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Inside This Week School Board Dissolves Special Ed Committee The Falls Church School Board Tuesday night voted unanimously to disband its Special Education Advisory Committee which had been embroiled in almost a full year of acrimony. See News Briefs, page 9
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Ernest Hemingway’s house in Cuba seems like such a healthy place. Yet Hemingway was not a healthy man during the latter phases in his life. He was drunk much of the time. See page 12
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WRESTLING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES of a $912,600 cut in their budget at Tuesday’s School Board meeting were (l. to r.) Chair Justin Castillo, Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones, Financial Czar Hunter Kimble, Assistant Superintendents Lisa High and Marty Gadell. (Photo: News-Press)
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Reeling from Monday night’s 4-3 Falls Church City Council vote to cut $912,600 from their budget request, the Falls Church School Board met Tuesday night in the conference room of their offices in the Flower Building, and were pressed by Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones to make a prompt decision on how to absorb the cuts in terms of teacher salaries. The rush was due to the fact that Jones and Assistant
Superintendent Lisa High are currently in the process of interviewing for new positions, as are other jurisdictions who could be wooing Falls Church teachers this spring. The immediate decision was to accommodate a portion of the cut by eliminating 20 percent of the salary increases that had been built into the School Board budget to maintain the competitiveness of the system with others in the region. The removal of that increase, in a year when there are no “step” increases provided for the teachers and staff
and in which health care premiums are soaring, could prove critical to the soundness of the Falls Church system even now. But in a spirit of sacrifice, all the members of the School Board present Tuesday said they’d forego their modest salaries from being on the School Board, if their colleagues on the City Council did likewise. That would ante up almost enough money to make up for the 20 percent across-the-board teacher salary cut.
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The die was cast in recent weeks and there were no changes in the arguments or discourse among the four Falls Church City Council members Monday night who constituted the majority in favor of slashing almost $1 million from the City Schools’ budget. Despite passionate pleas from School officials, ranging from Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones, School Board vice chair John Lawrence, leaders of the teachers’ Falls Church Education Association and teachers themselves Monday night, there was no change in the rhetoric presented by those four Council members, including from ones who had posted their remarks online earlier in the week. The vote was 4-3 to hold the real estate tax rate at $1.315 by cutting $912,600 from the School budget, with Mayor David Tarter and Council members Phil Duncan, Letty Hardi and Dan Sze voting “yes,” and Vice Mayor Marybeth Connelly, and Council members Karen Oliver and David Snyder voting “no.” The $86 million budget will go into effect on July 1, but Superintendent Jones met with the Schools’ chief financial officer Hunter Kimble Tuesday morning to begin to work out the details of where the cuts in the Schools’ programs will have to come. That work was brought forward to a work session of the whole School Board Tuesday night. The number of the cut to the Schools’ budget was, Dr. Jones says, entirely arbitrary based on a
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School Board Votes to Limit Teacher Salary Hike After Monday’s Cuts
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School Board chair Justin Castillo said he would be in touch with his Council counterpart, Mayor David Tarter, to feel out Council sentiment on that proposal. “I get emotional about this because of the great people we have here,” High told the Board Tuesday. “Retaining is as important as hiring, and I fear if people feel we are no longer committed to the plan to bring salaries within a three-to-five percent range of neighboring Arlington, they may start having second thoughts.” Board Chair Castillo began the discussion of the budget by saying, “This is going to be difficult. It is most troubling to me that the cuts were made in a vacuum of comments. We need to let people know, to spread the pain as uniformly as possible, and no one will be spared.” He suggested that “it will be impossible to keep whole our class sizes and levels of compen-
sation of our teachers.” While the decision on salary levels was needed almost immediately, other proposals to cut the budget may be decided at the School Board’s next business meeting on Tuesday, May 3, when it is supposed to vote on a revised budget. One of the options put before the board Tuesday by Jones and Chief Financial Officer Hunter Kimble proposed cuts of a George Mason computer science teacher, the removal of a plan to leasepurchase two buses, to eliminate a position for a system-wide project assistant, and to lower the contribution to the OPEB fund. Those are on top of the proposed 20 percent reduction in teacher salary improvements, and a reduction in the teacher “topped out bonus.” Other possible reductions presented included an elementary school position, a Mt. Daniel assistant principal position, a parttime gifted teacher position, two paraprofessional days, and a first grade paraprofessional.
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Smaller amounts were listed as potential cuts in classroom materials and supplies, textbook adoptions and replacements, library books and materials, computer software and supplies, security camera replacements and staff uniforms. Other cuts were in staff development, the distinguished scholar program, NBCT stipends, substitute usage, the elementary Strings EPED, pre-K contracted music and the contingency reserve. Laura McNamara, a teacher at Mt. Daniel, warned of the effect of “draconian cuts” and said she’s finding parents expressing “more and more anger” at them. She urged the retention of the plan for a new assistant principal position at the school because of its enrollment growth. Farrell Kelly, a teacher at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, said that salary increases this year “really matter” to the teachers, given the rising health care premium costs that will mean a number will be taking home less than this year.
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desire to achieve the symbolic goal of no real estate rate hike. The Council did not stipulate or articulate any places in the Schools’ budget where they felt too much was being asked for. There was simply the non-specific sentiment that reflected what some citizens said during the public hearing portion of the meeting that somehow the Schools will be able to maintain competitive teacher salaries and low classroom sizes despite the cuts. During that petition period, Amanda Blanchard of the Falls Church Teachers Association argued that “any cuts to the School system impacts everything, they all impact the children. We’ve not asked for more than we need.” Dr. Jones added, “These are real cuts that will have an impact on the children.” Another teacher chimed in that cutting $912,600 will have consequences, including larger class sizes, less take home pay for teachers, and with the elimination of the contingency fund, an inability to deal with the unexpected. “Pulling one thread impacts the whole tapestry,” he said. The four-vote majority, whose
arguments were all made on behalf of fiscal discipline and “belt tightening,” with large capital improvement costs looming in coming years, also ignored the comments of their dissenting colleagues on the Council, including the claim by Karen Oliver that cutting the School budget this year is not fiscally responsible, because all the items cut will come back next year. Snyder went further, calling the proposed cut “an unprecedented mistake,” based on his more than 20 years of experience on the Council. “The people closest to the needs of the School are telling us they need the money,” by contrast with “an artificial target.” Vice Mayor Connelly said, “This is a penny wise, pound foolish approach to kick the can down the road. This isn’t about the School Board, or the Superintendent, this is about the children of Falls Church.” But Duncan, who voted with the majority, said the School Board ignored the guidance of the Council set in the late fall to hold budget requests to 3 percent. “But the School Board did not find it in their hearts to reflect our ask,” suggesting they took a posture of “nullification” that “creates a lack of confidence.”
Dr. Jones stressed that it wasn’t a matter of what’s in their hearts, but what’s on their list of costs, including many that are fixed and will have to be revisited next year if not sooner, depending on what enrollment growth looks like in the fall. She said that potential enrollment growth from the completion of two major development projects this year, the Rushmark and Lincoln projects, are not yet calculated into their projections. In other aspects of the budget, increases in the cigarette tax and personal property tax were approved to help fund transportation projects, including the City contributions to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority. The General Government operating budget will be $37.7 million (2.4 percent growth) and the transfer to Schools will be $39.6 million (3.6 percent growth). In addition to approving the operating budget for FY2017, the City Council approved the FY2017-FY2021 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) largely as recommended by the Planning Commission. The initial CIP year, FY2017, will meet many critical needs, including general government and School
FALLS CHURCH SCHOOLS Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones speaks to the City Council Monday night. (P����: N���-P����) facility reinvestment, downtown public plaza improvements, funded by the Economic Development Authority, Big Chimney Park and Howard E. Herman Stream Valley Park improvements, Cherry Hill Park improvements for Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility and playground equipment replacement, public safety firearms range project in partnership with the City of Fairfax, transportation improvements (using a number of grant and local funding sources) for bridges, roadbed reconstruction, bike share and Metro transit. In addition, the “Campus Redevelopment Project” is scheduled in the CIP for FY2018 with
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The Falls Church City Council, by a one-vote margin, made the wrong decision on Monday night. What has kept Falls Church strong over the years has been the way strident and impassioned debates on whether to limit taxes or pay for schools has almost always wound up reaffirming the importance of maintaining the superior quality of the school system. As a result of the heated debates, tax rates were held in relative check and appreciation for the importance of the schools was redoubled, year in, year out. The result has been a continually growing and increasingly vibrant community with something to truly be proud of, schools that are routinely ranked among the highest in the region, the state and the nation even while general City services have also been exemplary. The tax rates in the City have throughout remained very competitive with other comparably-sized jurisdictions in the region even as the City Council has always been mindful of households that are always concerned for their tax bills. Sadly, in our view, this week's budget vote represented a marked departure from that years-long approach, and we can only hope that it doesn't set off a new trend. The taste of victory for the anti-tax crowd over the quality schools crowd will only whet the appetites of the former to push even harder from now on. There was some fallacies expressed in Monday night's budget debate that helped steer the outcome in the wrong direction. First, respected Councilman Phil Duncan's argument comparing Falls Church to Arlington was ill advised. He lamented the wide difference in the real estate tax rates between Falls Church and Arlington, as if the City's holding the line on two cents would make any meaningful difference. If you want Arlington's tax rate, then consider the skylines at Rosslyn and Pentagon City that keep it low. They appear like the downtowns of two major cities. On the other hand, Falls Church's competitive answer to the Arlington tax rate is the quality of its schools. So, if you damage that quality in a futile effort to mimic Arlington's tax rate, you lose twice. You can't match Arlington's tax rate, and you've jeopardized the City's edge on schools. Second, the Council and the general public watching Monday night's deliberations were badly misled and subjected to the fallacy of being told use of the fund balance constituted “one time money,” and therefore was not good for sustainable budget policy. But this would not be the case if the Council voted to lower the fund balance limit as a matter of policy. If it was lowered to 12 percent, instead of 17 percent, of annual operating budget costs, for example, $4.3 million would be freed up for use in the budget every year, not just once. Lowering the limit to even just 16 percent would free up a additional $870,000 every year, enough in this case to fund the schools without a tax rate increase.
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Responsible Move to Make Choices We Can Afford Editor, With my family, I have lived in the city since 1988. Each of my three children began school at, attended each level of, and graduated from Falls Church public schools. My wife and I are committed to remaining and living in (and thus supporting financially) Falls Church. As our elected council members, please continue to perform the hard work and make the tough choices to
balance the needs of our community, as a complete and balanced community. The schools have needs and those needs are zealously advocated by passionate parents and proud educators. As you know so well, we also need city services, libraries, city halls, police and public safety and a host of other less critical needs addressed as well. Finally, we need to try to carefully balance those needs against our resources, including our commercial and residential
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tax base. We can't have everything. In my view the schools enjoy a disproportionate deference already, and the taxpayers are already paying a hefty premium above the costs of our neighboring jurisdictions for this above average service. It is also worth remembering that they are public schools, not private. We are, however, also going to have to also compromise on some big, long overdue infrastructure and other services in order to stop the ever-escalating tax rate from eating away at the very core of our community; that we can preserve and enjoy a diverse population where the young starting out, the middle income and the elderly can
also afford to live. The higher the tax rate goes, the more our community shifts so that the primary segment that can afford to live here is younger families, often with children, in their peak earning years. This is tough stuff. As elected officials, the easy move is to capitulate to the most passionate voices, including those of the schools. The hard (but the responsible) choice is to look down the road and make the choices we can afford. Thank you for serving our community and willingly shouldering these tough decisions. Bob Pender Falls Church
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Cottage Housing in the Falls Church Community B� T������ S������� T������
Falls Church is among the most desirable communities in the Washington, D.C. Metro area. With our small size and highly educated and involved citizenry, we are in a position to lead the region with progressive housing options, make our city’s tax base more diverse and add to the rich fabric of our community. As a real estate professional, I meet many residents with evolving housing needs. Some have raised their children here, taking advantage of our highly respected school system, but then find their singlefamily homes too large and too expensive to maintain. When their search begins for more modest and low-maintenance housing, many find little from which to choose. On a similar note, there is a national growing trend toward single person households. Due to the lack of more manageable housing options in Falls Church, too many are forced to look elsewhere. If there were housing options that would allow a wider spectrum of residents to remain in our city, we would all benefit. Currently we are dealing with the aftermath of mid-century zoning, which divides people and separates land uses. With the recent rise of mixed-use developments, once again there is the possibility that areas within our city can host a beautiful tapestry of shops, restaurants, community services, shared spaces and private living
spaces. Mixed-use projects go a long way toward filling some of the housing voids compartmentalized zoning has imposed on us. However, we may find it beneficial to allow for more flexibility and creativity
“While we may appreciate the mixeduse buildings and the amenities they bring, they should not be our sole antidote to skyrocketing land prices.” when thinking about how we use our land and how we house residents of all economic levels and needs. As seen all around us, new construction in Falls Church City is typically either single-family homes selling for well over one million dollars or mixed–use, multiple story buildings. There are few choices in-between. While we may appreciate the mixed-use buildings and the amenities they bring, they should not be our sole antidote to skyrocketing land prices. Winter Hill and other townhome
developments like the one in which I live on Park Avenue are the extent of our “middle” housing options. The only way other missing middle housing options can become reality is to allow higher density in residential zoning districts. Higher density could come in the form of backyard cottages, semi-detached homes or in the form of cottage communities. Cottage housing is not a new concept. Between the 1920s and the 1930s, groupings of small homes referred to as bungalow courts were the most common form of multi-family housing in Southern California. Several Hollywood movie studios built nearby cottage communities so their workers had an affordable place to live within walking distance of work. One that remains today is St. Andrew’s Bungalow Court, which was built in 1919 and is just off of Sunset Blvd. St. Andrew’s Bungalow Court is an example of the enduring beauty and design of these small communities. Seattle architect Ross Chapin further developed the cottage community concept by coining the term “pocket neighborhood” and writing a book of the same name. He has been involved with the design and development of dozens of these small neighborhoods, primarily on the West Coast. These quality homes are beautifully built with every square foot put to good use. The footprint is small and the floor plans are disciplined. The charm can easily be lost
if made too large. Hallmarks of these communities are large, livable front porches, main floor master bedrooms, common courtyards and parking areas that are kept off to the side to allow for pedestrian friendly common areas and neighborly encounters. Other common elements in pocket neighborhoods are community gardens, lush landscaping and gathering spaces for everything from large holiday celebrations to casual Friday afternoon get-togethers. While the individual lots are small, cottage homeowners do not have to sacrifice access to outdoor space and natural surroundings. Many living in condos and micro apartments have already discovered the joys of living with a smaller footprint. A community of cottages here in Falls Church would provide a housing option for residents wanting a simpler and socially interactive lifestyle, while maintaining a little dirt under their feet and four walls of windows surrounding them. The exciting reality is that Falls Church City is the ideal place to progressively lead the region by making smart, sustainable, community-focused housing options a reality for our citizens. The discipline to live small can free our minds as well as our time and money. Whether they are called pocket neighborhoods, cottage communities or bungalow courts, they have the potential to lead to the same place… smaller house, bigger life.
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If you’re happy and you know it, you must be at Haycock Elementary School, where on a cool, cloudy day, sunbeams radiated from the faces of students, parents, staff, and a legislator who gathered outdoors to celebrate a ribbon-cutting for a new playground and the school’s total makeover. Money for an estimated $17 million in school improvements came from a bond referendum approved by Fairfax County taxpayers in 2013, and included a “full renovation” with two building additions of 15 new classrooms and a new cafeteria, according to the principal, Jereme Donnelly. Plus, the McLean Community Foundation, the PTA, the Haycock community, and Fairfax County schools contributed about $65,000 for the new playground which is the best thing about Haycock, said first grader Justin Suydam, “7 and a half,” and Aiden Harper, 8, a second grader. Donnelly has been at the Haycock helm less than a year but his enthusiasm and glee mirrored those of the students, several of whom stood patiently in a line to chat with a Falls Church News-Press reporter and give their impressions of their school.
(“They couldn’t wait to talk to you,” Donnelly said.) “I want to be interviewed,” they said. Bella DeMarco, 11, is a sixth grader at Haycock where her mother teaches. Bella said: “I really like the people who work here, and the teachers are really great, and we just have an awesome experience here.” Her favorite class is writing which she said begins in the first grade at Haycock! And she likes history and math, too. Madelyn Frederick, 10, a fourth grader, said Haycock is “one big happy family. We have no bullies here and no fights. It’s awesome.” Madelyn’s favorite subjects are writing and reading, and she enjoys school theatre. Her brother, Tyler, 7, a first grader, said his favorite subject is computer lab. Tyler could not think of a single thing he dislikes about Haycock. Henry Jenkins, 8, a second grader, likes Haycock a lot, too. A former Haycock teacher and now assistant principal, Erica Riley, said the school’s greatest assets “are definitely the students and the families.” Monica Kumar is the PTA vice-president for fundraising, who said everything was gutted at Haycock for the construction which was carried out by section over two years, and permitted the
school to operate without closure. Practically everything has been completed. The construction team “did an amazing job,” finishing the project several months ahead of schedule, she said. Haycock, a “Blue Ribbon” school, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and this is its first big overhaul Alison Symons is Haycock’s PTA president who said the school has 932 students, about 42.5 percent who are Caucasian, and 40 percent, Asians. About a third of the students speak two languages. SchoolDigger, a Web resource which carries 136,000 school profiles, ranks Haycock 13th of all 1099 elementary public schools in Virginia. At Haycock, the morning’s fun did not end with the conclusion of the outdoor ceremony for an indoor “taping” was set to follow, to meet promised obligations. Donnelly and Riley had agreed to let students tape them to a wall if students obtained pledges from relatives and friends in all 50 states for Haycock’s “Boosterthon,” a fundraiser for “tech improvements.” The students succeeded in raising about $40,000 from all the states. Donnelly said he had studied the taping technique which requires an ample supply of duct tape and many laughs.
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NEWS BRIEFS F.C. School Board Dissolves Special Ed Committee Following a previous meeting when they’d decided to take no action, the Falls Church School Board Tuesday night voted unanimously to disband its Special Education Advisory Committee which had been embroiled in almost a full year of acrimony. The committee was to have one final meeting of the year next Monday, but at the wishes of some of its members, and upon reviewing a report of two School Board members tasked with reviewing the issues on the committee, the board voted unanimously on a motion by member Lawrence Webb to dissolve the committee, with the idea that anyone, including any of its current members, could apply for appointment to the group over the summer.
NoVa Transportation Authority Launches New Outreach Effort The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority is launching a widespread effort this spring to find out specifically what Northern Virginians want in their future transportation network. The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, or NVTA, project team will appear at a wide variety of public places, going where large numbers of the public congregate to make it easy for residents to voice their views on what would improve transportation in Northern Virginia. In a press release issued this week, the NVTA says its workshops and “pop-up” events are “designed to capture feedback from a broad range of residents where they live, work and play.” Between April and June, the project team will appear at more than a dozen locations, including Metrorail stations, festivals, community centers, parades, shopping hubs, senior centers and places of worship. Here in Falls Church, the NVTA will be at booths at the City’s Memorial Day festival on May 30. A complete list of the events is available at nvtatransaction.org/upcoming-events.
F.C. Hair Cutterys Donating Hair Cuts to Domestic Violence Victims This next Monday and Tuesday, May 2 – 3, Hair Cuttery’s seven Falls Church locations in addition to its 900 salons across the country, will be donating a free haircut certificate to a victims of domestic violence for every haircut purchased. The “Share-A-Haircut” campaign is a joint effort between the salon and the National Network to End Domestic Violence. “Our Share-A-Haircut program and the work of NNEDV are both incredibly impactful causes,” said Dennis Ratner, CEO and founder of Hair Cuttery. “Together, we are aiming to spread awareness about the hardships and injustices of domestic violence, while pampering and comforting those affected.” Through the partnership, Hair Cuttery and NNEDV will work together to distribute thousands of free haircut certificates to individuals affected by domestic violence, including women, children and men.
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F.C. Man Arrested for Armed Robbery in Culmore Daniel Rodrigo Cespedes, 21, of Falls Church, was arrested and charged with robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony on Saturday, April 16, the Fairfax County Police Department announced in a press release on Wednesday, April 20. The crime was originally reported on Friday, April 1. According to the police, the victim of the crime was dropping off a friend at the 6000 block of Bellview Drive and was approached by a man on foot. Allegedly, Cespedes brandished a handgun and demanded money from the victim. The victim relinquished cash and property then drove off in his vehicle. The victim did not required medical attention.
Recommendations on Tysons-to-Alexandria Rapid Bus Transit Sought Recommendations to run bus rapid transit, or BRT, to connect the Spring Hill Metrorail station in Tysons to Mark Center in Alexandria will be the focus of three public meetings in June. BRT is proposed to run 11 miles along Route 7 in mostly dedicated lanes, leaving the state road briefly to connect to the East Falls Church Metrorail Station. The first meeting will be Monday, June 6 at The Pavilion at the Apartments at the Mark Center, 5708 Merton Court in Alexandria, the second meeting is Wednesday, June 8 in the ground floor cafeteria at Glen Forest Elementary School, 5829 Glen Forest Drive in Falls Church and the third will be Thursday, June 9 in the ground floor cafeteria at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School at 7130 Leesburg Pike in Falls Church. All meetings will be from 7 – 9 p.m. The Route 7 Corridor study considered three transit modes – BRT, light rail and enhanced bus service – and several alignments, with and without a connection at East Falls Church Metro and terminating at Mark Center or the King Street or Van Dorn Street Metrorail stations. Construction and operating costs for BRT on Route 7 are, respectively, 70 and 40 percent lower than light rail. BRT is expected to attract 9,500 new transit riders to Route 7 each day. More details on the Route 7 Corridor study are available at EnvisionRoute7.com.
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Community News & Notes Citizens for a Better City Hosts Its Annual Meeting
Falls Church Garden Club Hosts Sandy Tarpinian
Falls Church’s Citizens for a Better City is hosting its Annual Meeting & Reception on Sunday, May 1 at the Falls Church Hilton Garden Inn at 706 W. Broad Street. The reception for the event starts at 5 p.m. with drinks and light hors d’oeuvres. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. Admission to the event, which includes 2016 dues to the organization, costs $30 per person. Attendees can pay at the door or in advance. Those who want to pay in advance can mail their checks, made out to Citizens for a Better City, to CBC, P.O. Box 6080, Falls Church, VA 22042. Parking for the event will be available in the hotel parking garage. For more information, email Sally Ekfelt at ekfelt@ gmail.com.
The Falls Church Garden Club is hosting Sandy Tarpinian, Green Springs Master Gardener, for its monthly meeting on Monday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. Tarpinian will give a talk called Pollinators at the meeting, which will be held at American Legion Post 130 at 400 N. Oak Street. The talk is free and the public is welcome. For more information, call 703-533-1945.
Area Kids to Make Crafts Commemorating ‘Star Wars’ Children in grades K – 5 can create crafts inspired by the legendary film series ‘Star Wars’ on Wednesday, May 4 from 3 – 4 p.m. at an Early Release Wednesday session at Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia
Avenue called May the Fourth Crafts. The event will be held in the library’s conference room. Registration is required for the event and is now open. Participation is limited to 15 children. Children must be present at 3 p.m. to enter the conference room. At 3:05 p.m., library staff will give open spaces to children who are on the wait list. For more information, visit fallschurchva. org/Library.
Local Sorority Hosts 2nd Annual ‘Playground Project’ The Chi Beta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is hosting the 2nd Annual 1908 AKA Playground Project at Big Chimney Park at 212 W. Annandale Road on Saturday, May 21 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Chi Beta Omega Chapter and other volunteers will restore the
NANCY SCHNEIDER (left) was honored as the recipient of the Marian Driver Award presented annually by the Falls Church City Democratic Committee for her tireless volunteer work for the committee on April 17 at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Potluck in the Little City. She was presented the honor by Peg Willingham (right). (Photo: News-Press)
park sign posts, refresh the paint on park benches and picnic tables and renew the aesthetics of the park. The event will also include cleaning playground equipment and applying leaf mulch. For more information or to register for the event, visit chibetaomega-aka. com.
F.C. Residents Hold Cancer Fundraisers Around City Falls Church area residents are holding several fundraisers under the banner “Team Jimmy” this weekend to raise funds for the National Brain Tumor Society and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. The team is named after Jimmy Alverson, a brain cancer survivor and seventh grader at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School. On Saturday, April 30 Team Jimmy will hold a car wash from
12 – 3 p.m. at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church at 225 E. Broad Street. Also, on April 30, Famous Dave’s at 370 W. Broad Street will donate 10 percent of all proceeds from 4 – 10 p.m. to the fundraising effort. Diners must bring a flyer for the fundraiser, which can be found at the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School Facebook page, to Famous Dave’s for the proceeds from their order to be donated. On Sunday, May 1, Team Jimmy is inviting people to join them at the Race for the Hope 5K Run/Walk in downtown Washington. Information on registering for the run/walk or donating in support of Team Jimmy can be found at curebraintumors.org. For more information, email Tom Updike at thomas.updike@cushwake. com.
FALLS CHURCH BUSINESS leader Matt Smith (left), principal of the SmithGifford public relations firm, spoke to the monthly luncheon of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce last week on how to maximize the effectiveness of social media and good local newspapers for small businesses. Seated to his right is Falls Church City Councilman Phil Duncan. (Photo: NewsPress)
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NoVa Community College Fall Registration Begins
Open registration for Northern Virginia Community College’s fall 2015 semester begins on Monday, May 2. Students may secure classes early in the registration period while the most choices are available and not pay tuition until July 25. Starting July 25, tuition is due by 5 p.m. on the next business day after registering. Students must register no later than 11:59 p.m. on the day before a session begins. The 16-week fall semester starts Aug. 22 with multiple sessions offered during the semester. Students can register 24 hours a day at nvcc.edu or get in-person service during normal business hours at Northern Virginia Community College’s campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge. Online courses start on various dates throughout the year. Nearly 40 degrees and certificates can be completed entirely online through Northern Virginia Community College’s Extended Learning Institute. In addition, registration is underway for Northern Virginia Community College’s summer session, which begins May 16 or June 27. For more information, call 703323-3000 or visit nvcc.edu.
Shepherd’s Center Seeking Volunteers to Help Seniors Shepherd’s Center of McLeanArlington-Falls Church is seeking volunteers to help senior citizens get to and from medical and therapy appointments, the pharmacy and grocery store. The mission of the Shepherd’s Center is to give senior citizens free transportation. The center also needs volunteers willing to visit seniors in their homes and to make phone calls from time to time to let lonely seniors know they have not been forgotten. In many cases, Shepherd’s Center volunteers are
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the only contacts some seniors have with anyone. No long term commitment is required and you accept to take someone only when your schedule permits. For more information, call 703-506-2199, email info@ scmafc.org or visit the center’s website at scmafc.org.
One More Page Books Announces May Schedule One More Page Books recently announced its schedule of May events, which includes a book reading by one of the News-Press’ own, a book launch party and an event that’s part of the Second Annual She Writes Press Spring Book Tour. Falls Church News-Press Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Nicholas F. Benton will read from his bestselling book Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming Gay Sensibility’s Role in the Progress of Civilization on Thursday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. The next day the store will host a launch party for Young Adult author Jessica Spotswood and her new release Wild Swans. The party starts at 7 p.m. On Wednesday, May 11 at 7 p.m. William Geroux will share from Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hilter’s U-Boats. Ellen Prentiss Campbell will discuss her debut novel, The Bowl with Gold Seams, on Saturday, May 14 at 3 p.m. The book is set in 1945 at Pennsylvania’s Bedford Springs Hotel while it served as a detainment center. Then, on Friday, May 20 at 7 p.m. the Second Annual She Writes Press Spring Book Tour will bring two authors, Jill McCroskey Coupe and Melissa Rea, to One More Page Books. Finally, on Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m. Peter J. Daly and John F. Myslinski will discuss and sign Strange Gods: A Novel about Faith, Murder, Sin and Redemption. For more information or the full calendar of events, visit onemorepagebooks.com.
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Annual Social Justice Yard Sale Slated for May 7
The annual Social Justice Yard Sale will be held Saturday, May 7 from 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fairfax, located at 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. Volunteers are needed to help set up the yard sale from Wednesday, May 4 – Saturday, May 7. Gently used donations may be dropped off at the church starting on Wednesday, May 4. Proceeds from the sale will be split among the Shepherd’s Center of OaktonVienna, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mosaic Harmony and the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Circle. For more information, call 703-281-0538 or visit scov.org/announcements.
Gallery Underground Features ‘Road Trip’ Show Gallery Underground will feature a national juried competition “Road Trip” during May. The theme of this all-media show,
featured in the Focus Gallery, personalizes many aspects of taking a road trip: scenes from the road, people met along the way, all modes of transportation and journeys both undertaken or imagined. The show will be on display from Monday, May 2 – Saturday, May 28 and will have an opening reception on Friday, May 6 from 5 – 8 p.m. at the gallery, located at 2100 Crystal Dr., Arlington. For more information, visit galleryunderground.org.
McLean Community Center Announces May Events The McLean Community Center recently announced its May slate of events, which includes an opportunity for residents to meet candidates for the community center’s governing board ahead of the May 21 election. A Meet the Candidates event for the candidates to the McLean Community Center’s governing board is scheduled for Sunday, May 1 2 – 4 p.m. at the community center, located at 1234
Ingleside Ave., McLean. Fantasy sports expert Matthew Berry will give a talk about sports, featuring tips from the front lines of fantasy sports, at The Alden on Tuesday, May at 7:30 p.m. He will also sign copies of his book Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Guy Who’s Lived It at the event, which is cosponsored by the Fairfax County Public Library and the McLean Community Center. Then on Saturday, May 21 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. the McLean Community Center will host McLean Day 2016 at Lewinsville Park, located at 1659 Chain Bridge Road, McLean. Activities at the event will include live entertainment, great food, a petting zoo, exhibitor booths, games, a tennis clinic, a magician and carnival rides. Voting for the community center’s governing board will also take place at McLean Day 2016 from 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. For more information, visit mcleancenter. org.
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Getting to Zero
HAVANA – Ernest Hemingway’s house in Cuba seems like such a healthy place. It is light, welcoming and beautifully situated. There are hundreds of his books lining the shelves, testimony to all the reading he did there. There’s a baseball diamond nearby where he used to pitch to local boys. Yet Hemingway was not a healthy man during the latter phases in his life. He was drunk much of the time; he often began drinking at breakfast and his brother counted 17 Scotch-and-sodas in a day. His wives complained that he was sporadic about bathing. He was obsessed with his weight and recorded it on the wall of his house. He could be lively and funny, the organizer of exciting adventures. But he could also be depressed, combative NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE and demoralized. His ego overflowed. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who endured a psychological crisis at about the same time, observed that Hemingway “is quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy.” Even as a young man Hemingway exaggerated his (already prodigious) exploits in order to establish his manliness. When he was older his prima donna proclivities could make him, as one visiting photographer put it, “crazy,” “drunk” and “berserk.” He was a prisoner of his own celebrity. He’d become famous at 25 and by middle age he was often just playing at being Ernest Hemingway. The poet David Whyte has written that work “is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself ... losing all sense of our own voice, our own contribution and conversation.” Hemingway seems to have lost track of his own authentic voice in the midst of the public persona he’d created. His misogyny was also like a cancer that ate out his insides. He was an extremely sensitive man, who suffered much from the merest slights, but was also an extremely dominating, cruel and self-indulgent one, who judged his wives harshly, slapped them when angry and forced them to bear all the known forms of disloyalty. By this time, much of his writing rang false. Reviewer after reviewer said he had destroyed his own talent. His former mentor Gertrude Stein said he was a coward. Yet there were moments, even amid the wreckage, when he could rediscover something authentic. Even at these late phases, he could write books like For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea and passages like some in To Have and Have Not and Islands in the Stream that remain loved and celebrated today. This is a process that we might call “getting to zero,” when an artist – or anyone, really – digs through all the sap that gets encrusted around a career or relationship and retouches the intrinsic impulse that got him or her into it in the first place. Hemingway’s career got overlayered by money, persona and fame, but sometimes even at this late stage he was able to reconnect with the young man’s directness that produced his early best work. When you see how he did it, three things leap out. The first is the most mundane – the daily disciplines of the job. In the house, there is a small bed where he laid out his notes and a narrow shelf where he stood, stared at a blank wall and churned out his daily word count. Sometimes it seems to have been the structure of concrete behavior – the professional routines – that served as a lifeline when all else was crumbling. Second, there seem to have been moments of self-forgetting. Dorothy Sayers has an essay in which she notes it’s fashionable to say you do your work to serve the community. But if you do any line of work for the community, she argues, you’ll end up falsifying your work, because you’ll be angling it for applause. You’ll feel people owe you something for your work. But if you just try to serve the work – focusing on each concrete task and doing it the way it’s supposed to be done – then you’ll end up, obliquely, serving the community more. Sometimes the only way to be good at a job is to lose the self-consciousness embedded in the question, “How’m I doing?” Finally, there was the act of cutting out. When Hemingway was successful, he cut out his mannerisms and self-pity. Then in middle age, out of softness, laziness and self-approval, he indulged himself. But even then, even amid all the corruption, he had flashes when he could distinguish his own bluster from the good, true notes. There is something heroic that happened in this house. Hemingway was a man who embraced every self-indulgence that can afflict a successful person. But at moments he shed all that he had earned and received, and rediscovered the hardworking, clear-seeing and unadorned man he used to be.
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The 8 A.M. Call Back in 2008, one of the ads Hillary Clinton ran during the contest for the Democratic nomination featured an imaginary scene in which the White House phone rings at 3 a.m. with news of a foreign crisis, and asked, “Who do you want answering that phone?” It was a fairly mild jab at Barack Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience. As it turned out, once in office Obama, a notably coolheaded type who listens to advice, handled foreign affairs pretty well – or at least that’s how I see it. But asking how a would-be president might respond to crises is definitely fair game. And military emergencies aren’t the only kind of crisis to worry about. That 3 NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE a.m. call is one thing; but what about the 8 a.m. call – the one warning that financial markets will melt down as soon as they open? For make no mistake about it: The world economy is still a dangerous place. Financial reform has, I’d argue, made our system somewhat more robust than it was in 2008, but fumbling the response to a shock could still have disastrous consequences. So what do we know about the shocks we might face, and how the people who might be president would respond? Right now there are two fairly obvious potential economic flash points: China and oil. Many economists, myself included, have been pointing out for a while that China has a severely unbalanced economy, with too little consumer spending and unsustainable levels of investment. So far, unfortunately, China hasn’t made much progress in dealing with this fundamental imbalance; instead, it has papered over the problem with a huge expansion of credit. Now, with capital fleeing the country at the rate of a trillion dollars per year, it may well be headed for a bust. And China is a big enough player that a bust there could have major spillovers to the rest of the world. Then there’s a potential oil crisis, very different from the ones we used to have: the problem now is a glut, not a shortage, with many producers having run up large debts they probably can’t repay. You could say that shale oil is the new subprime. Nobody knows how big these problems could become, or what other potential crises we’re missing. But it seems all too likely that the next president will have to deal with some kind of financial turmoil. How will she or he perform?
Paul Krugman
At this point there are three candidates who have a serious chance of receiving their party’s presidential nomination. Barring the political equivalent of a meteor strike, Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. Donald Trump is the clear front-runner on the GOP side, but if he falls short of an outright majority on the first ballot, Ted Cruz might still pull it out. So what do we know about their economic policy skills? Well, Clinton isn’t just the most knowledgeable, well-informed candidate in this election, she’s arguably the best-prepared candidate on matters economic ever to run for president. She could nonetheless mess up – but ignorance won’t be the reason. On the other side, I doubt that anyone will be shocked if I say that Trump doesn’t know much about economic policy, or for that matter any kind of policy. He still seems to imagine, for example, that China is taking advantage of America by keeping its currency weak – which was true once upon a time, but bears no resemblance to current reality. Oh, and coping with crisis in the modern world requires a lot of international cooperation. Things like currency swap lines (don’t ask) played a much bigger role than most people realize in avoiding a second Great Depression. How well do you think that kind of cooperation would work in a Trump administration? Yet things could be worse. The Donald doesn’t know much, but Ted Cruz knows a lot that isn’t so. In a world in which gold bugs have been wrong every step of the way, repeatedly predicting runaway inflation that fails to materialize, he demands a gold standard to produce a “sound dollar.” He chose, as his senior economic adviser, Phil Gramm – an architect of financial deregulation who helped set the stage for the 2008 crisis, then dismissed warnings of recession when that crisis came, calling America a “nation of whiners.” Cruz is, in other words, a man of firm economic convictions – convictions that are utterly divorced from reality and impervious to evidence, to a degree that’s unusual even among Republicans. A financial crisis with him in the White House could be, let’s say, an interesting experience. I don’t know how much play the candidates’ readiness for economic emergencies will get in the general election. There will, after all, be so many horrifying positions, on everything from immigration to Planned Parenthood, to dissect. But let’s try to make some room for this issue. For that 8 a.m. call is probably coming, one way or another.
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One of the happier things in these days was the decision by the U.S. Treasury last week to switch up images on the $20 bill and the $10 bill. Harriet Tubman, African-American Civil War hero, is going on the front of the $20 bill, replacing Andrew Jackson, who will be relegated to its backside. The well-publicized plan to make such a change was originally to substitute an African-American hero for the image of Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury secretary, on the $10 bill. There were some protests to that idea, including from me, not about the idea of an African-American on the nation’s currency – and Harriet Tubman is an excellent choice – but about the decision to substitute one for Hamilton. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS After all, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S., was a much better candidate for getting the heave-ho off of our currency, because he was such a questionable character and it is well known to historians how he and his administration ravaged Native American populations, among other things ordering the removal of all Native American tribes east of the Mississippi to lands to the west. Thousands died. Thankfully the prism of history has turned a little recently to cast Hamilton and his role in our nation’s history, and Jackson and his role, in an significantly different light. Yes, no doubt this has been to a big degree due to the remarkable success of the Broadway musical, “Hamilton,” with its energy and breathtaking verve. Hamilton, the man not the musical, is now a rock star in these days because of it, with the popularity of the musical so enormous that the latest fad among his new-found fans and tourists in Manhattan is to visit his long-ignored grave on the grounds of the Trinity Church in the area of Wall Street, to meditate there, and of course, to photograph “selfies” by his tombstone. The musical tells bits and pieces of his extraordinary story. He grew up as an orphan in the Caribbean, and when a patron brought him to New York, he took a meteoric rise through the ranks of American revolutionaries as General George Washington’s aide-de-camp, had an indispensable and central role in the founding of the republic through his authorship of most of the so-called Federalist Papers arguing for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, his appointment by Washington, our first president, as the Secretary of the Treasury, his critically-important authorship of his “Report on Manufactures” that made the case for a national central bank, which became the First Bank of the United States. He founded a newspaper in New York and played a central role in blocking the ascendancy to the U.S. presidency of Aaron Burr, a treasonous British agent, even if it cost Hamilton his life, where he was felled by Burr in a duel in 1804. But his story is not completed with his death. The Bank of the United States secured the means for the young nation to build infrastructure – canals, roads and later rails – that were the fuel of its industry and growth, strengthening its capacity for independence in a hostile world. Ironically, it was the man who killed the National Bank when he became president whose image has been competing with Hamilton’s in the new currency musical chairs. Jackson, considered by many in his time a British tool himself, vetoed the re-charter of the National Bank with the effect that it left the U.S. having to go begging to British-controlled banks for credit. The man who arose in that period, the 1830s, to take up the Hamilton cause was none other than Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln became president in 1861, not only did he prosecute the secession of the southern states with a war that he won, but he revived the germ of the national bank idea in the form of a “greenback currency,” augmenting it with a railroad act, a land grant college act, and a homestead act that taken all together assisted millions to own their own homes, receive an education and help to develop the nation. Amazingly, Lincoln suffered the same death as Hamilton, from the gunshot of a sworn enemy. He’d completed Hamilton’s work.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Clash of the Injured Titans If trends hold and the parties’ front-runners become the parties’ nominees, November is going to be an epic election: a hobbled titan (Hillary Clinton) versus a mortally wounded one (the real estate developer). The upcoming contests only buttress the possibility that those two will be the last man and woman standing. As of Sunday, The Huffington Post’s Pollster average of polls had the real estate developer leading Ted Cruz by almost 30 percentage points in Connecticut, 19 points in Pennsylvania and 20 points in Maryland. All three states voted on Tuesday. The real estate developer was leading in Rhode Island and Delaware as well but those states don’t have the same volume of polling to make the results as reliable. That same site had Clinton leading Sen. Bernie Sanders by 26 points in Maryland, 15 points in Pennsylvania and six points in Connecticut. She, too, was leading in Rhode Island and Delaware. We seem to be watching the prequel to a foregone conclusion. Now the question is: How would these two NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE candidates square off in a general election? As The New York Times reported last week, Paul Manafort, the real estate developer’s new campaign chief, seemed to suggest on a tape obtained by the paper that up until now, the real estate developer’s incendiary style was just an act. This is how the paper reported the contents of the tape: “Mr. Manafort acknowledged Mr. Trump’s deep unpopularity – his ‘negatives,’ he called them – but invoked Ronald Reagan’s initial polling deficit in 1980 to claim Mr. Trump’s deficiencies were not permanent. Mr. Reagan’s unfavorability in 1980, however, was never as high as that of Mr. Trump now. “‘Fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives,’ said Mr. Manafort … ‘You can’t change somebody’s character. But you can change the way somebody presents themselves.’ “And that, Mr. Manafort said, was in the works.” Will the real demagogue please stand up! How must all of his supporters feel – the ones following him like wounded puppies because he is their rapid rabble-rouser who “tells it like it is”? Maybe he’s just been telling you what he knew you wanted to hear. Maybe he’s been playing on your anxieties, insecurities and anger to further his own ambitions. Maybe this
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has all been an act, a “part he’s been playing,” and you are the gullible audience who got played. Maybe you are simply backing a man who has hijacked your passions and your party. But on the substance, Manafort seems to suggest that his guy, the ultimate branding machine, simply needs one more rebranding, that his problems pale in comparison to those of Clinton, his likely opponent. Maybe. Maybe not. As The Wall Street Journal noted in a recent poll, Clinton’s unpopularity hit a “dubious new record of 56 percent.” The only problem for Republicans, however, is that “an astounding 65 percent” feel that way about the real estate developer, leading the paper to conclude that he and Cruz “may be the only two Republicans who could lose to Hillary Clinton.” Exit polls in New York, where the real estate developer won by massive margins, revealed that even among Republican voters, 22 percent said that they would be scared of his presidency and another 14 percent said they’d be concerned about it. Only 8 percent of Democrats said they’d be scared of a Clinton presidency, with 25 percent saying they would be concerned about it. In fact, naturalization applications are on the rise, specifically because Latino immigrants are nervous about the potential presidency of the real estate developer. As The New York Times reported last month: “Overall, naturalization applications increased by 11 percent in the 2015 fiscal year over the year before, and jumped 14 percent during the six months ending in January, according to federal figures. The pace is picking up by the week, advocates say, and they estimate applications could approach one million in 2016, about 200,000 more than the average in recent years.” The article continues: “While naturalizations generally rise during presidential election years, Mr. Trump provided an extra boost this year.” If Clinton lacks enthusiasm among her fans, that lack is likely to be more than made up for by voters’ enthusiasm for anyone but the real estate developer. It’s too far from November to make predictions about the outcome of a race. We still have to learn the definitive outcome of each party’s nominating process. There could be a surprise in Clinton’s emails or in the real estate developer’s taxes. There also is a tremendous war chest of super PAC money on the sidelines waiting to get into the race, and there’s no way to know how that will shape the election. Nothing is settled and inevitable, but at this point one must say: Advantage Clinton.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
While in the library parking lot in the rain during the community clean up this weekend; pushing a cart full of groceries to my car; at dinner in a restaurant with family members; and twice in the dentist’s chair as Novocain was taking effect! “Hey, Penny, can I ask you a quick question?” Of course, the answer always is “yes,” although that was more difficult at the dentist! The question of the day, week, and month seems to be when Mason District roads might be repaved. Of special interest is the condition of Old Columbia Pike, but it could be many roadways in Mason District and Fairfax County. Road maintenance, including snow plowing and median mowing, is the responsibility of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), the state agency that maintains nearly all the public roadways in Fairfax County and another 93 counties in the Commonwealth. Only Arlington and Henrico Counties maintain their own roadways, having opted out of the state system in the mid-1930s. My office works with VDOT staff on road issues raised by Mason District constituents, but most paving decisions rest with VDOT staff in Richmond, when adequate funding is allocated by the General Assembly. Road classification and road conditions are among the factors used to develop a paving schedule. For example, Leesburg Pike is classified as a Primary road, Sleepy Hollow Road is a Minor Arterial road, Blair Road is a Collector road, and Ravenwood Drive, Olin Drive, and Juniper Lane are classified as Local roads. The higher the classification, the more traffic is sustained on the road, giving it a paving priority when the condition is deemed poor. Last
year was the first year VDOT began to include local roads into their paving schedule. For several years previous, the priority was on failing primary roads, so there is a lot of backlog. VDOT evaluates roads at least every five years, and posts the ratings on its Web site. Pavement condition is indicated by the Critical Condition Index (CCI) and ride quality by the International Roughness Index (IRI). Those are among the standards used to determine priorities for maintenance, and might also be good trivia for some future Jeopardy clues! Beginning this year, residents can get specific information about the status of paving projects at www. virginiadot.org/novapaving. The online map shows the current progress of the paving program, including: • Northern Virginia road segments scheduled to be paved this year; • Whether roads scheduled for paving (red) are in progress (green), completed (blue), or postponed (black). • By clicking on a road segment, details can be found about the specific type of pavement treatment, expected completion date, contractor, and construction manager’s information. The map will be updated weekly as roads are completed. VDOT maintains more than 17,000 lane miles in Northern Virginia. By the way, the answer to the question about Old Columbia Pike is – between now and the end of July, according to VDOT. Keeping my fingers crossed… Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
Congressman Beyer’s News Commentary
Springtime In Congress Means ‘Appropriations’ BY DONALD S. BEYER
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law;” — U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 Every spring Congress begins to draft legislation to fund the federal government after receiving the President’s budget request. Traditionally, Congress will hold hearings on the President’s budget with experts from the White House, though House and Senate leadership declined to do so this year. The House next takes up its own budget, which either adopts the presidential funding levels or substitutes others in their place. A budget is a broad plan shaped by legislative and ideological priorities. The actual funding levels for each program come in the next step, when Congress passes individual bills – appropriations – to fund different segments of the government. In the House, there are 12 different Appropriations Subcommittees each responsible for crafting a bill to cover a specific segment of government. I am not one of the few Members who sit on each of these
committees, but I still make sure to represent my constituents’ views and priorities in the process. One of the ways members of Congress remain involved without being on the Appropriations Committee is by signing letters to the relevant subcommittees, called “appropriations letters.” I signed a number of letters this spring written by my colleagues to support programs important to my constituents, such as increased funding for the development of the Orion spacecraft and another supporting Metro funding. I also identified some programs which I thought deserved to be priorities. For these I led new letters of support and gathered signatures of my colleagues and the backing of relevant outside organizations. In all, I wrote or co-wrote four such letters this spring. I wrote a letter supporting funding for the James Webb Space Telescope, which will one day be the most powerful telescope ever built. The JWST will have a mission researching the origin of galaxies, stars, planets, and the universe itself. It stands to produce a wealth of knowledge, and
deserves our investment. I wrote a letter supporting the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, and related programs for the development of clean and renewable energy technologies. We must lead in these fields both because of the threat of climate change and because of the jobs clean energy technologies can create. I led a letter with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell of Michigan which would fully fund the efforts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect endangered species by implementing the Endangered Species Act. Lastly, I led, along with Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, a letter to fund ocean acidification research. Changes to ocean chemistry represent a severe economic and environmental threat to coastal communities, and we need as much information as we can get to deal with it. In May the House will begin debating and amending appropriations bills. I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure your voice is heard in this process.
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Comedy Festival.” Zahr is a wiseacre with full command of American lifestyles who trumpets a political perspective not often associated with comedy. “I’m Palestinian and I’m angry, but in a funny way,” he said warmly. “They stole our land, so who cares if somebody’s iPhone screen cracked?” Surveying the audience for nationalities and names, Zahr singled me out for my all-American name “Charles” and used me as a silent foil the rest of his act. But I found him witty and fresh and not too tough on his Israeli tormenters (he does an amusing if disturbing shtick on strip searches of Arab travelers at Tel Aviv airport). “Palestinians are not good at math but can subtract from 1948,” he said. “68 years of occupation can mess with your head.” *** Sudden departure department: My history friend, the ever-alert Tom Dickinson, last Friday happened on the managers of Latherow & Co., the stamp and coin shop at 5054 Lee Highway, going out of business. Some dispute with the landlord, a staffer said. I went over on Saturday and found two cleaning ladies at work on the deserted shelves and counters, the hand-written sign on the door reading, “We are closed for good. Everything is gone.” Several times over the past several years I had stopped in the oldfashioned hobby shop – one of the area’s few remaining – to donate items from my family’s half-hearted stamp collection. In Arlington that leaves only Philatelics Elite Inc., run by Chuck Hale in his basement at 222 N. Park Street.
for Public Drunkenness. Driving Under the Influence, 100 block E. Broad St. On Apr. 22, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a female, 25, of Leesburg, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Larceny from Building, 103 N. Spring St. (St. James Catholic Church) On Apr. 22, an unknown suspect stole cash from a donation box. Larceny from Building, 6751 Wilson Blvd. (Good Fortune) On Apr. 23, an unknown person stole a customer’s phone. Narcotics Violation, 306 Hilwood Ave. (Lesly’s Restaurant) On Apr. 23, a male, 37, of Germantown, MD, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana.
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Mason Girls Soccer Avenges Warren Co. Tie With 5-0 Defeat by Matt Delaney
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A declarative 5-0 victory over Warren County High School on Tuesday, coupled with a 6-1 victory over Clark County High School last Friday, extends George Mason’s varsity girls soccer team win streak to seven games and boosts their record to 8-1-1. The 3-3 tie with Warren County on April 1 fostered the one thing that can unsettle any great team: doubt. Stunned from the result of their first meeting with the Wildcats, Mason questioned their credibility as perennial state champions and began soul-searching for the cohesion that helped them rise to the top in past seasons. Six consecutive wins following that upsetting tie proved the Mustangs’ cohesion was apparent,
but the ultimate test was to employ it against Warren County in their rematch on home turf. Mason pounced on the opportunity. “It was a huge deal,” senior midfielder Corrine Carson said. “We really needed [this win] as a team to come and prove that if we don’t play in our heads we can play some really great soccer.” The Mustangs shooed away their demons on the pitch against Warren County. Sophomore forward Izzy Armstrong found fellow sophomore midfielder Victoria Rund streaking down the left side of the field for the game’s first goal. Carson speedily completed her hat trick in a 14 minute span while junior midfielder Rebecca Crouch notched the game’s final goal midway through the second half on an assist from freshman midfielder Maura Mann.
REBECCA CROUCH, junior midfielder on Mason’s girls soccer team, prepares to kick the ball during a recent Mason win. She scored the Mustangs’ last goal against Warren County High School during their 5-0 win over the Wildcats on Tuesday, April 26. (Photo: Carol Sly) Last week’s home win against Clark County improved Mason’s standing in Conference 35, but not without some exit wounds. The Mustangs lost a key pair of juniors on their back line in Megan Butler and Carly Roberson, leaving senior defenders Caroline Stricker and Clara Frost as the only regulars on defense. Butler’s season ended with a torn anterior cru-
cial ligament and Roberson was afflicted with deep tissue bruising that kept her out of Tuesday’s Warren County rematch. Losses along the defensive line have forced head coach Allison Klink to get creative with her lineups. Thankfully, she has a stable of seniors who willingly fill-in at any position on the field, which is why usual midfielder Ella Howard
was seen in a different role against Warren County. “Being seniors, they know it’s important for them to be on the field no matter where it is,” Klink said. “They were up for the challenge and did a fantastic job.” Mason will look to continue their win streak on the road against Strasburg High School on Friday, April 29.
Mason scored the next four goals, one by Johnson assisted by junior Hannah Hiscott, one by junior Sarah Lubnow, one by sophomore Amy Roche and the last by sophomore Claire Hiscott before the Vikings could muster another goal past sophomore goaltender Annette Schlitt. The score was now 5-2 George Mason, but the Mustangs kept their foot on the gas pedal and scored another three goals which
included an own goal by the Vikings’ goalie who could not handle a powerful side arm shot from Roche. The Vikings again responded with a goal at the 3:38 minute mark of the half. The Mason and Loudoun Valley girls then traded two goals apiece to close out the half. It should be noted that the last four Mason goals scored in the half were all by Hannah Hiscott, who was assisted by Roche, Claire Hiscott and Gorman. At halftime, the score stood 10-5 in Mason’s favor. The second half began with the Mustangs winning the draw and Lubnow scoring at 1:15 into the half. Once again the Vikings responded at the 19:40 mark of
the half, but after that it was all Mason with seven goals until the 4:07 mark of the final half. The Mustang goals were scored by Hannah Hiscott, Roche, who scored two, Johnson, assisted by Roche, freshman Harmony Lajeunesse, Gorman and Lubnow. Coach Gibbons took advantage of the 12-goal lead her team amassed and played her remaining reserves to let her starters rest. With the reserves in the game, the Vikings managed three more goals, and Roche scored the last Mason goal, her fourth, to finish the game. The Mustangs lost their most recent match, 12-10, to Woodgrove High School, bringing their record to 6-4.
Mustang Girls Lacrosse Team Beats Loudoun Valley HS 19-9
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George Mason High School’s girls varsity lacrosse team defended their home field in a 19-9 defeat of Loudoun Valley High School on Thursday, April 21. Coach Courtney Gibbons shook up her starting lineup against the Vikings, but still had her stalwart regulars ready to go. The Loudoun Valley team was
also an athletic group made up of tall girls who could sprint the length of the field if allowed. Mason began the scoring 2:20 into the first half with a goal by junior Lydia Gorman assisted by sophomore Meredith Johnson but the Vikings responded 27 seconds later to tie the game at 1-1. Both teams were playing a patient ball control game looking for a weakness in the opposing defense to exploit for a goal.
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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE ADRIAN KAMEL cuts out a square of lettuce to place in Mason’s hydroponic system as part of a couple of projects students are working on to provide food for the school’s lunches. (P����: N���-P����/D��� C������)
Mustangs Build Hydroponic, Aquaculture Systems A group of students at George Mason High School, under the direction of two Mason science teachers Jamie Lahy and Peter Mecca and Falls Church City Public Schools Food Services director Richard Kane, have created an aquaculture and a hydroponic system with the aim of providing food for the school’s lunches. The students – senior Bikash Shahi, juniors Jacob Brady, Ian Leach, Eric Lowery and Andrew Pishner and sophomore Adrian Kamel – created a selffiltering aquaculture system to raise tilapia. They will have a trial run with goldfish who will live in the tank of water that’s located in the school and then introduce tilapia into the aquaculture system in August or September 2016, which they will raise of eight months and harvest them for school lunch. The students also created a hydroponic system, which they planted lettuce in on Thursday, April 21. It will take six weeks for the lettuce plants, of which there are three kinds (oak, summer and butterhead), to be ready for consumption in the school’s lunches. The projects were funded through one of the Falls Church Education Foundation’s SuperGrants.
MASON STUDENTS SET UP for the school’s International Baccalaureate Art Show, which will be on display in the school’s auditorium through Friday. There will be a reception at the school on Thursday at 7 p.m. (P����: C���� S��)
All-Night Grad Celebration Fundraising Underway Fundraising efforts for George Mason High School’s All-Night Graduation Celebration are underway, with the annual Byrd Feeder event taking place on Saturday, April 23 at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. The All-Night Graduation Celebration is held at Mason on the night following the school’s graduation cermonies in order to ensure the safety of the newly graduated Mustangs. Prospective donors can donate directly to the All-Night Graduation Celebration via
PayPal at georgemasonhighptsa. org/all-night-grad.html. Corporations interested in donating to the event can contact Andrea Roberson at roberson206@aol.com to find out levels of support and publicity opportunities. The organizers of the AllNight Graduation Celebration are also looking for volunteers for the event. Prospective volunteers can sign up at signupgenius.com/ go/10c0a4daaad2fa6f85-allnight. Mason seniors can purchase their All-Night Graduation Celebration tickets at eventbrite. com/e/gmhs-2016-all-night-gradcelebration-tickets-10046145291.
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Community Events
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
F.C. Rotary Club Meeting. The Falls Church Rotary Club will host Rick Mondloch, from the Northern Virginia Athletic Directors, Administrators and Coaches Association. Harvest Moon Restaurant (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $15 dinner. 6:30 p.m. FallsChurchRotary.org. Teen Knitting Club. Children in grades 5 – 12 can gather to knit, crochet and work on other needle arts. In January, the club started a group hat project. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ Library.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
1-on-1 Computer Tutoring. Receive personalized assistance using computers, Internet and e-books. Registration required. To schedule an appointment, stop by the reference desk or call 703-2485035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-2485035.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and
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.
vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Farmers’ Market Chef Demonstration. Pizzeria Orso Chef Bertrand Chemel will be featured. Recipes and tastings will be available. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free admission. 9 – 11 a.m. fallschurchfarmersmarketchef.com. Volunteer: Habitat Restoration. Join the City of Falls Church Habitat Restoration Team in restoring Berman Park. Berman Park (Between 229 Kent St. and 234 Irving St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. fallschurchva.gov/ Volunteer. Prescription Drug Take-Back. Area residents can safely return expired, unused or unwanted prescription drugs free and anonymously as part of the National Prescription Drug TakeBack Day. Only solid medicines may be turned in. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 703-248-5056.
SUNDAY, MAY 1
Guitar Ensemble Program. Eight guitarists from Let's Play Music will play a selection of seven songs, including selections from
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The Beatles, Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix. Starbucks (344 W. Broad St., Falls Church). Free. 11:30 – 12:20. letsplaymusicsite. com. Walk to End Genocide. Organized by the Darfur Interfaith Network in partnership with Jewish World Watch, the Walk to End Genocide is in its second year and will host radio personality and activist Joe Madison as its guest speaker. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl. SW, Washington, D.C.). 1:30 – 4 p.m. dc.walktoendgenocide.org. Yard Waste Composting Event. A workshop on how to build a composter. Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/520/ Composting-Workshops. CBC Annual Meeting. Citizens for a Better City is hosting its Annual Meeting & Reception. Attendees can pay at the door or by mailing a check made out to Citizens for a Better City to CBC, P.O. Box 6080, Falls Church, VA 22042. Falls Church Hilton Garden Inn (706 W. Broad St., Falls Church). $30. Reception at 5 p.m.; Meeting at 6 p.m. ekfelt@gmail.com.
MONDAY, MAY 2
Falls Church Garden Club Meeting. Sandy Tarpinian, Green Springs
Master Gardeners, will give a talk called Pollinators at the Falls Church Garden Club’s monthly meeting. American Legion Post 130 (400 N. Oak St., Falls Church). Free. 7:30 p.m. 703-533-1945.
TUESDAY, MAY 3
Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 18-36 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4
Annandale NARFE Meeting. Virginia State Senator David Marsden, Delegates Kaye Kory and Alfonso Lopez will report on the recent General Assembly proceedings at a meeting of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. 10 a.m., Mason District Governmental Center (6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale). Free. 703-690-6861. Early Release Wednesdays: May the Fourth Crafts. Children in grades K – 5 can create crafts inspired by the “Star Wars” franchise. Registration required and participation is limited to 15 children. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, APRIL 28
“Moment.” In the suburbs of Dublin, a long-absent son returns home to visit his ailing mother. But his reappearance ignites his sisters’ longsimmering resentments and sets the siblings on a collision course over his criminal past. Riveting and insightful, "Moment" considers the slippery nature of memory and forgiveness, and how the consequences of one tragic decision can ripple through an entire family. Directed by Helen Hayesand Tony-nominated director Ethan McSweeny in his Studio debut. Through April 30. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $55 – $71. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
“Unnecessary Farce.” In an economy motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with
his female accountant. In the room next door, two undercover cops are supposed to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's watching the video, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. Suitable for ages 15 and up. Through May 14. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $18 – $20. 8 p.m. mcleanplayers.org/MCP.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
“The Mystery of Love & Sex.” Complete opposites, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were children. Now, as college students on the eve of graduation, they toy around with taking their friendship romantic. Or not. Why decide? After all, neither is sure they are even attracted to the other. Meanwhile, Charlotte‘s
parents, an unlikely couple themselves, push the kids for a de�inition even while their own relationship founders. Gradually, secrets and truths emerge as playing grown-up turns into actually growing up. Through May 8. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $40 – $85. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
“The Nether.” In the imminent future, when Earth is a gray wasteland, how will humanity escape? Enter the Nether: an immersive wonderland offering users beauty, order, and the ability to satisfy their desires away from “real world” scrutiny. In a series of gripping interviews, a young detective launches her investigation into the dark heart of this new realm in which depraved dreams have become reality. Through May 1. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (641 D St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $78. 8 p.m. woollymammoth.net
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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, APRIL 28 K����� ���� T�� W������ R���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $17. 6 p.m. 703-2551566. K��� � M���� D. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. E������� R������ ���� C������� S�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $17. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. H������� ���� S��������, T������ H�������� ��� F����� C������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� P�����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $24 – $28. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. D�� B��� ���� C���� H�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $18. 8:30 p.m. 703-5228340. D����� W����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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T��� � T������. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. Y��� ���� B����. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $25. 7 p.m. 202-588-1889. H��� V������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $15. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. T�� Q���� S������. Wolf Trap (1645
Trap Road, Vienna). $22 – $25. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. B���� M����� ���� B�� M��� S������ ��� S����� S��� P����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703522-8340. L����� W�� T���� ���� A��� V���’ B�� B�������, H���� D����� ��� M����� M��D�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. C���������� J���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. M���� H����� ���� B����� ��� W��� E������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 10 p.m. 202265-0930. H����� M������. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $17 – $25. 10:30 p.m. 202-588-1889.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
J���� K������� � T�� A�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 4 p.m. 703-522-8340. C���� ��� ��� H���� L������ ���� J����� D�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15. 5 p.m. 703-255-1566. M����� R��� � T�� M������� B������� B���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 6 p.m. 202265-0930. H��� P������ S������ T���. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30
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p.m. 703-532-9283. T�� S�������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $17 in advance; $20 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. B���� T������� P������ ���� H��������. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. T�� T������� ���� S����� C�������� ��� A����� X. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202667-7960. T�� B������� C�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 9:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. CMPTVR_CLVB. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $7 (Backstage). 9:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. C����� K�������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. S������ ���� B������ C�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $22. 10 p.m. 202-265-0930. B�� W��� ���� C��� P����� ��� L��� Q�������. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $10. 10:30 p.m. 202-588-1889.
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J����� ���� L��� A���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $14. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. M. W��� ���� NAF. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $32.50. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. T�� W��� F������� ���� S�������
F������ G���� ���� N���� N����. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 7 p.m. 202588-1889. P�������� ���� J�� M�L�������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $23. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930.
SUNDAY, MAY 1
MONDAY, MAY 2
T�� T���� ���� B���� D����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $15. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. M��� T���� ���� D���� E���. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 7:30 p.m. 703-5228340. T�� C�������� P������. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) $20. 8 p.m. 202337-4141. T����� C������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
TUESDAY, MAY 3
J����� D���� ���� S����� A�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4
P������� A����... Thursday, May 5 – Book Reading. Falls Church News-Press Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Nicholas F. Benton will share from his book Extraordinary Hearts:
Reclaiming Gay Sensibility's Role In the Progress of Civilization. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7:30 p.m. onemorepagebooks.com.
Saturday, May 7 – Public Workshop: Bicycle Master Plan. Learn about routes under consideration: Park Ave.; Little Falls St. and S. Maple Ave.; and N. Cherry
St. and S. Cherry St. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. pstoddard@fallschurchva.gov.
Saturday, May 21 – Civil War Day. The City of Falls Church will host a living-history event depicting the Falls Church home front during the Civil War with spy
stories, letter readings, period music, soldier drilling exercises, free bus tour and children’s tent. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Civilwarday.
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Amidst Debate, We Should All Remain Respectful
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“I can feel it in my body, but I’m trying to stay young,” says DJ, 29, a Falls Church resident, born and raised, on turning 30 in June. He is expecting his fourth child with his wife, Breanna.
Editor, The Believe it or not, reasonable people can disagree on issues like budgets and taxes; yet every year around budget time in Falls Church, the discussions seem to divide us. It is not merely the results of these challenges that are important, but the journey we take to reach them. We should be thankful for all those who take time to engage in this process, whether or not we agree with them. I urge our community, and especially our leaders on the City Council and School Board, to use this opportunity to lead by example in tackling these challenges. Our children learn a lot in the classroom, but they also learn from watching the
adults around them. It would be shameful and ironic if the discussions about the education of our future leaders are full of vitriol, confrontation, accusations, disrespect, and divisiveness rather than community, listening, constructive criticism, and compromise. Erik Pelton Falls Church
Stop All the Editorializing in News Articles Editor, Having moved into Falls Church only a few years ago I have read your publication often bemused at the consistent use of editorial “nuggets” sprinkled throughout your articles – it’s like a scavenger hunt whenever I read them! However, this week I felt the need to relay to you my annoyance at this practice, especially in light of the fact that it flies in the face
of the News-Press “Platform.” The straw that did it for me was the use of the word “draconian” to describe the City Council’s decision to cut 1.8 percent of the School Boards 2016-2017 budget request – a 1.8 percent cut is modest, not draconian. Irrespective of where I personally stand on this issue – and I am I not stating that either way – the use of that word in the article and in the second page headline was clearly meant to foment outrage and clearly delineates the NewsPress position on this topic. I urge you to either stop editorializing your news articles or revise your Platform so that it is in agreement with what is published on a weekly basis. Todd Friedlander Falls Church
[ LETTERS ] Send us a letter and let us know what you think. Email: letters@fcnp.com Mail: Letters to the Editor, c/o Falls Church News-Press, 200 Little Falls Street #508, Falls Church, VA 22046
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Lucky Thai Creates Asian Food Corridor On West Broad BY DREW COSTLEY
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When Lucky Thai opened up at 240 W. Broad Street about a month ago it added a third option for Asian cuisine in downtown Falls Church.
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240 W. Broad St. Falls Church 571-405-6672 Hours: Sunday – Thursday: 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. Friday & Saturday: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. Maneki Neko, a Japanese spot, and Pho 88, a Vietnamese eatery, have already been around for a while. The owners of the restaurant, the Sirirungsri family, immigrated from Thailand and have worked in the food industry for several years. And, from the looks of the place, you can tell. It’s pleasantly decorated, with a single flower serving as the centerpiece of each table. The window in the store that faces W. Broad Street is decorated with native accoutrements. On the fanci-
ness meter, it falls between Maneko Neko, which is decorated like a proper date spot, and Pho 88, which is styled more like a cafeteria. The menu at Lucky Thai is expansive, as is the case with many Asian restaurants, and it includes a ton of vegan/vegetarian options, with the exception of the appetizer menu. There are two options, Spring Roll ($4.95) and Tofu Tod ($5.95), which are pretty ordinary, and I guess that is a pretty good percentage of the total appetizer menu, which is eight dishes deep. The spring rolls, which are deep fried and served with sweet and sour sauce, are pretty pedestrian. The Tofu Tod, which is fried tofu served with special peanut sauce, is closer to unique than most tofu appetizers because it’s served with peanut sauce, which adds more flavor to the dish than most sauces add to most tofu appetizers. The restaurant serves three soups for these milder spring days. The Tom Ka Soup ($5.95) can be customized with tofu even though the menu lists that it comes with either chicken or shrimp, but careful when you go to chew the tofu. It’s breaded and holds in the hot broth, which squirts out
and has tongue-burning potential. Other than that, Lucky Thai’s version of the dish, which comes with mushrooms in a spicy Thai coconut milk broth, isn’t the best that I’ve had, but it’s still very good. Since Lucky Thai has opened, I’ve tried two of the restaurant’s four curry dishes, the Red Curry and the Panang Curry. The other two are the Green Curry and the Gaung Ped Yang. All of the curry dishes are priced the same – chicken, beef, pork, tofu and/ or vegetable for $8.95 at lunch and $10.95 at dinner, meat combination for $12.95 at lunch and $14.95 at dinner and shrimp or seafood combination for the same price as the meat combination. Out of the two curry dishes that I’ve tried, I prefer Lucky Thai’s Panang Curry, which comes with a protein cooked in a peanut sauce and basil leaves. It’s creamy, spicy and savory and the sauce left behind after the vegetables and tofu are devoured is so good I was tempted to lick the bowl. I didn’t lick the bowl. The Basil Fried Rice ($9.95), which comes with protein fried with rice, fresh basil, bell pepper and spicy chili sauce, is the best
THE PAD FRESH GINGER at Lucky Thai was a little spicy, sweet and earthy. (P����: D��� C������/N���-P����) version of that dish that I’ve had. And when I ordered it Thai spicy, they actually made it really spicy, which was great. A lot of times Asian restaurants tone down their spicy dishes for those diners who look like they might have milder palettes, to put it nicely, even if the diners specifically ask for the dish to be spicy. Lucky Thai did not. They kept it real (spicy). And for that I was grateful. Another entree worth note was the Pad Fresh Ginger ($9.95), which I tried on my most recent visit to the
restaurant. It came with protein, fresh ginger, onion, scallions and Hu-nu mushrooms in a black bean sauce and was delightful. It had a slight bite, but was sweet and the ginger and mushrooms gave the dish an earthy flavor. The wait staff at Lucky Thai was also very attentive, though every time I’ve gone there weren’t more than three or four parties eating. The menu offers brings variety to the W. Broad Street corridor and the food is delicious. Welcome to the neighborhood!
Miguel's Tex Mex Cafe The place for steaks and "ah's!" Sizzling Fajitas, Frozen Margaritas & all your Tequilla's With this Coupon Buy 1 Entree and Get the Second Entree Free (Equal or lesser value, expires May 7, 2016)
703.532.4242•miguelstexmex.com 6633 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church, VA 22042 Located at the Best Western Falls Church just before Seven Corners.
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Jamie Kilstein and The Agenda have bold, overtly political messages in their music and they’re bringing those messages to the masses starting this week with a tour of the United States. And the band, which only started in 2015, is coming to Washington, D.C. and Arlington for back-to-back shows on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, April 29, the Jamie Kilstein and The Agenda are playing at Tropicalia and on Saturday, April 30 they are playing at Iota Club and Cafe. The tour is kicking off ahead of the release of Jamie Kilstein and The Agenda’s debut album, A Bit Much, which is being released on July 22 by Don Giovanni Records. The album features songs like “F*** the NRA,” which opens the album and is the band’s first single, that unapologetically profess the group’s political leanings and show off their musical prowess. Kilstein, a 33-year-old who has been playing guitar since he was a teenager, said that all of his and his group’s musical creativity came out of a “dark place,” which pushed him to leave behind a career as a stand-up comedian. He had some success of as a stand-up, appearing on “Conan” and releasing four comedy albums. But he wasn’t happy. There was actually a period that he spoke about openly on “Citizen Radio,” a podcast that he hosts with his wife, writer Allison Kilkenny, where he decided to stop doing comedy and wasn’t quite sure what he would do next. “I was so miserable doing stand-up and I had managers fire me for my politics,” Kilstein said. “If you watch the majority of mainstream comedy, you’ll see racist stuff, you’ll see sexist stuff, that’s okay. But [saying], ‘War is bad, women are people,’ somehow that’s too edgy.
JAMIE KILSTEIN. (P����: A�� S����) And it wasn’t a world that I felt comfortable in. “I love humor. Humor has gotten me through depression and my childhood and high school and getting bullied and all that stuff, but, to me, I always connected so much harder with music. I was just obsessed with it and I was never obsessed with comedy.” So last year Kilstein started writing original songs, combining his passion for radical politics with lifelong love of music and infusing all of that with equal parts fierce satire, playful absurdity and refreshing earnestness. And then he and his band, made up of fans of Citizen Radio who are stellar musicians in their own right, created an explosion of rage, compassion, hilarity and humanity with A Bit Much. The album got its title after a line Kilstein said many people said to him in one
form or another in his previous career as a comedian because of the political stances he took in his act. “I think that the reason the album is unapologetic is just ‘cause it’s been f***ing boiling inside me for so long...I just wanted to do it for so long that I had no s**ts left to give. I didn’t care,” Kilstein said. “I was fired by my manager, I had friends who died, I had to quit drinking, I went through a whole addiction thing, I [quit] comedy and I was like f*ck it, why not try the one thing I’ve always wanted to do…. And the reason why it’s politically unapologetic is because it’s what I believe in.” • For more information about Jamie Kilstein and The Agenda, visit jamiekilstein.com.
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These singles whet the appetites of the FCNP editorial team this week:
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Nicholas Benton – Purple Rain by Prince
Jody Fellows – Nobody Speak by DJ Shadow featuring Run the Jewels
Drew Costley – P**** Control by Prince
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B������� N��� � N���� Independent Bookstore Day at One More Page Books One More Page Books is celebrating Independent Bookstore Day by offering donuts, coffee, cookies, wine tasting and karaoke on Saturday, April 30. Additionally special items from popular artists will be available Saturday only including a Neil Gaiman coloring book, literary tea towels, bookstore cats pouch, Ann Patchett mini essay collection, numbered and signed copies of Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale and more! If someone purchases a favorite book of one of their booksellers, they’ll sing at Bookseller Karaoke starting at 6:30 p.m. One More Page is located at 2200 N. Westmoreland Street, #101 in Arlington (just over the Falls Church border.) For more information about Independent Bookstore Day or other events, visit www.onemorepagebooks.com.
Mother’s Day Trunk Show to Benefit Homestretch L-say Designs is hosting a Mother’s Day jewelry trunk show featuring SecondDaughter Jewelry’s build your own necklace and bracelet bar on Saturday, April 30 from 2 – 5 p.m. The free event will include refreshments, including artisan marshmallows by MarshmallowMBA, and a portion of proceeds will benefit Homestretch. L-say Designs is located at 907 W. Broad Street in Falls Church. For more information, visit www.lsaydesigns.com.
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Local Market Collecting for Operation Turbo The Local Market is collecting items to be included in Operation Turbo’s “Boxes of Home” which will be sent to deployed military service members. Operation Turbo, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, was founded by Dyan Zurick following a tour of the USS Stout, where she learned that many of her niece’s shipmates never received mail from home. This year Operation Turbo, named for her niece’s on ship nickname, is hoping to send more than 600 Boxes of home donations of nonperishable food items such as nuts, protein bars, coffee, etc. which can be purchased at the Local Market or dropped off there. Monetary donations are also being sought to cover shipping costs. For more information, visit www.operationturbo.org.
F.C. Chamber Hosting Member Orientation May 3 The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting a member orientation meeting on Tuesday, May 3 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Businesses interested in learning more about the Chamber and Chamber members who would like a review of their membership benefits are invited to attend. For more information or to register, visit www. FallsChurchChamber.org. Meeting location information will be provided following registration.
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Acetaminophen, a commonly used over-the-counter pain reliever and fever reducer, has been shown in research trials to reduce the ability to spot errors. That can be serious, depending on what the user is doing while taking the drug. In double-blind clinical trials, those taking acetaminophen didn’t notice any difference in their ability to see errors, but the test results told a different story: There really were slower reactions and mistakes. (The participants’ task was to hit one of two buttons when certain letters appeared on a screen.) Acetaminophen is an active ingredient in hundreds of overthe-counter and prescription medicines. If you take a pain reliever, be sure to read the package label to see if it contains acetaminophen, especially if you have liver problems. In 2013, the Food and Drug
Administration issued a warning about acetaminophen causing serious skin diseases, including rash and blisters. In 2015, the FDA amended the required warning on packages to expand on the possibility of liver damage. One consumer product that contains acetaminophen goes much farther in its label warning and says not to take it with other drugs, limit use of caffeine, avoid alcohol, and more. This should be a warning to all of us. Just because something is available over the counter doesn’t mean it’s safe in all situations. And even if we’ve taken a drug for a long time without harm, we need to start reading labels every time because the information in them might have changed. To keep up with new information from the FDA, have updates sent to you by email. Go online to fda.gov and put Get Email Updates in the search box. Choose
your preferred topics and fill in your email address. Seniors are clipping along at a fast rate when it comes to being involved in new technology. However, just because new things are available doesn’t mean we should participate until we check them out. Tele-visits for medical problems are one of those areas where the idea might be better than the actual execution. For someone who’s ill, however, and can’t get a same-day appointment with the doctor, the idea of going online for medical care might be appealing. A recent study looked at the results of telephone, webchat and videoconference medical visits to test the level of care and the accuracy of diagnoses. The illnesses were limited to fairly simple complaints such as lower back pain, sore throat, sinus infection and strep throat. Nearly 600 “virtual” online medical visits were made to eight websites, and the results were checked. Here’s what researchers came up with: • Doctors asked the correct medical history and did physical exams 69 percent of the time. • Patients were given the correct
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diagnosis 76 percent of the time. • Out of 101 complaints of ankle pain, only 17 recommended X-rays. • Only 83 patients were referred to a health provider, and that was because follow-up care could not be provided on a website. • Researchers found no big difference between the methods of communication, such as videoconference versus telephone. While the jury is still out on the accuracy and safety of virtual medical care, it is becoming big business, with some services aligning with corporations as a
way to get fast medical care to employees. Before you decide to use an online site for medical care, determine whether your Medicare Advantage plan will pay for it. Some of them will. If you have an online medical visit, have your file and diagnosis forwarded to your regular doctor. Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com.
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Council Candidates Face Off in Spirited Debate at News-Press
Haycock Elementary’s Linda White Inducted Into Teacher Hall of Fame
In a heated one-hour debate in the offices of the News-Press Sunday, the six candidates vying for election to the Falls Church City Council in the upcoming May 7 Election expended over 9,000 words, which have been painstakingly transcribed and are published in this edition of the News-Press as a special service to the City’s voters.
With a penchant for writing original, educational musical productions for elementary and middle school students, Linda Kaye White, a Falls Church resident for 17 years, was announced this month as one of five 2006 inductees into the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame. A 24-year veteran of the classroom, she is a music specialist at Haycock Elementary School in the greater Falls Church area of Fairfax County.
J. Cortland G. Peret, Falls Church Resident for 53 Years, Dies at 96 John Cortland Gifford Peret, born on November 24, 1919 in Oregon, Miss. to Rua (Gifford) and John Peret, died on March 29. He grew up in a small town in a farming community where values of family, education, duty and service were paramount. Cortland entered the University of Missouri where he met and later married Barbara Ann Albrecht. During World War II Lt. J.G. Peret served as Naval Aviator and flight instructor flying SNVs, SNJs and seaplanes catapulted off ships. After the war he earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University and had a career at the Federal Reserve Board. The family lived in Falls Church City for 53 years and raised their son and daughter. They attended Madison Elementary, Thomas Jefferson Seventh Grade and George Mason Junior-Senior High Schools. Cortland was active as deacon and elder at Falls Church Presbyterian Church and cultivated gardens of roses, chrysanthemums and vegetables in his spare time. He retired from the
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federal government as Deputy Associate Director in the Division of Research and Statistics. After leaving the Board, Cortland prepared tax returns for family, friends, neighbors and through H&R Block’s Executive Tax Service. He was gratified to use his expertise to help others. During retirement he and Barbara traveled extensively through Europe. Cortland also
pursued an interest in genealogy, creating a 12-foot long family tree tracing roots to the 11th century. Throughout his life his greatest pleasure was family. He celebrated times together with his children and nearly-biennial reunions with his brother, three sisters and all the cousins. He is survived by his wife of 71 and a half years, Barbara of Falls Church, his son Cort of Annandale and daughter Anne of Arlington, as well as sister Helen McGuire of Denver, brother Warren of Bremerton, WA and numerous nieces and nephews; he was predeceased by two sisters, Ruhamah (McKinsey) of Columbia and Rosemary (Johnston) of Tryon, NC. A Celebration of Life memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 30 at Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads in Falls Church. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Falls Church Presbyterian Church (225 E Broad St., Falls Church, VA 22046) or the Alzheimer’s Association (P.O. Box 96011, Washington, D.C. 20090).
Rosenberg, Winner of Checknoff Award, Dies Falls Church resident Jack Rosenberg died on Friday, April 22 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was a much loved member of the Winter Hill Senior Center Community, known for his warmth, humor,
ability to fix (almost) anything and enthusiastic bingo calling. Jack, with his wife Anita, was the 2001 winner of the Ruth Checknoff Award for outstanding service to senior citizens in the Falls Church area.
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7202 Deborah Dr | Falls Church
603 N West St, Falls Church City
Wonderful 4 level classic colonial, 5 BD/4.5 BA w/ detached 2-car garage walking distance to downtown. Large yard, gazebo and FCC Schools! Updated Price: $1,200,000
Just Listed
Under Contract
Louise Molton Phone: 703 244-1992 louise@moltonrealestate.com
7035 Haycock Rd #F | Falls Church City
7035 Haycock Road #C | Falls Church
2 BD/2 BA condo (no steps), 2 garage spaces and storage, updated kitchen and large laundry room. Walk to WFC Metro and shops. Haycock, Longfellow, McLean Schools. Offered at $425,000
Exceptional 2 level 2 BD/2.5BA townhouse style condo. Recently updated with HW floors, new appliances and private patio. 2 Garage spaces and storage. Updated Price: $575,000
Under Contract
118 Tollgate Way | Falls Church City
Outstanding town home in highly desired Tollgate. Don’t miss this one, almost 3,500 sq ft. Spectacular details including private, serene patio w/ waterfall and pond! Offered at $939,000
For Sale
158 Rees Pl | Falls Church City
Elegant 3 BD/3.5 BA townhome overlooking Tripps Run. You won’t believe you are mins from DC! Peaceful and stunning views. New price: $849,000
Wonderful 3 BD/2 BA two level craftsmanstyle home with private master suite addition overlooking the perfectly landscaped yard. Upper level deck with spectacular views and quiet cul de sac. McLean High School! Offered at $649,000
For Sale
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900 Park Ave, Falls Church City
Gorgeous historic home on almost 1/3 acre featuring 4 BD/3 BA w/stunning high-end renovations throughout. Walk to everything! By Appt. Offered at $1,400,000
7217 Arthur Dr | Falls Church
Falls Church ...Looking for a turn key onelevel home? This is the one! Remarkable 3 BD/2.5 BA rambler expanded and remodeled with no expense spared. McLean High School! Offered at $625,000
2710 Farnsworth Dr | Alexandria
Beautiful, updated 2 BD/1 BA duplex 3 blocks from Huntington Metro. Offered at $399,000
710 W Broad St, Falls Church VA 22046 ~ 571-282-3732 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated
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McLean Sales Office 1355 Beverly Rd Ste 109 McLean, VA 22101 703-790-1990 office
Thinking about selling? Call me for a discussion about how to get your home ready for the spring market!
Meticulously cared for, charming brick rambler on corner lot walking distance to downtown and Metro. Kitchen with Maple cabinets and Corian counters. New windows, snazzy nearly new bath, plantation shutters, finished basement, 2 fireplaces, 3 bedrooms, 2 Baths. Hardwood floors, some under pristine carpet. Large yard with garden space. $719,500
Merelyn Kaye
McEnearney Associates Home Office 703-362-1112 See Photos at www.kayes.com e-mail: merelyn@kayes.com
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www.buyandsellwithBethany.com Beautiful, large open floor plan. Huge addition w updated kit. 5BR/3BA, 2 car garage. Over one half acre. Sold Price $934,500. SOLD
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Falls Church, VA 22043 Please bring up to four boxes of your sensitive files to be destroyed while you watch. Boxes should contain only files, and file-related material. There is no need to remove staples, paper clips, folders, or binder clips.
2114 Great Falls St. Falls Church, VA 22043 Lovely and spacious floor plan in this beautiful home. 5BR/3.5BA home on full acre of land in Langley HS pyramid. Sales Price $1,249,000
7601 Burford Drive, McLean VA 22102
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Lovely 5BR/2.5BA 2 level home on large, level lot .34 acres. Kent Gardens ES, Longfellow MS, McLean HS.
6903 Tyndale St. McLean VA 22101