Oct. 14 — 20, 2021
Falls Church, Virginia • w w w . fc n p . c o m • Free
Founded 1991 • Vol. XXXI N o . 35
The City of Falls Church’s Independent, Locally-Owned Newspaper of Record, Serving N. Virginia
W&OD Dual Trails Offically Open
Live Shows Return to Creative Cauldron “Having Our Say” partners with Meridian High School. by Amanda Snead Falls Church News-Press
After over 18 months of waiting, live theater is back at Creative Cauldron in Falls Church. The 20212022 season opened on October 7 with “Having Our Say,” a play based on a Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Delany sisters, two centenarian African-American women. The production is being conducted in collaboration with Meridian High School. Creative Cauldron was founded almost 20 years ago as an educational arts program that has grown over the years into something much bigger in the community. Eleven years ago, they moved into their current location— a 3,000 square foot black box theater where they have been putting on performances ever since. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Creative Cauldron held close to 200 performances, events and classes every year but it has been over a year and a half since their last in-person
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LOCALS GATHERED last Thursday to celebrate the ribbon cutting and offical opening of the Washington & Old Dominion Dual Trails. Bikers made their way down the trail to ride through the ribbon to mark the opening of the newly improved trails. (Courtesy photo)
Whipples Honored By Kaine at Fête for Years of Service
by Nicholas F. Benton Falls Church News-Press
Virginia’s famously hard working U.S. Senator and former vicepresidential candidate Tim Kaine carved out time in his busy schedule last month to headline a near-
by event honoring the venerable and deeply beloved Falls ChurchArlington married political team of Mary Margaret and Tom Whipple. “I value my Sundays as my days off and usually don’t like to go anywhere then,” Kaine told the 100 or so gathered at the home of
a local Arlington political leader, “But there was no way I was going to miss this one.” The couple has been mainstays on the Northern Virginia political scene since moving here in 1965, since Mary Margaret’s appointment to the Arlington School Board
in 1976, election to the County board in 1982, and to the state senate in 1995, a post she held while being named the first ever woman chair of the Virginia Senate Caucus and named by Washingtonian
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Inside This Week Falls Real Estate Guide And WETA Feature
School Board Candidate Comments
See Real Estate guide, Pages 11 — 15
See Commentary, Page 7
Get more information about local real estate agents and houses currently on the market and read about Falls Church City’s recent feature on the WETA real estate show “If You Lived Here.”
Ilya Shapiro, Kathleen Tysse and Lori Silverman have provided statements to the News-Press ahead of the upcoming election. Statements from the other four candidates, published last week, can be found online.
Index
Editorial................................................ 6 Letters.................................................. 6 Comment............................................. 7 News & Notes................................ 9,10 Real Estate Guide.................... 11—15 Calendar............................................ 16 Crime Report..................................... 17 Classified Ads.................................... 20 Business News.................................. 21 Critter Corner..................................... 22
