This year, Falls Church City Public Schools will be retiring seven employees: Lois Berlin, superintendent; Yu Wai Kwok, food services worker at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School; My Le, custodian at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School; Alice Nelson, kindergarten teacher at Mt. Daniel School; Pat Smith, attendance secretary at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School; Aurora Stelz, occupational therapist at Mt. Daniel School; and Dana Upton, school health aide at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School. The public is invited to celebrate their careers with an all-FCCPS event in the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School cafetorium on Thursday, June 9, at 5:30 p.m.
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,
