January 8, 2021 at 2:30pm
Reston Association is honoring several employees for reaching career milestones and recognizing others as they leave the organization.
In a release from earlier today, RA recognized mechanic Dale Wilson for 20 years of service with the association.
Lily Melgar, a financial services supervisor, Sandy Behrs, a senior administrative assistant, and Ashleigh Soloff, the events supervisor, were also recognized for reaching 25 years of service respectively.
Several RA staff are also leaving the organization, including Dave Schumaker who has been with RA for nearly seven years as a construction supervisor.
Bret Nelson, also a construction supervisor, is leaving as well. RA described him as “one the of the most skilled craftsmen to ever work for RA’s Central Service facility.”
Anyone who has met Doug Britt of Reston knows he has a wealth of information on the creepy, crawly, slimy, majestic, utterly beautiful creatures, insects, and flora that call Reston home. Britt, and the RASER (Reston Association State of the Environment Report) 2020 team, have traipsed nearly every area of Reston s 17.4 square miles in its humid subtropical climate. Britt knows the fastest vertebrate on the planet Earth lives, where else but in Reston, actually Reston Town Center, and it hunts Reston-wide. He can rattle off the names of more than 30 species of mammals seen in Reston, along with 1,588 insect species and 141 arachnids. Those are spiders, daddy longlegs, mites, ticks, and more. Britt is a tad partial to each of the ten species of crustaceans, seven millipedes, and three worms that live the low life in Reston. Love mosquitos? Check out English ivy, according to Britt. They love it too.