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Inside This Week Police Arrest Suspect in 2 F.C. Armed Robberies

A suspect in the armed robberies of a convenience store and a gas station in Falls Church was apprehended after a brief standoff at the Stratford Motor Lodge involving multiple police units including a SWAT team and helicopters last Friday. See page 5

In Trump Shocker Election, F.C. Voters Approve Library Bonds Beyer Re-Elected, Dems At F.C.’s State Theatre

Cheer Clinton’s Va. Win

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

into the City in time for a public referendum next fall, the decision was made to put the nitty-gritty work to a smaller group of two appointees each from each body with an alternate as well. The smaller group will meeting every week, or more often if needed, to advance the complicated process of figuring out what kind of renovation or replacement of George Mason High School should go onto the site, including an expansion of the adjacent Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School.

At 10 p.m. Tuesday night, with 400 Northern Virginia Democratic party faithful packed into Falls Church’s State Theatre, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe took the stage to announce that Virginia had gone for Hillary Clinton in the national presidential election. It allowed the crowd, sullen as Clinton’s rival Donald Trump began knocking off Democratic stronghold states, to explode, followed by one of McAuliffe’s trademark rousing speeches. “Virginia is the first battleground state to go blue,” he exclaimed, and promised “when the night is over, we will win it all.” While that promise continued to fade as more results from around the U.S. came in, it was not until 40 minutes later that CNN officially projected Virginia for Clinton and her running mate, Virginia U.S. Senator Tim Kaine. McAuliffe was joined by Falls Church Native Son Rep. Don Beyer, in an easy reelection, and follow re-elected congressmen Gerry Connolly of Fairfax and Bobby Scott of Norfolk. Not present but elected for the first time that night as another Virginia Democratic congressman was Donald McEachin from Richmond, (U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock in the nearby 10th District won over Democratic challenger LuAnn Bennett, 56 to 42 percent.) While the City of Falls Church was happy to host a rousing celebration of a statewide win for Clinton at its largest live music venue, it also had its own reasons to take solace in the election, as 85.38 percent of the City’s active

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Cafe Kindred Officially Debuts New Bar Friday

Cafe Kindred’s new bar-inside-acoffee-shop dubbed Townshend Bar will make its formal debut with a grand opening Friday at Northgate. See page 23

Frank Bruni: Trump’s Alarming Success

Just days ago I was in Ohio. I was talking to Republicans, and I kept hearing: Donald Trump is throwing this election away. See page 14

Press Pass with Big Head Blues Club

Big Head Blues Club, the spinoff blues project of Big Head Todd and the Monsters, recently released the second edition of its series of albums paying tribute to blues music and musicians. See page 25

Index

Editorial..................6 Letters....................6 News & Notes.12-13 Comment......... 14-17 Sports..................18 Calendar.........20-21

Food & Dining......23 Business News....27 Classified Ads .....28 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword...........29 Critter Corner.......30

VOTERS CHECK-IN at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School on Tuesday, one of three polling locations in the City of Falls Church. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press)

Campus Land Task Force Assembles Needed Data by Nicholas F. Benton

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Shoe-horned into a small conference room at the Falls Church School Board offices yesterday morning, the West End Campus Process Steering Committee convened for its first meeting of a very aggressive schedule. Jammed into the room were City Manager Wyatt Shields, Schools Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones, three members of the City’s Planning Division, Link Strategic Partners’ Tim Wisniewski, the convener of the meeting, three

members of the City Council – Marybeth Connelly, Letty Hardi and Karen Oliver – two members of the School Board – Erin Gill and John Lawrence – and a couple people hooked up by phone including School Board chair Justin Castillo. The idea of the task force came out of last week’s joint Falls Church City Council and School Board meeting, all 14 members plus staff, when the group suffered through a second unwieldy and unproductive meeting. Given the pressure to design plans for the 39 acre site recently annexed

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Council, School Board Task Force on West End Meets Continued from Page 1

The “moving parts” of the planning involve how much money to task Falls Church taxpayers in a November 2017 referendum to spend on these projects, and how much commercial development to encourage on 10 acres of the land adjacent the West Falls Church Metro that can allow for that use. Most of the last year, the City and Schools, co-owners of the land, worked with two developers who responded to a request for proposal a year ago. But working with two competing groups proved too unwieldy, among other things requiring an abundance of secret meetings required to prevent proprietary information from getting out into the public domain. Last spring, the two groups voted to tank that process and go it alone with the help of a consultant, and in the early stages Link Strategic Partners aimed at facilitating the hoped-for resolution of strong differences among the two groups. Some want to

limit the expenditure for the high school to a $40 million patchwork fix, and others want to spend $110 million on a new school with the most advanced classrooms and other facilities (such as a swimming pool or performing arts center). Variables discussed yesterday morning included the projected size of the school, depending on enrollment projections in the next 20 years, and just touched lightly on the issue of how much economic development should be encouraged. Falls Church Planning Director Jim Snyder said that allowing a 3.5 FAR (floor to area ratio) has been considered an upper limit for mixed use and other developments in Falls Church, but is absolutely not a hard limit. Council member Hardi chimed in about the relationship between the development and the school construction, saying, “Hey Falls Church, you don’t want to pay for this (school)? Then will you accept the kind of development needed to pay for it?”

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THE TASK FORCE on the West End Campus Process project held its �irst meeting at the Falls Church School Board yesterday morning. (P��: N��-P��) Snyder said this approach was used with the public in Arlington and Pentagon City. “It was difficult but it got good results,” he said. The task force group will meet again at the School Board offices next Thursday morning, Nov. 17, to prepare for the next meeting

with the entire Council and School Board on Nov. 21. The School Board’s Lawrence commented about the meeting, “It was a good start today chipping away at the information needed to move ahead on the vital and very needed school projects. We have an aggressive

schedule with a committed group from the schools and the city and I’m confident that we can build on the work already done, analyze new data, and move ahead quickly toward a high school that the community wants, the students deserve and the City can afford.”

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Suspect in 2 F.C. Armed Robberies Arrested at Stratford Motor Lodge BY JODY FELLOWS

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A suspect in the armed robberies of a convenience store and a gas station in the City of Falls Church was apprehended after a brief standoff at the Stratford Motor Lodge involving multiple police units including a SWAT team and helicopters last Friday. The suspect, 39-year-old Marcus Perry of Washington, D.C., was arrested after police say he fired a gun inside the S. Washington Street 7-Eleven and pistol whipped two employees before fleeing with cash in the early morning hours Friday. Then, later the same day, police say Perry used a gun to strike an employee at Exxon on W. Broad St. before getting away with cash. Before the arrest was announced last Friday, a large police presence developed in the heart of Falls Church that morning, surrounding the W.

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Broad St. motel, and included an Arlington County Police SWAT team, Fairfax County K9 and helicopter units. Police would not release any information on the operation while it was occurring out of caution to avoid an escalation in the situation, a spokesperson for the City told the News-Press. A video of the arrest provided to the News-Press shows the operation concluding with Perry arrested peacefully after being ordered out of a ground floor motel room by police. Police say Perry was involved in the armed robbery of the 7-Eleven at 804 S. Washington St. around 2:45 a.m. Friday and later that morning, the Exxon at 400 W. Broad St. around 8:40. The victims were transported to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries and at least two received sutures to the head. Perry has been charged with two counts of robbery, two counts of using a firearm in the

commission of a felony and three counts of malicious wounding. He is currently being held without bond. In a statement to the NewsPress this week, Falls Church Police Chief Mary Gavin said of the arrest, “This operation was a success due to a number of factors including outstanding observation skills, documentation and tactics by City Police which eventually lead to spotting the subject. A business involved also played a pivotal role thanks to video surveillance. “Our mutual aid partners contributed significantly to the operation, including the Falls Church Sheriff’s Office, Arlington Police Department SWAT team, Fairfax County K9 and helicopter units, and the Alexandria Police Department Public Information Office.” “This was a tense and dangerous approach to a very violent offender. I am proud of the swift and peaceful conclusion,” she said.

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There are millions of marginalized people in our land today who since the presidential election Tuesday are now experiencing raw fear, not only from policies Donald Trump might initiate but also from the horrible way that his candidacy has entitled levels of hate and rage in the population. It is paramount that progressive leaders, all of us really, immediately and publicly pledge to protect all the fearful among us with absolute resolve. In this region, Latinos are those most likely to be anguished if not viscerally fearful. It is predictable that those least personally anguished and most likely to accommodate to a Trump presidency are enfranchised members of the nation’s majority, white male or female persons, whether as politicians, commentators or educators. But the impact of the Trump win is felt entirely differently among racial, ethnic and religious minorities of all kinds, anyone who is “different” from the Caucasian norm. It’s hard for someone who is not a person of color to appreciate. Many Latinos, even if in the U.S. completely legally, fear being subjected to harassment and profiling by law enforcement, and fear friends or relatives they may know who are not secure being here. Muslims face a similar concern and there are a lot of stories of profiling where Muslim citizens are singled out to be subjected to searches or questions. Gays, or LGBT persons, are equally concerned. Even if Trump has said somewhat favorable things about LGBT persons, the rage he has effectively sanctioned and unleashed across the U.S. will contribute to angry muggings and harassment. Also, Trump has vowed arch-conservative appointments to the Supreme Court such that matters related to gay marriage and other protections will be in jeopardy. Women, of course, and the control of women over their own bodies will be up for oppressive rulings by a Supreme Court stuffed with Trump appointees. With Trump having gotten away with the sleaziest language of sexual assault caught on tape during the campaign, it is not only the Supreme Court that may impinge on women, but men in general as well, feeling empowered to be “Just Like Trump” (after all, he’s our president), to escalate the objectification and assaults on women. But the genuine setback for the status of women in our culture represented by the optics of the Trump campaign spreads a degraded image of humanity to all. Trump’s slavish obsession with young and attractive women sanctions an open door to the greater mainstreaming of pornography and prostitution which in an economically-austere economy, lures young people. Eliza Byard, executive director of GLSEN that addresses the needs of LGBT youth in schools, commented following Tuesday’s election that the way forward is “Values, not parties. Governance, not politics. Education not indoctrination. Love for the long haul, not ‘likes.’” “The currency of love is focused attention,” she added. “Let’s give those most frightened and confused our love today.”

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Editor, I fully agree with Mr. Andrle’s Letter to the Editor in last week’s edition in which he states in his letter “Virginia counties rely too heavily on property taxes for revenue.” Let’s be realistic. Do you really think a four-percent meals tax will reduce property taxes, how can it when we read on the front page of the News Press last week, the headline “F.C. City School Enrollment Projected to Double by 2032.” This

is just one example in which more revenue will have to be generated to meet the demands that once again will be put on our school system, not only in Falls Church City, but throughout Fairfax County. A meals tax on the surface might sound good but in the long run it would not have generated enough revenue to see any substantial reduction in our property taxes. Douglas Goodgion Falls Church

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Living, Working & Loving Equally in Our Society B� S�� D��. A�� E��

I always knew I was different. Even on Election Day in 1968, I was the only kindergartner to chant “Humphrey” when all of my classmates cheered “Nixon.” While Humphrey was someone I heard about from my mom, I wasn’t afraid to stand out in a crowd. That confidence helped me come out and eventually become an openly gay Virginia state legislator. Getting here wasn’t easy, but the support I had along the way and continue to have both professionally and personally has made being gay in the Virginia General Assembly an incredible opportunity. Early in my tenure, the Assembly went through one of its most anti-gay sessions ever. I remember getting knots in my stomach watching some of the votes and listening to the vitriol said on the House floor. At the end of the day though I knew, and I still know, that when speeches like that happen, I can grab the microphone and demand my voice — our voice — be part of the conversation. But not everyone feels like they have that voice. Not everyone feels like they can come out yet. Near the end of that first legislative session a young House page approached me to say she appreciated my speaking at the upcoming Passing the Torch Dinner. At the time, I didn’t know it was an event hosted

by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network for students from Gay-Straight Alliances. When speaking at the dinner a few weeks later, I looked out in the audience and saw that same page.

“We also cannot forget that while you can now get married on Sunday, in Virginia you can still be �ired on Monday morning and evicted on Tuesday, simply because of who you love.” I realized I had helped give hope to a lesbian high school student — a young woman who sat on the floor of the General Assembly and had to listen to this same anti-gay hate speech during session. I am proud to have been a voice for this young woman back in 2004 and am proud of my record of speaking up and speaking out for Virginia’s LGBT community. Let us honor those who’ve fought so long for equality and justice. I am proud of the work they’ve done and do every day

and marriage equality would not be the law of the land without them. But that does not mean we can stop fighting for those who are afraid to speak up — and all those who haven’t yet come out. We also cannot forget that while you can now get married on Sunday, in Virginia you can still be fired on Monday morning and evicted on Tuesday, simply because of who you love. I am committed to fighting for laws that enact workplace and other non-discrimination protections. We must ensure that people, no matter their sexual orientation, can live, work, and love equally in our society. Please join me in continuing to speak out for LGBT equality, for immigrants, for women, and for religious minorities. I have absolutely no intention of stopping now, and I hope you don’t either! Here is the statement of Earl Fowlkes, chair of the Democratic National Committee’s LGBT Caucus, issued last month on National Coming Out Day: We celebrate one of the most powerful forces in the fight for LGBT equality. When someone decides to come out as member of the LGBT community, it gives their friends, family, loved ones and neighbors a personal reason to support LGBT rights, and it inspires more members and allies of the LGBT community to stand up for what is right, even in the face of discrimination, bigotry and violence. Despite the great strides we’ve made in

recent years – marriage equality, the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and more – the sad fact remains that coming out is still a risky, even dangerous thing to do for too many Americans, young and old. But that’s why it’s so important. Together, we can end the discrimination and build a brighter, safer future for all. The Democratic Party is proud to stand with the LGBT community, and proud to support candidates for elected office who are fighting for the promise of full equality.” Also in honor of National Coming Out Day, Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine sat down with ATTN: Editor-In-Chief Matthew Segal for a video interview, telling him that it is incumbent upon adults in leadership positions to promote the message of acceptance. Amid clips of LGBT kids describing the bullying and hate-speech directed at them, Senator Kaine says that National Coming Out Day is important because we need to let kids know that they should “be proud of who you are. You’re made the way you’re made for a reason...celebrate that and accept it.” Senator Kaine also said that school districts receiving school safety funding should work to reduce the rate of bullying in their schools.  Adam Ebbin is the first openly gay member of the Virginia State Legislature.

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A special Veterans Day Ceremony will be held at the Falls Church City Veterans Memorial in front of the Community Center, 223 Little Falls St., on Friday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. Two bronze plaques will be added to the wall in front of the Community Center to honor the seven Falls Church heroes who gave all for their country in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. The Greater Falls Church Veterans Council expects up to 90 family members of the heroes to attend the ceremony. Those commemorated for their service in the War in Afghanistan (October 2001 to December 2014) are Harold J. Greene, Stephan L. Mace and Ronald A. Rodriguez. Commemorated for their service in the Iraq War (March 2003 to December 2011) are Andy D. Anderson, Tenzin Dengkhim, Javier Obleas-Prado Pena and Jonathan D. Winterbottom. In addition to dedicating the plaques, the event features remarks and remembrances, a tribute for those missing in action, a wreath presentation and prayer for departed veterans, and performances by the Falls Church City Concert Band. This program was prepared by representatives of the Greater Falls Church Veterans Council including American Legion Post 130, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Martin-Leppert-Sipes Post 9274, Catholic War Veterans Paul and Jacques Martin Post 1652, Falls Church Daughters of the American Revolution, Northern Virginia WWII Veterans, the Veterans Memorial Committee, and dedicated volunteers under the coordination of the City of Falls Church Recreation and Park Department.

F.C. Community Service Funds Available Applications for the City of Falls Church Community Services Fund (CSF) for Fiscal Year 2018 will be available beginning Nov. 10 and will be accepted through Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. The total amount of funds available is expected to be about $83,400 and grant amounts vary. The CSF is an annual competitive grant program that provides funds to nonprofit organizations seeking support for human service programs and activities serving City of Falls Church residents. The City’s Human Services Advisory Council (HSAC) will review and forward their recommendations to the City Council as part of the annual budget appropriations process. Grants are discretionary and will be awarded subject to funding availability.

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VIRGINIA GOVERNOR Terry McAuliffe (center) took to the stage at Falls Church’s State Theatre Tuesday night to tell 400 Democratic faithful that Hillary Clinton had carried the Commonwealth of Virginia in the presidential election. On the left are U.S. Reps Donald Beyer, Gerry Connolly and Bobby Scott. (Photo: News-Press)

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registered voters came to its three polling places, joined at the Community Center location by a delegation of observers from the United Nations. The big news locally was the solid victory for the referendum on library bonds, which passed by a lopsided 66 (4,902 votes) to 34 percent (2,578), such that $8.5 million in revenue bonds will be sold to pay for the long-overdue renovation and expansion of the key community location of the Mary Riley Styles Public Library across the street from the Cherry Hill Park and City Hall. The rumors circulating around Falls Church indicated that it would be a tough sell for the library bonds, but pro-library commentaries and publicity plus the endorsement of the bonds by the News-Press made it not even close in the final vote. The outcome was considered a mild surprise. Falls Church Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly told the NewsPress of the library vote, “Falls Church voters joined together to strengthen this treasured place and make it accessible to all citizens. It is an exciting time in Falls Church as this is the first of three big capital projects that we hope to be launching in the next few years.” (The other two projects she referred to are the renovation and expansion of City Hall and the George Mason High School.) City of Falls Church voters aligned with the Virginia majority in the presidential election, but by

a much wider margin. Here Clinton notched 5,810 votes for 75 percent, and Trump has only 1,323 votes for 17 percent. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 236 votes and Green Party candidate Jill Stein had 70. Conservative independent Evan McMullin had 228 and there were 79 write-ins. For Congress on the F.C. ballot, Beyer won re-election for the first time with 5,605 votes (73 percent) to his Republican rival Charles Hernick with 1,688 votes and an independent candidate Julio Gracia with 327. Beyer won district wide with 191,569 votes for 67 percent. Falls Church voters also aligned with the state vote to reject a constitutional amendment calling to make mandatory membership in unions illegal, 53 to 47 percent, and to approve one to permit localities to provide tax relief for the surviving spouses of police and other first responders killed in the line of duty. That passed here, 5,233 votes to 2,220. On Trump’s win nationally, McAuliffe issued a statement yesterday congratulating Trump saying he “looks forward to working with him.” He said of Clinton that “she based her campaign on a vision for a country of greater equality and opportunity for every single American...No one is tougher, more passionate or more devoted to the American people than she is. I am so proud of her, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and their entire team for the historymaking campaign they ran.” The Falls Church City Republican Committee, now

chaired by Matthew Kahn, issued a statement saying, “Congratulations to President-Elect Trump....This is a victory for the United States of America and all its people. While our Presidential ticket didn’t carry Virginia, it wasn’t for lack of effort.” Jeff Weaver, longtime Falls Church City resident who was campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders, said on CNN yesterday that Clinton had a “lack of understanding of what’s going on with the anger of a declining middle class,” something that Sanders tapped into. His candidate was “a principled opposition in the fight for social and economic justice,” and asserted that if Sanders had been the Democratic nominee against Trump, “He could have won.” The Falls Church City Democratic Committee chair Tom Devlin, in an email communique to his committee yesterday, wrote, “At least Virginia was a bright spot in a rather bleak evening,” noting there are governor and state legislative races next year. “There was some speculation that Trump winning was even worse for the Republicans than Trump losing. Unless he surprises everyone in his stint in the White House we should be able to make him a one term president.” According to Dr. Toni Jones, superintendent of the Falls Church City Schools, in a comment to the News-Press yesterday, concern was expressed at the monthly meeting of all the system’s top professionals that it will be a challenge for young people in a community where Clinton won big to grasp mentally and emotionally the impact of her loss nationally.

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Community News & Notes F.C. Library Receives Four-Star Rating for 9th Straight Year The Mary Riley Styles Public Library in the City of Falls Church recently won the coveted four-star rating from the Library Journal, recognizing it as one of the top libraries in the country for the ninth straight year. It’s the only library in Virginia to accomplish such a feat. The library is also one of only 260 in the country to receive ratings in an award system similar to that of the prestigious Michelin Guide. The library received four stars out of five. Only two other Virginia libraries received star ratings: Loudoun County Public Library System (three stars) and Central Rappahannock Regional Library (four stars). “It is very exciting to receive the prestigious Star Rating, and for the ninth year in a row!” said Mary McMahon, library director. “This honor confirms that the

library is providing excellent services for the community. I am so proud of the library staff for making this possible.” For more information, visit libraryjournal.com.

Henderson Wins Award From Washington YMCA Falls Church resident Edwin B. Henderson, II received the first annual Anthony Bowen Legacy Award from the Washington Metropolitan YMCA on Thursday, Oct. 27 at The Hamilton. He was given the award for his preservation of African-American, civil rights and sports history in the Washington metropolitan area. The award that Henderson received is named after Rev. Anthony Bowen, who was a civic leader among the AfricanAmerican community in Washington, D.C. and the first African-American employee of the United States Patent Office.

Henderson, the founder and executive director of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, is the grandson of E.B. Henderson, who is known as a pioneer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Northern Virginia and the father of black basketball, and Mary Ellen Henderson, the namesake of Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School.

Affordable Care Act Overview Slated for Nov. 15 Representatives from EnrollVirginia! will give an overview of the Affordable Care Act at Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue on Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 – 8 p.m. The event is free, but registration is required. The representatives will explain how to apply and help attendees understand the act. For more information, visit enrollva.org.

FALLS CHURCH RESIDENT EDWIN B. HENDERSON, II (center) recently received the Anthony Bowen Legacy Award from the Washington Metropolitan YMCA. In the photo above, Henderson stands with Angie Reese-Hawkins (left), president and CEO of the Washington Metropolitan YMCA, and Keith Smith, chairman of the board for the Washington Metropolitan YMCA. Henderson is the founder and executive director of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation. (Courtesy Photo)

James Lee Community Center Director Set to Leave Zurii Conroy, the director of James Lee Community Center, has been promoted to a new position with Fairfax County after serving as the director for the local community center for five years. She has been promoted to operation manager for region four, which is located in the west and southwestern part of Fairfax County, and includes the communities of Fairfax, Burke, Centreville, Chantilly, Fairfax City, Fairfax Station, Town of Clifton and West Springfield. “Although I am excited to grow into my new role, it will be with sadness as I am leaving behind the James Lee, Falls Church and Annandale family of which I’ve been a member since 2011,” Conroy said in an email. “Working at James Lee has forever changed me and I will always

carry with me the lessons, memories, and relationships that have developed and I look forward to the potential of working with you in the future.” Conroy’s last day at James Lee will be Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Snowplows Come to Mary Riley Styles Public Library The City of Falls Church’s Department of Public Works will bring their snow removal machines to the parking lot of Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 3 – 4 p.m. The event is the latest in the library’s series of Early Release Wednesday events. No registration is required for this drop-in event. Event organizers said that this event is best for children in grades K – 5. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/ Library.

AT THE ITALIAN CAFE Falls Church’s irrepressible icon Eileen Hecht Levy (center) enjoyed a birthday party in her honor. Left to right, Ken and Nancy Feltman, Liz Day, Levy, Shaun VanSteyn, Nicholas Benton, Simon VanSteyn and Lindy Hockenberry. (Photo: News-Press)

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Work on Falls Church Day Labor Center Continues

The day labor center proposed by Falls Church resident Greg Cox is now affiliated with Virginia Organizing, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that accepts grants and donations on its behalf. “This is a big step forward in the plan to find a better solution for the day laborers that congregate at U-Haul/Staples, and a better solution for the homeowners/ residents and businesses in Falls Church,” Cox wrote in an email to the News-Press. The Falls Church Day Labor Center is now raising funds in order to open in summer 2017. Details on planning for the center and how members of the Falls Church community can help can be found on the center’s website. For more information, visit daylabor22046.org.

F.C. Cub, Boy Scouts Slated To Collect Donations on Nov. 12 Falls Church-based Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will collect donations of canned and packaged food on Saturday, Nov. 12 as part of the annual Scouting for Food drive to benefit local food pantries. Residents can set food donations in bags outside front doors before 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12. Scouts will not enter buildings to collect food. Residents of apartments and condominiums can deliver food donations to the parking lot of Falls Church Presbyterian Church at 225 E. Broad Street between 9 – 11 a.m.

Local Photographer Exhibits Work at Botanologica Local author, fine art photographer and master gardener Martha Brettschneider will be exhibiting a collection of her works called Whispers from My Garden at Botanologica at 817 W. Broad

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Street through Sunday, Nov. 13. Brettschneider’s macro photography captures the exquisite details of the plants from her Vienna garden. The images aim to draw the viewer in and provide a moment of pause and mindfulness, a practice which she espouses in her daily life. The images, in color and sepiatone are printed on recycled aluminum, making them suitable for humid areas and outdoors. For more information, visit botanologica.com.

Annandale Lions Club Fruit Club Scheduled for Nov. 19 The Annandale Lions Club is having a fruit sale on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Annandale Swim Club, located at 7530 Little River Tpke., Annandale. The club will be selling fresh Navel and Juice oranges, tangelos, tangerines and grapefruit by the case, half-case and quarter case at $40 a case and less in smaller quantities. White House ornaments, soup mix and maple syrup will also be available for sale. Funds raised will go to support the Lions Club’s various charity and community service projects. Lions provide eyeglass recycling, eye exams and new glasses for persons referred by Fairfax County Health Department, sight and hearing tests at schools and community centers and college scholarships, plus support for youth sports and environmental education. For more information, visit annandalelions.org.

Arlington Unitarian Minister Travels to Standing Rock Rev. Aaron McEmrys, senior minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, joined a contingent of 300 faith leaders from across the country who are gathered in North Dakota last week to show their

WINNER OF THE Village Preservation and Improvement Society’s annual Virginia Village Award at VPIS’ annual meeting in the Falls Church Episcopal last Sunday was Maurice R. “Ric” Terman (left) , long-time former chair of Falls Church’s Historical Commission who was voted a lifetime member of the commission by the Falls Church City Council recently. The award was presented by VPIS chair Keith Thurston. (P��: N��-P��) solidarity and provide a protective witness with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as they try to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline is to border their reservation and the construction would desecrate ancestral sacred land and threaten not only the tribal water supply, but the water supply of the entire region. Natives from across the U.S., Canada and Central America, along with thousands of supporters have gathered over the months in a series of encampments along the Cannonball River. Peaceful demonstrations have been going on since spring but in the summer strong-arm tactics were deployed by law enforcement. Hundreds of people have been arrested and one horse belonging to the Natives had to be euthanized due to being shot by rubber bullets from law enforcement.

With heightened tensions, a call has been put out for faith leaders to come and show their solidarity and to provide a protective witness for the peaceful demonstrators. McErmys was there from Wednesday, Nov. 2 – Sunday, Nov. 6. To see McErmys’ announcement of his travel to Standing Rock, visit youtu.be/Urq8I-Ypew0.

Arlington Artists Alliance Hosts New Show The Arlington Artists Alliance is hosting a new exhibit called Horses of a Different Color at Gallery Underground, located at 2100 Crystal Dr., Arlington, in the venue’s Focus Gallery through Friday, Nov. 25. An opening reception for the show was held on Friday, Nov. 4. The exhibit features the work of Meg Mackenzie, whose artwork is based on a deep love of

horses. Mackenzie is an abstract painter whose award-winning work has become a popular favorite in the DC-metro area. “For the last few years, I have dedicated my artwork towards celebrating the majestic power and beauty of the horse,” she said. In addition to a new all-media members show in the Main Gallery, also featured are the sculptures of Trinka Roeckelein and jewelry of Kat Jamieson. Arlington Artists Alliance is also preparing for its 14th Annual Artful Weekend, which will be held from Friday, Nov. 18 – Sunday, Nov. 20 at the Hendry House at Ft. C.F. Smith Park, located at 2411 N. 24th St., Arlington. The event will feature an art show and sale from 40 Arlingtonbased artists. For more information, visit arlingtonartistsalliance. org.

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Let’s Not Do This Again If I had to sum up the election of 2016 in one clause, I would say it has been a sociological revolution, a moral warning and a political summons. Sociologically, this campaign has been an education in how societies come apart. The Trump campaign has been like a flash flood that sweeps away the topsoil and both reveals and widens the chasms, crevices and cracks below. We are a far more divided society than we realized. The educated and less educated increasingly see the world and vote in different ways. So do men and women, blacks and whites, natives and immigrants, young and old, urban and rural. We like to think of democracy as a battle of ideas and a process of individual deliberation, but this year demography has been destiny. The campaigns have pushed us back into our tribal bunkers. Americans NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE now seem more clannish, and more incomprehensible to one another. This year a legitimate social uprising has been twisted to serve destructive means. During the past 50 years, most of us have benefited from feminism, the civil rights movement, mass immigration, the information age and the sexual revolution. But as Charles Murray points out, one class has been buffeted by each of these trends: white workers. The white working class once sat comfortably at the core of the American idea, but now its members have seen their skills devalued, their neighborhoods transformed, their masculinity delegitimized, their family structures decimated, their dignity erased and their basic decency questioned. Marginalized, they commonly feel invisible, alienated and culturally pessimistic. This year the workers overthrew their corporate masters and grabbed control of the Republican Party. That would be progress and even inspiring, but the working-class revolt has been laced with bigotry, anti-Semitism, class hatred, misogyny and authoritarianism that has further rent the American fabric. Our partisan divides now menacingly overlap with our racial and class divides, threatening to form a trinity of discord with horrendous consequences. The moral health of the polity is in even scarier shape. Any decent society rests on codes of etiquette and a shared moral ecology to make cooperation possible, to prevent economic and political life from descending into a savage war of all against all. But this year Donald Trump has decimated the codes of basic decency without paying a price. With his constant, flagrant and unapologetic lying, he has shredded the standards of intellectual virtue. With his penchant for cruelty, bigotry, narcissism, selfishness and even his primitive primate dominance displays, he has shredded the accepted understandings of personal morality that prevent the strong from preying on the weak. Most disturbing, all this has been greeted with moral numbness. The truest thing Trump said all year is that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. We learned this year that millions of Americans are incapable of being morally offended, or of putting virtue above partisanship. And that brings us to the summons. The events of 2016 represent a watershed and a call to do politics differently. Personally I’ve always disdained talk of a third party, mostly because the structural barriers against such parties are so high, no matter how scintillatingly attractive they seem in theory. But it’s becoming clear that the need for a third party outweighs even the very real barriers. The Republican Party will probably remain the white working-class party, favoring closed trade, closed borders and American withdrawal abroad. The Democratic Party, meanwhile, is increasingly dominated by its left/Sanders wing, which offers its own populism of the left. There has to be a party for those who are now homeless. There has to be a party as confidently opposed to populism as populists are in favor of it. There has to be a compassionate globalist party, one that embraces free trade while looking after those who suffer from trade; that embraces continued skilled immigration while listening to those hurt by immigration; that embraces widening ethnic diversity while understanding that diversity can weaken social trust. There has to be a patriotic party that understands that the world benefits when America serves as the leading and energetic superpower. There has to be a party that unapologetically emphasizes public character formation. It’s not clear that our political culture is producing individuals capable of exercising freedom wisely. But citizenship is a skill that can be nurtured – by a party that insists on basic standards of decency in its candidates; that practices politics in humble, honest ways; that strengthens trust and institutions by playing by the rules, by confirming appointees and the like. The problems go deeper than the jobless rate and the threat of ISIS. The underlying social and moral foundations of the nation have been weakened. Today a rancid chapter ends. Tomorrow let’s start with fresh ground and a new party.

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Trump’s Alarming Success Just days ago I was in Ohio. I was talking to Republicans, and this was the refrain I kept hearing: Donald Trump is throwing this election away. He has no get-out-the-vote operation. No ground game. Nothing that signifies or befits a truly serious presidential candidate.These Republicans thought that he’d win the state – barely. But they didn’t think that he could snatch victories in some of the other places that he did on Tuesday, or draw so close to Hillary Clinton elsewhere, or compete so tightly in the election overall. It was done, over, finished. She had the best experts that money could buy, the most sophisticated data operation that the smartest NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE wonks could put together and the dutiful troops who went door to door, handing out “Stronger Together” literature and pleading her case. He had his hair and his ego. And yet Donald Trump was just elected the 45th president of the United States, soon to take a seat at the most important desk in the most august office in the most consequential residence of the world. Yes, Donald Trump. That gale-force sigh of relief you heard was Chris Christie’s. That demonic cackle of glee was Rudy Giuliani’s. That shriek of horror was mine. Trump defied the predictions of pundits and pollsters, more than a few of whom foresaw an Electoral College landslide for Clinton. That’s what their numbers told them. But that’s not what America had to say. On Election Day, Trump did what he had throughout his surreal campaign: exploded the traditional assumptions, upended the usual expectations and forced us to look afresh at the accepted truisms and hoary clichés of our political life. There are important lessons to learn and crucial questions to ask. Democrats are in the same position that Republicans were when Trump romped to their party’s nomination. They need to look seriously at the way they do business and how they arrived at this surprising, humbling destination. Are the unglamorous, tedious approaches to rounding up votes as powerful as the booming voice of a celebrity with hours of free television time and millions of rapt Twitter followers? Does the imprimatur of the establishment and a towering stack of endorsements and a bulging retinue of pop stars and Hollywood actors make any difference when there’s a fury out there that you haven’t fully and earnestly tried to understand?

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And is a party being remotely realistic to try to sell a candidate who personifies the status quo to an electorate that’s clearly hungry for some kind of shock to the system? There was an arrogance and foolishness to lining up behind Clinton as soon as so many Democratic leaders did. She fit the circumstances of 2016 awkwardly, in the same way that Jeb Bush did. She was a profoundly flawed candidate unable to make an easy connection with voters. She was forever surrounded by messes: some of her own making, some blown out of proportion by the news media, all of them exhausting to voters who had lived through a quarter-century of political melodrama with her. She never found a pithy, pointed message. One Ohio resident noted to me that while Clinton’s campaign workers showed up at his doorstep several times a week, they dropped off pamphlets dense with the rationale for her candidacy. To read it was a commitment, and you couldn’t reduce to one sentence, or even two, what the meaning of her candidacy was. It’s insane that a pledge to “make America great again” works better, because the vow is so starry-eyed and pat. But it’s concise. Digestible. It takes emotion into account. Democrats in general and Clinton in particular aren’t always good at that. The party had a night so miserable that its leaders cannot just chalk it up to the Russians or to James Comey. They had a gorgeous chance to retake their Senate majority, but Democratic candidates who were thought to be in tight races lost by significant margins. Clinton struggled more than had been predicted in the so-called Rust Belt in yet another illustration of how disaffected working-class white men had become and how estranged from a new economy and a new age they felt. Their anger was the story of the primaries, the fuel not just for Trump’s campaign but for Bernie Sanders’ as well. And it manifested itself in the general election. Both parties are going to have to reckon with it. And they should. If this were all that Trump had shown us, we’d owe him our thanks. But there are darker implications here, too. After all the lies he told, all the fantasy he indulged in, all the hate he spewed and all the divisions he sharpened, he was rewarded with the highest office in the land. What does that portend for the politics of the next few years, for the kinds of congressional candidates we’ll see in 2018, for the presidential race of 2020? I can’t bear to think about the conflagrations to come.

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This Election’s Insurgency

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in Tuesday’s national presidential election, the second time since 2000 the Democrat did this but lost the election because of the archaic particularities of the Electoral College system. But instead of sinking into despair, those who supported Clinton for all the right reasons need to see what happened as an opportunity, not merely a defeat. The message the vote has sent is this: The kind of corporate and establishment chiseling and greed that has crippled the economic well being of the nation’s middle and lower classes will not be tolerated by way of a slow and methodical demise. Many who voted for Trump did not do so for racist or sexist reasons, although FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS those were certainly factors, but because, according to one recent statistic, only half of the adults in America right now can get their hands on $400 were an emergency to arise. This is the kind of reality that sparked the Bernie Sanders insurgency on the Democratic side. While a well-meaning Hillary Clinton sought belatedly to address this in her campaign, she was no match for Trump’s ability to catalyze this into an angry insurgency. Democrats who backed Clinton in this election now have the opportunity to capitalize on the election result to take the nation’s afflicted to the streets, to mobilize for the kind of real change that can bring relief to families under crushing debt, including student debt, lack of a pathway to a future and the burden of chronic numbing poverty. The insurgency reflected in this election was not about Trump, but about these kind of things. When I was asked after the election what to do about efforts at bringing together Hispanic, Muslim, AfricanAmerican and other marginalized groups to craft a common agenda for positive change, I recommended they go ahead and do it, even with more passion and zeal than before the election. Make the greedy, corrupt corporate establishment pay! Now is the time! This election is a wake up clarion call for a new politics to be more engaged, more insurgent and more adamant about demanding opportunity and attacking inequality. In all the states where a mandated increase in the minimum wage was on the ballot, such measures passed overwhelmingly. In right-to-work Virginia, a statewide referendum that called for outlawing mandatory union membership was crushed. The lessons of the Great Recession are still very much on the mind of an electorate that is not about to forget how global financial elites became so obsessed with usurious accumulation of wealth at the expense of average people that they did not flinch as their financial unraveling wiped out jobs and the security of virtually the entire middle class. Washington was found to be “broken” because, while the Republicans in Congress determined to block every initiative coming from President Obama, the Democrats were seen as going soft against Wall Street and looking the other way as their organic constituencies, the middle class, minorities and other marginalized people, continued to struggle. Trump will be facing a cornucopia of woes associated with his shady personal investments and allegations of child sexual abuse. Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” skit featuring Alec Baldwin as Trump summed up the massive irregularities in the Trump campaign, showing him kissing, in successive order, an FBI agent, Russia’s Putin and a sheeted member of the KKK. The CNN news character dismissed them all as unimportant in favor of further grilling the Clinton character about emails. While the role of the FBI Director James Comey, Putin and the KKK and other “alternative right” racist cults in the Trump campaign will not be forgotten, it was the media’s biased role, as depicted in the skit, that was the most outrageous. As the Nation’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel wrote yesterday in the Washington Post in “A Media Malpractice Post-Mortem,” “Despite Trump’s pathological dishonesty, racial demagoguery and brazen disdain for the First Amendment, much of the media has portrayed him as a ‘normal candidate’ for the presidency.” “We need more watchdogs rather than lapdogs to challenge powerful interests across the political spectrum,” she wrote. That’s a fix that should also be an immediate priority.

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

The Real Voter Fraud CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The casting of a ballot is the most fundamentally American act that any of us takes. It connects us to the Enlightenment ideals of the country’s founding. “Dare to know!” Immanuel Kant wrote, offering a motto for the Enlightenment. “Have the courage to use your own understanding!” These ideals have a stirring power, even in a year as uninspiring as 2016. And their power makes it all the more outrageous that a significant number of Americans found their right of self-determination under attack. Thousands of citizens needed intervention from federal judges in the last several weeks in order to vote. Even more remarkably, a few million adult Americans were denied the right to vote this year. When you cast your ballot on Tuesday, I hope you kept in mind your disenfranchised fellow citizens. In Ohio, residents who made a minor error filling out personal information had their votes discarded. It happened to Roland Gilbert, a legally blind retired lawyer who in 2014 put the date in the wrong place on NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE his ballot, as Reuters reported. “Thousands of indisputably registered and eligible voters,” said Subodh Chandra, a lawyer suing the state, “[were] disenfranchised solely because they made trivial, immaterial errors and omissions.” In Texas, people posted photographs to social media showing signs at polling places that claim voters need photo identification. They did not, thanks to a judge’s ruling, but the signs remained. In Wisconsin, some state employees made it difficult to obtain voter-identification cards, defying a court order. The same happened here in North Carolina, with perfectly eligible voters receiving the runaround. North Carolina also closed polling places in some areas and changed early-voting hours. At a library in Charlotte on Saturday, the early-voting line stretched for hours. The changes most likely contributed to the 9 percent decline – equaling 65,000 votes – in African-American early voting here, versus 2012. In Florida, which hasn’t had the same suppression, African-American voting is up. Then there is the largest form of disenfranchisement: The combination of the imprisonment boom and state laws barring former prisoners from voting. As a result, 6.1 million Americans, and one in every 13 African-Americans, lack the ballot.

David Leonhardt

The stated rationale for making voting harder – fear of voter fraud – has been thoroughly debunked. Only a minuscule number of people vote illegally. When they do, as with an Iowa woman who apparently voted twice for Donald Trump last month, they are often caught. In reality, the suppression efforts are just a campaign tactic, by Republicans trying to prevent heavily Democratic-leaning groups from voting. In North Carolina, a local party chairman emailed election officials to remind them that limited early voting was “in the best interest of the Republican Party.” In Green Bay, Wisc., the Republican city clerk declined to put a polling place on a university campus because “students lean more toward the Democrats,” according to an email uncovered by Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot. Fortunately, the evidence suggests the tactic alters the outcome only in the very closest elections. But no one should take much comfort from this. For one thing, some elections are extremely close. And results aside, are we actually fighting over whether Americans have the right to vote? The country didn’t avoid electing a dangerous authoritarian president. And the campaign’s demoralizing slog still leaves us in need of a program of national recovery. Restoring the right of universal suffrage should be part of that recovery. Congress could set minimum standards for each state – requiring automatic voter registration, for example. I realize that most congressional Republicans now have little interest in voting rights. But I’d urge them to consider their party’s long-term interests: Opposing basic rights for large and growing groups is not so smart. If Congress won’t act, the Supreme Court can. The court can acknowledge that its 2013 dismantling of a key part of the Voting Rights Act hinged on an overly rosy view of the aftermath. The Equal Protection Clause offers one solution, as the scholar Richard Hasen has argued: The justices could interpret it to overturn state laws making it harder to register and vote. The Enlightenment ideas of our country’s founding have turned out to be pretty wise ones. Governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed,” as the Declaration of Independence says, and all Americans have “certain unalienable rights.” Voting, surely, is one of them.

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

Neither presidential campaign spent much time discussing the environment, but in this region, the air and water are cleaner, because local efforts reduced vehicle emissions and greenhouse gases, and most wastewater treatment plants operate at the limits of technology. This region also values the Chesapeake Bay, one of the world’s great estuaries, and one that has enormous economic benefits. Among the rivers draining the 64,000 square mile Chesapeake Bay watershed are the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James in Virginia, the Patuxent and Choptank in Maryland, and perhaps the granddaddy of them all – the Susquehanna, which begins in New York, but whose major flow is through Pennsylvania. The Susquehanna is the largest single source of sediment and nutrients to the Bay. Its huge freshwater flow carries nearly half of the nitrogen, and a quarter each of total phosphorus and sediment. That same flow has provided clean, reliable hydropower at the Conowingo Dam, a mile-wide power generating station, which began operation in 1928. Last week, along with other local officials, I toured the Conowingo Dam, and learned a lot more about its value, and its challenges, for the watershed and its residents. For a structure so large, the approach to the facility is quite surprising – country byways wind through rural Maryland farms. In the parking area were dozens of tripod cameras with long lenses, perched along the riverside bluff. Was there something special going on? Turns out that the Conowingo provides prime breeding, nesting, and foraging grounds for the America bald eagle, and the cameras were focused on birding that morning. The Conowingo generates enough electricity annually to power more than 160,000 households. Operating under an annual license while its new

46-year license application undergoes review by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Maryland Department of the Environment, it is Maryland’s largest source of renewable energy and, when compared to coal, prevents 6.5 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year. The dam’s owner, ExelonGeneration, also is working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to trap and transport American shad upriver. The fish lifts are enormous, and assist in the passage of more than one million native and migratory fish each year. For many years, Bay restoration discussion focused on the need to dredge out toxic sediments trapped in the reservoir behind the dam, to prevent them from leaching into the Bay during heavy storms. It was a surprise, then, when a 2014 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers report found that removing a significant amount of sediment via dredging would have little long-term impact to the health of the Bay. Reducing nutrient and sediment loads from upstream is recommended. That approach is not surprising – it’s what all river basin jurisdictions in the watershed have been struggling with for decades. As noted earlier, the Susquehanna has a significant effect on the health of the Bay and I was prepared to be highly critical of the Conowingo Dam operation. What I found was a well-built and well-run hydroelectric power station, a critical asset to the eastern U.S. power grid, carefully regulated by the state and federal government. Challenges, like sediment, remain, but at Conowingo, environment and economy are intertwined; there are no easy answers.  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 As I sit down to write this column, we are approximately four hours into “the most significant presidential election since 1860.” Whether or not you agree with this bit of hyperbole, I believe that one of the positive indirect effects of the interminable cacophony of offensive political speech has been to underscore the importance of actually exercising our right to vote. While the attention of the nation has been riveted primarily on the presidential race, decisions on the hundreds of down-ballot candidates and propositions will benefit from the increased attention of voters who make the effort to vote mostly because they want to have a voice in presidential elections. In my honest opinion, voting is not only a right, but a duty, a sacred, secular duty that far too many citizens, for one reason or another, do not perform. I recently ran across a report on voter turnout prepared by the Pew Research Center. With a 53.6 percent turnout in the country’s most recent (2012) national leadership election, the United States ranks 13th among developed nations, just behind Poland (53.6 percent) and just ahead of Japan (52 percent). Belgium (87.2 percent) and Turkey (84.3 percent) were number one and two on the list, because voting is compulsory in these countries. But, turnout in Sweden (82.6 percent), South Korea (80.4 percent), Israel (76.1 percent) and France (71.2 percent) make the U.S. results look anemic. What could possibly account for these disparities? Maybe the citizens of these countries are just more civic-minded and responsible people than we are. I think this is unlikely, and it certainly doesn’t square with the image that we Americans have of ourselves. No, the sad truth is that the United States has a long history of voter suppression and that it continues to this day. The Founder’s vision, explicitly excluded women and slaves and left to the states the creation of other constraints on voting. That changed with the 14th Amendment in 1868, but did not eliminate voter suppression, which continued overtly for the black population, led by Democrats mostly in the South.

This Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided the basis for change in the south, but change was slow. Following Richard Nixon’s successful “southern strategy” in 1968, the tools of voter suppression shifted to Republicans. Since 1980 leading Republicans at all levels of government have routinely, in moments of candor, acknowledged their use of a wide variety of techniques designed to suppress turnout of voters they expect to vote for Democrats. The party still operates under a 1982 consent decree based on explicit voter intimidation practices in New Jersey. More recently, Republican-led state legislatures and elected state elections officials have resorted to such creative tactics, as restrictive voter registration and voter ID requirements, eliminating polling places, restricting early and absentee voting, purging eligible voters from voting rolls and a host of more insidious efforts. I do not think that the majority of Republicans, either politicians or voters, condone voter suppression, but the critical mass of Republicans who are prepared to use these tactics is sufficient to have a massive impact overall. The best evidence of this is Oregon. In 1998 citizens authorized the use of mail-in ballots for state elections. Today, Oregon leads the nation in voter turnout, which recently hit 71.6 percent, matching European levels of participation. If we make it easier for people to vote, they are ready and willing to do so. In the upcoming legislative session, I will be submitting legislation to facilitate in-person absentee voting, which is the closest Virginia comes to early voting. Admittedly, this is a small step, which will not do much to improve turnout. Still, I am hopeful that this legislation – which should not be controversial – will succeed. Unfortunately, I fear that the majority in our Republican-led House of Delegates do not share my passion for increasing voter turnout in Virginia.  Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house. virginia.gov.

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While voters pondered the globally portentous, certain Arlingtonians channeled their passions to more local concerns. The county’s ongoing remaking of the athletic fields of my youth has polarized two communities. One imbroglio involves a threeyear-old dispute over whether to install nighttime lighting for two new synthetic turf soccer fields at Williamsburg Middle School/ Discovery Elementary School. The other puzzle is whether to include a possibly disruptive outfield fence on the renovated baseball field at Bluemont Park. Both dustups brought out the intricate research and late-nightmeetings rhetoric of the famous Arlington Way. For the currently daytime-only soccer fields, a Williamsburg Field Evaluation Work Group delivered a public presentation Nov. 2. It showed off arguments from the Arlington Soccer Association (whose Twitter hashtags include “PutUPTheLights” and “GlowInTheDarkPlayers?”) That group’s sample letter to the county board argues for maximizing investment in artificial turf by “increasing play-space capacity via lighting the fields, and recognizing the positive impact on sports participants by enabling more play time.” They promise “mitigating impacts on the neighbors.” Nearby residents who value quiet evening walks countered with elaborate illustrated displays. They described their neighbor-

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hood as a delicate natural ecosystem that should be protected from noise pollution and glare. “The topography surrounding WMS increases the number of neighbors affected by the field lights for one-fourth to onehalf of a mile around,” one poster said. They warned of children’s sleep loss, high blood pressure and diminished productivity, imploring the county to stick with the land use plan they say protects “historically dark and quiet neighborhoods.” Neighbor Gail Harrison told me the neighbors felt they had a deal with the planners for no lights after the new Discovery School was plopped in their neck of the woods. But the working group won’t finalize its report to the park commissions until December, and the board has until February to decide. (Note: when neighbors near O’Connell High School protested a plan for nighttime lights in 2011, the board backed them.) Over in central Arlington, baseball enthusiasts and many neighbors are excited about current renovation of a field to better drain standing water. Along with new backstops and benches was the plan for an outfield fence slashing across the park. John Foti, representing the Arlington Youth Baseball Community, wrote a letter arguing that youth baseball has grown as rapidly as the county’s school-age population, rising from 2,400 8-12-year-old participants seven years ago to a current 3,600. “Overuse” of Bluemont No. 3 damaged the field and forced cancellation of games, he said. But others – interested in Frisbee, lacrosse, sledding and pic-

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Week of Oct. 31 - Nov. 6, 2016 Driving Under the Influence, 6700 block Wilson Blvd. On Oct. 31, a male, 41, of Falls Church, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test. Stolen Vehicle, 1051 E. Broad St. (Koons Ford) On Oct. 31, a vehicle last seen on Sep. 6, was reported stolen. Public Drunkenness, 127 E. Broad St. On Oct. 31, a female, 53, of Arlington, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

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Larceny from Building, 400 Roosevelt Blvd. (Public Storage) On Nov. 1, a television last seen on Sep. 20 was stolen from a storage unit. Public Drunkenness, 116-B W. Broad St. (Unity Club) On Nov. 3, a male, 25, was arrested for Public Drunkenness.

Armed Robbery, 201 S. Washington St. On Nov. 4, employee victims were assaulted on the head with a gun before taking cash and fleeing the scene. The two victims were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. After an investigation from a later robbery, police arrested Marcus E. Perry, 39, of Washington, DC for two counts of Robbery, two counts of Malicious wounding, and Use of Firearm in Commission of a Felony. Armed Robbery, 400 W. Broad St. (Exxon Gas) On Nov. 4, an employee victim was assaulted on the head with a gun before taking cash and leaving the scene. As a result of an investigation, police arrested Marcus E. Perry, 39 of Washington, DC, for Robbery, Malicious Wounding, and Use of a Firearm in Commission of a Felony. Larceny from Vehicle, 900 block Ellison St. On Nov. 4, officers responded to

nics – blasted the county for spending money on that protective fence for a seasonal sport rather than on traffic abatement. The plan was not clearly described when approved, they argued. “Sadly, the county willfully ignored the residents and their constituents,” I was told by Victoria Nguyen of the Boulevard Manor neighborhood. “The lack of transparency with the neighborhoods adjacent to the field and quick award of the contract are behaviors [of those with] less than ethical and moral character.” In this case, the Arlington Way paid off. A compromise was reached, with final approval expected this week: 162 linear feet of the fence will be removed along the first and third baselines and its outfield height trimmed, Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz said. Popular sports for kids, peaceful green parks: competing Arlington virtues. *** Count me among the 30,000 weekly listeners to WAMU-FM’s lovely and vintage “Bluegrass Country.” That staple of the public station since 1967 – which can be heard at 105.5 radio – is on the chopping block due to a lack of interest among millennials. A proposal to take it over from the Bluegrass Country Foundation is being considered this week by WAMU powers that be. Randy Barrett, the Falls Church-based president of the D.C. Bluegrass Union (which promotes the genre through concerts), told me folks have raised nearly $100,000. He recently appeared on Arlington’s WERA-FM to harmonize support. Keep those claw-hammers picking! the area for a report of an individual breaking into cars. After an investigation, police arrested a male, 26, of Falls Church, for Grand Larceny, Possession of Burglarious Tools, Unauthorized Entry of a Vehicle, and Vandalism to a Vehicle. Smoking Violation, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #15 (H2O Café) On Nov. 5, a male, 32, of College Park, MD, was cited for Smoking in a Non-Designated Area. Driving Under the Influence, 400 block Roosevelt Blvd. On Nov. 5, an officer responded to the area for a report of an accident. One of the drivers, a male, 50, of Silver Spring, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Driving Under the Influence and Domestic Assault, 400 block W. broad St. On Nov. 6, police responded to a report of a domestic assault in a vehicle. The driver, a male, 27, of Manassas, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Assaulting a Family Member. Driving Under the Influence, 6700 block Wilson Blvd. On Nov. 6, officers responded to the area for a report of an accident. One of the drivers, a male, 38, of Adelphi, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence

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Mason Volleyball’s Impressive Season Ends in Regionals by Matthew Hochberg

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George Mason High School girls’ volleyball team lost two matches between their homeopener on Aug. 25 and their 16th game Oct. 20, appearing as a dominate force poised to make a deep postseason run. Yet, in the last three weeks alone, Mason lost three out of their last five games, faltering down the stretch before elimination from regionals on Tuesday Nov. 8, ending what head coach Hillary Trebels called “one of the most successful seasons” in the history of her team’s volleyball program. Robert E. Lee High School entered Mason’s home floor to face a team who, despite those three recent losses, was still coming off a conference championship win against a talented Clarke County team last week.

The Fighting Leemen came out hot against the Mustangs and took set one in the seesaw affair, before Mason took set two, fell in set three, fought back in the fourth and lost their final set. “We didn’t do a bunch of things that we have been consistently good at doing. But I was impressed with the maturity to preservered, something we wouldn’t have been able to do at the beginning of the year or last season,” Trebels said. This season – this loss – especially hurts for the three seniors on the team. It was just a few weeks ago that star senior hitter Kate Karstens told the Falls Church News-Press her goal was to get a State banner in their home gym. Now, after just one game in regionals, the high school volleyball careers of Karstens, Shaun Rodock and Andrea Dilao are over. “Everyone was really bummed.

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MASON’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM hoists the Conference 35 trophy after winning the championship game against Clarke County High School on Thursday, Nov. 3. The Mustangs lost in the regional tournament to Robert E. Lee High School. Hillary Trebels, the Mustangs’ head coach, said the 2016-2017 season was one the program’s most successful. (Photo: Carol Sly) There were a lot of tears. We’re losing three good ones, and we will definitely miss them,” Trebels said. Trebels, though, is also already eager for next season with a core

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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR SARAH LUBNOW signed a letter of intent to play Division I lacrosse for Virginia Tech on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at Mason amid a large gathering of students, coaches, teammates and family. With the signing, she became only the second lacrosse player from the school to sign to a Division I school. Sarah (center) is in the photo above reaching for the paperwork that she signed. To her left is her father Tom Lubnow and to her right is Courtney Gibbons, the head coach of Mason’s varsity girls lacrosse team. Behind them are Sarah’s brother, Brian Lubnow, and the former assistant coach of the girls lacrosse team, Bree Galloway. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press)

group of eleven of fourteen players set to return in addition to the infusion of talent from the junior varsity level. “The younger kids were upset,

but now they have a chip on their shoulder for next season. We have a lot of depth and a lot of kids who can play. We’ve got a good squad.”

Mustangs Football Team Finishes Rough Season by Matthew Hochberg

Falls Church News-Press

It was hardly a season to remember for George Mason High School’s football team. The Mustangs lost their eighth consecutive game Friday, Nov. 4, getting shut out by Central High School 21-0 and finishing the season at a disappointing 2-8. What made the last game that much more frustrating for Mason wasn’t that they lost, necessarily, but the way in which they lost. “Their touchdowns were kind of fluke plays,” said running back Dustin Green following his final high school football game. “A 99-yard punt return for a touchdown we should’ve stopped, and then they beat a freshman defender for the second, and the last touchdown came after a 4th and 21.” Green himself, however, managed to create one surprising final memory in his two last quarters of play in a Mason uniform. Junior quarterback Thomas Creed’s collarbone injury forced the tailback to take over duties under center.

More comfortable with his legs than his arm, head coach Tony Green opted for a wildcat-style offense, using the All-District running back as the quarterback but solely to rush the ball. “It was kind of interesting for me. It was different because I’ve never had to go and get the play before. I used to joke about being the backup quarterback, and then when he got injured, my dad and I just looked at each other. I was up.” The father-son duo, who last week discussed the emotions surrounding their final game together, didn’t have that moving moment Friday night. Instead, with Dustin looking to make impact plays to get his team on the scoreboard, he suffered a knee injury. Despite intense pain, he stayed in the game. “I felt like it was one of those moments in a movie or something,” he said. “I couldn’t really run or cut, but I was thinking, ‘there are two minutes left in this game, this is my last high school

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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL hosted a tour of its facilities for members of the Falls Church City community recently in order to inform the public of the school’s need for renovations and repairs. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Toni Jones)

THE FALLS CHURCH SCHOOL BOARD are here with the Falls Church City Public Schools administration’s newest members, Dang Nguyen (fourth from left) and Patricia Minson (fifth from left). Their appointments were approved on Tuesday, Nov. 1. (Courtesy Photos)

Morning Announcements, families of elementary school students in the school division and Mason teachers and administration were out in full force at the event.

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Henderson Service Learning Students Visit Jessie Thackrey

School News & Notes Official FCCPS Enrollment Numbers Show 5.9% Jump

F.C. Kindergartners Get ‘Early Voting’ Lesson

chief legal services officer. For more information, visit fccps.org.

The official student enrollment numbers for the 20162017 Falls Church City Public School system show a 5.9 percent jump in enrollment, according to the school system’s Morning Announcements email. There are 2,685 students in the system this year, which is 151 more students than were enrolled in the City’s five schools during the 2015-2016 school year. The increase in enrollment is the largest the school system has seen since 1955, according to Falls Church City Public Schools. That year, the school system added 178 new students. The increased enrollment this year is spread in all of the City’s schools and in all but three grade levels. Jessie Thackrey Preschool saw the lowest increase in enrollment with 17 new students and Thomas Jefferson Elementary School saw the largest increase with 40 new students. Mount Daniel School saw the second largest increase with 33 new students, followed by Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School with 31 new students and George Mason High School with 30 new students. For more information, visit 97.74.4.86/~web/fccps/main/data/ set/enrollment.

Kindergartners at Mount Daniel School recently received a timely civics lesson when they learned about the U.S. Election in ways they can relate to. They had their photos taken and placed on mock voter identification cards. Then they went through the process of waiting to cast their votes in a voting booth. The candidates that were on the ballot were the choices for favorite storybook.

Local Students Buchholz, Brown Win Art Contest

Nguyen, Minson Join F.C. Schools Adminstration The Falls Church School Board approved the appointment of one long time employee, Dang Nguyen, and one new employee, Patricia Minson, to the school division’s administration team on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Nguyen, the current Falls Church City Public Schools network engineer and a 16-year veteran of the division’s information technology staff, will become the chief technology director for the school division effective January 3. He will take the place of retiring chief technology director Rik Jowers. Minson, an attorney from Blankingship & Keith, will join the school division in the coming weeks as the school division’s

The Falls Church Elementary Parent Teacher Association annual directory art contest announced its two winners. Catherine Buchholz, a third grade student at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, and Elsa Brown, a kindergartner at Mount Daniel School, are the winners. Buchholz’ and Brown’s artwork was chosen from over fifty entries. For winning the contest, the two students won a $25 gift card and their artwork will be published on this year’s directories. To view all of the entries, visit drive.google.com/drive/folders/0 BwBaqKOyvySeTWxMSXkwLX U4YnM. The winning entries are JTDM09 and TJ05.

Students from the Service Learning Program at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School visited Jessie Thackrey Preschool last week and shared time with the preschoolers outside looking at leaves. Among the activities they did with the preschoolers were observing them as they practiced their cutting skills by snipping leaves. Barbra Saaty, an occupation therapist at Jessie Thackrey, assisted the service learning students as they volunteered their time.

Mason Student, Teacher Interviewed on WAMU 88.5 George Mason High School senior Ian Leach and Mason science teacher Jamie Lahy were interviewed by Kojo Nnamdi for his show on WAMU 88.5 on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The studentteacher duo spoke about hydroponic lettuce and aquaponics on the show.

The hydroponic lettuce and aquaponics projects at Mason are part of the Grow to Market program at Mason and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, which received seed funding from the Falls Church Education Foundation’s Super Grant program. To listen to the podcast of the interview, visit thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2016-11-02/ fresh-and-fishy-school-gardensgrow-up?_ga=1.124349898.1301 09363.1478105173.

F.C. Education Foundation Hosts Holiday Pie Sale The Falls Church Education Foundation is hosting a holiday pie sale to benefit the “No Holidays for Hunger” fund that helps provide meals to local families in need. The pies are from Mom’s Apple Pie Company and ordering is open through Thursday, Nov. 11. Those who order pies can plan to pick them up on Monday, Nov. 21 at George Mason High School. To order a pie, visit fcedf. givezooks.com/events/no-holidays-for-hunger-fcef-pie-sale. For more information, email Falls Church Education Foundation executive director Debbie Hiscott at dhiscott@fcedf.org.

George Mason HS Students Raise $ for Local Food Pantry The Student Council Association at George Mason High School raised over $2,100 for Arlington Food Assistance Food Center at its Halloween Hootenanny on Friday, Oct. 28 at Mason’s cafe and auxiliary gym. The event featured a haunted house, carnival games, food, prizes and an iPad raffle. According to the Falls Church City Public Schools’

THESE FOUR KINDERGARTNERS at Mount Daniel School were some of the students at the school who recently received a lesson in early voting. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Jackie Harper)

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Community Events

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 DMV Connect. Limited DMV services available at a pop-up DMV service center. American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/dmv2go.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Holiday Closure: Veterans Day. Most City oﬃces and services will be closed, but the Veterans Ceremony will take place outside the Falls Church Community Center. All Day. publicinfo@ fallschurchva.gov. Veterans Day Ceremony. Join the City of Falls Church in honoring those who have served or are s�ll serving in the military. Veterans Memorial (223 Li�le Falls St., Falls Church). 703-248-5199. Art Exhibit and Sale. Local ar�st Leonard Jus�nian, who teaches in his Fairfax studio and hosts a regular art program on Fairfax Access Cable Television Channel 10, will have an opening gala for his art show and sale, which runs through Sunday, Nov. 13. The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (222 N. Washington St., Falls Church). Free. 6 – 9 p.m. thecse. org/upcoming-events.html.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

F.C. Farmers Market. Vendors oﬀer

fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Habitat Restora�on: Howard E. Herman Park. Join the City of Falls Church Habitat Restora�on Team in plan�ng na�ve plants in the park. Howard E. Herman Park (601 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. fallschurchva. gov/Volunteer. Scavenger Hunt: Fall in Love with Your Parks. Adventure through the City of Falls Church parks with a series of clues, earning raﬄe �ckets and snacks along the way. The ﬁrst clue will be posted to the City’s Twi�er account at 10 a.m. Non-Twi�er users can call the Falls Church Community Center at 703-248-5027 (TTY 711). City of Falls Church Parks. Free. 11 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/1763/ Scavenger-Hunt.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Lantern Making Workshop. Work with Arlington-based ar�st Melanie Kehoss to create a lantern. Then bring the lantern for the Lantern Parade at Penrose Square on Columbia Pike on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 5 p.m. Walter Reed Community & Senior

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Center and Park (2909 S. 16th St., Arlington). Free. 2 – 3 p.m. 703228-1850.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14

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, NOVEMBER 15

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. 703-248-5034. 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. 703-248-5034. 1-on-1 Computer Tutoring. Receive personalized assistance using computers, Internet and e-books. Registra�on required. To schedule an appointment,

stop by the reference desk or call 703-248-5035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. 703248-5035. Falls Church Lions Monthly Mee�ng. The Falls Church Lions Club is hos�ng its monthly mee�ng, with a cocktail social beginning at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. The Italian Cafe (7161 Lee Hwy., Falls Church). Free. 6:30 p.m. e-clubhouse.org/sites/ fallschurch. Enroll Virginia Aﬀordable Care Act Overview. Representa�ves from EnrollVirginia! will explain how to apply and help a�endees understand the Aﬀordable Care Act. Registra�on is required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8 p.m. enrollva.org.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Early Release Wednesdays: Snowplows with Department of Public Works. The City of Falls Church’s Department of Public Works will bring their snow removal machines to the parking lot of the Mary Riley Styles Public Library. Best for children in grades K – 5. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

“Girl in the Red Corner.” When Halo signs up for mixed martial arts lessons, she thinks it might make a good hobby. Her trainer thinks she’s a light-weight. Her mother and sister think it’s just plain weird. Very quickly the lessons she learns in the ring bleed into the rest of her life and Halo �inds herself battling against everyone around her – leaving her jobless and threatening to alienate her family. Now as she prepares for her �irst match, Halo realizes that life inside the cage and outside the cage are disturbingly similar. Through Nov. 20. Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 – $30. 8 p.m. atlasarts.org.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

“Oliver Twist” Born into a life of poverty and a

bleak future in the workhouse, young orphan Oliver journeys to London seeking a better life, but unwittingly falls in with the city’s criminal element. Told through the lens of a contemporary graphic novel, the Learning Theater Ensemble revisits our 2012 original adaptation of this classic Dickens tale, shedding new light on a story that has captured the imaginations and pierced the hearts of audiences for over two centuries. Through Nov. 20. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple St., Falls Church). $14 – $16. 7:30 p.m. creativecauldron.org.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

“Freaky Friday.” When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again before mom’s big wedding. Disney’s “Freaky Friday,” a new musical based on the celebrated

novel by Mary Rodgers and the hit Disney �ilms, is a hilarious, contemporary update of an American classic in which a mother and daughter really see what it is to be a family and experience each other’s lives �irst-hand, if only for a day. Through Nov. 20. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $40 – $108. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.

“Straight White Men.” Three brothers and their father gather for Christmas to drink eggnog, play video games, and wrestle. But when one brother seems to buckle under the pressures of achievement, it becomes clear that these men are wrestling with something larger than each other. From one of the most daring writers in America comes a razor-sharp comedy that confronts the complexities of identity and hypocrisies of privilege. Through Dec. 18. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $97. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.

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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 K�� B�� M�� E��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. R�� M�. L�� L��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $25 in advance; $30 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. B�� C�� K�� J��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. T�� B�� S�� J��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $24 – $30. 7:30 p.m. 703255-1566. S�� E. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $55 – $70. 8 p.m. 703-2551900. T��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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B�� Y��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. F�� F��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $17 – $25. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. $5 C��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $5. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. W�� B�� P�� R��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 (Mainstage). 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. C�� P��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap

Road, Vienna). $25 – $30. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. W�� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. F�� DC �� M�� B�� T�� C��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $5 before 11 p.m.; $7 a�er 11 p.m. (Backstage). 9:30 p.m. 202-6677960.

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K�� R��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $5. 1 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. L�� K��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 5 p.m. 703-255-1566. 2 F�� T�� H��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. A�� Q��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $20 in advance; $23 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. W�� N��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $22 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. M�� Y�� W�� N�� P��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 (Mainstage). 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. B�� I�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504.

S�� C�� A�� H��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 9 p.m. 703-255-1566. MIXTAPE D�� P�� G�� DJ� D�� T�� R�� DJ� S�� V�� H�� M�� B��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12.11 p.m. 202-265-0930.

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S�� Y��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 2:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. F�� O�� R�� H�� F��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. 703-241-9504. J�� D�� T� C��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. S�M� �� STANAJ. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. P�� P��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

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B�� B�� L�� M��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. A�� B�� A��, ��M ��S, P�� O�� B�� L�� W��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $27.50. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. DC P�� “T�� S�� S�� S��”. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $8 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. W�� B�� J��. JV’s Restaurant

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D�� A�� T�� A��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25 in advance; $18 – $25 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703255-1566. H�� L�� H. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $16 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. A�� A��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. S�� V��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $80 – $85. 8 p.m. 703-2551900. M�� S�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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B�� J�� H�� G�� T�� H��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. JOHNNYSWIM. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. D�� M��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. E�� V�� B�� B�� T��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. E�� B�� T�� A��. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $75 – $85. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900.

P�� A��... Thursday, November 17 – Spanish Language Story�me with Communikids at the Library. Children ages 2 – 5 can drop-in for Spanish story�me with Communikids.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 p.m. 703-248-5034. fallschurchva.gov/Library.

Thursday, November 17 – James Lee Thanksgiving Dinner. The James Lee Community Center is hos�ng a Thanksgiving dinner of individuals and families from

around the community. Sponored by the James Lee Community Center Advisory Council. James Lee Community Center (2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church). Free. 4 – 7 p.m. 703-534-3387.

Saturday, December 10 – Gingerbread Houses @ The Library. Children in grades 1 – 5 can construct and decorate their own graham cracker gingerbread

houses. There will be two sessions – one at 10 a.m. and one at 11 a.m. Registra�on is required and space is limited to 15 par�cipants. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. fallschurchva.gov/Library.

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Cafe Kindred Of�icially Debuts New Bar, ‘Townshend,’ Friday BY JODY FELLOWS

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Some people spike their coffee. Jennifer Demetrio and Gary O’Hanlon will be literally spiking an entire coffee shop when they officially introduce their new bar-within-acoffee-shop concept at Falls Church’s Cafe Kindred this Friday. “We always wanted to do both,” says Demetrio who, along with her husband O’Hanlon, opened Cafe Kindred at the Northgate in May of last year. The initial concept included coffee and sandwiches during breakfast and lunch, but dinner – and alcohol – was put on hold. “Starting new is so challenging,” Demetrio says, so they waited more than a year before beginning a trial run of the bar about three months ago. After the test, they worked on logistics and other details and then finally unveiled the finished product, Townshend Bar, with a soft opening last week. The bar – its name an homage to The Who guitarist Pete Townshend – is located behind the main cafe’s dining area and adds seating for 25 between room at the bar and high tops. The menu is focused on bar food with all the requisite entries like wings, chili cheese fries, onion rings and

a lineup of burgers and other sandwiches. Featuring seven-ounce patties made with a blend of chuck, short rib and brisket, the burgers are an impressive bunch including a chili cheeseburger, a mushroom, Swiss and balsamic-topped option and a towering creation made up of blue cheese, sauteed onions, a giant onion ring and a delightfully runny egg. “Some of them are massive,” says Demetrio. There’s no lacking in the sandwich selection either, highlighted by a fish-andchips-in-a-bun entry called the fish buddy, a shrimp burger dressed with Old Bay and cheddar grits (“It’s gonna be messy,” warns Demetrio) and a loaded breakfast sandwich stuffed with two eggs, bacon, sausage and American cheese. It’s not all unbutton-your-pants fare, however– there’s a trio of salads on the menu, too, along with lighter apps like an olive assortment, crispy Brussels sprouts and a charcuterie and cheese platter. On the booze front, Townshend packs a full bar with beer – four rotating taps plus bottles – wine, cocktails and even hard ice cream floats. Featuring housemade syrups, the cocktail menu includes the gin-based Casablanca made with green tea, mint vermouth and cinnamon syrup, a “new” Old Fashioned with maple syrup and

ONE OF TOWNSHEND BAR’S giant new burgers is topped with grilled onions, blue cheese, an onion ring and an over-easy egg. (P��: J�� F��) the bar’s namesake drink, a mix of Deep Eddy Vodka, orange and Pama pomegranate liqueur. Demetrio says the smaller food and alcohol menus allows them to focus more and ensure they do it well. “What we do is simple,” she says. “We’re not the Cheesecake Factory.” And since they’re a smaller operation, it’s easier for them to change things up whenever they want. “We want to keep things fresh.”

Townshend Bar at Cafe Kindred is currently in a soft opening and will hold its grand opening this Friday, Nov. 11, featuring 25 percent off burgers. Regular bar hours will be Wednesday through Saturday starting at 5 p.m. and, determining on the crowd, closing at 10 or 11. Townshend Bar at Cafe Kindred 450 N. Washington St., Suite F | Falls Church cafekindred.com

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Big Head Blues Club, the spin-off blues project of Big Head Todd and the Monsters, recently released Way Down Inside, the second edition of its series of albums paying tribute to blues music and musicians. The first album by Big Head Blues Club was the 2011 record 100 Years of Robert Johnson, which was released during the year that would have marked Johnson’s 100th birthday. Todd Park Mohr, the lead singer of the Big Head Blues Club and Big Head Todd and the Monsters, said that the band and its collaborators “put their heads together” and decided that blues legend Willie Dixon was the right person to pay tribute to this time around. “First, for me, he’s a songwriter and a very underappreciated songwriter I might add. He’s one of the most important songwriters, I think, in American music. A lot of his songs have had an influence on rock n’ roll especially, in addition to blues,” Mohr said. “So as a writer I THE BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS part of Big Head Blues Club. (C�� P��) know when you have great songs you’re pretty much all the way there, so it was a very appeal- Stars band and Brooks is the son of Chicago the tradition is really an important part of it. So it’s been a really strong feature of these projects.” blues master Lonnie Brooks. ing idea to me for that reason. Way Down Inside, which is currently available Mohr said that Morganfield, Branch and “But also, I think he’s a really important blues figurehead because of the work that he Brooks are on the road with Big Head Todd and for digital download, took five days to record in did with Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. His the Monsters for a tour that’s coming to The what turned out to be an emotionally charged philosophy of writing that blues is a reflection Music Center at Strathmore on Friday, Nov. 11. set of recording sessions. Mohr said that people of life, ‘the facts of life’ as he would say, make He said that it’s important for Big Head Blues were teary-eyed during the recording of “It Don’t him a really compelling figure. And he has some Club to include musicians who have deep roots Make Sense (You Can’t Make Peace).” “That song lyrically it’s telling the country that songs that are really pertinent to today’s situa- in blues music on the projects. “I think that one of the most important fea- if we have such great technology and achievetion, so I think he’s a really relevant figure and tures of blues music is celebrating the mentors ment as human beings, that it doesn’t make sense it’s about time somebody did a tribute to him.” Big Head Todd and the Monsters collaborate of the tradition,” he said. “And, so, as opposed that we can’t make peace,” Mohr said. “And with blues musicians who are somehow con- to pop music where you’re celebrating your what’s the point of all this if we just waste it on nected to the musician they are paying tribute originality or what a great writer or dancer times like this. I think it’s an incredible question to for Big Head Blues Club. This time around somebody is, this is more of a communal thing. and if you want to look into that question deeply, they are joined by Mud Morganfield, Billy And recognizing where it comes from is almost you’ll understand a lot about human beings, a lot about life and it’s very timely.” Branch and Ronnie Baker Brooks. Morganfield as important as anything else. • For more information about Big Head “Being able to connect flesh and blood with is the eldest son of blues legend Muddy Waters, Branch played in Dixon’s Chicago Blues All- somebody that was there or who grew up with Blues Club, visit bigheadtodd.com.

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Business News & Notes Economy Party Supplies to Shutter in December Economy Party Supplies & Costumes in Falls Church will close when its lease ends in December. The 28-year old family owned business will begin its store closing sale on Thursday, November 10 at 10 a.m. Everything in the store, including rental costumes, party supplies, seasonal products, toys, and party favors, will be priced to sell. For more information about the party and costume store located at 1049 W. Broad Street, visit www. economyparty.com or call 703-237-2789.

F.C. Chamber Membership Chair Accepts Position at Access National Bank Lisa D’Ambrosio-Irons has accepted a position as vice president, relationship manager, with Access National Bank. Irons, who has more than 25 years in the banking industry, previously served as a vice president/business relationship manager at EagleBank. She started her banking career in Falls Church with First Virginia Bank which then became BB&T. Irons, who currently serves as vice chair/chair-elect and chair of the membership committee for the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, is a local resident and long-time Falls Church community supporter. Access National Bank is a business bank that delivers highly personalized financial services to businesses and entrepreneurs in the greater Washington, D.C. area. Access National currently has eight branch locations in Northern Virginia but has recently announced a strategic merger with Middleburg Financial Corporation.

F.C. Consulting Firm Selected to Support National Park Service Markon Solutions, a Falls Church-based project management consulting firm, was selected to provide construction management support for the National Park Service. The construction management services will support restoration and rehabilitation projects, security facility projects, as well as utility and structural repair projects. The five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement includes oversight, construction management, on-site/special inspection, contract administration, and administrative services. Markon will support NPS in managing multiple projects in Washington, D.C. performed by various contractors. For more information, visit www.markonsolutions.com.

Nonprofits to Share Fundraiding Efforts at F.C. Chamber Luncheon The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting a luncheon on Tuesday, November 15 featuring local nonprofit organizations who will share their year-end fundraising efforts and ways in which businesses can work with them to support the greater community. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. at the Italian Café, 7161 Lee Highway. Tickets with advanced registration are $27 for members, $32 for nonmembers. An additional $5 will be charged for walk-ins, should space be available. For more information about the luncheon, or the free November 17 Networking Mixer hosted by Perfect Endings Hair Design and Day Spa, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.  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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Help Wanted RECTORY COOK

St. James Catholic Church seeks a rectory cook. Prepare weekday lunch and dinner for 3+ priests; do food shopping; stock kitchen for weekends; clean kitchen, dining room and living room. Time commitment needed is 20 to 30 hours per week. Must work 4:00pm-7:00pm M-F to prepare and serve dinner; other hours are ﬂexible. Pay starts at $20/hour; full beneﬁts available for 30-hour weekly schedule. If interested, contact Rich Blickendorfer, Business Manager at 703-532-8815, ext.114 or rblickendorfer@stjamescatholic.org .

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VA has immediate openings for Cooks, Line Cooks, Kitchen Prep and Bartender personnel. Must be age 18 years and above to apply. Previous cooking/prep experience preferred. Will train. Please call 301-643-9431.

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Public Notice ORDER FOR THE PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS (Residence Known) Case No. 15DR1004761B Dept. No. 1 IN THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA IN AND FOR CARSON COUNTY MURALI KRISHNA SOMAROUTHU, Plaintiff, vs. RADHIKA SOMAROUTHU, Defendant THE STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: NOTICE! YOU HAVE BEEN SUED, THE COURT MAY DECIDE AGAINST YOU WITHOUT YOUR BEING HEARD UNLESS YOU RESPOND WITHIN 20 DAYS. READ THE INFORMATION BELOW. TO THE DEFENDANT: A civil Complaint has been filed by the plaintiff against you. If you wish to defend his lawsuit, you must, within 20 days after this Summons is served on you, exclusive of the day of service, file with this Court a written pleading* in response to this Complaint. Unless you respond, your default will be entered upon application of the plaintiff, and this Court may enter a judgment against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint**, which could result in the taking of money or property or the relief requested in the Complaint. If you wish to seek the advise of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your response may be filed on time. You are required to serve your response

upon plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is: Newspaper: Falls Church News-Press City/Town: Falls Church, Virginia 22046 COURT NAME AND ADDRESS: Susan Merriwether, Clerk of the Court September 8, 2015 First Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for Carson County 885 E Musser Street #3031 Carson City, NV 89701 Upon reading the affidavit of Daniel J. Spence, Esq., attorney for Plaintiff duly filed herein, it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, and the Court finds, that Defendant herein resides in the state of Virginia, that Defendant is avoiding service of process, and that Summons herein cannot be served upon Defendant in person within the state of Virginia, and it and it is appearing from said affidavit and from the verified Petition filed herein, and the Court here finds, that a cause of action exists in favor of the Plaintiff and Defendant, that Defendant is a necessary and proper party herein, and that the present residence and address of Defendant are 3015 Nicosh Circle, #2101, Falls Church, Virginia 22042 and it further appearing that the Falls Church News-Press is a newspaper published in Falls Church, state of Virginia, and is the newspaper most likely to give notice to Defendant of the pendency of this action: NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby ordered that Summons in the suit be served on Defendant herein, by publication thereof in the above-named newspaper, and that said publication be made for four weeks and at least once a week during said time; IT IS FURTHER ORDERED and directed that a copy of the Summons and and a copy of the Petition be deposited forthwith in the United States Post Office at Carson City, Nevada, enclosed in an envelop upon which postage is fully prepaid, addressed to Defendant at 3015 Nicosh Circle, #2101, Falls Church, Virginia 22042. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that due service of a copy of the Summons and copy of the Petition on Defendant in person shall be equivalent to complete service by publication and deposit in the United States Post Office, and that such process may be served upon Defendant as prescribed by Rules of Civil Procedures. James T. Russell DISTRICT JUDGE DATED this 23rd day of October 2015

ABC LICENSE FALLS CHURCH DISTILLERS, LLC Trading as: Falls Church Distillers,

LLC 442-A South Washington Street, Fall Church, Virginia 22046-4419. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Beer and Wine On-Premise license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Michael E. Paluzzi, CEO. NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the ﬁrst of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

ABC LICENSE FALLS CHURCH DISTILLERS, LLC Trading as: Falls Church Distillers, LLC 442-A South Washington Street, Fall Church, Virginia 22046-4419. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Distillers, Brewers, Beer and Wine On-Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Michael E. Paluzzi, CEO. NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the ﬁrst of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.

PUBLIC NOTICE BOARD OF ZONING APPEARS FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) of the City of Falls Church, Virginia will hold a public hearing on November 17, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, for consideration of the following item: Old Business Variance application V1586-16 by Cottage Street Custom Homes, owner and applicant, for variances to Sections 48-238(3) (a) and 48-238(5)(a) to allow (1) a rear yard setback of 17.5 feet instead of 22.5 feet; and (2) a lot coverage of 26.7 percent instead of 25 percent, for the purpose of constructing a new single-family house on the premises known as 402 Parker Avenue, RPC #52205-019 of the Falls Church Real Property Records, zoned R-1A, Low Density Residential. (continued from October 13, 2016) Information on the above applications is

available for review at: Zoning Oﬃce 300 Park Avenue, Suite 300W Falls Church, VA. 703-248-5015 (option 1) zoning@fallschurchva.gov This location is fully accessible to persons with physical disabilities and special services or assistance may be requested in advance. (TTY 711)

We are pledged to the letter andspirit of Virginia’s policy for achieving equal housing opportunity throughout the Commonwealth. We encourage and support advertising and marketing programs in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status or handicap. All real estate advertised herein is subject to Virginia’s fair housing law which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status or handicap or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept advertising for real estate that violates the fair housing law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. For more information or to file a housing complaint call the Virginia Fair Housing Office at (804) 367-8530. Toll free call (888) 551-3247. For the hearing impaired call (804) 367-9753.

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86% Voter Turnout in Falls Church Follows ‘Stay the Course’ Mandate

Associated Press, NBC Declare Webb Victor by 7,307 Margin

As has become the legacy of the City of Falls Church, a whopping 85.9% of registered voters here went to the polls Tuesday to help re-elect President Bill Clinton, Senator John Warner and Congressman Jim Moran.

Democratic upstart James Webb, coming out of obscurity with a penniless campaign last February, declared himself the victor in Virginia’s U.S. Senate race Tuesday, knocking off incumbent Republican George Allen.

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game, I can’t quit now.’ I was really focused.” The soon-to-be college running back, despite not having that storybook finish with his father at the helm, knows his script isn’t finished yet. Green visited the University of Richmond over the weekend and saw the Spiders take on James Madison University in a battle of two teams which are recruiting him. And while he won’t be playing for his father anymore, that doesn’t mean Tony Green will stop coaching his son. “He’ll be there when I’m playing in college, probably yelling from the stands or something.”

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

ACCOUNTING

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

EYEWEAR

FRAMES

HANDYMAN

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

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

HEALTH & FITNESS

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

HOME IMPROVEMENT

MASSAGE

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

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

LAWN CARE

Gabriel Lawn Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 691-2351 Chris Fogelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571-830-6630

EQUIPMENT RENTAL/SALE

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

INSURANCE

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

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

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

CLEANING SERVICES

DENTISTS

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

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Academy of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938-8054 Foxes Music Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533-7393 n

OPTOMETRIST

Dr. Alison Sinyai, Family Eye Care . . 533-3937

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

All numbers have a ‘703’ prefix unless otherwise indicated.

PLUMBING

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

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

REAL ESTATE

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

MEDICAL MUSIC

PHARMACY

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

Dr Gordon Theisz, Family Medicine. . 533-7555 n

PET SERVICES

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

TAILOR

Tailor Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534-8886

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Under Contract

Under Contract ct Contra ! ys in 7 Da

Under Contract

SOLD

1002 Ellison Sq | FC City

3BD/2 Full/2 Half BA TH in rarely available Ellison Square. All 3BD on UL, updated kitchen, and finished family room in LL. Charming, private patio. Great location, walk to everything including WFC Metro! Offered at $689,000

SOLD ct Contra ! ys in 8 Da

168 Rees Pl | FC City

143 S Virginia Ave | FC City

Wonderful 3 BD/1 BA end unit townhome in sought after Winter Hill. Updated kitchen and bath and huge yard just steps to the new Harris Teeter, Starbucks and mins to Metro. FCC Schools! Offered at $419,000

3 BD/2 Full & 2 Half BA, 4 level TH, 2,948 square feet, two car garage. Lots of natural light! Master Bedroom w/ skylights and vaulted ceilings. Walk to everything and mins to Metro and DC. Offered at $850,000

118 Tollgate Way | FCC

Outstanding town home in highly desired Tollgate. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this one, almost 3,500 sq ft. Spectacular details including private, serene patio w/waterfall and pond! Walk to EFC Metro and downtown Falls Church City. Offered at $889,000

SOLD

Falls Church City resident and local business owner. Real Estate expert right here in our community for more than 10 years. Call Louise for all your real estate needs!

Louise Molton Phone: 703 244-1992 louise@moltonrealestate.com

444 W Broad St #711 | FC City

Luxury condo in heart of FCC feat. 2 BD/2 BA + den and 250 sq ft balcony overlooking green space! Top floor! 2 parking spaces & 2 storage units. Offered at $589,000

SOLD

605 Dorchester Rd | FC City Representing Buyers

511 Anne St | Falls Church City Representing Buyers

ct Contra ! ys a D in 3 2734 Welcome Dr | Falls Church

Lovely 4 BD/ 2 full/ 2 half BA brick home in the McLean High School District! This wellcared for home is ready for your personal touches, and offers a great opportunity for the first-time home buyer or investor! Offered at $540,000

Lovely 4 BD/4.5 BA home on landscaped corner lot across from Lincoln Park. Totally expanded and remodeled, absolutely stunning! Offered at $1,225,000

Charming Cape featuring 3 BD/1 BA on quiet tree lined street. Incredible kitchen with family room and large private yard. Offered at $689,900

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1903 Westmoreland St. McLean VA 22101

6703 Moly Dr. Falls Church 22046

Arlington! Reduced $50k!! This property has a builders warranty & special 2.75% financing. All new construction with lots of natural light! 5 bedrooms, 5 full and one half baths. Property features elegant details such as arched doorways, 4 bedrooms on upper level each with private bath. hardwoods throughout main and upper levels. 10ft+ ceilings on all levels. 5th bedroom & bath in lower level. Wonderful location-1 block from Washington Golf and Country Club. Priced at $1,599,000. Directions: From Lee HWY and Glebe, Head North on Glebe Rd. Pass Washington Golf & Country Club on R, Turn LEFT on 33rd Street cul-de sac, property is on the left corner.

UNDER CONTRACT

Beautiful and classic 3 level cape cod. 5BR/2BA on 3 finished levels. Whole house has been remodeled in last 5 years! Including windows, roof and all systems. $775,000

Excellent location near the West Falls Church Metro updated kitchen and baths on three finished levels. Sales price $819,000

3245 Rio Drive #715, Falls Church, VA

NEW PRICE

Excellent investment opportunity!! 3BR/2BA condo in Barcroft Hills. Needs updating. Beautiful setting. 2 large balconies. Swimming pool and tennis court. All utilities including in condo fee. Price perfected $218,999

6851 Grande Lane Falls Church VA 22043

SOLD

2907, Linden Lane Falls Church, VA 220422

UNDER CONTRACT

4 BR/3BA cape cod home. Excellent Falls Church Location. 3 finished levels, updated kitchen, Hdw fls, fenced yard &1car garage. Price perfected $685,000.

7601 Burford Drive, McLean VA 22102

SOLD

Lovely and spacious floor plan in this beautiful home. 5BR/3.5BA home on full acre of land in Langley HS pyramid. Sales price $1,100,000.

5BR/3.5BA center hall colonial. Close to West FC Metro. 2 car garage, large yard. Hancock, Longfellow, McLean. Sales price $949,000.

1097 Pensive Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066

UNDER CONTRACT

Beautiful home on .91 acres- lush backyard. 5BR/3.5BA with beautifully refinished hdw fls. Fresh paint & new carpet in basement. New price $849,000.

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