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Inside This Week FBI Investigating F.C. Bank Robbery
The FBI has taken the lead in an investigation of a robbery at the Wells Fargo Bank branch at 1000 W. Broad St. in Falls Church yesterday afternoon. See News Briefs, page 8
TJ Elementary Names New Principal
Paul Swanson, an elementary principal in Indiana, has accepted the position as the new principal at Falls Church’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, replacing the departing Robert Palermo.
4 F.C. Principals Appeal to School Board to Protect IB K-12 Programs
Extraordinary Show Of Support for Core F.C. Schools’ Value
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
the groups to which they’ve been assigned. The current 23 students follow the 17 students who were successfully placed in a similar manner when the program was first introduced a year ago. Carol Loftur-Thun of the CBC originated and spearheaded the development of the unique program, called the CBC Youth Representative Initiative. It originally came before the City Council for a go-ahead in May of 2014 and last May came the first crop of appointees.
The embattled Falls Church School Board, tasked with finding almost $1 million in cuts from its FY17 requested budget that resulted from a 4-3 City Council vote last month, Tuesday night heard their school system’s four principals present an eloquent and impassioned defense of the educational values and effectiveness of the system’s International Baccalaureate program that now runs from kindergarten through the 12 grade. The appeal was to avoid any cuts to personnel or vital components that make the International Baccalaureate, known as IB, program (called Primary Years Program, or PYP, and Middle Years Program, or MYP, in years before high school). George Mason High School principal Tyrone Byrd, accompanied by assistant principal and IB coordinator Kevin Clark, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School principal Ty Harris, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School principal Robert Palermo and Mt. Daniel Elementary principal Kathy Halayko and assistant principal Erin Kelly took turns in front of a packed house in the audience in telling the seven School Board members what the IB program means for the system, overall, and of the catastrophic consequences of allowing it to diminish. In a statement on the Falls Church City Public Schools’ website, the International Baccalaureate program is described as “aiming to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help
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See News Briefs, page 8
David Brooks: Putting Grit In its Place
We all know why it exists, but the grade-point average is one of the more destructive elements in American education. See page 14
Press Pass with Handsome Ghost
Handsome Ghost, a musical project started by Tim Noyes, recently released the single “Graduate” from the band’s upcoming LP, which Noyes hopes to release on Photo Finish Records this fall. See page 25
THE PRINCIPALS of all four schools in the Falls Church City School System gave an extraordinary defense of the International Baccalaureate program in its K – 12 iterations before the Falls School School Board Tuesday night. Left to right are Ty Harris, Robert Palermo, Tyrone Byrd and Kathy Halayko, In the foreground is School Board vice chair John Lawrence. (Photo: News-Press)
F.C. City Council Votes 23 Youth Reps to Board & Commissions by Nicholas F. Benton
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At the outset of Monday night’s Falls Church City Council meeting, the Council voted 7-0 to confirm the appointment of no fewer than 23 high school students to youth membership on the City’s boards, commissions and civic organizations. The students all came from Falls Church’s George Mason High School. With proud parents crowding the front of the room to get good angles for the photo opportunities that were provided the students with mem-
bers of the Council, it was noted that nowhere else in the U.S., to anyone’s knowledge, has a similar program been implemented on such a scale, run entirely by volunteers. All the students were asked to apply and then vetted by members of the Citizens for a Better City (CBC), Falls Church’s venerable non-partisan civic group, in personal interviews and evaluations. Thus, all the students came highly recommended by the CBC. The students will be non-voting members of all the groups they asked to serve with and are asked to attend all but closed sessions of
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to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. Its programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.” The School Board did not make any major decisions at Tuesday’s meeting but sought to come up with a set of options that it would formulate and circulate in the schools and in the community in hopes of deriving a consensus. At Tuesday’s meeting, a lengthy discussion, for example, took on whether or not to remove one copier from each school for a combined savings of $28,000 a year. Henderson Middle School principal Harris eloquently defended the MYP. “The MYP framework targets open mindedness,” he said. “Students are encouraged to share thoughts, opinions and ideas. They become globally-minded and see value in everything they do beyond themselves. They become more confident in the
notion that one right answer is not the only answer. They tackle real world ideas, on climate change and immigration, becoming critical thinkers and problem solvers, developing leadership and teamwork skills. Teachers, too become more confident. “It forces more collaboration with a consistent framework and we see growth in the skills of the faculty to become like rock stars.” Harris added, “Let it fall by the wayside, and it will be very hard to get back. It forces middle school and high school teachers to collaborate and advances IB learner profile traits. We live and breathe the MYP framework.” George Mason High School assistant principal Clark noted the IB program began at Mason High in 1981. It’s helped define “who we want our kids to be, balanced, principled, caring, with a global perspective.” A third of the students actually go for an IB diploma, but the program impacts every kid, not just in the 11th and 12th grades, but K – 12.” He said, “It’s hard work for teachers who must go beyond just what to cover to how to shape a person.”
Harris said that in interviewing currently for three new teachers at MEH, all three mentioned their perceived importance of the MYP and IB programs. Halayko said the PYP program could be extended to cover pre-school. There’s a curriculum embedded in it that fits in anywhere in the world, she said, and leadership and training are also indispensable components of it. Palermo said the program instills a global perspective in students “and makes them inquirers.” Byrd said it is important “to maintain the full continuum of the IB program, “and we need a champion in our building to do that. Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones credited the Falls Church Education Foundation with helping contribute funds for professional development and training. Halayko said that while Standards of Learning testing focuses on facts, dates and lists, IB education is “fundamentally different.” She said that for years there had been a desire in Falls Church schools to “develop a common language and conversation, but when the PYP was explored in 2005, “It was what
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Those CBC volunteers who conducted the student interviews both last year and this year said they were amazed by the intelligence and commitment of the students. Ken Feltman, one among the 11 volunteers who interviewed the students, said that he challenged the students by saying, “We want you to take a little bit of Falls Church wherever you go, and be civically engaged as a citizen of the world no matter where you are.” This years’ appointees included 15 young women and eight young men, six rising seniors (meaning they will be seniors at Mason High next fall), 15 rising juniors, a rising sophomore and a rising freshman. The total of 23 will serve on 19 different groups. The youth appointees and their assignments to City boards and commissions approved by the City Council Monday are: Will Sherard (Architectural Advisory Board), Isabella Flory (Arts and Humanities
Council) Bhaskar Singvi (Committee on Transportation), Nathan Holmes (Economic Development Authority), Nuki Giorgadze (Economic Development Authority), Hannah Tauberman (Environmental Sustainability Council), Ti-ka Wallace (Environmental Sustainability Council), Aziz Shaik (Energy Transition Committee), Kat Melara (Cable Access Board), Zander Woods (Cable Access Board), Valentina Anfinogenova (Historical Commission), Camille Borja (Housing Commission), Esther Kim (Human Services), Eema Ahmed (Library Board), Carly Roberson (Recreation and Parks) and Christian Autor (Tree Commission). Also authorized by the City Council to serve with civic organizations are: Harshini Ravi (AAUW), Hermela Hailemariam (AAUW and Falls Church Education Foundation), Lincoln Orellana (CBC), Kim (Friends of the F.C. Homeless Shelter), Merriweather Gordon (F.C. League of Women Voters), Sarah
CAROL LOFTUR-THUN (left), who devised and developed the Youth Representative Initiative of the F.C. Citizens for a Better City, announced the 23 new students at Monday's meeting of the Falls Church City Council. She is joined at the podium by student Christian Autor, appointed last year to the Tree Commission. (P����: N���-P����) Maller (League of Women Voters) and Sunita Kavthekar (Village Preservation and improvement Society). CBC volunteers conducting the interviews of the students were Jerry Barrett, Nancy Brandon, Ruth Brock, Tom Clinton, Michael Connelly, Ken Feltman, Stacy
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It was a truly amazing defense of the ways in which the entire Falls Church School Systems has been infused with the laudable values and goals of the International Baccalaureate (IB) educational program presented by the principals of all four of the City’s schools before the F.C. School Board Tuesday night. In our 25 years covering the affairs of Falls Church on a weekly basis, and always being in staunch support of the City's youth through support of its schools, we've never experienced anything like what those four principals, and two assistant principals, brought to the School Board and chambers filled with parents and teachers Tuesday night. Our hope is that positive message gets conveyed to the entire community. When all the talk of tight budgets and tax rates are set aside, what those principals conveyed was what it is all about when the talk is about the extraordinary benefits of the Falls Church School system and why parents want their children to be educated by it. This event helped to show that much of the frustration and anger being expressed by parents against the schools’ leadership, in the face of the School Board’s challenge to find $1 million in cuts mandated by a 4-3 vote of the City Council last month, has been misguided at best. The chambers at City Hall packed each of the last two weeks with parents and teachers angry about how the School Board began its process to find the $1 million in cuts has been in sharp contrast to the almost no people who attended town halls and hearings on the City’s budget when the Council was making its decision to cut a million from the schools earlier this spring. Had that same energy been directed to alter just one City Council member’s vote (it came down to a 4-3 vote to cut the schools’ request) then all the agonizing now could have been avoided about squeezing nickels and dimes out of a very very tight school budget. Sadly, many have let the Council off the hook while taking out their frustrations on the School Board and administration when the four in the majority on the Council did not take seriously enough just how tight the School Board budget request was, but instead was dead set to allay a two-cent tax rate hike. But Fairfax County’s tax rate leaped by four cents this spring, and the reason was the explosive population growth (and student growth) in the context of a stagnant regional economy. Despite the commercial boom in Tysons Corner, Fairfax had to raise its taxes by twice the amount Falls Church's city manager recommended. Even so, the F.C. Council had options to a tax increase, like shaving one percent off the City’s bloated fund balance or auditing the assessor’s dubious claim that there was no appreciation of residential values in 2015. But no one pushed the Council to do this, so instead it blithely cut the schools.
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Editor, Like many who live in the City, I am proud of our school system. My daughter graduated with the full IB diploma and all her work and effort has stood her well, both in university and in her work life. The proper funding of our schools is critical, especially since our school system and the young people who attend are competing with far larger and more financially endowed systems, like
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cut of $900,000! Imagine in the private sector if you asked your boss for a 5.5 percent raise, but were granted a 3.9 percent raise. Would you then go out and proclaim that your boss had cut your salary by 1.6 percent? I think not. The math is simple it seems to me. The schools got a raise, not a cut. Stop your caterwauling and deal with it. Those of us on Social Security got no increase this year. Government workers at the Federal level have been squeezed for quite a few years – I doubt they have gotten a 3.9 percent increase for many years. I should think the school system’s officials should be pleased with the increase, not declaring the end of the world.
And by the way, we taxpayers are going to have to pony up more money this year anyway due to the increase in assessments. The schools get a raise, we get a cut – that is, a real cut. As a small jurisdiction, we pay higher tax rates, I get that. That is the real world cost of running a small jurisdiction. Truth in advertising would be a good thing to see in the NewsPress too. But that is probably a vain hope. How about a headline like this? “School System Gets 3.9% Increase – But Says It Needs More.” David Phelps Falls Church
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The American Cancer Society Relay For Life event is a life-changing experience. Our local Relay For Life of the Beltway will be held on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at George Mason High School from noon – midnight and celebrates the communities of Falls Church, Vienna, and Arlington. Even though Relay for Life has been around for 30 years, questions still come up from time to time – what is Relay all about? Is it a race? Is it just for kids? Is it only for people who have cancer? How can I participate? I’m hoping to answer some of these questions here. While the main objective of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life is to raise money for cancer research and cancer patients, a significant part of the program also celebrates the lives of cancer survivors and remembers those who lost their lives to cancer. The format of the event is comprised of teams of all ages and representations – high school and college students, adults of all ages, employees from businesses. These teams establish monetary goals and raise money before and during the event, all of which is donated to the American Cancer Society. The day of Relay, each team is assigned a space along the football field. They set up tents, folding chairs, bring food and drink and prepare to be comfortable and have fun as they participate in the many activities at the event.
Relay For Life is spent on the field honoring cancer survivors and remembering those who have fought or are fighting this disease, raising money and building awareness to benefit current cancer victims. For
“Relay of Life of the Beltway is for everyone in our community, and all of us can participate in one way or another.” some people, this event is very personal; maybe they have lost a loved one to cancer and wish to honor them, or maybe they are a cancer survivor and are there to celebrate. There are others who just want to raise money to fight this horrible disease. All of them are equally welcome to participate in Relay. At the event, we have three important ceremonies to celebrate, remember, and fight back against cancer. The first, celebration, is to honor local cancer survivors. If you are, or know someone, touched by cancer, please join us for a free brunch at 10:30 a.m. in the George Mason High School cafeteria to celebrate you! We will then have our sur-
vivor lap around the track to honor your victories. Relay of Life of the Beltway is for everyone in our community, and all of us can participate in one way or another. Examples: Are you someone who can rally a group of friends, co-workers or family members to create a Relay for Life team, do fundraising, and participate in the event? Come up with a name, go to the website and sign up your team at relayforlife.org/beltwayVA. It doesn’t have to be a lot of people – four or five can make a big difference. Do you live near or work alongside someone who already has a team? Help them by making a donation. If you can afford it, make it a big donation; if you can’t, donate what you can. Any amount will help them and their efforts. Can you help the team raise money? Some teams do yard sales, some teams do bake sales and some hold fundraisers at local restaurants. Maybe you can offer something from your attic for their yard sale, donate a batch of cookies to their bake sale or have dinner at their restaurant fundraiser. You can also fundraise through dedications to loved ones. At Relay, there is a Luminaria Ceremony which is held at 8 p.m. Luminaria bags are marked with the names of cancer victims, survivors or caregivers and are lighted and set up around the track. Relay participants and members of the community take a solemn walk around the track to honor and remember
these people. You can make a donation by purchasing a luminary, giving the name of someone you would like to be remembered. A Luminary Dedication only costs $10, and can easily be done online at relayforlife. org/beltwayVA. You don’t have to be at the ceremony to honor someone but I encourage you to attend this special event. This is one of the most moving ceremonies you will ever experience in your life. Can you volunteer? Relay needs people to help out with the physical stuff, but we also need people who can sit behind a table and help keep things moving and organized. You’re not there alone, our team will already be there; we just need a few more hands. You are also welcome to come for any amount of time-whether that is one hour or 12 hours! I hope this has not only answered your questions but has encouraged you to participate. If so, go to our website atrelayforlife. org/beltwayVA. For any other questions, please feel free to contact me at melissakmorse@earthlink.net or our community manager Katie Sue Van Valkenburg at katiesue.vanvalkenburg@cancer.org. Cancer is something that affects our whole community; Relay for Life is a way for the whole community to fight back. Whatever you can do will be warmly received and appreciated. Melissa Morse is a volunteer for Real for Life of the Beltway.
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Paul Swanson, an elementary principal in Indiana, has accepted the position as the new principal at Falls Church’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, replacing the departing Robert Palermo, who has been in the post since the summer of 2010. Swanson comes with 23 years of experience, the last seven as principal of West Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Indiana. According to a Falls Church School Board press release, Swanson will attend a community “meet and greet” with the public hosted by the Thomas Jefferson Principal Search Committee once his schedule for transitioning to Falls Church has been determined.
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F.C. Mulls New ‘Play Streets’ Program The Falls Church Department of Public Works is considering a new program similar to block party street closure permits that it is calling Play Streets. According to a City of Falls Church press release, a Play Street permit closes a neighborhood street to traffic so that kids and adults can have more space for play and physical activity. The City has invited the public to attend a pilot Play Street event from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. this Saturday, May 14, at N. Virginia Ave. and Riley Street. At 11 a.m., Virgil Seay Sports and Activities will provide directed play and at 12:30 p.m. Prophetic Dance and Fitness will lead a group activity. For the event, parking is prohibited on N. Virginia and Riley, except for residents of those streets. The City has not yet determined all the rules and regulations for Play Streets, although the process will likely be similar to Block Party Permits, which has limits on the duration, frequency and location of the event. There will also likely be requirements for adults to stand at the barricade to allow access to residents and emergency vehicles. Barricades will be provided by the residents and could be trash cans or something else that could be moved easily. Part of the pilot event is to determine what is needed for the permit process.
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If We Can’t Run a City Ourselves, We Need to Give it Back Editor, My grandparents, my parents my wife and I, and my children are all products of Falls Church City, and Falls Church City Schools, for the most part. We are now at the point where the proposed tax rate for the deplorable Little City is 19 percent higher than that of Fairfax. Well, if we are not competent to run the city with an equal budget, give it back. Admit failure, before it ruins us all. Oh, by the way, the school budget does not include bond payments for the new school buildings. Did the News-Press ever mention that? It is like the Pravda Falls Church edition. Patton Cooper Falls Church
Column On Arab Muslim Comedian Was Disturbing Editor, I generally enjoy Charlie Clark’s vignettes of local life in his “Our Man in Arlington” series. As I started reading his column in the April 28-May 4, 2016 edition of the News-Press, I thought this would be another enjoyable column about Mr. Clark’s interactions with the Arab Muslim community in Northern Virginia. Unfortunately, the column quickly went from a discussion of Islamophobia, against which we must all be vigilant, to an anti-Semitic rant. The “comedian” Mr. Clark chose to highlight claims that “they” – meaning the Jews – “stole our land.” Actually, the UN partitioned the land that was under British control, giving the majority of the land to the Arabs. Prior to that, many Arab and Muslim residents living in British controlled Palestine willingly sold their land
to Jewish buyers. Were many others displaced by the Israeli War of Independence? Yes. Similarly, at the same time, Jews in the surrounding Arab and Muslim countries were forcibly expelled from their ancestral homes. But of course, there is no mention of the Jews’ land being stolen or their expulsion. Mr. Clark then goes on to describe the “Israeli tormentors.” Those tormentors are really soldiers and police officers who ensure that Palestinian and other terrorists do not harm innocent civilians—including Americans. Moreover, as anyone who has visited Ben Gurion airport knows, the security is tough on everyone, not just Arabs. Most disturbing is that Mr. Clark gives voice to someone who is not merely complaining about the lands Israel won in the 1967 war; the subject of the article clearly states that it has been since 1948 that Israel has “occupied” Palestinian land. In other words, the State of Israel should no longer exist. The real tragedy of this so-called comedian is that he fails to put the blame squarely where it belongs for the plight of Palestinians who have no country – Palestinian leaders who lack courage and vision, and who teach their young people to hate others and not value their own lives. Beth Heleman Falls Church
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City of F.C. Plans to Launch Bike Sharing Program in 2017 by Drew Costley
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Capital Bikeshare stations could come to the City of Falls Church in late spring/early summer of 2017 with City employees and officials planning an installation of up to 16 stations throughout bike corridors in the City. In November 2015, the City of Falls Church City Council authorized city manager Wyatt Shields to apply for a $2,000,000 grant from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to increase access to the East Falls Church Metro station by bringing the popular bike sharing program to Falls Church. According to Paul Stoddard, principal planner for the City, the funding decision on the grant is scheduled to happen on July 14. Other parts of the process that need to take place before the bicycle sharing stations are actually opened are getting Capital Bikeshare under contract, having a successful study of the ridership to and around Falls Church to plan station locations and getting the equipment, the bicycles and the dock stations, to the city and installing them in a timely fashion, according to Stoddard. The annual operating cost for a 13-dock station, which is the expected size of the stations in the city, is $16,440, which the City plans to cover partially through user fees, grant funding and developer contributions. The capital cost for each station is approximately $50,000, which will likely be cov-
ered by grant support and developer contributions, Stoddard said in an email to the News-Press. Since 2010, the Capital Bikeshare has spread from Washington, D.C. to the suburbs in the region with stations in Arlington County, the City of Alexandria and Montgomery County. This fall, Capital Bikeshare stations will open in Reston and Tysons Corner. Bicycle sharing’s growth in this region mirrors a trend taking place throughout the country, with over 70 municipalities implementing a bicycle sharing program of some sort since 2009. And, if Falls Church is approved for the grant to bring bike sharing to the City in 2017, most of the eastern Northern Virginia region will be connected through bike sharing. Stoddard said that he feels “confident” that the City will be approved for the grant funding. “It really is moving throughout the whole region,” Stoddard said. “And when people ask what’s the benefit of bike share or why are cities going after these bike share systems, [I say] there’s a range of [reasons]. One is that it’s another transportation option...from the public’s side, it’s much more cost efficient to provide bicycle capacity to provide automobile capacity or transit services. It’s seen as a more cost effective means for providing travel options. “For the City specifically, it’s a way to connect to the metro stations. The East Falls Church and West Falls Church stations
THE CAPITAL BIKESHARE STATION in Virginia Square in Arlington is one several stations that have been installed throughout the Washignton, D.C. region since the initiative launched in 2010. Falls Church is planning on opening bicycle sharing stations in 2017. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press) are somewhere between a half a mile to a mile from town depending on where you start counting. Environmentally, bike ridership has much lower energy use than other transportation alternatives and it has considerably less impact on air quality. And with public health, it’s a way to introduce daily exercise and activity into people’s routines. In the country, as automobile use rose, physical activity
THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH recently installed bicycle racks around the City in an effort to encourage bicycle usage in and around the City. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press)
went down and that had impacts on public health, so reintroducing bikes is a way to get that back.” Stoddard also cited that bringing a bike sharing program to the City would have an impact on economic development. Younger workforces are looking for more travel options, he said, citing Chicago’s launch of a bicycle sharing program in 2013 as an example of a municipality using bike share as a means of attracting people to a city. “It’s not just workforces,” Stoddard said. “It’s leisure riders who want to come out at a place like State Theatre. They can get as far as the East Falls Church metro, but then they can make that last connection to State Theatre.” Rob Ochsendorf, a Falls Church resident, has been riding his bicycle to work for more than a decade, first to a job in Washington, D.C. and then, since late last year, to work in the Ballston neighborhood in Arlington. He said that he initially started biking to work to avoid the traffic in the area. “Ugh. Anybody that’s driven around here knows that it can be a nightmare,” he said with a chuckle. “You drive in D.C. and you take your life in your hands every single day. You could get run off the road or get in an accident. It’s not very safe and it’s rather frustrating to be sitting in traffic for hours upon end.
“Or I could be sitting on the train. I could be sitting in my car and commuting that way or I could be sitting in the Metro and dealing with all the frustrations that go along with riding Metro. And in about the time it takes me to do either one of those things, I could be riding my bike to work and enjoying my time outside and getting some exercise. I think we oughta be encouraging more people to ride bikes to get around.” He recognized Arlington County’s efforts to make the county more bikeable and how much the county has invested in its bike infrastructure. He has reached out to Stoddard about the City implementing a bicycle sharing service. In his correspondence with Stoddard he urged the City to adopt bike share and cited the ubiquity of the program throughout the region as a reason for moving quickly on the issue. “I have pretty significant interest in bike infrastructure and transportation issues related to biking,” Ochsendorf said. “And the bike share system launched in the District in 2010, so it’s been about six years since that initiative first started. “And then Arlington followed shortly thereafter, Alexandria, Bethesda…. So these jurisdictions are getting on board and [Reston] and Tysons Corner are next, so it just stands to reason that at least the City should explore this because it’s happening all around you.”
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Community News & Notes GM Hall of Fame Seeks Nominations Through June 1 The George Mason High School Athletic Hall of Fame Nominating Committee announced last week that its accepting nominations for the school’s sports Hall of Fame through Wednesday, June 1 with the objective of holding inductions in the fall 2016. Honorees will be recognized at George Mason High School’s football game on September 30, 2016 and inducted the following evening at a ceremony at the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School gym. Interested individuals can nominate any athletes, teams, coaches, administrators or program friends they believe are worthy of consideration and induction. The committee will also consider nominees for a Special Achievement Award which is designed to honor persons who have made particularly inspira-
tional contributions to George Mason High School athletics. Selection criteria are available on the website and the nominating form at masonathletics.org/main/ alumnitr. Among other criteria, athletes must have been graduated at least five years ago (classes through class of 2010 are eligible) with similar constraints as to teams (teams that completed their seasons on or before the spring of 2010 are eligible). Selfnominations are not permitted. For more information, email Scott Sager at scotts1147@ aol.com, Joel Hamme at joel. hamme@ppsv.com or George Mason High School athletic director Tom Horn at hornt@fccps.org.
Monthly Teen Support Group Forms in Falls Church A peer-run teen support group for children ages 13 – 17 has
formed in Falls Church. The group will meet every third Sunday of the month from 4 – 5:30 p.m. at the Bonita Woods Wellness Institute at 140 Little Falls Street, Suite 111. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. for the group. The next meeting of the group is Sunday, May 15. The group is an opportunity for teenagers to connect with their peers and discuss and explore pathways to personal growth, maturity, recovery, emotional evaluation or to just hang out and chat. Snacks will be provided by Chef Bon’s Yum Truck at the group. For more information, visit bonitawoods.org.
F.C. Education Foundation Gala Scheduled for May 20 The Falls Church Education Foundation’s 12th Annual Gala & Auction will be held on Friday, May 20 starting at 6:30 p.m. at
THE NEW CROP of George Mason High School students who volunteered and were interviewed and nominated by the Citizens for a Better City as youth representatives on varoius City boards, commissions and civic groups was introduced at Citizens for a Better City annual meeting on Sunday, May 1. They were presented for formal appointment to their groups at a recent meeting of the Falls Church City Council. (Photo: News-Press)
Washington Golf & Country Club, located at 3017 N. Glebe Road, Arlington. There will be live entertainment, great food, an open bar and silent and live auctions at the gala, which is themed Studio 46 after the famed New York nightclub Studio 54. Tickets for the event at $125 for single admission, $250 for a couple and $125 to sponsor a Falls Church City Public Schools teacher or staff to go the event. For more information, visit fcedf.org/gala or contact Debbie Hiscott at dhiscott@fcedf.org.
Tinner Hill Foundation Announces New Officers The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation recently announced its new slate of officers following the organization’s recent board elections. The organization’s new president is Falls Church realtor
Alex Boston and the new vice president is artist and curator Irene Chambers. “As an African-American, I have always been aware of the importance of keeping history alive as a way to guide us into the future,” Boston said. “It is an honor to lead the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, which keeps us rooted in the past, while allowing us to imagine a better future.” New to the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation’s board is Ken Feltman, former chairman of the Falls Church City Republican Committee. Debra Z. Roth is joining the organization’s advisory committee. Founder and former Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation president Edwin Henderson will take on the role of executive director and Nikki Henderson, the former executive director, will direct special projects for the organization. For more information, visit tinnerhill.org.
NEWS-PRESS PUBLISHER NICHOLAS F. BENTON (left) spoke with veteran Washington Blade journalist Lou Chibbaro (right) about his book Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming the Central Role of Gay Sensibility in the Progress of Civilization, a collection of 100 Benton’s “Gay Science” essays published in the Metro Weekly from 2010 – 2012, at One More Page Books in Arlington on Thursday, May 5. (Photo: Courtesy of Debra Z. Roth)
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DMV 2 Go Returns to Falls Church on May 13
The Department of Motor Vehicles mobile customer service center, DMV 2 Go, will be at City Hall at 300 Park Avenue on Friday, May 13, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.The special event is co-hosted by the Commissioner of the Revenue and the Virginia DMV. This event is open to all Virginia residents. No appointments are necessary. The handicapped-accessible, full-service office provides all DMV transactions including applying for and renewing driver’s licenses; obtaining ID cards (including photos) and Virginia’s veterans ID cards; taking road and knowledge tests; obtaining copies of driving records; obtaining vehicle titles, license plates, decals, and transcripts; ordering disabled parking placards or plates; updating an address after a move for DMV and voter registration; and more. Customers should be prepared with the required identification. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/dmv2go.
47 F.C. Residents Partipicate In Girls on the Run 5K 47 girls from Falls Church who attend St. James Catholic School and Thomas Jefferson Elementary School will participate in the Girls on the Run 5K in Arlington on Sunday, May 15. The event, which is presented by Cigna, is the culmination of a ten week youth development program designed to help pre-adolescent girls gain important life skills. “Girls on the Run is committed to building a stronger, healthier community by building stronger and healthier girls,” said Monica Schmude, senior vice president Mid-Atlantic for Cigna. “As a company dedicated to helping customers stay well, prevent sickness, obtain access to healthcare, recover from illness or injury, return to work and provide
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for their families, we are excited to support Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia as they promote the overall health and well-being of young girls and their families.” Over 2,400 girls in grades 3 – 8 were trained in the program by volunteer coaches who offer lessons on positive self-talk, healthy friendships, nutrition, gratitude and much more. Girls on the Run integrates a proven curriculum with physical exercise, helping girls to develop the confidence and character they need to become strong, healthy women. For more information, visit gotrnova.org.
Dulin Church Concert Slated For May 22 Dulin United Methodist Church is presenting a concert called “Love, Longing and Adoration” on Sunday, May 22 at 4 p.m. at the church at 513 E. Broad Street. The concert will feature the Sanctuary Choir, Chancel Ringers, Kid’s Choir and other ensembles and soloists. Admission to the concert is free, but there will be a freewill offering to support Dulin representatives participating in the Appalachian Service Project. For more information, call Ben Bugaile at 703-532-8060 ext. 202, email him at music@dulinchurch. org or visit dulinchurch.org.
Favola, Simon Model for Local Womens’ Club Event Community leaders such as Virginia State Senator Barbara Favola and Virginia State Delegate Marcus Simon modeled at the New Dominion Women’s Club 7th Annual Spring Fling Fashion Show, Luncheon and Raffle on Sunday, May 1 at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse, located at 1960-A Chain Bridge Road, McLean. “Every year we change things just a bit to keep the show fresh and interesting. This year we added male models, includ-
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND FIRSTFRIDAY of Falls Church, Councilmember David Snyder, and artists Eileen Hecht-Levy and Donna Byrne at the May 6 FIRSTfriday event at Art and Frame of Falls Church. Levy and Byrne’s exhibit, inspired by a Robert Frost poem, is open throughout May. (P����: C������� �� T�� G������) ing...Marcus Simon and George Sachs...and others, who added a bit of fun and a mixed audience to the event,” said Carol Bruner, former president of the New Dominion Women’s Club. “The show also moved to Flemings in Tysons, which gave us more space, an upscale decor, and a delicious lunch. Our fashion show is our signature fundraiser of the year. We try to bring the community together to support our local charities.” The charities that benefited from the event are McLean Project for the Arts, The Safe Community Coalition, SHARE, Inc. and the Falls Church/McLean Children’s Academy. For more information, visit ndwc.org/home.html.
Open Houses Scheduled for Master Gardener Training The Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia have scheduled two opportunities for residents of Arlington and Alexandria to learn
more about the 2016 Master Gardener Training Program, which will begin on September 6. Virginia Cooperative Extension horticultural staff and Master Gardeners will greet prospective trainees at an open on Tuesday, May 17 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. and again on Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m. – noon at the Fairlington Community Center, located at 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington. The community center is where the Arlington County Virginia Cooperative Extension offices are located. Those who are interested in attending one of the open houses can register at bit.ly/ VCEMasterGardener. For more information about the Master Gardener training program, visit mgnv.org.
Local Organization Collects Books for September Sale The McLean branch of the American Association of University Women are hosting a
used book collection on Saturday, May 21 from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at SunTrust Bank, located at 515 Maple Ave. E, Vienna. They will be accepting donations of CDs, DVDs, software and records in good condition at the May 21 event in addition to used books of all kinds. Proceeds from the book sale, which will be held in September, will go toward funding scholarships for local women. There will also be book collections held on June 18, July 16 and August 13. For more information, visit mclean-va.aauw.net, email aauwbookfair@gmail.com or call 703527-4206. Correction: In the May 5 – 11, 2016 issue of the Falls Church News-Press, we ran two photos with an article called “Mason Robotics Team Ranks Among World’s Best,” and said that the photos were taken of the team at the FIRST Robotics World Championships in St. Louis. Those photos were of the team at the Chesapeake District Championship.
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Putting Grit In Its Place
We all know why it exists, but the grade-point average is one of the more destructive elements in American education. Success is about being passionately good at one or two things, but students who want to get close to that 4.0 have to be prudentially balanced about every subject. In life we want independent thinking and risk-taking, but the GPA system encourages students to be deferential and risk averse, giving their teachers what they want. Creative people are good at asking new questions, but the GPA rewards those who can answer other people’s questions. The modern economy rewards those who can think in ways computers can’t, but the GPA rewards people who can grind away at mental tasks they find boring. People are happiest when motivated intrinsically, but the GPA is the NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE mother of all extrinsic motivations. The GPA ethos takes spirited children and pushes them to be hard working but complaisant. The GPA mentality means tremendous emphasis has now been placed on grit, the ability to trudge through long stretches of difficulty. Influenced by this culture, schools across America are busy teaching their students to be gritty and to have “character” – by which they mean skills like self-discipline and resilience that contribute to career success. Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania is the researcher most associated with the study and popularization of grit. And yet what I like about her new book, Grit, is the way she is pulling us away from the narrow, joyless intonations of that word, and pointing us beyond the way many schools are now teaching it. Sure, she starts the book by describing grit as persevering through unpleasantness. She describes Beast Barracks, the physical ordeal that first-year West Point cadets have to endure. She writes about high school students who grind away at homework for hours and athletes capable of practicing in the most arduous way possible. And yet Duckworth notes that moral purpose also contributes to grit. People who are motivated more by altruism than personal pleasure score higher on grit scales. She also notes that having a hopeful temperament contributes to perseverance. Most important, she notes that the quality of our longing matters. Gritty people are resilient and hardworking, sure. But they also, she writes, know in a very, very deep way what it is they want. This is a crucial leap. It leads to a very different set of questions and approaches. How do we help students decide what they want? How do we improve the quality and ardor of their longing? The GPA mentality is based on the supposition that we are thinking creatures. Young minds have to be taught self-discipline so they can acquire knowledge. That’s partly true, but as James K.A. Smith notes in his own book “You Are What You Love,” human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know. Our wants are at the core of our identity, the wellspring whence our actions flow. At the highest level, our lives are directed toward some telos, or vision of the good life. Whether we are aware of it or not, we’re all oriented around some set of goals. As David Foster Wallace put it in his Kenyon commencement address, “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships.” Some worship money, or power or popularity or nursing or art, but everybody’s life is organized around some longing. The heart is both a driving engine and a compass. I don’t know about you, but I’m really bad at being self-disciplined about things I don’t care about. For me, and I suspect for many, hard work and resilience can only happen when there is a strong desire. Grit is thus downstream from longing. People need a powerful why if they are going to be able to endure any how. Duckworth herself has a very clear telos. As she defines it, “Use psychological science to help kids thrive.” Throughout her book, you can feel her passion for her field and see how gritty she has been in pursuing her end. Suppose you were designing a school to help students find their own clear end – as clear as that one. Say you were designing a school to elevate and intensify longings. Wouldn’t you want to provide examples of people who have intense longings? Wouldn’t you want to encourage students to be obsessive about worthy things? Wouldn’t you discuss which loves are higher than others and practices that habituate them toward those desires? Wouldn’t you be all about providing students with new subjects to love? In such a school you might even de-emphasize the GPA mentality, which puts a tether on passionate interests and substitutes other people’s longings for the student’s own.
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The Making of an Ignoramus Truly, Donald Trump knows nothing. He is more ignorant about policy than you can possibly imagine, even when you take into account the fact that he is more ignorant than you can possibly imagine. But his ignorance isn’t as unique as it may seem: In many ways, he’s just doing a clumsy job of channeling nonsense widely popular in his party, and to some extent in the chattering classes more generally. Last week the presumptive Republican presidential nominee – hard to believe, but there it is – finally revealed his plan to make America great again. Basically, it involves running the country like a failing casino: He could, he asserted, “make a deal” with NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE creditors that would reduce the debt burden if his outlandish promises of economic growth don’t work out. The reaction from everyone who knows anything about finance or economics was a mix of amazed horror and horrified amazement. One does not casually suggest throwing away America’s carefully cultivated reputation as the world’s most scrupulous debtor – a reputation that dates all the way back to Alexander Hamilton. The Trump solution would, among other things, deprive the world economy of its most crucial safe asset, U.S. debt, at a time when safe assets are already in short supply. Of course, we can be sure that Trump knows none of this, and nobody in his entourage is likely to tell him. But before we simply ridicule him – or, actually, at the same time that we’re ridiculing him – let’s ask where his bad ideas really come from. First of all, Trump obviously believes that America could easily find itself facing a debt crisis. But why? After all, investors, who are willing to lend to America at incredibly low interest rates, are evidently not worried by our debt. And there’s good reason for their calmness: federal interest payments are only 1.3 percent of gross domestic product, or 6 percent of total outlays. These numbers mean both that the burden of the debt is fairly small and that even complete repudiation of that debt would have only a minor effect on the government’s cash flow. So why is Trump even talking about this subject? Well, one possible answer is that lots of supposedly serious people have been hyping the alleged threat posed by federal debt for years. For example, Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, has warned repeat-
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edly about a “looming debt crisis.” Indeed, until not long ago the whole Beltway elite seemed to be in the grip of BowlesSimpsonism, with its assertion that debt was the greatest threat facing the nation. A lot of this debt hysteria was really about trying to bully us into cutting Social Security and Medicare, which is why so many self-proclaimed fiscal hawks were also eager to cut taxes on the rich. But Trump apparently wasn’t in on that particular con, and takes the phony debt scare seriously. Sad! Still, even if he misunderstands the fiscal situation, how can he imagine that it would be OK for America to default? One answer is that he’s extrapolating from his own business career, in which he has done very well by running up debts, then walking away from them. But it’s also true that much of the Republican Party shares his insouciance about default. Remember, the party’s congressional wing deliberately set about extracting concessions from President Barack Obama, using the threat of gratuitous default via a refusal to raise the debt ceiling. And quite a few Republican lawmakers defended that strategy of extortion by arguing that default wouldn’t be that bad, that even with its access to funds cut off the U.S. government could “prioritize” payments, and that the financial disruption would be no big deal. Given that history, it’s not too hard to understand why candidate Trump thinks not paying debts in full makes sense. The important thing to realize, then, is that when Trump talks nonsense, he’s usually just offering a bombastic version of a position that’s widespread in his party. In fact, it’s remarkable how many ridiculous Trumpisms were previously espoused by Mitt Romney in 2012, from his claim that the true unemployment rate vastly exceeds official figures to his claim that he can bring prosperity by starting a trade war with China. None of this should be taken as an excuse for Trump. He really is frighteningly uninformed; worse, he doesn’t appear to know what he doesn’t know. The point, instead, is that his blithe lack of knowledge largely follows from the know-nothing attitudes of the party he now leads. Oh, and just for the record: No, it’s not the same on the other side of the aisle. You may dislike Hillary Clinton, you may disagree sharply with her policies, but she and the people around her do know their facts. Nobody has a monopoly on wisdom, but in this election, one party has largely cornered the market in raw ignorance.
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Obama’s Message To the Future
The eloquence of President Obama has only begun to shine more brightly in this last year of his presidency, serving the purpose of contrasting ever more clearly between a discourse that elevates and enlightens persons, and the gutter talk of Donald Trump. Looking beyond the immediate, President Obama has chosen to lay the moral and philosophical groundwork for new generations of Americans to embody the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and other great standard bearers of justice and equality who began their ennobling thoughts and words in the context of the American revolution and the crafting, ratifying and defending of the U.S. Constitution. Obama did this last weekend delivering the commencement address to the graduating class of Howard University, FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS an historically black university founded in the aftermath of the Civil War in the nation’s capital. It was the then-fledgling First Congregational Church of Washington, D.C., many of whose parishioners had backed the Abolitionist cause, that founded Howard University, and last year the ongoing membership of that church in downtown Washington, D.C. celebrated its 150th anniversary. Obama provided the language of hard-earned progress and change in his address last weekend, schooling the graduates on how things are made for the better and challenging them to take part in it. In 1983, when he graduated from college, he said, “I was part of fewer than 10 percent of African-Americans who graduated with a bachelor’s degree. Today, you’re part of more than 20 percent who will. And more than half of blacks say we’re better off than our parents were at our age – and that our kids will be better off, too.” He went on, “America is better. The world is better. And race relations are better since I graduated....I am not saying gaps do not persist. Obviously, they do. Racism persists. Inequality persists. But I wanted to start, Class of 2016, by opening your eyes to the moment in history in which you were born.” He said, “It’s important to note progress. Because to deny how far we’ve come would do a disservice to the cause of justice, to the legions of foot soldiers; to not nly the incredibly accomplished individuals but your mothers and your dads, and grandparents and great grandparents who marched and toiled and suffered and overcame to make this day possible...and there’s still much more work to do.” In an election year when highly idealistic rhetoric can so easily substitute for hard work and experience in the trenches fighting for progress, Obama’s words resonated particularly well during that sunny Saturday commencement. He offered three suggestions for “how young leaders like you can fulfill your destiny and shape our collective future, bend it in the direction of justice and equality and freedom.” The first suggestion, he said, is “to be confident in your heritage, be confident in your blackness,” and there are a myriad of ways to express that, shattering stereotypes, citing Prince as an example: “He blew up categories. People didn’t know what Prince was doing, and folks loved him for it.” Many would consider this notion of “being confident in your blackness” as a radical concept. The same suggestion could be made to any number of other minorities. The second suggestion is that “the tie that binds us as AfricanAmericans is our particular awareness of injustice and unfairness and struggle (this also can apply to other minorities),” and Obama added, “We must expand our moral imaginations to understand and empathize with all people who are struggling.” The third suggestion: Obama said, “You have to go through life wilth more than just a passion for change. You need a strategy... Change requires more than righteous anger, it requires a program, and its requires organizing.... To bring about structural change, lasting change, awareness is not enough. It requires changes in law, changes in custom...and your plan had better include voting, not just some of the time, but all of the time.” The message got tougher when Obama said change “requires more than just speaking out – it requires listening, as well. In particular, to those with whom you disagree, and being prepared to compromise.”
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GOP Only Has Itself to Blame The Republican Party is trapped between a rock and huckster. Now that all of their other presidential candidates have dropped out of the race, Donald Trump is the last demagogue standing. He is their presumptive nominee. Their party belongs to him. It’s a YUUGE … disaster. Now the few remaining serious folks in that party have to make a decision: support this man who, if current trends in polling hold, is likely to lose the general election by an overwhelming margin or they can...wait, they don’t really have another option other than to sit out this cycle and pretend that their party hasn’t gone stark raving mad. The House speaker, Paul Ryan, told CNN last week that he is “just not ready” to support Trump. Jeb Bush posted on Facebook, “I will not vote for Donald Trump.” His brother and father are both refusing to endorse Trump. Mitt Romney, the Republicans’ last presidential nominee, has also said that he won’t support Trump. Lindsey Graham said last week that he “canNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE not in good conscience” support Trump. Many prominent Republicans have also indicated that they will skip the party’s convention. CNN reported last week that Erick Erickson, a conservative blogger, radio host and leader of the #NeverTrump movement, has “had a number of conversations about laying the groundwork for a thirdparty candidate to oppose Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the general election.” “If the delegates ratify this madness in Cleveland, many of us will look elsewhere for a credible candidate to oppose both Trump and Clinton,” Erickson told CNN. If you didn’t already believe that whoever wins the Democratic nomination would be a huge favorite to win in November, a third-party conservative candidate would seal the deal. But please, shed not a single tear for this conservative calamity. They brought it on themselves. They allowed their unhinged contempt for – and in some cases, even hatred of – Obama drive them insane, into the arms of a walking absurdity who catered to their rage. Now, that man – simultaneously an unbelievable joke and an undeniable threat – is on the verge of ripping the party, and indeed the country, apart. It’s not that Trump’s chances of winning in November are particularly good. According to The
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Upshot, “If today’s general election polling holds true, Hillary Clinton will easily defeat Donald Trump.” The Los Angeles Times put it in even starker terms: “To reach the 270 electoral votes it takes, the businessman and reality TV star will have to carry a number of states that have not voted Republican in well over a generation, while prevailing in several battlegrounds where, polls show, he starts behind.” No, the threat is not that he will necessarily win, but that he will further poison our national dialogue in the six months between now and Election Day, and the off chance that maybe, just maybe, a September surprise could turn his sliver of a chance into an actual victory. This what-if, worst-case possibility that America might do the unimaginable – and elect Trump to our highest office – is severely unsettling. Even the president, speaking of Trump at a news conference on Friday, had to impress upon everyone how serious it is that the country is flirting with disaster: “I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States.” Sure, there are some prominent Republicans tucking their tails, biting their tongues and swallowing hard as they begrudgingly announce their support for the presumptive Republican nominee. But they no doubt see what the Pew Research Center reported last month: “Unfavorable opinions of the G.O.P. are now as high as at any point since 1992.” They know that Trump will send that number sinking, as if tied to a brick. Trump has used a toxic mix of bullying and bluster, xenophobia and nationalism, misogyny and racism, to appeal to the darker nature of the Republican Party and secure his place as the unlikeliest presidential nominee in recent American history. That paved his path, coupled with what Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO at Gallup, called earlier this year “a staggering” three-fourths of Americans believing “corruption is ‘widespread’ in the U.S. government.” As Clifton emphasized: “Not incompetence, but corruption.” There is real pain in America, and where you sit along the ideological spectrum dictates whom you see as your Satan and whom as your savior. It appears that enough Republican voters have opted for the combo package, for which the party is likely to pay a hefty price. Congratulations, Republicans, you’ve hitched yourselves to the madman-driven carriage, and it’s heading for the cliff.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
For more than 30 years, members of the Board of Supervisors have selected outstanding residents for designation as Lord and Lady Fairfax, part of the annual Celebrate Fairfax! event in June. More than 60 Mason District residents have been designated as Lord and Lady Fairfax since the original selections by then-Supervisor Tom Davis in 1984 – Marion “Mixie” Houk and Thomas “Bo” White. This year, it is my pleasure to designate Charles DeSeve and Deborah “Debo” Burke as Mason District’s Lord and Lady Fairfax. Charles DeSeve is the longtime chairman of the Lake Barcroft Watershed Improvement District Board of Directors. Under his leadership, the Watershed Improvement District developed a closer working relationship with Fairfax County, the City of Alexandria and the Virginia Division of Dam Safety and secured funding for an emergency warning system and backup equipment for dam operations in the event of severe storms. As part of the maintenance of the lake and the needs of more than 1000 Watershed Improvement District members, Chuck negotiated, with my help, a no-cost disposal of dredge soils at the Lorton construction debris landfill. He also established a million dollar reserve and 10-year plan for needed repairs and restoration to keep the massive Lake Barcroft dam near Columbia Pike functioning as designed. Chuck’s commitment to the environment, good financial practices, and his neighborhood merits his selection as Mason District’s 2016 Lord Fairfax. Deborah “Debo” Burke is one of those premier volunteers who helps maintain and improve the quality of life in Mason District and Fairfax County. For more than 25 years, Debo has been a leader in both the Broyhill Crest Community Association and the Broyhill Crest Recreation Club. She is a Master
Gardener, an Adapted Aquatics volunteer for children with special needs and an election officer. More recently, she has assisted with fundraising and scholarship selection for the Team Joyner Foundation, created in memory of young Clayton Joyner, Falls Church High School swimming coach. Debo also created the RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) Pack, coordinating local volunteer activities with those in search of community service projects. Whether serving homeless persons, wrapping presents or removing invasive species from a local park, Debo Burke brings amazing talents to her community as the 2016 Mason District Lady Fairfax. Chuck and Debo will be honored, along with designees from other Supervisors, at a televised (on cable Channel 16) ceremony at the May 17 Board of Supervisors meeting. They also will be honored at a dinner at the Fairfax County Government Center on Tuesday, June 7. Congratulations to Chuck and Debo! A well-attended meeting last Monday evening informed interested residents about plans to replace the Jefferson Fire Station 18 with a new and expanded facility at the existing Hodge Place and Woodley Lane location. A temporary station is planned for a parcel at South Street and Annandale Road and will maintain fire and rescue services during reconstruction of Station 18. Construction of the temporary facility is expected to occur in mid-2017 and the new permanent station would be completed in 2019. Fire and rescue services and response times from Station 18 should not be affected. 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 The 2016 legislative calendar came to an end with the closing of the Veto Session on April 20. Fortunately, Democrats were able to uphold all but one of the Governor’s vetoes of various regressive pieces of social legislation passed by Republican majorities. Few legislative sponsors were surprised by these vetoes, but passage, alone, supported the sponsors’ political interests by energizing partisan activists in the Republican base. Politics, for better or worse, often involves elements that are more game than good governance. For example, legislators sometimes submit or support legislation less because they believe it is good policy than because it is good politics. When legislators go on record in support of such positions, they become accountable. Now, admittedly this concern is of little interest to the majority of citizens. If you are reading this column, though, you may have need or interest in learning about the inner workings and financial drivers of the politics in Richmond. Virginia has a number of organizations that gather and provide information to the public. Since 1997 the Virginia Public Access Project has been the go to, non-partisan source for documenting the flow of money in politics. Their website provides an enormous trove of data on the elections process and finance, on donors and their contributions and on the legislators, committees, and bills introduced and acted on by the General Assembly. Unfortunately, the Virginia General Assembly does business under rules that enable legislators to achieve political goals without the “burden” of accountability. The main topic of this column is to address the issue of legislative transparency. Transparency in the legislative process is important to citizens and to advocacy organizations that track the performance of legislators and hold them accountable for their actions or inaction. This means conducting all legislative business “in the light of day.” Achieving real transparency requires capturing and providing timely and usable public access to lots of information, including: 1) which legislators introduce what legislation; 2) which legislative committees consider what legislation and what actions individual legislators take; and of course 3) what are the financial or other
interests of individual legislators that may have had an impact on their legislative actions. Transparency Virginia is collection of advocacy groups and non-profits that closely monitor legislative actions. In 2015, the organization released a report showing that 76 percent of bills defeated in the House of Delegates, and 7 percent of Senate bills, were defeated without a recorded vote. One situation that could potentially result in actions with unrecorded votes was when legislators met at their desks in chambers while in session to address and agree to specific actions. The more common approach for circumventing recorded votes was propagated under new legislative rules enacted in 2005. The new rules were put into place primarily to accommodate the increasing volume of legislation, but they also enabled Committees to assign legislation to Subcommittees that do not record votes. Additionally, with an increased number of meetings overall, the logistics for public notification became difficult. To address concerns raised by legislators, as well as by advocacy groups, in 2016 the House of Delegates eliminated meetings at member desks and refined the ability to check on Committee and Subcommittee meetings using the online meeting notification system. However, these actions had little impact because in 2016, 95 percent of bills that died in the House did not receive a recorded vote. All legislators must, at least, pay lip service to transparency. Openly admitting that in some cases you prefer to conduct the Commonwealth’s business in the hallways of the Capitol is politically risky whatever your party. On the other hand, introducing and perpetuating legislative processes that obscure the public’s ability to understand who really does what regarding specific pieces of legislation seems to be a more acceptable tactic to promote the partisan enterprise. Going forward, I believe the General Assembly must eliminate practices that enable legislators to duck responsibility for their legislative actions. We must all be held equally to an exacting standard of openness and honesty. 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
Your curmudgeonly columnist has again joined the etiquette battle between pedestrians and drivers on Washington Blvd. Twice this spring, I’ve been at the wheel and exchanged glares with pedestrians who, shall we say, have a different interpretation of the meaning of those white stripes painted to form mid-block crosswalks (the “uncontrolled” ones without lights or stop signs). These promenaders apparently view said stripes as a green light to cross at their own convenience, a repeal of the rule their moms taught them at age four: look both ways, wait for a lull in traffic. Society’s embrace of walkable communities – a trend I applaud – is prompting pedestrians, I fear, to march righteously out of their residential havens and, without breaking stride, enter the zebra stripes with nary a glance for oncoming cars. As if that paint were an armored barrier. As if forcing a driver doing the speed limit to slam on the brakes is some new progressive right. My talks with police, traffic engineers and pedestrian activists show that crosswalk darters should rethink this habit – though all agree that the foremost priority in this clash of wills is keeping pedestrians safe. Lt. Steven Meincke of the Special Operations Section of the Arlington Police Department says law enforcement in crosswalks is based on Virginia Code sections 46.2-924 and 46.2-926. But there are complexities that require
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guidance from the commonwealth’s attorney, he said. “Both the driver and the pedestrian have responsibilities,” Meincke said. The driver to yield to walkers in the crosswalk, the pedestrian not to step into the crosswalk when cars are close. Drivers, Meincke added, may have an obscured view, or not be expecting a crosswalk not at an intersection. If there’s an accident, investigators would explore fault from either party, speeding or failing to pay attention. The sites of mid-block crosswalks are selected using guidelines released last year, according to Arlington traffic engineers Larry Marcus and Jon Lawler. “We proactively look to safety, and work with civic associations to address the accessibility, safety and convenience aspects,” Marcus said, stressing the importance of public education. As one national expert put it, “the right of way is something a driver gives you, not something you take.” That means walkers and bicyclists should never assume the car will stop (though sane drivers always will). Lawler researched national practices on when to placate neighborhoods demanding a midblock crosswalk, more likely in urbanized blocks or as part of a capital improvement project. “The rule of thumb is you need 20 pedestrians per hour,” 1,500 cars a day and a distance of 300 feet to the next crosswalk (after determining how far pedestrians are willing to walk out of their way), he said. Lawler noted Virginia’s laws
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MAY 12 – 18, 2016 | PAGE 17 are more pro-pedestrian than some states’, though not as anti-driver as others. A nifty summary of the state laws came to me from Ian Thomas, state and local program director for America Walks, a nonprofit that has grown with the political pendulum swing toward pedestrian rights. “Our general advice that is that both drivers and pedestrian should take all precautions, though the pedestrian has more to lose,” Thomas said. He agrees that, just as drivers shouldn’t drive distracted, pedestrians at crosswalks should make eye contact with drivers to negotiate timing so that it is “not a huge burden for the driver to slow down.” *** Reader Rich Schumann alerted me that some of the Westover apartments – for decades among north Arlington’s most affordable – have just been demolished, apparently to make room for more like Evergreene’s $800,000 townhouses. At 11th Street and North Kensington (a block off of Washington Blvd.), the wrecking crews are there under a permit for Westover Place. I consulted Nina Janopaul, president and CEO of the nonprofit Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing, which owns four buildings in Westover. She confirmed that housing activists are concerned, and there is talk at the county board of changing the zoning to require use permit and public notice. “We know the entire community is at risk,” she told me. Westover is a “nice place to live without it costing an arm and a leg.”
St. (Stratford Motor Lodge) On May 7, police received a report that an armed robbery occurred on May 6. Driving Under the Influence, 6700 block Wilson Blvd. On May 8, a male, 27, of Annandale, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Providing Law Enforcement False ID. Destruction of Property, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #15 (Café H2O) On May 8, police received a report that a customer damaged a light by throwing a beer bottle. Disorderly Conduct, 100 block Tinner Hill On May 8, a female, 75, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested and released on summons for Disorderly Conduct. Trespass, 6795 Wilson Blvd. (Eden Center) On May 8, a male, 59, no fixed address, was arrested and released on summons for Trespassing.
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Mason Boys Soccer Team Tramples 3 Conference 35 Foes by Matt Delaney
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Another week passes and George Mason’s varsity boys soccer team remains at the top of their food chain, besting Conference 35 opponents Central High School 8-0, Madison County High School 11-0 and Rappahannock County High School 8-0, preserving their unbeaten start to the season. Facing the Falcons for the second time, the Mustangs resumed exercising the control evident in their first meeting. An assist from senior forward Donal Reyes de Leon set up sophomore forward Kevin Valle’s goal just three minutes in. Moments later senior midfielder Samsudeen Sallah’s through ball went through a Central player’s legs before finding senior Elliot Mercado’s foot for an easy chip in. Mercado’s penalty kick put Mason ahead 3-0 14 minutes into the game.
From there the slowing scored. Sallah put one in the net right before half while senior midfielder Grant Goodwin knocked in his own right after it. Goals from Mercado, Reyes de Leon and sophomore forward Peter Scardino finished off the night. A casual win for Mason was accented by a individual accomplishment for Mercado, who scored his 100th career goal for the Mustangs when he tallied his second of the game in the 62nd minute. “I really have to thank my teammates for putting me in position to score goals throughout my three years with Mason soccer,” Mercado said. “It’s pretty awesome and I’ve enjoyed myself while doing it.” A weekend separated the Mustangs from two back-toback road contests against rivals Madison County and Rappahannock County, but the heavy travel didn’t affect their performance because it can’t disrupt the team’s passion.
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MASON SENIOR FORWARD ELLIOT MERCADO scored his 100th career goal against Central High School in a recent match against the Falcons. After the game, he thanked his teammates for their part in his accomplishment and said that his three years on Mason’s varsity socer team have been “pretty awesome.” (Photo: Carol Sly) “We try to get the team to play with passion and energy each game,” head coach Frank Spinello said. “Without passion you don’t have energy, and without energy you don’t have anything.” Reyes de Leon turned his passion into energy with four goals against Madison County, followed by a trio of two-goal teammates
in Goodwin, Mercado and Sallah. Goodwin, Reyes de Leon and Sallah each had two assists on the night as well. Mason stayed in stride with a win over Rappahannock County to end their road trip. Reyes de Leon led the scoring again, this time with a hat trick, while Mercado put two in the net as well. Reinforcements rounded out
the scoring with Scardino adding one goal and junior forward Riley Marcus contributing two himself. The Mustangs finish the regular season this upcoming week, starting at home against Clarke County High School on Friday, May 13 before they close out on the road against William Monroe High School on Tuesday, May 17.
Mustang Girls Soccer Squad Beats Central High 4-0 by Matt Delaney
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George Mason’s varsity girls soccer team began the home stretch of their regular season with another batch of wins, this time over Rappahannock County 8-0 and Central High School 4-0. The Mustangs were a force against the visiting Panthers. With consistent possession of the ball Mason generated multiple scoring chances around Rappahannock County’s goal, tallying their goals in clumps at a time. After sophomore midfielder Victoria Rund assisted fellow midfielder Rebecca Crouch for the game’s first goal eight minutes in, Mason went cold until they racked up three goals from the 21st to 31st minute, coming from Rund, Crouch and sophomore forward Izzy Armstrong. An even more bountiful 11 minute spree was sparked by senior midfielder Corinne Carson’s goal to start the second half. Crouch scored twice and Armstrong once more before the 52nd minute had elapsed. Mason could’ve brought their
B game and been fine against Rappahannock County, but this team learned early on not to take any opponent for granted. It’s why they kept their foot on the gas and didn’t allow the Panthers to get comfortable on either end of the field. “No win is guaranteed; we have to work for it,” head coach Allison Klink said. “That’s something we talk about before every game...no matter what team we’re playing. We have to try and play a certain way.” Defensively, the Mustangs remain in flux. Three junior defenders are nagged by injury, with Megan Butler and Alice Castillo sidelined for the year with their respective knee injuries while Carly Roberson is afflicted with a low grade ankle sprain. The senior line of Clara Frost, Ella Howard and Caroline Stricker are more than solid, but they won’t get much reprieve against tougher teams in the postseason. Traveling to Woodstock, Virginia for a game with Central, Mason turned in a respectable performance. Controlling the ball
MASON JUNIOR REBECCA CROUCH dribbles through the Madison County High School defense during the Mustangs’ recent win over the Mountaineers. Crouch scored to Mustangs’ first goal against Rappahannock County High School on Tuesday, May 10. (Photo: Carol Sly) and fluid movement were staples of the Mustangs showing, creating chances near the net as a result. Many of Mason’s offensive players were able to use the chaos surrounding Central’s goalkeeper
as an advantage. “That’s the goal,” Klink said. “To move quickly, try to find feet and to make some good opportunities. I think we did that.” Mason finishes the regular sea-
son with a road game against Clarke County High School on Friday, May 13 and a home closer against William Monroe High School on Monday, May 16, which is the team’s senior night.
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THESE 23 THOMAS JEFFERSON students participated in the regional Division A Science Olympiad on Saturday, April 30 and brought home 23 medals in 12 events. The event was held Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly and the students who participated are in the third, fourth and fifth grades. (Photo: Courtesy of Amy Kusic)
MEMBERS OF THE FIFTH GRADE CHORUS at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School performed for Falls Church senior citizens at the Falls Church Community Center on Tuesday, April 26, between the seniors’ bingo game and lunch. (Photo: Carol Sly)
Mason, Henderson Students Shine at Technosphere Over 20 Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School and George Mason High School students traveled to Richmond on Friday, May 6 to compete in the Technology Student Association’s Technosphere. Mason’s Webmaster team and seven teams from Henderson are state finalists and are also heading to the national competition in Memphis in June. Henderson’s Technology Student Association chapter won numerous awards at the competition. James Trombo was a finalist in CADD Foundations and Electronic Applications and Reid Kusik was a national qualifier and finalist in Promotional Marketing. For more information, visit virginiatsa.org/technosphere.
The Langley School Appoints New Athletic Director The Langley School, located at 1411 Balls Hill Road, McLean, recently announced its hiring of Thomas Barnett as its next athletic director following the retirement of Jim Gleason, the school’s athletic director for 37 years, in June. Barnett comes to Langley from Riverdale Country School in the
Bronx, where he has been the assistant director of athletics for the past three years. During his nearly ten years at Riverdale, Barnett also served as a physical education teacher, history teacher, health teacher and coach, working with both middle and high school students. “I am honored to be joining the Langley community,” said Barnett, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Quinnipiac University and a master’s degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University. “My family and I are excited to start this new chapter in our lives at such a highly regarded school. “The balance Langley offers between academics and athletics mirrors my own philosophy and beliefs on what constitutes a wellrounded education. I am eager to begin working with the great staff and parents of Langley to build upon the solid foundation laid down by Langley’s long-time athletic director, Jim Gleason.” For more information, visit langleyschool.org.
Mt. Daniel Kindergartners Visit Hard Bargain Farm Kindergartners at Mt. Daniel Elementary School began making their annual spring trips to Hard
Bargain Farm in Accokeek, Md. to see where the eggs for their incubators came from and to visit the animals. The students saw goats, donkeys, chickens and cows and had a chance to explore on foot and from the top of a hay wagon. At the farm, they are learning about how the animals are cared for and how the farm is run.
The Congressional Schools of Virginia Hosts Open House The Congressional Schools of Virginia, located at 3229 Sleepy Hollow Road, Falls Church, are hosting an open house for parents of prospective students on Thursday, May 12 from 9 – 11:30 a.m. The open house is for students entering preschool – grade eight. These open houses offer prospective parents the opportunity to tour the school’s campus, visit the school’s classrooms and experience the Congressional Schools of Virginia’s extraordinary learning environment in action. Attendees will also learn about the school’s after school and specialty programs, meet students and parents from the school’s community and see the school’s 40-acre campus. Families can RSVP for the open house at congressionalschools.org.
Falls Church ESOL Parent Event Slated for May 26
5 Mustangs Headed to Governor’s School
Falls Church City Public School is hosting an informational event on Thursday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m. at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School for the parents of students in grades pre-kindergarten – 12 in the English for Speakers of Other Languages Program. At the event, there will be information on all of the resources available to English for Speakers of Other Languages learners in the school system. There will also be pizza and ice cream at the event and information about Jessie Thackrey Preschool, language line interpreting service, adult literacy, summer opportunities for students, as well as a chance to have your questions answered. For more information, visit fccps.org.
Five students from George Mason High School are heading to Summer Residential Governor’s School programs. The 3-week sessions provide the accepted juniors and seniors with intensive educational experiences. Students live on campus and are involved in classroom and laboratory work, field studies, research, individual and group projects and seminars with noted scholars, visiting artists and other professionals. Sarah Edwards and Siana Hinsz will be studying visual performing arts, Jack Rasmussen will be studying mathematics, science and technology, Hyoin Rhee will be studying humanities and Lucy Hoak will be studying Spanish.
A GROUP OF KINDERGARTNERS AT MT. DANIEL Elementary School ride in a hay wagon during one of the school’s trips to Hard Bargain Farm in Accokeek, Md. The students are learning where the eggs for their incubators came from and visit the farm’s animals. They saw goats, donkeys, chickens and cows at the farm. ((Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photos/Jackie Harper)
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Community Events
THURSDAY, MAY 12
Open House. The Congressional Schools of Virginia is having an open house for preschool – grade 8. RSVP requested. The Congressional Schools of Virginia (3229 Sleepy Hollow Road, Falls Church). 9 – 11:30 a.m. congressionalschools.org.
FRIDAY, MAY 13
DMV2Go. The handicappedaccessible, full-service office provides all DMV transactions. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Prices vary. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/ DMV2Go.
SATURDAY, MAY 14
F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Grass, Leaves, and Bark with Shannyn Snyder. Explore the tactile world of the park using magnifying glasses, viewers, classification and art. From bark rubbings to flower and leaf pressings, make a bookmark, window art and seed mosaic. There will be plenty of specimens to examine, so kids are invited to
bring their science sketchbooks for drawing or making notes. For children in grades K – 5. Registration required. Limited to 20 participants. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. 703-2485034. Habitat Restoration. Join the City of Falls Church Habitat Restoration Team in restoring Howard E. Herman Stream Valley Park. Howard E. Herman Stream Valley Park (601 W. Broad St. or 434 Sharrow Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-538-6961. Spring Dance Recital. There will be three shows of the spring dance recital: 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. George Mason High School Auditorium (7124 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. 703-2485077. Act It Out! presented by CARE Actor. Take an adventure through storybooks in this acting workshop where young actors will learn various improvisational theater games and act out a story with positive values using costumes and props. For children ages 4 – 6. Registration required. Limited to 15 participants. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth
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Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 p.m. 703-248-5034. Encore Chorale Spring Concert. The Encore Chorales of Alexandria, Langston Brown and Goodwin House-Bailey’s Crossroads combine to present a spring choral concert called “With a Song in My Heart.” Yorktown High School (5200 Yorktown Blvd., Arlington). Free. 3 p.m. encorecreativity.org.
SUNDAY, MAY 15
Turtle Trot 5K. Help injured and sick turtles and other wildlife and support our nature education activities at Long Branch Nature Center. Registration required. Bluemont Park Picnic Shelter Norther 4th Street Entrance (601 N. Manchester St., Arlington). $15 – $30. 9 – 11 a.m. 703-228-6535.
MONDAY, MAY 16
ESL Conversation Group. An English as a second language conversation group focusing on English Language and American culture. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, MAY 17
Senior Forum. Senior citizens and
persons with disabilities can get information about resources that the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County provide. There will be refreshments, prizes and a raffle. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 1:30 – 3 p.m. 703248-5005. Paws to Read. Children in grades kindergarten – 5 can read with a canine companion. Space is limited to 15 participants. Tickets will be given out starting at 4:30 p.m. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). Free. 5 – 6 p.m. 703-248-5034. Feng Shui & Summer: The Summer of Action. A workshop on how to use the practice of feng shui during the summer season to spark enthusiasm and inspire action. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18
Performance. Falls Church native Miles Butler performs in “Alexander, Who’s Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move.” Center for the Arts at George Mason University (4373 Mason Pond Dr., Fairfax). $14. 10:30 a.m. 1-800-497-5007.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, MAY 12
“Caroline, Or Change.” Set in Louisiana, 1963, “Caroline, or Change” is the story of Caroline Thibodeaux, a black maid who forms an unexpected bond with a young Jewish boy, Noah Gellman, while working for his family. Utilizing Kushner’s signature aesthetic that combines down-to-earth humanism with unabashed fantasy, “Caroline, or Change” features a chorus of radios and a singing washing machine. Through May 29. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $24 – $26. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
FRIDAY, MAY 13
“Unnecessary Farce.” In an economy motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room
next door, two undercover cops are supposed to catch the meeting on videotape. But there’s some confusion as to who’s in which room, who’s watching the video, who’s taken the money, who’s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. Suitable for ages 15 and up. Through May 14. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $18 – $20. 8 p.m. mcleanplayers. org/MCP.
“Hedda Gabler.” Hedda Tesman returns from her honeymoon to the brutal banality of domestic life: an antagonizingly bland husband; a living room full of dying �lowers; and a house that is too large, too cluttered, too bourgeois for the once unstoppable Hedda Gabler. Both tormented and merciless, she is caught between her appetite for sensation and acute awareness of public perception. Through June 19. Studio
Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $59 – $75. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
SATURDAY, MAY 14
“The Object Lesson.” With boxes stacked to the ceiling, physical theatre artist Geoff Sobelle transforms Studio Theatre’s Stage 4 into a storage facility of epic proportions. Breaking, buying, finding, fixing, trading, selling, stealing, storing, and becoming buried under…a world of things. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this immersive performanceinstallation unpacks our relationship to the stuff we cling to and the crap we leave behind. This production is directed by David Neumann with scenic installation by Steven Dufala. Through June 5. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 – $45. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, MAY 12 P������ C����� ���� B B���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 6 p.m. 202-265-0930. A����� A�����. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6 p.m. 703-532-9283. L�� M���� � D��� C�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. S���� � S������ ��������� A�� A������� �� E��������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $25. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. E��� M�K���� ���� H���� H�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 7:30 p.m. 703522-8340. H�� A���� ���� S����� O���� ��� T�� I��� A��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. D��� S������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333. T���� A��������� ���� L� S���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 10 p.m. 202-265-0930.
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W����� B������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. T�� T�� T��� ���� T�� P���� S�������. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. T�� O������� ���� T�� A����� B������� ��� K���� �� B���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. T�� L���� L��� S��� ��������� J�� T�����, J��� F�����, T���� B���, R��� N����, B���� S��������, J��� K������ ��� R������ M��������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $8 in advance; $10 day of the show. 9:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. S���� R������ D��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. P������ P����� ���� ASTR ��� S����� A����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 10 p.m. 202265-0930.
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SUNDAY, MAY 15
D��� G����� ���� R�� C��� S��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12. 1:30 p.m. 703-2551566. E���� H���� ���� N������ Y��� ��� K���� D� S����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 4 p.m. 703-522-8340. S�������� B��� ���� S���� C���. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $25 in advance; $30 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-237-0300. G����� P�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. S���� H���� �� ��� R���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $39.50. 7:30 p.m. 703549-7500. S���� H�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. O����� M������ ���� Y���� T���� M������. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson
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Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-5258646.
MONDAY, MAY 16
S���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 6 p.m. 703-2551566. Y������� ���� Y���� M����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. B�� B���� D���� ���� S���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. B������� B��� B���. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. F����� P��� ���� O����� N������J��� ��� P����� S��. Galaxy Hut (2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $5. 9 p.m. 703-525-8646.
TUESDAY, MAY 17
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18
C�������� ���� T�� C����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $30. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566.
P������� A����... Friday, May 20 – Bike to Work Day Pit Stop. The City of Falls Church invites residents to join 17,000 commuters for Bike to Work Day 2016 at a new pit
stop location: on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail at Little Falls Street. From 6:30 – 9 a.m., riders can enjoy free food, beverages, giveaways, demonstrations and raffles. W&OD Trail at Little Falls Street. 6:30 – 9 a.m. fallschurchva.gov/BTWD.
Monday, May 30 – Memorial Day Parade and Festival. Live music, amusement and pony rides, arts and crafts, food, civic and business booths and much
more. City Hall Grounds (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. fallschurchva.gov./MemorialDay.
Thursday, June 9 – Public Meeting by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission: Rapid Transit for Route 7. Residents can learn about and comment
on the proposed route for a bus rapid transit route along Route 7. Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School (7130 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 7 – 9 p.m. EnvisionRoute7.com.
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Business News & Notes West Broad Residences Grand Opening Party is May 12 Rushmark Properties is hosting a grand opening celebration of West Broad Residences, Falls Church’s newest mixed-use building, on Thursday, May 12 from 7 – 9 p.m. The evening will include entertainment and complimentary food and drink with catering by Mad Fox Brewing Company, Hot ‘n’ Juicy Crawfish, Dogwood Tavern and Ireland’s Four Provinces. To attend, RSVP to invite@westbroadrsvp.com. West Broad Residences are located at 301 W. Broad Street in Falls Church. For more information about the luxury apartment building, visit www.westbroad.com.
Spring Celebration at Moasic’s Cherry Blow Dry Bar Next Thursday Cherry Blow Dry Bar and Astoria Laser Clinic & Med Spa are hosting a spring celebration at Cherry Blow Dry’s Mosaic location on Thursday, May 12 from 6:30 – 9 p.m. Cherry Blow Dry Bar launched in 2013 to provide styling services at affordable rates. Services include blowouts, dry styles, updos, scalp treatments and massage, braids, clip-in applications, hair extensions, smoothing treatments and makeup applications. The event will include refreshments, door prizes valued at up to $2,800 and the first 200 guests will receive swag bags. Cherry Blow Dry Bar is located at 2985 District Avenue, Suite 165. For more information, visit www.cherryblowdrybar.com/mosaic-va.
F.C. Painting Studio & Art Gallery Hosting Grand Opening The Alexia Scott Painting Studio & Art Gallery is hosting a grand opening May 13 – May 15 at 106 Little Falls Street in Falls Church. Alexia Scott, MFA, is a landscape painter who provides fine art classes in her Studio, including drawing, pastel painting and oil painting. She has invited other local artists to participate in the grand opening including Cheryl Bearss, Deborah Taylor, Elisabeth Hudgins, Persimmon Street Studio, Theresa Wells Stifel and Two Sisters Art Glass. Attendees will have the opportunity to talk to the artists, enjoy art, hear live music and see what this newest Falls Church creative space is all about. A percentage of sales will benefit the Arlington Philharmonic which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary Season. For more information, visit alexiascottstudio.com.
Herbalist to Discuss Chemical- & GMO-Free Farming on Saturday Body Dynamics is hosting a seminar featuring Katherine Adams, herbalist at Stallard Road Farm, on Saturday, May 14 at 8 a.m. and again Thursday, May 19 at 6 p.m. Attendees will learn how plants provide health and balance. Stallard Road Farm’s practices work with nature and without the use of chemicals or GMOs. A selection of products will be available for purchase. Body Dynamics is located at 410 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 100. For more information, visit www.bodydynamicsinc.com.
F.C. Chamber Networking Luncheon to Feature I-66 Presentation The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce is hosting a networking luncheon on Tuesday, May 17 featuring a presentation on the Transform I-66 Multimodal Project by Dan Goldfarb, Transit Planning and Programs Manager, with the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission. The luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Italian Café, 7161 Lee Highway. Tickets with advanced registration are $27 for members, $32 for nonmembers. An additional $5 will be charged for walk-ins should space be available. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
F.C. to Host Bike to Work Day Pit Stop on May 20 The City of Falls Church is hosting a pit stop for Bike To Work Day on Friday, May 20. Sponsored by Bikenetic, Dancing Mind Yoga and 24 Hour Fitness, the location of the pit stop this year will be on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail at Little Falls Street. Businesses interested in sponsoring the event can contact Jeff Sikes at jsikes@fallschurchva.gov or 703-248-5296. To register for Bike to Work Day, visit BikeToWorkMetroDC.org or call 800-745-7433. 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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Cream Puff Shop Beard Papa’s Now Open in Falls Church The first-ever Virginia location of Beard Papa’s, the popular Japanese pastry company specializing in cream puffs, is now open in Falls Church. Located in a Skyline business park on Leesburg Pike, the new store is the second Washington, D.C.-area shop for Beard Papa’s, joining a location in Georgetown which opened last year. Beard Papa’s offers up cream puffs with a variety of fillings, ranging from vanilla and chocolate to green tea and dulce de leche. The Falls Church location also offers seasonal fillings along with a full coffee bar. Beard Papa’s first opened in Osaka, Japan in 1999 and now there are close to 400 stores world wide, with 170 in Japan, 200 in China and close to 20 in the United States and Canada.
LongHorn Steakhouse will open its doors in Falls Church on Monday, May 16 for dinner and then for regular hours, including lunch, on Tuesday. The 6,200 square-foot restaurant has seating for more than 240 diners and is located in the Crossroads Place shopping center in Bailey’s Crossroads. Known for its steaks, seafood and appetizers like the Bloomin’ Onion/Awesome Blossom clone, the Texas Tonion, LongHorn has more than 350 locations across the United States, including restaurants in Chantilly, Dulles, Largo and Manassas.
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Review: Creative Cauldron’s ‘Caroline’ is Broadway-Quality by Nicholas F. Benton
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sons. But suffice it to say, you’ll be hard pressed to experience something better, no matter where you go to see it. The production is sponsored by Falls Church’s Diener and Associates, CPAs. The musical is autobiographical for Kushner, who grew up in a Jewish family in Lake Charles, Louisiana in the time frame of this production, which is around the wider events centered on the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. Kushner wrote the play and the libretto and Jeanine Tesori provided the music. Caroline, so deftly performed by Blake, is a maid in a Jewish household and is befriended in her basement digs by the young boy, Noah Gellman, functioning roughly as Kushner’s autobiographical character, remarkably well performed by eighth grader Ethan Van Slyke, already with a long list of credits. In her program notes, Cauldron Founder and Producing Director Hull calls the musical “one of the most unique, powerful and moving musicals to be written in decades.” Kushner wrote about an era when “so much was changing, and yet so much was not. Race
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Handsome Ghost, a musical project started by Tim Noyes, recently released the single “Graduate” from the band’s upcoming LP, which Noyes hopes to release on Photo Finish Records this fall. Handsome Ghost released an EP last year, but Noyes said that the LP would have all new songs. “It’s all new stuff, which feels really special to me. It feels like a new chapter,” Noyes said. “Sonically it has a lot of similar characteristics, but to me it feels like a stop forward. I’d like to think that I’m improving as a writer. I’m really excited for people to hear it.” What people have heard from the album so far, although it’s only one song, seems to be getting some traction. Since “Graduate” – a pining from one love to the other to elevate the status of their relationship – was released it has been streamed over 700,000 times on Spotify. Noyes, the Boston native who is on tour with Handsome Ghost and is coming to U Street HANDSOME GHOST. (P����: D����� S������) Music Hall on Tuesday, May 24, said that he “It’s funny, occasionally I will get like a thinks the reception to the song has been good YouTube comment and I’ll recognize one of so far. “It’s been out there for about three weeks the kids, who will be like ‘Mr. Noyes, do you now and we’ve been playing it every night and remember me?’,” Noyes said. “But that’s far it seems to be going over well,” Noyes said. enough removed from when I was teaching “I’m happy. People seemed to be connecting that it’s only a handful of kids who would have heard my stuff. But it’s always a nice blast with it and it’s really all that I can ask.” For Noyes, the use of graduating as a from the past.” There are two blasts from the recent past metaphor for an escalating romance is a fitting artistic choice. That’s because he was a high that Noyes cited as important musical influschool English teacher in the Bronx for three ences for him, which you can hear in his music: years before deciding to perform and make Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. music full time. “I loved it,” Noyes said. “That But he doesn’t follow in that tradition of conwas a really great time in my life. I was really templative, emotional songwriting on top of a melancholy electronic melody in a way sounds sad to give it up.” Although Noyes misses teaching, he said overly derivative. “Elliott Smith was really important to me. that he hears from his students from time to time, when they hear his music a reach out to I went through a big Dave Matthews Band phase,” Noyes said. him to express their love for it.
“It’s mostly singer-songwriter stuff for me. Lyrics were always very important to me. But it kind of ran the gamut.” The influence of Ben Gibbard, the frontman of Death Cab and Postal Service, especially his voice, is part of what led to Noyes naming his project Handsome Ghost. “It honestly was a joke at first because when the band started my vocals were very affected and kind of strange sounding,” Noyes said. “And a friend of mine said ‘You sound like a ghost’ and, as a joke, I replied ‘A handsome ghost’ and then we kind of just went with it, we kept it. “Yeah, I like it. I know it’s kind of odd and people are curious about it, but I’m going with it. I’m a fan.” • For more information about Handsome Ghost, visit handsomestghost.com.
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PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA VOLUNTEERS who live in the City of Falls Church are needed to serve on the boards and commissions listed below. Contact the City Clerk’s Office (703-248-5014, cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov, or www.fallschurchva.gov/BC) for an application form or more information. Requests for reappointment must be made through the City Clerk. Applications are accepted until the end of the month. Vacancies advertised for more than one month may be filled during each subsequent month before month’s end. Architectural Advisory Board Board of Equalization Economic Development Authority Historic Architectural Review Board Historical Commission Human Services Advisory Council Library Board of Trustees Tree Commission Regional Boards/Commissions: Fairfax Area Disability Services Board Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia Long Term Care Coordinating Council Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority Board Workforce Investment Board (Business Representative)
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Nosedive in Residential Condo Market Stalls F.C. City Center
For the first time since 1988, candidates who were not backed by the Citizens for a Better City (CBC) organization won an election in Falls Church this Tuesday. In a surprise result, two independent candidates won seats on the City Council, and one secured a seat on the School Board. Incumbent Mayor Jeff Tarbert was sent down to defeat in a bid for re-election.
Grave concerns for the future of Falls Church’s City Center project are being voiced at the highest levels of City Hall, the News-Press has learned, given the precipitous collapse of the residential condominium market throughout the Washington D.C. region and the nation.
Ray Clarence Stewart, Founding Partner Of Falls Church Law Firm, Dies at Age 80 Ray Clarence Stewart, founding partner of the Falls Church intellectual property law firm Birch Stewart Kolasch Birch, died April 26 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He had suffered Parkinson’s disease. Stewart, a resident at The Virginian Retirement Community, was predeceased by his wife, Marie Grace Stewart in 2009. Born April 11, 1936 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the son of Raymond F. Stewart and Ann Husser Stewart, Ray excelled at Bridgeport High School, winning essay contests and participating in the school band. In his senior year, he was chosen to play violin in the All-Ohio State Orchestra appearing before the National Conference of Music Educators in Chicago which also included appearances on radio and television. Stewart was an honor student with a 5.0 average and valedictorian of his 1954 graduation class. Stewart attended Ohio State University and the University of California at Berkeley where he earned his BS and MS degrees in Organic Chemistry, respectively. Later, he would earn his JD degree from Georgetown University. Stewart’s expertise in organic chemistry led him to seek employment with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office where he served as a Patent Examiner. There, he met Joseph A. Kolasch who would become his partner in 1971, setting up a small Falls Church law office. To seek new clients, the two set out for Japan and Korea cold-calling on pharmaceutical and electronic firms.
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A number of the companies they visited became lifelong clients. In 1976, they joined brothers Terrell C. Birch and Anthony L. Birch to form Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP. Stewart’s expertise in chemistry coupled with the increasing growth of the pharmaceutical industry contributed to the firm’s rapid growth and success. In 1983, Stewart helped establish and was a leader of the annual Birch Stewart Kolasch Birch Summer Training Program providing lectures and instructions on all aspects of U.S. patent law. At Birch Stewart Kolasch Birch, Stewart specialized in chemical patents, patent interferences and trademarks. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle, International Trademark
Association, American Arbitration Association, and Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle where he served as Secretary/Treasurer of the U.S. Section, among others. A long time resident of the City of Falls Church, Stewart was a member and effective civic leader of local organizations including the Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society, chairman of the city’s Business & Professional Development Commission and Economic Development Commission and long time member and Chairman of the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals where his legal expertise was credited with smoothly resolving a number of difficult cases. Stewart and his wife enjoyed travel, dining out, attending National Symphony Orchestra concerts, designing and building two homes – their Falls Church home and another in Bethany Beach Delaware, and especially holidays and outings with family and friends. Stewart is survived by nieces Rachel Flowers and Lisamarie Hanson (Douglas), nephew Kevin Grace, bother-in-law Joe Grace (Linda), and children of close personal friends who knew him as “Uncle Ray:” Molly Slattery, Charlie King, Joely Mauck, Todd Kolasch, Chad Kolasch, Margery Bonafede and Heidi Markisello. Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 3 at the Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church in Arlington. A graveside committal service followed at St. James Cemetery in Falls Church.
THESE TWO BIRDS were perched on branches of a tree on the west side of Little Falls Road, taking in one of the many rainy days the area has experienced recently. 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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Kushner, in his introduction to the paperback script of the musical, wrote in 2004, “This play comes from sorrow, from anger and grief, and also from hope learned from history, from recent history which has shown us both the terrors and also the pleasures of change, which has shown us that change, progress, is difficult, uneven, uncertain, but also absolutely possible.” This is a recurring theme with Kushner, as in both “Angels in America” and “Lincoln,” for example. For persons of good will, while the struggle for change is found in that good will, it does not come easily, but only with hard work, patience and over time. Yet, still, it comes. On the idea of doing a musical, Kushner wrote, “Words betray
the arduousness of the struggle to express, to interpret, to understand. Music offers up emotion and idea with an organicity and shapeliness and spontaneity that must be what we mean when we say that something possess grace.” In her play-closing remarks, the character Emmie, Caroline’s daughter played by Tiara Whaley, attests, “I’m the daughter of a maid. She stands alone where the harsh winds blow, salting the earth so nothing grow too close, but still her strong blood flow underground through hidden veins, down from storm clouds when it rains, down the plains, down the high plateau, down to the Gulf of Mexico, down to Larry and Emmie and Jackie and Joe, the children of Caroline Thibodeaux.” The largest cast yet of any major production at Creative Cauldron was uniformly excellent and energetic, animated by the power of the work.
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