., governments that don’t invest in their assets end up with aging infrastructure and deferred maintenance.”

There were more than a dozen speakers and letter writers for the public hearing. All but one favored building the school.

Councilman Matt Kelly was the only one of 13 city and school officials to vote against the motion to enter into the interim agreement.

Kelly stressed that he’s not against the school’s construction. He doesn’t believe there’s been sufficient public engagement to move forward. He said that when a new high school was built simultaneously with Upper Lafayette Elementary more than 15 years ago, there was robust conversation about the pros and cons.

He said he’s concerned that a new building won’t address other pressing issues facing city residents. He believes those issues have affected student performance.

City resident Hamilton Palmer echoed Kelly’s concerns.

“Fredericksburg’s schools rank in the bottom percentile in Virginia,” Palmer said. “New school buildings will not fix failing school systems.”

Palmer said the construction of James Monroe hasn’t caused test scores to improve.

However, School Board members responded that overcrowding like what students experience at Hugh Mercer Elementary impacts classroom performance.

Hugh Mercer is the 42nd largest elementary school in Virginia out of 1,157. Lafayette is the 79th largest. The average elementary school is 500 students. By 2024, Fredericksburg is expected to average approximately 600 students in each of the three elementary schools.

“While it is still above the state average, it sure is a lot better than the current 800 we have now,” said Matthew Eberhardt, the deputy superintendent for city schools.

Idlewild resident Andy Wolfenbarger wrote in a letter to the School Board and City Council that the majority of residents in the neighborhood are in favor of the school coming there. Wolfenbarger cited a Facebook group with nearly 1,000 Idlewild residents.

He estimated that two-thirds of the residents want the school and one-third is against it. Wolfenbarger and others who wrote to the City Council and School Board stood firmly against the possibility of Mary Washington Healthcare office space coming to the neighborhood in addition to the school.

Mary Washington offered the city a swap of the land in Idlewild for offices for 600 employees. The city would then use the former Mary Washington Hospital at 2300 Fall Hill Ave. to ease school capacity concerns.

But a feasibility study showed that the old hospital building, which is on 6 acres across the street from James Monroe, isn’t properly designed for education and would create traffic circulation issues. The option was presented at Tuesday’s City Council meeting to co-locate the new middle school and the MWH offices on the 46.7 acres in Idlewild.

Councilman Jason Graham, who lives in Idlewild, scoffed at the idea. His neighbors backed him on Thursday.

“I’m not a ‘Not in my backyard’ kind of person, as these things must go somewhere,” Wolfenbarger wrote. “So please build that school in my backyard. But find someone else’s for the office space.”

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6 Elementary Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Childrens House Of Old Town Phone: (540) 373-0093 312 Sophia St, Fredericksburg, VA 22401www. childrenshouseofoldtown.com	Private, Montessori	PK,K	6	3
South Stafford Christian School Phone: (540) 371-5319 15 Pine Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22405	Private	PK,K-10	40	8
Hugh Mercer Elementary School Phone: (540) 372-1115 2100 Cowan Blvd, Fredericksburg, VA 22401	Public	K-2	814	18
Ferry Farm Baptist Church Preschool/kindergarten Phone: (540) 373-5982 1 Westmoreland Dr, Fredericksburg, VA 22405	Private, Early Childhood Program/Day Care Center	PK,K	12	5
Ferry Farm Elementary School Phone: (540) 373-7366 20 Pendleton Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22405	Public	PK-5	529	19
Falmouth Elementary School Phone: (540) 373-7458 1000 Forbes St, Falmouth, VA 22405	Public	PK-5	549	17

James Monroe High School achieved a 2014 ranking of 1,419 of 19,400 high schools in the United States by U. S News & World Report. The 2014 rank in Virginia is 184th out of 322 high schools. Fredericksburg Virginia area schools rank 86th of 129 public school districts in Virginia.

In 2014, Fredericksburg City Public Schools ranked 86th of 129 Virginia public school districts, James Monroe High School ranked 184th of 322 Virginia public high schools, the student-teacher ratio is 14.3 to 1, and 39% of students receive free or discounted lunches.

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3 Preschool Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Childrens House Of Old Town Phone: (540) 373-0093 312 Sophia St, Fredericksburg, VA 22401www. childrenshouseofoldtown.com	Private, Montessori	PK,K	6	3
South Stafford Christian School Phone: (540) 371-5319 15 Pine Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22405	Private	PK,K-10	40	8
Ferry Farm Baptist Church Preschool/kindergarten Phone: (540) 373-5982 1 Westmoreland Dr, Fredericksburg, VA 22405	Private, Early Childhood Program/Day Care Center	PK,K	12	5

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3 High Schools found within 3 miles radius.

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Massaponax High School

Massaponax High School is a public school in Spotsylvania, Virginia. It is part of Spotsylvania County Public Schools and is located at 8201 Jefferson Davis Highway. Massaponax High School opened in the fall of 1998 and is the fourth high school in Spotsylvania County. Massaponax has become one of the largest high schools in the district and currently enrolls 1960 students from 9 to 12. The school complex consists of 106 acres (0.43 km). ² ). Its exterior amenities include a 5,001-seat illuminated stadium, an 8-lane rubber track, 2 baseball fields, 2 softball fields, 2 multipurpose driving ranges, 1 football and field hockey field, 6 tennis courts, and a 3. 1-mile cross-country skiing track. Inside there is a gym with 1860 seats (3 basketball courts), 1 auxiliary gym, 2 gyms and 1 sports hall. The 1,270-seat auditorium and fine arts wing serve both the community and the school, offering community performances, musicals, and special events, as well as school, district, and state events. Off school property, a 25-yard (23 m) indoor swimming pool with 8 lanes is used. Massaponax employs 161 people daily. The school was run by Principal Joseph Rodky, who retired after 2009-2010 academic year. Dr. Joe Pisani was Principal from the 2010-2011 school year until the 2018-2019 school year when he transferred to George White High School in Richmond, Virginia. ^[1] The new Principal for the 2019-2020 academic year is Dr. Joseph Gabalsky.

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• 2 Athletics
• 3 Marching Band
• 4 Publications
• 5 Notable Alumni

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• 8 external link

Location

Massaponax High School is located in Spotsylvania Historic District, covering an area of ​​416. 1 square miles (1078 km). ² ) is located in eastern Virginia, midway between the state capital of Washington, D.C. and the state capital of Richmond; both of these are approximately 50 miles (80 km) apart. Both capitals are easily accessible by rail and highway. Spotsylvania County is bordered by Caroline County to the south and east, Louise County to the west, and Hanover County to the southwest along the North Anna River. Culpeper is bordered to the northwest and Stafford County to the north, while the city of Fredericksburg is to the east and Orange County is to the west, along the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers.

Athletics

Massaponax High School is part of Commonwealth District AAA and AAA Northwest and offers football, tennis, cheerleading, cross country, lacrosse, football, golf, volleyball, basketball, field hockey, swimming, wrestling, baseball , softball, and athletics. Gymnastics has recently returned after a hiatus due to a lack of participants in 2002-2006.

The Massaponax football team reached the 2003 state finals after an undefeated season but lost; However, they later won the AAA Division 5 Northwest Region title in 2005. In 2009they fought their way through to become Northwest Regional Champions and made it to the semi-finals against the Stone Bridge Bulldogs but lost.[1]

Massaponax’s first state champion, Dale Parker, won the 100 breaststroke at the VHSL Swimming and Diving Championships with a score of 59.98. [2]

The boys’ football team advanced to the state championship in 2000, where they lost 3-2 to the authorities against Blacksburg.

At Massaponax Maniacs is a student organization that supports school teams. Although football and basketball are the main sports supported by maniacs, they can also be found at other sporting events.

In 2006, the Massaponax softball team won the Commonwealth District Championship in the regular season, the Northwest Regional title went 3-0 with a nil score scored against them in the regional tournament, and reached the quarterfinals in the state competition against Great Bridge.

The Marching Band

The Marching Band is known as the Marching Panther Pride (MP²) and has won numerous awards and trophies over the years, most notably the Heart of Cary, given to the group with the most spirit in parades and field shows during Cary Band Day in Cary, North Carolina. The group is led by Mr. Corey Koch, who is the only group leader in the history of the school.

Each year the band presents the “Matt Kreitz Spirit Award” to the most inspired members of the marching band. This person should be growing and showing great pride and spirit in their first three years at Massaponax. The recipient of this award is presented with a megaphone and brings it to every football game in his senior year and they greet him from the stands. The award is named after Matt Kreitz from Massaponax High School class of 2003. After leaving school, Mr. Kreitz became the stadium announcer for home football games and other major events at Massaponax High School.

Publications

• Growl is an award-winning high school newspaper. Every year the publication was recognized as one of the best school newspapers. Freelance Star.

In 2004 he won the NSPA Newspaper Pacemaker competition. Growl won 4th Best of Show (1-8 pages) at the JEA/NSPA Spring High School Journalism Convention in Phoenix, Arizona; and 9th Best of Show (9-12 pages) at the Fall Convention in Washington DC.

Notable Alumni

• Caressa Cameron, Class of 2005, American Pageant titleholder from Fredericksburg, Va. who won Miss America January 30, 2010
• DeAndre Houston-Carson, NFL Player for Chicago Bears

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heart bandmates Jonathan Russell and Tyler Williams attended MHS.

• Greg Slaughter, Filipino-American professional basketball player
• Calvin Jones, Professional football player 9 Richmond Public Schools Announces Hiring for 12 Principals. WTVR.com . 2019-06-14. Retrieved 2019-07-17.

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• School website
• Spotsylvania County Schools website

Coordinates: 38°10′57. 8″N 77°30′40.9″W / 38.182722°N 77.511361°W / 38.182722; -77.511361

Fredericksburg, Virginia – frwiki.wiki

For articles of the same name, see Fredericksburg, Fredericks (disambiguation), and Burg.

Fredericksburg is an independent city in the United States located in northeastern Virginia, 80 kilometers south of Washington DC and 87 kilometers north of Richmond, Virginia. It has 26,969 inhabitants (2015 est.). The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Fredericksburg with Spotsylvania County for statistical reasons. Fredericksburg is part of the Washington metropolitan area.

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• 2 Geography
• 3 Demographics
• 4 points of interest
• 5 Culture and media
• 6 Sport
• 7 Twinning
• 8 Notes and references
• 9 External links

History

Located on the Rappahannock River, Fredericksburg was the last city before the Indian Territories in colonial times. Captain John Smith explored the Fredericksburg area as early as 1608. The Virginia Legislature established a fort on the Rappahannock in 1676, near the modern city. In 1714 Governor Alexander Spotswood encouraged the installation of German settlers at Germanna on the Rapidan, a tributary of the Rappahannock, upstream from the Fredericksburg site. He led an expedition out of the Blue Ridge in the west in 1716. As population pressure increased on the frontier, the Virginia colonial assembly created a new parish, Spotsylvania in 1720 and established the port of Fredericksburg in 1728. Named after Frederick the Prince of Wales, son of King George II , the streets of the city bear the names of members of the royal family of England. A county court was established in Fredericksburg in 1732, and the city was the seat of the county until 1780. The city was officially registered as town with council and mayor in 1781. It received a charter giving it the status of an independent city in 1781. 1879. The municipality adopted its current political organization in 1911.

In 1738 the Washington family moved to Ferry Farm in Stafford County on the Rappahannock opposite Fredericksburg. Mary, the mother of the first US president, George Washington, lived in Fredericksburg, while her sister Betty lived in Kenmore, on a plantation that was then outside the city. US Generals Hugh Mercer and George Weedon, Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones, and future US President James Monroe were notable residents of Fredericksburg.

The city owes its development to the presence of black slaves who worked on the region’s plantations and in the port and workshops of Fredericksburg. In XIX – ^m century, the city endowed the transport infrastructure to maintain its commercial role: thus, roads were built and a canal was built on the Rappahannki. Around 1837, a north-south rail line that later became the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, connected it to the state capital, Richmond. Another line directed to the agricultural areas of the west was completed after the Civil War.

Fredericksburg, March 1863. View of the Rappahannock and downtown.

Fredericksburg was of great strategic importance during the Civil War because of its location between Washington and Richmond, the two enemy capitals. In December 1862 , during the Battle of Fredericksburg, the city was bombarded and saw the defeat of the Union armies. In April- May 1863 , the Battle of Chancellorsville developed in the city. In May 1864 , the Battle of Wilderness and the Battle of Spotsylvain were not far off. After the Civil War, life gradually regained its economic prosperity. The University of Mary Washington was founded in 19’08 and was associated for a long time with the University of Virginia. It opened for boys in 1970.

Today Fredericksburg is in the center of a vibrant region. After several years of urbanization, the city regains its attractiveness due to its historical forty blocks that remain 350 buildings XVIII – ^th and XIX – ^th centuries. The oldest building in the city center dates back to 1737.

Geography


According to the US Census Bureau, the area of ​​the city is 27.2 km ² . It lies between the Piedmont and High Tide regions, on a fall line as shown in the Rappahannock. It is located in northeastern Virginia, 80 kilometers south of Washington DC and 87 kilometers north of Richmond, Virginia. The main routes are US-1, US-17 and I-95. Its boundaries are Rappahannock to the north and east, Stafford County and Spotsylvany to the south and west. Fredericksburg has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa Köppen classification): hot and humid summers, rather cold winters with little snowfall. The thermal amplitude between winter and summer is important.

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Fredericksburg weather report (38°19’N / 77°27’W, 27 meters)

Month	Jan.	February	march		May	June	Jul.	August	Sep.	October	November	December	year
Average temperature (°C)	0. 4	1.9	7.4	12.3	17.8	22.5	24.8	24	20.2	13.8	8.3	2.9	13
Rainfall (mm)	79	74.2	90.2	77.5	97.8	85.1	92.7	91.7	88.6	87.1	85.3	83.6	1032.8

Source: World Climate

Demography


Composition of the population
in % (2007)

Group:	Fredericksburg	Virginia	United States
White	74.9	73.2	80.1
Black	20.1	19.9	12. 8
Asians	2.2	4.8	4.4
Metis	2.4	1.6	1.6
Other	0.8	0.5	0.1
Hispanics	7.2	6.6	14.7

Fredericksburg had a population of 19,284 in 2000; 22,818 inhabitants in 2008; 26,969 inhabitants in 1915.

21.8% of the population under 18, 14.8% over 65 (2007). 5.5% of residents were born overseas and 9.6% speak a language other than English at home (2000). 13% of people live below the poverty line (2007).

Interesting places


• Carl’s Ice Cream, an ice cream parlor since 1947 years old.
• Fredericksburg Museum and Cultural Center
• Ferry Farm
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
• James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library: Located in the historic center of Fredericksburg, this location houses 1,600 items and 10,000 documents relating to the fifth American president. The oldest building dates from 1816. James Monroe lived in Fredericksburg from 1786 to 1789, during which time he served on the city council and represented Spotsylvania County at the Virginia convention to ratify the United States Constitution.

Monroe Hall, University of Mary Washington

Presbyterian Church

• Old Mill Park
• St. George’s Episcopal Church, built in the first half of XVIII – century, rebuilt in 1815 and 1849.
• Park Alum Spring
• University of Mary Washington
• National Museum of Slavery USA
• Kenmore Plantation: home of George Washington’s sister, Betty
• Mary Washington House, home of George Washington’s mother.
• Rising Sun Tavern
• Hugh Mercer Drug Store
• Courthouse ( Courthouse ), built in 1852 and designed by James Renwick, to whom we also owe the building of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
• City Hall and Market (1816), which today houses the local history museum and cultural center.

Near Fredericksburg:

• George Washington Birthplace National Monument
• Ferry Farm
• Gary Melcher House in Falmouth
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefield Memorial National Military Park

Culture and media


• The power chord is a simple chord commonly played on the guitar that was developed by Link Wray in Fredericksburg in 1958 during his improvisation Rumble .
• Free Lance – Star is the newspaper of Fredericksburg. Published since 1885.

The main radio stations are WJYJ, WFLS, WGRQ, WWUZ, WWVB, WBQB on the FM band and WFVA, WYSK on the AM band.

Sports

• Fredericksburg Gunners – United Football League (PDL) Premier Development League founded in 2006.
• University of Mary Washington Eagles (varsity teams)
• VHSL – Virginia High School Athletic League

Twinning

• Frejus (France)
• Princes Town (Ghana)

Notes and links


• (fr) This article is taken in whole or in part from the English Wikipedia article titled “Fredericksburg, Virginia” (see list of authors) .
1. ↑ ^{a and b} (c) « Community planning and development. Historic District, Fredericksburg (as of September 4, 2009)
2. ↑ (in) Ruth Coder Fitzgerald, “ Another History: The Black History of Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania “, Fredericksburg.com (accessed September 4, 2009)
3. ↑ (in) World Climate, “ Fredericksburg National Park, Virginia, Virginia, USA: maps and data on climate, global warming and daylight” (accessed September 5, 2009g.)
4. ↑ http://www.fredericksburgva. com/DoingBusiness/CommunityProfile/Demographics/
5. ↑ (in) « Come visit us! “, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library (accessed September 5, 2009)

External links

• (en) Official website

• Authority Records :

  • Virtual International Authority File
  • International Standard Name Identifier
  • National Library of France (data)
  • University Records System
  • Library of Congress
  • Gemeinsame Normdatei
  • National Library of Israel
  • Czech National Library
  • WorldCat Id
  • WorldCat
• Notes in general dictionaries or encyclopedias: Encyclopædia Britannica • Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana
• Geography resource:
  • Geographical Names Information System

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Steven Yurchik is the new head of NASA / Habr

After former President Donald Trump left the White House, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine and his deputy Jim Morhard resigned after him. Assistant Administrator Steve Jurczyk, third in seniority in the agency’s hierarchy, automatically took the lead. There is no official announcement of his appointment yet, but there are no signs that it will not take place. Who today performs the duties of the head of one of the most powerful research structures in the world?

Steven Yurchik, new head of NASA

Career milestones

Steven Yurchik was born and raised in Farmingdale, New York. Studied at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. In 1986 he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Two years later, Stephen and his wife Ann joined NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Here he went through all the stages of his career from an ordinary employee to the deputy administrator of the NASA Space Technology Administration. Few agency employees can boast such a service form. Lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Today, NASA’s Langley Research Center consists of nearly 200 facilities and employs approximately 3,400 government employees and contractors. Langley is working on revolutionary improvements in aviation, expanding our understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere, and developing technologies for space exploration. Yurchik came here when the first space shuttles were being developed and tested.

In 2002, he became director of the Center for Technical Affairs, and a year later, the shuttle Challenger crashed. 7 astronauts died, a special commission spent 32 months investigating the causes of the accident. There were no claims against the Research Center, but Yurchik did not forget about the tragedy. And in 2019The Orion system, developed under his leadership, was successfully tested in the year. It is designed to interrupt the launch of the ship and the emergency evacuation of astronauts in the event of a rocket failure during takeoff. The project leader received a NASA medal and a special award from the President of the United States.

In 2014, Steve Yurchik headed the Center and oversaw all work on the Curiosity rover. The developers themselves called the system of its landing on Mars “natural madness.” The designers abandoned the jet engines of the first probes and Spirit and Opportunity airbags. For Curiosity, they developed a combined “sky crane” system, the rover immediately began to wheels, lowered on 20-meter cables from a jet module hovering above the surface of the planet. The entire landing took place automatically and went off without a hitch.

The success of the complex operation is due to the fact that Yurchik recruited the most talented young engineers and welcomed the use of the most advanced technologies. The rover has proven so reliable that since the spring of 2020, Curiosity operators have been flying it from their apartments as they went into quarantine.

New projects

In February, the Perseverance rover, complete with a helicopter drone, will land on Mars. The creation of this rover was also supervised by Steve Yurchik. How it will land on the surface of the planet is still unknown. The purpose of the expedition is to find out the suitability of Mars for human colonization. In particular, is it possible to obtain oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere. Biological and mineralogical studies are planned. Based on the data obtained, housing projects will be developed for the permanent base of Mars explorers.

It is proposed to build residential modules using 3-D printing technology from local materials. Only a power supply would have to be delivered to Mars to power the printer itself and initially provide the base with heat, water and oxygen. For this purpose, the development of a nuclear nuclear thermal engine (NTP) has been resumed, capable, in theory, of delivering astronauts to Mars in three months. The prospective plant will turn on outside the atmosphere to avoid its contamination with decay products.

But today Yurchik’s priority is organizing a flight to the Moon during the Artemis international mission. The multi-stage program is designed for 10 years. The first expedition is scheduled for 2024 and will include the first woman to land on the moon. It is planned to create an orbital lunar base through which modules of a permanent lunar station will be delivered to the Earth satellite. The new president, the Senate and Congress issued statements that the funding for the project would continue in full.

Employee Management Principle

The new CEO has a strong reputation as a charismatic leader and skilled engineer. He is a supporter of the development of space tourism and helped SpaceX when Elon Musk’s young company was not yet famous.

In an interview, Yurchik said that he was going to lead NASA from his own home. “My job is to empower employees to create the amazing things we’ve asked them to do.”

So far, his way of managing personnel has shown excellent results. Unexpectedly, Steve Yurchik is participating in the missionary expeditions of his church parish in Guatemala. On vacation, he snowboards, ignoring jokes about his age. Also, he deleted his Twitter account.

When asked about his relationship with the Biden administration, he says he is confident of funding current and new NASA projects. It seems that under his leadership, NASA is waiting for new breakthroughs into the future. The Artemis mission will continue, although the head of Roscosmos Rogozin refused to participate in it. The reputation of Steve Yurchik gives hope that it will end in success, although not soon. So far, everyone is anxiously awaiting February 18, when the Perseverance rover is scheduled to land. It is quite possible that the fate of Yurchik’s final appointment also depends on its successful completion. And he will finally change his current title of “interim acting” to the official post of head of NASA, which he has long deserved.

The American Civil War – FOR ALL AND ABOUT EVERYTHING – LiveJournal

2. Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 1861, under the Confederate flag. The first shots of the Civil War came on April 12, 1861, when the Confederacy opened fire on Union Fort. The shelling continued for 34 hours. On April 13, Union forces made many attempts to take the fort, but it was only captured on February 22, 1865, after the Confederates had left Charleston. (NARA)

3. Yorktown, Virginia, ship loading. Photos from the main scene of the war – Campaigns on the peninsula (May-August 1962) (LOC)

4. Confederate prisoners near Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864. (Timothy H. O’Sullivan/LOC)

5. View of Washington from 3rd and Indiana Avenue, circa 1863. Trinity Episcopal Church in the foreground, the unfinished Capitol building in the background. The construction of the Capitol was stopped in the first years of the war, but continued in the last years. (LOC)

6. Fortifications at Yorktown, Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862. (James F. Gibson/LOC)

7. March 1863, destroyer Essex. The 1,000-ton warship, which was formerly a steam ferry, was used by the US Army in the Civil War in 1861. The ship was transferred to the US Navy in 1862 and took part in several operations on the Mississippi River, including the capture of Baton Rouge and the Port of Hudson in 1863. (LOC)

8. Infantry camp at Belle Plain, Virginia, in March 1862, three weeks after the Battle of Chancellorsville. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

9. Morris Island, South Carolina. The damaged muzzle of Parrot’s gun. (Haas & Peale/LOC)

10. On the steps of the Capitol building in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1864. (George N. Barnard/LOC)

11. The process of inflating a balloon with hydrogen. Such balls were used by the US Army for reconnaissance. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

12. Scene from Alexandria, Virginia, in August 1863. Price, Birch & Co. Slave Traders. (LOC)

13. Cannonballs in Washington. (NARA)

14. Captured mutineers await transportation on Belle Plain, Virginia. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

15. Wounded soldiers near Marys Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia, after the Battle of Spotsylvany in 1864. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

16. Stonewall was built in Bordeaux, France and weighed 1,390 tons. When the ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean, reaching Havana, Cuba, it was already May 1965 and the war is over. The Spaniards took the ship under their wing, and soon handed it over to the US government. (Bell & Bro. Photographers/LOC)

17. Andersonville Jail, Georgia, August 17, 1864. About 13,000 of the 45,000 Union prisoners of war were kept here, and they all died in appalling conditions – from starvation, disease, or violence from the invaders. (LOC)

18. Union prisoners near the main gate of Andersonville Prison. (NARA)

19. Dead horses around the Trostle house after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. Major General Daniel Sickles used the house as headquarters, and during the battle Union and Confederate forces fought among the country houses. (LOC)

20. Public execution in Washington, November 10, 1865. Henry Wirtz, former commander-in-chief of a Confederate POW camp, was acquitted and later hanged for abuse of authority. (LOC)

21. African Americans prepare cotton for the Cotton Gin machine at Smith Plantation, Port Royal Island, South Carolina, in 1862. (AP Photo/Library of Congress/Timothy H. O’Sullivan)

22. Officers of the 69th Infantry Regiment at Fort Corcoran, Virginia, with Colonel Michael Corcoran. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

23. Federal camp on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, in May 1862. (Alexander Gardner/LOC)

24. “Harvest of Death” is the now famous aftermath scene of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. (Timothy H. O’Sullivan/LOC)

25. Confederate cavalry at Sudley Ford, Virginia, First Battle of Bull Run, March 1862. (George N. Barnard/LOC)

26. Petersburg, Virginia, the first federal army enters the city in April 1865. (John Reekie/LOC)

27. Union forces during the Battle of Seven Pines against General Thomas Jackson and his Confederate troops near Richmond, Virginia. The battle took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862. (AP Photo / Mathew B. Brady)

28. Dead Confederates among weapons behind a stone wall at the foot of Marys Heights near Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863. During the second Battle of Fredericksburg, Union forces breached the Confederate lines at this location. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

(James F. Gibson/LOC)

30. Inside the Haywood Hospital in Washington in 1864. The hospital opened in September 1862 and closed in May 1866, after the end of the war. (LOC)

31. On the Pamunkey River, Virginia. It was a major Union Army base in 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign. (LOC)

32. A black Union soldier in front of a slave auction building on Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864. (George N. Barnard/LOC)

33. Rebel fortifications in front of Atlanta in 1863 or 1864. (George N. Barnard/LOC)

African Americans collect the remains of dead soldiers after a battle near Cold Harbor, Virginia, in April 1865. (LOC)

35. Soldiers on railcars at a railroad depot in Atlanta. On the right is the office of the Daily Intelligencer newspaper. (George N. Barnard/LOC)

36. Deck and turret on the battleship Monitor on the James River 9July 1862. She was the first battleship commissioned by the US Navy and fought bravely against the Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads. (James F. Gibson/LOC)

37. Pontoon Bridge near Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865. (LOC)

38. Tennessee Battery Camp during the Siege of Vicksburg at Johnsonville in 1864. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

39. A former slave (center, hands in trousers), now a soldier in the service, stands with other soldiers of the Army of the Potomac near Fredericksburg. (AP Photo/Mathew B. Brady)

40. The bodies of soldiers on the ground in front of Dunker Church after the Battle of Antietam in Maryland in September 1862. (Alexander Gardner/LOC)

41. Part of the 50th Engineer Brigade constructing a road on the south bank of the North Anna River near Jericho Mills, Virginia, May 24, 1864. (Timothy H. O’Sullivan/LOC)

42. Dead Confederates along the fence along the road to Hagerstown after the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. (Alexander Gardner/LOC)

43. View of the burnt area of ​​Richmond, Virginia, and the Capitol across the Basin Canal in 1865. The city was besieged by Union troops for more than 9 months, after which the army of General Robert E. Lee left the city in April 1865. (LOC)

44 Fredericksburg Baptist Church, Virginia. Photo from the backyard of the warehouse, taken May 20, 1864. (James Gardner/LOC)

45. The ruins of the affected area in Atlanta, Georgia, after the Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864. After capturing the city, Major William T. Sherman began his devastating March to the Sea, and on December 21, finally captured the port of Savannah. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

46. View of Columbia, South Carolina, from the Capitol after the occupation by the Union Army in 1865, during which the city was destroyed. (Mathew Brady/NARA)

(LOC)

48 Residents walking past ruins in Richmond in April 1865. Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. After a long siege in 1865, when the troops of General Ulysses Grant were ready to take the city, the Confederate troops were ordered to evacuate, destroying the bridges and all provisions. Richmond is on fire. About a week later, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant in the nearby town of Appomattox.April 1865. (Alexander Gardner/LOC)

Delayed Weapons of Mass Destruction Washington Sniper Who Killed Eleven Is Waging Undeclared War Against the American People and, most importantly, in terms of its impact on public consciousness, it may well be equated with weapons of mass destruction.

This is exactly how, for example, the well-known Russian political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky defined the current role of terrorism in a recent speech on his new website (indirectly confirming the expediency of the essentially inevitable American attack on Iraq). And, apparently, this is how the role of terrorism is regarded by the President of the United States, George W. Bush, who vowed to put an end to this evil of the 21st century.

But while some American soldiers, fulfilling the will of their president, are clearing the territory of distant Afghanistan from terrorists and their accomplices, while others, fulfilling the will of the same person, are accumulating along the borders of Iraq, almost as far from the United States, a small but very loud bomb exploded right, one might say, at the walls of the White House. For the second week, an elusive criminal has been operating on the territory of two American states – Maryland and Virginia, as well as one federal district of Columbia, which has already sowed mass panic among the residents of the East Coast. And although the police, unlike Bush, are not yet in a hurry to call an unknown sniper who shot eleven people, of whom only two survived, a terrorist, it becomes obvious that even the most successful fight against bin Laden’s accomplices does not guarantee peace and complete security for ordinary Americans.

The first victim of the mysterious shooter appeared on Tuesday October 2 in Montgomery County (Maryland) – around 18.00 local time A 55-year-old man was killed while leaving a supermarket. The next day, a whole series of murders began right in the morning: at 7.40 the corpse of a second man was found, less than an hour later – a third, and some time later, two women died in turn. Finally, on the same day, another man was shot dead, now in the northwestern part of the Federal District of Columbia.

The conclusion that all the dead were victims of the same person was based on the analysis of bullets found at the crime scene. All of them were fired from a powerful 5.56 mm sniper rifle, from a considerable distance. The sniper fired exactly one shot for every kill.

According to Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Muse, the choice of victims was random – they were all different sexes, different skin colors, different ages. This immediately led the law enforcement officers to the idea that they were dealing with the most difficult case – a mentally abnormal person who kills for no reason, even far-fetched, just for fun. At the same time, Moose urged that all the killings were carefully planned and prepared. The killer acted in cold blood, aiming at people who were doing the most ordinary things, usually in not very crowded places.

Further events only confirmed the correctness of the initial conclusions. On October 4, a sniper moved south from Montgomery County to Virginia, where he severely wounded a 43-year-old woman in Fredericksburg. This ended the first week of his activity. Then, after the weekend, an unknown shooter took up his rifle again and on Monday, October 7, wounded a 13-year-old boy who arrived at a school located in the town of Bowie, Maryland, in his aunt’s car. Although the wound was very severe, doctors claim that they will be able to save the life of the victim.

A day later, on October 9, the shooter went back to Virginia and killed a man in the town of Manassas. A day later, on Friday, September 11, a man fell to his next victim in the already famous Fredericksburg. Then the weekend came again, and the sniper hid again.

The beginning of the new week, the police of those areas where the serial killer was active, waited with a shudder. All that the law enforcement officers managed to do during this time was to make an identikit of the car, on which, presumably, the criminal is moving. Casual witnesses noticed that not far from the places where the shots were fired, a small white Chevrolet Astra van appeared, of an old look, with a dent in the rear bumper, with a lifting door at the back. Witnesses noted that the engine of this car was running unusually loud. No one saw her number.

In addition, the police found themselves in the hands of another piece of evidence, which, however, can only be called mocking. At the site of an ambush set up by a sniper in Bowie, a tarot card depicting Death was discovered with a handwritten inscription: “Dear police, I am a god.”

By that time, the reward for information about the criminal had grown from the initial $50,000 to half a million. Desperate to discover any connection between the killer and his victims, the police rely on the fact that he will catch the eye of bystanders who will help identify him. In the areas of alleged activity of the Washington sniper, as journalists have already dubbed him, security measures have been significantly increased – all classes in outdoor schools have been canceled, parents deliver children to and from school, and other citizens are called for special vigilance.

First the FBI came to the aid of the police, knocked down in search of a serial killer, and then the personal bodyguards of the US President. A special check was made on recently discharged military personnel who underwent sniper training, as well as former cadets of the Pentagon sniper school at Fort Bragg (North Carolina), expelled due to mental problems, as well as those who were denied admission. To make it easier for witnesses to remember the details, the FBI is preparing animated 3D reconstructions of all the murders committed by the mysterious sniper. But so far all to no avail.

Meanwhile, over the past two weeks, some US citizens have already recovered from the initial shock and have begun to adapt to a new way of life “at gunpoint”. So, on Sunday, the manager of a Stafford restaurant in Virginia raised a commotion by calling the police and reporting a man with a sniper rifle lurking on the roof of one of the neighboring buildings. The area was immediately cordoned off and all employees of nearby companies (including the caller’s restaurant) were evacuated. True, as it turned out later, the call was false – the manager did not see any sniper, but simply decided in this way to finish the boring work early in order to free himself part of the day off. Now he faces a hefty fine and jail time.

Another person who caused the false alarm was found the next day. In Baltimore, Maryland, the owner of a white van, similar in appearance to the wanted one, was detained. A rifle, a book on the basics of sniping, and several boxes of cartridges of the same caliber used by the serial killer were found in the back of the truck. In addition, the inscription “Jihad in America” ​​was found in the cockpit, as well as Tarot cards. True, the detainee had to be released, since after interrogation it turned out that he had nothing to do with the murders of the last two weeks.

Monday was the last for yet another victim of the mysterious sniper: in the evening in Falls Church, Virginia, another woman was shot in the head. The body was discovered at 21.30 local time in a parking lot near a shopping center. Thus, the death toll in this undeclared war, waged by an unknown criminal out of boredom or for some other unknown reason against the American people, has increased to nine. Delayed weapons of mass destruction continue their slow but destructive work.

List of victims of the Washington Sniper:

• James Martin, 55, from Silver Spring, Maryland. Killed 2 October. Veteran of the Vietnam War, worked as a programmer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. At the age of eight, he was left without a father and was forced to earn his own money for college. Martin was a member of the PTA at his 11-year-old son’s school, led the Boy Scouts, and served on the local church board.
• James L. Buchanan, nicknamed Sonny, 39, from Abingdon, Virginia. Killed October 3rd. As a landscape designer, he served on one of the neighborhood committees of the Boys and Girls Club of America and volunteered for a police helpline. James moved from Maryland to Virginia, where he and his father owned a Christmas tree farm, but continued to take pride in his job as a lawnmower at the Fitzgerald Auto Show in White Flint, Maryland. He was just mowing the lawn when a sniper’s bullet caught him.
• Prem Kumar Walekar, 54, from Olney, Maryland. Worked as a taxi driver. At the age of 18, he immigrated from India, where he planned to return after his retirement. According to relatives, he worked hard, and sent money to his father in India so that his younger brothers and sisters could also come to America. People who knew Prem say he was a quiet man with a sense of humor.
• Sarah Ramos, 34, from Silver Spring, Maryland. Killed October 3rd. According to acquaintances, Ramos, who came to the United States from El Salvador, enthusiastically worked as a nanny, dreaming of a quiet life in abundance. She was a cheerful woman, a loving mother of a 7-year-old son. She took an active part in church life.
• Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, from Silver Spring, Maryland. Killed October 3rd. While still an elementary school student in her hometown of Mountain Home, Idaho, Laurie decided she would be a children’s teacher. After graduating from a regular school, she entered the school of educators in Oregon. According to her father, Marion Lewis, Laurie was remembered by everyone who ever knew her “because she was open to friendship and love.”
• Pascal Charlot, 72, from Washington, DC. A carpenter who immigrated from Haiti many years ago, he did small jobs for his neighbors – inserting a door jamb for one, making a box for a radiator for another, and so on. He lived with his wife in his own house with a terrace, decorated from the facade with flowers in pots, in the backyard of which there was a small garden where peppers and tomatoes grew.
• Dean H. Meyers, 53, from Gatesburg, Maryland. Killed October 9th. A Vietnam War veteran, Meyers worked as a project manager for Dewberry and Davis Engineering in Manassas, Virginia. Friends and work colleagues speak of him as a hardworking, caring person – one of those who will help carry a heavy thing and feed a homeless cat.
• Kenneth H. Bridges, 53, from Philadelphia. Killed October 11th. A businessman and father of six, Bridges was one of the founders of an organization that helped blacks make their way in life. Neighbors say that he was a friendly, open person who often played basketball with his children.