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Inside This Week Police Seek Attempted Bank Robbery Suspect Last Saturday morning, a man attempted to rob the SunTurst bank on West Broad Street in the City of Falls Church last Saturday before fleeing without any cash. See News Briefs, page 9
La Caraqueña Closes In Falls Church
Economic Development Group Added To Mull Road Ahead on Campus Site Tasked With Finding Best Uses to Offset New School Costs
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
La Caraqueña, the popular Falls Church Venezuelan restaurant housed within the Stratford Motor Lodge, has closed. A note in the window of the restaurant this week read “La Caraqueña Latin Cuisine is closed. We love you, we will miss you and thank you very much for your support!” See News Briefs, page 9
Paul Krugman: A Party Not Ready to Govern
According to Politico, a Trump confidante says that the man in the Oval Office is “tired of everyone thinking his presidency is screwed up.” Pro tip: The best way to combat perceptions that you’re screwing up is, you know, to stop screwing up. See page 14
Mason Girls Season Comes to an End
One bad quarter spelled the end for George Mason High School’s varsity girls basketball team. See sports, page 16
U.S. SENATOR TIM KAINE SPEAKS at press conference to condemn ICE activity at the Rising Hope Mission Church in Alexandria last Thursday. (Photo: News-Press)
Leaders Show Solidarity With Victims of Hate & Prejudice
by Sam Tabachnik
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a mission church in Alexandria. A bomb threat at a Jewish Day School in Fairfax. A threatening letter sent to a mosque in Falls Church. In the past month, threats and attacks against minority communities have sprung up across Northern Virginia, mirroring a nationwide rise in hate crimes and Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, raids that have stoked fear and anxiety with religious minorities and undocumented immigrants throughout the country. Virginia officials and local faith leaders, alarmed by the growing threats and provocations toward their constituents, held press conferences last week at the Rising Hope Mission Church in Alexandria and the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax to stand in solidarity behind these
vulnerable communities. Last Thursday’s event at Rising Hope came in response to a Feb. 8 raid by ICE agents outside the church in which six Latino men were reportedly interrogated, handcuffed and taken away in vans. Under the Trump administration’s new executive order, ICE agents have arrested more than 680 immigrants across the country between Feb. 7 – 14, according to
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The critical economic development component of the planning for a new high school on the 36-acre campus recently ceded to the City of Falls Church has earned its own special task force which began weekly deliberations last week. The Campus Economic Development Working Group was formed of members of existing Falls Church boards and commissions with an intended focus on addressing specific economic development potentials on the site. In the terms of the deal to transfer the property into the City, in exchange for the City transferring its water system to Fairfax County, up to 10 acres of the land can be dedicated to economic development, ostensibly to help pay for the construction of a new high school. “Our job is to find out what the market might support on that site,” task force member Andy Rankin, appointed to the group as a member of the F.C. Planning Commission, said to fellow Planning Commissioners Monday night. Planning Commission chair Russ Wodiska, another appointee to the group, added, “Our group needs to be laser focused on what the market may be willing to do,” including by looking into what neighbors to the site such as the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, owners of an educational building and parking lot, and Federal Realty (owners of the shopping center where the Giant Food store is located) may be willing to do.
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New Group Exploring Economic Development of F.C. Campus Site Continued from Page 1
“No one is ruling out anything at this point,” Wodiska said. It was thrown out that economic development might go onto the universities’ parking lot in exchange for, say, an offer of a first floor of whatever gets built there. Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields, the key City staff person on the new task force, told the News-Press this week, the goal will be to “determine what the best development option is” for the site. He added that while preliminary discussions are aimed at developing the economic options and data, possibly leading to a market study, it will all be to the purpose of “teeing up decisions by the City Council, School Board and Planning Commission” that would ideally be made in June in order to have the parameters set for submitting language for a November bond referendum to the courts by late July.
The best combination of cost savings on the construction of the new high school and expected yields from economic development on the site will be sought to maximize the quality of the new construction on the one hand, and to limit its cost to taxpayers on the other. Appointed to the new working group have been Mayor David Tarter and David Snyder from the City Council, Chairman Lawrence Webb and Michael Ankuma from the School Board, Rankin and Wodiska from the Planning Commission and Bob Young and Michael Novotny from the Economic Development Authority. No outside specialists or consultants were present at last Friday’s first meeting. “It was an informal organizational meeting to discuss the scope of the work,” Shields said. The formation of the new group means there are now three focused on the campus process, including the one focused mostly on the
parameters of a new high school, and the Planning Commission’s work on the area’s integration into the City’s small area development plans. The economic group will meet next this Friday morning at 7:30 a.m. at City Hall, while the campus working group will meet tomorrow at 9 a.m. In the context of this, the Planning Commission is preparing for an annual “retreat” to take account of the big picture. Also, Shields is due to introduce his recommended annual operational budget to the City Council next week, triggering a deliberative process that will be due to culminate by April 24. Meanwhile, questions are beginning to arise concerning the wisdom of calling for a major bond referendum on the same November ballot this fall when four seats on the City Council and four on the School Board will also be contested then. On the other hand, the unexpected 21 percent increase in the
FALLS CHURCH PLANNING COMMISSION appointees to the new economic development task force for the campus project compared notes Monday night, left to right, alternate Lindy Hockenberry, Andy Rankin and Russ Wodiska. (Photo: News-Press)
cost for construction at the Mt. Daniel Elementary revealed last month is a new reality that has to be taken into account if there are any delays now. With the Federal Reserve
beginning to raise interest rates, the inflation rate will begin to rise faster than at any time in the last eight years. Even just a one-year delay could be very costly.
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Economic Development Group Holds Promise We are heartened by the roster of the new economic development working group for the campus site (see story, Page 1 this edition). That’s because it includes representation from the F.C. Economic Development Authority (EDA) and Planning Commission in addition to the City Council and School Board. It improves the chances that well-grounded economic potentials for the site are more likely to be investigated, with less “noise” coming from a lot of the usual political and neighborhood pressures and special interests to underplay the economic development role in the construction of a new high school. Simply stated, the voters who will be asked to approve a bond referendum for a new high school this November need to have confidence in the transparency of a process to mull and invite the best offer to offset the taxpayer cost of the new school. Without being convinced that the best plan for economic development, providing the highest financial yield, voters would be rightly skeptical and would potentially vote against the bond referendum. We could hardly blame them. So there is little room for foot-dragging and ruffled feathers smoothing in this process. With the EDA and Planners involved, this is less likely to happen, despite pressures to the contrary. This needs to be a hardball exercise, reaching out to whomever may be willing to push economic development at the site to the limit, and also to be attentive to what the best in the business have to say about any inherent limits to economic development there. If the leaders of the development community wind up telling the City that it should drop its illusions about attracting a major firm to occupy office space, for example, then that advice needs to be heeded. On the other hand, if the best and highest-yielding uses need to involve partnering with neighbors to the site, then that, too, needs to be embraced. The same with the notion that development might be most ideal on parts of the campus currently used for athletic fields. Sports can be played elsewhere for a few years if that’s what’s needed. Stakeholders, instead of howling that their special interests might not be folded into the plan, need to wise up to the very touchy sentiments of voters who will be asked to approve numbers at the upper end of a spectrum approaching $100 million. Asking for that kind of money must include a demonstration of frugality and focus on the quality educational objectives of a new school. According to News-Press sources, the City could have had a new school on that site for $40 million but an earlier competitive bid behindclosed-doors for development of the project was rejected. Now, taxpayers will be asked to commit their dollars to a price tag that might be twice as high, or greater. The only way to bring that cost down now is with aggressive, dense economic development.
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Editor, In light of the recently struck down immigration ban enacted by President Trump and a likely replacement I would like to thank the documentary makers of “Somaliland” for the work they are doing to share the stories of students from the Abaarso School who work towards attending an American university. What most surprised me within the article was the quote from
Hamse who not only considered the ban unexpected but had faith that the people will overturn the ban. This proved to be the case, with many advocating for the rights of those who were suddenly prevented access into the country. Many wonder what will happen when a new law is enacted. My question however is, when will a nation built by immigrants stop fearing what is unfamiliar? Globalization through the inter-
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net allows the world to interact, learn from and trade with different nations. But with all the new and unknown aspects of this interconnected world, our differences have started to be questioned and feared. Worse is how a small but dangerous minority such as ISIL has exploited this fear and acted in such a way that colours the beliefs of many against those of the Muslim faith or nation. I hope sharing the stories of students dreaming for a better life outside their war-torn homes helps evolve our thoughts in regards to citizens of Muslim nations from suspicion to kindness. Celia Gieser Falls Church
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As a doctor, I know some things about healthcare. As a public official who sponsored legislation to create the state exchange and expand Medicaid, I also know how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) benefits Virginia. So when I saw the Republicans’ plan yesterday — crafted after seven years of deliberation — I knew it didn’t make sense. For years, they talked about a “better way” to cover more people for less. But it’s no surprise Donald Trump’s party is all talk, no substance. Their “better way” isn’t better at all – it could make the cost of health insurance higher than before, if you’re able to afford coverage at all. The most remarkable feature of Trumpcare is its trifecta of inadequacy: it covers less people and raises costs for patients, and massively cuts taxes for the wealthy and insurance companies. This is not unusual for Republicans. Their proposal gives the store away to the wealthy and sticks working folks with the bill. While Republicans can’t even provide a cost estimate, the early analysis is clear – families across the Commonwealth will pay a lot more. Insurance companies, on the other hand, will make a killing. They will no longer have to cover most healthcare. If this gets through Congress, they’ll be able to create policies that kick in only for major illness or injury. Gone will be the days of requiring
insurance companies to cover basic care without exclusions. Make no mistake, Republicans are kicking working Americans off their healthcare plans to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. This plan is great news if you’re an insur-
“Gone will be the days of requiring insurance companies to cover basic care without exclusions.” ance executive making over $500,000 a year. If that’s you, you’ll probably get a raise. And your insurance company will get a tax break when they deduct your salary as a business expense. But there’s no free lunch. To pay for it, Trumpcare cuts subsidies helping lowincome seniors afford a plan and allows insurance companies to charge them more. The AARP is calling this an age tax, and I agree. Medicaid expansion — which has helped millions of lower-income Americans afford health insurance — will also come to an end. What’s more, the plan ends Medicaid as we know it. By capping payments to states,
it forces cuts to the program. Talk about a death spiral. That hurts our kids. It hurts our seniors, families, and folks with disabilities. It will hurt Virginia. By capping the Medicaid payments to states, Republicans are shoving the cost of healthcare onto Virginia. Even Virginia Republicans have expressed concern about this kind of proposal. Noticeably, they are glossing over what this means for states like Virginia that have passed up the opportunity to expand Medicaid. The Commonwealth will have to make tougher choices than states that accepted the money. We will be at a permanent disadvantage to other states that drew down their tax dollars to close their coverage gaps. Every Virginian deserves access to quality, affordable healthcare. By threatening Medicaid, Trumpcare puts healthcare out of reach for families across the Commonwealth. It makes visiting the doctor a luxury. That’s not right. Tucked into the bill is a despicable attempt to cut women’s access to reproductive health. The bill bars Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursements – effectively defunding it even though none of the money goes towards abortions. Many women go to Planned Parenthood for access to quality, affordable healthcare. This is unacceptable. Even worse, their plan includes a measure that could effectively end private abortion coverage in the United States. It bars women and potentially employers from
using tax credits to purchase health insurance plans that include abortion coverage. This is the Stupak Amendment, Part Two. Rolling back the clock on Roe v. Wade will have real-life, adverse effects on women’s health outcomes across the board. That’s dangerous. Healthcare choices are best left between a woman and her doctor. I’ve never wavered on defending a woman’s right to choose and I never will. Now more than ever, we must stand strong against these efforts to shame women for determining their reproductive care. After seven years, this was the best the GOP could do, and frankly, that’s sad. We must defend the Affordable Care Act. I’ll be the first to admit it’s not perfect, but the better way to cover more Virginians, for less money is to build on its progress. Ensuring quality healthcare remains in reach for hundreds of thousands of Virginians is an economic and moral imperative. In America, people shouldn’t be one illness away from a financial catastrophe for themselves and their families. Now, more than ever, we need someone who understands the healthcare system. As a Senator, Lieutenant Governor, and a doctor, I’ve worked to make healthcare better for my entire career, and that’s why I’m going to fight this plan tooth and nail. Ralph Northam is a physician and the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
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the Department of Homeland Security. The Rising Hope raid — outside a church that doubles as a hypothermia shelter in the winter, as well as a soup kitchen and food pantry for the homeless — has called into question ICE’s “sensitive location” policy, which demands that arrests not take place at churches, schools, or medical facilities. Agents reportedly waited until the men had crossed the street before surrounding them. “When ICE swooped in on the people leaving here, this was an attack on the practice of our faith, the practice of our religion,” Rising Hope Reverend Keary Kincannon said. “Because this is what our faith teaches us to do — to help those in need, without regard to their background, without regard to their immigrant status, anymore than regard to their political affiliation.” The press conference Thursday brought in a slew of prominent Democratic politicians, including Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA); Rep. Donald Beyer Jr. (D-VA), who represents the City of Falls Church; Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and Linda Sánchez (D-CA), vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
The speakers expressed a shared sentiment that the Trump administration’s new crackdown on undocumented immigrants has incited debilitating fear in their communities. “During the address to Congress the other night, the president purported, in a very false way, the notion that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes,” Kaine said. “Immigrants actually commit fewer crimes and they’re more victimized by crimes than the norm. Because of that, they need to feel comfortable interacting with our law enforcement professionals. If you do things that make our immigrant communities afraid, the entire community is not safe.” The fear and disruption caused by ICE raids such as the one at Rising Hope extends beyond just immigrant families, said Nicholas Marritz, an attorney with the Legal Aid and Justice Center, an organization that provides legal representation for low-income individuals in Virginia. “I’ve been working with undocumented people as an attorney for five years and this is by far the most serious level of community fear that I’ve ever seen,” Marritz said. “But this community of fear doesn’t just affect immigrants — that’s something I really want to emphasize. It affects everyone. U.S. citizen teachers are really upset because their stu-
dents are afraid to come to school. Pastors are wondering where their congregants are. Businesses are wondering where their customers are. Bosses are wondering where their workers are. “It’s just really shameful.” A similar sense of anxiety has also arisen in Jewish communities around the region as Virginia confronts a rise in hate crimes and increased threats towards religious minorities. The press conference last Friday at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax was organized after a recent bomb threat targeting the Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax. This scare came amid a wave of bomb threats to Jewish schools and community centers across the country over the past three months. According to the Anti Defamation League, 110 Jewish institutions across 36 states have received bomb threats since January. Speakers at Friday’s event included Rep. Donald Beyer Jr., Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D-VA), Virginia Senate Minority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-VA), as well as leaders from the Jewish community and the region’s top law enforcement officials.
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“We seem to be living in a time when it’s okay to be hateful,” Beyer said. “Those of us who are not Jews need to lift up, help, and stand in support of our Jewish friends.” Attorney General Mark Herring noted that hate crimes are on the rise in Virginia, up 21 percent in 2015 (statistics for 2016 are still being compiled). According to data from the Virginia State Police, anti-Semitic acts are the most common hate crimes motivated by religion in the commonwealth. Jewish Americans have not been the lone group to see a spike in crimes committed against them. Attacks against Muslim Americans nationwide increased by 67 percent in 2015, per FBI data. On Feb. 28, the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church received a threatening letter that reportedly had a foreign postmark and the phrase “kill all Muslims,” along with an image of a pig defecating on a mosque. The Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, last week called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the letter as a possible hate crime. “We’ve got to stop,” Herring said. “We’ve got to come together as a commonwealth and say that hate has no place here. We need to recognize this as a serious crime, investigate it, and stand together as a community.” In January, Herring proposed a legislative package aimed expanding the definition of hate crime to include offenses against people based on disability, gender, gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as a new set of bills that would empower the attorney general’s office to use grand juries to
prosecute hate crime. In February, however, the Virginia General Assembly voted along party lines to table these measures. “The rejection of these bills sends a terrible message at a time when communities in Virginia and around the country are confronting a rise in hate crimes and hateful rhetoric,” Herring said after the bills’ rejection. “If the people President Trump has surrounded himself with and the chaotic first few days of his administration are any indication, I have serious doubts that we’ll be able to rely on the Department of Justice to fight hate crimes in the way that we have for decades.” Several of the speakers at the JCC echoed Thursday’s remarks at Rising Hope, saying that the onus is on the Trump administration to combat these threats. “[Trump] really has empowered a lot of racism and anti-semitism, homophobia and xenophobia across the country,” Beyer said. “Putting Steve Bannon, a white supremacist, alt-right leader in the White House; Jeff Sessions, certainly racist earlier in his career as attorney general, and some of the things that candidate Trump said.” Herring met with the president last week with a group of attorneys general from around the country. In response to a question about the wave of anti-semitism, there was “kind of a mixed signal,” he said. “At one point, [Trump] said it was reprehensible, but then said there are groups operating in reverse, which was a really curious and bizarre thing to say. “This is not a time for conspiracy theories,” Herring added. “It’s a time for elected officials, and that goes all the way to the president, to stand strong and unequivocally denounce this kind of anti-semitism and hate.”
U.S. REP. DONALD BEYER JR. speaks at a news conference to denounce anti-semitism at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax last Friday. (Photo: News-Press)
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F.C.’s Hitt Donates $250,000 to Women’s Museum Todd Hitt, founder of Falls Church’s Kiddar Capital, has donated $250,000 to the Workhouse Arts Center in support of a new museum honoring the courageous women who fought for the ratification of the 19th Amendment, it was announced this week. The museum is slated to open on the 100th anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of 72 women at the Lorton Workhouse, a critical point in the movement to secure voting rights for all women in the United States. The Lucy Burns Museum, named for American suffragist and women’s rights advocate Lucy Burns, will be built within the original Cellblock W-2. The block retains 38 cells from the Workhouse’s former life as a prison on the Center’s 55-acre National Historic Register campus. “These iron-jawed angels risked everything pursuing the right to vote, a right many of us now take for granted,” said Hitt. “I’m both humbled and honored to be a small part of celebrating their incredible contribution to the history of this great country, and look forward to the day the doors of the Lucy Burns Suffrage Museum open to the public.” An immersive guest experience will be built around original prison artifacts along with state-of-the-art exhibits, teaching and interpretive technologies, and new public programs. The wrongful imprisonment and brutal treatment of 72 women protesters at the Workhouse prison in 1917 will be central to the museum’s message of how these women fought and suffered for the political rights of future generations. The museum is slated to open in late 2017.
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Police Seek Suspect in Attempted Robbery of F.C. Bank A man attempted to rob a bank in the City of Falls Church last Saturday before fleeing without any cash, police report. City of Falls Church Police say the suspect, described as a 40-50 year old black man wearing dark glasses, a black leather jacket and gray gloves, entered the SunTrust bank at 603 W. Broad St. around 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Mar. 4, and handed a note to the teller implying he had a weapon. Police report the man left on foot, headed west on W. Broad, before any money was given to him. F.C. Police ask that anyone with information on the incident to contact them at 703-248-5053 (TTY 711).
Responses to F.C. Vision Survey Sought Falls Church City residents are invited to take part in an informal survey regarding Falls Church Vision 2040, an overarching picture of what the City wants to be over the next 25 years, according to a City Hall press release this week. The survey was created by City staff to help gather final community input on the most recent vision statement and core values drafted during the planning process. The survey, which includes 17 questions and should take 10-15 minutes to complete, will close at 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, March 19 and is available at the City’s website. The survey is intended to inform the public about the latest draft materials and collect feedback in advance of the City Council’s March 27 meeting. Survey results will help City Council and staff update the Vision section of the City’s Comprehensive Plan, which guides development in the City. Information about the planning process and public input received to date is available on the project web page at www.fallschurchva.gov/Vision.
Beyer Slams GOP Health Care Plan U.S. Rep. Donald Beyer Jr. who represents the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church, issued a strongly worded rebuke of the recently unveiled House Republican health care bill, saying in a statement Tuesday that the proposal “strips health coverage from millions of Americans, and weakens coverage for millions more.” “In his address to Congress last week, the President promised a healthcare program that would ‘expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better health care,’” Beyer said. “The bill which House Republicans unveiled last night does none of these things. It instead represents a huge tax cut for the wealthy, paid for in large part by gutting Medicaid. It shifts costs to working families and seniors, who will be forced to pay more for less coverage, and threatens Medicare’s solvency. “House Republicans know that these provisions fail to deliver on their promises,” Beyer continued, “and that this bill will be wildly unpopular. That is why they are rushing the bill through without allowing time for people to learn about it, without explaining how they will pay for it, and without allowing the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to score its effects on the deficit and on the numbers of people left uninsured. Anyone concerned about the health of Americans or the financial well-being of the country will oppose this bill.”
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Community News & Notes FC Promotes National Child Abuse Prevention Month April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the City of Falls Church is working to raise awareness about the safety and well-being of children. A pinwheel garden will be planted at the entrance of Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave.) on Monday, March 27, 2016 at 7 p.m., followed by a proclamation at the City Council meeting at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers in City Hall (300 Park Ave.). Members of the community are invited to both events and encouraged to wear blue, the official color of child abuse and neglect prevention. The pinwheel is the symbol of child abuse prevention and reflects childhood hope, health and happiness. Pinwheel gardens
are planted by organizations, schools, and businesses in communities throughout the nation during National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The 2017 National Child Abuse Prevention Month theme, “Building Community, Building Hope,” promotes the idea that Communities have a great influence in families’ lives. For additional information and resources, contact Housing and Human Services at 703-2485005 (TTY 711).
Lions Club Offers Fresh Fruit Mar. 18 On Saturday, March 18, the Falls Church – Annandale Lions Club will offer fresh navel oranges, grapefruit, juice oranges, tangerines, apples, pears and strawberries for sale
by the case, half-case and quarter-case at $45 a case and less in smaller quantities. Sales will run from 8:15 a.m. until sold out at Annandale Swim Club (7530 Little River Turnpike). White House ornaments, maple syrup, soup mix and cook books are also on sale Saturday, and the Club will collect donations of canned food for needy families. Lions provide eyeglass recycling, eye exams and new glasses as well as sight and hearing tests and college scholarships, plus support for youth sports and environmental education.
Merrifield Post Office Hosts Passport Fair on Sunday If you plan to travel outside
FALLS CHURCH CITY MAYOR DAVID TARTER and Councilwoman Karen Oliver joined students, musicians, jewelers, authors, artists, film producers and others for a gathering last Friday for FIRSTfriday at Art and Frame of Falls Church. (Photo: Tom Gittins)
the U.S. this spring or summer, the Postal Service is making it convenient to obtain a passport by hosting a one-day Passport Fair at the Merrifield Post Office this Sunday, March 12, 2017. “This Passport Fair will provide applicants with one-stop convenience,” said Northern Virginia Retail Manager, Phan Coty. Applicants can walk-in, have their passport photo taken and submit their applications without an appointment. The U.S. Department of State has detailed guidelines for preparing your passport application and supporting documents. To save time, you may fill out and print a passport application online in advance of the event by visiting the U.S. State Department website travel.state.gov.
The Post Office requests that you ensure that your application is completed in black ink and that you have the required U.S. citizenship documentation as well as identification and payment when you arrive for the fair. For information about fees, photo requirements, additional passports, and travel information, visit the U.S. State Department website. Customers that cannot attend the fair but need a passport can schedule an alternative appointment at usps.com. Under the Find Locations tab, select Passports to locate a nearby USPS passport processing office. You call the office using the number provided to schedule an appointment.
THOMAS DEVLIN of Falls Church received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Family Court Trial Lawyers Association of D.C. on Monday. Devlin has been practicing law in the D.C. Superior Court Family Division for the last 40 years. (Photo: sarah devlin)
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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Comes to McLean
Diane Zierhoffer (zierhofferdm@hotmail.com).
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be performed in Vinson Hall’s Community Building Ballroom (1735 Kirby Rd, McLean). It is usually dated 1595 or early 1596 and is one of the most widely performed of Shakespeare’s works. It will run weekends through Sunday, April 30. There will be no matinee performance on April 16. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees on April 23 and 30 at 2:00 p.m. Rosemary Hartman leads an award-winning cast and crew in this production, MCP’s first in their temporary venue at Vinson Hall while the McLean Community Center is closed for renovation. Tickets are $18-$20, and are available at McLean Players.org or through Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800838-3006. Tickets will also be available at the door. According to Hartman, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream is my favorite Shakespeare comedy. I decided to direct it because I love the storyline, the characters, and the audience appeal. No play was ever named more appropriately; it is a “dream,” — a dream composed of elves, mistaken identities, and wild fantasies. “This delightful tale has the many human elements of love, revenge, humor, and mystery as well as the mystical magic and enchantment of ‘other-worldly’ creatures such as the scheming Oberon, Titania’s consort and King of the Fairies, beautiful Titania, Queen of the Fairies, who is furious with Oberon for upsetting the balance of nature over a squabble they are having, and my two favorite characters, Bottom, the garrulous would-be actor, and the mischievous Puck, who carries out Oberon’s every wish.”
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Community Engagement Meeting with FCPD On Tuesday, March 7 at 7 p.m. at the Mason District Station (6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale), the Fairfax County Police Department offers anyone to come meet the station commanders and the new assistant commander to ask questions and learn more about the station. The meeting will include a presentation to the Officer of the Year, and the commander’s State of the District report. No RSVP needed. For questions or additional information, contact
Sponsored by the City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department, the City of Falls Church Band will be playing a St. Patrick’s Day Irish concert at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School on March 16 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. On Saturday, April 29, they will have a Spring Concert at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 2034 Great Falls St. at 7:30 p.m., with guest conductor Colonel Arnald Gabriel, Conductor Emeritus of the United States Air Force Band. The City of Falls Church Band has been in existence since at least 1932. Every year they provide music for the City of Falls Church Memorial Day ceremony and festival and the Veteran’s Day ceremony, and play for the Summer Concert Series in Cherry Hill Park.
Fairfax County Celebrates 275th Anniversary Fairfax County is the subject of a day-long event hosted by the Virginia Room of the City of Fairfax Regional Library on Saturday, April 29 from 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Explore the place where you live. Your address, whether for an apartment, a townhouse, a condo or house has a history. Was it a once a sleepy crossroads in rural Fairfax County? Perhaps a dairy farm? Is there a cemetery nearby or did it see action from the Civil War or are there vestiges of the Cold War? The day will begin with a brief overview of the county’s history by Janet Bailey, president of the Fairfax Genealogical Society. Next, explore the county GIS website, which is replete with interactive maps and aerial photographs, with Mike Liddle, GIS (Geographic Information System) Customer Service Supervisor. This free program will be held at City of Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North Street in Fairfax. Ample free parking is available in the two garage levels beneath the Library. Complimentary morning coffee and lunch will be served. For further information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library or call (703) 293-6227, ext. 6. Registration is required and will open at the end of March.
MCC’s 2017 Governing Board Elections
LO CA L Friday, March 17, at 5 p.m. is the filing deadline for the McLean Community Center’s (MCC) 2017-2018 Governing Board elections. Residents of Dranesville Small Tax District 1A who are interested in running for a seat on the board can still enter the race. The Board sets policy and provides general oversight for MCC facilities, which include the Robert Ames Alden Theatre and the Old Firehouse Center. All residents of the Center’s tax district are eligible to run for a seat on the 11-member board. Candidates are required to obtain the signatures of ten McLean tax district residents in order to have their names placed on the election ballot. Nominating petition forms are available at MCC. Three adult positions and two youth positions are open this year. Adult board members serve threeyear terms. Youth members serve one-year terms. Adult candidates must be at least 18 years old as of McLean Day on Saturday, May 20. For more information on the MCC Governing Board Elections, call the Center at 703-790-0123, TTY: 711, send an e-mail to elections@mcleancenter.org or visit the Center’s website, mcleancenter.org/about/candidates.
MCC Board to Hold March Public Hearing McLean Community Center’s Governing Board is inviting residents of the Center’s special tax district, Small District 1A-Dranesville, to share their thoughts on Center programs and services at a Public Hearing on Programs. The hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, and will be followed by the Board’s regular monthly meeting. All meetings of the board are open to the public. Residents of the Center’s tax district who attend the meeting can voice their opinions on current Center offerings and make suggestions for improving current programs or adding new initiatives. The hearing is one step in planning for the FY 2019 budget cycle, which begins July 1, 2018 and ends June 30, 2019. Some FY 2019 programs will be held offsite while the Center’s Ingleside Ave. facility is being renovated; however, MCC programs are scheduled to return to the renovated building in the Fall of 2018. Residents who want to find out if they live within the Center’s tax district or who want more information, may call the Center at 703-790-0123, TTY: 711, or visit: mcleancenter.org.
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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
The tragic, horrible news came early Friday morning. An ongoing police search found two bodies buried in the rough terrain of Holmes Run Stream Valley Park. The discovery was in the same general area where, in 2014, two other bodies were found after tips from local gang members were given to the FBI and the police. The perpetrators in the 2014 gang murders were arrested, tried in federal court, convicted, and are serving mandatory life sentences. The investigation surrounding Friday’s discovery still is underway. Nearly 20 years ago, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved funding for a dedicated gang unit in the police department. Prior to that time, the unit “borrowed” officers from each police station, as needed. The new unit was dedicated to the prevention, intervention, interdiction, and suppression of gang activity in the county, and educated the school system and the community about gangs, the role of parents and mentors, after-school programs, and other aspects crucial to helping youth make good decisions. Members also participated with the federal gang task force created with the support of former Congressman Frank Wolf. After-school programs and new youth activities blossomed. The very popular Culmore Youth Soccer summer program, originally funded through the Hispanic Business for Youth Foundation, became a full-blown community activity under the auspices of Neighborhood and Community Services; the Culmore Character Club now is part of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington; the Morningstar program for girls expanded to include brothers, sisters, and cousins – all learning how to make healthy decisions for themselves. All these resources had a marked effect on tamping down serious gang activity in the community for many years.
Regional Gang Summits were held, sponsored jointly by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Cox Communications, local police agencies, and the U.S. Department of Justice. The summits helped develop a regional strategy, with various stakeholders, to more thoroughly understand gangs and their activities, and develop effective antigang strategies. Young people concerned about gangs made a full-blown presentation at public hearings about the FY 2006 budget. Despite such ongoing efforts, gang activity continues, usually against fellow gang members, and with increased and hard-tofathom brutality. Gang activity, police response, community efforts, and other issues will be discussed at a special Mason District Town Hall Meeting I am hosting on Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m., at the Mason District Governmental Center, 6507 Columbia Pike in Annandale. The presentation, which is in formation, will include representatives from the police department, school system, county agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Attacks against Jewish schools and cemeteries, Muslim mosques, and other places sacred to one’s faith are outrageous, cowardly, and heinous. An impromptu gathering of elected officials and religious leaders at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia last Friday focused on stopping hate in any form, and coalescing around the interfaith values that have long identified this nation. Openness, respect, and unity, for all religious beliefs, made me proud to be in Fairfax County, where we celebrate diversity and work to solve problems, not create them. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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Richmond Report While this 2017 session may have seemed less contentious and overtly partisan than last year’s session — it was not. The heavy-handed partisanship and sometimes hurtful rhetoric was mostly displayed in the committees and subcommittees, not often on the floor of our chamber in the Capitol. Partisanship was definitely on display when many bills with Democratic patrons were scheduled to be heard at times that were very difficult to predict within a given subcommittee’s agenda, scheduled simultaneously with many other subcommittee meetings, scheduled very early or very late in the day in meetings with hours-long agendas or simply not scheduled to be heard at all. How is that a display of partisanship? All subcommittees and committees are chaired by Republicans. Most of the bills that survived the subcommittees and committees were filed by Republicans. Political party committee membership is determined by the proportion of Republicans to Democrats in the total membership of the House. Out of a total of 100 Delegates, 34 are Democrats. This fact combined with the rule that no proxy votes are allowed and an increasingly hectic meeting schedule as the session rolls on, leads to committees dominated by Republicans voting on bills while the ridiculously small minority of Democrats race from meeting to meeting to vote or present a bill. The House of Delegates’ protocol that there are no proxy votes and that votes in subcommittee meetings are unrecorded voice votes decided by a majority of those present also tilts outcomes decisively in favor of the majority party — the Republicans. Unrecorded votes and unrecorded decisions never to hear a bill work to make the survival rate of bills with Democrat patrons very low. One last rule (relatively new) that boosts the death rate of Democratic bills is that similar bills may not be ‘rolled together’ during a subcommittee or committee meeting — all bills on an agenda must be taken up separately and voted up or down one by one. Thus only one out of several bills on the same subject aimed at the same result will survive. And only one member of the House will be the patron of that successful bill. It is no surprise that
the last patron standing is almost always a Republican. These practices do disenfranchise Democrats in the House of Delegates, but more importantly, the every member of the public is disenfranchised as well. If a citizen cannot decipher when a bill is scheduled to be discussed, that citizen cannot speak for or against a bill, or witness the presentation or final vote on that bill. Often ‘the people’s business’ is transacted without the people. Voters are represented mostly in absentia by those they elect, and that representation is often not recorded. These proceedings are obviously partisan, designed to achieve a partisan result. This means that the minority party is allowed an extremely limited role. Obviously as a Democrat, I am in the minority in the House of Delegates. I take all my votes very seriously and work hard to use them to represent my constituents’ values. And when the rare opportunity to use my vote to speak clearly for my community during this session arose, I took it! I voted “no” on the budget. Mine was the only “no” vote in the entire General Assembly. I could not in good faith support a budget which not only underfunds the needs of all Virginians, but particularly discriminates against women who live in extreme poverty. This budget eliminates the $6 million of TANF funds (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) — allocated for long-acting reversible birth control for women who survive on $2 a day. The only funds in the budget for long-acting reversible birth control for poor women. Do Virginians want to increase the number of children living in poverty and take women out of the workforce? I do not believe this is the ‘Virginia way.’ Why deny these women the opportunity to be in charge of their own health care? I heard many spirited speeches in the General Assembly this year making the point that ‘free men and women’ should be allowed to make their own choices in all matters — not have their choices made for them by politicians. I agree. That is why I could not support this budget. That is why I voted “no.” Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house.virginia.gov.
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A seasoned teacher, once retired, can speak freely about what ails our school system. Lorraine Gandy, a high-impact kindergarten teacher at Arlington Traditional School, quietly turned in her papers last July after a 45-year career. Last month, I listened in her home as she unburdened herself of some frustrations with the changes in pedagogy and management over the past few years, reforms that took away some of “the joys of creating lifelong learners.” Gandy, I was told by Donna Honeywell, assistant principal at ATS, is a key reason for ATS’s academic success. “Hundreds of five-year olds learned how to learn thanks to Lorraine,” she said. “Students come back from college to remind us they learned what they needed in kindergarten with Mrs. Gandy.” She also has deep roots in Arlington, having attended Patrick Henry Elementary, Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Wakefield High (Class of ’66), where she met her future husband. “I always wanted to be a teacher,” Gandy said, recalling how as a girl she lined her dolls up like students and spent summers at Wakefield working the switchboard. When she first fronted a classroom in 1972, “Arlington was
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ahead of its time,” Gandy said. Teachers worked with an outline of what students needed to know by grade’s end, gave tests and carried on with what was necessary. “But then the government got involved, and one or two tests was not enough.” Now there are at least five or six tests a year — “you know how much time it takes to put that in the computer?” she asks. “No one doesn’t want to know what the kids have learned, but you don’t need from September to January to March to do it. It’s overkill.” These kids are five years old! Another blow is the change in curriculum mentors. Hers — among them Betty Ann Armstrong and Kathy Grove — “had come through the system.” Those senior staffers “respected us as teachers with our opinions, we had dignity, and morale was good,” she said. But Superintendent Patrick Murphy has hired “a lot of administrators from the outside with no cultural memory,” she said. “Now it is all data-driven,” with teachers and principals tied to computers and given less say in which books to teach from. The superintendent sent the message, “If you don’t like it, there are 2,000 waiting for your position,” Gandy said. The new regime has also turned planning time into a discussion of data, taken away “early release,”
shut down the teacher materials center (where she used to print her own laminated visual tools) and canceled a summer training stipend for child care. “They’re running the school like a business, but schools are about people,” Gandy said. As a countywide choice school, ATS has always needed “a reason to exist,” Gandy noted, one reason she focused on phonics. She used to love writing songs and integrating them into her teaching — “sing it, talk it, build it.” And the ethnic diversity that has transformed Arlington schools is “a wonderful microcosm of the world. It meant the world to me,” she added. Gandy’s retirement is a “work in progress.” She’s reading books and continuing music and drama work at nearby Peter’s Episcopal Church. “I miss teaching terribly, the love of being part of people’s lives,” she said. “But I don’t miss all that other stuff.” *** One of Arlington’s more mysterious personalities died last month. Doug Coe, the evangelical who for decades ran the National Prayer Breakfast for Washington big-wigs, had a heart attack at 88. Though he lived in Annapolis, Md., Coe led the highly secretive charity Fellowship Foundation. It occupies the former Doubleday Mansion off Spout Run Parkway at Arlington’s Fort C.F. Smith.
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Robbery, 601 W. Broad St (SunTrust Bank), Mar 4, 9:37 a.m., responding to a report of a robbery in progress officers learned that the suspect had already left the building. Suspect described as a black male, approximately 40-50 years old, approximately 5`09 to 6`00 tall, black hair, chubby face, wearing a black hat, dark sunglasses, gray gloves, black jacket, black pants, and gray shoes. Investigation continues. Larceny from Building/Stolen Auto, 116-B (Unity Club). Mar. 4, a purse was stolen and it was later learned that the owner’s vehicle was also missing. Recovered Stolen Vehicle, 132 W. Broad St. (Dogwood Tavern), Mar 5, a car stolen from Alexandria was located in the parking lot and Alexandria Police notified.
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Presidential Lying & the Press, Part 3
Jeff Bezos’ The Washington Post, with the New York Times, key individuals at CNN and MSNBC, New Yorker magazine and a handful of other major news outlets, has stood strong in defense of an independent press in the face of Trump administration pressures the last couple months. It reiterated the importance of leaders of democratic societies to affirm the value of a free and independent press in a world still scourged by authoritarian regimes in an editorial yesterday. The editorial was entitled, “A Gift to Tyrants Everywhere: Mr. Trump’s Attacks on the Press are Resonating With Authoritarian Regimes.” Indeed, it stated the obvious, but something all lovers of democratic societies sorely need to be reminded of in FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS the current Trumpian climate. Always, in State Department and other evaluations of democratic freedoms or the lack of them in regimes around the globe, the extent to which a press is free or not has been a determinant factor. Now, regimes known to be repressive and anti-democratic are parroting the words of Trump, especially the claim of “fake news” to attack any news articles they don’t like. This includes the Chinese, where their party newspaper, People’s Daily, accused an article asserting a human rights violation as “Fake News” fabricated, it said, “to tarnish China’s image.” It extends to the Russians (no surprise, right?) whose foreign ministry has set up a new section of its website to use a big red stamp, “Fake,” for news reports it doesn’t like. A Russian diplomat queried on the move by a CNN reporter last week was videotaped turning to exclaim, “Fake news!” Thank you, Trump administration! You’ve given the enemies of democracy everywhere the slogan they need to refute any critical reporting. All lovers of democracy appreciate the need for a free and independent press, beginning with our founding fathers. Ben Franklin laid the groundwork for what would become the American revolution by starting a newspaper in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson said he preferred a free press to institutions of democratic government if it came down to a choice between the two. Alexander Hamilton founded a newspaper in New York. As I wrote in a brief history of the first 25 years of my own newspaper, the Falls Church News-Press, last year, as our very first edition was prepared to roll off the press, “When the press bell rang and everything started to move, it was a very special moment. As the papers started chugging onto a conveyor belt, I couldn’t help but stand on a box and loudly exclaim, ‘Let every tyrant tremble! A free press is the voice of the people in defense of liberty and freedom everywhere!’ The noise of the press drowned me out so that only a couple of pressmen looked at me funny.” It is a poignant coincidence that I was born a week after the legendary newspaperman William Allen White, a pioneering early critic of fascism, died. His obituary appeared in the Life magazine that was published on my birthday. I published my first newspaper at age eight, was editor of my high school and college newspapers and have known many wonderful newspaper men and women down through the years. I had the honor of hiring the legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas to write a column for me that she did as her last professional work at age 91. I worked in the year prior to founding the Falls Church News-Press for the late Sam Summerlin, who passed at 89 last week and was a journalist covering the Korean War, pre-revolutionary Cuba, Argentina, the Philippines and American South during the rise of civil rights ferment in the 1960s. In my first Falls Church News-Press editorial, I stated the newspaper is “committed to anyone who might be exposed to it with a solid vision of the kind of mandate the blessed right to free speech imposes upon the institution of the press in any democratic society.” I added, the seven-point platform on journalistic integrity I adopted “remains a sturdy rudder, which can guide any newspaper in its rocky course between freedom and the responsibility that is always associated with it.”
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A Party Not Ready to Govern
According to Politico, a Trump confidante says that the man in the Oval Office — or more often at Mar-aLago — is “tired of everyone thinking his presidency is screwed up.” Pro tip: The best way to combat perceptions that you’re screwing up is, you know, to stop screwing up. But he can’t, of course. And it’s not just a personal problem. It goes without saying that Donald Trump is the least qualified individual, temperamentally or intellectually, ever installed in the White House. As he veers NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE from wild accusations against President Barack Obama to snide remarks about Arnold Schwarzenegger, he’s doing a very good imitation of someone experiencing a personal breakdown — even though he has yet to confront a crisis not of his own making. Thanks, Comey. But the broader Republican quagmire — the party’s failure so far to make significant progress toward any of its policy promises — isn’t just about Trump’s inadequacies. The whole party, it turns out, has been faking it for years. Its leaders’ rhetoric was empty; they have no idea how to turn their slogans into actual legislation, because they’ve never bothered to understand how anything important works. Take the two lead items in the congressional GOP’s agenda: undoing the Affordable Care Act and reforming corporate taxes. In each case Republicans seem utterly shocked to find themselves facing reality. The story of Obamacare repeal would be funny if the health care — and, in many cases, the lives — of millions of Americans weren’t at stake. First we had seven — seven! — years during which Republicans kept promising to offer an alternative to Obamacare any day now, but never did. Then came the months after the election, with more promises of details just around the corner. Now there’s apparently a plan hidden somewhere in the Capitol basement. Why the secrecy? Because the Republicans have belatedly discovered what some of us tried to tell them all along: The only way to maintain coverage for the 20 million people who gained insurance thanks to Obamacare is with a plan that, surprise, looks a lot like Obamacare. Sure enough, the new plan reportedly does look like a sort of half-baked version of the Affordable Care Act. Politically, it seems to embody the worst of both worlds: It’s enough like Obamacare to infuriate
Paul Krugman
hard-line conservatives, but it weakens key aspects of the law enough to deprive millions of Americans — many of them white working-class voters who backed Donald Trump — of essential health care. The idea, apparently, is to deal with these problems by passing the plan before anyone gets a chance to really see or think about what’s in it. Good luck with that. Then there’s corporate tax reform — an issue where the plan being advanced by Paul Ryan, the House speaker, is actually not too bad, at least in principle. Even some Democratic-leaning economists support a shift to a “destination-based cash flow tax,” which is best thought of as a sales tax plus a payroll subsidy. (Trust me.) But Ryan has failed spectacularly to make his case either to colleagues or to powerful interest groups. Why? As best I can tell, it’s because he himself doesn’t understand the point of the reform. The case for the cash flow tax is quite technical; among other things, it would remove the incentives the current tax system creates for corporations to load up on debt and to engage in certain kinds of tax avoidance. But that’s not the kind of thing Republicans talk about — if anything, they’re in favor of tax avoidance, hence the Trump proposal to slash funding for the IRS. No, in GOP world, tax ideas always have to be presented as ways to remove the shackles from oppressed job creators. So Ryan has framed his proposal, basically falsely, as a measure to make American industry more competitive, focusing on the “border tax adjustment” which is part of the sales-tax component of the reform. This misrepresentation seems, however, to be backfiring: It sounds like a Trumpist tariff, and has both conservatives and retailers like Wal-Mart up in arms. At this point, then, major Republican initiatives are bogged down for reasons that have nothing to do with the personality flaws of the tweeter in chief, and everything to do with the broader, more fundamental fecklessness of his party. Does this mean that nothing substantive will happen on the policy front? Not necessarily. Republicans may decide to ram through a health plan that causes mass suffering, and hope to blame it on Obama. They may give up on anything resembling a principled tax reform, and just throw a few trillion dollars at rich people instead. But whatever the eventual outcome, what we’re witnessing is what happens when a party that gave up hard thinking in favor of empty sloganeering ends up in charge of actual policy. And it’s not a pretty sight.
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Popular Venezuelan Restaurant La Caraqueña Closes Its Doors BY JODY FELLOWS
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La Caraqueña, the popular Falls Church Venezuelan restaurant housed within the Stratford Motor Lodge, has closed. A sign of apparent trouble at the hole-in-the-wall restaurant, which first opened on W. Broad St. in 2007, first arose when a notice was found on the door in early February announcing a temporary closure. The sign apologized for the shutter but said “we will reopen soon.” But then, over the weekend, a new notice went up in the window and it appears the restaurant is closed for good. “La Caraqueña Latin Cuisine is closed. We love you, we will miss you and thank you very much for your support!” reads the new sign. La Caraqueña was known throughout the Washington, D.C.area for its arepas and was even featured on the Food Network TV show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” in 2010. The News-Press
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A SIGN WAS POSTED IN the window of La Caraqueña over the weekend, announcing its closure. (P����: N���-P����) profiled the restaurant and its owner and chef Raul Claros in an article last October after it underwent a menu revamp to focus more on street food. Todd Hitt, founder of Kiddar Capital which owns the Stratford Motor Lodge where La Caraquena
is located, told the News-Press Wednesday the restaurant was on a month-to-month lease and there are no immediate plans to fill the space or redevelop the property. The News-Press has reached out to Claros for comment but has not yet heard back.
Two more restaurants have joined the roster for the 2017 edition of Falls Church Restaurant Week. The Locker Room Sports Bar & Grill and Mad Fox Brewing Company join Cafe Kindred, Dogfish Head Ale House, Dogwood Tavern, Hot N Juicy Crawfish, Idylwood Grill, La Cote
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Mason Girls Fall to Mar�nsville, Season Comes to an End BY MATT DELANEY
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The fragility of success is all the more apparent as you near the top. George Mason High School’s varsity girls basketball team experienced this firsthand as a sound opening half was bulldozed by a jumbled finish in the Mustangs’ 61-45 loss to Martinsville High School during the Virginia 2A State quarterfinals at James Madison University last Thursday. Mason (23-6) didn’t lose a game in 2017 until it dropped two in the final week of their season. Last Thursday’s contest showed a team that realized it needed another year before reaching the status of Virginia’s best. In the first half, the Mustangs used sluggish pace and procedural ball movement to efficiently pick Martinsville apart, helping the Mustangs keep the score even at 25 entering halftime. Change, however, came swiftly following the intermission. “That third quarter was a dry spell and then some. Couldn’t put that ball in the net,” head coach Michael Gilroy said. “We were
just a step slow on every trap, every pass. We didn’t have that instinct I was looking for.” Three early points from junior forwards Jenna Short and Kaylee Hirsch at the free throw line kept Mason right behind Martinsville at 29-28 before the Bulldogs turned up the heat. A five-point swing off a basket and a three-point play in a 30 second span gave Martinsville their largest lead of the game and seemed to deflate the Mustangs. Gilroy burned two timeouts trying to salvage morale, but to no avail. Martinsville stretched its lead to 41-30 entering the fourth quarter after outscoring Mason 16-5 in the third. The deficit visibly weighed on the Mustangs and affected their production on the court. “We just didn’t have the right mentality,” said senior guard Sarah Lubnow, who played her final basketball game against Martinsville. “It seemed like we gave up and there was no reason to give up yet.” A sleepy Martinsville squad awakened in the second half and altered the tone of the game.The
Mustangs’ passing lanes went from noticeable to non-existent. The paint became infested with swiping hands. Layups were even denied the privilege of grazing the backboard as the Bulldogs staunchly defended their basket. Combine that with the Bulldogs finding their groove on offense and it made for a disheartening end to the season. Though that’s not to say it was easy for Martinsville, despite the team’s advantages in length and athleticism. They had to respect Mason’s game before they could overcome it. “Mason is such a methodical team. They do a great job passing and setting staggered screens,” Martinsville head coach Charlie Holland said. “I mentioned [to Gilroy, postgame] about his game plan against me. I told him I tried to change it up on him because he’s a good darn coach.” The Mustangs have little reason to hang their heads. They served as Mason’s best girls basketball team in five years and met their coach’s high expectations of entering the state tournament, a huge jump for a team that couldn’t close during last season’s regional
GEORGE MASON’S VICTORIA RUND plays defense as coach Michael Gilroy watches closely from the bench in the Mustangs’ quarter�inal loss to Martinsville in the Virginia 2A state tournament last Thursday. (P�����: C���� S��) opener at home. When reflecting on this quarterfinal, they’ll see they had opportunities to dig themselves out of their second half hole. It just required a calmer mind, a sharper eye and a bit more urgency. “We’re still very young. No other team in the tournament has
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Grand Opening for New Home Boutique on W. Broad Friday Pursuing Vintage, “a chic boutique for the home” is hosting a grand opening Friday, March 10 – Sunday, March 12 at 260 W. Broad Street (attached to Zoya’s Atelier.) Pursuing Vintage is a curated collection of new and vintage home décor, art, and gift items owned and operated by Kristen Alcorta. It will be open the second weekend of each month, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 5 pm and Sundays from noon – 5 p.m. A ribbon cutting will be held at 6 p.m. For more information about the new home boutique, visit www.pursuingvintage.com.
Alex & Ani Helps Nonprofits Raise Funds Alex and Ani in the Mosaic is offering nonprofits the opportunity to raise funds through its Charmed by Charity Events. Nonprofits interested in hosting a two hour shopping experience in the store for more than 25 attendees, will receive 15 percent of event sales. Refreshments are provided and a minimum of 25 attendees is required. For more information contact Kristen Green, assistant store manager by email at Fairfax@ alexandani.com or stop by the shop located at 2905 District Avenue, Suite 145. For more information, visit www.alexandani.com.
New Classes at F.C. Wellness Center The Falls Church Wellness Center, a client-centered integrative healthcare group owned by Jessica McNair, LPC, has announced its new schedule of classes, which now includes fitness and movement classes. The practice offers a wide variety mental, physical, and internal health services including therapy, physical therapy, reiki, clinician massage, functional medicine, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, and lab testing as well as its new classes in yoga, Zumba, and more. For more information, visit www.fallschurchwellness.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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Community Events THURSDAY, MARCH 9 1-on-1 Computer & Internet Tutoring. Learn how to download eBooks and eMagazines, search the internet, customize email, use social media, word process, and much more. Free personalized session. By appointment. Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. 703248-5035. Preschool Story�me. Songs, movement and stories for ages 18-36 months. Drop-in at the youth services room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Play�me with the Early Literary Center. Explore educa�onal and manipula�ve items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years. No registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library youth services room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. 703-248-5034. Middle School Book Club. A discussion group for teens grade 6-8. The group will discuss Red Scarf Girl: a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li
Send community event submissions to the News-Press by e-mail at calendar@fcnp. com; fax 703-342-0347; or by regular mail to 200 Little Falls St., #508, Falls Church, VA 22046. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for each week’s edition.
Jiang. Registra�on required for the school year, call or email for more details. Mary Riley Styles Public Library conference room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 - 8 p.m. fallschurchva. gov/627/Book-DiscussionGroups. 703-248-5034.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10 DMV 2 Go Bus Available. The accessible mobile office provides all DMV transac�ons including: Applying for and renewing driver’s licenses; obtaining ID cards (including photos) and Virginia’s veterans ID cards; taking road and knowledge tests; obtaining copies of driving records, vehicle �tles, license plates, decals, and transcripts; ordering disabled parking placards or plates; and upda�ng an address a�er a move for DMV and voter registra�on. City Hall parking lot (300 Park Ave. Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/1359/DMV-2Go-DMV-Connect
SATURDAY, MARCH 11 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
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Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5077. Falls Church Habitat Restora�on Cherry Hill Park. Join the City of Falls Church Habitat Restora�on Team in restoring the local ecosystem in Cherry Hill Park. On the agenda is removing damaging invasive plants as well as plan�ng na�ves that benefit local birds and bu�erflies. Work will be done in the woody sec�ons of Cherry Hill Park either near or behind the basketball court or along the fence line between Park Ave. and Great Falls St. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave. Falls Church). 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/511/Parks Bright Star Theatre presents Happily Ever After at the Library. Get ready to laugh out loud at the hilarious renditions of some of the best from the Grimm Brothers’ iconic works. In this 45-minute (not-so-grim) adventure, engaging performers transform into Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin and The Elves and the Shoemaker. Loaded with audience participation and an endless stream of laughs. Best for grades Pre-K to 5th. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library youth
services room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 – 11:45 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/627/ Book-Discussion-Groups. 703248-5034.
MONDAY, MARCH 13 ESL Conversation Group. English as a Second Language Conversation group for adults focusing on English language and American culture. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. 703-248-5035.
TUESDAY, MARCH 14 Great Books Discussion. A “Great Books” discussion concentrated on literary classics (both tradi�onal and modern) mee�ng at 7 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month from September through May. The book being discussed this week is The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis. Open to all and no registra�on required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 9 p.m. 703-2485035.
Theater Fine Arts FRIDAY, MARCH 10
“Night at the Wax Museum.” For six students, class is back in session when they take a summer school trip with their teacher to the local wax museum to help preserve the past. Between a hilarious love triangle involving Cleopatra and Henry VIII and a widespread hunt for buried treasure with Blackbeard and Butch Cassidy, it will be a trip for the history books. The produc�on is recommended for ages 6 and older. $10 – $15. 7:30 p.m. Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre (125 S. Old Glebe Rd. Arlington). encorestageva.org
SATURDAY, MARCH 11 “Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing.” James Lapine’s new play with music stars Emmy and Tony Award winner Debra Monk as Mrs. Miller. Mrs.
Miller can’t sing—but don’t tell her that. Based on the real life story of Elva Miller, this touching and funny portrait offers Monk the role of a life�me as the devoted, warbling songstress whose opera�c, off-key singing became an unlikely pop phenomenon in the 1960s. Take a delectable romp through hits like “Downtown,” “A Hard Day’s Night” and more. Signature Theatre, The Max (4200 Campbell Ave, Arlington). 8 p.m. $40 – $70. Sigtheatre.org
TUESDAY, MARCH 14 “Three Sisters.” Stuck in a backwater town, three sisters and their brother search for meaning amidst missed opportuni�es and misplaced dreams in the everyday clu�er of lackluster birthday presents, pushy in-laws, and underwhelming suitors. Three Sisters pitches the sublime against the ridiculous, the
roman�cized past against an idealized future, and the individual against the unknowability of life itself in Chekhov’s tragicomic masterpiece about life’s heartbreak and absurdity. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St NW, Washington, DC). $57 – $74. 7:30 p.m. studiotheatre.org
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 “Midwestern Gothic.” A world premiere thriller by Royce Vavrek and Josh Schmidt with a musical twist. Not all is well in a li�le town in the middle of con�nental nowhere. With no op�ons of escape, the occupants seek other, stranger, diversions. With a bold, brash and gorgeous score, Midwestern Gothic is like nothing else you’ve seen before ― and will leave you breathless. Signature Theatre, The Ark (4200 Campbell Ave, Arlington). 7:30 p.m. $74. Sigtheatre.org
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9 L�� C���������! 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930 B�������� S����� L���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $18. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. M�� B��� � T�� B����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $15. 7:30 p.m. 202-6677960. A������� ��� D����������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $12 – $15. 8:30 p.m. 703-237-0300 R����� M�����. Mad Fox Brewing Company (444 W Broad St I, Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-942-6840. C���� D�����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10 A����� O’D��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283 R������� E����. 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $28. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930 A���� ���� D���� + G���������� + PAIN! + D��� A�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
R������ C���. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $69.50. 7:30 p.m.. 703-549-7500 B�� T���� ��� F������ P������ � T������ �� M����� ��� S���. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 8 p.m. 703522-8340 J����� G���� � T�� T���������, O� H� D��� ��� D���� E���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $10 – $12. 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. A�� H���. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $30. 8 p.m. 703255-1900. S������� W��� W��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $12 – $15. 9 p.m. 703-237-0300 F���� �� D����: 90� H�� H��, P��, � R�B D���� P����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $5. 9:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� D���� A���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
SATURDAY, MARCH 11 Y����� T�� G�� + S���� A��������� + S���� D����� + B���� P�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18. 12 p.m. 703255-1566. T�� K�������. Jammin’ Java (227
Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $22 – $25. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. C���� D� � D���� E����. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283 R������� E����. 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $28. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930 P������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. $16. 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. B�� T���� ��� F������ P������ � T������ �� M����� ��� S���. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 8 p.m. 703522-8340 A B�������� G��� T������ T� E���� C�������. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd. Vienna). $25 – $29. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. U����: A 311 D�� T������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $20. 9:30 p.m. 703-2551566. T�� R�� H������� E���������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.
$45. 7:30 p.m.. 703-549-7500 S�� P����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $12. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. S����� B��� ��� T������� V����. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 13 B���� F�� E��� + W���� W�������� � T�� R���� C��� + S����� W���� + B���� L����� ��� ��� L�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. C���� H��. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $45. 7:30 p.m.. 703-549-7500 B������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m
TUESDAY, MARCH 14 L�������� B���� M������. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria). $49.50. 7:30 p.m.. 703-549-7500
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SUNDAY, MARCH 12 S��� 0))). 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $35. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930 C���� H��. The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria).
H����� S�������. 9:30 Club. (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930 L������ L�� � T�� F���������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551566.
P������� A����... Sunday, March 19 – League of Women Voters Screens “Pay 2 Play” – The film explores the corrup�ng influence of money in poli�cs—and what voters can do to take their power back. Following the movie, a discussion will be led by a panel of experts, including Delegate Marcus Simon and Viveca Novak, editorial and communica�ons director of the Center for Responsive Poli�cs. Tuesday, March 21 – Mt. Vernon Genealogical Society Hosts Zack Wilske – Historian Zack Wilske will be giving a talk en�tled “Beyond Passenger Lists: Documen�ng 20th Century Lives” at the Society’s monthly mee�ng, focused on naturaliza�on files, alien registra�on records, visa files, and other records documen�ng 20th century immigrant lives. Sunday, April 23 – Taste of Islam: Open House – Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center’s annual open house opens the door to people of all faiths to come enjoy Islamic culture and learn more about the faith including hijab fashion, Islamic arts, tradi�onal foods and drinks, mosque tours, and more.
C������� S���������� Be sure to include time, location, cost of admission, contact person and any other pertinent information. Event listings will be edited for content and space limitations. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for the current week’s edition.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA The ordinance referenced below was given first reading by the City Council on February 27, 2017; and second reading and public hearing are scheduled for Monday, March 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard.
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(TO17-02) ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE SALE TO NEAL C. NICHOLS OF APPROXIMATELY 7,519 SQUARE FEET OF CITY-OWNED RIGHT OF WAY FROM HILLWOOD AVENUE This ordinance ratifies an Agreement of Sale and approves the sale of a portion of right-of-way. The Agreement of Sale is for a portion of the Hillwood Ave. right-of-way adjacent to the property at 357 S. Washington St. As required by City Code, the Planning Commission has determined that the sale is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and recommends the sale. In exchange for the sale, the owner agrees to: pay the City $614,628; enter into an agreement to improve and maintain the property; and provide, at no cost to the City, access easements for future streetscape improvements along Annandale Rd., utility easements
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Don Beyer Comes Home to Launch Run for Governor
New Mixed Use Projects Rocket F.C. Commercial Property Values by 13%
Naming education as his highest priority, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Beyer, Jr., a Falls Church businessman announced Monday he’s an official candidate for Governor of the Commonwealth. Beyer, a Democrat, is in his second term as Lieutenant Governor.
Eyeballs were popping around the Falls Church City Hall last week when officials started looking at City Assessor Mel Peterson’s new report showing that the value of commercial properties in the City soared by over 13% in the past year. This figure was well over the expected numbers.
Sam Summerlin Dies at Age 89
Career news reporter, executive and entrepreneur Sam Summerlin passed away at age 89 on Feb. 27 at a Carlsbad, Calif., elderly care facility. He was best remembered for the athletic ability as a 25-yearold Associated Press reporter in July 1953 to win a dash ahead of some 200 fellow newsmen to the only phone at the site of the Pyongyang, North Korea, signing of the armistice ending the Korean War. He was thus the first to report it to the world. He had 15 seconds to say, “Flash! The Korean War is over,” before a military official took the phone away from him. The tall and silver-haired Summerlin had a touch of greatness tempered by the humility that usually accompanies the calling of a true newspaperman. He was in the twilight of his tireless career when he launched a new news venture, the Global Fax News, in 1989 designed to exploit the then-new, pre-email technology of the telefax machine to bring news reports to subscribers in Asia. The idea was to have faxed news updates distributed aboard major airline flights throughout Asia. Summerlin retained journalist Nicholas Benton, who subsequently founded and has led the Falls Church News-Press for 26 years, as his chief Washington and White House correspondent. Benton was freelancing at the time and had a
White House press pass. Unfortunately, a sharp economic downturn hit the Japanese economy and swiftly dried up the venture’s funding source after less than a year. But Summerlin’s professionalism and fairness made a big impression on Benton, who invited Summerlin to his table at the annual White House Correspondents Association banquets for a number of years. Summerlin had tons of stories to tell of his AP assignments in Cuba for a year and Argentina following his Korean War assignment. In pre-revolutionary Cuba, he became friends with Ernest Hemingway, who offered Summerlin an exclusive first interview when he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 and asked Summerlin to organize a press conference. When Summerlin was assigned to Argentina in 1955, he had a
front row seat to a period of great political turmoil, including the rise of General Juan Peron and his charismatic wife, Eva. She became the subject of the popular musical and film, “Evita,” but to Summerlin she was always just a show. He was among the first to report the capture of Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann in 1960. Summerlin returned to Cuba following Fidel Castro’s rise to power, then was assigned to the Philippines and became AP’s bureau chief for the South at New Orleans in 1963, covering the growing civil rights ferment. In 1965 he moved to New York where he worked for the AP another 10 years, and in 1975 he joined the New York Times as chief of its New York Times Syndicate. When he retired from the Times in 1987, he would not settle down, founding the Hollywood Stars Inc. video interview service, the Saga Agency that provided celebrity still photos and interviews, and the short-lived Global Fax News. He wrote or co-wrote several books on foreign affairs Born January 1, 1928 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Summerlin was married to Cynthia Cyr, who died in 2000. His survivors include a daughter in California, a son, Thomas A. Summerlin in Arlington, Va., and three grandchildren. Thanks to John Rogers and the Associated Press for contributions to this story.
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SAY “HELLO” TO PATCHES O’HOULIHAN. This “lucky dog” can usually be found playing with his buddies Buster, Teddy or Harper or hanging out at home with his human buddies Miles and Noah. We suspect he’s pretty good at dodgeball, too. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
Richard White, Formerly of Falls Church, Dies at Age 55
Richard White, a former resident of Falls Church, died suddenly on Monday, February 27, 2017. He was born July 15, 1961 in Washington, D.C. and lived in Falls Church throughout his school years. He graduated from George Mason High School in 1979 where he was an All-Met soccer player. He remained interested in soccer as a player, coach and fan throughout his lifetime. Richard was also an avid deer hunter with both gun and bow and was actively involved with providing deer meat through the Hunters for the Homeless charity organization. He was a master electrician and owned and operated R.W. Electric, Inc. of Centreville, Virginia where he resided with his family. Richard especially enjoyed his afternoon and evening walks with his family and dog, Tory. He is survived by his wife of 27 years (together 35 years), Lee White; son, Richard White VI, landscaper/nurseryman of Del Ray Beach, Florida; daughter,
Nicole, who is completing her degree in social work at George Mason University; his mother and father, Faye and Richard White, of Adamsville, Tennessee; sisters, Kathy Hill of Adamsville, Tennessee, and Karen Protiva of Monmouth, Oregon; and a brother, Pete, of Springfield, Virginia. Richard White was a good, caring and kind man who enjoyed helping others. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
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THE GEORGE MASON WIND ENSEMBLE competed Friday night in the District X Band Competition receiving overall excellent ratings for their performance of prepared level V and VI music, and for a sight-reading section of music new to the group. The band heads to New York in two weeks for a performance on the stage at Carnegie Hall. Above (left to right) Lucy Hoak, Kit Richards, Holly Nelson, James Gogal and Timothy Gilmour. (Photo: Carol Sly)
Mason Robotics Wins 3rd Innovation in Control Award The Mason Robotics team was ranked No. 1 most of Saturday in the district competition but dropped to fifth of 39 teams after developing some electrical problems and sitting out a match. At the end of the qualifying rounds, Mason was promptly picked for the number one alliance. To succeed in this round all three of teams’ robots needed to climb at the end of each match, and Mason was the only member of the alliance consistently able to do this, resulting in elimination in the quarterfinals. The team won the 2017 Innovation in Control Award, a tribute to the students’ excellent programming skills and a safety award, an area of great improvement for the team. They earned 40 district points toward qualifying for the region championship in April. They compete again in Maryland on March 17-19.
Mason High Student Selected To All Virginia State Band Tim Gilmour was selected to perform in the 2017 All Virginia State Band. Gilmour auditioned at James Madison University on February 28, placing 3rd out
of 32 euphoniums. The euphonium players were selected from top district band and orchestra events from across the state. From April 6-8, Gilmour will be performing with the very best high school musicians from across the Commonwealth. The State Band event will be held at Colgan High School in Manassas.
Fairfax School Special Ed Conference Set for April 1 Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) will hold its 12th annual Special Education Conference on Saturday, April 1, from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria. The conference, designed for parents and educators of students who receive special education services or who have learning challenges or special needs, will feature Nancy Mather, Ph.D., professor of special education at the University of Arizona, as the keynote speaker. Mather will discuss Elephant in the Room: What We Overlook Regarding Struggling Readers that will address issues affecting the identification of students who struggle with reading and appropriate interventions. Parents and educators can choose from numerous break-
out sessions on topics including building independence in preschool, dyslexia identification, instructional and behavioral supports for high functioning autism students, speech recognition technologies, strategies to promote successful transitions from elementary to secondary school, twice exceptional learners, work-based learning, early intervention, executive function plus social emotional development, fostering communication in the home for students with autism, military support services, restorative justice for students with disabilities, and sign language for special populations. Attendees can browse the exhibit hall — featuring exhibitors from FCPS, Fairfax County, Virginia, the federal government, and non-profit organizations — to learn about the latest research, strategies, special education services, and community resources for students with special needs. The FCPS Department of Special Services and the Advisory Committee for Students with Disabilities are serving as cosponsors of the conference. A list of conference details, workshops, and registration information is available at fcps.edu/ event/special-education-conference.
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Don’t miss this amazing 4 bedroom, 3 bath Ashton Heights original Sears bungalow just a few blocks from Clarendon Metro, restaurants and shops. Totally renovated (from the studs in) and added to 10 years ago by high-end architect/builder. Oversized, corner lot with mature plantings and detached garage. The perfect combination of old-world charm and modern amenities. Will be listed at $1,299,000
309 Lincoln Avenue | Falls Church City
Lisa Young
Sold before Listing! Adorable 3 BD/2.5 BA cottage
(703) 505-2626 direct lisayoung@cox.net LisaYoungHomes.com
with exceptional yard and beautifully renovated. Light and Bright with vintage charm and modern updates! Steps to the bike trail and Metro. Offered at $750,000
710 W Broad St, Falls Church VA 22046 ~ 703-596-5303 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated
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1355 Beverly Rd Ste 109 McLean, VA 22101
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Falls Church, Two bedroom condo in sought after area! 1/2 mile to East Falls Church Metro, bike trail, park, dog park, shops and eateries. Condo fees include all main utilities, party room and club house on roof top. Plenty of natural light & storage space with 2 walk-in closets. New carpet and paint! Priced at $179,900.
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Excellent investment opportunity!! 3BR/2BA condo in Barcroft Hills. Needs updating. Beautiful setting. 2 large balconies. Swimming pool and tennis court. All utilities including in condo fee. Price perfected $213,999
3235 Valley Lane Falls Church 22044
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1903 Westmoreland St. McLean VA 22101
Beautiful and classic 3 level cape cod. 5BR/2BA on 3 finished levels. Whole house has been remodeled in last 5 years! Including windows, roof and all systems. Fantastic Fantastic New Price $719,000 New Price $719,000.
2230 George C Marshall #309 Falls Church VA 22043
SOLD STRICTLY AS-IS Lovely large lot. $749,000
2BR/2BA beautiful and open floor plan! Granite, SS, hardwood floors. Close to parking, year round pool & tennis courts. Super convenient to 495, 66 and Metro. Shuttle bus takes riders to WFC Metro from condo building front door! $358,900
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