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Inside This Week After 66 Years, F.C. Florist to Close
At the end of next month, Mike and Diane Flood are closing their family-owned flower business they first opened in The Little City 66 years ago. See page 11
Wells Fargo Suspected Robber Arrested A man suspected of robbing the Wells Fargo bank in the City of Falls Church last week, along with two other banks in Alexandria, has been arrested.
1.8-Acre Site By Jefferson Elementary Slated to Be Sub-Divided for 7 Homes Fellows Tract Had Special Delivery Been Eyed for School Expansion
by Nicholas F. Benton
Falls Church News-Press
Williams, Falls Church residents who founded Viget as a digital agency in 1999 and operate out of their growing company’s headquarters above the Ireland’s Four Provinces restaurant in downtown Falls Church, came up with this novel idea after chatting with NBC Sports representatives at the annual South By Southwest technology conference in Austin, Texas, earlier this year.
The Falls Church Planning Commission was within its power to grant final approval for the subdivision of 1.8 acres known as the Fellows Tract at 604 S. Oak Street adjacent the Thomas Jefferson Elementary School into seven lots for residential development Monday night, but instead stopped short. Instead, it granted only a preliminary approval pending further conversation with neighbors to the site about a myriad of issues ranging from traffic, parking, storm water run off, sidewalk widths and more. The proposal to sub-divide the land into seven separate residential components would represent one of the biggest such moves in the City of Falls Church’s history, but that is not the main reason the plot is a matter of such concern to many in the City. Although the issue did not come up as such in the Planning Commission meeting, on another floor of City Hall it did come up in the work session of the Falls Church City Council Monday night when City Manager Wyatt Shields was asked the status of the City’s efforts to acquire the Fellows property, possibly for the expansion of Thomas Jefferson Elementary across the street. At the risk of revealing some propriety closed-door information, Shields told the Council that the Fellows Living Trust (which controls the property on which the elderly Ms. Fellows has continued to reside since her youth) “remains adamant that Ms. Fellows does not want to sell to the City.”
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David Brooks: One Community At a Time
Gaps have opened up among partisan tribes, economic classes and races. There has been a loss of social capital, especially for communities down the income scale. See page 14
Press Pass with Peter Wolf
At the age of 70, rhythm and blues, soul and rock and roll musician Peter Wolf brings us his thesis on music’s therapeutic power, A Cure for Loneliness, released in April with Concord Records. See page 25
A UNITED STATES MAIL TRUCK got stuck in a City of Falls Church backyard, making for an interesting scene on E. Broad Street this week. The U.S. Postal Service vehicle was attempting turn around in a resident’s driveway on Tuesday before getting stuck in the home’s wet and muddy backyard. Full story in News Briefs on page 8. (Photo: Bill McGinnies)
Neigh, Neigh! Magical Brooch at Kentucky Derby Designed in F.C. by Nicholas F. Benton
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Food & Dining......23 Calendar.........26-27 Classified Ads .....28 Comics, Sudoku & Crossword...........29 Critter Corner.......30
The one who won the actual race at the Kentucky Derby last weekend was not the horse who caused the biggest Internet stir. That horse has his roots in Falls Church, a digital brooch named Lawrence that colorful NBC Sports “fashion and lifestyle reporter” Johnny Weir wore on his lapel during the lengthy TV event. The brainchild and product of
the Falls Church-based Viget, a digital agency, Lawrence was devised as the first-ever Twitter-powered brooch that glowed as Lawrence galloped on live TV whenever any viewer would send a Twitter message including the “hashtag” of #WatchMeNeighNeigh. Over 4,000 such “tweets” activated Lawrence during the telecast, including 155 per minute at peak times when Lawrence galloped the fastest as a result. Andy Rankin and Brian
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According to their website, they subsequently proposed this to NBC: “At the Kentucky Derby, Johnny Weir gets attention. Lots of it. The NBC on-air personality has a style all his own, and his yearly derby fashion – especially his accessories – has become a talked-about event. But what if his ensemble gave others attention? Instead of just getting a response, it could capture it? These were the questions we posed to NBC Sports as we created the first-ever Twitter-powered brooch for this year’s Run for the Roses.” An intensely collaborative effort with NBC Sports resulted. “We are normally more involved with software development, but this involved hardware,” Rankin told the News-Press this week. Rankin and Williams, who said they initially started their business in Falls Church because of the location but then moved here, themselves, for the schools, are active in the local community. Rankin is a member of the Planning Commission and Williams is on the Economic Development Authority. Weir, who came up with the name of Lawrence for the steed on the brooch, also has a Falls Church connection, having authored an exclusive weekly column for the News-Press recently for over a year.
“The initial idea was to develop something for Johnny to wear on his hat, but the design of his hat this year was not conducive for that. So we developed the brooch,” said Ben Travis, the communications representative for Viget. He said the ideas were generated from Falls Church, while Justin Sinichko at Viget’s office in Boulder, Colorado actually designed and built the brooch. Sinichko posted online a detailed description on how the brooch evolved. It had to be small (3.5 inches across), thin and as light as possible. In its final form, it had a long pink tail attached that matched the five-foot pink ponytail on Weir’s hat. The wires were run through the inside of Weir’s jacket, so that none of them could be seen on the air. In his posting, entitled “Building a Magical Brooch for the Kentucky Derby, NBC and Johnny Weir,” Sinichko wrote, “Using Fusion 360, I began by approximating the shape of a horse and working out key motion paths for the legs, head, and tail. During these early steps I took care to design and constrain each component of the model so it could be altered later. This type of changeability is most easily accomplished using parametric modeling – something that is as much a feature of some CAD utilities as it is a design methodology.
Parametric modeling, paired with rapid prototyping technologies, facilitate quick design iterations.” He continued, “At Viget we use 3D printed components in production hardware products. As a general rule we try to use our LulzBot Mini for anything reasonably sized that may need replicated. This is especially true for intricate components that are otherwise a bear to painstakingly tool by hand. We’re familiar with 3D printer tolerances, limits, and bake these into our designs. These considerations include specifically sized gaps between moving components and part heights that divide evenly into the layer-heights found in our production slicer profile.” Weir and NBC Sports announcer Bob Costas were highly intrigued by the project. No one at Viget seems to know why Weir came up with Lawrence’s name, and Costas asked for and was given the brooch used in the telecast. Viget is having another one made to display in its headquarters in Falls Church. The Falls Church office features a six-inch blue star that was made for fun out of the Boulder office (growing with now 55 employees, Viget has a third office in Durham, North Carolina), in honor of the Blue Star Pub that used to be located at the site in the old days. Anytime someone tweets the hashtag, #viget, the blue star lights up. Try it!
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Fellows Tract Subdivision Gets Preliminary OK
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Shields said the City has been aware of this position for many years, even though the City Council designated $4 million in its Capital Improvement Fund for potential acquisition of the property for school expansion. With the fate of the Mt. Daniel Elementary School expansion in Fairfax County now in serious doubt in the county, the City Council was hoping a Plan B could be to expand the City’s educational plant adjacent the Jefferson Elementary, although as Shields confirmed tonight, the City has known for a long time of Ms. Fellows’ adamant opposition of selling her land to the City. Nonetheless, the Planning Commission’s tentative OK of the subdivision of the Fellows land into seven parcels hardly seemed like simply buying time. A number of neighbors to the site showed up at the commission’s meeting Monday night to air concerns for a number of the matters that the commission then said should be discussed further. The
commissioners acknowledged that “by right” the trust had the legal option to subdivide its land for residential development and nothing could prevent it if it so desired. Planning Commissioner Lindy Hockenberry lamented this fact, however. “They can do this by right,” she said. “But it pains me greatly. This is one of the biggest subdivisions we will have ever done.” She’d noted there are 180 trees on the heavily-wooded property that are at risk, and that as a part of the Virginia Forest portion of the City, it is home to three deer, at least one fox and other wildlife. Thirteen of the trees, she said, are of particular concern to the City’s arborist because of their special value, although the existing house on the property is not listed on the City’s historical register. The subdivision plan “is not a use I would like, but there is little we can do,” chimed in Russ Wodiska, who was the acting chair for the meeting. The Planning Commission gave the preliminary approval by a 5-0 vote.
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One of the oft-repeated arguments circulating around Falls Church in the aftermath of the City Council’s controversial 4-3 decision to deny almost $1 million of the School Board’s budget request has been that the School Board’s and the Superintendent’s “arrogance” was reflected in their refusal to accept the City Council’s guidance from last December to hold its budget request to a three percent increase. First of all, in the history of Falls Church, School Boards have almost never complied with such “guidance,” and the reason is clear: It is not the job of the School Board to limit its function to holding down taxes. It is the job of the School Board to determine what the needs of the school system, and especially of its students, are and to let the City Council know what that translates into in terms of costs. Much of the rancor among the number of noisy citizens on this subject avoids the subject of enrollment growth as the primary driver of the budget, and efforts of the system to remain competitive in retaining quality teachers and programs are admittedly challenged by that. The other factor is the very significant increases in health insurance and other costs over which the system has no control. What are the Superintendent and the School Board supposed to do if they took seriously a Council mandate to arbitrarily hold down their budget needs to assuage the Council’s desire to cut a favorable political posture with the public? Some small sample of what that would involve actually occurred at the School Board work session last week when 45 minutes had to be spent to discuss the feasibility of scaling back access to copiers at the four campuses in order to save a laughably paltry sum. That was such an exercise in folly, because as it was pointed out, moves like that are offset by the costs of lost teaching time due to longer lines and efforts to find new ways to get the work done. Unfortunately, it seems like the futility of that exercise was lost on most of the people who favored cutting the budget request. It is easy to point fingers and charge “arrogance” instead of having to look at the hard realities of what it takes for a quality school system to maintain its excellence in the face of the hard facts of enrollment growth, higher fixed costs and competition. This newspaper has been an eyewitness to much of the struggles of the school administration and its elected overseers, the School Board, to craft their budgets over many years. We have always been impressed by the remarkable dedication of almost everyone involved primarily to the students in their care and their education and well-being. Traditionally, the City Council has respected this process and acceded to the compelling realities of the process, even in some of the toughest of times. But somehow that didn’t happen this year.
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Editor, In their search for cost savings, the Falls Church School Board should accelerate the demise of football by eliminating it as a school-sanctioned activity. This would result in direct savings of approximately $50,000 per year, while only affecting 40 students across five grades (8-12). The fact that so few players are drawn to football across five grades suggests the waning popularity of the
sport. Moreover, elimination of the program may prompt even more cost savings by reducing the school district’s insurance premiums and other future costs related to the liability of this inherently dangerous activity. This year’s budget process revealed that football is a loss leader among sports, and I do not appreciate having to subsidize brain damage when other
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educational needs are being sacrificed. Robert LaJeunesse Falls Church
How Much Does IB Program Cost F.C. Schools? Editor, The recent article about protecting the International Baccalaureate program from budget cuts [4 F.C. Principals Appeal to School Board to Protect IB K-12 Programs] left out some very important information that is crucial in deciding the value of the IB program:
How much does Falls Church City Public Schools pay each year to the IB organization? Once that is disclosed, then you can have a cost/benefit discussion. Edward Guice Falls Church
Heleman Letter Used ‘Blame the Victim’ Argument Editor, I refer to a letter in the May 12-18 News-Press by Beth Heleman objecting to a column
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Last week, Falls Church City Public Schools held its annual celebration of teacher and staff award winners. David Morales, custodian at Thomas Jefferson Elementary and support staff of the year winner, inspired the audience with his talk of attitude, enthusiasm, and love, imploring us to encourage and lift one another. Mr. Morales’ message is working with the students; my third and fifth graders tell me about his smile and singing, infectious attitude, and joy in his work. By contrast, our community at large in recent weeks has been full of dismay and blame. Recent stories and editorials in the pages of the News-Press have described many parents as “angry;” I think a more appropriate word is “concerned.” Our schools are excellent, replete with students, teachers and staff who are talented and dedicated. Yet many are concerned about the leadership in our schools and the tone of the discussions as we face significant financial challenges, Mt. Daniel’s expansion, an aging high school, and a growing school population. Over the last month I have attended meetings and spoken with School Board members, school officials, teachers, neighbors, City Council members, and others in our community to try to understand this groundswell of concern. How can our school system produce such good results yet cause palpable concern among so many?
The consistent worries I have heard relate to trust, tone, and leadership. Fact: The schools were told by City Council in a December 8 work session that any funding increase over 3 percent (the
“Many are concerned about the leadership in our schools and the tone of the discussions as we face signi�icant �inancial challenges.” projected revenue growth) was unlikely. Concern: The Superintendent and School Board ignored this guidance with their budget proposal, then appeared shocked when City Council did not fully fund the request. Fact: The school budget was not “cut;” next year’s school budget will be more than $1 million larger than this year’s. The school budget for 2012 (with 2,145 students) was $35.1 million. The 2017 school budget (with 2,534 students) is $47.7 million. Concern: Over the last five years, school funding grew at nearly double the student population growth (35 percent vs. 19 percent); how can it be a crisis that the Council reduced the proposed FY2017 budget growth from 5.4 percent to 3.6 percent?
Fact: Dozens of teachers and three of our four principals are leaving their jobs this year. Concern: Why are so many leaving at once, after we spent several years getting our pay equal to that of neighboring jurisdictions? Will we be able to maintain academic excellence with so many new hires? Fact: A number of teachers and administrators have said decisions about personnel reductions and curriculum changes are made without sufficient input from them. Concern: The input from those in the classrooms and schools is invaluable, yet many feel restrained in providing feedback to the school administration or feel their perspective is not being heard. Fact: Interest payments on the bond funding the Mt. Daniel expansion have already begun and are projected to cost approximate $1 million annually. To date, the cost of the Mt. Daniel project exceeds $2.5 million and the project has not yet been approved by Fairfax County. Concern: The execution of the plan to expand Mt. Daniel was rushed and featured minimal input from the City Council and community. Following Fairfax’s delay of the project, the schools have still not conducted sufficient community outreach in the City or the adjoining neighborhoods. Fact: Transparency used to be greater. Data regarding school spending is difficult to find or nonexistent, and in the last year the School Board has held more than a dozen closed session meetings. Concern: If
the schools expect a robust dialogue about budgets and priorities, taxpayers need to know where our money is going and how it compares with prior years. Fact: Larger crowds have attended and spoke at recent School Board meetings, anxious for a dialogue. Concern: Despite the increase in interest, the administration and School Board leadership do not appear to welcome the interest or seek to further engage the community. In sum, I have heard people yearning for renewed school leadership that focuses on a climate where questions and diverse opinions are welcomed; transparency in the budget and throughout the administration; support for principals, teachers, and staff to lead the schools from the ground up; greater input from teachers regarding curriculum and other important school functions; greater input from parents regarding budget priorities, facility construction, and other items; and more effective management of money and projects. While student achievement remains excellent and our teachers and staff are remarkable assets, these concerns cannot be ignored if our schools are going to continue to excel, keep and attract the best teachers, and tackle the tremendous challenges in front of us such as Mt. Daniel and building a new high school. Erik Pelton is chair of the schools’ Business in Education Partnership Council and has lived in Falls Church since 2006.
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2 New Teachers Hired for Thackrey Preschool Liz Gerner, director of Special Education, Student Services and Early Learning for the Falls Church City Public Schools announced that two teachers have been retained for the two open positions in the Thackrey Preschool, and that the two teachers leaving (one because of a new baby) were part of the interview panel and selection process. Just prior to Gerner’s announcement, Falls Church School Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones copied the News-Press on a note that said, “We are incredibly lucky to have fantastic teachers at Jessie Thackrey and we will no doubt hire two more loving and skilled educators to start in September.”
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In advance of the annual Cappies Awards Gala at the Kennedy Center on June 12, nominees for this year’s awards honoring outstanding high school drama programs in the Washington Metro area this school year included three students from Falls Church’s George Mason High School. Nominated for their roles in the “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” are Michael Curtin, as featured actor, and Sarah Edwards as comic actress in a musical. Also, Mason’s Lydia Gomper is nominated for returning critic. For other schools nearby, McLean High School’s Gillian Wright and Jack Posey are nominated as graduating critics, Sonya Ayyankeril as returning critic and Emily Lachow as rising critic. McLean’s Tori Garcia is nominated as featured actress in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and Bishop O’Connell’s Maddy Collins as female vocalist and Liam Behan as comic actor in “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”
A United States Postal Service truck got stuck in a wet and muddy backyard at 413 E. Broad Street in Falls Church on Tuesday afternoon, according to a tip received by the News-Press from Bill McGinnies, a resident of the property. McGinnies said the he discovered a man walking around his backyard on Tuesday afternoon and called the F.C. Police Department because the man wasn’t in uniform. Moments later he discovered the man was a United States Postal Service employee who was not in uniform. The man said that he was attempting to turn his truck around using McGinnies’ driveway and drove onto the backyard lawn in order to make a U-turn to “because he couldn’t put the truck in reverse,” McGinnies said. The man called his supervisor who came out to the scene and eventually called a tow truck, which pulled the postal vehicle out at around 3 p.m.
Wells Fargo Suspected Robber Arrested A man suspected of robbing Falls Church’s Wells Fargo bank last week, along with two other banks in the Alexandria, has been arrested. Police arrested 26 year-old Budder Khan of Arlington without incident on Friday, May 13, City of Falls Church reported. A joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the City of Alexandria Police Department, the Arlington County Police Department and the City of Falls Church Police Department led to his arrest. In the Falls Church incident, police say Khan implied he had a gun after he entered Wells Fargo at 1000 West Broad Street around 3:50 p.m. Wednesday and held up the bank. Police ask anybody with more information on the incident to contact them at 703-248-5053.
Civil War Day Plans Are ‘On’ for Saturday The City of Falls Church announced its plans to go ahead this Saturday with its annual Civil War Day despite the forecast for rain. Described as a “family-friendly, living-history event depicting the Falls Church home front during the Civil War,” it is free to the public on Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park. While the event is typically held rain or shine, the City noted, any cancellations or delays will be announced on the City’s website. Living history presentations with Civil War soldier and civilian reenactments will show how the area coped with the war. Other events and activities include soldier firing and drilling exercises, live music, a children’s activities tent, house tours, special exhibits and more.
Skyline Fire Causes $10k in Damage A fire in the Skyline Towers Apartments, located at 5597 Seminary Road in the afternoon last Sunday caused approximately $10,000 worth of damage, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department reported in a press release. Firefighting units responded to the fire at approximately 1:57 p.m. and encountered smoke coming from a mid-level apartment. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire and there were no civilian or firefighter injuries reported. The cause was listed as accidental.
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Falls Church Florist to Close After 66 Years Serving The Little City by Patricia Leslie
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Where have all the flowers gone? “The chains and Internet took them, every one” could be the lament of Falls Church Florist owners Mike and Diane Flood who are closing the family-owned business they opened 66 years ago on Thursday, June 30. “The floral business over 35 years has changed 180 degrees,” Mike Flood said in an interview with the News-Press at the shop last weekend. “If you don’t adapt and are not a social media marketer, you can’t remain a flower shop the way you did 40 years ago.” Flood said he lacked the social media skills necessary to survive in today’s flower world. On a tour of the shop where small colorful bouquets sat on tables ready for delivery and empty shelves showed signs of depleted inventory, Flood gave a brief history of the shop started by his aunt and uncle, Mary and John Copland, in 1949. Flood began helping them when he was eight years old, cleaning up and doing odd jobs,
and at age 10, he went to live with them and grew up in flowers. “It’s not profitable anymore,” he said, and “the bottom line is there are no ethics any more in the floral industry. It’s pretty much a cutthroat business.” Cemeteries and funeral homes are mostly owned by chains now, Flood said, and they offer discounted flower packages, and bypass local florists. Because of time, labor, and costs of goods, a wedding contract can be counterproductive, and the prom business is not what is used to be. “Kids are not into it as much,” an opinion shared by one of Flood’s customers, Gary Sierck of Arlington. “I like personal service,” Sierck, who has been buying Flood’s flowers for more than 30 years, said in a telephone interview. “Young people really don’t care about personal service” nor do they “cater to small business. Everybody’s in too big of a hurry.” Sierk, a longtime Falls Church businessman, said “small businesses are going extinct,” and he
MIKE FLOOD (LEFT), ONE OF THE OWNERS OF FALLS CHURCH FLORIST, stands behind the counter at the floral shop with designer Katherine Gamble. The local floral shop is closing at the end of June after being open and serving the Falls Church community for 66 years. Flood told the NewsPress that the floral business has changed “180 degrees” over the past 35 years, due to franchise and Internet floral businesses. The store is having two big parking lot sales on Sunday, May 22 and Sunday, June 12 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Photo: Patricia Leslie/News-Press) blames “government policies.” Instead of taking care of business and improving customer service, small business owners have to spend time fulfilling government requirements or hiring the work out, all factors which nega-
DIANE FLOOD (RIGHT), ONE OF THE OWNERS OF FALLS CHURCH FLORIST, sits at the desk in the store’s office as Mike Flood stands joyfully in the background. Mike Flood began helping his uncle and aunt around the shop when he was eight years old. (Photo: Patricia Leslie/News-Press)
tively affects an owner’s bottom line. “It’s sad it’s closing,” he said. They “have a nice delivery service, are friendly and helpful, and do the things that no longer get done. I’ll miss them. I am friends with them. “You find somebody who treats you nice and you want to return. I hate to see them go. I don’t blame them. They are good, honest people. You like somebody, you go back.” Carol Mack has lived in Falls Church for 50 years and has been a Falls Church Florist customer “probably” for that long. “They have the freshest flowers,” she said in a phone interview. Never have I been disappointed,” and she repeated “never.” “I have no clue where I’m going to buy flowers. They’ve always been there for us. Their bouquets last a week, at least. Everything has to be up to their standards,” and she has worked for two different churches over the years which bought flowers at the Flood’s. “I am sorry to see them go.” Her son in Florida has a standing order with the shop to send his mom flowers for all the major holidays. “I don’t know what he’ll do,” Mack said.
She compares the store’s closure to the changes underway in Falls Church. “It used to be a small, historical town. Now it wants to become a bustling city for the young people. They’re driving out a lot of these smaller businesses,” Mack said. “I guess they feel it’s progress. It’s a loss to the community.” There are days when the Floods are burned out. According to the Floods, neither of their two daughters, Erin and Marca, is interested in carrying on the business. Mom and Dad have sold their Falls Church building to a local developer, and they are moving to Fredericksburg where they have bought a home. But first they are having two big parking lot sales at the shop at 419 West Broad on two Sundays, May 22 and June 12 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The last day “the oldest family owned florist in Northern Virginia” will be open for business is June 30. Designer Katherine Gamble who was busy cutting greenery and orange carnations and quickly placing them in a vase, is moving, also, to West Virginia to live with her son and find, she hopes, a florist with a “now hiring” sign hanging in a window.
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Community News & Notes Falls Church Hosts Teen Volunteer Orientation The City of Falls Church is hosting an orientation on Thursday, May 19 from 6 – 6:30 p.m. for those between the ages 12 – 18 who would like to volunteer at Mary Riley Styles Public Library this summer. The orientation is in the library’s conference room at 120 N. Virginia Avenue. The library provides opportunities for area students to fulfill community service requirements by providing valuable services for the library. The youth services department accepts a limited number of teen volunteers year round. Preteens and teens ages 12-13 who have a required amount of community service hours to perform during the school year can apply to volunteer. Teens ages 14-18 can apply to volunteer with
or without community service requirements. For those who can not make it to the May 19 orientation, there will be another orientation on Thursday, June 2 at the same time at the library. Registration and volunteer application are required. For more information, call 703-248-5034, email Jessica Borchetta, teen volunteer coordinator, at juv@fallschurchva.gov or visit fallschurchva.gov/672/ Teen-Volunteers.
Christ Crossman Hosts ‘Falls Church Feeds the World’ Christ Crossman United Methodist Church is seeking volunteers for its Falls Church Feeds the World event, which will be held from 1 – 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 5 at Christ Crossman at 384 N. Washington Street. The volunteers are needed to help create 20,000
healthy meals that will be packed and shipped around the world. Stop Hunger Now, a nonprofit that distributes meals through feeding programs in developing countries to promote education, improve students’ health and nutrition, stimulate economic growth and more, is partnering with Christ Crossman for this event. Adults and children ages four and up are allowed to volunteer for this event. Shifts last 1-2 hours. Registration is required. For more information or to register, visit christcrossman.org or call 703-532-4026.
AT&T Hosts ‘Puede Esperar’ Event in Bailey’s Crossroads AT&T hosted an event at the Bailey’s Crossroads AT&T store, located at 5831 Crossroads Center, Falls Church, on Tuesday, May 10 to highlight the launch of
THE FALLS CHURCH American Association of University Women hosted an awards ceremony for the winners of their 2016 scholarships on Monday, May 9. The scholarships were won by students from George Mason High School, Falls Church High School and J.E.B. Stuart High School. Scholarships were funded in part by the chapter’s annual book sale, which was held on April 8-9 at the Falls Church Community Center. (Photo: Courtesy of Anne Baxter)
Puede Esperar, AT&T’s new Spanish language It Can Wait campaign, to help educate the local Hispanic community on the dangers of distracted driving by having them test virtual reality technology. Volunteers shared information about the new campaign and used the newly released Spanish virtual reality mobile application to show participants what can happen when they take their eyes off the road to look at their phones. Attendees at the event used the virtual reality mobile application and virtual reality goggles to experience the potential danger themselves. For more information about the campaign, visit espanol. att.com/PuedeEsperar.
Children Can Meet an F.C. Police Officer at the Library Children in grades K – 5 can meet Falls Church police officer
James Brooks at Mary Riley Styles Public Library at 120 N. Virginia Avenue at the library’s Early Release Wednesdays event on Wednesday, May 25 from 3 – 4 p.m. in the library’s conference room. Officer Brooks, a patrol and community service officer with the City, will share a story and show and tell children in attendance about working police officers. Brooks’ experience spans the nearly nine years he has worked with the City of Falls Church Police Department. Registration is required and participation is limited to 15 children. Children must be present at 3 p.m. to enter the conference room. Event organizers will give empty spots to children on the waitlist at 3:05 p.m. For more information, visit fallschurchva. gov/Library or call 703-2485034.
BOYS SCOUTS FROM TROOP 349 attended a recent meeting of the Falls Church City Council as part of the work they are doing toward earning Citizenship in the Community merit badges. They also met with Falls Church Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones for a question and answer session on Sunday, May 15 toward the goal of earning the merit badges. (Photo: News-Press)
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‘For the Artful Whimsy’ Show Opens at ArtSpace
The latest Falls Church Arts show For the Artful Whimsy opened on Wednesday, May 11 with a reception at ArtSpace Falls Church at 410 S. Maple Street. The all-media, juried show was open to all artists and features several pieces from students in George Mason High School’s IB Art class, which is taught by Marc Robarge. The students with work featured in the show are Manaal Khwaja, Adele Ingeman, Maddie Rands and Moon-Rae Mondragon. Other artists featured in the show are Terri Rae, Nick Gatz, Liz Morton, Helen Power, Christina Hibbard, Shaun VanSteyn, Julie Clark, Nancy Garcia and Michele Frantz. For the Artful Whimsy’s theme is engaging, fun and amusing works. The show is on display through Monday, June 6 during ArtSpace Falls Church’s regular business hours of 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and weekdays and weekends before and after performances at Creative Cauldron. For more information, visit fallschurcharts.org.
F.C. Organizations Register For ‘Do More 24’ Giving Day Falls Church organizations such as Homestretch and Balletnova Center for Dance have registered for Do More 24, a 24-hour online giving day organized by United Way of the National Capital Area that will take place on Thursday, June 2. Over 40 other nonprofit organizations from the region have registered to participate in the event, which brought in $1.4 million in donations for more than 600 National Captial organizations in 2015. “Powered by United Way of the National Capital Area, Do More 24 is the area’s largest 24-hour giving day, helping to fuel our local nonprofit organiza-
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tions,” said Kelly V. Brinkley, chief operating officer of United Way of the National Capital Area. “Do More 24 will provide [area] nonprofits desperately needed funding to help fill holes in their budgets, buy needed new equipment and serve people throughout the community.” Nonprofits can register for the event until Monday, May 23. Participating nonprofits include organizations ranging from those with a focus on animal welfare to arts and culture, health and human services, and workforce readiness. For more information or to register, visit DoMore24.org.
‘It’s a Steal’ Art Show and Sale Opens on May 20 The Arlington Artists Alliance’s It’s a Steal art show and sale opens on Friday, May 20 at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, located at 4000 Lorcom Lane, Arlington. With spring in the air, here’s a chance to view and buy artwork for home, office or gift-giving. An opening reception for the show where attendees can meet the artists is scheduled for May 20 from 5 – 8 p.m. 40 artists will participate in the show, displaying many media and formats like original paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolors, drawings, mixed media works and pottery. All of the work at the show will be priced at $95 or less with many pieces – unframed works, prints, cards and other small gift items – priced much lower than $95. The show and sale will be open on Saturday, May 21 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 22 from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. For more information, visit arlingtonartistsalliance.org.
Choralis’ ‘Ovation’ Awards Slated for June 1 The Choralis Foundation’s Seventh Annual Greater
THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH Department of Public Works, with the help of a bunch of local parents and children, piloted a new Play Streets program they are mulling with an event on Saturday, May 14 at N. Virginia Avenue and Riley Street. Virgil Sea Sports and Activities and Prophetic Dance Fitness led play and activities at the event. (P����: C������� �� D�� L�����) Washington, D.C. Area Choral Excellence Ovation Awards will be presented on June 1 at 6:30 p.m. at Clarendon Ballroom, located at 3185 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. There will be cocktail reception, seated dinner and musical interludes at the event. Maestro Stanley J. Thurston, founder and artistic director of the Heritage Signature Chorale, artistic director of the Washington Performing Arts Men, Women and Children of the Gospel Choirs and artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral will receive the Ovation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Choral Music, the Ovations’ highest honor. “Choralis is honored and pleased to recognize Stanley Thurston’s stellar career in choral music, during which he has nurtured and trained countless
singers and brought the gift of well-performed choral music to delighted audiences not only in the DC area, but nationally and internationally,” said Susan Frost, chair of The Choralis Foundation board of directors. The Choralis Foundation will also present awards in three other categories: Most Creative Programming, Best Chamber Chorus and Outstanding Community Service. Tickets for the event are $125 and tickets can be bought to support a conductor at $105. For more information, visit choralis.org.
Coerr Receives Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Award McLean resident Stanton S. Coerr recently received The Robert A. Gannon Award for his collection of poetry Rubicon
– the Poetry of War at the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Annual Award ceremony on Saturday, April 23 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle. Coerr was one of several award recipients who produced exemplary portrayals of Marine Corps history, culture and service in a broad range of fields, including photography, documentaries, journalism, poetry, nonfiction and fiction writing. Over 400 people attended the ceremony. John W. Warner, a former U.S. Senator, was recognized with the Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune Recognition for Exemplary Leadership at the event. For more information or to see the full list of awardees, visit marineheritage.com/ awards.asp.
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One Community at a Time LOST HILLS, Calif. – What is the central challenge facing our era? My answer would be: social isolation. Gaps have opened up among partisan tribes, economic classes and races. There has been a loss of social capital, especially for communities down the income scale. Take, for example, the town of Lost Hills. Lost Hills is a farming town in the Central Valley, 42 miles northwest of Bakersfield. It is not a rich town, but neither is it a desolate one. There are jobs here, thanks to the almond and pistachio processing plants nearby. When you go to the pre-K center and look at the family photos on the wall, you see that most of the families are intact – a mom, a dad and a couple kids standing proudly in front of a small ranch house. Many of these famiNEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE lies have been here for decades. But until recently you didn’t find the community organizations that you’d expect to find in such a place. There’s still no permanent church. Up until now there has been no library and no polling station. The closest police station is 45 miles away. Until recently there were no sidewalks nor many streetlights, so it was too dangerous to go trick-or-treating. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that Americans are great at forming spontaneous voluntary groups. But in towns like Lost Hills, and in neighborhoods across the country, that doesn’t seem to be as true any more. Maybe with the rise of TV and the Internet people are happier staying in the private world of home. Maybe it’s the loss of community leaders. Every town used to have its small-business owners and bankers. But now those businesses and banks are owned by investment funds far away. Either way, social isolation produces rising suicide rates, rising drug addiction, widening inequality, political polarization, depression and alienation. Fortunately, we’re beginning to see the rise of intentional community instigators. If social capital isn’t going to form spontaneously, people and groups will try to jump-start it into existence. Lost Hills is the home of a promising experiment. The experiment is being led by Lynda Resnick, who, with her husband, Stewart, owns Wonderful Co., which includes FIJI Water, POM juice and most of the pistachios and almonds you eat. You should know that I’m friends with Lynda and Stewart and am biased in their direction. But what they are doing is still worth learning from. First, they are flooding the zone. They’re not trying to find one way to serve this population. The problems are so intertwined, they are trying to change this community from all directions at once. In Lost Hills there are new health centers, new pre-K facilities, new housing projects, new gardens, new sidewalks and lights, a new community center and a new soccer field. Through the day, people have more places to meet, play and cooperate with their neighbors. Second, they’ve created a practical culture of self-improvement. You can talk about social reform in ways that seem preachy. But the emphasis here is on better health and less diabetes, a nonmoralistic way to change behavior. At the nut plant I met men and women who’d lost more than 100 pounds. One of the workers gets up at 2:45 every morning, so he can hit the gym by 4 and be at work by 6. This guy wants to be around to watch his kids grow, and his self-disciplined health regime has led to a whole life transformation. He’s now taking business and law courses online. The new institutions here are intensely social. When you go to the health center, you don’t sit silently in the waiting room before going into a small room for your 15-minute visit. Many of the patients have group visits (sort of like Al-Anon groups) to meet communally with doctors and encourage one another’s healthier behavior. The medical staffs perform as teams, too. Staff members sit together in a central workroom collaborating all day. Finally, there are more cross-class connections. Dr. Maureen Mavrinac moved here from the UCLA Family Medicine Department. Dr. Rishi Manchanda was the lead physician for homeless primary care at the Los Angeles VA. These are among the dozens who have come to Lost Hills not to save the place from outside, but to befriend it. Their way of being ripples. I met several local women who said they were shy and quiet, but now they are joining community boards and running meetings. What’s the right level to pursue social repair? The nation may be too large. The individual is too small. The community is the right level, picking a piece of land and giving people a context in which they can do neighborly things – like the dads here who came to the pre-K center and spent six hours building a shed, and with it, invisibly, a wider circle of care for their children.
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It Takes a Policy U.S. politicians love to pose as defenders of family values. Unfortunately, this pose is often, perhaps usually, one of remarkable hypocrisy. And no, I’m not talking about the contrast between public posturing and personal behavior, although this contrast can be extreme. Which is more amazing: the fact that a long-serving Republican speaker of the House sexually abused teenage boys, or how little attention this revelation has received? Instead, I’m talking about policy. Judged by what we actually do – or, more accurately, don’t do – to help small children and their parents, America is unique among advanced countries in its utter indifference to the lives NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE of its youngest citizens. For example, almost all advanced countries provide paid leave from work for new parents. We don’t. Our public expenditure on child care and early education, as a share of income, is near the bottom in international rankings (although if it makes you feel better, we do slightly edge out Estonia.) In other words, if you judge us by what we do, not what we say, we place very little value on the lives of our children, unless they happen to come from affluent families. Did I mention that parents in the top fifth of U.S. households spend seven times as much on their children as parents in the bottom fifth? But can our neglect of children be ended? In January, both Democratic candidates declared their support for a program that would provide 12 weeks of paid leave to care for newborns and other family members. And last week, while the news media was focused on Donald Trump’s imaginary friend, I mean imaginary spokesman, Hillary Clinton announced an ambitious plan to improve both the affordability and quality of U.S. child care. This was an important announcement, even if it was drowned out by the ugliness and nonsense of a campaign that is even uglier and more nonsensical than usual. For child-care reform is the kind of medium-size, incremental, potentially politically doable – but nonetheless extremely important – initiative that could well be the centerpiece of a Clinton administration. So what’s the plan? OK, we don’t have all the details yet, but the outline seems pretty clear. On the affordability front, Clinton would use subsidies and tax credits to limit
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family spending on child care – which can be more than a third of income – to a maximum of 10 percent. Meanwhile, there would be aid to states and communities that raise child-care workers’ pay, and a variety of other measures to help young children and their parents. All of this would still leave America less generous than many other countries, but it would be a big step toward international norms. Is this doable? Yes. Is it desirable? Very much so. When we talk about doing more for children, it’s important to realize that it costs money, but not all that much money. Why? Because there aren’t that many young children at any given time, and it doesn’t take a lot of spending to make a huge difference to their lives. Our threadbare system of public support for child care and early education costs 0.4 percent of the GDP; France’s famously generous system costs 1.2 percent of the GDP. So we could move a long way up the scale with a fairly modest investment. And it would indeed be an investment – every bit as much of an investment as spending money to repair and improve our transportation infrastructure. After all, today’s children are tomorrow’s workers and taxpayers. So it’s an incredible waste, not just for families but for the nation as a whole, that so many children’s futures are stunted because their parents don’t have the resources to take care of them as well as they should. And affordable child care would also have the immediate benefit of making it easier for parents to work productively. Are there any reasons not to spend a bit more on children? The usual suspects will, of course, go on about the evils of big government, the sacred nature of individual choice, the wonders of free markets, and so on. But the market for child care, like the market for health care, works very badly in practice. And when someone starts talking about choice, bear in mind that we’re talking about children, who are not in a position to choose whether they’re born into affluent households with plenty of resources or less wealthy families desperately trying to juggle work and child care. So can we stop talking, just for a moment, about who won the news cycle or came up with the most effective insult, and talk about policy substance here? The state of child care in America is cruel and shameful – and even more shameful because we could make things much better without radical change or huge spending. And one candidate has a reasonable, feasible plan to do something about this shame, while the other couldn’t care less.
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The violent disruption of and threats against the Democratic convention in Las Vegas last weekend raises serious suspicions of outside “agents provocateur” operations by enemies of the Democratic Party. The party and media need to refer to these people as “alleged” Bernie Sanders supporters, and then get to the bottom of this. That said, former George W. Bush speechwriter and now neo-con columnist for the Washington Post Michael Gerson made a poignant point in his column this week, “Conservatives Make a Deal With the Devil.” He wrote, “Donald Trump has been exactly right in one important respect. He attacked the Republican establishment as low-energy, cowering weaklings. Now Republican leaders are lining up to surrender to him, like lowenergy, cowering weaklings.” FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS Remarkably, so many of Trump’s most adamant former opponents are now wringing their hands with heads lowered, and are confessing the error of their past ways and now backing Trump. This although there is absolutely nothing new about Trump than when all these gutless wonders were denouncing him. If anything, there’s more and more bad stuff coming out to disqualify him as the leader of the free world. This is a sad commentary on how mealy-mouthed and degenerate the GOP leadership has become, and the date when this particular curse began to infect the party can be put at 1980, or when the so-called “Reagan revolution” began to kick in. That marked the beginning of a abandonment of principles in favor of pure and unadulterated powergrabbing and pleasure-seeking in high places. It was when everything became “free for the taking” that the Grand Old Party began to disgrace itself with its sordid excesses that led to the Great Crash of 2008 and the last eight years of complete and total refusal to compromise or work with the Obama administration in Washington, and the boundless fomenting of racist and nativist prejudices in their national rank-and-file. Thus, it didn’t take long for crass greed to subvert anything associated with positive or constructive principles. Temptations of Biblical proportions began seducing and rotting the inner sanctums of the GOP hierarchy. No wonder the rate of scandals has escalated on their side, pouring out beyond the bounds of politics per se to infect the ranks of right wing evangelists and other zealots of the new orgies of greed and selfish self-interest. Horrified more mature leaders of the neo-conservative cause have watched their colleagues – from even such ostensibly principled leaders like Sen. John McCain and party chair Reince Priebus – display spineless, sniveling, weaselly disregard for any principles and a full hypocritical embrace of their new leader. Like wild-eyed, clammy, sweating drug addicts, they’ve lined up in hopes that their new hero can deliver them one more fix, an election victory in November. They’ve completely abandoned any perspective for the longer-term interests of their party. The Washington Post editorialized Tuesday exposing the “rank nihilism” that has taken over the party and its “amorality.” Just prior to the morally degenerate GOP stampede to back Trump last week, it was Gerson who wrote, “Make no mistake, those who support Trump, no matter how reluctantly, have crossed a moral boundary. They are standing with a leader who encourages prejudice and despises the weak. They are aiding the transformation of a party formed by Lincoln’s blazing vision of equality into a party of white resentment.” All that began for the GOP long before this past week. If the neoconservative leadership of William Kristol, the Weekly Standard, Gerson and their ilk are mortified by Trump, and their own party’s capitulation to him, then maybe they should have been paying more attention to the inevitable, if maybe unintended, consequences of their own machinations for the last three dozen years. Trump is a danger to the nation because he is always out of control, and his clearly sociopathic egomania knows no bounds. He is the troubled adolescent who thinks he can do anything and get away with it, because he’s failed, or refused, to see anyone stop him yet. Too many “all talk” people are adopting the spineless behavior of Trump’s former GOP rivals, now his slavish peons.
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Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.
Trump’s Asymmetric Warfare It has been somewhat fascinating and sometimes fun to watch Elizabeth Warren do battle with Donald Trump in alternating salvos of tweets, but in the end I fear that this approach of trying to “beat a bully,” as Warren put it in one of her tweets, is a futile effort. There is no way to sufficiently sully a pig or mock a clown. The effort only draws one further onto the opponent’s turf and away from one’s own principles and priorities. There is no way to shame a man who lacks conscience or to embarrass an embarrassment. Trump is smart enough to know what he lacks – substance – and to know what he possesses in abundance – insolence. So long as he steers clear of his own weakness and draws others in to the brier patch that is his comfort, he wins. As MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said in December, this is asymmetric warfare. Conventional forms of political fighting won’t work on this man. Truth holds little power, and the media is still enthralled by the monster it made. He is hollow, inconsistent, dishonest and shifty ... and those who support him either love NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE him in spite of it, or even more disturbingly, because of it. He has waffled or equivocated or backtracked on tax plans, releasing his tax returns, his proposed Muslim ban, abortion and any number of issues. It is hard to know where the hard bottom is beneath this morass of lies and bile. He has changed the very definition of acceptability as well as the expectations of the honor of one’s words. He has exalted the art of deceit to a new political normalcy. This has made him nearly impervious to even the cleverest takedowns, and trust me, many have tried, comparing him to everyone from P.T. Barnum to Hitler. But none of these comparisons are likely to shift public opinion. Some people will continue to see him, rightly, as an imminent danger to this nation and the world, and others will continue to see him as a salvation from it. You see, part of the problem here is that some people believe, improbably, that virtue can be cloaked in vice, that what he says and what he means are fundamentally different, that the former is acting as a Trojan horse for the latter. One of Trump’s greatest pros is that he has convinced his supporters, all evidence to the contrary, that they are not being conned. We are a society in search of an instant fix to some of America’s most intractable problems. Politicians of
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all stripes keep lying to us and saying things are going to be OK; that broad prosperity is just around the corner, only requiring minor tweaks; that for some of our issues there are clear good and bad options, rather than a choice between bad and worse options. Into this mess of stubborn realities steps a simpleton with a simple message: Make America great again. We’ll win so much that you will get tired of winning. Some folks want to be told that we could feasibly and logistically deport millions of people and ban more than a billion, build more walls and drop more bombs, have ever-falling tax rates and ever-surging prosperity. They want to be told that the only thing standing between where we are and where we are told we could be is a facility at crafting deals and a penchant for cracking down. This streamlined message appeals to that bit of the population that is frustrated by the problems we face and quickly tires of higher-level cerebral function. For this group of folks, Trump needn’t be detailed, just different. He doesn’t need established principles, as long as he attacks the establishment. This part of America isn’t being artfully deceived, it is being willfully blind. On the one hand, over Trump’s life and over this campaign he has been so wrong in so many ways that there is a danger that the sheer volume of revelations may render the hearers numb to them. On the other, as Joe Keohane wrote in The Boston Globe in 2010: “Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.” Supporting Trump is a Hail Mary pass of a hailthe-demagogue assemblage. Trump’s triumph as the presumptive Republican Party nominee is not necessarily a sign of his strategic genius as much as it’s a sign of some people’s mental, psychological and spiritual deficiencies. It’s hard to use the truth as an instrument of enlightenment on people who prefer to luxuriate in a lie.
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The Metro system is a major asset to the economic success of the National Capital Region, but it needs help, lots of it, now. That was the message of Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) meeting last week. There are only seven major metro systems in the nation, he noted, and the Washington system is the second largest, with 117 miles of track. Chairman Evans said that Metro was built with two fundamental flaws: it’s a two-track system, and it has no dedicated funding source. With a two track system (essentially one track in and one track out), there is no ability to re-route trains to another track to accommodate repairs or emergencies. As Metro and its riders have learned, segments of lines must be shut down to perform the long-term maintenance that the 40-year-old system needs. Perhaps the greatest challenge, however, is that Metro is the only system without a dedicated funding source. Some systems use special tax districts, fees from public parking garages, sales taxes, or state and municipal funding. Since 35 percent of Metro riders are federal employees, Chairman Evans argues that Congress should enact legislation to allocate $300 million a year from Congress. Currently, Evans said, the federal government puts no money into Metro operations; $900 million a year comes from the fare box (train and bus), and another $900 million a year is the responsibility of three jurisdictions in the Metro Compact: the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Concluding his remarks to the COG Board, Evans had several “asks” – $300 million a year from Congress; have the federal government assume Metro’s $2.5 billion unfunded pension liability; the
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three jurisdictions agree to contribute to a dedicated funding source; adopt a Metro Safety Commission Compact (a state legislative action), and convene a group to study building a new tunnel under the Potomac at Roslyn. The existing tunnel, which can handle only 26 trains per hour, is a major bottleneck to service between Virginia and D.C. Capacity needs to increase to 40 trains an hour, Evans said. A second Metro Symposium to discuss needs and resources will be held on June 13. Working together, the region created the original Metro Compact decades ago; similar efforts will be required to ensure that Metro survives its current challenges. It will be tough, but failure is not an option. I had heard about Honor Flight, the non-profit organization dedicated to bringing veterans to visit the various war memorials in Washington, D. C., honoring their service and sacrifice, but I had never participated in one. Until last Friday, that is, when I was part of a small welcoming party at National Airport. The World War II and Korean War veterans were from the Willamette Valley in Oregon, where I grew up. Some veterans were in wheelchairs or walkers, but many walked off the plane on their own, dressed in bright blue Honor Flight T-shirts and baseball caps with their particular war embroidered on the front. As I shook hands with the 40 or so elderly men, I thought of my father, who served in both those wars. These could have been his contemporaries, which made the experience even more poignant. You can learn more about Honor Flights at www.honorflight.org.
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) The Board of Visitors at George Mason University recently sold the naming rights to the University’s law school to Charles Koch and an anonymous friend in exchange for a series of annual donations totaling $30 million over five years. The donors chose the name the Antonin Scalia School of Law, then quickly changed that to the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. When the announcement was first revealed around April 1 of this year, I organized a petition drive and have been an outspoken critic of the University’s decision, along with a number of other local area legislators. I’ve written an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, co-authored a letter to the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and earlier this week made the trip to Lexington Virginia for the Council’s May meetings to testify at the Academic Affairs Committee and the full Council about my concerns. I did all this under the belief that SCHEV had the final say in the re-naming of the law school. Although supporters of the name change have questioned my motives and called me a knee-jerk liberal, my motivation for championing this fight was and remains a genuine concern for the reputation of the law school, the university, and the Commonwealth. I continue to be concerned that, in exchange for this $30 million purchase price, the school has done irreparable harm to its reputation that will result in declining enrollment, forcing them to become less selective, which will lead to declining school rankings which will only reinforce this downward spiral. The grant agreement leaked online shows that, in addition to renaming the law school, GMU must hire twelve additional faculty members and create two new centers expanding its law and economic focus. They must reapply for the grant every year, and the Koch Foundation must be notified immediately if Dr. Henry Butler steps down or is removed as dean of the law school. In spite of all of this, SCHEV staff, based on advice they
received from the Attorney General’s office, decided this week that the name change was honorific and therefore would not require their approval. According to the SCHEV staff’s initial recommendation, they did have a role to ensure that new instructional units are implemented appropriately relative to the inherent soundness of academic and fiscal commitments involved. The law school industry, such as it is, is in a crisis. Applications to law school have decreased some 50 percent since their peak about a decade ago. The nation’s elite law schools are reducing class size, and not growing, in response to the shortage of applicants. In order to grow, the law school to the size it would need to be to sustain the new programs it is required to create under this contract to rename the school, particularly given the number of high quality students who are likely to be dissuaded from applying because of the name, GMU will have to accept students with lower LSATs and grades. This once again begs the questions of fiscal soundness of the University’s plan going forward. Virginia taxpayers contribute ten times more in each biennial budget than this gift would account for. These grant agreements would give the donors, or purchasers of the naming rights, outsized and inappropriate influence over the direction and decision making at the law school. Dr. Cabrera has said at various times that the academic freedom of the law school and of the University is not at risk, as the purchaser price amounts to mere 0.6 percent of the School’s budget. At the same time, University and Law School officials would ask how such a large and significant investment in the law school could be refused. Whether the gift is too big to come without strings that affect the Law School’s academic freedom, or so small that it really doesn’t make a difference, we should feel comfortable that it is in our best interest to say no to the offer to purchase the law school at George Mason University. Delegate Simon represents the 53rd District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He may be emailed at DelMSimon@house. virginia.gov
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Week of May 9 - 15, 2016 Larceny from Building, 225 E. Broad St. (Falls Church Presbyterian Church) On May 10, police received a report that an unknown suspect stole a laptop computer sometime between May 7 and May 8. Vandalism to Vehicle, 200 block Kent St. On May 10, an unknown suspect slashed two tires to the victim’s vehicle. Narcotics Violations, Driving Under the Influence, Petit Larceny, Public Drunkenness, 800 block W. Broad St. On May 10, officers responded to the area for a report of
a motor vehicle crash. After an investigation, a male, 36, of Arlington, was arrested for Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance and Driving Under the Influence. The passenger, a male, 47, of the City of Falls Church, was arrested for Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance, Petit Larceny, and Public Drunkenness. Robbery, 1000 W. Broad St. (Wells Fargo Bank) On May 11, police responded to the location for a robbery. After a joint investigation, a male, 26, of Arlington was arrested on May 13. Narcotics Violation, 600 block Park Ave. On May 12, an officer
MAY 19 – 25, 2016 | PAGE 17 its alumni killed in the war and created the Merrill Hoover athletic trophy for the outstanding senior athlete. When the Better Sports Club was formed in 1957, it took over the award, I’m told by president Rick Schumann, who plans to attend the June 13 event. Varner, a chemical engineer, said he felt “chills going down my spine” when he was finally able to link up the Coast Guard historians, Hoover’s niece (she lives in Arlington) and the cemetery authorities for the committal service (postponed in May) in a section of the cemetery for those missing in action. He is researching other DeMolay heroes, and plans to nominate Merrill Hoover for the fraternal order’s own medal and hall of fame. A local hero gets his due. *** I mark here the May 11 passing of Herman Obermayer, 91, publisher and editor of the Northern Virginia Sun from the early 1960s to the late 80s. A World War II vet who witnessed the Nuremberg trials, Obe learned writing at Dartmouth College from Robert Frost. He took on the American Nazi Party in his editorials soon after they landed in Arlington, and later was among the first Jewish members of Washington Golf and Country Club. I was honored that Obe hired me in recent years as his legman for a possible book on why a “stumblebum” like Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell could exert such an impact on the Jewish community. A decisive taskmaster, Obe eventually decided enough had been said on that grim subject. conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a female, 23, of Arlington, was arrested and released on summons for Possession of Marijuana. Towing Violation, 1121-B W. Broad St. On May 12, Pete’s Towing & Storage, LLC., was cited for Failure to Maintain 24 hour Service for Vehicle Claims. Driving Under the Influence, 500 block Hillwood Ave. On May 13, a male, 18, of Woodbridge, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Indecent Exposure, 100 block Little Falls St. On May 13, police received a report of an unknown male exposing himself in public. Driving Under the Influence, 6300 block Arlington Blvd. On May 15, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 30, of Annandale, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence.
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Business News & Notes Burke & Herbert Hosting Grand Opening for Remodeled F.C. Branch Burke & Herbert Bank is hosting a grand opening for its newly remodeled Falls Church branch on Friday, May 20. The branch, located at 225 West Broad Street, has been a recognized landmark at the corner of Maple Avenue and West Broad Street since July 10, 1999. The newly remodeled branch is designed to offer a more comfortable, friendly and inviting place for customers to do their business. A formal ribbon cutting will take place at 9 a.m. and include local elected officials, members of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, and E. Hunt Burke, chairman and CEO of the bank. Product specialists from a variety of bank departments will be available for one-on-one consultations or general questions throughout the day along with refreshments, games, and prizes. For more information, visit www.burkeandherbertbank.com.
F.C. Florist Holding Parking Lot Sale This Sunday Falls Church Florist, Inc. is hosting a parking lot sale on Sunday, May 22 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. This is the first of two such sales that will take place prior to the 66-year-old family owned and operated business, now led by Mike and Diane Flood, closing on June 30. The second sale will take place on Sunday, June 12 from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Falls Church Florist is located at 419 W. Broad Street in Falls Church. Building owners are considering redevelopment options for a new hotel on the property. For more information about Falls Church Florist, visit www.fallschurchflorist.com.
Annual Rowell Court Block Party Coming May 24 Mark Werblood, of Tesler & Werblood, is hosting the annual Rowell Court Block Party for the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, May 24 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Several local restaurants will provide food and beverages while a number of local businesses are contributing raffle prizes. Attendance is free and open to members of the Chamber and friends of the business community. The event will take place in the courtyard of the Old Brickhouse Square office condominiums on Rowell Court, which is on the south side of the 900 block of W. Broad Street. For more information, visit www.FallsChurchChamber.org.
Little River Yoga Owner Retiring, Looking to Sell Studio Stair Calhoun, owner of Little River Yoga, is retiring and does not plan to renew its lease at 6025 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, when the current term is up this fall. Those interested in owning a yoga studio can contact Calhoun directly at 703-203-8510. Little River Yoga offers classes in Ashtanga, Rocket, and Hatha Yoga. For more information, visit www.littleriveryoga.com.
Sunstone Counseling Hires New Graduate Intern Sunstone Counseling has a new graduate intern in its Falls Church offices. Michelle Lopez has joined the team offering assistance in transitions, multicultural issues, relationship issues, stress management, anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, personality disorders, conduct disorders, codependency, grief/loss, identity/self-esteem/self-concept, and emotional behavioral disturbances. Special rates and sliding scale rates are available. For more information, about Lopez, Sunstone, or the new services being offered in its Alexandria location, visit www.sunstonecounselors.com.
Viget Creates Tweet-Powered Brooch for Johnny Weir As told in the front-page News-Press story this week, Falls Church-based Viget created the tweet-powered brooch that Johnny Weir wore at the Kentucky Derby during his entire coverage. The digital agency worked with NBC Sports to bring social conversations alive through an accessory created to complement Weir’s fashion choice. As social chatter increased about Weir and the race, his brooch reflected the buzz by galloping faster and illuminating. With more than 4k tweets, a trending hashtag, and 17.9 million viewers, it was a huge success. For more information, visit www.viget.com. Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@ fallschurchchamber.org.
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BOY SCOUTS FROM TROOP 349, who are working on Citizenship in the Community merit badges, met with Falls Church Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones for a question and answer session on Sunday, May 15. Scouts learned more about their schools and completed one of the requirements for the merit badge. (Photo: Courtesy of Erik Autor) was the runner-up. For more information, visit mathcounts.org.
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GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL’S JAZZ BAND played at the Falls Church Elementary Parent Teacher Association annual Spring Carnival at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School on Saturday, May 7. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photos/Ari Autor)
READ Program Enters 2nd Year at Henderson MS The Reading Enjoyment and Development program, a collaboration with George Mason University, has entered its second year at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School and is resulting in progress in reading ability for several Henderson students. Reading specialists in training at George Mason University are tutoring students at Henderson in reading and writing through the after school program. Students complete a reading diagnosis, a strategy is developed and progress is checked periodically. Graduate students at George Mason University pursuing a reading specialist certification work one-on-one with Henderson students. The partnership was arranged by Janet Phillips, Henderson’s reading specialist and Dr. William Brozo, a professor of literacy at George Mason University.
F.C. Residents Earn Academic Honors Across the Nation Falls Church residents recently earned academic honors from colleges, universities and other academic institutions across the nation. Scot Bellamy graduated with Bachelor’s degree in econom-
ics from Hampden-Sydney College, where he was one of 236 men who graduated in the school’s 2016 class. Harrison Coon recently received an Army ROTC scholarship at a formal ceremony at Gonzaga College High School. Megan Ganley, a student at Virginia Tech, was initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Takumi Nemec, a 2016 graduate of The Citadel with a Bachelor’s degree in history, was commissioned into the U.S. Army in a ceremony on Friday, May 6. Mikail John Sasner Terman graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology at Harverford College. Terman, a 2012 graduate of George Mason High School, defended his senior thesis “Group Dynamics, Religious Group Relations and Terror Management Theory” and sang with the Chamber Singers of Harverford and Bryn Mawr while in college.
Holocaust Survivor Shares Life Story at Henderson MS Sam Ponczak, a Holocaust survivor, shared his and his family’s experiences during World War II with sixth grade parents and teachers at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School recently.
Ponczak is a regular speaker for the United States Holocaust Museum and has been a guest speaker for the Department of Justice and the Polish Embassy. He shared his family’s story of survival and their experiences as war refugees to help students understand how Holocaust survivors worked to rebuild their lives, joined together to create new families and moved forward in hopes of creating a better future. Olga Wrona from the Polish Embassy, who is also a parent of a 6th grade student at Henderson, arranged Ponczak’s visit to the school.
F.C. Students Compete in 2016 National Math Bee Two students at Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church recently competed in the 2016 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition in Washington, D.C. Eighth graders Ben Kang, of Falls Church, and Alex Chung, of Vienna, vied for national titles at the competition, which aims at empowering middle school students to reach their full potential in mathematics. Ben reached the semifinals and Alex was ranked 14th at the competition. The team from Virginia ranked 8th at the competition. Edward Wan of Washington was the champion of the competition and Luke Robataille of Texas
Students in the 7th grade honors English class at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School recently participated in the Gold Division of the Word Masters Challenge, a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. The team placed 9th in the Gold Division, the more challenging, advanced division in the competition, and competed against 125,000 students from schools around the country.
9 Muses Staff Puts Finishing Touches on Literary Mag The staff of George Mason High School’s literary magazine, 9 Muses, have been putting the finishing touches on the 2016 version of the magazine recently. The staff culled and edited submissions of poetry, prose, art
and music from students throughout the school and now the final mock-up is being prepared for publication. “Lost in translation” is the theme for this year’s literary magazine and will consist of four sections centered around untranslatable words. Copies of the literary magazine have been pre-sold and an additional limited number of copies of the magazine will be on sale in early June. For information, visit twitter.com/gmhslitmag.
Henderson MS Band Wins Trophies at Busch Gardens Eighth grade students in the band and choir at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School recently had a successful trip to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, where they competed in the Music in the Parks festival. The band received a first place trophy with an excellent rating and the choir received a first place trophy with a superior rating. Blaine Morse and Juliana Melton both received outstanding soloist awards.
STAFF OF GEORGE MASON HIGH SCHOOL’S literary magazine 9 Muses gather around laptops to put the finishing touches on the 2016 version of the magazine. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/ Annie Parnell)
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MASON’S SHAUN RODOCK scores a run against Seton School during a recent home win. The Mustangs recently won their second straight game against a district opponent on Saturday, May 14 when they defeated the Rams of Strasburg High School 1-0 on the road. (Photo: Carol Sly)
Mustangs Softball Team Blanks Strasburg Rams on the Road
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Julia Ferris tossed a one-hitter as Antonio Bravo’s Mustangs picked up their second straight district win, 1-0 over Strasburg on Saturday, May 14. After enduring an unprecedented string of rainouts that spanned two weeks. Mason had finally gotten back into action on May 10, defeating Rappahannock County 16-6. Then they brought their record back to even on the year at 7-7 against the Rams, avenging an earlier one-run defeat. Under threatening skies in scenic Strasburg, Jules Carter (.409 OBP) led the game off by walking, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Tea Abbracciamento, advanced to third when Ferris’s grounder was misplayed by the Rams’ third baseman and scored when Jenna Short picked up her 12th RBI of the season on a squeeze bunt. Ferris (ten Ks, one walk) struck out the side in the bottom of the first, after which rain fell continuously for the duration of the game. The Rams only serious scoring threat came in the bottom of the second, when an error and a single put runners on the corners with one out, but a strikeout and a grounder to first baseman Rebecca Davis left Ferris (season 80 IP, 1.038 WHIP, 105 Ks, 15 BB) unscathed.
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MASON’S TEA ABBRACCIAMENTO swings at a pitch during a recent Mason win. (Photo: Carol Sly) The Rams’ Carey Scott was superb on the mound, allowing only five baserunners. The Mustangs managed only two hits, singles by their two freshmen, Chelsea Lang (.262 BA, 12 RBI) in the fourth and Sabrina Rodock (.280 BA) in the fifth. After Lang’s single, Davis ripped a liner that looked like a sure RBI double until Strasburg center fielder Hannah Alexander made a lunging catch and doubled Lang off first. As the rain intensified, field conditions deteriorated quickly. Infielders spun their wheels in mud and outfielders squinted to locate balls through the veil of precipitation. The grounds crew
dumped sand and raked in the hopes of avoiding a fourth postponement of this contest. But somehow the dueling pitchers continued to throw strikes with wet balls, and retire batters. Ferris fanned the side in the bottom of the fifth, at which point the game had become official and was called to an end by the umpire crew. The Mustangs played William Monroe High School on Tuesday, May 17 and Madison County High School on Wednesday, May 18, but results of the matches were not available at press time. The Mustangs play Central High School on Thursday, May 19 and Clarke County High School on Friday, May 20.
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SIMON LUNDQUIST POSES with his laptop In the George Mason library. The laptop is displaying his website, localboymakesmovies.com. This is where he shares all his �inished short movies, so that the world can enjoy them. (P����: S����� S���)
‘Local Boy Makes Movies’ & Money BY SIERRA SULC THE LASSO
I searched the overly crowded library for the familiar face of freshman Simon Lundquist, someone who I’ve been taking classes with since the seventh grade. I finally found him sitting at a table, intensely studying a slideshow of Biology notes for a test later that day, wearing his usual jeans and a striped blue and white t-shirt with a black jacket. He asked me where I thought the best place to talk was, referencing the noisy room. When we started looking around for a quite place, he immediately suggested an empty corner behind a bookshelf. We walked over and sat down, criss cross, across from each other. He folded his hands in his lap and looked at me to begin. We started with the basics: he has an older brother named Gabriel who is a senior, and he has a dog named Tucker who hates other dogs, but as soon as I asked him what he liked to do in his free time, his response was immediate. “My favorite thing to do is make mov-
ies,” Lundquist responded simply. “It’s been a hobby of mine since I was about ten years old, and it’s really exciting to get to tell stories with a camera.” But for Simon making movies has moved past being just a hobby. Simon has entered many contests with his projects, including a ProjectEd contest and the Democracy for All Amendment contest. “When I was 13, I submitted into my first video contest for the IP Video contest,” said Lundquist. “The goal was to make a movie about patents. After I wrote, shot, and edited it, I was determined to get it into the winning category. Months later, they announced that I was a finalist. Then, a couple weeks later I won the grand prize for the entire competition. “The most recent competition I have won is the Democracy for All Amendment contest. I made a movie called ‘Democramole.’ This movie went on to win the weekly contest, but unfortunately, it did not win the grand prize.” Not only did Simon earn the bragging rights from these contests, but he also won $5,000 for the IP Video contest and $1,000 for the Democracy for All Amendment contest. “Wow, that is a lot of money. What did you do with all of it?” I responded as soon as he told me about the prizes. “I put half of it into savings and with the other half, I bought equipment to make
more movies,” he said. That’s when I knew this was Simon’s passion. He had been rewarded for his amazing movies and turned right back around to put those winnings back into creating more movies. I asked him about his favorite part of making movies, because I was sure he would have one. However, I was surprised at his answer. “Whatever stage I’m in is my favorite,” he said. I looked slightly confused, so he clarified. “When I’m filming, the filming is
my favorite. When I’m writing, my favorite part is the writing. When I’m editing, that’s my favorite. I really just love all the stages. If I had to choose though, I’d have to say editing because that’s where you get to see what you created, and that’s always really exciting.” Lundquist films his actors while a friend, Casandre Rice, holds a microphone above them. Simon loves all aspects of movie making, including the filming. Photo courtesy of Simon Lundquist. We continued to talk about the process of filmmaking and his favorite genres of movie to make, which are thriller and action. Then, we got into talking about his youtube channel (Local Boy Makes Movies), and his website. After checking these out, I must say, I was very impressed. Simon’s website looks great and after watching one video, I was hooked. I spent the next twenty minutes of my production time scrolling through his channels and watching these creative projects. “My favorite movie that I’ve created,” he paused in thought, “is probably the first movie I made, just because it’s so nostalgic, not because it’s good, but it’s fun looking back on it,” Lundquist confessed with a chuckle. According to Simon, it’s pretty obvious that he has improved since his first project. He confessed that scrolling back to his old YouTube videos and comparing them to his most recent will show this improvement. Simon is hoping to expand his fan base, even though he already has a few subscribers from other countries. “It’s mostly family and friends that watch my videos right now,” says Lundquist, but he’s hoping that more Mason students will check out his videos. When Lundquist was asked about his inspiration for his love of movie making, he explained, “I got into making movies because my dad started to make these short films with a cheap $100 Flip video camera. He filmed my brother’s tenth birthday. When I saw the movie, I was really compelled by the idea of telling stories with a moving picture. I started filming my own movies when I was about nine or ten. I filmed a short called ‘Brotherly Love,’ and I really liked it. I haven’t looked back since.” For more profiles, check out the Mustang Insider series at gmhslasso.org.
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What hasn’t lovingly been said about macaroni and cheese? I grew up eating the blue box of cheesy goodness, and now as an adult, I’ve been known to down a box while watching reruns of crime dramas. However, there is something about homemade, not-from-a-box mac. When you Google “macaroni and cheese recipe,” you’re bombarded with many varieties of the carb-anddairy delight. I’ve collected five different takes on the dish, so pick a recipe, settle in for a good TV binge-watch, and devour a plate of this classic comfort food. BAKED MACARONI & CHEESE Pinterest tells me this is the most requested recipe on foodnetwork.com. People need their mac-
aroni and cheese, and chef Alton Brown is here to help. To make, preheat an oven to 350 degrees. In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook ½ pound elbow macaroni to al dente according to package instructions; drain. While the pasta is cooking, in a separate pot, melt 3 tablespoons butter. Whisk in 3 tablespoons flour and 1 tablespoon powdered mustard and keep it moving for about 5 minutes. Make sure it’s free of lumps. Stir in 3 cups milk, ½ cup finely diced yellow onion, 1 bay leaf and ½ teaspoon paprika. Simmer for 10 minutes and remove the bay leaf. Temper in 1 large egg. Stir in 8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Fold the macaroni pasta into the mix and pour into a 2-quart casserole dish. Top with more cheddar. Now, make the topping. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a saute pan and toss in 1 cup panko
These are always in my shopping cart when I go through the Trader Joe’s freezer aisle. But Martha Stewart tells me it’s easy to make macaroni and cheese bites at home, and it actually is: Make macaroni and cheese, dip into breading and pan-fry. To start, make your favorite classic macaroni and cheese dish (you can use the one above). Next, line a baking dish with parchment and brush parchment lightly with oil. Spread macaroni mixture evenly in dish. Cover and refrigerate until firm, at least 8 hours. When it’s ready, flip over the baking dish onto a cutting board and remove parchment. Cut cold macaroni and cheese into 1-inch squares with a sharp knife. To make the breading, whisk 4 large eggs in a shallow dish. In another shallow dish, combine 2 cups panko bread crumbs and ¾ teaspoons cayenne, and season with salt. Dip macaroni squares, a few at a time, in eggs, allowing excess to drip off into dish, then roll in panko mixture to coat completely. Transfer to a wire rack set on a baking sheet. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium until shimmering. Working in batches, add coated squares in a single layer. (Do not crowd the pan.) Cook, turning occasionally, until all sides are crisp and golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes total. Transfer to a papertowel-lined rack to drain and cool slightly. Wipe skillet clean. Repeat process with more oil and remaining squares. Serve warm. Serves about 10. marthastewart.com CAULIFLOWER MAC & CHEESE There’s not really a guilt-free
macaroni and cheese out there, but this recipe sure tries to fill that void. It’s from first lady Michelle Obama, and she says her girls, Sasha and Malia, love this stuff. To make, bring salted water to a boil in a large pot, and cook 1 pound whole wheat penne until al dente according to package directions; drain. In the meantime, cut half a head of cauliflower into florets, then simmer in a saucepan of well-salted water until soft. Transfer to a blender to puree. Transfer the pasta to a mediumsize pan and pour the cauliflower puree in. Stir in 1 cup milk (2 percent or skim), 1 pound shredded cheddar cheese and ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. Serve immediately. Makes 6 to 8 servings. Chicago Tribune. ONE-POT SPINACH & FETA MACARONI AND CHEESE This recipe goes along with Times food editor Michelle Stark’s collection of one-pot pasta ideas from last year. I like this take on mac and cheese because it involves more ingredients, like new kinds of cheese. And spinach, so it’s healthy, right? Start by heating 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add 1 diced yellow onion and a pinch of salt and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until softened. Stir in 2 cloves of minced garlic and continue to cook for 30 seconds, or until fragrant. Add 2 diced fresh tomatoes, 1 bag (8 to 10 ounces) fresh baby spinach, ½ cup crumbled feta cheese, ½ cup cubed white cheddar cheese, ¼ cup part skim shredded mozzarella cheese, 2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni, 1 cup low-sodium vegetable broth, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk and ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning. Add a little salt and pepper to taste. Mix to combine and bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Lower heat to medium-low, cover
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with lid and continue to cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or until pasta is cooked. Stir frequently, about every 3 minutes, to prevent sticking. Remove from heat and stir. Garnish with parsley and serve immediately. Serves 4. diethood. com GARLIC, BACON & BEER MACARONI & CHEESE
Michelle Obama, look away. It’s time to get out the fat pants, you guys – this is the guiltiest of guilty macaroni and cheeses. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook 6 strips bacon according to package directions, then set aside to cool. In a medium saucepan, heat 3 tablespoons butter and 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour over medium heat, whisking until bubbly. Cook 2 minutes. Add 2 large minced garlic cloves and 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, and cook an additional minute. Slowly whisk in 2 cups milk and ¾ cups stout beer (such as Guinness). Heat, stirring constantly, a couple of minutes until quite warm but not boiling. Reduce heat to medium-low, add 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese and ½ cup Wispride- or Kaukauna-brand sharp cheddar cheese spread, salt and pepper, and cook, whisking, until smooth. Remove from the heat. Stir in half the bacon, crumbling as you add it. Next, cook 8 ounces elbow macaroni according to package directions in salted water, until al dente. Drain and add to the cheese sauce. Transfer to a 2-quart baking dish. Time to make the bacon topping: In a small saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon butter. Add ½ cup panko bread crumbs, ½ teaspoon fresh thyme and remaining bacon. Sprinkle the topping over the macaroni. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until bubbly. Serve garnished with fresh thyme and a pinch of barbecue seasoning. Makes 6 to 8 servings. ericasrecipes.com
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Rhythm and blues, soul and rock and roll musician Peter Wolf has been delivering us his cure for loneliness, music, since the late 1960s when he started djing on Boston’s WBCN radio station. Now, at the age of 70, he brings us his thesis on music’s therapeutic power, A Cure for Loneliness, which was released in April with Concord Records. “The cure for loneliness for me is music,” Wolf said. “It’s been a support. When things were going rough, music sort of helped me out. When things were going good, music sort of helped me out. “And I find [that] the artists that I love, the record collection that I have, making music, the musician friends that I have, spending so much time in my life with music, it became an interesting title for me. Because as the landscape of the musical world starts changing I realized that one thing that remained constant for me was my love and joy of listening to music and PETER WOLF. (P����: J�� G�����) seeing good bands. That still remained the including at The Birchmere and Rams Head same.” Wolf is bringing his cure for loneliness to Live in Baltimore. Then, he was just a few Alexandria and the rest of the Washington, years removed from the success of his 2010 D.C. region on Wednesday, June 1 for a date at offering, Midnight Souvenirs, which reached number 45 on the U.S. Billboard 200. The Birchmere. Now, Wolf is returning with a collection of He said that the tour, which started around the same time of the early-April release of his songs in which he is noticeably more introspecrecord, has been going well so far, but that he tive. “Well, you go through life and you have and his band are looking forward to coming to a lot of introspection,” Wolf said. “And so I guess it reflects in the songs.” The Birchmere. He told the News-Press that nearly all of his “The Birchmere is, for me, one of the more unique rooms to play because it seems to put lyrics are autobiographical and that he connects all of its energy on the music,” Wolf said. “The with songwriters and artists who write in that acoustics are great, the people treat you great, tradition. “I admire that artists who I feel I can conit’s a comfortable room. The audience seems to have great sight lines, so it’s a place I’m look- nect the artist with the song…. When you listen to a Joni Mitchell song, you feel she is talking ing forward to returning to.” The last time that Wolf came to the area was about something in her life. When you listen 2013, when he played a few dates in the region, to a Bob Dylan song or a Hank Williams song,
you feel it’s coming from a place that they’ve experienced,” Wolf said. “Those are the kind of songs and artists that I tend to admire.” On A Cure for Loneliness Wolf scrutinizes his own past on songs like “Rolling On,” “Mr. Mistake,” “Peace of Mind” and more. On “Peace of Mind” he asks the world “Can’t you feel the changing times?” as he remembers his past as a young man who “believed in everything” and contemplates his present as an older man who doesn’t “know what song to sing.” “When you’re a young man you kind of have great beliefs that you can do this or do that,” Wolf said. “And as you get older you feel the challenges are greater. Things become complicated and so that [lyric] reflects that.” • For more information about Peter Wolf, visit peterwolf.com.
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Community Events
THURSDAY, MAY 19
Teen Time at the Library: Wii Game Night. Children in grades 6 – 12 can come to the Library to play their favorite games for the Nintendo Wii. Participation limited to 15 people and registration is required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
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.
SATURDAY, MAY 21
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. 2nd Annual AKA 1908 Playground Project. Members of the Chi Beta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha, Inc.and other volunteers will be restoring Big Chimneys Park in Falls Church. Registration requested. Big Chimneys Park (212 W. Annandale Road, Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. chibetaomega-aka.com. Book Sale. Used adult and children’s books for sale. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034. Civil War Day. The City of Falls Church will host a living-history event depicting the Falls Church home front during the Civil War with spy stories, letter readings, period music, soldier drilling exercises, free bus tour and children’s tent. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Civilwarday. Curves of Falls Church Open House and Silent Auction. Curves of Falls Church is hosting an open house and silent auction at their space in downtown Falls Church. Curves of Falls Church (246-A W. Broad St., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 4 p.m. 703-536-0140.
SUNDAY, MAY 22
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Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 1 – 5 p.m. 703-248-5034. Love, Longing and Adoration Concert. The Sanctuary Choir, Chanel Rangers, Kid’s Choir and other ensembles and soloists of Dulin United Methodist Church will sing at a concert called “Love, Longing and Adoration.” Admission to the concert is free, but there will be a free-will offering to support Dulin representatives with the Appalachian Service Project. Dulin United Methodist Church (513 W. Broad St., Falls Church). Free. 4 p.m. dulinchurch.org. Concert. The Metropolitan Chorus of Arlington will present their “Drops of Spring” concert, under the baton of artistic director and conductor Dr. Nancia D’Alimonte. Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington (4444 Arlington Blvd., Arlington). Free. 4 p.m. metchorus.org.
MONDAY, MAY 23
Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034.
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 24
Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 18-36 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25
Early Release Wednesdays at the Library: Meet a Real Police Officer. City of Falls Church Police Officer Brooks will read a book to children ages 5 – 11 at Mary Riley Styles Public Library and talk about police officers. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 3 – 3:45 p.m. 703248-5034. Bingo at the Library. Children in grades K – 5 can drop in to play bingo. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. 703-248-5034.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, MAY 19
“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 20
“Twe�lth Night.” During a �ierce storm and devastating sur�board accident, twins Viola and Sebastian are separated. Viola surfaces
on a beach, and, believing her brother disappeared, �inds acceptance by disguising herself as a man named Cesario. In a classic case of mistaken identity and unexpected love, hilarity ensues as we meet this 1960’s beach movie cast of characters. This production is recommended for children ages 8 and older. Through May 22. Gunston Arts Center – Theatre Two (2700 S. Lang St., Arlington). $10. 7:30 p.m. encorestageva.org.
“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 21
“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 19 R����� F����� ���� S���� K���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $22. 6 p.m. 703-2551566. M� B������ ��� B���. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. T����� R����� ���� B���� ��� H������ ��� D���� E���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. L���� B���� ���� M��� S����� ��� J����� W�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $15. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. T���� S����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.
FRIDAY, MAY 20
A����� O’D��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. S������� C������ �� ��� S���� ���� C������ W��� G���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $25. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. O����� L������ � L��� N����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-5497500. H��� W������ A��������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $29.50 (Flex Stage). 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. W���� F��� B�����. 9:30 (815 V St.
NW, Washington, D.C.). $22. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930. O� ��� B�� ���� N��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. R��� F������ ���� T�� R����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. I����������. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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S��������� R��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20. 5 p.m. 703-255-1566. B�� T��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. D������ M�C������ ���� A�� B����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $45. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. T�� B������ T�����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $18 day of the show. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. P����������� ���� L������ H��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 9 p.m. 703522-8340. B��� �� ��� 90� ��������� P���� L��� I�’�…, G����� G����, D����� J���� ��� D������ B��������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 – $20. 9 p.m. 703-255-1566. A���������� N�������� ����
S���������� ���� F������ ��� T�������� �� G��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960. S���� A������� ��� T�� S����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333.
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P���� C���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $16. 3 p.m. 703-2551566. P��� B�������� ���� R�� E����� ��� K������ A�����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 in advance; $15 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. M����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. D���� S����� ��������� R�� B����, R���� H���� ��� R����� J������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. B���� T������� ���� L����� C����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
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O�� M�� C����� ���� M�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $20 in advance; $15 – $20 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703255-1566. C�� S��� H������� ���� N���� D���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Mainstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.
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A�� T������ C���������. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340.
TUESDAY, MAY 24
C��������� F�������� ���� Z��������, H��������, S����� T���� ��� B������ M��� B��������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $15 in advance; $13 – $15 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� M�� T��� W��� N�� B� B����� F�� N������ ���� F������ � T�� P��� ��� A����� O’N���. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. M���� H������ ���� B���� R������. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $22.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500.
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H�� D���� �� L���� ���� S�� ��� T������� ��� N���� T�� S����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� E������ ���� D�� D������ ��� S������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. R������ M���. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $39.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. E����� S����� ��� ��� M������� Z���� ���� P����������� H��� J��� B���. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $50. 8 p.m. 703-2551900.
P������� A����... 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.
Saturday, June 4 – Veggie and Fruit Printing with Shannyn Snyder. Children ages 3 – 6 can examine the world of fruits and vegetables (and even a fish) to compare
seeds and stones, as well as the texture difference in various rinds. Students will further explore the differences in shapes using these foods for printing. Registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 3:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
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.
C������� S���������� Be sure to include time, location, cost of admission, contact person and any other pertinent information. Event listings will be edited for content and space limitations. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for the current week’s edition.
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1. Long-running A&E series ... or, read as two words, a description of this puzzle’s theme 9. Slip 15. Preventing progress 16. Slips 17. Scene at the big party at the finish line of the Iditarod Great Sled Race? 19. Squalid digs 20. And on and on 21. “Before ____ you go ...” 22. Crumple (up) 25. The Eagles’ “____ Eyes” 28. What always perked up Fidel Castro when he was feeling despondent during the Cuban revolution? 35. Cherish 36. Inclined 38. Nelson Mandela’s org. 39. Hamm of soccer 41. Novelist Rita ____ Brown 42. Folly 46. Not just a slip, in modern lingo 50. Sign meant to keep out all monogamists? 52. Senators Cruz and Kennedy 53. General Mills offering 54. Eyes of the tigre? 57. Egyptian ____ (cat breed) 60. Public health agcy. 63. Who to call when a person is nagging you? 69. Goddess with a European capital named for her 70. Salad green 71. Made like Baryshnikov
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The fate of plans for a $3.5 million renovation and expansion of the Falls Church Community Center will be put to the voters in a public referendum, the City Council decided Monday night. In approving the FY97 Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) budget at its Monday meeting, the Council also voted to move ahead with the land purchase and developments for a new fire house, which will include a meeting hall....
Exuding confidence that “the tide may be turning,” that there might be a unique historic opportunity to reverse a national trend, organizers gearing up to oppose passage of the Marshall-Newman Constitutional Amendment measure on the November ballot held a Northern Virginia kick-off rally Monday night that drew one hundred activists. Del. Jim Scott of Falls Church was one of three state delegates who spoke to the lively rally, urging on the organizing effort.
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mother and a Muslim father whose parents lost their homes, their land, and their future in the creation of Israel in 1948. Many people of good will are still unwilling to acknowledge that for the Palestinians, the struggle over the land became a zero-sum game (they came out “zero”) and that despite historic finger-pointing at them for mistakes of the weak, the creation of Israel was an ugly, violent event that has seen continued ugliness and violence as Israel occupied the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Gaza
Strip in 1967, further expanding its territory at the expense of the local population. Citing legalistic rationales to blame the Palestinians for losing their country to the victims of Hitler’s Europe doesn’t hide the truth about what happened – much of it now being told by courageous Israeli historians. John P. Richardson Arlington
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Wonderful 4 level classic colonial, 5 BD/4.5 BA w/ detached 2-car garage walking distance to downtown. Large yard, gazebo and FCC Schools! Offered at $1,200,000
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Beautiful 3BR/2.5BA level NEW PRICE Beautiful home on.91 house on quaint street! 3 finished levels feature acres- lush backyard. refinished hardwood floors, 5BR/3.5BA with open kitchen, updated beautifully refinished baths, newly remodeled hardwood floors. family room, updated and Fresh paint and expanded rec room,& large screened in porch off Master BR. Large, lush lot on .27 acres! Haycock ES, Longfellow MS, McLean HS. new carpet in basement. New Price $915,000. COMING SOON
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Lovely and spacious floor plan in this beautiful home. 5BR/3.5BA home on full acre of land in Langley HS pyramid. Sales Price $1,249,000
7601 Burford Drive, McLean VA 22102
1097 Pensive Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066 MULTIPLE OFFERS = SOLD
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6903 Tyndale St. McLean VA 22101