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Inside This Week Former F.C. Treasurer Cathy Kaye Dies
Former City of Falls Church Treasurer Cathy Kaye died in her sleep last week at her home in Montana. She was 47. See page 10
2nd Bomb Threat at F.C. Office Building
Less than a week after a Falls Church office building housing an abortion clinic was evacuated twice due to a fireworks explosion and a bomb threat, police investigated a second bomb threat at the same building last Wednesday.
F.C. Council Votes 5-2 to Advance Innovative Senior Cottage Cluster Honor Flight
Opponents Contend ‘Conflicts of Interest’ In Council’s Motives
by Nicholas F. Benton
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announcing the policy reversal was issued just before the City Council meeting Monday night. In the meeting, City Manager Wyatt Shields reported to the Council that he’d been notified of Spectrum’s plans last week and that he’d urged them not to do it. However, since the move did not
By a 5-2 vote (Mayor David Tarter and David Snyder dissenting) the Falls Church City Council moved forward the proposal for an innovative “middle housing” option for the City, a cluster of 10 senior cottage units on Railroad Avenue, despite heated opposition from neighbors to the plan, late Monday night. Strong views, both pro and con, came before the Council during the petition period, from those who contended the whole matter was the result of “bias and favored treatment” and based on a “conflict of interest” by Council members who’d received campaign contributions from the developer in question, Robert Young, to a strong contingent of citizens, such as Bill and Renee Andrews, who said the prospect of the cottage community is precisely what their aging parents need. Council members and City Attorney Carol McCoskie took turns dismantling the claims by the projects’ opponents that a “nefarious” conflict of interest had something to do with the proposal. From Councilman Dan Sze’s angry renunciation of the charge to Vice Mayor Mary Beth Connelly’s beat down of the idea, augmented by the assertion from McCoskie that receipt of a campaign contribution from any single person does not count as a conflict of interest if a matter pertaining to that person’s interests later come into play, the notion was thoroughly repudiated. Sze called the charge “sad form” by the accusers, Connelly said she was “horrified” such a
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David Leonhardt: Trump is Lying Again, Now About Comey
The president of the United States is lying again. He is lying about the reason he fired James Comey, the FBI director. See page 15
Press Pass with The Family Crest
The Family Crest vocalist, guitarist and headman Liam McCormick caught up with the News-Press to talk about the band’s formation, the unique concept of featuring closet artists on records that sets it apart from the crowd, and the group’s evolving sound. See Press Pass, page 25
A DELEGATION OF U.S. military veterans from Houston including those who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam was honored during their stay in the City of Falls Church’s Hilton Garden Inn on W. Broad Street last weekend. The participants in the Veterans Honor Flight were brought to the D.C. area to visit memorials and historical sites in the region. (Photo: Gary Mester)
Parking Lot Division Caper Leads to Swift Reversal at Founder’s Row Site by Nicholas F. Benton
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Index Editorial..................6 Letters....................6 News & Notes.12–13 Comment........ 14–17 Calendar........20–21 Food & Dining......23
Business News....27 Comics, Sudoku & Classified Ads......28 Crossword ..........29 Critter Corner.......30
After only three days in place, a temporary barrier placed in the parking lot serving the 7-Eleven and Mike’s Deli on N. West Street was removed early Monday evening. A loud and angry protest by citizens, including a large turnout at Monday night’s City Council
meeting (even after the barrier had been removed) spurred Spectrum Development to reverse its move quickly. The barrier had made it enormously inconvenient for customers of both the 7-Eleven and Mike’s Deli to negotiate the parking lot, and almost impossible for supply trucks serving the convenience store. A statement from City Hall
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City Council Moms: Juggling Policy & Motherhood in The Little City BY ORRIN KONHEIM
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As Falls Church City Councilmember Letty Hardi was preparing to preside over a ribboncutting ceremony she had dropped off her two eldest kids but didn’t have her husband home from work yet to take her five-year-oldson Noah off her hands. The only amenable solution was to take him with her. “Unfortunately, or fortunately, all my kids have been to a number of different city events, as a result of me having to bring them along,” said Hardi. Being a mother of three young children is a full-time job for the city council member, but she’s not alone. Hardi and fellow council members Karen Oliver and Marybeth Connelly are all mothers at different stages of raising kids and acknowledge that their role as parents heavily influenced their decision to enter the political sphere. Hardi, who was elected in 2016, became involved in city politics a couple years ago by attending meetings. It was the difficulty she had in balancing her
duties as a parent with evening council meetings that prompted her to consider running. “If it’s 7:30, most parents of young children are putting their kids to bed,” said Hardi, whose other two sons, Griffin and Oliver, are now 7 and 9. “Given how important local government is, and the only ones who show up are often retired people, I wanted to represent a different demographic.” Connelly, Vice Mayor of Falls Church, had a similar epiphany when she ran in 2013. Although her kids were teenagers and she had no trouble attending the meetings, she decided that it was important for there to be a mother with children in the school system on the council. “It was school funding and my work that brought me there first, but I was also paying attention to budgeting and where the money was going,” Connelly said. “It’s always been intriguing to me how government works.” Oliver’s desire to run stemmed from the transient nature of her life as the wife of a foreign correspondent before she and her family settled down in Falls Church
in 2011. Due to the limitations of work permits in other countries, she often could not obtain paid employment so she devoted her time to creating a community for her family, and uses that experience to improve the surroundings of the Little City. “I don’t think I’m any more of an expert on schools or kids than anyone else, but I do know the kind of values that I hold.” said Oliver. “For example, I’m personally opposed to smoking tobacco so I would never work for a cigarette company. In that vein, I want to do things with my time that my kids would be excited about.” Hardi’s interest in local politics came as she transitioned from working in a bank to being a stayat-home mom. A first generation immigrant who is proud to have voted in every election since she turned 18, she focused her political interests at the local level. Her kids were too young to understand the full extent of their mother’s campaigning when she was putting up yard signs but she sees them becoming more aware about the effects of local government. “They certainly don’t think it’s a big deal anymore when their
FALLS CHURCH CITY COUNCILMEMBER Karen Oliver and her daughters, Sarah and Aisha. (P����: K���� O�����) well,” said Hardi. “This is a great way for them to see that having a voice matters, so if they see something they don’t like, they should try to change it.” Connelly was not just an active citizen but was (and still is) the community outreach director for Falls Church City Public Schools. Connolly’s entry into her public role wasn’t solely about her
mother is on the front page of the newspaper,” said Hardi, who often takes them to board meetings with snacks and drawing paper in tow. Hardi’s work for the City Council has been coupled with an increased sense of activism and she has taken her kids to protests and rallies as well. She wants to see her kids be active voters as adults. “I hold a high bar for myself and a high bar for my children as
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require any City approvals, Spectrum went ahead and did it beginning last Friday. No explanation was given for the move, although there is speculation that Spectrum has been frustrated in its effort to convince the parent company of 7-Eleven to relinquish its lease rights there in order for Spectrum’s plans to move ahead with the major mixed use project on 4.3 acres of assembled parcels, known as Mason Row and more recently as Founder’s Row, at the location. Spectrum has also been frustrated by its inability to secure a promised hotel at the site, and has applied to City Hall for a modification in its earlierapproved plan to allow for agerestricted residential housing instead of a hotel.
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Here’s the dilemma: For all the ruffled feathers and cawing around town these days taking developers to task for a variety or real or imagined transgressions, the only losers in the event these developers are made to fail are the City’s kids. That’s right, the loss of revenue that will accrue should either of the projects now being subjected to a new wave of citizen opposition — the cottage colony development on Railroad Avenue or the long-suffering Founder’s Row (formerly Mason Row) project at the intersection of N. West and W. Broad — will cause either a massive real estate tax rate increase or a catastrophic decline in the quality of the City’s public school system. There is no denying this. For those to argue the solution is for the City to liquidate its independent jurisdictional status and merge with Arlington, or Fairfax, let us break the news to you: the conditions in those places are not significantly better and are likely to move even faster toward region-wide mediocrity. Right now, ironically enough, the independent City of Falls Church stands a better chance of withstanding a numbing, slumbering stumble toward mediocrity than most of her regional neighbors. That’s for a number of reasons, but especially because the City has the potential to leverage commercial development to a much higher degree than its neighbors do right now. The neighbors have more real estate and higher populations, but concerning commercial development, as a percentage of what goes into annual operating and capital improvements budgets, the City stands to gain relatively more, and by a wide margin. But this is not a situation for faint hearts, much less for small minds or narrow selfish self-interests. The City needs a lot more commercial density and a lot higher population to maintain its sustainability and relative viability. In the mix must come more diversity in its population. Spearheading the commercial development must be the growth of educated young families, singles and ethnic and racial minorities. While there needs to be some, as a rule we do not favor age-restricted housing pandering to the phobias of a handful of people in town worried about school costs. The younger, more diverse the demographic, the more vitality and small business, including retailer, success stories there will be. Our community can and must be a true cross-section of humanity, with its specialty being its public school system and its creative ability to merge aspects of that with higher education, such as the opportunities that exist with the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech programs already here. Commercial and retail development needs to be, and will benefit from being, robust and diverse, itself. A new unique Falls Church will derive from this. Things like the cottage cluster now proposed will tend to flourish along with abundant new workforce and efficiency housing.
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This is a complicated topic. There are government guidelines that describe which drugs can be disposed of in the trash and how to do that. Some guidelines list drugs that can be flushed down the toilet. Others discourage putting any prescription drugs in our water supply. I, for one, am concerned that streams throughout the nation are contaminated with significant amounts of drugs. We are not immune here in Virginia.
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Drinking water treated by the Washington Aqueduct contained six common pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics. I want to thank Delegate Kathleen Murphy for sponsoring legislation in the last session of the Virginia General Assembly to help protect us from these very real threats. This legislation requires the Virginia Board of Pharmacy to create guidelines which will increase patient awareness and encourage pharmacies to participate in disposal programs. After an accident resulting in five surgeries, my medicine cabinet was full of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. I am an
expert in how hard it was to dispose of medicine. From personal experience and from spending fifteen years in public health, I know how important this legislation is. I recently learned that the 24-hour Walgreens at the intersection of Columbia Pike and Little River Turnpike has a medical recycle bin where you can dispose of pills. So until more pharmacies start helping us, take a hike over to that Walgreens. Delegate Murphy is leading us in the right direction, but it’s up to us to stop putting meds down the toilet or in the trash. Julie Galdo Falls Church
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So…here we go again…yet another in the seemingly endless stream of NIMBYinspired (Not in My Back Yard) opposition to proposed development projects of one stripe or another. While such opposition is understandable — and even inevitable — given our City’s small size and likelihood that one or more neighborhoods will be directly adjacent to any proposed development activity, it is typically ill-founded and proven wrong over time. The latest case is the current opposition that has sprung up against the proposed Railroad Avenue Cottages: a unique “pocket” community located adjacent to the W&OD Trail, comprised of ten, 1.5 story (1,500 square feet) structures and a shared common house, for residents 55 years old and above. As long-time residents, we think this opposition is reminiscent of that which occurred in connection with a precedentsetting project approved in 1965, more than 50 years ago! At that time, Paul Barkley and his partner, Harold Pierce, proposed one of the first townhouse rezoning projects in our City’s history and, indeed, anywhere in Northern Virginia’s inner suburbs. The project, James Thurber Court, consisting of twenty townhouses on a cul-desac off North Maple Avenue, across from the Columbia Baptist Church, prompted a
strong and vociferous outcry from neighbors who voiced comments strikingly similar to those being put forward today against the Cottages. Among other things, those opposed asserted that townhouses being located
“This opposition is reminiscent of that which occurred in connection with a precedent-setting project approved more than 50 years ago, in 1965!” within a single family neighborhood were completely inappropriate. They proclaimed that there were insufficient parking spaces and spillover would necessarily disrupt the surrounding neighborhood. They also insisted that there would be increased traffic, which would imperil the safety of pedestrians and even pose a threat to the small children participating in the Church’s daycare program. Others postulated that townhouse purchasers would not fit into the
City’s active community, and that this type of housing would soon fall into decay. Of course, none of these concerns proved accurate. When the townhouses went on the market, large numbers of people came to inspect them. Purchasers included single people, young families with children, and seniors (including City residents downsizing from their single family homes). Many purchasers became active in the community, both politically and in enduring service on City boards and commissions. Traffic and parking issues did not precipitate the catastrophic results predicted, and the values of the townhouses have proven sustainable for decades. Most importantly, the townhouses blended seamlessly into the single family neighborhood where they were situated and the project came to serve as a model for others over the years — Wrens Way (North Cherry Street) and Tollgate (off East Broad Street), to name just two. In addition, there are other benefits that will accrue from the cottage homes redevelopment. Perhaps foremost among these is repair of and improvements to address stormwater runoff — a long-standing issue for our City’s older residential neighborhoods. Along Railroad Avenue, much of this runoff comes from the abutting residential properties. Another benefit provided by the redevelopment is the opportunity to remove invasive and non-native plants and other vegetation and replace them with
landscaping that will serve the dual purpose of creating a “sense of place” for the new residences and enhancing the appearance of the neighborhood in general. These improvements, moreover, will likely positively affect the experience of W&OD bicyclists and other Trail users as they pass by, especially insofar as they will be in marked contrast to the unattractive hodgepodge of older industrial and commercial properties on the north side of the Trail. In sum, in our view the experience with the James Thurber Court townhouses continues to resonate, holding lessons learned that would be well to bear in mind as the debate over the Railroad Avenue cottages unfolds. If long-term, real-world experience is to be our guide, the concerns — parking, traffic, appropriateness — being expressed by those opposed to this thoughtful and well-designed project (as well as others that encountered similar opposition in recent years, such as the Northgate Apartments on East Jefferson and North Washington Streets or the Hilton Garden Inn bordering on Park Avenue) will again be proven unfounded and our Little City will be the better for it. Paul Barkley is recently retired after running an architectural practice in the City for 50 years. Hal Lippman is a former Falls Church School Board member, Falls Church City Council member and Vice Mayor.
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Less than a week after a Falls Church office building housing an abortion clinic was evacuated twice due to a fireworks explosion and a bomb threat, police investigated a second bomb threat at the same building last Wednesday. According to the Falls Church crime report released this week, police responded to the building at 900 S. Washington Street last Wednesday, May 3, around 1:44 p.m. on reports of a possible bomb threat. Falls Church Police told the News-Press Tuesday that the building’s property management found a note with the word “bomb” written on it and contacted police. Police decided not to evacuate the building and did not contact the fire department or other resources. There were no witnesses and no suspicious packages or devices were found. Just a week prior to the May 3 incident, on the morning of Thursday, April 27, an employee of the S. Washington St. building’s first floor located two sheets of the paper with the word “bomb” stamped on it scattered at the rear entrance of the building. The building, home to the Falls Church Healthcare abortion clinic, was evacuated just hours earlier after fireworks were set off in the building’s elevator. The Falls Church clinic has long drawn protesters to its location. Picketers and protesters have regularly gathered in front the building to object to the center, most recently when around 100 students from Christendom College in Front Royal staged a “Stand for Life” protest last month. Falls Church Police Chief Mary Gavin noted that April’s bomb threat was likely targeted at the clinic’s presence. Falls Church Police continue to investigate the incidents.
Bike Share Update Given to F.C. Council An aggressive move of the Bike Share program into the City of Falls Church, slated to be implemented in two phases next year and in 2019 has led the F.C. City staff under Principal Planner Paul Stoddard’s direction, to identify prospective locations for 14 Bike Share locations along the major corridors of the City. Stoddard made an abbreviated presentation to the Council Monday night. Intended for short one way trips, the program is membership based, with a proposed annual fee of $85, or monthly fee of $28 and daily at $8 and one-trip at $2. All allow for unlimited 30 minute trips. Projected Phase One locations run from N. West Street to N. Washington on W. Broad and from S. Maple to Westmoreland Street on Washington St. (Rt. 29).
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U.S. Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr., who represents the 8th District of Virginia that includes the City of Falls Church, issued the following statement on the House passage of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act last Thursday: “The passage of Trumpcare is a dark stain on the history of the House of Representatives. Republican leaders forced this bill on the country without knowing what effect it would have on millions of Americans and one sixth of our economy. They don’t know what this updated bill will do, or how much it will hurt people, and yet they have rushed it to passage following no hearings, no score from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, no time to read or consider the bill’s text, and a paltry amount of floor debate. We do know that it will lead to loss of health care coverage for an estimated 24 million Americans, eliminate essential health benefits, jeopardize coverage for people with preexisting conditions, drive up costs for Americans while providing them with skimpier coverage, cut tax credits for millions of veterans, gut funding for Planned Parenthood, and ration care for children with disabilities. A bill that does those things should never have been considered at all, and certainly not without a CBO score or legitimate debate.”
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charge would arise, calling it “inherently brazen,” and Snyder angrily asserted he’s never taken campaign money from any developer. Yet, an opponent to the plan even threatened the Council with an FOIA request to learn of who contributed to the Council members’ campaigns and claimed that a legal counsel representing her interest was observing in the room. But McCoskie reminded everyone that complete campaign funding reports are readily available on the Virginia Department of Elections website at any time. Still, concerns for the impact on the neighbors to the proposed project led Mayor Tarter and Snyder to vote no, and others said that without some better relations developing between the neighbors and the developers, they might wind up voting against it when it is due to come back for a final vote next month. The 1.25-acre cottage project, the first of its kind in the City since an ordinance was passed earlier this year making such a plan feasible, was hailed as a national and regional demonstration for providing housing that addresses the need of seniors seeking to move out of more expensive housing but not wanting to transition more dramatically into an apartment condo. By clustering the 10 homes together, with a “common house” that serves as a social center for the cluster, seniors will feel more integrated into a community and not isolated or lonely, its proponents argued. Developer Bob Young reported on a informational meeting at the local Hilton Garden Inn held Sunday night, when he said most of those attending were prospective buyers of the units. Not all but most of them, he said, were single
women in their 60s or 70s. In his presentation Monday night, Young counterposed the impact of the cottages project to their likely alternative, namely, the construction of four single family homes on the same site. The four single family homes, he argued, would likely to attract about three school-aged children apiece, and with the established cost of educating a child in the Falls Church schools being about $17,000 apiece annually, 12 new kids would represent a net loss of revenue to the City of $150,000 a year for every year the children are in the system. By contrast, Young said, deed restrictions that the law permits to be placed on the proposed cottages will stipulate that no person under age 18 will be allowed to live there and the project would provide a net positive fiscal impact of $73,000 to $75,000 per year. Supporters of the project spoke to the introduction of a new level of diversity into the City and the prospect of a better mixing of the generations in the community, overall. One noted that everyone, even opponents to the project, said they favored the idea of cottage clusters “but just not in this location.” He said the universal support for the concept should form the basis for a constructive dialogue. Council member Karen Oliver said that “something is going to go into that location, so let’s make it great.” Mayor Tarter said “there is a lot to like about this,” adding that it is “environmentally impressive,” but said his “no” vote Monday was based on “too many unresolved issues.” With Monday’s 5-2 favorable vote, the proposal will now go to a wide array of City board and commissions for review, comment and recommendations.
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Former F.C. Treasurer Cathy Kaye Dies at 47
Cathy Kaye, former Treasurer of the City of Falls Church and longtime City resident and activist, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, May 3, at her home in Big Fork, Montana. She was 47. Many in Falls Church will remember Cathy and her husband Tom for their many years of service to the community and civic organizations to which they belonged. She served as the Treasurer of Falls Church from her election in 2006 until her retirement in July of 2014. She also served as the campaign treasurer for many local elected officials over the years. She was also a member of the
Citizens for a Better City (CBC); over the years she served as CBC President, and she was a recipient of the Jane and Wayne Dexter Award for her extraordinary service to CBC and the Falls Church community. She was also active in the Falls Church City Democratic Committee, Falls Church Housing Corporation, Greater Hillwood Citizens’ Association and the League of Women Voters. Cathy was also a member of the Village Preservation and Improvement Society and the Falls Church Education Foundation. Cathy Kaye is survived by her loving husband of 20 years, Tom Kaye, her mother Hayden
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Luczka of Vienna, her father Martin Miller of Fredericksburg, her brother and two sisters and a menagerie of pets that many will remember: her four dogs, Eli, Lily, Pfizer and Merck, and her parrot Clarice. A celebration of her life is planned for Sunday, May 21, from 3 – 5 p.m., with location to be announced.
Lou Etta Phillips Duncan, Mother of F.C. Councilmember, Dies at Age 92 Lou Etta Phillips Duncan, of Knoxville, mother of Falls Church City Councilman Phil Duncan, described as the beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, neighbor and friend, died quietly at home on Sunday, April 30, 2017, attended by her husband of 70 years, Joe D. Duncan, and her faithful feline Sox. Lou Duncan was 92 and had fought cancer for 35 years. She was born Feb. 18, 1925 in the Scott County, Tenn., town of New River; she was the youngest of seven children of Mitchell and Susie Phillips and she is survived by her husband, retired state Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Joe D. Duncan, of Knoxville; their
son, Philip David Duncan; daughter-in-law, Leslie Ann Duncan; grandchildren Meredyth Phillips Duncan and Tyler Witte Duncan, all of Falls Church, Va.; special nephew Jason Mitchell Phillips, of Knoxville; and a host of other nieces, nephews and cousins in the Phillips and Duncan families. The family will receive friends on Friday, May 12, from 5 – 7 p.m. at Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel, 6200 Kingston Pike, with a service to follow. The interment will be Saturday, May 13, at 2 p.m. at the Duncan Family Cemetery, in Huntsville, Tenn. In lieu of flowers, the family invites contributions in
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memory of Lou Duncan’s love for cats and other critters to the Young-Williams Animal Center, 3201 Division St., Knoxville TN 37919. Memorial donations also are welcome to the Duncan Family Cemetery, Inc., for perpetual care of the historic family burial grounds in Scott County; or to the Duncan Educational Fund, Inc., which supports the educational needs of students in the Scott County public schools. Contributions to the Duncan charities may be sent to Judith L. Naderhoff, Treasurer, 5255 Hampton Lane, Columbus, OH 43220. Arrangements by Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel.
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Amy Ann Northcutt, 57, of Falls Church, Va., passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 6, 2017. She was diagnosed on April 27 with a brain tumor. She died from complications related to the tumor. Amy is survived by her husband, Craig Middlebrook of Falls Church, her son, Henry Middlebrook (17), daughter, Ella Bo Lei Middlebrook (13), and sisters Nancy Trench of Stillwater, Okla., and Kay Northcutt of Santa Fe, N.M. Born to Thelma and Clinton Northcutt in Chickasha, Okla., on December 18, 1959, Amy graduated as Valedictorian from Putnam City West High School in 1978 and matriculated at Smith College. She spent her junior year at Harvard University and graduated from Smith in 1982 with a B.A. in Government. As a House Scholar at the Disciples Divinity House, she received an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1983. Amy attended Boston College Law School and graduated, magna cum laude, with a J.D. in 1987. At the time of her death, Amy served as the Chief Information Officer of the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she had also held positions as Deputy General Counsel and Acting Director of the Office of Information and Resource Management. Prior to NSF, Amy was the Vice President for Administration at Wesley Theological Seminary and the Chief Executive Officer of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1991, she practiced law at Crowe and Dunlevy in Oklahoma City. Amy was a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association. She served on numerous boards of directors and received many awards and recognitions throughout her career. Most recently she served as a Director for the In Trust Center for Theological Schools as well
as the Worldwide Assurance for Employees of Public Agencies. She was recognized by FedScoop as one of the “Top Women in Tech 2017.” Amy was a person of strong and committed faith. She served as Youth Minister at the Western Oaks Christian Church in Oklahoma City. In Washington, D.C., she attended the Church of the Savior and later the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, where she served as Council President. Amy knew herself to be a beloved child of God, and she gratefully opened her heart and home freely to all, particularly those in need. She was an organ donor. Amy’s life will be celebrated at a memorial service at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St., NE, Washington, D.C., at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 17, 2017. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to a scholarship created in Amy’s memory to support women pursuing theological studies. Donations can be made to the Amy A. Northcutt Fund, c/o the Disciples Divinity House, 1156 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1536.
F.C.’s Zainab Arief Dies at 90
Zainab Arief, aged 90, resident of Ravenswood Neighborhood in Falls Church, died Tuesday May 2, 2017 at the Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington, Virginia. Sons Robert and Richard would like to thank the staff at the
Center for their care and attention to make her last three days of life as comfortable as possible. As stipulated in her last wishes, her body is donated to the Virginia Anatomical Donation Program and no funeral service.
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involvement in education but a larger interest in government. Connelly credits her three kids — Brian, Andrew and Julie — for supporting her campaign, and passes her experience on to them. She likes to think Brian, the oldest, encouraged friends to vote for her when he was a high school senior. Similarly, Julie is the vice president of her sophomore class and her mother provided feedback on her speech. Whereas many would either choose motherhood or a political career, Connelly believes that being a parent is an essential ingredient in her success on the city council. “I became a much better employee after I had kids... because you understand compromise, you understand to be somewhere at a certain time and you know how to prioritize,” said Connelly. Oliver wanted her decision to run to be a family decision so she explained to her daughters Sarah and Aisha (then 17 and 15) that they would need to pitch in more with household duties.
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confronted by neighbors who openly, and sometimes, aggressively disagreed with her policies. “It was kind of illuminating for them,” Oliver added. “[But] when I was running, my kids told me that diving into the community was what I’d always done and that I should go out and see how I fit into it. I’m incredibly lucky to have their support.”
Like her fellow City Council members she doesn’t see her job as just being an expert on the schools, which she cites as especially relevant now that her kids have graduated and she’s no longer a school mom. Oliver’s kids quickly got used to the hazards of their mother being a public figure. When they helped their mother campaign by going door-to-door, they were
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Community News & Notes Annandale United FC Holds Open Tryouts Annandale United FC is holding tryouts all throughout May and in the early part of June for players who want to compete at the highest level. All players trying out should bring water, shin guards, a ball and wear a white shirt (returning players should wear normal training kit). Exact dates, locations and details can be found at www.annandaleunitedfc.com. New players are advised to email the respective Directors of Coaching to express interest in advance so the coaches can plan for player numbers on tryout dates accordingly. Bo Amato – Technical Director – bo_amato@annadaleunitedfc. org; Trevor Parker – Director
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McLean Students Rise To Rank Of Eagle Scout Two McLean High School students were awarded their Eagle Scout award this past Sunday, April 30th at a Court of Honor ceremony held at the McLean LDS Stake Center. Jackson Payne, 16, a junior and Spencer Johnson, 18, a senior, earned the highest award in the Boy Scouts of America. Payne is a member of Boy Scout Troop 822 of the McLean First Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
FOR 60 YEARS Falls Church City resident, Mark P. Friedlander, Jr. has practiced law in Virginia. Virginia House Delegate Marcus Simon was on hand to award Friedlander a certificate of recognition for his impressive feat. (Photo: Todd Friedlander)
(LDS). Johnson is a member of Boy Scout Troop 821 of the Falls Church Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Payne’s Eagle Scout service project involved the refurbishment of the McLean High School Observatory, located in the school’s lower courtyard and originally constructed in 1967. Over the years the observatory had fallen into disrepair and became less of a focal point in academic studies. Several dozen local youth participated in the observatory’s face lift, which benefited science and astronomy lovers at McLean. Johnson’s Eagle service project was done in conjunction with Billion Graves, the world’s largest resource for cemetary data that digitizes headstones and connects the information to the database to Family Search, which enhances genealogy and family history efforts worldwide.
McLean Art Society Holds Meeting May 19 Gavin Glakis, a well known portrait artist, will be the featured speaker at the Friday, May 19 meeting of the McLean Art Society at the Dolly Madison Library, (1244 Oak Ridge Ave., McLean). Glakis will focus on the drawing of hands and the best techniques to bring pictures to life. Refreshments are served and guests are welcome. Call 703-356-0770 for more information about the meeting or
Original Pancake House Hosts Fundraiser May 25 Eat breakfast or lunch at the Original Pancake House (7395 Lee Highway, Falls Church) from 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 25 and the Pancake House will donate 15-percent of its sales that day to the Shepherd’s Center of McLean Arlington
Falls Church (SCMAFC). The SCMAFC is an all-volunteer based non-profit organization dedicated to assisting seniors in maintaining an independent and safe lifestyle.
Annual McLean Day Set To Take Place May 20 The McLean Community Center (MCC) holds its annual festival on Saturday, May 20 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Lewinsville Park (1659 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean). Admission is free. This year’s gathering features many attractions suitable for a range of festival goers. Amusement park rides will be on location as well as a “Kid’s Way” section that has rides geared toward young children. Free activities at the park include laser tag, a rock climbing wall, tennis clinics and a petting zoo will also be available for enter-
JOSTLING TO GET A GLIMPSE of a display by local photographer and Falls Church Arts (FCA) Outreach Director, Shaun van Steyn, are Falls Church City Mayor David Tarter (left) and President of FCA, Barb Cram (right). FCA hosted an open gallery last weekend titled ‘MORE or Less,’ where artwork like van Steyn’s were bid on by guests. (Photo: Shaun van Steyn)
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THE FALLS CHURCH CITY COUNCIL issued a proclamation honoring the life and career of the late Del. Jim Scott Monday night, and his wife Nancy was present to accept the document signed by Mayor David Tarter. The proclamation “honoring the life of the Honorable James Martin Scott,” who served in the Virginia House of Delegates for 22 years until 2014, and “was a true friend of the citizens of Falls Church,” according to the proclamation, “who championed education and anti-poverty efforts...was the primary sponsor of the Motor Voter Law, supported numerous important pieces of legislation related to anti-poverty programs, affordable housing, women’s rights...(and in Falls Church) helping secure funds for the Tinner Hill Historic Site, support for the arts, and funding for transportation.” It was noted he was once a teacher in the Falls Church school system. Over 800 persons attended a memorial for Del. Scott in Merri�ield with U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, Scott’s successor as delegate from the 53rd District Marcus Simon,, State Del. Ken Plum and one of Scott’s �irst appointees, former Fairfax County Board chair Kate Hanley last Sunday. (P����: N���-P����) tainment. Food vendors Red Hook Lobster Pound, the Rotary Club of McLean, Crepe Love, The Big Cheese, Oasis Concessions and newcomer Ricksha Streetside Indian will offer a wide variety of international flavors as well as vendors serving traditional festival food such as hot dogs, pizza, funnel cakes and cotton candy. Musical performances from U.S. Navy Band’s Country Current, Capital Blend, Furia Flamenca and Four Star Combo will take place on the main stage. On the children’s stage, Step Afrika!, Robbie Schaefer, Synetic Theatre and Joy of Dance will be performing. Voting for the MCC’s Governing Board for 2017-2018 will also be held at McLean Day. Twelve Dranesville District 1A residents are running for seats – six adults are competing for three adult seats and six teens are competing for two student seats (one for Langley High School and one for McLean High School) on the 11-member board. The election will be held at the park from 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Only district residents may cast votes. Absentee voting is available through Wednesday, May 17. Voting instructions and
candidate information are available online at the Center’s website, mcleancenter.org. No soliciting on fair grounds. Alcohol, cigarettes and other controlled substances are not permitted. No parking available at fair grounds – instead, a free shuttle service will be available from 10:15 a.m. – 6 p.m. from three nearby sites: McLean Baptist Church (1367 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean), Trinity United Methodist Church (1205 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean) and Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (1545 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean).
Seven Local Students Earn Merit Scholarships The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners throughout the United States. Falls Church residents Patrick Brinza from George C. Marshall High School, Lydia Gompper from George Mason High School and Raquel Sequeira from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and McLean residents Anna Duval and Rahul Mani from McLean
High School, Sivan Tretiak from Langley High School and Devon Wood-Thomas from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology were each awarded a $2500 scholarship from NMSC. A total of 7,500 Scholarship recipients nationwide are determined by which students have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills and potential success in rigorous college courses. The recipients were judged by college admissions officers and school counselors who evaluated each student’s academic record, scores from two standardized tests, contributions and leadership within school and the community, a written essay and a recommendation from a school official.
Local Church Hosts Session On Car Maintenance Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church (1301 Trap rd., Vienna) hosts a free session on “Common Car Maintenance Demystified,” on Monday, May 15 from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions. All are welcome. Free admission.
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Party Like It’s 1984
There have been many bad laws in U.S. history. Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses. Some were all of the above. But has there ever been anything like Trumpcare, the health legislation Republicans rammed through the House last week? It’s a miserably designed law, full of unintended consequences. It’s a moral disaster, snatching health care from tens of millions mainly to give the very wealthy a near-trillion-dollar tax cut. What really stands out, however, is the Orwell-level dishonesty of the whole effort. As far as I can tell, every word Republicans, from Trump on down, have said about their bill — about why they want to replace Obamacare, about what their replacement would do, and about how it would work NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE — is a lie, including “a,” “and” and “the.” And what does it say about the state of American politics that a majority of the representatives of one of our major political parties has gone along with this nightmarish process? Before taking back the White House, Republicans attacked Obamacare for many things. For one thing, they claimed that it was rushed through without proper debate. They also claimed that Americans were getting a raw deal. Deductibles were too high, they claimed; so were premiums. They promised to bring these costs down, to provide, as Donald Trump insisted he would, coverage that was “much less expensive and much better.” And meanwhile, they promised to keep the things people liked about Obamacare (whether or not voters knew they were getting those good things because of Obamacare). Nobody would be thrown off Medicaid; nobody would be denied affordable coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Then came the reality of Republican legislation. Obamacare was debated and analyzed for many months; Trumpcare was thrown together so fast it’s hard to believe any significant number of those voting for it even had time to read it. And it was, of course, pushed through the House without giving the Congressional Budget Office a chance to estimate its costs, its effects on coverage, or anything else. Even without a proper analysis, however, it’s clear that Trumpcare breaks every promise Republicans ever made about health. Deductibles will rise, not fall, as insurers are set free to offer lower-quality coverage. Premiums may fall for a handful of young, healthy, affluent people, but will rise and in many cases soar for those who are older, sicker, and poorer. Many people with pre-existing conditions will find insurance either completely unavailable or totally out of their financial reach. And Medicaid will be cut back, with the damage worsening over time. The really important thing, however, is not just to realize that Republicans are breaking their promises, but to realize that they are doing so with intent. This isn’t one of those cases where people try to do what they said they would, but fall short in the execution. This is an act of deliberate betrayal: Everything about Trumpcare is specifically designed to do exactly the opposite of what Trump, Paul Ryan and other Republicans said it would. Which raises two questions: Why are they doing this, and why do they think they can get away with it? Part of the answer to the first question is, presumably, simple greed. Tens of millions would lose access to health coverage, but — according to independent estimates of an earlier version of Trumpcare — people with incomes over $1 million would save an average of more than $50,000 a year. And there is a powerful faction within the GOP for whom cutting taxes on the rich is more or less the only thing that matters. And on a more subjective note, don’t you get the impression that Donald Trump gets some positive pleasure out of taking people who make the mistake of trusting him for a ride? As for why they think they can get away with it: Well, isn’t recent history on their side? The general shape of what the GOP would do to health care, for the white working class in particular, has long been obvious, yet many people who were sure to lose, bigly, voted Trump anyway. Why shouldn’t Republicans believe they can convince those same voters that the terrible things that will happen if Trumpcare becomes law are somehow liberals’ fault? And for that matter, how confident are you that mainstream media will resist the temptation of both-sides-ism, the urge to produce “balanced” reporting that blurs the awful reality of what Trumpcare will do if enacted? In any case, let’s be clear: What just happened on health care shouldn’t be treated as just another case of cynical political deal making. This was a Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength moment. And it may be the shape of things to come.
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House Republicans Go Off the Cliff
Over the last seven years, the Republican Party has engaged in increasingly elaborate political suicide attempts. The party has nominated cranks and erstwhile witches and Todd Akin in winnable Senate races. It has engaged in Somme-esque trench warfare within its own congressional caucus, shut down the government without a strategy for winning anything out of it, and campaigned on a sub-Ayn Randian narrative about the heroic businessman and the mooching 47 percent. And then, after all its prior efforts at seppuku failed, the party nominated Donald Trump for the presidency. You know how that turned out. So it would be a foolish prognosticator indeed who assumed that Thursday’s House NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE vote for the American Health Care Act, a misbegotten Obamacare quasireplacement with the favorable ratings of diphtheria and the strong support of almost nobody on the right who cares about health policy, will necessarily be the undoing of the congressional GOP. Perhaps House Republicans will be saved by masterly policymaking in the Senate (don’t laugh). Republican senators are basically promising to start from scratch with their own health care bill, which could lead to anything from the Bill Cassidy-Susan Collins proposal to allow red states to use Obamacare money for nonObamacare experiments while blue states keep things as they are, to an AHCA rewritten to make it reasonably defensible as policy and non-suicidal in its politics. Such a rewriting is theoretically possible: All you need to do is spend substantially more money on insurance subsidies than the House bill does, offer substantially more money to states for high-risk pools if they want to opt out of the pre-existing condition rules, and generally make the bill look less like a self-parodic exercise in cutting Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the rich. Since liberals tend to overestimate how much people value health insurance and how much effect it has on health, a better-funded alternative to Obamacare could lead to modest coverage reductions and still be less politically disastrous than some Democrats expect. Alternatively, maybe the Senate will simply wrangle and argue and finally do nothing, and like the WaxmanMarkey cap-and-trade bill of 2009 the American Health Care Act will simply evaporate. In which case House Republicans will be able to say, hey, we tried to fix Obamacare, its ongoing problems are the Democrats’
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fault, and have you checked out the unemployment rate? So there are ways in which House Republicans might yet escape the consequences of voting for such a lousy and unpopular piece of legislation. But it would not be an escape that they deserve. The Republicans were given a gift by Trump’s campaign, a grace they did not merit: the gift of freedom from the trap of dogma, from the pre-existing condition of zombie Reaganism, from an agenda out of touch with the concerns of their actual constituents. Nominating Trump wasn’t as suicidal as it seemed only because he had the political cunning to run against the party’s ideological enforcers, while promising working-class voters not just cultural acknowledgment but material support. As written, the AHCA basically takes Trump’s gift to the party and hurls it off the highest possible cliff. It is not just the scale of the likely insurance losses, or how much the rich benefit from repeal relative to everybody else. It’s also the gulf between that reality and what Trump and various Republican leaders explicitly promised — insisting that their plan would deliver better coverage, lower premiums, and a lot of other things that have since taken a back seat to making room in the budget for more tax cuts. When President Barack Obama said that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” his party ultimately paid for it. A reasonably competent Democratic Party, with something like the AHCA to run against, should be able to make Republicans pay dearly in their turn. Indeed, the AHCA should make the Democrats’ various internal dilemmas easier to resolve. Were Trump actually governing along the populist lines he promised, the intra-Democratic debate over “identity politics versus class politics versus making it all about Trump (and Russia?)” would be fraught and complicated, the best course of action murky. But if the AHCA stands as the chief policy distillation of Trumpism, then the central Democratic argument in 2018 and 2020 should be entirely clear: Trump is not a populist but just another pro-plutocracy Republican, and everything his party promised you on health care was a sham. This sounds like a winning argument to me. However: When a party repeatedly attempts suicide and somehow staggers bleeding into political victories instead, it is reasonable to doubt the rival party’s ability to capitalize even on the worst of blunders. So two questions loom for the Republicans who voted for this terrible bill. Can the Senate save them from themselves? And if the Senate doesn’t — can the Democrats?
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Comey Still Key to The Russia Probe
U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia joined others on the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday suggesting that the committee might be interested in hiring James Comey, fired as head of the FBI by Trump Tuesday night and now as such a private citizen without a job. The most plausible explanation for the firing of Comey is that it stemmed from a paranoid hissy fit by the president, lashing out impotently like a cornered rat as a relentless progression of damning evidence mounts that will eventually land him behind bars. His decision was not rational and his explanation, assigned to his pathetic surrogates to deliver and defend, not plausible. Although the media has been doing its job pointing out the discrepancies in the president’s latest actions, it spent far too much time focused on judging the veracFALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS ity of his patently bogus explanation. On television yesterday, only commentators like the great Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin demonstrated sufficient umbrage at the ludicrous “cover story” for justifying the firing. The patently lying explanation should be compared with (likely to be dumped) Trump press secretary Sean Spicer’s performance in his very first day in office, when he was under strict orders to defy all the photographic and eyewitness evidence about the size of the crowds at the Inaugural. But now it is not just an arm-twisted new hire that “drank the KoolAid” and gone to the wall for Trump’s ridiculous lies, it is most of the Republicans in Congress, including those moral midgets who passed legislation to strip health insurance from 24 million Americans only last week. Still, it is Trump sycophant Kellyanne Conway who took the prize for the most repulsive defense of the indefensible. Tuesday night she said to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that critics bringing up the subject of Russia in the context of the Comey firing reminded her of gamers who win $50 for every time they mention Russia. Not linked to the investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. election, and Trump’s collusion with it? Comey is canned just after asking the Justice Department for more money for his Russia investigation, as the New York Times revealed. Thanks solely to a Washington Post expose, Trump’s appointee Michael Flynn was fired from the highly-sensitive role as National Security Adviser, as former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, fired earlier by Trump, was finally able to confirm in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Yates testified that she’d briefed Trump officials repeatedly about Flynn’s vulnerability to Russian blackmail, something that they ignored until the Post article appeared. Now, prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to Flynn and associates seeking business records, constituting the first major escalation of the FBI’s Russia-Trump investigation in almost a year. Undoubtedly, it was this Yates testimony, and the subpoenas, that set Trump off into a paranoid rage that led to Comey’s firing in a futile attempt to insulate himself from more damning evidence that is sure to come. To be sure, this matter represents a far greater danger to the U.S. than the Watergate affair. Watergate was about a second rate break-in and theft. This time, it is about the intervention of a hostile foreign power into the inner corridors of power of the U.S. government. For this reason, for Republicans to defend Trump’s brazen and hopeless effort to cover up this Russian intrusion, and his own treasonous collaboration with it, is far, far beyond the pale. There were Republicans during Watergate like Sen. Howard Baker “who put country ahead of party,” as Bernstein put it. But now, he said shaking his head, “there is no GOP interest in obtaining the best obtainable version of the truth.” Republicans now are so cowed by their partisan attachments that they are heading for a special place in American history, one reserved for a handful of figures like Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr, but now requiring a major expansion to accommodate a whole generation of treasonous Russian agents. This is the biggest challenge to American democracy since the Civil War, since the War of 1812, since the American revolution. Republicans today are flatly on the wrong side of history.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Trump Is Lying Again The president of the United States is lying again. He is lying about the reason he fired James Comey, the FBI director. Trump claimed that he was doing so because Comey bungled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email, which meant that Comey was “not able to effectively lead the bureau.” There is no reason to believe Trump’s version of the facts and many reasons to believe he is lying. How can I be so confident? First, it’s important NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE to remember just how often Trump lies. Virtually whenever he finds it more convenient to tell a falsehood than to tell a truth, he chooses the falsehood. An incomplete list of the things he has lied about include: Barack Obama’s birthplace, Obama’s phone “tapp,” John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Sept. 11, the Iraq War, ISIS, NATO, military veterans, Mexican immigrants, Muslim immigrants, anti-Semitic attacks, the unemployment rate, the murder rate, the Electoral College, voter fraud, the size of his inaugural crowd, his health care bill and his own groping of women. Second, Trump previously praised Comey for reopening the Clinton email investigation, which was the core of Trump’s rationale for the firing, as Igor Volsky of CAP Action noted. Third, Trump claimed that he was merely following up on a Justice Department recommendation and released a letter from the department to bolster his case. Yet the timing doesn’t make sense — and Trump aides have already undercut their boss, by acknowledging that he wanted to fire Comey. As Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard pointed out, the Justice Department letter was dated the same day as the firing, and the official who wrote it has been on the job for just two weeks — not enough time for a serious review that could have reversed Trump’s previous position. “So there was no real recommendation from DOJ,” Kristol wrote. “Trump wanted to do it, and
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they created a paper trail.” Kristol, a conservative, added, “One can be at once a critic of Comey and alarmed by what Trump has done and how he has done it.” Even more damning, White House sources also admitted on Tuesday night that Trump himself initiated the firing. The White House charged Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, with coming up with a reason to fire Comey, as The Times and others have reported. Finally, and most obviously, Trump had a very big motive to fire Comey and install a loyalist. Comey was overseeing the investigation into the Trump campaign’s numerous strange ties with the Russian government. “The firing of James Comey as FBI director is a stunning event,” Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey, two of the sharpest observers of the Russia case, wrote for Lawfare. “It is a profoundly dangerous thing — a move that puts the TrumpRussia investigation in immediate jeopardy and removes from the investigative hierarchy the one senior official whom President Trump did not appoint and one who is known to stand up to power.” The president is lying about firing a top law enforcement official, and he is almost certainly lying to protect himself and his aides from a full investigation into their own activities. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, wrote on Tuesday night, “We are in a full-fledged constitutional crisis.” It’s now clear that Trump’s Justice Department has no independence. Both Sessions, and Sessions’ deputy, Rod Rosenstein, are acting like Trump enforcers. And now the FBI is compromised as well. The only way to unwind the constitutional crisis is an independent inquiry, completely free of Trump’s oversight. Several Republican members of Congress expressed concern about Comey’s firing, but words aren’t enough. Members of Congress need to give Americans reason to believe the Russia investigation isn’t a charade with a predetermined outcome. They need to make clear that while the president may think he is above the truth, he is not above the law.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Maintenance of public infrastructure – roads, bridges, dams, ports, etc. – is challenging for government at all levels. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) releases a periodic report that scores each state, and the scores are disappointing. The 2017 Report gives the nation, as a whole, a grade of D-plus. Virginia’s 2015 grade was C-minus. On most any report card, those grades would get a stern admonishment from teachers and parents, with a strong recommendation to do better. While ASCE does not grade at the local level, Fairfax County always tries to do better. Most county facilities are planned and built via bond funding approved by the voters. That’s why you see bond referenda on nearly every November ballot – for schools, parks, fire and police stations, for example. In fact, the planned replacement of Jefferson Fire Station 18 near the intersection of Route 50 and Graham Road, will be underway soon, utilizing public safety bond funds approved in 2012. Station 18 originally was constructed in 1955, with additions and renovations in 1960 and 1985, so it is long overdue for modernization, including sleeping quarters for female firefighters and EMTs. The existing functions of Station 18 will be moved to a temporary site on South Street at Annandale Road. That currently vacant lot will be cleared, and a temporary facility constructed, to accommodate a fully operational fire station with personnel and fire apparatus. The construction contract for the temporary station was awarded to Hitt Contracting Inc, a local company. Construction will begin on or around June 1, and the completed temporary site will be ready for move-in by late November. Fire and Rescue staff will be housed at
the temporary location for nearly two years while the permanent site is rebuilt. Once the permanent fire station is operational, structures on the temporary site will be dismantled, and the site restored. Station 18 must meet all county regulations, building codes, and zoning categories. The 2015 public safety bond contained planning funding for Station 26, on Edsall Road in Mason District which, according to county tax records, was built in 1960, and renovated in the mid1970s. Mason District has six fire stations within its borders. In addition to 18 and 26, Stations 8 and 23 (Annandale and West Annandale), Station 10 (Bailey’s Crossroads), and Station 28 (Fort Buffalo/ Seven Corners) serve the Mason District community. Maintaining and upgrading the stations, which are “home” to fire and rescue personnel during their 24-hour shifts, is important to the firefighter’s approach to a very dangerous job: “everybody goes home.” Infrastructure maintenance can be a long and expensive community process – location of temporary and permanent facilities, planning space requirements as technology and industry changes and, ultimately, how to pay for it all. Fire stations provide an excellent example of changing needs – apparatus is larger and heavier today, more women are joining the fire services, rescue calls outpace fire calls, and traffic congestion increases response times, regardless of lights and sirens! With good planning and supportive public funding, grades from ASCE can be transformed into honor roll status. Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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From the Front Row: Kaye Kory’s
Richmond Report There are many different rankings of the states on various measures of performance, such as business economics and employment, educational access and outcomes, public health and overall effectiveness of government. Ballotpedia, a non-partisan online site that covers state government politics, compiles 19 of these measures into a single “State Quality of Life Index.” Over the past 20 years or so the Commonwealth of Virginia has consistently been rated in the top 10, reaching number one in 2006. Virginia politicians can reasonably claim some of the credit, but the enormous attraction of human capital to the capitol and tidewater regions, along with massive injection of Federal Government spending has been at least as important as the quality of governance. All but four of the past 20 years have been characterized by politically divided government. Three of the past four governors have been Democrats, while Republicans have controlled at least one body of in the legislature. As a progressive, assessing Virginia’s performance, I believe that we have consistently shortchanged the large majority of our citizens by failing to invest public resources adequately in healthcare, transportation, K-12 and higher education and other key functions of government. But, I have accepted that principled Republicans who have similar aspirations for serving our citizens can reach different conclusions as to how the desired outcomes can best be achieved. Unfortunately, my confidence in the shared motives and principled decision-making of many of the members of the General Assembly is diminishing. What can possibly explain the rejection over the past two legislative sessions of, literally, billions of dollars in Federal funds under the ACA to support Medicaid expansion that would cover 400,000 uninsured Virginians? State’s rights? Fear of raising the expectations of the working poor? Maybe, I thought, the majority party in the General Assembly expects a better option from Washington. Hardly! Since Jan. 20, on my bad days, I find myself overwhelmed by the political complexity we progressives are facing in what promises to be the most disgraceful presidency since Warren Harding. This complex-
ity, in a way, is like an iceberg, in that the obvious chaos visible in Washington conceals a connected mass of “deconstructive” impulses at the state and local government level across the nation. The absolute shamelessness of the current “leader of the free world” is appalling, to be sure. The real threat to our democracy and our prosperity is the President’s impulse to follow the fringe elements on the right down one discredited rabbit hole (supply side economics) after another (a border wall!). Pitifully, the rank and file in Washington and in the states seems to feel they have to discount this aberrant presidential behavior, because this new guy is “shaking things up,” which is what their constituents want. This blatant hypocrisy is accentuated by the rejection of this argument by millions of principled Republicans (e.g. George Will, Kathleen Parker, Susan Collins, etc.) Now the House has passed “Repeal and Replace.” This is a travesty. The ACHA neither repeals nor replaces the ACA. The House bill is no more than a very expensive “Brochure Bill” that will be deployed in hundreds of political commercials by members of both parties (probably more Democrats than Republicans!) in every Federal and State election between now and 2020. Virginia’s election this year will be a bellwether for the nation. Virginians have the opportunity to raise issues that are vitally important both to Virginia and the nation, setting forth political, economic and moral arguments for Democratic positions on health care, economic justice, education funding, infrastructure investment and the environment. Currently, Democrats are outnumbered in the House of Delegates by 66 to 34. However, it is important to note that there are 17 Republicanheld seats in Districts that were carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016. Surely, the case can be made by Democratic candidates that these constituencies will not be well-represented by Republicans whose views are aligned with the President. I have no doubt there will be Republican candidates who resist using the president’s name throughout the upcoming election cycle. So be it. Delegate Kory represents the 38th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. She may be emailed at DelKKory@house.virginia.gov.
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
I first encountered Keri Shull when I received one of her letters announcing, “A local builder in Arlington wants to buy your home.” Then I began noticing her smiling face on for-sale signs in front yards and huge ads on buses. Last month I visited Shull in her upper Rosslyn office, where I learned that she is self-confident and thoughtful. And that in running her grand-scale real estate business, she can answer critics who worry that the tear-down trend is depleting Arlington’s middle-class housing stock. “The biggest frustration for buyers is they can’t find what they’re looking for,” Shull told me after talking firmly with a subordinate over the phone. The Keri Shull team, she said, has sold $1 billion in homes over six years, topping $210 million in recent years and ranking No. 1 in Northern Virginia in 2015. Her staff of 32 execute 350 transactions annually. Shull moved 13 times while growing up (her father was a warehouse distribution specialist). That taught her that when relocating for more space, “you need not just the multiple listing service, but door-knocking.” Her team researches property histories, “or else you miss a critical piece of the puzzle,” she said.
Their specialty: “off-market homes.” Shull founded the business when working in sales for a home construction company. “I had seen the mistakes, and I thought I never wanted to be an agent,” she says. But an investor emerged, and she took the risk of leaving a secure job during the Great Recession. “When I started, I didn’t want [the company] to be my name,” she says, “because when something goes wrong, people call wanting to talk to that name.” But after considering geographic names, her assistant persuaded her to go with Keri Shull. When she goes to a Capitals hockey game, fans recognize her, and a woman she played softball with eight years earlier told her, “I saw you on the back of a bus.” Shull deploys “a lot of creativity” along with liquid cash in serving buyers and sellers. “I put my money on the line a lot,” she says, citing adjustable commissions. Her guaranteed sale program (“buy this house and we’ll buy yours”) gives her “skin in the game” for a specified time frame. (She even moved into one home that wouldn’t sell). “That wouldn’t work if I didn’t have a name people trust,” she says. Sellers love it when she says she could fetch another $100,000 if they’ll let her take six weeks first to fix up the house. But Shull
MAY 11 – 17, 2017 | PAGE 17 also hopes the county will loosen zoning for condos and infill. She rejects the notion that tear-downs replaced by luxury homes are pricing out the young and middle class. “Baby boomers wanted a picket fence and yard,” says Shull, a millennial. Younger people want the closet space and modern space requirements, but they “don’t want the hassle and headache of a single family home. They’re passionate about hobbies even after they have children, and aren’t interested in doing the work” for marble countertops and perfect white cabinets. Nor do all sellers want their detached homes torn down. “They have memories,” she says, and many prefer to sell “as is” for a lower price because they get attached to a particular buyer. Her advice to buyers: “Write the sellers love letters.” *** Retired art and special ed teacher Marjorie Tapley-Olson just released her first novel, Kindred Journeys. It grew out of her ongoing blogging project in which she sets out to visit – and capture in prose – the 34 towns named Arlington in 34 states. “Though many Arlingtons across the country were named for the Lee Mansion, Arlington House,” she wrote last week, “just as many were named for Arlington Cemetery itself.”
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Mustang Girls Continue Dominance In Conference BY MATT DELANEY
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Increasing their win streak to 11, the George Mason High School’s varsity girls soccer team cruised past Rappahannock County High School, 8-0, and Central High School, 7-0, this past week. The Mustangs (13-1) haven’t lost a game since their 6-1 defeat at the hands local 5A team J.E.B. Stuart High School on Mar. 27. Better yet, Mason’s record in Conference 35 competition has remained spotless as they’ve outscored those opponents 69-5 over the course of the season. The result has allowed the Mustangs to be a bit more flexible with their line-ups and experiment with different ways to approach the game. “We like to substitute in other players so we can develop other aspects of our game and build familiarity on the field throughout the entire team,” Mason head coach Allison Klink said. “Lately we’ve been putting an added emphasis on crossing and finishing those chances so we’re gen-
DOING THE DIRTY WORK is sophomore midfielder Maura Mann. Along with fellow sophomore Maddie LaCroix, Mann helps the Mustangs maintain possessions and advance the offense into scoring opportunities against opponents. (PHOTO: CAROL SLY) erating a variety of goal scoring opportunities and keeping opponents guessing on offense.” That plan was in full effect Tuesday against Rappahannock
as Mason chipped away at the Panthers on offense. Freshman midfielder Fiona Howard started the scoring 10 minutes into the game when her corner kick
looped toward the goal and past Rappahannock’s goalkeeper. Junior midfielder Victoria Rund went on to score an unassisted goal soon after by reclaiming the ball deep inside Rappahannock County’s defensive zone and turning around for a quick shot to go up 2-0. Howard connected with Rund moments later to give Mason a three goal lead, and was followed close behind when junior forward Izzy Armstrong fed a pass to sophomore midfielder Ariana Rocco who found the back of the net. Sophomore midfielder Maura Mann tacked on two unassisted goals with Armstrong’s first of the game being sandwiched in between to end the first half up 7-0. The scoring subsided significantly in the second half, but freshman defender Julia Rosenburg managed to set up junior midfielder Hannah Rollins’ lone goal to boost Mason’s advantage to eight and end the match early. The offensive success that carried the Mustangs’ win over Rappahannock County was also present in their dominant show-
ing against Central last Thursday. Mann kicked off the bombardment on the Falcons with two consecutive goals — the first assisted by Armstrong and the second by Rund. Rund prevented Central from clearing their defensive zone and again forced a turnover that she converted into a third goal for Mason. Armstrong got on the board toward the end of the first half when senior midfielder Rebecca Crouch’s through ball caught Armstrong in stride as she barrelled at the Falcons' goalkeeper and beat her with a quick shot. In the second half, Mann completed her hat trick thanks to an assist from Fiona Howard. Mann returned the favor to Armstrong for her earlier assist when she sent a crisp pass Armstrong’s way for her second and Mason’s sixth goal of the game. Howard finished off the scoring for the Mustangs on an assist from Armstrong to bring the game to its final margin of 7-0. The Mustangs host Clarke County High School this Friday before visiting William Monroe High School next Tuesday, May 16, to close out the regular season.
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ROUNDING THE TURN during the Boys' 1600m race is junior Bill Comstock, who's followed close behind by seniors Ryan Anderson, Ethan Keck and Ahmed Elzamzami at the Park View High School Invitational last Friday. Comstock went on to �inish �irst while Anderson completed the race in third and both had fast enough times in the event to qualify for the Virginia 2A State tournament to be held at East Rockingham High School on June 2 and 3. Overall, the Mustang boys wound up �inishing in �ifth place at the invitational with 49 points while the Mustang girls ended in second with a total of 73 points. The Bull Run District tournament was held yesterday at Strasburg High School with the Conference 35 tournament slated for next week also at Strasburg . (P����: C���� C�����)
The wins continue to roll in for George Mason High School’s varsity boys soccer team as they handled business against Rappahannock County High School, 8-0, and Central High School, 1-0, to clinch the top-seed in Conference 35 and hold home field throughout postseason. On the field Mason (9-2-1) may have been on five-game win streak since their 0-0 tie with William Monroe High School last month, however a technicality off the field ended up costing the Mustangs their 7-1 victory over Madison County last week. One player didn’t turn in his medical paperwork prior to entering the game last Tuesday and, by doing so, violated one of VHSL’s rules. As a result, the Mountaineers' lone goal in the second half decided the game due to a mandatory forfeit by Mason, leaving the team with an extra loss on its record and a renewed focus with the postseason looming. “We talked as a team and we decided we weren’t going to let that affect us,” Mason senior defender and co-captain Nico Ferrara said. “Now it’s an ‘us against them’ mentality. Just going
forward we have to win everything, so it’s good motivation.” The Mustangs played like there was no room for error in their two games this past week. Against Rappahannock County on Tuesday, Mason shot out of the gates and showcased why they’re the undisputed top seed in Conference 35. In the 10th minute, a cross from sophomore midfielder Nicholas Wells set up Mason’s first goal when it found the foot of junior forward Peter Scardino who booted it in. Seven minutes later Ferrara’s through ball connected with senior forward Connor Anderson, allowing him to rocket the ball past Rappahannock County’s goalkeeper. By the 20th minute Mason would add their third goal when Anderson shared the wealth with senior midfielder Olo Sembera Baracco for his first tally of the game. The scoring continued when Wells tacked on the Mustangs’ fourth after recovering a loose ball and working his way through the Panther’s defense into a clearing for his goal in the 27th minute. Freshman midfielder Cole Hellert put some flair into his only goal during the 34th minute when he spun away from a defender and launched the ball to the lower left
post with his left foot. Right before halftime, Hellert sent a precision pass right to a streaking senior forward Riley Marcus for his first goal all season after returning from injury just the other week. After a lengthy scoring drought to start the second half, junior forward Haeju Jeong assisted Wells for his second of the game and a 7-0 lead for Mason. Marcus made sure the match ended early when he scored the Mustangs final goal in the 74th minute. “We’re just trying to not leave as many goals on the board in each game,” Mustang head coach Frank Spinello said. “Trying different combinations up top, seeing what’s going to work. Trying different paces, sticking with guys that play one way and bringing in guys that will offer up a completely different look, so hopefully that will pay some dividends down the stretch.” Mason begins a tough stretch to end the regular season in the coming week. They host Maggie Walker Governor's School today at 7 p.m. before hitting the road to face Clarke County tomorrow. The team will hold its final regular season game and senior night next Tuesday, May 16, against William Monroe as the rematch of April's unwelcome tie.
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STANDING AT THE TOP of their respective SkillsUSA competions are J.E.B Stuart High School students Juan Pineda (left) and Naseem Adam (right). Seventeen Stuart Education for Employment (EFE) students attended the SkillsUSA Virginia State Championship in Fredericksburg this past weekend. Oris Matamoros and Novelda Aleman earned Silver in their events while Johanna Pedrazas-Pinto, Muazam Ali and Sarah Kahsay each took home Bronze awards. (P����: K����� F����� )
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U.S. News & World Report’s Best High School Rankings has listed five of the 10 BASIS.ed schools within the top 10 academic institutions throughout the country – at first, second, third, fifth and seventh place. BASIS. ed’s co-founder Dr. Michael Block will speak at a free, public information session on Wed., May 24 at BASIS Independent McLean (8000 Jones Branch Dr., McLean) to discuss the school’s growing prominence nationwide. Cocktail reception begins at 6:15 p.m. with the session to follow at 6:45 p.m. To register, go to basisindependent. com/may24 or call 703-854-1253. BASIS was founded in 1998 by Dr. Michael and Olga Block. The two are world-class economists and scholars who have developed a formula for academic achievement for every child enrolled by offering a rigorous, globally competitive liberal arts and science curriculum taught by subject-expert teachers and supported by a culture of high expectations and constant encouragement. Commitment from BASIS.ed students, faculty and administrartors have propelled the schools to become some of the top ranked in the nation.
The George Mason High School Model UN participants concluded their season last weekend. The MUNtangs finished the 2017 season strong at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Matthew Lyng and Meghan Murphy were awarded for their representation of Australia for UNESCO and Elizabeth Reid for her representation as the Chief of the National Guard in the AD Hoc committee. In February, MUN traveled to Sidwell Friends High School. There, three Mason delegations were honored: Estelle TimarWilcox and Lifan Xu – honorable mention for their representation of New Zealand in SpecPol. Elizabeth Reid – outstanding delegate award for her work on the Peloponnesian Crisis. Meghan Murphy and Charlie Boland – the top honor of Best Delegation for their representation as the United States in SpecPol.
IB Testing Volunteers Still In Need For GMHS Parents and/or guardians are still needed to assist students testing in either International
Baccalaureate (IB) or Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Volunteers make IB and AP exams possible. Successful test results allow students to graduate high school with college credits. If your child is in an IB or AP course, you’re encouraged to sign up.
GMHS Renames Scholarship To Highlight Character Traits The Athletic Department and Athletic Boosters at George Mason High School, in conjunction with the Lubnow family, have decided to rename the Judy Lubnow scholarship to The Judy Lubnow Champion of Character Award. When the Athletic Department aligned itself with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes (NAIA) Champions of Character program, it started to recognize students who displayed exemplary character traits in every sports season. The traits acknowledged by the NAIA – integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and leadership – were also represented in Lubnow’s life. Beginning this year, any student who is awarded the Champion of Character Award while at Mason will be considered among the finalists for the $1000 per year, renewable scholarship.
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FALLS CHURCHCALENDAR COMMUNITYEVENTS THURSDAY, MAY 11 1-on-1 Computer & Internet Tutoring. Learn how to download eBooks and eMagazines, search the internet, customize email, use social media and more. Free personalized session arranged by appointment. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. 703-248-5058. Teen Volunteer Orientation. Required session for new volunteers who are interested in earning service hours. For grades 7 – 12, registration and volunteer application required. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 703-248-5058.
FRIDAY, MAY 12 DMV 2 Go Bus. The full range of Department of Motor Vehicle ser-
vices will be available on-site at this mobile location, including applying and renewing driver’s licenses, obtaining Virginia vital records and administering road and knowledged tests. Customers should bring the required documentation to complete transactions offered in this temporary location for regular service hours. City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
SATURDAY, MAY 13 Uno Dos Tres Andres! 2016 Latin Grammy award winner Uno Dos Tres Andres rocks out at the library. Event is geared toward young children, but is suitable for the whole family. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 703-248-5058. Ms. B and her Honeybees. Ms. B teaches about the bee life cycle, habitat, and adaptations. There will be live bees in a sealed container and bee products present
during the program. A parent or guardian will have to sign a waiver provided by Ms. B’s Backyard Bees. For children grades 1st5th. Registration begins April 29. Limited to 15 participants. Register at the Youth Services desk by phone or in person. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 703-248-5034.
SUNDAY, MAY 14 Post-Show Discussion. Following performances of “Kaleidoscope” at Creative Cauldron, join Carol Blackwell, Founder of Memory Cafe, and Anya Parpura, President of Aging Perspectives to talk about the performance and effects of Alzheimer’s. The Kensington Falls Church (700 W. Broad St., Falls Church) Immediately after show. 703-982-9868.
MONDAY, MAY 15 Playtime with the Early Literacy Center. Explore educational
items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. 703-248-5058.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TUESDAY, MAY 167 Paws to Read. Children can read with a canine companion. Grades K-5th. Registration required. Registration opens May 2 at the Youth Services Desk by phone or in person. No registration by email. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. 703-248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 8 Lego in the Library. Lego club for grades 1st to 5th. Registration opens May 3 at the Youth Services desk by phone or in person. Space is limited to 16 participants. Mary Riley Styles Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. 703248-5034.
THEATER&ARTS FRIDAY, MAY 12
“Kaleidoscope.” From the team behind “The Turn of the Screw” and “Monsters of the Villa Diodati!” During the run of a legendary Broadway performer’s comeback one-woman show, the performances take unexpected turns as she tries to tell the story of her star-studded life in the theater. She frequently forgets anecdotes that she was supposed to tell, or makes up entirely new ones. Her stage manager and director try to come to her aid, but the insidious signs of Alzheimer’s disease are becoming apparent. Brimming with humor and pathos, this heart-warming bold new work twists and turns its way through the shadows of memory. Creative Cauldron (410 S. Maple Ave., Suite 116, Falls Church). $30. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY SATURDAY, MAY 132 “Master Class.” One of the most glamorous celebrities of her time — and the definition of a diva — world-renowned opera star Maria Callas comes to vibrant life
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in this wickedly funny stage bio that won a Tony Award for Best Play. Terrence McNally’s “Master Class” finds the singing legend leading a voice class, and while she both cajoles and terrorizes to get the best out of her students, she muses on her past glories and many heartbreaks. D.C. favorite Ilona Dulaski stars in this production. MetroStage Alexandria (1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria). 8 p.m. $60. metrostage.org.
Erika Wennerstrom (of the Heartless Bastards). Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 8:30 p.m. 703522-8340
“The Father.” André is 80 and a man of his own mind. He’s quick with a joke, especially one with an edge, and used to dominating conversations and relationships. But things are getting strange: His trusted watch goes missing, reappears, and is lost again. His daughter’s stories don’t quite add up. His furniture is disappearing and there are strangers at his table. The incomparable Ted van Griethuysen stars in Florian Zeller’s internationally acclaimed and theatrically thrilling exploration of who we are to ourselves when our signposts disappear. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St., Washington D.C.) 8 p.m. $20. studiotheatre.org.
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SUNDAY, MAY 14 “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The icon. His traitor. The most famous story ever told. Experience Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s stunning award-winning rock opera in a sleek, modern, environmental production. With the legendary songs “What’s the Buzz,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Everything’s Alright” and the title song, Joe Calarco (Gypsy) directs this dazzling and fiery epic of celebrity, passion, guilt and salvation. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $74. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
LIVEMUSIC THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THURSDAY, MAY 112 Andrew O’Day. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. Robyn Hitchcock – Record Release Tour. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
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19th Street Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. Chris Diller. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333
Natty N Daddy. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283 Eric Brace – Peter Cooper – Thomm Jutz Trio. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. The Legwarmers. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 8 p.m. 703237-0300. Revelator Hill featuring Ron Holloway. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. Half Step Down Classic Rock and Roll. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. James Helle Trio. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. The Late Late Show: Main Stage Comedy Showcase. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 10:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SATURDAY, MAY 134 Swell Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. Claire Cho. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack. (130 North Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-5329283. The Legwarmers. The State Theatre (220 N Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 9:30 p.m. 703237-0300. Jameson Green Rock n Roll. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd.,
DAN FISK is performing at Dogwood Tavern in Falls Church this Saturday. (Photo: Dan Fisk) Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-2419504. Dan Fisk. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. Tobin James + Sir Alden and Suburban Snoop. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $25. 9:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 SUNDAY, MAY 14 Dixieland Direct New Orleans Jazz. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 1:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. Drew Holland. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. Iota Poetry Series. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 6 p.m. 703-522-8340. Chris Pureka “Live at Jammin’ Java” Record Release Show. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18 – $25 . 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Oz and the Revue Motown. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
entire debut album “Third Eye Blind.” Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18 – $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Bad on Purpose, Young Hands. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-5258646
Iota Jam. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY MONDAY, MAY 156 Eddie Jobson. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 5:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Dan Hovey Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-2419504.
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The Bachelor Boys. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
The Secret Sisters. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.
Wolf Blues Jam. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Tommy Z Band. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504.
Ryan and Francis Duo, FOR Trio. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-5258646
Open Mic Night. Iota Club & Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
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Doorly. U Street Music Hall (1115 U St. Washington, D.C.) $10 – $15. 10 p.m. 202-5881889.
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Mezcal, Tequila’s Smoky Cousin, Is On the Rise BY LAURA REILEY TAMPA BAY TIMES
Go to YouTube and type in “eat the mezcal worm.” I’ll wait. There are about 2,000 results, many of them not-so-sober folks wincing as they choke down a segmented gusano rojo or a chinicuil worm. Mezcal is having a moment, and the worm has been cordially uninvited. Sales of this smoky cousin to tequila have more than doubled in the past couple years. Why? “I think that everybody is looking for something that has more flavor than tequila,” says Richard Madison, owner of Agave Mexican Restaurant and Pappy’s Liquors in St. Pete Beach, Fla. “They range from mildly smoky and salty, to the more mountainous ones that are full-bodied and smoky, to the mid altitudes where they frequently have more floral notes to them. Tequila is the gateway to mezcal, which has more character and layers of flavor.” Tequila and mezcal are both made from the agave plant. In the case of mezcal, the plants’ hearts, called pinas, are roasted in woodfired pits, thus the smokiness. Those
roasted pinas are crushed by a stone grinding wheel, often horse-drawn, the juice fermented and then distilled. While tequila must be made only of blue agave, there are more than 30 species of agave plant that are sanctioned in the making of mezcal. So, technically, all tequilas are mezcal but not all mezcals are tequila. Capiche? Different species of agave are made into liquor by hundreds of small producers in the villages of Oaxaca, Mexico, and eight other states (Puebla approved just this February), many of them using different kinds of wood to fuel the fire for roasting the pinas, which further differentiates character. “It’s a terroir-driven product, for sure,” Madison says. Unlike other liquor categories that may have gotten a push by mega-brands and their marketing minions, the growth of mezcal has been organic, often driven by mixologists’ burgeoning passion. Andy Jay is the general manager and tequila maestro at Red Mesa Cantina in St. Petersburg, Fla. His enthusiasm for mezcal has blossomed into something of an obsession, the restaurant likely to hit its 100th mezcal variety in the next couple of months.
“It has become the trendy spirit with craft cocktail bartenders because of its wonderful nuances — some are peppery, some earthy,” he says. “We have a line, Alipús, that has five brands, each made by a different mezcalero from a different village.” Because in Florida we are “tropical minded,” Jay says tequila and mezcal work well for our climate. “In the way that people say if you love bourbon you will graduate to Scotch, everyone says if you love tequila you will graduate to mezcal.” It wasn’t always so. Madison says mezcal’s reputation historically has been gasoline station hooch in plastic bottles, an inferior product with a worm in the bottom, most of which never left Mexico. This was low-tech stuff, frequently made without electricity and in conditions that didn’t always have rigorous quality control (thus the occasional moth larva, like the one that had been minding its own business in the agave pina). The worm took on mythological lore — you hallucinate! Or levitate! Or, frequently, vomitate! Worms begat scorpions, the crunching of which punctuated frat parties gone wrong. But then premium tequila surged onto the scene about a decade ago.
(Thanks, Patrón.) Wow — it wasn’t just salt, then shot, then lime, then whoop. This was a sipping liquor with all the nuance of Scotch or bourbon. Tequila bars popped up and began to draw sophisticated drinking crowds. The margarita is now one of the most consumed cocktails in the country, and we drink twice as much tequila as they do in Mexico. So, what’s next? What has made mezcal rise may reflect changing consumer tastes — we are looking for more depth in our cocktails, more juxtapositions of sweet and savory, with smoke a frequent tool in the mixologist’s tool box. Mezcal’s smoky, salty, earthy, vegetal and even meaty qualities seem well-suited to the ever-more-sophisticated artisanal cocktail world. Prices for mezcal, according to Jay, range from about $20 for a 750-milliliter bottle right up to $200. (He describes the $200 Mezcal Clase Azul as being like “blackberries and barbecue.”) Not cheap, but consider that a third of tequila purchases in the United States now are the ultra-premium category, $35 or more per bottle. Some environmentalists worry that all this tequila and mezcal
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enthusiasm could impact agave availability. Many varieties take 35 years to mature, and only the center of the huge plant is used in liquor production. Mezcal, produced only in Oaxaca, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Michoacan and Puebla in Mexico, can be oakaged like tequila and offered as a reposado or anejo mezcal, often commanding a higher price. But most of it is “joven mezcal,” which has been aged less than two months. Regardless of its level of aging, it can be used as tequila would be in a cocktail, but also is frequently consumed neat alongside orange wedges and a mix of sea salt, chile and the ground-up remains of the moth larvae that hang around the agave plant. (See, it’s the worm again, only more subtle.) Madison says the best way to get a sense for the category is to taste several side by side, and in fact many restaurants and bars offer tasting flights. But if you want to tinker with cocktails, Jay has guidance: “Melon or cucumber work great, as does citrus, as fresh as possible. Herbs go great, as do chiles. You can take almost any tequila drink and substitute a nice clean mezcal, and you get these fruity, smoky nuances that you wouldn’t get with tequila.”
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The seven-person ensemble, The Family Crest, made a stop at Washington, D.C.’s Rock & Roll Hotel on Tuesday following the release of the first of a series of EPs, Prelude to War, in late April. Vocalist, guitarist and headman Liam McCormick caught up with the NewsPress to talk about the band and its unique concept of featuring closet artists on records that set it apart from the crowd. You may not have heard of The Family Crest, but you will soon enough. The selfdescribed “orchestral indie rock” band puts a spin on classic rock with a flute, trombone, cello and violin players to complement the genre’s musical mainstays of guitar, bass and percussion. It’s what allows the group to play anything from scores with cinematic crescendos to swing jazz that makes you want to tap your feet. Though this union almost never materialized. Before starting The Family Crest, McCormick and bassist John Seeterlin were in another band until they became disenchanted with the music industry’s desire for hits over substantive productions. From there they started The Family Crest and established the group’s open door policy on collaborating with all kinds of artists. Featured performers are aptly named the “extended family” and helped attract the band’s five remaining core members while also putting texture in the group’s identity. “A lot of people think the collaborative nature of our band is a gimmick and it’s really not. We do it because we like playing and encouraging people to make music.” McCormick said. “When it came to the first record we worked with 100 different people and it was really fun, so we just found a way to keep that going.” Now the extended family spans over 400 hundred artists. The features lend themselves
THE FAMILY CREST. (P����: T�� H�������� T����) to the band’s eclectic nature, as shows may vary from city to city depending on which regional artists The Family Crest is reuniting with. “It enables audiences to hear completely different versions of the band, so you’re always going to hear The Family Crest it just might be a little added color in different cities,” McCormick continued. “In Wisconsin and Chicago they’ve never heard us without [Andy Lynch]...so it’s interesting if you had a superfan that wanted to travel alongside the band, they, theoretically, could experience a bunch of different styles of concerts.” Natives from the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area have yet to join the extended family, but that didn’t stop the the group from bringing their trademark sound to a nearby stage. Show goers will be exposed to songs from the band’s latest project, Prelude to War, which is part of a larger collection known as The War. “During the last six or seven years I’ve
been writing songs to fill this block of content that makes up The War,” McCormick added. “Because I’ve been inspired by so many different sounds and artists through the extended family and the core band members, it also has a lot of different genres it’s jumping to. So it’s more eclectic than ever, but also more epic than ever.” Prelude lives up to the hype. The lead single “Mirrors,” delivers a catchy tune that interlaces a funky bass line with timely inflections from the bongo. “Sparks,” Prelude’s second single, emphasizes McCormick’s vocal range as softly spoken verses build up to a powerful chorus that is complemented well by the strings’ growing intensity. If the rest of the project can stick the landing, The Family Crest may be well on their way to putting out one of the boldest productions in recent rock memory. For more information on The Family Crest, visit thefamilycrestfamily.com
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Business News & Notes Possible Phishing Scam Targets F.C. Businesses Several local businesses have reported receiving phone calls from someone with an English accent, who at least occasionally goes by the name Chris Ellison Newton, falsely claiming to be representing the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. The number placing the calls, or at least some of them, is a number out of the United Kingdom. This is in all likelihood a phishing scam. Do not engage in conversation, provide or verify any information and please alert the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce via email at info@ FallsChurchChamber.org if you receive one of these calls.
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Virginia Small Business Workshop Set for Friday The Virginia Small Business & Supplier Diversity Department is hosting an eVA Registration Lab Workshop for businesses interested in registering to do business with the Commonwealth on Friday, May 12 from 10:30 a.m. – noon. The workshop will take place in the Business Development Assistance Group’s Computer Lab located at 7611 Little River Turnpike, Suite 300 W, Annandale. For more information, visit www.sbsd. virginia.gov.
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Kensington Hosting Post Creative Cauldron Show Discussion The Kensington Falls Church is hosting a post-show discussion series with Creative Cauldron’s new show “Kaleidoscope” which addresses dementia and memory loss. Experts on dementia will join the creative team on-stage for conversation with the audience designed to deepen the theater experience. The events will take place Thursday, May 11, May 18 and May 25 from 8 – 10:30 p.m. and Saturday May 14 from 2 – 4 p.m. at ArtSpace Falls Church. For more information, visit www.CreativeCauldron.org.
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Fairfax EDA Presenting Panel on Digital Data May 18 The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority is presenting “Digital Afterlife: Can Your Data Rest in Peace?” on Thursday, May 18 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. WeWork Tysons, 1775 Tysons Boulevard. The panel discussion will be moderated by Zak Kidd, COO and co-founder of SwingSpace, which is co-sponsoring the event with WeWork. Panelists include Ahmed Bouzid, CEO of Witlingo and author of “Don’t Make Me Tap,” and Pantea F. Stevenson of Bean, Kinney & Korman PC Attorneys. Admission is free, but seating is limited and registration is required. This program is a prelude to “Language and the Machine: Algorithms and the Future of Communication,” which is scheduled for September 14. For more information, visit www.FairfaxCountyEDA.org.
Fairfax Human Services Council Seeks Input on ‘Community Challenges’ The Fairfax County Human Services Council is inviting social entrepreneurs, businesses, public sector representatives and more to network and explore innovative strategies to address community challenges on Thursday, May 18 from 8 a.m. – noon. The event is part of its Innovation Challenge, designed to accelerate Fairfax County’s goal to strengthen its economy and deliver vital health and human services through novel and creative collaboration across sectors. In addition to informational breakout sessions, attendees will participate in a reverse pitch session to learn about specific issues and business opportunities in Fairfax County. Pitch topics will cover caregiver support, transportation, early childhood education, skills and employment, and access to human services information in a more user-friendly way. The event will take place at ICF International, 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax. For more information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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Public Notice VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE Final day of registration is Monday, May 22, 2017 for the June 13th Democratic Primary & Republican Primary elections. Sample Ballots can be found online: http:// www.fallschurchva.gov/vote All citizens, including those who are currently 17 years old, who will turn 18 years old by the November 7, 2017 General Election are eligible to register and vote in the June 13 Primary elections. Voters in Virginia do not register by party. Since both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are holding primary elections on the same day, voters must choose which election to cast their ballot. By law, voters cannot cast ballots in both elections. Online Voter Registration and early/absentee ballot by mail applications: http://www. vote.virginia.gov/ Deadline for applications submitted online via the Virginia Department of Election website is 11:59 pm on May 22, 2017. Only ap-
plicants with a DMV license or identification card can submit an application electronically and these applications may also be untimely if missing material information. Please note: those applications filled out online that are required to be printed and delivered to the registrar should be treated as regular mailed in applications and need to be postmarked by May 22, 2017 to meet the deadline. The 5:00 p.m. deadline on May 22, 2017 applies if any of these are submitted in-person at the registrar’s office. The deadline for mailed in applications remains that they be postmarked by May 22, 2017. Early/Absentee Voting for the City of Falls Church In-Person Absentee voting began April 28th in City Hall and will continue through Saturday, June 10th. During that time, residents wishing to vote by In-Person Absentee ballot can do so 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Saturday preceding the election, June 10th. The office is closed Monday, May 29th. Vote By Mail: The recommended deadline to apply for an absentee by mail ballot is Tuesday, May 30th to ensure USPS delivery of the ballot both to the voter and back to the Office of Elections by Election Day. The legal deadline is June 6th but we don’t recommend that you wait that long. Election Day Reminders for the City of Falls Church Residents are reminded that on Election Day, street parking is available on both sides of Little Falls Street by the Community Center and on Oak, Seaton, Fellows, Parker, Timber, and Jackson near Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Additional details, including a voter ward map, can be found online at www.fallschurchva.gov/ Vote. Contact the Registrar’s office at 703248-5085 (TTY 711) or vote@fallschurchva. gov for more information. David B. Bjerke, MPP, CERA, VREO Director of Elections & General Registrar of Voters, City of Falls Church Office of Voter Registration & Elections 300 Park Ave., Room 101E , Falls Church, VA 22046 Office: 703-248-5085; Fax: 703-248-5204; 703-248-5014 (TTY 771) vote@fallschurchva.gov ; http://www.fallschurchva.gov/vote
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ABC LICENSE GLORY DAYS GRILL, Trading as: Glory Days Grill of Barcroft, LLC, 6341 Columbia Pike, Falls Church, Virginia 22041-1246. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) for a Wine and Beer On and Mixed Beverage Restaurant license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Jeffrey I. Newman, Member. NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www. abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) RFP No. 0523-17-CS – CUSTODIAL SERVICES CITY Of FALLS CHURCH Sealed proposals will be accepted by the City of Falls Church at the Purchasing Office, 300 Park Ave., Room 300E, Falls Church, VA 22046 for the provision of Custodial Services for City owned facilities. The due date for the receipt of sealed proposals is May 23, 2017 by 11:00 AM. A nonmandatory pre-proposal conference will be held on May 16, 2017 at 10:00 AM. A copy of the RFP which includes all details and requirements may be downloaded from the City of Falls Church’s procurement website: http://www.fallschurchva.gov/Bids . In addition, a copy of the RFP may be accessed via eVA, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s electronic procurement portal for registered suppliers: https://eva.virginia.gov. For more information and/or questions regarding this RFP contact the City’s Purchasing Agent at (703) 248-5007; jwise@fallschurchva.gov. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703 248-5007 (TTY 711).
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD The Falls Church Historic Architectural Review Board (HARB) will hold a public hearing on Thursday, May 25, 2017 to consider the following: 903 Lanier Place, demolish the existing two car garage and an attached covered breezeway between the house and garage; and
114 East Columbia Street, full house renovation, removal of existing vinyl and asbestos siding, preserving existing wood siding, replacing all existing modern vinyl windows, restoration of existing stained glass windows; new 8.5’ x 15’ two-story right rear addition containing entrance, mudroom, and bathrooms; new 5.5’ x 10’ three-story right side stair tower; rebuild existing roof structure to allow for usable third floor-attic space; New 12’ x 19’ rear screened porch; and new two (2) car garage at the right-rear corner of the property. The HARB meeting will be held in the Oak Room of City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, beginning at 7:00 PM. Enter City Hall through the Police Department; take the elevator to Level 3; turn left. The Oak Room is the 3rd door on the left. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and to the spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, call 703-248-5040 (TYY 711).
IN THE CHANCERY COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TENNESSEE AT CLARKSVILLE NON RESIDENT NOTICE CASE NO: MC-CH-CVDI-16-559 TO: KARI JANE CHILDS, 7137 Oakland Ave, Falls Church, VA 22042 You are ordered to appear and defend a civil action filed against you, entitled ROBERT WILLIAM CHILDS v. KARI JANE CHILDS which has been filed in the Chancery Court for Montgomery County, Tennessee, and your defense must be made within thirty (30) days from the date of the last publication of this notice, which shall be published for four consecutive weeks in the Falls Church News Press. You are further directed to file your defense with the Clerk of the Court and send a copy to the Plaintiffs’ attorney at the address listed below. In case of your failure to defend this action by the above date, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. Attorney for Plaintiffs: Dennis W. Stanford 215 S. 2nd St. Clarksville, TN 37040.
We are pledged to the letter andspirit of Virginia’s policy for achieving equal housing opportunity throughout the Commonwealth. We encourage and support advertising and marketing programs in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status or handicap. All real estate advertised herein is subject to Virginia’s fair housing law which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status or handicap or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept advertising for real estate that violates the fair housing law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. For more information or to file a housing complaint call the Virginia Fair Housing Office at (804) 367-8530. Toll free call (888) 551-3247. For th e hearing impaired call (804) 367-9753.
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BACK IN THE DAY
20 & 10 Years Ago in the News-Press Falls Church News-Press Vol. VII, No. 9 • May 15, 1997
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Falls Church News-Press Vol. XVII, No. 10 • May 10, 2007
10 Year s Ago
Thr ow it up. Pour it up It now is the time for all go od cows to go the to aid
Planners Expect to OK Start Up of New Gym at St. James
‘Signature’ Art Nouveau Architecture Comes to Downtown Falls Church
The Falls Church Planning Commission is expected to give the go-ahead at its meeting this Monday night to permit work to start on construction of a new gymnasium at the St. James Catholic School, 806 W. Broad St. At the cost of $1 million, the gym will be good for the high school ball.
The big banner hanging off the new building reads that the first occupant, a boutique fitness facility, will be open for business in May. On the site of the old Falls Church Service Center at 402 West Broad in downtown Falls Church, the new, mixed-use, four-story so-called Read Building is now near completion.
RUSTY HANGS OUT with one of his favorite toys while eagerly awaiting for the Reinke family to take him on his next adventure. It’s in his blood after all, since he spent his youth in India. Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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