A ROBUST DELEGATION of Falls Church supporters made it out to Vienna for the annual benefit breakfast supporting the F.C.-based Homestretch organization. Homestretch, as outlined by Rodger Charin, board chair, and Christopher Fay, executive director, has been remarkably effective since its founding in 1990 by Nancy Taxson and F.C.’s Kieran Sharpe, in providing homes for homeless families and finding them permanent housing and productive employment. Twenty-eight Northern Virginia families graduated successfully from the program in 2010. (Photo: News-Press)

Every Eight Hours: This September, Make Checking In a Habit
BY JOHN F. CROWNOVER Every eight hours, Virginia loses someone to suicide. In 2023, 1,230 Virginians died by suicide, and nearly four out of five were men. They were fathers,


