At Payne's Biker Bar/Downtown Saloon men and women hang out for camaraderie and support from each other in these difficult economic times. They're morally opposed to taking unemployment benefits and would rather help each other. Hanging out at Payne's are John Pennington, Pat Lennon and Bruce Lefever, all of Leesburg. View photo »

Bill Tracy is one of the regulars at Payne's Biker Bar/Downtown Saloon. View photo »

Laurie Snyder of Aldie, a bartender at Payne's, gets a hug from Skeeter Franklin of Leesburg. View photo »

John Pennington of Leesburg steps outside the bar to make a phone call. View photo »

Loudoun Valley High School sophomores Michael Wallace, Ben Walker, John McCray, all 15, and Langley Barth (not pictured), 16, have been hard at work for the past year planning a 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament that promotes drug awareness among teens. The event is being held on April 18 and features University of Maryland Coach Joe Harrington as its guest speaker. The teens are members of a county-operated teen program that promotes substance abuse prevention. View photo »

Director Tim Gammon shows a lamp to Karen Irelan of Leesburg. Irelan later put a hold sticker on the lamp. View photo »

Victoria Raabe of Purcellville looks at desks during ReStore's soft sale. View photo »

On her lunch hour from her work nearby, Victoria Raabe of Purcellville looks at desks during ReStore's soft sale. View photo »

During the soft sale at Loudoun's new ReStore, Karen Irelan fills out a hold ticket for a lamp she'll come back to purchase. The store officially opens today, April 11. View photo »

Tim Gammon helps Karen Irelan of Leesburg find the price of a screen door. View photo »

ReStore director Tim Gammon shares a laugh with Guy Kurtz, a painter who works with the local Certa Pro Painters. Kurtz's boss is donating his and other painters time to paint the storefront, an old grocery store. View photo »

Gammon, ReStore's director, talks with Martha Weinstein of Leesburg, who is arranging for pickup of material she's donating that is left of from her home remodel. ReStore is being opened by Habitat for Humanity. These stores get donations of used and surplus material from people like building contractors and sell them to the public at 50 percent to 90 percent below retail. People put hold tags on some items during the soft sale. The store officially opens today. View photo »

flooding in May left the structure badly damaged, cutting off the only road to a pocket of houses south of Oatlands. Residents with four-wheel-drive vehicles were able to use a path through a cornfield, but many cars had to traverse the shaky bridge one last time and park along Lime Kiln Road. The bridge is privately owned, and county officials worked to give residents an alternative route. The Greenlea homeowners association is looking for contractors to work on the bridge, which it hopes to have refurbished by spring.

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The Wrong Way Home: It was already called Crooked Bridge, but it was much straighter — and safer — than this before flooding in May left the structure badly damaged, cutting off the only road to a pocket of houses south of Oatlands. Residents with four-wheel-drive vehicles were able to use a path through a cornfield, but many cars had to traverse the shaky bridge one last time and park along Lime Kiln Road. The bridge is privately owned, and county officials worked to give residents an alternative route. The Greenlea homeowners association is looking for contractors to work on the bridge, which it hopes to have refurbished by spring. flooding in May left the structure badly damaged, cutting off the only road to a pocket of houses south of Oatlands. Residents with four-wheel-drive vehicles were able to use a path through a cornfield, but many cars had to traverse the shaky bridge one last time and park along Lime Kiln Road. The bridge is privately owned, and county officials worked to give residents an alternative route. The Greenlea homeowners association is looking for contractors to work on the bridge, which it hopes to have refurbished by spring.

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Monica Orellana with her son Jason, 2, picks up food at the Loudoun Interfaith Relief from Joann Seitz, a volunteer from Sterling, View photo »

Interfaith Relief volunteer Rachel Roberts of Leesburg brings donated bread from Giant out to shelves where people can take as much as they want. View photo »

Volunteers Kathy Carberry of Leesburg, Joann Seitz of Sterling, Rachel Roberts of Leesburg and Jack Winters of Round Hill at Interfaith Relief gather to pack food from orders placed by those picking up the donated food. View photo »

Katherine Thompson of Leesburg is picking up food from volunteer Nancy Eberling of Ashburn. Katherine was picking up for her husband and children as well as an order for her diabetic aunt. View photo »

In the back of the building is the warehouse where food donations are dropped off. The crates on back wall are normally filled to brim. View photo »

Interfaith Relief's food bank is experiencing shortages because of current economic situation. Volunteer Rachel Roberts of Leesburg wheels bread donated by Giant to place on shelves where people can help themselves. In background is Bonnie Inman, executive director of Loudoun Interfaith Relief. View photo »

An accidental fire on Tuesday caused $70,000 to $100,000 in damage to the Hillsboro Community Center. The non-profit Hillsboro Community Association is seeking donations to help with rebuilding. The building, originally a school house, has burn damage on right side including six 1870s-era windows with hand-carved wooden frames. View photo »