The Koch Sharpening System- gets knives Scary sharp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_l7RqOihLg

The Koch system is fast and accurate. Developed by German wood carvers it uses special abrasives and wheels.

Call Rod's Sharpening Service to get your knives really sharp 703 945 0171

The Unofficial Canidate list for 2010

At-Large Candidates:
1. Rod Koozmin
11571 Embers Court, Reston, VA. 20191
Home: (703) 620-1058 Emails: sharpeningman@yahoo.com ; discount.scissors@gmail.com
2. Joe Leighton
2033 Approach Lane, Reston, VA 20191
Home: (703) 453-0434 Email: joe_leighton@comcast.net
3. David Robinson
1622 Bennington Hollow Lane, Reston, VA 20194
Home: (703) 707-0909 Office: (203) 512-1974 Email: DIR1622@yahoo.com
4. Patrick Shipp
11408 Running Cedar Road, Reston, VA. 20191
Home: 673-6206 Email: Patrick.m.shipp@gmail.com
Lake Anne/Tall Oaks District Candidates:
1. Kevin Danaher
1795 Ivy Oaks Square, Reston, VA. 20190
Home: (703) 709-5283 Office: (703 390-6166 Email: danaherforreston@comcast.net
2. Ken Knueven
11432 Waterview Cluster, Virginia, VA 20190
Home: (703) 467-0407 Office: (703) 203-2727 Email: kenk@microsoft.com
3. Guy L. Rando
1512 Inlet Court, Reston, VA 20190
Home: (703) 437-3456
Reston Association Board of Directors Candidate Filings
February 1, 2010, 5:00 pm
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North Point District Candidate:
1. Michael E. Collins
11408 Gate Hill Place, Unit Q, Reston, VA 20194
Home: (571) 313-0200 Office: (510) 697-9605 Email: mikecollins11@hotmail.com
2. Peter Greenberg
1451 Waterfront Road, Reston, VA. 20194
Home: (703) 587-8090 Email: northpointrep@gmail.com
3. Rengin Morro
1652 Sierra Woods Drive, Reston, VA 20194
Home: (703) 435-0939 Office: (703) 609-6621 Email: renginmorro@hotmail.com

The Reston Association and Future Maintenance Expenses in Reston

The RA meet tonight to review the Criterium study of maintaining Reston. The Criterium are engineers and they analyzed Reston 18 different categories of things that need maintenance among them such things for example as tot lots, foot bridges, pathways, boat docks, Lakes and ponds. Based on their findings we should be able to maintain everything adequately for the next 18 years by our current spending. But then the costs will go up dramatically.

There were three suggestions:

Alternative One-increase the current spending from 2.1 million to 2.7 million a year.

Alternative Two- Increase annual spending by 3% a year.

Alternative 3 Retain current funding levels, but but plan on a special assessment or other infusion of about $20 million in about 18 years.

The thing that I don't like about it is that there seems to be no control on how the Reston Association maintains things. For example I regurally see Reston Asssociation workers driving trucks on the pathways. The pathways are not designed for vehicle travel they don't have the needed base and as a result the shoulders of the roadways crumble. Yet I often see multiple vehicles with Reston workers transporting themselves each carrying a diffrent tool simultaneously deteriorating the pathways while they are also maintaining it. So no wonder it is a constant expense. Could they not instead use wheelbarrows and park nearby I wonder?

There is no one to supervise Reston workers except aparently other Reston workers. Board members do not I was told at candidate orientation night recently.

So if we have a organization with increasing funding to fund increasing maintenance that sometimes is self perpetuating I worry that things will just get more and more expensive which we'll be asked to fund somehow.

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I'm a Cold Caller and I Live outside Most Comfort Zone

Part of the requirements to be a candidate for the Reston Association board seat is to assemble 25 signatures. To do so I have to ask people to sign. Most people if they are not distracted are agreeable to being solicited. But some few are highly annoyed and will look at you as if incredible that you are on the same planet.

I do much the same thing in my business of going to beauty salons soliciting stylists to have their scissors sharpened.

I had done the same soliciting when I petitioned Reston Citizens for to sign a petition permitting Reston to be incorporated to be put on the ballot. We'd hang out in front of grocery stores and ...ask citizens to sign. Most did. We got almost 5,000 signatures! A few people were mildly uncomfortable or said they didn't have time.

A lot of my fellow Reston Citizens Association members felt uncomfortable enough about asking for signatures, that they never showed up as volunteers to help in a effort which they were otherwise committed to. Some did, Jane Wong was one who single handedly got most of the 5,000 signatures.

I felt I had a right as a citizen to solicit other citizens for there own good.

It was Marion Stilson a transplanted Englishwoman who taught me to solicit for civic sauses when I first joined the Reston Citizens Association. She is now the President of RCA the but she is a leader in another way. She is a great example in living her life unconstrained by the wheelchair she is presently confined in.

Soliciting is though I think outside of most people's comfort zone. Especially Americans, maybe less so other nationalities. At first thinking about it I was a little uncomfortable but then once you do it it's fun, kind of like jumping into a cool mountain stream.

So I was not at all uncomfortable soliciting my fellow citizens for their signature on my petition to run for the Reston association Board Seat. I got some 48 names among them Joe Leighton (who is also running for the at large seat and I also signed his I don't feel I am reunnig "against" Joe but for Reston) Mark Steppell, Kathleen Driscol McKee, Richard Chew, Mary E. LaValley, Kati Ray, Jane Lee Wong, Colin Mills, Mike Corrigan, Richard Stilson, John Lovas and 40 others. A petition signer dose not obligate themselves to vote for the person running but like my town petition merely to allow it to be on the ballot. But it made me feel good that these fellow 'civic activists' felt comfortable signing my petition. And this time like always there were a few who were horrified

But if you have to cold call, to ask someone, to propose a deal to someone and you are a little bit nervous. Just go ahead and do it. You'll generally be glad you did. The next time will be easier and easier. I was sort of sad to turn in my petition to Cate Fulkerson, ending this part of the campaign.

They say the fastest growing Christian religion is Mormonism. And it's because they ask. Most don't ask so they don't grow. Not that I'm pro Mormon but maybe it demonstrates a point.

If you cold call you put yourself at risk to condemnation. That's why you have to believe in yourself. I urge you to believe in yourself and be all that you can be.

It's my hope that Reston will believe in itself and vote for me and vote to be connected to one another. As we connect and are concerned for one another's views it's my belief that we will enter a new ear and be the kind of society that Robert Simon envisioned. Clap your hands! that will be a great day, we're all going to win!

Winter Famers Market

Well I set up today at 11895 Grand Commons Avenue, Fairfax Corner. The shopping center is at the corner of Monument Dr. and Government Center Parkway (map). The market will be open every Tuesday from 11:30am–2:30pm until May, when it will move back to the parking lot at Fairfax Corner. Come see our selection of products including winter fruits and veggies, meats, dairy products, baked goods, gluten-free products and a wide variety of prepared foods.

It is inside and there is electricity.

I learned we may be setting up in Herndon at the shopping center where the Russian Gourmet is (like Walmarts can't think of the name) but it depends on the vote of the Herndon Town council who are reluctant about the market and are bothered because don't like people on the street it seems. so we don't know how that will go but will find out next week.

But the good news is that we have found a new home in Reston on Wednesdays!

Mail order Knife Sharpening

From a recent New York Times Article



By NANCY MATSUMOTO
Although a few holdouts remain, the days of the itinerant knife sharpener who cruises the neighborhood in a little truck are waning. To fill the void, a growing number of mail-order knife-sharpening businesses have popped up, easily accessible on the Web.

A good sharpening that extends the life of a beloved knife is one of the best investments of these recessionary times. Norman Weinstein, knife-skills instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, recommends using a reputable professional instead of trying to sharpen your knives at home "because the learning curve for doing it yourself is so high."

We tried five different services across the country and, in general, were impressed with the results. Sharpening techniques differed among the services, ranging from one cutler (as knife sharpeners are called) who uses a motorized grinding wheel and a series of "water" or whetstones, to a sharpener who uses a two-horsepower belt grinder and up to six sharpening and polishing wheels.


http://online. wsj.com/article/ SB10001424052748 7034057045750149 92111661922. html

Interesting comments. I think I have one of the best systems of knife sharpening. If you would be interested in having your knives sharpened by all means wrap them up in newspaper and send them to: Rod's knife sharpening, 11571 Embers CT, Reston VA 20191 welcome to call me at 703 945 0171 or email me at Sharpeningman@yahoo.com