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July 3, 2009

Deck-Barfield Bill & Ellen Deck of Placida, Fla., and formerly of Herndon announce the engagement of their daughter, Andrea Lee Deck, to Ryan James Barfield, son of Denise McNamara Garver of Ramsey, N.J., and the late Walter James Barfield III of Syracuse, N.Y. The bride-to-be is a 1995 graduate of Oakton High School and a 1999 graduate of Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. She is a web administrator at Mercer in Norwood, Mass. The future groom is a 1995 graduate of Ramsey High School in Ramsey, N.J., and a 1999 and 2001 graduate of Hofstra University. He is a business manager at Daymon Worldwide in Quincy, Mass. An August 2009 wedding is planned in Sturbridge, Mass.   Dominguez-Wildes Michael and Sheila Dominguez announce the engagement of their son, Michael, to Alice Wildes. The groom-to-be is a 2002 graduate of Herndon High School and a 2006 graduate of the College of William & Mary. After graduation, he joined Teach for America and was assigned to a school in Las Vegas where he earned his master's degree in education and continues to teach middle school english. The future bride is the daughter of Terry and Janice (Ritz) Wildes of Crown Point, Ind. She received her bachelor of science in education from Indiana University and is also a middle school english teacher in Las Vegas. A June wedding was planned in Indiana with reception in Virginia in July.