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Inside This Week Council Skeptical of Water Tank Plan

The Falls Church City Council was almost unanimous in its skepticism and criticism of plans presented by the Fairfax County Water Authority to replace a water tank behind Eden Center with a new version that would be 72 feet higher than what is there now. See News Briefs, page 9

Swanson Reaches for His Dreams at TJ

F.C.’s West End Could Be Bigger Than Mosaic If Done Right, Says Developer Todd Hitt Says Involving WMATA, Grad Center Key

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

The quick-moving format kept the attention of the three dozen who attended. It was informative and fast moving. One of the debaters took pains to remind the NewsPress at the end of the proceeding that all four debaters drew lots to determine if they were to argue for or against the topic. But the most interesting feature was the polling of everyone at the start of the debate on whether they

With the right approach and a willingness to be patient, the City of Falls Church’s new West End campus property could blossom into a town center more vibrant and active than Merrifield’s new and popular mixed-use Mosaic, with an education focus that would draw education-related businesses, support a major performing arts center, expand the role for the University of Virginia already there and other universities, and with it all being linked to a new state-of-the-art George Mason High School. This is not a dream by Hector Berlioz during his composition of the “Symphonie Fantastique.” On the contrary, while highly visionary, the thoughts come from a eminently practical man, the developer who brought Falls Church the recently-opened 301 West Broad (Harris Teeter) project and whose Kiddar Capital is now based at his recently-acquired property, the Robertson Building at the intersection of E. Broad and N. Washington. Northern Virginia native Todd Hitt, the man behind the wildly popular 71,000 square foot Harris Teeter that opened in July, only the latest in his growing list of regional real estate triumphs, told the News-Press in an exclusive interview this week that he’s not ready to make a move yet, but is looking seriously at the West End and its potential. Hitt initially responded to a News-Press editorial in mid-July entitled, “Calling All Big Time Developers,” after City officials

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David Brooks: What We Need Next

Press Pass with Magic Dick & Shun Ng

For harmonica player Magic Dick and guitarist and vocalist Shun Ng, it was about time they released a record together, so appropriately, the debut album from the duo is called About Time. See page 25

FALLS CHURCH-BASED real estate developer Todd Hitt, at his Kiddar Capital headquarters here, presented an ambitious vision for the development of Falls Church’s West End in an exclusive interview with the News-Press this week. Hitt built the 301 W. Broad (Harris Teeter) building. (Photo: News-Press)

Library Bond Referendum Wins Some Supporters in LWV Debate by Nicholas F. Benton

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A significant shift in favor of the Nov. 8 Falls Church bond referendum for the expansion and renovation of the Mary Riley Styles Public Library occurred following a public discussion at a forum last weekend. Sunday’s forum hosted by the Falls Church chapter of the League of Women Voters made what could have been a very dry

debate on the merits, or not, of passing a bond referendum next month to renovate and expand by 6,600 square feet the Mary Riley Styles Public Library. But the discussion took the form of an “Oxford style” debate, with two protagonists at a podium on one side and two antagonists at a podium on the other and Keith Thurston, the moderator who fielded and asked the written questions from the audience, joined by a timekeeper.

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he Kensington Falls Church is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Parkinson Foundation of The National Capital Area (PFNCA) to offer the Parkinson’s Communications Club. The Club establishes a wellness and prevention program for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, with a focus on maintenance of communication skills. It stresses the importance of speaking louder to be heard in social settings. The Parkinson’s Communications Club is led by a licensed speech-language therapist, Susan Wranik, who has been trained in LSVT LOUD therapy Codrin Lungu, MD is a board-certiﬁed neurologist who specializes in movement disorders. He is a member of the Parkinson Foundation of The National Capital Area Medical Advisory Board. He is currently involved in collaborative research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in several areas related to movement disorders.

(Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, which improves vocal loudness by stimulating muscles of the voice box and speech mechanism through systematic exercises). The Club, however, is not therapy. Rather, it is a group approach to applying the exercises and skills of LOUD and/or other therapies. The first of weekly sessions begins in November 2016 in Falls Church. The program is available at no cost.* Please join us for an orientation with Dr. Codrin Lungu, Chief of the Parkinson’s Disease Clinic at the National Institutes of Health, and Susan Wranik, MS, MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist and President of Susan I. Wranik Associates, LLC. RSVP requested. Susan Wranik, MS, MA, CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist and President of Susan I. Wranik Associates, LLC. She provides comprehensive assessment and treatment of speech, swallowing, memory and cognitive issues related to stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s, dementia and other neurogenic diseases. Home visits. Licensed in DC, MD, VA.

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Developer Todd Hitt Talks Visionary Potential for Falls Church’s West End abandoned a fruitless year-long effort to handle a competition for the land’s development between two competing entities and decided to go it alone. But, as predicted then, almost nothing has happened since, to the noisy frustrations of some Council members at a work session earlier this month. So far these officials are settling for a consultant to interview each among them on the Council and F.C. School Board in depth to better prepare, it is said, for more serious deliberations somewhere down the road. But Hitt’s remarks to the NewsPress this week may help some on the Council, the School Board and in City Hall Planning corridors to achieve some focus to move forward with a clearer resolve. If, that is, those in decision making roles are willing to think big. Hitt’s vision can’t get much bigger. Unlike the downtown Washington-Broad crossroads area of the City, he said, the West End, almost all of it, “can be scraped

flat” without losing anything of real significance, opening up an almost limitless array of possibilities to build. It is a big advantage, he said, that the land hasn’t been all carved up already. “It is now ripe and its time is coming.” Hitt’s notion is for the City of Falls Church to combine its real estate and resources with those of WMATA, which owns three dozen acres adjacent the West Falls Church Metro station right by the City’s property, and the Northern Virginia Graduate Center of the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. The aim: to put together something extraordinary that a new high school for the City would derive incredible educational benefits from. The area would evolve quickly as a magnet filling offices and residences, alike, becoming a “think tank area, an education campus.” It would differ from the Mosaic, or One Loudoun further west, in that with education-related offices filled in the daytime, there would be robust, around the clock, buzz of commerce and activity. Right now

Mosaic and One Loudoun lack office tenants, so all their business is at night or on weekends. This project “would support retail and residential living right there.” The only concern, Hitt said, is that doing something like this “won’t happen fast.” But he quoted an old Navy slogan, “The patient pilot brings the plane home.” “We have a global deal to put into place,” he said. Before getting started with the kind of “ground up” development he specializes in, Hitt said, “you have to have all the players on the roster, and work on government and community relations so “we won’t have to reinvent the wheel.” He said that while patience is key, the project can be developed in phases, with some components coming on line sooner rather than later. He reiterated that a world-class performing arts center as a component will be to the enormous benefit of a new high school as well as the entire development. As an “educational use,” such a center would be able to fit on the

high school’s designated portion of the land. Hitt’s optimism is also tied to his high marks for the Falls Church City Council, City Manager Wyatt Shields and especially Planning Director Jim Snyder. Having worked with them to get the 301 W. Broad project done, he thinks they’ve got what it takes to pull off his vision for the West End. “This City Council doesn’t just roll over, either,” Hitt said. “They’ve proven their ability to stand their ground in negotiations with developers and to negotiate in a productive way.” He mused that with a vision for the West End like his, including the astronomical tax revenues it would bring to the City, citizens of Falls Church will be far more likely to support a bond referendum to

construct a new high school than if only a vague notion of commercial development options were out there. Hitt said he’s pleased with his 301 W. Broad project. “The Harris Teeter is proving good for the greater community, not bad. Everybody gets benefits, every stakeholder in this is benefiting.” Unlike the West End, he said, the downtown area of Falls Church has an authenticity about it in its current form. Here, you look to mix and match, he said, to augment what’s already here. He has the Stratford Motor Lodge property across from the Harris Teeter on W. Broad under contract and is trying to decide what he’d like to do there. “And I’m always looking for new opportunities,” he added.

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were for, against or undecided about the referendum, which if approved by voters on Nov. 8 would authorize the City to borrow $8.3 million for the library’s needs. Then the same audience was polled again at the end to see if the debate had changed any minds. So, at the conclusion of the meeting, local LWV president Martha Cooper announced that going in, 68 percent of attendees supported the bond, 22 percent opposed and 10 percent were undecided. The poll at the end, she then announced, had 80 percent in favor, 7 percent against and 11 percent undecided. A major concern was the relatively vague language of the referendum itself, drafted by F.C. City Attorney Carol McCoskie and approved by the circuit court. The language calls for authorizing no more than $8.7 million “to pay costs incident to renovating, constructing, expanding, reconstructing replacing in one or more locations, equipping, and/or re-equipping, in whole or in part, a public library including an archive/ heritage center.” It was explained that the language was intentionally unspecific in terms of identifying locations, for example, because of the unhappy experience with the November 2014 bond referendum that passed in F.C. for the expansion and renovation of the Mt. Daniel Elementary School. When the Fairfax County Planning Commission balked on approving that project, the City had to delay it for a year while still paying interest on the bond because the bond had very specific language about the proposed project. The project was finally approved this August, so the original renovation and expansion plans for that effort will begin in earnest this coming June. But as to the argument by opponents to the library bond that its vague language allows for the library to be relocated or split up, the Library Board’s Chet DeLong reminded the audience that $8.7 million is not enough to build on a new property and by law bond money can’t be used to rent. The bond requires public approval next month because the City adopted a policy in the early 1990s that any single bond need that exceeds 10 percent of the annual operating budget of the City has to go to a public referendum. The provision does not apply to vital public safety needs, so that a bond to renovate the fire station in the mid-1990s did not require a referendum, nor will one to pay for a significant renovation and expansion of City Hall that will

commence within two years. The library bond is on the ballot next month because it just barely exceeds the 10 percent threshold as the size of annual F.C. operating budgets has surged past $80 million in recent years. According to an official City of F.C. information sheet on the referendum, “The estimated cost of the approved project is $8.3 million based on the design prepared to date. The approved bond issue is $8.7 million to cover additional expenses such as bond issuance costs. If the bonds are issued at an interest rate of between 3.25 and 4 percent, the annual debt service cost for this project is projected to be between $599,000 and $641,000 per year for 20 years. Based on the 2016 assessed value, the required (real estate—ed.) tax increase would be 1.7 cents.” Since its last renovation in 1994, the City’s population has swelled by 44 percent to near 14,000 and is projected to be 17,000 by 2033. Currently 79 percent of City residents have library cards and the library has in circulation over 148,000 items and a total of 470,000 items circulate in a year. If the referendum is approved next month, the expansion and renovation will include making the library fully ADA compliant and accessible, public program space and public restrooms will be expanded, heating and cooling systems and lighting will be updated and made more efficient, an elevator will be replaced, and more study space will be provided. There are no funds for added parking in this proposal, and that issue awaits what happens with the City Hall renovation across the street, for example. Over 115 years old, the library was established at its current location (Park and N. Virginia) in 1953 when the building was gifted to the City by the Styles family on condition that it be maintained as a public library and keep its Williamsburg-style architecture. “This library is more than books. It is continuing education for every resident of the City from the cradle to the grave,” argued Brad Gernand, a member of the Library Board who was part of the “pro-referendum” team at Sunday’s debate along with longtime City resident and former president of the Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS) Mike Volpe. Volpe argued that unlike the high school redevelopment project that is years away, this plan is ready now. He also noted the willingness of the Library Board to downsize its original request for a project costing twice as much. On the “anti-referendum” side of the debate Sunday, former F.C.

City Council member Johannah Barry said a “no” vote should not be construed as against the library, but against the vague language of the referendum, and that the $8.7 million price tag falls far short of the library’s

actual needs. “We should go back to the drawing boards,” she said. Barry’s “anti-referendum” partner David Gogul, also a VPIS board member, noted that the “elephant in the room” is the prospect of a $122 million price tag for a new high school, and suggested that repairs could be made to the

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library that would be more modestly priced and could be authorized without a referendum. He also cited the rise of smartphones that may eclipse the need for libraries. However, Volpe said that while the demise of libraries has been predicted, “Ours is more popular than ever.”

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Vote ‘Yes’ on the Library Referendum

Readers who put the two front page stories in this edition together and take them as a whole, are likely to arrive at the same conclusion as we have. With the promise of a veritable gold mine at the City’s West End, this is now time to think small with respect to one of the most useful and storied institutions in the City of Falls Church. Yes, Falls Church can readily afford the modest $8.7 million in important renovations and expansions at its Mary Riley Styles Public Library and we urge citizens to vote “Yes” on the library bond referendum on the November ballot here. If the City plays its cards right, and listens to the likes of its new prime developer, Todd Hitt of Kiddar Capital, it can turn the property at its West End acquired and annexed into the City from the sale of its water system in January 2014, into the kind of bonanza that would result in significantly lower taxes for City residents in the future. Finally, the City has someone with a vision for that land that recognizes something akin to its full potential, and the best part is that this is a person who puts his money, and his developer skills, where his mouth is. For our part, we’ve been beating the drum for realizing the potential in that land since our founding 25 years ago. Anyone who has purchased a copy of our 25th anniversary publication of our front pages from our first five years, 1991-1996, will see that our proposal for a major public venue there – we proposed a minor league ballpark at the time – was based on the assessment by F.C.’s City Manager at the time, David Lasso, that by its proximity to the West Falls Church Metro station, the land is “perhaps the most valuable on the entire eastern seaboard.” But the land was always in Fairfax County, making for a major impediment for what we’ll now call, “Big Thinking in the Little City.” That changed with the annexation of that land to come under the City of Falls Church’s jurisdictional authority. Cooperation with the county will still be required, but the ball is clearly now in Falls Church’s court. With the highest percentage of residents here holding college and post-graduate degrees of any jurisdiction in the entire U.S., it is eminently appropriate that the West End be developed as a full-blown educational center involving not only Falls Church’s George Mason High School, but also the Northern Virginia Graduate Center of the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, other schools, and a major influx of education-related businesses and entities. In that context, a modest upgrade of the City’s only public library is apropos and, more than that, essential to serve the needs of the entire community, including the many senior citizens who live within easy walking distance at Winter Hill and at the Kensington now under construction.

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Editor, I fully support The Lasso’s petition to remove, in its entirety, School Board policy 9.46. Back in the early 70s, I also was involved in a Silver Spring, Md. high school newspaper’s action against censorship. This was at the height of the Vietnam War and Watergate. Clearly, they were divisive issues of the day that required a free and open press not only on high school and college campuses, but

also across the country. If the law presumes that high school age individuals are mature enough to drive, work and at age 18, to be considered achieving the age of majority, then what is the concern or issues with allowing students to publish their schools’ newspaper in an unfettered manner? If we as a community desire our high school students to learn and become responsible adults and more importantly active and pro-

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Clarification Needed On Law Enforcement Commentary Editor, Your guest commentary by attorney John F. Whitehead in the Oct. 6 edition of the News-Press is very timely, but can use some clarifications.

As a former law enforcement and correctional officer, yes, “officer safety” was repeatedly drilled into us academy recruits. But not likely known by Falls Church News-Press readers, the Virginia Department of Health curricula indoctrinates us medics in “scene safety.” Likewise for us firefighters trained per the Virginia Department of Fire Programs. Same for us HAZMAT responders trained per the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. Rationale? Injured or killed public safety responders now become more victims to be han-

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Debt is good, so why tighten fiscal policies? Many City of Falls Church leaders are so worried about passing debt on to future generations that they want to make the City’s current fiscal posture even more conservative. What these people fail to grasp is that traditional municipal finance transfers both assets and liabilities to future generations. Borrowing may obligate future residents with financial payments, but it also endows them with the physical facilities that are the bedrock of society. Recent generations have not burdened us with very high debt levels, but nor have they bequeathed sufficient physical assets to us. They were negligent in fulfilling their social contract by not building schools, libraries and municipal buildings. (Current leaders exacerbated this problem by selling public water assets and, rather than replacing those assets, used the money to reduce the liabilities of future taxpayers by contributing around $10 million to the City pension fund). If previous leaders had “burdened” us with bond payments tied to physical assets, we would have fewer urgent building needs today. The lesson is that being financially prudent is largely imprudent from a socioeconomic perspective. With interest rates

at historic lows, what constitutes a greater burden to future generations – bond payments or shoddy schools? City leaders may have noble intent in trying to endow future generations with

“Trying to pre-emptively offset some of that borrowing though payas-go balances only raises current taxes and makes Falls Church less competitive.”

physical capital assets without transferring the related liabilities. However, such a plan is a recipe for failure because it requires pre-emptive taxes that will retard growth and competitiveness. Attempting to pre-fund borrowing with pay-as-you-go financing requires higher taxes today. Current taxpayers have already subsidized future taxpayers by pre-funding pensions, the fund balance, and the capital account (often

with year-end surpluses). But now the Council is seeking to tax us even more by codifying the conservative budgets of the last few years. If they really care about the future, they should leverage future growth by borrowing more to make the bonded investments needed to “crowdin” the future growth that will make it easier to retire the liabilities. Trying to pre-emptively offset some of that borrowing though pay-as-go balances only raises current taxes and makes Falls Church less competitive. It creates an unfair burden on current taxpayers and deviates from a long-standing social contract that has used traditional municipal finance to pay for essential government services over extended time horizons. If any changes are made to the City’s financial guidelines, they should liberalize borrowing restrictions so that elected officials have the flexibility to pursue innovative, sustainable, and attractive physical assets. Specifically, the City should not commit to minimum pension contributions for the City and Police regardless of actuarial need. After bolstering City pensions with water asset proceeds, codifying minimum annual payments is tantamount to an additional wealth transfer to future taxpayers, and makes it harder for the City to meet its school (VRS) pension payments. Why would we want to pre-fund future

pension obligations more than we need to when we have so many other pressing needs in the City? Secondly, we do not need to make it more difficult to access the fund balance. Why have rainy-day funds if you can only use them during a 100-year storm? Additionally, the City should increase its borrowing durations to 30 years. If household do it, why can’t the government? Besides, any new public buildings should easily last 75-100 years. Most importantly, the City should change its debt limit from five percent of assessed value to 10 percent as allowed by the Virginia Constitution. If you are tired of subsidizing future taxpayers while nothing gets built, now is the time to speak up. If you expect to lobby for more money for the schools, parks, libraries or other services, now is the time to speak up. If you are tired of the City paying for financial consultants, now is the time to speak up. Waiting for the budget season will be too late. The City will have already committed itself to this conservative guidance and City leaders will treat it as gospel when denying us the services and infrastructure we need.  Bob LaJeunesse is a City of Falls Church resident. He ran unsuccessfully for F.C. City Council in 2013.

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Paul Swanson Reaches for His Dreams at TJ Elementary by Drew Costley

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Paul Swanson, the new principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, is the only one out of the three new principals of Falls Church City Public Schools who didn’t work for the school system prior to being selected by the Falls Church School Board for the post. Before coming to Falls Church, Swanson was the principal of West Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Ind. for seven years. He said that since the school year has started that he’s been struck by the caliber of the students and teachers at TJ. “One of the things that I’ve been floored by on probably a weekly basis is just – no joke – how talented and gifted these kids are and the remarkable lives of their families,” Swanson said in an interview with the News-Press. “We’ve got kids in this building who have been to multiple continents and multiple countries. Kids who are working four, five or six grade levels above theirs, so there’s that. “And then you pair that with some staff members who just stunningly accomplished. We’ve got staff members who have gone

overseas and taught, not because they were assigned there, but just because [they thought], ‘I think I want to have this experience’ and they did it. We have people here who graduated from Harvard Law School and are now teachers, so it’s a pretty impressive pot to be part of.” Swanson’s move from West Elementary School, which has approximately 400 students, to TJ, which reported an enrollment of 823 students at the beginning of the school year, is a big leap. TJ had two more students enroll since the beginning of the year, so that number raised to 825). The challenge of helming a school with that many more students, parents and teachers isn’t lost on him. “I’m not going to lie about it – that’s a challenge. And I think it’s a challenge on a couple of fronts, but here’s the main one. I think it’s much harder to develop close, personal relationships with everybody in the community,” Swanson said. “When you’re at West Elementary and you have a ballpark figure of 30 or so staff members, that’s a very manageable number, so I could tell you about each one of those staff members’ families, who their husbands or wives are, how many

PAUL SWANSON reaches out to a student in Lacey Gandy’s fourth grade class at TJ. He tested the students’ knowledge of the presidents while visiting the class. (Photo: Drew Costley/NewsPress)

NEW TJ PRINCIPAL PAUL SWANSON is leading a school that is twice the size of the one that he led last year. He acknowledges that challenge but said that he isn’t worried that any of the students at the school will fall through the cracks. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press) kids they have and where they’ve been this summer. That just gets exponentially harder when you’re surrounded by ballpark figure 90 staff members. “And it’s the same thing with the kids. When you are principal of a school with 400 or so kids, then it’s a lot easier to individualize those relationships, whereas when there is 825, it just becomes a lot harder….[But] here at TJ, I never worry about a kid falling through the academic cracks. I don’t because of the systems that we have in place. I do worry about a kid who falls through the cracks of my own knowledge of that kid. And I don’t know that there’s a silver bullet to that.” One of the things that Swanson does in order to get to know the oldest kids at TJ, the fifth graders, better is playing soccer with them as much as he can, he said. “And they wear me out and they make me look bad,” he said jokingly. “But it’s a chance to get to know at least some of the leaders of this school in terms of the student population in a different way.” He’ll have four years to get to know the youngest crop of kids that entered TJ this year as second graders. Then, when the school reduces size as part of the Mt. Daniel expansion that will take the second grade from TJ to Mt. Daniel, the student population will be reduced. He said that the school isn’t focusing too much on that change at the moment. “We aren’t doing anything tangible right now. We know obviously that’s coming down the pike

and there will definitely be a time and place to think about that,” Swanson said. “Right now I think that we are lasered in on the 825 students that we have, to do right by them as best we can.” Some of the things that Swanson is doing in order to “do right” by his students is focusing on improving the English proficiency of TJ’s English as a second language students (ESOL), creating a supportive, intimate culture among the staff and improving communication with the school’s parents. He was able to bring in an instructor from Mt. Daniel to help with ESOL and he changed the master schedule of the fourth grade class so that they have language arts at the end of the day, which allows ESOL staff members to increase the time they spend with some of the ESOL students at the school by about 70 percent. Also, he got thank you card style stationery printed up with the TJ logo on it and gave out ten cards to each staff member and asked them to write a note or letter to a fellow staff member on the cards throughout the year. Finally, he has started a series of “Chalk Chats” with the school’s parent community, which are held on one Thursday a month. There are morning and evening sessions to allow for flexibility. One of the things that he hopes the school does well this year, he said, is reaching out to parents to continue and deepen communication. “It’s basically a town hall meeting so parents can come in

and they can talk about whatever they want to talk about,” Swanson said. He said that there are lot of good things that were happening at the school that he’s inherited from his predecessor Bob Palermo. “I think the school, in some regards, speaks for itself. I think there have been all kinds of good things that have happened at this school,” Swanson said. “So to some degree, I think my number one job is not to stand in the way of progress.” At the beginning of Swanson’s career in education he thought about moving to the Washington, D.C. area, but opportunities in his home state of Indiana opened up and he stayed. Now, he’s had the opportunity to move to this area because his wife, Dianne, wanted to live closer to her daughter, who lives in Northwest D.C. “So there was a desire to be closer to family, but that was not the only reason,” Swanson said. “I’ve always liked the D.C. area. I love the area and I came a hair away from coming when I was right out of college almost 27 years ago to teach and then I had a job that opened up for me back home and I fell in love with it and was having a good time…. [But] there kind of came a point in my career where I had to decide I’m either going to reach for my dreams or I’m not. And so, I did, and hopefully it works out.” This is the second story in a series profiling the three new Falls Church City Public Schools principals.

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NEWS BRIEFS F.C. Council Skeptical of Water Tank Plan At its work session Monday night, the Falls Church City Council was almost unanimous in its skepticism and criticism of plans presented to it by the Fairfax County Water Authority to replace a water tank behind the Eden Center in the City with a giant new version that would be 72 feet higher than what is there now. The tank the Water Authority wants would require a “special exception” from the F.C. Council as, at 126 feet, it A rendering of what a new water tank would look like in the City of Falls would exceed the City’s height Church, viewed from the corner of Roosevelt and Wilson Blvd. (Courtesy: limit and visibly dominate the Fairfax Water Authority) neighborhood. The current height limit there is 45 feet. No votes were taken Monday, however. Fairfax Water’s plan also requires easements onto the property of the Eden Center for construction trailers and unloading and laydown of construction components for a construction phase of at minimum 18 months, eating into the already tight parking at the popular VietnameseAmerican shopping center. The Council took under consideration Monday a letter from Alan B. Frank, general counsel for the Eden Center, who urged the Council to oppose the plan on grounds the proposed tank is “intrusive and permanent,” the height of a 15-story building only eight feet from the Eden Center property line, that it will negatively impact future development and tax revenues from the area, that the easement it seeks on Eden Center land is “not workable,” and that no alternatives have yet been explored by Fairfax Water. The latter point struck a nerve with a number of members of the Council led by Councilman David Snyder who objected to Fairfax Water’s “failure to consider other sites given the high collateral costs to the City of Falls Church of the current plan.” Councilman Phil Duncan chimed in, saying since there is no crisis triggering this plan that more time should be taken to explore alternatives, also noting that the area is one of those in line for major economic development in coming years. Mayor David Tarter said, “I have serious concerns about this,” noting that it would stand at a “gateway” to the City, and said that it was too big “no matter what kind of lipstick that’s put on it.” This will require some heavy vetting, he said.

One ADU Available at 301 W. Broad The Falls Church Housing and Human Services Department has announced that applications are being accepted for a one bedroom, one bath Affordable Dwelling Unit, or ADU, apartment available at West Broad Residences (301 W. Broad Street) for $1,498 per month plus utilities and fees. To qualify, applicants must fulfill all of the following: All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents, total household liquid assets cannot exceed $40,000, total household income must be between 71 and 90 percent of Area Median Income. Priority will be given to current City residents and employees as well as to seniors and persons with disabilities. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and are available via the City’s website and in Housing and Human Services office at City Hall, 300 Park Ave., G Level, Falls Church, VA 22046.

F.C.’s Leaf Collection Effort Explained From October through December, Falls Church City crews will collect leaves from residential areas. Residents are urged to rake their leaves to the curb, taking caution to avoid raking them into or on top of gutters, sidewalks, and fire hydrants. The piles should not include stones, litter, branches, or other debris that may damage equipment or block storm drains. Residents are asked to keep all other collection material at least five feet away from leaf piles and to not mix brush or green waste items such as ivy or flowers with leaves. After collection, the leaves will be processed into high-quality leaf mulch that will be available at the City’s Recycling Center in March 2017. The leaf collection schedule: Monday, Oct. 17 – Friday, Oct. 21: South of Broad Street; Monday, Oct. 24 – Friday, Oct. 28: North of Broad St.; Monday, Oct. 31 – Thursday, Nov. 10: South of Broad St.; no collection on Friday, November 11, Veterans Day); Monday, Nov. 14 – Wednesday Nov. 23: North of Broad St. (no collection Thursday and Friday, November 24-25, Thanksgiving); Monday, Nov. 28 – Friday, Dec. 9: South of Broad St.; Monday, Dec. 12 – Thursday, Dec. 22: North of Broad Street.

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Community News & Notes Local Organization Hosts 2 Tree Planting Events

p.m. in the case of rain. For more information, visit vpis.org/trees.

The Village Preservation and Improvement Society is hosting two tree planting events in cooperation with the City of Falls Church, the first of which is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8:30 a.m. The meeting place for that event is Berman Park at 200 Kent Street. The organization said in an e-mail to the News-Press that it needs help planting more than 30 street trees across the City. The second tree planting event is Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8:30 a.m. at location to be determined. Event organizers said that participants should wear boots or heavy shoes, clothes that can get dirty and gloves and that they will provide tools and refreshments. The tree planting events will be held on the Sunday the day following the scheduled date at 1

The Kensington Falls Church Hosts Job Fair on Oct. 29 The Kensington Senior Living Center is opening an assisted living community in Falls Church in early 2017. In anticipation of hiring more than 125 new employees, the company will be holding a job fair at the Hilton Garden Inn Falls Church at 706 W. Broad Street on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Positions available include certified nursing assistants or caregivers, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, kitchen and dining staff, housekeeping and maintenance staff, drivers and concierge/receptionists. Those who are interested in registering for the job fair can do so by emailing FallsChurchCareers@ KensingtonSL.com or by calling

703-992-9868. Walk-ins will also be welcomed at the job fair as well. For those who are not able to attend the job fair, Kensington is also accepting resumes and applications at their temporary information center located at 1212 West Broad Street. For more information, visit TheKensingtonFallsChurch.com.

F.C. Resident Paul Baldino Named to NOVA Parks Board Falls Church resident Paul Baldino has been appointed to the Board of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, the organization recently announced in a press release. Prior to being appointed to the board, Baldino was retired after a long career with with the Fairfax and Arlington County governments. During his tenure as director of the Fairfax County Park

AT THE OCTOBER FIRST FRIDAY, the Cub Scout Troop 657 held a Popcorn Fundraiser. Scouts (front row, l to r) Eli Vennebush, Alex Vennebush, Christopher Draper pose for a photo with (back row, l to r ) musicians Fred Koch and David Erickson, City of Falls Church Mayor David Tarter, featured FIRSTfriday artist Dylan Jones, fan bird carver Jeff Jacobs and Kian Furniture upholsterer Farhad Keyvan. (Photo: Courtesy of Tom Gittins)

Authority, over 5,000 acres of parkland were acquired, the Fairfax County Park Foundation was established, voters approved a $75 million park bond referendum and the organization won the Gold Medal Award of the National Recreation & Park Association. Since retirement, Baldino has served the City of Falls Church as chair of its transportation committee. “It’s an honor to join the NOVA Parks Board. My family and I have long enjoyed the recreational, natural, and historic resources of our regional park network,” Baldino said. “I’m enthusiastic about the opportunity to help shape its bright future.” Baldino was appointed to the NOVA Parks Board by the Falls Church City Council. He replaces Barry Buschow, who recently retired from the Board after 26 years of service. Former Falls Church Mayor and School Board

chair Jeff Tarbert is the other representative from Falls Church.

Community Forum on F.C. Schools Slated for Oct. 20 Families for the Falls Church Way is sponsoring a Community Forum Regarding the Future of the Falls Church City Public Schools on Thursday, Oct. 20 from 8 – 10 p.m. at The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment at 222 N. Washington Street. Residents can participate in discussions with fellow residents and School Board members Michael Ankuma and Phil Reitinger on school facilities, budget, the superintendent search and restoring transparency, accountability and meaningful input by all stakeholders to our public schools. The forum is free and open to the public. For more information, visit TheFallsChurchWay.com.

TWO FALLS CHURCH RESIDENTS, Ken Thomas (left) and Jorge Soler (right) recently won medals at the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics. Thomas, 71, won a silver medal in the 3-mile walk event and Soler, 92, won a gold medal in the same event, albeit in a different age bracket. Both medalists are residents of Poplar Drive. (Photo: Courtesy of Ken Thomas)

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F.C. Transportation Committee Releases ‘Walkability Survey’

The Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation has released a Walkability Survey to find out how walkable the City of Falls Church is. Participants can simply choose a block and a side of the road along Broad Street or Washington Street and then check boxes indicating the positives and negatives for pedestrians. This information will be used to make recommendations to City Council for pedestrian improvements along the City’s commercial corridors. Paper copies of the survey are available at City Hall at 300 Park Avenue, Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue and the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street. The electronic version can be found at bit.ly/walkfallschurch. Responses are due by Friday, Nov. 18. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/163/ Citizens-Advisory-Committeeon-Transport.

Local Veterans Organization Celebrates 31st Anniversary Chapter 227 of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. is celebrating its 31st anniversary at its membership meeting on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Neighbor’s Restaurant, located at 262D Cedar Lane, Vienna. All are invited to help the chapter celebrate, but the organization especially called its founding members to come celebrate. The historical milestone features a very meaningful topic on how a group of Vietnam veterans are helping to heal their war wounds by helping a Khe Sanh orphanage under the name of “Good Morning, Vietnam!” Bill Shugarts, chapter member and official photographer of the Lyons post traumatic stress disorder class visits, will describe

how he and other war veterans are healing their war wounds by supporting a Vietnamese orphanage in March 2015. A Vietnam War commemorative badge and certificate will be presented to each Vietnam War veterans at the meeting. The traditional anniversary cake will be the icing of the celebration. For more information, visit vva227. org.

F.C Endowment Fund Seeks Grant Applications The Falls Church Endowment Fund, Inc., a ministry of the Falls Church Episcopal Church, is seeking applications for grant assistance from non-profit organizations for calendar year 2017 programs, according to a letter the organization sent to the NewsPress. Grant applications should be for programs that serve the poor, elderly and distressed in the Falls Church community. Grants are generally in the range of $5,000 – $15,000. The Endowment Fund is an independent organization who states purpose is to further the ministry and outreach of the Christian church. Organizations interested in this opportunity should request an application for assistance prior to Tuesday, Nov. 1 by email to mhsnyder@hotmail.com.

Event on The Resurrectionists To be Held on Oct. 22 The City of Fairfax Regional Library, located at 10360 North Street, Fairfax, is hosting an event about The Resurrectionists, a group of men who stole bodies for medical science and learn how their legacy continues today. The event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 11 a.m. Diane Donaldson, who currently teaches for the mortuary science program at the Community College of Baltimore County,

IF IT’S HALLOWEEN, it must be time to check out Argia’s window display, which has a different Halloween theme every year. For the ninth consecutive year, the Horovitz Family of Falls Church has painted Argia’s windows though the Halloween Stores Window Painting Project. Among this year’s guest window painters pictured here outside Argia are (l to r) Alex Dunie, Rebecca Horovitz, Tom Bourber-Leslie and Aaron Kryk. (P��: C�� E�� H��) will lead the discussion. An amateur Egyptologist, she enjoys studying the history of death rituals and how they have changed over time. There is free parking in the underground garage beneath the library. For more information, visit fairfaxcounty.gov/Library or call 703-293-6227 ext. 6.

McLean Community Center Renovation Slated for 2017 The McLean Community Center recently announced that renovation of its Ingleside Avenue facility is scheduled to begin in April 2017. To ensure the Center’s programs and services will continue uninterrupted, McLean Community Center executive director George Sachs has worked

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with Fairfax County’s Facilities Management Department to find and secure rental properties for a 22-month period, beginning as early as March 2017. “We will relocate and occupy these spaces in March with hopes of moving back to the newly renovated Community Center by the fall of 2018,” Sachs said. “We want to continue to meet the needs of the community throughout this period of transition and we feel fortunate to have found locations that will allow us to do just that.” In order to continue to offer a variety of classes, the McLean Community Center has secured the use of a nearby property. The majority of the Center’s classes will be held at 6645 Old Dominion Drive in the McLean Square Shopping Center. Currently, the

Center offers more than 100 classes each session. The new location includes four classrooms, which will be scheduled for maximum use. The space will also house the Center’s registration office. During the construction period of the renovation, McLean Community Center’s administrative offices will be located in the same shopping center as the new classroom space, at 6631 Old Dominion Rd., on the first floor of the Century 21 New Millennium building. This space will house the executive director, finance, facilities and public information offices of the Center. For more information, call the center at 703-790-0123 or visit the center’s website at mcleancenter. org.

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What We Need Next

Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi, who went to Washington, D.C., public schools. Santi had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So Santi invited him to occasionally eat and sleep at his house. That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to dinner at Kathy and David’s house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers crammed around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs. The kids who show up at Kathy and David’s have endured the ordeals of modern poverty: homelessness, hunger, abuse, sexual assault. Almost all have seen death firsthand – to a sibling, friend or parent. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE It’s anomalous for them to have a bed at home. One 21-year-old woman came to dinner last week and said this was the first time she’d been around a family table since she was 11. And yet by some miracle, hostile soil has produced charismatic flowers. Thursday dinner is the big social occasion of the week. Kids come from around the city. Spicy chicken and black rice are served. Cellphones are banned (“Be in the now,” Kathy says). The kids call Kathy and David “Momma” and “Dad,” are unfailingly polite, clear the dishes, turn toward one another’s love like plants toward the sun and burst with big glowing personalities. Birthdays and graduations are celebrated. Songs are performed. I started going to dinner there about two years ago, hungry for something beyond food. Each meal we go around the table, and everybody has to say something nobody else knows about them. Each meal we demonstrate our commitment to care for one another. I took my daughter once and on the way out she said, “That’s the warmest place I can ever imagine.” During this election season of viciousness, vulgarity and depravity, Thursdays at Kathy and David’s has been a weekly uplift, and their home a place to be reminded of what is beautiful about our country and what we can do to bring out its loveliness. The kids need what all adolescents need: bikes, laptops and a listening heart. “Thank you for seeing the light in me,” one young woman told Kathy after a cry on the couch. David and Kathy have set up a charitable organization called AOK, for All Our Kids, to help each of the kids come into his or her own fullness. Four started college this year, and one joined City Year, the national service organization. Poverty up close is so much more intricate and unpredictable than the picture of poverty you get from the grand national debates. The kids can project total self-confidence one minute and then slide into utter lostness the next. The college application process often seems like a shapeless fog to them; nobody’s taught them the concrete steps to move along the way. One young woman lied on her financial aid forms because she didn’t want to admit that her father was dead, her mother was on drugs – how messed up her home life actually was. There’s no margin for error for these kids, and she would have lost her college dreams if not for a squad of adults ready to mobilize around her. The adults in this community give the kids the chance to present their gifts. At my first dinner, Edd read a poem from his cracked flip phone that I first thought was from Langston Hughes, but it turned out to be his own. Kesari has a voice that somehow emerged from New Orleans jazz from the 1920s. Madeline and Thalya practice friendship as if it were the highest art form. Jamel loses self-consciousness when he talks of engine repair. They give us a gift – complete intolerance of social distance. When I first met Edd, I held out my hand to shake his. He looked at it and said, “We hug here,” and we’ve been hugging and hanging off each other since. Bill Milliken, a veteran youth activist, is often asked which programs turn around kids’ lives. “I still haven’t seen one program change one kid’s life,” he says. “What changes people is relationships. Somebody willing to walk through the shadow of the valley of adolescence with them.” Souls are not saved in bundles. Love is the necessary force. The problems facing this country are deeper than the labor participation rate and ISIS. It’s a crisis of solidarity, a crisis of segmentation, spiritual degradation and intimacy. Throughout this ugly year, AOK has been my visit to a better future, more powerful than any political tract about what we need next. Sometimes Kathy and David are asked how they ended up with so many kids flowing through their house. They look at how many kids are out there, and respond, “How is it possible you don’t?”

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Their Dark Fantasies I’m a baby boomer, which means that I’m old enough to remember conservatives yelling “America – love it or leave it!” at people on the left who criticized racism and inequality. But that was a long time ago. These days, disdain for America – the America that actually exists, not an imaginary “real America” in which minorities and women know their place – is concentrated on the right. To be sure, progressives still see a lot wrong with the state of our society, and seek change. But they also celebrate the progress we have made, and for the most part the change they seek is incremental: It involves building on existing institutions, not burning everything NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE down and starting over. On the right, however, you increasingly find prominent figures describing our society as a nightmarish dystopia. This is obviously true for Donald Trump, who views the world through blood-colored glasses. In his vision of America – clearly derived largely from white supremacist and neo-Nazi sources – crime is running wild, inner cities are war zones, and hordes of violent immigrants are pouring across our open border. In reality, murder is at a historic low, we’re seeing a major urban revival and net immigration from Mexico is negative. But I’m only saying that because I’m part of the conspiracy. Meanwhile, you find almost equally dark visions, just as much at odds with reality, among establishment Republicans, people like Paul Ryan, speaker of the House. Ryan is, of course, a media darling. He doesn’t really command strong support from his own party’s base; his prominence comes, instead, from a press corps that decided years ago that he was the archetype of serious, honest conservatism, and clings to that story no matter how many times the obvious fraudulence and cruelty of his proposals are pointed out. If the past is any indication, he will quickly be forgiven for his moral spinelessness in this election, his unwillingness to break with Trump – even to condemn him for questioning the legitimacy of the vote – no matter how grotesque the GOP nominee’s behavior becomes. But for what it’s worth, consider the portrait of America that Ryan painted last week, in a speech to the College Republicans. For it was, in its own way,

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as out of touch with reality as the ranting of Donald Trump (whom Ryan never mentioned). Now, to be fair, Ryan claimed to be describing the future – what will happen if Hillary Clinton wins – rather than the present. But Clinton is essentially proposing a center-left agenda, an extension of the policies President Barack Obama was able to implement in his first two years, and it’s pretty clear that Ryan’s remarks were intended as a picture of what all such policies do. According to him, it’s very grim. There will, he said, be “a gloom and grayness to things,” ruled by a “cold and unfeeling bureaucracy.” We will become a place “where passion – the very stuff of life itself – is extinguished.” And this is the kind of America Clinton “will stop at nothing to have.” Does today’s America look anything like that? No. We have many problems, but we’re hardly living in a miasma of despair. Leave government statistics (which almost half of Trump supporters completely distrust) on one side; Gallup finds that 80 percent of Americans are satisfied with their standard of living, up from 73 percent in 2008, and that 55 percent consider themselves to be “thriving,” up from 49 percent in 2008. And there are good reasons for those good feelings: recovery from the financial crisis was slower than it should have been, but unemployment is low, incomes surged last year, and thanks to Obamacare more Americans have health insurance than ever before. So Ryan’s vision of America looks nothing like reality. It is, however, completely familiar to anyone who read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” as a teenager. Nowadays the speaker denies being a Rand devotee, but while you can at least pretend to take the boy out of the cult, you can’t take the cult out of the boy. Like Rand – who was basically writing about America in the Eisenhower years! – he sees the horrible world progressive policies were supposed to produce, not the flawed but hopeful nation we actually live in. So why does the modern right hate America? There’s not much overlap in substance between Trump’s fearmongering and Ryan’s, but there’s a clear alignment of interests. The people Trump represents want to suppress and disenfranchise you-know-who; the big-money interests that support Ryan-style conservatism want to privatize and generally dismantle the social safety net, and they’re willing to do whatever it takes to get there. The big question is whether trash-talking America can actually be a winning political strategy. We’ll soon find out.

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Trump’s Role in a Russian Coup

There are an abundance of tell-tale signs, but almost no one is putting them all together to draw the conclusion that what we’re seeing in this presidential election cycle is a coup in progress against the American democracy. Many, including the media, are distracted by the election process. They think that it all hinges on who wins the presidential election in November. Hillary Clinton cannot call this out, of course, because she is rightfully focused on the election. But for all intents and purposes, Donald Trump is a cowardly sex fiend who is captured by far more than just Putin, but is deeply entangled by Putin’s American enforcement arm, the infamously cruel, brutal and murderous Russian mafia. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS The late Robert I. Friedman, a close friend of a close friend of mine, wrote a book in 2000 entitled Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Having written numerous investigative journalist articles for the Village Voice and other publications, Friedman, as he wrote in its introduction, had been tipped off by the FBI that the Russian mob – kingpin Semion Mogilevich in particular – put out a contract on him for $100,000. Originally published by Little, Brown and Company, a second edition of the book was published by Berkley Books in 2002 and Friedman wrote a new afterward for it. By July 2002, Friedman was dead at age 51. Obviously long before he’d fashioned any interest in becoming the president of the U.S., there are references to Donald Trump in this book, though limited to the fact that key Russian mob figures resided at the Trump Towers in Manhattan and at Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. It was noted that the Taj Mahal, in fact, “had become the Russian mob’s favorite East Coast destination.” “Scores of Russian hoodlums received ‘comps’ for up to $100,000 a visit for free food, rooms, champagne, cartons of cigarettes, entertainment and transportation in stretch limos and helicopters,” Friedman wrote, citing a federal agent he interviewed. “As long as these guys attract a lot of money or spend a lot of money, the casinos don’t care.” Russian mobsters like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov who resided at the Trump Towers, “proved a windfall for the casinos, since they often lost hundreds of thousands of dollars a night in the ‘High-Roller Pit.’” As with the more traditional Five Families mafias of New York, the Russian Mafias which began to move onto U.S. soil in the 1970s era of Detente and came in even more abundant numbers with the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s, engaged in every form of criminal corruption, a big component of which was use of prostitutes, including child prostitutes, in the blackmail of wealthy and important figures. But while this may help at least to foster some plausible hypotheses in this crazy election year, the bigger reality is that the Russian Mob is inseparable from the nastiest remnants of the Soviet KGB, which Putin headed, present forms of Russian covert and overt intelligence, the monied interests driving the Russian domestic and foreign policy and their ties to international finance and military-industrial complex interests. These are powerful and sordid interests with absolutely no loyalty to any notions of democracy as we know it in the U.S. In fact, as with the Russians’ annexation of Crimea in 2014, these interests don’t really care if the general public even knows what they’re doing, seeing such a public as weak and incapable of preventing them from achieving their objectives. So the Russian ties to the Wikileaks and general computer hacking aimed at influencing the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. We won’t really know until Election Day, at the earliest, what kind of capabilities on this score the Russians really have. But for them, and presumably for Trump as long as he continues to be useful for them, this coup process will not end with this election outcome. That’s why Trump’s insistence that the election is being rigged signals an escalation the day after November 8, and on from there. It’s the very existence of democratic values and institutions that are at stake here, above all.

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Nicholas F. Benton

 Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.

Donald Trump, The Worst of America Donald Trump has virtually stopped trying to win this election by any conventional metric and is instead stacking logs of grievance on the funeral pyre with the great anticipation of setting it ablaze if current polls turn out to be predictive. There is something calamitous in the air that surrounds the campaign, a hostile fatalism that bespeaks a man convinced that the end is near and aiming his anger at all within reach. As his path to victory grows narrower, his desperation grows more pronounced. Last week a steady stream of women stepped forward to accuse Trump of some form of sexual assault, abuse or inappropriate behavior. Trump’s response has been marked by a stunning lack of grace and dignity, let alone contrition or empathy, a response much like the man himself. Instead, he is doubling down on sexism. On Thursday, Trump said of the People magazine reporter who accused him of forcibly kissing her: “Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don’t think so.” He said Friday of NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE the woman accusing him of groping her on an airplane: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.” He also said of Hillary Clinton, “When she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn’t impressed.” His response to these charges has been surprisingly – and perhaps, revealingly – callow. He has mocked, whined, chided, bemoaned and belittled. It’s as if the man is on a mission to demonstrate to voters the staggering magnitude of his social vulgarity and emotional ineptitude. He has dispensed with all semblances of wanting to appear presidential and embraced what seems to be most natural to him: acting like a pig. Furthermore, he says everything is rigged against him, from the media to the election itself. He’s threatening to sue The New York Times. He says he and Clinton should take a drug test before the next debate. These are the ravings of a lunatic. Trump is back to carelessly shooting off his mouth and recklessly shooting himself in the foot. It is sad, really, but for him I have no sympathy. He has spent this entire election attacking anyone and everyone whom he felt it would be politically advantageous to attack. Trump, now that you’re under attack, you want to cry woe-is-me and have people commiserate. Slim chance, big guy. The coarseness of your character has been put on

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full display, and now the electorate has come to cash the check you wrote. Trump now looks like a madman from “Mad Men,” a throwback to when his particular privileges had more perks and were considered less repugnant. He looks pathetic. He is a ball of contradictions that together form a bully, a man who has built a menacing wall around the hollow of his self. He is brash to mask his fragility. But in a way, Trump was authentically made in America. America has a habit of romanticizing the playboy as much as the cowboy, but there is often something untoward about the playboy, unseemly, predatory and broken. For years, Trump built a reputation on shuffling through women, treating his exploits with jocularity and having too much of America smiling in amusement at the bad boy antics. But he’s not a kid; he’s a cad. And he seems constitutionally incapable of processing the idea that wealth is not completely immunizing, that some rules are universally applicable, that common decency is required of more than just “common” folks. He seems genuinely offended that he should be held to the same standards of truth, decorum and even law as those less well off. Trump is in fact the logical extension of toxic masculinity and ambient misogyny. He is the logical extension of rampant racism. He is the logical extension of wealth worship. He is the logical extension of pervasive anti-intellectualism. Trump is the logical extension of the worst of America. With him you get a man who believes himself superior in every way: through the gift of fortune and the happenstance of chromosomes. He believes the rules simply don’t apply. Not rules that govern the sovereignty of another’s body, not rules that dictate decorousness. And the Republican Party was just the right place for him. When you have a political party that takes as its mission to prevent government from working, a party that conflates the ill effects of a changing economy with the changing complexion of the country and is still struck by fever over the election of President Barack Obama, Trump is a natural, predictable endpoint. Furthermore, Trump is what happens when you wear your Christian conservative values like a cardigan to conveniently slip off when the heat rises. Trump is fundamentally altering American politics – coarsening them, corrupting them, cratering them. And America, particularly conservative America, has only itself to blame. Republicans sowed intolerance and in its shadow, Trump sprang up like toxic fungi.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

No matter what happens during the national political discourse these days, it is at the local level that the people’s work gets done. Three cases in point here in Mason District address parking and truck traffic in the Bailey’s Crossroads area. At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, two Residential Permit Parking Districts (RPPD) were expanded to address parking of non-resident vehicles on Nevius, Payne, and Church Streets in the Culmore area, and on Munson Road in the Springdale neighborhood of Bailey’s Crossroads. Both areas were plagued with vehicles parked by non-residents, in some cases, blocking mailboxes. The RPPD process is not an easy one, and is designed to alleviate existing problems, not prospective ones. Signs for the expanded RPPDs will be installed later this fall. A separate proposal for the Courtland Park area of Bailey’s Crossroads is a Through Truck Restriction (TTR), which prohibits any truck, truck and trailer, or semi-trailer combination, weighing more than 7,500 pounds, from cutting through the residential roads of Washington Drive, Courtland Drive, and Tyler, Church, and Payne Streets. The restriction does not apply to pickups and panel trucks, or to larger vehicles with deliveries on those streets. A TTR must have a suitable alternate route available; and affected trucks must re-route to Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike for through traffic. Following the public hearing on Tuesday, the Board approved a TTR resolution, which will be forwarded to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for its engineering review of the road’s qualifications. Following an additional VDOT public comment period, VDOT will be responsible for installing “Through Trucks Prohibited” signs. Both RPPDs and TTRs require resident involve-

ment throughout the process, and I want to thank the neighbors in all of these communities for working with my office to identify problems, processes, and solutions. An additional shout-out to Ravenwood Park neighbors for their determination to have three speed tables installed on Patrick Henry Drive between Beachway Drive and Leesburg Pike. The traffic calming process is another example of neighbors working together for solutions to speeding traffic. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, speed tables and speed humps do have the requisite outcome of lowering speeds on residential streets. One little-known responsibility of the Board of Supervisors is to consider applications for designation of land as a Local Agricultural and Forestal District (A&F). A & F Districts encourage the preservation of significant tracts of agricultural and forested land throughout the county by providing a reduced real estate tax assessment in return for a commitment to preserve the land for the length of the eight-year A & F term. On Tuesday, the Board approved renewal of three parcels to the A & F District designation, totaling almost 105 acres. The A & F District is a legacy of a time when Fairfax County’s economy was farm based. The minimum acreage size for an A & F District is 20 acres, so many of the A & F Districts are in Dranesville and Springfield Districts, but the environmental benefits apply countywide. Currently, there are 45 A & F Districts designated locally, for a total of 3052 acres preserved. Another 1337 acres are state-designated A & F Districts.  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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Richmond Report A few weeks ago, Virginia House Republicans held a press call in which they succeeded in getting newspapers to report on a two-week old incident where a single individual in Harrisonburg, Virginia is alleged to have submitted voter registrations on behalf of people who are in fact dead. The State Police and FBI are investigating and, if the alleged activity is proven, the individual responsible should be prosecuted and punished under existing laws. There is no evidence or allegation that this single student’s alleged activity was part of any larger effort or scheme to cast votes illegally on behalf of any candidate or any particular political party. According to the JMU student paper the Breeze, the student has spoken with the County registrar and investigators. Rather than speculate about the student’s motives, we could wait for the complete investigation, which would provide actual evidence and facts. Instead, Republican leaders organized the call to highlight the most sensational aspects and then conclude that Virginians should believe that this isolated incident is indicative of a widespread problem with voter fraud. Taking cues from their presidential nominee, perhaps, they were undeterred by the absence of actual evidence of any widespread fraud or evidence that their recent legislative proposals, which have made voting more difficult, have done anything to prevent fraud. In fact, the evidence we do have would indicate that the individual under scrutiny wasn’t terribly sophisticated. He used the last known address of one of the deceased, which caused a congratulatory letter to be sent to his family. He turned in a total of nineteen alleged fraudulent applications over nine months. Were he intending to influence the outcome of an election, he was either working an extremely long con or severely underestimated the number of votes that would be required to alter the outcome. He hadn’t applied for any absentee ballots and, even if he had, newly registered voters who register by mail are required to provide ID with their initial absentee ballot. On social media, I asked for anyone to explain to me how

the alleged activity could result in fraudulent votes. A few folks sent me fewer than five examples with the stories of fraud from other states. And these were several years old. So, voter fraud does sometimes happen. It’s just that it’s incredibly difficult to execute, even more difficult to get away with, and extremely rare. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent all voter fraud. We should. It undermines confidence in an already suspect system in which the outcome is often predetermined by political gerrymandering and the absence of any campaign finance restrictions, which works to the tremendous advantage of incumbents. So why don’t we do more? We have to be careful that the remedy isn’t worse than the ailment. If we restricted the right to vote to only white male landholders who could produce a deed to their property and a family bible dating back to the 18th century, we wouldn’t have any voter fraud. We wouldn’t have a representative democracy either, at least not the way we define it today. The so-called remedies proposed would make it too difficult for many poor, elderly, and foreign born citizens to cast ballots, effectively disenfranchising them. As long as those are the only folks affected, Virginia house Republicans seem comfortable seeking greater and greater restrictions. Some of the folks I have heard from are upset that I called the accusations of fraud disingenuous. If we were really genuinely concerned with ascertaining the true identity of voters rather than making voting more difficult, why not accept an expired driver’s license from an elderly voter who doesn’t use it for driving any longer? Or give the elections officer the option to do so? We have evidence given under oath that current Virginia House Republicans have deliberately drawn legislative districts to pack minority democrats into as few districts as mathematically possible. Why wouldn’t we be suspicious of their real motives in crying Widespread Voter Fraud as well?  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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Wilson Blvd. That set in motion decades of construction of fancier and varied homes laid out on the natural flow of the land, Moore noted. Many were colonials built in the late 1930s by German immigrant Frederick Westenberger, who was profiled in 1993 by his Key Blvd. neighbor Alan Ehrenhalt. Lyon Village gained a vibrant Woman’s Club and civic association, which was instrumental in the new street naming system in 1934, followed by the first Arlington post Office, in Clarendon. But Lyon omitted one thing. The original sales agreements required him to put aside money for a community house and provide the land. He didn’t follow through. So in the 1940s, Lyon Village activists filed suit, and the Virginia Supreme Court backed them. After fundraising via hayrides and square dances, Moore said, the center finally opened in 1949. Modern issues continue to cast Lyon Village as the “crybaby neighborhood,” said Moore, who is compiling letters, bulletins and directories for a local history. In 1970s, some resisted Metro because they feared it would bring in burglars and cut-through traffic (Lyon Village has some of our most restrictive owner-only parking). When Clarendon’s Vietnamese restaurants gave way to pricier mid-range chain eateries, there were cries of “Keep Clarendon gritty,” Moore said. Outdoor patio bars alongside private homes serv-

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ing until 2:00 a.m. caused tensions, though the alcohol problem has improved, she said. “It all made us very vigilant.” It was only when Metro was established that Lyon Village homes rose in value. “They’re not great for aging, and the only way to expand them is up, not out,” she said. At one point, Moore recalls musing to the late County Board chairman Jim Hunter that Clarendon/Lyon Village should secede. Already been tried, he noted, referring to the 1920 application for an independent charter by early Clarendon denizens. (Virginia’s Supreme Appeals Court said no, calling Arlington “a continuous, contiguous and homogeneous community.” Instead, Moore strives “not to be negative” and works with county staff. But “it was particularly galling when another neighborhood complained – about us complaining.” *** I noticed a poignant change this weekend during my walk through Tuckahoe Park. The newly renovated ball field – a joint project of the Parks and Recreation Department and O’Connell High School – has spanking new drainable baseball/ softball diamonds that double as soccer fields, along with modern metal benches, batting cages and bullpens. Last month, the new electronic scoreboard, which O’Connell paid for, boasted a parochial label “Knights” and “visitors.” Now it’s been changed to the more universal “home” and “guests.” The original sign, the county says, was only a demonstration.

mons for Possession of Marijuana. A male, 21, of Manassas, was arrested for Obstruction of Justice. Stolen Vehicle and Vandalism to Vehicles, 1051 E. Broad St. (Koons Ford) On Oct. 12, police received a report of vandalism to ten vehicles and a stolen vehicle. Larceny from Vehicle, 1000 E. Broad St. On Oct. 12, an unknown suspect smashed a car window and stole the victim’s wallet. Smoking Violation, 6757 Wilson Blvd. (Le Mirage) On Oct. 13, a male, 29, of Alexandria, was cited for Smoking In a NonDesignated Area. Larceny of Vehicle Parts, 100 block W. Broad St. (George Mason Square) On Oct. 14, the victim’s license plate was removed from the victim’s vehicle while parked during the day.

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Mustangs Volleyball Team Continues To Dominate Bull Run by Matthew Hochberg

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It was much of the same for George Mason High School girls’ volleyball this past week, winning another two matches, improving their record to 12-2 on the season and continuing to gain momentum with just three regular season games left to play. Mason defeated Central High School 3-0 on Thursday, Oct. 13 on their home floor before traveling to Strasburg on Tuesday, Oct. 18 where they finished off another sweep. To put the Mustangs’ dominance into perspective: In October, which includes five games, head coach Hillary Trebels’ squad has surrendered just two sets in two games, not allowing the other three oppo-

nents to even win a set in the month, showing they are a force to be reckoned with come postseason play. Even with their performances of late, Trebels expressed a desire for her team to play with more energy on the floor moving forward. Still, she was satisfied with much of the play she saw. Junior hitter Laura Whitaker’s impressive serves closed out two of the three sets for Mason against Strasburg while junior hitter Merriweather Gordon and sophomore hitter McKenzie Brady led the way with the rest of their offense. Mason’s next game is on Thursday, Oct. 20 against Madison County High School. The last time the two teams played in Sept., on the Mountaineers’ home court, the Mustangs won 3-1.

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THE MUSTANGS VOLLEYBALL TEAM celebrates with a group hug after a recent win over Warren County High School. The Mustangs are 12-2 on the season and have only lost two sets in the month of October. Their next game is tonight against Madison County High School at home. (Photo: Carol Sly)

Mason Varsity Field Hockey Squad GMHS Football Drops Victory Ends 3-Game Losing Streak 5th Consecutive Game

by Jeffrey Wojtala

by Matthew Hochberg

On Monday, Oct. 17, George Mason High School’s field hockey team woke up just in time and ended their longest losing streak of the season at three. After facing a 5A and a 6A team where they lost one of their starting defensive players to a concussion, the team headed to nearby Arlington for a match against the Bishop O’Connell Knights. After the initial possession, Mason appeared to be tired, with the Knights intercepting numerous Mason clears before the ball could pass midfield. The Knights were not at all playing as their 2-13 record indicated, pushing the ball deep into the Mason end and receiving numerous penalty corners. The Mason defense stood strong, however, supported by great footwork by senior Hannah Hiscott in net, and no goals were scored. Mason did not receive their first penalty corner until the waning minutes of the game, but when the horn sounded the game remained deadlocked at zero. As overtime began the Mason crowd on hand at the field were

MASON FIELD HOCKEY SNAPPED its three-game losing streak on Monday against Bishop O’Connell. (Courtesy Photo)

For the fifth time in five games, George Mason’s High School football team failed to secure a win. On Friday, Oct. 14, the Mustangs fell to 2-5 on the season against a talented group from Clarke County High School. Mason lost by a score of 49-7, finally managing to find the end zone in the fourth quarter to avoid getting shut out for the first time this season. The Eagles improved to 5-2 on the season with their impressive victory on Homecoming night. They recorded seven touchdowns in the first half, including scores on a 54-yard pass, a 48-yard punt return and a 59-yard run. Mason running back Dustin Green was able to put up six points on the board for his team

in the final quarter of the contest with a rushing play at the goal line. The senior finished with 68 rushing yards on the night, his lowest total in almost a month. Junior fullback Finn Roou added 43 yards on the ground, including a solid 23-yard run while junior quarterback Thomas Creed finished the night 6-of-21 in the air, connecting on a 25-yard pass for his furthest throw of the night. This Friday night, the Mustangs will take on Warren County High School for their second to last regular season home game of the season. Last year, Mason defeated the Wildcats 56-42 in a highscoring affair, which gave them their fifth win of the season. Warren County has had struggles this season, too, with just a 1-6 record for the year.

long stroke eluded senior Manon Diz and the Knights player drove towards the net. Manon, though, recovered quickly and regained possession from the Knights player. On the ensuing clearing pass Manon found senior Kori Wills sprinting up the field. After a

little bit of dipsey-do stick handling Kori found junior Celine Diz in front of the Knights’ net. Celine’s first shot was stopped, but Celine put the rebound between the O’Connell goalie’s pads for the win. The Varsity team’s record is now 10-5 on the season. Next

game for the Mustangs is tonight and the team will face off against Brookewood School. The match will be Senior Night, the final regular season home game for the team. The field hockey program will honor their four graduating seniors – senior forward Maeva Donnelly, Wills, Diz and Hiscott.

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hopeful. Mason had not lost a game in extra periods this season. Overtime was dominated by Mason, as the Knights had a short bench for substitutes and the game length was beginning to show on the O’Connell players. The Knights did have a few chances, one of which was when a

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MASON’S BLAKE HOPKINS SANG at the Fall Junior Variety Show last week. The show, which helps with the costs of the Junior-Senior Prom, ran on Thursday, Oct. 13 and Friday, Oct. 14. (P��: C�� S��)

Mt. Daniel Students Visited By City Waste Coordinator Ahead of the first grade’s trip to the Fairfax County waste transfer station, students had a lesson on recycling last week from a Falls Church City staff member. Chris McGough, the City of Falls Church’s Solid Waste Coordinator visited with all the classes with information on the

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Henderson Students Learn All About Eggs, Make Souffle Students at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School recently completed a unit on eggs, during which they learned about the nutritional benefits of eggs, their role in cooking and baking,

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Mason Band & Chorus Raise Money Through MUSIC Days George Mason High School music students are raising money for their trip to play at Carnegie Hall through its annual M.U.S.I.C. (Many Useful Students in Our Community) Days campaign. During the fundraiser, which runs from Saturday, Oct. 29 – Sunday, Dec. 11, Mason music students will help with a chore around houses or businesses in Falls Church in exchange for donations. Those who sign up can have at least two Mason music students help out with a given chore. Those interested in having Mason music students come to their home or office during the weekend can sign up for a session at the FCCPS Band Boosters website, fallschurchcitybandboosters.weebly.com or email the volunteer coordinators at musicdaysgmhs@ gmail.com.

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TO LETTERS THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 dled by fewer available responders. Not good. Yes, it’s true. OSHA’s catchall “General Duty Clause” now heavily enforces safety cautiousness by all public safety agencies. Examples? You will see law enforcement vehicles marked “FTO” (Field Training Officers) responding to major emergencies. Same for the fire-rescue “SAFETY” (Safety Officers) responding to major emergencies. Effects on you? Expect slower ambulance responses passing reckless drivers. Expect firefighters watching structures burn while awaiting electricity cutoffs. Expect HAZMAT responders carefully testing spilled liquids or escaping fumes before shutting them off. Expect cops treating all bystanders as suspects until weapons pat downs are performed. Donald E. White Falls Church

What’s Up With The Condition of N. Roosevelt Street? Editor, I’m wondering who has the responsibility for the bad condition of N. Roosevelt Street. Several weeks ago Fairfax Water set up a staging area on 11th Street, between Tuckahoe and Sycamore, for water main work – replacement, I think – on Roosevelt Street. The work lasted for weeks, during which time Roosevelt, adjacent to the Oakwood Cemetery, was often down to just one lane, even during rush hours. The work began on the portion of Roosevelt which is parallel to Sycamore and Tuckahoe, just below the traffic light, and continued around the corner, progressing toward Broad Street for about three blocks – to a point well south of Tuckahoe. It appears to have been finished. Everything

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has been removed from the staging area. But the road is in awful shape. Two three+ block-long patches run from the traffic light south. They occupy two lanes from Roosevelt Blvd. to Tuckahoe Street. They are bumpy and uneven and make daily driving on this stretch of Roosevelt unpleasant and maybe dangerous. They are certainly not what one expects to find after an excavation project has been completed. Is Fairfax Water finished? Are these temporary patches, in anticipation of further digging there? Are they temporary patches, in anticipation of a resurfacing project for the whole road (by the City)? Or will a permanent job of patching be done in the near future? Has Fairfax Water just vandalized several blocks of Roosevelt Street, wiping their hands of the street, leaving just these shoddy patches? Is this another snub of our Little City? Or will the street be restored to easy driveability? I live on Tuckahoe Street, and I want to know. Ted White Falls Church

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F.C. Chamber Hosting Networking Mixer on Oct. 25 The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting a networking mixer to celebrate its Diversity Inclusion Effort on Tuesday, October 25. The event, which is co-sponsored by the Arab American Business Council, will take place from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at the Best Western located at 6633 Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church. The event is free. Appetizers will be provided by Bawadi Mediterranean Grill & Sweets Café, Panjshir Authentic Afghan Cuisine, Pita Pouch and Solutions Catering. For more information, or to RSVP, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.

Home Buying Happy Hour at Mad Fox Next Wednesday Rock Star Realty at KW’s Tori McKinney is hosting the fifth annual Rock the House Home Buying 101 Happy Hour on Wednesday, October 26 from 5 – 8 p.m. at Mad Fox Brewing Company. This event, “Your Backstage Pass to Homeownership” provides attendees a chance to meet and learn from local home buying experts including representatives from Universal Title Arlington, Stearns Home Loans, FCC Housing Services, Ekko Title Arlington, George Mason Mortgage, LLC, Fidelity Bank Mortgage, AmeriSpec Home Inspections, as well as from Rock Star Realty. Attendees at this free event will also enjoy live music by Hayley Fahey Duo and have the opportunity to win raffle prizes valued at $2,000. To register for a free drink, visit rth16.eventbrite.com. Mad Fox Brewing Company is located at 444 W. Broad Street.

Small Business Association Hosting Twitter Chat on Cyber Security In honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Small Business Administration is hosting a Twitter chat on cyber security for small business on Tuesday, October 25 at 3 p.m. and a Webinar on cyber security 101 on Thursday, October 27 at 1 p.m. The Twitter chat, #SBAchat, will include helpful advice, tips, tricks, and information on emerging threats that small business owners need to know about. The webinar will review rising threats to small and midsized businesses and ways in which businesses can protect themselves. For more information about this and other SBA webinars, visit www.sba.gov.  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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Community Events

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

High School Book Club. Teens in grades 9 – 12 will discuss The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. Community Forum Regarding the Future of the Falls Church City Public Schools. Residents can par�cipate in discussions with fellow residents and School Board members Michael Ankuma and Phil Rei�nger on school facili�es, budget, the superintendent search and restoring transparency, accountability and meaningful input by all stakeholders to our public schools. The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (222 N. Washington St., Falls Church). Free. 8 – 10 p.m. TheFallsChurchWay.com.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

Popcorn Campﬁre. The whole family is invited to gather at the Long Branch amphitheater for lots of old-fashioned fun. This engaging program will be ﬁlled with entertaining ac�vi�es. Long Branch Nature Center at Glencarlyn Park (625 S. Carlin Springs Road, Arlington). $5. 6 – 7 p.m. 703-228-6535.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

Farmers Market. F.C. 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. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Drug Take-Back Day. People can bring their prescrip�on medica�on in for proper disposal with no ques�ons asked. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. fallschurchva.gov. NSDAR Mee�ng. The Falls Church chapter of the Na�onal Society Daughters of the American Revolu�on will hold a mee�ng. Call 703-319-7755 for more informa�on. Free. 10:30 a.m. fallschurchdar.org. My Rep�le Guys at the Library. An hour long presenta�on featuring a variety of rep�le species from all over the world. Par�cipants will get the chance to observe and learn the unique peculiari�es of turtles, tortoises, lizards and snakes. The presenta�on concludes with an interac�ve opportunity to experience these fascina�ng animals through a pe�ng zoo. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m.

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Masquerade & Silent Auc�on. Join the Friends of Falls Church Homeless Shelter for a fun night of live music, dinner and dancing. Wear your favorite mask & cocktail a�re. There will also be great auc�on items from local and na�onal businesses. NRECA Conference Center (4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $60 in advance; $70 day of the gala. 6 – 10 p.m. fallschurchshelterfriends.org/ event/fall-masquerade-and-silentauc�on.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23

Fall Harvest Tea at Cherry Hill Farmhouse. Join the Victorian Society of Falls Church or a special tea celebra�ng the harvest season and the history of Falls Church as a farming village. Reserva�ons required. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $30. 2 – 4 p.m.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

Preschool Story�me. Stories and fun for ages 2 – 5. Drop-in. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-248-5034. ESL Conversa�on Group. An ESL conversa�on group for adults focusing on “English Language and American Culture.” No registra�on required, meets in the Conference Group. Mary

Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25

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). Free. 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. 703-2485034. Play�me with the Early Literary Center. Explore educa�onal and manipula�ve items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years, no registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26

Downsizing Your Home. Are you considering downsizing from your large home to a smaller one? Learn how downsizing can minimize maintenance and mortgage costs, reduce clutter and house chores, and create many other opportunities. Free program presented by local realtor Ellen Moyer. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ Library.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

“Ruthless! The Musical.” Creative Cauldron opens its new season with its production of this award-winning cult hit that is directed by Creative Cauldron’s artistic associate Matt Conner. “Ruthless!” is often billed as “the stage mother of all musicals,” and is a musical farce about a cutthroat eight-year-old, Tina Denmark, whose Broadway ambitions mean she is willing to do anything for the chance to play the lead in her school play. Through Oct. 30. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $20 – $30. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

“Motherstruck.” As a teenager in Jamaica, Staceyann Chin lived in fear of an unwanted

pregnancy. As a lesbian performance poet in Brooklyn in her ever-later 30s, she craves nothing more than a child…only to face twists of love, biology, and health insurance. A hilarious, intimate, and heart-shaking story of the bestlaid plans and hairpin turns with a magnetic performance from the poet and memoirist. Through Oct. 23. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $55. 7:30 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

“Comic Potential.” On one level, “Comic Potential” is a satire of the TV industry. It is set slightly in the future, when everything has changed except human nature. Actors in a popular soap opera have been replaced by “Actoids”– android performers. During the taping of the show, one of the “Actoids” begins to show signs of

creativity. Is it a fault in her programming or is she humanizing? A young writer begins to teach her comic timing and physical comedy. Can their budding relationship blossom into real love or is it doomed to melt down? Closing night. The Alden (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $18 – $20. 8 p.m. mcleanplayer.org.

“Kiss.” A standing double-date quickly becomes a hilarious farce as four friends unburden their hearts and reveal their secret passions. But is anything really what it seems to be? An intense, furtive video chat with what might be an exiled author, living on the run while escaping persecution, disintegrates both their world and ours until nothing is familiar. Can we recover what’s been lost in translation? Through Nov. 6. Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $59. 3 p.m. woolymammoth.net.

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S�� C�� A�� T�� K�� P��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. N�� H��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. R�� L�� J��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $45. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. T��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. S�� E�� D�� C��, A�� W��, D�� T��, B�� H��, A�� P�� J�� P��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. T�� S��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

D�� C��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. J�� T�� T�� C�� G�� T�� D��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $12. 7 p.m. 703237-0300. N��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $50 – $55. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. M�� A��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $45 – $55. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404.

S�� R�� M�� L�� V��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30. 8 p.m. 202265-0930. M�� T�� M�� K�� B�� C��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 8 p.m. 202667-7960. E�� S�� T��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. C�� L��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. J�� S��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22

E�� J�� W��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. N�� B��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. 10�� A�� DC “H��” C�� B�� S��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Mainstage). 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. B�� J��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $22 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. N��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $50 – $55. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. J��’ J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

T�� D��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23

B�� S�� B��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 2 – 8 p.m. 703-5329283. W�� G�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. B�� S��: C�� C�� C�� C�� SCREAM �� R�� H��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $20 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-237-0300. R�� E�� A�� K��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202667-7960. B�� M�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. D�� A�� C��. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646. S�� G��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30 – $60. 9 p.m. 202-265-0930.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

T�� W��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. A�� K�� T��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141.

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W�� B�� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. K�� P�� R��. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25

H�� M�� S�� S�� S��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. S�� S�� M�� W�� L�� T��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. R�� H��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $40 – $45. 8 p.m. 202-3374141.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26

M�� Z��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $25 in advance; $30 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. S�� S�� W��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. C�� C�� R�� F��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. L�� P��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $27. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. R�� H��. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $40 – $45. 8 p.m. 202-3374141.

P�� A��... Friday, October 28 – “Murder at the Manor” Ghost Stories. Join the Victorian Society of Falls Church in exploring the Victorian’s love of murder, mystery and suspense

with a variety of ghost stories. Reserva�ons required. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $5. 8 – 10 p.m. cjannicelli@fallschurchva.gov.

Saturday, October 29 – Job Fair. The Kensington Falls Church will be hos�ng a job fair to staﬀ its new facility at 700 W. Broad Street. The company will be

hiring care managers, care supervisors, licensed professional nurses, wellness nurses, ac�vi�es coordinators, concierges, dining coordinators, u�lity staﬀ, cooks, servers, drivers, laundry a�endants and more. Hilton Garden Inn 2nd Floor Mee�ng Room (706 W. Broad St., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. FallsChurchCareers@KensingtonSL.com.

Friday, November 11 – Holiday Closure: Veterans Day. Most City oﬃces and services will be closed, but the Veterans Ceremony will take place at 11 a.m.

outside the Falls Church Community Center. All Day. publicinfo@fallschurchva.gov.

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Recipe Ideas for Hazelnuts BY MICHELLE STARK

naked, roasted hazelnuts in one of the following recipes.

Hazelnuts have a distinctly delicious flavor that you can probably recall if you’ve ever stuck your fingers into a jar of Nutella. The small, round nuts are low in saturated fats and high in fiber and potassium. And they are a surprising way to add pizzazz to a variety of dishes, not just sweets. Most hazelnuts are sold with the peel still on, but the best way to eat them in almost any iteration is with the skins removed – and roasted. Regular hazelnuts are fine; roasted hazelnuts are a revelation. There are two ways to roast the nuts most effectively. The first: Add hazelnuts with the skin on to a dry skillet over medium heat. Toast until skins have started to brown and are loosening from the nut. Remove pan from heat and transfer nuts to a paper-towellined plate. (To remove skins, top with another paper towel and gently rub the hazelnuts until skin flakes off.) Alternatively, place hazelnuts on a baking sheet and cook in a 350-degree oven for about 5 minutes, or until fragrant. Remove skins. Then, use your

L�� H�� Q�� W�� T�� H�� This quinoa dish is able to be served warm or cold. Start by toasting ½ cup raw hazelnuts using the dry skillet method, then remove skin. Give them a rough chop and set aside. To a large bowl, add 2 ½ cups cooked quinoa, ¼ cup chopped parsley and 2 tablespoons each chives, dill and oregano. Add hazelnuts and stir. Now, make a dressing for the salad. In a small bowl, whisk together the juice of 1 lemon, 1 tablespoon olive oil, ½ teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Pour dressing over the top and mix to combine. Recipe adapted from simplyquinoa.com.

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and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract and mix again. Now, grind ½ cup of skinless hazelnuts (a food processor works best for this) until they are very fine, almost like flour. Add that, along with ½ cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda and ¼ teaspoon salt to the wet mixture and mix well. Add 3 cups oats and more hazelnuts, this time ½ cup of them coarsely chopped. Scoop batter in heaping tablespoons onto a baking sheet and bake for roughly 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Recipe adapted from willcookforsmiles.com. H�� P�� Start with about 8 ounces of cooked whole wheat penne. Roughly chop 3 ounces roasted, skinless hazelnuts. Then smash 3 cloves garlic with the side of a large knife, then mince very well to form a paste. Chop 2 small dried chili peppers (removing the seeds first) and the leaves from about 3 stems of flatleaf parsley. Next, heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a medium pan and add the garlic. Cook for about 3 minutes, then transfer garlic to a small bowl and set aside. Add chili peppers to the pan, cook for 3 minutes, then add parsley. Grate 2 ounces Parmigiano-

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Reggiano cheese into the pan, then add 2 tablespoons Pecorino Romano cheese as well. Add 2 tablespoons water, along with the cooked pasta. Stir lightly, then add the hazelnuts and garlic and toss again to coat evenly. Salt as needed, then serve with a drizzle of olive oil. Recipe adapted from the Washington Post. A�� S�� W�� G�� H�� I recently had an “apple salad” at Edison in Tampa that was more apple than any form of greenery, and it was a refreshing part of the meal. This salad has a similar vibe, and is ideal for this time of year,

when most varieties of apples are in season. You can use whichever type you’d like, though your Granny Smiths and your Galas are going to be best for the crunch they provide. To make, juice 1 lemon into a bowl. Thinly slice 2 large Granny Smith apples, placing them in the bowl of lemon juice as you go. Then add the following to the bowl and toss: 1 stalk thinly sliced celery, 2 ounces Gruyere cheese cut into cubes, ½ cup roughly chopped toasted hazelnuts, 2 teaspoons minced chives and ½ cup baby arugula. Top with 2 tablespoons good olive oil and mix until ingredients are coated. Recipe adapted from thegourmetgourmand.com.

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Review: Creative Cauldron Gets ‘Ruthless!’ to Open Season by Nicholas F. Benton

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“Ruthless! The Musical,” which opened the new season at Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron last week, is a raucous, laugh-a-minute hoot. The Cauldron’s producing director Laura Hull wrote in the program that she chose it for this time frame six months ago as she “suspected we might be in the throes of a contentious presidential election and we might just be in need of a good dose of laughter.” Last Saturday night’s audience was made up of attendees at the Cauldron’s annual benefit event, held on site at the Art Space of Falls Church on S. Maple St., and they had no difficulty matching every laugh line with robust guffaws and squeals of their own. With book and lyrics by Joel Paley and music by Marvin Laird, the Cauldron production that runs through October 30 is directed by Cauldron’s talented fixture, Matt Conner, and features an ensemble of other talented fixtures who’ve delighted audiences with their Cauldron performances, including numerous Helen Hayes recommendatious, and others.

This show also includes a newcomer, Sophia Manicone, a sixth grader at the Louise Archer Elementary school, making her professional debut with a major role in this show. Her understudy is Madeline Aldana from Falls Church’s Henderson Middle School and a product of the Cauldron’s Learning Theater. The production demands a lot of perfect timing to pull off all the humor, which is where Conner comes in. His directing has the fast pace, goofy moves and sharp one-liners keeping the audience in stitches. No, there are no profound existential realities conveyed here, except that people are people, with all their imperfections, especially in their pursuits of high school musical or Broadway fame, and that makes us all feel better. There’s room for a short cameo appearance that Hull has assigned to different celebrities each night, including Falls Church Mayor David Tarter last week and State Delegate Marcus Simon this week. The cast worked together so well that the show brought out the best in all. The voices of Manicone, Katie McManus, Tamarin Ythier, Shaina Virginia

SOPHIA MANCIONE (left) and Alan Naylor in “Ruthless! The Musical.” Kuhn and Kathy Halenda are all highly entertaining, and Alan Naylor absolutely excelled in his drag performance as Sylvia St. Croix, a role which morphs, as with others, into surprises as the wacky plot unfolds. Naylor was brilliant in two other Cauldron productions, “Monsters of the Villa Diodati” and “Jacques

Brel is Alive and Well” (for which he won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead in a Musical), but in outdoes himself in this show with a hilarious campy rendering that does not let up. Behind the scenes is the veteran music director and pianist Walter “Bobby” McCoy, who did the Cauldron’s “Once on This

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Island” and “Caroline Or Change” last year, whose tempo set the tireless pace on stage. This is the kind of show that grows on the actors who find new nuances and laugh lines as it proceeds, so it may be even fresher for an audience later this month, which a good excuse to see it more than once.

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For harmonica player Magic Dick and guitarist and vocalist Shun Ng, it was about time they released a record together, so appropriately, the debut album from the duo is called About Time. They have been playing together for a couple of years and are now touring across the country in support of their album, which is a mix of covers and originals. Magic Dick is known for his work primarily with the J. Geils Band and has had a long and storied career otherwise. But Ng, his relatively new partner, is an anomaly who was born in Chicago, raised in Singapore and is based in Boston, where he went to school at the Berklee College of Music. He’s only 24 years old, but has already earned praise from legendary musician and record producer Quincy Jones, who said “When you see Shun Ng, you won’t believe your eyes nor your ears – he belies all stereotypes, all premonitions. I was simply blown away by both his soul and his science – his creativity and his uniqueness is astounding.” His voice sounds like a mixture of James Brown, Michael Jackson and Ray Charles with his own original spice added to the mix. The best example of this unique blend is probably on the duo’s rendition of “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” which is on About Time. “We chose tunes that we really liked. Classic jazz tunes and blues tunes that we really liked. We like ‘Let the Good Times Roll’ and we thought about the meaning of that,” Ng said. “We open our set with that, so you know we thought for the album that we’d do something like that. “And we sort of chose songs also that based on what we could do to it. If we could do something interesting to it, like on ‘Let the Good Times Roll’ Dick plays this dramatic harmonica and pays homage to the big band sound….So we chose songs based off what we

MAGIC DICK & SHUN NG. (C�� P��) could explore musically and stuff that we love to play and songs that we love.” Magic Dick and Shun Ng have chosen a minimalistic approach to what they are doing on About Time. That approach mixed with the selection of cover songs produces an interesting, engaging result. On their version of “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” for instance, they abandon the big backing sound of the original track for incremental, slight notes from Magic Dick’s harmonica – only enough so that you can tell what song they are playing – and then Ng’s soulful voice creeps in as the song progresses. “We like music that has a considerable degree of space and has intricacy in the interaction between the harmonica, the guitar and the voice,” Dick said. “That’s what we like, so that’s what we do.”

Ng added that taking that approach is “challenging.” “With the both of us a lot of the show is interaction between us, just the two of us,” he said. “I think the bigger you get, the more arranged music has to be, but with just two elements, the improvisational aspect is quite larger. It just keeps it very exciting and every show is different and unique.” Most recently, Magic Dick and Shun Ng have released a live performance of their rendition of the J. Geils Band song “Whammer Jammer,” which is called “Whammer Jammer 2.0.” It’s a fresh take on a song that Magic Dick is already known for performing, but the video is a great example of what Ng was talking about when it comes to their performance chemistry. It looks like they are in their own party up on stage and the audience is clamoring to join in on the fun. • For more information about Magic Dick and Shun Ng, visit shunng.com.

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51. Warren ____, baseball’s winningest southpaw 53. Turkish inn 54. Easygoing 55. Vowel that’s actually a human being? 58. Vowel that’s titillating? 60. Sit in a cellar, perhaps 61. Tic-____-39-Down 62. Choreographer Lubovitch 63. Ruckus 64. Wink’s partner 65. Tour de France season 66. “____-haw!” 67. Pouch

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Sudoku

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10. Craigslist offering 13. 2009 political biography "Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, ____, Jewish Congressman" 14. 2013 Joaquin Phoenix film 15. Gasteyer of "SNL" 16. Ceremonious verse 17. Vowel that's not from around here? 19. Vowel that's portly?

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24. Assured way to solve a crossword puzzle

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk. © 2016 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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Critter Corner

BACK IN THE DAY

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20 & 10 Years Ago in the News-Press

Falls Church News-Press Vol. VI, No. 31 • October 17, 1996

By 4-3 Vote, Council Denies Church Request to Operate Homeless Shelter By a 4-3 vote late Tuesday night, the Falls Church City Council denied, for the second straight year, a request by the Dulin United Methodist Church at 503 E. Broad St., to operate a temporary, emergency overflow homeless shelter facility at its site.

Falls Church News-Press Vol. XVI, No. 33 • October 19, 2006

10 Year s Ago

Thr ow it up. Pour it up It now is the time for all go od cows to go the to aid

F.C.’s Sex Ed Blues A Virginia State Department of Health Brochure released last spring indicating that the City of Falls Church had the third highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the state in 2004 has set off alarms in the school system here.

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Diener & Associates, CPA.. . . . . . . . . 241-8807 Eric C. Johnson, CPA, PC . . . . . . . . . 538-2394 Mark Sullivan, CPA. . . . . . . . . . . 571-214-4511 Hahn & Associates, PC, CPAs. . . . . . 533-3777

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

Acclaimed Carpet Cleaning . . . . . . . . 978-2270 A Cleaning Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892-8648 n

ATTORNEYS

Mark F. Werblood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-9300 Janine S. Benton, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . .992-9255 n

AUTOMOTIVE

Beyer Volvo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5000 Koons Used Car Outlet . . . . . . . . . . . 533-3363 n

BANKING

Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Co.. . . 519-1634 BB&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-3505 TD Bank/www.TDBank.com. . . . . . . . 237-2051 n

BOOK BINDING

Maid Brigade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823-1922

CLEANING SERVICES

VA Outdoor Power Equipment . . . . . . 207-2000

Point of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-6500

EQUIPMENT RENTAL/SALE EYEWEAR

LAWN CARE

Charles Jenkins Landscaping . . . . . 830-2654

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Dr Gordon Theisz, Family Medicine. . 533-7555

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Paint and Stain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-243-9417

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PLUMBING

WILLIAMS PLUMBING . . . . . . . 571-263-6405 n

PHOTOGRAPHY

Gary Mester, Event, Portraits. . . . . . . 481-0128 Mary Sandoval Photography . . . 334-803-1742 n

PERSONAL TRAINING

202 Fitness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258-5233 n

REAL ESTATE

Merelyn Kaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362-1112 Rosemary Hayes Jones. . . . . . . . . . .790-1990 The Young Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356-8800 Tori McKinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867-8674

Academy of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938-8054 Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393 Dr. Alison Sinyai, Family Eye Care . . 533-3937

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Broad Street Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . 533-9013 n

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PET SERVICES

Apex Pet Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-8012 Feline Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920-8665

MASSAGE

www.healthybyintention.com.. . . . . . . 534-1321

FRAMES

Jazzercise Falls Church. . . . . . . . . . . 622-2152

INSURANCE

Allstate Home Auto Life Ins. . . . . . . 241-8100 State Farm Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 237-5105

Family Dentistry, Nimisha V Patel . . . 533-1733 Dr. William Dougherty . . . . . . . . . . . 532-3300

Doug’s Handyman Service. . . . . . . . . 556-4276 Your Handyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-243-6726

BCR Binders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-9181

DENTISTS

Art & Frame of Falls Church . . . . . . . 534-4202 n

FC Heating & Air Service . . . . . . . . . . 534-0630 Joseph Home Improvement. . . . . . . . 507-5005 Picture Perfect Home Improvement. . 590-3187 One Time Home Improvement. . . . . . 577-9825

COLLEGES

American College of Commerce & Technology 942-6200

Antique Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241-9642 n

3 months - $150 6 months - $270 1 year - $450

TAILOR

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