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Inside This Week Beyer, Connolly Won’t Attend Inauguration
U.S. Reps. Donald S. Beyer Jr. and Gerry Connolly announced they will join a list of over 60 Congressional Democrats who will not participate in the inauguration ceremonies for incoming U.S President Donald Trump Friday. See News Briefs, page 9
F.C. Company Sets Drone Flight Record
On Eve of Trump Tenure, First Ever March in F.C. Touts Racial Healing
Tinner Hill Foundation Leads 561 in Rousing March Through City
by Sam Tabachnik
Falls Church News-Press
Last month, a drone from Falls Church’s Vanilla Aircraft completed a 56-hour flight without refueling, breaking the world record for its class.
members David Snyder and Phil Duncan, raised serious questions on behalf of their constituents to Fairfax Water’s plans. Fairfax Water said the bigger tower will save it considerable money over other options, but would require easements to impose on parking in the City’s parking-limited Eden Center Vietnamese-American commercial hub. It would be to the predominant benefit of Fairfax County’s aggressive plans for the commercial development of the Seven Corners area.
Preaching racial unity, openness and collective responsibility, hundreds of protesters channeled the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday’s holiday, marching through Falls Church in a historic first for the 70-year-old city. Peaceful marchers, armed with signs reading “Love not hate” and “Unity is power” among others, began at the Tinner Hill Historic Monument, where 100 years ago the first rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fought for equality against the segregated City of Falls Church. The eclectic group of protesters wound their way to F.C. City Hall, chanting “We need unity!” and “We want peace!” in a call and response that harkened back to King’s Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s. The official crowd total was 561 according to Curt Westergard of Digital Design & Imaging Service, Inc. While Ed Henderson, executive director of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, made it clear that the MLK Day march was not a reaction to the November election, there was no mistaking the impact of president-elect Donald Trump on the tone and tenor of the participants. “The days since November 8th have been among the most interesting and trying of my life,” U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., (D) who represents the 8th District of Virginia, including the City of Falls Church, told the crowd on the steps of City Hall. “I’m sure for many of you, too.”
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Nicholas Kristof: Missing Obama Already
Barack Obama’s legacy is being systematically unraveled even before he leaves office, with The Wall Street Journal scoffing that he “has been a historic president but perhaps not a consequential one.” See page 15
Mason Girls Pick Up 3 More Conference Wins
George Mason High School’s varsity girls basketball team emerged from a busy week with three key victories over Conference 35 opponents, defeating Madison County, Clarke County and Central high schools. See Sports, page 24
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TINNER HILL FOUNDATION Secretary Michael Everett leads marchers through Falls Church during the City’s first-ever Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march Monday. (Photo: J. Michael Whalen)
F.C. Council, Fairfax Water Clash Again Over New Tank by Nicholas F. Benton
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The decade-long conflict between the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County’s water system was not resolved with the sale by the City of its water system to its giant neighbor three years ago this month. Tuesday night, an appearance by two leading representatives of Fairfax Water before a work session of the Falls Church City Council was characterized by some sharp exchanges and an unhappy departure by the Fairfax duo.
The last time representatives of Fairfax Water came before the Falls Church City Council in October 2016 with plans to replace their water tower behind Eden Center with one twice as big, the City Council did not greet the idea with favor. So when the same representatives came back to a Council work session Tuesday having changed nothing in their request, they should hardly have been surprised to get the same unfriendly reaction from the F.C. Council. It ended up a testy exchange, at best, when Falls Church Mayor David Tarter, joined by Council
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As Transition Nears, Falls Church Residents Tell News-Press of Their Inauguration Plans BY PATRICIA LESLIE
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The weather at the Falls Church Farmers Market in early January was not too different from many presidential inaugurations. The wind snarled. Temperatures hovered in the mid-20s. Snow began to fall. Falls Church, along with much of Northern Virginia, voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in November’s election and as Donald Trump prepares to be sworn into office Friday, some customers at the market were asked about their plans for the
inauguration. Roger Desouza and his wife, Pascale, are “fleeing to Iceland” for a few days because of the results. Under a vendor’s tent, Desouza grimaced while holding a plastic bag, which his wife filled with produce. “We would have stayed for Hillary, he said. “We wanted to own the day and make it ours.” Ginger Smith of Falls Church was walking around the marketplace, her tiny frame covered in winter gear and her face partially hidden, save for her eyes and mouth, which emitted puffs of
white steam while she talked. No, she’s not going because of who won. Her nearby companion, John Johnson, shook his head. “There are too many people,” he said. “Security, security, security.” Instead, Johnson and Smith are going to try and get to the Women’s March the next day. Tim Stevens of Falls Church is not planning to upset his tradition with this year’s inauguration. “No particular reason,” he said about why he stays home. “I just don’t go.” Strolling the marketplace in no hurry was David Fuscus of
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McLean, whose public relations company will shut down for the big day since it’s located inside the security perimeter on Capitol Hill. He’s also not going to the inauguration, but he did have a recommendation about the inaugural balls: Don’t go. “They are so crowded,” he moaned. “You can’t get a taxi. It takes an hour and a half to check your coat, an hour and a half to get a drink.” Another Falls Church resident, Arnold Baker — “a hardcore Democrat forever,” he says of himself — attended both Obama inaugurations but “has no interest in going [this year].” “I couldn’t take it,” Baker said. “I see no good reason to go intentionally or otherwise to support this president-elect.” He and his wife, Judy, will stay at home. Elected representatives from the area will also be staying away Friday. U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. who represents the 8th District of Virginia, including the City of Falls Church, announced Monday that he was joining the growing list of Congressional democrats boycotting the inauguration ceremonies. “[Donald Trump’s] values and his actions are the antithesis of what I hold dear,” Beyer said in a statement. “It would be the height of hypocrisy for me to pretend to be part of this inaugural celebration.” Fellow U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, who represents the 11th District of Virginia that includes much of Greater Falls Church, said in a statement that he was also refusing to attend. One Falls Church resident, Republican strategist Matt Keelen, does plan to attend with his family. A friend and former employee of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Keelen said that he and his wife are going to the inauguration itself plus two inaugural
balls, one on Thursday night at the Library of Congress, hosted by House speaker Paul Ryan, and the second on Friday night at the Liberty Ball at the Washington Convention Center. “It’s great to celebrate our country, even if you’re on the other side,” Keelen said. “It’s a crazy day. You’ve got to be really motivated to go, but it’s one of the beauties of living here.” Keelen has seats on the Capitol grounds for the swearing-in, and the family plans to watch the parade from a building balcony on Constitution Avenue, which boasts comfy indoor and outdoor seating. But other conservatives in the area said they don’t plan on going. Laid up with an injury and not planning to attend is the chair of the Falls Church City Republican Committee, Matt Kahn. Last week he got a call from the Trump team requesting a list of local attendees, a list that Kahn did not have ready. Ken Feltman, the previous chair of the Falls Church Republicans, is another no-go. “Years ago it was a mob scene,” Feltman recalls. “You’ve done it once, you don’t need to do it again.” He’s going to the Women’s March the next day “and crash that party with my wife. We can hear about [Friday] then.” Falls Church City Council member David Snyder will be in the District on Friday as a volunteer at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, which will throw open its doors to all suffering in the cold. “Our purpose is to create a welcoming space” for those who need warmth and maybe some church history, Snyder said. (Tours will be offered.) On the guest list are peacemakers, equal rights advocates, protesters, and anyone not defined by purpose. He advises inauguration visitors to “use transit and dress warmly because the weather is usually horrendous.”
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F.C. Council, Fairfax Water in Clash Over Water Tower Plan Continued from Page 1
“Given the way the City of Falls Church has been treated by Fairfax County for decades,” Council member Snyder intoned, “This seems like more of the same thing.” He said the county will gain all the benefit and the City will bear all the cost,” he said, charging that the plan would “improve land values in Fairfax County at the expense of devaluing them in Falls Church.” He noted that Alan Frank, general counsel for Eden Center, had written a letter opposing the plan. The need for an easement to block three dozen parking places at the Eden Center would provide a major hardship, Frank wrote. The Eden Center is a thriving Asian-American retail center with scores of small businesses and a major supermarket. Parking is always at a premium there. Mayor Tarter confronted the two Fairfax Water representatives – general manager Chuck Murray
and project manager Jamie Hedges – Tuesday with the notion that the City’s site was most convenient for Fairfax Water solely because any number of county-based locations that could be acquired through eminent domain were less attractive because of cost, and also because of resistance from neighbors. Hedges responded that going the route of land acquisition for a site in the county “would make for a hard argument when we already own land in the City of Falls Church.” Tarter retorted that the Fairfax Water reps were at the meeting because they needed zoning adjustments from the City government to be able to do that. “Yes, that’s why we’re here,” Hedges conceded. Tarter said a “giant tank doesn’t fit in our urban plans. We do not have a lot of open land here. A giant water tower was not in my plans for a great city.” He urged the Fairfax Water reps to “come up with different options.”
Snyder chimed in that “most of the benefits of this for redevelopment will accrue to the county, and not to us. This needs to be fair to both of us. There is a very unfortunate history of an ‘us versus them’ between Fairfax County and Falls Church, and this looks like more of the same. We need to get past that.” Snyder was referring to the decade of hostility and litigation as Fairfax Water decided it wanted to control the extensive service area of the former Falls Church Water System over the Tysons Corner area of the county, where development is now exploding. Tuesday, Murray had only to offer that the water pressure demands in the area dictate that the tower needs to be the 139 feet in height, intimating a resistance to any modifications in their plans. However, Tarter challenged that, saying there “have to be other ways, and they need to be looked into.”
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News-Press’ owner-editor Nicholas Benton provided upon request the following Open Letter to Donald Trump on the eve of his inauguration for the Washington, D.C.-based Metro Weekly gay community news publication: “Open Letter to Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, “Like the courageous civil rights champion U.S. Rep. John Lewis, I do not consider your presidency to be legitimate. As Rep. Lewis, the great ally of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated this week, the overwhelming evidence confirmed by U.S. intelligence agencies of interference by a foreign power hostile to the U.S. in favor of your election last fall has severely flawed that outcome. “Moreover, the manner of your seeking the presidency and your ongoing behavior since being declared the winner underscore this grievous concern. Still sadly, most of your Republican colleagues in Congress have shamefully embraced this sorry development to already advance legislation that will eliminate health care coverage for 22 million Americans. “Since the election of President Obama, our first African-American president, in 2008, you and your Republican allies, working in conjunction with Russian intelligence and the Russian-controlled so-called “AltRight” radical white supremacist fringe in U.S. politics have worked tirelessly to erode President Obama’s power and influence through brazen and callous appeals to racism, the very lowest and most degraded of dispositions, antithetical to the moral standards required to preserve our precious and tenuous democracy. “You spearheaded a high-profile ‘birther movement’ to discredit the president by the same means that African-Americans have been unfairly disenfranchised throughout history. Your behavior was shameful then as it is now. But it is about far more than your personal immorality. Indeed, you are advancing a hostile takeover of our core democratic institutions by a foreign power that prefers authoritarian tyranny. As such, you, sir, are a grave danger to this nation. “Sir, with the American revolution and miraculous success crafting a Constitutional democracy that has endured stormy times to survive two centuries and two score years later, the abiding animating spirit of America has been an openly-embraced deference to the benefit of all in equal measure. Our founding mothers and fathers – emboldened as they were by the universal aspirations of the Great Enlightenment of their century – were keenly attuned to this sensibility, and written between all the lines of their brave actions and words has been an almost otherworldly optimism that informed their testaments to the shared and equal values of all human beings, most recently extended to my LGBT brothers and sisters. There is no America without such an animating generosity of spirit guiding her. “This spirit is the polar opposite of a disposition seeking advantage over others by exploitation through politics or business as you represent.”
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ployment, capped by a rate as high as 25 percent in 1936. Contrary to claims that this was due to some austerity measures, the 25-percent peak coincided with New Deal activities like The Wagner Act and tax increases. The poor aren’t served by increasing food prices or taking away their job opportunities via restrictive labor policies, as The New Deal did. What took us out of the Depression was our gov-
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ernment taking its foot off the throat of the economy after FDR’s passing, and hopefully we’ll see the same now. Economic recovery will be led by the private sector, including those contributing to climate change, such as Rep. Beyer’s car dealerships. Jeff Walyus Arlington
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The Homes We Borrow From Our Children B� J��� D�B��
In neighborhoods across the country and clearly in our neighborhoods here in the metro D.C. area, we have witnessed with every new day, new houses “poppingup” left and right. The thing is, these new houses are routinely gigantic and often lack character and commonly do not respect their respective sites or neighborhoods. While so many lament the ubiquity of huge, seemingly soulless, houses they still enjoy using the derogatory epithet and fast food allusion of the “McMansion.” In many ways, this phenomenon is wholly understandable; the land is where the value is. As a result, lenders reinforce the notion that the market value of the land value along with the so-called improvements (aka: our “homes”) must be gigantic in order to actually add value to the property. It is a bottom line game – and the name of the game is “Money.” Consequently, the preponderance of the “McMansion” is undeniable and, alas, feels unavoidable. See www.McMansionHell.com for a cry and a laugh. As a Falls Church citizen for the past 16 years and a residential design/build firm owner in Falls Church for the past 15, I have developed a very personal relationship to what happens in our neighborhoods. While my company has built a sustainable business based upon thoughtful additions
and renovations, back in mid 2000 we “flipped” houses where we tore down “old” houses and built big new houses in their place. In the midst of exploring the possibilities of “developing” new houses, we
“I have developed a very personal relationship to what happens in our neighborhoods.”
very soon discovered that not only were banks giddy to lend us money in this seemingly recession-proof market but we also learned that there was a higher Return on Investment (ROI) and a perceived lower risk if we built build bigger houses. So big houses, we did build. As we dabbled in this endeavor, we struggled with what this development should produce; what was best for our neighborhoods? What was the value of quality design? And, fundamentally, what was the relationship between Quality v. Quantity? After our last “flip” 10 years ago, we learned that the market can easily get over-
inflated and that lenders have become much more selective with their own risk and their willingness to lend money for residential development. Therefore, if lending is stringent and the development of huge speculative houses continues, what gives? The answer can be found in the growing loss of quality of material and workmanship; loss of respect for the site and the streetscape; neglect of the value of thoughtful design addressing such issues as scale and proportion; texture and light; and functionality and utility. The unfortunate result is a plethora of characterless, overbuilt houses that merely try to dress-up like a Home. The undeniable interconnection of this unfortunate phenomenon and our opportunistic and aesthetic-averse economy is easy to witness. And, herein is a figurative call-to-arms to embrace the idea of Home that is driven by Love over ROI. Just as the Greeks identified “love” with several permutations, I believe the love of Home and Earth is a true love and one with gravitas. This “Love” is akin to the Native American philosophy about the land that permeated their many cultures as can be witnessed in this ancient Native American Proverb: “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” We can rally behind this idea of Love of Home in the following
five ways: • Enliven existing dead spaces in our homes – live in your entire home • Focus on how we move through spaces – efficiently and gracefully • Focus on the integration – between home and garden • Invest in our ecology – relations of people to one another and to their physical surroundings • Promote the real value of thoughtful and engaged design – Living Architecture Investing in Home with a capital ‘H’ need not be a renunciation of market equity or using your real property as an investment in one’s financial portfolio; however, our Homes are much much more than a categorized investment. Just as there has been a movement, albeit a small one, to raise awareness of the need to protect our environment and to make choices based upon a genuine interest in a sustainable planet, we can collectively build a movement that is about enriching both Earth and Home – a movement that recognizes that beauty and comfort and value can be found in restraint, humility and the power of thoughtful design. We can shed the encumbrances of the oversized and unnecessarily huge houses; and, we can enliven and activate and transform the spaces of our everyday lives in our timeless Homes. We can love our Homes that we borrow from our children.
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THE VANILLA AIRCRAFT and New Mexico State University crews pose with the record-setting VA001 aircraft in Las Cruces, New Mexico. (Photo: Vanilla Aircraft)
F.C.’s Vanilla Aircraft Sets Drone Flight World Record by Sam Tabachnik
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Tucked away in a nondescript brick building off Lee Highway in Falls Church, Vanilla Aircraft may be easy to miss. But while their office may be unremarkable, the five-man team on the inside is breaking flight records and reimagining the limits of unmanned aircraft. Last month on December 2, Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 drone completed a 56-hour flight without refueling, breaking the world record for its class. A representative from the National Aeronautic Association was present to witness the record. The aircraft, which took off and landed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, actually had enough fuel for 120 hours but the mission was cut short because of inclement weather, suggesting the Falls Church company may soon break its own record.
Even with the disturbance from Mother Nature, the flight was the fourth-longest for any unmanned airplane and the 11th-longest for an airplane of any type, according to the National Aeronautic Association. Co-founder Jeremy Novara said that this mission, however, was about more than just getting Vanilla Aircraft in the record books. “We have been cognizant of what the records are but that’s definitely not what we’ve designed to do,” Novara said in a recent interview with the News-Press. “We thought that there was a lot of potential utility for a long endurance drone like this.” Novara, along with colleagues Neil Boertlein and Daniel Hatfield, founded Vanilla Aircraft in 2009. After years in the industry seeing ideas left on the cutting room floor, the three decided it was time to see if they could do it themselves. The VA001 is that dream real-
ized. What sets this aircraft apart from its competition is its combination of speed and endurance. “This aircraft can do things that other aircraft cannot,” Novara said. “We can get to a long distance away, stay there for a long time and come back.” The flight was supported by the technology innovation investments from the Department of Defense’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office and DARPAfunded efforts through Naval Air System Command — Patuxent River. While much of their funding came from the defense industry, Vanilla Aircraft sees the drone’s utility as a potential game-changer in the science and commercial realms, as well. For example, the original research and development contract Vanilla Aircraft had from NASA, Novara explained, had a goal of taking off from New Zealand or Chile and flying over
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Antarctica in order to map ice elevations over time. Normally, this mission would be difficult because Antarctica is so far away most aircraft wouldn’t have enough fuel to fly there and hover long enough to get adequate data. The VA001 has the capacity to get there, stay a while to collect data, and still have enough fuel for a return trip. On the commercial side, Boertlein said he envisions the aircraft being used to map all the cornfields in Kansas, for instance, at a much cheaper cost than a drone that has to repeatedly land and take off again. This low cost efficiency makes it highly attractive to potential buyers. “A lot of the cost of operating the drone system is in the manpower of launching it, recovering it and doing maintenance on it,” Boertlein said. “So if you can do a longer flight, you reduce your cost per hour dramatically. So that, combined with not having
to put the people wherever you have the camera, gives a lot of logistical benefit both in science and in military and commercial applications.” The December flight was a landmark mission for the Vanilla Aircraft team and the latest step on the path towards a finished product. Bortlein and Novara said the plan is to attempt the full five-day flight again, as originally planned, sometime this spring. The team believes they have “more or less successfully demonstrated the prototype is working as planned,” according to Novara, and that steps are now being taken to ramp up to an initial production version. Vanilla Aircraft’s office may be unspectacular, but their innovative work has made them impossible to miss. “I think we’re a shining example,” Novara said, “of what a small, multi-talented team can accomplish in the right environment.”
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NEWS BRIEFS Mother, Disabled Son Make Passionate Appeal A Falls Church mother and her disabled son made a passionate appeal to the City’s representatives in the Virginia State Assembly Saturday in a standing-room-only town hall meeting held at the F.C. Community Center. Amy Mayeux and her son Justin Dolan appealed to State Sen. Dick Saslaw and State Del. Marcus Simon to reverse the elimination of funding for overtime for care attendants and other cuts in the state’s disability support funding passed by the General Assembly last year. They cited Falls Church-based Arc of Northern Virginia report of a $10 million cut in funding in developmental disability waiver funds, and noted that care attendants who may not work more than 40 hours per week are paid $11.70 an hour with no sick days and no benefits.
Justin Dolan (right) made an appeal to State Sen. Dick Saslaw (left) and Del. Marcus Simon (center) for a restoration of state funds for developmental disability support at a town hall meeting at the F.C. Community Center Saturday. (News-Press photo)
Beyer, Connelly Won’t Attend Inauguration U.S. Reps. Donald S. Beyer Jr. and Gerry Connolly, the Democrats who represent the 8th and llth Districts of Virginia that includes Falls Church and environs, announced this week they will join the growing list of over 60 Congressional Democrats who will not participate in the inauguration ceremonies for incoming U.S President Donald Trump this Friday. In a statement issued by Beyer, he said, “I will not be part of normalizing or legitimizing a man whose election may well have depended on the malicious interference of Russia’s leaders, a person who lies profusely and without apology, who mimics the disabilities of others, who insults anyone who dares disagree with him, who would demonize an entire spiritual tradition, and who has demonstrated again and again a profound disrespect for women. His values and his actions are the antithesis of what I hold dear. It would be the height of hypocrisy for me to pretend to be part of this inaugural celebration.” Connolly said in his statement, “After long reflection I have decided that I cannot attend the inauguration of Donald J. Trump on Friday. His behavior and harmful words during and after the campaign have left the country I love with open, bleeding wounds. Instead of binding those wounds, he has poured salt on them. Instead of unifying us, he has reveled in driving wedges between us. His disparagement of an entire religion; his racist rants about minorities; his resurrection of white supremacy; his ridicule of the disabled; his blatant misogyny and boasting of unwanted sexual advances; his intimidation of the press; his repugnant attack on civil rights hero John Lewis; and his disturbing defense of and advocacy for Vladimir Putin – a KGB thug – threaten our democratic institutions. How can I celebrate that? The sordid aspects of his behavior must not become the new normal for America or her presidents.”
Shot Fired Through Window of F.C. Daycare Center Police are investigating after a bullet was fired through the window of a Falls Church area daycare center where a group of three-year-olds were being looked after last week. On Thursday, Jan. 12, Fairfax County Police responded to a report of something thrown through the window of Bright Horizons, a Falls Church daycare and preschool in the 5200 block of Leesburg Pike, when they discovered a bullet had been shot through the window. Nobody was hit or injured and police say they immediately moved they eight children and two adults to a safe place inside the building.Police are continuing the investigation and ask that anyone with information about the incident to contact Crime Solvers electronically by visiting www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text-a-tip by texting “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES(274637) or by calling 1-866-411-TIPS(8477), or call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.
Man Shot in Falls Church Area A 21-year-old man was assaulted and shot in the Falls Church area of Fairfax Monday night, police said. Fairfax Co. Police say officers responded at 9:50 p.m. to a report of a fight and sounds of gunshots on the 6000 block of Vista Drive. When officers arrived, they found the victim on the ground with apparent trauma to the upper body, later determined to be a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to Fairfax Co. Police spokesperson Tawny Wright, early investigation indicates that a group of males were arguing with the victim before someone in the group shot the victim. Police are investigating the incident. No arrests have been made.
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Marching for Peace, Unity on MLK Day in F.C.
OVER 500 PEOPLE GATHERED in Falls Church for the City’s first-ever Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march, organized by the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation. After the march from the Tinner Hill Historic Monument to City Hall, a panel discussion included U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer; Temple Rodef Shalom Rabbi Amy Schwartzman; Michael Davis, acting chair of the Northern Virginia Urban League; Falls Church News-Press Editor-In-Chief Nicholas Benton and member of the Democratic LGBT Leaders Council; Kofi Annan, Fairfax County NAACP President; Diener and Associates’ Michael Diener, Falls Church Chamber of Commerce treasurer and chair of its Diversity Inclusion Effort; Lily Beres, Ariana Habibi and Pasha McGuigan of J.E.B. Stuart High School’s Students for Change; Baha’is youth leader and author of “The Earth is One Country” Ronald Lapitan and Peter Davis, founder of online sites that encourage inclusive, participatory politics. (Photos: J. Michael Whalen, Top Panaromic Photo: Jared Wood)
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But, Byer added, this anger and despondency has the potential to be transferred into collective action. “What I have seen across Virginia, especially Northern Virginia, since November 8th,” he said, “is a lot of people, and not just Democrats, but people all across the political spectrum, more energized, more passionate, more determined to make a difference with our lives than ever before.” This sense of collective action, of working with others to combat the sense of dread and divisiveness, resonated with many of the marchers. “It’s time to get active and it’s time to hit the streets,” said Marc Robarge, an art teacher at George Mason High School and longtime Falls Church resident. “When you put feet on the ground, when you take time out of your day when you could be doing other things, there’s a synergy that happens.” “Our country is divided right now,” said Robert Tart, a U.S. Department of Justice employee and Falls Church resident. “We gotta bring that back together again. We can fight – we don’t like what this one’s saying, we don’t like what that one’s saying – but we gotta get over our own selves and we gotta make sure we move toward working for everybody. Once we do that, we’re good.” After the march, hundreds packed into City Hall for a panel
discussion and viewing of Dr. King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Befitting the day, the program began with a rousing rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the James Weldon Johnson poem often referred to as the “Black American National Anthem.” The panelists, who represented a wide swath of local community organizations, noted the challenges regarding race relations and political divisiveness, and offered advice on how to take action. Garland Nixon, an ACLU board member, local talk show host and former police officer, said it’s important for people to acknowledge their racial biases. “If you’ve lived in America and don’t have racial hang-ups,” he said, “that’s like swimming in a pool and not getting wet.” Walter Tejada, chair of the Virginia Latino Leaders Council, spoke about the blowback faced by immigrants and the need to stand up for progressive values. One of the fundamental ways to affect positive change, said
Raheema Abdullah Karim, White House Senior Associate General Counsel, is to “work from a position of empowerment and not a position of fear.” “It’s so important to not be afraid of what’s going to come but be empowered to say, ‘we are going to make a difference,’” Karim said. “We’re going to make sure that even the most vulnerable in our communities are protected.” At the end of the program, Nikki Graves Henderson, co-host of the MLK event, reminded the audience of what Dr. King referred to as “the fierce urgency of now.” “This is not business as usual,” Henderson said. “It’s time to get to work.”
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Community News & Notes Crime Novelist Brings New Book to Arlington One of the world’s most prolific crime writers, Ian Rankin comes to the Central Library in Arlington to debut his latest novel, Rather Be the Devil, on Monday Feb. 13 from 7 – 9 p.m. This book marks the 30th anniversary of Rankin’s famous fictional character, John Rebus. Rather Be the Devil finds John Rebus, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules, investigating a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom in one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over 40 years. Now, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate, but his
inquiries – along with those of Malcolm Fox and Siobhan Clarke – quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears.
Flamenco Dancing Comes To The Alden Jan. 28 New York City’s Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, one of the nation’s premier flamenco and Spanish dance companies, comes to The Alden at the McLean Community Center (MCC) for a single performance at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28. Tickets are $35 for the general public, $20 for MCC tax district residents. The theatre is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue. Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s performances uphold the purity and traditions of flamenco and classical Spanish
dance while pushing the boundaries of the art form in new directions. The company commissions dramatic works with original choreography and live music, performs cutting edge dance in New York City and tours throughout the United States.
James Madison University Honors Falls Church Natives Twenty-seven Falls Church students have been named to the James Madison University dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester: Karna Kristian Kc, Shanon Derzinski, Natalie Farrell, Kira Williams, Kevin Schmidt, Alexander McMillen, Claire Rapuano, Darby Quave, Hannah Ackleson, Mary Magdalene Goldsmith, Jeffrey Antetomaso, Jonah Hicks, Kimberly Bianco, Kelly McNesby, Nadine Abusbitan, Ryan Strand, Eugene Gamble,
William Meara, Leith Rayes, Samantha Fitzgerald, Cintia Samaha, Lauren Morris, Julia Pipan, Jordan Blum, Allison Leung, Brittany Bell and Julianne Kelly.
Falls Church Students Earn Academic Honors Four Falls Church students made the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities for the fall 2016 semester: Junior Ashley Nino at Elizabethtown College (PA); Jamie Grant at Ohio Wesleyan University; and Alexis Huggins and Abigail Smith at Wheaton College (Ill.).
F.C.’s Skotte Graduates From Azusa Pacific Falls Church resident Kristina Skotte graduated last month from Azusa Pacific University in
California. Skotte earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science on Dec. 17.
Forum on Sexual Abuse Awareness Set for February A forum dedicated to raising sexual abuse awareness will be held next month in Arlington. “We Support the Girls: Breaking the Silence to End Child Sexual Abuse Community Event” will take place Feb. 11 from 2 – 4 p.m. in the auditorium of WashingtonLee High School (1301 N. Stafford St., Arlington). We Support the Girls, a nonprofit organization supporting sexual abuse victims, empowering survivors and advocating for the prevention of abuse, is hosting the event with the goal to raise awareness and promote age appropriate information. There will also be a discussion about Erin’s Law — a
REECE ANNE ALSTON was born to Vernetta and Courtney Young Alston on FALLS CHURCH’S DEREK ANDERSON will appear and compete on an episode Jan. 8 at the Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. Courtney is the daughof “Jeopardy!” next Tuesday, Jan. 24. Anderson, an attorney, can be seen on ter of Bob Young of Falls Church. Reece came in a 8 lbs. 6 oz. and 20 inches the 33rd season of the show on WJLA channel 7 at 7:30 p.m. (Courtesy Photo) with, as her granddad bragged, big feet. (Photo: Bob Young)
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law in 28 states that requires public schools to implement a prevention-oriented child sexual abuse program — and the effort to have it enacted in Virginia. February’s We Support the Girls event will be moderated by WUSA’s Peggy Fox and will include special guest, U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer.
F.C.’s Creative Cauldron Hosts Pledge Tonight On the eve of the inauguration Creative Cauldron has announced that it will join theaters across the nation to make a pledge to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The theatre at 400 S. Maple Ave. will be darkened and the public is invited to bring a bright light. At precisely 5:30 p.m., the Cauldron and other theaters across the nation will light lights outside the theater to symbolize the theater as a safe space, a light in the darkness. Pledge cards will be distributed that will be posted in the gallery. The public is invited to assemble at 5 p.m. at the Happy Tart a few doors from the theater. At 5:20 the assembled will walk down to Creative Cauldron where Producing Director, Laura Connors Hull will welcome participants and initiate the countdown to the lighting. Then the assembled will enter the darkened lobby where an official ghostlight will become a fixture of the theater and Creative Cauldron will present its official pledge card to be posted so that all who enter will know they are in a safe space. The public is invited to share pledges aloud and post them to a designated space in the gallery to be displayed through Friday
night’s performance of “Songs of Protest, Songs of Triumph.”
Fairfax Park Authority Master Planning Efforts Underway The Fairfax County Park Authority is ramping up longrange planning efforts to align existing plans and current initiatives with its goals for the future. The park system’s master planning effort builds on the findings from the Parks Count Needs Assessment that was completed last spring. Based on the assessment and other research, the authority determined that the community recognizes the significant role that parks, trails and open spaces play in the quality of life of Fairfax County. It was also learned that residents want to see greater financial resources allocated to taking care of existing parks and facilities, an expansion of the trail system, more small community parks, swimming pools and an emphasis on facilities for fitness. The Park Authority Master Plan has a time horizon of 10 – 20 years and will guide the agency in meeting community needs for today and the future. Staff and agency leadership will now begin to incorporate existing data into one agency-wide master plan, to ensure consistent, clear direction, and strategic alignment of all elements and existing plans. A draft plan will be prepared for review by the public this summer. Guiding principles, the master planning timeline, and other important information about the planning process can be found online at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/ parks/plandev/FCPA-MP.htm.
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F.C.’s Dvorak to Make Ensemble Debut Falls Church harpist Melissa Dvorak will make her debut in the National Chamber Ensemble at the Rosslyn Spectrum in February. Dvorak, a well-known harp soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player, performed for Pope Francis during the pontiff’s historic visit to the U.S. last year. She will be joined by violinist and Ensemble artistic director Leonid Sushansky, cellist Sean Neidlinger and pianist Carlos César Rodriguez as they showcase the work of French Romantic virtuoso composer Camille Saint-Saëns in celebration of Valentine’s Day. The Ensemble will perform its Vive la France: The Magic of Saint-Saëns concert Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre (1611 N. Kent Street, Arlington). General admission tickets are $33 for adults and $17 for students, plus applicable service charges. Tickets are available online at www.nationalchamberensemble.org and at the box office one hour prior to the performance. For more information, call 703685-7590 or visit www.nationalchamberensemble.org.
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BISHOP O’CONNELL’S CAROLINE SULLIVAN (left) poses with Pizzeria Orso manager Eric Alonso and J.E.B. Stuart High School’s Lily Beres after a fundraiser last Thursday. Orso donated 15 percent of the day’s sales to Sullivan’s Student of the Year campaign raising funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. (P����: K���� S�������) cus experience that takes families to space to witness incredible acrobatic performances on different planets. Ringling Bros. invites families to experience The Greatest Show On Earth one last time to see the most extraordinary performers and exotic animals in the ultimate circus spectacle before it permanently closes in May of this year. The show comes to the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. March 31 – April 2 and to Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax from April 7 – 16. Tickets for the Verizon Center and Eagle Bank Arena can be pur-
chased by visiting Ringling.com. In Out Of This World, audiences will be riveted by an interactive, action-packed storyline filled with space-age family fun and technology, which deepens their connection to the performers. Through the lens of a magic telescope capable of discovering the most spectacular circus stars in the galaxy, they will join the Circus Space Fleet on a heroic mission of good versus evil to bring performers back to Earth, traveling to interstellar worlds of sand, water, fire and ice.
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King David was most compelling when he danced. Overcome by gratitude to God, he stripped down to his linens and whirled about before the ark of the covenant — his love and joy spilling beyond the boundaries of normal decorum. His wife, Michal, the daughter of King Saul, was repulsed by his behavior, especially because he was doing it in front of the commoners. She snarked at him when he got home for exposing himself in front of the servants’ slave girls like some scurrilous fellow. The early Christians seem to have worshipped the way David did, with ecstatic dancing, communal joy and what Emile Durkheim called “collective effervescence.” In her book “Dancing in the Streets,” Barbara Ehrenreich argues that in the first centuries of Christianity, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE worship of Jesus overlapped with worship of Dionysus, the Greek god of revelry. Both Jesus and Dionysus upended class categories. Both turned water into wine. Second- and third-century statuettes show Dionysus hanging on a cross. But when the church became more hierarchical, the Michals took over. Somber priest-led rituals began to replace direct access to the divine. In the fourth century, Gregory of Nazianzus urged, “Let us sing hymns instead of striking drums, have psalms instead of frivolous music and song, … modesty instead of laughter, wise contemplation instead of intoxication, seriousness instead of delirium.” When elites try to quash the manners and impulses of the people, those impulses are bound to spill out in some other way. By the Middle Ages the cathedrals were strictly hierarchical, so the people created carnivals where everything was turned on its head. During carnival (Purim is the Jewish version), men dressed like women, the people could insult the king and bishops, drunkenness and ribaldry was prized over sober propriety. As Ehrenreich puts it, “Whatever social category you had been boxed into — male or female, rich or poor — carnival was a chance to escape from it.” Sometimes the celebration took on an enthusiasm that is hard for us to fathom. In 1278, 200 people kept dancing on a bridge in Utrecht until it collapsed and all were drowned. The carnivals were partly a way to blow off steam, but in hard times they served as occasions for genuine populist revolts. In 1511, a carnival in Udine, Italy, turned into a riot that led to the murder of 50 nobles and the sacking of more than 20 palaces. Carnival culture was raw, lascivious and disgraceful, and it elevated a certain social type, the fool. There were many different kinds of fools: holy fools, hapless fools, vicious fools. Fools were rude and frequently unabashed liars. They were willing to make idiots of themselves. The point of the fool was not to be admirable in himself, but to be the class clown who had the guts to talk back to the teacher. People enjoyed carnival culture, the feast of fools, as a way to take a whack at the status quo. You can see where I’m going with this. We live at a time of wide social inequality. The intellectual straitjackets have been getting tighter. The universities have become modern cathedrals, where social hierarchies are defined and reinforced. We’re living with exactly the kinds of injustices that lead to carnival culture, and we’ve crowned a fool king. President-elect Donald Trump exists on two levels: the presidential level and the fool level. On one level he makes personnel and other decisions. On the other he tweets. His tweets are classic fool behavior. They are raw, ridiculous and frequently self-destructive. He takes on an icon of the official culture and he throws mud at it. The point is not the message of the tweet. It’s to symbolically upend hierarchy, to be oppositional. The assault on Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., was classic. He picked one of the most officially admired people in the country and he leveled the most ridiculous possible charge. It was a tweet devilishly well crafted to create the maximum official uproar. Anybody who writes for a living knows how to manipulate an outraged response, and Trump is a fool puppet master. The sad part is that so many people treat Trump’s tweets as if they are arguments when in fact they are carnival. With their conniption fits, Trump’s responders feed into the dynamic he needs. They contribute to carnival culture. The first problem with today’s carnival culture is that there’s an ocean of sadism lurking just below the surface. The second is that it’s not real. It doesn’t really address the inequalities that give rise to it. It’s just combative display. This is a resolution I’m probably going to break, but I resolve to write about Trump only on the presidential level, not on the carnival level. I’m going to try to respond only to what he does, not what he says or tweets. I really wish some of my media confreres would do the same.
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With All Due Disrespect As a young man, Congressman John Lewis, who represents most of Atlanta, literally put his life on the line in pursuit of justice. As a key civil rights leader, he endured multiple beatings. Most famously, he led the demonstration that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, suffering a fractured skull at the hands of state troopers. Public outrage over that day’s violence helped lead to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. Now Lewis says that he won’t attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, whom he regards as an illegitimate president. As you might expect, this statement provoked a hysterical, slanderous reaction from the presidentNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE elect — who, of course, got his start in national politics by repeatedly, falsely questioning President Barack Obama’s right to hold office. But Trump — who has never sacrificed anything or taken a risk to help others — seems to have a special animus toward genuine heroes. Maybe he prefers demonstrators who don’t get beaten? But let’s not talk about Trump’s ravings. Instead, let’s ask whether Lewis was right to say what he said. Is it OK, morally and politically, to declare the man about to move into the White House illegitimate? Yes, it is. In fact, it’s an act of patriotism. By any reasonable standard, the 2016 election was deeply tainted. It wasn’t just the effects of Russian intervention on Trump’s behalf; Hillary Clinton would almost surely have won if the FBI hadn’t conveyed the false impression that it had damaging new information about her, just days before the vote. This was grotesque, delegitimizing malfeasance, especially in contrast with the agency’s refusal to discuss the Russia connection. Was there even more to it? Did the Trump campaign actively coordinate with a foreign power? Did a cabal within the FBI deliberately slow-walk investigations into that possibility? Are the lurid tales about adventures in Moscow true? We don’t know, although Trump’s creepy obsequiousness to Vladimir Putin makes it hard to dismiss these allegations. Even given what we do know, however, no previous U.S. president-elect has had less right to the title. So why shouldn’t we question his legitimacy? And talking frankly about how Trump gained power isn’t just about truth-telling. It may also help to limit that power.
Paul Krugman
It would be one thing if the incoming commander in chief showed any hint of humility, of realizing that his duty to the nation requires showing some respect for the strong majority of Americans who voted against him despite Russian meddling and the FBI’s disinformation dump. But he hasn’t and won’t. Instead, he’s lashing out at and threatening anyone and everyone who criticizes him, while refusing even to admit that he lost the popular vote. And he’s surrounding himself with people who share his contempt for everything that is best in America. What we’re looking at, all too obviously, is an American kakistocracy — rule by the worst. What can restrain this rule? Well, Congress still has a lot of power to rein the president in. And it would be nice to imagine that there are enough public-spirited legislators to play that role. In particular, just three Republican senators with consciences could do a lot to protect American values. But Congress will be much more likely to stand up to a rogue, would-be authoritarian executive if its members realize that they will face a political price if they act as his enablers. What this means is that Trump must not be treated with personal deference simply because of the position he has managed to seize. He must not be granted the use of the White House as a bully pulpit. He must not be allowed to cloak himself in the majesty of office. Given what we know about this guy’s character, it’s all too clear that granting him unearned respect will just empower him to behave badly. And reminding people how he got where he is will be an important tool in preventing him from gaining respect he doesn’t deserve. Remember, saying that the election was tainted isn’t a smear or a wild conspiracy theory; it’s simply the truth. Now, anyone questioning Trump’s legitimacy will be accused of being unpatriotic — because that’s what people on the right always say about anyone who criticizes a Republican president. (Strangely, they don’t say this about attacks on Democratic presidents.) But patriotism means standing up for your country’s values, not pledging personal allegiance to Dear Leader. No, we shouldn’t get into the habit of delegitimizing election results we don’t like. But this time really is exceptional, and needs to be treated that way. So let’s be thankful that John Lewis had the courage to speak out. It was the patriotic, heroic thing to do. And America needs that kind of heroism, now more than ever.
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Obama’s Final Word To Happy Warriors
President Obama’s final public words to the American people and the world at his final press conference in the White House yesterday was a visionary clarion call to empower as happy warriors those who will carry on the fight for the progressive values he’s stood for and that will be so badly battered by the incoming administration and their Republican counterparts in Congress. Rather than a dark stormy cloud of moody pessimism or anger, Obama gifted such warriors with invigorating, crisp and sparkling daylight, a hopeful rainbow included, to restore their spirits, pick up and not compromise their core values, and look to the promises of new generations who will soon be joining the ranks of activists and becoming voters. The press conference was quintessenFALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS tial Obama, speaking beyond the press corps crammed into the press room, beyond the TV cameras, to the ranks of many still crestfallen activists and swelling numbers of frightened average citizens who are dreading the incoming Trump administration, and beyond them to the growing ranks of the younger so-called millennials and the even younger teenage follow-on population whose values are even more progressive than their millennial older brothers and sisters. His message was to not compromise on core values opposing systematic discrimination, opposing obstacles to the right to vote, opposing the Jim Crow legacy of gerrymandering, opposing the idea of rounding up certain classes of persons and sending them somewhere else, opposing the suppression of those who dissent, opposing the suppression of a free press. The younger generation coming of age now, he said, is “smarter, more tolerant and more inclusive by very instinct,” and “more apt to think about people as people, to put themselves in others’ shoes, to treat everybody with basic human respect, and to teach resilience and hope.” Concluding with comments about his own daughters, the president surprised some when he said by being steeped in the process as they have been for eight years, and even in the face of defeat, “They can’t help but be patriotic.” “They don’t boast or get cynical. They know it is a big, complicated country and that democracy is messy,” he said. “But there are a lot more good people than bad and there is a core decency in this country.” He added, “I believe in this country and in the American people... There is evil in the world, but at the end of the day, if we work hard the world gets better.” “We’re going to be OK,” he concluded. “Fight for it, work for it, and do not take it for granted.” Implicit in the president’s remarks, in his farewell speech days earlier, and in his demeanor is a posture toward his life and his work that has matured over time, but represents a sharp departure from the decades of cynical pragmatism that has taken over much of American culture. It is more than “hope” as a slogan, as it was for him in 2008 when he first ran. It now radiates from his substantial person. As such, it embodies a conviction that runs far deeper than any campaign poster could embody. That’s what has been conveyed even as the toughest battles against the ridiculously unqualified and dangerous Trump cabinet picks are engaged in congressional hearings this week. The Republicans and Trump can be counted on to expose their shallow bigotry and incompetence in the coming days and weeks in ways that will not only terrorize average Americans but will spur them into action. Those with progressive values standing against these Republicans who’ve failed to heed the warning, “Watch out what you wish for,” will have very fertile political ground to advance their causes in the next period. Very fertile ground, indeed. The only caution should be to avoid the temptation to compromise the progressive message while welcoming the swelling ranks of the newly converted. Indeed, instead of the old politics of pandering to selfish self-interest, the new politics should be grounded in a solid moral standard, to act in the wider public interest on behalf of democratic institutions, civility, and a generosity of spirit that is an American hallmark.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
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Missing Obama Already
Barack Obama’s legacy is being systematically unraveled even before he leaves office, with The Wall Street Journal scoffing that he “has been a historic president but perhaps not a consequential one.” Historians will also note that the Democratic Party is in far worse shape today than when Obama took office: It has lost its House and Senate majorities, as well as 13 governorships and more than 900 state legislative seats. More broadly, the sunny Obama optimism of “Yes, we can” has faded into a rancorous miasma of distrust and dysfunction. One example of that rancor is unfoldNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ing at the Woodmont Country Club outside Washington, where hawkish pro-Israeli members are campaigning to deny Obama membership — even though there’s no official indication he will even apply. Yet here’s my prediction: America and the world will soon be craving that Obama Cool again. Voters are fickle and promiscuous, suffering an eight-year itch for a fling with someone who is the opposite of their last infatuation. Sick of Bill Clinton, we turned to a Texas governor who was utterly different. Eight years later, weary of George W. Bush, we elected his polar opposite, a liberal black law professor. And now we’ve elected Obama’s antipode. Polls suggest that voters are already souring on Donald Trump, in ways that may soon create nostalgia for Obama. Newly elected presidents usually enjoy a honeymoon, but Gallup says Trump’s approval is at the lowest level the pollster has recorded in a presidential transition. Mostly, I think we journalists overdo the personal and pay insufficient attention to policies — such as those that led Obama’s presidency to enjoy the longest streak of consecutive private-sector job creation in the 78 years the statistic has been recorded. But while Obama’s policy legacy is being whittled away, he also has an important personal legacy that Trump inadvertently burnishes. A president inevitably is not just commander in chief but also a role model, a symbol of American values around the world. We won the Cold War not only with American missiles but also with American “soft power,” and one element of our soft power arsenal is a president who commands respect and admiration at home and abroad. We want our children and the world’s to admire our president — and that is where Obama is strongest and Trump weakest. Trump spews emotional tweets impetuously and vindictively, lacing his venom with misspellings or
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grammatical mistakes. We’ll be craving Obama’s prudence, intellect and reserve. The personal differences between them aren’t just that Obama was an African-American son of a single mom, while Trump was the scion of a real estate tycoon. It’s more the behaviors they model. Trump has had five children by three wives, has boasted of his infidelities, has shrugged at conflicts of interest and is a walking scandal. “He will never, ever, let you down. ... Donald is intensely loyal,” we were told at the Republican convention — by his third wife. In contrast, Obama has the most boring personal life imaginable and is the rare president who got through a second term without significant scandals. That seems to be because of extreme caution. When Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, he solicited a 13-page memo from Justice Department lawyers verifying that there was absolutely no conflict in accepting it. And then he donated the money to charities. Whatever our views of Obama’s politics, we should be able to agree that he is a superlative family man. For eight years, this family has made us proud. The graciousness that the Obamas displayed toward the Trumps, even as in private they must have been beating their heads against the wall, exemplified class. When Obama gave his farewell address in Chicago this month, he was accompanied by Michelle and his older daughter, Malia, but 15-year-old Sasha was missing. Twitter was abuzz, and #WheresSasha was soon trending. It turned out that she wasn’t in a drunken stupor or staying away in an angry teenage sulk. Rather, it seemed that the Obamas had Sasha stay home to study for an exam the next morning. If I were Sasha, I’d be annoyed: “C’mon, Dad! You coulda written me a note!” But I’m proud of a first family that so values education and is so averse to asserting privilege. We can argue about Obama’s policies. For my part, I deplored his passivity on Syria. But even on issues that I disagreed with him on, I never doubted his integrity or intelligence, his decency or honor. Trump may dismantle Obamacare and pull out of the Paris climate accord. But he cannot undo Obama’s legacy of dignity and old-fashioned virtue, and the impression he made on all of us. And if, as I fear, we see the White House transformed into a bog of scandals flowing from an unprincipled narcissist, we as a nation will be more appreciative of a first family that set an impeccable example for all the world.
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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Tomorrow’s inaugural ceremonies will adhere, for the most part, to a standard format that has been practiced for decades. What will follow the ceremony and parade, however, is anyone’s guess. Our nation has never had a presidential administration where the commander-in-chief has neither government nor military experience, and whose Cabinet appointees seem bent on destroying the progress made in diplomacy, education, energy, the environment, housing, health, etc. Looks like Mr. Trump is “draining the swamp” mostly with wealthy, white, older, male, alligators! Women, especially, were devastated with the election of Mr. Trump. Younger women, who were excited to see a remarkably qualified woman be nominated for president, anticipated that the infamous glass ceiling, finally, would shatter. Sadly, that ceiling still is intact, and the Electoral College victory of Mr. Trump is a loss not only for Hillary Clinton and her supporters, but for women across America. That’s why participants in Saturday’s Women’s March are saying “hell, no!” A small grass roots effort, begun via a Facebook posting, has taken on gargantuan proportions, and more than 200,000 marchers, female and male, are expected at the National Mall. When my mother was born, in early 1920, her mother did not yet have the right to vote. The 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women, was adopted in August of that year. As I participated in the 75th anniversary march on Capitol Hill in 1995, I recalled the many opportunities available to my daughters that were won by advocates in previous generations. And I recalled the challenges, too, as an eyewitness to change. The first admonition in the Dean of Women’s guidebook for new students noted that “young
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women at the University of Oregon do not wear pants.” If you had the audacity to wear slacks, you had to cover them with a long coat. In my senior year, the professor for the new Public Administration class told me that I had no business being there; it was structured for male careers in government. Obviously, I didn’t take his advice! On Capitol Hill, the only women permitted on the Senate floor were the two female Senators – Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) and Maurine Neuberger (D-Oregon). Other women, even chiefs of staff and legislative principals, were not permitted. When Senate Rules finally capitulated, women had to wear skirts, not pants (nothing said about coat coverage). Title IX in 1972, Roe v. Wade in 1973 and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 marked significant legal transformations for women’s rights. Until then, education and sports for girls were treated differently than for boys. Access for women’s reproductive health care was determined to be an inalienable right. A single woman could get credit in her birth name, but upon marriage, credit would be re-issued in the husband’s name only, not the new married name of the woman. In Virginia Slims vernacular (a 1968 cigarette ad), “we’ve come a long way, baby.” But there still is a long way to go, and the spectre of a rude, misogynist bully in the Oval Office should motivate us all to defend what has been hard won, and fight for continued progress forward, not backward. That’s what already makes America great. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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We are one week into the 2017 General Assembly session which gaveled in on Wednesday, Jan. 11. This year is a short session, lasting 45 days, during which the General Assembly will review about 1,500 bills and make amendments to the state budget. It is also an election year for all 100 members of the House of Delegates as well as the Governor, Lt Governor, and Attorney General. No single issue seems likely to dominate the session, but there are a few things to watch. Voting rights, including the issue of how we deal with the voting rights of convicted and former felons, will be a hot topic, as will how we deal with the need to diversify Virginia’s economy. Here are some highlights of my legislative agenda: Student Loan Debt Tackling the Student Loan Debt crisis will once again be one of my major initiatives in 2017. Over a million Virginians are saddled with over $30 billion in student loan debt right now. I’ve introduced HB 1916 to bring back Virginia’s Student Loan Education Authority with the authority to refinance existing student loans at lower interest rates and on better terms. You can see the full video of the press conference on my YouTube page. In addition, I’ve introduced HB 1915 which establishes an ombudsman office under the SCC, regulating loan servicing companies and outlining a borrower’s bill of rights. Ethics and Transparency One lesson from the 2016 elections is that Virginians and all Americans are looking for more accountability and transparency from their elected officials. It’s critical that we increase faith and trust in our political institutions and elected officials. I am excited to be working with the Governor to pass a bill (HB 1446) to prohibit the personal use of campaign funds. This will be my fourth try in four years. I’ve also introduced HB 1794 which requires the Supreme Court of Virginia to make every state court’s case management database fully accessible to the public. While this information is already public, it is not easily accessible; this legislation will not only increase access but provide a database that is searchable by party name, charge (for criminal cases), filing type (for
civil cases), hearing date, and case number across all localities. Voting Rights My constitutional amendment HJ 540 removes the one sentence in the Virginia Constitution that continues to disenfranchise an entire class of adults, denying them the right to vote. By simply striking the last remaining sentence Virginia will no longer automatically disenfranchise individuals simply because they are convicted of felony. If successful, Virginia would join Maine and Vermont as the only other two states that have no restrictions on the voting rights of felons. When Virginia ratified its 1902 Constitution after Reconstruction and at the beginning of the Jim Crow era, the felon disenfranchisement voting clause was, along with poll taxes and literacy tests, one of the tools deliberately designed to prevent African Americans from casting their votes. Town Hall & Blood Drive On Saturday I held my Annual Legislative Town Hall meeting to discuss the session and answer questions from the community. Several issues were raised, including raising the minimum wage, bipartisan redistricting, restrictions on TANF, gun violence prevention initiatives, and accountability for VDOT projects. It was great to have so many in attendance and learning of your priorities helps me better represent you! For the first time (and what I plan to make another annual event), I sponsored a blood drive at the Falls Church Community Center with INOVA Blood Donor Services. The drive was part of an annual day of service event honoring Martin Luther King Day weekend and National Blood Donor Awareness Month. I’m proud to say that we had a total of 27 donors, including myself, which amounts to two gallons of donated blood, 10 red cell units, two plasma units, and two platelet units. This one donation event will help approximately 90 patients throughout the Metropolitan D.C. and Northern Virginia communities. If you have questions donating blood or want to make an appointment, call 1-866-BLOODSAVES or visit inova.org/donateblood for more information. Delegate Simon represents the 53rd District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He may be emailed at DelMSimon@house.virginia.gov
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P.K.’s mother throughout her childhood, grew up with the hero’s photo (on which Beck based his portrait) on the wall. She showed me King’s wartime letters, one consoling her father after he was reassigned from pilot to lead bombardier. “Maybe you are lucky,” King wrote. Sorensen’s eventual role would bring “excitement, going places, a swell bunch of fellows and last but not least, the flight pay,” P.K. promised. King described life in Panama as “jungles, mountains, scorpions, head-hunters, snakes… Never a dull moment.” Deeper in the jungle, he wrote wryly of “some very fine upstanding head-hunters.... They are quite the fellows when you get to know them. But…I was always bashful.” P.K. also wrote that he and his buddies “drank two joints clean out of Scotch.” He told Lester Sorensen to watch the newsreels: “P.K. might be in one.” **** If you’re downtown for the Inauguration (or the next-day protest) and you fall sick, a special kind of help will be nearby. Doctors to You, a mobile medical service seeking to revive the concept of house calls for primary care, is planning to place mobile medical professionals at the ready. They will be riding electric bikes through the crowds, I’m told by Alan Levine, owner of Hybrid Pedals in Arlington. Doctors to You founder Dr. Ernest Brown is an e-bike enthu-
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Mason Sponsoring Shoe Drive for Basketball Camp George Mason High School basketball programs are sponsoring a used athletic shoe drive during the next three home games: Jan. 23 (Girls), Jan. 25 (Boys) and Jan. 26 (Girls). George Mason basketball players and coaches sponsor a charity basketball camp in the town of Banica in a poor region of the Dominican Republic. Approximately 200 boys and girls participate in the summer camp, and very few have shoes. The camp’s success hinges on providing shoes through this drive. Collection boxes will be next to the ticket table at Mary Ellen Henderson. No cleats, but all other footwear will be accepted.
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Henderson Geography Bee Finalists Compete In front of full bleachers in the gym at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School on Tuesday morning, the school’s nine geography bee finalists competed to earn their way into the the state level competition. Henderson’s annual school-wide National Geography Bee contestants are determined by
preliminary testing to place into competition by grade. The three students from each grade who came out on top were in front of the whole school Tuesday, demonstrating their knowledge on U.S. and world geography and map questions. Jack Rifkin was the winner, with the Evan Lankford as the runner-up. The other finalists were Janine Anderson, Jack Biggs, Harrison Hackett, Katherine Hall, Ben Martin, Brigid Pierce and Nicholas Teply.
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Community Events THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 Preschool Story�me. Songs, movement and stories for ages 18-36 months. Drop-in at the youth services room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. The Falls Church Rotary Club with Brother’s Brother Founda�on Program Director. Brother’s Brother is a gi�-in-kind charity that focuses on medical and educa�onal needs around the world. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). Dinner costs $15; visitors are welcome. 6:30 p.m. 202-2685089. High School Book Club. A discussion group for teens grade 9 – 12. The group will discuss Sta�on Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/627/BookDiscussion-Groups. 703-248-5034.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 Inaugura�on Day. Falls Church CIty Hall and most government offices and services, including Mary Riley
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Styles Public Library, will be closed for the Presiden�al Inaugura�on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 F.C. Farmers Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Gi� Box Workshop. Recycle Gi� Cards and old calendars. Save your holiday cards and calendars and learn how to hand cra� them in lovely gi� boxes and tags. Reserva�ons can be made. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $6. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. cherryhillfallschurch.org. 703-248-5171
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 Forum on Development - VPIS and League of Women Voters. VPIS and the Falls Church Chapter of the League of Women Voters will host a forum exploring the development plans for the commercial areas around Falls Church including Merrifield, Tysons, Seven Corner and East Falls Church. Falls Church Community Center (223 Li�le
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Falls Street, Falls Church). Free. 4 – 5:30 p.m. 703-248-5077.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23 ESL Conversa�on Group. English as a Second Language Conversa�on group for adults focusing on English language and American culture. No registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. 703-248-5035.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 Play�me with the Early Literary Senior Book Club. The Senior Book Discussion Series is a general book discussion geared toward seniors held roughly every 6 weeks from September through June.The group will discuss The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. fallschurchva. gov/627/Book-Discussion-Groups. 703-248-5035 1-on-1 Computer & Internet Tutoring. Learn how to download eBooks and eMagazines, search the internet, customize email, use social media, word process, and
much more. Free personalized session. By appointment. Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 2 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5035. Chamber of Commerce Networking Mixer. A�endees will have the chance to network, enjoy refreshments, and get a look at what’s coming up on Quinn’s Auc�on Galleries auc�on block. There will also be �me to meet members of the Quinn family and get a sneak peek at their Saturday auc�on. Quinn’s Auc�on Galleries (360 S. Washington St., Falls Church). Free. 5:30 – 7 p.m. 703-532-1050.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 Social Security: Your Ques�ons Answered. Learn social security claiming strategies and ask general ques�ons about how social security affects your finances. Free program lead by Albert Wu, a financial advisor with Edward Jones. Registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 – 8:30 p.m. 703-248-5035.
Theater Fine Arts FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
“Passport to the World Concert Series: Songs of Protest, Songs of Triumph with Shenandoah Run and Guests.” Crea�ve Cauldron welcomes back Shenandoah Run for a special concert that celebrates the power of folk music and the healing power of art to bring people together. Let yourself be lured into a sing along with this talented nine-piece folk ensemble as they perform songs that galvanized a genera�on, and profoundly changed the course of history at another �me of deep division in our country. One night only. Crea�ve Cauldron (410 S Maple Ave., Falls Church). $15 – $100. 7:30 p.m. crea�vecauldron.org.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 American Shakespeare Center on Tour: “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” When long-distance
love tangles the heartstrings of the play’s �tle characters, it takes two clever women, a pair of devoted servants and a dog to make things right. Shakespeare tries out some of his most popular ideas for the first �me in this early comedy. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $25 for MCC tax district residents; $35 for general public. 2 – 4:30 p.m. 703-790-0123. American Shakespeare Center on Tour: “Romeo and Juliet.” With its ravishing language
and uproarious comedy, “Romeo and Juliet” celebrates love’s triumph and its triviali�es. Verona’s walls embrace the vola�lity of youth as well as the wisdom and restraint that o�en escape young and old alike. Thumbbi�ng, dance and swordplay share the stage with sonnets, bawdy wit and soul-searching speeches in this profoundly human and always
surprising treasure. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $25 for MCC tax district residents; $35 for general public. 8 10:30 p.m. 703-790-0123.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22 “Passport to the World Concert Series: Mark G. Meadows Quintet.” Jazz composer, pianist, vocalist, collaborator, recording artist, teacher—and now actor—Mark G. Meadows is a man on a mission: to create a unifying sound that breaks through social barriers. There’s something for everyone in his music, which harmonizes pop, gospel, R&B, hip hop, funk, and jazz. One night only. Creative Cauldron (410 S Maple Ave., Falls Church). $15 – $100. 7 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 T����������’�. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. TV G��� ���� P����� ��� J����� F��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. A�� ��� A�����: A C����� S��� T� B������ T���� S�������� I� S���� ����. B�� D������, N��� H������, J��� K������, E���� M�������, R������ M��������, H����� S��������, W���� W���������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566 A�� J�������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. A�� S���� W� D����: A D��������� J������ ����. DJ� U���� N��� ��� J���� “DJ D��” G�����. 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $30 - $40. 11:30 p.m. 202-265-0930
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 B���� Y����. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-5329283. A���� P���� ��� K�� P�������� W�����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $38. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551900. CP B����. Clare and Don’s Beach
Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-532-9283. Wicked Jezabel. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504 S��������� C������: A B������ ��� C��������� A����� ��� S��� S�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. $12 - 15. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 9:30 p.m. 703-2370300. T�� D���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 O�� T��� T��������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. R����� S�������: A C������ T� S������ S����� R�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566 A���� T����. W��� T��� (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $40 - $55. 8 p.m. 703255-1900. C���� ��� ��� H���� L������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 9:30 p.m. 703-2370300.
G��� S�����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. I������������ + T���� S���� T���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 - $20. 10 p.m. 703-2551566
Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 J����� J��� L���� S����: N�� A����� + H����� �� M����� + D�� F������ + W������ B���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 - $18. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566 G����� S������� ��������: IOTA J��. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703522-8340 D�� H���� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 J��� A���� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� T�� T���. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 5 p.m. 703-522-8340 A���� T����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $40 - $55. 7 p.m. 703-2551900. T���� P����� C��� ���� C����� B����. B���� C��. (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. $20. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25
B���� T����� S���. JV’� Restaurant
(6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504.
T�� B��� ��� T�� C��������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23 W��� B���� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. A��� C������� ��� D�� Z�������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd.,
PHOX ���� C����� M����. 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930 O��� M�� ������ �� A��� P����. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 7:30 p.m. 703-522-8340 L��� F��� S����: W���� C. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 - $15. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566 M��� D��� ���� M����� C����, R�� N����, DJ K-M��� ��� S����� M�����. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St NW A, Washington, DC). $26 $36. 8 p.m. 202-588-1889. O��� M�� ���� V��� S�������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
P������� A����... Thursday, January 26 - Mason Row Development Plans Open House- The Mason Row planned development for Broad and West Streets is now moving through the final site plan approval process. The developers, Mill Creek and Spectrum development, are providing an Open House at 7:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center (223 Li�le Falls St, Falls Church) to preview the plans, eleva�on conceptual images, and answer ques�ons. Saturday, January 28 - Tết, Vietnamese New Year Celebra�on - The Eden Center hosts a full day of fes�vi�es including a flag ceremony, Lion Dances, games for kids, prizes and giveaways and much more. 12 p.m. Eden Center (6751 Wilson Blvd, Falls Church). facebook.com/EdenCenterFC Thursday, February 23 - Homestretch Independence Day Celebra�on. Come celebrate Homestretch and its remarkable success in helping homeless families move into homes while providing comprehensive services to enable them to succeed. There will be a live and silent auc�on along with dinner and dancing. Tickets are $50 and can be purchsed at 501auc�ons.com/homestretch. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St. Falls Church). 7 - 11 p.m.
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Business News & Notes Kensington Moves Its Sales Offices The Kensington Falls Church has moved its sales offices from its temporary location in Falls Plaza to its new building located at 700 W. Broad Street. Open houses for the new assisted living and memory care residence will be held Saturdays through February 25 from 2 – 4 p.m. Senior Living professionals and partners are invited to tour and learn more about the facility on Wednesdays from 4:30 – 7 p.m. Residents will begin moving into The Kensington of Falls Church in February. For more information, visit www.thekensingtonfallschurch.com.
Quinn’s to Host Next F.C. Chamber Networking Mixer Jan. 24 FEATURING: VALERIE BERTINELLI GUY FIERI BOBBY FLAY DUFF GOLDMAN
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI ROBERT IRVINE EMERIL LAGASSE RACHAEL RAY
MARCUS SAMUELSSON MICHAEL SYMON ANDREW ZIMMERN & MANY MORE
Quinn’s Auction Galleries is hosting the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s networking mixer on Tuesday, January 24 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Quinn’s Auction Galleries is a full service auction and estate services company with a range of specialties including fine art, antiques, rare books and maps. Chamber members, friends of the business community, and those interested in Quinn’s Auction Galleries are welcome to attend this free event which will include networking, refreshments, and a chance to see what is coming up on Quinn’s auction block. Quinn’s, which also has a location in Central Virginia, is located at 360 S. Washington Street in Falls Church. For more information about the event, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org. For more information about Quinn’s Auction House, visit www.quinnsauction.com.
F.C. Resident Opens New Financial Planning Company Falls Church resident Paul Flusche has opened WealthTrust Financial Planning, LLC, an independent firm offering a range of financial services from retirement planning to investments. Flusche, a registered investment advisor, completed the financial planning course offered by the University of Virginia and passed the CFP and Series 65 exams. This fee-only small business does not charge commissions or percentages. For more information, visit www.wealthtrustfp.com. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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Burrata Inspires a Simple, Indulgent Weeknight Meal BY MICHELLE STARK TAMPA BAY TIMES
Like many avid grocery shoppers, I tend to rely on different stores for different kitchen staples. I will make a special trip to Aldi, the no-frills discount German grocery store with about 20 locations in the Washington, D.C. area, for a few certain kitchens staples. One of them is cheese. The chain carries a surprisingly wide variety, from smoked Gouda rounds to sliced cheddar to seasonal options like cranberry cinnamon goat cheese. And it is typically cheaper – in some cases, a couple of dollars cheaper – than at other stores. Recently, I stumbled on a product I hadn’t seen before in the store’s refrigerated section: burrata. It was a 8-ounce container of the BelGioioso brand for $3.99. Never heard of the Italian cheese? It’s a shell of mozzarella that’s filled with cream and shaped like a ball, and, yes, it tastes as decadent as it sounds. It came in handy a couple of
days later. As we settle into a new year, I am trying to get back into the cooking groove. Relying on recipes like 30-minute dinners is but so is the whimsical meal you can put together with odds and ends from your refrigerator and pantry.
One night last week, I gave up on the idea that I had the time and energy to create a full meal, and instead had cheese for dinner. Okay, not just cheese. But the spread was inspired by the gorgeous burrata I had picked up. I paired with it some tomatoes and pistachios I had in the pantry. I roasted the tomatoes and turned the nuts into a bright pesto with fresh herbs. You could sub plenty of vegetables for the tomatoes,
Burrata With Pesto and Tomatoes • 1 (8-ounce) ball burrata cheese (you can substitute regular mozzarella if you’d like) • 1 cup grape tomatoes • Olive oil • 6 garlic cloves, divided • Salt • Pepper
• Balsamic vinegar • 1 cup shelled pistachios, pine nuts or walnuts • ¼ cup chopped fresh basil • ¼ cup chopped fresh mint • ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes • Baguette or other bread, enough for about 12 (2- by 2-inch) pieces
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really whatever you have on hand – red peppers, cauliflower even. Just roast them slightly so they aren’t as raw and harsh in flavor. Same with the nuts. Pine nuts are used in classic pesto, but walnuts and pistachios bring their own flavors to the party. If you don’t have fresh herbs, they are worth a trip to the store. But even a makeshift pesto of nuts, olive oil and dried spices like salt, pepper and Italian seasoning provides a nice crunchy condi-
ment to this humble meal. I had what is admittedly a rare loaf of bread on my kitchen counter, so I toasted it and served it as a vessel for the cheese-tomato-pesto plate. I shared this meal with my husband, but could have easily gobbled it up on my own. Eating is meant to nourish and sustain us, and sometimes you just have to steer into the burrata, and opt for a meal that is as comforting and simple in its delights as it is filling.
5. While the tomatoes are cooking, prepare your pesto.
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place the burrata on a large plate and refrigerate while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
6. Place pistachios, pine nuts or walnuts in a food processor or blender. Add basil and mint, the remaining 2 garlic cloves, red pepper flakes and salt and pepper to taste. Pulse a few times, then add about 1/4 cup olive oil. Whiz until smoother but still gritty and slightly chunky, adding more olive oil if too coarse. Taste, and adjust seasoning if needed.
2. Place the tomatoes on a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Smash 4 of the garlic cloves and sprinkle among the tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper.
7. Slice bread into about 2- by 2-inch pieces. Remove burrata from fridge, then spoon cooled tomatoes and garlic onto the plate. Add a few dollops of pesto.
3. Bake tomatoes and garlic for about 7 minutes, until tomatoes are just starting to wilt and before garlic is totally brown.
8. Transfer bread to baking sheet used to cook tomatoes, and drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt to taste. Broil in the oven for a few minutes until tops start to brown and bread becomes slightly crusty. Serve alongside burrata plate.
4. Remove from oven and add a splash of balsamic vinegar to the baking sheet. Shake slightly and set aside to cool.
Serves 2 (or, if you’re hungry, 1).
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Mustang Girls Pick Up 3 More Conference Wins
Mason Improves to 11-4 After Rolling Over Madison Co., Clarke Co. & Central by Matt Delaney
Falls Church News-Press
The George Mason High School varsity girls basketball team emerged from a busy week with three key victories over Conference 35 opponents, defeating Madison County High School, 57-19, Clarke County High School, 68-39, and Central High School, 50-23. The Mustangs (11-4) have become a Swiss army knife on the court as the team continues to topple opponents in a variety of ways. Whether they win going away or pull off a late comeback, Mason has experienced varying ebbs and flows in games this season and their record shows it’s been to their benefit. “We’ve had 32-minute battles that have come down to the wire, we’ve had to come back a few times, and recently we’ve gone up big at half and never looked back,” head coach Michael Gilroy said. “As long as the girls realize that we need to play the same way regardless of the score, I feel confident that this group can continue to
improve.” The past week was the Mustangs’ most dominant yet. Mason won all three games by a combined 175-71 margin thanks to doses of defense, a strong interior game and the maturation of its young, core players. The Mustangs upended Madison County on Jan. 11 with a 38-3 run, harassing Mountaineer ball handlers into steals and run-outs. Mason’s defense kept Madison County uncomfortable throughout and allowed the Mustangs to cruise to a win. A chippy battle ensued between Mason and reigning Conference 35 champion, Clarke County, on Jan. 13. The Mustangs blew open a nine-point lead after the first quarter with a 21-2 second quarter to put the Eagles away. Mason received solid paint presence from a trio of juniors in center Kaylee Hirsch, guard Isabella Ashton and forward Jenna Short, who put up a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Sophomores Raquel Dodd (12 points) and Maddie LaCroix (8 points) also had efficient perfor-
GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL’S Nicole Bloomgarden follows through on a 3-pointer during the Mustangs’ 68–39 win against Clarke County. (Photo: Carol Sly) mances on both ends. Mason handled Central on Jan. 16, outscoring the Falcons in all four quarters, while refusing to give up double-digits in each quarter. But even with these signs of
growth, Gilroy still wants more from his team. “We are so close to being a very good team, [but] we aren’t there yet,” he said. “The day that I have 13 kids all bouncing and talking in practice is the day that
I know we all really want to meet our end goal.” The Mustangs continue their journey to Richmond when they host Warren County on Monday, Jan. 23.
Mason Boys Get Back-to-Back Hall Signs with CCC Wins vs. Clarke, Rappahannock by Matt Delaney
Falls Church News-Press
For the first time since the start of the season, George Mason High School’s varsity boys basketball team is on a winning streak. This past week, the Mustangs posted back-to-back victories with wins over Conference 35 rivals Clarke County High School, 50-39, and Rappahannock County High School, 55-52. With a 9-5 record, the Mustangs are beginning to find their stride right as the regular season winds down and postseason play creeps closer. It’s a good sign for Mason, a team that has struggled to play with a level of consistency the last month or so, oscillating between gaping and narrow leads. A road game against Clarke County was the typical upand-down performance for the Mustangs. Mason opened strong with a 13-4 lead after the first quarter before the Eagles to cut
the lead to a disappointing, but not debilitating, 20-15 margin by halftime. Coming out of the intermission, the Mustangs corrected their errors and cranked up the intensity, outscoring the Eagles 30-24 in the second half. Sophomore guard Max Ashton and forward Hollman Smith led the Mustangs with 14 points each while junior guard Biruk Teshome added 10. Senior Dustin Green grabbed a team-high seven rebounds along with three assists. Monday’s visit to Rappahannock County was a different story. “We haven’t played well there in 10 years, and last night was no exception.” head coach Chris Capannola said. A 14-4 advantage by the end of the first quarter shrunk to 28-21 by halftime. Teshome hit a three early in the third to give Mason a 31-22 edge, but from there the squad began to tailspin. Missed assignments on defense
and an inability to find their shot on offense left the Mustangs trailing 37-36 to start the fourth quarter. For seven tense minutes both teams traded leads until Smith and Green hit two buckets and Ashton knocked down both his free throws to put Mason up by three with 16 seconds left. The defense tightened up on Rappahannock’s final possession to preserve the victory for Mason. “I keep telling my team we are not going to rout anyone and we need to buckle down and win close games,” Capannola said. “This is the fourth one-possession game we’ve been in, and we’ve won the last two, so that’s a good sign of some maturity and poise at the end of games.” Ashton finished with 22 points and Teshome with 11. Green led the way again with six rebounds and three assists. Mason battled Central High School Wednesday night in a rematch of the Mustangs’ 55-49 loss in December but results were unavailable at press time.
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President Sets Foot In Falls Church The President of the United States crossed into the City of Falls Church early Sunday morning to attend services with his wife at the Columbia Baptist Church. President WIlliam Clinton’s former pastor, Dr. Rex M. Horne of the Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, was the guest preacher at all three Sunday services at Columbia as part of the weekend celebration of the President’s Inauguration to a second term.
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Harsh F.C. Budget News: Residential Tax $ Falling 2.7% Below Projections For the first time Tuesday, City Hall officially conceded that the value of residential real estate in the City of Falls Church has fallen below expectations during the past year, dropping by 2.77% and subtracting almost $1 million from what the City budgeted to receive in tax revenues. Chief Financial Officer John Tuohy delivered the news to the Council at a work session Tuesday night in a preview of the financial numbers.
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