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of the Rappahannock Lions, echoed that same attitude. “She was approved by an overwhelming majority of the club. My sentiment is that she’ll do a fine job.”
Mrs. Pike and her husband Gary moved from Manassas to their stone rambler in Old Hollow 12 years ago. “We had relatives in Harrisonburg whom we visited regularly. One day we took Route 211, and when we came to the top of the hill outside of Amissville and saw that panoramic view I knew I had to live here,” Mrs. Pike recalled.
She commutes 164 miles every day to Washington D.C. and a job as manager of accounting for the Optical Society of America. She leaves at a little after 4 a.m. for Arlington, where she drops off her car and picks up the Metro. In addition, every morning before going to her office she helps her friend, Jim, set up his snack bar in D.C.
Jim is blind, and he is the main reason Cecelia Pike is a lion.
Mrs. Pike used to run the Credit Union in the Patton office building in Crystal City and Jim had his stand in front of the building. The two grew to be friends, and Cecilia became his ex-officio financial advisor and bookkeeper. Then a year after the Pikes moved to Old Hollow, Cecelia in
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