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Falls Church • Tysons Corner • Merrifield • McLean • North Arlington • Bailey’s Crossroads

Inside This Week Quinn’s Auction Disturbs & Inspires

The paradox of black life in America from the early 1800s through the 1960s – beauty and ugliness, sadness and celebration, triumph and tribulation – is ever present in the over 300 lots up for auction at Quinn’s Auction Gallery today.

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Concussion Expert Speaks at MEH Friday

2 New Downtown Projects Add 80% To Growth in F.C. Assessed Values Overall Real Estate Values Up 3.8% as New Budget Looms

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

Dr. Shane Caswell, a sports medicine scientist at George Mason University, will talk on how he uses research to reduce sports injuries and concussions in youth athletics at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School Friday.

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Paul Krugman: How America Was Lost

Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn’t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party.

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Press Pass with David Mills

David Mills encountered the work of legendary American writer Langston Hughes in the way that most American children do – through grade school educators.

But what he eventually did, and continues to do, with Hughes’ work is extraordinary.

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PAUL STODDARD, principal planner for the City of Falls Church, shown here briefing the City Council prior to a subsequent appearance before the Planning Commission Tuesday night. (Photo: News-Press)

F.C. Planning Commission in Unanimous OK to W&OD Plan

by Nicholas F. Benton

Falls Church News-Press

Index

Editorial..................6 Letters....................6 News & Notes.12-13 Comment......... 14-17 Calendar.........20-21 Food & Dining......23

Sports..................26 Business News....27 Classified Ads .....28 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword...........29 Critter Corner.......30

The Falls Church Planning Commission Wednesday night gave unanimous 6-0 approval to recommend to the City Council adoption of a comprehensive W&OD Park master plan for the three-mile stretch of the former rail line turned bike and pedestrian trail that cuts through the City of Falls Church. Beautification to become “The City’s Greenest

Street,” signage, plaza upgrades and added benches along the route would be augmented by two main new features: a plaza at Park and West with a range of possible components, and a new, safer crossing at Route 29.

The plaza at Park and West, in the plan OK’d Wednesday, is nondescript, but could be enhanced to include a shelter and even a replica of the former train station that used to be there, with possible restroom facili-

ties. However, according to F.C. Principal Planner Paul Stoddard, some of the proposed options have run afoul of citizen opposition, so for now the plan will be lacking any such attributes, which remain listed in the back of the plan as options for the future.

“It makes sense to wait to see what the impact of the newlyauthorized Mason Row mixed

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A whopping 80 percent of the increase in taxable assessed values of real estate in the City of Falls Church in the past year has come from new construction, the City assessor’s office has determined.

The overwhelming bulk of that has come from work on the two major mixed use projects now being completed in the City, the Rushmark project at 300 W. Broad and the Lincoln at Tinner Hill on S. Maple Street.

Taxable assessments derived mostly from those two projects have added over $121.7 million in value to the City’s $3.8 billion in all real estate properties, accounting for the 80 percent annual increase and a net 3.8 percent increase between Jan. 1, 2015 and Jan. 1 this year.

Aside from this boost, real estate values for single family homes and townhouses have been relatively flat for the past year.

Overall, the 3.8 percent boost, which will give the City more revenue to work with (at the current tax rate of $1.315 per $100 assessed valuation) as it crafts its budget for the coming fiscal year this spring, is slightly more than the City’s Finance Office projected last December. Its estimate was a 3.5 percent increase.

Still, less than robust growth in residential real estate assessments throughout the region have already begun to put greater pressure on regional governments and their taxpaying citizens. In Fairfax County, Chief Executive Edward Long Jr. announced this week a recommended four-cent increase in that county’s tax rate, which would

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Planning Commission OK’s W&OD Park Master Plan, 6-0 Continued from Page 1

use project at that intersection will be,” he said.

On the crossing at Route 29, which is now one of the few

potential hazards on the entire W&OD route, the current plan involves diverting the trail so that it crosses Route 29 at Gresham Place rather than at the more dangerous current crossing which is

used by most motorists as an onramp to I-66.

The rerouting would be designed just past where the Four Mile Run stream intersects with the W&OD east of Little Falls St.,

Transform 66 Inside the Beltway Project

Arlington County, City of Falls Church and Fairfax County Design Public Hearings All hearing times are 6-8 p.m., with a brief presentation beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, March 7, 2016 Washington-Lee High School Cafeteria 1301 N. Stafford Street Arlington, VA 22201 Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Eagle Ridge Middle School Cafeteria 42901 Waxpool Road Ashburn, VA 20148 Wednesday, March 9, 2016 VDOT Northern Virginia District Office 4975 Alliance Drive Fairfax, VA 22030

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Visit Transform66.org to view a live stream of this presentation at 6:30 p.m.

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), in partnership with the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), will host Design Public Hearings for the Transform 66 Inside the Beltway Project. Improvements involve converting I-66 to dynamically-priced toll lanes in the peak direction during morning (eastbound) and afternoon (westbound) rush hours between I-495 (the Capital Beltway) and U.S. Route 29 in Rosslyn, along with implementing a series of multimodal improvements that will benefit toll users of I-66. Information related to proposed locations and design of toll gantries and signage will be available at the hearings, as well as a presentation on how the toll system will operate.

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 23 CFR 771, draft Categorical Exclusion (CE) documentation has been prepared in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration and is available for review and comment. VDOT staff will be available to discuss the environmental studies underway and the coordination with appropriate regulatory agencies to obtain information about the resources in the project’s vicinity. A public notice for review and comment on the final CE documentation will be posted at a later date. In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the potential effects of the proposed project on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is also provided in the environmental documentation.

Stop by to learn more about the project, discuss your questions with project staff, and attend the formal presentation.

Review project materials at the hearings, including the draft CE, traffic technical report, plans, project schedule, and right-of-way, environmental and civil rights information. Materials are available for review at www.Transform66.org, at public locations listed on the project website, or VDOT’s Northern Virginia District Office at 4975 Alliance Drive in Fairfax. Please call 800-FOR-ROAD (800-367-7623) or TTY/TDD 711 to ensure availability of appropriate personnel to answer your questions.

Give your written or oral comments at the hearings or submit them to Amanda Baxter, Special Projects Development Manager, at the VDOT Northern Virginia District Office (address noted above).

You may also e-mail comments at any time to Transform66@VDOT.Virginia.gov. Please reference “Transform 66 Inside the Beltway” in the subject line. Comments must be postmarked, emailed or delivered to VDOT by March 24, 2016 to be included in the public hearing record.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact VDOT’s Civil Rights Division at 800-367-7623 or TTY/TDD 711.

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(The City did revert to a bike bridge to solve another dangerous intersection between the W&OD trail and a major thoroughfare in the mid-1990s. That project is now a popular landmark in the region).

The City Council is expected to take up the question of its approval of the plan at its March 8 meeting. Eighty percent of the funding for the entire project, an estimated $4.4 million, will be paid for by grants, leaving the cost to the City of $900,000 to be spent over at least two years.

Applications for grant funding have already been submitted to various transportation funding entities, Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields has told the News-Press.

Pending City Council approval, work on the transformation of the trail in the City will begin as soon as some of the grant funding is secured, he said.

and it would take the trail behind the Fire Station and parallel with the stream to the intersection of Rt. 29 and Gresham Place, where a crossing would be designed similar to the one where the W&OD Trail crosses Maple Avenue in downtown Vienna.

Once across Rt. 29 to the east, the trail would cut between Gresham Place and the stream, with the addition of a bridge to cross to the north of the stream to leave a pedestrian trail there as is.

It would then come back across the stream at Van Buren Street and reconnect with the existing route.

The diversion plan was recently substituted for one that would have called for the construction of another bicycle bridge in the City, this one over Rt. 29 along its existing route. However, the cost for such a project was determined to be prohibitive, almost equal to the cost of the entire project.

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Real Estate Assessments Increase 3.8% Overall Continued from Page 1

cost the average homeowner an additional $304 a year, even while leaving the county schools $68 million short of their coming fiscal year request.

In the City of Falls Church, with an annual budget in the neighborhood of $83 million, City Manager Wyatt Shields is expected to present his recommended budget for the Fiscal Year 2017 (which begins July 1) in mid-March. He’s instructed the various departments of the City to propose zero growth budgets, but School Superintendent has already recommended a budget with a proposed 5.6 percent increase in its transfer request from the City.

While Shields told the NewsPress yesterday most of the increase in assessments was expected, there is concern that the City’s commitment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will shoot up by as much as $800,000 by itself, equivalent in the City to 2.5 cents

on the tax rate. That’s because, he said, sharply lower gas prices, a tax on which funds the transit authority, has left the agency cashshort.

He said there is still a chance that Richmond (the governor and state legislature) may help make up this difference, but that remains to be seen.

According to a statement released from City Hall Tuesday, the total taxable assessed value for all properties in the City of Falls Church, as of January 1, 2016, is $3,868,019,700, a 3.8 percent increase from January 1, 2015. New construction accounted for 80 percent of the increase in assessed value in the City, and market appreciation accounted for the other 20 percent City assessments will be mailed to property owners in late February and updated assessment information will be posted on the City website by Monday, February 22.

The City statement added that commercial new construction accounted for $86.8 million of

LO CA L growth; residential new construction account for $34.9 million of growth. Overall commercial and multi-family property values increased 9.72 percent since January 2015; overall residential real estate values increased 1.59 percent over the last year.

Single family home values were flat with the exception of new construction; town homes had varying changes but overall were flat; and residential condominiums had varying changes but overall increased 2.79 percent, the statement added.

It was noted that as set forth in the Virginia Constitution, real estate is assessed at 100 percent of fair market value. The City’s Office of Real Estate Assessment calculates property value annually using mass appraisal techniques that are standard in the real estate assessment industry.

The real estate tax rate will be determined on April 25 when the Falls Church City Council adopts the Fiscal Year 2017 Operating Budget and Capital Improvements Program and sets the tax rate.

Public hearings on the budget will be held on March 28, April 11, and April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers (300 Park Ave.). Town Hall meetings will be held on March 19 and April 9 in

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According to this week’s press release from City Hall, as individual assessments are mailed in late February, if homeowners wonder if their assessment is correct, they should ask the question, “Would my home sell for the assessed value if I put it

on the market?” If the answer is “yes,” the assessment is probably accurate.

But to appeal the assessment, the deadline to file an appeal is April 8 for an Office of Real Estate Assessment review and Friday, June 3, 2016 for a Board of Equalization review.

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Hillary Clinton For President

This year’s critical presidential primary elections are being held in Virginia on March 1, less than two weeks from now. Given that voters in Virginia do not have to declare for a party prior to voting, it is appropriate for us to endorse one candidate, the one we hope to see elected the next president of the U.S. in November. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.

This is a surprisingly easy decision to us. The entire Republican field has shamed and disqualified itself, in our view, with positions and behaviors far more extreme than we’ve ever seen before. On the Democratic side between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Former Secretary of State Clinton, Sanders has failed to demonstrate why voters should cast their votes for him and thereby risk losing the general election to the GOP in November.

Hillary Clinton has a remarkably proven record of achievement over the past two dozen years, as an activist first lady for eight years in the White House, as a U.S. Senator from New York, and as President Obama’s chosen Secretary of State. It surely cannot be lost on anyone the incredible significance of a woman of such achievement and stature becoming the first woman president in the history of the U.S. When it comes down to it, the differences between Sanders and Clinton, in Sanders’ view, is a vote in 2002 to authorize President Bush to invade Iraq and campaign contributions to Clinton coming from Wall Street moguls.

In both cases, we side with Sanders’ concerns. Our editor was a zealous opponent of that 2002 vote, which was a cynical miscalculation by key Democrats prior to the 2002 midterm elections. By not tackling Bush’s enormous post-911 popularity, they sadly thought it would be way to gain Congressional seats. It didn’t, but that was then.

On the Wall Street contributions, surely there is concern that the money is not coming free of strings attached, but isn’t that only in the minds of the donors?

These concerns were both addressed by the decision of President Obama to name Clinton to the most important position in his cabinet at a very sensitive time in U.S. foreign relations. He trusted her, and with good reason, as her achievements in that position bore out. She is an exceptionally-qualified candidate for the next president and commander in chief of the armed forces of the Untied States. She is not just good, or a lesser of evils, she is amazingly equipped with the knowledge and experience to perform the job at the highest level.

On policy differences between Sanders and Clinton, electing Sanders would not bring the nation closer to a better health care system than has been achieved by President Obama, for example. There is no reason to think it would be any easier to achieve a better result in today’s Washington than it took so much effort and leadership by Obama to accomplish. Similarly on other issues.

We enthusiastically endorse Hillary Clinton.

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Ensuring Guns Are Kept Out of Criminal Hands

Editor, I am writing to commend David Synder for his commentary last month on guns in America. I was invited to the White House for the Executive Actions announcement in January and can definitively say that President Obama is not going to be confiscating anyone’s guns in America.

What the President is doing, like Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, is enforcing the cur-

rent laws that are already on the books. After all, that is a favorite NRA talking point, “We don’t need any new gun laws, just enforce the laws that are already on the books.”

The President is enforcing existing laws as he strengthens the background check system to ensure that more gun dealers administer background checks before selling guns to law abiding citizens. Those citizens that fail background checks should not

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be able to purchase a gun. This ensures that guns are kept out of the hands of criminals and dangerous individuals.

Herring is enforcing laws as well with his recent announcement that he will be enforcing current Virginia concealed carry law to ensure that individuals from states with gun laws that are more lenient than Virginia’s laws are not able to carry. His move allows Virginia to block concealed handguns for stalkers and drug dealers. It means that as of February 1, the Commonwealth of Virginia no longer allows those with concealed carry permits from 25 states to automatically carry concealed handguns in Virginia

What could the gun lobby have against keeping guns out of the hands of criminals?

According to the Ted Cruz, Obama is coming for your guns.

No, he is not.

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Be Prepared for the March 1 Primary Elections B� B��� W������

Why should Iowa and New Hampshire have all the fun? It’s primary time in Virginia, too, and with the March 1 dual presidential primary elections approaching, it’s a good time to review some of the procedures and regulations pertaining to Falls Church voters.

Registration: Only registered Falls Church City voters are eligible to vote in one of the City polling places. If you’re not sure of your registration status, you can check online at elections.virginia. gov. Alternately, you can inquire with the Falls Church Office of Voter Registration and Elections: Call 703-248-5085 or visit during office hours, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, Room 101 (East Building), City Hall. While it’s too late to register for the March 1 primaries, you can still register for the November Presidential election.

Party Primaries: The March 1 presidential primaries are party elections. Only Republican or Democratic Party candidates’ names will appear on the ballot (state law specifies that only parties which received at least 10 percent of the vote in either of the previous two statewide elections may be represented on the ballot), so no third-party candidates’ names will be on this ballot.

Because Virginia voter rolls do not identify political party preferences, voters may only vote in either primary. Voters will be asked to select either a Republican or Democratic ballot when they check in

“If you know you will not be able to vote at your polling place on Election Day, in-person absentee voting is available in the Registrar’s Of�ice through Feb. 27.” at the polling place. No write-in votes will be accepted in these primaries, per state law.

Note that, while there had been discussion within the Republican Party about whether to require a voter Statement of Affiliation in order to participate in that party’s primary, no such statement will be required.

Voter Identification: State law now requires in-person voters to show one form of photo identification. Acceptable IDs

include: A valid Virginia driver’s license; a valid U.S. passport; any other photo identification card issued by the U.S. government or a government agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia or one of its political subdivisions; a valid student ID card, with photo, issued by an educational institution located in the Commonwealth of Virginia; or a valid employee photo identification issued by the voter’s employer (for a complete list of acceptable forms of education, see http://elections.virginia.gov/ registration/photo-ids-required-to-vote).

The Office of Voter Registration in City Hall also can issue photo voter identification cards. Registered voters with proof of eligibility may come to the office during business hours to be photographed and obtain the card at no charge.

Absentee Voting: If you know you will not be able to vote at your polling place on Election Day, in-person absentee voting is available in the Registrar’s Office through Feb. 27. Hours are 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Feb. 27, the Saturday preceding the election.

The deadline for absentee voting is 5 p.m.

Saturday Feb. 27, unless an emergency occurs that afternoon or later.

Suspended or Withdrawn Candidacies : Some candidates in both parties have suspended their campaigns. However, unless these candidates formally withdrew from

the race by the ballot deadline, their names will appear on the ballot, and a vote for one of those candidates will be recorded in that candidate’s name.

Parking: Parking for Ward 1 (Thomas Jefferson Elementary School) is available on Oak, Seaton, Fellows, Parker, Timber and Jackson streets. Designated parking for voters with disabilities is available on Oak Street just below the walkway to the gym entrance. Note that the block of Oak Street in front of the school will be closed for school bus loading and unloading (8:10 – 8:40 a.m. and 3:10 – 3:40 p.m.).

For Ward 3 (Falls Church Community Center), parking is available on both sides of Little Falls Street, and several parking spaces in the Community Center lot will be reserved and marked for voters. Voters in Ward 2 (Oakwood Apartments) should remember to park in the rear lot of the building (entrance is next to the convenience store).

Remember, the Office of Voter Registration and Elections in City Hall, 703248-5085, can answer questions you might have. You can also check the Registrar’s website, www.fallschurchva.gov/vote, for additional information.  Bill Wanlund is vice chair of the City of Falls Church Electoral Board.

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Black Americana Auction at Quinn’s Disturbs, Inspires

BY DREW COSTLEY

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How can something be ugly and beautiful at the same time?

That might not be the question that Quinn’s Auction Gallery wants to raise, much less answer, with its upcoming auction of The Howard Wolverton Collection.

But the paradox of black life in America from the early 1800s through the 1960s – beauty and ugliness, sadness and celebration, triumph and tribulation – is ever present in the over 300 lots up for auction at Quinn’s tonight.

“This is a celebration of our country’s history. Everything has a light side and everything has a dark side,” said Jacob Johnson, an antique dealer from New Jersey who lives in Northern Virginia, as he pointed to piece of sheet music from 1898 titled “When A Coon Sits in the Presidential Chair” that is part of the auction. “....Then eventually things come together and we have to accept the fact that this is part of America….If these things are

negative, you have to look in the mirror and it’s part of you.”

The sheet music, part of a lot that includes another piece of sheet music called “There’ll Never Be a Coon Sit In The Presidential Chair” that was inspired by the aforementioned piece, is one of the rarer items in the sale.

Another rare item in the auction is a tintype of William Tillman, a free black man and sailor who after being captured

by Confederate soldiers and being told he would be sold into slavery, led a rebellion against his captors, captured the ship and steered it back to Union territory in July 1861.

There are also slave shackles, postcards depicting lynchings, a first edition of Countee Cullen’s Color and a copy of Langston Hughes’ Something in Common and Other Stories, both of which are signed by the authors.

And while there are many crude caricatures of blacks among the artifacts being sold, there is one piece, “Fugitive Slaves Pipe,” carved by F.J. Kaldenburg out of meerschaum that is intricately detailed, eerie and awe-inspiring.

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teacher who died in 2005, collected the full range of artifacts of black life in America to use as teaching tools at East Orange

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Concussion Expert Speaks at MEH Friday Morning A George Mason University scientist will be visiting Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, 7150 Leesburg Pike, as a guest lecturer Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. Dr. Shane Caswell is a sports medicine scientist and he will talk about how he uses research to reduce sports injuries and concussions in youth athletics. He will also provide insights about his work as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival’s Nifty Fifty (times 4) Program which sends more than 200 top scientists and engineers into area schools in advance of the festival to ignite students’ passion for science and engineering. The festival will take place in Washington, D.C. April 16-17.

Community Policing Key, Officer Tells Chamber Lieutenant Joe Carter of the Falls Church Police Department told the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Tuesday that community policing efforts, traffic and parking enforcement, are among the important challenges facing the local F.C. Police Department as the completion of new development projects brings new people, and vehicles, into the City. This is in addition to a growing focus on regional and local response training to “active shooter incidents” in the wake of the Paris attacks. When the recent shooting at the State Theater occurred, he noted 10 units from Arlington were on the scene in four minutes to help. He said he could not characterize crime reports of robberies and car vandalism as a “growing trend.” The local department is now one officer below its quota, while two are coming to join the department from Arlington and another is at a training academy. Overall, he said, the F.C. department had three officers deployed to street patrols in 1985, when the City’s population was 9,300, and it has the same number now, when the population is 13,300.

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High School in East Orange, NJ. After Wolverton died, his wife reached out to Johnson for help sorting through his massive collection of over 2,000 items and finding someone to sell them.

“He was an educator. He assembled this collection from an education perspective. And other collectors are doing similar things,” Quinn said. “An AfricanAmerican art museum, for example, wants to look at culture across the way and not everything in a museum is valuable, but it all represents a time and it represents something in the past.”

There are three lots in the auction that contain artifacts of the Ku Klux Klan, a white terrorist organization that still exists today. There is one lot of nine Ku Klux Klan related items, a panorama photo of the Dallas Ku Klux Klan from 1924 and a cast iron Klansman that’s just under five inches tall, with the inscription K.I.G.Y., which stands for “Klansman I Greet You,” on the bottom. Although the Ku Klux Klan artifacts might be better categorized as white history, or at least the white reaction to black life and history in America, Johnson was insistent that the artifacts are part of what’s called Black Americana. “[It’s not the white experience] when the victims were black and Jewish,” Johnson said. Quinn added that while “no one is positive on the KKK” (except its members, certainly) we can not deny the existence of the group.

“Hitler was a charismatic, loved leader before he became an [expletive],” Quinn said. “I

don’t think as a society we can think that way. There’s more and more people who say we can’t talk about this….I think that we have to continue to remember.”

White supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan are not a thing of the past, though. According to a Southern Poverty Law Center report from 2012, the number of these types of hate groups have risen 755 percent since the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. Johnson said the people joining these groups must, then, be so frustrated that only a few generations before their ancestors had so much more agency over blacks.

“Look at this,” Johnson said, pointing at the sheet music again.

“A coon will never sit in the president’s chair. You’ve got a black guy in the White House. Give me a break. You know how many white people hate that? And when your great granddaddy was a slave and all of the sudden you’ve gotten to the point where you can be the President of the United States. We weren’t supposed to go that far, so...I can understand how they would feel that way. Because there’s always going to be that factor that is negative.”

Quinn added that while there are uneducated people in the world, that should not deter institutions such as his from educating people and preserving history.

“We are stewards of history and we have to care for this stuff,” Quinn said. “And we have to allow it to continue to exist so that we don’t go back.”

For Quinn, there are two choices: destroy the relics of the past because they contain painful truths about from whence we

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“LITTLE BLACK SAMBO,” the first book by writer Helen Bannerman and one of two Sambo’s plates that are for sale in Quinn Auction Galleries’ Howard Wolverton Collection sale sit on a shelf in the gallery in the photo above. In the photo to the right, a cast iron figure of a Ku Klux Klansman, inscribed with the initials K.I.G.Y., which stands for “Klansman I Greet You,” is one of three lots for sale in the Quinn’s auction that feature Ku Klux Klan memorabilia.

(Photos: Drew Costley/News-Press)

came or preserve the history in order not to repeat the past.

“There’s typically two approaches to this. One is to destroy it all and one is to not forget,” Quinn said. “We don’t talk about it enough and you can’t talk about it enough, we have to remember. We have to not allow ourselves to forget...these are difficult subjects, but we talk about Nazi and World War II stuff and the polarity is no different here.”

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Community News & Notes F.C. Community Awards Reception Slated for Feb. 21 A Community Awards Reception is being held at Italian Cafe at 7161 Lee Highway on Sunday, Feb. 21 from 2 – 4 p.m. to honor two current and one former Falls Church citizen “who have made countless contributions over many years to Falls Church,” according to an email from the Falls Church GOP, the organizers of the event.

Barb Cram, Kiernan Sharpe and Bruce Swenson will be honored at the reception. “Their selfless work to make Falls Church a better place will be recognized.

Probably, their contributions will never again be equaled. The devotion and countless hours spent by these three citizens is incredible,” the email said.

Italian Cafe will provide a buffet at the event and Ryan Behrens will make name badg-

es for attendees. Because Bruce Swenson and his family moved to Germany in December 2015, Hallene Swenson, Bruce’s mother, will accept the honor on his behalf.

League of Women Voters Host Forum on Development The League of Women Voters of Falls Church will host a forum on Sunday, Feb. 21 from 3 – 4:30 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street entitled “Understanding Commercial Real Estate Development in Falls Church: Four Perspectives.”

The forum is designed to share the perspectives of government officials, developers, retailers and local residents on the issue of real estate development.

The discussion will feature City Councilmember Phil Duncan, Bruce Leonard, man-

aging principal of Streetsense, Keith Thurston, president of the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, and developer Robert Young, principal in The Young Group.

Following their presentations, the forum will include a question and answer period. The program is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit lwvfallschurch.org.

Local Art Teacher Featured at Exhibit in Dupont Circle Marc Robarge, an art teacher at George Mason High School, is having his work featured in an exhibit at Hillyer Art Space in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle in a show called “Branching Out” through Saturday, Feb. 27.

Robarge said in an email to the News-Press that the sculptures “pay homage to nature in their organic forms, color and textures.

MAKING THEIR FALLS CHURCH PERFORMANCE debut, local tai chi school Sun & Moon Taiji One lit up Luther Jackson Middle School’s auditorium with a harmonious and beautifully synchronized group tai chi demonstration at the Asian Community Service Center’s 2016 Lunar New Year Festival on Saturday, Feb. 6. The photo above was taken following the group’s performance at Luther Jackson. (Photo: Courtesy of Mickey Lee)

They are meant to engage a sense of wonder and mystery and reinforce our connection to the environment.” On Saturday, Feb. 13 he hosted a gallery day for his Falls Church friends to see the show.

Hillyer Art Space is located at 9 Hillyer Ct. NW, Washington, D.C. For more information, visit hillyerartspace.org.

F.C. Resident Wins Alumni Award from Stony Brook U. Falls Church resident Raymond K. Wong was recently selected as a 40 Under Forty Alumni Award winner at Stony Brook University, where he graduated from in 2007 with an electrical engineering degree.

“My vision of a great university includes an alumni network so strong that students want to come to Stony Brook because they know their alumni organization will be standing by to support them and

their university,” said Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., president of Stony Brook University, at an alumni event honoring the award recipients.

It was the university’s second annual 40 Under Forty event, which honors alumni of the university for their achievements in medicine, the arts, public service, business, and academia, among other fields.

Wong is a foreign service diplomat for the U.S. Department of State as well as a former senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a marine officer and radio operator.

Other award recipients include Major League Baseball pitcher for the Miami Marlins Tom Koehler, Los Angeles Rams National Football League reporter Dani Klupenger and neuroscientist Heather Berlin. For more information, visit stonybrook. edu/40underforty.

ENJOYING FEBRUARY’S FIRST FRIDAY FESTIVITIES, (l to r) Eric Apfelbaum, Mayor David Tarter, musicians David Erickson and Bill Barner and Meredith Baratz pose for a photo on Friday, Feb. 5. Apfelbaum is the featured artist at Art and Frame of Falls Church for February. (Photo: Courtesy of Tom Gittins)

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Winter Hours in Effect at Falls Church Farmers Market

The City of Falls Church Farmers Market has been operating in its winter hours since January and will continue through March. The market’s winter hours are 9 a.m. – noon every Saturday from January through March and the market is open from 8 a.m. – noon the rest of the year.

There are three new winter vendors this year: Greek SuperFoods, Greenheart Wellness and Sexy Vegie. Green Superfoods produces pure, unfiltered, extra virgin olive oil and also sells tapenades and balsamic vinegar. Greenheart Wellness makes 100 percent organic, unpasteurized, cold-pressed juices and handmade nut milks. Sexy Vegie, based in Baltimore, sells vegan, vegetarian and gluten free cuisine.

There are 38 other vendors who will be selling their wares at the Falls Church Farmers Market. For a full list of the market’s winter vendors or more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/FarmersMarket.

4 Progams Receive Grants From Local Organization The Falls Church chapter of the American Association of University Women recently announced that it is awarding grants to four local organizations that support women and girls. This year’s recipients are Homestretch, Aurora House, J.E.B. Stuart High School’s AVID Program and the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation.

Homestretch received a grant for a program they organizing in alliance with Falls Church Episcopal to sponsor a Syrian family. Aurora House’s grant will go toward an etiquette class to help residents learn skills to help further their social success.

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to tour college campuses. And the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation’s grant will go toward its Harlem Renaissance Fair, scheduled for Friday, Feb. 19.

The grants were funded by the American Association of University Women’s annual book sale, which is scheduled for April 8 and 9 at the Falls Church Community Center.

The organization will begin accepting donations for the sale on March 1. For more information, visit fallschurcharea-va.aauw.net or call 703-941-5643.

‘Hope On Ice’ to Benefit American Cancer Society Tysons Ice Rink, located at 1961 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, will host a three-day public skating event from Friday, Feb. 19 – Sunday, Feb. 21 called Hope on Ice to benefit the American Cancer Society.

The inaugural event will give local residents an opportunity to celebrate survivors, honor the lives of those lost and help raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

The event kicks off on Friday, Feb. 19 from 3 – 8 p.m. with a opening ceremony planned for 4 p.m. on Friday with cancer survivors, Tysons Rink general manager Marissa Marwell and American Cancer Society staff.

At 9 p.m. on Friday there will be a moment of silence, during which the rink will be surrounded

by Luminaria to honor loved ones who died of cancer and those who are fighting cancer. Luminaria can be purchased on site for $10.

DJ Civil and other live performers will provide entertainment for the Friday event and there will be complimentary treats from Earls Kitchen & Bar and S’mores Bar. Games and activities will be hosted

by Crunch Fitness.

Tickets for the event are $12, $4 of which will go to the American Cancer Society. The

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DESPITE TEMPERATURES IN THE TEENS, Eden Center saw a great turnout at its annual Chinese New Year celebration last week. (Photo: Courtesy of Alan Frank) first 50 cancer survivors to register to be celebrated will receive a limited edition Hope on Ice t-shirt and be entered into drawings for swag bags featuring items from Tysons Corner Center retailers. For more information, visit TysonsCornerIceRink.com.

NoVa Long Term Ombudsman Program Seeks Volunteers The Northern Virginia Long Term Care Ombudsman Program needs volunteer advocates for residents in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The program was established in 1985 to advocate for persons receiving long-term care services to ensure the highest quality of life and care and serves the jurisdictions of Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun.

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Northwest Arlington Lions Club Citrus Sale Starts Feb. 26 The Northwest Arlington Lions Club/Charities will be selling fresh Florida citrus, Georgia pecans and Vermont maple syrup at Overlee Pool’s Main Pump House, located at 6030 Lee Hwy., Arlington, Friday, Feb. 26, through Wednesday, March 2.

Sale hours are from 12:30 – 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 29, 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1 and 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2.

Sales will go to support the Northwest Arlington Lions Club’s community service projects. For

more information, call 703-5281130.

Shepherd’s Center Initiates 2 New Programs for Seniors The Shepherd’s Center of McLean-Arlington-Falls Church is seeking volunteers for two new programs they started to benefit senior adults living in the region who find it difficult to leave their homes.

The Friendly Visitor program will match volunteers to seniors who would like a visit periodically and The Friendly Caller program will allow seniors to receive a call from a volunteer to let them know they have not been forgotten and to remind them to call the Shepherd’s Center if they need help.

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The Roosevelt Approach

Dear Hillary, Jeb, Marco and John, You all find yourselves running against a whirlwind. Hillary, for you the whirlwind is Bernie Sanders. For the rest of you it’s Donald Trump.

Either way, you’re running against a candidate who generates passionate intensity. At some level those candidates’ followers must know that there’s something wildly impractical about the candidacy they are fervently supporting. Trump has no actual policies, and Sanders has little chance of getting his passed. And yet the supporters don’t care.

Sanders and Trump make them feel known. Finally, somebody is saying what they feel. Finally, somebody is outraged by the things that outrage them.

There’s a deep passion embedded in the Trump and Sanders phenomena, arousing energy, magical thinking and some NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE suspension of disbelief.

And the rest of you are basically asking voters to snap out of it. All of you, but especially you, Hillary, are asking voters to calm down and be pragmatic: Consider electability! Vote for the one who can get laws passed!

And it’s not working. In debates Sanders is uninhibited by the constraints of reality, so his answers are always bolder. Trump speaks from the id, not from any policy paper, so his answers are always more vivid.

The brute fact is you can’t beat passion with pragmatism. The human heart is not built that way. You can’t beat angry passion with bloodless calculation. If you’re going to have any chance against these hotheads, you have to set a rival and stronger emotional tone. I’d ask you to think of the ancient ideal of comradeship. Many Americans feel like they are the victims of a slow-moving natural disaster. Sanders and Trump try to put the blame for this disaster on discrete groups of people. But in reality it’s a natural disaster caused by structural forces. A great nation doesn’t divide in times of natural disaster. It doesn’t choose leaders who angrily tear it apart. Instead, it chooses leaders like Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, leaders who radiate sunny confidence, joy and neighborliness.

You may think of neighborliness as a sentimental, soft virtue. And I suppose in times of peace, prosperity and ease it is a sweet and tender thing.

But look at what happens to neighbors when one friend is threatened or when times are hard. Then neighborliness takes on a different hue.

Friends become comrades in arms.

That is what FDR and Ike were able to do with their leadership styles. With fireside chats and golf jokes, they were neighborly even in times of great difficulty and stress. But they were also able to set an emotional tone that brought people together and changed the nature of Americans’ relationships with one another.

During their presidencies, the bonds of solidarity grew stronger and the country more formidable. They were able to cultivate a deep sense of unity, responsibility and sacrifice. They didn’t call for sacrifice as something painful, but as what one did for one’s friends.

I’d love to see one of you counter the Trump and Sanders emotional tones with a bold shift in psychology. This would be a shift toward the cheerful resolve of an FDR or an Eisenhower.

Let Trump and Sanders shout, harangue and lecture. You respond to difficulty with warmth, confidence and optimism.

Let them deliver long, repetitive and uninterrupted lectures. You converse, interact, chat and listen.

Let them stand angry and solitary. You run as part of a team, a band of brothers, with diverse advisers and buddies joining you onstage at event after event.

Let them assert that all our problems can be solved if other people sacrifice – the immigrants or the top 1 percent. You call for shared sacrifice. The rich can give more in taxes, but the rich, the middle class and the poor can all give more in civic engagement.

Let them emphasize the cold relations of business (Trump) or of the state (Sanders). You emphasize the warm bonds of neighbor helping neighbor. While they dwell in the land of impersonal bureaucracies, you point out that the primary task before us to repair the social fabric – the basic respect that diverse Americans have for one another.

Let them preach pessimism. You emphasize a warm nationalism – a basic confidence that America is not going down in decline, that it is still the nation best positioned to dominate the 21st century, that confidence is a better guide than anger or fear.

Sanders and Trump have adopted emotional tones that are going to offend and exhaust people over time. Watching the GOP South Carolina debate I got the impression that Trump’s exhaustion moment is at hand.

The candidate who has the audacity to change the emotional tone of this whole election will win the White House and have a shot at rebinding the civic fabric of this nation.

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How America Was Lost Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn’t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party. In today’s America, with today’s GOP, the passing of Antonin Scalia has opened the doors to chaos.

In principle, losing a justice should cause at most a mild disturbance in the national scene. After all, the court is supposed to be above politics. So when a vacancy appears, the president should simply nominate, and the Senate approve, someone highly qualified and respected by all.

In reality, of course, things were never that pure. Justices have always had known NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE political leanings, and the process of nomination and approval has often been contentious. Still, there was nothing like the situation we face now, in which Republicans have more or less unanimously declared that President Barack Obama has no right even to nominate a replacement for Scalia – and no, the fact that Obama will leave soon doesn’t make it OK. (Justice Anthony Kennedy was appointed during Ronald Reagan’s last year in office).

Nor were the consequences of a court vacancy as troubling in the past as they are now. As everyone is pointing out, without Scalia the justices are evenly divided between Republican and Democratic appointees – which probably means a hung court on many issues. And there’s no telling how long that situation may last. If a Democrat wins the White House but the GOP holds the Senate, when if ever do you think Republicans would be willing to confirm anyone the new president nominates?

How did we get into this mess?

At one level the answer is the ever-widening partisan divide. Polarization has measurably increased in every aspect of American politics, from congressional voting to public opinion, with an especially dramatic rise in “negative partisanship” – distrust of and disdain for the other side. And the Supreme Court is no different. As recently as the 1970s the court had several “swing” members, whose votes weren’t always predictable from partisan positions, but that center now consists only of Kennedy, and only some of the time.

But simply pointing to rising partisanship as the source of our crisis, while not exactly wrong, can be deeply misleading. First, decrying partisanship can

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make it seem as if we’re just talking about bad manners, when we’re really looking at huge differences on substance. Second, it’s really important not to engage in false symmetry: Only one of our two major political parties has gone off the deep end.

On the substantive divide between the parties: I still encounter people on the left who claim that there’s no big difference between Republicans and Democrats, or at any rate “establishment” Democrats. But that’s nonsense. Even if you’re disappointed in what Obama accomplished, he substantially raised taxes on the rich and dramatically expanded the social safety net; significantly tightened financial regulation; encouraged and oversaw a surge in renewable energy; moved forward on diplomacy with Iran.

Any Republican would undo all of that, and move sharply in the opposite direction. If anything, the consensus among the presidential candidates seems to be that George W. Bush didn’t cut taxes on the rich nearly enough, and should have made more use of torture.

When we talk about partisanship, then, we’re not talking about arbitrary teams, we’re talking about a deep divide on values and policy. How can anyone not be “partisan” in the sense of preferring one of these visions?

And it’s up to you to decide which version you prefer. So why do I say that only one party has gone off the deep end?

One answer is, compare last week’s Democratic debate with Saturday’s Republican debate. Need I say more?

Beyond that, there are huge differences in tactics and attitudes. Democrats never tried to extort concessions by threatening to cut off U.S. borrowing and create a financial crisis; Republicans did. Democrats don’t routinely deny the legitimacy of presidents from the other party; Republicans did it to both Bill Clinton and Obama. The GOP’s new Supreme Court blockade is, fundamentally, in a direct line of descent from the days when Republicans used to call Clinton “your president.”

So how does this get resolved? One answer could be a Republican sweep – although you have to ask, did the men on that stage Saturday convey the impression of a party that’s ready to govern? Or maybe you believe that a populist rising from the left is ready to happen any day now. But if divided government persists, it’s really hard to see how we avoid growing chaos.

Maybe we should all start wearing baseball caps that say, “Make America governable again.”

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It’s been a monumental week in the history of things, but with the focus on the U.S. presidential election, even though it is still eight months away, and other major developments surrounding the nation’s capitol, such as the death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, I contend that something of quite an otherworldly nature has trumped (not in the Donald sense) them all.

First, some thoughts on the more mundane issues. With the New Hampshire primary, the week marked the emergence of Donald Trump as a dead serious contender for the GOP presidential nomination, and that’s not about to go away.

The question will be whether his support base in his own party can extend beyond about a third of voters, meaning that if the field winnowed down to one FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS other contender, he might remain stuck at 33 percent and thus lose, maybe at the convention. Makes for good theater.

In this context, the week has seen the GOP campaigns engage in the worst desperation move since Sarah Palin was added to their ticket n 2008. Jeb Bush brought on board the most reviled president in U.S. history, at least since John Tyler, and the claim that W. “kept America safe” was the biggest eye-rolling laugh line of the week.

Forget that George W. Bush was president when 9/11 happened.

The other heinous transgressions committed on his watch included the groundless, lie-driven invasion of Iraq (how many times did Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld not only claim there were non-existent “weapons of mass destruction,” but said they knew exactly where they were?), the criminally inept response to Hurricane Katrina and the deregulation-driven biggest meltdown of the global financial system since the Great Depression, the damage from which we still live with.

Since we’re on the subject, it was Scalia, who died unexpectedly last weekend, who had more to do with the election of W. in the first place than any other single person in the land. His vote, and moreover his influence, on the Supreme Court in December 2000 to order a stop to counting the ballots in Florida handed the election to W., and just so we never forget, W. had hundreds of thousands fewer popular votes than Al Gore in that election.

W. was reelected in 2004 because the nation was in the midst of his “war,” and because journalist Judith Miller deliberately withheld until after the election her knowledge of Cheney’s scandalous role in the “outing” of a sensitive CIA operation for partisan political purposes.

History is already looking very unkindly on both men, Scalia in his death this week as W. continues to be roasted on a proverbial political pyre.

But beyond this unavoidable review of unsavory recent history, the real big and epochal news of the week was the reported observation by an international team of scientists of space-time warping “gravitational waves” coming from the collision of two black holes more than a billion light years from Planet Earth.

The observation confirms Albert Einstein’s “e=mc2” theory of relativity from a century ago, and augmented by the extraordinary work of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who expressed his thrill at the discovery in a BBC TV interview this week.

Billions of light years away, you say. What does that have to do with us, you say?

This writer doesn’t pretend to grasp the math associated with this.

But there are amazing and mind-boggling derived truths, including one from a friend who exclaimed it proves something fundamental about the nature of the entire universe.

As we’re part of that universe, it includes us. He put it this way, “It means e=mc2 is operative at every level of the universe, even to the subatomic level in, for example, every cell of a human body.”

It means that all the components of reality we’re most familiar with are not linear in their relations – such as space, gravity and time – but dynamic and susceptible to one another.

It may take awhile, but this is eventually going to change everything we know about our universe, including potential applications to the care and feeding of our biosphere and our species.

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The Fire Meets the Wall You don’t need a firewall unless there’s a fire, and a fire is precisely what the candidacy of Bernie Sanders has set off among disaffected Democrats.

His message is clear and resonant – that we must rein in big business and stop their unfair practices, embrace some common-sense measures as universal rights – like access to health care, paid family leave and free public college to all – curtail the corruptive influence of big money on government, and reverse the trend of income inequality. It is hard for liberals to argue with this as a statement of principle. The only question is, “How?” For some, the answers are unsatisfactory, particularly when considering the political realities of an intransigent Congress that has attempted to block the current president at every turn.

But saying to people who believe in Sanders’ vision that it is a mirage is injurious to their sense of wonder and determinism. It says: Stop believing that the impossible is possible.

That lands like a wet blanket. It’s antithetical to the American ethos.

This country’s lore and NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE its image of its own greatness is rooted in doing what had never been done, what no one thought could be done.

So, Sanders continues to pick up steam as voters, particularly young ones, say, “Why not?”

That has allowed Sanders to finish in a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton in Iowa and trounce her in New Hampshire. It has also allowed him to raise millions of dollars and fuel a growing feeling that his candidacy isn’t all unicorns, rainbows and fairy dust, but could produce a real victory. But now that we have moved away from Iowa and New Hampshire, where the geography and demography favored Sanders, the fire is about to meet the wall in South Carolina.

There most factors favor Clinton. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll taken last month in South Carolina: “Among likely Democratic primary voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, Clinton, 64 percent, outpaces Sanders, 27 percent, by more than two-to-one.”

One of the biggest reasons for this is the one that most people point to: African-American voters.

In that poll, Clinton’s lead rose to 74 percent to 17 percent among likely black voters in South Carolina, according to The New York Times. While the percentage of Iowa’s black caucusgoers this year was just 3 percent

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and New Hampshire’s primary voters was just 2 percent, in 2008, the last time South Carolina held a competitive Democratic primary, black voters made up a whopping 55 percent of the voters. There are other compounding factors that make the state harder for Sanders to win.

The percentage of younger voters in South Carolina is likely to be smaller than the percentage in Iowa and New Hampshire has been. In 2008 and this year, the percentage of Iowa Democratic caucusgoers under 30 years old was 22 percent and 18 percent respectively. In New Hampshire, the percentage for primary voters under 30 was 18 percent and 19 percent, respectively. The number of voters under 30 in South Carolina in 2008 was 14 percent.

South Carolina also has slightly more women voters. While Democratic primaries and caucuses generally tend to have more female than male participants, South Carolina is one of the most female primaries. In 2008, only 39 percent of the people participating in the Democratic primary in that state were men. That was compared with 43 percent men in both Iowa and New Hampshire. This year Iowa was again 43 percent male, but New Hampshire grew to 45 percent male.

Clinton won the female support in Iowa, and although she lost it in New Hampshire, she lost it by a smaller margin than she lost the male vote by.

Now Sanders has to do a nuanced dance around his criticisms of President Barack Obama, of whom these black voters are likely to be protective and to whom they are likely to have allegiance. In last week’s debate, a testy, abrasive and often flat-out rude Sanders tried to navigate this terrain, and failed. When Clinton attacked him for his criticism, an attack Sanders called a “low blow,” Sanders responded: “Last I heard we lived in a democratic society. Last I heard, a United States senator had the right to disagree with the president, including a president who has done such an extraordinary job. So I have voiced criticisms. You’re right. Maybe you haven’t. I have.”

All true, but unfortunately in today’s politics, nuance loses. Hillary loses in her nuanced argument about practicality, and Sanders loses in his nuanced argument about criticizing the president.

For all these reasons, Clinton’s margin in South Carolina seems to me too wide to hold to the current degree, but sadly for Sanders it’s also one that seems too wide to completely close. And on the horizon are many more states that look more like South Carolina than Iowa and New Hampshire.

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By Supervisor Penny Gross

Fairfax County Executive Edward L. Long, Jr. presented his proposed county budget for Fiscal Year 2017 on Tuesday, and there were few surprises. The proposed budget reflects a continuing tight economic situation in Fairfax County, mirroring the continuing effects of the Great Recession. Fairfax County continues to recover slowly from the massive downturn that affected the entire nation. Commercial property values have increased by a few percentage points, but residential values remain fairly flat. None of this is news to the Board, which meets regularly as a budget committee to study the forecasts and ways to continue to provide needed services to more than 1.1 million residents.

In his budget presentation, Mr. Long pointed out that home sales in 2015 rose 9.6 percent, to nearly 15,000 residences, but homes were on the market for slightly longer than in 2014. Residential property is approximately 75 percent of the county’s total tax base. However, commercial real estate values are improving after declining for the past two consecutive years. Mr. Long also said that revenue growth at the current $1.09 real estate tax rate does not support the needs and requirements of the county, and recommended a 4 cent increase in the rate. The Board will discuss the County Executive’s tax rate recommendation at its budget meeting on February 26, before advertising a rate on March 1. The Board may adopt a rate lower than advertised, but cannot adopt a rate higher than advertised.

The recommended increase would fund small compensation increases for county employees, 14 new police patrol officers, fire and rescue staffing and equipment, and needed maintenance for county facilities. Mr. Long’s recommended transfer

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to schools is $1.88 billion, reflecting an increase of 3 percent, or $54.75 million. School debt service is funded at $189.87 million. Fairfax County also provides additional support of nearly $85 million for Head Start, school health, crossing guards, and other services for schools that are not included in the transfer. The School Board has asked for $68 million more than the recommended transfer, so there is more work to do between the two boards.

Fairfax County’s budget process is an open and robust community exercise. Budget documents are posted on-line at www.fairfaxcounty,gov/budget/ dmb. You can examine any department in the county and review revenues, staffing, mission, and many other aspects. At the same time, this year’s Lines of Business (LOBs) review documents also are posted on-line (www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dmb/2016lines-of-business.htm), providing metrics and more information about specific duties of each department and division. The comprehensive LOBs review is conducted about every five years, and helps the Board of Supervisors make informed decisions about programs and services in the face of changing state and federal requirements, as well as shifting community demands.

In addition to the Board’s budget public hearings on April 5, 6, and 7, each district Supervisor holds a budget town meeting – Mason District’s Budget Town Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 16, at 7 p.m., at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. The budget town meeting is open to the public.

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the increased revenues from the FAST Act and the revised state revenue forecast will provide funding for environmental work and construction to widen I-66 eastbound from the Dulles Connector Road to Ballston.

Construction costs are estimated to be $140 million, which will be funded with increased revenues from the FAST Act and the projected improved state revenues.

This I-66 Project is projected to reduce more than 26,000 person hours of delay per day, move more than 40,000 additional people through the I-66 corridor per day, provide reliable travel speeds of at least 45 mph during rush hours in the peak direction, and allow increased travel choices for single-occupant drivers plus overall better transit service.

VDOT Design Public Hearing On Wednesday, March 9, VDOT will host a Design Public Hearing at their NOVA District Office (4975 Alliance Drive, Fairfax) from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. with a presentation at 6:30 p.m.

The presentations will be livestreamed on the Transform66.org website.

The Design Public Hearing will provide opportunities for the public to: Learn how the dynamicallypriced toll lanes will operate on I-66 Inside the Beltway; Review proposed locations and design of toll gantries and pricing signs; View displays and discuss your questions with VDOT staff Attend the formal presentation, followed by a public comment period; Submit oral and/or written comments.

Given the impact this transportation deal will have on Northern Virginia and the 53rd District, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.

Please email me at DelMSimon@ house.virginia.gov with your questions and comments.

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The 2016 General Assembly Session has officially reached the halfway point known as Crossover, the deadline for each house to complete work on their own bills before sending them down the hall to the other chamber. Last week, committees and subcommittees worked diligently to hear all the legislation in time to get it to the floor for a vote before the deadline. As that deadline approached, we voted on and debated more than 200 bills and resolutions this past Monday.

Next month, I’ll provide a wrap up of all the bills that passed both houses and are likely to be signed by the Governor. This month, though, the biggest news affecting my constituents is the deal between legislative leaders and the Governor to unclog Interstate 66. The deal is a combination of widening within the existing right of way to add capacity and allowing non-HOV vehicles to use the road during restricted hours by paying a toll.

The deal proposes to convert I-66 inside the beltway to Express Lanes during rush hours in the peak directions, widen I-66 eastbound from the Dulles Connector Road, and improve transit service throughout the corridor.

During the morning and evening rush hours, carpoolers with two or more people will continue to ride for free when the dynamic tolling is scheduled to begin in 2017. Solo drivers can also use the lanes provided that they pay the toll based on the distance traveled.

Starting in 2020, the lanes will be free to carpoolers with three or more people during rush hours while everyone else will pay a variable toll. However, the lanes will remain free during off-peak periods and there will be no tolling for reverse commuters.

The Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) will use all the revenue raised from the tolls for improvements involving new transit services and carpooling incentives.

Current revenue estimates for 2018 is $18 million.

Eliminating the current bottleneck inside the beltway,

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Shreding the Constitution The Republicans are playing with fire. Their hyper-partisan reaction to the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is completely unacceptable and un-American. Republicans need to understand one thing: Obama beat them twice – in spite of efforts to suppress the vote. It is time they grew up and got over it. They can begin by reading the United States Constitution they so often keep in their pockets to bandy about like clubs.

Their usurpation of Obama’s constitutional role to nominate Supreme Court and appeals justices is one step too far. The role of the United States Senate is to advise and consent, not abdicate and obstruct. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz are derelict in duty and ought to recuse themselves from the process or be sidelined.

The wacky, partisan idea that a president can’t nominate members of the court in an election year is at odds with the law and historical precedent. It is at cross-purposes with a healthy, functioning democracy. It is deleterious to the political process and destabilizing to the United States of America.

Some things are worth fighting for and it is critical that Democrats aggressively push back against this borderline sedition. Why do I call it sedition?

1) Leading Republicans have taken it upon themselves to declare Obama’s term over, even though he has nearly a year left in office.

There is no provision in the constitution that declares a president a “lame duck” simply because you do not like his politics.

2) The GOP is increasingly a party of cheaters. They believe that they get to enjoy the spoils when they win – but increasingly they also think they get to make the rules when they lose. This is a risky form of political mutiny that should not be tolerated. The party has crossed the line from loyal opposition to disloyal obstruction at the expense of the nation. We have also seen such inexcusable behavior when Republicans hold the debt ceiling or the federal budget hostage to their undemocratic demands.

3) Disturbingly, Republicans have gone beyond policy disagreement with Democrats, and have seemingly questioned the very legitimacy of Democratic presidents. From the ridiculous impeachment of Bill Clinton, to the offensive and absurd questions about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, Republicans have, to an unnerving degree, staged attempts to disqualify Democrats who have won fair and free elections.

4) The Republican Party has brazenly abused its power by shamefully using a record number of filibusterers to thwart presidential appointments.

5) The role of the Senate is to take a serious a look at the President’s court nomination(s) – and decide if the nominee is intellectually fit and eminently qualified. The predetermined, unilateral and possibly illegal decision that no nominee will get a fair hearing, under any circumstances, is an abandonment of leadership.

6) The GOP is no longer a coherent party with a rational, mainstream decision-making center that puts forth serious policies. No, the Republican Party has become an incoherent group of rabblerousing extremists who seemingly have nothing in common except a collective mood disorder.

The New York Times put the current Republican judicial ploy in perspective: “Just as there is no precedent for leaving a Supreme Court seat open because it is an election year, as Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, vowed to do hours after Justice Scalia’s death was announced, there is also none for virtually shutting down the appointment of new appeals court judges so early. Each of Mr. Obama’s predecessors since Ronald Reagan also faced a Senate controlled by the opposing party, yet they appointed between 10 and 18 appellate judges in their last two years in office.”

Republicans have framed their resistance as payback for the decision

by Democrats in 2013 to change Senate rules and eliminate the ability of lawmakers in the minority to block confirmation votes with a filibuster.

What Republicans won’t tell you is that they got what they deserved. They horribly abused the filibuster process, skirting the spirit of the law, to effectively turn their minority into a majority. The GOP’s strategy has created a backlog of judicial nominees. The New York Times continued: “Last June, a conservative radio host referred to the rule change in an interview with Mr. McConnell, and asked how the new Republican majority was handling judges.”

Mr. McConnell replied that “so far, the only judges we’ve confirmed have been federal district judges that have been signed off on by Republican senators.” He added that it was “highly likely” the pattern would remain for the rest of the 114th Congress.

Barack Obama is the president, whether disloyal Republicans like it or not. They need to get on with the nation’s business or step down (or be removed) if they can’t perform their jobs or fulfill their constitutional duties.

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Our Man in Arlington

By Charlie Clark

My neighborhood called East Falls Church throws off outsiders who assume with that name, it can’t be part of Arlington.

Indeed, our civic association a few years back took a vote on changing from the cumbersome Arlington-East Falls Church Civic Association to a simpler “Tuckahoe” or “Somerset.” No go, said the prevailing traditionalists.

The confusion goes back before the 1930s, when – as marked by our neighborhood sign emblazoned with a train car – East Falls Church split from Falls Church proper. It’s one of many stories I savor that unfolded walking distance from my home.

Last summer, an item in the Sun-Gazette’s history column reported that in August 1939, Tex Ritter and His Musical Tornadoes performed at the Lee Theatre. That emporium stood at the East Falls Church shopping strip now a public storage at Lee Highway and I-66.

Tex’s visit would be followed in the 1950s by country singer and sausage king Jimmy Dean, whose home stands at 1708 North Roosevelt. You want more historic houses? We got ‘em.

The 1892 Isaac Crossman farmhouse on Underwood merits a historic plaque for the still-inhabited structure built by our area’s principal landowner in the latter 19th century. Next to the BB&T Bank on Lee Highway is the 1876 Eastman-Fenwick house (which

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inspired a development of modern homes in the same Victorian style).

Albert Eastman was an Army of the Potomac Civil War veteran (he defended Chain Bridge). In 1946, his granddaughter Eleanor moved into the house with her husband, State Sen. Charles Fenwick.

The beautiful green and mustard Victorian home built in 1889 at Washington Blvd. and Roosevelt St. is called the Fellows-McGrath House.

Our enclave’s earliest landmark is the District of Columbia boundary stone placed in 1791 by Benjamin Banneker. (His namesake park is at 18th and Van Buren streets.) But East Falls Church really came into its own in the 1890s, when Army troops camped here for the Spanish-American War. I’m indebted to former Tax Analysts writer John Iekel’s research for details of the community’s now vanished commercial ventures along the WO&D Railroad.

Among them: the 19th century Thompson’s grocery store, Ware’s Pharmacy, Boyd’s Fine Shoe Repair, the Eatwell Café, Call Carl auto repair and Snyder’s Hardware (now a used car lot).

The Northern Virginia Sun and the Virginia Democrat once had newspaper offices near the strip largely demolished in the 1960s to make way for I-66.

You can still taste the old neighborhood by strolling behind the East Falls Church Metro.

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CRIME REPORT Week of Feb. 8 - 14, 2016 Shoplifting, 1150 W. Broad St. (CVS Pharmacy) On Feb. 8, a male, 47, of Alexandria, was arrested and released on summons for Shoplifting.

Larceny of Motor Vehicle Parts, 200 block Hillwood Ave. On Feb. 9, sometime overnight an unknown suspect stole a license plate from a vehicle.

Residential Burglary, 1000 block Birch St. On Feb. 9, police received a report a residence was burglarized sometime on Feb. 1.

Trespass, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #16 (Café Le Mirage) On Feb. 9, Hiep N. Vo, 35, of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing.

Attempted Strong-Arm Robbery, 201 S. Washington St. (7-Eleven) On Feb. 10, an unknown suspect attempted to take cash from the register.

Larceny from Building, 1218 W. Broad St. (Starbucks) On Feb. 10, an unattended purse was reported stolen.

Driving Under the Influence, 100 block W. Broad St. On

literally abutting the sidewalks – which would never pass modern setback codes.

The passions behind East Falls Church’s secession are hard to grasp today. Talk surfaced in 1921, and articles in the Washington Star from ‘30s describe the Arlington Civic Federation offering water and sewer lines to Falls Church.

The neighborhood’s gray zone created “an intolerable confusion of overlapping government agencies in this area,” said then-Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence Douglas. In 1932, my predecessor citizens petitioned in Circuit Court to join Arlington. The town of Falls Church complained it would lose 60 per cent of its business district and 30 percent of its land.

The judge ruled for separation, which took effect at Midnight, April 30, 1936.

The march of history continues. The entire East Falls Church Metro complex has been slated for new development – someday. *** Pretty big Arlington news that Gov. Terry McAuliffe last week compromised with Republican lawmakers and forged a deal to widen I-66 and add tolls.

County board members said they were “disappointed,” given the county’s opposition to widening that, one could say, dates back to the 1960s, when early plans called for twice the number of lanes we ended up with.

My concern was whether the wonderful bike paths that hug the commuter route are threatened.

Del. Patrick Hope assures me they are protected as part of the road’s existing right of way.

Feb. 12, a male, 73, of Capitol Heights, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Shoplifting, 1230 W. Broad St. (Giant Foods) On Feb. 12, a male, 49, of Ashburn, was arrested and released on summons for Shoplifting.

Larceny from Building, 132 W. Broad St. (Dogwood Tavern) On Feb. 12, an unattended wallet was reported stolen.

Larceny, 300 block N. Spring St. On Feb. 13, a yard sign was reported stolen.

Domestic Assault and Robbery, 400 block E. Broad St. On Feb. 14, a male, 49, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Robbery and Assaulting a Family Member.

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Fairfax County Public Schools, Yale University, Princeton University, Georgetown University.

These schools, among many others, have embarked on a movement to disassociate themselves from some of their eponyms.

These efforts are noble, but still raise the question: How far should schools and universities go to eradicate traces of racism from the names within their campuses? At what point are these institutions revising history rather than accepting it?

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considering changing the name of two of its high schools: J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church and Robert E. Lee High School in Alexandria. Students began a petition to change J.E.B. (James Ewell Brown) Stuart first. It was named after a Confederate general in the Civil War. Subsequently, the Fairfax County School Board changed its naming policy in December, 2015, allowing a name change if there is a “compelling reason.”

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Princeton’s president has also agreed to begin the process of considering the removal of Wilson’s name from the school.

Wilson was a known racist, having implemented several segregationist policies during his time as the twenty eighth President of the United States and President of Princeton University. Yet, he formed several vital foundations for American society and economy regardless of race: the Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Trade Commision. And, regardless of what one may think of him, he did serve as President of

7. WolframAlpha (Web / iPhone / Android) “Height of the Empire State Building divided by height of Drake” will result in a simple answer on Wolfram Alpha. The app can help you with chemistry equations, math problems or satisfying your thirst for knowledge.

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The fact that you can get any Adobe app for free is probably one of the most overlooked features of this school. Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects and Dreamweaver are worth thousands of dollars. Professionals use them, but you can get them for free.

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5. Microsoft Office (iPhone / Android)

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Princeton and the United States.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Principal Bob Palermo (center) stands among Falls Church City Public School staff, students and parents after receiving news that he was nominted for the Washington Post Principal of the Year award. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS/John Wesley Brett)

TJ’s Bob Palermo Nominated For Principal of the Year Bob Palermo, Principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, was nominated for the Washington Post Principal of the Year award. Palermo has been TJ’s Principal for the past six years and prior to that he was Assistant Principal at the school for seven.

His nomination for the award said, “being with the students and seeing them progress and learn is at the heart of Bob’s mission.”

Teachers at TJ praised his steady leadership, one of whom said “A leader by example, Bob is a model of kindness, stability, humility, flexibility and fairness that is needed by our staff and valued by our school.”

“Bob has always been known for his ability to see the big picture.” speech-language pathologist Denise O’Neil wrote.

“Bob is a kind and steady partner with teachers in problemsolving the difficult situations that might arise on any given day.”

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MASON STUDENTS GET READY to play with the diabolos, a Chinese toy, during a celebration of the Chinese New Year, the year of the monkey, that was hosted by Mason’s Chinese Club on Thursday, Feb. 11 at the school. The club also hosted over 50 exchange students for the event. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Tina Kao) with delivery of mulch on Saturday, April 2. For the 23rd year, student athletes will donate time on April 2 to load and deliver mulch to homes throughout Falls Church.

This is the Athletic Boosters’ largest fundraiser and proceeds are used to provide student scholarships, end of season and Hall of Fame banquets, banners that hang in the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School gym, as well as big ticket items, including the baseball/softball field lights and equipment purchases.

The high quality, shredded hard-bark mulch comes in three-

cubic-foot bags, which sell for $5 each. Order forms are available online and at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street, Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue and all Falls Church City Public School offices.

The Athletic Booster recommend that those who purchase mulch make a note when ordering of where they want mulch to be placed on delivery day. For more information or to place an order, visit mason-fan-shop.myshopify. com/collections/mulch-springonly.

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Community Events

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week. This program is for ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. & 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. 703-2485034.

High School Book Club. Teens ages 14 – 18 will be discussing A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.

Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Hope On Ice. Tysons Ice Rink will host this inaugural threeday public skating event to benefit the American Cancer Society. The opening ceremony is scheduled for 4 p.m. with cancer survivors, Tysons Rink general manager Marissa Marwell and staff from the American Cancer Society. Tysons Ice Rink (1961 Chain Bridge Road, McLean). $12. 3 – 8 p.m. tysonscornericerink.com.

Harlem Renaissance Fair. The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation is hosting a night filled with exhibits, performances and attire inspired by the Harlem Renaissance with performances by David Mills and The Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra.

Northern Virginia Community College’s Richard J. Ernst Cultural Center (8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale). 6 – 11 p.m. tinnerhill. org/events/harlem-renaissancefair.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20

F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077.

Storytelling with Elaine Muray at the Library. Elaine Muray will tell stories from A Trip on the Winds, a collection of stories that provides a view into the richness of stories from cultures around the world. For children ages five and over. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church).

Free. 11 – 11:45 a.m. 703-2485034.

McLean Puppetry Festival. The festival consists of two, 45-minute shows along with puppet making

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stations. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $10 – $15. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. mcleancenter.org.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21

Community Awards Reception.

Barb Cram, Kiernan Sharpe and Bruce Swenson will be honored for their countless contributions over the years to the Falls Church City community. Italian Cafe (7161 Lee Hwy., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m.

Understanding Commercial Real Estate Development in Falls Church: Four Perspectives. The League of Women Voters of Falls Church will host a forum designed to share the perspectives of government officials, developers, retailers and local residents on real estate development in Falls Church. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4:30 p.m.

Concert. The Bumper Jacksons will play at Bikenetic. Bikenetic (201 W. Jefferson St., Falls Church). $20. 7:30 p.m. 202-615-5265.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services

Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. & 3 – 3:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 18-36 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703248-5034.

Great Books Discussion.

A bimonthly discussion concentrating on literary classics will take on portions of the The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church).

7 – 9 p.m. 703-248-5034.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Early Release Wednesdays: Legos in the Library. Children in grades K – 5 can play with Legos. Space is limited to 15 participants.

Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 p.m. 703-2485034.

Bingo at the Library. Children in grades K – 5 can drop in to play bingo. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church).

Free. 7 p.m. 703-248-5034.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

“The Lion King, Jr.” Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School presents this rendition of Disney’s classic �ilm. The African savannah comes to life on Henderson’s stage with Simba, Ra�iki and an unforgettable cast of characters as they journey from Pride Rock to the jungle and back again in this inspiring coming-of-age tale.

Through Feb. 21. Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School (7134 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). $8. 7 p.m. mehms.my-pta.org.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

“1776.” With music by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone, 1776 became an improbable hit and won three Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The founding fathers who participated in the creation and signing of

one of the most important documents in our nation’s history are presented in a humorous way, with their human foibles and failings. Annie O’Neill Galvin is directing and Jerry Gideon and Jean Matich are producing the play. Through Feb. 21. The Alden Theatre (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $23 – $25. 8 p.m. mcleanplayers.com.

“Monsters of the Villa Diodati.” This new Creative Cauldron musical written by Stephen Gregory Smith and Matt Conner draws its inspiration from events surrounding a famous gathering of 19th century writers on Lake Geneva during the stormy summer of 1816. While entertaining one another with ghost stories, Lord Byron, their host, offered his guests a challenge: who among them could write the perfect tale of terror?

Through Feb. 22. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple St., Falls Church). $24 – $26. 8 p.m.

creativecauldron.org.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 “Guards at the Taj.” India, 1648: two imperial guards watch as the sun rises over the newlycompleted Taj Mahal, an awe-inspiring monument to the emperor’s dead queen. But awe gives way to terror when the guards are given a new assignment: to perform a bloody task whose grisly aftermath will force them to question the very ideas of beauty, responsibility, and friendship. “Guards at the Taj” – from playwright Rajiv Joseph and director John Vreeke, the team that brought us “Gruesome Playground Injuries” – is a tragicomic fable as hilarious as it is horrifying. Beauty has a price. Are we willing to pay it? Through Feb. 28. Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $63 – $73. 8 p.m. woolymammoth.net.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

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9 p.m. 202-667-7960.

S����� W��� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

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4 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $28. 6 p.m. 703-2551566.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 K��� K���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $28 – $30. 6 p.m.

703-255-1566.

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7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

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8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

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T�� R����� C��� B���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

L������ T����� ���� M��� W������ S���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

L�� D�W��� ���� W���� W���� ��� S����� L����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6 p.m.

703-255-1566.

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The Electric Grandmother with Psychic Subcreatures and The Sniffs. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage).

7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.

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Tuesday, March 1 – Winter Reading Program Ends. This is the last day for children ages five and under to sign up for the Winter Reading Program. The last

day for children to turn in their reading logs is Friday, March 11, with prize pick up taking place from March 1 – 14. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. All day. fallschurchva.gov/1686/Winter-Reading-Program.

Saturday, March 12 – Celtic Music Concert. Musicians will perform on fiddle, banjo, guitar, bouzouki and bodhran in the intimate atmosphere of the Cherry

Hill Farmhouse parlor. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $20 at the door. 8 – 10 p.m. 703-248-5027.

Saturday, March 19 – RESCHEDULED: Concert. In celebration of its 40th anniversary Levine is presenting the “Monuments & Miniatures” concert series. The

program will include piano trios written when the composers were age 40, including Beethoven’s “Archduke” trio and Schumann’s “Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110.” The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). $15 – $20. 7 – 9 p.m. levinemusic.org.

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D����� W����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

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A����� O������ ���� A�� H��� � T�� H������� S��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930.

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703-241-9504.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20

C��� F��� B��������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

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T��� � T������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 K��� K���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $28 – $30. 6 p.m.

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T�� R����� C��� B���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $55. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.

L������ T����� ���� M��� W������ S���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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The Electric Grandmother with Psychic Subcreatures and The Sniffs. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage).

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Tuesday, March 1 – Winter Reading Program Ends. This is the last day for children ages five and under to sign up for the Winter Reading Program. The last

day for children to turn in their reading logs is Friday, March 11, with prize pick up taking place from March 1 – 14. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. All day. fallschurchva.gov/1686/Winter-Reading-Program.

Saturday, March 12 – Celtic Music Concert. Musicians will perform on fiddle, banjo, guitar, bouzouki and bodhran in the intimate atmosphere of the Cherry

Hill Farmhouse parlor. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $20 at the door. 8 – 10 p.m. 703-248-5027.

Saturday, March 19 – RESCHEDULED: Concert. In celebration of its 40th anniversary Levine is presenting the “Monuments & Miniatures” concert series. The

program will include piano trios written when the composers were age 40, including Beethoven’s “Archduke” trio and Schumann’s “Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110.” The Falls Church Episcopal (115 E. Fairfax St., Falls Church). $15 – $20. 7 – 9 p.m. levinemusic.org.

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Red Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting • 2½ cups cake flour • 1½ cups sugar • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder • 1¼ teaspoons baking soda • 1 teaspoon salt • 1½ cups vegetable oil • 1 cup whole buttermilk • 2 large eggs • 1 (1-ounce) bottle red food coloring • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract • 1 teaspoon vinegar For the cream cheese frosting: RED VELVET CAKE owes its color to red food coloring and cocoa.

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Every year my mother-in-law would make the most amazing red cake for my husband’s birthday.

When she passed away we looked through her recipe book and could not find it. I have yet to find it. I know it had an entire bottle of red

food coloring with a cream cheese frosting. Thanks for trying to find this recipe for me (and my husband). I know he will appreciate it.

Marilyn Radder, New Fairfield, Conn.

It seems Marilyn is referring to red velvet cake, a staple in many Southern kitchens. So I turned to my Southern friends for a recipe,

• 3 cups confectioners’ sugar • 1 stick unsalted butter, softened • 2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and Kelly Cook of Dunedin came through. Kelly is Southern through and through, so I knew this recipe would be good. It uses cake flour, which is a finely milled white flour made from soft wheat. The flour has a very low protein content, making it perfect for soft-textured cakes and cookies; a flour with more protein would make this cake tough. This red velvet cake is light rather than dense. As Marilyn remembers, an entire bottle of red food coloring is added, and that combined with

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three (9-inch) cake pans.

In a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Beat in oil, buttermilk and eggs at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.

Stir in food coloring, vanilla and vinegar. Divide the batter evenly among the three prepared pans.

Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of each pan comes out clean. Do not over bake. Let cool in pans for 5 minutes and then remove from pans to cooling racks to cool completely.

Make the frosting: Sift confectioners’ sugar to eliminate lumps. In a large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed until creamy. Beat in vanilla.

Gradually beat in sifted confectioners’ sugar until mixture is smooth. Frost cooled cake with frosting.

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the small amount of cocoa turns the cake a lovely shade of red.

Some may think the addition of vinegar would be unpleasant, but it is necessary because the minimal amount creates a reaction with the buttermilk and keeps the cake moist.

I promise it adds no vinegary flavor.

Don’t skip the sifting step, as it adds to the velvety texture of the cake. I find that if you don’t sift cocoa you often wind up with small chunks of cocoa that won’t incorporate. When you add the wet ingre-

dients, they go in all at once, unlike many other cake recipes, where you may beat the batter after each egg is added, for example. If you don’t want flour all over your counter and floor, gently give the mixture a turn or two with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, to just barely incorporate wet and dry ingredients. I am speaking from experience.

The cream cheese frosting is not overly sweet, making this three-layer cake a perfect complement to the end of any big meal.

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Playwright and poet David Mills encountered the work of legendary American writer Langston Hughes in the way that most American children do – through grade school educators.

But what he eventually did, and continues to do, with Hughes’ work is extraordinary.

For the past 16 years Mills has been performing a one-man play based on the life and work of Hughes. And he will be performing the play on Friday, Feb. 19 at Northern Virginia Community College’s Richard J. Ernst Cultural Center in Annandale as part of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Harlem Renaissance Fair. The event, an evening of Jazz, dance, poetry and displays, will feature The Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra, The Guardian Dance Company, living history vignettes, exhibits, hor d’oeuvres

by Margaret’s Soul Food and Mills’ show.

Mills said he got the idea to create the play when someone he knew suggested that he perform a play based on a black writer. And since Mills spent three years as a writer-in-residence in Hughes’ Harlem residence, a New York City landmark, he decided to base play on Hughes.

Mills said that he worked and lived among artifacts from Hughes’ life, like a typewriter Hughes used, a chair he used to sit in and some plates he used.

Also he said that, relevant to this region, a photo of Hughes working as a busboy at what used to be the Wardman Park Hotel – but is now the site of the first Busboys and Poets, named after Hughes, restaurant on 14th and V Streets in Washington, D.C. – hung on a wall of the house when he was a writer-in-residence there.

“It was pretty intense working and living there as a writer of color and actor and being inspired by these effects and his cultural and natural resonance,” Mills said. When he started building the one-man show, Mills began with Hughes’ poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

DAVID MILLS. (C������� P����) and “Mother to Son,” which he already had memorized and added other well-known pieces to the show. And over the years he’s added performances of Hughes’ characters, short stories and lesser known poems to the show.

Mills said that his relationship with the life and work of Hughes has transformed as he’s created, changed and performed the play over the years. “I have much more profound respect for what I consider the populist or every person voice in his aesthetic,” Mills said. “I didn’t always trust that, just on paper, but I see when presenting the work its impact and I think Hughes made deliberate aesthetic choice to write in a populist voice….

That’s a thing that by doing the performance I’ve grown to appreciate about his writing.”

Another thing Mills has grown to appreciate about Hughes’ catalog are his short stories, two of which, “Rock, Church” and “Thank You Ma’am,” he’ll perform at the Harlem Renaissance

Fair. “When you mention Langston Hughes people say ‘Oh, he’s a poet’ but he’s also phenomenal short story writer,” Mills said. “And he doesn’t get the credit, unless it’s in some academic circles, for that ability….Most people could not name one Langston Hughes short story or didn’t know that he wrote them and he’s a craftsperson par excellence as a short story writer.”

Mills encouraged area residents to come out to see the performance to support the legacy of Hughes, who was discovered as a writer while living in Washington D.C. “Hughes has some roots there,” Mills said.

“Like I said, he worked at the Wardman Park Hotel, so coming to support this is also supporting a part of Hughes’ time and life whereby he was connected with the D.C. area.”

• For more information about The Harlem Renaissance Fair, visit tinnerhill.org/events/ harlem-renaissance-fair.

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Mustangs Win Conference 35 Championship

by Matt Delaney

Falls Church News-Press

Step one on the George Mason varsity boys basketball team postseason checklist was accomplished after winning the Conference 35 tournament by defeating Clarke County High School 70-38 in the semifinal on Thursday, Feb. 11 and Madison County High School 68-47 in the final on Saturday, Feb. 13.

The trophy ceremony following Saturday’s championship game was treated casually by Mason.

Muted smiles crept across their faces as they posed for obligatory photos, appreciating the moment but looking forward to bigger ones to come.

This same team, who is one year removed from a loss in the 2A State tournament and two years from being knocked out in the same tournament they just won, knows success is fragile so big smiles are saved for grand finale.

“Last year [when we lost], we had one bad quarter in that game and that was it – you’re eliminated,” head coach Chris Capannola

said.

“We gotta play a consistent four quarters because you can’t ever count another [team] out at this level now because we’re in [the Regional tournament], and like I told these guys careers are on the line.”

A loss from this point on would be the last game for 10 of the Mustangs current 15-man roster, but Capannola feels confident that pressure will serve the team well in the coming weeks.

“Kids play harder when they’re a senior and they know this is it,” Capannola said. “Last year we were the juniors. This year we’re the seniors so we’re not gonna let anything happen. No lulls, no extended slumps, no craziness and I like our chances to win a couple.”

Mason looked like state title contenders in their two games the past week.

Against Clarke County, the Mustangs carried out an expected victory thanks to success beyond the arc. Senior guard Thomas Beddow sunk seven three-pointers to lead a team total of 16 from downtown.

MASON SENIOR ROBERT TARTT takes off for a dunk during the Mustangs’ Conference 35 championship victory over Madison County High School on Saturday, Feb. 13. (Photo: Carol Sly) Madison County played Mason tough in the regular season, but was barely a threat in Saturday’s contest. The Mustangs took a 6-0 lead early and, despite a few close

calls, had Madison County playing a from behind throughout a majority of the game.

A 29-24 lead at the half segued to Mason shutting the door on

Madison County in the second half after outscoring them 39-23.

Next up for Mason’s is the opening round of the Region 2A East tournament, which gets

Mason Girls Basketball Team Reaches Tournament Final

by Matt Delaney

Falls Church News-Press

MASON’S SWIM AND DIVE TEAM poses with their Region 2A championship trophies after the regional meet on Saturday, Feb. 13. (Photo: Carol Sly)

GMHS Boys Swim Team Takes Back Region Title Mason swimmers added two more trophies to the shelf this week after the boys team reclaimed their Division 2A East Regional title Saturday, Feb. 13 at Wakefield High School in Arlington. Among eleven teams, the boys finished first with 142 points over Maggie Walker’s 99 points while the Mason girls’

team earned 109 points, second to Maggie Walker with 158.

A standing room only crowd packed stands to watch the meet which began with the Mason Boys team of Justin Britton, Miller Surette, Christopher Markus, and Daniel Reinfurt winning the 200-

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In the opening round of the Conference 35 tournament, the George Mason’s varsity girls basketball team defeated Clarke County High School 42-23 on Saturday, Feb. 13 for a spot in the tournament’s final against Central High School.

The Mustangs played Central High School for the Conference championship on Wednesday, Feb. 17, but results of the game were not available at press time.

The win redeemed an upsetting 36-33 loss to Clarke County on Feb. 4 here in Falls Church.

Two weeks ago Clarke County bogged down Mason’s offense in the second half, paving the way for their comeback – Saturday was anything but that.

Mason eased into the game, absorbing a Clarke County surge that put them up 7-2 early, but never flinched. After their time out the Mustangs responded with a 10-0 run, taking a 12-7 lead they never lost.

“We did start off a little slow, we got in a hole, but I knew we just needed to wake up,” head coach Michael Gilroy said. “Once we [did], we were gonna get going because they were ready to play, they were hyped.”

The offense began to click in the second quarter, outscoring the Eagles 13-6 and putting Mason up 25-16 by halftime.

Steady scoring kept the Mustangs in a favorable position throughout the second half, tacking on eight points in the third quarter and nine in the fourth while the defense repelled Clarke County’s attack.

In their Thursday, Feb. 4 game, Clarke County not only disarmed

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MASON JUNIOR SARAH LUBNOW brings the ball up for the Mustangs during their 42-23 defeat of Clarke County High School. (Photo: Carol Sly)

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Sponsored by Monroe Bay Winery, Ted Garber will perform “Blues American Rock” at Art and Frame of Falls Church (205 W. Jefferson Street) on Saturday, February 20 from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. while The Bumper Jacksons, recognized as the region’s “Best Traditional Folk Band” at the 2013 and 2014 Washington Area Music Awards, will perform at Bikenetic (201 W. Jefferson Street) on Sunday, February 21. Both concerts start at 7:30 p.m. with doors open at 7pm. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www. stoneroomconcerts.com. .

Chesterbrook to Host F.C. Chamber Mixer Next Tuesday Chesterbrook Residences is hosting the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s networking mixer on Tuesday, February 23 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Chesterbrook Residences, which offers an active assisted-living lifestyle to adults age 62 and older, is a nonprofit and nonsectarian organization created for the purpose of developing, owning and operating a mixed income assisted-living community. Refreshments, networking, and tours of the facility, as requested, will be provided. The free event is open to Chamber members, friends of the business community, and anyone interested in learning about “Northern Virginia’s most affordable assisted-living community.” The event will be held at 2030 Westmoreland Street in Falls Church. For more information about Chesterbrook Residences, visit www.chesterbrookres.org. For more information about the event, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.

F.C. Salon & Spa Holding Open House Bibi Salon & Spa is hosting an open house on Thursday, February 25 from 6 – 9 p.m. at 6201 Leesburg Pike, Suite 10 in Falls Church. The event will include complimentary blowouts, makeovers, or facials and tips on fashion styling, skincare, make-up, and blowouts, along with refreshments. Reservations are required for the blowout, makeover, or facial. The first 50 guests to RSVP will also receive gifts. To make a reservation or for more information, call 703-533-1402 or email hello@bibisalonandspa.com.

Business License Renewals Due March 1 Falls Church City business license renewals are due March 1 after which penalty fees will be charged. Businesses that did not receive their renewal notice or have questions can contact the Falls Church Commissioner of the Revenue’s office at 703-248-5450.

Information is also available at www.FallsChurchVA.gov/442/business-liscense.

American Pressworks Names New VP Veteran association executive Richard Karpel has joined American Pressworks as its new vice president. Previously, he served as president and CEO of the Arlingtonbased Yoga Alliance, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, and the first executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. APW was founded by Tonda Rush, a Northern Virginia attorney, and Carol Pierce, an educational association specialist, in 1997 to provide association management and advocacy counsel to trade and professional organizations. For more information, visit www.americanpressworks.com.  Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.

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1. X-rated stuff 5. Declare openly 9. Z-Series blade maker 14. Yothers of “Family Ties” 15. Prefix with gram 16. Sticky 17. Jump shots have them 18. Talk like thish 19. Adams who photographed Yosemite 20. VP of the CIA? 23. Suffix with legal 24. Battleship letters 25. “Lost” actor Daniel ____ Kim 26. Mormon Church inits.

29. Like some modern pirates 31. Has title to 32. “My lips ____ sealed” 33. Work (up) 34. Country music’s Paisley 35. “Garfield” dog 36. VP of the Kremlin?

39. New York’s ____ Field 40. Final four?

41. Class that might have finger painting and naptime 42. Prefix with lateral 43. Mia of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 44. Just enough to whet one’s appetite 46. Saldana of “Avatar” 47. Cy Young Award factor 48. Writer Umberto 49. One of a snorkeler’s pair 50. VP of the Screen Actors Guild?

53. South American capital city whose

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1. Fights (off) 2. 1995 Best Supporting Actress winner 3. Affectionate nickname for the TV comedian called “the thief of bad gags” 4. “Don’t ____ me, bro!”

5. Birthplace of St. Francis 6. Crop-damaging animals 7. “Movin’ ____” (“The Jeffersons” theme) 8. 2013 film that was rated PG-13 for “intense frightening zombie sequences” 9. Skateboarders and snowboarders compete in them 10. Four-star 11. NYSE listings 12. Thing to drive off of 13. Olive ____ 21. Announced a decision 22. Classic John Updike short story set in a grocery store 26. Tenet of chivalry 27. It may be requested when approaching the bar

Across 1. X-rated stuff

28. “Get it?”

30. Jai ____ 31. Language of eastern India 34. It became an Olympic sport at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing 35. Neither esta nor esa 37. “Didn’t ____ you?”

38. Slangy request for a high-five 39. Informal comeback to “How come?”

43. Took by force 44. “Don’t delay!”

45. “Romanian Rhapsodies” composer 48. ____ Gay, historic plane displayed by the Smithsonian 50. Colorado ski resort 51. Nobel Prize subj.

52. Eastern royal 53. Sue Grafton’s “____ for Lawless” 54. Nelson Mandela’s org.

55. Making out on a park bench, e.g., in brief

name translates to “the peace” 56. Pop ____ 57. Big boats 58. Sundance entry, usually 59. ____ contendere (court plea) 60. Fraction of a min.

61. Burn badly 62. Bite like a rat 63. “Sock ____ me!”

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9. Z-Series blade maker

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Solution to last Sunday’s puzzle

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk. © 2016 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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Critter Corner

BACK IN THE DAY

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Falls Church News-Press Vol. V, No. 48 • February 15, 1996

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Falls Church News-Press Vol. XV, No. 50 • February 16. 2006

10 Year s Ago

Thr ow it up.

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

Battle Lines Drawn as FCCO Gives Nod to Council, School Candidates

Fairfax Board Chair Connolly Predicts Electoral Shift in N.Va to Continue

The battle lines are drawn for the May 7 election in the City of Falls Church.

Following nominating conventions by the citizens for a Better City (CBC) last month, the rival Falls Church Citizens Organization (FCCO) met Sunday to endorse three candidates for the City Council and two for the School Board.

The dramatic shift in the electoral preferences of Fairfax County residents can be expected to continue as well-educated county voters increasingly “prefer pragmatists over ideologues,” County Board Chair Gerry Connolly told the News-Press in an interview at the News-Press office last Saturday.

Lifelong Member of St. James Catholic Church Mary Calista Loes DiGiulian Dies Mary Calista Loes DiGiulian, 95, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 11. Born on April 10, 1920 in Emery, SD to the late Anthony and Minnie Wagner Loes, she was predeceased by her husband, Lawrence Umbert DiGiulian, son Mark Frederick DiGiulian and brothers Francis and Frederick Loes and sisters Dorothy Leitheiser, Rose Wood and Teresa Dillinger.

She is survived by her children Mary DiGiulian of Charlottesville; Anita Sutherland of Warrenton; Juliet White and her husband, Gregory of Chesterfield, Va.; Anthony DiGiulian of Chalfont, Pa.; Stephen DiGiulian and his wife, Heidi of Arlington; and Ellen

FitzGerald and her husband, Charles of Warrenton; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Raised in Emery, SD, Calista attended St. Martin’s School. Upon graduation she went to business school in Minneapolis. She later accepted a job with the War Department in Washington, D.C. She met her future husband of 48 years at a dinner dance as a blind date.

Calista and Larry settled in Falls Church where they became very active in their community and church and raised their family.

A lifelong member of St. James Catholic Church, Calista was active in many organizations including Partners, Call to Action and Voice of the Faithful. She was a loving

daughter, sister, wife, mother and a generous and kind friend. She was a deeply caring and adventuresome person who was always interested in learning new things.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at Murphy’s Funeral Home, 1102 West Broad Street, Falls Church from 2 – 4 p.m. and 6 – 8 p.m. A mass celebrating Calista’s life will be held at St. James Catholic Church, 905 Park Avenue, Falls Church at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18.

The burial will be immediately following at St. James cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to St. James Catholic Church or Missionhurst CICM, 4651 N. 25th St., Arlington, VA 22207.

THIS IS LILLY, a 5-year-old rescue who was adopted by Janice Adams in January 2015. She is a bit shy, but she is a very sweet dog and she is loved.

Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.

Girls Basketball Continued from Page 26

Tom McCready, 61, formerly of Falls Church, passed away on Feb. 2, 2016. A graduate of Yale University, Tom recently retired from the Library of Congress.

He is survived by his mother Elizabeth McCready, sisters Caren McCready, M.D. and Anne McCready Heinen, brothers in law, nephews and a niece.

An avid lover of the outdoors, Tom was an active cyclist, sculled the Potomac, and worked on trail restoration. Services are pending.

Mason’s offense but outrebounded them on both ends of the court.

The Eagles’ success on the glass elevated their shoddy offense to respectability by way of abundant opportunities and was a big factor in Clarke County’s win.

To ensure Mason wouldn’t lose that battle again, Gilroy reinforced his team’s inside game during practice.

“We got out-toughed, so we did a lot of toughness drills and went back to basics for three good days.” Gilroy said.

“We literally went old school

Swim Team

finished first in 22.66 followed by fellow Mustang Junior Daniel Reinfurt in third. Justin Britton took another first in the 100-yard Backstroke in 55.47, with Senior Christopher Markus following in fourth and Freshman Adam Janicki in fifth places respectively. Miller Surette won the 100Yard Breaststroke, setting a new Regional record of 1:01.54, while Sophomore teammate Sam Updike dropped nearly five seconds from his seed time to take fifth place.

In the 100-yard Fly, Christopher Markus placed second for the boys while Freshman

Sigrid Edson dropped over two seconds to take third for the girls.

Freshman TJ Roche placed second in both the 100 and 200-yard Freestyle events, finishing over four seconds faster than his seed time in the 200.

The Mason Girls’ 200-yard Freestyle Relay consisting of Francesca King, Sigrid Edson, Sophomore Hannah Rollins and Senior Julianne Kelly took first in 1:46.15 while the Mason Boys’ team of Christopher Markus, Freshman Matthew Ng, TJ Roche and Miller Surette also placed first in 1:34.35.

During the awards presenta-

tion, Mustang swimmer Miller Surette was named top Regional Swimmer of the Year. Mason Boys’ team Coach Jack Cashin was honored as Regional Coach of the Year.

Beyond the outstanding top swims, Coaches Cashin and Karen Hamill were especially pleased with the number of swimmers who delivered new personal bests.

Some of the dramatic time drops brought equally thrilling reactions by swimmers and their fans as results appeared on the scoreboard. Mustang swimmer Julianne Kelly achieved lifetime bests in

Former F.C. Resident McCready Dies at 61 Continued from Page 26

yard Medley Relay with a state qualifying time of 1:42.56.

In the 200-yard IM, Senior Miller Surette placed first for the boys in 1:58.38 while Senior Francesca King took the only individual first place of the meet for the girls in 2:21.49.

The strength and depth of the Mason Boys’ team stood out in several events. In the 50-Yard Freestyle with Junior Justin Britton

and did fourth grade box out drills for three days straight for 20 minutes [each] practice. They got hardly any offensive rebounds, which they burned us on last time.”

With Central awaiting them in the tournament final and their first Regional tournament game taking this weekend, Mason is aware the hard part is just beginning. Still, the team is comfortable with who they are and know it will take a unified effort to achieve their goal of a 2A State title berth.

“Gotta keep playing defense, keeping rebounding and keep coming together as a team. We really looked unselfish tonight…everyone shot good shots and looked for their teammates,” Gilroy said. her third place 50-yard Freestyle and 100-yard yard Breaststroke.

Senior Ziggy Thetard dropped over seven seconds in the 200yard Freestyle to place fifth.

Dropping over 12 seconds, Senior Celia Gieser finished ninth in the 500-yard Freestyle. All three girls continue on to states.

In all, Mason sent 22 swimmers with State qualifying times or top ten finishes at Regionals to the State championship meet on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at the Christiansburg Aquatic Center near Virginia Tech, but results were not available at press time.

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