The online newsletter for Senator Scott Surovell. The Dixie Pig was my grandmother's favorite restaurant on U.S. 1 located across from Beacon Mall where a Rite Aid used to stand.
Now that school is almost out, the internship season begins and we always have a need for interns around the office. Interns with Delegate Scott Surovell can be expected to do the following kinds of activities:
Voter Data Entry
Finance Data Entry
Data Mining
Research Constituent Requests
Processing Mail
Assistance with Events
Drafting Press Releases
Website Maintenance
Policy Research
Canvassing Constituents
If you know, or are, a college student or recent graduate
who will be in the Mt. Vernon/Lee/Alexandria/Fairfax area during the summer and would like to
work as an intern, please fill out our form and email a resume and brief
writing sample to scottsurovell@gmail.com.
Last month, I led a cleanup of a
site on Little Hunting Creek off Janna Lee Avenue where we recovered 49
shopping carts and 550 pounds of trash. Here are pictures below.
There are still 30 more shopping carts that need to be removed and this weekend we are headed back out to make another
dent.
Little
Hunting Creek Cleanup Part II
Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday, May 26, 2012
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
7950 Seven Woods Drive
Alexandria, VA 22309 CLICK HERE TO RSVP RSVP with Delegate Scott Surovell delssurovell@house.virginia.gov or Megan Howard at (571) 249-4484
In case you have never done it before, it is a terrific activity for
elementary school kids. Picking up litter is a fun and easy way to
introduce children to environmental stewardship. I will provide the
bags and gloves. Just bring your tennis shoes (or boots) and please
RSVP so we know how much stuff to bring
Every year I send out a letter summarizing the General Assembly Session. Most of us call it our Sine Die Letter named after the motion that is made to adjourn sine die at the end of a session.
My letter for 2012 appears below the fold.
Also, check out my end of session summaries and my voting record with the following links:
As part of Governor McDonnell's efforts to make Virginia the "most veteran friendly state" in the country, the Department of Motor Vehicles is initiating a whole new series of measures for veterans.
According to the U.S. Census, 13.1% of the 44th District's residents are veterans. Also, the 44th District now includes a large part of Fort Belvoir which is part of these efforts. Hopefully these measures will help make state government more responsive to residents of Mt. Vernon and Lee.
The following is my column that will appear in the Mt. Vernon Gazette, the Mt. Vernon Voice and Patch in the week of May 14, 2012
Movie Star Tax Credits, A Gay Judge and the Session Ends
Well, it’s over. The 2012 General
Assembly ended on May 15, 2012 at 2:00 a.m. after a 13-hour House of Delegates’
session involving 117 of Governor Bob McDonnell’s amendments and the election
of 40 judges. It was a fitting end to a very contentious session.
The day was not without
controversy. This year, we authorized a bonus and raises for state employees
for the first time in five years to be funded with unanticipated revenues. These state employees include state troopers, corrections
employees and people who work for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV),
Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC), Department of Transportation (VDOT), judges,
court clerks, game wardens, and colleges. On a zero to 95 vote, the House of
Delegates rejected the Governor’s proposal to allow raises only if employees could
find millions of dollars of cuts in 45 days.
Once upon a time, Hollin Hall Senior Center was my elementary school (and my dad's). In 1983, the school closed and it became the Hollin Hall Senior Center.
The 44th District has one of the largest concentrations of elderly citizens in the entire Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. One of the reasons for that is the popularity of "aging in place" and the services that Fairfax County makes available to my constituents in our community.
This great movie below produced by Julie Ellis who is the director of the center shows some of the things that go on there today and demostrate why it's an asset to our community (and what a great job Julie does).
It's especially fun for me to watch all of the acitivity in the old cafeteria. Aside from eating there, that was our "gym" and also where I performed as Charlie Chipmunk in kindergarten. It's great to see that it's still being used!
I'm also pretty sure that when the room Hollin Hall Charlie goes into at the begining was the principal's office (not that I would have known where that was).
Now that school is almost out, the internship season begins and we always have a need for interns around the office. Interns with Delegate Scott Surovell can be expected to do the following kinds of activities:
Every year I send out a letter summarizing the General Assembly Session. Most of us call it our Sine Die Letter named after the motion that is made to adjourn sine die at the end of a session. 
As part of Governor McDonnell's efforts to make Virginia the "most veteran friendly state" in the country, the Department of Motor Vehicles is initiating a whole new series of measures for veterans.
The following is my column that will appear in the Mt. Vernon Gazette, the Mt. Vernon Voice and Patch in the week of May 14, 2012
Once upon a time, Hollin Hall Senior Center was my elementary school (and my dad's). In 1983, the school closed and it became the Hollin Hall Senior Center. 
